Via Jeff Childers

Speaking of classic liberals with conservative appeal, Robert Kennedy, Jr. — who’s still polling with dems as high as 20% — neatly summarized where we are these days understanding the pandemic, in a kind of after-action report framed in a fascinating interview with Russell Brand that was making the rounds yesterday.

The clip is 18 minutes long. If you don’t have time for it right now, you should bookmark it for later. Among other fascinating things, Kennedy drew a line from the covid pandemic back to Operation Paperclip, where the CIA was tasked with bringing post-World War II Nazi scientists to the US.

In the following excerpt from the clip, Kennedy gave a great capsule of what we now know for sure about the pandemic (lightly edited for clarity):

“The weird thing about the pandemic was this constant involvement by the CIA, the intelligence agencies, and the military. When Operation Warp Speed made its presentation to the FDA committee called VRBPAC [and] turned over the organizational charts that were classified at the time, it shocked everybody because it wasn’t [being run by] HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA, or a public health agency. It was [run by] the NSA, a spy agency that was at the top and led Operation Warp Speed.
The vaccines were [not developed] by Moderna and Pfizer. They were developed by NIH, NIH owns the patents, [at least 50%]. Nor were [the vaccines even] manufactured by Pfizer, or by Moderna. They were manufactured by military contractors. And basically, Pfizer and Moderna were paid to put their stamps on those vaccines as if they came from the pharmaceutical industry. But that’s not what they were doing.
This was a military project from the beginning…
I uncovered… 20 different [government-led] simulations on coronavirus and pandemic simulations. That started in 2001. The first one was right before the anthrax attacks. And every year, the CIA sponsored them all. The last one was Event 201 in October 2019. And one of the participants was Avril Haines, the former Deputy Director of the CIA, who has been managing coverups her entire life. She did Guantanamo Bay and others. She is now the Director of National Intelligence which makes her the highest ranking officer at the NSA — which managed the pandemic.
So you have a spy who is convening these pandemic simulations and in each of these simulations going back 20 years, they’re not simulating a public health response. They’re not [brainstorming] things like, how do we stockpile Vitamin D? How do we get people outdoors, losing weight, doing exercise? How do we develop an information grid for all the 15 million front line doctors all over the world, so that we can get them information [about what] works and what doesn’t work. None of that happened. We had an incredible opportunity to manage a pandemic in a way that was intelligent and sensitive and devastating to the disease, but we didn’t do any of those things.
[Instead, it] was all about, how do you use a pandemic to clamp down [with] censorship? How you use [a pandemic] to force lockdowns?
By the way, with lockdowns, every pandemic preparedness document that had been adopted by any [of the] major public health agencies, whether it was CDC, WHO, European Health Agency, National Health Services of Britain. All of them said you don’t do lockdowns, you quarantine the sick, you protect the vulnerable. And you let everybody else go back to work because a lockdown actually amplifies the impact of the disease. If you isolate people, it makes them more vulnerable, it breaks down their immune system. You lock them indoors, it’s going to spread the respiratory virus.
And so all the things they’re [practicing] are about clamping down totalitarian controls.”
Russel Brand has six million subscribers. That’s a whole lot of folks who are listening to Kennedy correct their misunderstandings about the origins of the pandemic, or at least expose them to another view. That’s progress.