McCulloughnundrum
Do we need a Day of Reckoning, or should we just let bygones be bygones?
As I mentioned in my last stack, I am back in Japan for a winter visit. There's not too much to report on yet, as my first day here was an entire Saturday dedicated solely to preparing for the Peter McCullough interview I had to do at 0:00 hours Sunday morning. The Friday-night arrival was great- smooth sailing on the four trains from Narita to home...
Keisei Skyliner Express to Ueno
Yamanote local circle line to Tokyo Station
Shinkansen to Hamamatsu
but which one? None of the above- I just like the variety here, especially the nostalgic type 0, second from left Akaden [little red train] to our peaceful suburban neighborhood.
...and then the ¾ mile walk by rice field, shrine, tiny textile factory, and houses. The kids were ready for me when I knocked- just like old times when they were little, mobbing me in the genkan (vestibule) after work every day.
I won't go over much of the interview here; I think I'll wait until kla.tv gets their nice edit up, then post it and you can judge the whole thing. But I'll mention one aspect of it:
How much can we trust the Dream Team 'experts'? Do we want to be led around by the Kirsches and the Malones, who took the jab, or the Weinsteins, who promoted the masking and the lockdowns and basically said we should have gone full-China early on?
For me, Dr. McCullough exists in a sort of a gray zone. I'm just not sure if he's with us or with the probably-phony Covid Dissident Dream Team ™.
The quick answer from the Dr. McC.-adoring crowd would be, “Hey, he's been on fire for a couple years now! He totally sees the fraud for what it is, he's putting out tons of information, and he's here to take down the Faucis and Walenskis and Bourlas and all that stuff, 'nkay?!”
Well, okay, but there are some matters I'd like to square away, among them:
Why did he promote the jab for the old and immuno-compromised?
Didn’t he overplay the danger of covid?
The McC crowd might say, “What does it matter? He's with us now!”
Bernd, my closest contact in the Frankfurt group, would say, “Hey, what we need is unity. We can't fight this thing if we’re atomized and infighting all the time.”
That's true but deciding who we follow is a matter of trust. I want to get the lowdown on the 'leaders' who were buying into this fraud early on. And yes, I want apologies and mea culpas. Forgiveness depends on repentance. I'm not convinced one way or the other on McCullough, yet, but you gotta ask questions and be skeptical before you follow or allow folks in.
-Hey, we ought to be a little careful about this Pied Piper fellow.
-But just listen to his beautiful music, and look how happy the children are!
-You know. I don't know about this Judas character. He's pretty good at counting sheckels 'n stuff, but the betrayal of Yeshua kind of leaves me with a bad taste.
-Nonsense, he feels real bad about that, and he's willing to change. Besides, we're about to canvass the entire Meditteranean coast; we apostles need numbers!
Like I said, I'm ambivalent about McCullough, but I tell you what, there are writers on my substack feed that aren't; and some of the people I've interviewed don't seem to like him much. It was a hectic week, getting ready for my Japan trip, and this idea only occurred to me the morning before the interview, but I sent out a query to 3 of my former interviewees. “What would you ask Dr. McCullough?” Two responded.
Here's what the first said,
Hi Dan
Good to hear from you. I’d ask:
Given that the fatality and severe morbidity rates of Covid were so low, even before adjusting for iatrogenic harms and misattribution of deaths, do you think the WHO was right to declare a pandemic?
Shouldn’t the lesson we learn from this debacle be that the pandemic preparedness agenda presents more of a threat to humanity than pandemics themselves?
Given that the injections involve no mechanism of action for inducing mucosal immunity, why was there ever an expectation that they would work?
As Nick Hudson and others have pointed out, the January 2020 timeline of events is implausible. With so many false elements of the Covid narrative being established in that period—asymptomatic transmission as an epidemiological driver, for example—do you share his opinion that the contentions from that period were all (a) premeditated and (b) false.
Do you believe that vaccines should be a part of pandemic preparedness given that a pandemic can’t feasibly provide sufficient time for thorough testing?
Those questions came in early enough for me to fit a couple of them in. This would spice up the interview, but would McCullough answer them or evade? The next responder's questions came in a hair too late, just after the interview. His questions made me say, “Wowsers!”
I would ask him,
1. why did you speak against Pfizer's Covid vaccine and then talked about Pfizer's Paxlovid being the greatest thing since sliced bread...
2. Why did you promote fear mongering by backing up the CDC death numbers
I'll keep you in suspense on how the good doctor defended himself. My questions were as close as I've ever come to a hardball interview (not that close actually). When I sent those questions from former interviewees to Bernd, he said, “Well, that’s the beauty of KLA. We give you all sides and you can decide for yourself!”
You can hear McCullough’s side when the interview is broadcast. It shouldn’t be long in coming.
Well...you say he still suggested it for elderly and immune compromised folks. That’s a bit disappointing. I wouldn’t want anybody I cared about to get that death shot.
I guess I just hear what I want to hear. Not proud of that. But Dr. McCullough sure seems pretty clear about the dangers of c19 vaxxes now. Still, I think you’re right to question a doctor who got vaccinated and then had a change of heart. It never even crossed my mind to take the jab. How could those "smart" doctors be fooled so easily?