Recently, I have taken stock of the last few years of my life and I have seen how there have been certain moments throughout that have been writing my story for me, even though I wasn't quite aware of this at the time. While there were a few events over the last decade that I have spoken about that set me out on the path of discovery, I have come to realize that there are two pivotal chapters over the last few years that have firmly placed me on my current course in trying to raise awareness to the fraud of germ theory and virology. These episodes have helped me to hone my abilities as a writer and as a researcher, and they have set me up perfectly to write this next chapter. With that in mind, I want to provide a little bit of history on these first two chapters before I share a sneak peek on where this story is going moving forward.
Chapter One: A Call to Action
I never intended to start a blog exposing virology. While I had knowledge about the fraud of germ theory prior to the “pandemic,” I was comfortable researching by myself, sharing the occasional meme or post calling attention to the dangers of vaccines, and popping up on Facebook threads once in awhile for discussions. I was content letting people like Dr. Stefan Lanka, David Crowe, and Jon Rappoport, amazing individuals whom I was listening to and learning from at the time, take the charge and spread awareness to the public at large. I was more of a student rather than one who was ready to step out into the spotlight. It wasn't until the world changed, locked down, quarantined, social distanced, and masked up due to the threat of a fictional entity that I realized that I couldn't sit idly by in the background any longer. I was inspired by the emergence of a growing chorus of new voices in Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Andrew Kaufman, Drs. Sam and Mark Bailey, and others who were speaking out about the same things that I had found in my own research. With the rising “pandemic,” the increasing restrictions to our freedoms, and the threat of forced vaccination, I felt a sense of urgency to bring about awareness of this fraud so that we could put an end to the propaganda-fueled panicked paranoia.
I started out with increased Facebook posts (as can be seen in the Uncovering the Corona Fraud series) pointing out the lies, absurdities, and contradictions thrown about in the mainstream media. This eventually led to more in-depth posts breaking down the techniques and papers of virology. I began by investigating the cell culture practices, which led to exploring the origins of the “coronaviruses,” which brought me to the history and formation of antibodies. I progressed towards researching techniques such as electron microscopy and PCR to breaking down the foundational papers for various “viruses.”
However, as the “pandemic” rolled right along, it became increasingly difficult to spread awareness about the deceptive practices and pseudoscience of virology, especially with any post mentioning PCR or vaccines. I was repeatedly censored by Facebook either by way of consistently earning 30-day bans, getting blocked from posting in certain groups, or having my posts hidden or buried in the algorithms in order to receive less traffic. It was extremely frustrating having to take a forced “time-out” and to see that my information was regularly being shadow banned when so much was unraveling daily. This blatant censorship led me to the creation of my amazingly clever alter ego Mike Rock account that I utilized in order to bypass this targeted suppression of information.
Frustratingly, it didn't take long before I was alternating bans on both accounts, as once I was “free” from my Facebook jailing as Mike Stone, my Mike Rock account would go down. It became crystal clear to me that I couldn't keep operating this way and expect to get the message out. Fortunately, there was a vocal group of supporters who had been encouraging me to take the next step and start my own blog. The constant barrage of censorship persuaded me that this was the most logical choice if I wanted to try and make any sort of difference, and this decision kickstarted a new chapter in my life.
ViroLIEgy.com was born.
With the creation of the blog, I was able to update all of my old posts that I had written for Facebook as well as share the content that was being deliberately censored. My very first article posted to the site, The Testing Pandemic, was one that had resulted in 30-day bans on both of my accounts and had instigated my search for an alternative solution. Now that I had found a suitable alternative, the information could not be censored. However, this didn't stop Facebook from trying, as notices on my articles began to appear for anyone attempting to share them, warning that the information was coming from a newly created site. I called out Facebook for doing so after I had posted an article discussing electron microscopy and it was subsequently slapped with a warning label on September 11th, 2021:
It appears FB is trying to get creative in their attempts to censor me. The below screenshot is of a message which popped up when sharing my article with others.
Of course FB felt my post needed a disguised warning label claiming it was about "Covid-19" (which was only mentioned once as "SARS-COV-2"), that it was from my site created less than a month ago, and that it is a recent post.
