Source: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-gratitude-of-the-captured

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Note: This very insightful essay is not confined to vaccine-injury but is applicable to many medical interventions.

> A woman films herself from a hospital bed. Her left side will not move. Her speech is slurred. She took the COVID vaccine three weeks earlier and had a stroke within days. The camera shakes because she is holding it with the hand that still works. And she says, into the lens, that she is glad she took it. Because it could have been worse.

By every ordinary standard of how people respond to injury, the woman in the bed should be angry. She should want to know what happened to her body, who gave her the injection, what was in it, why she was not warned. Instead she is defending the thing that harmed her, and she is doing it sincerely, from a bed she may never leave.

The pattern repeated at scale throughout 2021 and 2022. Myocarditis in young men, received with gratitude. Sudden hearing loss, received with gratitude. Menstrual disruption, miscarriage, Bell’s palsy, shingles, tinnitus, cognitive fog — received with gratitude. The injured gave television interviews thanking the health authorities. They wrote newspaper columns urging others to take the product that had injured them. They volunteered at vaccination centres. The more severe the injury, the more fervent the testimony.

The COVID case is the clearest and most recent instance of something older. Chemotherapy patients credit the treatment with saving them while enduring a devastation that is the treatment.¹ Flu shot recipients who get the flu report that the shot made it milder — a claim no one can check. Statin patients who develop muscle weakness, diabetes and cognitive decline continue taking the drug in gratitude for a heart attack that may never have been coming.² SSRI patients who cannot feel, cannot sleep without the pill, cannot leave the house without the prescription, describe the drug as having saved their lives.³ Parents whose children regress after vaccination defend the schedule that preceded the regression.

The gratitude is real. That is what makes it devastating. These patients are not lying or performing. They feel what they say they feel. They are captured, and the gratitude is what their captivity looks like when it speaks.

What follows rests on one claim. The phenomenon is an engineered room, not a cognitive error or a cultural drift. Four walls stand around the captured person, each sealing a different exit, built by identifiable actors serving documented interests. The same four walls stand around every major medical intervention of our time.

The essay names the walls, shows them at work across several medical domains, names their architects, and ends where it must — with the one act that brings them down.

> https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-gratitude-of-the-captured

And here the 4 mechanisms - aptly called Walls - that are described in full in the essay. Very recognizable if you pay attention to it.

> Four walls hold the captured person in place. Each seals a different kind of escape. Together they form a room from which the individual patient, acting alone, cannot exit. The walls fail only at population scale, and only when enough of the captured begin to speak at once — a condition the later sections will examine.

Wall One — The Counterfactual Shield. The intervention is defended by an imagined alternative that never happened. It would have been so much worse without it. The worse outcome is unfalsifiable. It did not occur and cannot be examined. It exists only as a claim, and a claim that cannot lose.

Wall Two — Injury as Vindication. Actual harm from the intervention is converted, at the moment of appearance, into evidence the intervention was necessary. Side effects become signs the drug is working. Adverse events become imagine how bad it would have been otherwise. The harm is recruited to defend the thing that caused it.

Wall Three — The Sunk Cost Bind. The patient has submitted their body to risk, cost, violation. The psychological price of admitting the submission was unnecessary — or worse, actively harmful — is unbearable. Every subsequent piece of evidence gets reorganised to vindicate the original decision, and the reorganisation strengthens with time.

Wall Four — The Tribal Seal. The intervention is tribal. Taking it is membership. Refusing it is defection. Honest testimony about injury breaks ranks with the tribe that formed around the intervention. The social cost of speaking is exile, so the injured stay silent, or perform gratitude to remain inside.

The walls appear here in the order the captured person meets them psychologically. Wall One is intellectual — it is installed before anything happens, as the framing of the intervention. Wall Two is empirical — it activates when harm arrives, renaming it before the patient can. Wall Three is interior — it operates in the self, on the self. Wall Four is social, and it closes the last door, the one that opens onto another person.

The sections that follow examine the walls one by one, and then name the people who built them.

> https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-gratitude-of-the-captured

I don't know about those details, but I do know that nearly everything about the Covid narrative was fake. There were likely multiple agendas.

