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True, but maybe that’s ok. Not everyone needs to have a clue for things to turn in a better direction.

By that I mean most people are followers - maybe as much as 80%. If enough of the 20% who are leaders have a clue maybe that’s enough.

Using Covid nonsense as an example, I’ve been noticing that the fear mongering no longer seems to be working on the masses. I hear the same scattering of reports from the fake news and from family and acquaintances testing positive for Covid - yet no big rush to distance, mask up or even get tested. Why is that?

I don’t even hear politicians grandstanding to lock things down, or quacks like Fauci making dire warnings to flatten the curve or else.

My theory is that there are perhaps 10-15% of us who are opinion leaders and the other 85-90% are happy to follow. I’m not talking about experts - I’m talking about normal people who just have a certain personal power - people listen to them for whatever reason. In early 2020 EVERYONE was afraid of a pandemic -including the opinion leaders - because it was completely unknown - and that means the range of possibilities included a worst case scenario that was truly scary.

When opinion leaders say maybe it’s prudent to quarantine, distance, lock down and wear masks.

But after a month it was obvious (to me at least) that the worst case scenario wasn’t happening. For whatever reasons, the people in power wanted to keep the fear at a fever pitch as long as possible, and used all the tools at their disposal to do so including fake news, fake science and fake statistics.

Only a small % of independent thinkers - leaders not followers - noticed the disconnect between the fear mongering and the reality. Supposedly, Covid was thIs killer, but when you get it it’s exactly like a cold. WTF? Supposedly, Covid was killing tens of millions, but the overall death rate was staying normal - WTF? Obviously, they were calling normal deaths from all causes Covid deaths just to keep Covid scary.

But to this day, only a very small % of people know the whole Covid thing was a hoax. Most people still think it was real.

So why is the Covid fear-mongering not causing panic this time?

I think it’s because the 10-15% of us who are opinion leaders are not buying it this time.. so the 85-90% of followers are not afraid either.

Anyway, my point is that if enough of the opinion leaders get a clue, the followers don’t need to.