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Sometimes, Only Satire Does The Job…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Ramesh Thakur via The Brownstone Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Here is my review of Ois\u00edn MacAmad\u00e1in,\u00a0Busting Anti-Vax Myths! Seriously EXPERT Arguments for the Covid-Deniers in Your Life<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2022), with a Foreword by Dr. Anthony Faucet.<\/p>\n

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This is a slim, wickedly funny satire of 126 pages organised into ten chapters of rollicking hilarity. It\u2019s a hugely enjoyable book for all those who were critical of lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. As the Brits say, it takes the piss out of all the self-proclaimed Covid experts, the public health clerisy, the media, and people with blind faith in the experts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thus the fictitious professor Ois\u00edn MacAmad\u00e1in informs us of \u201ca good friend in Dublin whose fully vaccinated father died from Covid. He also told me how much worse he knew it could have been.\u201d And all the grannies going merrily about their way in Stockholm \u201cmust be brainwashed. A perfect example of state propaganda.\u201d The true believers are likely to be offended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The book is successful in skewering the many Covidian dogmas because MacAmad\u00e1in closely tracks the many gaslighting tropes used by the experts and the authorities to attack critics, dissenters, Florida, and Sweden. The last, for example, is dismissed as irrelevant because its vast empty spaces make it very difficult to encounter the virus and anyway, we all know the Swedes are so reserved they rarely hug.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been many a long year since I laughed so much while reading a seriously serious book. <\/strong>The greater your familiarity with the lies, obfuscations, and gaslighting by health experts and governments in the last three years, and with the range of scientific literature and controversies, including the leading names, the more you will be entertained by this book.<\/p>\n

American readers will especially enjoy the chapter on Florida and the attempted puncturing of Robert Malone and Peter McCullough as anti-vaxxer ringleaders. That they were removed from Twitter is proof they were spouting anti-scientific drivel. Their knowledge is so shallow that they can be shown up even by the likes of Neil Young and Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n

MacAmad\u00e1in is inventive with names in the mould of JK Rowling, referencing the CDLWQ (CatDogLynxWolfQuestioning) + community for those who self-ID as catgender etc. The encomia on the back cover are from eminent world experts like President Macaroni who adores the book because it will \u201creally \u2018piss off\u2019 the anti-vaxxers;\u201d Santa Klaus who is incredulous that the author \u201cwas never a WEF young leader;\u201d the CEO of Pfizzle; and Gubnet O\u2019Foole, the correspondent in residence of the\u00a0Oirish Times<\/em>. The final encomium is signed off \u201cThe author.\u201d<\/p>\n

We meet Prof. Nadir Jibjab and Dr. Sm\u00e4rtz Aleks. Austria has a Mr. H\u00fcndbisket and a Prof. Ann Schl\u00fcss who has written a treatise on\u00a0The Jab as Moral Good<\/em>. She holds firmly to the view that the government decisions tick all ethical boxes, \u201ceven those of Kant whose ethical boxes are notoriously hard to tick.\u201d A German schoolteacher named Gretel Voopingkoff praises Ois\u00edn\u2019s \u201cawesome work in exterminating anti-vaxxer propaganda.\u201d She informs him that her multi-jabbed kids \u201cplay the geese marching game\u201d from which the unvaxxed are, of course, excluded.<\/p>\n

One of the authors of the famous 2020 Danish mask study was Henning Bundgaard. He gets misnamed as Herring Bumgaard in a letter to the\u00a0British Medical Journal<\/em>\u00a0(a riff on the many people who reported studies for retraction), then successively as Dr. Bumg\u00e5s, B\u00fcmfl\u00fcff, and Bumf\u00e5rt. In the letter, he asks of their flawed study:<\/p>\n

how do we know that up to 100% of those infected in the unmasked group didn\u2019t end up ultimately dying due to greater viral exposure? Were they only asked about whether they were infected and not whether that infection had killed them?<\/em><\/p>\n

The Termonfeckin Institute of Expertise (TIE), one of the world\u2019s leading institutes, has just one Faculty, Prof. MacAmad\u00e1in who is the Provost, Head of Department, and Lecturer: \u201ca real Trinity of wisdom and education,\u201d says Dr. Faucet in his gushing Foreword. He breezily dismisses the IFR calculations of Prof. Ioannidis (\u201cnever heard of him\u201d) of 0.27 percent in favour of the TIE calculation of 34 percent.<\/p>\n

MacAmad\u00e1in is an expert on expertise, with a \u201clong and incredibly distinguished career.\u201d <\/strong>The opening sentence of the book declares \u201cI am an expert.\u201d This gives him the unique ability to become an instant expert on any topic. He is vainglorious and breathlessly boasting, with any errors in the book the responsibility of the editor, TIE\u2019s \u201csole and perennial graduate student.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He sat down to write this book after getting his eighth shot and predicts by 2030 we will be into jabs in the fifties, fantasises about a movie to be called\u00a0The Amazing Mr. Spike<\/em>, <\/strong>extends the slogan \u201cNo one is safe until everyone is safe\u201d to animals, and holds mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic to be probably the best idea in the world, so there, Dr. Geert Van Der Dishwasher. If this fuels new variants, the obvious solution is to create new vaccines.<\/p>\n

