It Was Never About a Virus

The virus was a pretext for much larger things like governmental erasure of freedoms and foreign interference.

But don't take my word for it:

While attempts to identify a seafood market in Wuhan as the source of Covid-19 have failed to find proof, there is growing realization that the source might be the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). In the period up to 2019, the WIV, in collaboration with EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) and other institutions, brought to Wuhan numerous bat viruses from the distant regions where viruses most similar to SARS-CoV-2 have been identified. They created genetically modified versions of viruses and tested them by infecting human cells and humanised mice, causing significant gains in infectivity and lethality in one known case. They did some of these experiments at inappropriately low safety levels. Latterly they extended the work to include viruses more distantly related to SARS-CoV itself and were party to a plan to insert a furin cleavage site into a sarbecovirus for the first time. There is compelling evidence that the furin cleavage site was acquired by SARS-CoV-2 just before the outbreak. Around the time the Covid outbreak began, WIV closed its database and withheld key information about virus sequences and experiments. These facts amount to a strong though circumstantial case for suspecting that a laboratory leak started the pandemic. 

 

Yet that fact was denied repeatedly.

What followed was two years of lockdowns that saw neighbours turn on neighbours, unprecedented masking, and a particular government that literally trampled over people.

 

What also happened was a shift on how people viewed vaccinations (as opposed to the vaccines themselves):

The pandemic prompted a “large shift” in parents’ views on vaccination, says a Public Health Agency report. Fears of unknown side effects are now common, wrote researchers: “The Covid-19 pandemic yielded a large shift in Canadians’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards vaccinations.”

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The report from the Public Health Agency of Canada on vaccine uptake said the pandemic “yielded a large shift in Canadians’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards vaccinations.”

The Feb. 6 report, first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter, found there has recently been a “high prevalence” of hesitancy towards both COVID-19 vaccines and regular vaccinations among certain populations. It said monitoring of parental attitudes is needed to “predict expected vaccine uptake and to guide education and awareness efforts to promote vaccination among children issued from these specific populations.”

Eighty-eight percent of parents surveyed said they were “generally in favour” of vaccines for diseases like polio, measles, and mumps. Seventy percent said their children had received all recommended vaccine doses, while 55 percent said their children took flu shots.

When the parents of children who were not fully vaccinated were asked about their reasoning, 24 percent mentioned “concerns about safety risks” while 22 percent said they did not consider the vaccine necessary, and 14 percent said they were not confident in its effectiveness.

 

In other words, some people had second thoughts about what largely obfuscative and incompetent governments were peddling.