Covid- Is it real?

Niall McCrae

The so-called Omicron variant has exposed fundamental differences in thinking among covid-19 sceptics. There are basically three stances: first, that covid does not exist, therefore variants are void; second, that covid is real but grossly exaggerated, with hyped but actually mild variants; and third, that virulent new strains have been facilitated by mass vaccination. 

Common to the sceptical church is a belief that covid-19, whatever its veracity, has been exploited for purposes beyond public health. This is a political pandemic, as demonstrated by blatant censorship, brutal policing of freedom protests, and a troubling rise of scapegoating of anyone who refuses to follow the official narrative. Eschewing social pariah status, some well-known sceptics have distanced themselves from perceived extremes by emphasising ‘I am not an anti-vaxxer’ or ‘covid-denier’. It seems that after two years of covid turmoil, most sceptics find it easier to accept that the virus is out there. 

However, an insistent minority continue to assert that covid-19 is an elaborate hoax. Among them are American physician Tom Cowan, psychiatrist Andrew Kaufman, New Zealand general practitioner Sam Bailey, Irish microbiologist Dolores Cahill, commentator Patrick Henningsen of UK Column,  contrarian website OffGuardian, and self-styled conspiracy theorists Jeff Berwick (Dollar Vigilante) and David Icke. 

In The Year of the Bat, Professor MLR Smith and I were among the first writers to suggest that the virus emanated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. I went on to argue that gain-of-function research, funded by US state institutes of health, used China as an offshore laboratory for a planned pandemic. Antony Fauci, medical advisor to the White House, has been repeatedly confronted by senator Rand Paul for leading the response to a virus for which he is at least partially responsible. The virus, I have postulated, was an accessory to the goals of the UN Agenda 21 and the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’. 

But I wonder if I have been duped. Both the Wuhan ‘lab leak’ and new variant scares have served the globalist cause in a way that sceptics have perhaps not realised. Arguably, both these developments sucked critics into accepting that the virus exists, with no more evidence than was previously presented.  Does covid denial stand up to scrutiny? 

Question 1: The overwhelming majority of doctors, including those critical of lockdown, accept that covid is real. Surely they can’t all be wrong? 

Sadly, the medical profession has been docile in accepting the covid narrative, and in being used as agents of the state and Big Pharma. In a troubling departure from the Hippocratic Oath, doctors are following orders rather than exercising the patient-centred judgment for which they are trusted.  Healthcare practitioners have been warned by employers and professional bodies against dissent; indeed, the courageous few who put their heads above the parapet have been sanctioned. Consequently, policies such as mask mandates are not challenged by doctors who should know that this is not evidence-based practice.  

Question 2: Covid has affected the whole world similarly, so surely the pandemic is real?

Although mortality in the pandemic appears fairly uniform, with first waves followed by subsequent peaks and troughs in most countries, there are some outliers. Countries with leaders who rejected the global covid regime, such as Tanzania and Belarus, have remarkably low rates. Most relevant here is China. How can the original source of the virus, a country of 1.3 billion, have escaped so lightly? While Europe and the Americas have recorded mortality of about two per thousand, China’s is 0.003. Despite living cheek-by-jowl in vast cities shrouded by smog in the autumn and winter, conditions ripe for a respiratory virus, nobody has died of covid in China for months. Why isn’t this queried? 

Question 3: How do you explain the surge in deaths in spring 2020?

Whereas reports from communist China may be suspect, arrival of the virus in Italy made the situation more transparent. A startling fact was the average age of covid death: 81 years. Tens of thousands of older people die of flu and pneumonia annually, and as the symptoms of covid are similar, perhaps the deaths were nothing but reclassifications – particularly as comorbid conditions were trumped on death certificates by a positive PCR result (a very dubious method of screening).  

In the UK overall mortality rose by over 10% over the year 2020. However, the graphic spike of March to May may not have been caused by covid, but by lockdown: hospitals and GPs became inaccessible, people were afraid to seek help, and there was a massive shift from deaths in hospital to home. Government policy evicted sick older patients from wards into care homes, where a high proportion died soon after transfer. ‘Do not resuscitate’ labels were widely applied without consent. Heath secretary Matt Hancock ordered huge supplies of midazolam, a drug used in terminal care that suppresses breathing. In intensive care units patients were put on ventilators, with only a lucky few surviving this mechanical ordeal. 

The authorities needed to show a sharp increase in deaths to prove the lethality of covid and justify lockdown. Freedom of information requests to councils around England, however, consistently showed no increase in burials and cremations. Corroborating this, funeral director John O’Looney said that business was relatively quiet in 2020, but greatly increased after the vaccine rollout this year. If we accept the ONS data, age-standardised mortality for 2020 was merely the ninth highest in this century. 

Question 4: I’ve had covid, and it knocked me out. How can you deny that?

This is a common assertion, made by many sceptics. We are into the third flu season since covid began, so inevitably we will suffer from a bad cold or flu in that time. Loss of taste and smell was described as a special sign of covid, despite this occurring with other respiratory viruses. We don’t like to think that our minds are swayed by propaganda, but if not there would be no advertising industry.  

Question 5: Doesn’t Omicron expose the impotence of the covid regime? 

Vaccine expert Geert vanden Bossche warned that mass vaccination at the height of the pandemic was a catastrophic error, because it would cause the virus to develop resistant and lethal strains. In almost every country, vaccine rollout was followed by a sharp increase in deaths, probably due to temporary weakening of the immune system. This was most apparent in India, where vaccinated people became more vulnerable to the plethora of germs in overpopulated cities. Perhaps a rise in mortality is caused not by variants of covid but by more virile strains of related viruses. 

From the covid denial stance, Omicron is simply another computer code representing a fake virus, the latest tactic to keep citizens in a state of fear, to prolong the pandemic while the globalist cabal pursues its agenda. As David Icke argued in Renegade Minds, it is easier to produce variants for a scam than for a real virus. I am not sure of this, though. Some readers may have already taken this leap of imagination; others may think of covid denial as a gift to the opposition. We may have a long wait to get the truth.