When BC Canada Provincial health minister received an email from a concerned family physician in Lytton, BC. (Dr. Charles Hoffe) instead of responding to his reasonable and respectful concerns of some "devastating Vaccine injuries", she forwarded his message with her concerns about Dr. Hoffe to the medical staff co-lead of the Pandemic Response Coordination Committie who repsonded in less than half a day to say "I have submitted a formal complaint to the CPSBC on behalf of the patients of the communities affected by the actions of Dr. Hoffe." to which Bonnie Henry. responded "I believe we should also report this person to the College." All in less than 24 hours. What a disgusting, evil and coordinated attack on a family physician just expressing concerns. Dr. Bonnie Henry and Douglas W. Smith should be reported and charged for endangering patients (to start). DISGUSTING!!!!
This is an excellent insight into the now regular machinations of our 'leadership' class. We have learned the hardway that the myth of the noble lie has emboldened them to at first say the exact opposite of what they means, but now regularly act in opposition to our interests. This anecdote sums up covid as a social disease perfectly. I had not seen this thank you for sharing.
Thanks for articulating this Dan. You are 100% correct.
I have often told people who supported the crazy idea of forcing mRNAs: It really doesn’t matter who was right or if the mRNA actually worked or not (it didn’t).
Our ethical standards should have been pretty obvious to everyone that this product did not even come close to justifying coercion even in mid 2021. It was a no brainer by September when the hate came on the strongest. Somehow 95% were able to abandon their ethics in order to be on the right team. That reality is frightening.
Even if today it was agreed on that the mRNA was amazing and clearly had more benefits than risks, it would still be a disastrous historical mistake that we allowed it to be forced.
I agree whole heartedly. That is the crux of the whole thing. What are we tethered to? 'principles' or 'power'? You make the important point that forcing people to take incalculable risks with their own lives for some incalculable benefit is a bridge a healthy society should never take. Sam Harris claims that the risk/rewards are calculable and there is some invisible line where the ethics flip. But we both know there is no desire to truly parse the data in any direction that doesn't support the narrative and so given human nature, that is where we must hold the line for ethics. Thank you for weighing in. Your insight and documentation of this nightmare has been invaluable.
@viralimmunologist - I was very surprised and grateful to find this substack blowing up thanks to your share Dr Bridle. What an honor. You and a handful of others are certainly the subject of my rant. Your message on Alex Pierson's show was a significant turning point in our lives. After that interview healthy dissenting opinion around the mRNA vaccine exploded. It was likely the first and last time in Canada a main stream media outlet covered the subject of circularing mRNA with objectivity. All it took was a bona fide expert tethered to principle to instantly change the lives of thousands of people and as a consequence millions will have followed suit. Such is the power of faith and courage. One drop will change the course of history. Thank you for everything you are doing to hold the line for reason and principle and thank you for sharing my two cents.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was even more obnoxious. Because he was a "scientist"! And wrong!
Perhaps Peter Hotez takes the cake for being an insufferable, self-aggrandizing, narrative spewing, psuedo-scientific moron. And don't get me started on college dropout Bill Gates, lol.
They are all looking for their 15 min of fame. Their credentials are either phoney or very out of date. Playing to the camera and an audience of easily frightened people has nothing to do with science but more of jump on the big money, extraordinary influence and endless power bandwagon is what they are in it for. The honest, diligent scientists were immediately censured and censored into obscurity. About 4 weeks into the virus there were 3 scientists from 3 different universities in US who analyzed, I believe it was around 15 samples of people who were hospitalized supposedly for COVID. All 3 studied the samples independently and found they were all influenza A and influenza B. All 3 had identical results for the samples. Within weeks of publishing the results, the scientists fell off the scientific map and their study with them.
Lol, me neither, if I get going on Bill Gates I'll need some deep breathing excercises to get through my day. But Neil on the Patrick David Bet podcast the other day? Asking simple questions enrages him. What does that tell us about his gentle science explainer demeanor? Hrle's saying: 'Here are the tools, go use them, just not over here...'
Maybe he has a vaccine injury with neurological impacts which compounds his TDS? He has shown himself to be a clown. Both Neil and Gates are probably compromised and controlled by their master who hates God and wants humanity to suffer.
