Last month’s Review ran an article entitled, “A Heartfelt Plea to My Fellow Adventists,” which told of the experiences of a potential convert to the SDA Church who was searching for a new church home but kept encountering problems. In part 1, we discussed six of these problems, but eight were described in the article. Now we will begin to discuss the rest.
The Covid-19 Vaccine
Discussions about the COVID-19 vaccine being the mark of the beast. Carrie’s husband is a doctor who recommends the COVID-19 vaccine to his patients, and comments to this effect left them both upset.
Now we are there. We have arrived at the real reason the article was written.
First, there is no group of Adventists that believes that the vaccine itself is the mark of the beast. Adventists, especially the conservative ones skeptical of the official narrative, the government-media-tech-lord imposed narrative, are fully aware that in Adventist eschatology the mark of the beast is Sunday sacredness in place of the Bible Sabbath.
Wyatt Allen, who has written for this site and commented on the Review story, noted that the “mark of the beast” accusation did not ring true:
“there's not one Seventh-day Adventist who has taught that the vaccine is the mark of the beast. Not one. Certainly not a whole church. I have heard this lie repeated to condemn those who have concerns about the vaccine, but it has never been verified. Not one.”
The idea the vaccine itself is the mark of the beast is not really a thing in Adventism.
But the vaccine mandates are a different story. The mandates are related to the mark of the beast, and if we are not discussing that in Adventist churches, there is a problem.
What is Not Done of Conviction is Sin
If we are under conviction not to take the vaccine, then for us to compromise out of political expediency and take the vaccine is sin. It is a compromise of our principles. It is analogous to receiving the mark of the beast in the hand rather than on the forehead. Those who accept the mark on their forehead are thereby signaling that they believe Sunday is the true Sabbath; those who receive it in the hand know that Sunday is the not the true Sabbath, but accept the mark in their hand, because they want to continue to participate in the market economy.
I pointed this out in my rebuttal to ADCOM’s October, 2021, vaccine statement:
Whether one is vaccinated or not most certainly can be a matter of salvation. . . . If we are under conviction, we had better follow our conviction, because we are judged based upon how we live up to the light we have been given. We must not violate a God-given conviction as to what is the right path.
“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” James 4:17;
“But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” Rom. 14:23.
The question of vaccine mandates is certainly related to the mark of the beast. The issue in Revelation 13 is whether you will go against your conscience and accept the mark in your hand, not out of faith or belief but as an accommodation to the ruling authorities. If you do, you are lost eternally. We had better begin now to practice resisting what is not done out of faith.
But there is another, more direct connection between the vaccine mandates and the mark of the beast.
The Mark of the Beast and the Vaccine Passport
The mark of the beast is enforced by excluding dissenters from the money economy:
“And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name.” Rev. 13:16-17
How, technically, is this achieved? How do you keep people from buying and selling, freezing them out of the economy?
The way the authorities went about dealing with Covid, rushing out an inadequately tested vaccine, making that vaccine mandatory, then suggesting a “vaccine passport” as a proof of vaccination, clearly signaled that they were reaching for something that would give them Revelation 13 power, the power to prevent dissenters from buying or selling.
A. Fear is the Key—Overhype the Threat
First, the authorities fear-mongered the disease to an absurd degree, leading many to believe that if they contracted the Covid-19 virus they were likely to die, when in fact the chances of dying from the virus were small. The death rate was something like 0.25 percent, the survival rate 99.75%. Covid was more deadly than seasonal influenza, but it was not exactly Ebola.
The authorities also acted as though the pandemic were a threat to everyone, when it was mainly a threat to the old and frail. Infants and children are less threatened by Covid than by seasonal influenza. Fit, healthy people under age 65 were not severely threatened, either, (although the obese and those with multiple “co-morbidities” were at risk). It is not until we reach the over-65 demographic that Covid becomes substantially more deadly than seasonal flu; the median age of Covid fatalities is 78—which is also the life expectancy in the United States.
Despite an age-stratified threat in which the young were not threatened, schools, colleges, and many types of businesses were shut down. Shutting down the schools and businesses harmed many who need not have been harmed, and did nothing to slow the spread of the virus.
It is impossible to look back on the political authorities’ insane overreaction to Covid without wondering what its real purpose was, because it had nothing to do with public health.
B. Cause More Death by Discouraging Early Treatment
Worse than the overreaction of public officials was the under-reaction of the medical profession. Most doctors would not treat Covid outside of the hospital. They waited for people to get sick enough to need hospitalization, then pushed expensive, unsafe new drugs such as Remdesivir (“run-death-is-near”), put them on ventilators and waited for them to die, and many did. No treatment protocol was issued except by maverick physicians, most notably Peter McCullough and Vladimir Zelenko, but their efforts were dismissed as quackery by a medical profession that seemed indifferent to Covid deaths—when they did not seem to be actively facilitating them.
