Thor Williams Lihaug
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Western countries are heading in the wrong direction. Sinister forces exploit opportunities created by the alleged crises of Covid, climate and social injustice. Failing elites stoke fear and mislead populations into believing that politicians can protect us from all perils in life. Governments promising to take care of us from cradle to grave are demotivate personal responsibility – all by doubling down on authoritarian measures destroying personal freedom. Mainstream media seem to celebrate draconic measures and do their best to smear the unvaccinated as selfish, a burden on society and a threat to the vaccinated.
The probability of succumbing to the Covid disease is minute unless you have underlying health issues. An Oxford study[i] concludes that lockdowns do not work other than throwing economies out in the most severe recession since World War II, adding to already many adverse consequences not predicted by our elected leaders. The latest Norwegian research[ii] finds that vaccines do not reduce deaths, but vaccinated patients are hospitalised shorter time. The same goes for public mask-wearing. Masks have marginal protective effects[iii], but only when used correctly, which most users are not trained or motivated to do. Moreover, vaccinates do not protect you from contracting the virus or prevent you from spreading it.
Still, Western rulers are in panic mode, stoking unwarranted fears while pushing more authoritarian measures that do not work. Politicians are utterly blind to the simple fact that they are impotent in the face of many natural phenomena. Political dictates do not prevent viruses from spreading, nor can global temperature cycles or social justice be adjusted or engineered to fit political narratives.
Conservatives were expected to stand up against tyrannical forces but they have slept for decades. They woke up to the noise from Brexit and the Trump presidency, only to find that our youngest adults and future voters[iv] no longer seem to think that capitalism and civil liberties are essential to welfare and prosperity. Western institutions have effectively succumbed to a silent revolution where unelected left-wing liberals have taken over the courts, military, academia and other civil services. It remains only to defeat the few governments still ruled by conservative parties before the left can celebrate total victory.
Most of us who are old enough to remember when cultural unity and patriotism created thriving communities have naively believed that civil liberties could only be threatened by foreign military forces. How wrong we were. Social justice, genderism, greenery, equity and illegal immigration are all threats created by domestic movements representing «feel good» utopian ideas based on irrational thinking originated by radical professors in academia. Progressivism[v] has banned intellectual diversity in universities and colleges.
We have recently learnt that the EU country Austria has decided to coerce the unvaccinated to take the double jabs in exchange for basic freedoms. Austria has become the first country in Europe to make the Covid vaccine compulsory. Refusers will be fined and eventually imprisoned. This is a shocking and shameful attack on bodily autonomy.
Other European nations ought to be disgusted with Austria, but silence proves they are contemplating to throw their own unvaccinated in the burning pit.
Across Europe, we are now witnessing civilised societies giving way to panic and totalitarianism. Austria is criminalising the unvaccinated, Dutch police have fired live rounds on anti-lockdown demonstrators, while other countries require vaccine passports to go about daily business. An English boarding school has even requested children to wear a yellow badge[vi] to show exempt from using a face mask – an echo from Nazism. We are fast approaching a two-tier society where one group is defined as social lepers while others are granted temporary freedom. Temporary, because lockdowns and masks may soon be mandated for also the common flu and colds.
Some of the countries employing the most severe measures are now going through the fifth wave of infections. How long will it take for weak politicians and corrupt media to understand that masks and lockdowns just delay the spread? Covid will not go away before every one of us have been exposed to the virus. Abuse of political emergency powers creates consequences far worse than what comes from the virus itself, not least the collapse of economic output and the accelerating number of undiagnosed terminal diseases.
There is a myriad of unsolved issues calling for political leadership. Politicians should be working day and night to solve the real problems threatening Western democracies. Sadly, the greatest threat is feckless political elites, subjugating citizens to tyrannical rules. Forced vaccination and mask mandates are causing mayhem and destruction with no evidence of positive outcomes.
Social interaction with other people is a basic need of mankind and government disrespect for personal autonomy has opened the road to a dystopian future. Suppose Western populations fail to stand up against this madness. In that case, we will soon learn that imprisonment awaits not only the unvaccinated but any voice not in line with the ruling orthodoxy.