I was right from the very beginning and I want everyone to f’ing admit it! I was right because I was a knowledgeable anti-vaxxer. I was right because I stumbled upon how bad our Public Healthcare is when I watched a video of Del Bigtree giving a speech at a Conference back in 2017. I started watching The Highwire and reading The Children’s Health Defense/The Defender. I watched the Truth About Vaccines and started buying books. I watched excerpts in January 2020 of The WHO Vaccine Global Summit, which took place in December 2019. So, by March of 2020 when my extended family sent an email to everyone to be safe I knew it was all bullshit! I knew I was right because I saw firsthand how OSHA changed the front page of their website to instill fear in the mAsses, but I had already viewed their website and saw what was recommended. I was right when I was told I was callous, lectured by strangers in the grocery store or called a cunt by a woman in the checkout lane wearing bright yellow rain gear from head to toe like she was going deep sea fishing. I was right!
It's amazing how we can zero in on the truth as soon as one courageous person shines a light on it. Thanks to Del, and Dr Brydle's first radio interview and the Darkhorse podcast and the dozens and dozens of scientists and doctors who were publicly shamed, and 'de-credentialed' we got a glimpse of the light and never looked back.
I believe that a lot of scientists, doctors and people with a real interest in nutritional health also saw through the covid scam because they had already been down the rabbit hole of nutrition and could recognise the same playbook. Good science and scientists being vilified and prosecuted for telling the truth.
P.s. “working themselves into a pretzel” hahaha, apologies but I’m definitely going to plagiarise that.
I had a go-round in tbe 1980's with shots when my son went into convulsions within a few hours after a DPT shot. I read a book called SHOT IN THE DARK, and though it did not completely wake me up to the entire medical complex and it's tricks, I was wary enough to stay the hell away from this NEW injection. I warned everyone around me. MOST did not listen, why should they? What did I know? I did point out there is no long term data on safety. I was called selfish and dismissed. I have had 3 cousins and a brother in law pass away from quick acting cancers in a 9 month period last year.
Thank you for sharing. I'll find the book and read it. You get to the heart of it, parents understand risks and rewards implicitly. We understand principles like Chesterston's Fence because we have lived our lives and made mistakes. Nobody is as concerned about the risks for our children than we are and the benefits to our children (and so society) is that on the whole parents do not have to struggle with conflicting interests. We will weigh the risks and rewards on both sides of the argument. It is the duty of our leaders to help us in this process, or allow others to help. That help in my mind is steel-manning the arguments, not dismissing them. The idea that we cannot as much as voice our concerns is a symptom of a social disease.
I knew quite a lot by the time the mandates came and warned everyone I knew and explained in detail why. I explained how it formed part of a greater plan. No one paid any attention. 2 admitted to me post their first stab that they'd made a mistake. I think they had vague memories that I told them something and therefore it would be safe to make the admission to me. I've been sharing carefully chosen data and information all these 5 years to "help" people get a handle on what they're dealing with. It is received like a lead balloon and these people would rather avoid me than accept anything I pointed out to them. I must be called Casandra or something. Anyway. Their loss. Unfortunately, their ignorance puts me and everyone else in danger too.
I struggle with this so much. I knew people who had the data, apposing narratives and the willingness to apply principles and still made a decision that has cost them dearly because of fear. Some speak to me privately, some ignore me and some have let their bad decisiom inform every good decision they have made since. We are so complex, it's hard to understand some of the rationalizations we make, much less others. But I know you are doing the right thing. We owe it to ourselves and each other to say what we know to be true. That has made all the difference in my life and I so I reciprocate, despite the costs or loss of friends and family.
That's very kind. Thank you. The attack on the courageous credentialed class helping us sense-make set me off. The same is true for the 'regular folks' who took to the soap box in our parks or their truck to Ottawa. They are our reluctant defacto leaders and they are finding their swagger. We have much to be hopeful for.
"Special knowledge was not required. Applying basic principles told us something was fundamentally wrong." That's it right there. And it's actually quite simple. But why were so many people unable to apply basic principles? Blind reliance on institutions and "experts." People have to learn (again?) how to think for themselves.
