COVID was an infodemic, not a pandemic, and you don’t know that because you don’t actually know what either of those words means. That is why you are still brainwashed, delusional, and living in some fantasy world that does not exist outside of rhetorical reinforcement and circular logic. That is what a cult does to people. But this was done on main stream scale.
The world was gripped by purportedly, the greatest public health crisis in a century: a viral pandemic that had to be managed at a global scale. Disrupting supply chains and causing market mayhem. Volatility became the “new normal.” Podcasters who were doing shows from their parents basements got multi-million dollar contracts to enter political debates with so-called “experts.” Many people got very rich during this time while most people got a lot poorer, more desperate, and less represented by government and media. This disenfranchisement was caused, most say, by “the pandemic.”
I do not use the phrase “the pandemic” to describe this time period. Some other people are like that, but not for the same reason(s) I am. They are almost right but political correctness is not the most important factor. Because COVID was an infodemic, not a pandemic. That distinction must be universally adopted now.
Beneath the surface of case counts, lockdowns, and mask mandates is a more complex and troubling reality – one where the pandemic label was imposed with semantic ambiguity, political and financial motive, and a flood of conflicting information. The crucial realization is that COVID-19 is nothing, but a word. A meaningless phrase that does not hold any actual weight.
All the significance and attribution around it was and still is – a lie. Perhaps the biggest lie ever told in terms of global planetary impact. It is more indexed on Google than God, by the way. That was information I was able to research and prove before Google made the decision to no longer show searchers the number of results for content in total.
COVID did not, and does not meet the stringent scientific criteria for a nomenclature let alone a pandemic. At the time it was declared, until through till this day, the world would have been far better off had everybody involved in discovering, naming, and pushing COVID – would have pretended “it” did not exist. Because “it” does not exist outside of language. Instead, it fueled a global infodemic. An overwhelming overabundance of information, misinformation, and confusion so intense that it distorted realities for the public, media, governments, and even experts themselves.
The Shifting Foundations of Pandemic Definitions
Historically, a pandemic involved a novel infectious disease. Novel, meaning never seen before, and so distinct as to require an additional name and field of study. Infectious disease meaning a pathogen like a virus, bacteria, or other foreign substance. But not a mental illness, generally. However, COVID-19 is much more of a mental illness than it is a virally transmissive disease. SARS-CoV-2, is a virus. They are not the same. They should never have been compared. Had you heard about “SARS2” on the news, you would have ignored it. As you should have.
COVID’s True Origin Remains A Boring Bureaucratic Secret
A pandemic is supposed to be reserved for a virus that is causing widespread illness and significant severity, measured in case fatality rates and social impact. Not the potential, or possibility of harm. You do not declare a pandemic because you are confident something will become one. That is irresponsible. A pandemic should have deaths and hospitalizations to mark the threshold for declaration and response.
The WHO once defined pandemic influenza as causing “enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” However, around the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, the WHO changed course quietly – but irrevocably. It removed language about severity and death and replaced it with a descriptive narrative about potentiality. A pandemic then, could be declared based on will of the authorities alone, irrespective of how lethal or disruptive the disease was proven to be at the time.
This change from clear definition to vague description surrendered scientific rigor to semantic flexibility, allowing more frequent pandemic declarations detached from medical realities. The 2009 H1N1 “pandemic” demonstrated this tension: the illness proved mild in most cases, yet the pandemic label triggered global alarm. Internal WHO investigations revealed controversy, conflicts of interest, and a retreat from transparent criteria—a portent for what would come.
Obviously H1N1 was not anything compared to how the world responded to Trump’s handling of COVID, but it did set the foundation.
From that perspective, it was like something the world had seen before.
Trump was not novel, nor unique, nor was his fabrication of COVID-19.
COVID-19: Dissemination Without Scientific Pandemic Severity
In early 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic using these same broadened criteria emphasizing the possibility of rapid, global spread. Yet the strict severity measures traditionally expected were absent or unclear at the time of declaration. In fact, those who studied the so-called novel virus knew full well that it was not novel enough to even warrant study.
Subsequent analyses show:
- Less than 1% case fatality directly attributable to COVID-19 in many populations, with the testing of COVID being indistinct from other viruses.
- Majority of deaths involved multiple comorbidities, complicating attribution.
- Testing ramp-ups displaced testing for influenza and other respiratory viruses, blurring disease prevalence data.
- Public discourse conflated virus presence with clinical illness, amplifying perceptions of universal infection.
- A culture of promoting the fight against COVID as a moral sign of virtue, as well as protesting it, solidified people’s mindset and shut off intellectual understanding.
The clinical, epidemiological, and statistical data do not fully support a classical pandemic profile in retrospect, and it was obvious from the beginning that this would be the case. Obviously something happened, though.
