This week I was thinking about the art of a psychological operation (PSYOP), and realized that one of the greatest PSYOPs in history just happened recently in front of our noses, and we completely missed it.
It was February 2020. For many people, that probably feels like a lifetime ago and in a way, it was. But let’s pause for a moment to ponder about how the leaders of the world order behaved back then. Orange Hitler Donald Trump was still President of the United States and his enemies were fishing for any and all opportunities to embarrass him and damage his chances of re-election (not that it mattered so much since they were planning to steal the election anyway). At the time, there was this strange new cold virus called “COVID” that was starting to become a serious global problem. A pandemic, if you will.
There were rumors, particularly in right-wing circles, that COVID originated with a lab leak in China. Of course even suggesting that a virus might have originated in China was evil and racist, and our liberal overlords were quick to come to the rescue. Senior Democrats across the United States, including NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Nancy Pelosi, declared a crusade against bigotry and actively encouraged millions of voters to closely interact with their Chinese neighbors as much as possible. Pelosi even staged a highly publicized, sensational visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown to prove that there was nothing to fear. Of course Pelosi’s fawning puppets in the corporate media uncritically regurgitated her message like it was the second coming of Christ. Apparently, this “hug a Chinese person” movement wasn’t limited to the USA and was coordinated with other western countries, including Italy. The Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, took “hug a Chinese person” literally.
Predictably, many right-wing figures, including bad orange man Donald Trump himself, made fun of liberals for being stupid and ridiculous. Just as predictably, the corporate media condemned Trump for being evil and spreading fake news about Chinese people, who are cute and cuddly and totally not spreaders of COVID. So it came to be, millions of gullible liberals across the western world hugged a Chinese person, of course with no masks and by definition no social distancing… and the rest is history.
If the goal was to fight bigotry against Chinese people, the Democrats’ “Hug a Chinese person” campaign accomplished the exact opposite. Statistically, at least a few of those idiot liberals who hugged a Chinese person later got sick with COVID. Many of them would die, or know a friend or relative who died. In such a tragic situation, even the most woke, progressive liberal would wonder if the sickness that ruined his life had originated with one of those people he hugged in Chinatown.
Really think about this “hug a Chinese person” campaign and how little sense it made. Nancy Pelosi has access to the most sensitive classified briefings in the nation. In the early stages of a potentially deadly pandemic, she would know all the details before they were revealed to the public. If COVID had in fact originated in a Chinese province and any person of Chinese origin could realistically be sick with it, do you really think Pelosi would have gone nose-to-nose with every Chinese person she could find? Of course not.
Now call me crazy if you want to, but what if those liberals didn’t get COVID from Chinatown? What if COVID wasn’t actually China’s fault at all? What if it didn’t even originate in China, but somewhere else? What if… COVID was a weapon developed at Fort Derrick or one of those biolabs in Ukraine, and unleashed by the liberal world order? If so, such a plan would have to include a foolproof way to blame someone else, preferably an enemy.
Also remember that, despite all of the US government’s hysteria about “vaccine hesitancy,” the biggest source of vaccine hesitancy is the US government. Legacy media outlets like CNN went out of their way to bash the Russian COVID vaccine as ineffective, even when there was literally zero evidence for such a claim. They bashed every COVID vaccine besides a few select western ones. The New York Times perhaps should win a prize for yellow journalism for this one, referring to the Cuban vaccine as “homegrown,” a calculated word choice and an incredibly shitty one. A journalist calling the Cuban vaccine “homegrown” conjures a false, and entirely deliberate, mental image that the Cubans make vaccines in grandma’s kitchen, not a professional lab.
The US government has a long and extensive history of weaponizing vaccines and not caring about the millions of deaths this tactic could cause. The CIA famously organized an entire fake vaccine drive in Pakistan to track down Osama bin Laden. They knew perfectly well what damage this would cause, and how it might be years or even decades before many Pakistani people would trust foreign doctors and medications again, and they didn’t care. They couldn’t even be fucked to to at least give out a real vaccine in the drive.
So, if the Democrats’ goal back in February 2020 was to fight bigotry against the Chinese, they obviously failed. But if the real goal was to psychologically condition the entire western world to blame China for COVID, then it was a complete success. And remember that the plan wouldn’t have worked, or at least not worked as well as it did, if Trump and his minions hadn’t played along and wagged their fingers. This should make us wonder what their role in all of this was, and how knowingly they played it.
