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How an uncanny thing called covid destroyed our lives

The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance. It’s a story of venal, incompetent politicians and brutish police – thugs in uniform – acting at the behest of power-drunk apparatchiks.

Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era?
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Billions, if you were Big Pharma.

Unchecked power, if you were Big State.

Power over the whole population of a state and fame with extended daily TV appearances on all channels, if you were a chief medical officer.

More money and power over the world’s governments and people for the WHO.

Template for action for climate zealots.

Dreamtime for cops given free rein to indulge their inner bully.[/i]

But anguished despair, if you were a caring, concerned citizen who loves individual freedom and autonomy.

[b]But if you think it was all justified and good, then you have been taken in hook, line and sinker.[/b]

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

It didn't destroy my life, not that of most other people I know. Just put bits of it on hold for a few months.

It did destroy that of my longest-time friend, and literally, although he was already weak from other illnesses.

Nor did I recognise any of your apocalyptic police-state stuff in reality; tight and irritating though the temporary restrictions were..

I appreciate though it had a serious effect on the livelihoods of so many, especially in the catering and tourist trades, and considerably overloaded the NHS.

We can only hope that everyone - not only Great Britain - does learn from how they dealt with this pandemic, side-lined the pro-disease campaigners, and so be ready for the next epidemic or pandemic...... Which could of course be even more dangerous than Covid_SARS_19 and so may need even tighter rules.

We are not super-beings you know. We are a species of animal so we are not above Biology, and Biology includes diseases. Our sole advantage as a species is that we can protect ourselves to a reasonably large degree - and to do so even despite some campaigning against it so for the diseases, for whatever are their own reasons.

At least I have just had my Covid top-up vaccination (no side-effects) and am due my Influenza one.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@MrBrownstone Please remind me what that would have been for. 1969-70 was my last year at school!

I didn't, whatever happened then, but what was necessary in the most recent pandemic may not have been even thought about some [i]fifty years[/i] previously.

Sorry, but I can't see the point you are trying to make.

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@ArishMell You didn't wear a mask for that pandemic.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@ArishMell @MrBrownstone

Of course some day, people will clean forget what happened in 20 - 21. Someday when another worldwide scam is imposed.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

It always amazes me how silly people fell for the scam and continue to defend the governments' actions. Pure evil. Covid was created by government and its prevention was determined by government and its cures were determined by government. What a perfect storm created by government. If anyone died from covid it is the direct result of government killing its citizens. If anyone died from the preventions it is the direct result of government. If anyone died because they were denied likely live saving ,medications it was the result of the government. If anyone died from being on a ventilator it was because of the government. Anyone who has seen this and then trusts the government for anything is either foolish or deluded or evil.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Confined Oh really!

Whatever the pandemic's real source, still not established, do you honestly think over two hundred governments of many different alliances and enmities, could or would collude in some strange, pointless, self-defeating attempt to try to cripple all their own societies and economies, and make as many people as ill - or dead - as possible? Just for the hell of it?

Was the 1918 Influenza pandemic a wilful, international conspiracy by governments? (That was the so-called "Spanish Flu" long known to have never originated in Spain, and now thought from a remote, very poor part of rural America),

Were the several Middle Ages to Renaissance, Black Death plagues started by God-Knows-Whom to create God-Knows-What contemporary equivalent of an Internet conspiracy-fantasy ?

Confined · 56-60, M

@ArishMell Covid was planned. Fauci gave a speach just before it started saying, We are going to have a pandemic soon. Then covid happened. What an amazing coincidence! Yes every govt colluded with the WEF. This was about power. If you believe other wise I feel sorry that you are that naive. People in Government get rich quick, under socialism/communism. No more voting, or debating. Follow the money.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Confined Do you always make false correlations? Or only ones that match your political beliefs irrelevant to any bacterium or virus?

We have had several epidemics at least this century, before Covid appeared. A medical lecturer studying health-care systems told me it was only by sheer hard work and care in the African country concerned that we did not have Ebola - a terrible haemorrhagic disease with a very high fatality rate - running around.

Dr. Fauci only warned another epidemic or pandemic would happen sooner or later. Of course it will. So will another, of some sort, sooner or later. Many doctors and epidemiologists warn of that.

