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>90% of conversations about covid, it has taken over daily life

this is what the powers that be want to happen. they want you to live in a state of panic and fear.

when i was in school (i am 30 now), i had many severe illnesses like pneumonia twice, shingles, mono, staph. nobody ever gave a shit, and nobody died.

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> this is what the powers that be want to happen. they want you to live in a state of panic and fear.

Do you think this is a conscious desire?

Is it something that our leaders developed after attaining power, or is it a preexisting desire that led them to seek power in the first place?

Why do they want people to live in a state of panic and fear?

When people fear, they accept authority. Fearmongering is as old as first societies. An ancient priest sold a lie that unless people did sacrificies in his name, they'd be eaten by the demon. So the priest spreaded rumors about dangers of the demon and took down anyone who spreaded a counter-narrative. Today, "covid" is that omnipresent demon, and once people stop believing the lie, those "priests" will rebrand the demon into something else.

I would argue that panic and fear gives them the legitimacy to maintain physical control over some things that would have normally resulted in them being voted out of office or impeached.

Let us not forget that the roaring 20s and laissez faire capitalism, all of which were voted for, came after an era of pandemic flu, a world war, and increased government control of things under Wilson.

I mean, the top careers for psychopaths are: CEO, Politician, and Journalist. Remember the last time someone of them said "I'm not in this position because I want to have power, it's my duty to X that drives me"?

Actually yes people do die from pneumonia & staph.

While people do die from pneumonia and staph, I am giving you the anecdotal evidence that nobody in our school (or myself) died from it, which you cannot refute, because it is true.

While these sicknesses ARE deadly, nobody stopped their lives in considering them. And 100% of people did not die from it, though they could have.

I was thinking along the same lines. My coworkers get tested all the time, mostly for no real reason. Ironically one guy was out with covid for a few days after being vaccinated and boosted.

All indications are that omicron is more often than not a cold… how many of the teachers would have normally come to work with a cold?

I like to think back to Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown telling everybody to come on down in 2019/early 2020 and wonder if all the panic wasn’t incited on a near daily basis, would this would be as big of a problem?

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