Posted on 09/03/2021 7:31:12 AM PDT by george76
We ought to consider the metaphysical shift that has taken place since the hysteria began: the loss of critical thinking.
Death has been at the forefront of our collective minds over the past 18 months. When the WHO declared the advent of COVID-19 a world-wide pandemic, whole swaths of civilization descended into a pit of panic about the unknown virus that had sprung forth from Wuhan.
Uncertainty abounded. Was this God’s wrath? Was this a chemical weapon unleashed by a Communist state? Was this nothing but a seasonal respiratory illness that was co-opted for political reasons? In reality, we will probably never know the full truth about what happened in March 2020, as there are too many moving parts to consider at once.
In addition, we will probably not truly know what is true or false about the severity of the virus for some time. When we consider the fact that a significant percentage of diagnosed COVID illnesses are false positives; or if we consider the fact that the term “case” has been misused to stoke fear in the populace – we are faced with the reality that much of what we have been told about the severity and deadliness of COVID is, in fact, misinformation. As a side note, has anyone been able to locate the flu? It seems to have taken an extended vacation.
Now, whether or not the virus is more or less severe is not really the issue we ought to consider at this time. I say this because after 18 months of living through lockdowns, and now vaccine passport legislation, it is clear that nothing we can do will ever eradicate a respiratory illness – mystery about the case of the vanishing influenza virus notwithstanding.
What we ought to consider is the metaphysical shift that has taken place since the hysteria began. I am speaking about the loss of critical thinking that has infected more minds than COVID has bodies.
Coronaviruses have been around for a long time; they are simply one type of virus that leads to flu-like illness in human beings. I would imagine that before the pandemic was declared, most readers never considered rigorously what sort of virus they contracted during the cold and flu season. Instead, we would think about our symptoms – if we were feeling ‘under the weather’ – and use common sense to make ourselves better.
This all changed at the advent of COVID, however, as centuries of wisdom were thrown out the window on a whim. There were no longer “healthy” and “sick” people; instead, we were divided into “asymptomatic” and “symptomatic.” There is no evidence to be found that healthy people will drive a pandemic, and there is also no evidence that viruses are like magical cooties – something that will invariably infect people if they simply come in contact with it. No, we have decades – nay, centuries – of experience that tells us human beings have immune systems that battle viruses, and healthy people don’t spread sicknesses.
In the mind of the world enwrapped in COVID-hysteria, none of this matters. All people see are “cases” rising on newscasts, as they entertain nightmares about ventilators and people who believe in Ivermectin.
It does not matter that we have been told repeatedly that the vast majority of people who contract COVID will be fine, and in fact many would not even know they had it. You would think that this would give people comfort in the face of uncertainty, but it hasn’t. For whatever reason, the idea of the virus has infected our collective minds at a rate even more detrimental than the actual illness.
People have largely eschewed all reason as they have seemingly succumbed to the weight of the flood of negative emotion leveled at them by the propaganda – sorry – the media.
I remember speaking to a family member last summer about a curious statement from Toronto Public Health that read: “Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19, are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto.”
Let that sink in: people who did not die from an illness are counted as deaths from that illness. This means that you could be hit by a train, but if you tested positive – by a dubious PCR test I might add – around the time of your death, you would be added to the COVID death count.
Is it any wonder that the numbers are so high?
I pointed out this hoaxical admission from Toronto Public Health to my family member, and as if speaking from a pre-programmed automatic response mechanism, the person said to me, “Yes, COVID makes you die of other things faster.”
My proverbial breath was taken away. Imagine if you told someone that a friend who had late-stage cancer had died after a bout with pneumonia; would you think it wise to count that person as a “flu death” even though their organs had been failing for weeks? In addition, would it be correct to say that the flu made them “die faster” from cancer? Of course not! Granted, it is a sad thing when someone is already sickly, and they contract an illness – but nothing about the newly contracted illness hastens the cancerous mechanism that has already degraded the body.