Author: Thor Williams Lihaug
Blog: www.franklythor.com
References:
[i] Volume 67 Issue 3 | CESifo Economic Studies | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
[ii] Norwegian Institute of Public Health – Report of November 11, 2021
[iii] 47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
[iv] 7 in 10 millennials say they would vote for a socialist: poll | TheHill
[v] Liberalism is rampant on campus and ruining academia | Washington Examiner[vi] The Telegraph
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Well said, Thor. Very good analysis of the current madness infecting the globe.
Thank you, Bob. Appreciate your feedback.
Thnks for this excellent article! Not only in the West, also in Russia the government hysteria is dangerous. Russians are threatened with forced vaccinations to be carried out soon. The State Duma Speaker Volodin received half a million protest messages on his telegram account. DOSCHD (RAIN) TV reports: State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that he did not expect the resonance that his publication on bills on QR codes would cause, and promised to read all the comments under it. He wrote on telegram: 1 2 “I didn’t expect that there will be so many of them (comments – Rain’s… Read more »
The Covid hysteria will also break states’ structures. It looks like the West Indies islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique might break away from France. The last colonies gone, lol!
This could also happen to the USA, Russia and other “empires”. Pieces will break off!
RAIN TV: Anti-vaccine Russia: How Anti-QR Code Movement Threatens Putin’s Rating – November 26, 22:52 – The Russian authorities have relaunched the vaccination campaign as promised. 4 3 Because the campaign is a campaign, and what Vladimir Putin thinks about vaccinations is still not clear. This week, Putin revealed that he was revaccinated with Sputnik Light, but again no picture. But Putin not only got vaccinated, the next day he tried the nasal Sputnik – the same syringe, as he said, only powder. Dmitry Peskov immediately explained that a powder is a liquid. And this is just logical: freedom… Read more »
Thanks for the commentary, Olivia. You have some exciting information about Russians and their display of rational scepticism.
Well, yes, Thor, I hope this Russian rational scepticism will prevail and get the people’s will fulfilled: no forced vaccinations, no QR codes!
Due to forced vaccination demands by France, the overseas departements Guadeloupe and Martinique want to break away, demanding their freedom.
French policemen and journalists have been attacked and injured.
RT FRANCE:
What started as a strike and bockade in the islands, turned into violence against the law and order inforcement quickly, with arson and looting;
In the night of November 25, policemen and journalists were attacked in Martinique, 10 policemen were injured, five were shot at with guns.One policeman was run over with a car. He is gravely injured and had an operation in Fort-de-France.
There was no virus. It was a lie te sell vaccines to give billions to Pharma. The biowapon from Wuhan is in the vaccines. The cases are generated with the help of a test that cannot detect infections. Its a sick joke. No virus pandemic. Its the pandemic of the PCR test. The medical establishment knows the clotshot is toxic but they keep their mouth shut thanks to payoffs. The Elites cash in, executing their hundred year plan for depopulation and usher in their beloved communism. I call Covid CO2vid.
Protests in Vologda Region of Russia against QR Codes and forced vaccination! VOLOGDA REGION NEWS: A group of people burst into the building of the Legislative Assembly of the Vologda Region – 11/25/21 / 23:14 – Today a group of people burst into the building of the Legislative Assembly of the Vologda Oblast. They sprayed a chemical substance in the face of the National Guardsmen and broke into the reception room of the chairman Andrei Lutsenko. The activists, entering the lobby of the building, demanded a meeting with the chairman Andriy Lutsenko, and began to argue with the guards. So,… Read more »
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA shows a video of this event in Vologda Region’s Parliament:
On the eyewitness video, one can see that the Rosguards took one of the men by the arms and carried him out, after which the woman sprayed a can in their direction. Also on the recording you can hear her shouts: “All your children will be vaccinated.”
Then the security forces pushed the woman against the wall, and she again sprayed the can. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the woman who sprayed the gas complained that her arm was broken, and an ambulance was called for her. …
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA shows a video of this event in Vologda Region’s Parliament:
On the eyewitness video, one can see that the Rosguards took one of the men by the arms and carried him out, after which the woman sprayed a can in their direction. Also on the recording you can hear her shouts: “All your children will be vaccinated.”
Then the security forces pushed the woman against the wall, and she again sprayed the can. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the woman who sprayed the gas complained that her arm was broken, and an ambulance was called for her. …
This is the Kalergi Plan in action, by the Tribe.
