None of it was clever. The circular reasoning. The new restrictions adopted at the drop of the hat, with no indication that they'd ever worked anywhere. The shaming and ridicule of doubters and stragglers. All to the stated purpose of halting a virus that had been in the general population at least since January, probably longer. So not just closing the door after the horse had left, but the door was more destructive than the horse.
Increasingly the way to win political arguments at the highest level isn't to have the best facts or the most impeccable logic. It's not to show integrity, or for that matter belief in what you're saying. It's simply to own everything. Everything and everyone.
And increasingly people outside the corridors of power conclude their best move is not to engage. They might be right.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth."
~ C.S. Lewis
The controllers of the narrative definitely went to some extreme lengths to define covid at the cause of death, didn't they? Hit by a bus? Covid. Shot, stabbed, strangled etc. - all down to covid. Except for one, of course, when George Floyd died it was resolved as murder - and the fact a post mortem nasal swab found he was positive for the disease.
The populace was sold a faulty bill of goods right from the beginning. Following the science is not a legitimate reason to silence dissent. Trusting the science is not a legitimate reason to force behavior upon otherwise "free" people. At the risk of oversimplifying the issues, the Nazis thought they were following the science too, but it appears that lesson is in danger of being lost now the perpetrators want to cry amnesty and 'we were just doing our best' whining.
The trouble is the next one is already well underway - and that's climate change. Check out Norman Fenton's talk about drawing parallels.
There's not engaging and then there's paying close attention
to the actual meaning of what we're being told.
That Lewis quote is one of my favorites. Reading it you get the feeling that while he didn't see all of our circumstances coming, the same kinds of people were around and he knew this particular type. There actually is something comforting in that.
COVID had so many symptoms--including tire tracks on your back, it seems--that you couldn't fault its versatility. But yes, as you point out they went out of their way to keep the George Floyd results a separate thing. Which makes you wonder if they didn't just tolerate riots but actively sought them. Certainly had interesting timing either way.
No the science doesn't justify any of that. In fact nothing does. Citizens either have fundamental rights or they don't. If you can take away those rights because of a disease then you'll spend all your time looking for addenda, says to make the emergency last. And they got to that point very fast.
Many are saying this! Yes, Fenton is right that the COVID alleged crisis served as a dry run for climate lockdowns. The upside is that they wound up making it so obvious that many are seeing for the first time.
It's good advice to believe your eyes before your ears.
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