The Evil Boss and his Evil Minion Strike Again
The Great Covid Scam and Climate Change
For Another Chat of the Evil Boss and the Evil Minion, see this previous post
— Howdy, Evil Boss! I have great news for you!
— I am sure of that. You are the evilest minion I've ever had!
— Thank you, Evil Boss. You, too, are the evilest boss I've ever had.
— No more niceties, Evil Minion, what did you want to tell me?
— Well, I have some reports on our evil plans.
— What’s new?
— You remember the COVID story, don’t you?
— Of course. Nice plan. Well executed. They fell for it completely. I couldn’t imagine that they would accept being locked inside their homes, wear useless pieces of cloth on their faces the whole day, and be happy to be injected with that strange stuff. They even signed a document that they wouldn’t complain if the stuff damaged them.
— Oh, yes, Evil Boss. It was an incredible success. A triumph of evil, actually. If we had asked them to wear a clown nose and go to work walking on their hands, they would have done that. And our sponsors made a lot of money. Big Pharma, I must say, is staffed with people even eviler than us.
— Well, we do our best to be the worst, but those people at Big Pharma beat us hands down. After all, we are just Arch-Demons from Hell. But you wanted to tell me something, Evil Minion?
— Yeah. You know there is more, Boss, don’t you?
— Well, Evil Minion, I know that you are not only evil, but you are also a devilish schemer, in addition to other virtues. I heard a few times you telling me of the “Grand Plan.” But what is that?
— Ah, Evil Boss, it was the idea behind the COVID scheme. You know, we always knew that they would fall for these ideas we concocted. But we also knew that it couldn’t last forever. Eventually, they refused to be locked down, they didn’t want to wear masks anymore, and nobody wants to be injected with more genetic stuff.
— We knew that, yes. Maybe it is time to tell them to wear clown noses?
— Ah… we could do that, Evil Boss, but we thought of something better. The Grand Plan. Another success.
— Evil minion, you are making my demonic fangs click together in expectation. What was the idea?
— Well, you know the story of “global warming,” right?
— Yes, of course. The idea is to destroy them for good, boiling them alive. Hell on Earth for real! And the beauty of the idea is that they were doing that by themselves to themselves. They are so funny with their wheeled tin boxes spewing poisons into the atmosphere!
— Yeah, but it wasn’t working so well as we expected it to be. You see, they are clever enough that they were thinking to get rid of their smoking tin cans and replace them with electric cars, use renewable energy to avoid spewing out greenhouse gases, that kind of thing. The numbers were worrisome. They were doing that.
— Worrisome, indeed, but what does it have to do with the COVID story?
— Well, evil boss, it was thought out from the beginning. You see, most of them are not so smart, but some are smart enough to understand that they were destroying themselves by burning that awful stuff. And the idea that something had to be done was passing. So, we had to do something.
— And that was the “Grand Plan”?
— Nothing less than erasing their trust in what they call “Science.”
— But how…..?
— Simple, evil boss, simple. Most of them now perfectly understand that they have been had with the COVID story. That they were forced to behave in a ridiculous manner just to shove a lot of money into the coffers of big pharma. And they didn’t like that. Now, we made sure that the idea of forcing them to do that was justified “in the name of science.” You remember that funny white-haired guy who used to appear so often on their screens, the one who said, “I represent science”?
—I remember that dumb guy. Unbelievable that so many people believed him.
— That’s the way their clumsy minds work. But, at this point, I guess you understand what the grand plan is.
— Ahhh…. I see it, Evil Minion, by exploiting the COVID story, you destroyed their trust in all kinds of “Science.”
— See, boss? And that includes climate science. We didn’t expect such a success, but plenty of smart people fell completely for the idea that Climate Change is a hoax, that CO2 is food for plants, that they are being scammed by a conspiracy of evil scientists, and that they didn’t need to do anything about stopping greenhouse gas emissions.
— Fantastic! I guess that they will still deny that global warming exists while they boil alive. Absolutely Evil! Congratulations, Evil Minion!
— Thank you, Evil Boss. You are my evil light!
— But boiling them all will take some time. In the meantime, do we have more evil plans?
— Yes, Evil Boss… There is still this idea of forcing them to wear clown noses. For now, we are working with the story of Jeffrey Epstein.
— Jeffrey Epstein? The one who is in a special cauldron of high-temperature boiling oil, down below?
— Yeah, Evil Boss, he is even eviler than we. We’ll use his story to create even more discord.
— Great, Evil Minion, great. And make sure that the thermostat of the cauldron is set to the highest temperature.
— Sure as Hell, Evil Boss!
I write, because I "remember that funny white-haired guy who used to appear so often on their screens, the one who said “I represent science”?"
I think that your take on COVID is really not fair.
I had COVID after the third vaccination (with 81). I was extremely ill during two weeks and weak and sleepy for many weeks. During these weeks I was unable to mount one flight of stairs. Only once in my life had I been equally ill, when I got measles at the age of 26 (its more severe in adults). Its quite possible that I would not have survived COVID without these vaccinations (mortality without vaccination being 20 percent in this age group if I remember correctly, and very low with vaccination).
COVID was a novel infectious agent, - its effect - especially in Northern Italy and Russia were devastating. In the uncertainty of the epidemic many things were tried and perhaps in retrospect (but only in retrospect) one can be less certain about the necessity of masks and lockdowns. Anyway life continued and if harm prevented might have been small, so was any damage from these measures.
The evidence of a beneficial effect of vaccines remains however good. The problem here are the very rare adverse effects, e.g. triggering of multiple sclerosis. I saw such a case and in the light of such observations I would reserve the vaccination to elderly people and the immunologically compromised where advantages must surpass the disadvantages.
Now for the funny white-haired guy: He is of Italian descent like you and one of the most respected immunologists and infectiologists of the world. During almost fifty years he made many landmark contributions especially in autoimmune disease and AIDS. He acted to the best of his knowledge and judgment with courage and decency in the hostile environment of the abominable Trump administration.
That effective vaccines give rise to profits is part of our system and probably one cause for innovation. Planned and dictatorial regimes were and are notoriously inefficient in this respect.
That the status of science is compromised has nothing to do with COVID. Trump decried global warming as a hoax even before. Democracy has the inherent risk to become the government by the less intelligent and decent 51 percent. That they cannot transform it into a dictatorship is only a hope, not a certainty, as exemplified by history.
I follow you on Substack because most of your writing is deep, considered and insightful. That's especially the case when you make historical parallels. But on the subjects covered here you are a climate change denier and an anti-vaxxers, and therefore a complete moron with regard to modern subject matter. Stick to the past. It's where you belong.