Propagandemic

They were right...Covid is airborne...Covid Spreads Through The Air Waves

I’ve heard the time of Covid called many things, and I agree with those assessments. “The Panic” offered by Kitsume is a great one. There was panic. That was for sure. Restaurants were closed, gutted, and reopened. There were mask mandates for ride-share services and at movie theaters. Large gatherings, concerts, and sporting events were cancelled. And then, when reopened, stadiums had cardboard cutouts of people “attending” the games.

There were arbitrary and capricious rules galore.

You had to walk to your restaurant table wearing a mask, but once seated and eating, the mask came off. Applebees had hightop chairs zip-tied together to avoid too many people sitting at them. Voting had people standing six feet apart outside at the different early voting venues.

—And the airwaves were captured and awash with propaganda. You couldn’t walk through a grocery store without the reminder of a “novel, deadly virus” every five minutes.

”If you are experiencing any symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, fever, shortness of breath, please vacate the grocery store immediately.”

There was PSA’s on the radio, covid was in the news of the hour, and it was in the talk radio shows. A commercial break was seldom Covid-free.

”Screaming into the Void” was another metaphor, and it definitely describes those of us who were trying to question even one particle of the narrative. I used a similar metaphor of “screaming into a hurricane” early on. You couldn’t compete with the always-on/always looped propaganda of all that you would see and hear 24/7 anytime you turned on the radio. TV, or check your email inbox.

And if the mainstream media decided again to flip the switch and maintain the level of broadcasting fear and panic, how resilient are we as a society to combat it? I am guessing at least 50% are still vulnerable to it, probably more. As much as we would like mainstream media to be gone the way of the dodo, it will still be with us for some time. And have any of them been held to account for being an accessory to the disruption of our society? They, in their “we didn’t know” assertion of what happened in 2020:

• Ruined businesses

• Caused unnecessary fear and panic.

• Either caused or became the scapegoat of out-of-control inflation and a variety of other ills of our society.

• Contributed to substance abuse and suicidal ideation.

• Isolated the elderly and sick from their loved ones.

• Disrupted supply chains.

• Changed the social contract on how society dealt with illness.

This is the reason why we won’t move on until this gets addressed, and hence why, as six years approach, I still write on it. Why is Fauci not in prison somewhere? Why are a lot of the names and faces of the pandemic not being repeatedly grilled and charged? You can bet that if I broadcast fear-inciting messages every five minutes, I would be in jail and cooling my heels for disrupting the peace.

I’m not making any money off of it. And yes, I would agree there is an element of “fear and panic” in my assessment of what is to come. But only because it is a reality we have faced. Many people’s vectors in life and business were ruined. The plug pulled, the entrances shuttered. And was there an apology? Any effort at restitution? Of course not, because if we save just one person from the blight of Covid, it was worth it.

From many sides, there is very little discussed concerning “was Covid real to begin with?” Don’t get me wrong, there were Facebook accounts that were deactivated in 2020 claiming “Covid was a hoax.” At the time, I thought this was an incorrect assessment, and still do to a degree.

People don’t wind up in the hospital from a hoax.

People did get sick. The latest one I found out about was a friend from high school. He was in the ICU with pneumonia at one point. He claims it was due to COVID. He was smart and did not agree to the protocols. Sedation and ventilation were recommended. He refused, and no doubt, that saved his life.

I don’t argue with him that he got pneumonia. I argue with him that it was COVID. He had a rebranded cold/flu. Unless someone can show me that people never went to the hospital with low blood oxygen before 2020, I will continue to assert this.

“I’ve never been this sick before.”

Yes, all of us will experience this at some point. Never being as sick as we were at one point. This has been something that has been expressed both before and now, since 2020. Why does it have to be COVID? I guarantee you, people before 2020 had the “I have never been this sick before” assertion.

Why do I have all the skepticism? Why not believe there was a novel/deadly virus and be done with it? Maybe a part of it is that I have been confronted by real, deadly diseases in my life.

I had a dad with rheumatoid arthritis. He went (in my mind) from me remembering him running when I was a kid to being wheelchair bound at the end of his life. He tried a number of drugs to help with the symptoms. At one point, one of the drugs contributed to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, which went into remission after he stopped taking it.

Despite being immune-compromised, he never put any parameters on dealing with the public. And he well could have. I wonder what he would make of the people on X discussing their “Long Covid” or “Disability” and complaining about how many people do not accommodate their desire that others mask around them.

A recent Michael Malice interview with a wrestler talks about how the wrestler can no longer interact with people physically. He has to ask them if they are sick. I don’t think my dad ever uttered those words. I remember more than a few times accompanying my dad to the hospital to visit sick friends. He attended parties, reunions, and get-togethers. He was in plenty of restaurants filled with people.

“Son, are you sick? Stay away from me.” was never a phrase in his vocabulary. Some may argue that maybe he would have lived longer had he been more adamant about boundaries and personal space.

Or he may have died a lot sooner, because his happiness in life was derived from going places, doing and seeing things. I think he would have listened to doctors had they told him to limit his interactions with others, especially those who were sick, but would have gone out and interacted with both the sick and healthy anyhow.

Six Years Later and there are still people out there who want to pathologize normal. They have a slideshow carousel of topics meant to cause people to experience fear and panic. Measles outbreaks, bird flu, regular old flu, and the continuing impact of COVID are all on this rotation. The ultimate truth.

Fear and panic sell. And there are those who would like the return of government restrictions. So when I see stories that are clearly propaganda, I comment on them. Because I see propaganda and the global Asch experiment for what it is now. I don’t buy any of it.

We had a pandemic in 2020, but it was a propaganda. The same psychological experiments our government and military turned on foreign citizens, it used on its own citizens, and the legacy and ramifications are still being felt to this day.

And those of us who did not fall for it are like that guy running around like a madman at the end of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” warning the world about the pod people.