THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA IN THE POLARIZATION OF SOCIETY

Opinion - Carine Knapen

A study entitled " Sceptical views in the corona debate, Lessons from a mixed methods study of corona scepticism in the Netherlands" was published in June 2022 Netherlands.

You can find the study in this link. https://pnws.be/.../HoofdrapportSceptischevisiesinhetcoro...

In this link you will also find today's article in PNWS with interpretation by Mr Michael Verstraeten : https://pnws.be/studie-toont-aan-overheid-hielp-mee-aan.../

I will not go deeper into the substance of that study and confine myself on that matter to the reference to Michael Verstraeten's view with which I concur.

That the government in the corona crisis opted for one narrative that it proclaimed as being the absolute truth and the media deliberately barred any dissenting opinion or, worse, condemned, crushed and quartered it, is old news. We have known that for a long time. That the government, state experts and the media have deliberately pushed the population into a fear psychosis and set the population against each other, ditto.

I want to talk a little more here about the truth versus the lie or what the research report refers to as " corona scepticism ". I am going to do this from the " me side ", how it all went for me and where for me the scepticism started.

Back in time for a moment.

During the first weeks, I was totally on board with the narrative. I saw terrible images from China and then Lombardy Italy. It squeezed my throat. I could no longer function normally and actually did little more throughout the day than zap from news channel to news channel both national and international. In Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, in short, every possible channel. I didn't step outside for the first few weeks, not even to do some shopping. Just saying ...

That crippling fear lasted until 19 April 2020 when I called my GP - after a call from my domestic helper that she had corona - to get me tested. No physical consultations were allowed during the first lock-down, everything was done over the phone. He interrupted my panicked ranting and said " Carine don't get upset, you won't get infected if you have contact with an infected person at a distance of less than 1.5 m for longer than 15 minutes". I will never forget his words. In a way, they saved my life.

His wake-up call awakened the academic in me, with Henri Poincaré at the back of my mind. Thinking should never submit. I started reading up, analyzing the figures in Sciensano's database to check whether all that was being presented to us was true.

I immediately stumbled across those figures that showed something completely different from what we were told. It didn't add up at all.

Intrigued by the whole thing, I invested all my spare time in reading and researching. The deeper I dug, the more anomalies I found. Even the WHO was examined. There was no pandemic. The usual conditions of a pandemic had not been met. It was a lie. As of 26.04.2020, barely 1.5% of all tests were positive and positive by no means meant infected. I corresponded via email with Erika Vlieghe. She admitted that there was no epidemic in Belgium but only very localized outbreaks here and there that were perfectly manageable without completely crippling the country ( as, incidentally, clearly set out in Sam Brokken's Reversed Lock-down and subsequent Grand Barrington Declaration ).

I did an audit of the hospital figures and turned this audit over to Frank Vandenbroucke and Pedro Facon. Hospital admissions were rigged, daily hospital discharges were not deducted. There were hundreds of ghost patients. The government ordered an investigation that so many months later revealed that the hospitals had indeed cheated and not a little bit but that was carelessly dismissed by Frank as a " financial optimization". I also went through Maggie De Block's and De Crem's legislation thoroughly and there too I stumbled across a number of things that did not add up and pointed to a pre-arranged débacle, which by the way was identical in all countries ( which was materially impossible ). It was of a magnitude we cannot comprehend. I kept digging further and climbed higher and higher on the ladder to find out exactly what was going on and who was driving all this.

I hate lies. I couldn't stand by and do nothing. I could never have forgiven myself for knowing and yet just letting it all happen. I went public and started actively informing the public on social media about everything that was twisted, magnified and/or put in the wrong context, taken completely out of its perspective or often even just steely lies. Because I felt and feel that people are entitled to accurate and complete information. Not bits and pieces that give a distorted picture but the full picture. And I continued to do that on a daily basis for a year and a half until I was completely burned out.

Does this make me a " corona sceptic ", a disbelieving, pagan, reluctant, doubting person ? No, I am sure of what I say and have said. It was and is all backed by a multitude of sources and evidence. Moreover, time has proved beyond doubt that everything I have said and written is true. It has all come out.

I am not a sceptic but someone who - like all the others who have joined me on the barricades to denounce the lies with a raised voice - has put truth-telling first, thrown body and soul into the fray and fought against the many lies, from the press, from the government and the so-called experts. And I'm not done.

Lying and cheating has a price. Justice is also very dear to my heart. What has been done to our old people, children, the entire population and our economy is terrible. I do not forget that. Ever.