Is Alex Berenson Controlled Opposition?
A critical review of Alex Berenson's new bestseller Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
I dove into Alex Berenson’s underwhelming new book Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives immediately after devouring Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brilliant, #1 bestselling, MUST READ book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (4.8 stars from 4,200+ reviews on Amazon).
Though Berenson’s Pandemia is also a Top 10 Amazon bestseller (with 4.9 stars from 800+ Amazon reviews) it struck me as lacking in substance, conviction, and depth. At times it even seems disingenuous and deceptive, especially when contrasted with RFK Jr's latest book and the ongoing work of many brave doctors, scientists, journalists, activists, and critical thinking, cool headed citizens with common sense who have bravely opposed the obvious technofascist, bioterrorist covid Great Reset agenda.
Surprisingly, Berenson’s Pandemia barely mentions any of our most powerful and influential allies in the fight against the official covid narrative, but he devotes whole chapters to hyping up his own role in the ordeal. Berenson’s bestseller also neglects to mention several of the most public people who clearly planned out, profited from, and power grabbed throughout the pandemic. Bill Gates is his biggest omission.
Briefly, Berenson defines “pandemia” as “one part pandemic to five parts hysteria” and blames this collective state of mind for the mass mediated absurdity and institutionalized stupidity we have witnessed since Covid began. Berenson brings up some important points and tiptoes around the right side of history, but he does not give his readers the whole truth about the power players and institutionalized corruption underpinning the narratives and actions which brought on and have prolonged this unhealthy state of “pandemia”. Berenson comes off as a “coincidence theorist”, as if massive wealth and power is coincidentally consolidated via the mysterious materialization of blatant bioterrorism.
Throughout the book he repeatedly reminds his readers that he is NOT a “conspiracy theorist” and seems to go out of his way to throw pulled punches at unnamed adversaries while reinforcing much of the narrative he claims to dispel. Berenson is nowhere near the tip of the spear, and Pandemia strikes me as dull hatchet swung erratically by a beta male at some small branches of a deeply rooted tree.
I give Pandemia two stars and would only recommend it as a small stepping stone on the long climb to a reality-based worldview high above the disgusting quagmire of deceptive propaganda. If you drank the corporate kool-aid whole heartedly for the last two years and are now contemplating cancellation of your subscription to endless covid boosters, this book may serve you well. If you are a free thinking human with intact DNA don’t waste your time .
After critically analyzing Pandemia I have suspicions that Alex Berenson could be controlled opposition presenting a limited hangout about the covid pandemic. Here are several reasons why:
ONE: Berenson’s book blatantly omits several of the key players behind the covid pandemic. For example, Bill Gates -- arguably the most infamous, powerful, and profit-mongering public pusher of pandemia and pro-vax propaganda -- is not even mentioned in Berenson’s 454 page book, let alone cataloged in the index for convenient reference. Berenson does not see fit to address The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s unbelievably prophetic October 2019 Event 201 global coronavirus pandemic simulation either.
My mind boggles at the notion that a sincere journalist could legitimately explore “how coronavirus hysteria took over our government, rights, and lives” without making mention of the unusual machinations and technofascist recommendations of the organizations behind Event 201 — and subsequent real world covid pandemic narrative pushers — like the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the World Economic Forum.
WEF Founder and global coronavirus pandemic “Great Reset” pusher Klaus Schwab is notably absent from Berenson’s book as well.
In my opinion, these obvious omissions — and Berenson’s gentle handling of folks like Fauci who do get mentioned — are major red flags.
TWO: Berenson ignores and omits many — if not all — of the most reputable, reliable, credentialed, and consistently correct covid narrative contrarians. Pandemia makes no mention of leading lights like Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Peter McCullough, Minnesota State Senator Dr. Scott Jensen, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Simone Gold (or her America's Front Line Doctors group), Dr. Pierre Korey (or his Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance group) Dr. Kary Mullis (inventor of the PCR test), Dr. Frank Ruscetti, Dr. Judy Mikovitz, and Dr. Luc Montagnier, amongst countless other heroic covid contrarians.
