I am sensing some real backlash today to the CDC’s flip flopping, bait-&-switching, & outright lying.
As many of you know, I love history and psychology, both of which may provide some insight as to what is happening.
1/6
In the 80s, after decades of repression, Gorbachev granted Soviet citizens new freedoms/liberties through “glasnost” & “perestroika”
Unsatisfied w the shift, a # of govt, military, & KGB officials staged a coup, arrested Gorbachev & announced reinstatement of the old order
2/6
Most expected the Soviet populace to follow prior behavior and passively acquiesce. However, something had changed: Gorbachev had ceded the people certain rights and when these new rights were threatened, there was a massive backlash.
3/6
Immediately following the coup, thousands were in the street confronting troops and defying curfews (lockdowns). In just 3 days, the situation had reversed and Gorbachev was back in power w support of the people.
4/6
The lesson, as put by psychologist R Cialdini: “freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight”
This is known as the scarcity principle - “people see a thing as more desirable when it recently has become less available than when it has been scarce all along”
5/6
People tasted real life and want it back.
In blue states & cities, nobody is coming to fix anything. It is up to each of us to be a force for change.
6/6
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In finding Swedish child seroprevalence yesterday, I spent some time on their Public Health site and—WOW—what a breath of fresh air. They actually tell …the truth… instead of fomenting panic. Let’s take a look at some highlights & compare to USA
1/12 folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-hea…
ASYMPTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
US: Everyone must mask & lockdown or all will perish
Sweden: “There are reports of transmission of COVID-19 from people without any symptoms of illness. However, only a few studies describe the role of this type of transmission in relation to the...
...overall spread of COVID-19 in the community. Based on the available knowledge about COVID-19 and similar diseases, the current understanding is that this route of transmission represents a minor part”
Why has censorship been so extreme? Take the famous Milgram expmnt where 65% of ppl delivered 450-volt shocks to others despite cries of agony (obedience to authority). In 1 lesser known variation, the “teacher” (delivering shocks) was commanded by 2 diff. authority figures:
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one ordered the teacher to stop when the victim cried in pain, the other simultaneously demanded the experiment continue. The “teacher” would invariably stop and THINK. One study subject said “Wait, wait. Which is it going to be? 1 says stop, 1 says go…which is it!!??”
2/5
In the absence of a single authority figure, EVERY SINGLE ONE followed their own critical thinking & moral judgement and terminated the cruel experiment. This is why the narrative is so controlled; we can’t have people thinking for themselves or they might do the moral thing.
3/5
16 months ago today, six San Francisco Bay Area county suburbs jointly announced a “3-week” stay at home order, the first in the USA to do so.
Today, “3 weeks” (+ 15 months) later only 18.1% of SF metro workers have returned to their offices, the lowest in the nation.
1/6
Not surprisingly, 52% of all California small businesses have closed. This is because 83% of businesses r in cities (>than 50k pop), many of them catering to office workers in central business districts (bars, restaurants, gyms, theaters, dry cleaners, taxi, boutiques, etc)
2/6
Everyone should experience a week of the pandemic (lockdown) in both an urban downtown & rural community. The former are ghost towns w nothing but homeless addicts & boarded up retail vacancies. Lifestyles didn’t change in the latter (& yet the populations weren’t wiped out)
3/6
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
During the Korean War, the Chinese were more successful than the North Koreans extracting info from American POWs. The Chinese used sophisticated psychological tactics while North Koreans employed harsh physical punishment/torture
1/11
Dr. Henry Segal, chief of the neuropsychiatric evaluation team examining returning POWs, reported that war/political-related beliefs had been substantially altered: “many expressed antipathy toward the Chinese Communists but at the same time praised them for ‘the fine job…
2/11
they had done in China.’ Others stated that ‘although communism won’t work in America, I think its a good thing for Asia’”
Continuing, Dr Segal said if we measure China’s success in terms of “defection, disloyalty, changed attitudes & beliefs, poor discipline, poor morale…
3/11
-Unvaccinated kid’s risk is less than vax’d 30yr old
1/4
Then-putting aside potential physical harms-its impossible to overstate the importance of children seeing their friends’ smiles, joyful engagement w one another, & degree to which recognition & expression of nonverbal communication is a critical skill for participation in society
The only people still in favor of masking kids are (i) those seeking to display moral superiority or (ii) those in deep blue metro areas that are still hiding in their apartments and have no idea kids have been blissfully interacting maskless in most of the country for months.