Much of human social life consists in games being played, essentially without purpose. Rules are proposed and adopted, which then operate largely below the level of conscious awareness.
Male pissing contests are one obvious example, and there are female equivalents, which I suppose we might call bitch contests. In my observation, there is vastly more conflict among women than men, most of the time. It is simply less obvious, and nearly never evolves into actual violence, as that among men often does.
But I wanted to suggest that this whole mask thing has evolved into a ludetic system. It is a game played for the sake of the game.
From the outset of “this”, I was asking: what is the end game? How do we return to normal? All alleged “responses” to the exigencies of this pandemic ought logically to have an answer to the question “why are we doing this”, which fits within an overall plan.
We are told to recite the mantra “to flatten the curve”, or “slow the spread”. I have been asking from the outset: WHY? Why would we want to do that? To protect hospital capacity is the only reasonable answer I can see, and other than very short periods of time, in cities like New York that did stupid shit like send sick people into nursing homes, then kill them with ventilators, this has not been an issue in the SIX MONTHS (do I need to remind you it has been SIX MONTHS?) this pandemic response has been going on.
We need not fear the pandemic. We need to fear our governments.
Historically, masks were worn by sick people, to protect them from bacteria. They have never been shown to help in any meaningful respect with the flu, and the flu has ravaged most nations on Earth every year for the past forever. According to actual study, they really don’t help reduce infections from surgery, so so-called Surgeons Masks really are not needed either. They would be better off improving their oxygen uptake to prevent surgical mistakes, which DO present a continual threat to patients, with thousands of stupid mistakes happening each and every year.
Human beings are creatures of habit. Habits, I have proposed, are more or less programmable instincts. Once in place, they tend to continue unabated more or less indefinitely, unless that person chooses to question and interrogate them. Much of the success in each of our lives consists in programming good instincts, and weakening the bad.
But that everything should be open NOW continues to be obvious to me. That a large, indefensible crime is being committed continues to be obvious to me. Millions of people may starve to death because of the RESPONSE to this not-very-dangerous disease.
I will point out again that the nations using Hydroxychloroquine are seeing almost no major issues. India, to take the obvious example I have taken the time to research, has much less than one quarter of the death we supposedly (you know these counts are overstated by a LOT) do, with four times the population. The disease got there, and got into slums where basic sanitation and physical distancing were literally impossible. Yet, very little death.
I hope, I really hope, we get through this time without falling into tyranny. Humanity is SO CLOSE to the possibility of universal peace and prosperity. We have the technology in place. We simply continue to be led by morally ignorant psychopaths who view the gain of all as the loss of the few. We could easily come this close to the summit, and fall into a deep crevasse from which escape might be impossible in this life. This is a time of great peril, and great potential.
Wake up, whoever you are. Pay attention. Everything you value and love could easily be taken from you. In every human induced disaster in at least the modern era, all those affected said “I never thought it could happen to me.” It CAN happen to you. And it WILL happen to all of us if we allow the psychopaths to win back the White House or Congress. I truly believe this. Kamala Harris would GLADLY come up with a reason and rationale to open up and fill labor camps for political prisoners. I literally and truly believe this. These people are sick.
I have not yet looked at today’s headlines, but feel very certain that the Democrats are once again using the political equivalent of terrorism to try and force people to bend to their irrational, unprincipled, life denying, and Fascistic will.