I WAS WRONG ABOUT COVID*

Reflecting on the Pseudo-Pandemic

I would also encourage people to think about the point at which they will decide that their country is no longer safe for them. In the Northern Territories of Australia, they’ve already started arbitrarily detaining people in quarantine facilities, without any due process, so if people think that they won’t start putting people in concentration camps, well, that’s what Australians would have thought just a few short years ago. I think that history will show that at some point in the rise of totalitarian regimes, the regime will start rounding up dissidents. So be forewarned: you know what is coming, or at least what we can reasonably expect. Don’t be caught with your pants down.

-Crow Qu’appelle, writing in January 2022

Dear Nevermorons,

A few days ago, I posted a meme that I thought y’all would appreciate.

Personally, I think this message is 100% factually accurate. But I found myself caught off guard when someone asked me why I posted it.

As soon as I tried to come up with a clever response, I realized that there was only one answer I could truthfully give.

This exchange happened at a time when I happened to be reflecting on the trajectory of the past five years, because I was writing a piece reflecting on hitting a big milestone.

As you probably know, Nevermore started out critiquing authoritarian measures from a Leftist anarchist perspective. If it wasn’t for COVID, you wouldn’t be reading this.

For months now, I’ve been meaning to write something to mark the five year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID psy op. I feel that I have a lot to say on the subject, and I don’t think that an adequate post-mortem has yet been done.

But I’ve been having trouble motivating myself, because thinking about the past five years depresses me. The sad truth is that I used to have a higher opinion of humanity in general than I do today. I think that most people behaved like total morons during COVID.

How do I write about my true feelings in a way which actually helps bring about meaningful solidarity between people?

I don’t really think posting memes that boil down to “I was right, you were wrong” serves that purpose.

So, I thought that I’d start out by pointing out that I was wrong about COVID. I left Canada because I was afraid that Canada was converting into a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship.

And when I say that I was afraid, I really mean it. When an anarchist comrade mysteriously turned up dead in Ottawa, I thought that I might be next. Part of my motivation for leaving Canada was that I felt that I had little hope of success organizing politically in such a polarized political landscape, but part of the reason was that I thought I might get arrested or even killed if I stuck around.

In retrospect, I was kind of crazy. I think my craziness was understandable, given the circumstances. Thankfully, things haven’t ended up getting nearly as bad as I thought they were going to.

(At least not yet, anyway.)

I’m back in Canada now and things are pretty much back to how they were before COVID.

Don’t get me wrong - Canada has gotten worse. The price of living has shot through the roof, for instance, and people don’t have much hope that things are going to get better. The counterculture seems to have shrunk, and there seems to be less cool stuff going on. But in most ways you can now do pretty much everything you could before COVID. It hasn’t transformed into the nightmarish fascist dystopia I was expecting.

In January 2022, I wrote a piece called Meditations on Exile, which provides a glimpse into my thinking at that time:

Exile is the path that I have chosen, because I know that sometime, leaving your home to escape political oppression is the best possible course of action. How do I know this? Because my grandparents and great-grandparents, who were Mennonites, left Soviet Russia for exactly that reason.

Recently, I asked my mom to send me whatever family history she had, and was delighted to when she gave me the following account by my great-uncle, speaking about my great-grandfather’s decision to move his entire family to the other side of the world.

“Certainly, there was apparent need for him to leave. He had a good farm, complete with orchard and river nearby. He was respected by his own people as a minister, builder and farmer. Even the Russians respected him, for he had gone through the revolution practicing his non-involvement in military affairs with inspired impartiality. Everyone, in other words, wanted us to stay. And yet Dad insisted we had to leave, for he felt certain that any further delay would leave us forever under Communist control, a control which he could see as only becoming worse and worse. With this vision so clear to him, he made sure his entire family would go with him, even his two married daughters and their families. When we finally got to Riga to board the boat to London, there was the worry that I was getting feverish again. He wouldn’t hear of it, hurriedly carrying me on the boat himself, leaving the others to follow on their own. I’ve always marveled at this inspired conviction of my father, for later events proved him right – ours was the last boatload of immigrants to be allowed to leave Russia.”

So, in other words, he saved the lives of his entire family. The Mennonites who remained were basically exterminated. Some were conscripted into military service, others were sent to gulags, and many were simply killed.

Writing in May 2025, it seems a tad over-dramatic to suggest that the Canadian government might start rounding people up and sending them to the gulags. Back in January of 2022, however, it felt like a realistic possibility.

I mean, they really did build a bunch of “quarantine facilities” in Australia, which differ from internment camps in name only. I remember thinking “Why would they build a bunch of internment camps unless they planned on using them?”

