Blazing Reader,

Maria Koopmans is a Dutch virologist who is making headlines in the Netherlands for her testimony during a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the government's response to the COVID scamdemic. Despite having advised the Dutch government to implement destructive lockdowns and coercive vaccine passports, Koopmans offered no apologies for turning Holland into a medical police state. Instead, she lamented about how she's been called a Nazi and received numerous death threats.

If by Nazi, her accusers mean that she's a fascist, then I won't argue with their assessment. After all, what do fascists do? Restrict and order people around. If she doesn't want to be called one, don't act like one.

As for the alleged death threats? Assuming they are true (and not the actions of paid provocateurs working for Big Pharma), I still have little sympathy for her. By advising the Dutch government to enact laws that restrict the freedom to travel, conduct commerce and socialize, she was essentially threatening the lives of everybody in the Netherlands.

For example, if a restaurant served its customers during lockdown, or a man went into a gym without a clot shot running through his veins, Koopmans advised that men with guns (otherwise known as the Dutch police) be called to stop them.

Death is ultimately the implied threat behind any law. Guns are justifiable to stop theft, murder and violence. They're sadistic when used to stop someone from entering a nursing home without a dirty face mask.

Therefore, when Koopmans complains that the "horrific threats" she had received during lockdown were so bad that her family "could no longer move around freely," I question how she can be so blind to the irony of her own hypocrisy.

Consciously or unconsciously, she's positioning herself as a victim, rather than a perpetrator.

Koopmans tries to frame her actions as being about scientific discussion and debate. If that were all it was, I would have no issue with her. She can talk all day about her findings, theories and recommendations regarding viruses and how to stop them. She crosses a line when she's advising the government to enforce her beliefs with a Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol (the German-made sidearm of the Dutch police).

Besides, if the "outbreak" had really been so fatal (rather than just another cold and flu season), and her methods so effective, people would have voluntarily "followed the science." No men with guns needed.

Furthermore, none of her virtue signalling about preventing deaths adds up. Car accidents are far more dangerous than viruses. Why does she not advise the government to ban cars in the Netherlands? She could save 600 lives a year. The answer is simple, because freedom of movement preserves and improves more lives than it harms.

And do not forget that while the Dutch people endured the economic hardships of lockdowns, Koopmans wasn't suffering. As a senior professor and former department head at Erasmus MC, she likely receives a salary of €120,000 to €180,000 — funded directly or indirectly by Dutch taxpayers. She also moonlights as a scientific advisor with the World Health Organization (which I doubt is a pro bono position).

No conflicts of interest here.

In the journal, Nature, she predicted: "We are entering a very new phase of high-impact epidemics… This is a new normal."

High-impact epidemics that only the "trusted science" can detect with its vodooo PCR tests and consistently inaccurate computer modelling.

Even if democratically elected "representatives" approved her recommendations and turned them into laws, it still does not justify the use of force:

As British philosopher Auberon Herbett (1838-1906) wrote:

"...I must reply to you that your majority has no more rights over the body or mind of a man than either they bayonet-surrounded emperor or the infallible church. The freedom of a man to use his faculties or his possessions, as he himself wills, is the great moral fact that exists in independence of every form of government."

So, do I think Dutchies should be sending Professor Koopmans death threats? No. But I also think it's a natural, defensive reaction to her threatening their lives with her Nazi-like agenda disguised as public health policy.

John C.A. Manley

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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.