Mainstream media finally admits lockdowns were a disaster

Mainstream media finally admits lockdowns were a disaster

By Cassie B. 

March 13, 2025

• Lockdowns during COVID-19 caused more harm than good, with studies showing devastating impacts on mental health, education, and the economy.
• Media and tech platforms censored and mocked critics of lockdowns.
• Research reveals lockdowns were ten times deadlier than the virus itself, measured by years of life lost due to collateral damage.
• Trust in public health institutions has eroded due to the media’s failure to critically examine lockdown policies in real-time.
• The lockdown era highlights the dangers of unchecked government power and the need for accountability to prevent future mistakes.

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, the mainstream media is finally acknowledging what many conservatives and skeptics warned from the start: Lockdowns caused far more harm than good.

This belated admission comes after years of relentless mockery, censorship, and deplatforming of those who dared to question the wisdom of extreme measures like forced masking, school closures, and business shutdowns. Now, as studies reveal the devastating collateral damage of these policies, the media’s delayed reckoning raises serious questions about its role in silencing dissent and promoting fear-driven narratives.

The lockdown disaster: A costly experiment

In 2020, as the pandemic spread, governments worldwide implemented unprecedented lockdowns to curb the virus. These measures were justified by “experts” like Dr. Anthony Fauci and political leaders who warned of a “dark winter” if Americans didn’t comply. Yet, five years later, the data tells a different story. A groundbreaking study commissioned by Revolver News found that lockdowns were ten times more deadly than the virus itself, measured in terms of years of life lost due to economic devastation, mental health crises, and social isolation.

The study’s findings have since been echoed by a growing body of research. Schools closures led to catastrophic learning losses, with students still half a grade behind in math and reading. Mental health crises, particularly among young people, skyrocketed, with anxiety, depression, and suicide rates reaching alarming levels. Small businesses shuttered, livelihoods were destroyed, and social bonds frayed under the weight of prolonged isolation.

The media’s role in suppressing the truth

What’s most galling is how the media treated those who raised concerns about lockdowns. Conservatives, scientists, and everyday citizens who questioned the efficacy of these measures were labeled “conspiracy theorists,” censored on social media, and even deplatformed. Figures like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration opposing lockdowns, faced vicious backlash and death threats. Facebook and Twitter silenced dissenting voices, while public health officials like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins dismissed alternative viewpoints as dangerous.

Now, the same media outlets that once championed lockdowns are cautiously admitting their failures. The Boston Globe recently published a piece questioning whether the trade-offs of lockdowns were worth it, citing studies that show the policies did little to slow the virus while inflicting immense collateral damage. Even some former lockdown supporters, like Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, now express doubts about the decisions made in 2020.

The lockdown era showed us the dangers of unchecked government power and the media’s complicity in amplifying fear. The media’s failure to critically examine these policies in real-time has had lasting consequences. Trust in public health institutions has eroded, and the public is now more skeptical of “expert” advice than ever before. As Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert, admitted, “The lockdowns were never really effective, and the confusion around them sowed a great deal of public distrust in government.”

The lockdown debacle serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of sacrificing liberty for the illusion of safety. The media’s delayed admission of failure is cold comfort to the millions who suffered under these policies. What’s needed now is accountability—not just for the politicians and public health officials who pushed these measures, but for the media outlets that silenced dissent and spread fear.

As we face the possibility of future pandemics, we must remember the lessons of COVID-19: Question authority, reject propaganda, and never let fear dictate policy. The lockdowns were a catastrophic mistake, and the best way to ensure they never happen again is to hold those responsible to account — and to never forget the price we paid for their hubris.

Cassie B.

• https://www.newstarget.com/

Sources for this article include:

• Revolver.news
• BostonGlobe.com
• DW.com

Remember That

Remember That

By Steve Beckow

Posted on August 16, 2024

How can I tell that a commitment to loving kindness is working?

When I laugh, it’s nearly becoming a clear laugh, without any restraints on it. No guilt, no shame, no regrets. Nothing added; nothing taken away. Just a laugh,

This is so unlike any experience I’ve had in my life that I’m delighted by the novelty of it and the improvement in my life.

