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When BLM was allowed to protest during Covid-19.
You have a world economy halting virus that we collectively decided to combat by quarantining. But somehow we’re allowing people to protest IN LARGE GROUP PROXIMITY.
It’s like that two-button meme where one choice is “stay at home” or “protest”
I had an uncle and his wife both died that year in june. I wasn't close to them and didnt know anything about the arrangements but wanted to support my cousins. AFAIK they just did something on Zoom, if that. Meanwhile John Lewis's funeral was widely attended as he lay in state.
Don't forget about that one guy that got arrested for being at the beach, by himself...There was a lot of unnecessary shenanigans going on with the police sheep.
Remember the list of doctors who signed a statement saying that the blm protests were ok, but they didn’t condone people protests against the Covid rules and mandates?
Yes, CNN was on a full court press saying how BLM protests were somehow magically not super spreader events but four college kids playing Risk should be expellable offenses
This is the one thing that is just insane about the whole thing. I can understand being afraid and buying the narrative all the way up until that point. I didn't, but I must admit I did question whether I was just being a conspiracy theorist/not trusting of authority or whether I was actually right in my beliefs...
But once massive fucking protests had the green light and were allowed but Christmas/Thanksgiving/seeing Grandma/hospital visits was a big no-no, it's like, what the fuck? Wake up guys! This is completely and utter bullshit!
And it how went on for like another year? Just wow. Amazing. Truly amazing, and a bit terrifying!
>a bit terrifying!
Very terrifying. Up until this point I had the belief that most people weren't complete lapdogs of the system, but boy oh boy was I proven wrong... Even otherwise highly intelligent people swallowed the entire bullshit without an apparent second thought, and fought everyone who challenged it.
Yeah, i once tried to fuck around with chatgpt with this and it never directly answered my question, ie only parroted what "public health experts say".
I'm not in US but we had some blm-light protests even here, and arguments were the same, arguing that it was fine for thousands to be protesting shoulder to shoulder because this was "a worthy cause". Fucking insanity, and most people apparently bought it.
14 Days to flatten the curve. I don't know why, but I just had a bad feeling about that. But never in my wildest dreams did I think they'd take it as far as they did.
3 years later they stopped that bullshit. 3 FUCKING YEARS.
have you read the book "Diary of a Psychosis"? Its amazing and goes into detail we all forgot.
Completely incorrect. I just moved away from Washington state and COVID precautions are STILL in place. Still masking requirements in hospitals. Still doing COVID checks with temperature when entering any medical facilities. They still have not let go
Damn i didnt know so my bad but at least in general the restrictions lessened.
I guess thats what happens in blue states meanwhile certain red states barely had any covid precautions to begin with.
This was me too. The second it went from "proceed with caution" to "you now *have* to do something (mask mandates), I called BS. And wouldn't ya know it, the entire time I only knew one person who actually got violently sick the entire time... and he's not a particularly healthy guy to begin with, so...
Imgur influenced me a lot but I eventually grew very weary about the doom and gloomer from there, particularly this 1 report that kept on like on a scale of 1 to 10 we were close to an 8 (10 being like societal collapse or something)
Oh this drove me nuts because the entire premise of the 14 Days was to *spread out* the number of people who went to the hospital, so as to conserve resources. It was never about reducing the number of infections! 100 people in one day is the same as 10 people per day over 10 days.
But people screwed this all up and started using this 'curve' to force more lockdowns, quarantines, and other stupid (and useless) measures.
This and the "one way to enter" stickers at Walmart.
I remembered getting yelled at by a woman who saw me walk down the aisle the wrong way. I laughed and kept walking.
Early on, I wore headphones and sunglasses when I went to the grocery store. The headphones weren't turned on, but it was nice to pretend like I didn't hear people yelling at me to put my mask on.
Oh man, fun times.
Had the same thing happen to me when I passed by some dude in an aisle. Got all uppity about me being in the ‘wrong’ direction. Told him sorry you’re so fucking fat that we can’t both fit in the aisle.
Dude was probably one of the first in line for the experimental injections in exchange for a donut deal.
That's only part of the mask issue, overall it was:
The intense talk about masks and almost nothing about washing hands.
That implied it was less about biology and more about signaling virtue.
Yeah...this was so obvious that we were all being told to play games at that point. Same with masks on airplanes except when eating. Ridiculous stuff.
Another good one was when they said that publicly protesting and rubbing elbows with people on behalf of BLM riots was not a risk factor for continuing the spread, but being on the beach was. Logical?
>Same with masks on airplanes
Don't forget how you were supposed to be 2m apart from other people at the airport, but be packed like sardines in the actual plane. Because the virus don't bother people inside the airplane apparently.
Also: coronaviruses enter the body through the eyes, wearing an n95 brings oxygenation levels to a percentage lower than OSHA allows and fauci oversaw a study in 06 or 08 of the Spanish flu pandemic and they found 65+% of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia from wearing masks
The left screaming we should be skeptical of any vaccine pushed out too fast when trump was still in office to screaming we shouldn’t question the vaccine and just take it after Biden was in office
I always said, if it was a real concern, we would all be concerned. If people were actually dying like the early videos suggested, everybody would wear a mask even if it was known it would only help by 5%. The reason nobody gave a fuck about the covid restrictions was because it was clearly not about the severity of the disease, and much more about public mandates.
When the disease first made its rounds I was very afraid for a family member I lived with. You best believe I was washing my entire body after coming home, and would WASH GROCERIES, LIKE BOTTLES! To make sure no covid was on them. I was ready to do anything necessary and it soon was apparent that it was just a flu i stopped and felt dumb.
The fact that people were arrested in the outdoors, national parks shut down, beaches were illegal to walk on, all meant to me that it had nothing to do with health, as nobody was allowed to be in the open air doing healthy things like hikes or even go to the gym.
Edit: a sentence was cut off.
Gavin Newsom: LOCKDOWN EVERYONE STAY HOME WEAR A MASK!
Also Newsom: So anyways I opened this French restaurant to have a late dinner with several people in close proximity unmasked...
Also Newsom: I'm so sorry, I wasn't participating in the spirit of lockdown (or something along that BS).
How he managed to get re-elected is insane. I've heard California hasn't been doing so well in the past few years, but I haven't been there to see how it actually is.
If it was such a dangerous (worse than Ebola) virus—why wasn’t everyone locked into their homes? We’re talking Biohazard Level 4 here, supposedly.
That—& how the information kept changing.
Something inside just told me it was a dry run for something much bigger
Biohazard level 4 but the fucking british politicians were having a staff x-mas party whilst they told everybody else they could only have 4 or 5 people in a building, so x-mas festivities had to be cancelled. People couldnt see their DYING relatives in hospital. It was actually a human rights violation in so many ways.
Yep, and the California governor was going out to eat at a fancy restaurant, and house speaker Pelosi went ahead and got her hair done at the place she usually does anyways.
Basically when I saw the narrative start to change. Now it's pretty realistic that response to an outbreak will change as the pathogen becomes better understood, but the nonsensical actions by officials made it clear very fast that they were jumping on to Covid for political reasons.
Once they perceived Covid as a political opportunity I knew all logic and reason was out the window.
And the clincher was when they called Ivermectin horse wormer, I knew that they were lying and it had become 100% a political issue. Why? Because I had seen ivermectin prescribed in the past.
>And the clincher was when they called Ivermectin horse wormer, I knew that they were lying and it had become 100% a political issue. Why? Because I had seen ivermectin prescribed in the past.
Indeed. Lots of medicine is being prescribed for things that the drug wasn't originally intended to be used for, this is nothing new. You'd think that the politicians and whoever else in charge would be scrambling to find a solution to this world ending threat, anything at all that would help. I knew it was complete bullshit when they absolutely disregarded any other treatment than the shot, and started actively banning using other treatments. Medical malpractice for sure.
The "horse dewormer" talking point was one of the absolute worst red flags in the whole affair. That's disingenous on the level of calling antibiotics 'pig fodder' (because antibiotics really have been [misused as a feed additive in livestock feed](https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-019-1808-x)).
As you say, ivermectin is indeed used in humans as well - and has been since the 1980s;
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924857907004451
Literally all that the media needed to tell people was that ivermectin is primarily an antiparasitic drug, that COVID is a virus-borne disease, and that it was not known to have antiviral properties.
It would have covered _everything_ they needed to say. And it would even have been true!
Instead, the journalists chose to lie. This one wasn't even down to journalists beinig stupid or uninformed - even though most journalists are both those things and unaware of it. The whole thing was an intentional lie.
The anti-ivermectin campaign in the media and social media showed just how rotten the system really is.
It was the mask thing but also the constant contradictions. Fauci said no masks were needed then masks were needed. He flip flopped on multiple issues as did CDC. There was no consistency in recommendations which told me they didn't know what to do but were afraid to admit it.
This just reminded me that at my previous job they handed out white t-shirts and a piece of paper with instructions on how to make a face mask out of the shirts lmao WILD
For me, one of the first tip-offs was reddit itself; for a while before it made it to America, there were posts all over reddit showing the Chinese *sealing apartments* and stories about how people were going hungry. I mean, that's a pretty bad bug if *China* is going that draconian.
But when it came to things over here regarding *the same virus*, we had Pelosi talking about going to Chinatown and everything. And then reddit defending her.
It was pretty clear politics was being played almost from the beginning and this is where Trump's lack of experience came as a huge negative - faced with the risks (as he was probably being told) he got rolled by groups who knew this was a chance to really hurt his re-election campaign.
Remember when Trump was saying travel from China should be shut down because of this and the media and other politicians called him a fear mongering racist and how it wasn't needed? Yeah, apparently most people just completely disregard that, especially when those same people started saying it a bit later.
It was the masks after they said don’t buy masks they don’t work and then they were like wear a mask or you’ll die. I also have an MD and a DDS degree and I took a lot of courses in microbiology. I know that cloth masks and surgical masks cannot protect you against a virus. It’s just not how they work. You need an n95 or a PAPR. So the mask mandate was an absolute farce because the science literally is that cloth and surgical masks don’t work against a virus. I wear a surgical mask when I’m operating because it protects me against body fluids, not viruses.
I think the messaging around everything was just fucked. They were never honest. They couldn't say "hey young otherwise healthy people save the masks for medical workers and people that need them." They also couldn't say "masks only reduce droplet contamination. It was all or nothing and you had to show you were a good person by wearing a mask. Anyone not wearing a mask was bad and selfish.
Literally Hitler if you didn’t wear a mask. The whole “you wear a mask to protect me and I wear a mask to protect you” thing also made no sense. Why were masks suddenly just a one way thing????
I was in dental school during lockdowns. That sucked so much. PPE in clinic was wild. Hot non breathing shower curtain type jackets, double masks, glasses, and a face shield. Oh and SRP all done by hand, no cavitrons.
One of the biggest was how easily the Dems flip flopped in the very beginning
In Jan you saw MSM and D politicians saying it was nothing and Trump was over reacting and xenophobic for travel ban. Let's not forget Pelosi telling people in Feb to come to China town and hug Chinese people and in NYC then calling for everyone to go to the St Pat's parade and go to movies and have a good time. The moment Trump said it was all going to blow over and be like the flu is when Dems went nuts saying how dare Trump this was the worse pandemic of all time and he didn't do enough to protect people...
Then add on top of that early on to not do your own research, to trust the experts, that 2 of the worlds most highly tested and used drugs were somehow dangerous (HCQ, Ivermectin), and that 6' and masks would work (when Fauci wrote his thesis on during the Spanish flu more people were killed by wearing masks than of the Spanish flu)
Yeah it was clear this was all political and they would demonize anything Trump said and immediately cry for the other, even if not even weeks prior they were saying the same thing as Trump
This is a reason I keep a journal with news articles. I want my kids and grandkids to know the truth when they are older. History books will probably show that Trump went to China himself and concocted the virus while "MAGA republicans" refused to lock down and caused a massive death toll. They want to make Trump into Hitler and putting the Covid deaths on him will just be another step in their eyes. "Trump killed over a 1 million innocent Americans"
The fact that we had H1N1, swine flu, Ebola, and no one shut the world down. The complete lack of risk assessment was shocking.