Perhaps the most shocking evidence of a profession-wide conspiracy to discourage any real pre-hospital treatment of Covid was the slander of old and very safe drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, and widespread efforts by professional associations to discipline doctors who prescribed them. In some countries where these drugs had long been available over-the-counter, they were re-scheduled for prescription only. Obtaining medications for the early, non-hospital treatment of Covid came to resemble scoring illegal street drugs—it was against the will of the rulers, and hence had to be done quietly, almost secretly.
Not all doctors toed the line drawn by the medical associations and licensing authorities. Mine was an exception, and many of yours were, too. But, on the whole, the medical profession was revealed to be an alarmingly top-down army of automatons, and the licensing authorities did everything possible to intimidate anyone who stepped out of line. Dr. Ryan Cole and Dr. Peter McCullough are still being harassed by their licensing authorities; Dr. Zelenko has passed away and I doubt even the New York authorities would bother lifting his license at this point.
C. Create Demand for an Experimental Vaccine
All this was done deliberately, and it soon became apparent that the purpose was to gaslight the world into believing that there was no treatment for Covid other than the experimental vaccines then being developed. The fear-mongering and non-treatment were designed to stampede the population toward a vaccine based upon a novel technology: hijacking your body’s genetic machinery to make copies of an element of the Covid-19 virus—the spike protein—in order to stimulate an immune response to the spike protein.
They told us it was safe to repurpose the body’s genetic machinery to produce the spike protein, because it was only a small portion of the whole coronavirus. But the spike protein by itself is capable of causing serious problems, including myocarditis and other heart problems, which have shown up in people who were vaccinated but who never had the disease, including teenagers and young people whom we would not expect to have heart problems.
When the vaccines were finally marketed, a stampeded public submitted to vaccination en masse, just as the pharmaceutical companies had planned. But over time it emerged that the vaccines were ineffective. They did not prevent infection, transmission, serious illness, hospitalization, or death. They do not constitute “immunization” as that term has historically been understood, because they do not make you immune to the disease.
D. Not a Safe or Effective Vaccine—Not Really a Vaccine at All
In “sterilizing” vaccines, a vaccinated person cannot be infected and cannot pass the virus to others, but this is not true of any of the Covid vaccines. A fully Covid-vaccinated individual can still be infected and can still pass the virus to others. There are several reported cases of Covid outbreaks within a population consisting only of the fully vaccinated.
Pfizer and its wholly-owned governmental subsidiaries, the appallingly corrupt FDA, NIH, and CDC, claimed that the vaccine was a sort of pre-therapy, meaning that in case you did get the disease, the vaccine would make the illness less severe and less likely to end in hospitalization or death—which, again, has little to do with what, historically, has been communicated by the terms “vaccination,” “inoculation,” and “immunization.”
It soon became known that even this alleged pre-therapeutic value was fleeting, lasting about 4 to 6 months, after which it would be necessary to submit to a “booster” shot. But vaccine efficacy gets worse with each booster, and apparently distorts the immune system more seriously after each booster, such that most symptomatic Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are now occurring among fully vaccinated people.
Worse than the iffy efficacy was the terrifying danger of adverse events. The vaccines have been associated with thousands of adverse side-effects, including blood-clotting disorders, cardiac emergencies, myocarditis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, autoimmune disease, spontaneous miscarriages, nervous system disorders, heavy menstrual flow, and female infertility. The vaccines also interfere with the natural immune system, making a person more susceptible to viral infections and cancer. Several doctors are reporting fast-moving “turbo” cancers.
Worst of all, many vaccine side effects have harmed young people who were at virtually no risk from Covid itself, but who were given the vaccine anyway, to further pad Pfizer’s bottom line. Thousands of otherwise healthy teenagers and young adults now suffer from myocarditis, a serious heart ailment.
Historically, when a vaccine was associated with any significant number of deaths or serious injuries, it was withdrawn from the market. In 1976, a mass campaign to vaccinate for Swine Flu was halted after more than 40 million vaccines had been administered when the vaccine was associated with less than 60 cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological disease.
Yet the Covid-19 vaccines have been left on the market despite an horrendous side-effect profile. Based upon insurance actuarial data and data on disability claims, Edward Dowd very conservatively estimates that the Covid vaccine has killed 300,000 working-age people, and probably hundreds of thousands more elderly people. Recently, a group of European researchers estimated that the vaccine has killed 13 million worldwide. This is the only vaccine in human history that has been allowed to remain on the market with a safety profile even 1/100th this bad.