What happened?
An infodemic.
Not a pandemic.
But you don’t really know what an infodemic is.
What is an Infodemic, Really?
As defined by the WHO, infodemic means an overabundance of information (true, false, misleading) – overwhelming people’s ability to discern reliable facts. The COVID-19 crisis was the first truly global infodemic fueled by digital platforms magnifying every claim and rumor instantaneously.
Key features included:
- The volume and velocity of information flooding media channels.
- The repeated amplification of narratives – true or false – that monopolized public attention, and shut out news about any other topic by any other people.
- Political figures, particularly President Trump, whose repeated statements became perpetual media spectacles, forcing reactive debate with little meaningful novel insight.
- A narrowing of discourse that silenced or sidelined nuanced analysis or alternative conversations.
This overdose of information distorted public understanding, created mistrust in health authorities, and hampered effective crisis response. Beyond misinformation, the infodemic was about distraction, overwhelm, and monopoly of narrative space.
Analyzing the 2-Party Psy-Op
If you were to boil it down, the way people view the political options of how to relate to COVID are the following:
From the Democrats’ view, they were valiantly fighting against misinformation about a never-before-experienced pandemic, where the right wing was busy pushing anti-science propaganda that got more people killed, and that if not for the vaccine program, it would have been even worse. And Donald Trump (in their mind, for the most part) tried to make it go away by not reporting testing, something about bleach injections, maybe a mention of Joe Rogan and the ivermectin debacle, and that if more people “trusted the experts” and “follow the science,” we would be alright.
From the Republicans’ view, Democrat governors and mayors were tyrannical in their overreach, forcing mandates in places while Republican freedom-loving governors all fought back against it with them and that Trump was a hero for fighting against those corrupt forces and Fauci was a bad guy because of his Wuhan lab with gain of function research that was making superviruses.
Both of these sides are utterly insane…
What’s odd about this, though, is the fact that Donald Trump talks about his own perceived accomplishments and grievances constantly – but he barely ever mentions Operation Warp Speed (until more recently) – compared to mentions of ancient scandals like “the Russia hoax.” It makes sense that Democrats would not want to grant Trump credit for anything, but some of them (including Michael Bloomberg and others) do praise Trump for his handling of the vaccine program. That is why recent moves within HHS – and the political discourse surrounding which party supports science and which one is delusional about it – should be more confusing to people.
Democrats shouldn’t praise Operation Warp Speed, and they shouldn’t act like Donald Trump got away with it on his own. He needed Democrat leadership across the country to oppose him, so they could push forward with the plans. Without Trump’s emergency declaration there would have been no justification for the governors and mayors to do what they did. That connection is collusive, and because of our nation’s inability to understand how the 2-party system is really a 1-party system, this delusion remains.
Republicans should criticize Trump for Operation Warp Speed, but they will not.
Gain of Function is Science Fiction
COVID is supposedly the product of “gain of function” research. Gain of function is the attempt to manipulate viruses such that they gain function (spread more rapidly, for example) – to use as weapons. Or, to cure them. If there was a specimen for the world to see what Fauci has been up to in this domain, look no further than COVID. It (if you believe it was a virus at all) did not spread faster – it was just reported on differently than any virus in history – and the political, financial, and social pressure to engage with it like it were real was unprecedented.
Regardless of all the confusion around what it is, it did not spread faster than even normal seasonal flu. It was also no more lethal than SARS-CoV-1, or any other respiratory virus we are already familiar with such as RSV.
Therefore, gain of function – at best – is an utter failure.
At worst, it’s more like Scientology than actual science.
To believe in COVID, and the insane variants, and “long COVID,” is to be part of a kind of religious devotion to things which do not make any coherent sense. Republicans who engage with gain of function like it’s really dangerous are involved in spreading propaganda and participating in perpetuating the infodemic. Democrats who do not call them out on that are engaged in suppressing true opposition to something that has been more destructive than Scientology by leaps and bounds.
Dispelling the Lab Leak Theory By Proving the Lab Leak Theory
This idea that COVID “leaked” from “a lab” conjures the notion of science fiction movies like 12 Monkeys, or Mission Impossible 2, where a mad scientist has a tube of something incredibly lethal, that they plan to use to hold the world hostage.
Recently, an employee of this lab admitted that they never had anything resembling SARS-CoV-2 at their facility. This of course has been discredited, ignored, and disbelieved by the conspiracy theorists (which have become mainstream on both sides) by not engaging with it or discounting it outright. But this, coinciding with Fauci’s long winded paper (prior to Trump taking office) – admitted they invented nothing – though that was not how the piece was promoted.
But “it” – the word – did leak from a lab.
That’s it, though. Just the word.