Close to full annihilation of Caucasian race is the purpose of these ostensible Vaccines, which are in fact, slow release Lethal Injections. The replacements for the Caucasian genocide, are already in most western Countries. They were brought in from Africa and have been masquerading as Refugees.
People in the Russian Urals capital of Chelyabinsk are protesting against QR codes and forced vaccination! Rain TV (Doschd) reports: In Chelyabinsk, opponents of covid restrictions tried to break into the local Legislative Assembly, where a federal bill on the introduction of QR codes was discussed. There was a fight at the security post. Activists from Miass, Chebarkul and other cities of the Chelyabinsk region came to the Legislative Assembly. Some held posters demanding the resignation of Parliament Speaker Alexander Lazarev. A fight broke out in the foyer between several activists and the guards. The chairman of the committee on social policy… Read more »
Tell this to the over 100,000 dead in Germany. Tell this to the over 5 MILLION dead all over the planet.
One may wonder of WHAT these 100.000 dead in Germany and 5 MILLION all over the planet REALLY died! They are all named in the category “covid’ but we do not know whether this is TRUE! .
Smarten up, Vera! Stop feeble trolling! All those deaths you claim have no validity, as the parameters of “CoVid1984 death” are far from strict classification. The “SARS-C-V-2 virus” has NOT been isolated from a dead human to prove that the “virus” causes CoVid19(84). The RT PCR test cannot determine if a sample has the target molecules from “SARS-CoV-2”, or from other non-eliminated contaminants, nor human RNA/DNA. NONE of the “Experimental Gene Therapy Injections” will protect anybody from anything. This is more and more like a population reducing event, whether by outright mass murder or slow death by segregation and condemnation.… Read more »
RADIO FREE EUROPE reports about Russia: ‘The Activization Of Protests’ Anti-mandate protests of various types were reported in Kostroma, Kamchatka, Irkutsk Oblast, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Murmansk, and elsewhere over the last seven weeks. “QR codes are intended as a way of marking consumer goods,” protesters in the Zabaikalye region wrote in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin and Governor Aleksandr Osipov. “We are not consumer goods. It is not acceptable to equate people to goods. Our ancestors paid a huge price so that we could now live freely. But what is going on in this country now threatens to destroy… Read more »
Since the advent of the Wuhan/Fauci/Chinese virus one may have noticed the ‘sudden’ pacification of ‘dissidents’ in China itself!!! Maybe the West is playing ‘catch up’…
This online petition has been signed by 330.000 Russian citizens and sent to the Russian President. The text of the petition is published (in Russian) on citizengo: Do not allow the introduction of QR-segregation in Russia! To the President of Russia V.V. Putin Chairman of the State Duma V.V. Volodin Deputies of the State Duma. Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! Dear Vyacheslav Viktorovich and deputies of the State Duma! On November 12, the State Duma submitted bills No. 17357-8 “On Amendments to the Federal Law” On Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population “and No. 17358-8″ On Amendments to Article 107 of… Read more »
RAIN TV (Doschd) reports: A mass picket, agreed with the authorities, against the introduction of QR codes was held near the Sports Palace of the Uralets Sports and Entertainment Complex in Yekaterinburg, about 300 people took part in it. The event took place without detention. The protesters collected signatures for an appeal to the chief sanitary doctor of the Sverdlovsk region Dmitry Kozlovskikh and the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova with a request to cancel QR codes. Many came with posters “No to coercion”, “For freedom, for the right to choose”, “No QR code, return freedom”, “Introduction… Read more »
RT FRANCE:
On November 27, 2,000 to 3,000 people marched in the sub-prefecture of Guadeloupe to demand the lifting of the vaccination obligation for medical personnel and firefighters, continuing the social movement which also affects Martinique.
“What is good for France is not necessarily good here, and vice versa,” Danielle, 63, told AFP during a demonstration on November 27 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
RT FRANCE:
Switzerland is the only country in Europe to offer its citizens a referendum on the sanitary pass
They will vote November 28 on the sanitary pass. New protest demonstrations are to be held.
I agree with what is stated in the article. Too many rash actions from the government and widespread human rights violations.