What did the Divine Mother say about feeling better?

“Sweet angel, in this time of such upheaval and transition and, yes, pandemic, what could one ask for that is more pure and clear and sweet than feeling better!” (1)

I totally agree! Let’s put enlightenment aside for a year and just, as Bob Marley said, “feel alright!” 😀

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So much in the time ahead will depend on how we “hold” it, how we contextualize it, how we see it.

If we can see it as the cracking and downfall of the cabal’s Bastille, (2) we’ll rejoice. If we see it as an attack on humanity, which has some chance of success, we’ll feel miserable.

It just so happens that seeing it as the cracking and downfall of the cabal’s Bastille corresponds to everyone’s plan for the next stage of our Ascension drama. And it also conforms to what our multidimensional friends like Matthew can already see “in the Continuum”:

“Dear family, your enthusiasm about the future is totally justified! In the continuum you are absolutely glowing as you enjoy the spectrum of soul-level powers and Earth is sparkling with renewed health and restored beauty.” (3)

The forces opposing the freeing of humanity may surround Ascension’s launch site, but the rocket will take off regardless.

And yet, we’re told, there will be pain. Very, very challenging.

I imagine that this next part, which has already started, until the end of what the Federation calls Phase 2 will be the most challenging of all these years for us.

Nonetheless, we’re getting across the finish line together. Without storming the Bastille.

Remember that.

Footnotes

(1) “Linda Dillon: Universal Mother Mary – The Nature of Our New Normal and the ‘How-To’ of Balance, March 24, 2021,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/03/24/linda-dillon-universal-mother-mary-the-nature-of-our-new-normal-and-the-how-to-of-balance/.

(2) The Bastille was a French state prison located in Paris that was stormed by a mob on July 14, 1789, marking the beginning of the French Revolution.

(3) Matthew’s Message, Jan. 3, 2023, at https://www.matthewbooks.com./

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

Statement by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

Statement by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

By Steve Beckow

Posted on April 8, 2024

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Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is now being exposed to the deep state’s standard response to someone who dares to speak the truth. They had him extradited – or rather kidnapped – from Mexico, incarcerated him in a maximum security prison, and are now starting their standard campaign of belittling and ridiculing him, destroying his reputation so that he won’t run politically and expose the “pandemic.”

He discusses his plight in the video, above.

At around 2:50, he discusses an Energy that lifts him up when he enters the courtroom and lends him certainty.

I have experienced that state, of feeling solid like granite, immovable because I was temporarily in a divine state of peace. Gandhi is a good example of someone in this space. If that’s what Reiner’s describing as the Energy that supports him in his court appearances, bravo!

I’m glad to hear that people are keeping a vigil outside his prison cell. Every attempt to raise public awareness of the odds stacked against him, I think, will shorten the time  before he’s free again.

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

 

 

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom — Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom — Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing

By John W. Whitehead

Posted on February 22, 2024

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”—Francis Bacon

The government never cedes power willingly.

Neither should we.

If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”

Unfortunately, we still haven’t learned.

We’re still allowing ourselves to be fully distracted by circus politics and a constant barrage of bad news screaming for attention.

Three years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which gave world governments (including our own) a convenient excuse for expanding their powers, abusing their authority, and further oppressing their constituents, there’s something being concocted in the dens of power.

The danger of martial law persists.

Any government so willing to weaponize one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security will not hesitate to override the Constitution and lockdown the nation again.

You’d better get ready, because that so-called crisis could be anything: civil unrest, national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”

COVID-19 was a test to see how quickly the populace would march in lockstep with the government’s dictates, no questions asked, and how little resistance the citizenry would offer up to the government’s power grabs when made in the name of national security.

“We the people” failed that test spectacularly.

Characterized by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch as “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” the government’s COVID-19 response to the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a massively intrusive, coercive and authoritarian assault on the right of individual sovereignty over one’s life, self and private property.

