Thread by @SteveDeaceShow

Imagine if they would've told us from the beginning something like this: "This virus from China, we're unsure of its origin and therefore pathology. Which means we need to throw everything we can at it until we have enough real-time data to know for sure."

And they used measured pleas on mitigation efforts that in the past had been ruled out and would explain why we were quarantining the healthy. Because maybe a synthetic respiratory virus was designed for asymptomatic spread, but we just don't know yet?

And therefore when they told us "we're all in this together" they actually meant it. That we would mobilize the home front against either a punitive accident or bio-weapon event. That they were learning about it as we were, in real-time.

And thus we needed a true private-public partnership. They would offer us real transparency, in exchange we would practice patience with the discovery process. That they treated us as citizens instead of subjects. Just imagine how things might've turned out differently?

Instead, they spoke with forked-tongue certainty about things they often didn't know, or people like me could empirically prove with data just weren't true. In fact, some of us got so good at pointing this out, we either got banned, shadow-banned, or our account traffic crushed.

We were told things were true with certainty that now they're admitting were not. We were told things weren't true with certainty that now they're admitting might very well be. We were told to just ignore real-time data, and follow their unsubstantiated claims of certainty.

We were told to ignore all other pre-established science and scientific precedents. For example, we watched "the science" on masks change overnight almost exactly a year ago, after decades to the contrary -- on cue with the narrative.

In short, we the people were treated with suspicion, while we were to give them the ruling class unconditional benefit of the doubt on every claim.

That is not a social compact. That is oligarchical tyranny.

And along the way we learned three important lessons that must never be forgotten:

1) Too many of our fellow Americans don't want to be Americans anymore. It's just too hard, or their indoctrination is just too strong. They were made to be ruled, and demand everyone else do the same.

2) A long list of people/institutions/entities never to be trusted again. And a much shorter list of those who smelled a rat from the beginning, and collectively amassed a data-driven resistance that is one of the main reasons the system in our country is in retreat now.

3) The truth and our Constitutional ideals still win. The system has all but declared our Constitution a dead letter, but when we live in defiance of that and instead in acknowledgement of our Constitution, that 5,000-year leap still scales tall shibboleths in a single bound.

The Spirit of the Age will run this playbook back on virtually everything from this time forward. Be vigilant! Neither fall for soft-headed conservative media personas that originally fell for this canard again. The Covid battle isn't over, either, but we're winning.

Keep close tabs on those who were your friends and those who weren't. Those who were honest when they were wrong and those who weren't. Those who are gaslighting you now, and those who aren't.

As Augustine once said, "There are many sheep without but many wolves within." Feed the sheep, and confront the wolves. Our very civilization is at stake.