One big lesson from the covid era is: do not be led by the most fearful among you.
"We have to lockdown, we have to force people to get injected, we have to shut down business and schools or else!”
Be very wary of people telling you what you *must* do for “your safety.”
They are free to take whatever precautions they want — stay in your home with nine boosters and five masks if you want — but don’t impose your fearful reactions on others.
I honestly cannot believe how majority of people forgot everything and now just don’t even want to talk about all the lies governments and corporations told us
They just blatantly go into a defensive mode 😂
It all sounds very wise, especially in hindsight. Indeed COVID overreaction was epic, it fast-forwarded imminent financial trainwreck arguably by a decade, it cost us a lot of freedom, some of which aren't coming back, but most importantly it crippled human spirit and ruined many lives. It was a textbook fuck up and I hope it will be studied by future generations and lessons will be learnt.
But. I wouldn't generalize like you did. The most fearful are usually those who survive, see, fear is our strongest emotion for a reason: Monkeys yell to warn their pack when they notice a snake or an eagle approaching(btw they have different yells for those) and if some decides to ignore the warning yell - they are less likely to survive and reproduce. It's only safe to ignore the yell when you're absolutely sure you're safe. In case of COVID you can't, unless you are a virus expert, can fully trust your judgment and spot the false alarm in time. There are too few of us who did.
The nature gave us no other choice than to flee.
This was the perfect storm of panic and it got used by the powers to gain more power. As disgusting as it is, I personally don't see how we could react to such things in the future differently. Yet. Like I said, I hope we learn the lesson.
We can argue which of these two cost more lives:
1. OMG!!! Danger!!! Run!!!
2. No worries, it's OK, its nothing.
I don’t agree with this framing. The ones who survive are calm in a crisis, not panicked. Fear leads to emotional behavior. Awareness leads to effective action.
The experts were the most wrong of all. Those who did their own research and assessed as best they could based on what they saw with their own eyes and deduced from first principles avoided the worst of it — we got out in nature, avoided the mRNA shot, refused to live in fear of something that just wasn’t that dangerous.
Too many people listened and kowtowed to the fearful and those exploiting that fear.
And this phenomenon is not restricted to covid or overhyped pandemics. It’s all the fear-mongering from every direction.
What if COVID turned out really deadly and wiped out a half of the population? It happened in our history not once and it will happen again in the future.
Then the measures taken in that short span of an unknown magnitude would've probably saved 10 - 20% and wouldn't be called an overreaction.
Prompt reaction on Ebola was a good call, wasn't it?
If covid had been something other than what it was, it would have called for a different response. But covid being what it actually was, that response was disastrous.
The reason the fearful midwits and their malfeasant exploiters couldn’t/wouldn’t tell the difference is they gave into/exploited panic.
Fear is never the answer, especially in a crisis, and in this case it turned something that should not have been into one.
What COVID turned into became apparent only some time later.
It's cool now to say it was too much for COVID and it was, but the same protocol saved millions in case of ebola.
No, it was known at the time. The Great Barrington Declaration was written spring of 2020, the mRNA side effects known at the trials, the protocols for quarantining only the elderly were the established policy. They departed from that and followed (and induced) the most panicked.
Ebola is a different story, far less contagious, and we have no idea what would have happened.
But my point stands — the fear is a scourge, especially in a crisis.