In a statement attached to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Arizona v. Mayorkas, a case that challenged whether the government could continue to use it pandemic powers even after declaring the public health emergency over, Gorsuch provided a catalog of the many ways in which the government used COVID-19 to massively overreach its authority and suppress civil liberties:

“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.”

Truly, the government’s (federal and state) handling of the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a knockout blow to our civil liberties, empowering the police state to flex its powers by way of a bevy of lockdowns, mandates, restrictions, contact tracing programs, heightened surveillance, censorship, overcriminalization, etc.

What started off as an experiment in social distancing in order to flatten the curve of an unknown virus (and not overwhelm the nation’s hospitals or expose the most vulnerable to unavoidable loss of life scenarios) quickly became strongly worded suggestions for citizens to voluntarily stay at home and strong-armed house arrest orders with penalties in place for non-compliance.

Every day brought a drastic new set of restrictions by government bodies (most have been delivered by way of executive orders) at the local, state and federal level that were eager to flex their muscles for the so-called “good” of the populace.

There was talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, mass surveillance in order to carry out contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely, snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities, and heavy fines and jail time for those who dared to venture out without a mask, congregate in worship without the government’s blessing, or re-open their businesses without the government’s say-so.

It was even suggested that government officials should mandate mass vaccinations and “ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.”

Those tactics were already being used abroad.

In Italy, the unvaccinated were banned from restaurants, bars and public transportation, and faced suspensions from work and monthly fines. Similarly, France banned the unvaccinated from most public venues.

In Austria, anyone who had not complied with the vaccine mandate faced fines up to $4100. Police were to be authorized to carry out routine checks and demand proof of vaccination, with penalties of as much as $685 for failure to do so.

In China, which adopted a zero tolerance, “zero COVID” strategy, whole cities—some with populations in the tens of millions—were forced into home lockdowns for weeks on end, resulting in mass shortages of food and household supplies. Reports surfaced of residents “trading cigarettes for cabbage, dishwashing liquid for apples and sanitary pads for a small pile of vegetables. One resident traded a Nintendo Switch console for a packet of instant noodles and two steamed buns.”

For those unfortunate enough to contract COVID-19, China constructed “quarantine camps” throughout the country: massive complexes boasting thousands of small, metal boxes containing little more than a bed and a toilet. Detainees—including children, pregnant women and the elderly— were reportedly ordered to leave their homes in the middle of the night, transported to the quarantine camps in buses and held in isolation.

If this last scenario sounds chillingly familiar, it should.

Eighty years ago, another authoritarian regime established more than 44,000 quarantine camps for those perceived as “enemies of the state”: racially inferior, politically unacceptable or simply noncompliant.

While the majority of those imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps, forced labor camps, incarceration sites and ghettos were Jews, there were also Polish nationals, gypsies, Russians, political dissidents, resistance fighters, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.

Culturally, we have become so fixated on the mass murders of Jewish prisoners by the Nazis that we overlook the fact that the purpose of these concentration camps were initially intended to “incarcerate and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime.”

How do you get from there to here, from Auschwitz concentration camps to COVID quarantine centers?

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect the dots.

You just have to recognize the truth in the warning: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This is about what happens when good, generally decent people—distracted by manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring “us vs. them” camps—fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains.

It’s about what happens when any government is empowered to adopt a comply-or-suffer-the-consequences mindset that is enforced through mandates, lockdowns, penalties, detention centers, martial law, and a disregard for the rights of the individual.

This is the slippery slope: a government empowered to restrict movements, limit individual liberty, and isolate “undesirables” to prevent the spread of a disease is a government that has the power to lockdown a country, label whole segments of the population a danger to national security, and force those undesirables—a.k.a. extremists, dissidents, troublemakers, etc.—into isolation so they don’t contaminate the rest of the populace.

The slippery slope begins with propaganda campaigns about the public good being more important than individual liberty, and it ends with lockdowns and concentration camps.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the danger signs are everywhere.