Berenson only mentions Children’s Health Defense founder and public health advocate RFK Jr. briefly alongside Naomi Wolf and dismisses them both as “anti-vaxxers” spreading “wild conspiracy theories, each more implausible than the last”. Strangely, RFK Jr’s name is not catalogued in the index but Naomi Wolf is listed. Equally odd, Pandemia’s index does include minor characters like Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, and dozens of low-grade, well-paid, mainstream media peddlers of the official covid propaganda which Berenson saw fit to weave into his narrative.
Countless brave, brilliant doctors, scientists, researchers, journalists, and activists have risked it all to selflessly share suppressed truths, save lives, and dispel our society’s collective pandemia. Millions of people have spoken out against the official propaganda, and many of us have been blatantly censored and attacked in a myriad of other ways, but Berenson writes pretty much all of us out of his bestseller. Many of these folks — your humble author, me, excluded — could only be completely ignored by a journalist living under a rock or intentionally telling a woefully incomplete tale.
THREE: While ignoring pretty much every other prominent, powerful ally in his purported fight against pandemia, Berenson repeatedly portrays himself as the main character leading the charge against covid propaganda. Whole chapters of Pandemia are devoted to sharing his struggles with disagreeable family and friends and his personal experiences with censorship and slander. Despite page after page after page highlighting his own efforts and perceived injustices, Berenson’s approach to the overall censorship issue strikes me as myopic and self-centered.
He fails to mention any of the other covid contrarians who suffered even more stifling fates and did not build similarly high profile and profitable careers off of their covid coverage.
Strangely, throughout the last two years while millions of concerned citizens were being shadowbanned and deplatformed for debunking the official covid narrative, Berenson rose to prominence from his lowly pre-pandemic status as a relative nobody with 7,000 Twitter followers. While other covid contrarians experienced dwindling engagement and outright bans, Berenson’s reach surged and he amassed at least 345,000 followers on Twitter before being permanently — and exceptionally publicly — banned on August 28th, 2021. Fortunately — for Berenson — despite his Twitter ban he amassed tens of thousands of paid subscribers on Substack thanks to 14 months of massive reach, controversial coverage in prominent mainstream publications, and frequent guest appearances on corporate media outlets like Fox News and powerful podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience.
When Amazon allegedly threatened to forbid the sale of Berenson’s series of Unreported Truths booklets none other than Elon Musk came to his aid, and subsequently those booklets became best sellers on Amazon. It stikes me as odd how that worked out for him. Censorship sucks, but it can be a boon for any author when it doesn’t actually occur and one of the most beloved technocrat billionaires boosts your book sales.
I can’t help wonder if Berenson’s booklets were actually initially denied by Amazon when I look at my growing library of waaaaaay more controversial covid contrarian tomes purchased off of Amazon.
Now Pandemia is an Amazon best seller, no doubt aided by the corporate media’s current reporting on Berenson’s legal battle against Twitter censorship and portrayals of him as “the pandemic’s wrongest man”.
In reality, Berenson’s approach to the pandemic has more in common with the corporate media than with those of us he writes off as “conspiracy theorists” and “anti-vaxxers”. For example, in Pandemia Berenson states that there is no evidence that hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, or Vitamin D(!) are effective against covid-19 and that he believes older folks should still get the covid jabs (even though he admits that the jabs don’t work as advertised). These are very mainstream views.
In contrast, many of us pesky free thinking humans completely distrust the corporate media’s profit-driven drivel and have spent that last two years swiftly and succinctly debunking their incessant panic porn propaganda in real time. We are so “wrong” [sic] by corporate media standards that Berenson is not a true contender for the title of “the pandemic’s wrongest man”.
We all know that any publicity is good publicity. Historically and currently, the corporate media simply ignores the vast majority of credible contrarians much like Berenson himself has chosen to ignore his most powerful allies in the fight against pandemia.
The fact that Berenson portrays himself as a heavily censored leading light while the corporate media portrays him as the heart of darkness — instead of just censoring and ignoring him — further supports the notion that he is controlled opposition presenting us with a limited hangout.
At a time when many doctors, scientists, and journalists who contradict the covid narrative have had their careers crushed, Berenson has garnered fame and fortune off of corporate mediated controversy, bestselling books, and swelling ranks of paid subscribers. This is another major red flag in my not so humble opinion.
