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Three persistent problems in the pandemic narrative nobody wants to address

Three persistent problems in the pandemic narrative nobody wants to address

No real pushback, just capitulation disguised as dissent.

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Quick read: PCR testing’s ongoing role in sustaining the COVID narrative and pandemic preparedness racket —by Jonathan Engler, Me, and Martin Neil. -
Jessica Hockett

Surveying the landscape of current COVID-related events and conversations, we see three persistent problems with the pandemic narrative that nobody wants to address.

Each one is related to the use and mis-use of PCR testing.

1. The“appearance” of a novel pathogen causal of a new disease.

In a discussion this morning on X, Jonathan pointed out that even if PCR protocols and the sequencing of found things is an entirely valid science, the pandemic narrative not only presumes a one-to-one relation between pathogen and illness (ie., this detected entity is alone in causing a new disease), but also that nasopharyngeal swabbing is relevant to any serious illness in the lungs.

A short article on these same points and associated studies can be found here:

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The pathogens causing lung infections cannot be reliably determined by swabbing the nose and /or throat.
The notion that a single pathogen is responsible for - or can be reliably identified as - the cause of a particular person’s influenza-like illness is a complete fallacy…
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a year ago · 20 likes · 3 comments · Jonathan Engler

A longer piece with Martin Neil and Norman Fenton plumbs the depths of the topic further:

Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil
Whodunnit? {unabridged}
A whodunnit (a colloquial elision of "Who [has] done it?") is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus. The reader or viewer is provided with clues to the case, from which the identity of the perpetrator may be deduced before the story provides the revelation itself at its…
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2 years ago · 237 likes · 163 comments · Martin Neil, Jessica Hockett, Jonathan Engler, and Norman Fenton

2. The “disappearance” of influenza

Yesterday Robert Malone (now an ACIP member) asked a CDC representative about the sudden and prolonged “disappearance” of influenza. We do not for one moment think that Dr Malone is anything other than fully committed to preserving the need for “pandemic preparedness”, and view his asking of the question entirely “scripted” and “theatrical”.

The response from Vivien Dugan, director of the CDC influenza division, is predictably nonsensical. She basically claimed that reduced contact and other NPIs caused the disappearance (only) of other respiratory pathogens, seemingly relying on the notion that “SARS-CoV-2” wiped out all other causes of influenza-like illnesses.

Why the “new virus” didn’t manage to defeat its “competitors” until countries deployed mass testing for it is never explained but is an important concept to grasp since - in our view and as Jonathan articulated in the article below - flu “had” to vanish in order for the “new virus” to seem very powerful, in need of special treatments and a shot.

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The "disappearing flu" trope is important for the pandemic narrative. How robust is the story?
A quick observation..please feel free to add comments on my logic…
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a year ago · 62 likes · 47 comments · Jonathan Engler

Human interference in the form of shifts in testing priorities and directives given to hospitals and doctors are obvious culprits of the disappearing act. See here for a whole series of articles on the “vanishing flu” trope.

The role of various SARS-CoV-2 and RVP (Respiratory Viral Panel) tests must also be investigated. Same goes for the expansion of flu surveillance and shifts in coding pneumonia deaths, apparent in U.S. data, which Jessica probed in the article below.

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Yes, the CDC Lies About Flu Deaths. (Just Like COVID.)
By now, Americans—and much of the world—know that the CDC lies about a lot of things. One of the agency’s long-standing deceptions, which only grew worse in the years leading up to 2020, is the exaggerated “estimated” number of deaths caused by or “related to” influenza. Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan have addressed these exaggerations in the past and …
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5 months ago · 72 likes · 15 comments · Jessica Hockett

3. Pandemic propagation

Also from the ACIP meetings: A CDC staffer gave a presentation with a message to the effect of “everything is fine with the covid vaccines”.

Children’s Health Defense reported that ACIP committee members pushed back hard against this claim. In our view, they did no such thing. As Jonathan stated via Substack Note, the “pushback” was incredibly muted and no one is questioning whether a new disease came into existence, or whether it can be reliably or meaningfully diagnosed via PCR test.

By avoiding any criticism of the PCR test as the basis for propagating and maintaining the state of pandemicity, the ACIP took great care to only push back within the constraints of what we’ve termed “permitted dissent”. (Explanation and examples here.)

It’s truly incredible that we’re at the end of June 2025 and it is still considered “out of bounds” to question whether a pandemic declaration was justified at all.

What others see as pushback, we see as capitulation – and therefore cannot agree (with this article, for example) that pressure is being applied or “dialed up”.

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A guest post by
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PhD, bicentennial baby, & independent researcher of the COVID-19 event and NYC death spike. | There was no pandemic.
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