COVID-19 was merely one crisis in a long series of crises that the government has shamelessly exploited in order to justify its power grabs and acclimate the citizenry to a state of martial law disguised as emergency powers.

Everything I have warned about for years—government overreach, invasive surveillance, martial law, abuse of powers, militarized police, weaponized technology used to track and control the citizenry, and so on—has become part of the government’s arsenal of terrifying lockdown powers should the need arise.

What we should be bracing for is: what comes next?

John W. Whitehead 

• http://www.rutherford.org/

Why did Congress help craft a bill last summer called the “Disease X Act”

Why did Congress help craft a bill last summer called the “Disease X Act”

Do they know another bioweapon is about to be released?

By Ethan Huff

Posted on January 23, 2023

In June 2023, the United States Congress quietly passed a piece of legislation called House Resolution 3832, also known as the Disease X Act of 2023, that references a mystery contagion that just so happens to be the subject of a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting that took place on Jan. 17, 2024.

At the WEF meeting, it was discussed that Disease X "could have 20 times more fatalities than COVID." We also know that talk of Disease X started at least as far back as 2018 when the WEF mentioned it in an article.

What we are more than likely witnessing with this new revelation is the stage being set for another round of COVID-like lockdowns, mask mandates and whatever else the powers that be throw at the world once they unleash their next pre-planned bioweapon, known as Disease X.

You can check out the contents of the Disease X Act of 2023 at this link.

Does Congress know something America doesn't?

In short, the Disease X Act of 2023 reveals plans to establish a new program at BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) to develop medical countermeasures for any future viral threats that have pandemic potential. In other words, there are more COVIDs coming down the pike.

The legislation is intentionally vague, which is certainly no accident. Vague legislation tends to be wide reaching in its scope once executed, which means the severity of its intentions are likely vast and far-reaching.

One report from UnHerd covering what took place at the WEF meeting on Disease X described what was discussed there as "worrying," noting that it shows "signs of the acceleration of technocratic tendencies in pandemic preparedness, which have only consolidated since Covid."

The panel-style meeting opened with a statement from WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who tried to clarify all the "misinformation" about the panel itself, so-called misinformation being the number-one global threat right now, according to the WEF's Global Risks Report 2024.

Ghebreyesus insisted that nobody should be worried about Disease X, which is simply a placeholder name for future biological threats. He continued to ramble from there about strengthening healthcare and education and supporting communities as they prepare for a coming Disease X pandemic.

Only once did anyone on the panel even mention the word lockdown, and it came from a health executive from India by the name of Preetha Reddy who recommended that the next pandemic response should pull a page from how the army operates.

"At any time, anything can happen and we don't know what side it can come from," she said.

"Unfortunately, the focus on Disease X is indicative of a broader phenomenon: the rise of our new biomedical security state, best represented by the technocratic governance structures that drove emergency laws on lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, quarantines, school closures and censorship," reported UnHerd about the WEF meeting.

"This is interwoven into the semantic origins of Disease X, which was christened in the WHO R&D Blueprint in 2017 to assist prioritising research and development particularly for vaccines, treatments and tests. It has since become a core driving force for the proliferation of public-private partnerships (PPP) in the global pandemic preparedness industry."

In addition to serving as a placeholder name for future threats, Disease X is also a catalyst for transforming the future health response to be dominated by corporate, technological and state power rather than individual liberty and freedom.

Is another COVID-like "pandemic" about to be unleashed? Find out more at Plague.info.

Sources for this article include:

• StrangeSounds.org
• NaturalNews.com
• UnHerd.com

 

Collapse and Rebirth

Collapse and Rebirth

By Lord Melchizedek

Channeled by Victoria Cochrane

Posted on October 12, 2023

 

 

There is a matrix around the Earth, below the Ascended Crystalline Grid, that is now imploding upon itself.

As the domination of men is continuously challenged and under scrutiny, humankind grows ever weary of the violence, war, corruption and crimes against humanity that are forcing many humans to exit the planet. There is no end to the misery for many, while the world waits for news of the next war, the next catastrophe and the next pandemic.

