NY Times article: We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Dr John Campbell did a YouTube video covering this article quite nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSt-4mrKzjY

And if you have a subscription to the NY Times that link for the article is here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html

We shouldn't be surprised that "Truth will out", and I suppose we also shouldn't be surprised that it takes so long to occur. Thankfully a few are not taken in from the onset. The full scale of this historic disaster (I can't think of a more appropriate word for it) has yet to become completely visible. History takes its sweet time being written.

I've been thinking about "modern" mythologies quite a bit recently, and the pandemic is the reason. I will be as succinct as possible (there are so many aspects to this), the idea pharmaceuticals make us healthy is, um, the least intelligent of modern mythologies. This does not mean life saving drugs do not exist! However most of them were discovered long ago and are "off patent" (i.e not profitable).  My life was spared at one point by a combination of quinine and antibiotics in combination, and I continue to be thankful for that. If we are in a horrible accident we will be happy to get to an emergency room ASAP.

But the long list of "life long" drugs most 50 years and older are prescribed these days are the opposite of the actual causes of health. The net result is acceptance of the idea (the myth) that modern medicine is doing the best it can to keep us healthy, when in fact all that is occurring is a dramatically shortened healthy life span, and a demonstrably shorter absolute life span.

The only substances that should go into our bodies every day are those that are the actual cause of health - clean air and water, simple preparations of whole foods (very close to their origin state), and little else.

And yet we are taken in by the myths that support this pharmaceutical industry caused health disaster.

Myth is an easy sell, and it has made the pharmaceutical industry untold gazillions. And money is power, thus it will continue unabated until a major economic collapse and reset comes. Why does it take a collapse and reset? Gazillionaires do not willingly relinquish their gazillions.

Boom bust cycles are also fractal in nature, some are of shorter duration, others longer. It is becoming increasingly obvious this one looming will be of the longer variety, and it may have even begun quite recently.