E. You Must Have a “Vaccine” to Have Mandatory Vaccination
And yet, even as the news that the vaccine was neither safe nor effective gradually leaked out, surmounting society-wide censorship never seen in a Western country in peacetime, forced vaccination—vaccine mandates—were all the rage, in both the public and private sectors. Many large corporations made the vaccines mandatory. The “Biden Administration” did everything within its power to force the vaccine on everyone. Government employees and everyone in the U.S. Military were forced to take the clot-shot, and OSHA rushed out a “temporary standard” (eventually struck down by the Supreme Court) requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Again, the vaccine does not prevent infection and does not stop the spread of the disease—it supposedly has a pre-therapeutic affect on those who get sick from Covid. Hence, there was no public health rationale whatsoever to force everyone to take the vaccine. Even if every person in the entire world was vaccinated, we would never achieve “herd immunity,” nor drive the Covid-19 virus to extinction. These things simply are not possible with these vaccines, and were never thought to be possible.
Why, then, was it so important to force people to be vaccinated? The Western world had never seen its governments act so seemingly irrationally, nor so aggressively in seeking to snuff out reasonable expectations of human freedom, expectations that heretofore had been protected by both law and custom. It soon became obvious that these governments were not being motivated by concerns of public health.
F. Covid Was a Man-Made Plague
Covid-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, not from the “wet market” in Wuhan, China. This is being admitted, piecemeal, by the U.S. Government, most recently by the Department of Energy and by FBI director Christopher Wray, but it has been known for a year and a half.
How did this virus come into being? It was the product of genetic engineering, of human beings manipulating the virus DNA. The research being done by the “bat lady,” Shi Zhengli, was called “gain of function” research, the idea being to redesign the virus so as to make it more deadly. This research was being funded, in part, by American taxpayers through a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The key genetic element that made the redesigned Covid virus so dangerous to humans was the “furin cleavage site.” The idea of putting cleavage sites in coronaviruses was mooted just shortly before Covid-19 was manufactured. In March, 2018, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, discussed inserting cleavage sites into Covid viruses; the memo in which this was discussed was leaked in September, 2021. Dr. Alina Chan has testified:
"We know now that this virus has a very unique feature, called the furin cleavage site, that makes it the pandemic pathogen it is. Without this feature, there's no way this would be causing this pandemic. Only recently in September [2021] did a proposal get leaked showing that scientists from the EcoHealth Alliance [run by Peter Daszak] were in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology developing this pipeline for inserting novel furin cleavage sites, these genetic modifications, into SARS-like viruses in the lab.”
There is no longer any reason to doubt that this virus was genetically engineered and did emerge from the WIV laboratory. The establishment has been brazenly lying about this all along, as they have been brazenly lying about everything else, but the truth is obvious.
It is not known whether the virus escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology through negligence, or was intentionally released as a bioweapon by the communist Chinese government. But once the virus was out of the lab, China used the virus as a bio-weapon, continuing to send workers from Wuhan on direct flights back and forth to Milan, Italy, where some 50,000 Chinese work in the Italian garment industry; Milan became the epicenter of European Covid infections. The communist Chinese also sent people from Wuhan on direct flights to other countries, including San Francisco, California, and New York City (until President Trump stopped those flights).
G. A Plandemic
On October 18, 2019, just a few weeks before the first Covid case was reported in China, several public and private actors, including Johns Hopkins, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted Event 201, A gathering of experts gamed a fictional coronavirus pandemic very similar to what happened just months later.
The participants included George Fu Gao, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party in an exercise that was designed to game out how to use a pandemic to take down the CCP’s only economic and military rival: the United States. Another participant was Avril Haines, a former NSC advisor to President Obama and former CIA agent. Bill Gates was heavily involved in Event 201, and in similar events going back almost 20 years, when he first met Dr. Anthony Fauci. Robert Kennedy, Jr., writes:
“Over the next two decades, that partnership [between Gates and Fauci] would metastasize to include pharmaceutical companies, military and intelligence planners, and international health agencies all collaborating to promote weaponized pandemics and vaccines and a new brand of corporate imperialism rooted in the ideology of biosecurity. That project would yield Mr. Gates and Dr. Fauci unprecedented bonanzas in wealth and power and have catastrophic consequences for democracy and humanity.”
The response to Covid-19 was pre-planned in event 201, and in many previous planning sessions similar to it. The response was “in the can” so to speak, waiting to be rolled out when the disease came along. Almost all of what took place in response to Covid—hyping the threat, discouraging early treatment, stampeding the masses toward an under-tested vaccine, making the vaccine mandatory, and using high prestige, trusted institutions like the FDA, CDC, NIH, AMA, HHS to accomplish all of this—was thought out and gamed out long before Covid-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
But perhaps the most crucial element was the coordinated media response.
H. Government and Media Gaslighting—The Censorship Industrial Complex
There have been many shocking aspects to the Covid saga, but none more so than the widespread censorship. It is shocking that this happened, and perhaps more shocking that the many media corporations and institutions involved were so out-in-the-open about turning their backs on their own ethics and best traditions, as well as basic American and Western values.
