We The People
Welcome! This page seeks to understand the Covid-19 era through the lenses of power. It reflects my personal journey, which I freely share in hopes that it may help others.
Posts on this page will seek to understand and explore how power is being exerted over We the People in the context of Covid-19, the events of the last two years, and beyond. While primarily intended for family and friends, I have made this page public in the hope that others may find the contents to be if interest. I have chosen Substack as my platform because here freedom of speech still triumphs over censorship – at least for now.
Like many in early 2020, I went into overdrive trying to make sense of events as they unfolded. Like some, I soon realized the pitfalls of relying on governments, the mainstream media, and Big Tech as my sole sources of information. While duly keeping tabs on all three, I turned to books, independent journalists, and to many doctors and scientists with countervailing views, including several Nobel Laureates and other world-renowned experts across many fields. Rather than accept second-hand characterizations of scientific studies at face value from those with conflicts of interest, I also made it standard practice to try to find and read studies authorities or the media use to legitimize outlier assertions or increase their power.
These simple adjustments in how I pursue knowledge and try to understand news and events have rocked my world. Without hesitation, I can honestly say that I am immeasurably better informed than I would have been had I not strayed from government, corporate media, and Big Tech controlled domains.
I also soon learned that studying the Covid era in isolation was going to be wholly insufficient in trying to truly make sense of the present, so I time traveled. To understand the fuller context of the dozens of contemporary books I was reading, I had to read dozens more encompassing related subject-matter areas spanning the past 100 years or more. Together, the interrelated stories many of these books tell, the facts they lay bare, and the cautionary tales they offer are as enlightening as they are alarming. Many resonate deeply and map directly to the times we are living through now.
Although I will also indulge in short posts on this page, I am partial to long-form compositions, where my references and citations will be well laid out. Without committing to any schedule or order in the subjects I cover, I hope to share my ongoing learnings, synthesize key findings, and compare notes with anyone who generously engages in good faith.
In addition to all things Covid, any number of other directly or indirectly related topics may be touched on, including the history, conflicts of interest, and legal woes of Big Pharma, our regulatory bodies, and of virology itself; the history of propaganda and its evolution into modern-day behavioral psychology clandestinely perpetrated, legally, yet unlawfully, on the unknowing public in today’s democracies; corporate oligarchy and the Washington Consensus; the history and nature of totalitarianism; Big Tech, the mainstream media, technocracy, big government, Critical Race Theory and the woke culture wars, Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and more. As I have learned, these things are all related in the Power Versus People Paradigm’.
Occasionally, deep dives will be done on books that have had a particularly profound impact on me. As I go, I hope to introduce readers not only to books and authors, but to independent journalists, doctors, and scientists who I believe have important things to say, which are being systematically suppressed and censored in the mainstream.
My overarching objective is to share key findings across a multitude of seemingly unrelated subject-matter areas and to show correlations, common characteristics, and often an unexpected yet palpable interconnectedness between them. What will quickly emerge as my primary thesis is the view that our era is best characterized not by a virus called Covid-19, but as a time when ‘A Power Versus People Paradigm’ to rival all others made itself known to all who were willing to see it and to grapple with its implications head-on while there was still time.
While the more draconian mandates attributed to Covid-19 may at long last appear to be on the wane, many still remain, as does all the power grab governments took along the way. Furthermore, the sum total of everything I have read and studied thus far tells me with that this is merely a temporary reprieve. My observations of our leaders, their words, their actions, and just as often their conspicuous inaction, combined with what I now know about the actual science behind manipulation of the masses reinforces this unwelcome concern. Indeed, there are still several sizeable democratic countries where oppressive controls and restrictions remain largely in place with no serious health or science based rationale at all.
Meanwhile, despite being two years into the (Bill Gates and) WHO declared pandemic and despite Covid-19 having long since become endemic, with even (High Priest) Dr. Anthony Fauci declaring it no longer a pandemic, Big Pharma is emboldened. With strong support from many once democratic and now increasingly authoritarian governments, Pfizer and other Covid ‘vaccine’ manufacturers seem fully intent on injecting our youth in its entirety, including infants and babies, with Covid shots. This is despite several undeniable facts, any one of which would otherwise stop any such efforts in their tracks, if those efforts were truly scientifically driven with public health as their primary motive.
These facts include a thousand-fold difference in the Covid-19 risk profile between young and old and a mortality risk for healthy children that is statistically zero. They include the fact that the average fatality age of a Covid-19 victim is about the same as the average all-cause mortality age in most countries. In the UK, for instance, that age is around 82. They include the fact that the overall mortality rate for Covid has turned out to be nothing like what we were initially led to believe, but instead is on par with that of a bad flu, which comes around every five years or so. They include the fact that all available Covid ‘vaccines’ are designed for the Wuhan-A strain, which no longer exists as a meaningful threat. None of these ‘vaccines’ has been repurposed for any other variant. They include the fact that despite what authorities and ‘vaccine’ manufacturers promised, most countries are on their third injection, with some on their fourth, and others talking about a fifth, and yet, the ‘vaccines’ are still not preventing infection, spread, hospitalization, or death. In fact, ample evidence now suggests that the opposite is the case. They include the fact that numerous pre-existing low cost treatments have proven highly effective, and that if any one of them were acknowledged by the conflict-ridden FDA, instead of being ignored, actively suppressed and censored from public discourse, then under existing law this would instantly make all approvals for Covid ‘vaccines’ under emergency use authorization null and void in the United States. They include the fact that the Covid related injections are genetic experiments and therefore highly experimental, that their trials were not properly done, and that no long-term studies on the effects of any of them exist. They include the fact that all Covid injections now have a very concerning risk profile associated with them.