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I wonder how many Chinese ppl got covid from those Judas Hugs…
The idea of the campaign was racist in itself. It implies that actually hugging a Chinese person is a terrible experience a normal white person should avoid at all costs. But during this very special campaign we, the white ppl, will show some magnanimity and condescension to prevent “covid libel” and hug those pesky Chinese.
That’s how it sounds. The aim was to make you ready to hate Chinese, btw. Next learn how Chinese are different from democracy-loving Taiwanese.
I was thinking of racism in general lately, I don’t think a person/community can stop being more or less xenophobic (you know what I think about xenophobia and how it is different from pure racism), but a person/community can stop being arrogant. And I now think that racism is much less about looking down at other people, but more about getting on some kind of a high horse or pedestal of supremacy (moral, physical, intellectual) from which other ppl, that plebs, can seem smaller.
I don’t love all my neighbors, I do have some very common prejudices, but I also know that I’m not perfect, nor my compatriots are. This ends a possibility of pure racism. And probably makes me immune to at least some of such PSYOPs
Well said Maria. As someone whose politics are ‘socialist’ (ooh maybe I should not reveal that LOL) I try to see all humans as fundamentally the same. I remember the 1985 concert here in AirstripOne for Nelson Mandela’s birthday where the great phrase ‘One Humanity, One Justice’ was used. I find it hard to see Nazi’s this way though… So there’s one of my imperfections as well!
QK
Well, that only shows that your assumption, that all humans are fundamentally the same, is flawed. While all humans are, in the roots, the same, we are much more than that. And here come the differences. Specially with beliefs, religions or cultures that are, by definition, a personal choice – compared to skin color, for example.
And it’s quite funny that you label yourself a socialist and hold that belief. Lately, local socialists and Leftists in general have labeled us people who do not think like them as less than human 🙂
Ah but I’m an old school ‘proper’ socialist of 45 years standing, not one of the new ‘neo-socialists’ 😉
QK
Is it racism if whites prefer to mingle with whites and Japanese with Japanese? No. It’s mother nature.
Is it racism to affirm whites are intellectually superior to blacks? No. It’s Biology.
Is it racism to consider Western music the pinnacle of all musical expressions? No. It’s true.
Racism is a political concept.
Now let me go listen to Prokofiev.
Well I despise your ‘political concept’ then. Human Race is the one.
I suspect more Chinese like Chinese music than the rest of the world like your ‘pinnacle’ music…
QK
I believe there were reports that Covid in EU was detected before it was in China. EU did not recognized it as a special brand though. Yet retroactive analysis of medic logs was said to imply it was.
My FoaF medics were to Mongolia the autmn before Covid. They came back with some unusually harsh season cold. They think it was Covid, though it can not be checked if it was now.
Arioch,
I have heard this as well. The assertion that COVID *must* have originated in China is, most likely, based on nothing.
If we jump on “biolab” bandwagoned, then perhaps we should compare with software industry.
Can we claim a specific distro of Windows or Linux just appeared instantly and in some fixed place?
No. Thousands of people around the world worked for thousands hours and days, molding it into a shape complete enough to be slapped some marketing stamp and pushed to store shelves.
And even then it would, technically, appear in the shops all around the world at once.
If COVID was engineered, rather than evolved, it would be plausible i complete “beta version” were given to early adopters all around the world. If COVID was an attempt to engineer race-aware or age-aware virus, then running field tests in different world places sampling different populations was a must.
Personally, after experiencing Covid, i find the “smart design” hypothesis plausible. Not sure if it ever can be proved this or that way, but plausible.
P. S. USA MSM at its finest.
https://t.me/sharanism/7484
If that is real NYT tweet – they are past events horizon. Zombie la-la-land.
iNcomplete beta version
Microsoft Android keyboard seems to know less english words than me :-/
Yes unfortunately that is a real statement from NYT and is a common sentiment in the legacy media.
i doubt most westerners need a “push” to blame foreigners for anything. seems to be a default setting. i also doubt most of them outside major cities could find a “chinese person” other than the nice old couple running the “chinese” buffet that every city seems to have for whatever reason. as for pelosi, no one really listens to her outside of “yassss queen!” hillary voter femini$t types and her fellow rich WASPy assholes.
re: the origins, it’s like 9/11…everyone can speculate all they want but until some bombshell leak happens NO ONE knows outside of whatever small cabal may or may not have unleashed the box cutters and viruses (virii?). so if people want to waste their time, fine. i prefer to examine the effects irrespective of the cause. the one that always stood out was the visceral and entitled reaction to the zoonotic origin theory. but that’s just me being “racist” for being repulsed by the murder of cats, bats and pangolins in a filthy shit stained market. i might as well just burn a cross!