In the summer of 2019, even before the plandemic began, the major media companies formed something called the “Trusted News Initiative.” It was formed not to control information about the pandemic, but rather to control news about the 2020 U.S. election, which the tech lords and big media players already knew was going to be rigged and stolen.
A BBC article, published on March 27, 2020, stated very openly:
“The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, such as elections. The TNI complements existing programs partners have in place.
The partners within the TNI are: BBC, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Microsoft, AFP, Reuters, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, CBC/Radio-Canada, First Draft, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
This is basically everybody who matters in news media, especially in an age when most people get their news on the Internet, and many of those read only stories posted to social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The media trust or oligopoly partnering in the “trusted news initiative” would make certain that only their 2020 election narrative was given mainstream coverage:
Last summer the BBC convened a Trusted News Summit, bringing together senior figures from major global technology firms and publishing. The summit agreed to work collectively, where appropriate, . . . on various initiatives [including]:
Early Warning System: creating a system so organizations can alert each other rapidly when they discover disinformation which threatens human life or disrupts democracy during elections. The emphasis will be on moving quickly and collectively to undermine disinformation before it can take hold.
Voter Information: co-operation on civic information around elections, so there is a common way to explain how and where to vote
Shared learning: particularly around high-profile elections
But although it was formed as an integral part of the effort to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, in March, 2020, with the pandemic abroad in the land, the TNI quickly added controlling the pandemic narrative to its core censorship mission.
Now the partnership will extend its efforts to identifying false and potentially harmful Coronavirus information by putting in place a shared alert system.
Launching today [March 27, 2020], partners will be able to alert each other to disinformation about Coronavirus so that content can be reviewed promptly by platforms, whilst publishers ensure they don’t unwittingly republish disinformation.
"These are challenging times for each and every one of us. We'll do everything we can, working together, to stop disinformation about Coronavirus in its tracks."
The rest is history. Anyone who tried to put out truthful information about Covid, its low death rate, its highly age-stratified risk profile, the vaccine, its inefficacy, or its dangerous side-effects, was de-published, de-platformed, cancelled, fired, and generally threatened with whatever the elite establishment could find to threaten them with. It was the most extreme censorship ever seen in peacetime in a Western country.
We now know that it was not just media and tech lords who were doing this. Thanks to Elon Musk giving us a peek at the Twitter’s back end, we know that thousands of government agents from several different agencies, most prominently the FBI, were “assisting” the tech companies in their censorship campaign by flagging hundreds of thousands of social media posters and posts.
There was effectively a partnership between the federal government’s alphabet agencies and the social media companies to promote the “safe and effective” narrative and quash any stories about deaths and injuries caused by the vaccines. In testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives last month, journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger called this the “censorship industrial complex.”
“The censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation, some developed by the U.S. Military during the Global War on Terror, with highly sophisticated tools from computer science, including artificial intelligence. The complex’s leaders are driven by the fear that the Internet and social media platforms empower populist, alternative, and fringe personalities and views, which they regard as destabilizing. Federal government officials, agencies, and contractors have gone from fighting ISIS recruiters and Russian bots to censoring and deplatforming ordinary Americans and disfavored public figures.”
The constant blather about “disinformation” notwithstanding, the thousands of government agents were in fact censoring admittedly accurate information to protect the “safe and effective” vaccine narrative:
“Government-funded censors frequently invoke the prevention of real-world harm to justify their demands for censorship, but the censors define harm . . . so broadly, in fact, that they have justified Facebook censoring accurate information about COVID vaccines, for example, to prevent “vaccine hesitancy.” Their goal, clearly, is not protecting the truth but rather persuading the public. . . . Persuasion by covert means is censorship.
Biden administration officials scolded Twitter and Facebook executives for not doing more censorship. There were many instances of Twitter banning or labeling “misleading” accounts that were true or merely controversial. Twitter suspended a physician for accurately describing the results of a peer-reviewed study on mRNA vaccines.
Facebook, under pressure from the White House, censored "often-true content” that a company executive said in the spring of 2021 "does not contain actionable misinformation” but was “discouraging vaccines." The State Attorney General of Missouri, who is suing the Biden Administration for violating the First Amendment, released the email. “As you know,” wrote the Facebook executive whose name was redacted, “in addition to removing vaccine misinformation, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation.
“And, increasingly, the censors say their goal is to restrict information that “delegitimizes” governmental, industrial, and news media organizations. [In other words, they don’t want you criticizing your betters, the elites who run things] . . . This extreme, reactionary attitude is, bluntly, un-American.”
The people running our government and our large corporations and media companies have entirely rejected and repudiated truth, justice and the American way. They are capable of anything.
What they want to use the Plandemic to do will be discussed in part 3.
“And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name.” Rev. 13:16-17