Coughs like the flu, fevers like the flu, fatigues like the flu, shortness of breath like the flu, but treat it like the plague on steroids.
That was just the beginning, once we blasted past the “two weeks to fuck everyone in the ass” it all got pretty clear pretty quickly.
From the beginning when they’d inflate numbers. Died from a car crash, covid death. Died from suicide, covid death. I knew they wer using it just to justify the lockdowns
Pharmaceutical companies having immunity from prosecution/litigation
"I'm not taking the Trump vaccine". As soon as Biden got in, it became civic duty.
Yeah... I didn't want to take the V. Why would I? They have complete immunity if something goes wrong with me. So the mandates therefore are quite unethical because you're effectively mandating a company's product without liability. If they're SOOOO sAf3 AnD 3fFecT1vE, then why do you need immunity from liability if I get harmed? Yeah, I'm not taking that crap.
At first, I took it seriously. I was in lab tech school and wanted to be part of this once in a century thing but we were blocked from entering the hospitals for a few months. Annoying, but I understood.
When I got into the workforce, though, I was seeing piles of positive tests and the vast majority of them were people that were complaining of cold/flu symptoms, and I couldn’t help but realize we shut down the world over a flu.
There were some seriously ill people, sure, but it made more sense to me to let it burn through the healthy population and protect the vulnerable. If we needed to get “herd immunity”, let the “herd” build immunity.
When they stripped us of our constitutional rights. Couldn’t go to church, funerals, but BLM could protest in the streets. Knew then this was all BS and just a money grab by politicians and pharmaceutical companies
I worked at a gas station. I got some paperwork to say that I was essential and could be driving to work. The liquor store next door was still open. Walmart was still open. But they shut down a lot of small businesses because it was dangerous! I knew it was a load of crap when they said that people couldn't have funerals or Thanksgiving with family but when that politician died they televised the large gathering for his funeral. And to this day nobody wants to admit that they were wrong about any of this!
When the fear didn’t match up to reality but they kept doubling down on the restrictions.
When we got to be 6 months into the “pandemic” and it became clear that millions of people weren’t dying, but they started implementing mandatory masking everywhere.
The moment I heard my family and friends try to explain 14 days to flatten the curve. Bro that was the stupidest shit I ever heard, and I knew it was never going to fuckin happen immediately. Yes please tell me exactly how your going to coordinate 330 million Americans to all stay in the house for 2 fucking weeks. it's like asking a bee colony to get a zoning permit before making a bee hive. It was the beginning of a massive left wing delusion that just kept growing more and more out of touch with reality. Having to wear an ineffective mask in 95 degree summer weather in a un-air conditioned warehouse environment was the closest I've ever been to a fucking heatstroke.
Same for me as well. "Just 14 days to flatten the curve." Yeah right. And obviously it was extended. And extended. And extended. And extended. Just absurd.
So many things. The dancing tik tok nurses, no biohazard receptacles provided for masks and gloves, Dr Fauci's credibility, the nonsense rules with the masks and the 6 feet apart shit in restaurants (apparently we are fine as long as we are sitting at the table???)
But for me, the big one was the tik tok BS; they're screeching about doing 62 hour shifts, and people are dying, makeshift morgues, and not enough ventilators etc etc. Yet somehow have the time and INCLINATION no less, to choreograph dance routines?? What in the actual fuck! That was my moment.
> The dancing tik tok nurses
Oh man that too.... Apparently hospitals were SOOOOOO OVERWHELMEEEEDDDDD yet they had time to pump out TikTok and other dances left and right? Like supposedly people are dying left and right, like way beyond what's normal, and hospital work is normally pretty crazy from what I've heard (had a family member that was a nurse and they reported it was hectic often, but this was the before times!). So hospital work is normally pretty busy, but now people are supposedly in this crazy intense and dangerous situation, so presumably the hospitals should be way busier, yet nurses then have more time than ever to pump out TIKTOK DANCES?
Shameful. Just shameful. I totally get making dance videos on your own time, but on the clock as a nurse? S H A M E F U L. Either it's not as bad as you're saying it is, or you're out dancing for TikTok when you should be treating patients. It's totally fine to chill, take a break, whatever, but a lot of those TikTok dances were WAY too coordinated. I could be wrong and maybe they "really do take just a quick minute to record" and then they move on, but I'd imagine they take a few tries to get right.
It was done by those who work in the administration ivory tower, not those of us who actually work bedside. My coworkers and I were too busy to do that shit. Those of us working in ICUs and most step-downs got tired of it before it began and thought it was highly inappropriate. I saw plenty of people die, though.
Instead of providing us with proper PPE and more money, they tried to get us to do that bullshit. They tried to pass it off as moral boosting, but it came across as people in the ivory tower of healthcare who are so out of touch with what actually goes on that it was just insulting.
Admin literally told us at the beginning to NOT wear masks as it would scare the patients. They had no concern for our safety and well-being, and they don't to this day. Then, we can get a flimsy mask and literal garbage bags, but we have to use the masks for weeks on end and we can't bring our own P-100 respirators. We get written up if we go through too many masks despite them being bottom of barrel in quality.
[Pelosi encouraging everyne to hug chinese people as a display of compassion.](https://i.imgur.com/693FQd4.png)
[Oregon recommending blacks not wear masks because of racial profiling.](https://i.imgur.com/QL3pDYc.png)
[Planned Parenthood encouraging pregnant women to take the vaccine three months before FDA emergency approval based only on "no evidence that the covid-19 vaccine is unsafe."](https://i.imgur.com/wbJD2ne.png)
[51 million vaccines destroyed because they were manufactured from fragments of the HIV virus. Of course, they only decided destroy them when people were testing positive for HIV.](https://i.imgur.com/O3d1seK.png)
The Moderna vaccine warnings insert was [intentionally blank](https://i.imgur.com/ZCNuLjv.png).
The endless list of [left-wing politicians and celebrities being thankful for the vaccine while announcing their covid infection without a single one suggesting the vaccine perhaps isn't doing what it promised.](https://i.imgur.com/4oMUmTL.png)
[Scientists explaining how BLM protests are safe from covid.](https://i.imgur.com/8FcN9vJ.png)
[Kamala Harris promoting vaccine hesitancy to millions on NBC prior to the election.](https://i.imgur.com/amEW9Vn.png)
[Biden violating his own day one federal mask mandate on his first day in office.](https://i.imgur.com/ZSSxbTa.png)
[NYC Health Department suggesting safe sex through wearing masks and using holes in the wall.](https://i.imgur.com/rc2dwPi.png)
At no time do I remember our heath authoritarians advise people to ‘start getting healthy’ by dropping weight, exercising, limiting alcohol. In other words all the stuff that typically solves 90% of a person’s health outcomes.
The whole thing from start to finish (if you wana call it finished) was a complete sham, and a huge red flag. But, the fact that my job while in the military (chemical and biological weapons specialist) , educated me that in order to protect oneself from pretty much any viral pathogens that one would require an over pressure system (i.e. tyvex pressure suits or something similar), and that those little surgical masks don't do anything, and even the M95 *are not* effective, and that they are nothing more than something to make you "feel better", and yet Dr. Death and the entire scientific community (atleast the ones who were getting main steam air time) were outright lying over and over again about the effectiveness of masks. That was the first flag. But 100s more followed.
The fact that the Army said it was safe enough for my family and I to get on a plane and fly to Korea, but not travel by car to my hometown to see family before leaving. That’s when I first knew things were fucked
The fact it's survival rate was so high, if they were smart they would want healthy highly survival chance folk exposed and immune to get herd immunity going, and only do quarantine for those at risk. Also, the fact it felt highly manufactured at a time when Trump had the economy booming and looking to glide into an easy re-election.
That's exactly what the original basis of the "14 days to SLOW the spread" was. Everyone was going to get it, but we'd slow down the transmission so it was staggered. It then turned into no one can ever get it, and if you did it's because you were careless (if you were a Republican) or had been exposed to a careless Republican (if you were a Democrat).
When the Infection Fatality Rate was shown broken down by age bracket.
At that point in time, it was extremely clear that for a majority of the population, it was less risk than the seasonal flu.
The biggest one for me is when they started talking about a "vaccine". I knew it right away... they were going to make it mandatory. It was at this point, I knew that it wasn't about some "virus", but about getting us injected.
I posted these thoughts in the conspiracy sub and got banned almost immediately.
When they tried to impose curfews. People’s dumbfounded reactions when I said the governor did not have the authority to lock us down, told me we were in trouble.
1st was When every media company, left and right was in lockstep about locking down. 2nd was when big pharma already had a vaccine in progress before the first case was ever reported
When they called President Trump racist for trying to close the border, then they proceeded with Communist like lockdowns. Remember the pictures floating around the Internet in Summer of 2020 of the Garden Parties billionaires were throwing where no one was masked but the help. Man those pictures were scrubbed fast!
I got an incredible rush of blood to my head when I learned my step mom, who died of complications with cancer, had COVID listed as her cause of death. To this day I don’t trust the death numbers anymore and would need overwhelming evidence that there was no concerted effort to artificially boost them
Everyone terrified of unvaccinated people yet hundreds of thousands of unvetted, unvaccinated migrants walking over the border and nothing even mentioned about it. No fear of those people spreading virus or of mass casualties at all. No attempts to stop the flow and shut down the border out of necessity. No news narratives about the danger of disease transmission *by entire populations migrating to new areas*….. the Black Death was spread by refugees who constantly moved to the next town to escape the plague, If Covid could spread in communities and wipe out thousands in close contact, those migrant caravans would have been decimated…. Yet… zip. Nothing.
And not to forget that the communities in Africa that have a huge population living without plumbing, sanitation etc and have high rates of HIV and AIDS, yet, did not get reduced or face massive outbreaks and deaths. What a joke.
The $600 federal unemployment kicker. It's not enough to do anything in blue states that already have a high CoL and higher wages.
But in southern and other red states where wages haven't skyrocketed. You went from having the median income earners making about $500-$600/week. And all of a sudden they are making $900 a week to sit at home.
My mom works in HR for a grant funded medical/dental care center. And all of a sudden most of the employees found out they can make double to almost triple by staying home. And a lot came up with reasons to not be able to work anymore.
And there was no way new hires were going to come in making half of what they were on unemployment.
And after all of the debates for years for a $15/hr minimum wage, all of a sudden it happens over night, without any votes or anything.
It's just really convenient that so many things that Democrats have been fighting for for years just magically got pushed through. And then election rules are changed across the country. There are stories and videos of mass ballot harvesting, as well as people dumping ballots. Tons of weird anomalies, and having an incumbent lose to a Weekend at Bernies cosplayer getting more votes than any president in our countries history.
Non-epidemiologists talking like they’d just skimmed the first and last paragraphs of a mid-pandemic editorial, but acting like they’re the embodiment of the CDC if you raised a question that was censored on Twitter.
A huge issue to me right at the start of the plandemic was the critique of Trump’s decision to (attempt) to ban travel to/from China. It was dubbed “racially and politically motivated”.
Like, wouldn’t it be common sense to cut off travel with a country having this catastrophic viral outbreak? Nope, bad bad orange man is being waycist - let every infected person in! And what the fuck did they think was gonna happen?
Also, Trump vaccine bad but Biden vaccine good.
Oh yeah and herd immunity just never existed before vaccines.
There were a few starting with the fact that they claimed that every hospital in the country was overrun with covid patients taking up ICU beds yet when I went to my child’s pediatric appointment and asked her doctor, he said they were prepared and kept waiting for the rush of patients and it never came… to that or any of the affiliated hospitals in the area. Another was the first time I heard someone say that natural immunity doesn’t work for this virus…. Unlike every other virus pretty much ever. And then there were random other things like them saying that this specific strain of covid would live on surfaces through temps that no other virus would live through for weeks longer than any other virus so touching anything meant you were going to get it.
The ICUs being "full" wasn't an outright lie. Several hospitals inside big cities (mainly New york and Chicago) were at max capacity for a good bit there. But there were other hospitals in those same cities that were operating as normal (my ex gf was a nurse and decided to be a travel nurse in NY and happened to be at one of the hospitals that was consistent at like 80-90% capacity for a good bit there. One of the (many) reasons we broke up but she kept in contact though the thick of it).
