by Ray Jason
Call
me skeptical. Call me cynical. But I will still call myself … a
realist. I learned to disbelieve from some genuine masters. Their
counsel has survived for over a century.
Walt
Whitman’s advice was to:
“Question much and obey little!”
Mark
Twain offered this enduring insight:
“If
you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed. But if you do
read the newspapers you are misinformed!”
So
when the Wuhan Virus first arrived, I paid extraordinary attention to
it. An early oddity that activated my bull-dung detector, was “Event
201.” This was described as a table-top exercise on how best
to react to a global pandemic.
The
timing, only
a few months prior to the actual outbreak,
seemed suspiciously coincidental to me. When I
studied some of the video that was released from that event, I was
shocked. My expectation was that a group of international health
experts would be discussing the best methods for mitigating any
possible fast-moving disease.
But
instead, they were all focused on controlling the “messaging”
about such an outbreak. Specifically, they wanted “their people”
to be in charge of the narrative. The catch-phrase that they kept
repeating was “flooding the zone” with their approved information
sources. They did not want any alternative viewpoints in
circulation.
The
more I scrutinized this, the more I realized that these were not
caring, compassionate scientists trying to determine the best way to
minimize the health risks of a pandemic. No, these were
cold-blooded spin doctors, seeking to utilize a pandemic for
power and profit objectives.