The BBC kicks off the holidays with a new season of pandemic fear porn
Blazing Reader,
The BBC has launched into the pandemic fear porn a bit early this year with their recent article: Flu wave hits England's busiest A&E - hundreds of patients are arriving a day
For those who don't live in England, A&E stands for Accident and Emergency. But in this case, it might as well stand for Arts and Entertainment.
Check out the dramatic opener to the propaganda piece:
At England's busiest emergency unit, all the beds are full by midday.
As one patient leaves his room at Leicester Royal Infirmary's acute unit, cleaning staff are waiting outside.
He is barely out of the room before the bed is stripped and bleach is sprayed. The next patient is already waiting to come in.
All those bleach fumes must be great for the lungs.
The article continues with more drama — citing staff who are "doing all they can to avoid becoming completely overwhelmed" and "working at the limits of [their] ability.” The author even describes how patients who can sit are being asked to... sit in a chair (what is the world coming to?), so that patients who need to lie down can use a precious hospital bed. Maybe most of these seat-restricted patients should stay home and rest in their own beds?
The article also claims the surge of patients is worse than the winter of 2020/21 — at the peak of the COVID scamdemic.
Yet, as Nick Trigglase — a rare voice of sanity at the BBC — points out, this winter is nowhere near as bad as the winters of 2014/15 or 2017/18.
Which is exactly what Stefanie illustrates in my novel, Much Ado About Corona (Chapter 50: How to Fake a Pandemic) when she covers the window of her bakery with news reports dating back to the 70s, showing how hospitals are regularly overrun with flu cases
Here's an excerpt to counter the BBC's hysteria:
“So you’re enjoying my collage?” she asked, smiling at the info bomb covering the bakery’s windows.
“Enjoying is not the word I would use,” I replied. “It’s way too mind-boggling. How did you find all these articles?”
She grinned. “It was so easy even a moose could do it. Just Google ‘hospitals overwhelmed by flu.’”
“I thought you said Google was a lying, spying, censoring monolithic shill for the overlords trying to rule the world?”
“Probably is,” she responded flatly. “Yet, even they can’t hide the truth.”
Help me counter the "lying, spying, censoring monolithic shill" that the BBC has proven itself to be by sharing the following press release about the Much Ado About Corona audiobook with local newspapers, TV stations, podcast hosts and media sites:
https://blazingpinecone.com/pr/maac-audiobook/
Send them that link, or copy and paste its content into an email. Let's spread truth with fiction via a story about the power of courage over fear.
John C.A. Manley
John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.
