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When We Don't Have Independent Media COVID-19, Nord Stream Etc. Become the 'Next JFK' (a Mishmash of Theories, No Definitive Answers)

Week 22 deaths
Total deaths in England and Wales, by week. Source: UK government (ONS).



Summary: A lack of proper, independent investigation means that loads of people die needlessly and our governments don't even wish to acknowledge that this is happening (instead they censor doctors in Social Control Media such as YouTube, exercising social control over people and suppressing factual speech, under the guise of protecting us from "racism" or "misinformation")

YESTERDAY we saw "COVID-19's 'Patients Zero' May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds" [1] and a BSD geek from Sydney, who got infected with COVID-19 some months ago (he's about my age and took it very hard), wrote about "coffee smells" [2]. It's widely known that COVID-19 impacts the senses of small and taste, which are very closely connected.



COVID-19 is generally not a a subject we approach from a medical point of view (my Ph.D. is in Medical Biophysics, albeit COVID-19 has nothing to do with it), but it seems interesting that 'free' press is too timid to explore the origin and true impact of this virus. Only an hour ago we mention Free Speech (lack of it) in China and minutes ago we said TikTok is effectively a weapon. COVID-19 has had a massive impact on tech workers -- including EPO examiners -- and earlier today some independent media in Hong Kong (China?) said [3] that "the Hong Kong government lifted our Covid-19 state of emergency" (despite COVID-19 still spreading rapidly, especially in China this summer, based on press reports).

My wife and I have managed to avoid this virus so far. We've been COVID-free and hope to stay this way until "it's over" (we exercise great care/precautions), but given the general attitude of people it might not be feasible for another 4 years.

I planned to resign from my job in 2019, but then COVID-19 happened and I stayed until 2022. I now do Techrights from home and I've not attempted to find another job.

We need Free Speech. We need answers. We need a freedom-respecting Internet.

Related/contextual items from the news:
  1. COVID-19's 'Patients Zero' May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds
    Plus: Grand jury indicts Jack Teixeira, Congress pursues A.I. regulation, and more...


  2. Coffee smells and lockdowns

    I noticed something when I was making coffee yesterday in our kitchen. I ran the beans through the electric grinder, took the lid off, and the smell transported me back to 2020.

    At the height of Covid, before we had vaccines and we were confined to home for weeks at a time, I substituted my morning coffee shop run with brewing it at home. In a world that was somehow uncertain yet tedious, I liked that I at least had control over this one part of my life. I’d brew the coffee, take it out to the balcony, set up the laptop, and repeat the same day I’d had for weeks.



  3. Improving Hong Kong’s pandemic response and mental healthcare will take independent reviews – and action
    Last month, the Hong Kong government lifted our Covid-19 state of emergency. A few weeks earlier, the World Health Organization had declared the pandemic over as Covid becomes endemic. These developments allow the government to focus on urgent tasks of economic development and reengaging globally.


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