This caused me a lot of distress, as my girlfriend at the time was in Australia. I genuinely thought that I might never be able to see her again, which made things between us much more dramatic than they needed to be.

As you’ll recall, Australia had some of the most extreme lockdown measures in the world. Not only were foreigners banned from entering the country, its own citizens were banned from leaving it. It was a very weird time.

At the time, she urged me to be patient, but I could not be soothed. I was living in a constant state of extreme distress, and I consider myself fortunate that I didn’t go completely insane.

If someone would have told me that everything would have returned to normal by 2025, I would never have believed them. I would probably have accused them of wishfully whistling while the world burned.

Looking back now, I can also see that I overreacted to the news that my family had all gotten the jabs. At the time, it felt like a stab through my heart. I felt personally betrayed. I felt that I had failed, and I was was very worried that my mom would be dead within 5-10 years.

Like many conspiracy theorists, I considered it likely that jabs were part of a plan for global depopulation. It made sense to my mind that Canada would want to knock off its baby boomers, so I considered my mom especially at risk.

To be fair, it’s only been 3 years, so I suppose it’s possible that the “vaccines” could still kill my family. But it doesn’t strike me as particularly likely. So thank God I was (probably) wrong.

Also, all of the deaths which could be plausibly linked to the COVID shots don’t seem to have made a dent in the world’s population, which continues to grow.

I also thought that it was likely that the shots would affect women’s fertility. Well, both my stepsister and sister-in-law have had babies since getting jabbed, and both babies are perfectly healthy.

Now, it could be that my family has just been lucky. But the truth is that I don’t really personally know anyone who has had their lives ruined by the COVID shot.

Do you?

I guess what I’m trying to say is this: if I were to say “I was right, you were wrong” about COVID in general, I would be lying. There was a lot that I was wrong about, too.

For a long time, I really wanted my family to acknowledge that I was right about COVID, and it felt like a form of disrespect that they refused to do so. After all, I dedicated so much of my life to trying to get people to see through the layers and layers of deceit.

I was right that there was no new deadly disease called COVID. I was right that masks did nothing to prevent people from getting sick. I was right that the jabs were completely unnecessary, and provided no health benefits whatsoever. I was right that they were risky, and that it was complete folly to trust Big Pharma’s mysterious serum given the circumstances.

I was right that COVID was being used to run cover for a massive transfer of wealth from us commoners to the world’s richest people.

The brazenness of the billionaire class still boils my blood. Not one powerful person has been punished for what they did.

But I was wrong about some things too. I don’t think living the rest of my life with an “I was right, you were wrong” attitude is going to do me any favours in the long run.

It still does irk me that so many people who fell for the COVID psy op won’t admit that the whole thing was a massive scam, because it means that we still can’t have a really grown-up conversation about it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not sayin “oh, COVID is over, everything’s fine now”. Although things in Canada have largely gone back to how they were pre-COVID, that doesn’t mean that we’re out of the woods.

Although it’s hard to predict what’s coming, there are many reasons to believe that COVID was only one act in a multi-act play intended to bring in some kind of global technocracy.

If we want to be able to resist the plans that the Powers That Shouldn’t Be have for our world, we need to build a movement which has some sort of understanding of what is going on in the world.

Those of us who saw through the COVID hoax are in the minority, and somehow we need to be able to put that awful era behind us.

I’m not really sure how to go about doing that, but I think that adopting a humble attitude might be for the best.

So thank you to The Duke Report for his wise words!

I have decided to repost the aforementioned Meditations on Exile piece, which provides a window into my mind during the dark days of the COVID pseudo-pandemic.

Also, please share your thoughts about COVID in the comments. I’ll probably follow this piece up with another one sometime soon, so I’m curious to hear about how others are coming to the terms with what happened to their worlds over the past five years.

Love & Solidarity,

Crow Qu’appelle

Meditations on Exile

by Crow Qu’appelle, January 2022

“As most of the firefighters have been fired over their refusal to accept mandatory vaccination, the fires are left burning unattended.”

This quote, from a recent news article about riots in the French territory of Guadelupe, seems like a good place to begin. The world has descended further into madness. The end is nowhere in sight, and we all know that the world we grew up isn’t coming back. How does one keep the fire of hope alive in such times? Those of us who are still awake all know what is necessary: global revolution. But it seems like a tall order when the majority have been brainwashed into thinking that medical tyranny is for our own good. By now, the people who are awake are awake, and the people who aren’t seem very determined to stay asleep. The truth is frightening, of course. I’d love to believe that the biggest problem in the world was an illness with a 99% survival rate.

