Foreward from Pandemic Panic essay collection
While storms were brewing on the internet about a Chinese flu winging its way eastwards in December 2019, and The Great Reset was being sold in Davos, the unaware were blithely trotting on, smart phone in hand, without a clue as to the New Normal descending like a stage curtain. Like the ancient prophet who’s been preaching about the coming apocalypse for ages, you might expect my next book to gloat, I Told You So!
One fan of my 2016 book, Mandatory Vaccinations = Totalitarian Inoculation, prided me with foreseeing the future, but I only felt despair. So few had been swayed, so many words written. Despite compiling mountains of evidence proving medical molehills of false claims about vaccines and infectious diseases, along with my series of books debunking the claims and costs of the Medical Monopoly, I’d reached virtually no one. Like most contrarians, my voice was shouted up from a deep well. As futile as speakers on ladders in Hyde Park. The Free Press is a message in a bottle in a tsunami of corporate propaganda.
History, Evidence, Logic and Critical Thinking weren’t enough to dislodge the certainty of the cult’s belief in the protection from the Needle of Inoculation, sharpened by a century of pro-vaxx propaganda. Dismantling the edifice of the Cathedral of the Medical Monopoly didn’t damage the dark interior where their power purrs. Only the frozen iceberg of looming disaster, hidden in the fog of lies, or possibly parody can do that.
Despite the catchy title with years of research distilled into a succinct and tasty aperitif in a condensed print version, and a gargantuan e-book citing and confirming all claims made there and more, sales of MV = TI were not brisk. Those given to friends and family weren’t even looked at as a gift horse. Adults weren’t interested in vaccine mandates, those were for kids. I warned they were coming for you, but unlike Chicken Little, didn’t cause a panic.
After dwelling in the cobwebbed corners of the internet and used book stores for years researching, writing and rewriting my Medical Monopoly series Save Trillions with Universal Health Care, Cancer Cathedral: Prevention is the Cure, then Mandatory Vaccinations = Totalitarian Inoculation in 2016. The light was dazzling when I emerged.
With a sense of freedom and adventure, I pointed my lance at the Great American Novel set in Florida History. Wrote and polished the first of my Fountain of Youth series, A Flash of Green or Who Killed Jack Kerouac?, then Black and White and Read All Over: Zora, Zora, Zora!
It’s rewarding, but crafting thousand word essays is a refreshing break from laboring through a book. These thirty essays reflect what I was reading during the panic around the time they are dated. Research and reporting my findings became an obsession for a journalist with a ringside view of the greatest global disaster. It’s important as a first draft of history to review this Plandemic Panic as it unfolded.
Publishing them on limited audience outlets set a date, a timeline for the Great Reset, because the past seems foggy after years of corona cowering. There may be more in store, although I’m currently supersaturated with the latest whiplash science and variants, events may wring my corner towel.
I’ve collected these pastiches into an e-book, Pandemic Panic: Readings From the Inside, sent free to any subcribers who ask. There are a few random chapters on substack for review. Any of the above e-books are available for this limited time offer, except the novels. They are still in Permissions Request Limbo. These essays got precisely scissored edits to sharpen their edges, not sound more prophetic or less wrong. I’ve added epigraphs that felt kin to the contents. They were based on a preponderance of what I was reading, presented here in journalism style without citations or links. You can find the source with your own internet searches, or just hold on for the slippery slope slide into the Gray Zone.
Like all my essays, I consider them gems, shaped and faceted over days, even weeks. I no longer have deadline rush or discipline. Like all crystals, there are flaws. The sparkle and flash of my defiant humor is cherished as a small flame in a nutshell. If they shine a little light for you to find your way in the fog of lies, may we ignite a bonfire on the coasts of Reason. Or just enjoy them as educational entertainment, on your way to the Gulag.
I posted original rough cuts of the series on my obscure FB page for Mandatory Vaccinations = Totalitarian Inoculation for a date stamp. They’re still there unless the censor bots find them. So far few readers have. It’s been awarded the FB Fact Check Seal of Suspicion.
I'm putting my hand up - richseager@wifoo.co.nz
Sounds like a good read. I'm reminded too of the old tale of the knot that everyone tried to untie until someone turned up with a sword and just slashed their way through it.