My late father-in-law, Charlie, grew up in a tiny, thatched roof, stacked stone farmhouse in County Mayo, in stark, cold northwest Ireland. He was the youngest of ten children, four of whom died in infancy. Charlie would rarely mention his childhood. When he did, he said food was starchy and scarce; hunger was common. Piecing the chronology together, I suppose his grandparents survived the Famine.
Ireland’s employment prospects were bleak. England needed construction laborers because so many of England’s young men had been conscripted for World War II. Thus, in his early twenties, Charlie emigrated to London. As Shane MacGowan sang of his Irish brethren, “Wherever we go, we celebrate the land that made us refugees.”
Charlie wasn’t a big storyteller and I didn’t know him to exaggerate. But during one Sunday afternoon dinner, he told a short story about life during The Blitz. He said that, when they heard sirens signaling German nighttime bombing raids, he and his London neighbors would run out of their “flats” into adjacent Hyde Park. They felt safer in the park because they knew the Germans wouldn’t waste bombs on unlit, building-less spaces.
He said that one night, the apartment building next door was flattened during an overnight Luftwaffe run. All of the building’s inhabitants were killed; I guess the bombers had flown under the radar and there had been no warning. Tired from working, Charlie slept through the blast. That’s a heavy sleeper. Maybe he had downed a few pints before turning in; he didn’t say.
I have continually wondered why so many people have reacted so irrationally and fearfully to the Coronavirus(es). I perceive several reasons. Sadly, many Americans have high baseline anxiety. Others were driven by political rooting interests; they knew that disrupting society over Covid would enable Trump’s ouster and facilitate continuing, encompassing social and electoral control. And many consume, and actually believe, alarmist mainstream media.
In addition to the foregoing reasons, I’m convinced that many people have wanted to replicate Charlie’s experience: they’ve wanted to live through an exciting, society-wide, anything-could-happen crisis, such as exists during wartime. They cast themselves as characters in a suspenseful, Apocalyptic movie that played in their own heads. Or they pictured themselves being interviewed for subsequent Covid documentaries about these ostensibly perilous times. They imagined telling stories to their kids and grandkids.
During the Lockdowns, I’ve talked to various adults who have said, with child-like amazement, things like, “Wow, I can’t believe we're living through this. It’s History!”
On the eve of the Lockdown, one sent me a titillated, allusive e-mail message, “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco!”
To which I responded, “Panic at the Disco!”
I knew lockdowns were a terrible idea from Day 1. The “History” that has happened has not been a viral wave, but the unprecedented, extreme, destructive overreaction to it. Since when do we lock down an entire society for a respiratory virus, especially when only unhealthy, old or obese people are at risk? BTW, well over 95% of the old, unhealthy, infected survived without treatment.
Related to feeling like they’re part of some grand historical event, the Corona fearful people suffer deficits of meaning in their lives. Coronamania enabled them to fill this void. The “Pandemic(!) has given them something to which to devote themselves. The “We’re all in this together” and the demonstrably false “my mask—and then my vaxx—protect you” propaganda was targeted very effectively at the meaning seekers.
Taking steps to “stop the spread” felt heroic to them. They could claim—and often did on the Net—that they cared more about their fellow Americans than did those who opposed lockdowns, masks and “vaxxes.” They saw— and incredibly, still see— themselves as occupying higher moral ground; though people who purport to care so deeply about the elderly dying with the virus did not, in my awareness, frequently visit nursing homes before the Scamdemic.
Being heroic has never been as easy as during Coronamania. Covid heroism has entailed staying home and watching Netflix or YouTube, ordering takeout meals and groceries, wearing political theater masks, taking a few injections and sending mean tweets about those who questioned the worth of any of that nonsense. The Corona “social distancing” measures weren’t hard for the misanthropic or introverted, or for those who got paid not to work, or received other “free” government money and could skip their commutes.
Upon leaving office, Bill Clinton expressed his unfulfilled wish to have been President during wartime because that’s when a President can show leadership, like a Lincoln or an FDR. Leave it to draft-dodging Clinton to wish for an opportunity to self-aggrandize at the expense of killed and maimed young men. Lockdown/mask/vaxx pushing politicians like Biden, Cuomo, Murphy, Newsom and DeBlasio have lived Clinton’s dream by packaging themselves as latter day King Davids. But instead of girding their loins and taking up arms, they protected the masses by displaying charts and feigning grief during TV press briefings. Time has proven that these LMV-ers aren’t heroes; they’re lying demagogues who conveniently ignore fear-dispelling facts.