The truth is that the first Volume of Nevermore was an abject failure in its intended goal of convincing anarchists to take an anti-lockdown, pro-freedom position. No one can say that we didn’t try. We printed ten thousand copies of the first issue of Nevermore in English and French and did our best to distribute them. It seems to have had little overall effect on anarchist discourse, and we now have to concede that the anarchist movement has mostly ceased to exist in Canada.

So why continue to write? What do I hope to accomplish? What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Who do I hope to reach, if most anarchists are now anarchists in name only?

Well, on a personal level, I definitely feel like my efforts have been worthwhile, due to the connections that I’ve made with dissidents from around the world. One of them, an anarchist from Croatia, encouraged me to come to Chiapas, Mexico, and I took his advice. I ended up falling in love with the magical city of San Cristobal de las Casas, where I now reside. Chiapas is the home of the Zapatista movement, and deserves its reputation as a rebel strong-hold. My life has been amazing since I moved here, and I feel that if Nevermore succeeded only in making my life awesome, then it has been a spectacular success. Instead of cowering in fear waiting for the government to tell me when I’m allowed to go outside, I’ve been living it up, training at a fight gym, learning Spanish, making new friends, and enjoying my freedom.

So, I’ve been reluctant to advocate for going into exile as a political strategy, but I want to be honest. It is the path that I have chosen. Let’s face it – the political situation in Canada is not improving, and there seems to be very little that I can do about that. There is a protest movement, yes, but it is easily ignored by the powers that be, and no one seems to have a strategy to overthrow the government, which is clearly what’s necessary at this point. There has never been a revolution in Canada, and there’s no signs of a revolutionary movement springing into being, and as a veteran of militant political organizing in Canada, I know what I’m talking about.

Exile is the path that I have chosen, because I know that sometime, leaving your home to escape political oppression is the best possible course of action. How do I know this? Because my grandparents and great-grandparents, who were Mennonites, left Soviet Russia for exactly that reason.

Recently, I asked my mom to send me whatever family history she had, and was delighted to when she gave me the following account by my great-uncle, speaking about my great-grandfather’s decision to move his entire family to the other side of the world.

“Certainly, there was apparent need for him to leave. He had a good farm, complete with orchard and river nearby. He was respected by his own people as a minister, builder and farmer. Even the Russians respected him, for he had gone through the revolution practicing his non-involvement in military affairs with inspired impartiality. Everyone, in other words, wanted us to stay. And yet Dad insisted we had to leave, for he felt certain that any further delay would leave us forever under Communist control, a control which he could see as only becoming worse and worse. With this vision so clear to him, he made sure his entire family would go with him, even his two married daughters and their families. When we finally got to Riga to board the boat to London, there was the worry that I was getting feverish again. He wouldn’t hear of it, hurriedly carrying me on the boat himself, leaving the others to follow on their own. I’ve always marveled at this inspired conviction of my father, for later events proved him right – ours was the last boatload of immigrants to be allowed to leave Russia.”

So, in other words, he saved the lives of his entire family. The Mennonites who remained were basically exterminated. Some were conscripted into military service, others were sent to gulags, and many were simply killed. I’m not exaggerating. The Elder who baptized two of my great-aunts was exiled to Siberia. A member of the church that I grew up actually located a mass grave where some of her relatives were buried, and visited it, where she sung a hymn to honour their spirits.

So I owe my very existence to the vision, foresight and determination of my ancestors. I would not exist if they had not made the decision to flee an increasingly totalitarian society. I marvel to think of this, and the lesson is not lost on me. Clearly, sometimes going into exile is the smart thing to do.

Are we in such a situation now? Well, it certainly seems that Canada is well on its way to full totalitarian dystopia, but of course things are never so bad that they can’t be worse. Of course, I’m fully aware that much of the world sees Canada as a land of milk and honey, where opportunities abound. But I am determined to be free, and Canada is no longer a free country. And the prosperity and privilege that Canadians are used to do won’t necessarily last for much longer. Many Mennonites in Russia were wealthy before they were disenfranchised. When the World Economic Forum says “you will own nothing”, presumably that means the Canadians will be dispossessed of their wealth, so I wouldn’t count on the the privileges of living in a rich country lasting forever.

So, I am not advocating exile for everyone. I think that people should fight to defend their homes, if they are prepared for what that entails. I encourage people to consider their options. If you want to be free, you either need to be a part of a resistance movement, and that will demand sacrifices. Moving to another country is a big endeavour. It takes months of planning and many tough decisions. You may need to learn a new language. Leaving your home is not something to be taken lightly. My point here is that it’s not something that can be done on a dime. If you think that it might be necessary for you for you to go into exile then the time to start thinking about it is now. If it’s something that you’re thinking about, consider visiting places that you think that might be good options for you. You don’t want to making a stab in the dark when the crucial hour comes.

