Thread by @StephTaitWrites

I keep trying to tell y’all that there are many hidden layers to creating the ILLUSION that our leaders “moved on” from Covid, in order to convince people it’s over. They still protect themselves, they just hide it so YOU won’t know you need to as well.

c-span.org/video/?c507829…

After repeatedly criticizing Trump for abandoning ppl & refusing to deal with the crisis, they knew they couldn’t be seen doing the same thing.

But they were even MORE concerned about getting ppl “back to normal” before the pandemic had a chance to become a catalyst for change.

So the only way to avoid looking like they were doing the same shit Trump did, WITHOUT having to actually institute the sorts of policies they didn’t want ppl believing were possible, was to throw everything they could at convincing people the crisis isn’t actually happening.

Trump and folks on the right actually had tried the SAME thing, trying to convince people the whole thing was a “scamdemic.”

But they only used methods that targeted THEIR voters, and didn’t care if everyone else saw through it.

Fascism doesn’t plan to need your votes anyways.

What the Democrats doing is so much more insidious. They know they can’t actually afford to be seen callously abandoning people the same way and still get votes.

So they have to be much much much smarter about how they push the same lie. “Scamdemic” won’t cut it.

First they told people that once you got the shot you’d never get Covid again. When that lie couldn’t hold, they said a shot + breakthrough infection would give you a super hybrid immunity and THEN you’d definitely never get it again.

The Omicron brought the most cases EVER.

So they told you Omicron was “mild,” and said it was actually GOOD everyone was getting hit because we’d reach population level hybrid immunity and that DEFINITELY meant Covid would be over for real this time.

But they had learned they needed more than just a narrative now.

They launched the NEW Covid map that would hide the actual transmission data in favor of a metric designed to stay green even at levels of transmission higher than the *max* level of the original map. They NEEDED people to believe transmission was low no matter what.

They quietly launched multiple changes to the rules for how Covid cases, hospitalizations, and even deaths were recorded - changes that meant a lot of cases would no longer show up in the counts. Then they held up comparisons and said…

… “see how much cases/hospitalizations/deaths went DOWN compared to these other times?” Knowing full well that most people wouldn’t know you are comparing two different data sets then, since they didn’t adjust the old numbers to the new criteria.

But hiding or even eliminating data was only part of it. The other part was MUCH more insidious.

They needed to convince people to accept repeat Covid infections as the new normal, and that it *couldn’t* be stopped anyways so why try?

How do you do that?

Well you can’t afford to have too many people that have never had Covid, or the “it’s unavoidable” lie doesn’t hold up.

So you send still infectious ppl to back to work at day 5.
You change the guidance to schools to no longer recommend masking, testing, or quarantine

You end the mask mandates in transportation and healthcare.
You push businesses to end telecommuting options and force people back in person.
You move to privatize testing so more ppl unknowingly spread it b/c they can’t justify the costs of testing unless they’re clearly sick

You end a whole bunch of support programs so that people feel economically imperiled - b/c not only does this push holdouts to send their kids back to in-person school and return to in-person jobs, it actively discouraged them from testing because they can’t afford any days off.

And then you specifically reach out to various mouthpieces you’ve cultivated to push carefully crafted narratives that shift away from “you do you” and over to “take pity on those poor folks who just can’t seem to accept the pandemic is over.” You have your own CDC director…

…call masks a “scarlet letter.” You push narratives about how wonderful it is to see smiles again, how burdensome and terrible it was to wear those horrid masks and thank God that’s behind us now.

You create the social pressure to stop masking even if you still wanted to.

Because the reality is the more people that get Covid and the more times they get it, the easier it is to sell the narrative that Covid is entirely unavoidable now so there is nothing more Biden et al could have done anyways.

But even better than that…

The more people - and especially their children - get Covid, the more our brains are actually wired to fight against any of the scary facts about the damage Covid does. Your brain will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to try to protect you from the trauma of that information.

So the more you can get people infected, the more their brains will actually leap at ANY narrative you offer than means they don’t have to confront the realities of what those past Covid infections mean.

But it gets EVEN better…

In order to maintain that protective illusion, those same folks will actually start to feel resentment towards anyone who is still avoiding Covid - because they NEED to believe that Covid is no big deal anymore AND that there was nothing they could have done to avoid it anyways.

People who are wearing n95s and aren’t getting Covid all the time threaten that illusion. So public sentiment will naturally shift towards demonizing these folks in order to preserve the illusion and keep that trauma from getting in. They’ll end up doing your dirty work for you.

This is why you see stuff like my nurse in the hospital who repeatedly tried to convince me not only that I should ditch my masks, but that it actually wasn’t *healthy* to be concerned about Covid anymore - all while I was laying there with a pulmonary infection and a bad heart.

So in the end, the Biden admin didn’t LOOK like they were pulling the same “scamdemic” playbook as Trump, but in reality they had the SAME goals but were just FAR smarter about how to implement them.

Remember “no more tests, no more cases?”

Look around. 👀

They told you Covid was over, and systematically pushed folks to take more risks & drop all precautions, all while showing you Biden’s unmasked face doing all the things to sell just how safe it is now.

All while hiding the LAYERS of precautions they use to make that possible.

They regularly test everyone that gets anywhere near him, regardless of if they have symptoms or not.

They have top of the line air filtration and ventilation on top of that. At times they’ve even set up specialized air cleaning systems at other places he’s going to be. ⬇️

https://twitter.com/kvetchings/status/1626424912092221440

And you can bet your ass that if they are testing folks to be around the President, there is NO way they’d let a staffer who is still testing positive but is at day 5 return to working with him in person.

B/C despite what they told YOU to do, they know it’s not actually safe.

In the end they gave you the SAME Covid playbook as Trump:
✅ There is no pandemic
✅ Frame masks in a way ppl either reject them or feel socially ostracized out of using them
✅ Deflect blame w/narrative any bad that DOES happen is unavoidable/nothing more could been done

If y’all actually understood the reality of what Biden’s admin has done, you’d be rioting in the damn streets.

And he CERTAINLY wouldn’t be the candidate for ‘24. He’d be too untenable for them to even THINK about running (let alone without a primary.)

It literally keeps me up at night.

And people just clearly have NO clue, walking around like everything’s fine.

Dystopian as hell. Phew.