Think, for a moment, of the fleeting nature of life and consider, if you will , about the permanent nature of death. Or is it? Death is a transition from the physical form to the etheric, and the freedom that having no human body brings is unimaginable. Loved ones left behind grieve, but the soul flying free rejoices that their time on Earth is over so the real work can begin.

Even so, what is occurring on Earth is both caused by and causing major energetic shifts in the consciousness of man, and the consequences upon the dark souls who control the matrix of power around the world is clearly evident. While the turmoil grows more intense and disturbing for those watching it unfold on their television screens, the reality for those caught up in any of the multiple conflict, health crisis and disasters is like a never-ending nightmare they cannot wake from.

Dear Hearts, the state of the Earth is one of constant flux due to the escalating attempts of the dark to overtake the light. If humans allow themselves to submit to the fear and acts of oppression, they will lose sight of the light that is ever present and there as a way forward. Light always overcomes dark, and as the matrix pulls tighter, attempting to gain or regain control, the space left for the light grows ever wider.

What can you do? Pray, meditate and love – yourself, your loved ones, friends and those that you cannot abide. Send love to your friends but more so to your enemies, for they need it the most as they embark on the journey of repaying the karma they have created and of learning the lessons they have ignored. The more love in the world, the more light, which then shows the way to those who have previously been lost. See the good in the world and focus on building upon it. It does not mean that you ignore what is happening, but how can you assist through service rather than emotion that only leads you down the spiralling path of despair and loss of hope. Where there is life there is love, hope and the human spirit, which is actually born from the light of Source and therefore never lost and never alone.

The Flower of Life (FOL) is a symbol steeped in mythology but relevant to the modern and current world. Its symmetry is sacred and healing in nature and can be used by the healer and lightworker in conjunction with the codes and rays of Creation to extinguish darkness and activate the light. The Flower of Life in its simplicity, that is, one flower on its own, is enough to activate powerful light codes that connect each person to their Christed-self through repeated symbols of infinity. The three intersecting infinity symbols within each flower represent the sacred triad, or each person’s etheric replica and is therefore a crucial tool in helping each person to cleanse and reharmonize soul fragments to bring the person back into alignment with their I AM Presence. If one considers that the rays held within the sacred triad are those of diamond, silver and gold, the power of the symbol will become clear. Each flower is situated in a circle, which represents infinity as well as the never-ending Circle of Life that is cyclic and symbiotic in nature.

If one examines the diagram closely, the entire picture represents the Omniverse. The 12 circles represent the 12 universes within. They are all interlocking, which represents Oneness. 12 is the number of Creation and thus of every person’s own divinity. It contains the 12 rays of light which make up the white light of the Source of Creation. When one consciously connects to this light, their spiritual journey will become a way of life and a crucial part of the ascension of Earth.

The magic of life and of Creation itself is held within every petal and intersection of the lines within the symbol of the Flower of Life. It is the first symbol of Ascension, activating light codes within each chakra that open the person to higher levels of consciousness. The frequency of the codes are dependent upon the person’s current level of consciousness, as well as their ability to hold the vibrations in their energy fields without succumbing to the lower energies of 3D Earth. Without mindful intent, raised vibrations can plummet very quickly when a person allows the negativity of other people’s realities to permeate their consciousness. Along with the Violet Flame of Transmutation, using the Flower of Life as a tool of Ascension is one of the most powerful things one can do to help bring Earth out of transition and fully into the Age of Aquarius.

The symbol of the Flower of Life is now available to every Lightworker, awakening and emerging soul who is intentionally sending love and healing to the Earth, the Human Collective Consciousness and the Golden Crystalline Grid. All you need to do is to focus your attention on it and intend that it multiplies its form and strengthens its energy wherever there is love and light being projected from people all around the world. The power of this one intention can never be underestimated. Please make it a daily practise.

I AM Lord Melchizedek.

Victoria Cochrane

 

https://victoriacochrane44.com/

https://victoriacochrane44.com/2023/10/30/collapse-and-rebirth/