I Feel it in my Fingers, I Feel it in my Toes

. . . the creeping myocarditis, that’s how the vaccine goes

Wet, Wet, Wet’s hit single would have been much better with these lyrics. I dare say that, tragically, many people who fell for the propaganda, who felt they were Doing The Right Thing™, feel a sense that something has changed in their bodies. For many it’s more than just a ‘sense’, but serious and debilitating.

Societies also change - sometimes for the better and sometimes not. Just because we’re “progressing” doesn’t automatically mean that this progress is a good thing.

Conservative politics, at least in the UK, has been far too focused on helping those who already have much get even more, usually at the expense of those who have little. But at its heart, conservatism, with a small ‘c’, is about conserving things and maybe not rushing headlong into major changes that nobody can properly predict the consequence of.

Well, that’s the story from about 20 years ago; it’s woefully out of date these days.

I feel it in my fingers - things have changed. I don’t recognize the “traditional” political parties in the UK any more. The supposedly ‘right wing’ Tory party seem hell-bent on impoverishing almost everybody and shepherding in some ghastly global authoritarianism in the name of saving the planet. It’s an authoritarianism that looks more Communist in nature than anything else.

The goons in the Labour party, the ‘left wing’ party, seem to be more interested in promoting whatever woke fad is on the menu today and would probably not even have the token resistance against the Klimate Kookiness that some (few) in the current Tory party do. I’ve always voted Labour (or tactically against the Conservative Party) but these days I haven’t a clue who I’d vote for. I am, as many have also expressed, politically homeless.

Lots of things seem to have quite radically changed. I’m clearly getting old.

I dread to think what Frodo would see in Galadriel’s mirror these days. The Scouring of the Shire might be the least worst thing he sees. Sam changing into Samantha perhaps being only one of the horrors.

The difficulty in identifying a political party with any sensible policies is also the least of our worries. Things have changed much more fundamentally, I feel.

Some of these changes have been brilliant. By any objective measure, things like homophobia and racism (systemic or otherwise) have drastically declined, and our societies are much better off for it.

Of course, the woke are busy trying to warp everyone’s perception to pretend that these things are getting worse and are much worse than they have ever been. It’s what gives them their sense of purpose; they like to be seen as fighting for “justice”. They even invent new and dastardly oppressions, like microaggressions and mis-gendering, to fuel their sense of self-virtue.

The biggest change for the worse might be the rise of what I might term collective safetyism.

Look at the following picture. What the fuck is this all about?

Although I have to say that this necklace goes rather well with my “I’ve had my haemorrhoids removed” bracelet.

You may as well wear a necklace that says “Lobotomized”

This isn’t new - ever since the Holy Goo of Deliverance™ was mandated coerced gifted by God upon us, people wore these things - or posted pictures on their social media of their vaccine cards, or even getting themselves jabbed.

In a few short months the world radically changed. Before covid, you’d have definitely practiced social distancing if you ever saw someone with a necklace like this. It would be a case of “Uh oh, Weirdo Alert”.

In just a few months, governments, aided and abetted by a very significant fraction of the population, took it upon themselves to lecture and hector us all about how we should be protecting others.

Even worse, if you did not adopt this posture of collective safetyism, you were made out to be some kind of pariah, an outcast, an evil human being not worthy to enjoy the rights and privileges of those who had helped Pfizer achieve record profits rolled up their sleeves and done their duty.

Even Sam Harris, the spokesperson for the Ignore the Dead Kids in the Basement Party, thinks we should all be forced to take a vaccine for the collective good.

If anyone could be said to be an oppressed minority, it was the unvaccinated.

They were persecuted for their beliefs. Beliefs which turned out to be wholly justified.

But in today’s upside-down world we saw that many on the ‘right’, the conservatives, questioned the integrity of Pfizer, and lots of those on the ‘left’ praised this large and largely voracious, corporation. Pfizer’s appalling track record with regards to honesty and integrity, amply demonstrated in the many court proceedings they have lost, went out of memory. It almost seemed that “none now live who remember it”.

