You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus, from The Matrix. 

Nothing has shut down the world as much as the Covid pandemic — not even the six years of World War II. But what if I were to tell you that it wasn’t because of the virus, but rather propaganda intentionally spread by Xi Jinping? And, moreover, that he took advantage of an ordinary coronavirus to propel his way to world dominance?

Would you think my tinfoil hat was too tight? Take the red pill and follow me.

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I recently finished reading the book Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World, by Michael P. Senger, who has researched the Covid pandemic since March, 2020. Senger, a San Francisco attorney, has amassed hundreds of sources of information (he lists nearly 600 footnotes) that show how Xi’s propaganda war brought the world to a halt. His conclusions are jaw-dropping.

But before I continue recounting Senger’s work, consider the words of the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, who wrote in the Fifth Century BC:

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” 

That is precisely what Xi Jinping has been doing for years. He wants to dominate the world, but not through armies — not yet anyway. Instead he has lured nations into becoming dependent upon Chinese goods. He has made corporations wealthy by encouraging them to set up business in China, providing cheap labor leading to massive profits. As a result, CEOs feel more loyalty to China than their own nations, and sadly, that also includes the heads of American corporations. Think of Nike, Apple, Disney, and the National Basketball Association.

As Senger wrote:

“Before long, Western elites were gorging themselves on Chinese money, and with each dip of their paw their greed only swelled.” 

As elites grew fatter, legacy media also became enamored of China. They wrote glowing pieces of a modernizing China. Meanwhile, CCP bots were infiltrating social media, delivering pro-Chinese propaganda.

Then a coronavirus appeared, giving Xi one more weapon in his arsenal. Follow where the red pill takes you. The rabbit hole grows deeper.

Remember: all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more. — Morpheus. 

You remember how it all happened: a virus showed up in Wuhan, China, supposedly in mid-December, 2019. In early 2020, images on social media began appearing, showing the effects of this new virus in Wuhan.

The images were frightening, even though many videos looked fake.

Like this man falling dead in his tracks, even though he puts out his hands before he falls.

监控摄像头下的武汉肺炎患者倒地片段，犹如中邪，行尸走肉，被封锁后的1100万人的武汉城，可能正在变成丧尸之城！恐怖！ https://t.co/XTuYN50IxF pic.twitter.com/TzovByAYH4

— 财经冷眼 (@caijinglengyan) January 23, 2020

Images showed Wuhan citizens writhing in the streets, and officials in hazmat suits.

These sensations captured Wuhan residents in various pantomimes of pandemic horror, terrifying millions of viewers around the world. Some showed their victims foaming at the mouth and collapsing in the streets. Others featured officials in hazmat suits. 45/ pic.twitter.com/WNnVkYBDbA

— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) October 31, 2021

But even though some pooh-poohed the videos, the images left a lingering doubt in Western minds: What if it’s true? 

As Senger wrote:

“That what-if, embedded into the unconscious mind, was perhaps the most powerful effect of all.” 

So media ran with the horror stories. They also watched to see what China would do, and Xi did not disappoint. Chinese officials locked down the city of Wuhan, even though residents would scream “fake!  It’s all fake!” when authorities toured the locked down city.

These panic porn videos, propelled by the media, helped to convince a terrified West that, should Covid come to their shores, maybe they should lock down, too. As a USA Today headline read: “This is what China did to beat coronavirus. Experts say America couldn’t handle it.” But Covid, of course, spread worldwide.

Enter the World Health Organization. WHO Director Tedros Adhanom, already a puppet in Xi’s hands, praised China for “setting a new standard for outbreak response,” despite the fact that total lockdowns had never been utilized before to combat a virus. So officials throughout Europe agreed to lock down their countries, “halting all social and economic activity for the first time in history,” as Senger writes.

Meanwhile, the CCP continued to seed the globe with fake bots on social media that spread praise for the lockdowns.

The bots stormed governments including, but not limited to: Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, France, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 106/ pic.twitter.com/e1qoD5HU8E

— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) November 1, 2021

And, of course, we know what happened here in the States: Dr. Anthony Fauci slavishly followed CCP lockdowns. Senger writes:

“No one toed the CCP’s lines on COVID-19 more reliably than NIH Director Anthony Fauci.” 

Then there was the test for Covid 19. Remember how we were told it was a breakthrough in conquering the virus? Now the red pill takes us deeper still.

You’ve been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world…as it exists today. Welcome to the desert of the real. — Morpheus. 

The “gold standard” Covid test is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which detects genetic material from a virus. However, if you set the PCR test’s cycle threshold too high — over 35 — it can detect even dead nucleotides, resulting in false positives. However, WHO recommended cycle thresholds from 37-40, relying on only three studies on PCR cycles — all from China.  And using this information, most US labs set their cutoff for PCR cycle thresholds at 40, leading to people being diagnosed as having Covid when they did not.

Now, consider that the late American biochemist Kary Mullis, who invented PCR technology in 1983 — for which he received a Nobel Prize — said that PCR tests should not be used to diagnose illness. 

Mullis also didn’t have high regard for Anthony Fauci, either, as he said in a 1996 interview.

In a 1996 interview Mullis had choice words for Anthony Fauci, then head of the US response to AIDS—especially Fauci’s misuse of PCR. Set the Ct high enough and PCR can pick up any amount of viral matter and yield endless “cases”—a permanent pandemic. 124/pic.twitter.com/AMdTjGHfNg

— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) November 1, 2021

But now we’re all wondering — where did Covid come from? The current conventional wisdom in the United States is pointing to a lab leak coming from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. After all, we know that Covid started in the city of Wuhan, right?

Let the red pill take you even deeper down the rabbit hole.

I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it. — Morpheus. 

What if I were to tell you that the Wuhan lab origin theory was another of the CCP’s tricks?

Senger writes:

“From the very start, the COVID narrative overtly suggested a bioweapon. Whistleblowers; residents collapsing; lockdown; novel virus; all science tossed out. But it was all a lie. Reverse psychology. This was how the CCP convinced the world an ordinary virus was a supervirus.”

In fact, there’s lots of evidence that shows that the virus had begun in China long before December, 2019. What’s more, orders for PCR tests in China sharply increased in May, 2019.

Senger further writes:

“Worse yet, given that SARS-Co-V-2 had begun spreading across Asia in 2018 or early 2019, the CCP could have picked literally any city to shut down for purposes because of its lockdown fraud. Xi Jinping had chosen Wuhan because there was a lab there.”

Meantime, American experts and politicians are chasing a shiny object — the origin of Covid — something which may never be found. But lockdowns and mask mandates and vaccine mandates are still serving to strip the West of human rights — something which Xi Jinping desires in his quest to dominate the globe.

But, but. . . the science! cry the true believers.

In the words of Senger:

“And who, one might ask, determined “the science?” That was easy: your leader Xi Jinping, Chairman of the World.” 

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