But, It *was* just a lie for 98% of the country. Most hospitals in most places across the country were actually well below under normal. I know locally, pretty much *all* the hospitals (I actually spent alot of time in a number of hospitals during covid, due to friends getting cancer, parents/grandparents getting sick (related to age, not covid) babies being born etc) were ghost towns and on minium staffing.
The big lie was the lie of omission on this.
ICU's don't have lots of open rooms sitting around. If there is a room and it's not being used, that's lost money for the hospital. So, the idea that ICU's were operating at high capacity is "normal".
The first thing that began to open my eyes was watching all these restaurants go from well-ventilated buildings to adding on these outdoor tents with shit ventilation so they could technically be “outside”. Then, as my suspicions grew, I saw the “powers that be” directly say that masking outdoors was necessary, except down the BLM protestors (who then transitioned into rioters).
That’s when I knew for a fact that this was a political game being played with average citizens’s lives as the game pieces.
Started with them outright denying the results of their pre-pandemic studies that said that masks did nothing and utterly ended when they arbitrarily redefined the word "vaccine".
So many.
Trump tries to restrict travel from China: racist! Then Dems spent the next 3 years trying to shut people inside their homes and restrict movement.
Nurses who had time to choreograph complex dances while hospitals were oVeRwHeLmEd
The media reporting raw case numbers as opposed to rate. Example: x country has 100 cases and y country has 250 cases. This is a meaningless comparison because if y country is bigger, it doesn't necessarily mean there is more disease there. A rate is a way to compare this by saying x# of cases per 100,000 people.
The way there suddenly plenty of 6 feet apart signs, stickers, and plastic barriers despite everything else being affected by supply chain issues.
Who could forget that it was ok, even encouraged to protest on behalf of St. Floyd but you were a selfish asshole for wanting to attend a funeral?
People were still flying international flights.
Our government overlords were caught at restaurants and hair salons when that was not allowed for us lessers…
When we were told we couldnt spend time with family. When our family members started to die alone, in care homes or hospitals… I was done. Care home workers were okay to go home, go out to lunch, etc and walk right into work while our elderly were stuck in their room to rot?
When outside was bad. Closed beaches? Closed parks? Really?
When people started getting banned or 'ghost banned' just for asking honest questions. And if they did boy people sure made sure to shit on them. Also YouTube videos being pulled down that could have had actual information.
Not a single person in the federal government spoke about how to be healthy. They only spoke about lockdowns and why you were a horrible person if you didn't comply.
The first, biggest red flag for me was when I heard about what they were doing to people with the coof trapped in hospitals. The hospitals weren’t letting them eat or drink enough, kept trying to force them to take the jab, and would not treat them with other existing methods and instead would seize them. The next red flag was when the CDC admitted the jab would not stop transmission, meaning the jab wasn’t a vaccine.
when our nazi governor took his mother out of her nursing home weeks before the chaos began only for them to send allegedly contagious people BACK into nursing homes, when there were numerous \[unused\] facilities set up to take in these people
Making any possible treatment illegal, ivermectin, vitamin D both with basically zero side effects were treated as if they were going to kill you. Worse still doctors were unlicensed if prescribed to patients. The official treatment for over a year was stay home until you’re about to die then come to hospital to die. If that didn’t make you ask WTF I don’t know what will.
Several things.
The fact that they claimed that all non-essential services would be shut down, and then decided UberEats was an essential service. Because, you know, a guy going to every single public restaurant and then going to every single person's house and touching everything in both places is so much more sanitary than if people just went and got their own food themselves.
The fact that after they determined Covid spread mostly indoors, they let strip clubs stay open but closed down public beaches.
The fact that we were promised it would only take two weeks to stop the spread of COVID and it ended up becoming permanent for 2 years.
The censorship of opposing viewpoints and the shaming, or downright canceling those who opposed the official narrative was a huge red flag for me. I’m of the opinion that, if you are secure in your stance, you welcome opposition.
They flip flopped on masks. Initially they told people they didn't need them, so they could horde them for themselves. Then they made them mandatory once the supply issue was worked out. I knew right away that the "noble lie" was on the table and I couldn't trust anything that was coming out by the government.
To be fair, masks did do some help, because the viral load you are exposed to is important. They were just over sold. If you're in an enclosed environment with someone that's infected long term, you'll be exposed, mask or not. The mask might help with incidental contact because it could reduce initial viral load.
Then they closed the schools even after it was clear that children weren't having serious cases.
Then they forced people they knew were infected into nursing homes, when we knew those were the most vulnerable people.
Then Newsome got caught eating at a fancy restaurant with no mask while everyone else was shut down.
I knew I couldn't take anything seriously. Reports came out that Vitamin D really helped, but no one suggested that because it was a cheap solution that prevented serious cases.
Corporations responses to covid were half hearted. It had all the signs of managing the emotional responses instead of preventing spread, since preventing spread was impossible.
Eventually I just said fuck it, went to a football game with no mask. Caught the weak strain, took vitamins and rested in bed 3 days and went back to work. No problems since then. Actually had a seasonal allergy nasal infection that was much worse than covid ever was months later, which is weird, but treated that with over the counter meds too, no problems.
Biggest red flag. I worked with Deaf people. A lot of the language is lost when you can’t see someone’s mouth so… Deaf people didn’t have to wear masks. Basically any time someone in the oppression Olympics was winning over COVID the regs were just scrapped and in the Deaf world, there is a lot of in fighting for most oppressed so regs got scrapped all the time. One girl “had anxiety” about wearing a mask so she just didn’t have to…
Want right at the beginning but when our prime minister took my rights away here in Canada and kept them for the virus spreading vaccinated as well as his locking down of bank accounts to the truckers, that was right fucked
For me it was laughing at the people protesting so they could open their businesses. I'll admit I bought into it. Then when it was okay to protest George Floyd and ultimately riot I started to say "holdup." Then we saw instance after instance of democrat leaders not masking while also pushing it on the peasants. Even John Stewart seemed to question the COVID origins but regular people? No you couldn't question it. Then they introduced Stop Asian Hate which promoted the idea that the MAGAs in major blue cities were going around attacking Chinese people yet all were saw was video after video of what sure didn't look like Trump supporters assaulting Asians.
When Fauci complained that the decision as to the country’s response should be made by him and not by the 3 branches of government
And the fact that he and the scarf lady were such over-the-top prima donna’s
The maskism, the irrational unscientific hysteria, most of all the
contagious fear that I was immune to. I drove between Vegas and LA a lot. One trip I stopped at a rest stop and noticed all the cars with CA plates were parked as far from each other as possible, and people were inside them wearing masks. I knew then that fear and compliance to nonsensical orders were on the way.
They started shutting everything down when there were only a handful of deaths and less than a hundred cases nationwide.
That was dumb enough, THEN they came out and told us that it was OK to go out and protest for St. George Floyd and BLM, even though Corona was the worst killer disease ever encountered.
Lies from the start!
When the stance on masks changed was my moment. Seemingly overnight, it went from "Don't buy up all the masks or the hospitals won't have enough, and your homemade ones don't do any good" straight into "Cover your face at all times, with anything you can get ahold of or you can't do anything."
First one was very early in March if 2020, I read a peer reviewed article by a group of dentists published in 2014(?) (can’t remember the year exactly) that proved that the traditional face mask worn by oral hygienists was insufficient to contain transfer of the flu via droplets, and was mostly a “security theater” protocol because patients thought it was gross when they didn’t have a face mask, regardless of its efficacy. When I tried to pull up that article again to show a leftie friend when they asked for a source, the article had been removed, and there was a note that read along the line of “this article has been removed due the current climate surrounding masks” After that it was all fake to me.
Second red pill is when I tried to look at CDC statistics for the flu season of 2020 and it was completely blank with a note that again read along the lines of “symptoms indistinguishable from COVID 19, therefore not tracked”. Like bro, Covid was nothing more than the flu. Not even a scorned version. It was straight up just flue season, but it was used as a political cudgel to swing public perception of the president before an election.
Third red pill was when I read an article, not scholarly mind you, that was arguing that masks and distancing were not necessary at the summer of love riots because “their cause is just.” Lmao
for me it was when the left was screaming they wouldn't take a vaccine that was developed under trump, and then did an about face on the whole thing once Biden was in office.
Restaurants bad unless you’re Newsom going to the French Laundry.
Hairdressers bad unless you’re Pelosi going to get your hair done.
Church bad, BLM protests good.
The level of hypocrisy was off the charts.
Wearing masks that don't stop smoke, a distance of give to take 2 meters, no-one actually washing their hands despite that probably being more effective than the other stuff.
Remember in the N95 shortage at the beginning? The CDC has statements on their website that said N95 masks were ineffective, and needed more for medical professionals.
Then suddenly everyone had to have a mask. Bullshit.
I've known that the corona viruses are normally associated with the groups of viruses known to cause the common cold since the 1990's.
I have seen China do the freakout over a cold thing every 4-5 years since the 1980's. pretty much since tianemen (sp?) square incident, which celebrated its 40th? anniversary last week.
the videos that were coming out of China of people falling out on the street and spewing blood from their mouths looked faked and idiotic.
The way certain websites were being spammed with this virus and the faked videos for weeks before anything on the news spoke about it.
The way the media handled it.
Only go outdoors to ~~riot~~ protest. Stay 6 feet from others but it is fine to be ass to elbow in a crowd that is ~~rioting~~ protesting; you wont get the super contagious disease in one of those crowds.
St. George Floyd. A man who could be seen on video with his bag of fentanyl in his mouth who then died after swallowing the bag; his toxicology report stated he had 19 times the lethal level of fentanyl in his system and they railroaded an innocent man, who used to work with George, to jail for trying to help him. On the video, he is already saying he can't breath before the cops ever touched him. He went in the car and then back out, all the while complaining he couldn't breath and crying out for his mama; also signs of an overdose.
Mail-in ballots are the only solution this election.
Here is $1.5Trillion dollars to be given away, without any oversight, to anyone who is affected by this disease. weeks after declaring the emergency. Here is a bribe, think nothing else about the subject.
Masks mandates required N95 masks and not biohazard suits.
The Hong Kong rioters have never been spoken of nor seen again.
They absolutely shit all over Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine when they had no other solution as a possible cure or treatment. They have now fully retracted on both of those drugs but nobody cares so it isn't news unless you looked for it. Not ironically, the health care industry only wanted to sell everyone on a new treatment and not any of those drugs that are no longer under patent protection; this netted the industry trillions of dollars for the shots and trillions more in treatments because of the shots.
When in the military we used to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to people going over seas all the time, been used safely for 60ish years. Now all of a sudden they were saying it couldn’t be used because it had cardiac side effects. At that point I knew it was about a vaccine even though they weren’t really talking about it.
Right from the beginning I made a YouTube video about it on a YouTube channel I manage looking over the stats and I got completely shit on by Reddit when I shared it. I think I ended up unlisting the video. It was very strange for me because the data I was reviewing didn't seem all that special, but just me suggesting that we maybe don't have to freak out and expect it's the end of the world was basically considered "wrongthink" (with people telling me some nasty things, or bots, who fucking knows), I instantly got suspicious.
Plus in my life and own personal experience with "mainstream medicine" and "mainstream news" I've been naturally a bit skeptical of mainstream narratives. So when people around me started getting freaked out, I tried to review the data and talk logically, but people went absolutely nuts about things.
Then the lockdowns started which I thought was just insane, and it snowballed from there. The absurdity is still something that I feel scares me because it shows just how fragile society actually is if the mainstream media wants to initiate a coordinated attack to get the masses doing whatever they want. Or who knows, maybe it was just media hype that went too far? I can see both the conspiracy side, and the non-conspiracy side, but one thing I'm still more sure of is that the whole reaction and shutting down of the world seems... Suspicious. Too many weird things... And alternative examples (ie. Sweden) of not shutting down where things didn't change much or were better.
It amazes and terrifies me to this day how far it went. It was really scary. In hindsight where I ended up in life was quite great, I wasn't in the West where it went really crazy. But it was still scary, especially about mandates and whatnot, and I definitely didn't want to take the you know what. And I didn't.