But the re-writing of history is depressingly par for the course for the woke.

It was mostly those on the ‘right’ who were ringing the alarm bells and lighting up the warning beacons when it came to the vaccines. It was certainly identified as such in the media - and we even had a paper written (peer reviewed ‘n all) which attempted to show that Republican vaccine “hesitancy” had killed people.

In any functioning society it seems to me there needs to be a healthy tension between the individual and the collective; either extreme is not great. We accept some things for the “collective good”, like laws and such, but we shouldn’t accept everything because the “collective good” often turns out to be anything but good. It’s so important that people are allowed to exercise a fair degree of liberty - that they don’t feel continuously monitored, or having to walk on eggshells all the time, that they are free to speak their mind.

The flip side is that we also shouldn’t allow people to simply “do what they want” without consequence - that way lies madness and anarchy. Where the lines between the collective and the individual are to be drawn is not something I know - and we’ll all have different opinions on that - but I would suggest that the lighter the touch of government, the better, in general.

But look where we are today.

• A significant number of people thought that the unvaccinated were so reprehensible they needed to be punitively constrained, or even removed from society, in order to preserve the safety of the collective. Some even argued that medical treatment should be withheld from the unvaccinated.

• A significant number of people think that those who spread “misinformation” should have their capability to speak at all removed - by their removal from social media platforms. They see nothing wrong with this. Removing the “offending” posts is bad enough, but many go further and argue for outright banning so that the miscreants, who are only exercising their right, no longer have a voice on these platforms at all.

• There are a significant number who think that other people (not themselves, naturally, because they are superior beings who can think for themselves and are above such influence) need to be protected from hearing or seeing “bad” opinions. People need to be protected, you see.

• A significant number of people now think that absolutely healthy people are likely to be dangerous carriers of a deadly pathogen and that society needs to be protected from everybody - just in case. Look at the calls for the re-introduction of mask mandates and the like.

• A significant number of people think it’s right to change our language and processes to accommodate a very tiny minority so that they feel “included” and are not offended or “traumatized” by this perceived lack of inclusion. We must protect them, you see. They never felt offended before - but hearing the word “mother”, for example, now sends them into a trauma spiral of despair and woe.

The common feature here is the rise of a collective “morality” that seeks to constrain individual expression and thought in order to “protect” others¹. It’s all rooted in fear. Fear that one might harm someone by not taking or vaccine, or saying the wrong thing, or expressing a counter viewpoint. It’s the same with the Klimate Boiling Bonkers - if you don’t stop eating meat, or cooking with gas, people are going to die! We’re all going to die!

Governments love all of this because fear is their primary tool of coercion and manipulation. Get people to be afraid of something (doesn’t really matter what it is) then heap guilt on people for not Doing The Right Thing™, and you can control things much better.

With regards to covid there is One Chart To Rule Them All². It says everything. It is the only chart you really need to see through the madness and the extreme coercion and fear tactics employed by our governments.

This is the chart for a country that didn’t, by and large, go safety crazy. And nothing bad happened³.

Not only was this not a very serious pandemic, but it ushered in a whole new world of crazy as people went into collective safetyism mode.

Why did we shut the world down?

Why were we so manipulated into believing this was a deadly pandemic of unprecedented proportions? Why were told we needed to “build back better”?

Given this, why should we believe their Klimate Krisis pontificating?

None of this is a change for the better. Old dinosaurs we may be, but there are still a few who now live and who remember what things used to be like. The new “normal” is anything but normal, or healthy.

1. Or, perhaps more accurately, to control others

2. There are various versions of this chart. All make the same basic point; there never was a serious pandemic at all.

3. By which, of course, I mean nothing worse happened - despite the Covid Doomsayers berating Sweden for their inhuman “experiment” of following all previous pandemic advice. An experiment which, it was said, would be devastating for the country.