OPINION
NewZealandDoc
Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand.
This morning I awoke to a message from a person purporting to be a member of the local so-called freedom community here in New Zealand — you know, we who stood on the barricades in defense of freedom of speech and bodily integrity, who protested against the apartheid mandates and the imposition of masks and the Jab.
I will quote the message verbatim without revealing the identity of the sender, which is unknown to me because he or she used some sort of pseudonymous handle:
“There is NO empirical scientific verifiable published paper worldwide proving a virus has been visualised identified purified and isolated according to the gold standard of Kochs postulates ! SarsCov2 aka covid 19 never has and never will exist, that’s a scientific fact. To date 220 health/science institutions worldwide including NZ ESR, min of health and Otago uni have returned FOI requests with NO records found of so called SarsCov2 aka covid19. ANY organization or individual in the freedom movement, as well as any so called medical professional that denies that truth is either a liar or unknowingly ignorant or been paid off, controlled !!!!! Will you have cognitive disonance now ?? Or actually think for yourself and research for yourself ??”
I’ve actually been called ‘controlled opposition’ before, but I’m not sure for what, in answer to which I’ve said ‘show me the money!’ My word, if I were as influential or as controlled as these nincompoops say I am, I’d have a new car or be able to take vacations ad lib. As it is I gave up my career in 2021, refusing to take the Jab and refusing any longer to be a part of the thoroughly corrupt establishment medical system. Who was controlling me then?
What I find most discouraging about such fusillades is that they brook no dissent, no exchange, no give and take. The ‘decider’ — aka the writer of this diatribe — has already formed his or her conclusion, has already declared himself or herself to be the absolute possessor of the ‘truth’, which is quite reminiscent of New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who declared herself to be the single source of truth.
If we who are fighting for freedom cannot allow differing opinions or open debates or tolerate disagreement, then we are no better than our tyrannical opposition.
Any group of people, no matter which side, is populated by … well, people. And therefore will be chock-full of a variety of personalities and individual agendas and temperaments. Nonetheless, to arrogate to oneself the consummate power of declaring what is correct while preventing questions is to undermine the very foundations of freedom. Not unlike how the Medical Council of New Zealand destroyed the basis of good medical practice by eliminating informed consent for the covid Jab.
I know I’m not being paid off, so that leaves me, according to my unwelcome correspondent, either a liar or an ignoramus. Or maybe both?
With respect to viruses and the origins of covid I will frankly declare that I believe a covid virus was deliberately engineered and let loose upon the public, and in this I am joined by no less an authority than Sucharit Bhakdi. I also believe that the Jab was deliberately designed to do harm.
I know that I contracted something in March of 2022 characterized by headache, aberration of taste, lethargy, sore throat, nausea, and malaise. I know that I recovered and since then have fortunately enjoyed good health. Whatever it was I have little doubt it was transmissible. I am not prepared to throw all of virology out the window.
I do not believe that covid was ever a true pandemic, but I know that fear, stoked by mainstream media and governments around the world, spread like a global wildfire and drove people out of their senses and elicited from many various unsavoury characteristics of the human condition.
To be free and to foster freedom inevitably requires humility and tolerance of diverging ideas. That’s the real line separating us from dictatorial entities seeking to control and enslave.
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D.