Posted on 01/20/2022 6:36:56 AM PST by Kaslin
There is something that has been hanging over my mind over the last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Between all the measures installed by the government, be it lockdowns or even the current vaccine mandates coming up around the country, every action that the government has taken thus far has been rooted in the idea of preventing death. More so, it has been in reaction to the tremendous fear of the population to the idea of death. This concept has driven policy so much that even vaccinated people, who with two vaccine doses have practically zero chance of dying from COVID, still are told to wear masks and to be afraid of unvaccinated people. So, in my mind, there has been a complete change in the concept of death over the past generation.
The concept of martyrdom has played prominently in all the major religions in the world for millennia, whereby a Christian, Jewish or Muslim person would be willing to give his or her life to preserve the sanctity of the creator. It has played even more so in modern times, with people willing to give their lives for a cause greater than themselves, much like the duty our service members undertake whenever they suit up in uniform overseas.
You see, the idea of death that has been most prominent throughout history was one of a sanctified process, one of new beginnings and one of purity. It is nothing close to the trembling fear that many in the country today feel with regards to death. Through this fear, it has resulted in the upending of the lives of everyone, regardless of their fear.
The fear of death is surely rooted in the fear of the unknown. What comes after life? What happens when you are dead? Different religions and belief systems have different interpretations to these questions, giving different people different hopes and feelings of comfort as they confront death.
Though we have no definitive answer as to what comes next, the comfort that there may be something else brings peace to those in their last moments on earth. Therefore, even those most ardently against religion during the lively periods of their lives often turn to religion and the creator in their final moments, despite their earlier reservations.
With COVID, though, these ideas have been almost entirely abandoned to the point of insanity among the masses. Early in the pandemic, when the scope of COVID was largely unknown and our perceptions of the virus came from misleading images and sources in China, the fear was at its greatest. This led governments around the world to closing their borders and shutting down all nonessential work and activity. Businesses shuttered, offices closed and people lost their entire livelihoods. As the pandemic progressed, and we learned more about who was truly impacted by COVID and who was not, this fear only grew stronger. The mass idea that only a vaccine could fix the world drove continued mask mandates and policy even in outdoor settings and schools, where there is practically no risk at all of serious infection. The optimist may have truly thought that once a vaccine came, the world truly would return to normal.
Much like most of the pandemic, the opposite occurred. Early on, we learned, correctly, that those who are fully vaccinated are extremely protected from serious infection of COVID. While breakthrough cases could occur, they were not killing people. Yet crucial opportunities were missed to bring forth the truth in the efficacy of the vaccine. One prime example was Joe Biden's first State of the Union address, where the fully vaccinated president, and many fully vaccinated members of Congress, were still mandated to wear masks. Next came a fully vaccinated Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overseas with a mask and a face shield. The images told Americans loud and clear that they were not protected even with the vaccine. These images told Americans to continue to fear death like nothing else, regardless of their vaccination status.
Next, the goal posts kept moving. Dr. Anthony Fauci kept saying more and more people need vaccinations for the country to reach herd immunity. All the while, Biden and the media were chastising any Americans who refused the shot, even as many had natural immunity from prior infection. Mandates followed, and the growing fear became ever more evident. Biden and his allies continue to push the narrative that unless everyone gets vaccinated, you should be literally scared to death. These scare tactics have led to severe depression, with people staying home, increasing drug use and suicide rates. The extreme fear of death is actually causing people to bring death upon themselves.
There is a simple fact in the world that many realize yet fail to actualize. It is the idea that freedom does not come from the government, Fauci or the CDC; freedom comes from the creator. The famous Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata famously said, "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
The sad fact today is the extreme fear of death has led people to "live" while being enslaved to this false ideology of fear. The masses are living on their knees, giving up their rights and freedoms, all the while blind to reality. The few who, vaccinated or not, fight back from this wretched ideology are the ones who may die, but they will do so standing tall, fighting for their beliefs, and for a cause greater than themselves.
Remember, death is inevitable for all. It is the one concept that unites all the people of the world. Rather than living your life in fear of that inevitable day, live your life with your chin up, knowing that any day could be your last. Live each day to your fullest.
Not Americans.
Liberals are scaring themselves to death.
