The modern peasant just replaces old superstitions and wives’ tales with the superstitions of science, which he receives already packaged from authorities that seem intent on disseminating science in its most easy and popular forms.
2021 – Hundreds of Americans rounded up and charged for attending a political protest in their own capital, dozens held in a special prison denied bail, the Biden regime is flooding the country with record numbers of illegals most of which are not vaccinated and not tested for Covid-19, and apparently now CDC apparatchiks are running the country.
The federal government continues to offer garbled COVID-19 messages that undermine its credibility and sow confusion about the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now thinks there are more infections among the vaccinated than it did previously (35,000 weekly with symptomatic infections) and suggests that vaccinated people are helping spread what President Joe Biden calls a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
So, you are called dangerous for being a little skeptical about things like the much touted vaccine that we are finding out doesn’t seem to do much of anything…but, let’s look back and see if we can trace back to the source of all the skepticism….
The year is 2016. You kind of trust what you see in the media, a little anyway. You believe doctors and scientists are trustworthy and independent of politics. You do your job, pay your bills, and follow the rules. While a little skeptical, you even somewhat trust the polling numbers.
Then a funny thing happened…Brexit. Brexit, which you were assured won’t happen because it’s part of the lunatic fringe…and it’s led by racists. The polls were wildly and completely wrong.
The pundits who told you Brexit was done, were also wrong.
Back across the pond, you are told by almost everyone in the media that Trump was going to lose. You wake up in the morning they were all wrong again.
How could the elite have been so wrong? Of course, it was the Russians! For the next 3 years, all you hear is this Russia narrative. It’s a done deal right?
We have the dossiers, the whistle-blowers, General Vindaman, the pee pee tapes. The Muller Report will confirm all of this for you. But, instead, it turns out that Trump had nothing to do with any of this. Nada.
Not only were the elites in the media wrong, they made the whole thing up. Turns out the Steele Dossier was actually paid for by Democrats, Democrats connected the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Trump and Brexit won without nefarious Russian actions, but instead from the votes and support of citizens.
Next up, Racism. The media howls, “Your country is racist.” If you’re a white dude that grew up in the America, this seems odd. Other than a handful of weird and challenged douchenozzles, you’ve never met a real white supremacist. Why would you call yourself racist when you are not?
It must be true because Jussie Smollet, a gay black actor is assaulted by MAGA hat-wearing thugs. These monsters racially abuse him and put a noose around his neck. He cries while talking about it.
Then there’s the Coventry Kids, MAGA hat-wearing kids from a religious school abusively confront a native American elder, probably a shaman of some sorts. Reza Aslan tells you the kid has a “punchable face.”
But, the truth comes out. The Jussie Smollett story turns out to be full hoax, and the native American elder was the one who confronted the kids. What’s still crazy about the Covington thing is that most of the transgressors in the media never acknowledged that even if the original angle had been correct, which it was not, trying to destroy the life of a teenager because he was acting arrogant in a video would still have been utterly psychotic. That’s where we are though.
Trust the Science? Everything you learned in biology class is wrong. You find out there are many genders, and the experts at the American Psychological Association say that traditional masculinity is “pathological and harmful”.
Then comes Covid-19, and the racist Trump shuts down travel to and from China. In response, liberals like Nancy Pelosi, visit Chinatown in San Francisco to explain “there’s no reason tourists or locals should be staying away from the area because of coronavirus concerns.”
Racist fiend Trump doubles down on his racism by claiming the virus may have come from a lab in Wuhan.
As lockdowns are instituted, you do what you are told, you trust the experts, the science, the government. You do think it’s weird that the same people who have for months have been telling you masks don’t work and you shouldn’t wear them introduce mask mandates. Follow the science! This makes little sense but it’s a pandemic so you do it. Even relinquishing freedom to live in a biomedical security state. A shocking number of people went from “I’ll punch a nazi” to “show me your papers”.
Then George Floyd is murdered by a cop. While the lockdown remains in place, the protests rage in cities across the country. Tens of thousands of people crowd into major cities. While not even social distancing, protesters loot stores, attack by-standers, burn businesses. In Portland, people die in these protests.
You almost laugh as reporters stand in front of burning buildings and call them mostly peaceful protests…actually, you do laugh. The political class, the elites offer no criticism of protests–no masks, no social distancing? Expert medical professionals actually note that protests were not mass COVID spreading events, “protest is a profound public health intervention”, you know, because of racism. You start to see that all of this is total bullshit.
Facebook and Twitter monitor your posts in order to stop the “spread of disinformation.” If you to have a different point of view, especially if you are conservative and critical of what’s going on regarding the virus, you are are censored. Views on how the lockdown is hurting kids, schools, small business is blacked out.
Then Trump promises a huge push to develop a vaccine, but Kamala Harris, who is later elected Vice President, says that she would not take the vaccine if Trump told her to. What??
On the eve of the election, Alexander Hamilton’s NY Post releases a damaging report about Hunter Biden, which alleges corruption that may involve his father, as well as drug taking, use of prostitutes and more. But, Twitter and other social media companies prevent the story from being shared. On MSNBC and CNN, as well a major newspapers, commentators counter by claiming the story was another product of “Russian disinformation”. No bias here.
We learn now that the NY Post story is accurate and the laptop from which the information was recovered is in fact Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Covid numbers were inflated….it appears anyone who died at any point after a positive COVID test was counted as dying of COVID, even if they were killed by an angry moose. We noticed all along that the hospitals were not overrun at all, and the number of people who are in hospital because of COVID also turns out to be incorrect.
The Wuhan Lab thing? The racist conspiracy theory that the virus came from a lab is the most credible explanation of the origins of the virus. It also turns out that the people that died in the first wave of the pandemic were elderly, when patients with COVID were allowed to be released back into care homes. Just ask disgraced Governors Andrew Cuomo and Ralph Northam about that little tidbit.
Sweden, Texas and Florida which remained open continue to thrive, despite the recent smear attacks by President Biden.
These same people are now telling you the vaccine is safe, you must take it and if you don’t you will be a second class citizen. In NYC, you will be required to show proof of vaccination to come inside a café or gym. Has anyone bothered to question whether vaccine may be the cause of the new variants?
The whole thing stinks of deception and corruption. That anyone would trust shady politicians or rich depopulation advocates over their innate wisdom is the true mystery. “Why don’t people trust the science?” ask the same people who have been making crap up and intentionally misleading people for years. The boy who cried wolf is a real thing.
The world is full of dumb people making important bad choices for the rest of us.
So it goes…
Paul Plante says
Amen!
Bruce Gittinger says
So spot on. A good summary of the last year and a half.