This should be obvious to people, but it is not.
Even – or perhaps especially – scientific publications have become hypnotized by the un-reason that has been the gravest of plagues these last 18 months. Speaking of the flu, Scientific American admitted that the flu had disappeared because “mask wearing, social distancing, and other steps to stop COVID-19 have also curtailed influenza.”
So, according to an esteemed scientific publication which is read by millions of people, we are to believe that masks and other measures have stopped the advent of one respiratory virus, but not another. The level of intellectual contradiction required to believe such a farce boggles the mind. If a virus is small enough to travel by way of your breath, then it can of course escape the cloth mask – the mask that is not sanitary by medical standards – that you are breathing through. Masks have been overwhelmingly proven to not stop infections of respiratory viruses, yet people will simultaneously believe they are saved from the flu because of their dampened cotton defense system, but that the Delta variant is raging in a world of masked and vaccinated disease carriers.
In addition, we have now progressed from mere mask-mania to vaccine-insanity. Recently, Justin Trudeau was caught screaming like an overwhelmed camp-councilor at a group of Liberal Party supporters – a group standing in painted circles, all 6 feet apart – about the dangers of unvaccinated people sitting beside vaccinated people. “Don’t think you can get on a plane, or a train besides vaccinated people and put them at risk!” he bellowed in his best big-boy voice.
Is Mr. Trudeau so daft that he has outed himself as an “anti-vaxxer?” Does he not understand that a person who is vaccinated is supposed to be protected from an illness? He may as well have said, “Don’t think you can ride your bike without a helmet beside someone else who is riding their bike, but with a helmet, and put that person at risk!”
Again, we see that the worst of the viruses circulating the globe is the virus of the mind that has caused grown men to lose their reason.
What a time to be alive, wherein we are witnessing the utter deterioration of the collective intellect of whole groups of people.
As alarming as it may be, it is comforting to remember that this level of mental deficiency is self-defeating. It is a matter of time before the lack of reason that has infected the minds of the masses will defeat itself – like mask-wearing has defeated the flu.
It is a very good article... thank you for posting it here.
Glad to see someone else call it hysteria.
My other name for it is simply nonsense.
Thank you
Many powerful people saw the virus as an opportunity to implement some of their wishes. They used it to topple Trump, to condition the people to totalitarian control over their lives, to get the people used to handouts from government, and to expect them forever afterwards.
The ones who hate private property saw it as a way to destroy ownership by forcing owners to provide an apartment, for no money.
The ones who were enraged that Trump had given so many blacks jobs forced businesses to close, putting blacks out of work.
It was a bonanza for them. A disaster for ordinary people.
“It is a matter of time before the lack of reason that has infected the minds of the masses will defeat itself – like mask-wearing has defeated the flu.”
Unfortunately some people who tend to skip through articles quickly may not realize that in his last sentence the author does not actually believe that the flu has gone away. This is an illusion caused by PCR tests that have up to a known 90% false positive rate. The CDC is now “encouraging” tests for Covid that include tests for the flu. “CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”
But of course despite the huge number of people with the flu who were told that they have Covid the new multiplexed method will not be required until after the 1st of the year... Why? Politics of course!
There is no reasoning with someone who is terrified.
I swam out to get a kid who was drowning.
He tried to climb on my head to get away from the water.
I had to punch him in order to save him.
My experience is that women are more terrified of Covid.
Covid is a clever monster.
It is invisible. Your husband can’t protect you. You can’t run from it. You realistically can’t hide from it. Your children can give it to you.
It’s like those science fiction monsters.
Terrified people just want to get away from what is terrifying them.
They are easy pickings for The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
We ought to consider the metaphysical shift that has taken place since the hysteria began: the loss of critical thinking:
So, according to an esteemed scientific publication which is read by millions of people, we are to believe that masks and other measures have stopped the advent of one respiratory virus, but not another.
