We All Expected to Die...
a curious blip in the publishing world
Agreed: ‘We All Expected to Die’ is a sensationalist headline. But I didn’t write it. Nor have titles like ‘Very, Very Dreadful’, or ‘Pale Rider’, or ‘Purple Death’ ever flowed from my pen (or my keyboard). These are the kinds of titles people use to invoke fear and horror. They are typical of the twenty four books published between the summer of 2017 and the start of ‘the covid anomaly’ on themes of how the Spanish Flu was utterly terrifying, apocalyptic, deadly, plague-like, and holocaust-like, to name only some of the abundant shock-and-awe adjectives.
I use the expression ‘covid anomaly’ because, taken as a whole, nothing quite like the period 2020 -2023 has ever happened before in all of human history: Quarantining healthy people, global vaccination with an untested technology, massive and co-ordinated government lying, and the suspension of children’s education. In some countries people were beaten, caged and even shot for daring to come out of their homes.1 And all of it simultaneous with the launch of a globally-coordinated political ‘reset’ agenda, collapsing supply chains, and the biggest transfer of wealth toward the top of the pyramid that the world has ever seen.
Furthermore, there has never before been a situation in which a consortium of powerful institutions, many of them commercial, ‘gamed out’ a possible global crisis, and then moved immediately into being the managers of that crisis, as well as the political and commercial agendas attached to it, as it began for real.
A little more on that in a minute however. First the books. A steady trickle of titles in earlier years, such as ‘Purple Death’ in 2000, and ‘Octotber Mourning’ in 2015 and a few others, became a deluge from 2017. From May of that year until April of 2020 - exactly the three years leading up to us all being massively lied to by our governments and locked in our homes. - at least twenty four new terror-oriented titles were published. Here is the list:
‘Pale Rider’, by Lara Spinney, September 2017
‘Mortality in Morris: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918’, by Richard Irwin, May 2017
‘The Year of the Flu: A World War One Medical Thriller’, by Millys Altman, November 2017
‘Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs’, by Michael Osterholm, March 2017 (updated edition May 2020)
‘Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918’, by Albert Marrin, January 2018
‘The Spanish Flu: A Story of the 1918 Pandemic’, by Harald Salfellner, January 2018
‘More Deadly Than War’, by Henry Holt, May 2018
‘Pandemic 1918’: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical Holocaust In History’, by Catherine Arnold, January 2018
‘Minnesota 1918’: When Flu, Fire and War Ravaged the State’, by Kurt Brown, January 2018
‘The Spanish Flu 1918: Dr. Donne Confronts the Deadly 1918 Virus’, by Britt Talley Daniel, April 2018
‘September 1918: War, Plague and the World Series’, by Skip Desjardin, August 2018
‘We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador’, by Anne Budgell, November 2018
‘Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic’, by Jeremy Brown, December 2018
‘The Quarantine Station’, by Michele Montebello, February 2019
‘Pharmacy Girl: The Great War, Spanish Influenza and the Truth About Billy Detwiler’, by Kate Szegada, February 2019
‘Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918’, by Don Brown, September 2019
‘Spanish Influenza in the Wyoming Valley’, by Martin Novak, September 2019
‘Daisy and the Deadly Flu: A 1918 Influenza Survival Story’, by Julie Gilbert, February 2020
‘The Spanish Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic’, by Damian Brook, April 2020
‘Virus 1918: ‘Spanish Influenza in the Words of the People Who Lived It’, by Robert John Hadfield, April 2020
‘The Flu: The History of Spanish Influenza Pandemic’, by Arthur Albert St. Mouritz, April 2020
‘Spanish Flu in America’, by James Walter, April 2020
‘The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918: A True Story of the 1918 Influenza that Devastated the World’, by Anthony Morgan, April 2020
‘The Spanish Flu: The Sad Story of the Worst Global Pandemic’, by Nathan Grisham, April 2020.
Other things were also going on in those years: Many people noticed coincidences of timing and ‘developmental theme’ in the run-up to the first lock-downs.
1) In October of 2019 a 'pandemic preparedness exercise', called Event 201 was staged in New York by the World Economic Forum, Johns Hopkins University, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as several big pharmaceutical companies, giant corporate consulting firms, and some powerful banking and financial institutions. Around the end of March 2020, economist Michel Chossudovsky made an interesting observation on the event, its timing and its participants:
“…. what I am suggesting, without necessarily drawing conclusions, is that the organizations involved in the simulation, which was a detailed simulation with videos and so on examining what would happen to financial markets, what would happen to the media, to the independent media and so on – essentially the people involved in the simulation were also involved in the actual management of the pandemic once it went live”.2
2) Earlier in 2019, an initiative called 'ID2020' had entered into a partnership with the GAVI Vaccine Alliance on a new project for global digital identity – a project which was very much activated in 2020.
