By Harold Pease, Ph. D
Most of us remember how bad government/media got in 2021, five years ago, over COVID-19. Clandestine, an investigative reporter, reminds us. “Just a few years ago, the left openly said they wanted anyone without a COVID vaccine to be put in camps, they censored us online, smeared us on all forms of media, barred us from entering public spaces, pushed us out of the workforce, etc. And we turned out to be right about everything…My, how things have changed.” (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3968b, Aug. 11. 2026, 48:40). The government came very close to mandating everyone have the vaccine. Vaccine hesitancy was condemned as selfish to your family and neighbors. Three past presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, teamed-up in a joint advertisement encouraging every American be inoculated to save their loved ones. The propaganda and hysteria was overwhelming and as powerful as in NAZI Germany.
Medical doctors were among the most deceived. The vast majority of family physicians joined the deafening choir demanding that you get in line, roll up your sleeve and be injected with a virtually untested substance. Even my family doctor, so conditioned and radicalized, by the CDC and unwilling to do any personal research, was recommending the jab four years later. If you didn’t get it you were called a superspreader with the same emotion as if you were called a mass murderer. When, for thousands, vaccine injury resulted the media refused to believe or cover it.
Few physicians dared give the other side or even question what the media piped “as the science” lest their licenses be revoked. CNN, was so radicalized they even went hunting those they labeled superspreaders WHOM WE NOW KNOW WERE TELLING THE TRUTH. The media exposed these physicians as the enemies of the people to be confronted and humiliated to silence. One such was Dr. Joseph Mercola. CNN could have been CBS, ABC, NBC, even Fox News!
A CNN broadcaster in early 2021 began, “The [Biden] administration has come down hard on vaccine misinformation, but one Florida doctor has seemingly gone to great lengths to perpetuate it. Randy Kay now with the story, ‘The hunt to find him, and the reasons behind his actions.’ He is the ultimate super spreader, not of the coronavirus, experts say, but of misinformation about COVID-19. His name is Dr. Joseph Mercola. It is very likely that most people in America have seen misinformation that has originated with this super spreader of lies and misinformation. That's exactly why the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit tracking misinformation about COVID online, put Dr. Mercola, an osteopathic physician, at the top of its disinformation dozen. A list of 12 people the group says were the source for sharing 65 percent of all anti-vaccine messaging on Facebook and Twitter from February 1st through mid-March.
“We tried to track down Dr. McCola to ask him about the misinformation he's been posting, like masks may not work, vaccines could be dangerous, and vitamin C and D can prevent or treat the coronavirus. We first tried to find him at his office in Cape Coral, Florida, outside Fort Myers. ‘I'm looking for Dr. Joseph Marcola.’ ‘Not here.’ ‘Not here.’ Next stop, more than 220 miles away, Ormond Beach, Florida, which Dr. Mercola calls home. We found his house behind a large gate and tried making contact through the security access pad. Later, we spotted Joseph Mercola riding his bicycle. Once he stopped, we thought this was our opening to get some answers as to why he's pushing false claims about masks and the vaccine. ‘How are you?’ ‘I'm Randy Kay with CNN.’ ‘Can we ask you a couple questions?’ ‘NO!’ [He answered.] ’We just want to talk to you about vaccines and what you've been saying about them.’ ‘Do you feel responsible for people who didn't get vaccinated, possibly got sick and died because of what you told them about the vaccines?’” Realizing he was ambushed, set up, Dr. Mercola refused to answer.
Eventually, after they “emailed him questions, he responded writing, that ‘over 400,000 adverse events and 6,000 deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines have been filed, a majority of which were filed by medical professionals.” And ended, "I encourage every person to fully educate themselves to make individual decisions about medical risk taking” (Ep. 3968b, Aug. 11. 2026, 37:33). The truth made no difference to them! No questions disputing his facts! They were radicalized against any response!
America must never forget how the few who risked everything to get through the almost totally controlled media were treated. The Deep State media was then, and is now, the enemy of the people. CNN, CDC and Fauci all lied. Fauci’s text messages with his diary were shocking. He knew he was lying. He lied to get the emergency clearance when he knew Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were known by some to be cures. They all lied. Why would Fauci need criminal immunity if he did nothing wrong? He knowingly lied to Congress and the people.
Even Rochelle Walensky the CDC director at the time, when asked by a reporter, “Is it safe to get vaccinated while you're breastfeeding.” Responded, “It absolutely is safe to get vaccinated. So I would say, if you are thinking about getting vaccinated, there is no bad time to get vaccinated. Get vaccinated while you're thinking about having a baby, before you're thinking about having a baby, while you're pregnant with your baby, or after you've delivered your baby, there is no bad time.” Tell that to the 82% of pregnant women who lost their babies during pregnancy after having taken the COVID shot (Ibid., 41:50). “Trump’s NIH director Jay Bhattacharya unloads on Fauci over texts showing he thought one thing, but said another to American mothers,” especially over not sharing with pregnant women the risks of miscarriage from the COVID shots (by Joe Saunders, The Western Journal, Aug. 18, 2026). Fauci also failed to tell America that gain-of-function research created three diseases: Lyme, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and COVID.
CNN, CDC and Fauci didn’t care about kids getting myocarditis suddenly dying or having damaged hearts the rest of their lives, or mothers having miscarried babies, or old people that died alone in hospitals, if sickness could amplify the need for mail-in ballots amplifying cheating possibilities enough to prevent a Trump reelection, that would be a small price for them to pay.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #886
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