The level of intellectual contradiction required to believe such a farce boggles the mind. If a virus is small enough to travel by way of your breath, then it can of course escape the cloth mask – the mask that is not sanitary by medical standards – that you are breathing through.
Masks have been overwhelmingly proven to not stop infections of respiratory viruses, yet people will simultaneously believe they are saved from the flu because of their dampened cotton defense system, but that the Delta variant is raging in a world of masked and vaccinated disease carriers.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-virus-that-has-killed-more-minds-than-bodies/
Nice article. Puts together a lot of my thoughts and statements in one place. So, I 100% agree. My Dad is 89. Retired Dr. He saw thousands of patients over 50 years and never once wore a mask in his office. Now...Mask. He took the vaccine. Been going downhill ever since. But won’t get off my case about getting the shot. Mom’s had vaccine and booster. Going down ever since. Won’t get out of the house. Again. I told her “well, you should be able to get out. You’re vaccinated right?” But no. Scared to death.
We often see low information Karen’s in their cars, alone with the windows up, crying with a mask on because they do understand science nor math.
The virus that made people afraid of people. 2019
Costco, Walmart, and other globalists love having their politicians destroy their competition = small : mom & pop business .
Big Pharma, Bill Gates.. revenue and profits are way up.
Irrational fear by low information fools who watch the lying TV talking heads too much.
Agreed. Exploitation, opportunism.
Good article. Just like people running out of a burning building and end up getting trampled, panic kills more people than the actual fire.
None of our surviving siblings want us in their homes. Our son and his “girlfriend” welcome us but they live 8 hours away. But Mr. Mercat’s sister and her husband have made it clear we’re not welcome as have my brother, his wife, and my other brother’s widow. Sad. I saw them briefly at a graduation party for my great nephew but other than that its been almost a year. I do miss them. We realized yesterday that we’re down to just a few friends, only two couples who are friends of us both. Our world is narrowing. I believe at this point even if we got vaxed we wouldn’t see them much. My brother wouldn’t even go to our beloved cousin’s funeral because of Covid. Sigh.
Compared to the Spanish flu, the numbers are miniscule.
Great article, thanks for posting!
It was the first time critical thinking on a large scale was tested and the results show that many do not have it. There's a reason that the United States government banned I.Q. testing, starting in the 1960s.
Death has NOT been at the forefront of our collective minds over the past 18 months. It's been on the forefront of some people's mind but not most. There are those who recognized the scam and opposed it, and there are those that knew it was a scam and pushed it for their own gain. Pharmaceutical korporations, governors who violated their own diktats to march with rioter in an attempt to overthrow an election, are just two significant groups who clearly knew it was all a lie but pushed anyway.
We already know the truth about what happened in March 2020 despite the attempts of the Fascists and their Propaganda Media counterparts. Mr. Fauxi illegally funded banned gain-of-function experiments in the Wuhan Lab in China.
Centuries of wisdom were NOT thrown out the window on a whim. This was a concerted efforted done by pharmaceutical korporations, government fascists, and the Propaganda Media. The gaslighting was forced on people who still know that COVID is not the magic disease that stops at county lines, business doorways, or classroom desks.
This "virus of the mind" didn't cause grown men to lose their reason. They didn't have reason before the COVID bio-weapon escaped the Wuhan Lab. It was a fiction to pretend that they did.
We are not witnessing the utter deterioration of the collective intellect of whole groups of people, we are witness to the truth that the collective intellect was never at that level, and that the 'The Bell Curve' is a data correlation publication, not a work of fiction. Even the kids know that making it illegal to call someone "stupid" doesn't change that they are, no more than calling someone with XY chromosomes a woman makes them so.
While this level of mental deficiency is self-defeating, it won't be accomplished by mental gains. Instead, the ignorant will tire of the discipline of keeping up the lie and the Branch Covidians will find some other cult to chase, not because they got any smarter but because they're consistently defective and also because even idiots and cultists fear ridicule.
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Irrational fear by low information fools who watch the lying TV talking heads too much.
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