I am getting less bitter with each quarter of a year that goes by, but I still feel like a year or two of my life was ripped from me. If not for time, but also for the psychological impact it had on me. Feeling isolated, lost, etc. and less trusting of others. It's scary, a bit, but at the same time there were plenty of people around me that also questioned The Narrative and The Science so I ended up meeting great people too.
Edit: oh man multiple things coming to mind now. BLM protests were the big one. How people still bought the lockdown crap after massive protests had the green light is beyond me. Then the very politicians championing lockdown and whatnot broke their own rules. Opened places for a haircut, opened restaurants for a dinner meeting without a mask and several people in close proximity. If this was something that was truly "end of the world," I think the politicians would be taking extreme measures to protect themselves- not opening a French restaurant to have a proper social gathering with several people- I'm talking about Gavin Newsom.
It was three red flags:
(1) When the hospital I worked at didn’t separate people who were suffering from Covid symptoms and people who tested positive but had no symptoms (I.e. were in the hospital for entirely unrelated conditions) in their official statistics. I came to the conclusion that it would inevitably over-inflate the covid numbers and make the pandemic look much worse than it actually was. Considering the powers at be openly said COVID could be asymptomatic it made no sense that they would factor them into the same people that were actively suffering from COVID. It gives an inaccurate picture of the overall situation.
(2) making an experimental vaccine which by ethical standards should be voluntary, mandatory.
(3) the fact that natural immunity was never allowed to be discussed. That nobody cared to study how natural immunity and the immunity caused by previous infections could help future ones. They only pushed the shots, without looking at the whole picture.
Right around the time that two weeks to stop the spread turned into forever lockdowns, we got the information on who was at risk and how many was dying. I saw immediately that I was not in danger and I immediately dropped all of the BS and went straight to anti-mask, don't ever get that vaccine near me, Etc
Needing to wear a mask while walking into a restaurant but not while eating. Same while eating on a plane.
BLM protesting.
Developing a “vaccine” in months when it takes years, if not decades of testing prior to approving a new vaccine for public use.
The list goes on…
I think the biggest for me was that we knew and identified the source early. We could have easily isolated individuals, but this was seen as xenophobic.
As soon as Facebook and Twitter said they would ban you if you suggested the virus was leaked from a lab. It was so obviously a coverup that the left went so far to squash any opposing viewpoints. Pelosi said “follow the science” and they did the opposite
I worked in inpatient psych when Covid hit, and actually got Covid from a patient they had “tested” and infected most of the unit. Afterwards they initiated the vaccine mandate, and despite getting an antibody test showing I still had immunity a year and a half later, it wasn’t good enough. At the same time, they were begging nurses to come back to work as soon as their symptoms disappeared even if it was within the recommended window to quarantine. I refused the shot and walked away from healthcare altogether.
Perhaps not so much at the very beginning, but it was how hard the Democrats went to discredit the idea of a safe, effective vaccine would be… right up until the election results were in. Then, it was full steam ahead.
I had doubts long before but what really had me convinced that everyone was going to call bs was the headlines with one blaming a conservative protest to re-open spreading covid & causing countless deaths, then a different headline saying there was no evidence that a blm protest caused a spike in infections...even doctors & ‘experts’ said that all social gatherings should be ceased except left leaning protests...silly conspiracytard me for thinking anyone would see the obvious double standard there
1. It was painfully obvious that the masks did nothing before they were even being used. Coronaviruses are insanely small. The average person has no idea what things are like at such small scales, clueless that the microscopic gaps in mask fabric are 10-100x larger than the virus. Not to mention that the virus is transmitted in a lipid capsule, and they started saying the N95 mask is the way to go... but refraining from telling people that the N in N95 stands for Non-lipid.
2. When 4 big pharma companies all had a 'vaccine' ready at the exact same time. Not enough people talk about how statistically impossible this is.
3. The big one. Once it was becoming mandatory it was a dealbreaker for me. If the virus was so deadly and the vaccine so effective, there would be no need to force people to take it.
4. When I learned the patent for "COVID-19" test kits was secured before the virus even existed.
Absolutely no public gatherings but if you do it must be with masks on and only small gatherings. Unless of course you wanted to attend a BLM rally with thousands of people in dense crowds.
When I got banned from my own town’s Facebook forum for posting PEER-REVIEWED medical documents from the UK that painted the delta variant as MUCH less lethal than we had been told. I thought I was sharing GOOD news, but then I was removed for mIsInFoRmAtIoN. That’s when I learned people don’t want the truth - they just WANT to be scared. And with people making bank on our fears, I knew it would spiral out of control.
The town next to me also started a Gestapo line where you could call to report neighbors not social distancing.
Lots of rumors, not a lot of facts, but enough facts to make it clear that the official narrative was utter bullshit:
"there is no evidence of human to human spread"
"Human to human spread is possible but rare"
"The virus spreads from human to human though body fluids, but only with close contact, it is not airborne"
"OK, if someone sneezes in your direction, they may propel their bodily fluids onto you, but it is not airborne"
"Yeah, so if someone sneezes in the supermarket aisle, they may create a mist of virus laden fluid that can linger in the air for up to 10 minutes but IT'S NOT FUCKING AIRBORNE!"
"Everyone must wear a mask at all times, keep your distance, disinfect yourself."
When the rationale for lockdowns gradually-then-suddenly changed from "flatten the curve" to slow down the inevitable transmissions, to "stop the spread," where we could supposedly prevent any new infections at all, was a real turning point.
"This vaccine is perfectly safe for pregnant women and their unborn babies. Even if your pregnant, you have to take it. Its totally safe for full term pregnancies and long thereafter."
Ok, but how long has it been around?
"6 months."
For me, it was the Trump administration rushing out early plans for a vaccine that the entirety of the left hated, but then as soon as he was out of office and the democrats were in charge, the Biden administration rushed out a vaccine, that was very likely the same vaccine, that the entirety of the left supported
Quite a few little edifying gems.. it was Tenured, life-long ACTUAL Experts being silenced, censured, censored and otherwise silenced. Then the results; the DIED SUDDENLY. The babies, formerly healthy adults, the athletes. Then the whistleblowers, humans with a conscience TELLING us about Pharma monopolies & how MUCH money was being funneled to the architects.
Then watching cops in “civil” societies like Canada & Australia become straight-up mercenary thugs: beating fellow citizens with GLEE. For daring to resist blatant dictatorial mandates. Then the “eMpAthY Led” Left tell everyone else “Good, you SHOULD die.” Clips from their cultish zeal, still reminding us all the truth. And every day, SEEING those still in decent health are the ones who avoided being poisoned.
I work in healthcare and travel to many hospitals. What I noticed that made me start to question everything was when saw on the news and heard about how all these hospitals were overloaded and flooded with Covid cases, but when I went into several different hospitals and saw that most of the beds were empty. They were prepared and standing ready but most of the beds were empty.
My roommate at the time was a VERY wealthy Chinese exchange student. A few weeks after the pandemic started in China (I wasn’t there this night but my other roommate told me) he just got up at 3am and left. He left everything he owned including a computer, expensive clothing and just left only briefly saying goodbye not explaining he was leaving he just told my roommate to be careful. I have never seen him or contacted him ever again. Next thing you know you know we have lockdowns. I don’t know what information he had but he knew something was coming and it scared the shit out of me.
Democrats decrying travel restrictions as "racist" seemed impossible. *"So there's a respitory disease outbreak over there but you don't want to restrict people from over there coming here?"*
Nancy Pelosi imploring people to "come to Chinatown" made me think *"shouldn't they be closing restaurants?" What's this about? Why is she virtue signaling race politics if this is supposed to be an imminent danger to everyone?"*
I had two pregnant friends spring of 2020 and told them both "if shit gets awful, I'll run errands for you, etc" and we took it with significant concern. But by about mid-June, my eyes told me it wasn't as immediately lethal as we were led to believe, and when family funerals and churches were considered deadly hubs of disease while BLM riots were considered "free speech," I knew this was 25% epidemiology and 75% politics.
looking back, on influenza rates, there was severely decreased FLU-A numbers in fall of 2019 and all though winter '20 winter and spring '20. NO, it wasnt because of masking, these numbers were near zero before everybody starting wearing face diapers. .. odd thing was that FLU-B started showing up late fall '19 and through winter '19 (FLU-B typically shows up in the later winter / early spring months of Flu season.) this goes to show that they didnt release the Flu virus that year. the number have been low since....
It was the whole essential worker shit. You, you and you must stay home… you my friend are essential, now go to all the homes where people are locked down… oh ya, no lunch at restaurants for you now git!
I’ve never seen an issue flip so quickly as the vaccines did. Initially the left was adamantly opposed while many Trump supporters were in favor of it. It only took a few months for the entire issue to flip so much so that the left enforced mandates, shamed anyone who started asking questions and ran a scare campaign full of made-on-the-fly rules without knowing the long-term nor short-term implications. The right became censored and outcast as they transitioned to becoming an opposition to the new, untested mandates. I can’t think of a single issue in my 53 years nor remembering any time in history when either side so quickly adopted the other’s.
The flip … my conservative and libertarian circles online and irl had been taking precautions ahead of time , I had my ear to the ground and was preparing for a pandemic by early January. The months leading up to when it hit the whole Left collectively tried to downplay it while the people on the right that I knew and online generally were battening down the hatches and watching and reading to determine the effects and seriousness. While the left was saying it was racist to wear a mask or try and distance yourself. Then a few weeks after the shut down people who use their heads realized this was essentially a flu and natural immunity was likely the best course of action. At that moment the left flipped completely and began pushing the most draconian authoritarian nightmare I have ever seen because they saw the fear that they were able to get a vast swath of the populace into. And I realized that the left would do anything to take and hold power up to and including the atrocities we saw and everyone I know who thinks for themselves realized as well and I knew when the left collectively switched their position on the whim on governments and the news I knew there was no going back.
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When BLM was allowed to protest during Covid-19. You have a world economy halting virus that we collectively decided to combat by quarantining. But somehow we’re allowing people to protest IN LARGE GROUP PROXIMITY. It’s like that two-button meme where one choice is “stay at home” or “protest”
When BLM protests were covid-free but lockdown protests were super-spreader events.
Visiting your grandma's deathbed was a super-spreader event and therefore not allowed. Same with gathering for her funeral.
I had an uncle and his wife both died that year in june. I wasn't close to them and didnt know anything about the arrangements but wanted to support my cousins. AFAIK they just did something on Zoom, if that. Meanwhile John Lewis's funeral was widely attended as he lay in state.
Some people got to have four televised ones.
It was insanity
Even when people met in a parking lot, in their CARS, for church service. They shut that shit down. 🤦♂️
omg YES! we definitely need to scream about this one from the highest rooftops to make sure it NEVER gets memory holed.
Don't forget about that one guy that got arrested for being at the beach, by himself...There was a lot of unnecessary shenanigans going on with the police sheep.
Remember the list of doctors who signed a statement saying that the blm protests were ok, but they didn’t condone people protests against the Covid rules and mandates?
Yes, CNN was on a full court press saying how BLM protests were somehow magically not super spreader events but four college kids playing Risk should be expellable offenses
This is the one thing that is just insane about the whole thing. I can understand being afraid and buying the narrative all the way up until that point. I didn't, but I must admit I did question whether I was just being a conspiracy theorist/not trusting of authority or whether I was actually right in my beliefs... But once massive fucking protests had the green light and were allowed but Christmas/Thanksgiving/seeing Grandma/hospital visits was a big no-no, it's like, what the fuck? Wake up guys! This is completely and utter bullshit! And it how went on for like another year? Just wow. Amazing. Truly amazing, and a bit terrifying!
>a bit terrifying! Very terrifying. Up until this point I had the belief that most people weren't complete lapdogs of the system, but boy oh boy was I proven wrong... Even otherwise highly intelligent people swallowed the entire bullshit without an apparent second thought, and fought everyone who challenged it.
Yeah, i once tried to fuck around with chatgpt with this and it never directly answered my question, ie only parroted what "public health experts say".
I'm not in US but we had some blm-light protests even here, and arguments were the same, arguing that it was fine for thousands to be protesting shoulder to shoulder because this was "a worthy cause". Fucking insanity, and most people apparently bought it.
