Will Jones at the Daily Sceptic has written a peerless synopsis of the individuals, institutions, and events involved in the earliest days of the response to COVID—at least, that we know of so far.
Our perspectives on these events differ in certain respects. At a high level, Jones tends to treat the Chinese government as an ordinary government, whereas I consider it best to think of the Chinese Communist Party, like other totalitarian regimes, as a sophisticated criminal organization with broad international influence, as evidenced especially by how quickly the world ditched its own pandemic plans to adopt China’s lockdown policies, as well as the otherwise inexplicable sycophancy to China among western policymakers. To that end, whereas Jones tends to believe the Chinese government was legitimately trying to play down the threat in 2019 and early 2020, I tend to see its “coverup” as a calibrated series of steps to sow panic across the political spectrum, including among the right-wing hawks and China dissidents who would normally be skeptical of anything China said.
This leads us to somewhat different conclusions. Whereas Jones sees the response to COVID as a kind of “trial run” by the biomedical security state, I’m more inclined to see it as a false flag operation by the CCP and their collaborators. Whereas Jones believes there really was a lab leak, I tend to see the perception of a lab leak as a part of that false flag operation. Nonetheless, Jones has done an impressive job curating the key facts surrounding the earliest events in the COVID saga, which can be surprisingly difficult to find amidst the broad coverup taking place among western governments. For those following these events closely, I recommend reading it in conjunction with my list of outstanding questions surrounding these events. One thing Jones and I most certainly agree on: The key instigators of these events have made it abundantly clear that this is only the beginning, and they’d love nothing more than to do this all over again if given half the chance.
Read it here: Was the Pandemic Orchestrated as a Trial Run for Responding to a Biological Attack? by Will Jones
Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. Want to support my work? Get the book. Already got the book? Leave a quick review.
I thought Will's article was excellent as well. He summed up pretty much all of the questions that should be asked. Whether his conclusion was correct or not - time will tell.
Basically however, I think all governments are controlled by evil - regardless of which nation they're a part of.
PS. I'm grateful that I'm still allowed to comment here - there are so many substacks and fora (forums) which only allow commenting for paying subscribers - and I just can't afford that, so thank you - for as long as it's still possible.
I appreciate your recommendation and linking to his post though you disagree on key points. We need to get back to that civility where you admire someone else’s work and believe it is helpful though you may disagree with it in whole or part.