A diabolical narrative has emerged “we overreacted, we panicked and did things to try to stop covid that really hurt society dearly, from this we should learn to never do those public health measures we did ever again, shame on public health for recommending masks” (A
It’s an important gap filler for covid denial-delusion syndrome, because of what hides, if we look at deaths now and long covid now, “oh my god how badly did we screw this up”, we trace through covid impacts to today and realize the impetus to cure covid is omnipresent (B
Covid denialism, buttressed by a media, can’t reflect “how could we have done this, let all these people die, infect all these children” because it’s still happening now, denialists core tenant is past tensing covid, “during covid” as if it’s not still lurking (C
The mechanics of this dissonance are an easy two-step, covid pandemic leads to anxiety and a demand for anxiety-relief, step 1) minimization, but covid is terrible, it is the worst virus, so minimization-only isn’t enough to keep people subdued, see … (D
Step 2) of anxiety exploitation, is substitution, the covid problems continue in full force, they need a straw man, a fall guy, a stunt double, and here the charlatans used “classical public health”, it’s not about being rationale, it’s about selling people rhetorical relief (E
The “during covid” precautions, being manipulated conversationally, were brief and distant memories, but for denialist steeped in anti-lockdown fearmongering, they’ve been cultivating triggers to public health all 4 years, step-2 denial is very heavy, a pandemics worth (F
The lies and the spin are deeply seeded, connected by balls and balls of yarn, all pointing to the same dark threats, “mandates”, while covid, is the Kayser Soze of their dream fiction, covid denial-delusion spread is bigger than covid spread, attempting to drown covid in BS (E
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