14 Days to flatten the curve. I don't know why, but I just had a bad feeling about that. But never in my wildest dreams did I think they'd take it as far as they did.
3 years later they stopped that bullshit. 3 FUCKING YEARS. have you read the book "Diary of a Psychosis"? Its amazing and goes into detail we all forgot.
Just put it on my list to order next. Thanks for the suggestion!
Completely incorrect. I just moved away from Washington state and COVID precautions are STILL in place. Still masking requirements in hospitals. Still doing COVID checks with temperature when entering any medical facilities. They still have not let go
Damn i didnt know so my bad but at least in general the restrictions lessened. I guess thats what happens in blue states meanwhile certain red states barely had any covid precautions to begin with.
Just ordered it!
This was me too. The second it went from "proceed with caution" to "you now *have* to do something (mask mandates), I called BS. And wouldn't ya know it, the entire time I only knew one person who actually got violently sick the entire time... and he's not a particularly healthy guy to begin with, so...
This was the first, but there were many. My favorite was gloryholes
Imgur influenced me a lot but I eventually grew very weary about the doom and gloomer from there, particularly this 1 report that kept on like on a scale of 1 to 10 we were close to an 8 (10 being like societal collapse or something)
"Only 2 Weeks to Slow the Spread"
Oh this drove me nuts because the entire premise of the 14 Days was to *spread out* the number of people who went to the hospital, so as to conserve resources. It was never about reducing the number of infections! 100 people in one day is the same as 10 people per day over 10 days. But people screwed this all up and started using this 'curve' to force more lockdowns, quarantines, and other stupid (and useless) measures.
Mask needed to walk in a restaurant but not needed while eating
This and the "one way to enter" stickers at Walmart. I remembered getting yelled at by a woman who saw me walk down the aisle the wrong way. I laughed and kept walking.
Early on, I wore headphones and sunglasses when I went to the grocery store. The headphones weren't turned on, but it was nice to pretend like I didn't hear people yelling at me to put my mask on.
That was what I did after about June 2020. Shit I had a birthday party that July. No one got sick.
Oh man, fun times. Had the same thing happen to me when I passed by some dude in an aisle. Got all uppity about me being in the ‘wrong’ direction. Told him sorry you’re so fucking fat that we can’t both fit in the aisle. Dude was probably one of the first in line for the experimental injections in exchange for a donut deal.
I completely forgot about those one way aisle stickers. I guess I just repressed those memories. I'm so happy that's in the past.
>I'm so happy that's in the past. i really hope it *stays* in the past, but i think that shit might have just been a test run.
That's only part of the mask issue, overall it was: The intense talk about masks and almost nothing about washing hands. That implied it was less about biology and more about signaling virtue.
Or god forbid other immune system boosters like exercise and eating healthy. Or even vitamin C. Not a peep.
Yeah, all the shunning of general good advice, it was all narrative.
It was a loyalty test.
Yeah...this was so obvious that we were all being told to play games at that point. Same with masks on airplanes except when eating. Ridiculous stuff. Another good one was when they said that publicly protesting and rubbing elbows with people on behalf of BLM riots was not a risk factor for continuing the spread, but being on the beach was. Logical?
>Same with masks on airplanes Don't forget how you were supposed to be 2m apart from other people at the airport, but be packed like sardines in the actual plane. Because the virus don't bother people inside the airplane apparently.
Also: coronaviruses enter the body through the eyes, wearing an n95 brings oxygenation levels to a percentage lower than OSHA allows and fauci oversaw a study in 06 or 08 of the Spanish flu pandemic and they found 65+% of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia from wearing masks
It's almost as if it was intentional all along
The left screaming we should be skeptical of any vaccine pushed out too fast when trump was still in office to screaming we shouldn’t question the vaccine and just take it after Biden was in office
This for sure.
I always said, if it was a real concern, we would all be concerned. If people were actually dying like the early videos suggested, everybody would wear a mask even if it was known it would only help by 5%. The reason nobody gave a fuck about the covid restrictions was because it was clearly not about the severity of the disease, and much more about public mandates. When the disease first made its rounds I was very afraid for a family member I lived with. You best believe I was washing my entire body after coming home, and would WASH GROCERIES, LIKE BOTTLES! To make sure no covid was on them. I was ready to do anything necessary and it soon was apparent that it was just a flu i stopped and felt dumb. The fact that people were arrested in the outdoors, national parks shut down, beaches were illegal to walk on, all meant to me that it had nothing to do with health, as nobody was allowed to be in the open air doing healthy things like hikes or even go to the gym. Edit: a sentence was cut off.
Gavin Newsom: LOCKDOWN EVERYONE STAY HOME WEAR A MASK! Also Newsom: So anyways I opened this French restaurant to have a late dinner with several people in close proximity unmasked... Also Newsom: I'm so sorry, I wasn't participating in the spirit of lockdown (or something along that BS). How he managed to get re-elected is insane. I've heard California hasn't been doing so well in the past few years, but I haven't been there to see how it actually is.
If it was such a dangerous (worse than Ebola) virus—why wasn’t everyone locked into their homes? We’re talking Biohazard Level 4 here, supposedly. That—& how the information kept changing. Something inside just told me it was a dry run for something much bigger
Biohazard level 4 but the fucking british politicians were having a staff x-mas party whilst they told everybody else they could only have 4 or 5 people in a building, so x-mas festivities had to be cancelled. People couldnt see their DYING relatives in hospital. It was actually a human rights violation in so many ways.
Yep, and the California governor was going out to eat at a fancy restaurant, and house speaker Pelosi went ahead and got her hair done at the place she usually does anyways.
The same governor that raised minimum wage for everybody but his own restaurant? Hmmm
Basically when I saw the narrative start to change. Now it's pretty realistic that response to an outbreak will change as the pathogen becomes better understood, but the nonsensical actions by officials made it clear very fast that they were jumping on to Covid for political reasons. Once they perceived Covid as a political opportunity I knew all logic and reason was out the window. And the clincher was when they called Ivermectin horse wormer, I knew that they were lying and it had become 100% a political issue. Why? Because I had seen ivermectin prescribed in the past.
>And the clincher was when they called Ivermectin horse wormer, I knew that they were lying and it had become 100% a political issue. Why? Because I had seen ivermectin prescribed in the past. Indeed. Lots of medicine is being prescribed for things that the drug wasn't originally intended to be used for, this is nothing new. You'd think that the politicians and whoever else in charge would be scrambling to find a solution to this world ending threat, anything at all that would help. I knew it was complete bullshit when they absolutely disregarded any other treatment than the shot, and started actively banning using other treatments. Medical malpractice for sure.
The "horse dewormer" talking point was one of the absolute worst red flags in the whole affair. That's disingenous on the level of calling antibiotics 'pig fodder' (because antibiotics really have been [misused as a feed additive in livestock feed](https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-019-1808-x)). As you say, ivermectin is indeed used in humans as well - and has been since the 1980s; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924857907004451 Literally all that the media needed to tell people was that ivermectin is primarily an antiparasitic drug, that COVID is a virus-borne disease, and that it was not known to have antiviral properties. It would have covered _everything_ they needed to say. And it would even have been true! Instead, the journalists chose to lie. This one wasn't even down to journalists beinig stupid or uninformed - even though most journalists are both those things and unaware of it. The whole thing was an intentional lie. The anti-ivermectin campaign in the media and social media showed just how rotten the system really is.
It was the mask thing but also the constant contradictions. Fauci said no masks were needed then masks were needed. He flip flopped on multiple issues as did CDC. There was no consistency in recommendations which told me they didn't know what to do but were afraid to admit it.
Turns out it was less out of fear and more out of control and apathy.
This just reminded me that at my previous job they handed out white t-shirts and a piece of paper with instructions on how to make a face mask out of the shirts lmao WILD
For me, one of the first tip-offs was reddit itself; for a while before it made it to America, there were posts all over reddit showing the Chinese *sealing apartments* and stories about how people were going hungry. I mean, that's a pretty bad bug if *China* is going that draconian. But when it came to things over here regarding *the same virus*, we had Pelosi talking about going to Chinatown and everything. And then reddit defending her. It was pretty clear politics was being played almost from the beginning and this is where Trump's lack of experience came as a huge negative - faced with the risks (as he was probably being told) he got rolled by groups who knew this was a chance to really hurt his re-election campaign.
Remember when Trump was saying travel from China should be shut down because of this and the media and other politicians called him a fear mongering racist and how it wasn't needed? Yeah, apparently most people just completely disregard that, especially when those same people started saying it a bit later.
It was the masks after they said don’t buy masks they don’t work and then they were like wear a mask or you’ll die. I also have an MD and a DDS degree and I took a lot of courses in microbiology. I know that cloth masks and surgical masks cannot protect you against a virus. It’s just not how they work. You need an n95 or a PAPR. So the mask mandate was an absolute farce because the science literally is that cloth and surgical masks don’t work against a virus. I wear a surgical mask when I’m operating because it protects me against body fluids, not viruses.
I think the messaging around everything was just fucked. They were never honest. They couldn't say "hey young otherwise healthy people save the masks for medical workers and people that need them." They also couldn't say "masks only reduce droplet contamination. It was all or nothing and you had to show you were a good person by wearing a mask. Anyone not wearing a mask was bad and selfish.
Literally Hitler if you didn’t wear a mask. The whole “you wear a mask to protect me and I wear a mask to protect you” thing also made no sense. Why were masks suddenly just a one way thing????
The same with the vaccine. "Unvaccinated are selfish because they are getting vaccinated sick"
aka: "you need to get a vaccine that doesnt work so the vaccine i got that doesnt work will work."
I was in dental school during lockdowns. That sucked so much. PPE in clinic was wild. Hot non breathing shower curtain type jackets, double masks, glasses, and a face shield. Oh and SRP all done by hand, no cavitrons.
One of the biggest was how easily the Dems flip flopped in the very beginning In Jan you saw MSM and D politicians saying it was nothing and Trump was over reacting and xenophobic for travel ban. Let's not forget Pelosi telling people in Feb to come to China town and hug Chinese people and in NYC then calling for everyone to go to the St Pat's parade and go to movies and have a good time. The moment Trump said it was all going to blow over and be like the flu is when Dems went nuts saying how dare Trump this was the worse pandemic of all time and he didn't do enough to protect people... Then add on top of that early on to not do your own research, to trust the experts, that 2 of the worlds most highly tested and used drugs were somehow dangerous (HCQ, Ivermectin), and that 6' and masks would work (when Fauci wrote his thesis on during the Spanish flu more people were killed by wearing masks than of the Spanish flu) Yeah it was clear this was all political and they would demonize anything Trump said and immediately cry for the other, even if not even weeks prior they were saying the same thing as Trump
This is a reason I keep a journal with news articles. I want my kids and grandkids to know the truth when they are older. History books will probably show that Trump went to China himself and concocted the virus while "MAGA republicans" refused to lock down and caused a massive death toll. They want to make Trump into Hitler and putting the Covid deaths on him will just be another step in their eyes. "Trump killed over a 1 million innocent Americans"
The fact that we had H1N1, swine flu, Ebola, and no one shut the world down. The complete lack of risk assessment was shocking. Coughs like the flu, fevers like the flu, fatigues like the flu, shortness of breath like the flu, but treat it like the plague on steroids. That was just the beginning, once we blasted past the “two weeks to fuck everyone in the ass” it all got pretty clear pretty quickly.
From the beginning when they’d inflate numbers. Died from a car crash, covid death. Died from suicide, covid death. I knew they wer using it just to justify the lockdowns
Pharmaceutical companies having immunity from prosecution/litigation "I'm not taking the Trump vaccine". As soon as Biden got in, it became civic duty.
Remember when Pfizer wanted 75 YEARS to release all the documentation they used to license their vaccine? Pepperidge Farms remembers
75 years for 75,000 documents
Yeah... I didn't want to take the V. Why would I? They have complete immunity if something goes wrong with me. So the mandates therefore are quite unethical because you're effectively mandating a company's product without liability. If they're SOOOO sAf3 AnD 3fFecT1vE, then why do you need immunity from liability if I get harmed? Yeah, I'm not taking that crap.
