What the flock is going on? Dr. Clayton Baker doesn’t mince words. He sees the bird flu panic for what it is: another exercise in control. “You don’t save Tokyo by creating Godzilla,” he says. The government pays farmers to kill their chickens and then warns of shortages. The numbers don’t add up. “If one bird tests positive, they kill a million.” The USDA cuts checks for the culls. The prices rise. Consumers pay more. “This is not disease prevention. This is engineered scarcity.”
The virus isn’t wild anymore. It’s a lab project. “H5N1 has been in the hands of scientists for decades,” Baker says. “It didn’t get loose on its own.” He names names: Southeast Poultry Research in Georgia, gain-of-function research at the University of Wisconsin, and the Netherlands’ Erasmus University. “Even the vaccine guys—Paul Offit and Ronald Plotnick—wrote to Obama in 2014, warning that this work was too dangerous.” Obama put a ban on it. Fauci ignored it. “Then came COVID.”
Baker practiced ICU medicine before turning to private care. He saw what the system became. “Medicine used to be about patients. Now it’s about control.” He describes the moment he knew things had changed. “Patients had been on hydroxychloroquine for 20 years with no issue. Suddenly, you couldn’t prescribe it for five days to someone with COVID.” Pharmacies demanded diagnoses. “They made sure you had to lie to prescribe it, then they’d nail you for lying.” He calls it a setup.
The medical field follows protocols now, not physicians. “COVID wasn’t a lesson in incompetence. It was a lesson in obedience.” Hospitals put patients on ventilators without question. “People don’t come off ventilators. They die.” Baker saw it in real-time. “They were training doctors like factory workers. The playbook was written.”
Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a rare bright spot for Baker. “I’m cautiously optimistic.” He sees Trump’s team cleaning house, cutting funding, and letting bad actors walk before they’re fired. “Jay Bhattacharya is a brilliant mind, but he’s the good cop. We need a bad cop first.” He calls NIH “the Augean Stables.” The only way to clean it? “Divert the Potomac and flush it out.”
Bruised and Amused: Lou Perez
Lou Perez, comedian, writer, and libertarian, is no stranger to pain. “First day back at jiu-jitsu, a guy cranks a toe hold and destroys my ankle.” He’s limping into 43. “Nothing like injury to put your own mortality in perspective.”
Perez isn’t done fighting. “I got X-rays. Nothing’s broken. Just a reminder I’m not invincible.” He sees the reality of aging. “Imagine this injury at 70. It’s not a few weeks of pain—it’s a death sentence.”
He knows how to pick his battles. “Peter Boghossian told me: always roll up. Train with people who are better than you. Stay away from the new guys. They don’t know control.” A few years back, he ignored that advice. “Got paired with a 300-pound white belt. He rolled wrong and crushed my other ankle. That was it for a long time.” He’s learned to pace himself without withdrawing from the scene. His advice? “Keep moving. Stay sharp. If you’re not getting injured, you’re not trying.”
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