Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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The head of the CDC did not actually design or control the pandemic response, which is a stunning thing to realize, but I think that's exactly what happened. And he did his level best to try to make his way, but it didn't work.
The head of the CDC did not actually design or control the pandemic response, which is a stunning thing to realize, but I think that's exactly what happened. And he did his level best to try to make his way, but it didn't work.
I mean, I think you're right that parts of the intelligence community thought that it might be a bioweapon. Certainly, a lot of the intelligence community thought that it was at least an unintentional leak of something that's quite dangerous. And, of course, you can't tell directly from the sequence of a virus, the genetic sequence of a virus, exactly the physiological effects that will happen.
I mean, I think you're right that parts of the intelligence community thought that it might be a bioweapon. Certainly, a lot of the intelligence community thought that it was at least an unintentional leak of something that's quite dangerous. And, of course, you can't tell directly from the sequence of a virus, the genetic sequence of a virus, exactly the physiological effects that will happen.
And so they just assume the worst.
And so they just assume the worst.
um and they they treated it like a military i mean like a a lockdown of the entire society that's not in normal public health plans normal health plans are it looks like the great barrington declaration it says protect vulnerable people and don't disrupt society don't fear monger maybe if you have a bioweapon attack you would you react that way i just i don't know i don't i don't have classified clearance i don't have any direct visibility but it was a extremely unusual thing if you think about it as just a public health intervention
um and they they treated it like a military i mean like a a lockdown of the entire society that's not in normal public health plans normal health plans are it looks like the great barrington declaration it says protect vulnerable people and don't disrupt society don't fear monger maybe if you have a bioweapon attack you would you react that way i just i don't know i don't i don't have classified clearance i don't have any direct visibility but it was a extremely unusual thing if you think about it as just a public health intervention
So that one, I read that. That's Jeffrey Tucker's article. It's interesting. So it's based on a CDC webpage that they put out during the pandemic. It's not my article. It's Jeffrey Tucker's, right? And I think that the plans were about what to do in humanitarian settings. What they mean by that is at the border where you have refugee camps or something like that.
So that one, I read that. That's Jeffrey Tucker's article. It's interesting. So it's based on a CDC webpage that they put out during the pandemic. It's not my article. It's Jeffrey Tucker's, right? And I think that the plans were about what to do in humanitarian settings. What they mean by that is at the border where you have refugee camps or something like that.
I don't think it was directly envisioned as a population-wide measure. I mean, there were places like in Australia, for instance, where they had camps, quarantine camps, like in, I think, Western Australia or Northern Territory or something. where they had quarantine camps.
I don't think it was directly envisioned as a population-wide measure. I mean, there were places like in Australia, for instance, where they had camps, quarantine camps, like in, I think, Western Australia or Northern Territory or something. where they had quarantine camps.
And so especially if you had COVID or you exposed someone with COVID, you'd be driven to this camp and it looked like a prison facility where you stay there for two, three, four weeks or whatever it is until you were tested negative sufficient number of times. So it's not that public health in the West didn't do this.
And so especially if you had COVID or you exposed someone with COVID, you'd be driven to this camp and it looked like a prison facility where you stay there for two, three, four weeks or whatever it is until you were tested negative sufficient number of times. So it's not that public health in the West didn't do this.
i don't think they were implanted in the united states i i'm not sure it was ambiguous i went back and read that web page after i saw jeffrey tucker's article and it's still unclear to me what the extent to which the plans were uh meant for the population at large rather than just just those uh those like refugee settings um as it is the direction Yeah.
i don't think they were implanted in the united states i i'm not sure it was ambiguous i went back and read that web page after i saw jeffrey tucker's article and it's still unclear to me what the extent to which the plans were uh meant for the population at large rather than just just those uh those like refugee settings um as it is the direction Yeah.
I mean, that is... I did not understand...
I mean, that is... I did not understand...
just this is a confession like i already mentioned i i confessed i was naive before the pandemic and i just i didn't understand that the history of governments essentially lying to the public manufacturing consent i mean i had read noam chomsky's manufacturing consent uh before and i just until i saw it happen in in before my eyes right during the pandemic on things that i knew for certain and yet the picture being painted was so different um
just this is a confession like i already mentioned i i confessed i was naive before the pandemic and i just i didn't understand that the history of governments essentially lying to the public manufacturing consent i mean i had read noam chomsky's manufacturing consent uh before and i just until i saw it happen in in before my eyes right during the pandemic on things that i knew for certain and yet the picture being painted was so different um