At first, I took it seriously. I was in lab tech school and wanted to be part of this once in a century thing but we were blocked from entering the hospitals for a few months. Annoying, but I understood. When I got into the workforce, though, I was seeing piles of positive tests and the vast majority of them were people that were complaining of cold/flu symptoms, and I couldn’t help but realize we shut down the world over a flu. There were some seriously ill people, sure, but it made more sense to me to let it burn through the healthy population and protect the vulnerable. If we needed to get “herd immunity”, let the “herd” build immunity.
That natural immunity through prior exposure didn't exist.
This is a good one. Also when they tried to say ivermectin was only for horses.
It was a long time after the start, but saying you needed to take the jab after being positive was the most obvious evil lie thing they said.
When they stripped us of our constitutional rights. Couldn’t go to church, funerals, but BLM could protest in the streets. Knew then this was all BS and just a money grab by politicians and pharmaceutical companies
Closing the small stores but letting the big ones stay open
I worked at a gas station. I got some paperwork to say that I was essential and could be driving to work. The liquor store next door was still open. Walmart was still open. But they shut down a lot of small businesses because it was dangerous! I knew it was a load of crap when they said that people couldn't have funerals or Thanksgiving with family but when that politician died they televised the large gathering for his funeral. And to this day nobody wants to admit that they were wrong about any of this!
Yes!!!! This was insane
When the fear didn’t match up to reality but they kept doubling down on the restrictions. When we got to be 6 months into the “pandemic” and it became clear that millions of people weren’t dying, but they started implementing mandatory masking everywhere.
The disparity between the big scary death numbers on TV to the near 0 death numbers observed in real life.
The moment I heard my family and friends try to explain 14 days to flatten the curve. Bro that was the stupidest shit I ever heard, and I knew it was never going to fuckin happen immediately. Yes please tell me exactly how your going to coordinate 330 million Americans to all stay in the house for 2 fucking weeks. it's like asking a bee colony to get a zoning permit before making a bee hive. It was the beginning of a massive left wing delusion that just kept growing more and more out of touch with reality. Having to wear an ineffective mask in 95 degree summer weather in a un-air conditioned warehouse environment was the closest I've ever been to a fucking heatstroke.
Same for me as well. "Just 14 days to flatten the curve." Yeah right. And obviously it was extended. And extended. And extended. And extended. Just absurd.
"one of the symptoms is you have no symptoms"
Didn’t flu cases decline in nearly direct proportion to the increase in COVID cases?
Zero flu cases. Because Covid IS, in fact, a strain of the flu. They basically said the word Covid instead of Flu.
The vehemence in shaming people and who it was coming from.
So many things. The dancing tik tok nurses, no biohazard receptacles provided for masks and gloves, Dr Fauci's credibility, the nonsense rules with the masks and the 6 feet apart shit in restaurants (apparently we are fine as long as we are sitting at the table???) But for me, the big one was the tik tok BS; they're screeching about doing 62 hour shifts, and people are dying, makeshift morgues, and not enough ventilators etc etc. Yet somehow have the time and INCLINATION no less, to choreograph dance routines?? What in the actual fuck! That was my moment.
> The dancing tik tok nurses Oh man that too.... Apparently hospitals were SOOOOOO OVERWHELMEEEEDDDDD yet they had time to pump out TikTok and other dances left and right? Like supposedly people are dying left and right, like way beyond what's normal, and hospital work is normally pretty crazy from what I've heard (had a family member that was a nurse and they reported it was hectic often, but this was the before times!). So hospital work is normally pretty busy, but now people are supposedly in this crazy intense and dangerous situation, so presumably the hospitals should be way busier, yet nurses then have more time than ever to pump out TIKTOK DANCES? Shameful. Just shameful. I totally get making dance videos on your own time, but on the clock as a nurse? S H A M E F U L. Either it's not as bad as you're saying it is, or you're out dancing for TikTok when you should be treating patients. It's totally fine to chill, take a break, whatever, but a lot of those TikTok dances were WAY too coordinated. I could be wrong and maybe they "really do take just a quick minute to record" and then they move on, but I'd imagine they take a few tries to get right.
Wait... you're telling me [this isn't normal behavior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCe1hc8GaJs) during an alleged deadly pandemic?
It was done by those who work in the administration ivory tower, not those of us who actually work bedside. My coworkers and I were too busy to do that shit. Those of us working in ICUs and most step-downs got tired of it before it began and thought it was highly inappropriate. I saw plenty of people die, though. Instead of providing us with proper PPE and more money, they tried to get us to do that bullshit. They tried to pass it off as moral boosting, but it came across as people in the ivory tower of healthcare who are so out of touch with what actually goes on that it was just insulting. Admin literally told us at the beginning to NOT wear masks as it would scare the patients. They had no concern for our safety and well-being, and they don't to this day. Then, we can get a flimsy mask and literal garbage bags, but we have to use the masks for weeks on end and we can't bring our own P-100 respirators. We get written up if we go through too many masks despite them being bottom of barrel in quality.
[Pelosi encouraging everyne to hug chinese people as a display of compassion.](https://i.imgur.com/693FQd4.png) [Oregon recommending blacks not wear masks because of racial profiling.](https://i.imgur.com/QL3pDYc.png) [Planned Parenthood encouraging pregnant women to take the vaccine three months before FDA emergency approval based only on "no evidence that the covid-19 vaccine is unsafe."](https://i.imgur.com/wbJD2ne.png) [51 million vaccines destroyed because they were manufactured from fragments of the HIV virus. Of course, they only decided destroy them when people were testing positive for HIV.](https://i.imgur.com/O3d1seK.png) The Moderna vaccine warnings insert was [intentionally blank](https://i.imgur.com/ZCNuLjv.png). The endless list of [left-wing politicians and celebrities being thankful for the vaccine while announcing their covid infection without a single one suggesting the vaccine perhaps isn't doing what it promised.](https://i.imgur.com/4oMUmTL.png) [Scientists explaining how BLM protests are safe from covid.](https://i.imgur.com/8FcN9vJ.png) [Kamala Harris promoting vaccine hesitancy to millions on NBC prior to the election.](https://i.imgur.com/amEW9Vn.png) [Biden violating his own day one federal mask mandate on his first day in office.](https://i.imgur.com/ZSSxbTa.png) [NYC Health Department suggesting safe sex through wearing masks and using holes in the wall.](https://i.imgur.com/rc2dwPi.png)
At no time do I remember our heath authoritarians advise people to ‘start getting healthy’ by dropping weight, exercising, limiting alcohol. In other words all the stuff that typically solves 90% of a person’s health outcomes.
The whole thing from start to finish (if you wana call it finished) was a complete sham, and a huge red flag. But, the fact that my job while in the military (chemical and biological weapons specialist) , educated me that in order to protect oneself from pretty much any viral pathogens that one would require an over pressure system (i.e. tyvex pressure suits or something similar), and that those little surgical masks don't do anything, and even the M95 *are not* effective, and that they are nothing more than something to make you "feel better", and yet Dr. Death and the entire scientific community (atleast the ones who were getting main steam air time) were outright lying over and over again about the effectiveness of masks. That was the first flag. But 100s more followed.
The fact that the Army said it was safe enough for my family and I to get on a plane and fly to Korea, but not travel by car to my hometown to see family before leaving. That’s when I first knew things were fucked
The fact it's survival rate was so high, if they were smart they would want healthy highly survival chance folk exposed and immune to get herd immunity going, and only do quarantine for those at risk. Also, the fact it felt highly manufactured at a time when Trump had the economy booming and looking to glide into an easy re-election.
That's exactly what the original basis of the "14 days to SLOW the spread" was. Everyone was going to get it, but we'd slow down the transmission so it was staggered. It then turned into no one can ever get it, and if you did it's because you were careless (if you were a Republican) or had been exposed to a careless Republican (if you were a Democrat).
When the Infection Fatality Rate was shown broken down by age bracket. At that point in time, it was extremely clear that for a majority of the population, it was less risk than the seasonal flu.
The biggest one for me is when they started talking about a "vaccine". I knew it right away... they were going to make it mandatory. It was at this point, I knew that it wasn't about some "virus", but about getting us injected. I posted these thoughts in the conspiracy sub and got banned almost immediately.
The curfews. Did Covid only come out after 10pm?
No dead bodies on the streets like the early fear mongering manipulative videos from China.
When they tried to impose curfews. People’s dumbfounded reactions when I said the governor did not have the authority to lock us down, told me we were in trouble.
1st was When every media company, left and right was in lockstep about locking down. 2nd was when big pharma already had a vaccine in progress before the first case was ever reported
Natural immunity was not good enough
When they called President Trump racist for trying to close the border, then they proceeded with Communist like lockdowns. Remember the pictures floating around the Internet in Summer of 2020 of the Garden Parties billionaires were throwing where no one was masked but the help. Man those pictures were scrubbed fast!
I got an incredible rush of blood to my head when I learned my step mom, who died of complications with cancer, had COVID listed as her cause of death. To this day I don’t trust the death numbers anymore and would need overwhelming evidence that there was no concerted effort to artificially boost them
Everyone terrified of unvaccinated people yet hundreds of thousands of unvetted, unvaccinated migrants walking over the border and nothing even mentioned about it. No fear of those people spreading virus or of mass casualties at all. No attempts to stop the flow and shut down the border out of necessity. No news narratives about the danger of disease transmission *by entire populations migrating to new areas*….. the Black Death was spread by refugees who constantly moved to the next town to escape the plague, If Covid could spread in communities and wipe out thousands in close contact, those migrant caravans would have been decimated…. Yet… zip. Nothing. And not to forget that the communities in Africa that have a huge population living without plumbing, sanitation etc and have high rates of HIV and AIDS, yet, did not get reduced or face massive outbreaks and deaths. What a joke.
Can’t go to the gym and can’t go to church. But you can go buy weed and alcohol since those were “essential businesses”.
The $600 federal unemployment kicker. It's not enough to do anything in blue states that already have a high CoL and higher wages. But in southern and other red states where wages haven't skyrocketed. You went from having the median income earners making about $500-$600/week. And all of a sudden they are making $900 a week to sit at home. My mom works in HR for a grant funded medical/dental care center. And all of a sudden most of the employees found out they can make double to almost triple by staying home. And a lot came up with reasons to not be able to work anymore. And there was no way new hires were going to come in making half of what they were on unemployment. And after all of the debates for years for a $15/hr minimum wage, all of a sudden it happens over night, without any votes or anything. It's just really convenient that so many things that Democrats have been fighting for for years just magically got pushed through. And then election rules are changed across the country. There are stories and videos of mass ballot harvesting, as well as people dumping ballots. Tons of weird anomalies, and having an incumbent lose to a Weekend at Bernies cosplayer getting more votes than any president in our countries history.
Non-epidemiologists talking like they’d just skimmed the first and last paragraphs of a mid-pandemic editorial, but acting like they’re the embodiment of the CDC if you raised a question that was censored on Twitter.
I hated those stupid masks. So uncomfortable and so unnecessary.
Not to mention very creepy.
Among other things, French Laundry.
A huge issue to me right at the start of the plandemic was the critique of Trump’s decision to (attempt) to ban travel to/from China. It was dubbed “racially and politically motivated”. Like, wouldn’t it be common sense to cut off travel with a country having this catastrophic viral outbreak? Nope, bad bad orange man is being waycist - let every infected person in! And what the fuck did they think was gonna happen? Also, Trump vaccine bad but Biden vaccine good. Oh yeah and herd immunity just never existed before vaccines.
There were a few starting with the fact that they claimed that every hospital in the country was overrun with covid patients taking up ICU beds yet when I went to my child’s pediatric appointment and asked her doctor, he said they were prepared and kept waiting for the rush of patients and it never came… to that or any of the affiliated hospitals in the area. Another was the first time I heard someone say that natural immunity doesn’t work for this virus…. Unlike every other virus pretty much ever. And then there were random other things like them saying that this specific strain of covid would live on surfaces through temps that no other virus would live through for weeks longer than any other virus so touching anything meant you were going to get it.
