Briefly Noted: Tony In 'A Sea Of Lies'

Yesterday we discussed the concept of the "noble" lie. We also suggested that this concept, derived from Plato's template for totalitarian government, The Republic, doesn't truly describe the barrage of "ignoble", self serving, lies that We The People are being subjected to. The notion that these lies are being propagated for the greater good of society doesn't really pass muster--and that means that the lies serve no noble purpose. Rather, they serve a distinctly ignoble purpose.

Fortuitously enough, just last Friday Fauci provided yet another example of a distinctly ignoble lie, and that example is dissected today at American Thinker: Fauci's latest faux pas. Don't be put off by the author's use of the term faux pas--he's perfectly aware that Fauci's lie is a quite conscious lie. The 'sea of lies' Fauci refers to--with no apparent sense of irony--turns out to be a sea largely of his own making:

Dr. Anthony Fauci recently made a bold declaration against “the sea of lies we are living in” -- and then lied about the science of COVID-19 and vaccine protection.  Not just a little lie: a massive misstatement of well-established scientific fact.

The lie is actually twofold:

First, he makes the implicit claim--in the face of massive evidence to the contrary--that the mRNA gene therapy injections are somehow able to prevent the Covid-19 virus from replicating and, thus, from mutating. Notice that I say 'implicit'. The use and manipulation of slippery language is the mark of an accomplished liar--one able to fool most of the people most of the time. Yet his statement really is a direct lie, because his statement makes no sense at all unless that core falsehood is what he intends people to take away from it.

Second, Fauci makes a direct comparison between apples and oranges, between Covid and measles. He states that the mRNA gene therapy medications are capable of eradicating Covid in the same way and to the same degree that measles has been eradicated. In doing so he also suggests that the very real phenomenon of ADE--vaccine induced enhancement of the virus via directed mutation--is a factor of concern, whereas we know for a fact that it has always been a concern. The author does an excellent job explaining why this is another quite "brazen" and conscious lie. Coronaviruses mutate freely and rapidly, whereas the measles virus is basically incapable of mutating. That makes all the difference in the world for vaccines:

Fauci’s analogy to measles protection is doublespeak: “....there is a near-zero probability for the natural emergence of a new measles virus capable of evading vaccine-induced immunity.”  Measles is especially “rigid” in its evolutionary design, employing a complex mechanism of “...binding to specific cellular protein receptors as its doorway” past the natural human immune system.

Thus, it is impossible for America to ever be provided vaccine protection from COVID-19 equivalent to that achieved by measles vaccines. This doesn’t stop Fauci stating that Americans will be protected “just the same way” as the nation is for measles -- if only people will prevail “despite the sea of lies.” 

What could possibly be the noble purpose of such a brazen lie? Whatever the purpose of the lie might be we can be sure of one thing: the purpose of the lie has nothing whatsoever to do with public health. World statistics for countries that have vaxxed and those that basically haven't prove that. The fact, therefore, that a public health official is openly and brazenly presenting lies that result in repression of the subject population, when those lies are not rationally connected to public health, really should give any intelligent person pause to think.

BONUS LINKS: I can only write about our cultural and societal descent so often, but it's necessary to keep reminding yourself of what's happening around us. So ... three qorthwhile reads:

America’s Elites Want To Control You More Than They Want To Control COVID

America's elites have seized the pandemic to expand their control over our political discourse, our freedom, and our social lives.

Two of the author's best points have to do with The Elite’s Expanded Ability to Curate Information and the acceptance of self monitoring by the subject population: America’s Newly Deputized Hall Monitors. When he says "Newly Deputized" he means "Self Deputized."

The Left’s Revolution Dominates Every American Height, And They Don’t Know Why We Aren’t Cheering

Herein lies a glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it.

The author cleverly illustrates the Left's attempt to persuade us knuckle-draggers that it's somehow unpatriotic and Un-American to be a knuckle-dragger--meaning, a dissenter from Left cultural dominance. Dissent from Left dominance is, as Barry Soetoro repeatedly said, is "not who we are as Americans." That's their wish. I've always believed that the repeated dive into anti-Russian chauvinism is a key part of the program. Knuckle-dragging patriots were all against the Soviet "Evil Empire", so by tarring the knuckle draggers' political leaders as Russian puppets ... You get the rest. And they're flummoxed that the strategy doesn't work, because they can't understand that even knuckle draggers can learn.

It's quite cleverly written.

Kelvyn Park High School Throws Out Hundreds Of Classic Books, Outraging Neighbors 

CPS officials said Kelvyn Park High School is undergoing renovations, and the books were “weeded” out in the process.

So who got weeded out? In this day of CRT I guess these would mostly qualify as 'the usual suspects':

The mountain of discarded books included copies of “Hamlet,” “Crime And Punishment” and “The Metamorphosis,” among other classics.

“I was so upset because these are not any books — these are classics,” said nearby resident Ruth Torres, who wrote about the books on Facebook.

“They had Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, they had so many."

All part of our sea of lies.