Honestly Sam and Mark Bailey? Heterodoxies and The Truth Behind 'A Farewell to Virology'

A story of lies, theft, and plagiarism.

Sam and Mark Bailey. Mark is the author of A Farewell to Virology

Warning: If you are a fan of Sam and Mark Bailey and will not tolerate criticism of them, I suggest you stop reading now. I’m sick to death of lies. I’m not accusing either of them of lies, they’re the victims of lies. My position is the record needs to be set straight. This essay does that.

Most of what is written below can be verified by many witnesses and email records. There were many people from Christchurch and North Canterbury involved in the effort described here. The Bailey’s hero, John Bevan-Smith, played an important minor and ultimately disruptive role. So I want to credit those unnamed people, who know who they are, who were the real driving force for the creation of the work that ultimately manifested as Mark Bailey’s book A Farewell to Virology.¹

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Addendum: 3 September 2024

I guess the Bailey’s deleted the linked addendum. I wonder why (28 Oct. 2024).

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Aside from those unnamed people of Christchurch, Cust, Oxford, Rangiora and other parts of North Canterbury, the characters in this little side-drama are:

1. Me. Craig Hutchinson — MEng. Chem. (Distinction). Previous career in engineering, politics (advisor to Hon. Jim Anderton M.P.), self employed. Poisoned in 2014 — slowly recovering. Currently, for something to do, amateur blogging on Substack as Poisoned Kiwi. Probably too bored.

2. Dr. John Bevan-Smith — PhD (History I think, or maybe English; something in the Arts; nothing relevant). Henceforth referred to as JBS. The question is whether JBS is a thief, plagiariser and fraudster.

3. Drs. Sam and Mark Bailey — trained and worked as medical doctors. A discredited profession. Both seen the light and fighting the good fight. Not doing so well on this issue.

The questions being asked here are:

1. did JBS steal from me and plagiarize my work by passing it off as his own to Sam and/or Mark Bailey? Did JBS commit fraud?

2. if 1. is true, should the Baileys, who acknowledge the importance of the information JBS provided to them and its significance in the creation of Mark’s own important book, issue a correction to statement(s) they have made, in order that the truth be faithfully recorded?

You might say I’m asking

“haven’t there been enough damn lies”

On 19 December 2023 Sam Bailey published this on her Substack.²

While many will be aware of A Farewell to Virology, the history of its development is known to only a few. In 2021, Heterodoxies Society led by Dr John Bevan-Smith prepared an extraordinary legal take down of the perpetrators of the COVID-19 fraud. The plan was to not only expose the meaningless case definition and manufactured numbers through the misapplication of the PCR but to demonstrate the foundational fraud of SARS-CoV-2 existence. John had done a brilliant job in his critiques of virology but he was advised to get Mark involved to ensure that the scientific case was watertight…The Statement of Claim weighed in at over 200 pages with around 500 references and Mark described it as like nothing the world had ever seen…A Farewell To Virology – Part Two (Dr Mark Bailey and Steve Falconer)³

When I first saw this recently I saw red, because I knew the truth. And now I was fit enough to do something about it. So I decided it was time to set the record straight.

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First I want to make it clear I would rather not be publishing this. But I do want to correct the record and expunge someone who deserves to be confined to the dustbin of history. I have approached the Baileys multiple times trying to engage them in a discussion with the aim of negotiating a suitable correction to the above statement. Not only have they refused to engage, they have deleted, or censored, a message I left for them on Substack. And possibly blocked me — I’m not an expert, or one of their subscribers, and it wouldn’t matter if they had. But if this is what they did it is revealing.⁴

From my perspective not only is JBS lying if he is claiming he “prepared an extraordinary legal take down” etc., he is also lying if he is claiming he was involved in the Heterodoxies Society in any significant way other than his selection as the Chairman. Which from my perspective was to settle a fragile ego. At best JBS was a competent typist with an above average vocabulary. That was his only meaningful contribution.⁵

Otherwise JBS was a hindrance and slowed the wider distribution of that information by a year. Information that could have and should have been used to save lives. Information which to my knowledge only came into the wider public consciousness in a remotely useful way with the eventual publication of Mark Bailey’s book. By then it was too late. So today people are dying left, right and centre from the poisonous injection.

