{"id":1288,"date":"2020-04-03T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:12:13","slug":"the-pandemic-foretold-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/2020\/04\/03\/the-pandemic-foretold-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Foretold? Pt.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Was the COVID-19 pandemic predicted by psychic means? Well,\nno. In\nPart 1<\/a>, we looked at a selection of paranormal prophets who didn\u2019t see it\ncoming; in\nPart 2<\/a>, we looked at Joni Patry, a Vedic astrologer who claims to have seen\nit coming, but really didn\u2019t. Now, in Part 3, we\u2019ll look at the 2020 prophecies\nof a self-described spiritual medium who is also claiming a direct hit on the\ncoronavirus. In fact, he\u2019s an old favourite of mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For several years, my New Year\u2019s entertainment was writing a blog post about what psychics had predicted for the year\u2014the previous<\/em> year, that is. Hilarity ensued, at least on my part. One of my frequent examinees<\/a> was a nice Catholic boy<\/a> from Pennsylvania who had<\/a> turned spiritual medium<\/a>, psychic clairvoyant, and medical intuitive: Joseph Tittel, aka Spiritman. And then, after a few years, his output became boringly <\/a>same-old, so I lost interest. Since I last visited his site, he upped stakes from Pennsylvania and moved to Sedona, Arizona, woo capital of America, where tourists are literally guaranteed to see nightly UFO activity<\/a>, and New Age shops probably outnumber supermarkets. Frankly, it seems like the right sort of place for him. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Tittel\u2019s predictions for 2020 appeared in a marathon YouTube livestream<\/a>\non January 1st<\/sup>, with over 36K views so far. Four of those views were\nme, slogging through the whole thing in several sittings. The presentation was\nrambling, repetitive, and toned with a kind of cheerful doom; but, in contrast\nto Joni Patry\u2019s arcana-bloated maunderings, Mr. Tittel\u2019s stream of\nconsciousness was at least entertaining. He also seemed quite likeable, to the\npoint where I shall fondly call him Joseph, but there is no doubt he is a few\ncards short of a Tarot deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joseph lives in a Manichean world where tiny, evil, elite cabals conspire to keep the rest of us poor sods under control. Though these monsters in human (or reptilian) form are clearly satanic, Joseph prefers to call them \u201cLuciferian.\u201d They have enormous power, infinite reach, technology far beyond anything they will allow us to have, and a ruthless master plan to consolidate world domination. Every nasty disastrous thing you can think of is part of their strategy to manipulate us sheeple. Fluoride. Vaccinations. Storms. Oil spills. Wildfires. False flag operations. Chemtrails. Walmart. Etc. And there\u2019s more! Apparently, this satanic elite operates massive subterranean installations devoted to pedophilia and organ harvesting, into which 90% of missing children vanish without trace. Jeffrey Epstein, very much alive, is dwelling there even now. This narrative of conspiracy and enslavement underpins most of Joseph\u2019s psychic forecasting. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The New Year\u2019s presentation is two hours, twenty minutes, and twenty-seven seconds long. Most of it is the usual top-of-the-year list of disasters to come. Florida, California, Mexico, and the Carolinas will have a whole bunch of weather\u2014not just hurricanes, but typhoons<\/em>. (Note: they<\/em> can manipulate the weather.) Volcanoes will erupt in Indonesia, Alaska, and South America. Trump will win the election and then be murdered, so they<\/em> can put Nancy Pelosi into power. (She\u2019s one of them<\/em>.) North Korea will launch more rockets, but some of them will be false-flag events to make North Korea look bad. They<\/em> will also stage some mass shootings to make Trump look bad and give them<\/em> an excuse to take American guns away; and when they<\/em> come for the guns, a civil war will erupt in Virginia and spread from there. Mick Jagger is a Reptilian. All the polar ice will melt this summer. There will be major oil spills, some of them deliberate. Wildfires are set so they<\/em> can clear the land for fracking, which is why all the fresh water in rivers is disappearing. College students will rise up against something or other. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

China comes in for a lot of mentions, but Joseph\u2019s attitude is confusing. On the one hand, China is the Foe, especially in trade wars and possibly worse\u2014on the other hand, its leaders are part of the elite cabal, and major players in the underground pedophilia\/organ-harvesting industry. China is thus a prime mover in the conspiracy to force the whole world onto digital currency, which the Luciferians will control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 1:26:37, Joseph begins a diatribe against vaccinations,\nyet another sinister thing they<\/em> are doing to enslave the populace. Oh, says\nhe, some vaccines have been proven, and do some good, but the real goal is to\nget everybody chipped<\/em> and at their<\/em> mercy, through the medium of a\nvaccine. (Like the Mark of the Beast in the Book of Revelation, the chip will\nbe necessary if we want to buy or sell anything, and will also enable them<\/em>\nto track us using GPS, and even kill us remotely.) Somewhere in the world, Joseph\nthought, the measles vaccine was already mandatory\u2014he seemed to mention the\nSumerians, though I can\u2019t imagine why\u2014but a mandatory measles vaccine was only\npart of a longer-term scheme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026that\u2019s just a small test of what they\u2019re going to do everywhere else. They\u2019re gonna put out a big scare, and make everybody all of a sudden start having the measles, and that\u2019s coming to the US, people, that\u2019s coming to Europe, they\u2019re gonna do something and make it so big. They do it with the flu vaccines\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Insert