Overall, the Corona fearful want to show that, by relying on their smarts and sacrifice, they’ll slay a formidable foe. This is ludicrous. The data show what has been obvious from Day 1: nearly everyone survives infection, and humans can’t crush respiratory viruses. Various politicians are hoping that many Americans will remain as gullible as they have been for the past 22 months, and that many voters will mistakenly credit government interventions for improving statistics. But many tens of millions have developed natural immunity, testing methods are changing and the virus is weakening naturally. Additionally, many people have found and used inexpensive, effective preventive measures and therapeutics, despite the government’s active, sinister efforts to suppress knowledge about self-care.
Ultimately, it’s been painful to see that normal life is so unsatisfying for many people that they’ve been willing to drop a nuclear bomb on society in order to live out a crisis fantasy. If he were still with us, Charlie, and multitudes of others who have lived—and daily live—through genuine, non-viral threats to their existence no matter what their ages or weight, would laugh disdainfully at those who have embraced the pseudo-war and extreme, theatrical overreaction of the past 22 months. Or they might cry.
At my sons graduation in 2021 - which was delayed for a year, he actually graduated in 2020 - but because of the danger of Covid, it had to be delayed - the Dean praised the students for the courage they displayed in the face of a "Global Pandemic". I laughed. How many students died - I later asked? Why none. How many were hospitalized. None. So what was the danger? I mean what about the young kids that we sent to Afghanistan or landed in Normandy. Now there is a real danger. I mean lets face reality, alcohol has caused more deaths to college kids than Covid.
As a surgeon I get to witness alot of crisis situations. Hollywood / TV and Healthcare institutions would like for you to think that these are perfectly choreographed incidents that get it right all the time. But the truth is alot harder. No one actively trains for these critical situations and the results are almost never constructively reviewed. When I find myself in these situations with my patients its very hard to repurpose the group from inexperienced panic to thoughtful purposeful action. You will frequently see people doing all sorts of things that are unproductive and actually harmful. When you get people to stop what they are doing wrong and do productive things - they frequently reject it - and take the opportunity to complain about the leadership you provided.
Unfortunately, its the end result of government taking over healthcare. They are the number one payor to every hospital right now and the hospitals do what they say. There will be no freedom until this is unwound. The key to understand this is that the government pays hospitals to do things - not to do it well.
If you view this whole 'pandemic' situation through the lens of health, safety, science and saving lives, then most of it makes little sense. If you view it through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, then all of it makes perfect sense.
Covid is not an epidemiological story. Covid is a crime story.
They needed the lockdowns. They needed the lockdowns to be long, destructive and depressing. They need everyone to be scared of more lockdowns so that they can say, "To avoid further lockdowns you need to accept Vaccine Passports."
The lockdowns, mandatory muzzles, anti-social distancing and the other measures did nothing to protect or improve public health- they were never designed to do so.
They were all designed to deliberately break the global economy (and crush competition, especially small businesses) as well as break people's minds, will and the social fabric, in order to “build back better”, according to the diabolical and dystopian visions of the psychopaths waging this class war, which is essentially a billionaires utopia, in which they own the planet like a techno-feudal fiefdom, and oversee the drastically reduced population of digitally branded humanity like cattle in a super-surveilled technocracy.
The injections are the Trojan horse to get us in the door of that digital concentration camp (as well as the metaphorical gas chambers), starting with vax-ports, followed by digital IDs, and then connected to CBDC accounts and UBI scrip, which will allow them to track our every move and purchase, and “nudge” us toward whatever medical, dietary, or lifestyle choices they desire, at threat of having our rations reduced, or, if we misbehave too badly, being shut out of the system altogether.
They’re specifically targeting kids and young people most of all, deliberately inflicting mass trauma on them, because they’re the ones who’ll grow up in that New Normal™️, and the goal is to condition them to accept total control over every aspect of their lives and a dehumanized screen-based existence, to the point where they won’t remember living any other way, breathing free, being free.
All talk of so-called efficacy of these poison injections are meaningless distractions and quite besides the (existentially urgent) point when you understand that the virus/disease they’re allegedly designed to protect against doesn’t exist in the first place and, additionally, what their real, above-mentioned purpose(s) is.
It’s blackmail on a global scale.