The effort and energy required to help launch the Declaration of an International Medical Crisis (https://medicalcrisisdeclaration.com/; https://rumble.com/c/c-1878958) of sudden deaths, and serious and unusual illness, and sustain the movement, while continuing my own research and lecturing, has been monumental. That is why it becomes very tiresome to see how some medical doctors and members of the general public raise their voice to express surprise, anger or outrage for the use of certain terms, such as crisis, vaccine or SARS-CoV-2 in the declaration.
Those who state that there is evidence that something does not exist, simply do not understand the scientific process. However, some people seem determined to not want to understand the key difference between “absence of evidence” and “evidence of absence”. It becomes quite frustrating, because instead of helping, that stance hinders all efforts that seek to stop this madness. That is why I wrote a fable, which I named “The lion and the tiger” (which you can read if you keep scrolling down).
The lion and the tiger
An unfortunate day, many centuries ago, maimed or dead people started to appear in a town, with their mutilated bodies and torn muscles and skin. People did not understand what was happening, they just knew that some of those who went out to the countryside to farm or hunt did not return, or they managed to return but were hurt and bleeding. “It must be wild animals”, more than one suggested. The town council quickly stated that that was not happening, no one was being bitten by anything, there were no wild animals roaming near the town, and they did not want a panic. Perhaps, they conceded, some people could have been scratched by a cat, and that was their own fault, because they had kept cats as pets. It became frowned upon to speak about wild animal bites, or any type of bite, for that matter, but that did not stop the attacks, and more and more people became affected.
Those who realized that there was a problem and that everything pointed to attacks by some wild animal, started trying to capture one to understand what was threatening the village. One night, a young man hid among the town walls to try to see one, and even made a drawing of what he saw. The historians in the town quickly gave their opinion: “It is a lion” - they said - “remember that many years ago we had lion attacks”. And the message began to reach the townspeople, heeded by those who already suspected that there was a wild animal stalking the town and killing or hurting people. But some noticed the bite marks left on the body of one of the corpses and stated that that was not caused by lions, but rather by tigers.
Some townspeople got together to talk about the problem, but this was met by fierce opposition by the town council. It became a serious offense, with risk of prison or execution, for any person to state that he or she had been bitten by an animal, no matter which animal, or to say that they knew someone who had died due to an animal attack.
Those that did understand that, indeed, people were being attacked by a wild animal started to organize in small groups, trying to not be overheard by the town council. “They are lions” - some shouted. “No, they are tigers” - others shouted back. But while they shouted, more and more attacks ensued.
A small group of farmers and people that wished to help their community decided to risk it and to attempt to destroy the animals that were attacking their people. They did not care at this point if the attacks were due to lions or to tigers. They just wanted their families, friends, and neighbors to stop being hurt or killed. They planned a strategy as best as they could, carrying nets, swords, spades… everything they could get their hands on. And they started to paste notices on walls throughout the town to ask for more support from other townspeople. The more they were, the easier it would be to solve this serious problem.
As most of the town had become convinced that, as stated by the town council, no wild animals were attacking anyone, and that those who were affected were merely scratched or had self inflicted those ghastly wounds, the group decided to use words that would be easiest to understand. That is why the mentioned lions as the cause of the attacks. After all, the town had been attacked many years ago by lions, and at least some people still remembered it. For the group, what was urgent was to stop the problem before more people were hurt or killed. It was not that determining whether it was a lion or a tiger who was causing the attacks was unimportant, but what was urgent was to stop further attacks. Once the problem was stopped, then they could study whether the attacks had been caused by lions or tigers.
When they saw the effort that this group was carrying out, those who were convinced that it was tigers and not lions, started ripping down the notices, or would write things over them. They would make fun of the group members, or start gossip that they were actually on the payroll of the town council, or worse, the Feudal Lord, and they did everything they could to try to make those who were starting to understand that the problem was serious and needed to be addressed to listen to them instead. They did this with so much persistence that the group was unable to start their capture plan on time as they had decided, and their attempt to capture the wild animals was thwarted.
So, the wild animals kept killing and hurting the townspeople. Those who were certain that it was a tiger-driven problem kept organizing clandestine meetings to listen to each other speak and convince others that this was really what was happening, the town council continued denying that there was any problem, and no one, at least no townspeople, won.
Moral of the fable: if you waste time during an emergency, and fight about what is not urgent, you do not help solve the problem, you become part of the problem.
Karina AW
Hey Karina. Lovely story.
I wrote something similar to it addressing an issue with a different community, but it gets to the same points as your writing. I hope we can realize that attacking those close to us is not helpful in any way.
https://hellradio.substack.com/p/the-resistance-that-eats-itself