Lockdowns and Fast-Track Vaccines: The Origin Story

What happened at the start of the pandemic and how it came about, and what we can do to stop it happening again. Why did everyone adopt them even though they had never been used before and there was no evidence such costly measures would achieve anything of significance? Here are two basic questions that need answering.

The lockdown and NPI agenda began in the Bush White House in 2005

• President George W. Bush was worried about biological attacks after 9/11 and the Iraq invasion and asked his team to come up with a whole of society response
• This draconian biosecurity strategy grew from there
• It came to include a stress on the fast development of vaccines and deployment of digital vaccine passes as the exit strategy from restrictions
• The strategic preference for mRNA vaccines may explain why U.S. and other health authorities seem to have put much more effort into finding safety problems with the adenovirus vector vaccines (Johnson and Johnson, AstraZeneca) than the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna).
• China became a big pusher of NPIs during the COVID-19 pandemic, with both the pride of the country and the reputation of President Xi Jinping tied up with their success
• Lockdowns were first deployed in Africa in 2014 in response to Ebola

What about the virus itself?

• SARS-CoV-2 appears to be an engineered virus, presumably leaked accidentally from a lab working with samples of it.
• The presence of the furin cleavage site makes it unusually infectious for a coronavirus, which explains why, unlike SARS, it is both airborne and has driven a multi-year pandemic.

Emergence (summer-autumn 2019)-December 2019: Global undetected spread with low disease and mortality burden

• December 2019-February 2020: A relatively deadly outbreak in Wuhan but little of note elsewhere such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Europe, the U.S. and the rest of China (regardless of NPIs imposed).
• February 2020-May 2020: Some deadly outbreaks in certain regions and cities (e.g. London, New York, Paris, Stockholm etc.)
• Summer 2020- Summer 2021- Global deadly waves in other locations not previously heavily affected, including parts of the US, Italy, and parts of Iran.
• Autumn and winter 2020-2021: Global deadly outbreaks, though not India or Africa.

Why it only started being deadly in Wuhan in December 2019, and then nowhere else until Lombardy and Iran in February 2020 is not entirely clear

• The main factor appears to be the variant involved
• Some mysteries remain, particularly around what China knew and when
• When did the Chinese Government become aware that the virus was spreading, and when did it realise it was a leak?
• Did the U.S. military know about a viral epidemic in Hubei province in November 2019?

The COVID-19 pandemic represented the triumph of a pseudo-scientific biosecurity agenda that emerged in 2005 and has been pushed ever since by a well-organised, well-funded, and well-embedded network of ideologues

• These fanatics promote and perpetuate the ideas underpinning the draconian new approach by publishing them in leading journals, planting them in public policy and law, pushing them in the media and smearing those who dissent

https://brownstone.org/articles/lockdowns-and-fast-track-vaccines-the-origin-story/