Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than most realize.
These effin masks are the bane of humanity. I will never get over that part of the whole covid cult and it's numerous rituals. So much of what has gone on reminds me of words in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible when it often says things like, "Pray to your idols made of wood and stone and ask them to come and save you." The other thing I won't ever get over is how people who are *not* experts on anything medically related suddenly became experts overnight. Gates, Schwab, the corporate media, institutions of "higher learning", and thousands of other shills that we are now supposed to laud and worship as some kind of saints/gods of medicine... Yet the average guy/gal doing their own research and truly looking at the numbers and those who actually have experience with things like masks were not allowed to say one word. We were banned, censored and deleted from society as we watched our loved ones die behind plexiglass and watch our communities be divided and destroyed. I'll never let this go if I live one more day or 30 more years. We can NEVER let this kind of insanity happen again. If we do, we deserve what we get.
I am unable to wear one. Live in WA. Husband farmer. My career was destroyed. Couldn’t even go into stores. We bought a condo in Idaho so I could function. Husband visited on weekends for 2 years. Mortality demo WA & ID exactly the same. My fury runs deep for these 2. Deep.
Wow Michael, thx for the deep dive. I’ve never heard of these horrible people but they’re as bad or worse than Faux-Xi. This small seems to say more about the deeply corrupt Idiocracy in which we’re living - that a few uncredentialed & over-their-heads ass hats would have such power & influence to advocate emulating a hostile country as a shining beacon of wu-flu “wisdom” but that doesn’t absolve so-called world “leaders”, a # of whom have expressed open admiration for the more draconian aspects of societal control there.
the big BS tip off should be (but I suppose isn't, with the cultists) that these people are computer hacks and sociologists. NOT trained nor versed in medical science nor any natural sciences. so their opinions matter exactly WHY?
here in the Chicago area, mask wearing seemed to dwindle down to near nothing about 6 months ago and then for some inexplicable reason, creep back up in recent months, to at least one-forth to one-third of people slapping one on again. and I'm still seeing sad elderly folks, in filthy paper masks, walking alone and moms forcing masks on their little ones. the only thing that this 'signals' to me is that these people are either mentally ill or incapable of independent thought.
Excellent article. You're right about the only two possible explanations. I surmise that it was, and nearly always is in these cases, both.
Our cabal of monsters is so good at what they do, the vast majority of their enablers are not actually required to be in on the agendas. They are handpicked and vetted early on, cultivated and brainwashed. Then, later when they are needed, vanity and other false rewards are used to manipulate them, and they play their parts perfectly.
If it hadn't been these individuals, the cabal would have had their pick from among hundreds of other useful fools, who think themselves intelligent, to be the first to push the mask narratives.
Ironically, it's sort of along the lines of what Tufekci herself wrote when she argued that "censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention". The cabal simply amplifies attention and projects trust in the pawns that push its narratives. When the pawn makes a wrong move, they forfeit/cancel it and use the next one.
The head start program in my town that screens and works with pre school kids who are showing developmental delays is so overwhelmed with kids they can’t take them all. History will not be kind to these two and their brethren and this younger generation, that have been so screwed by these policies, will eventually have their say.
I’ve told this before how a good friend of mine, an entrepreneur, had informed me in October, 2019 that he’d be out of reach for a few weeks. He was going to be out of the country and couldn’t tell me where or what for. Okay I thought but it got my curiosity going so when asked upon his return, he mentioned he was in China on a business trip but once again wouldn’t tell me anything about it.
When word of the plandemic was spreading that winter of ‘20, I mentioned to him that it sounded like another hoax just like N1H1, SARS, Zika and all the rest. “No no” he replied - “this is gonna be the real thing. By the way do you know anyone who’s looking to buy N95 masks? I have access to a huge supply!” At that moment the dots were connected; the mysterious trip to China, the assurances that this was the plague, and now his new venture helped me understand that it was all definitely and deliberately planned. At the same time, there were reports coming out from a journalist named Spiro about Event 201 where the WEF, Johns-Hopkins, and the Gates Foundation were doing a practice run at the same time he was in China. No one knows how many people were in on this scam, how many NDA’s were signed or how many billions were spent in advance to push this surprise attack of nature (not reallocation) on the gullible people of the world. My friend made out well although our friendship has not been the same. This anecdote is probably quite commonplace.
The kindness fallacy is the worst aspect of promask arguments. Saying it is ‘kind’ and ‘pro-society’ makes the actual effectiveness of masks a secondary motivation for wearing them. I shoot that argument down whenever I can, and point out that many people are physically and emotionally harmed by masks. Not kind at all. In our family, with a developmentally disabled daughter , ‘my mask upsets me, and your mask upsets me’ is how it works.
It infuriates me that academic parasites like Zeynep advocate for censoring people on social media while remaining silent when the "good people" use it to destroy lives with false accusations and start ethnic riots using it - among countless other transgressions.
I don't pay taxes to finance these lunatics for destroying other people's material wellbeing and civil liberties. Guys like Baked Alaska would have no sway at all if academics didn't push things like equality of outcome, then use other taxpayer financed outlets like NPR to lie about people's intentions when a grown-up discussion is attempted.
These effin masks are the bane of humanity. I will never get over that part of the whole covid cult and it's numerous rituals. So much of what has gone on reminds me of words in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible when it often says things like, "Pray to your idols made of wood and stone and ask them to come and save you." The other thing I won't ever get over is how people who are *not* experts on anything medically related suddenly became experts overnight. Gates, Schwab, the corporate media, institutions of "higher learning", and thousands of other shills that we are now supposed to laud and worship as some kind of saints/gods of medicine... Yet the average guy/gal doing their own research and truly looking at the numbers and those who actually have experience with things like masks were not allowed to say one word. We were banned, censored and deleted from society as we watched our loved ones die behind plexiglass and watch our communities be divided and destroyed. I'll never let this go if I live one more day or 30 more years. We can NEVER let this kind of insanity happen again. If we do, we deserve what we get.