FOUR: Pandemia’s coverage of officially suppressed yet globally utilized safe, affordable, effective covid treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine is pathetically inadequate. Throughout 454 pages, here is all that Berenson had to say about such pertinent, potentially life saving, and pandemia squashing topics:
Almost two years into the crisis, we have not just failed to find really effective new small molecule drug treatments for Covid, we do not even know if a long list of cheap drugs that are already widely available might help. Would ivermectin? Who knows? Hydroxychloroquine? Who knows? (Probably not.) Vitamin D? Who knows? Fluvoxamine? Who knows? Albuterol? Who knows?
The only medicine in this category that we know helps reduce mortality is the steroid dexamethasone, and we only know that because of a trial in Britain. Here’s something else we know: the medical establishment, and especially the federal health bureaucracy, have been bizarrely reluctant to consider or test older and cheaper drugs.
At every opportunity they have treated these potential therapies with scorn, while lavishing attention on expensive new drugs such as remdesivir, which have so far failed to make any dent in the pandemic. (Monoclonal antibodies do work, and pharmaceutical companies deserve credit for developing those — but they are expensive and difficult to produce, and thus hard to scale widely even in the United States, much less across the world.)
Vaccines — and the mRNA vaccines in particular — are the ultimate example of this obsession with new and expensive biotechnology.
Let’s unpack these paragraphs, shall we.
By Berenson’s logic, big pharma is obsessed with “new and expensive biotechnology” but cannot provide adequate supplies of the monoclonal antibodies they “deserve credit for developing” because monoclonal antibodies are “too expensive”. This is an epic example of illogical mental gymnastics and kowtowing to the same corporations actively suppressing affordable treatments.
Berenson finds it “bizarre” that big pharma would not seek older and cheaper drugs to treat covid. Meanwhile everybody with a functioning prefrontal cortex knows that massive corporations and governments cannot help but conspire to maximize profit and consolidate power: that is literally what these organizations are designed to do. Even our currency — the money supply itself — is rooted in an obvious conspiracy, but these basic foundational facts underpinning modern civilization are elusive and puzzling to “serious journalists” like Berenson. It’s called “racketeering”, bud: look it up!
Most absurdly, Berenson tells us we do not know if Vitamin D helps the human immune system fight off a wide variety of diseases. It does, and we have known this for decades. Regarding covid, even mainstream newspapers are currently reporting on how important Vitamin D is to defeating the disease. To quote yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune:
By January 2021, the scientific support for vitamin D supplementation was strong enough that former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona pleaded in writing, "Don't let COVID-19 patients die with vitamin D deficiency — we can't wait for perfect evidence."
He and his co-authors wrote, "Given the safety profile of vitamin D, the 40% prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in the U.S., and the fact that this season [winter] will likely be the deadliest phase of the pandemic to date, we need to act now [January 2021]. Identifying and eradicating vitamin D deficiency with early and aggressive supplementation in COVID-19 has the potential to save thousands of lives and should be one of our highest public health priorities."
Berenson tells us that the widely utilized, safe, affordable, broad spectrum antiviral zinc ionophore hydroxychloroquine “probably” does not work against covid. He is wrong. It does work, and we have known this with ever increasing confidence since the Zalenko protocol was widely publicized in April and May of 2020.
Berenson wrote the word “ivermectin” exactly once in Pandemia, and tells us nobody knows whether or not it works. Meanwhile doctors in several countries like Japan and El Salvador have effectively ended the pandemic by approving and widely prescribing it. Of course the corporate media tells us otherwise, but real journalists like David DeGraw were showcasing mountains of good science supporting ivermectin as a covid treatment well over a year ago.
Sadly, by Berenson’s illogic we will only know whether or not these drugs work when the corporate media decides to cover conclusive double blind placebo testing of these drugs conducted by the same corrupt governments and conspiring corporations that have held the world hostage for the last two years. Bizarre, indeed.
Any serious journalist seeking to explain “how coronavirus hysteria took over our government, rights, and lives” would devote at least a chapter or two to discussing how that hysteria was largely driven by the belief that there were no safe and effective treatments prior to the heavily hyped up experimental injections. RFK Jr’s coverage of this topic provides a great example of how that is done. Berenson’s coverage of this crucial topic is, frankly, bullshit.
FIVE: Pandemia pulls its punches in other ways, notably while (not) addressing the financial incentives and shiesty standards used to boost covid death counts and the unreliable, false-positive producing PCR tests used to boost covid case numbers. For the sake of brevity, I will only dive into his coverage of covid death statistics.
