Posted on 03/10/2021 3:06:35 PM PST by volunbeer
I certainly did not expect what I read.
I saw one very obvious dig at the beginning, but I don’t recall much after that.
It was as if they decided to use it as a political football just once more...and then told the truth because even they couldn’t look away from it.
It is awful. I have always felt as if I were far more upbeat and positive in my outlook on things, more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt, overlook things, etc.
I hate what this has done to me from that perspective. Hate it. I am trying to work myself up to a level where I can reach a positive equilibrium, but I see a lot of things that make me feel very un-Christian thoughts.
It makes me angry at the perpetrators of this, to see normal people who are terribly frightened by all this, and then to read that article...something I have known in my mind but felt it in my heart to read of these young kids being traumatized for no good reason.
We have stolen their present, and laid mines in their futures.
But around the end of March to middle of April, it was obvious to me it wasn't something that was like Bubonic Plague where 40-50% of people could die.
Part of this that is disturbing to me is the willingness of people to sit in front of the television at night allowing that filth to flow uncritically into their minds like a poison, that is an unsettling thing.
But the part that really bothers me is the way that a more fundamental rot of our society has come to the fore.
It is this obsession with...personal safety.
It has infused every single area of our lives: The State of Fear.
Michael Crichton wrote a novel "State of Fear" which dealt with the concept of Climate Change Alarmists who used the power of Fear as a tool to achieve their environmental and political goals.
Michael Crichton certainly wasn't like George Orwell writing "1984", or Ayn Rand writing "Atlas Shrugged", both novels about things that could be seen at the time they were being written, but had a long way to go before they could be thought to sound like current events. No more. Now, reading both "1984" and "Atlas Shrugged" BOTH sound very much like the current state of things.
But Michael Crichton was alive while the full court press for global warming/climate change fear-mongering was in full swing, so it is accurate. Fear being used as a tool, and changing the population by indoctrinating the young, threatening industry with boycott, divestment, or sanctions (setting up protection rackets to profit from the threats) and personal attacks on those who disagree or speak out against them.
And it has metastasized through our culture, destroying personal freedom. There is a massive movement out there to protect you from yourself. Everything from legislation to limit behavior, building codes and consumer regulations (that inhibit industry to protect consumers from things that may be exceedingly rare) to sugary drinks or alcohol taxed in an attempt for a nanny state to discourage consumption and remove freedom of choice in matters.
People are so damn whipsawed by the relentless government, entertainment, and media that tells them one day that drinking wine is bad, and with a completely straight face, say the next day that it is good for you. There are people who listen to that crap and are always doing this or that because some news outlet or...Google...says you should or shouldn't do it for this reason or that reason.
There are people who, if they could do it, would wrap themselves in bubble wrap to prevent a skinned elbow, and force others to do it as well. For their own good.
It brings to mind that utterly famous quote by C.S. Lewis: "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. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
This constant state of fear is corrosive and destructive, and in nearly all cases, deliberately so.
People in fear will do things normal people in normal circumstances would not agree to. And there are people out there who understand and believe this in the most malignant of ways and nefarious of purposes.
your last sentence key focus, correct
now tie that into fear hysteria 24/7/365 from all majpr media, on purpose
and the fact they run this lie belief that not wearing a mask means you sont care, or want others to die, or that you’re killing others not wearing a mask
and the frigging vaxxers who believe they have a moral claim on others to be vaccinated, not for their own health, but for THEIR health
they don’t give a crap if you are damaged or die from the vaccine because its never been about YOUR health
you see because you have a moral or socieral obligation to be injured or die for others - they totally believe that
you dont get personal choice because their health fears trump your personal medical choices
and its even more control over people they could ever hope to achieve otherwise
This is a poorly-written article. It never describes how Kooper Davis died and implies that his death was related to the ban on athletics. However, I read from another source that he died of a brain hemorrhage.
This is why liberals don’t WANT different states/cities/countries with different approaches. It may reveal that their approach was wrong.
They didn’t lock down like this when the same London imperial model predicted 150 million dead of bird flu in 2005.
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
I don’t know how he died. I assumed from the article that he committed suicide. We have had several young people do that (well above normal) here in my city. The article referenced that he was undergoing counseling and was upset that school (and football) were shut down.
I think the point of the article is that you have two populations of children only miles apart. One has been in school and is living a relatively normal life. The other, thanks to a policy that does not appear to be justified by science, is not living a normal life.
They didn’t lock down like this when the same London imperial model predicted 150 million dead of bird flu in 2005.
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
Propublica article comparing Texas and New Mexico small towns 10-20 miles from each other, with the epidemic of suicide on the NM side.
Standing alone in your gun lane is pretty socially distanced.
They didn’t lock down like this when the same London imperial model predicted 150 million dead of bird flu in 2005.
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
They didn’t lock down like this when the same London imperial model predicted 150 million dead of bird flu in 2005.
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
The deaths due to suicide, drug overdose and stroke and cardiac patients who were too afraid to go to the hospital offset the decline in car accident deaths in 2020.
A lot of people refused to go to the doctor in general out of fear. When my firstborn child had a suspected concussion and possible dislocated shoulder from a fall, we took her to the pediatrician. I had to say it was an emergency, repeatedly, to get her in. Shoulder was just really bruised, was a concussion. They said if she’d landed at more of an angle head down, she could have had a serious concussion or worse ...
What was horrifying was the follow-up. The doctors were not surprised I had to fight to get her in. They were surprised I brought her back for followups, both the pediatrician and orthopedist.
They had seen children whose parents had delayed care out of fear of the Wuhan virus, though that was causing serious complications down the road.
I am certain that the death toll from delayed healthcare will far exceed the deaths attributed to the virus. That is because cancer screenings and preventative care are not happening.
The deaths due to suicide, drug overdose and stroke and cardiac patients who were too afraid to go to the hospital offset the decline in car accident deaths in 2020.
A lot of people refused to go to the doctor in general out of fear. When my firstborn child had a suspected concussion and possible dislocated shoulder from a fall, we took her to the pediatrician. I had to say it was an emergency, repeatedly, to get her in. Shoulder was just really bruised, was a concussion. They said if she’d landed at more of an angle head down, she could have had a serious concussion or worse ...
What was horrifying was the follow-up. The doctors were not surprised I had to fight to get her in. They were surprised I brought her back for followups, both the pediatrician and orthopedist.
They had seen children whose parents had delayed care out of fear of the Wuhan virus, though that was causing serious complications down the road.
I am certain that the death toll from delayed healthcare will far exceed the deaths attributed to the virus. That is because cancer screenings and preventative care are not happening.
I wonder how many elite parents are starting to realize this is necessary.
The Miseducation of America’s Elites
Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret.
https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites
That's what I assumed when I first read the article, but apparently he did not.
Thanks!
I have been saying since the lockdowns began back in March, 2020 that the response to the virus will kill a hell of a lot more people than will the virus itself.
Yup
what really ticks me off is i cant go in with my pets at the vet
they are easily stressed and develop problems from stressful incidents, all by themselves
and its all perpetrated on a lie of false positives because the pcr tests were run so many times coca cola test positive when run 35-40 times
people will say they are running them lower now but for the last year they were not and thars what these places are basing their policies on to prevent people from coming in with their pets
flipping dam ridiculous
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