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Post-Covid Panic Idiocracy, or: The Phantom Lion of Kleinmachnow

How a dumb Twitter video cast a small town near Berlin into two days of ridiculous panic. ...

Civilian sightings intensified into the evening, and townspeople told reporters they could hear ominous roaring in the darkness.

With the search still fruitless by noon on Friday, Kleinmachnow announced that it would cancel the first major events. An outdoor cinema and a concert would be held over the weekend indoors instead of on Friday evening outside.

All the while, there were a few reasonable voices. In the earliest hours of the panic, an association of zoo veterinarians issued a press release explaining that the animal in the Twitter video was not a lion at all. ...

A mere half hour after cancelling outdoor events, Grubert’s lion farce fell apart. The battle-hardened mayor was compelled to convene another press conference, this one rather more awkward than his earlier performances. The animal experts he’d finally bothered to speak with had explained to him that the video which set off the panic depicted not a lion, but an ordinary boar, of the kind which roam the woods of Europe in abundance. They are not generally dangerous. They eat mainly roots, nuts and garbage. ...

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EVERYBODY talked about the difference in vaccine uptake between Democrats and Republicans. The news made out like MAGA retards were holding everybody back. The difference was far less than it was between Leos and Scorpios. Which one of these is real science and which is political science, again?

In the beginning, they spoke ceaselessly about the prospect that many people would die, and there was no evidence of it; and yet many people were soon dying in unprecedented numbers for reasons that were not permitted to be discussed or even mentioned.

Instinct > rationality

People do not rationally choose to believe X, Y, & Z.

They instinctively, instantly, and subconsciously already believe X, Y, & Z and then only later apply rationality to try to come up with a reason.

This is incredibly important to understand.

When people are espousing X, Y, & Z, engaging with reason won’t work (because that’s not how they arrived at their position in the first place).

Try to figure out the instinctive, instant, and subconscious need that is being met for this person by believing what they do.

So with vaccines, people believe wholeheartedly in deadly junk science because it makes them feel smart, feel like a member of the tribe, and subconsciously they believe that by participating in this quasi-religious rite they will live forever.

These are incredibly powerful drives. So give them a way to meet those needs without participating in self-inflicted genocide.

Actual religion (and/or meditation, philosophy, prayer), the medical freedom movement, and alternative (functional, integrative) medicine meet all of those deep subconscious needs better than the mainstream, corporate, iatrogenocidal path.

As it turned out, COVID-19 was in most ways a nothingburger for anyone under 80 and/or 300 lbs. The young and healthy had nothing to fear from it. This was obvious by the time we had the initial estimates of the rates of contagion and infection fatality from the natural laboratory provided by the Diamond Princess, and so I concluded that there was probably nothing to worry about, as did many others who had been following the story.

And then the world lost its mind. Overnight we found ourselves living under mass house arrest in an planetary open-air prison.

It gave me whiplash. Without missing a beat the legacy media pirouetted from ‘it’s just the flu, bro’ to ‘it’s the black death’, and the normies all fell for it, showing no evidence of any awareness that just days before they had been assuring me that it was nothing to worry about.

‘The weird thing that happened around Covid, and I had never noticed this before, at any other time of my life:’ says the American comedian and YouTuber, Jimmy Dore, ‘[is that] you weren’t allowed to ask question at any point during this. You just had to do what The Man on the TV said — right? — you had to do what the man on the TV said, without questions, and then you were a good person. But if you question it, then you’re a white supremacist Trumper Naz . . . woah, no no no! No! “No, I didn’t vote for Trump, I just have questions!”

‘“Jim-mee, only dumb people ask questions!”

‘Isn’t that weird? It was the weirdest thing I’d ever seen. Even comedians would get on stage and try to shame people for trying to get informed about a medical treatment that was experimental, that they had to take and if they didn’t take it they would lose their jobs, and they wouldn’t be able to travel. And when people tried to get informed about it, other people shamed them. They would say, “Please tell me you’re not going to, [airquotes] ‘Do your own research.’” You’ve heard people say, that: “Please don’t ‘do your own research . . . ’”

‘You know, before Covid, “doing your own research” used to be called “reading”! Now you’re shaming me for reading, at the behest of Big Pharma? It’s like I woke up in the middle of a Bill Hicks bit: “Wall, it looks like we got ourselves a reader!” — that’s how much people internalised the propaganda from Big Pharma, which was that they would be anti-intellectual enough to shame people for reading, while they were wagging their finger at them for doing it! You would never shame people for doing that, no matter what other subject it was, no matter how unimportant. Like if I was to say, “Hey, I’m going to go buy a car!” . . .”Don’t look into it!” . . . “Well, how will I know which car to get?” . . . “Ask the salesman — he’s the expert! What are you — Henry Ford?”’

‘You know, before Covid, “doing your own research” used to be called “reading”! Now you’re shaming me for reading, at the behest of Big Pharma? It’s like I woke up in the middle of a Bill Hicks bit: “Wall, it looks like we got ourselves a reader!” — that’s how much people internalised the propaganda from Big Pharma, which was that they would be anti-intellectual enough to shame people for reading, while they were wagging their finger at them for doing it! You would never shame people for doing that, no matter what other subject it was, no matter how unimportant. Like if I was to say, “Hey, I’m going to go buy a car!” . . .”Don’t look into it!” . . . “Well, how will I know which car to get?” . . . “Ask the salesman — he’s the expert! What are you — Henry Ford?”’

I no longer trust about half the people I know. I now see that they are dangerously compliant idiots who would jump in front of a train if told that it would cure Wuhan Virus. Worse, they would push you and me in front of that train first. And they would believe themselves justified in doing it.