In the movie 12 Monkeys, the world has already ended. A virus has wiped out civilization. Survivors live underground, the air above is poison, and the government keeps sending people back in time to chase phantoms — not to stop the outbreak, but to understand it. Maybe. Or maybe just to preserve the lie.
Sound familiar?
This week, President Donald Trump deleted the federal government’s COVID-19 information hub — a site that once offered testing, vaccines, treatment guidance, and long COVID resources — and replaced it with a single hallucinatory page, headlined with bold white letters: LAB LEAK: THE TRUE ORIGINS OF COVID-19.
It’s not a homepage. It’s a manifesto. It’s the digital equivalent of scrawling blame in blood on the walls of a ruined hospital and calling it “public health.”
TRUTH IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE NARRATIVE.
The original covid.gov was built to inform. Now it exists to indict. The updated site doesn’t tell you how to stay alive — it tells you who to hate.
Fauci. Cuomo. EcoHealth Alliance. The World Health Organization. Even the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services gets named and shamed like it’s the final boss in a deranged Reddit thread.
And running the asylum? Trump — a man who couldn’t spell epidemiology if you spotted him nine letters and a hydroxychloroquine drip.
WELCOME TO THE LOOP
Here’s the twisted genius of the grift: we still don’t know where COVID-19 came from. That’s the truth. Both a natural origin and a lab leak remain scientifically plausible. The CIA just released a report saying a lab origin is “more likely,” but only with low confidence. That means no new intel. No smoking gun. No certainty. Just guesswork wrapped in projection.
But in the 12 Monkeys timeline Trump prefers, facts are irrelevant. The outcome is predetermined. The scapegoats have already been chosen. The only thing left is to shout louder and delete anything that gets in the way.
THE MADMEN HAVE ADMIN PASSES
Trump didn’t just rewrite the narrative. He put the propagandists in charge of the hospital.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the man who once sold miracle weight-loss pills on TV like snake oil in a suit, now runs Medicare and Medicaid.
RFK Jr., a conspiracy theorist whose grasp on biology is roughly equal to a bag of expired yogurt, is your new Secretary of Health and Human Services.
And Fauci — the last man standing between America and total biomedical nihilism — was preemptively pardoned by Joe Biden before leaving office. Not because he committed any crimes, but because everyone knew Trump’s thought police would come knocking.
The present is being rewritten. The past is being erased. The future? It’s up for grabs.
THIS ISN’T A WEBSITE. IT’S A DELIRIUM.
Trump’s version of covid.gov doesn’t offer protection. It offers paranoia. It doesn’t save lives. It reenacts grievances. It’s a mind map for the chronically deceived — a place where a virus that killed millions globally is remembered not for its human toll, but for how it inconvenienced the ego of one very fragile man.
This is not about public health. It’s about public theater. A looping performance of blame, rage, and denial, directed by the man who couldn’t find his way out of a briefing room without a sharpie.
We’re living in the 12 Monkeys timeline now — but someone has to remember what came before. If you still believe in facts, if you’re sick of the loops, if you want to break free from this feedback chamber of state-sanctioned madness — subscribe to Closer to the Edge. We still know the difference between a website and a lie.
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