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COVID-Mania

By Germar Rudolf ∙ June 17, 2020

When the first news about COVID-19 appeared on the news in early 2020, I joked in my gym’s spinning class that we need to rev it up and lower our spinning class’s room temperature, because COVID, being a respiratory disease, is best dealt with by improving our immune system’s coping skills with stressed lung’s – by deeply breathing in lots of cold air. After all, the immune system is like a muscle: the more you use it, the tougher it gets. So, strictly speaking, I wasn’t joking; I was serious. Decades of riding bicycles in cold weather outdoors have given me quite some resilience in handling flues and colds.

However, rather than mandating everyone to do cardiovascular exercises outdoors to toughen our lung’s immune responses, the government decided to shut down the economy, lock up everyone indoors, stop most exercising by closing all gyms, and thus make people’s immune system even weaker. Oh, and all tread-mill and spinning-class aficionados ended up having to exercise outdoors rather than in gyms, for lack of any other choice. It was the first time I was joined by a crowd for my daily early-morning outdoor exercises.

I am no expert in virology, but by the looks of it, it just seems to be a somewhat more severe flue that’s making the rounds. History will tell later what it was, and whether the government’s reaction to it was appropriate or an overreaction. I am sure there will be plenty of revisionist nagging at the official narrative, too. Already now, as the history of this pandemic merely starts to unfold, there are inconsistencies and contradictions in the official lore that are waiting to be challenged. I just hope that any COVID revisionism will not be accompanied by repressive measures, as we have them in so many countries today when it comes to Holocaust historio­graphy.

On the upside, the COVID-mania has led to our printers once more waiving all setup fees as a measure to stimulate their business, which means I went back to the drawing board, accelerating the release of new books and new editions of old books once more – see the section “Book Announcements.”

I’ve been in hyper-overdrive.

  • Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz, The Rudolf Report (now titled The Chemistry of Auschwitz). He conclude in it that "the alleged facilities for mass extermination at Auschwitz and Birkenau were not suited for the purpose as claimed." As a result he had to endure severe measures of persecution in subsequent years. Hence he went into British exile, where he started the small revisionist outlet Castle Hill Publishers. When Germany asked Britain to extradite Rudolf in 1999, he fled to the U.S. There he applied for political asylum, expanded his publishing activities, and in 2004 married a U.S. citizen. In 2005, the U.S. recognized Rudolf's marriage as valid and seconds later arrested and subsequently deported him back to Germany, where he was put in prison for 44 months for his scholarly writings. Some of the writings he got punished for had been published while Rudolf resided in the U.S., where his activities were and are perfectly legal. Since not a criminal under U.S. law, he managed to immigrate permanently to the U.S. in 2011, where he rejoined his U.S. citizen wife and daughter. He currently resides in Upstate New York.

    Read more about him here.

Bibliographic information about this document: Inconvenient History, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 2
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