The surgeon general has recently described this upcoming week as our “Pearl Harbor moment” in regards to the coronavirus infections in the United States. 9/11 has also been invoked to stoke the fear, and it’s a pathetic display.
Why isn’t the plague of annual medical error deaths not spoken of in this hyperbolic fashion? At an average of 250,000 avoidable error deaths each year, if we want to compare it to 9/11 it’s the equivalent of 83. But it’s meaningless to compare these tragedies. Over 600,000 Americans die of heart disease each year, why aren’t their deaths valorized in the same way? It’s because those deaths aren’t politically exploitable in the same way that deaths linked to COVID-19 are. The use of war rhetoric is designed to provoke a specific response from the public, who become much more docile and compliant than they would otherwise be. When the public believes “we’re at war!”, they will accept all manner of government intrusion into their lives. They’ll accept almost anything their government tells them.
If 2,000,000 Americans eventually die as a direct result of the authoritarian lock-downs, how many 911’s will that amount to? What memorial will be built to honor these entirely avoidable deaths? Who will count them, who will know their names? They’ll of course be lost to history, while elementary schools will screech endlessly about the “Pandemic” for centuries.