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A Little Mystery

I wondered exactly when JBS “was advised to get Mark involved to ensure that the scientific case was watertight.“ On what date? Advised by who? And to what purpose?

Firstly, I knew “the scientific case was watertight.” It was my case; I had put it together. JBS also knew it was watertight. I had stepped him through everything in a painfully painstaking and piecemeal fashion, a process that had taken months and hundreds of hours. Who was advising him it wasn’t watertight? It can’t have been anybody with more knowledge than me because at that time I probably knew as much as anybody about the nuances of the fraud, without doubt as it applied to the New Zealand context; the ‘science’ of both COVID-19 and the germ theory frauds, the history, the political landscape, the financial elements and money flows, the personalities…I had been researching some of this, including the germ theory fraud, for many years.⁶

Secondly, watertight for what? To what purpose. As far as I knew the case had already been refused by the court. It didn’t look like JBS was going to try again (we’re still in 2021 remember) — to my knowledge he didn’t — so why did he need confirmation he had a “watertight” scientific case.

Why not just put everything in the public domain immediately? Where it belonged.
If it was questioned?

STAND YOUR GROUND AND DEFEND IT

A correction requested…

I was hoping the Baileys would engage with me to tailor a text and issue a correction to Sam’s 19 December statement. Nothing dramatic. Something along the lines of

We have been provided with evidence that elements of our claim of 19 Dec. 2023 are false. Evidence which we did not have when Sam published that piece, and evidence compelling enough that we have decided to issue this correction. Specifically

1. We had claimed that Heterodoxies Society was “led by Dr John Bevan-Smith” and that he had “prepared an extraordinary legal take down of the perpetrators.” We now retract these statements.

2. We are also satisfied that JBS was not responsible for the “plan…to…expose the meaningless case definition and manufactured numbers through the misapplication of the PCR but to demonstrate the foundational fraud of SARS-CoV-2 existence”. We now accept this claim is false and not possible.

3. We also accept that JBS’s “brilliant job in his critiques of virology” was not his work, instead JBS was acting as a scribe for someone who does have the scientific, technical and language skills to undertake this work.

4. It is now clear to us that we overstated the role of JBS and accept that though he did add flourishes of language, the technical and scientific heavy lifting as well as most of the construction of the Statement of Claim, except the actual typing, was not done by JBS. It is clear the JBS did not — and could not have because he doesn’t have the skills or experience — unpack the complex science required to expose the COVID-19 fraud and its various elements, let alone the fraud of germ theory.
   
   It is now clear to us that this work was done by someone else, who does have the qualifications and skills, and we are satisfied with the evidence presented to us that JBS’s primary role and function was to type the material into a legal Statement of Claim, something JBS was not able to achieve in a timely manner.

5. We apologise to readers and to the man who actually did do this work. We now have the complete story and recognise that it was only because of this man’s life-threatening health condition that JBS even became involved, and we accept that JBS’s involvement may have even hindered the production of the Statement of Claim, ultimately preventing a timely legal action and the distribution of the information. Which may have saved lives.

…and ignored

That’s the sort of thing I was after. No money. No glory. No credit. Just a simple record correction. An acknowledgement that they had got the original story wrong likely because they had received misleading information. But my requests to open a dialogue were ignored.

I wanted to correct the record for a good reason which is further detailed below, but in a few words my position regarding JBS is:

• after staying at my home for three months,

• at a cost to me of a few thousand dollars because JBS had almost zero living costs while a guest,

• while I tried to hammer home scientific ideas and concepts that were simple for me but very difficult for a 70+ year old Arts PhD to wrap his mind around,

• who was presented with basically 99% of what might be called the intellectual property required to construct the Statement of Claim (SoC) that, according to Mark Bailey, was “like nothing the world had ever seen“ — JBS was supplied with all the science, every bit of it. And more. JBS supplied nothing of consequence. All the important reference papers — scientific papers, social/geopolitical/historical papers, financial information…were identified, sourced and analysed by me. Same with all the important language, the sentences and their construction, the correct technical terms and phraseology etc. required to construct the SoC. Hundreds of hours of work.

