I’m a very data driven person. I was very worried about protecting my family from the virus. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for my state to release the online dashboard with daily and year to date statistics. The moment they released it, my worries turned into suspicions. It was clear that they were not being honest. Practically every “COVID death” was over 70. The next week was when they started laundering younger deaths by changing the definition of what makes a COVID case. The new definitions were completely illogical. I have no idea how people are still falling for this bullshit almost a year later.
"I have no idea how people are still falling for this bullshit almost a year later."
These are my top 10 reasons but I'm sure there are many more.....
They make money from it in one way or another.
They have power or more control over other people or organizations.
They have a low IQ.
They want to avoid confrontation.
They will follow authority blindly because of fear of or trust in that authority.
They believe what they hear and see and read in mainstream media.
They are afraid.
They have not learned how to think critically or how to make good decisions.
They don't understand or believe that there really is a war between good and evil waging in the world, so they live under the misguided idea that the psychopaths in charge of governments and institutions and corporations have their best interests in mind.
They are uneducated. They don't read history or much of anything else.
First month or two I wore a P100 respirator because it was an unknown and I already have one for woodworking. A lot of the Chinese stuff looked sus, but there wasn't a clear angle and existing SARS wasn't something you wanted to catch. Knowing this was related to SARS and MERS I took the safe route barring new information.
After that period and seeing no obvious signs of people keeling over in the street or hospitals in any more of a capacity crunch than a bad flu season I stopped caring because the actual risk seemed very low. With hindsight, the most logical thing to do to control this virus was just put biosafety measures around nursing homes and retirement communities.
I did the same, and eventually stopped doing the same. It's easy to forget that, based on the best information at the time this looked like a real threat, and the same traits that lead us to question the "need to lockdown" narrative now would lead to questioning "it's just the flu don't be racist" then.
Agree wholeheartedly. When this first came out, I think most of us were like "what the hell??". But as time went on, we realized that we were duped. As you stated, the real problem is that most of the population isn't concerned with critical thinking to realize this is a sham.
I've totally lost faith in my fellow citizens. I realize now that most people will turn me into the authorities without a second thought. I'm much more guarded around groups of people.
It could have been better if the government hadn't made everything a (pseudo) legal mandate. They have experts at the CDC who could have helped the public understand the available information, maybe make best practice suggestions to business, but that is where the federal government's role should have ended.
People would have taken precautions to start with, and balanced them intelligently against new data as it became available, and done proper cost benefit for their own lives. Instead we get idiotic government mandates to follow suspiciously specific recommendations.
Yeah, they started with these images while claiming they didn't know if it was transmissible between people and simultaneously quarantining their cities and banning internal travel while allowing international flights to continue.
That these initial images of people collapsing were some kind of fakes seems clear now, the question is why the flights were allowed to keep going into other countries at all. At least President Trump stopped them even as now-Resident Biden was calling that racist.
To be fair, most people fell for it. We had very limited information available.
Continuing to fall for it is the problem.
I’m a very data driven person. I was very worried about protecting my family from the virus. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for my state to release the online dashboard with daily and year to date statistics. The moment they released it, my worries turned into suspicions. It was clear that they were not being honest. Practically every “COVID death” was over 70. The next week was when they started laundering younger deaths by changing the definition of what makes a COVID case. The new definitions were completely illogical. I have no idea how people are still falling for this bullshit almost a year later.
"I have no idea how people are still falling for this bullshit almost a year later."
These are my top 10 reasons but I'm sure there are many more.....
Good list. I think it's mostly 3 and 6.
I agree with you completely but I'm going to throw some extra EMPHISIS on numbers 9,10, 3, 4, 7 in that order
First month or two I wore a P100 respirator because it was an unknown and I already have one for woodworking. A lot of the Chinese stuff looked sus, but there wasn't a clear angle and existing SARS wasn't something you wanted to catch. Knowing this was related to SARS and MERS I took the safe route barring new information.
After that period and seeing no obvious signs of people keeling over in the street or hospitals in any more of a capacity crunch than a bad flu season I stopped caring because the actual risk seemed very low. With hindsight, the most logical thing to do to control this virus was just put biosafety measures around nursing homes and retirement communities.
I did the same, and eventually stopped doing the same. It's easy to forget that, based on the best information at the time this looked like a real threat, and the same traits that lead us to question the "need to lockdown" narrative now would lead to questioning "it's just the flu don't be racist" then.
Agree wholeheartedly. When this first came out, I think most of us were like "what the hell??". But as time went on, we realized that we were duped. As you stated, the real problem is that most of the population isn't concerned with critical thinking to realize this is a sham.
I've totally lost faith in my fellow citizens. I realize now that most people will turn me into the authorities without a second thought. I'm much more guarded around groups of people.
It could have been better if the government hadn't made everything a (pseudo) legal mandate. They have experts at the CDC who could have helped the public understand the available information, maybe make best practice suggestions to business, but that is where the federal government's role should have ended.
People would have taken precautions to start with, and balanced them intelligently against new data as it became available, and done proper cost benefit for their own lives. Instead we get idiotic government mandates to follow suspiciously specific recommendations.
Yeah, they started with these images while claiming they didn't know if it was transmissible between people and simultaneously quarantining their cities and banning internal travel while allowing international flights to continue.
That these initial images of people collapsing were some kind of fakes seems clear now, the question is why the flights were allowed to keep going into other countries at all. At least President Trump stopped them even as now-Resident Biden was calling that racist.
That's easy: the CCP wanted to spread the virus to the world.