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Friday, October 21, 2022

Mike Hosking: Far too many fall down conspiracy rabbit holes


Back to the Pfizer "scandal" and the "revelation" that Pfizer admitted it never tested its vaccine to work out whether it stopped transmission of Covid.

Like virtually all of these sorts of breathless revelations, the real story is not as simple as it seems. But in simple teams, what is claimed didn't happen. It is not the scandal those who think it is, want it to be.

In that is the key to this, like it is the key to so much of what swirls around our heads these days. Because of the astonishing level of disinformation, you can find a narrative that says pretty much anything you want it to say.

The trouble with that, if you don’t reference and cross reference it, you can end up down a rabbit hole. And the problem with rabbit holes is a lot of people like being down them. In other words, it's no longer about the facts or the truth, it's about you being able to say "look, look I was right, I told you so."

I tell you what; I have not seen anything like the vaccine reaction in my lifetime. Of all the things we have been exercised about, those that took the jab to heart lost their minds.

Making it more complicated or murky were the Government's propaganda attempts, and at times straight up and down lies when it came to roll out, approach, delivery, accessibility, and mandates. The whole Covid cluster.

It was at times a mess. Couple that with an angry mob mood and it was always going to be explosive.

But, at no point was it a conspiracy. Not that the conspiracy theorists will accept that. They will take their anger, fury, and newsfeeds to the grave with them. That is the saddest thing of all.

For some they have allowed this period to define them. Of all the things you could have fought for, lost your job for, and send a thousand emails to media outlets for, a jab seemed an odd choice.

There is no doubt the emotional and fear campaign promoted by this, and most governments, to get jabbed, to be a part of the team of five million, was designed solely to save their butts around a health system they didn’t get sorted in time.

There is no doubt in my mind the darkest of days with lockdowns, chasing women in Northland, and dobbing neighbours in that stood to close to each other was literally the definition of madness.

Most of us lost the plot and it was government driven from a so-called pulpit of truth.

But Clarke didn't have an ankle bracelet, the nanny isn't in Malaysia, Agenda 21 isn't what you think it is, BlackRock doesn’t own the whole world's media, and Pfizer hasn’t been busted.

If you don’t believe that, that’s cool you don’t have to. But the rest of us have moved on, and we are the better for it. 

Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings.   

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

i understand your point, but i was amazed that pfizer would send someone who would answer a straightforward question with stuff like 'speed of science', saying 'immunisation' instead of 'transmission'... are these the signs of a company at the cutting edge of mRNA vaccine research?

Sally O'Brien said...

The government has persisted with a narrative based on some deliberate deceptions. If it was deliberate and there was collusion, then that by definition is a conspiracy. And the covid narrative is not the only dodgy one. Listing the most extreme and unlikely conspiracy theory's does not mean they're all invalid.
Time to move on you say. Not until all the wrongs have been set right. For one example, many hospital staff are still mandated to take the vaccine and boosters based on lies. Younger staff are at higher risk from the vaccine than Covid disease and it doesn't stop transmission. Only people Who've gone down rabbit holes know this.

Rob Beechey said...

We have to get the unvaccinated vaccinated to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated which the vaccinated should already be protected from the virus because they were vaccinated which the scientists say will protect you from the virus because you were vaccinated but we still need the unvaccinated to be vaccinated to protect the vaccinated because the vaccinated can still be infected from the unvaccinated. Does that sound sensible to you Mike?

Ross said...

Mike, you say "Like virtually all of these sorts of breathless revelations, the real story is not as simple as it seems. But in simple teams, what is claimed didn't happen." but you do not go on to substantiate the comment.

Those saying that the Pfizer executive said they had not done trials to prove the jab stopped transmission had seen the video of the questioning by the MEP.
There is a video of the whole session so those who want to check her answer was not taken out of context can do so.

There was an OIA request to Medsafe/MoH in August 2021. They state quite clearly that " Reducing transmission was not an outcome measured in trials of the Pfizer vaccine". That did not stop the promotion of getting the jab in the oncoming months saying exactly the opposite.

Sally O'Brien said...

The government has persisted with a narrative based on some deliberate deceptions. If it was deliberate and there was collusion, then that by definition it's a conspiracy. And the covid narrative is not the only dodgy one. Listing the most extreme and unlikely conspiracy theory's does not mean they're all invalid. My level of trust in officials do is so low that I don't completely dismiss any of those theory's.
Time to move on you say. Not until all the wrongs have been set right. For one example, many hospital staff are still mandated to take the vaccine and boosters based on lies. Younger healthy staff are at higher risk from the vaccine than Covid disease and it doesn't stop transmission. People who've gone down rabbit holes have known this for some time. Much is still obscured for the general public.

Anonymous said...

I don’t see how you can claim that Pfizer did not admit that they didn’t do research on COVID transmission. The Pfizer Exec was asked a straight forward question. A yes or no response question. And it is very clear he said “No”. So Pfizer did not do any research on COVID transmission. Where’s the rabbit hole?

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