• who I had to ask to leave my house after three months because, already very ill at the start, I had become so unwell with the prolonged effort I couldn’t continue and spent the following three weeks bedridden.

• who then stole, from my office, all the scientific research papers and other documentation I had been assembling over the previous year, plus all the Heterodoxies Society paperwork including my personal copies of each draft version of the SoC which had my amendment notes in them. He also took the small cash float and he even took my stationery. Cleaned out.
  
  Most of this, apart from the Heterodoxies material, was my personal property. The cash float removal was also technically a theft because at the time I was the Heterodoxies Treasurer and had responsibility for it.

• and departed back to Auckland without so much as a goodbye.

Nice chap JBS. But it gets worse, which is detailed below. The joys of trying to work with a stranger who you have nothing in common with.

While “the history of its [Mark Bailey’s book] development is known to only a few” it is clear the Baileys are not in that exclusive few because if they believe what Sam published on 19 December 2023 then they don’t know the facts. Below is the story I would have told the Baileys privately, if they had bothered to engage. Instead they chose to ignore me, so I’m telling it here.

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If you read on, a reasonable question at certain points would be “why didn’t you just do it yourself”? My answer is simple. I would have if I could have.⁷

Rather than repeat myself ad nauseam I have included a contextual backstory in the footnotes explaining why I was not able to act myself at the time, for those interested in prying into my private life. But to cut to the chase I should have died in February 2020 or the months afterwards, and I’m not the only one amazed I didn’t. Ironically, working on covAIDs may have helped; something to focus on.⁸

For all of the period covered below I was very ill, at times in a crippling amount of pain, and basically not up to much. The things I did have were time, preexisting knowledge and experience, and good research skills. I also knew three of the New Zealand politicians personally, including two in the Labour government, and wanted to confront and challenge them.

Initially I could only lie on my back and research using one hand and a mouse pad. I could save documents and videos for later use. I wasn’t sleeping much and needed a distraction. By August 2020 I had assembled enough material that I was happy to take a case in the courts. But there was zero possibility of me writing the SoC, let alone running a court case. Not even remotely possible. I needed help.

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The Genesis of the Heterodoxies Society’s Statement of Claim

In September 2020 I started a group on the social media site ‘Minds’, The Germ Theory Debunking Project, where I collected together all the information that I thought could be useful for any future legal action or campaign.⁹

At the same time I was looking at CovidPlanB, a group of New Zealand university academics and others who were proposing, as their name implies, a ‘plan B’ to the society-wide lockdowns then occurring. I hired a Christchurch barrister, and went to CovidPlanB proposing a legal action based on some of the material I had gathered at that time.¹⁰

My first contact with JBS came through CovidPlanB. He had written a book, Rules for a Covid Economy, which he made freely available to members of which I was one. Though it was worthless as an analysis of the period, and JBS may well disown it now, I thought it had some value as it had a timeline of the actions of the New Zealand government and its cheerleaders. And it told me he could use a keyboard, which I couldn’t physically do other than a slow, exhausting, single finger effort. I knew he was retired so had the time. Maybe…

So I contacted JBS congratulating him on the book, and we exchanged a few emails. This must have been around October or November 2020.

At some point during this period I emailed Sam Bailey inviting Sam and Mark to a meeting we were holding at our local rural townhall, about an hour from where they lived. Sam send a nice reply declining the invitation. We all had lots going on and I’m sure they were no different. My only disappointment was not being able to find out if they were receptive to the information I had, which I knew they would easily understand if they would hear it.

