All The Birds One Stone (ATBOS) was written to create an unofficial record of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last several years I have diligently tracked what governments, medical institutions and mainstream news sources have been telling us about the situation, and have been compiling that information into a timeline. My hope is that this may one day help us answer some very important questions: Were we being given reliable information? How much of what we were told has stood the test of time? Have we learned anything from the pandemic that will help us navigate more effectively through the next trying time we face? Whether you thought COVID was a dire emergency, a total scam, or something in between, the answers to these questions are what truly matters, and everyone can learn something by reading through the ATBOS timeline.
After looking over my text messages going back to early January 2020, I did not start taking the pandemic seriously until February 4th when I listened to an interview with Dr. Francis Boyle, who discussed COVID as a potential biological weapon. Later the same day, President Trump mentioned COVID at the State of the Union address, which was about a week after travel with China had been shut down.
While it’s true President Trump could have done a few things better, or perhaps acted more quickly, we must also consider what the eventual response was: the near complete shutdown of society, and millions of people instantly becoming unemployed. Using lockdowns to “slow the spread” in March of 2020 was initially thought to be (or so we were told) a last resort to contain a disease of unknown origin and lethality, though would this response have been warranted earlier considering the first casualty from COVID in the US wasn’t until February 29th?
Regardless, the pandemic has been politicized by government officials and the mainstream media since it began.
Statements made by President Trump throughout the ordeal can be found at this Twitter archive, as well as another online archive containing transcripts of the marathon pressers that were occurring on a near-daily basis for months during the winter/spring/summer of 2020. If included in this timeline, these statements would have added significantly to its length – so I opted to not include them.
This website is the other side of the story people were not getting from any of our supposed “news” outlets – whether it be the political, medical, or social aspect of the pandemic. There’s sporadic commentary throughout the timeline and some additional analysis provided separately on the Further Analysis page. My commentary, at times, can be sarcastic and snarky, but that’s not to say I’m sorry about it. It’s been pretty difficult for me to track all of this so closely and witness what has unfolded since late 2019 – to watch people the world over follow along. The disinformation coming out of the medical establishment since the start of the pandemic, along with the media’s incessant lying, has also been quite arduous…
So enjoy your stroll down memory lane, and if you find this website useful, please direct others to it.
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