How do we know viruses exist? Well one way is that egg manufacturers get a huge payment from the FDA when they declare that their flock has broken out with an epidemic of fictional Avian Flu virus. This usually occurs when the egg ranchers have supposedly become aware they’ve grown too many pullets (baby chicks), and they will suffer a loss. No mention that there is an economic incentive to raise too many pullets and just claim an outbreak and pocket the cash than risk going to the market. The FDA doesn’t pay for actual hens lost to the pseudo disease but to those who survived but conceivably caught or could catch the disease. This might also explain why there doesn’t need to be any real contagion either, as it is just presumed.
Something similar goes on in hospitals, virology laboratories, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, veterinary schools and clinics, public health agencies, universities, and legislatures where representatives receive legal bribes for pushing legislation that invents fictional viruses to subsidize special interest groups.
This socially engineered exploitative political economy just ignores that there are no actual viruses, as documented by the only truly independent researchers in the book Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion Dollar Profits at Our Expense, 2007. But the social engineering of a fictional Avian Flu epidemic is not merely “at our expense”, but to the disproportionate benefit of a newly created Knowledge Class at the expense of the plundered Working Class.
Moreover, what most of those who assert there is no virus get wrong, is that the virus belief system is not a “mania” or a “pyschosis” or a “mass formation psychosis” as made popular by social psychologists. Rather, it is so institutionalized that contending it does not exist would raise questions about the psychiatric status of those who question its existence. In the topsy-turvy world of the fictional virus political economy, it would be like a patient declaring he is Jesus Christ or some other delusion. If anything, the notion of no virus is “quackery” and insanity to those in mainstream medicine, pharmaceutics, agriculture, and academia who probably never gave a second thought to the idea. This is called the Thomas Theorem in sociology: If you perceive a situation is real because it has been institutionalized long enough, it is believed to be real in its social and economic sense and by its consequences on people. Fictional viruses have become a giant self-fulfilling prophecy or social fact.
In the early 1900’s sociologist Emile Durkheim described how a “social fact” in a modern society is constructed by creating something:
· that is taken for granted as existing outside the individual,
· which has coercive power over the individual that is re-enforced in their groups, and
· is legitimatized by the scientific method.
Sociology was founded in the early 1900’s as the vanguard of secular pseudo-scientific social engineering that became the template for Rockefeller medicine and even atomic science. Durkheim was French and secular, but his father was a rabbi.
In “fact”, modern virology almost never does control group experimental studies because their science is achieved by their authority, not any scientific rigor or experiments. Viruses have never been proven but they have the certitude of coercive institutions. Put differently, a dialogue however polite on whether there are viruses, is a club held under the table. A claim of authority projects a point where coercion will replace communication or scientific experimentation – “believe and shut up or you will be fired”.
German sociologist Werner Sombart in 1913 pointed out that Capitalism was a quasi-religious invention. Sombart attributed the historical rise of Capitalism as an off shoot of Judean gnostic mystical religion. This quasi-religious model of “science” was spread further by self-taught physicist Albert Einstein who defined science as “imagination”:
“All science is nothing more than refinement of everyday thinking. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world” (source: World Economic Forum).
Imagination as a basis of science is reflected in Einstein’s notion of the atom-electron-neutron particles which, like a virus, has never been seen and is fictional as pointed out by Dewey Larson.
Einstein was German but from a Spanish Ashkenazi religious heritage and his mother was Pauline Koch. Albert Einstein apparently took his surname by intermarriage into the Einstein and Koch families, both prominent German engineers and scientists. Koch’s Postulates for scientifically proving the existence of a germ remain the gold standard although almost never actually used in experimental studies. Who needs an experiment when you have an institutional “club”?
The political economy of fictional viruses is not the only social fictional economy created by social engineers.
The FIRE Economy (finance, insurance, and real estate) is based on usury and fraud. For example, mortgage loans are not made by lending out the depositors’ money from banks. Rather, fictional money is created out of thin air on a mortgage loan contract. But if the borrower should default for non-payment, the lender can foreclose and takeover ownership of the hard asset of the property for which it never lent any actual money on. I call this a pea shell game without there being a pea under the shell at all. A mortgage is thus a social fiction, but one that has been so institutionalized in custom and law that an entire parasitic set of industries depend on it for their livelihoods – primary lenders, secondary mortgage market lenders, hedge funds, REIT’s, loan brokers, real estate brokers, appraisers, insurers, lawyers, courts of equity, and contractors who can file mechanics liens against the property. This is why the Catholic Church for centuries has asserted capitalism is state sponsored usury (E. Michael Jones, Barren Metal: The History of Capitalism as the Conflict Between Labor and Usury, 2014).
Economist Jens Beckert has demonstrated how social fictions drive such modern political economies in his book Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics (2016).
There is a crisis that the world is undergoing, but not from a fictional virus. There is a threat to the “Capital Order” of Capitalism that no longer can sustain fictional economies propped up by the monopolistic and extortionist US dollar. In particular, the high-tech computer sub-economy is threatened because it produces nothing essential, may have less investor capital available to operate, but is the media technology mainly used to create and sustain the social fictions we live by. So, corporations have taken over many governments to protect their tenuous monopolies by wiping out the small business and independent contractor tier of the economy. Same as happened during the Great Depression of the 1930’s when small farms were wiped out. This is mainly being done by coercive corporations and the institutions oligarchs control. When government is taken over by oligarchical corporations it is called “fascism”. For a discussion of this see my Amazon.com book review of Clara Mattei’s book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
If there is a microbial epidemic crisis it is that antibiotics no longer are effective in treating bacterial infections, threatening the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry that also props up hospitals and physicians. Bacteriophages are the antidote but are tricky and are not lucrative for the corporate sector. So, the medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is not only threatened by the partial loss of the dollar’s monopoly status and shrinking pie of capital, but by the technological obsolescence of antibiotics.
Fictional viruses are so institutionally entrenched that it is effectually impossible to unwind them. They might even be said to be the economic glue that holds much of society together. This does not mean there are no virus-like microbes called Plasmids that form in Bacteriophages to resist fungal antibiotics, resulting in the deadly sepsis. Or that there is no such thing as bacterial Endotoxins. Bacterial Resistance to antibiotics by Bacteriophage Plasmids is not fictional but a deadly reality of COVID-era hospitalization. But institutions want to keep the focus of the public on a fictional microbe not on its malevolence. One way they do this by calling the COVID Pandemic a “mass formation psychosis” or some other mumbo jumbo.
There is a new popular book out Can You Catch a Cold?, which makes the case that contagion is psychological. However true, this obscures the coercive nature of social institutions and avoids the deadly reality of hospital-created sepsis (read my attempt at a constructive critique of the book at Amazon.com).
Yes, Essentially, we are the product of being products of our environment.
The chicken farm was a great example.
Beautifully elucidated. Thanks.