Although the jury is not out, I believe it's fundamentally fear. That is one of our great motivators. Some rely on data to assuage their fears and prop up their world view. Of course their is nothing wrong with data that is leveraged to support and falsify, but increasingly we have no apetite to falsify. The only antidote to fear is faith, and what flows from faith, our love, and hope and charity. If we can spread that around, even while we call the balls as we them, we will change some hearts.
Well said! The bullying part is what caused me to stand up and take notice. Finally, when you couldn't be with a loved one in the hospital who was dying...that made me fightin' mad.
I agree, it's the bullying that got me going. Especially by people who knew better or should have known better. They foist their fears on others presuming to redistribute the costs. Yet they won't even calculate the costs to their 'solutions'. Speaking of which there is some incredible data that was presented at 'An Injection of Truth' this week in Alberta. The costs are clear as day. If you didn't catch the livestream it will be coming out this week. This will be my argument this year, we have the principles and the data on our side. Knock yourselves out.
Sam Harris has impaired his intellect with his irrational view of free will. The thread that there can be no original thought will destroy one's reasoning ability. Dam holds the view that religion is dogma but fails to understand that static institutions are also dogma.
That is in fact, the problem with our institutions; they reject continual updating as new knowledge is gained. Institutions are our social tools. They codify information and give us short, definitive statements to help uniform people act correctly, basically acting correctly without the scientific validity of full knowledge. Without constant upgrading, they too are just dogma.
On the subject of COVID and our expert class, as you say, 5 years in and their record player is still stuck in the same groove.
Your absolutely right Garret, that's how I am looking at it aswell. Sam is trying to fit the narrative around his preconceived ideas around free will, right and wrong and human nature. As you point out the same is true for the institution. They're fine to update as long as the new data can conform to the foregone conclusions. They will always need expert help to make this happen, enter the ideologically driven consensus dispensers.
Humans are the most dynamic creatures on earth. Each new unique understanding of the nature of reality leads to improvements in life. A static solution mindset will inevitably fail.
Harris claims that he was "right" to "trust the experts." He is conveniently forgetting that those who took the risk, spoke the truth, and questioned the "consensus" were experts themselves, and in most cases were much more credentialed than his "experts." Claiming that everyone who disagreed with the propaganda did so because they were knee-jerk naysayers shows only the limits to his intelligence (he wasn't smart enough to get a second opinion), the limits to his thoroughness (he was too lazy to get a second opinion), and his disgustingly huge ego.
Thanks to Dan and Byram for posting this gem. It still astounds me how many still cling to assumptions and faulty narratives. Cognitive dissonance, denial, rationalization and fear has led them away from the truth... It threatens their core beliefs, their innocence, their egotistical views. It could affect their jobs, relationships, peace of mind. I think some are just confused and would come around if we allow them to. If we allow them to apologize, and they can see how and why they got it so wrong maybe they would be brave enough to see the other side of the story.
Thank you for this excellent reflection on the clown world that started in March 2020. I never understood why more people did not question, question, question. Our “journalists” did not even remotely do their jobs. And it shames me the way the educated left are so quick to put down those who do not agree with their world view. It has also made me question all world views put forth by the left. Sad times to be in.
Faith and hope gives us the strength to carry on and ask the tough questions. They were in short supply at the beginning of covid..As long as we can hold on to reason, our questions will keep them in check and we can wrestle back the upper hand.
Sadly, I did not question. The fear mongering affected my critical thinking. I got injured by the first but it didn’’t stop the many doctors I was seeing to tell me to get my second. I did not thankfully.
Vivien- I get it. The fear mongering was well orchestrated and off the charts. I have educated intelligent friends who were sucked in. I’m sorry you were injured by the injection.
I used to enjoy some commentary (a ways back) but I cannot believe the lengths he has gone to rationalize his views on covid. It's literally exhausting to follow!