I am unable to wear one. Live in WA. Husband farmer. My career was destroyed. Couldn’t even go into stores. We bought a condo in Idaho so I could function. Husband visited on weekends for 2 years. Mortality demo WA & ID exactly the same. My fury runs deep for these 2. Deep.
Wow Michael, thx for the deep dive. I’ve never heard of these horrible people but they’re as bad or worse than Faux-Xi. This small seems to say more about the deeply corrupt Idiocracy in which we’re living - that a few uncredentialed & over-their-heads ass hats would have such power & influence to advocate emulating a hostile country as a shining beacon of wu-flu “wisdom” but that doesn’t absolve so-called world “leaders”, a # of whom have expressed open admiration for the more draconian aspects of societal control there.
Is there a money trail to these 2?
the big BS tip off should be (but I suppose isn't, with the cultists) that these people are computer hacks and sociologists. NOT trained nor versed in medical science nor any natural sciences. so their opinions matter exactly WHY?
here in the Chicago area, mask wearing seemed to dwindle down to near nothing about 6 months ago and then for some inexplicable reason, creep back up in recent months, to at least one-forth to one-third of people slapping one on again. and I'm still seeing sad elderly folks, in filthy paper masks, walking alone and moms forcing masks on their little ones. the only thing that this 'signals' to me is that these people are either mentally ill or incapable of independent thought.
These last three years have unmasked plenty of everyday people, organizations, institutions, politicians, journalists, policies and goverments.
All covid policies did not just happen. They were prepared well in advance, just like a theatrical play.
Every actor entered the stage at the scheduled time, with the prepared speech or article.
Sadly, the audience was told that everything was spontaneous.
Nothing was real and honest except of the socio-economic concequencies and the suffering of ordinary people.
At the same time, not accidentally, all those who opposed, were ridiculed, cancelled or punished.
Thank you for exposing the dirty story with reasoning, proofs and names.
What Yuri said. But she is a highly-placed disinformation agent and very dangerous —good takedown!
Excellent article. You're right about the only two possible explanations. I surmise that it was, and nearly always is in these cases, both.
Our cabal of monsters is so good at what they do, the vast majority of their enablers are not actually required to be in on the agendas. They are handpicked and vetted early on, cultivated and brainwashed. Then, later when they are needed, vanity and other false rewards are used to manipulate them, and they play their parts perfectly.
If it hadn't been these individuals, the cabal would have had their pick from among hundreds of other useful fools, who think themselves intelligent, to be the first to push the mask narratives.
Ironically, it's sort of along the lines of what Tufekci herself wrote when she argued that "censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention". The cabal simply amplifies attention and projects trust in the pawns that push its narratives. When the pawn makes a wrong move, they forfeit/cancel it and use the next one.
Great article - fascinating and sad. Thanks for doing the digging on this.
Appreciate the timeline of insanity you so clearly map out. Thank you.
The head start program in my town that screens and works with pre school kids who are showing developmental delays is so overwhelmed with kids they can’t take them all. History will not be kind to these two and their brethren and this younger generation, that have been so screwed by these policies, will eventually have their say.
I’ve told this before how a good friend of mine, an entrepreneur, had informed me in October, 2019 that he’d be out of reach for a few weeks. He was going to be out of the country and couldn’t tell me where or what for. Okay I thought but it got my curiosity going so when asked upon his return, he mentioned he was in China on a business trip but once again wouldn’t tell me anything about it.
When word of the plandemic was spreading that winter of ‘20, I mentioned to him that it sounded like another hoax just like N1H1, SARS, Zika and all the rest. “No no” he replied - “this is gonna be the real thing. By the way do you know anyone who’s looking to buy N95 masks? I have access to a huge supply!” At that moment the dots were connected; the mysterious trip to China, the assurances that this was the plague, and now his new venture helped me understand that it was all definitely and deliberately planned. At the same time, there were reports coming out from a journalist named Spiro about Event 201 where the WEF, Johns-Hopkins, and the Gates Foundation were doing a practice run at the same time he was in China. No one knows how many people were in on this scam, how many NDA’s were signed or how many billions were spent in advance to push this surprise attack of nature (not reallocation) on the gullible people of the world. My friend made out well although our friendship has not been the same. This anecdote is probably quite commonplace.
Karen’s and soy bugmen love masks. Those two are prime specimens: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-spot-a-soy-bugman-part-2
OMG....they are the ones who started the mask = solidarity cliche?!
The kindness fallacy is the worst aspect of promask arguments. Saying it is ‘kind’ and ‘pro-society’ makes the actual effectiveness of masks a secondary motivation for wearing them. I shoot that argument down whenever I can, and point out that many people are physically and emotionally harmed by masks. Not kind at all. In our family, with a developmentally disabled daughter , ‘my mask upsets me, and your mask upsets me’ is how it works.
It infuriates me that academic parasites like Zeynep advocate for censoring people on social media while remaining silent when the "good people" use it to destroy lives with false accusations and start ethnic riots using it - among countless other transgressions.
I don't pay taxes to finance these lunatics for destroying other people's material wellbeing and civil liberties. Guys like Baked Alaska would have no sway at all if academics didn't push things like equality of outcome, then use other taxpayer financed outlets like NPR to lie about people's intentions when a grown-up discussion is attempted.
These people are so fucking vile.
Mask don’t work and never did. Period. The science is settled.