By now we all know that “covid related” does not mean “covid caused” and that many deaths were categorized as covid deaths despite serious comorbidities and even more obvious actual causes of death like accidents, drug overdoses, suicides, etc. For example, a 95 year old American who died in the ER after a car wreck while simultaneously suffering from chronic obesity, alzheimers, heart disease, diabetes, and terminal cancer could be called a covid death — even without a positive covid test — if the “health care” professionals treating that patient and filling out their death certificate wanted to collect some of the government funds doled out to hospitals dealing with “covid patients” and cataloguing “covid deaths”.
American hospitals have been eligible for $13,000 payouts for each “covid patient” and $39,000 for each “covid patient” put on a ventilator. A surefire way to get that government cheese is to categorize patient deaths as covid deaths.
These blatantly unethical financial incentives were exposed by folks like Minnesota State Senator and MD Scott Jensen in the early days of the pandemic, though the “fact checkers” still insist that this scam did not promote ventilator use or boost the number of reported covid cases and deaths. That “fact checker” perspective is absurd in a nation with a profit-driven health care system, especially at a time when many of the health care industry’s profit generating services were suspended due to the expected overwhelming pandemic.
Even private citizens can get in on the action: to this day FEMA will dole out up to $9000 to cover funeral costs if (and only if) a death is officially categorized as a covid death.
Berenson fails to mention these financial incentives, but he did do a decent enough job describing how government agencies like the CDC modified official death reporting procedures to pad the numbers of covid related deaths. Unfortunately Berenson cushions his blows and obscures the truth of the matter with statements like this:
Still, the obvious mistakes make up only a small fraction of total reported Covid deaths. In its 2021 review, the CDC put the number at 3 percent.
Breaking News from Berenson! CDC says new CDC death reporting standards only overinflated covid deaths by 3%. That is like saying the NYPD reviewed widespread allegations of corruption and police brutality and found itself innocent in 97% of instances. In reality, by August 2020 even the CDC itself admitted that 94% of reported covid related deaths occurred in Americans with an average of 2.6 comorbidities. Berenson never mentions this bombshell admission, making his pulled punches even more obvious.
Let’s look at another example of Berenson’s questionable coverage of covid deaths:
Covid victims with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or cancer accounted for over 100,000 of the dead in the United States through late spring 2021. For those people, it could be impossible to distinguish between dying from covid and with covid.
But they were all counted as covid deaths.
That said, covid clearly did kill hundreds of thousands of Americans in 2020. The reason we can be so sure is that about a half-million more Americans died in 2020 than 2019. A total of 2,854,000 Americans died in 2019, compared to 3,358,000 in 2020.
Despite (almost) acknowledging the CDC’s blatantly deceptive covid death reporting standards, Berenson is “so sure” that covid killed hundreds of thousands of Americans — in seeming lockstep with the official narrative — because he downplays the obvious.
For starters, every year more Americans die compared to the previous year because our population is growing by ~0.6% annually and is increasingly elderly, obese, mentally ill, and otherwise unhealthy. Poverty is on the rise as well, with more Americans out of work or living paycheck to paycheck in recent years than ever before. The official response to the pandemic exacerbated these trends in massive ways which obviously account for some of the excess deaths reported in the (highly suspect) official statistics.
According to US News and World Report:
Twenty nine pounds! Per person! In 42% of the adult population! Obesity kills, and American obesity surged more than ever before since pandemia took hold.
Mental illness exploded in America as well. According to a article published in The Lancet on October 8th, 2021:
The pandemic (and state of pandemia) hit the USA harder than most other nations, so these global depression and anxiety increase estimates certainly reflect the situation here.
I could throw a thousand more scary statistics at you, but lets just look at two.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a 14% increase in alcohol consumption among survey participants above pre-pandemic levels.
Almost 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2020, up 30% from the year before.
How many additional drug overdose deaths went unreported due to social stigmas or were mislabeled as covid deaths? We don’t know.
How many suicides went unreported due to social stigmas or were mislabeled as covid deaths? We don’t know.
How many Americans died because the lockdowns and climate of fear lead to unhealthy living, overeating, inactivity, obesity, social isolation, depression, anxiety, and subsequent deaths of despair? We don’t know.