How does the recent creation of my site and/or post discount the information shared? Why the attempt to dissuade anyone who wants to share this post?
What do they not want you to see?
Nice try FB.
Fortunately, these attempts were ultimately futile. ViroLIEgy.com gained more awareness and support thanks in large part to shout-outs by Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Kevin Corbett, and Drs. Sam and Mark Bailey. I was able to quickly upload old posts to get plenty of content and information all in one place for those who needed to see it and wanted to learn. I was also able to create new articles covering my recent research. However, it was a process filled with growing pains as I am not the most technologically advanced person. This admitted weakness of mine had actually kept me from pursuing a blog originally as it seemed like too daunting of a task. I had to learn how to format the articles properly and, as most of my Facebook posts had capitalized certain sentences from the sources I shared for emphasis (due to the inability to highlight in bold on the platform), I had to comb through the sources, find the same sections, and redo them completely.
My old articles are difficult for me to read as they are very disjointed due to the limitations of Facebook and my ignorance on how to rework them properly when I began learning how to use WordPress. Most of the “meat” of the articles and the explanations were in the summary sections as it was difficult to figure out how to present the information properly on Facebook. I'm still in the process of trying to fix some of the earlier articles in order to match the newer ones. Regardless, one of the advantages of the blog was that it allowed me to really hone my writing skills and work out a better way to present the information. Creating ViroLIEgy.com allowed me to circumvent the censorship and get the message out to people who were growing frustrated by the continued “pandemic” and seeking answers.
Chapter Two: Reaching A Wider Audience
After ViroLIEgy.com had grown over the first year, it was suggested by some of my friends that I should set up a Substack account in order to engage an even wider audience. I was informed that there was a growing community of like-minded individuals who were regularly writing content on the platform. Substack was a place where the “No Virus” community could help support each other and thrive through recommendations and referrals. It was presented as a logical next step to help spread the message and create a more visible and interconnected community. However, I didn't really know much about Substack or how it actually worked. When it was explained to me that it was a way to create short e-mail newsletters that people could subscribe to either for free or through a paid subscription, I became intrigued by the idea.
As people began to take notice of ViroLIEgy.com, some very kind individuals reached out privately wanting to know how they could help out and support the effort. These exchanges were primarily focused on how they could contribute to my efforts through financial donations. At the start, while I was greatly appreciative of the offers, I was not comfortable taking donations or even asking for them. WordPress also was not the easiest way to accept donations, and after creating a tab due to the requests of these individuals, it was relegated to being relatively hidden at the bottom of the page along with the Search bar. I regularly had to direct people who inquired about donating to this well-hidden tab.
With the way the Substack platform was set up, I felt that it could provide the best option over WordPress for those who wished to provide support. I could be comfortable with the idea of accepting donations through subscribers while also being able to give something extra back to those who wished to do so. I also saw it as an opportunity to bring even more awareness to ViroLIEgy.com as well as to connect with others within the community. However, while I was intrigued by Substack, I was hesitant to start what was essentially another blog. I was already busy reworking the old Facebook content onto the site, researching and writing new articles, and providing interviews (another area that forced me out of my comfort zone) on radio shows and podcasts. I felt that I already had many plates spinning in the air. Was I really wanting yet another one? If I was to do a newsletter, how would I differentiate it enough from the articles that I was already doing for ViroLIEgy.com, and would writing a weekly newsletter detract from my content I was creating for the site? I had many questions, hesitancies, and uncertainties that kept me from jumping right into Substack, so I started researching the option a little bit more. I eventually decided to tentatively create an account in case I desired to use it in the future. Apparently, I did not research Substack enough as, little did I know, just by creating an account, it would go live, and people could start subscribing.
I quickly got emails notifying me of every new subscriber, and I had yet to even decide that I was going to settle on Substack as an option. Within a little over a week, I was past one hundred subscribers without publishing anything. All that was available was a “Coming Soon” blurb created by Substack. People reached out congratulating me on starting a Substack and offering that they were excited for my first newsletters. I remember thinking to myself at the time “Well played, Substack, well played.” Knowing that there was a growing chorus of people who were now aware of the newsletter and expecting content, Substack made the decision for me to take the plunge.
