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The Lie That Divided the World

How Truth, Conscience, and Common Sense Were Betrayed in the Name of Safety

By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST PodcastPublished 3 months ago 4 min read
The Lie That Divided the World
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The world was promised deliverance in a needle. Leaders said the vaccine would stop the virus, save lives, and bring normal life back. The media echoed that message without question. Anyone who hesitated was accused of being reckless or cruel. They were blamed for the deaths of others. They were told they were the problem. Yet those who paused, questioned, and sought truth were not the danger. They were the last line of reason in a world ruled by fear.

What the Vaccine Actually Was

The injections were unlike any prior vaccines. They did not contain weakened or inactive virus material. They carried genetic instructions that caused human cells to manufacture a spike protein foreign to the body. This was meant to create immunity. What was not said was that this technology had never before been used across entire populations, that there was no long-term data, and that the trials were done under emergency authorization with incomplete study of long-term risk.

The public was told that the mRNA remained near the injection site and would quickly break down. Later documents revealed it spread throughout the body, reaching organs and tissues and creating immune reactions that were still poorly understood. This was not traditional immunization. It was an attempt to rewrite cellular processes to manufacture a viral component indefinitely.

What We Were Told and What Happened

In 2021, President Biden said, “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky declared, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus and do not get sick.” On March 29, 2021, Rachel Maddow told her audience on MSNBC, “Now we know that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.” These were presented as statements of certainty. They were wrong.

By the end of that same year, breakthrough infections were common. The CDC’s own data confirmed that vaccinated and unvaccinated people were both spreading COVID-19. Highly vaccinated nations such as Israel and the United Kingdom faced new surges and mutations. The earlier promise of total protection was replaced by a new narrative that the vaccine only “reduced severity.” The story changed quietly, without apology or accountability. The goalposts were moved, and millions pretended not to notice.

The Ethical Collapse

The moral failure was not simply that authorities were wrong. It was that they refused to admit it. Anyone who questioned mandates was censored or shamed. Medical professionals who spoke against policy were fired. Citizens were stripped of work, travel, and dignity. Children and healthy young adults were coerced into receiving a product with no long-term testing simply to keep their place in society.

This was not science. It was ideology dressed as compassion. It turned personal conscience into a measure of political loyalty. Those who exercised caution were branded as dangerous. Those who submitted without question were praised as moral. The destruction of truth and the persecution of doubt became the new definition of virtue.

Vindication and Consequences

Time has revealed what truth-seekers already knew. The vaccines did not stop transmission. Natural immunity provided stronger and longer-lasting protection. The official adverse event databases now list myocarditis, pericarditis, and clotting disorders among the side effects once called conspiracy theories. Executives from the pharmaceutical companies later admitted in European hearings that their trials never tested whether vaccination prevented infection or spread.

Everything skeptics warned about came true. They were condemned for demanding evidence and vilified for defending personal freedom. They were accused of causing harm for exercising their right to say no. In reality, the policies built on false promises prolonged restrictions and divisions that should have ended long before. The vaccinated continued to carry and transmit the virus, ensuring new variants and continued fear.

The Human Cost

The damage reached far beyond the medical sphere. Families split apart. Friendships ended. Communities broke under the weight of distrust. Many people were denied hospital visits, education, or employment because they refused a mandate. They were called killers when they were not. They were blamed for deaths that were not their doing.

Millions who trusted the official message suffered injuries, some permanent, without acknowledgment or aid. The cruelty of that era did not come from ignorance. It came from arrogance. Fear was used as a weapon, and propaganda replaced compassion.

What Must Never Be Forgotten

The pandemic revealed the danger of unchecked authority. Those in power used science as armor to avoid accountability. They demanded faith but offered no transparency. They manipulated data, silenced dissent, and claimed moral superiority while dividing the nation. All of it was done in the name of the “greater good.”

That deception turned good people against each other. Those who followed genuine science—asking questions, verifying data, seeking understanding—were ostracized. Those who obeyed without reflection became instruments of control. The result was chaos, bitterness, and loss.

History will remember that moment as a collapse of moral courage. Power replaced truth. Obedience replaced empathy. Those who refused to betray their conscience stood alone but stood tall.

Truth endures even when it is mocked. Lies eventually collapse beneath their own contradictions. The people who held to conscience in that storm will be remembered as the ones who kept their integrity when it mattered most.

It was never about safety. It was about control. And the cure for control will always be truth.

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