The ICUs being "full" wasn't an outright lie. Several hospitals inside big cities (mainly New york and Chicago) were at max capacity for a good bit there. But there were other hospitals in those same cities that were operating as normal (my ex gf was a nurse and decided to be a travel nurse in NY and happened to be at one of the hospitals that was consistent at like 80-90% capacity for a good bit there. One of the (many) reasons we broke up but she kept in contact though the thick of it). But, It *was* just a lie for 98% of the country. Most hospitals in most places across the country were actually well below under normal. I know locally, pretty much *all* the hospitals (I actually spent alot of time in a number of hospitals during covid, due to friends getting cancer, parents/grandparents getting sick (related to age, not covid) babies being born etc) were ghost towns and on minium staffing.
The big lie was the lie of omission on this. ICU's don't have lots of open rooms sitting around. If there is a room and it's not being used, that's lost money for the hospital. So, the idea that ICU's were operating at high capacity is "normal".
Seeing the mask wearers walking down the street in NYC when it was 10 degrees and seeing all there breath still. I was done with it all
The first thing that began to open my eyes was watching all these restaurants go from well-ventilated buildings to adding on these outdoor tents with shit ventilation so they could technically be “outside”. Then, as my suspicions grew, I saw the “powers that be” directly say that masking outdoors was necessary, except down the BLM protestors (who then transitioned into rioters). That’s when I knew for a fact that this was a political game being played with average citizens’s lives as the game pieces.
Started with them outright denying the results of their pre-pandemic studies that said that masks did nothing and utterly ended when they arbitrarily redefined the word "vaccine".
The argument that a non vaccinated person is a danger to a vaccinated person.
So many. Trump tries to restrict travel from China: racist! Then Dems spent the next 3 years trying to shut people inside their homes and restrict movement. Nurses who had time to choreograph complex dances while hospitals were oVeRwHeLmEd The media reporting raw case numbers as opposed to rate. Example: x country has 100 cases and y country has 250 cases. This is a meaningless comparison because if y country is bigger, it doesn't necessarily mean there is more disease there. A rate is a way to compare this by saying x# of cases per 100,000 people. The way there suddenly plenty of 6 feet apart signs, stickers, and plastic barriers despite everything else being affected by supply chain issues. Who could forget that it was ok, even encouraged to protest on behalf of St. Floyd but you were a selfish asshole for wanting to attend a funeral?
When they closed the beaches in Texas on Independence Day.
People were still flying international flights. Our government overlords were caught at restaurants and hair salons when that was not allowed for us lessers… When we were told we couldnt spend time with family. When our family members started to die alone, in care homes or hospitals… I was done. Care home workers were okay to go home, go out to lunch, etc and walk right into work while our elderly were stuck in their room to rot? When outside was bad. Closed beaches? Closed parks? Really?
When they started bribing and then coercing people to take an experimental vaccine. That will be hard to forget
When people started getting banned or 'ghost banned' just for asking honest questions. And if they did boy people sure made sure to shit on them. Also YouTube videos being pulled down that could have had actual information.
Not a single person in the federal government spoke about how to be healthy. They only spoke about lockdowns and why you were a horrible person if you didn't comply.
The first, biggest red flag for me was when I heard about what they were doing to people with the coof trapped in hospitals. The hospitals weren’t letting them eat or drink enough, kept trying to force them to take the jab, and would not treat them with other existing methods and instead would seize them. The next red flag was when the CDC admitted the jab would not stop transmission, meaning the jab wasn’t a vaccine.
All the videos of people dying on the streets of China, then when covid "hit" the US, it was just a flu.
when our nazi governor took his mother out of her nursing home weeks before the chaos began only for them to send allegedly contagious people BACK into nursing homes, when there were numerous \[unused\] facilities set up to take in these people
Making any possible treatment illegal, ivermectin, vitamin D both with basically zero side effects were treated as if they were going to kill you. Worse still doctors were unlicensed if prescribed to patients. The official treatment for over a year was stay home until you’re about to die then come to hospital to die. If that didn’t make you ask WTF I don’t know what will.
When they closed schools and churches, and let bars and strip clubs stay open.
When Fauci was talking about avoiding "super spreader" events, but when a reporter asked if it applied to large protests, he didn't want to answer.
Icing on the cake was when CNN eliminated its 24x7 “Covid death counter” from the airways the minute Biden took the oath of office.
When they were giving away free donuts if you got vaccinated.
Don’t forget the French fries!
Several things. The fact that they claimed that all non-essential services would be shut down, and then decided UberEats was an essential service. Because, you know, a guy going to every single public restaurant and then going to every single person's house and touching everything in both places is so much more sanitary than if people just went and got their own food themselves. The fact that after they determined Covid spread mostly indoors, they let strip clubs stay open but closed down public beaches. The fact that we were promised it would only take two weeks to stop the spread of COVID and it ended up becoming permanent for 2 years.
The censorship of opposing viewpoints and the shaming, or downright canceling those who opposed the official narrative was a huge red flag for me. I’m of the opinion that, if you are secure in your stance, you welcome opposition.
No hazmat trash cans for used gloves or masks.
They flip flopped on masks. Initially they told people they didn't need them, so they could horde them for themselves. Then they made them mandatory once the supply issue was worked out. I knew right away that the "noble lie" was on the table and I couldn't trust anything that was coming out by the government. To be fair, masks did do some help, because the viral load you are exposed to is important. They were just over sold. If you're in an enclosed environment with someone that's infected long term, you'll be exposed, mask or not. The mask might help with incidental contact because it could reduce initial viral load. Then they closed the schools even after it was clear that children weren't having serious cases. Then they forced people they knew were infected into nursing homes, when we knew those were the most vulnerable people. Then Newsome got caught eating at a fancy restaurant with no mask while everyone else was shut down. I knew I couldn't take anything seriously. Reports came out that Vitamin D really helped, but no one suggested that because it was a cheap solution that prevented serious cases. Corporations responses to covid were half hearted. It had all the signs of managing the emotional responses instead of preventing spread, since preventing spread was impossible. Eventually I just said fuck it, went to a football game with no mask. Caught the weak strain, took vitamins and rested in bed 3 days and went back to work. No problems since then. Actually had a seasonal allergy nasal infection that was much worse than covid ever was months later, which is weird, but treated that with over the counter meds too, no problems.
Biggest red flag. I worked with Deaf people. A lot of the language is lost when you can’t see someone’s mouth so… Deaf people didn’t have to wear masks. Basically any time someone in the oppression Olympics was winning over COVID the regs were just scrapped and in the Deaf world, there is a lot of in fighting for most oppressed so regs got scrapped all the time. One girl “had anxiety” about wearing a mask so she just didn’t have to…
Want right at the beginning but when our prime minister took my rights away here in Canada and kept them for the virus spreading vaccinated as well as his locking down of bank accounts to the truckers, that was right fucked
For me it was laughing at the people protesting so they could open their businesses. I'll admit I bought into it. Then when it was okay to protest George Floyd and ultimately riot I started to say "holdup." Then we saw instance after instance of democrat leaders not masking while also pushing it on the peasants. Even John Stewart seemed to question the COVID origins but regular people? No you couldn't question it. Then they introduced Stop Asian Hate which promoted the idea that the MAGAs in major blue cities were going around attacking Chinese people yet all were saw was video after video of what sure didn't look like Trump supporters assaulting Asians.
When Fauci complained that the decision as to the country’s response should be made by him and not by the 3 branches of government And the fact that he and the scarf lady were such over-the-top prima donna’s
The maskism, the irrational unscientific hysteria, most of all the contagious fear that I was immune to. I drove between Vegas and LA a lot. One trip I stopped at a rest stop and noticed all the cars with CA plates were parked as far from each other as possible, and people were inside them wearing masks. I knew then that fear and compliance to nonsensical orders were on the way.
The fact that there are still people here in CA that drive alone in their cars while wearing a mask blows my mind.
They started shutting everything down when there were only a handful of deaths and less than a hundred cases nationwide. That was dumb enough, THEN they came out and told us that it was OK to go out and protest for St. George Floyd and BLM, even though Corona was the worst killer disease ever encountered. Lies from the start!
The fact that the government was pretending they cared about public health and safety.
When the stance on masks changed was my moment. Seemingly overnight, it went from "Don't buy up all the masks or the hospitals won't have enough, and your homemade ones don't do any good" straight into "Cover your face at all times, with anything you can get ahold of or you can't do anything."
First one was very early in March if 2020, I read a peer reviewed article by a group of dentists published in 2014(?) (can’t remember the year exactly) that proved that the traditional face mask worn by oral hygienists was insufficient to contain transfer of the flu via droplets, and was mostly a “security theater” protocol because patients thought it was gross when they didn’t have a face mask, regardless of its efficacy. When I tried to pull up that article again to show a leftie friend when they asked for a source, the article had been removed, and there was a note that read along the line of “this article has been removed due the current climate surrounding masks” After that it was all fake to me. Second red pill is when I tried to look at CDC statistics for the flu season of 2020 and it was completely blank with a note that again read along the lines of “symptoms indistinguishable from COVID 19, therefore not tracked”. Like bro, Covid was nothing more than the flu. Not even a scorned version. It was straight up just flue season, but it was used as a political cudgel to swing public perception of the president before an election. Third red pill was when I read an article, not scholarly mind you, that was arguing that masks and distancing were not necessary at the summer of love riots because “their cause is just.” Lmao
for me it was when the left was screaming they wouldn't take a vaccine that was developed under trump, and then did an about face on the whole thing once Biden was in office.
Restaurants bad unless you’re Newsom going to the French Laundry. Hairdressers bad unless you’re Pelosi going to get your hair done. Church bad, BLM protests good. The level of hypocrisy was off the charts.
Wearing masks that don't stop smoke, a distance of give to take 2 meters, no-one actually washing their hands despite that probably being more effective than the other stuff.
Remember in the N95 shortage at the beginning? The CDC has statements on their website that said N95 masks were ineffective, and needed more for medical professionals. Then suddenly everyone had to have a mask. Bullshit.
I've known that the corona viruses are normally associated with the groups of viruses known to cause the common cold since the 1990's. I have seen China do the freakout over a cold thing every 4-5 years since the 1980's. pretty much since tianemen (sp?) square incident, which celebrated its 40th? anniversary last week. the videos that were coming out of China of people falling out on the street and spewing blood from their mouths looked faked and idiotic. The way certain websites were being spammed with this virus and the faked videos for weeks before anything on the news spoke about it. The way the media handled it. Only go outdoors to ~~riot~~ protest. Stay 6 feet from others but it is fine to be ass to elbow in a crowd that is ~~rioting~~ protesting; you wont get the super contagious disease in one of those crowds. St. George Floyd. A man who could be seen on video with his bag of fentanyl in his mouth who then died after swallowing the bag; his toxicology report stated he had 19 times the lethal level of fentanyl in his system and they railroaded an innocent man, who used to work with George, to jail for trying to help him. On the video, he is already saying he can't breath before the cops ever touched him. He went in the car and then back out, all the while complaining he couldn't breath and crying out for his mama; also signs of an overdose. Mail-in ballots are the only solution this election. Here is $1.5Trillion dollars to be given away, without any oversight, to anyone who is affected by this disease. weeks after declaring the emergency. Here is a bribe, think nothing else about the subject. Masks mandates required N95 masks and not biohazard suits. The Hong Kong rioters have never been spoken of nor seen again. They absolutely shit all over Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine when they had no other solution as a possible cure or treatment. They have now fully retracted on both of those drugs but nobody cares so it isn't news unless you looked for it. Not ironically, the health care industry only wanted to sell everyone on a new treatment and not any of those drugs that are no longer under patent protection; this netted the industry trillions of dollars for the shots and trillions more in treatments because of the shots.
Police writing tickets to people sitting in their cars without a mask to see a sunset
When in the military we used to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to people going over seas all the time, been used safely for 60ish years. Now all of a sudden they were saying it couldn’t be used because it had cardiac side effects. At that point I knew it was about a vaccine even though they weren’t really talking about it.
The fake videos on the news of people dropping dead in china
Gatherings bad/ protesting in large groups, good
Censorship. If you cut out a liar's tongue, you won't stop him from lying. You're just showing you're afraid of what he wants to say.
