Five pandemic books for the holidays
1. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., The Real Anthony Fauci, Skyhorse Publishing, 2021
2. Iain Davis, Pseudopandemic: New Normal Technocracy, 2021
3. Scott Atlas, A Plague Upon our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America, Bombardier Books, 2021
4. Peter Breggin, MD, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey, Lake Edge Press, 2021
5. Alex Berenson, Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over our Government, Rights, and Lives, Regnery Publishing, 2021
With the holiday season upon us, I know many are looking for a good holiday read, so I’m sharing some thoughts on five recent books related to one of the biggest news stories over the last year. Each of these books sheds significant light, from different angles, on the Covid pandemic and especially on the US and the global response to it. Most likely none of these books will be reviewed in the mainstream press, in our current censorious climate, but they all have merit, which will be discussed as we proceed.
If you read just one of these books, or any book on Covid, Kennedy’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci, is by far the best book to read, because it provides crucial historical context, not just on Fauci, but on the decades that it’s taken to pull this global operation off. He starts the book by cataloging all the ways that Fauci and his co-conspirators (yes, I use that term deliberately) suppressed all evidence and even mention of alternative treatments for the virus, even before the vaccines came onboard, leaving the vaccine as our only hope. The rest of the book explains in great detail why that shouldn’t be surprising. For many who lived through the AIDS era, Dr. Fauci is rather vaguely remembered as some kind of hero, on the front lines of the government response to the crisis. But remember the movie, Dallas Buyer’s Club, in which “the government” would not authorize existing off-label drugs for treating AIDS sufferers, so they had to figure out how to supply themselves through informal buyer’s clubs? Fauci was the villain of that piece, resisting all calls to authorize existing medicines that were shown to be effective, in favor of a drug, AZT, that ended up making billions for its manufacturer, Merck, even though it was so toxic that drug trials had to be cut short because they couldn’t keep the subjects alive for the full term. Through the many decades of his reign as the head of National Institute of Infectious and Allergic Diseases (NIAID), the real Anthony Fauci became the accomplice of Big Pharma. Fauci did nothing to stop the epidemic of autoimmune diseases and autism, as was the jurisdiction of NIAID, instead spending his energies to greatly profit his pharmaceutical partners, as well as of course his long-time partner, Bill Gates and his foundation. The real Anthony Fauci spent decades helping facilitate disastrous (and futile) vaccine experimentation, in many cases in Africa and Asia, leaving a trail of injured and dead in his wake. Kennedy himself has said that the most important chapter of the book is the last, called Germ Games, in which the responses that were eventually instituted against the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 were relentlessly practiced for many years prior in exercises and simulations, all of which assumed that lockdowns, distancing, masking, and all rest of the elimination of freedoms would be absolutely necessary. For more details, see the timeline I put together based on Kennedy’s research:
. Kennedy’s book is meticulously researched, with over two thousand footnotes and references, and is indispensable in understanding what we’ve been experiencing for the last two years. You’ll never trust Anthony Fauci’s statements on anything again.
The second book on my list, Pseudopandemic, by Iain Davis, is another heavily-referenced work, this time with a UK focus, where Davis lives. He first focuses on the lies that were told in the media as the “pandemic” was being launched, such as hospitals being overrun and so on, and in general the campaign of terror waged to panic the world into accepting the loss of their personal freedoms. He documents the censorship of dissenting opinions in the service of what he terms the private-public partnerships that came together to conduct the operation. His title, by the way, refers to the fact that the virus is not nearly as lethal as it’s been made out to be. “The pseudopandemic is first and foremost a crime,” he asserts, and then goes on to describe the key roles played in this caper. Due to an unprecedented level of globally centralized authority, a small group of core conspirators have been able to control the behavior of billions. This core made use of informed influencers working at the intergovernmental, governmental, and corporate level that worked to convince colleagues the threat level was real. These colleagues became deceived influencers, who were genuinely convinced and helped spread the narrative. The only remaining task was to command the global narrative, possible due to the centralized control of most forms of media. Davis posits that the purpose behind all this is to institute a global technocratic dictatorship, and if this seems far-fetched, you may not have been paying attention.
