Today I’m going to get my tin-foil hat out of the closet and try it on for size.
In 2020 the world woke up to a new threat. A nasty little spiky bugger of a virus we called SARS-CoV-2. Catchy name that. It appeared to have originated in Wuhan, China, and so, naturally, the disease it caused quickly became known as the Wu-flu, or the kung-flu.
Whilst the compassionate authorities in China were busy welding people into their homes, more fragile sensibilities in the West were outraged at the implicit “racism”. How dare you name a virus based on the place it originated!
The Wuhan-Weld™ technique quickly became adopted, in a form more suited to our Western sensibilities, as lockdown. The rest, as we say, is history.
And what a history it has been - and we’re nowhere near out of the other side of this extraordinary concatenation of events and responses yet - despite the narrative crumbling faster than a good Wensleydale.
So today we’re going to put ourselves in the role of Blofeld, sitting in our chair stroking our pussy; having wild fantasies of world domination. Maybe we engineered events and got the virus deliberately released, maybe we just decided to capitalize on a golden opportunity. How would we go about exploiting it?
Here’s what we might do
we would create a sense of real fear by inflating numbers, stressing words like “unprecedented” and “novel”. We might even seed things with a few videos of people collapsing on the streets with people in hazmat suits mysteriously, and impossibly conveniently, appearing out of nowhere (I don’t know - maybe there’s a couple of health officials wearing hazmat suits on every corner in China).
we would control the narrative by leaning on the media and exploiting “fact” checking organizations, employing smear techniques to dismiss any counter-opinion as “conspiracy” or “anti-science”.
we would, in the guise of fighting a virus for the greater good, impose a set of society-wide draconian and disproportionate restrictions to instigate a sense of disorientation, powerlessness and worry. The media would continually pump out death figures without any context whatsoever to remind us that all of this was necessary to combat the appalling health catastrophe.
we would want those restrictions to be severe (business closures, all other health issues suspended, education massively disrupted etc). The very severity is “evidence” that things are really bad. After all, if things weren’t really serious there is no way any of this would be done.
we would want some outward symbol of compliance and to remind us with every human interaction that things were really, really serious. This symbol should be touted as being necessary for our protection - despite all of the prior evidence to the contrary. It’s important to keep fear uppermost in people’s minds at this stage.
we would seed the notion that, alas, this dreadful pandemic, which is nobody’s fault, means that things would have to change. We would have to think in terms of a new “normal” and that, courageously, out of the ashes of our ruined societies we would have to “build back better”.
we would always emphasize that it is the virus, not our response to the virus, that has put us in such a perilous position.
we would, at some appropriate point, introduce our saviour. Give people a measure of hope that there IS a way out. All Hail The Glorious Vaccines. The struggle will all be worth it if we can just hang on a bit longer. Any suggestion of an alternative, some promising early treatment, must be ruthlessly quashed. The restrictions now seem even more necessary and worthwhile - they’re a holding pattern until we can emerge from our noble state of sacrifice.
when the vaccines arrive, in a spectacularly convenient short space of time, we would make the reasonable statement that only those most vulnerable need to be vaccinated. Little by little, the “necessary” group would be extended to include everyone, even children.
we would ensure that those who do not accede to the vaccination will be demonized. Getting the vaccine would be marketed as a moral choice, a duty to others, a responsibility. It would, initially, be promoted as miraculously safe and effective - so there could be no possible reason that any sane or moral person would refuse it.
we would make sure that any continuance of restrictions, any further disease, is seen to be the fault of the heretics - those who don’t get vaccinated are stopping us from making a full recovery.
we would want a system whereby those who complied (the “Party” members?) were rewarded. This system should be digital and all-pervasive and eminently suitable for adaptation for use in other “crises” and societal management. The dissidents, now increasingly being labelled as dangerous, would have their freedoms, now under state control and permission, severely restricted.
And, hey presto, in the space of two short years you have a large majority of the population willing, almost desperate, to submit to state authority to keep safe. All of the struggle has been worth it. If you only comply, you will be allowed to live a reasonably normal life, provided you can prove you’re worthy of that reasonably normal life to any official, upon request.
This is where many places are at today. In places like France and Italy you can barely do anything you used to do, freely and without compunction, without having to prove you’re worthy of that privilege.
This is for a virus that really was never much more dangerous than a severe flu, and now has mutated into a viral strain that is less deadly still. In many places now, even with Omicron, you do not have freedom, except through having undergone some state-approved medical intervention, and being able to prove, upon request, that you have had such an intervention.
How did we get here?
Conspiracy or cock-up, Blofeld or Viagra? - you decide.
It is, of course, both conspiracy and cockup.
(Excellent read, as usual!)
It's a conspiracy that relied on government midwits (or worse) to carry it out. So both.
The cruelty and viciousness towards the unvaccinated is very real and hard to explain without there being a concerted effort on messaging. In my decades here on earth, I have never experienced politicians and media figures discard their business model of never causing offense to absolutely dehumanize and abuse others. Here in the US, former Planned Parenthood President, unofficial WEF spokesperson, and MSM talking head Leana Wen would announce that harsh measures would need to be implemented against the unvaccinated and within days Democratic politicians would rush to the microphones and seek to outdo one another in expressing outrage at the wise folks inoculated against the BS narrative.
This cannot be a coincidence. The lockstep measures taken by virtually all western governments are difficult to explain away without conspiracy. Can they ALL be this stupid?!?