A Brief History of Pandemic Front Groups

The Covid-19 pandemic has enriched some of the elite, but it has also gotten in the way of powerful corporate profits. Let’s look at a brief chronological history of pandemic inspired front groups seeking to promote the financial interests of a certain few. 

Do you remember when America’s Frontline Doctors suddenly burst onto the scene in crisply pressed matching embroidered lab coats for a well publicized press conference?

According to a report by NBC News, “The event was hosted and funded by the Tea Party Patriots, a right-wing political nonprofit group led by Jenny Beth Martin, the group's co-founder, who spoke at the news conference...Tea Party Patriots have been critical of measures enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Before America's Frontline Doctors, the group launched the Second Opinion Project, a website that hosted videos of doctors attacking state and local coronavirus efforts.”

This circus featured Dr. Stella Immanuel, who brought the side show with her claims that endometriosis is caused by demon sperm. No really.

She’s continuing the world class level of entertainment by now claiming that the messenger RNA vaccines will turn you into nephilim and you won’t be allowed into the kingdom of God. She provides scriptural citations, oh ye of little faith.

Unfortunately for the public under viral assault, this dark money fueled stunt failed to elevate the conversation about HCQ beyond Orange Man Bad! territory so who the fuck knows if it’s any good or not? Their goal was really to oppose any restrictions or mitigation anyway…

After America's Frontline Docs faded off into semi obscurity, a new cowboy rode into town! A town called Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Of course this just so happens to be the home to the decades old front group, the American Institute for Economic Research.

In her book Why Trust Science? Naomi Oreskes, the co-author of Merchants of Doubt states that AIER “promotes anti-scientific discussion of climate change, much of which promotes the familiar canard that climate change will be minor and manageable.”

The main authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Martin Kulldorf, Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta seen posing in front of the AIER Cotswold Cottage mansion below, advocated for a somewhat vague “focused protection” strategy after Jeffrey Tucker, former Editorial Director for AIER slid into Kulldorf's DMs on Twitter to invite him to the mansion for some R&R. ‘We’ve got a nice place here, why don’t you come and visit us - two hours away?  We’ll feed you well and relax a bit.’ And he wrote me back and said ‘Okay.’

A principle intention of the declaration was to allow the virus to spread through the population to create “herd immunity.”

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Says Gupta, “…not only is it a good thing for young people to go out there and become immune, but that it is almost their duty." 

It's your DUTY to get infected with an organ and immune system damaging virus for the economy, kids! 

Gupta even claimed that we had maybe already reached herd immunity back in 2020.

Ooops!

But not only are the GBD authors terribly, horribly, stupidly wrong, they are also the public face of a network of moneyed interests that want to make sure the economy continues to grind on regardless of the high risk of death or disability for those caught in the wheels.

It should therefore come as no surprise that the Tea Party, who were intimately involved with America’s Frontline Doctors, makes another appearance behind the GBD, along with the orchestration and support from AIER mentioned previously.

This brings us up to the present time, where during the most massive surge yet in the pandemic another group of “experts” are calling for lifting the already weak and inconsistent patchwork of pandemic mitigation strategies being utilized in public schools.

#UrgencyOfNormal launched a webinar which was open to the public, well, unless you have ever tweeted about #UrgencyOfEquity or #COVIDisAirborne, then you were digitally escorted out.
Monica Gandhi rounded this out by blocking people who have never engaged her...

…and deleting her tweet about the toolkit, that despite being described as “evidence based”…

…reads like some Dead Alive baby birthed from the Independent Women's Forum after the GBD impregnated it in the dining room of a house full of zombies. 

The citations and cherry picked, misrepresented stats in the toolkit are easily dismantled, and have already been multiple times just on Twitter. 

But less clear is the funding, support, and/or political motivation behind this well-coordinated effort that appears more legitimate on the surface than America's Frontline Doctors and the GBD. It is somewhat differentiated by its focus on children, who are clearly suffering due to the shit response to the pandemic by the adults around them.

Despite the framing of this being "for the children" the timing and message don’t pass the sniff test. The agenda is not even remotely in the best interest of children. 

Keep both eyes on #UrgencyOfNormal in the coming weeks to see if we can catch a glimpse of the man behind the curtain.

Is that a voting machine? I'm keeping my gaze turned to the LEFT this time ahem ahem

Monday January 31 - And already we have an update. Joe Friday reports a game of musical chairs, where five of the original Urgency of Normal authors (see screen shots above) have disappeared and been replaced. Monica Gandhi, Jeff Vergales, Amy Beck, Tara Henderson and Aparna Bole have been replaced by Vinay Prasad, Jennifer Grant, Martha Fulford, Ram Duriseti and Todd Porter. 

What does this all mean? It's anyone's guess but there are some clues.

Prasad is listed as an Author and Contributor at the Brownstone Institute, along with the GBD Authors Kulldorf, Bhattacharya, and Gupta. Brownstone describes itself as the "spiritual child" of the GBD, naturally. And wouldn't you know, the Founder and President of Brownstone is Jeffrey Tucker. That guy sure gets around!

Wednesday, March 1 - Oh, hey, looks like this memo might explain in part the political motivation behind some of this new "Urgency."