Death of Discernment

by Brian Campbell

How Fear Turned a Free People Into Followers

I never imagined I’d live to see a time when truth would be punished, and silence would be rewarded. But here we are.

It’s now May 2025—five years since the world changed.

Five years since the government told us to stay home for “two weeks to slow the spread.”

Five years since fear became policy and freedom became conditional.

And what unsettles me the most—what haunts me as a father, a husband, a citizen—is not just what was done to us…

It’s how easily we allowed it.

We became a compliant people.

And it didn’t happen overnight.

1976: The First Attempt

Let’s go back—because the story didn’t begin with COVID.

In 1976, the U.S. government warned of a deadly swine flu outbreak. One soldier at Fort Dix died, and that was all it took to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign.

Over 45 million Americans were vaccinated.

Then the injuries began. People developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome. At least 25 died.

The result?

The government shut the campaign down.

The media investigated. The public pushed back. The system still worked.

But for those in power, the lesson wasn’t humility.

The lesson was: next time, tighten your grip. Control the media. Silence dissent. Own the outcome.

From 1976 to 2020: A Lesson Perfected

Over four decades, every vulnerability in the 1976 response was corrected—not for your safety, but for their control:

• Critical thinking was erased from schools.

• Big Tech was armed to censor.

• Mainstream media was consolidated.

• Scientific authority became religion.

• And pandemic simulations quietly prepared the stage.

When SARS-CoV-2 appeared in late 2019, the machine was ready.

COVID-19: The Perfected Playbook

By March 2020, the United States had entered lockdown. And this time, everything was different.

• The virus wasn’t just “discovered.” It was engineered—through gain-of-function research funded by NIH and NIAID, in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

• The U.S. government co-developed the spike protein used in Moderna’s mRNA shot—and holds patents related to the vaccine.

• They released the virus, then rolled out the “solution”: an injection they knew lacked long-term safety, but from which they stood to profit.

They didn’t just respond. They orchestrated.

They Had What 1976 Didn’t: Total Control

In 1976, the media exposed harm. The program was pulled.

In 2020, the media became the propaganda arm.

They had:

• The media, to craft the illusion.

• The CDC and FDA, to stamp approval.

• Fauci, to speak as the high priest of “science.” The PREP Act, to shield themselves from lawsuits.

• Tech giants to silence every opposing voice.

• And they had the public—conditioned to obey, primed by fear, and pacified by comfort.

Population Control Disguised as “Public Health”

Let’s call it what it was.

• They controlled who worked and who didn’t.

• They dictated what was essential and what was expendable.

• They injected an entire population with a genetic product they knew was neither thoroughly tested nor risk-free.

• And they did it all while holding the patent.
  

This wasn’t about saving lives.

It was about owning lives—their bodies, their movements, their decisions.

The Frog in the Pot

It didn’t happen with force. It happened with familiarity.

• A little fear here.

• A little shame there.

• A “recommendation” that became a mandate.

• A “passport” that became a condition.
  

And the water kept heating.

Until the people—comfortable, scared, and distracted—sat quietly in a pot that was already boiling.

They Remembered 1976. You Didn’t.

They learned from the pushback back then.

They learned what not to say.

They learned how to hide the harm, control the media, indemnify the companies, and silence the doctors.

But you forgot.

Or worse—you never knew.

So, they moved forward without resistance.

And now, five years later, they still haven’t apologized.

They haven’t taken responsibility.

Because they don’t need to.

They won.

To the Silent Ones

To the teachers, doctors, pastors, and parents, who knew something was wrong but stayed quiet…

You were the firewall. And you were silent.

But you still have a voice.

Use it now.

Because if you stay quiet again, the next “public emergency” won’t just target your job or your travel.

It will come for your soul.

1976 was the test.

2020 was the takeover.

And 2025 is the reckoning.

“Stand firm, then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist.” — Ephesians 6:14

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