Swimming against the current of “pandemic” consensus.


09/27/2020 . The Brits held another anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square in London yesterday (9/26/20). It was in response to harsher lockdown edicts, reported by Russia Today as being: 

People are now barred from meeting in groups larger than six, and citizens face large fines if they refuse to self-quarantine when ordered to do so by public health officials. Restaurants and pubs were recently instructed to stop serving customers at 10pm.

There are similar edicts where I live in the US, but protests have been fewer and much smaller. Mostly, people here believe the government’s COVID-19 story and believe that it is a pandemic that will eventually “be over.” That belief may be related to “news cycles” and watching thousands of hours of episodic TV.

I won’t recount in this space why I don’t accept the official story and believe it to be a hoax. If you want a good overview of my reasons why, however, I recommend Dr. Vernon Coleman’s list here .

My concern is for living in a society like a ghost. I pass among masked people either unseen or occasionally seen as an unmasked, frightening spectre. If I speak of the hoax, I’m not heard. I pass through walls of lockdown ordinances, unable to make solid connection with anyone’s imagination that all this is for the public good. 

For instance. The writer’s association I belong to has planned a major conference in my city, scheduled for April 2021. They have planned it as an in-person event at the city conference center. Their well-intentioned belief is that the “pandemic will surely be over by then.” If it is not, then they’ll go “virtual.” 

They had a similar conference planned for 2020 in April, but canceled it in the face of the first lockdown. 

So I wonder. If they are able to have an in-person conference next April and city ordinances haven’t changed, will they have speakers wearing masks or speaking from behind plastic barriers? Will participants be masked and social-distanced? Will police be around to ensure ordinance compliance? I will not attend such a conference.

I expect tremendous upheaval in the next months centering around the presidential election. The specifics are unimportant—they’ll all be staged. All that matters is the results, which I believe will include another, harsher, lockdown on the order of what’s being done in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Likely, by the end of 2021, US society will be operating like China’s.

Maybe I’m wrong, but given what our rulers have inflicted on us in 2020, I don’t see how 2021 can be anything but worse.

How can a writer’s conference survive this? I don’t think it can, even going virtual. What you’re left with is a degraded imitation of a writer’s conference. Society cannot function via videoconferencing, though our technocratic rulers would prefer we did. I will not participate in such a conference.

I hope the lockdown protests continue in Trafalgar Square. Such a show of opposition to tyranny is frightening to our rulers and has the potential for breaking through propaganda and changing minds. I wish it would happen on the same scale in the US. 

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