My original vision was to do a short newsletter collecting old Facebook posts as well as provide new commentary on current mainstream media stories pointing out the contradictions and fraud as I had done at the beginning of the “pandemic.” However, as I began to collect the old Facebook posts together on a certain topic, the writer in me desired a narrative flow. I reworked and retooled the posts so that they all worked better together (see The Poolio Paradox, Monkeypox Parties, and Smelling a R.A.T which were all made up of old Facebook posts). These posts eventually morphed into new articles, and the newsletters went from short to long rather quickly. I had written about four or five newsletters and had them waiting in the pipeline before I officially launched the Antiviral Substack on September 19th, 2022. My plan was to alternate between Substack newsletters on Fridays with new ViroLIEgy.com articles on Mondays. At the beginning, I was able to keep this pace up for a bit. However, my reserve of newsletters that I had stored up for Substack in order to get ahead quickly dried up. I found myself failing to keep the pace, and it soon became clear that I could not juggle doing eight articles a month over two blogs. Eventually, Substack took precedence over writing new articles regularly for ViroLIEgy.com.
As time progressed over the course of the next year and I became more familiar with Substack, I was able to figure out a comfortable writing pace. However, my output suffered at ViroLIEgy.com as my newsletters turned into their own lengthy articles. While it was a frustrating trade-off, one major advantage was that Substack forced me to rethink how I present information in a much more reader-friendly way. I also started to step out and explore topics that I usually didn't touch on as much at my regular site (such as the nature of science, the lack of evidence for “pathogenic” bacteria, and the underlying history of germ theory and virology). Ultimately, as time progressed, the differences that I had envisioned between the two sites vanished, and Substack essentially became the breeding ground for new ViroLIEgy.com articles. As it now stands, I am doing an article a week, using certain articles from Substack to build up content for ViroLIEgy.com. There are a few differences such as any podcast or radio interviews that I do appear only on ViroLIEgy.com while some articles remain exclusively for Substack. Doing the newsletter has been a great way to reach a wider audience who may have never been exposed to this information in the past as well as to build a connected community through the sharing of content from similar authors. After beginning ViroLIEgy.com back in August of 2021, I now find myself in a position where I am managing two fairly successful blogs where I have amassed, what I feel, is quite a collection of evidence against the pseudoscience of germ theory and virology. It is now time to put that information to use in another way.
Chapter Three: The Next Chapter
This leads to where I am at today. Having amassed the evidence that I have, I want to utilize it all in the best way possible in order to reach the most people in the hopes of bringing about positive change. While I have set up ViroLIEgy.com in a way to try and make the content as easily accessible as I can, there are many who find that the information is too spread out and not connected enough. They do not know exactly where to look first or how to approach the subject matter in a linear fashion. With Substack, there really is no way to categorize the articles and they remain on the site as a long listing by the date published. With the content now spread out over the two blogs, it has become potentially even more confusing to those new to the subject. The fraud of germ theory and virology is a very broad topic, and it takes a lot of time, effort, and patience to successfully navigate through it. I know that I had difficulty trying to piece everything together myself, and I had regularly wished that there was an easy guidebook that would put it all together.
David Crowe, a great researcher who I looked up to as a mentor, had regularly spoken about his work on a book project he called The Infectious Myth. David was in the process of writing the book over many years, but he ultimately passed away before it was ever finished. I had wished that the book had come out as I envisioned it as something like a guidebook that could help novices to put all of the puzzle pieces together. While some snippets of his work remain, sadly, the book will forever be unfinished. However, there have been many great books that have been released in recent years that have utterly destroyed germ theory and virology such as What Really Makes You Ill, Virus Mania, and The Contagion Myth. They all bring so much to the table, and I regularly point those curious to these and other books when they ask for resources outside of my blog.
That being said, I believe that I am able to bring something to the table on this topic that can help people to further understand the extent of the pseudoscientific fraud that has taken place over the last 150+ years. I feel that I can present this information in a different way that will compliment these and other books on the topic. I believe that I can provide context on the foundational history of the fraud while examining the pseudoscientific principles that are at play. I believe that I can take this collection of evidence that I have amassed and present it in an easily digestible and linear fashion that will make it less complicated for others who are looking to understand the topic as well as those who want to explain it easily to their friends and family. I can make the guidebook that I had always envisioned David's project to be.
