Van Morrison, the Irish bard, one of my longstanding musical favorites, put things in perspective in a protest song he wrote in the middle of the Pandemic and the Lockdown. At this time Morrison and Eric Clapton were being vilified and censored by the Hollywood elite and famous (once rebellious) rock n’ rollers for deviating from the Establishment narrative on COVID-19:
“Where have all the rebels gone?
Hiding behind computer screens
Where’s the spirit, where’s the soul…
One for the money, two for the show…
It’s not very rock n’ roll…
Waiting for someone else to make a move
Why are they sitting on the fence?”
OCA, myself personally, and other COVID investigators were being slandered and censored at the same time as Morrison and Clapton. In 2020 the internet monopolies including Google, Facebook, and YouTube had begun “shadow banning” OCA and Millions Against Monsanto’s postings and videos to our two million social media followers and threatening to de-platform us entirely.
So-called “progressive” media that had carried our articles and interviews for more than a decade (Common Dreams, Truthout, Counterpunch, Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio) censored and slandered us, calling us and our fellow COVID researchers and truth-tellers racists, “Trumpers,” or “conspiracy theorists” for exposing the obvious fact that the genetically engineered SARS-CoV-2 virus, a reckless joint venture of U.S. and Chinese scientists, governments, and the military, obviously came out of a Wuhan Lab, where it was accidentally or deliberately released.