With the realization that I can be kind of a broken record on this topic, I'll keep it brief.
Do you remember "15 Days to Slow the Spread"? I do. In at least one business that was closing down for that period of time on government orders/strong suggestions, I remember saying "See you in a couple of weeks." Because as dismal as the idea of a central authority ordering all face to face social activity suspended was, at least they'd put a time limit on it.
Of course the fifteen days came and went. Without a word of explanation, the suspension was extended. Now there was no fixed endpoint, and no admission that there ever had been. Anyone who spoke or acted with the expectation of being allowed to return to their regular life was shamed into silence.
That's why, outside of some limited hangout, there will be no reckoning on the COVID era. Nothing actually went wrong. It was an experiment, and at root it had nothing to do with masks or vaccines, very little to do with COVID itself. The object was to see how much the population would tolerate gaslighting, Orwellian memory-holing, and leonine contracts. A lot, it turns out. Experiment successful.
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Right from the first day it sounded like a scam to us but no matter what we thought about it we were forced to abide by the orders. Some people just love being able to police other people's behaviors. We never wore masks unless obliged to do so by 'authorities' and we walked the wrong way down grocery aisles. Small protests, small satisfactions.
I remember too the small business that closed temporarily that opened again with an entirely new staff. Friends walking in the park had to keep a 'safe' distance from one another (unless they were related) to avoid some nasty consequences.
Was there a disease called covid or was it an epidemic made by man - Fauci comes to mind as a major culprit if one were needed but I'm sure there were others ready to carry the torch, especially if there was money rattling around. It was a major social experiment that went the way the instigators planned.
What's interesting is that many people have become aware of what was done and will be guarded in future. It would be fun to see Fauci indicted though.
It was the first large scale compulsory intervention of that level in a long time. Maybe since World War II, almost certainly since the heat of the Cold War. It was extended and, as stated before, we were given no choice in the matter. That in itself might have helped convince some people that the threat was that overwhelming and any kind of intrusion was justified as a result. Of course if you weren't convinced, small rebellions were about all you had.
There were some people who lost business, maybe lost their whole business, and were never compensated for it. That's impossible to justify. The whole idea of safe distances was something that just grew beyond any kind of proportion.
Calling it a pandemic feels wrong. An epidemic, maybe. The measurements they used for how many people were infected were specifically planned to have a certain effect. And that's not even getting into how many people developed symptoms, which if they didn't calls the purpose of the whole exercise into question.
I hope people don't let down their guard. The powers that be are entirely capable of dusting off the plans with a few changes. Fauci is finally getting some heat, though.
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