COVID is just the excuse for the collectivists to do what they always wanted to. By the time most people realise this it will likely be too late. No large scale historical atrocity happened overnight, but rather the environment for these transpired over months and years.
It’s said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, however there is little evidence that humans as a species are capable of learning from history. Over thousands of years of recorded existence we’ve fallen into the same traps with miserable outcomes.
Each society has ample justifications for its evil at the time of its chosen mass persecution. Inevitably “modern” generations look back on the ignorance of their forebearers with contempt, before repeating those same mistakes with different costumes and implements of torture.
For a brief period in time we understood that the only way to avoid this perpetual cycle was to focus on the primacy of the individual and their rights above all. Sadly this ‘enlightenment’ is rapidly disappearing as we once again surrender to the hive mind of collectivism.
Future historians will look back on this period as both volatile and tragic - the demise of yet another version of civilization with so much promise.
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What I would do as Minister of Health, a thread. 🧵
Usual disclaimer, I’m just a journalist and not a doctor so this is just my totally uninformed opinion.
I also expect Aaron Motsoaledi, the godfather of the doomed NHI to do exactly none of this.
Here goes:
1. Scrap NHI. Centralizing power over healthcare funding and management is a very bad idea. Instead the Ministry should actively seek out public private partnerships where the Department funds projects and the private sector brings their competencies to fulfill such contracts.
One example is that the management of clinics and hospitals should be put out to tender. Private management groups should be tasked with managing public sector health to a high quality and efficiency with clear KPIs. Government as the contractee would have an oversight role.
Part of the reason that younger people globally are so entitled is because they’ve been told that people who have nice things are “privileged” and that this has been given to them not earned.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
If you were a kid who grew up before the 90s then you understood privilege as something to aspire to.
‘That guy drives a really nice car, what a privilege’
‘This lady has such a beautiful home, she’s really privileged’
Privilege was known to be something you earned.
Equally it was understood that to achieve a position of privilege you had to work pretty hard to get there.
Those who didn’t earn their position of privilege were largely mocked e.g. trust fund kids who didn’t work hard but spent money like water.
I’ve had plenty of good faith engagement with my assertion that the outrage and amplification of Kiddie Amin merely plays into his hands and serves as a very effective marketing campaign for his interests.
I think it’s valuable to discuss what the reaction should look like. 🧵
Let’s deal with the most common objection;
“You can’t ignore this kind of behaviour cf. National Socialist Germany”
Yeah I agree. It’s not about ignoring but rather about moderating response and controlling narrative.
As things stand that idiot says one thing and the very people he’s painting as the enemy react exactly as an enemy would. Because he’s targeting a minority this sets up precisely the dynamic he’s attempting to create.
The result of this is quite the opposite of the ideal.
Human attention span together with the nature of time means that the contemporary relevance of any event has a finite limitation.
There are many recent examples of this.
2 years later video evidence shows the Jan 6 riots at the Capitol were not what we were told they were. 🧵
It doesn’t matter though because enough people were fooled on the day, and in the weeks which followed. The goal of making people believe that this was a seminal event has been achieved and regardless of any evidence to the contrary now, a significant portion of the US and the
global population will always believe the lie. Facts be damned.
The pandemic also presents us with numerous examples of this phenomenon. When a virus started infecting people across the world it was obvious that it’s origin was very likely a laboratory.
There is a very weird view amongst some pandemic skeptics (the group of people right about almost everything covid related) that believing a virus escaped a lab following gain of function testing makes you a fool. There are so many inconsistencies in this thinking. 🧵
Firstly if you don’t believe the overwhelming evidence of a lab leak which those in power across politics, science, and the media have tried to hide for 3 years then you assumptively believe those same people including Fauci who said this was a natural event.
This is an incredibly odd and easily refutable position to hold, however if you’re stuck on natural evolution theory then it makes no difference if others are saying that gain of function is dangerous. This is objectively true - we should not be dangerously enhancing viruses.