SweetSue92
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Yeah ---- I've been thinking about this lately and resolving not to panic next time it happens, as of course we all did. Stopped schools entirely! Stopped ALL WORKPLACES! Developed a ha-ha so-called vaccine instantly when every other vaccine in history has taken DECADES of trial and error and testing. Developed a vaccine that DOES NOT WORK and then requiring everyone get it and scaremongering that they'll all die if they don't!
We were all fools, especially me. Allowing people to command us to wear (useless) masks and have all these chalk-marked "social distancing" space, to eat outside restaurants so the locals could terrorize and rob us ---- I never did any of that, but the price was two years not leaving the farm (really) and buying everything online, as so many did, which has changed the whole economy.
Nie wieder. Never again. My point is that although Covid was a bad disease, government and panic made it far, far worse than it was naturally. And we have no idea what the actual count is for incidence or deaths --- I am hoping they can come to some sort of sensible count within five or ten years, but now, who knows, the definitions were so poor.
The next time the crazy starts, I mean to pull into my shell and avoid contact with "news" and the world for three years, then see what happened after the crazy has faded.
Since I have been a teen, I have been fascinated with 1930s Germany. Not for prurient reasons, but just HOW? WHY? How could otherwise reasonable, grounded people watch their society take such a nefarious turn and either do nothing or participate? I knew it was the power of propaganda but still, how could it be that powerful?
So in a way I feel I was primed for March 2020. It felt like I watched people lose their minds. At once I saw social media filters, signs, "Stay home stay safe"--the propaganda was almost instantaneous and overwhelming. The disease was real, but something else and equally bad was going on. I lost friends and ticked people off for speaking out. I do wonder what they think now.
At any rate--
The bigger people around us, like you, will admit they were wrong and learn from it--which is the best any of us can do. I have done so plenty of times in the past on all sorts of issues. The smaller ones obfuscate, hide, deflect, etc.