When BC Canada Provincial health minister received an email from a concerned family physician in Lytton, BC. (Dr. Charles Hoffe) instead of responding to his reasonable and respectful concerns of some "devastating Vaccine injuries", she forwarded his message with her concerns about Dr. Hoffe to the medical staff co-lead of the Pandemic Response Coordination Committie who repsonded in less than half a day to say "I have submitted a formal complaint to the CPSBC on behalf of the patients of the communities affected by the actions of Dr. Hoffe." to which Bonnie Henry. responded "I believe we should also report this person to the College." All in less than 24 hours. What a disgusting, evil and coordinated attack on a family physician just expressing concerns. Dr. Bonnie Henry and Douglas W. Smith should be reported and charged for endangering patients (to start). DISGUSTING!!!!
This is an excellent insight into the now regular machinations of our 'leadership' class. We have learned the hardway that the myth of the noble lie has emboldened them to at first say the exact opposite of what they means, but now regularly act in opposition to our interests. This anecdote sums up covid as a social disease perfectly. I had not seen this thank you for sharing.
“…on behalf of the patients of the communities…”
So, so, so evil.
Thanks for articulating this Dan. You are 100% correct.
I have often told people who supported the crazy idea of forcing mRNAs: It really doesn’t matter who was right or if the mRNA actually worked or not (it didn’t).
Our ethical standards should have been pretty obvious to everyone that this product did not even come close to justifying coercion even in mid 2021. It was a no brainer by September when the hate came on the strongest. Somehow 95% were able to abandon their ethics in order to be on the right team. That reality is frightening.
Even if today it was agreed on that the mRNA was amazing and clearly had more benefits than risks, it would still be a disastrous historical mistake that we allowed it to be forced.
I agree whole heartedly. That is the crux of the whole thing. What are we tethered to? 'principles' or 'power'? You make the important point that forcing people to take incalculable risks with their own lives for some incalculable benefit is a bridge a healthy society should never take. Sam Harris claims that the risk/rewards are calculable and there is some invisible line where the ethics flip. But we both know there is no desire to truly parse the data in any direction that doesn't support the narrative and so given human nature, that is where we must hold the line for ethics. Thank you for weighing in. Your insight and documentation of this nightmare has been invaluable.
@viralimmunologist - I was very surprised and grateful to find this substack blowing up thanks to your share Dr Bridle. What an honor. You and a handful of others are certainly the subject of my rant. Your message on Alex Pierson's show was a significant turning point in our lives. After that interview healthy dissenting opinion around the mRNA vaccine exploded. It was likely the first and last time in Canada a main stream media outlet covered the subject of circularing mRNA with objectivity. All it took was a bona fide expert tethered to principle to instantly change the lives of thousands of people and as a consequence millions will have followed suit. Such is the power of faith and courage. One drop will change the course of history. Thank you for everything you are doing to hold the line for reason and principle and thank you for sharing my two cents.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was even more obnoxious. Because he was a "scientist"! And wrong!
Perhaps Peter Hotez takes the cake for being an insufferable, self-aggrandizing, narrative spewing, psuedo-scientific moron. And don't get me started on college dropout Bill Gates, lol.
They are all looking for their 15 min of fame. Their credentials are either phoney or very out of date. Playing to the camera and an audience of easily frightened people has nothing to do with science but more of jump on the big money, extraordinary influence and endless power bandwagon is what they are in it for. The honest, diligent scientists were immediately censured and censored into obscurity. About 4 weeks into the virus there were 3 scientists from 3 different universities in US who analyzed, I believe it was around 15 samples of people who were hospitalized supposedly for COVID. All 3 studied the samples independently and found they were all influenza A and influenza B. All 3 had identical results for the samples. Within weeks of publishing the results, the scientists fell off the scientific map and their study with them.
Lol, me neither, if I get going on Bill Gates I'll need some deep breathing excercises to get through my day. But Neil on the Patrick David Bet podcast the other day? Asking simple questions enrages him. What does that tell us about his gentle science explainer demeanor? Hrle's saying: 'Here are the tools, go use them, just not over here...'
Maybe he has a vaccine injury with neurological impacts which compounds his TDS? He has shown himself to be a clown. Both Neil and Gates are probably compromised and controlled by their master who hates God and wants humanity to suffer.
