It saddens me that so many have no idea we are at war. When political science (i.e. the approaching midterm elections) deemed it now safe to remove masks, most of them happily complied, finally joining those of us who quit wearing masks long ago. I tried months ago to tell a friend that we were headed toward totalitarianism and she mocked the idea. She's oblivious to the scandals regarding denial of early treatment and regarding vaccine injuries and deaths. Mass formation psychosis at work, I suppose.
Masks, to me, were the great litmus test in just how gullible people would be to play a gigantic game of "Simon Says" where it was all about obedience over science. I sometimes imagine a think tank of elites - whose patron saint seems to be P.T. Barnum - coming up with social engineering experiments and then betting on just how compliant the herds will be.
- "What if we tell them that holding their index finger to their nose and standing on one leg will flatten the curve?"
- "How far will they play along when we excuse every idiotic and overreaching edict with 'data driven mid-course correction'?"
- "How deeply can we tap into irrational fears of death with something that is 0.01% lethal* to most adults walking the earth and 0.00001% lethal to children?"
- "What is the best tool to elicit the desired behavior - is it a carrot or is it a stick and what is the balance between the two?"
What the last two years have demonstrated is just how much people are like sheep. They will nibble themselves off the cliff, simply following the others, without ever bothering to look up or question their masters.
As a commenter pointed out to the last post by Dr. Malone, a tiny percentage of the population is driving this insane agenda - perhaps 3%. The good news is that a tiny percentage can swing things the other direction. We must simply be as committed and persistent as our opponents. The 94% in the middle will generally just follow the current weathervane position. Our job is to point the weathervane correctly.
* NOTE: and far less lethal had we allowed doctors and nurses to treat people with things that actually worked instead of Remdesivir and ventilators and lockdowns and spike-protein-infused-mRNA injections followed by endless boosters.
This is the next great battle.
It saddens me that so many have no idea we are at war. When political science (i.e. the approaching midterm elections) deemed it now safe to remove masks, most of them happily complied, finally joining those of us who quit wearing masks long ago. I tried months ago to tell a friend that we were headed toward totalitarianism and she mocked the idea. She's oblivious to the scandals regarding denial of early treatment and regarding vaccine injuries and deaths. Mass formation psychosis at work, I suppose.
Masks, to me, were the great litmus test in just how gullible people would be to play a gigantic game of "Simon Says" where it was all about obedience over science. I sometimes imagine a think tank of elites - whose patron saint seems to be P.T. Barnum - coming up with social engineering experiments and then betting on just how compliant the herds will be.
- "What if we tell them that holding their index finger to their nose and standing on one leg will flatten the curve?"
- "How far will they play along when we excuse every idiotic and overreaching edict with 'data driven mid-course correction'?"
- "How deeply can we tap into irrational fears of death with something that is 0.01% lethal* to most adults walking the earth and 0.00001% lethal to children?"
- "What is the best tool to elicit the desired behavior - is it a carrot or is it a stick and what is the balance between the two?"
What the last two years have demonstrated is just how much people are like sheep. They will nibble themselves off the cliff, simply following the others, without ever bothering to look up or question their masters.
As a commenter pointed out to the last post by Dr. Malone, a tiny percentage of the population is driving this insane agenda - perhaps 3%. The good news is that a tiny percentage can swing things the other direction. We must simply be as committed and persistent as our opponents. The 94% in the middle will generally just follow the current weathervane position. Our job is to point the weathervane correctly.
* NOTE: and far less lethal had we allowed doctors and nurses to treat people with things that actually worked instead of Remdesivir and ventilators and lockdowns and spike-protein-infused-mRNA injections followed by endless boosters.