Why? Our Readers Respond

Why did they do it? Substack readers respond to last week's post on this important subject.

Readers had A LOT to say about our post last week “Why Did They Do It?” Here are some of the comments I found interesting.

I’ve tried to categorize them. You can click to find the comment at the end of each opist. If you had a substack and commented - I included that as well!

Don’t forget about our election watch party later today!

About Trump

It was something they could use to get rid of Trump. It was not planned as the escape from the lab in China was an accident. But the narrative was built how deadly this was and see what China is doing to contain it. Trump played into their hands and they ran with it. A reason for the country to move beyond Trump in 2024. - reality speaks

My reply:

I noted: “Trump was solid on so many things. There were only a few big mistakes - but they were big ones. I wish he had ended things after the 2 week shut down.”

I think they were just copying what China did because there was so much unknown at the time, and because they thought it was a lot deadlier than it actually was. But it quickly became more of a power grab and a way to get politically ahead. The media also is to blame because of how much they scared people, and for sure this was used as a way to get rid of Trump. But most of all, both the media and our elites realized how gullible a lot of people are, which in turn makes the rest of us pariahs for seeing them as the frauds that they are. - Michael Felsenthal

Forces like the WEF Pounced

I think the WEF saw it as an opportunity. The most draconian measures came from the WEF Young Stupid Leaders Program, like Trudeau and Ardern. The level of disgust I feel for those people and Klaus Schwab and the WEF is beyond measure. - pima canyon

A Tops - down planned society seems what we are gravitating to. The end of the world virus shock and awe story and centralized response sets the stage. Seems a power (financial and political) grab.

Is it a conspiracy theory? Is that too much to acknowledge for good natured people?

It’s not, however, when you see the same names popping up to influence directly or indirectly decisions heading in this direction.

It’s not, however, when you replace conspiracy theory with the word convergence of interests. Industry sells to the state products to control populations and secure power and states buy from industry which amasses greater wealth. It’s corporative facsism but under the guise of democracy. It’s not new. - Me, myself and I

Ralph Baric began studying Coronaviruses in the late 80s, bypassing the more prestigious and en vogue HIV research other virologists were drawn to.

Baric hypothesized that Coronaviruses – while seemingly benign, might someday mutate and cause severe pandemics. Like all doomsday prophets, that “someday” isn’t thousands or millions of years in the future, rather it will happen within his lifetime and SOON! Rapture is always just a few years away to the religious zealot. - Michael DAmbrosio

COVID and the mass-hysteria/fascism that followed became a proxy war. The Left and the "establishment" used COVID to attempt to destroy representative democracy and any pretense of God given rights. - JEB-DUDE - Writes JEB-DUDE - Nov 4

Bio-Warefare is Here

I agree whatever motivated the COVID and V4X narative was a global event. nations which rejected the fake science and fake vaccine such as africa were penalized with sanctions, and clandestine economic warfare. The COVID and V4X phenomena was part of a global clandestine bio-warfare and information warfare operation. -StrawHat4DKingPirate - Writes StrawHat4DKingPirate’s Newslett - Nov 4

A biofascist state is the goal of the Left - which started in earnest with Obamacare and is accelerating. Trump facilitated moving toward their goal (and again, if HRC had been elected, then none of this would have happened as even McConnell would have pushed back). There is big money AND ultimate control available when “public health” is the number 1 policy issue. Big Pharma owns pretty much every federal politician, Big Tech, and media outlet. And they will continue along this path unless we stop them at the State and local level. - Beeblebrox

Idiocy. Our Leaders Failed. Our Health Leaders are Zealots and also Dumb

I've been saying since fall 2020 that literally *everything* the so-called experts were telling us to do was wrong. Unscientific nonsense, that even I as a non-scientist could see was at best useless, if not counterproductive. - Bet Rob

I agree that we are suffering from "expertism". In every known field or faculty of the sciences and the humanities there has occurred a type of expansion of narrowing. This has ever been the case but is also possibly exponential. - Amy

Incompetence & ego. They followed China’s lead because they were naive, and then their egos got in the way of self correcting. Other option is nefarious...great reset. I’m not sure what I believe yet. I’d prefer to believe they are stupid & prideful, rather than evil. But neither option would surprise me at this point. - Dr. Molly Rutherfor - Writes UnbridledMD - Nov 4

Many people are having a difficult time with the theory outlined in Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism but it's the best working postulate to date as to what's been going on for decades. The ideology based upon the inccorect assumption that we live in a wholly machinistic world (devoid of a higher understanding) which can and must be controlled by those at the top levels of the regime is more important than a narrative fueled by deceit. - Reggie VanderVeen - Writes Reggie’s Rants - Nov 4

Why?

The best explanation I have seen came early on in the pandemic from Dr. G.C. Dilsaver. The godless West has produced what he calls the "technarcistic man."

"This is why there is pan[ic]demic, for when death or its threat becomes real the third millennium population is found to be wanting in maturity, wanting in accepting reality, wanting in wisdom, wanting in courage. Today’s hopelessly immature, unrealistic, foolish, and cowardly Westerner, et al., could be paleontologically dubbed 'technarcistic man;' for the person of the third millennium has a recalcitrant pride inured in a myriad of technological ways from the humiliation of existence." - Doug Fuda

There should be not doubt that the Biden Administration and Democrats have totally screwed up pandemic management and COVID handling. If Americans want major changes, then they should vote for Republicans over Democrats. - Joel S Hirschhorn

Counterpoint here:

Absolute absurdity to think the left deftly seized on an opportunity and were not complicit in a high level coup using a long planned next increment accretion of control over personal sovereignty. The Plandemonium was a long planned op whose timing was adjusted to coincide with the 2020 election cycle due to Trump's unexpected win. - Barney Rubble - Writes Rough Draft ©️ - Nov 4

CYA

Fauci and his cronies are the initial "who". The why early on is also because Fauci and crew knew it likely came from the lab and they feared the virus would decimate the population. They had no idea how deadly and contagious it was because they knew the work that went on there. Once you got past the first month or so, authoritarians (Fauci included) ran with the restrictions (let no crisis go to waste). It was the perfect opportunity to test mRNA vaccines. Let's all remember that it was State and Local government, by and large, that took the ball and ran with it regarding restrictions (or didn't run with it in the case of Florida and other states). The Fed had limited authority and could only set guidelines. - Mike Capesius

The CFR, Fauci's emails show, convinced him over one weekend to flip his position on masks. I'd start the story there. Find out what the CFR's motivations were and we are getting somewhere. - Jerome Armstrong- Writes Netroots on Substack- Nov 5

How does that saying go? "It's the economy, stupid." Controlled demolition of the economy.

A memory hole bit that happened, maybe someone with more time and wayback machine knowledge can dig it up:

head of Federal Reserve St. Louis predicts in an interview in 2019 that there would be a big upset in blah blah quarter of 2020.

Also, regime change. the lady chuck -Writes Inflammatory Language - Nov 4

The big strategic planners realized it's the end of the debt cycle. We've reached the limits of growth, and there's no way to pay back our debt. This poses an enormous risk to those in power (not the politicians but the real power brokers) because when the system breaks, the world would shift to something new which may not benefit them. So the only option is a controlled demolition of the system, while ushering in a new one that they can control. - GK

Lee has it right:

Arrogance - Lee Muller - Writes Lee Muller’s Foresight is 20/22 - Nov 4-