Jordan Peterson has Gone (Almost) Full Deplorable on Covid

 

And we are better for it.

If you were trying to create the perfect conditions for public skepticism about vaccines in the midst of a pandemic, could you have done any better than this?

-          Norman Doidge

Jordan Peterson has gone further into unpacking the false narratives and manipulation regarding covid at a pace that seems to be quickening.  He recently released a three-hour video on the topic.  All Peterson did in this video was to introduce Norman Doidge (a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst), who then spent the three hours reading his (obviously) very long analysis of the covid road.

The analysis is entitled “Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it.”  It is in four parts, with chapter one here (and links to the other parts are included).  It was published on October 27, 2021.  A thirty-eight page “printer friendly” version is also available.  Then you have my brief notes and summary.

I have to say, except for diving into the “whys” of the mainstream narrative and government actions of the last two years, Doidge has most of the issues that that honest doctors like Malone and McCullough have pointed out, or that readers of banned or blacklisted websites like Lew Rockwell or Infowars would already be very well aware.

I said most.  No mention of alternative treatments and how these were crushed.  No real dive into the data, demonstrating that there was no “pandemic.”  But still, overall, a very good report.

Here I will only offer some examples: he opens with an examination of what he calls the behavioral immune system (BIS).  I only introduce it here because he spends a good amount of time discussing it.  It would seem a good topic of conversation to have amongst Doidge, Peterson, and Dr. Desmet.  This BIS explains, for Doidge, why….

… someone drives alone wearing a mask, or goes for a walk by themselves in an empty forest masked, or when someone—say with good health and no previous known adverse reactions to vaccines—hears that a vaccine can in one in 500,000 cases cause death, but can’t take any comfort that they have a 99.999% chance of it not happening because it potentially can.

You all know such people.

There are the positive aspects of vaccination – smallpox being a major example.  But he also covers the many tragedies – and, in many cases, purposeful abuses: the Tuskegee experiments, forced sterilizations, etc.

None of the public health abuses during this period involved informed patient consent, and yet they were government-sponsored, lauded, and justified in the name of the greater good.

Until the Nazis came along.  Then the experimenters got a little cautious – or, I wonder, just more discrete?  In any case, we got the Nuremburg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki: informed consent would now be mandatory.

The connection between the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA that regulates and approves the manufacture of vaccines is made – regulatory capture.  Further, the regulators often have financial incentive to approve the drugs which they regulate – and Fauci is named directly.  Finally, the swinging door from regulator to industry and back (although there were also several resignations mentioned as well).

He continues to list the numerous multi-billion-dollar fines paid by companies in the industry – Pfizer, Glaxo, Abbot, Eli Lilly, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, etc.  Oxycontin, Vioxx, and the like.  Ghost-written papers – papers written by big pharma but pawned off as independent research.  Delay the reports of side-effects until the patent runs out, then use the side-effects to kill any generic use and come up with modifications to secure a new patent.  The list of corruption is endless.

Doidge notes that in September, 2019 – a few months before the covid nonsense began – Big Pharma was already the least trusted industry in America (25 out of 25), with the federal government at 24, the health care industry at 23, and advertising and public relations at 22.  In other words, every faction that since has become for many Americans the purveyors of unquestionable truth.

Anthony Fauci – a seeming voice of reason in the first weeks of March 2020.  Then the flip-flops: two weeks to flatten the curve grew into a new way of life, no masks became masks.  Nothing made sense.  And then you have no-lockdown Florida with better data that full lockdown New York.

The whole gain of function aspect: both Fauci’s and Collins' lies and duplicity on this topic are discussed.  Vaccines would be our savior – and it wasn’t only Fauci preaching this good news:

On this point, Bill Gates, of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the largest private contributor to the WHO, was very direct: “The ultimate solution, the only thing that really lets us go back completely to normal and feel good … is to create a vaccine,” he said.

Doidge notes that almost anyone in the vaccine industry would say it takes 7 – 10 years on a fast track to properly develop a vaccine.  But Gates said we can’t wait that long.  So, the manufacturers would have to be protected from liability.  And then there was the lack of transparency:

The New York Times ran several articles on this, reporting that AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna had each withheld their study protocols from outside scientists and the public.

Which is fine with the regulatory agencies, making them seem even more corrupt to the general public.  Then, the trial participants were followed for a total of…two months.  And, just like that, four billion people have been jabbed.

The novel mRNA – first touted as a major breakthrough, a new technology.  Until this made people less comfortable than they already were.  Then it was suddenly around for a long time.

AstraZeneca stopped its clinical trial twice in 2020.  As if to demonstrate the purpose behind the vaccines, he first told the JP Morgan investment bank.

…in November 2020, the exciting news arrived: We had vaccine liftoff. Phase III trials of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were said to be 95% and 94.5% efficacious, as Fauci and the company press releases announced…

And Emergency Use Authorization was granted.  But, efficacious at what, exactly?  Per Peter Doshi, an associate editor at the British Medical Journal:

“None of the trials currently underway are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths.”

In fact, out of 70,000 trial participants, only one died a covid death.  How could that be statistically meaningful?  The trial would have to be 5-10 times larger or 5-10 times longer to have any merit.  And still no data released, and won’t be for years.

Israel and Great Britain, two countries well out in front in the vaccination race.  And for a short time, things were looking up. 

Over the summer, the master narrative started to show cracks. By Aug. 18, Israel had the world’s third-highest number of new cases per capita.

It would get worse – up to 10,000 new covid cases per day:

“That is a record that did not exist in the previous waves,” Nachman said. It was also the highest number of COVID cases per capita of any country, beating out Mongolia and making Israel the “COVID capital of the world just months after leading the charge on vaccines.”

Hospitals in Israel were overloaded and had to turn away patients.  The solution: quadruple jabs.  Meanwhile, Sweden, taking few of the forced measures, had cases and deaths much lower than Israel.

Pregnant women could safely take the vaccine.  But that’s not what the study said, even as thin as it was – only a couple of months.  No increased fetal death, but what of longer-term effects?  It was white, uneducated Trump voters that were hesitant – except that the most hesitancy was in minorities and those with Ph.Ds…and health care workers.

Boosters were approved, after a study of a few hundred participants.  Well, not really approved.  They were rejected, except for those over 65.  But then Biden took over:

…in mid-August, Biden began publicly supporting boosters for all. Why? On Sept. 16, the Los Angeles Times reported that the president was following the advice of Fauci and the NIH, with the help of Dr. Janet Woodcock…

The same Woodcock who had gone around and against advisory panels on other issues.

Tech censorship, threats of pulling medical licenses.  It was all too much even for Amnesty International:

“Across the world, journalists, political activists, medical professionals, whistle-blowers and human rights defenders who expressed critical opinions of their governments’ response to the crisis have been censored, harassed, attacked and criminalized.”

Then the numbers started coming down – no more “95% effective.”  Now, below 50%...and falling.  No more preventing transmission.  The (il)logical conclusion: it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated, of course. This, using lies to justify the phrase.  One example to counter this: the unvaccinated country of Ethiopia:

The population of Ethiopia is about 119 million—just over one-third of the United States. COVID vaccination rates are very low there: 2.7% have had at least one shot, 0.9% have had two. As of Sept. 28, 2021, the country recorded only 5,439 COVID deaths over the course of the entire pandemic. If the United States had such a death rate per capita, it would have lost just over 16,000 people, rather than over 700,000.

Conclusion

In any case, it is good to see Peterson now is entering this fight.  There are places he hasn’t gone, and I don’t expect him to go.  I don’t think he will risk wandering directly into conspiracy territory.

But, how else would you explain the last two years?