It has now been some time since the the Covid compulsions, and we very much need to recover from them. And to do that we must first face the fact that everyone got the disease regardless.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the Covid vaccine was an epic fail. We need to come to terms with this.
Let’s start by recognizing that our world has always been awash in emotional pressures. After all, scaring people into doing things is far easier than convincing them. The Covid pressures, however, went to a new level.
The entire institutional hierarchy of the West coalesced into a single regime, with pointed and enforced demands: in one way or another, more than two million people lost their jobs because of them.
The institutional combine blasted their message to people who were almost forcibly planted in front of television screens. In those positions they were not only deluged with the aforesaid single message, but witnessed the repeated savaging of anyone who said otherwise.
There was a single orthodoxy, applying maximum social pain to more than a billion people at once.
But even as unprecedented levels of psychological pressures were inflicted on them, and with compliance being the only path of escape, people still involved reason in their choices. The process went something like this:
- If I get their shot, I can live like a person, if I don’t, I can lose my job, people won’t let their kids play with mine and we’ll be outcasts.
- If I lose my job we won’t be able to pay our our credit cards, and maybe not our mortgage. We’ll be ruined and it will be my fault.
- So, what’s the risk of taking the shot? It’s probably true that some people have been sickened by it, but it’s probably no more than one percent.
- Okay, I’ll take the shot.
The calculus here… the trade-off… was between a one percent chance of suffering and a one hundred percent chance of suffering. And so most people crossed their fingers and went with the one percent.
We need to come to grips with this.
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Paul Rosenberg
freemansperspective.com