3) Three years earlier, ID2020 had been founded by partners including Microsoft and the Rockefeller Foundation.
4) Around the same time as the founding of ‘ID2020’, Johns Hopkins University authored a warning that a combination of social fragmentation and technology could lead, in the event of a global pandemic, to communication problems in which the public might choose to accept narratives other than the ‘approved’ ones. In the document, entitled ‘A Futuristic Scenario of For Public Heath Risk Communicators’3 a hypothetical story of a virus called SPARS-CoV includes patterns of reported vs. real fatality rates, controversies over alternative drug treatments, initial public concerns over vaccines, subsequent reports of too many vaccine-related harms, and much else 4 which all closely mirror what in fact happened in 2020 - 2023. At each step in the story (which spans 89 pages) there is a review of what more could have been done to get the public to believe the official narrative and to avoid them, heaven forbid, questioning official data. The story concludes some years after the outbreak with the authorities trying to manage a social media problem which is being led by the parents of children ‘affected’ by the vaccines.
5) Some years before the Johns Hopkins paper, The Rockefeller Foundation published a document (which came to be known to many as ‘the lockstep document’5, about the future of international development. It was heavily focused on the need for strong political and commercia integration (later echoed in the World Economic Forum policies) and the role of technology - including ‘health informatics’ and ‘real-time environmental sensing capabilities’. That’s advanced surveillance’ to you and me. One of four hypothetical scenarios the document developed was the emergence of a global pandemic, leading to the advent of greatly increased top-down control and authoritarian government. This scenario, which the document calls ‘Lockstep’, for the rigid global control it ushers in, is presented in the style of a warning of possible negative developments. But many have proposed that it was in fact a blue-print for a sought-after outcome. (Fortunately, the ‘fact checkers’ have evaluated that claim and been able to give us re-assurance that it is definitely ‘false’).
Other elements of the document also resonate closely with recent events.6
5) Fast-forward to the period shortly after the start of the lockdowns: In June of 2020, the World Economic Forum launched an already remarkably well-formed and developed project for a ‘Great Reset’.
6) E.S.G.7 rises to great prominence, effectively putting big, powerful corporations into the business of social governance.
7) A couple of years on, information emerges that the world’s biggest consulting firms are active collaborators in WEF’s ‘Great Reset’ plans, and all of them made hundreds of millions of dollars/pounds/euros out of pandemic-related activities, often from within government.8
Maybe it is just a coincidence that this flood of books came in the three years leading up to the ‘covid anomaly’. Maybe it is just that interest intensified because of the long period of warnings from certain ‘players’ that there would soon be a major pandemic. Or maybe it was part of the carefully prepared ‘project fear’, which we now know most certainly in various ways existed.9 Maybe, in other words, it represents yet another indication that people were being pre-programmed well in advance to react to the coming covid in a certain way.
Given that most of the publishing houses are owned and controlled by the seven global media giants, who are themselves owned and controlled by the same entities that own and control the pharmaceutical companies (and frequently share board directors with them), it doesn’t seem a ridiculous question to pose.
The work of continuing to bring evidence, unanswered questions etc., to that 60% or so of the population who initially accepted ‘official narratives’ on covid, but remain open to new evidence - and are increasingly being persuaded by it - is ongoing. If you have found this interesting or thought-provoking, PLEASE SHARE.
In the early months of the ‘covid anomaly’ Nigerian security forces shot dead 18 people for daring to come out of their houses (See 'Coronavirus: Security forces kill more Nigerians than Covid-19', BBC 16th April 2020, and 'Nigerian security forces killed 18 people during lockdowns: rights panel', Reuters, 16th April 2020.3 and Nepal puts such offenders in cages in the street to humiliate them. (See ‘Locked in Cages, Beaten and Shamed’, Bloomberg News, 2nd April 2020. UK parliament debates ten-year prison sentences for people who break the rules, while members of that same parliament (like others elsewhere) themselves break the rules. Later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked an emergency powers act which was originally intended for time of war. That empowered his government to summarily suspend the bank accounts of those protesting against lockdowns – which they then proceeded to do. Outside of Canada most of the media preferred not to report on this, and most people never knew it happened.
See ‘'COVID-19 Coronavirus: The Crisis. You Simulate and Then You Go Live' Full Transcript of Guns and Butter Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner, March 2020.