How many Americans died because the healthcare system suspended offering treatment for a variety of serious diseases due to its debilitating obsession with covid? We don’t know.
How many Americans died because they avoided healthcare due to fear of contracting covid? How many Americans died because of growing — and justifiable — distrust in the healthcare system? How many Americans could not afford healthcare due to financial hardships brought on by the pandemic response? We don’t know.
How many Americans died because the healthcare system misdiagnosed other diseases as covid based on unreliable, inaccurate PCR tests? How many Americans died because the healthcare system did not offer outpatient treatment to people correctly — and incorrectly — diagnosed with covid? How many Americans died because our healthcare system ignored and suppressed safe, effective, affordable covid treatments while pushing ineffective, expensive drugs like remdesivir and dangerous, invasive procedures like mechanical ventilation? We don’t know.
We don’t know a lot, which prompts the obvious question: why is Berenson “so sure” that covid caused hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths in 2020?
Personally, I am growing increasingly sure that Berenson cannot be trusted.
SIX: Berenson went to Yale, spent 10 years writing for the New York Times before leaving that career to write spy novels and a book demonizing marijuana, and his wife is an MD practicing Forensic Psychiatry. Typically, the apple usually does not fall too far from the tree.
Yale is an elite Ivy League indoctrination camp. An education there is a red flag.
The New York Times is a propaganda rag that still hasn’t told us the truth about 9/11. A 10 year career there is a red flag.
Berenson’s efforts to demonize marijuana — the most commonly prescribed natural remedy in America pre-Rockefeller medicine — and penchant for penning spy novels are both red flags as well.
Lastly, and this one is admittedly a bit of a stretch, Berenson’s marriage to an MD who isn’t a vocal public opponent of pandemia strikes me as a red flag as well. Why?
In my experience most MDs have been so brainwashed by their pharma-funded education in Rockefeller medicine that they actively engage in and spread the pseudo-scientific pandemia Alex Berenson purports to battle. Additionally, most people do not bite the hand that feeds, and the Berenson’s strike me as a very well fed bunch.
Berenson’s wife is Jacqueline A. Berenson, MD. According to her website:
Dr Berenson completed residency training in general adult psychiatry at the teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School. She then completed a research fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University followed by a combined Columbia/Cornell University clinical fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry. She is double board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Adult and Forensic Psychiatry. She has extensive experience in criminal forensic evaluations with a particular focus on issues related to criminal responsibility, risk assessment and psychopathy. Dr Berenson is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City.
Those are rather impressive credentials and ties to powerful institutions. I would love to hear what Dr. Berenson has to say about the covid situation. She strikes me as equally if not more qualified than her husband to talk about the criminal mentality and institutionalized corruption that has misled humanity into pandemia.
All things considered, I won’t be holding my breathe in hopes that she will stand up alongside her husband and save us from pandemia.
IN CLOSING, Pandemia strikes me as a book written for “coincidence theorists” who cannot or will not publicly connect the most obvious dots. Berenson does not give us the real dirt. He does not name the real names. He does not debunk the $cience with the real science. He does not promote potentially life saving suppressed treatments.
I did not find Pandemia exceptionally informative, and neither will my fellow media literate, reality based, critical thinkers. You know who you are. We know who we are. We are commonly mislabeled — even by beta male bullies like Berenson himself — with derogatory dismissals like “conspiracy theorist”, “truther”, and “anti-vaxxer”.
Whether born from sincerity or shiestiness, Berenson’s book is not all bad, and may be beneficial to help wake up loved ones currently wallowing in the pharma-funded, bankster-backed, globalist-spawned, government-mandated, corporate-mediated, pandemia-pushing narrative. And hey, ya know what, I like his term “pandemia” which is why I have chosen to use it throughout this article.
That said, my BS detector tells me Berenson is controlled opposition feeding the populace a severely limited hangout that writes off conspiratorially orchestrated crimes against humanity as a product of incompetence and collective hysteria. I give Pandemia two stars out of five. I would give the book one star if Berenson wasn't at least providing some truth that could be helpful to severely brainwashed readers.
How astute, given this:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/bushwhacked-by-alex-berenson-on-fox
Very interesting article. I have not read Pandemia myself. I actually just couldn't muster any interest. RFK Jr.'s book, by contrast, has been fabulous, truly a MUST-READ.