Fast forward to December, and I’d had enough of CovidPlanB. I’d had a couple of conference calls with them, including one where I presented the issues related to the dangerous legislation the New Zealand government had introduced to implement lockdowns in 2020. It was clear nothing of any substance was going to come from them, despite my certain knowledge that they could have developed a nationwide campaign in short order based on what I knew of their management. Which included a senior Wellington based PR expert. But academics do like their talkfests. So in December I sent them a long email, copied to the management and other member email addresses I had.¹¹

In this email I called out the entire fraud, the ‘tests’, the PCR, the ‘virus isolation,’ what I believed the broader agenda was etc., careful not to touch germ theory. JBS received this email. The response I received was…silence. From everyone except JBS.

To gain some credibility among the CovidPlanB academics I had pontificated about having been an advisor to a senior government Minister, had a Masters of Engineering blaa blaa blaa…and possibly because of this and our previous correspondence JBS took me seriously. He asked me the best question he could have asked. A nice open one. “Why did I believe what I had written?”¹²

This was the opening I was looking for and sometime in late January 2021 we started what became first a regular email correspondence then regular video conference calls. He was in Auckland, I was in the South Island, near Christchurch, and these were much less exhausting for me than having to type.

My aims were:

1. to get a written record in place, in the New Zealand context, of the COVID-19 fraud (including the germ theory fraud)

2. to start a legal action to stop the rollout of the “vaccine(s)“

3. and most importantly leverage legal action into a nationwide campaign

JBS ultimately agreed with these aims. Initially he wanted to put in a Human Rights Commission complaint. I was keener on a legal case, but being in no position to argue was happy enough, thinking this was a least a step in the right direction. So we worked on that; the conference calls continued with increasing frequency as I fed JBS the science regards the ‘test’, the vaccine approval process, manufacturing issues and the rollout etc. Stopping the vaccine was a high priority for JBS for personal reasons which I understood. This was also my goal though I thought it was naïve to believe a legal action would achieve this, let alone a Human Rights Commission complaint.¹³

We continued for a few months as JBS continued to write up what I was telling him for and HRC complaint, then something happened. He reported he had lost all his work from his computer, plus a few other things had happened. From his description it was clear to me he had been hacked. Luckily I still had everything. Could he come and stay with me and we could put this together in a more secure environment? Of course I agreed.¹⁴

JBS arrived within the week, and we got down to business. It was around this time we agreed to turn the HRC complaint into a Statement of Claim and take a legal action. I was pleased. I thought we could get everything written up in a few weeks, maybe a month, then apart from preparing for and attending the court I could wash my hands of it and focus on my health. The best laid plans…

What should have taken at most four weeks turned into fourteen, and it still wasn’t done. I had hoped JBS would just trust me and write my words. But that’s not the way things turned out. So while I continued to research, gather data, print papers etc. JBS concentrated on trying to understand the science, which I knew was a near-futile exercise, and convert it into the SoC. Each afternoon I would print out a copy of the draft SoC as it then stood, read JBS’s additions, and make the necessary changes. This didn’t take long and JBS and I would discuss them over dinner.

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Heterodoxies Society is born

I had been trying for some time to speak to Sue Grey, a New Zealand lawyer who had been taking legal action against vaccine mandates, to find out if she was interested in using any of the information I had. In the early days of JBS’s stay a conference call was arranged and it was during this call that the idea of using an Incorporated Society as a legal vehicle was given to us by Sue. We both agreed, someone came up with the name, and I set about doing what was needed to register it. Thus Heterodoxies Society was born.¹⁵

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A little interlude - some fun with the girls¹⁶

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Time dragged on as JBS tried to wrap his head around the material, the SoC slowly grew, and my health declined. Ironically I asked him multiple times during his stay if he would meet with Sam and Mark. I knew they would understand this material and if they were open to it JBS could work with them. For some reason he never would agree to make contact.

Finally after over three months I had to ask him to leave. I was no longer able to make any contribution and there was no way I was going to be fit enough to take part in any court case — part of the original plan. Perhaps for many months. And the truth is I was angry. It had taken far too long to not be done and I was sick of it. All I was interested in was rest, and I went to bed for three weeks.