Wearing a mask when driving alone in a car is advisable because viral droplets can come in through the air filter. Besides, masks make you drop-dead, gorgeously sexy. A study from Cardiff University \u201cdemonstrably proved that face masks make people more attractive and \u2026 I will always follow the science.\u201d Wearing them in combination with pantyhose will not only make you even sexier but will protect you amazingly against Covid, and so \u201cI always wear protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for \u201cthe mad idea that the Covid vaccines are not even vaccines:\u201d \u201cThe scientists call them vaccines, the governments call them vaccines, it says \u2018vaccine\u2019 on the label.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>The vaccine is definitely a vaccine because it self-identifies as one and it\u2019s frankly vaccine-phobic to suggest otherwise. A supposed scientific study alleging that the vaccine is actually gene therapy is debunked with the killer argument that it\u2019s from Sweden and the Swedes all love ABBA, \u201cso case closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Irishman who is fiercely proud of Ireland\u2019s stringent Covid protection measures, he is a bit troubled by Australia and Canada\u2019s more authoritarian enforcement actions. The Irish in him is somewhat embarrassed at channelling the Brit Churchill\u2019s wartime\u00a0fighting on the beaches speech<\/a>. Melbourne\u2019s \u201cpolice efficiency\u201d was \u201ca joy to witness.\u201d Four triple-masked and visored-up police officers wielding sterilised batons arrested an unjabbed woman with one officer striking her down, another tasering her, and a crew disinfecting her before she is winched up by a helicopter and flown to a Covid internment camp.<\/p>\n

Canadian kids parrot Trudeau-like lines about the unvaccinated being racists. But, enamoured as Ois\u00edn is of Australia and Canada, he concedes that Austria had all others beat. It is a \u201cCovidopia,\u201d the Utopia of Covid.<\/strong> The public was enthusiastically supportive, \u201cbordering on euphoria,\u201d of the authorities\u2019 tough crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Great Barrington Declaration<\/a>\u00a0is dismissed as \u201cThe Declaration of Great Baloney\u201d written by fringe scientists, one of whom probably works at Stanford Polytech rather than University. Ois\u00edn writes to his mate Tony Faucet urging him to publish a \u201cdevastating takedown.\u201d Because \u201cthere is no \u2018no risk\u2019 group,\u201d \u201cfocussed protection\u201d is condemned as \u201cdiscriminatory and ageist\u201d that would \u201cdestroy the principles we hold dear.\u201d Ois\u00edn commits to organising \u201cThe Great Termonfeckin Ejaculation\u201d (spelt put in the final chapter on The Great Reset) as a counter to the GBD.<\/p>\n

He is also besties with Canada\u2019s PM Trudy-wudy and rushes to Ottawa to help quell the truckers\u2019 rebellion by \u201cblack-faced up\u201d racists. <\/strong>The resulting encounter with the protestors is a nice little dig at asking us to trust the experts over our own lying eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is a hilarious chapter with advice on fact-checking: point out that \u201cEXPERTS\u201d disagree, that the person making the false claim is a crackpot, and that \u201ceven if the misinformation is correct, it still isn\u2019t true.\u201d For example, the claim to the protective benefits of natural immunity can be shown to be false by noting that \u201cmany who have died from Covid also had immune systems.\u201d In another example:<\/p>\n

The reports of over 29,000 deaths in the VAERS database do not prove that the Covid vaccines are dangerous: they merely show that 29,000 people happened to die shortly after their vaccination. Death is a statistically common phenomenon which experts have found to occur in most populations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of the chapter, however, Ois\u00edn berates himself for having wasted his time as the media everywhere have already been following these practices all along anyway.<\/p>\n

He pays homage to all the brave soldiers who gave their lives in the world war so we can all be safe now. The expert\u2019s unvaccinated Romanian housekeeper rebels at being reminded of Ceausescu\u2019s reign: \u201cLet me tell you, Ceausescu is turning in his f**king grave that he didn\u2019t think of this! What genius to control everyone with the f**king flu!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The book perfectly captures the epidemic of cognitive dissonance that still reigns. A doctor talks a woman out of her hesitancy and when she is rushed to emergency after a stroke, notes with smug satisfaction that \u201cat least it wasn\u2019t the Covid that landed her there.\u201d Because the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh claimed success for Ivermectin prophylactic treatment, it must be the state of \u201cUTT-ar RUBB-esh.\u201d The myth about the protective benefits of Vitamin D is dismissed with the Trumpian label \u201cVitamin Death.\u201d<\/strong> Mandating it for everyone would be a gross violation of bodily integrity. Compliance with government orders shows how compassionate we all are and this proof, that society is for real, must be enough to make Margaret Thatcher turn in her grave.<\/p>\n

The fanatic faith of many vaccine enthusiasts is skewered in this woman\u2019s comment on a radio program in Ireland, voicing support for Austria\u2019s \u201cjab or jail\u201d program:\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was delighted the day I got vaccinated knowing I was then fully protected but the thought that any one of these loons could still kill me just like that\u2026.so I\u2019m all for doing what the Austrians are doing just so as to keep us all safe.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is followed by the sentence: \u201cMeanwhile an\u00a0Oirish Times\u00a0poll has indicated that 82% of respondents would support jail time for the unvaccinated, 13% aren\u2019t sure and the remaining 5% are currently being investigated by the Garda\u00ed.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A bit like George Castanza\u2019s epiphany in\u00a0Seinfeld<\/em>, about\u00a0doing the opposite<\/a>\u00a0of his first instinct, just invert everything you read and you will be fine with your reading comprehension.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 08\/13\/2023 – 19:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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