The new public health response that was trialed during this outbreak is far more attractive to investors creating vast opportunities for future growth. Holding to the new dogma enables a positive career path and financial security, as did siding with the Inquisition centuries ago.
This pairs well with the work of Margaret Heffernan on “willful blindness.” She has some TED talks on this and another on “Dare to Disagree” that you might find interesting.
Trying to write positive stuff but its a bit sparse right now. I agree on masks etc- you don’t need medical training to figure out what heath &safety industry has known for a hundred years. I think many doctors are scared to think independently now - trained out of them.
The ability of formerly sane, rational people to convince themselves the lies are the truth never fails to amaze me. The wearing of masks is the one that amazes me most. I am not a medical or scientific person but it was so obvious that a mask couldn't stop a germ (or whatever it's called!). I kept telling people their mask might stop them swallowing a gnat but they looked at me like I was mad.
I guess people have been conditioned over years to simply trust the bloke in the white coat regardless of how bonkers his instructions are!
An excellent analysis and must have taken an immense amount of focus to write! One of the best I have read. I called out this CBULLSHIT sham from day one and was forced to resign from my part time job at a charity shop for refusing to wear a mask. The incidents that led to this forced resignation were fraught and not nice and was a concentrated scene of what has happened to personal relationships globally. Having been confronted directly to "put your mask on!" I said NO. I was told to leave the premises. I requested a disciplinary hearing which never materialised. I was told 'you will not win'. I answered I did not want to win, I wanted a record of the incident. The disciplinary hearing did not materialise. An email arrived: "Mask 24/7 or go." The fact that I could not wear a mask due to a combination of childhood trauma and 'sovereignty attack shock' was of little consideration. As a South African having lived through every painful moment of apartheid I had learnt a lot with regard to double speak and lies. BUT until there are arrests, accountability, confiscation of wealth to be distributed to survivors etc there is just going to be business as usual and that dreadful technology (noticed more and more on fb) is going to be forced upon us apace. Where are the protests/articles/fb pages to demand tribunals? They are the only way forward for sane humanity.
"In a former role I had a boss who lied a lot" Me too. I am with you on what you have said.
I lost my Job, this in my last 5 years where my pension would have grown for my retirement.
I was fired for challenging my MD/CEO when he lied. I was subjected to a kangaroo court (Disciplinary Hearing) of petty tyrants (Human Resources) and paid Legal Hangmen who were employed to destroy any challenge to authority, even though I was supposedly "Senior management as part of Exco".
I played back a damming recording of his conversation with an employee, that he said never happened. He was highly embarrassed, yet I was still fired. Oh, I got a 3 month settlement. So never feel bad, the liars are protected. Hopefully one day they will be judged.
Amen.
Thanks, Barbara. Will look.
And a bit depressing, the way integrity is more a career move than a value for sommany.
I really enjoyed the story about your boss. It's a powerful example.
This pairs well with the work of Margaret Heffernan on “willful blindness.” She has some TED talks on this and another on “Dare to Disagree” that you might find interesting.
Trying to write positive stuff but its a bit sparse right now. I agree on masks etc- you don’t need medical training to figure out what heath &safety industry has known for a hundred years. I think many doctors are scared to think independently now - trained out of them.
Excellent but depressing article!
The ability of formerly sane, rational people to convince themselves the lies are the truth never fails to amaze me. The wearing of masks is the one that amazes me most. I am not a medical or scientific person but it was so obvious that a mask couldn't stop a germ (or whatever it's called!). I kept telling people their mask might stop them swallowing a gnat but they looked at me like I was mad.
I guess people have been conditioned over years to simply trust the bloke in the white coat regardless of how bonkers his instructions are!
An excellent analysis and must have taken an immense amount of focus to write! One of the best I have read. I called out this CBULLSHIT sham from day one and was forced to resign from my part time job at a charity shop for refusing to wear a mask. The incidents that led to this forced resignation were fraught and not nice and was a concentrated scene of what has happened to personal relationships globally. Having been confronted directly to "put your mask on!" I said NO. I was told to leave the premises. I requested a disciplinary hearing which never materialised. I was told 'you will not win'. I answered I did not want to win, I wanted a record of the incident. The disciplinary hearing did not materialise. An email arrived: "Mask 24/7 or go." The fact that I could not wear a mask due to a combination of childhood trauma and 'sovereignty attack shock' was of little consideration. As a South African having lived through every painful moment of apartheid I had learnt a lot with regard to double speak and lies. BUT until there are arrests, accountability, confiscation of wealth to be distributed to survivors etc there is just going to be business as usual and that dreadful technology (noticed more and more on fb) is going to be forced upon us apace. Where are the protests/articles/fb pages to demand tribunals? They are the only way forward for sane humanity.
"In a former role I had a boss who lied a lot" Me too. I am with you on what you have said.
I lost my Job, this in my last 5 years where my pension would have grown for my retirement.
I was fired for challenging my MD/CEO when he lied. I was subjected to a kangaroo court (Disciplinary Hearing) of petty tyrants (Human Resources) and paid Legal Hangmen who were employed to destroy any challenge to authority, even though I was supposedly "Senior management as part of Exco".
I played back a damming recording of his conversation with an employee, that he said never happened. He was highly embarrassed, yet I was still fired. Oh, I got a 3 month settlement. So never feel bad, the liars are protected. Hopefully one day they will be judged.