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Rikard's avatar

"And if your counter is that “things would have been worse” if we had not locked down etc, then I have only one word for you. Sweden."

Sorry? Anyway, they are working on fixing this. And in the USA, they are targeting the Amish right now, trying to force-vaccinate their children. Since Amish children don't have higher mortality rates than other comparable groups of children, but have significantly lower rates of ailments such as ADHD and Autism, there's only one real reason:

Remove a control-group that by virtue of existing proves the capitalistic cult of Covid and by extension commercial vaccines wrong, and evil.

Substacker "Epimetheus" of Die Fackel (the name of the stack) has been running a "best of Covidiocy" focused on Germany and Austria (or Greater and Lesser Covidistan has he sometimes calls them) for a week now. Recommended if you want to compare continental loons with British ones: https://fackel.substack.com/

Your mention of fear brought to mind one of the singularly best delves into what and why fear is, I cannot recommend it enough, because even though he looked at it from a writer's point of view, Lovecraft's treatise on the nature of fear is bang on the money in the psychological and sociological aspects, and how fear is not just a glandular response to immediate stimuli but a much deeper societal and cultural notion as greatly embedded in our psyches as are anger and love:

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

Sample:

"Definite feelings based on pleasure and pain grew up around the phenomena whose causes and effects he understood, whilst around those which he did not understand—and the universe teemed with them in the early days—were naturally woven such personifications, marvellous interpretations, and sensations of awe and fear as would be hit upon by a race having few and simple ideas and limited experience. The unknown, being likewise the unpredictable, became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part."

For which our forefathers invented rituals, to call for boons and to ward off ill fate. Totems, dances, chants, temples, sacred groves, certain garbs and vestments, and so on. Mitre or mask, they both have the same effect on a virus.

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I am more sceptical than you with regard to it really being a thing. But certainly, there either was as an agenda behind it, or it was quickly created and then jumped upon by a sinister elite, from military people via the MSM to the many grifters.

And while, as with all wars including the currently prepared for, I can see their rationale for creating fear and (ab)using it, I still cannot excuse most of the public for falling for it -again!, and for embracing Girardian scapegoating wholeheartedly -again!

The public positively wanted it all after a very, very short while, even demanding it FROM these elites when they still hesitated, demonstrable especially so in the UK.

I still remember that episode of the 83 year old woman from Barnsley accidentally allowed to speak common sense and demonstrate integrity and dignity on TV, who was not just immediately vilified for that display, but whom they also tried to publicly humiliate and reeducate again on TV shortly thereafter.

I actually briefly and naively harbored some hope at the time that this might be a turning point.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-barnsley-pensioner-bbc-anti-lockdown-viral-b1221765.html

And the public had and have far weaker excuses for falling for it, wanting it and enthusiastically practising it than previous generations, who had no knowledge yet about Nazism, communism, LeBon, Bernays, Orwell, Ash, Milgram, Stanford&co, or, in the case of the currently prepared for war, of the Covid psyop.

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