Authored by Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan by way of The Brownstone Institute,

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is spectacular, with Orcs, Elves and breathtaking surroundings filmed on location in New Zealand. The particular results had been good too – the attention of Sauron appeared very lifelike – maybe it’s.

We now have come throughout a minimally redacted 28-page draft of a Kiwi Authorities doc entitled “Communications strategy to managing disinformation, on-line harms and scams” dated 10 Dec 2021 (Accessible right here). 

The doc’s purpose seems to be coordinating countering disinformation searching for to hurt “by threatening public security, fracturing neighborhood cohesion and lowered belief in democracy.”

All properly and good then; it’s a bit like saying, don’t open fireplace on the Pink Cross. 

Besides that the item is “disinformation” referring to the Kiwi authorities’s response to the Covid pandemic.

The definition of disinformation within the doc is on web page 5:

We won’t summarise the advanced and superficial content material of the doc aside from to notice that that is exactly the try at normalising the message of the pandemic that we’ve reported. The federal government has put out a message, and its credibility have to be defended in any respect prices, with tech media companions, teachers, the neighborhood and, in fact, the armies of Sauron.

One consideration is that the Covid narrative in Center Earth (as elsewhere) relies on the misuse and misinterpretation of polymerase chain response (PCR) and the dying of medical drugs, as we have made clear. 

Instances could not have been energetic instances, hospitalisations might not be as a result of SARS-CoV-2, and deaths could also be as a result of varied causes associated or unrelated to SARS-CoV-2. We are going to by no means know for positive. Why? As a result of the PCR cycle threshold for testing PCR “optimistic” in Center Earth was 40 to 45, guaranteeing that most examined folks would check optimistic even within the whole absence of contamination (a really tall order). 

So presenting figures of instances, hospitalisations and deaths primarily based on qualitative PCR outcomes inflates the totals and undermines the boldness within the competence and honesty of public well being our bodies: it’s disinformation.

We make the doc accessible now (see right here), and all our readers will discover totally different components fascinating or as scary because the orcs.

So if you happen to assume you reside in a democracy, one final phrase of warning: don’t go too close to the Black Gate. It’s possible you’ll assume it’s fiction, nevertheless it’s not.

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Republished from the writer’s Substack