French was my first foreign language. 50 years ago when then wife Josée said "Les chiens aboient et la caravane passe" "The caravan goes by, the dogs bark." I loved the expression. The dogs bark and nothing happens.
I thought of that as four-year-old Zoriana was crying. She does so all the time for no reason. Or rather, any reason. She howled all the way as we walked home in a light snow from the Sunday farmers market.
She refuses to absorb the message that acting unpleasant isn't likely to advance her interests. Her crying certainly doesn't change any minds about whether to give her cookies or some privilege. She just does it because she's a four-year-old girl. Eddie doesn't help – it is so easy to get a rise out of her that he too often cannot resist.
I was delighted to learn that there is an identical expression in Russian about dogs and caravans. Собака лает, караван идет. Such an expression would have historical roots because both Russia and France had Gypsy caravans in their history. When we moved to this neighborhood 10 years ago some Gypsies actually lived in wagons.
I wrote that I'm giving a speech on mass formation next week. I watched Mattias Desmet's videos again. I found that there is more meat in his interview with Aubrey Marcus than the subsequent ones. I take back a little bit what I said about his being repetitive.
Last night Eddie and Zoriana asked me for stories, so I told them about the Three Little Pigs and then Little Red Riding Hood. It struck me that a fairytale format was pretty applicable to this current Covid 19 delirium. So I wrote the following draft for a speech next weekend entitled The Three Doctors. Since I cannot indent in the Substack format, I'm setting it off with two rows of lines. You are welcome to take notes as you read it with regard to how I should polish it before Saturday.
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Once upon a time there were three doctors. Each one was a leader in his field.
Peter was a heart specialist. He had published more articles on heart conditions than any doctor in history. He led a large team at a major hospital. He was the president of a great many medical associations.
Robert was a vaccine and drug specialist. He had invented the mRNА vaccine technique before going into the business of managing clinical trials. He ran more than 100 of them for vaccines and other drugs, and often worked with the FDA, NIH, United States Department of Defense and intelligence community. He was also the president of many associations and the author of a great many articles in the leading scientific journals.
Mattias was a psychologist and a statistician. He had studied Мass Formation, the way in which people go crazy and start to believe things that aren't true and kill each other. МassFormation had occurred in the United States, the Jacobin revolution following the French Revolution, Stalin's USSR and Nazi Germany.
These men were comfortable at the top of their careers when a great plague called Covid 19 hit the world.
Peter, the heart specialist, saw that the quickest solution would be repurposed medicines. He quickly determined that the virus could be contained by early treatment. People needed to take vitamin C, vitamin D and others to strengthen their immune systems. They needed to take zinc to prevent the virus from reproducing itself, and they needed to take an ionophore to help cells absorb the zinc.
Robert, the inventor of the mRNА vaccine, knew it would not work. Covid 19 was a type of influenza, and vaccines have never been effective against influenza. He also knew that mRNА was dangerous. It had been tried many times to vaccinate animals and the animals died. Robert said, whatever the solution is, it is not the jabs that the big drug companies and their allies and government were promoting.
Mattias, thinking as a statistician, started to pay attention to Covid 19 in early 2020. By May he had concluded that the government predictions about the number of people who would catch and die from it were vastly inflated. It was simply not that dangerous! It was a campaign by government and drug companies to stampede the world population into getting jabbed. By August he had figured out, as a psychologist, that this was another Мass Formation – a terror.
Mattias had been teaching about Мass Formation for three years. He said that it has four preconditions. If he had been a ToastMaster he would've done a better job! МassFormation is not a particularly enlightening term. The preconditions that he named are not distinct or easy to remember; three would've been better than four. It is a credit to his theory that a lot of people put up with the deficiencies and embraced it.
He said that МassFormation requires four pre-conditions that are widespread in our society:
· First, people have to be isolated from one another. Families are weakened; people live alone. Institutions such as churches and volunteer organizations no longer provide a chance to socialize.
· Second, people now feel a lack of meaning in life. Their jobs contribute nothing to society. Often no family or anybody else depends on them.
· Third, there is a free-floating sense of anxiety. They are flooded with fear about global warming, Russians, and the notion that they may be unconsciously offending people of other races, sexes or genders.
· Fourth, there is free-floating anxiety. There is anger and frustration setting people against each other, often about the issues just named.
Mattias argues that such conditions were met in Stalin's USSR, Nazi Germany, and now in the West. People are anxious and mad at each other about many overhyped crises such as global warming and mistreatment of gays and transsexuals.
