COVID-19 - the cleverest psyop if ever there was.
With responses to Phase 2 of the Royal Commission due in a week, I thought it was time to put my COVID-19 work in one place.
The information that was funnelled in through the Ministry of Health, defence and intelligence, MBIE and Cabinet, through intelligence streams, think tanks, foreign regulators, Five Eyes and big pharma lobby groups exclusively and persistently directed all officials and media to promote a fear-based narrative that ultimately corralled (like livestock) the population to accept an injection that instructed their cells to produce unknown quantities of a toxin for an unknown period of time.
It was perfect. People who actually looked across the scientific literature, experienced first-hand patients with COVID-19, and understood that the pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions were likely to present more risk to the majority of the population than the intervention were not permitted into the conversation.
The media would have nothing to do with them and the government would manage all ‘expert’ information and nothing. Nothing. Could contradict the message.
The best bit? Cabinet could push the mandates through as secondary legislation in ultimate secrecy - no Official Information Act requests would intrude (and believe me, I tried). And so they did. Mandate after mandate throughout 2021. Just like they planned at the start of 2021.
No matter the changing evidence over 2021 on risk - they would follow the script.
The rollout. To the young and healthy, to the old and sick.
Just like robots.
You haven’t heard from me for a wee while, at PSGR we have been reviewing official documents that suggest officials have short-circuited good process during gene technology and science system reforms, and this has taken quite some time.
More on that another day. Friends & colleagues we have a deadline!
The COVID-19 Royal Commission Inquiry Phase 2 (deadline for submissions April 27, 2025) is assessing key decisions made by the New Zealand Government in 2021 and 2022 in the following areas:
Vaccines, including mandates, approvals, and safety
Lockdowns, especially the lockdowns of late 2021
Testing and tracing technologies (like RATs or the COVID-19 Tracer app), and public health materials (like masks).
The Phase 1 process of this Royal Commission was to put it mildly, ethically unconscionable. The terms of reference drafted out most of the issues that drove harm.
With this Phase 2 process, groups such as NZDSOS and RCR have provided help for those who are a bit daunted by the process.
JR Bruning - Back Story
During COVID-19 I was researching and writing my master’s thesis while also working pro bono for PSGR. My thesis concerned the problem of scientists in New Zealand and Australia being unable to access public research funding for public good scientific research. The specific research area was health conditions that were impacted by endocrine/hormone disrupting substances. Of course, the endocrine system is integral to human functioning, spanning physical and mental health, from diabetes, to cancer, Parkinsons, to neurological syndromes including Alzheimer’s and autism.
I was interviewing scientists to understand if they could access research funding to understand the drivers of these diseases, which often involved hormonal pathways. My research established that scientists could only secure funding if they identified an innovation pathway – i.e. a potential route to commercialisation, medical therapies. If there was no route for a medical intervention the funding proposal would be pushed down the ladder. Many of these scientists themselves had sat on funding committees and understood clearly what was expected of funding committees. They had to adhere to MBIE’s science policy.
Courtesy of Auckland University I had access behind journal paywalls, and courtesy of PSGR I had access to doctors, many of whom spent their lives serving the most marginalised communities, the communities with the exact risk profile for COVID-19 – profound multimorbidities and low vitamin D the key risk factors for hospitalisation and death. By November 1, 2021, just as all the mandates were rolling in, much of this was documented on the PSGR website. These pages serve as a time capsule of what we knew then, and haven’t been updated (even to be edited for grammar etc.)
The PSGR docs understood that obesity and Type 2 diabetes was a key risk factor, and they recognised the role of high carbohydrate and ultraprocessed food diet in exacerbating their patients risks. These doctors entered 2020 determined to keep their patients out of hospital. They understood the role of vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc and they understood through years of practice – that preventing viral replication was key, preventing lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) was key.
Therefore nutrients, antivirals, and if patients developed severe coronavirus, severe influenza or a severe cold – antibiotics to prevent bacterial pneumonia was key.
We all watched as the Ministry of Health failed to address these key risk factors, and indeed, suppressed and discounted them. I watched the policy language closely.
Throughout 2020 all policy documents consistently deflected to the ‘safe and effective vaccine’ that would likely be released, creating a natural bureaucratic belief in this outcome.
I understood from my master’s research that there was no scientific freedom to critique Ministry of Health claims.
Ministry of Health expert advisory groups were not required to systematically survey the scientific literature.
Doctors were not invited to critique, nor able to critique because the entire language was structured around a novel coronavirus that was meant to be unlike any other coronavirus in the history of the world. Therefore doctors experience of treating viral syndromes was entirely negated.
COVID-19 Papers & Writing
In 2022 I drafted 3 discussion papers to help shed light on how government officials failed to follow good process, and on the way, rode roughshod over democratic principles and human rights:
April 5, 2022. COVID-19 Emergency Powers: The New Zealand State, Medical Capture & the Role of Strategic Ignorance (2019-2022).
August 5, 2022. COVID-19 Emergency Powers: Some Notes on the Process of the Passing of Laws in the time of COVID-19 (2019-2022).
COVID-19 in New Zealand: Ethics & the Setting Aside of Normative Principles.
These 3 PDFs are embedded below and can be downloaded.
On my Substack I documented in detail policy processes that revealed how little respect officials had for accountability and transparency, and how doggedly determined officials were to follow the central narrative of injections, lockdowns, masking and distancing. Major articles:
Director Samantha Blanchard invited me to participate in the New Zealand documentary Silenced. I was invited to present at the NZDSOS conferences in 2022 and 2023.
I was invited to discuss my work on RCR. I was not contacted my legacy media, but had had years of attempting to broaden discussion on the risks of glyphosate, and by then, clearly understood that legacy media would not publish content that contradicted government policy.
What did Ministry of Health officials, or funded scientific communities not do? Review the scientific literature using methods-based scientific processes in an impartial manner. Consider risk by age and stage. Consider the long-term impact, whether by developmental stage, or the trauma of not saying goodbye at the end of life. Admit the hypocrisy of a mandate for a gene therapy that was never a vaccine (only labelled as one) that failed to prevent transmission. Acknowledge the terrible wrong of a biological drug that was designed to enter cells and instruct the body to produce unknown quantities of a known harmful protein for an unknown period of time, and that that biological drug had never undergone testing for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity even though the biologic would change cell function.
We’ve got a fair bit of evidence to support the fact that this unconscionable, inhumane, military-like operation was taken with no consideration for democratic principles, for fairness and justice - and for the public good.
Keep talking everyone. This isn’t happening again.
And let’s re-find democracy, fairness and justice.
Much love.