The Pandemic Hangover
COVID “misinformation”, fraud, and profiteering
When a whistle-blower is scolded for not “following the science” or is accused of spreading “misinformation,” that whistle-blower is the one with credibility. Jeff Childers at Coffee and COVID has been whistle-blowing all along, and he concludes his recent column with a summary of the fraud and unconstitutional actions taken by our government, the medical profession, Big Pharma, and many others:
The pandemic was an institutional buffet for profiteers at every level. The crisis infrastructure empowered schemes from federal loan fraud to no‑bid city-level deals and county vaccination contract abuses.
The incentives created by pandemic profiteering —both official and under-the-table— help explain why so many nonsensical, contradictory, or unnecessary policies were not just implemented, but defended to the death.
Emergency declarations loosened procurement laws, disabled competitive bidding, and unlocked vast sums of state and federal money. Every time the emergency was renewed, the money-printing spigot stayed on. That gave agencies, contractors, lobbyists, and connected middlemen a direct financial incentive to keep the virus crisis going— which meant keeping the “emergency” alive.
The longer the pandemic panic lasted, the more masks, tests, tracing apps, vaccines, cleaning contracts, covid loans, hotel rates, and compliance consultants got funded.
The pandemic didn’t just reward obedience. It financially punished dissent and financially rewarded compliance, creating a self-reinforcing system where going along meant getting paid, and pushing back meant getting sidelined, censored, or unemployed.
Doctors, nurses, school administrators, tech companies, hospital managers, even pastors who went along with mask mandates, school closures, vaccine pushes, and social distancing were financially propped up, either through direct funding, liability waivers, and opportunities for new revenue streams (virtual learning, telehealth, emergency contracts, etc).
Those who dissented faced license investigations, firings, board complaints, and media ridicule. Not to mention total exclusion from decision-making tables.
We who opposed unconstitutional pandemic policies received nothing but ridicule and contempt. We failed to “follow the science,” and the science led right to an envelope packed with hundred-dollar bills.
The pandemic created a coercion economy. Pandemic participation was incredibly profitable. No wonder they wanted it to last forever.
But the grift has ground to a halt. The DOJ now faces a target-rich environment. If you think about it, in one sense, the grift was a gift. Thousands of politically-connected “activist” crooks and kleptocrats have been outed and identified, with more incoming. Linda Sun —deputy chief of staff for one of the most politically significant states in the Union— is only the most recent and most prominent example.
We are in the pandemic hangover. The Reckoning is underway and gaining momentum.
The full column is here.