I was right from the very beginning and I want everyone to f’ing admit it! I was right because I was a knowledgeable anti-vaxxer. I was right because I stumbled upon how bad our Public Healthcare is when I watched a video of Del Bigtree giving a speech at a Conference back in 2017. I started watching The Highwire and reading The Children’s Health Defense/The Defender. I watched the Truth About Vaccines and started buying books. I watched excerpts in January 2020 of The WHO Vaccine Global Summit, which took place in December 2019. So, by March of 2020 when my extended family sent an email to everyone to be safe I knew it was all bullshit! I knew I was right because I saw firsthand how OSHA changed the front page of their website to instill fear in the mAsses, but I had already viewed their website and saw what was recommended. I was right when I was told I was callous, lectured by strangers in the grocery store or called a cunt by a woman in the checkout lane wearing bright yellow rain gear from head to toe like she was going deep sea fishing. I was right!
It's amazing how we can zero in on the truth as soon as one courageous person shines a light on it. Thanks to Del, and Dr Brydle's first radio interview and the Darkhorse podcast and the dozens and dozens of scientists and doctors who were publicly shamed, and 'de-credentialed' we got a glimpse of the light and never looked back.
I believe that a lot of scientists, doctors and people with a real interest in nutritional health also saw through the covid scam because they had already been down the rabbit hole of nutrition and could recognise the same playbook. Good science and scientists being vilified and prosecuted for telling the truth.
P.s. “working themselves into a pretzel” hahaha, apologies but I’m definitely going to plagiarise that.
I had a go-round in tbe 1980's with shots when my son went into convulsions within a few hours after a DPT shot. I read a book called SHOT IN THE DARK, and though it did not completely wake me up to the entire medical complex and it's tricks, I was wary enough to stay the hell away from this NEW injection. I warned everyone around me. MOST did not listen, why should they? What did I know? I did point out there is no long term data on safety. I was called selfish and dismissed. I have had 3 cousins and a brother in law pass away from quick acting cancers in a 9 month period last year.
Thank you for sharing. I'll find the book and read it. You get to the heart of it, parents understand risks and rewards implicitly. We understand principles like Chesterston's Fence because we have lived our lives and made mistakes. Nobody is as concerned about the risks for our children than we are and the benefits to our children (and so society) is that on the whole parents do not have to struggle with conflicting interests. We will weigh the risks and rewards on both sides of the argument. It is the duty of our leaders to help us in this process, or allow others to help. That help in my mind is steel-manning the arguments, not dismissing them. The idea that we cannot as much as voice our concerns is a symptom of a social disease.
I knew quite a lot by the time the mandates came and warned everyone I knew and explained in detail why. I explained how it formed part of a greater plan. No one paid any attention. 2 admitted to me post their first stab that they'd made a mistake. I think they had vague memories that I told them something and therefore it would be safe to make the admission to me. I've been sharing carefully chosen data and information all these 5 years to "help" people get a handle on what they're dealing with. It is received like a lead balloon and these people would rather avoid me than accept anything I pointed out to them. I must be called Casandra or something. Anyway. Their loss. Unfortunately, their ignorance puts me and everyone else in danger too.
I struggle with this so much. I knew people who had the data, apposing narratives and the willingness to apply principles and still made a decision that has cost them dearly because of fear. Some speak to me privately, some ignore me and some have let their bad decisiom inform every good decision they have made since. We are so complex, it's hard to understand some of the rationalizations we make, much less others. But I know you are doing the right thing. We owe it to ourselves and each other to say what we know to be true. That has made all the difference in my life and I so I reciprocate, despite the costs or loss of friends and family.
Very well written. One of the best opinion pieces I’ve read on the subject. I like the phrase,”consensus is not truth. “
That's very kind. Thank you. The attack on the courageous credentialed class helping us sense-make set me off. The same is true for the 'regular folks' who took to the soap box in our parks or their truck to Ottawa. They are our reluctant defacto leaders and they are finding their swagger. We have much to be hopeful for.
"Special knowledge was not required. Applying basic principles told us something was fundamentally wrong." That's it right there. And it's actually quite simple. But why were so many people unable to apply basic principles? Blind reliance on institutions and "experts." People have to learn (again?) how to think for themselves.