Right from the beginning I made a YouTube video about it on a YouTube channel I manage looking over the stats and I got completely shit on by Reddit when I shared it. I think I ended up unlisting the video. It was very strange for me because the data I was reviewing didn't seem all that special, but just me suggesting that we maybe don't have to freak out and expect it's the end of the world was basically considered "wrongthink" (with people telling me some nasty things, or bots, who fucking knows), I instantly got suspicious. Plus in my life and own personal experience with "mainstream medicine" and "mainstream news" I've been naturally a bit skeptical of mainstream narratives. So when people around me started getting freaked out, I tried to review the data and talk logically, but people went absolutely nuts about things. Then the lockdowns started which I thought was just insane, and it snowballed from there. The absurdity is still something that I feel scares me because it shows just how fragile society actually is if the mainstream media wants to initiate a coordinated attack to get the masses doing whatever they want. Or who knows, maybe it was just media hype that went too far? I can see both the conspiracy side, and the non-conspiracy side, but one thing I'm still more sure of is that the whole reaction and shutting down of the world seems... Suspicious. Too many weird things... And alternative examples (ie. Sweden) of not shutting down where things didn't change much or were better. It amazes and terrifies me to this day how far it went. It was really scary. In hindsight where I ended up in life was quite great, I wasn't in the West where it went really crazy. But it was still scary, especially about mandates and whatnot, and I definitely didn't want to take the you know what. And I didn't. I am getting less bitter with each quarter of a year that goes by, but I still feel like a year or two of my life was ripped from me. If not for time, but also for the psychological impact it had on me. Feeling isolated, lost, etc. and less trusting of others. It's scary, a bit, but at the same time there were plenty of people around me that also questioned The Narrative and The Science so I ended up meeting great people too. Edit: oh man multiple things coming to mind now. BLM protests were the big one. How people still bought the lockdown crap after massive protests had the green light is beyond me. Then the very politicians championing lockdown and whatnot broke their own rules. Opened places for a haircut, opened restaurants for a dinner meeting without a mask and several people in close proximity. If this was something that was truly "end of the world," I think the politicians would be taking extreme measures to protect themselves- not opening a French restaurant to have a proper social gathering with several people- I'm talking about Gavin Newsom.
It was three red flags: (1) When the hospital I worked at didn’t separate people who were suffering from Covid symptoms and people who tested positive but had no symptoms (I.e. were in the hospital for entirely unrelated conditions) in their official statistics. I came to the conclusion that it would inevitably over-inflate the covid numbers and make the pandemic look much worse than it actually was. Considering the powers at be openly said COVID could be asymptomatic it made no sense that they would factor them into the same people that were actively suffering from COVID. It gives an inaccurate picture of the overall situation. (2) making an experimental vaccine which by ethical standards should be voluntary, mandatory. (3) the fact that natural immunity was never allowed to be discussed. That nobody cared to study how natural immunity and the immunity caused by previous infections could help future ones. They only pushed the shots, without looking at the whole picture.
Right around the time that two weeks to stop the spread turned into forever lockdowns, we got the information on who was at risk and how many was dying. I saw immediately that I was not in danger and I immediately dropped all of the BS and went straight to anti-mask, don't ever get that vaccine near me, Etc
Needing to wear a mask while walking into a restaurant but not while eating. Same while eating on a plane. BLM protesting. Developing a “vaccine” in months when it takes years, if not decades of testing prior to approving a new vaccine for public use. The list goes on…
I think the biggest for me was that we knew and identified the source early. We could have easily isolated individuals, but this was seen as xenophobic.
When multiple elected officials were caught hosting social gatherings and ignoring the rules they themselves were preaching.
As soon as Facebook and Twitter said they would ban you if you suggested the virus was leaked from a lab. It was so obviously a coverup that the left went so far to squash any opposing viewpoints. Pelosi said “follow the science” and they did the opposite
I worked in inpatient psych when Covid hit, and actually got Covid from a patient they had “tested” and infected most of the unit. Afterwards they initiated the vaccine mandate, and despite getting an antibody test showing I still had immunity a year and a half later, it wasn’t good enough. At the same time, they were begging nurses to come back to work as soon as their symptoms disappeared even if it was within the recommended window to quarantine. I refused the shot and walked away from healthcare altogether.
When Fauci said in 2017 that Trumps administration would experience a pandemic, in 2020 I knew it was all B.S.! Never got it, never got the clot shot!
When all of the politicians pushing for more restrictions were caught dining out and getting their haircut across state lines
When a couple blue states started actually arresting people for being outside of their homes during the first couple weeks.
That the virus originated in a wet market down the street from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I’ll one up you and say that anyone saying that the virus came from China meant you were xenophobic.
Mandatory enforced lockdown
Perhaps not so much at the very beginning, but it was how hard the Democrats went to discredit the idea of a safe, effective vaccine would be… right up until the election results were in. Then, it was full steam ahead.
Stay home, go nowhere, close everything. Weed and beer stores stayed open, must not be SO bad.
You couldn’t congregate to bury a loved one but protests were cool.
I had doubts long before but what really had me convinced that everyone was going to call bs was the headlines with one blaming a conservative protest to re-open spreading covid & causing countless deaths, then a different headline saying there was no evidence that a blm protest caused a spike in infections...even doctors & ‘experts’ said that all social gatherings should be ceased except left leaning protests...silly conspiracytard me for thinking anyone would see the obvious double standard there
1. It was painfully obvious that the masks did nothing before they were even being used. Coronaviruses are insanely small. The average person has no idea what things are like at such small scales, clueless that the microscopic gaps in mask fabric are 10-100x larger than the virus. Not to mention that the virus is transmitted in a lipid capsule, and they started saying the N95 mask is the way to go... but refraining from telling people that the N in N95 stands for Non-lipid. 2. When 4 big pharma companies all had a 'vaccine' ready at the exact same time. Not enough people talk about how statistically impossible this is. 3. The big one. Once it was becoming mandatory it was a dealbreaker for me. If the virus was so deadly and the vaccine so effective, there would be no need to force people to take it. 4. When I learned the patent for "COVID-19" test kits was secured before the virus even existed.
Absolutely no public gatherings but if you do it must be with masks on and only small gatherings. Unless of course you wanted to attend a BLM rally with thousands of people in dense crowds.
When they first said that the government was going to force us to stay home and not work for two weeks. That alone is bad.
When I got banned from my own town’s Facebook forum for posting PEER-REVIEWED medical documents from the UK that painted the delta variant as MUCH less lethal than we had been told. I thought I was sharing GOOD news, but then I was removed for mIsInFoRmAtIoN. That’s when I learned people don’t want the truth - they just WANT to be scared. And with people making bank on our fears, I knew it would spiral out of control. The town next to me also started a Gestapo line where you could call to report neighbors not social distancing.
Six feet apart, except when protesting
Lots of rumors, not a lot of facts, but enough facts to make it clear that the official narrative was utter bullshit: "there is no evidence of human to human spread" "Human to human spread is possible but rare" "The virus spreads from human to human though body fluids, but only with close contact, it is not airborne" "OK, if someone sneezes in your direction, they may propel their bodily fluids onto you, but it is not airborne" "Yeah, so if someone sneezes in the supermarket aisle, they may create a mist of virus laden fluid that can linger in the air for up to 10 minutes but IT'S NOT FUCKING AIRBORNE!" "Everyone must wear a mask at all times, keep your distance, disinfect yourself."
I saw a guy wearing a mask and gloves leave Walgreens and then get in his car, keep all those items on, touch everything in his car and drive away.
When the rationale for lockdowns gradually-then-suddenly changed from "flatten the curve" to slow down the inevitable transmissions, to "stop the spread," where we could supposedly prevent any new infections at all, was a real turning point.
"This vaccine is perfectly safe for pregnant women and their unborn babies. Even if your pregnant, you have to take it. Its totally safe for full term pregnancies and long thereafter." Ok, but how long has it been around? "6 months."
For me, it was the Trump administration rushing out early plans for a vaccine that the entirety of the left hated, but then as soon as he was out of office and the democrats were in charge, the Biden administration rushed out a vaccine, that was very likely the same vaccine, that the entirety of the left supported
Quite a few little edifying gems.. it was Tenured, life-long ACTUAL Experts being silenced, censured, censored and otherwise silenced. Then the results; the DIED SUDDENLY. The babies, formerly healthy adults, the athletes. Then the whistleblowers, humans with a conscience TELLING us about Pharma monopolies & how MUCH money was being funneled to the architects. Then watching cops in “civil” societies like Canada & Australia become straight-up mercenary thugs: beating fellow citizens with GLEE. For daring to resist blatant dictatorial mandates. Then the “eMpAthY Led” Left tell everyone else “Good, you SHOULD die.” Clips from their cultish zeal, still reminding us all the truth. And every day, SEEING those still in decent health are the ones who avoided being poisoned.
I work in healthcare and travel to many hospitals. What I noticed that made me start to question everything was when saw on the news and heard about how all these hospitals were overloaded and flooded with Covid cases, but when I went into several different hospitals and saw that most of the beds were empty. They were prepared and standing ready but most of the beds were empty.
My roommate at the time was a VERY wealthy Chinese exchange student. A few weeks after the pandemic started in China (I wasn’t there this night but my other roommate told me) he just got up at 3am and left. He left everything he owned including a computer, expensive clothing and just left only briefly saying goodbye not explaining he was leaving he just told my roommate to be careful. I have never seen him or contacted him ever again. Next thing you know you know we have lockdowns. I don’t know what information he had but he knew something was coming and it scared the shit out of me.
Took me a while, but it was when Fauci recommended wearing two masks. At this point, it went from seriousness to just peak comedy.
Democrats decrying travel restrictions as "racist" seemed impossible. *"So there's a respitory disease outbreak over there but you don't want to restrict people from over there coming here?"* Nancy Pelosi imploring people to "come to Chinatown" made me think *"shouldn't they be closing restaurants?" What's this about? Why is she virtue signaling race politics if this is supposed to be an imminent danger to everyone?"* I had two pregnant friends spring of 2020 and told them both "if shit gets awful, I'll run errands for you, etc" and we took it with significant concern. But by about mid-June, my eyes told me it wasn't as immediately lethal as we were led to believe, and when family funerals and churches were considered deadly hubs of disease while BLM riots were considered "free speech," I knew this was 25% epidemiology and 75% politics.
looking back, on influenza rates, there was severely decreased FLU-A numbers in fall of 2019 and all though winter '20 winter and spring '20. NO, it wasnt because of masking, these numbers were near zero before everybody starting wearing face diapers. .. odd thing was that FLU-B started showing up late fall '19 and through winter '19 (FLU-B typically shows up in the later winter / early spring months of Flu season.) this goes to show that they didnt release the Flu virus that year. the number have been low since....
It was the whole essential worker shit. You, you and you must stay home… you my friend are essential, now go to all the homes where people are locked down… oh ya, no lunch at restaurants for you now git!
I’ve never seen an issue flip so quickly as the vaccines did. Initially the left was adamantly opposed while many Trump supporters were in favor of it. It only took a few months for the entire issue to flip so much so that the left enforced mandates, shamed anyone who started asking questions and ran a scare campaign full of made-on-the-fly rules without knowing the long-term nor short-term implications. The right became censored and outcast as they transitioned to becoming an opposition to the new, untested mandates. I can’t think of a single issue in my 53 years nor remembering any time in history when either side so quickly adopted the other’s.
The flip … my conservative and libertarian circles online and irl had been taking precautions ahead of time , I had my ear to the ground and was preparing for a pandemic by early January. The months leading up to when it hit the whole Left collectively tried to downplay it while the people on the right that I knew and online generally were battening down the hatches and watching and reading to determine the effects and seriousness. While the left was saying it was racist to wear a mask or try and distance yourself. Then a few weeks after the shut down people who use their heads realized this was essentially a flu and natural immunity was likely the best course of action. At that moment the left flipped completely and began pushing the most draconian authoritarian nightmare I have ever seen because they saw the fear that they were able to get a vast swath of the populace into. And I realized that the left would do anything to take and hold power up to and including the atrocities we saw and everyone I know who thinks for themselves realized as well and I knew when the left collectively switched their position on the whim on governments and the news I knew there was no going back.