I include Scott Atlas’ book, A Plague Upon Our House, because he provides a unique perspective on the official US government response during the four months leading up to the presidential election in November, 2020. Dr. Atlas was a prominent Stanford professor of Public Health policy when he was tapped by then-President Donald Trump as an advisor to Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, then headed by Dr. Deborah Birx, and which included Dr. Fauci and then-Director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield. Dr. Atlas had been a close observer of the virus from its inception, and after a few weeks of alarm, soon realized it was not nearly as much of a threat as advertised, based on the growing evidence from the field. He became an early and outspoken opponent of the lockdowns, masking, and other oppressive measures advocated mainly by Birx, Fauci, and the rest of the Task Force. Trump invited him to join the team, which he reluctantly did, moving to Washington, D.C. When he attended his first Task Force meeting, chaired by Vice President Pence, Dr. Atlas had prepared by bringing in a stack of scientific studies, but was astounded to realize that Dr. Birx, who was the primary power on the team, never referred to actual science, nor did anyone else. None of the advocates of lockdowns, masking, and the rest ever bothered to back their opinions up by referencing scientific studies. This was inexplicable to Dr. Atlas, a word he uses a lot to describe the actions advocated. (Note to Dr. Atlas—read RFK, Jr’s book for the explanation—they had been practicing exactly these measures for years.) Dr. Atlas was also shocked to realize he was the only one on the Task Force with a public health focus that included taking into account what the cost would be for all the repressive measures. Remember when Trump said the cure can’t be worse than the disease? This was a completely foreign way of thinking for Birx and Fauci and their crew, who never appeared to notice the mounting evidence of despair and destruction in the wake of the policies they advocated. Trump continually advocated for re-opening the schools and letting the American economy recover, based on Dr. Atlas’ clear understanding that most Americans were at more risk from the repression, in terms of the actual human cost (suicides, the rise in drug overdoses, the loss of livelihoods, etc.) than the virus, which more than 99% of Americans survived. Again, to understand why someone like Dr. Atlas, a bearer of what should have been hailed as good news, would become the subject of a sustained campaign of vilification and character assassination, you have to understand the larger context provided by Kennedy’s book. In that context, any sign that the pandemic might go away without achieving The Great Reset, as the saying goes, was not good news and had to be suppressed, something that the media mouthpieces of the global powerbrokers were willing to do, if only to keep getting their paychecks.
Speaking of lockdowns, masking, and so on, the journalist Alex Berenson distinguished himself as a close observer of the actual science since early in the Covid crisis, sharing the results of his research on his Twitter feed that grew to 345,000 followers before falling victim to Twitter’s ban of any references to actual scientific studies and even official government sources that did not support the official narrative. All this is recounted in his book, Pandemia, which is largely a record of his valiant efforts to inject some sanity in terms of what was actually working and what wasn’t related to managing the spread of the virus. Lockdowns were devastating. No science supported the notion that masking was effective at stopping viral spread. Later, when the vaccines were rolled out, Berenson was among the first who noticed (and tweeted) the signals of waning efficacy in Israel and Great Britain. Berenson is the classic observer who continued to tweet that the emperor had no clothes, until he was kicked off Twitter permanently. Before that, though, his book is a great record of the various flip flops over the course of the pandemic by people like Biden and Pelosi, who at first promised there would be no mandates, and so on. Or people like Dr. Monica Gandhi, who trumpeted the good news that the vaccines stopped the spread—until it didn’t, and she (and many others) had to walk that back. By the way, I would have given Berenson’s book higher praise, but he appears to accept the version of Fauci’s honorable role in combatting AIDS, as well as swallowing the notion that AZT was an effective treatment. He needs to read Kennedy’s book to dispel those notions.
Finally, no list of pandemic books would be complete without a nod to Peter Breggin’s book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators. This well-researched book gives the bastards at the top both barrels. Fauci, Gates, Klaus Schwab, and the rest of the global perps are indicted for their attempts at imposing worldwide authoritarian rule over the masses. We’ll all own nothing and be happy, right? Breggin is an MD and a psychiatrist who has made his reputation as a fierce critic of the pharmaceutical companies’ many attempts at foisting devastating psychiatric drugs like Xanax, Prozac, et al, on vulnerable people, leading to increased suicides and violence among other “side effects”. So he’s no stranger to criminal behavior on the part of the pharmaceutical industry. He covers a lot of the same ground as these other books, and concludes with an impassioned plea to defend our constitutional rights here in America before they disappear forever.
Hopefully these books will be outdated sooner rather than later, and will serve merely as historical references for those with an interest in how hysteria over a virus could derail an entire world—at least until the fever broke and sanity was restored. And dare I hope, justice is meted out where richly deserved?