Many comments on my thread earlier this week re China/lockdowns. Think about what's happened over the last 18 mo's & tell me if it sounds more like a repressive communist regime or a Western liberal democracy. None of this was remotely fathomable until China showed us the way
1/9
🔹You have been inundated with terrifying & false propaganda all day

🔹Information has been tightly controlled by a small group of monopolistic technology companies collaborating with government to censor all counter-narrative material

2/9
🔹Law enforcement closed parks & playgrounds, you were forbidden from traveling more than a few miles from your home, & only for essential gov’t-sanctioned activities

🔹You were not permitted to interact with any people outside your own household

3/9
🔹Neighbors were encouraged to inform on those violating any such policies

🔹Anyone deviating was filmed, fined (despite their income having been terminated) and then publicly mocked/ridiculed

🔹Businesses were forcibly closed without compensation

4/9
🔹You and your children were forced to wear a facemask not b/c it is effective but to promote an environment of fear

🔹Families were not permitted to comfort ill or even dying loved ones

🔹Schools were closed & all children, some for nearly 2 yrs, were denied an education

5/9
🔹Weddings were prohibited, bars & restaurants closed, singing and dancing forbidden

🔹Dating was outlawed

🔹Religious worship was off limits

🔹All companies and institutions were required to adhere to and vigorously promote the above party narrative

6/9
🔹The gov’t leaders implementing such policies brazenly violated them without repercussion as their subjects’ lives crumbled

🔹The economy collapsed while the gov’t handed out more and more of its less and less valuable currency

7/9
Read it again if you need to. This was absolute INSANITY. The time to reflect is now.

Be honest with yourself-- if you supported lockdowns, had you been asked in 2019 whether you would champion the above rules what would you have said?

8/9
I am both terrified of what I have witnessed over this period and optimistic that the human spirit will ultimately triumph.

The truth may eventually escape as well, but it will take a long time.

9/9

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