Although the jury is not out, I believe it's fundamentally fear. That is one of our great motivators. Some rely on data to assuage their fears and prop up their world view. Of course their is nothing wrong with data that is leveraged to support and falsify, but increasingly we have no apetite to falsify. The only antidote to fear is faith, and what flows from faith, our love, and hope and charity. If we can spread that around, even while we call the balls as we them, we will change some hearts.
Well said! The bullying part is what caused me to stand up and take notice. Finally, when you couldn't be with a loved one in the hospital who was dying...that made me fightin' mad.
I agree, it's the bullying that got me going. Especially by people who knew better or should have known better. They foist their fears on others presuming to redistribute the costs. Yet they won't even calculate the costs to their 'solutions'. Speaking of which there is some incredible data that was presented at 'An Injection of Truth' this week in Alberta. The costs are clear as day. If you didn't catch the livestream it will be coming out this week. This will be my argument this year, we have the principles and the data on our side. Knock yourselves out.
Sam Harris has impaired his intellect with his irrational view of free will. The thread that there can be no original thought will destroy one's reasoning ability. Dam holds the view that religion is dogma but fails to understand that static institutions are also dogma.
That is in fact, the problem with our institutions; they reject continual updating as new knowledge is gained. Institutions are our social tools. They codify information and give us short, definitive statements to help uniform people act correctly, basically acting correctly without the scientific validity of full knowledge. Without constant upgrading, they too are just dogma.
On the subject of COVID and our expert class, as you say, 5 years in and their record player is still stuck in the same groove.
Your absolutely right Garret, that's how I am looking at it aswell. Sam is trying to fit the narrative around his preconceived ideas around free will, right and wrong and human nature. As you point out the same is true for the institution. They're fine to update as long as the new data can conform to the foregone conclusions. They will always need expert help to make this happen, enter the ideologically driven consensus dispensers.
Humans are the most dynamic creatures on earth. Each new unique understanding of the nature of reality leads to improvements in life. A static solution mindset will inevitably fail.
Harris claims that he was "right" to "trust the experts." He is conveniently forgetting that those who took the risk, spoke the truth, and questioned the "consensus" were experts themselves, and in most cases were much more credentialed than his "experts." Claiming that everyone who disagreed with the propaganda did so because they were knee-jerk naysayers shows only the limits to his intelligence (he wasn't smart enough to get a second opinion), the limits to his thoroughness (he was too lazy to get a second opinion), and his disgustingly huge ego.
Very true, these massive blind spots drive me crazy and then there's ego, it will engulf your entire plane of sight.
Thanks to Dan and Byram for posting this gem. It still astounds me how many still cling to assumptions and faulty narratives. Cognitive dissonance, denial, rationalization and fear has led them away from the truth... It threatens their core beliefs, their innocence, their egotistical views. It could affect their jobs, relationships, peace of mind. I think some are just confused and would come around if we allow them to. If we allow them to apologize, and they can see how and why they got it so wrong maybe they would be brave enough to see the other side of the story.
Thank you for this excellent reflection on the clown world that started in March 2020. I never understood why more people did not question, question, question. Our “journalists” did not even remotely do their jobs. And it shames me the way the educated left are so quick to put down those who do not agree with their world view. It has also made me question all world views put forth by the left. Sad times to be in.
Faith and hope gives us the strength to carry on and ask the tough questions. They were in short supply at the beginning of covid..As long as we can hold on to reason, our questions will keep them in check and we can wrestle back the upper hand.
Sadly, I did not question. The fear mongering affected my critical thinking. I got injured by the first but it didn’’t stop the many doctors I was seeing to tell me to get my second. I did not thankfully.
Vivien- I get it. The fear mongering was well orchestrated and off the charts. I have educated intelligent friends who were sucked in. I’m sorry you were injured by the injection.
Spot on.
Thank you Obi.
Sam Harris is an idiot!
I used to enjoy some commentary (a ways back) but I cannot believe the lengths he has gone to rationalize his views on covid. It's literally exhausting to follow!
Something didn't smell right at the start we starting to understand why!