Wall One — The Counterfactual Shield. The intervention is attacked by an imagined alternative where few people died and adverse affects of covid that the vaccine stopped. The worse outcome is not 100 per cent provable and they go with that despite clear statistics showing pre and post vaccine death and sickness rates.

Wall Two — Injury as Vindication. Actual harm from lack of intervention is ignored - instead there is a focus on small numbers of people who had the vaccine and got sick - at numbers not much different that people get sick vaccine or not. Stories of long term affects of covid are put to one side with a focus on those who got ill and had a vaccine - where the correlation is often dubious at best - particularly among the elderly - who - surprise surprise - tend to get sick.

Wall Three — The Sunk Cost Bind. The patient hasn't submitted their body to a vaccine - easy for people who do not live in high risk situations such as having to be on busy public transport etc - and believe they are somehow heroic. They have taken a position that is consistent with their heroism and no statistics are going to convince them otherwise. Many theorised that it was all an evil plan to take away our freedom but our freedom returned but the conspiracies continued.

Wall Four — The Tribal Seal. During covid people understandably were upset about having their lives curtailed - sometimes with good reasons went governments may have been a bit too careful - they found likeminded people and went down rabbit holes that they never would have precovid. They found something that gave their life meaning that they could share with others - finally that had found a cause. When life went back to normal some stuck with the fight as it was fun and having kindred spirits was appealing. The rest of the world moved on but they did not.

33 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

Wall One — The Counterfactual Shield. The intervention is attacked by an imagined alternative where few people died and adverse affects of covid that the vaccine stopped. The worse outcome is not 100 per cent provable and they go with that despite clear statistics showing pre and post vaccine death and sickness rates.

Wall Two — Injury as Vindication. Actual harm from lack of intervention is ignored - instead there is a focus on small numbers of people who had the vaccine and got sick - at numbers not much different that people get sick vaccine or not. Stories of long term affects of covid are put to one side with a focus on those who got ill and had a vaccine - where the correlation is often dubious at best - particularly among the elderly - who - surprise surprise - tend to get sick.

Wall Three — The Sunk Cost Bind. The patient hasn't submitted their body to a vaccine - easy for people who do not live in high risk situations such as having to be on busy public transport etc - and believe they are somehow heroic. They have taken a position that is consistent with their heroism and no statistics are going to convince them otherwise. Many theorised that it was all an evil plan to take away our freedom but our freedom returned but the conspiracies continued.

Wall Four — The Tribal Seal. During covid people understandably were upset about having their lives curtailed - sometimes with good reasons went governments may have been a bit too careful - they found likeminded people and went down rabbit holes that they never would have precovid. They found something that gave their life meaning that they could share with others - finally that had found a cause. When life went back to normal some stuck with the fight as it was fun and having kindred spirits was appealing. The rest of the world moved on but they did not.

I introduced this excellent essay by UNBEKOMING with a note that it is not confined to vaccine-injury but is applicable to many medical interventions.

The mechanism of the '4 walls' was clearly visible during the Covid-scamdemic, due to the population-wide scale of that intervention.

But the author provides many other cases in which that exact deliberate blinding mechanism was and is used, e.g. in chemo-therapy, the children innoculation scheme, statins, etc. The OxyContin disaster case being almost a textbook example of how that perfidious system works.

This is an exceptionally good article. A brilliant demonstration and a must-read IMO.

To me, the strongest and most problematic factor is the sunk cost bind: this is something I have observed repeatedly and which also applies to belief in general, even beyond the medical field (c.f. the threads on the Moon landing, for example): accepting one has been entirely wrong for numerous years is something most people simply can't do, it is beyond their abilities. As Unbekoming aptly puts it:

To admit the medication was not needed — that her grief had been grief, that the withdrawal was the drug rather than the return of her underlying condition, that the emotional flattening was damage rather than improvement — would require her to accept that fifteen years of her life were spent inside a false frame. She would have to grieve what the medication took from her. She would have to face her absence from her children, her distance in her marriage, her unfelt goodbye to her mother. The cost of that reckoning is more than most people can pay. So she stays on the drug and says it saved her life. The gratitude is real because the cost of it being otherwise is unbearable.