I would also encourage people to think about the point at which they will decide that their country is no longer safe for them. In the Northern Territories of Australia, they’ve already started arbitrarily detaining people in quarantine facilities, without any due process, so if people think that they won’t start putting people in concentration camps, well, that’s what Australians would have thought just a few short years ago. I think that history will show that at some point in the rise of totalitarian regimes, the regime will start rounding up dissidents. So be forewarned: you know what is coming, or at least what we can reasonably expect. Don’t be caught with your pants down.

As for a political strategy, it’s hard to imagine what would be effective at this point. Clearly, what’s necessary is mass non-compliance, but if masses haven’t reached the point where they realize what’s up by now, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Presumably, there will be armed resistance in the U.S., whose founders had the foresight to know that the government that they were creating would become tyrannical at some point, and designed the constitution so that the people would be able to resist it. The propaganda campaign for the new “domestic War on Terror” has already begun. The media will portray their opposition as far-right white supremacists, and the reality is that many militia members probably are, but I hope that people don’t swallow the media narrative that everyone who takes up arms are neo-nazis, which is how I suspect that they’ll frame it. If there is a civil war, it will be because people see no other option than defending themselves against tyranny. No one wants to go to war with the U.S. government, and the decision to take arms is not to be taken lightly. And who knows how that will go. Only time will tell.

Back to Canada: organized armed resistance seems unlikely. Maybe some very brave people will make a bold stand, but will the revolt spread? When push comes to shove, will Canadians fight back or roll over? I’ll leave it for the reader to decide.

So, are we totally fucked, then? Not necessarily. The world is a very big place, and very hard to take over. Many people have tried, and they have all failed. Now, clearly the intention is to use propaganda to do it, rather than military force. And that’s what I think that I think people need to understand.

World War Three isn’t around the corner. It’s right now. This is a new kind of war, but it is definitely a war. The powers that be want you to think that resistance is futile, that their new Thousand-Year Reich is inevitable, but it’s not true. Look at the War on Terror. The U.S. tried to take over Afghanistan, and after a 20 year insurgency, the Afghan people are back in charge. So it is possible for people to fight against seemingly insurmountable odds and triumph. To the rulers of the world, I would just say – if you haven’t taken over Afghanistan, you haven’t taken over the world. The Soviets tried to do it and failed, the Americans tried to do it and failed, and presumably whoever is trying to take over the world this time will fail also, though who knows how much horrible suffering will result.

There’s also the possibility that this whole global totalitarian coup might be an act of desperation on the part of the international bankers who control the global money supply. Why do I say that? Because the International Monetary and Financial System is now obsolete. Why do I say that? One word: Bitcoin.

As of the current moment, U.S. hegemony is based on the U.S. dollar being the reserve currency for the entire global financial system. But this can’t last forever. Something needs to replace it, and the technology now exists for a form of money to exist that is outside of the control of banks and the governments they control. The only thing that can stop crypto, at this point, is global totalitarian government, and what exactly is happening in the world now? A global totalitarian coup. How interesting.

Is this too far-fetched? I don’t know. Certainly it seems like these plans have been in the works for quite awhile, so maybe crypto has nothing to do with it. But it’s important that people realize how revolutionary crypto is. Governments control people through money, and if they don’t have control of the money supply anymore, it’s a whole new ball game. It’s not unreasonable to think that the rulers of the world would pull out all the stops to retain their control.

There are other reasons to be optimistic. Much of the world, especially Africa and the Middle East, is refusing vaccination, which goes to show the new paradigm of biosecurity is far from universally accepted. It’s a very, very big plan to impose tyranny on the entire world all at once, and presumably people will start fighting back as it becomes increasingly obvious how insane the New World Order the elites have in mind the world is. A lot of people will see it as a matter of life and matter to resist, and the plan is going to get bogged down along the way. There will probably be a whole bunch of wars and conflicts in many different places, and all of those require resources and attention from the people running the show.

Plus, if you’ve ever played Risk, you know that betrayal is a crucial factor in war. If the elites start back-stabbing each other, all bets are off. And that’s definitely a real possibility. The people who are the most obsessed with power are basically hardcore drug addicts, their drug being power. At the end of the day, addicts cannot be expected to play nicely with others.

Although it seems like a pretty coordinated global effort right now, we can be sure that there are many factions within circles of power, and that many of these depraved, power-drunk psychopaths will be scheming to increase their own take, and at a certain point they will inevitably start back-stabbing each other.

That much is for sure, and so as much as they might want you to think that the future is written in stone, the real world is a very chaotic place, and there are variables that can’t be accounted for, such as luck.

At the end of the day, it’s the lucky ones who win. Or, as King Solomon put it:

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”