predictable diatribe against the flu vaccine. But\nthen comes the money quote, the actual prediction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So [in 2020] there\u2019s a lot of vaccination pushes and scares and a new disease where they\u2019re gonna utilize this as a way of pushing \u2013 a new disease, or an old disease that comes into it \u2013 kinda like polio coming back, or something that we haven\u2019t seen in decades, all of a sudden arises again. The measles, that\u2019s one of them. But there\u2019s another one besides that. And they\u2019re gonna do\u2026a push and a scare to get people vaccinated for this. And they\u2019re going to make this outbreak look so bad that you\u2019re going to go into fear. And then measles\u2014oh, I did write measles down\u2014a measles outbreak and an Eboli (sic) outbreak are two of the big outbreaks you\u2019re gonna see. [Diversion into the \u201cEboli\u201d panic several years ago.] They\u2019re going to do something like that, very very soon, probably, even more so, right after the presidential election. End of November, December, around the holidays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now, this was the entire basis of Joseph\u2019s later claim that\nhe accurately predicted the COVID-19 pandemic, the event that has swept all\nother events of the first quarter of 2020 off the table, with incalculable\nknock-on effects. It took up four minutes out of 144 \u00bd minutes. It was wrong on\nthe disease and the timing; it seemed to refer only to the US; and it made the\noutbreak part of an insane conspiracy narrative related to vaccines, which do\nnot yet exist for the virus. As a prophecy, it sucked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, by mid-March Joseph was all about the\npandemic. YouTube videos uploaded on March 7th<\/sup><\/a>\nand March 16th<\/sup><\/a>\nwere a wild mix of contradictory takes on why they<\/em> had started the\npandemic in the first place, what they hoped to get out of it, and what would\nhappen next. More to the point, he proclaimed this was the vaccine-related\nevent he had been predicting for years and had specifically included in his New\nYear\u2019s forecast. His feeling was that COVID-19 would suddenly and mysteriously\nfade away, but would be brought back in the late 2020s, a striking parallel\nwith Sylvia Browne\u2019s 2008 \u201cprophecy.\u201d Alas, I think all that proves is that\nJoseph gets his news from the internet, just like the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But fear not! In all three of the cited videos, Joseph had a hopeful message. The vicious, power-mad Luciferian cabal are almost due for a good whupping from the gathering forces for good. Their lies and machinations and knavish tricks will be exposed; the subterranean installations will be brought to light, the pedophiles and murderers will be brought to justice, the world will be brought to peace and freedom. It\u2019s mostly to do with an energy shift, apparently, but it sounds quite nice. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Meantime, Joseph did something I quite liked. He took the\ngrowing pandemic seriously. Don\u2019t panic. Have enough food for at least thirty\ndays, but stock up slowly and make sure there\u2019s something left on the shelves\nfor other people. Don\u2019t be a moron about toilet paper. Make sure you have water\nand an alternate mode of cooking, for when they<\/em> cut off the utilities as\npart of their dastardly plot. Above all, stay home.<\/em> This goes to show\nthat, though Joseph may be a few stars short of a constellation, he is as least\nsmarter than President Trump. As a prophet, however, he did no better than the\nrest of the psychics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They failed, bigtime. Any of them whose New Year\u2019s\npredictions mentioned a disease or a virus in any terms at all, no matter how\nvague or off-handed or inaccurate in detail, claims a hit\u2014but not one of them\ngave any intimation of the world in lockdown, an event that will condition all\nother events for some time to come. What price their trivia about how\ncelebrities will fare in 2020, or how the Tokyo Olympics will turn out, or who\nwill win championship series that have all been cancelled anyway? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If psychic prophecies actually worked, they could be very useful. They could help us ward off disaster. They could save lives. As it is, they benefit only the psychics, in at least two ways. First, by reshaping a vague pronouncement into a firm prediction after the fact<\/em>, the psychic prophets gain bragging rights. I\u2019m the psychic who predicted the Japanese earthquake, the Boxing Day tsunami, the disappearance of Flight MH370, the COVID-19 pandemic!<\/em> Bragging rights translate into dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the psychics gain validation for their particular belief systems, at least in the eyes of their fans and themselves. Joseph\u2019s paranoid conspiracy theories, Joni Patry\u2019s strikingly malleable Vedic charts, any tinpot psychic\u2019s claim of clairvoyant powers, will be seen as confirmed. It works! I saw it in the stars, the cards, the revelations from Spirit!<\/em>  This, too, translates into dollars. Meantime, the 99% of their prophecies that fail outright, or cannot be twisted into a hit, or were bloody obvious to begin with, are quietly forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll give the last word to the Cosmic Dawn New Galactic Paranormal Warrior Alliance, a druidic\/shamanic group of haruspices\u2014entrail diviners\u2014whose prophecies never<\/em> fail.* According to the entrails of their latest goat, Donald (left), the pandemic will end soon unless it goes on for a long time; the stock market will be volatile until it stabilizes; and the 2020 Olympics will be postponed for a year. Oh wait, that one already happened\u2026. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

 *And whom I made up for a previous post<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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