Any hope I might have placed in the mental fortitude of my fellow Americans shatters every time I enter the local Walmart, and I walk by someone with a gas mask strapped to their face. Does it defend against coronavirus? It sure looks like it’s keeping the oxygen out. Just about everyone appears to be in a state of advanced mental and emotional decomposition, the psychological rigor mortis having metastasized in the face of unending Doomsday propaganda. Their movements and, more than likely, their judgment, are affected as they anxiously shuffle to buy their groceries as quickly as possible. This is the effect that propaganda has upon the public mind, this is the power that the corporate televised media still lords over our fellow citizens. Few people have the time to look too deeply into the issues of the day, and so they trust the major news networks, as well as health officials, to deliver accurate and timely assessments of the COVID situation. Click-bait, “if it bleeds it leads” garbage news is the only thing preventing the life support machine from getting switched off for these top-heavy dinosaurs of the pre-internet age. And they are to blame, for the most part, for the hyperbolic miasma of virus fear that has settled over this nation. Breathless headlines of a doomsday virus moving silently across the nation gets ratings, and it also freaks everyone the hell out. It doesn’t help that these stations give 24/7 airtime to medical “experts” as long as they fan the flames. I digress.
The mortality rate falls every time it is recalculated. We’ve gone from 4% and “millions will die!” to “.4% and maybe 60,000 will die”. It’s been obvious from the beginning that COVID-19 poses virtually no risk at all to anyone under 65 who hasn’t had a heart transplant recently. Yet elementary schools are closed, along with just about every mom-and-pop store. Which will be purchased shortly at a fire-sale price by a hideous chain restaurant with freshly-printed bailout cash. The rapidly rising unemployment has opened an abyss under our feet without us even noticing, and when we fall into it there will be no way out. But sure, fear the virus.
Despite this, we have reports that virus fear is actually increasing among the American public. But it’s fear of a phantasm, it’s not connected to reality in any way. The data shows that it’s far less dangerous for children and healthy adults than the seasonal flu. We can even see with our own eyes that people aren’t falling over dead. But if the media continues to publish their reckless Doomsday headlines, the fear will remain. And we’ll be treated to the pandemic cosplay of face masks and “social distancing” until Christmas. And we’ll all be forced to accept Bill Gates’ vaccine.