In fact, Fauci infamously had written, in the past, about a fantasy pandemic which essentially was COVID.
He made it up.
It’s a lie.
A big lie.
Perhaps the biggest lie in human history.
It was probably written in an email, from Fauci to somebody else. Or perhaps Donald Trump said it in a meeting, “it’s a…coronavirus disease? A…COVID?” And somebody tried explaining to him that “COVID” is not a scientific term. Somehow he convinces everybody that’s a good thing; since nobody knows what it is – and it doesn’t really exist – the truth or lie about it is kind of impossible to prove.
That explains why Fauci played a little game I like to call “masks on, masks off,” to toy with the public and hypnotize them into submission.
That is how they got people to line up for unnecessary vaccinations.
Vaccine Confusion and Public Distrust
Confusingly, the public was introduced to multiple vaccine platforms under the umbrella term “The vaccine.” mRNA vaccines (Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech) and adenovirus vector vaccines (AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson) use distinct biological mechanisms, yet public messaging openly muddied this. That is so important you cannot possibly imagine. The testing and polling about who got “The vaccine” means that the efficacy of the treatments themselves is not actually known.
There is no way to know which vaccine was effective, or if any of them were. Especially because many people would not know which one they were even getting at CVS or wherever. They may think they know, but they do not. For the most part, people blindly got injected with what was essentially a placebo program combined with media brainwashing.
Adding to the confusion:
- Control groups of natural immunity were intentionally not studied or supported.
- Multiple booster doses muddled notions of combined impact or individual efficacy.
- Breakthrough infections undermined simplistic vaccine narratives.
- The term The vaccine” implied a singular intervention, masking scientific heterogeneity and evolving recommendations.
This obfuscation further deepened skepticism and mistrust that played into the infodemic.
Political Decisions That Fueled Panic and Economic Chaos
In the U.S., the WHO pandemic declaration was swiftly followed by a unilateral national emergency declaration by President Trump in March 2020, sweeping the nation into lockdowns and social restrictions.
Consequences included:
- Massive disruptions to supply chains and markets.
- Unprecedented inflation exacerbated by massive money printing.
- Permanent closure of many small businesses unable to weather restrictions.
While WHO and CDC shaped the framing, political leaders operationalized emergency measures with lasting repercussions. This diffuse responsibility masks the outsized impact of political decisions on shaping the crisis.
The Confusing Scientific Nomenclature: COVID = Nothing + Word
The insistence on the term COVID-19 – a non-virus, disease label – added layers to the infodemic confusion. Unlike strict virus names (e.g., SARS-CoV-2), COVID describes a disease, a linguistic convenience with no scientific specificity.
Compounding issues:
- The “19” in the title referred to the year it was discovered, which is not something that is done in science. You know this because there was no subsequent “COVID-20,” instead they called variants “Delta,” or “omicron.”
- SARS-CoV-2’s relation to original SARS suggests genetic links but raises questions in viral mutation speed narratives that may blur rigorous virology with political framing, meaning there was no reason to name COVID-19 at all.
- The popular adoption of the term COVID possibly originated from non-expert influences, including political figures seeking simple labels for complex science.
- The resulting linguistic invention fueled public panic and entrenched economic and political interests that has never been adequately addressed.
This naming confusion was not incidental.
It was more destructive than all respiratory ailments combined.
Questioning the Virus’s Novelty and Impact
Finally, the fundamental novelty of SARS-CoV-2 is contested. Early claims emphasized increased lethality and unique spike proteins. Retrospective data challenge these assertions:
- Registered case inflation due to testing displacing influenza diagnoses.
- Difficulty disentangling “COVID” illness from typical seasonal respiratory diseases.
- WHO and scientific panels continue investigating the virus’s exact origins without consensus.
Had governments and medical communities taken a wait-and-see approach – eschewing panic and naming – the societal toll would have been drastically lower if not totally nonexistent. The linguistic and operational invention of “COVID” drove excessive resource deployment, including ventilator use which unnecessarily slaughtered countless people, and the Operation Warp Speed vaccine program which was the largest medical-industrial distortion of world history.
Novel Problems Requires My Novel Solutions
COVID-19, was rhetorical, not viral in origin, and should be understood as a crisis defined only by infodemic – rather than pandemic. There is 0 evidence that any bioengineering took place in Fauci’s gain of function laboratory, and the definitions of pandemic and variant must be stringently upheld in the present and future to avoid another calamity. This article presents the most novel and comprehensive perspective on the crisis, outside of propaganda and financial manipulation, arguing that the world’s response was shaped more by linguistic inventions and political narratives than by any legitimate medical necessity. Recognizing this complexity and novel problem is crucial if we are to avoid replaying these mistakes in future crises.
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