And waited for the case to go to court. And waited. And waited. And waited. In vain. By now I was out of the loop, had resigned from Heterodoxies along with most founding members, and did not hear anything further.¹⁷

The final time I heard anything from JBS was later in 2021, I’m not sure when. It was at my house, something to do with Heterodoxies, or more accurately involved the same people, most of whom had resigned. Maybe it was a reunion — I vaguely remember food. One of the attendees, still a Heterodoxies member and in regular contact with JBS, told me JBS wanted me to relinquish all claims to all the Heterodoxies intellectual property used in the SoC. I just laughed. It did cause a bit of a stir though.

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So imagine my disgust when I see JBS turn up the hero of Sam Bailey’s 19 December 2023 post recently. Associated with the claim that my work was his. As I said in an email I sent the Baileys

I don't want money. I don't want publicity. I don't even want credit. None of that is important. Frankly there are bigger fish to fry. But let me make this crystal clear for you…I will not be stolen and plagiarized from, and my illness exploited.

And here we are.

On the questions of whether or not JBS stole my property and property in my care, and committed plagiarism, I have no hesitation in saying “yes” to both. These are serious accusations and if JBS believes he has been wronged by these claims he must instigate proceedings against me.

The only question that remains is whether JBS committed fraud? Has he benefited in anyway and have I been harmed in anyway? I don’t know if he has benefited, nor do I care. I haven’t been harmed in anyway. Pissed off yes. Harmed. No. So no, JBS hasn’t committed fraud. Not to my mind anyway.

Though if I had behaved as JBS has behaved I may not be so sure in my own mind. I wonder if he has a clear conscience?

And the Baileys? I wish them the best, but they’re not relevant to me. The only possible thing they could have offered me, apart from the neighbourly friendship of people on the same side of an issue, was something medical. But their skills in this space need reworking. Something they are doing and I’m full of admiration. It can’t be easy facing the truth that what you thought was, isn’t.

But now they must also live with the knowledge that the work that Mark may given time become world famous for, and justly so, was founded in lies, theft and plagiarism. Nor did it ever turn into a legal action or nationwide campaign when that was what was required at the time.

As for me, this could all have been simply resolved quietly and anonymously with a few words. Instead it was ignored. I tried. My conscience is clear. As is the morning.

Southern Alps from Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand. 4 August 2024.

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APPENDIX

From my perspective the people who are really due the kudos for the Heterodoxies Society Statement of Claim which resulted in Mark Bailey’s book are shown on the Germ Theory Debunking Project page I started in September 2020 on the Minds social media website. People like Stefan Lanka, Amandha Vollmer, Andrew Kaufman, Tom Cowan, Sally Fallon, Robert Young and many many others. It is those brave pioneering researchers who really own the credit.

1. “many people“
Not only did these people make the Heterodoxies Society possible, for the duration of JBS’s stay as the Statement of Claim was constructed they arrived at my door with delicious food, best wishes and support, natural medicines for JBS. I could go on.

2. Apart from their work concerning the events discussed here I’ve not looked at Sam’s or her husband Mark’s output in any depth; I’ve seen some video topic-headings, read a few blogs and occasionally watched a few minutes of a video. It was apparent to me early on they had nothing to offer me, and my focus was/is more on the economic and social consequences of the covAIDs events. Which is why I tried unsuccessfully to contact Sam in 2020 when I heard about an unhappy doctor in Christchurch attending some of the meetings.

This is not to detract from the work either Sam or Mark have done, which I think has been important. The word on germ theory needed to be got out and it seems they’ve made a useful contribution on that front. Interestingly, as far as I’m aware they haven’t tried to use their platform to attempt a legal action or nationwide campaign.

3. Mark’s book A Farewell to Virology is available on Sam Bailey’s website, free of charge (1 Aug 2024).
https://drsambailey.com/a-farewell-to-virology-expert-edition/

4. “approached the Baileys multiple time“
I have to assume they received these communications. There is no indication of a problem.