See ‘The SPARS Pandemic 2025 - 2028: A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communicators’, published by Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Readers are taken on a hypothetical journey, starting in the year 2025, in which a virus called SPARS-CoV (thereafter abbreviated to ‘SPARS’) emerges and spreads around the world. Public fears are heightened by publicised fatality rate of 4.7%, which later turns out to be only 0.6%. (sound familiar?) A drug treatment called Kalocivir is released, but causes side effects and is considered by many to be ineffective. (Sound anything like Remdisivir?) By May of the second year, ‘Corovax’ is ready, and a coordinated effort from public agencies and celebrities is used to promote it (also familiar?) There is growing public concern that the vaccine is harmful, but due to concerted messaging efforts, vaccine uptake increases anyway. Reports of vaccine-related harms rise. Proposed messaging strategies include the suggestion that if somebody were to search on ‘Corovax side effects’ a sidebar in the results could be displayed promoting the benefits of ‘Corovax’. The need for listening to public concerns is mentioned - but only with regard to ‘equality of access to vaccines’ - listening to the public with regard to concerns about effectiveness or side-effects is not mentioned. There is an after-the-fact lesson that public perception could have been better guided if there had been more partnerships between governement and tech. / social media companies. Throughout it seems pretty much assumed that all public concern is only the result of an ‘echo chamber’ in which the public hears only false stories that it has chosen to believe. Thus the important thing is to find ways to over-ride public concern.
See ‘Scenarios for the Future of International Development and Technology’, Rockefeller Foundation, 2010.
The ‘Rockefeller lockstep document’ also notes for example, far ahead of time, China imposing swift and severe mandatory quarantines. It expresses concern at the possibility of ‘philanthropic’ organisations being blocked in their activities by governments. Then, in an alternative scenario (referred to as ‘Clever Together’) the document speaks of ‘enormous strides’ in making the world less wasteful, more efficient and more inclusive ( a kind of ‘reset’, perhaps?), and the importance of staying uptodate with vaccines, the need for ‘more effective vaccines’, as well as pharmaceutical companies ‘releasing thousands of drug compounds, shown to be effective’. And digital payment systems driving dynamic economic growth. (I guess they didn’t mean Bitcoin).
‘ESG’ is a new corporate buzzword. It stands for ‘Environmental, Social, Governance’. Under its banner, the corporate world seeks to wash its public image by presenting an altruistic face, and putting right the wrongs of the world. In practice the levers of immense wealth get used to intervene in social dynamics without electoral accountability, while corporate interests inevitably continue to come first. It’s real nature and consequence are well explored in ‘Woke, Inc.’ by Vivek Ramaswamy, 2021.
See ‘Klaus Schwab’s Willing Executioners’, Ben Ruben, Substack, May 2023.
Just for example: The W.H.O. relentlessly touted a hugely inflated 'case fatality rate', when there was already abundant evidence that the reality would ultimately be far lower. In Germany, a classified paper was leaked (dated March 2020 and later known as the 'Panic Paper') which carefully laid plans to present the public with 'case' figures because the numbers of actual deaths might not have enough impact. And, disgustingly, to deliberately make children feel responsible for the death of their parents and grandparents if they didn't follow all the rules. This strategy was to work hand in hand with repeated statements from the RKI (Robert Koch Institute - German equivalent of American CDC) that all measures must be followed unconditionally without asking any questions. And was followed by the German parliament suspending constitutional freedoms indefinitely. The RKI then began reporting escalating numbers of 'positive tests' only as absolute numbers – allowing them to state that numbers rose ten-fold over a four-week period, compared to only a fifth of that rate if they had more honestly reported 'positive tests as a percentage of tests conducted'. Members of a scientific committee advising the UK government admitted to a journalist, without wishing to be named, that they regretted having been involved in the deliberate generation of fear in a way which was unethical. The strategy of the committee had been based on targeting people who were thought “not to feel sufficiently personally threatened.” One of their repenting members later declared that “The way we have used fear is dystopian”. This was all methodically reported by UK journalist Laura Dodsworth in her 2021 book ‘State of Fear’.
Well documented and so interesting as always
There are some valid questions regarding the Spanish flu and whether or not it was a primary driver of those deaths. It would be interesting for someone with time to spare to do a deep dive into this subject. Just the fact that a respiratory virus is said to have caused such a deadly pandemic that lasted for two years goes against everything we know about these viruses. And the second wave was said to be worse than the first wave. (As a rule, these viruses evolve into less virulent variants within a few weeks or months.) Add to this the fact that so many who are said to have died from this virus were young and healthy, which also goes against how such viruses usually behave. Seems to me that it's quite likely that there may have been multiple causes for these deaths. (I recently read an article that suggested doctors who overdosed their patients on aspirin may have been one cause.)