Thanks for sharing this. I agree with it all and feel better-informed for having read it, but still feel that it is unnecessarily tedious. Whenever I find myself getting drawn into the fine details of this topic, it starts to get absurdly ambiguous and tenuously tethered to unproven theories which are founded upon other unproven theories. By pulling back and looking only at known information, I always come back to the simple fact that we are animals living in nature and we have survived a very long time without pharmaceuticals. I see no reason to intervene in something that has a track record so exemplary.
Think of how terrorized we've been for 80ish years by the threat of nuclear annihilation. What if it was all a bluff and a money grab? People will surrender more of their freedom if there is a big enough boogey man, and if defending us all from that boogey man can generate huge profits for the DS, that's even better. Wouldn't it be sweet if part of "the plan" was to call their bluff and force the DS into a situation where they had no choice but to utilize the big bad nukes that don't actually exist?
I had a fantastic visit today from our yurt provider. It was actually a shitshow, but in the midst of it, he and I got to exchange ideas about life and reality, all the while being subjected to a steady stream of miserable people. It's bizarre encountering life while wearing full protective gear.