5. A cursory examination of the founding documents of Heterodoxies Society will show JBS was not only not a founding member but neither was he involved in setting it up. He was selected as the Chairman at the first Committee meeting more as an honorific; there was no real function in the role (anyone who has ever served on an Incorporated Society committee knows this). The real work was being done by me as Treasurer. The Executive also had a Secretary who took minutes at the few meetings we had.

HETERODOXIES SOCIETY INCORPORATED (50065387) (NZBN: 9429049356151)
https://is-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/

6. This will be interpreted as hubris. I’m not concerned, it’s true. I will exclude one element from this statement; the New Zealand COVID-19 timeline. JBS had published in 2020 what to me looked like a reasonable New Zealand timeline.

7. The following will no doubt look self-indulgent to some. I don’t care. I need a public record and for now Substack is the best option. This material may be used at some future time in a different context, and I want it in the public domain if that is the case. For various reasons I’m constrained in the IT department at the moment so Substack is my best option. Normally I’d build a website, but I’ve lost my pet GNU and I can’t see out of the Windows.

A pet GNU.

8. Back story.
I was poisoned in late 2014, though I didn’t know this at the time. It manifested itself in, among other symptoms, excruciating pain, partial loss of sight, brain ‘fog’ and a million other disabling issues. And lots of ambulance journeys to the hospital. Eventually I was ‘diagnosed’ with multiple sclerosis. Which is not a disease, at best it’s a symptom, but that’s a long story.*

In early 2015 I became aware it was likely I had been poisoned by a chemical herbicide called Tordon™ unknowingly ingested orally. There was good evidence. But circumstances prevented me from doing anything about it. I knew nothing about detoxing from poisons and I wasn’t fit enough to find out. And forget the medical world. It didn’t really matter anyway because I was soon on so many drugs for pain etc. that my brain turned to mush.

By late 2019 I was in pretty poor shape; I’d stopped weighing myself earlier in the year at 65kg (1.8m male) but continued to lose weight and must have been well under 60kg. Pain and eating don’t go together and the so-called painkillers were no longer working. I was sleeping one hour in twenty four if I was lucky, and basically immobilized. So I decided I’d had enough. I didn’t tell my wife of course.

I tried to get my affairs in order as best I could and on the morning of 11 February 2020 I swallowed all my morphine. Around one and a half packets. Because I didn’t want my wife to come home and discover my body I had prepared a text to a friend (I’ll call F), for sending when I started feeling drowsy, which I did. Basically the text said what I’d done and asked F to ring the Police. They could sort it out - sorry Police.

Two things thwarted this plan, which is why I’m here today. F had his phone on him and wasn’t using machinery, so heard the text arrive. And F is an ex-soldier, not afraid of death, and I guess he became slightly stroppy. He lived close, was at home and dropped everything. On his way over he phoned the ambulance, several times apparently, and police.

I was blissfully out of things by the time F arrived, so the rest is second hand. The ambulance arrived and because I had left a note explaining things including how much morphine I had taken — I didn’t want my wife to be blamed (don’t try and second-guess the pain-and-morphine-plus-other-drugs-addled-brain) — I was given an antidote to the morphine. Who knew such a thing existed?

Soon after I came to, lying on the ground, was scooped up by the paramedics and taken to the hospital. But not before the stretcher collapsed and I ended up back on the ground — it obviously hadn’t been assembled correctly. The funny thing was I didn’t care. For the first time in five years I was out of pain, and I was definitely a bit high.

The next few months were pretty grim. I had decided I wasn’t going to take any more pharma poisons and went cold turkey. Off everything. 11 Feb 2020 was the last time I took a drug, and basically I lay in bed waiting for my still expected expiry. Obviously that never happened. Instead I had two months of opiate (i.e. morphine) withdrawal. And I swear it’s the worst thing I wouldn’t, until covAIDs, have wished on my worst enemy. Ewan McGregor’s heroin withdrawal scene in the 1996 film Trainspotting looks a piece of cake.