Liberals are not Americans, in what America means. They want a Europeanized America, something anathema to the Constitution.
we’re all born to die...
worrying about how and when it happens won’t stop the process...
Liberalism is contagious. So is Covid insanity.
Liberals are hypnotized zombies who have no minds of their own.
A voo doo curse only works if you believe it will.. If you believe that most people getting covid are seriously ill or die, maybe folks have died because they believed they would.
None of my local friends and relatives are scared.
Coronaphobia! Thanks to the administration (this one and the last one), the lame stream media have foisted this upon people. In our area people are getting panicky if the “testing staions” are closed. Why are you getting tested? Do you have symptoms? Do you “just ‘need’ to know”? We have never feared this and are not likely to. The evidence of the damage done and the deleterious side effects of the vax keep growing daily. What do most folks hear and believe? “’Rare!’. ‘Safe and effective guaranteed’”. Uh, no. Unsafe, INeffective, guartantees don’t matter when the makers are protected from law suites since everything being dispensed is under the EUA. People must not know anything about “rna”. They need to look it up. And, you can NOT get unvaccinated. Remaining “NON GMO”.
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot(s)!” Mark Twain
People without hope (i.e. Godless people) always have two big fears: the future and death. Those two fears direct every decision they make. Scared people look for protection; that’s why we saw so many immediately jump on lockdowns, social distancing, school closures, unending masking, and vaccine mandates. They also feel the need to virtue signal in large groups. (Remember all the “I Got My Covid Vaccine” posts/pictures on Facebook?) Fear is powerful, and Godless people, while they’ll never admit it, are the most susceptible.
Not everyone.
The narrative is crumbling.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Ship ‘em all to Red China so they’ll be in their paradise.
“ It is the idea that freedom does not come from the government, Fauci or the CDC; freedom comes from the creator. ”
This is a very important point. Human life also comes from the Creator, who made us in His image and likeness. The reason it was so easy to panic people, especially liberals, is simply that they do not believe in God. And this includes the churches that were so ready to shut down and go along with this hysteria.
To them, we are wisps of protoplasm not made in the image and likeness of anything, life is meaningless, nobody cares, and all that matters is to exist as long as you can. Our only value comes from the state, which defines what is right and what is wrong, and decides who gets to keep on existing and who doesn’t, depending on their utility to the government.
Notice that the folks in government obviously realize that the panic is a joke, since they are always being photographed violating all the rules they set for others. And because being in government now is like being part of the new “God,” they were fine with the situation. The lust for power, especially over life and death, good and evil, was the sin of the fallen angels, and in a lot of ways, is mankind’s original sin.
At the heart of all this Covid panic is a spiritual crisis.
-— “Liberals are scaring themselves to death.”
This Christmas season past, I made the observation to various people that the message “fear not” has been effectively replaced with “fear.”
It is something to consider, as the belief in the State is replacing belief in “fear not?”
Some people get a thrill out of being scared of ANYTHING! My mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law were such people.
Thankfully that silliness did not affect my wife or her other brother.
It’s not just liberals. I attend a very conservative church in the rural Midwest, and about 1/4 of our congregation still wears the masks. Some had stopped wearing them a few months ago, and then they bought into the Omicron propaganda and threw the masks back on.
Nothing new here at all, really.
Democrats have been scaring up votes by frightening people — particularly women, minorities and the elderly — for decades.
It’s their thing. It’s what they do.
I guess I have it. Seems like a cold I had when I was a little kid and still had to go to school. I’m over 60 and had a bad flu a few years ago, that hurt my lungs, so I am taking care of myself, but GIVE ME A BREAK. We need to go after China/Fazi, etc.
Here in Trump-country rural Illinois the compliance rate in stores is down to 50% or less most of the time. I was somewhere recently where I was the only one without the Mask of Compliance and no one said a word. If they do my answer will be that I have a medical condition called Liberalphobia that prevents me from wearing one. Walmart workers often have their useless cloth face-diapers pulled halfway down.
Mask-wearers are either old and scared of dying from the flu or self-identified democrats.
It’s the atheists who are in a panic. They believe death is the end, so there is nothing as frightful as dying.
Ever been to an atheist’s funeral? What do you say? She/he/it is in a better place?
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