Covid 19 was a perfect spark to fall into the dry tinder of the four above-named conditions. It provided an evil – Covid 19 itself, and the unvaccinated people that allegedly spread it. It provided something to do – take the vaccines, and shun and persecute people who refused. These battles provided believers with a common enemy – the supposedly deadly virus and the unvaccinated who spread it. The vaccinated banded together and howled for blood.
Peter expected the community to rejoice that he had found cheap and effective ways to prevent and cure the infection. Not so! They hated him for not supporting the vaccine. They made it impossible for druggists to sell the cheap, effective ionophore medicines he recommended. If I were to name them in this talk, I could not post it online. They attacked Peter’s heresy in claiming that people who recovered from the disease did not need the vaccine. They smeared his Wikipedia entry. They made Google cough up lies about him. They attempted to take away his medical license.
Robert, the vaccine expert, expected people would appreciate knowing the dangers of mRNА vaccines, which he was uniquely able to assess. He thought they would appreciate his critique of the hasty and shoddy clinical trial. They hated him too! Government and media sources put out streams of negative pieces about how he didn't know what he was talking about. They also tried to take away his right to practice medicine.
The best defense is a good offense. Although the pharmaceutical companies, governments, and the traditional media dominated communication, the public had woken up to the fact that what they were hearing from traditional channels was propaganda. They were hungry for different points of view, and the Internet provided that.
There had been a few independent voices from the start, but the dam started to break with podcast interviews of Robert, Peter and other brave souls in the summer of 2021. It was becoming evident that the vaccines just didn't work! People were getting sick despite being vaccinated. The most highly vaccinated countries like Britain and Israel were seeing the most deaths. Something wasn't right.
By late 2021 Peter and Robert totally understood that they were not dealing with a medical problem. Their vast medical knowledge was not even relevant. This was a psychological issue. They were delighted to learn of Mattias' work.
Meanwhile, as the public was getting tired of being lied to by traditional media, independent voices like Bret, Aubrey and Joe were gaining steam. Joe's podcast had debuted in 2013. His best shows got five million views in 2016, and remained at that level until… 40 million when he interviewed Robert and 2021! The public was ready for this message.
Мass Formation is such an important idea that all the traditional media, starting with writers, felt forced to pooh-pooh it, saying it is nothing. Meanwhile, Robert and Peter have joined Mattias and many others talking about psychology just as much as medicine. We are witnessing the most monumental battle for people's minds in the history of the world. It involves the whole world population, all world governments, and most of the world's businesses.
A fairytale would conclude that they all lived happily ever after. I do not know if they will, but they at least have the pleasure of having taken leading roles in the greatest battle of their times. And mine.
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You will all know that the doctors are Peter McCullough, Robert Malone and Mattias Desmet. Also that the medicines that I cannot mention are ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and quercetin. The podcasters are Aubry Marcus, Bret Weinstein - Darkhorse, and of course Joe Rogan.
It seemed to me that Mattias is a little bit hasty in assuming that his listeners will concur with his four preconditions. This is especially true in Ukraine, where there is less sense of anxiety, anomie and purposelessness than in America. Ukrainian audiences are always interested in what I have to say, but I often have the sense that they can't quite believe things can be that different.
Having witnessed American society evolve over almost eight decades as a conservative with perches variously in Berkeley, San Francisco, Portland and Washington DC I feel quite well qualified to deliver a speech on that topic. Which comes first? I think that the fairytale of the three doctors raises the question in the next one will answer it.
Everybody in the world seems to be getting the omicron version. The Covid 19 infection chart for Ukraine, which had been plunging asymptotically toward zero, has flattened out at about 5000 cases a day. Daily deaths are falling. Since omicron is so new, I assume that those are mostly already hospitalized Delta cases and that deaths will continue downward.
Meanwhile, my perception of your world is that with omicron there is an absolute decoupling between Covid 19 and death. This graph of the incidence of disease would be horrible
except that nobody is feeling very sick. Bret Weinstein, in his podcast 110, is the latest to suggest chickenpox parties so everybody can get it. It is milder than what has come before, and may be milder than whatever follows. Get it while you can!
Oksana knocked herself out for Christmas, with two days of caroling preceded by a couple of days of rehearsals, and with nightly gatherings like this that our house for sustenance. She is running a small temperature with a bit of a cough. I would not be surprised if some of us tested positive for Covid antibodies at the end of the winter.
Instead of studying, Eddie is playing chess with his grandfather several hours a day. I don't see that he is getting any better, but he is doing God's work entertaining his grandfather and picking up stories that he can tell his own grandchildren.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the men are feeling stronger, the women not so much at the moment, and the kids are having a great time in the snow and with grandparents. We are having a real village winter.