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Here We Go Again -- COVID 3.0
American Thinker.com ^ | December 6, 2021 | Jeffrey R. Barkey

Posted on 12/06/2021 3:01:33 AM PST by Kaslin

It’s not about the variant -- it’s about the fear. Like a magician who gains his reputation for sleight-of-hand -- getting the audience to concentrate on one aspect of a trick while manipulating another -- so government authorities around the world are using the unknown aspects of a new COVID-19 variant to keep the public in fear about their future well-being.

This chronic fear under the guise of an “emergency” has granted unbelievable amounts of power to those who the media anoint as “experts” and “scientists.” They are milking their new-found fame and perceived wisdom to make pronouncements and exercise control without discussion, debate, or appeal.

The South African medical association chairwoman, Angelique Coetzee, has told us that the Omicron variant has minor effects: “It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two... those infected do not suffer loss of taste or smell. Those infected are being treated at home.” Sounds pretty terrifying, doesn’t it?

Closing down travel and creating fear in our daily lives is unnecessary, harmful, and counterproductive.

On a broader plain, Nobel economist F. A. Hayek and author of The Road to Serfdom got it exactly right when he wrote some years ago:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid

1 posted on 12/06/2021 3:01:33 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Moronic


2 posted on 12/06/2021 3:22:15 AM PST by waterhill (Banned.video Its not a conspiracy theory, its a spoiler alert.)
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To: waterhill

Evil.


3 posted on 12/06/2021 3:34:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

It is evil!


4 posted on 12/06/2021 4:26:07 AM PST by waterhill (Banned.video Its not a conspiracy theory, its a spoiler alert.)
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To: waterhill

Bfl


5 posted on 12/06/2021 5:41:49 AM PST by Maceman (People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
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To: waterhill

omicron and moronic

Same letters in a different order.


6 posted on 12/06/2021 5:46:03 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: Kaslin

OMICRON = MORONIC

Spread the word.

They think we are stupid.

What arrogance, what pride and conceit and contempt for humans.


7 posted on 12/06/2021 6:31:03 AM PST by Norski (Luke 22:36)
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To: Kaslin

8 posted on 12/06/2021 6:36:41 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com ( )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFTge_gXsAEyxMW?format=jpg&name=900x900


9 posted on 12/06/2021 6:38:16 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com ( )
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To: Kaslin

I doubt anyone is even listening to this stuff anymore.


10 posted on 12/06/2021 7:04:39 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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11 posted on 12/06/2021 8:15:31 AM PST by COUNTrecount ("I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is." -- Donald Trump)
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To: Kaslin
"Fear, in fact, is more contagious than C19/O and more useful to control the populace than the truth. It is certainly of benefit to major elements of big pharma -- an industry drowning in profits provided by big government and allied with individuals at major academic institutions.

Ike feared the wrong complex.

It is the medical-pharmaceutical complex that is enslaving the world.

12 posted on 12/06/2021 12:38:35 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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