Your claim is not even logical because it alleges something that cannot possibly be of any benefit to anyone; and diseases have nothing to do with party-politics, the WEF or anything like that.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

But nothing in your rant about the sheer number of deaths.
Nothing about grieving families watching their loved ones die over zoom.
Nothing about the funerals attended by just a handful of people who couldn't even hug each other for comfort because of restrictive rules

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WalterF · 70-79, M

@ilikeitlikethat23 ?? Where is the absence of compassion?

ilikeitlikethat23 · 61-69, M

@WalterF without the vacine you may become a carrier on the disease, I know folks in their 30's who are completly disabled by long covid. Tell them it isn't real, those who were most at risk by having preexisting conditions that were exaggerated by covid needed to be protected. But those citizens that do not trust vacines are incubators for disease, polio is on the rise due to pockets of the unvacinated that allow the disease to progress. This is something that was a non factor due to mass inoculations.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@ilikeitlikethat23 Frankly, only an idiot would believe someone could transmit a disease they haven't got.

Many people have suffered from this weird "pandemic," created through Fauci's "gain of function" research. Many more have suffered through the forced untrialled gene therapy inkected into billions of trusting people.

I have compassion for all of these.

I have no compassion, only contempt, for those WHO MADE IT HAPPEN.

Magenta · F

It didn't destroy mine. I still rode my trails, exercised, lived, etc.. As did family and everyone I know. I was aware of the state of affairs, as I do pay attention. I've never injected myself with anything, ever.
Such a fiasco, all of it. But it was a real thing, I had it and many others did as well.

It did change the world, sadly.

What purpose does it serve to post such virtue signaling posts, if one isn't doing anything to create actual change?

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WalterF · 70-79, M

@Magenta Nonetheless it is true, UNLESS of course (like one of the commenters here) you consistently believe in the goodness and genuineness and humanity of all in high office both in government and industry, and refuse to accept that money and power can motivate most men to put their desires first and walk over those under them.

Men are not good by nature. We should all have learned that.

Magenta · F

@WalterF Never said I believe that, nor do I. I am quite aware of what humans are and aren't..

[quote]Men are not good by nature[/quote] [b]100%[/b]

NoGamesTolerated · F

@Magenta [quote] one in particular. ✨[/quote]

AMEN to that !

ArishMell · 70-79, M

You really do get worse.

The[i] real [/i]actions taken were genuinely [i]for[/i] the good even if not always "good" to take, and undoubtedly many mistakes were made as well as right choices, around the world.

I hope we all learn from the mistakes to be better prepared for the next pandemic, whenever it comes, whether
milder or far worse.

You can hardly call the powers you greatly distort and exaggerate, "dystopian" though when you clearly want pandemics to have their own dystopian way to suit your one-man, pseudo-political campaign against anyone trying to fight such diseases.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@TheEmperor No of course not! I didn't like the lock-downs either, although they affected only my social life.

It was a matter of what was thought necessary at the time; whether we come to see them in hindsight as having been right or wrong is another matter; and so far at least I as far as I know, and most (though not all) of my friends and relatives have escaped being infected by Covid.

Of course I don't want anything like that "on a whim, for anything"! :-)

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@ArishMell [media=https://youtu.be/EIwwmO7gd6A?t=788]

Confined · 56-60, M

All the number of dead CNN put on the screen was FAKE! The morges over flowing was a lie. Refridgetator trucks was another lie. None of what any govt said was true.
This was about power. How much they could fet away with. Every single country wanted to go communist so they could control the population.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@Confined I recommend watching sports.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

Aren't you sick of conspiracy theories people? So boring and stupid.

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JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@WalterF WTF? so opinions hold as much weight as facts do for you? Just because you follow the facts doesn't mean you are uncritical, you are just using the process of logic to come to your conclusions. Logic has toppled all of these conspiracies and fact have destroyed opinions. You are the one who swallows uncritically some nonsense you see on the internet and fall into a rabbit hole.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@JimboSaturn Your reply was what I expected.

So, please keep taking the magic covid boosters, all "safe and effective," as they told us. Keep believing in America's Doctor, and humanity's selfless benefactor Gates. They seek your good! Rest assured in that knowledge.

I wish you well.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@WalterF Same to you, don't believe anyone with facts and get your information for crazy websites, enjoy your reality.

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CestManan · 46-50, F

I cannot help but think if covid were as bad as they were acting like, wouldn't half the population be dead by now? Of course some will say, "Weeelllll, the vaciiiine stopped the spread!" Yeah but even by the time the vax was released, it would have been too late. I mean if in the first weeks, morgues were overflowing....

Yeah they were talking about overflowing hospitals and morgues. Hell they even were saying that they had to store dead bodies in semi trailers cause the morgues ran out of room. WTF ever!

Also, covid got DROPPED overnight sometime in January 2022. Like one day they are talking masks and vax and the next day, nothing.