We are also seeing moves, both clandestine and in plain sight, to implement so-called “vaccine passports” in many jurisdictions, including the UK, without justification or explanation. Meanwhile, the US, the UK, the European Union and others led by powerful globalist bodies, are quietly following in the Chinese Communist Party’s footsteps towards government controlled central digital currencies. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the general public is simply not yet well equipped enough to understand how all the concerns expressed here and in the preceding paragraphs are intimately related, and how all have profound implications for our way of life and our collective future.
Government controls and restrictions, which would have been considered monstrous and unthinkable just over two years ago are now firmly established precedents. Whether through the pretext of variants, new illnesses, or other future emergencies, they are bound to return sooner or later and with further mandates accompanying them that are even more draconian and arbitrary, if the precedents already set are not redressed and the powers seized in haste under questionable democratic process are not formally relinquished. (How do you feel about the possibility of arbitrary ‘climate change’ lockdowns someday?) Such outcomes are clearly foreseeable, unless more of us collectively start saying “NO” to the absurd and start claiming back our inalienable rights, including both democratic rights and human rights.
If you did not speak out when governments were coercing your fellow citizens and their children to undergo experimental injections, which they did not want but you were okay with, who do you expect will be left to stand up for you when governments and Big Pharma come with new experimental injections for you and your children which you finally decide you do not want? If we do not start standing up in greater numbers and fight to hold the line on the right to bodily sovereignty and for the restoration of democracy and freedom itself, we legitimately risk losing all three, and our humanity along with them. I plan on making this argument vigorously here on Substack from every perspective I can in an attempt to wake more people up, to connect with those who are already there, and to share insights and introduce readers to others who can offer advice on how to simultaneously try to change the current trajectory, while preparing for challenges which may lie ahead.
In the meantime, the best advice I can offer is to get out from under government, corporate media, and Big Tech controlled domains at least as primary sources of information. All are comprehensively corrupted and perpetrating great harms on humanity. With that, I have sounded an alarm. It is an alarm that a strong and growing minority around the world already recognizes and sees clearly, but also one which a significant majority remains unable or unwilling to even consider.
Reflexively writing off avenues of inquiry is certainly an easy thing to do, especially when doing the opposite challenges us, but being intellectually incurious can come with added risk and offers little upside. Indeed, it is precisely what establishment powers and the behavioral psychology, aka, psyops, they systematically employ on us, encourage. Accordingly, readers are more likely to judge me negatively for this page than to take heed of anything I may say. That’s fine. I don’t mind. Ultimately, this page is also for me. It is a potential diary of sorts where I can record and organize my thoughts and express myself, freely, and free from Big Tech censorship. This platform seems to still respect free expression and open dialogue. It is still a place where the healthy exchange of differing views and counter arguments may be shared without threat of institutional reprisal. When you stop and think about it, it’s quite striking to consider that even on mainstream social media, such radical practices were standard-fare not too long ago.
Ultimately, if concerns for the future, as they relate to government overreach and abuse in public health and beyond, which I and countless others far more intelligent and credentialed than myself are raising turn out to have been overblown, no one will be happier for it than me. However, I cannot escape the logic that says when the full measure of things that have already happened and are still happening is properly taken, the alarm is not only wholly justified but also prudent, regardless what the future may hold.
We are living through extraordinary times. Be safe rather than sorry. Trust, if you must, but verify. Be forewarned and forearmed. Ultimately, these are my messages. Whether I will be able to get through to anyone or not is another matter. Regardless, my conscience is now starting to clear and someday my kids will see that I tried.
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Dave, As ever it’s great to hear your views and it’s pleasing to note that you are willing to question "the facts" rather than wearily accept what is thrown at us. The world never stands still, but the rate of change does indeed seem to be picking up – the continuous re-defining of accepted norms, how control is exerted, how freedom is re-interpreted, is globalisation being broken down, or maybe being ramped up and perhaps even being applied more heavy handedly than ever?
Maybe we are just entering a new form of “industrial” revolution – the same old tropes - we are promised better quality lives, more freedoms – yet there is an inexorable flow of power and money to an ever smaller & more privileged elite group.
Looking forward to hearing your on-going views – and thanks for the invitation to read your musings.
Dave, I'm not going to argue the efficacy of the vaccines, because I just don't have the information, but I wanted to say that you should be careful comparing Covid to the flu even if you were only making the comparison in terms of number of deaths. Covid has ravaged some of my friend's seemingly long-term health prospects not to mention what is has done to our healthcare system.
My brother is an ER doc, Chief of Staff, and part owner of a company responsible for contracting out doctors for hospitals around the country, and he has seen a 30% drop-out rate for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers. He's even had to close some of the smaller hospitals. This is all due to Covid. My sister, who is a Pediatric Cancer nurse, is retiring early, because her unit is overwhelmed by the onslaught of Covid patients, and she simply can't take it more. I have other anecdotal evidence highlighting the vast differences between the flu and Covid, but it would be superfluous, and I don't want to belabor the point.
I realize that your blog is more about the bigger picture pertaining to government and the pharmaceutical companies' over-reaching and dangerous power, but I'm too ignorant on the subject to contribute anything worthwhile; hence, my two cents on the sub-topic.
Let me end with an even bigger-picture, existential thought. I believe the human race to be one of the universe’s many, failed, evolutionary experiments. We are not a cooperative species and as individuals see ourselves separate from the whole. Until our collective consciousness is raised to the level where we see (know) that we are, *literally and figuratively, one living organism, no real change (in government or otherwise) can ever be substantively effective or lasting.
*a quantum physics perspective.
Peace and love,
Drew