For those who have been listening to my interviews, the idea of my writing a book probably comes as no surprise. It was my 2023 New Year's resolution, and I let the cat out of the bag on the Terrain Theory podcast earlier this year. I've since discussed doing a book a few times on various interviews, and even on Substack. My progress on writing the book has been relatively slow while juggling working on the two blogs along with other projects. At the moment, I have an outline prepared as well as the introduction written. In order to speed things along, I need to shift my time and attention towards putting more of my focus on writing the book. This will ultimately have an impact on the content here and at ViroLIEgy.com. At this time, I haven't quite figured out the best approach on how to juggle my writing duties. Thus, I am in need of and would really appreciate some input on this matter. I am doing a poll for the paid subscribers in order to decide the best course forward for this newsletter as I turn more of my attention towards writing the book.
Thank you in advance for your input on this matter. As always, I greatly appreciate it. 🙂
I want to say that I am very excited about finally diving into working on the meat of the book. While most of my time over the last year went into developing an outline for the book as well as researching and writing articles for Substack, I do not feel that any of the time that I have spent over the last 11 months has been wasted in the slightest. I honestly do not feel that I could have even attempted to write the book that I want to do now back then. There was a ton of research that went into recent articles such as:
the difference between science vs pseudoscience
the importance of falsifiability
the indirect methods utilized by virology
Koch's cholera catastrophe and the asymptomatic excuse
the Rockefeller snake oil scam
the nature of the “virus”
Every bit of time and effort that went into these articles has been invaluable in coming up with the material for the book and to flesh out the scope of what I want it to be. I plan to continue researching diligently while writing the book, and I imagine that this further research will inspire some related content for both Substack and ViroLIEgy.com. I also plan to provide updates on my progress with the book throughout the writing process.
Each year has seen a new chapter unfold in my life. I am blessed that each of these chapters has helped me to grow as a person and as a writer as well as help others to realize the truth about the fraud of germ theory and virology. In that spirit, completing this book is the next chapter in my life, and it is one that I intend to give everything I have into writing. It will be the guidebook that I desperately wanted to have when I first started this journey. My hope is that, in doing so, it will expose the fraud for an even larger audience in a much easier to digest manner, and that the book will, in the end, help to change all of our lives for the better.
looked at the war against “Covid” whistleblowers and provided an update on her own battle against the establishment. decided to inquire the CDC about the yellow fever “virus” and the level of “evidence” provided was shockingly bad. examined the fraudulent headlines accompanying the effectiveness of PrEP for HIV. spotlighted the mask agenda as well as some odd peculiarities that were occuring during the lead up to the “pandemic.”
Exciting!! I'm so grateful for everything you do, Mike - as I'm sure many others are as well :)
I consider ViroLIEgy the best newsletter on Substack. Mike your analyses are brilliant and I am continually returning to the archive to discover things I missed upon first reading.
I am excited to hear that you're working on a book. May I suggest that the bulk of the book be centered on the Covid fraud? Of course the antecedents are critical in how the foundation for the fraud was established and I hope particularly that you go into the polio con because that's always used as "proof" of the efficacy of vaccination.
I think the Covid section should be presented chronologically highlighting each player and whatever lie they were peddling at the time. It's important to identify each player and how they added to the overall fraud. Some of the "players" might not be an individual person--it could be propaganda put out by a social media platform or a government agency.
Most important is publishing their argument and analyzing it, pointing out the deceptions (e,g, loss of taste and smell" as being novel to "Covid").
I would add a complete bullet point summary at the end categorizing the deceptions point by point (I imagine it might add up to a couple of hundred) as the fraud has many tentacles that stretch sometimes beyond the imagination.
I have updated my Alternative Covid-19 Narrative Handbook which constitutes a collection of useful links. One of the links in the essential reference section is your brilliant "What is Covid-19?" blog. People can get the free PDF download here: https://turfseer.substack.com/p/updated-alternative-covid-19-narrative
Thank you Mike for your great work and I look forward to all your new material in the future.