My health improved sufficiently enough that when I could get back online I was able to quickly establish my worst fears, COVID-19 was the fraud I suspected.**

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* What an awful experience Christchurch Hospital was. Never again. Among other things I was assaulted by a female nurse when I was in pain, drugged to the eyeballs, and completely — and I mean completely — helpless. The most positive thing I can say about the near 6 months (over a 2 year period) I spent in the neurology ward was one of the dinner ladies was a joy and did more for patient health — mental health in this case — than that contributed by the combined hundreds of years of medical training and experience possessed by the medical fraternity who passed through the ward. That’s both physical (under their ‘care’ all I did was deteriorate, mainly from poisons and punctures) and mental health (nothing) together. It must be a toxic environment to work in. And then there’s the ubiquitous wireless.

** I was already very suspicious of germ theory, and having a solid science background I knew that something was called a theory because it is exactly that; a theory. If I don’t stop now I’ll add another ten thousand words about AIDS, Perth, SARS, BSE, Tedros etc.

9. Germ Theory Debunking Project
https://www.minds.com/group/1155250318409003008/latest

10. I believe Sam Bailey was a member of this group. She was certainly receiving their emails because that’s where I originally got her email address from. Whoever was sending them apparently didn’t know what BCC is.

11. I may have eventually sent this email in early January 2021; timing is a bit vague. All I really remember is it seemed to take me weeks to write.

12. “Masters“
Multiscale Modelling as an Aid to Decision Making in the Dairy Industry
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/369c3e2f-87a4-440c-8a10-67db7b47b5e6/content

13. For me a court case was never about winning, something I didn’t think possible based on what I’d seen so far in New Zealand and internationally. Any legal action was always about leveraging it into a nationwide campaign, something that I’d had experience with in an earlier life.

14. “Luckily I still had everything.“
One of the reasons I use GNU systems.

15. “someone came up with the name“
Probably JBS. It didn’t matter to me. It could have been The Cust Company of Concerned Cats Society for all I cared. Either way, it was a suitable name.

HETERODOXIES SOCIETY INCORPORATED (50065387) (NZBN: 9429049356151)
https://is-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/

16. At some point during this period there was an interesting interlude.

The granddaughters of a friend had been threatened with the loss of their job if they refused to get the poisonous injection. They were young women in their 20s, both working for a large corporate dairy farming outfit. They had refused the injection so far, but agreed to meet with the doctor at the local country surgery to discuss it, along with the employers’ HR woman. What the doctor and HR woman didn’t know was I was going along with another well briefed friend D. I took my wheelchair for the sympathy vote.

There was no way the girls were going to be injected with anything and they had resigned themselves to losing their jobs, but thought they should have some fun and return some of the b/s they had been getting from the HR woman — who was already fully pricked. So we trotted along to the surgery and I was wheeled in to a waiting room filled with a rather unhealthy looking clientele.

D and I were both shocked when finally shown into the doctor’s office. An older man, disheveled, grubby white coat, perspiring heavily and wearing a mask. He never sat down and kept as far away from us as possible, hard up against a wall. It would have been funny if the poor man hadn’t been so terrified. I assume he had also submitted to the needle. The HR woman was masked too. Of course no-one in our party had a mask in our possession, let alone was wearing one. They were offered and politely declined.

The meeting lasted about ten minutes, during which the doctor made claims about the ‘vaccine’ that I knew were lies. I challenged him, he made more claims, I challenged him some more. He had no response. The HR woman, silent and masked the whole time, seemed a bit stunned when we finally came out. Perhaps she regretted her own decision.

The girls lost their jobs but I don’t think they were too worried. We all had a bit of fun.

17. I did meet JBS when he came back down sometime later to take over control of Heterodoxies Society. I’m a bit vague about the meeting. I was still mainly bedridden and feeling well below par. He needed my signature relinquishing the Treasurer role, something I was more than happy to do.