I think the reason covid got dropped is because us lowly peons were using the pandemic to our advantage and it wasn't working out any longer for big companies. People saying, "Nope, ain't gonna go to work, might get covid!"

The whole thing was a GD fiasco.

But now that things are "back to normal", we all have type 2 diabetes once again. 😄

GoToTheCompound

Cov!d was a distraction for something else and I think it was a propellant to convince a lot of the population to willingly inject themselves with whatever the heck was in the vax. I never bought into it, I never even took a test for it and I dang sure didn't get vacc'd. Nothing related to it ever went into my body. I agree it destroyed a lot of the social dynamic for a reason that people don't realize

Carissimi · 70-79, F

So very well, and eloquently, said.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@Carissimi (Confession: I didn't write it. - EXCEPT for the last sentence. And the title)

Carissimi · 70-79, F

Then it’s needs a citation. Who wrote it? @WalterF

WalterF · 70-79, M

@Carissimi I'll message it to you today

ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

I understand that you don't trust the WHO. Still, when they report 6,972,152 deaths due to covid-19 so far... do you think every one of those deaths is a lie? And what body of doctors and scientists is providing your information?
https://covid19.who.int/

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gol979 · 41-45, M

@ServantOfTheGoddess a.simple search on the internet, 2021 Jan. Let me know what you think:

ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

@gol979 thank you! Checking on this also lead me to an article in Scientific American, a better source than the Daily Mail for science reporting, which indeed backed up these statistics. They are indeed food for thought, and suggest that masking and social distancing are very effective against the flu. They do not, of course, suggest that the flu and covid are the same thing; that would be silly, since they are caused by different viruses.

gol979 · 41-45, M

@ServantOfTheGoddess so the restrictions for "covid" worked for flu but not "covid"? And why now do the (fraudulent, see kary mullis for clarification) tests, test for flu and "covid"?

InHeaven · F

Governments (satanists) and those who complied... destroyed their lives (in health). Sigh. Terrible and sad. I am happy to this day I did not listen

Baconrind · 36-40, M

I love how the sentiment you are sharing is that people just follow along with things and are complicit and yet you just copy pasted someone elses writing and followed along with it. How very complicit of you 😂😂😂😂

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WalterF · 70-79, M

@Baconrind You win the prize for the most ridiculous comment.

Baconrind · 36-40, M

@hippyjoe1955 I don't expect idioms or authentic, original thoughts. I found irony. One could say it's a pandemic of unoriginality. All the best

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Baconrind Yeah the disease was a government creation. The cure was mandated by the government and the vax (killer) was mandated by the government. Hmmm and you want to spread chicken manure on someone's post? Really?

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

I mean it wasn't all bad enjoyed firlough and increased leisure time..... but people bent over and will soon get another boot up their arse by Government rule, they set the precident.

How hysterical some people were acting was absolutely pathetic.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic As a retiree with a nice garden and helpful neighbours, I too enjoyed the peace and quiet.
But how many people had their lives turned upside down, and lost so very much?
And as for the economic costs, and the damage done to children and students - incalculable stupidity from the government.
And when you think this appears to have been done on purpose, with an untried gene therapy injection FORCED on people, you get chills up your spine, and you think: they are wilful, stealthy MURDERERS.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic It did seem rather eerie in the first lock-down, being able to cross the main road near my home in the middle of a week-day, without having to use the crossing! In the second lock-down things must have been easier for those at work (I am retired) as the road seemed as busy as normal.

I've no idea what your comment about something called "governmetrule" is meant to mean (is Govunmentrule a female character in [i]Das Rheingold[/i]?), but for hysteria the anti-vaccination / pro-pandemic campaigners must take some sort of award. That hefty though metaphorical kick up the backside, perhaps?

LandOfOz · 61-69, M

People grieve every day all the time at loss of a friend or relative but you dont hear about it. So why did we hear about it during the fake pandamic. Was just another way to scare you into believing covid is reaĺ and people are dyinģ from it. In reality the same people would havè died anyway covid or no covid

smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F

None of it really bothered me at all.

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WalterF · 70-79, M

@jshm2 There is no ground for trust in any political party or government.

RedBaron · M

And in other news, geniuses like you think the earth is flat.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@RedBaron Wrong there. You have been misinformed. You are a victim of mis/dis/un/counter information, or whatever your "fact-checker" guardians call it.

Suggested cure: take a rest from the propaganda sources all over your home.

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WalterF · 70-79, M

@WalterF RedBaron has blocked himself out of this discussion.
When he's put into an intellectual corner, all he can do is throw insults. I feel pity for the fellow. So misled

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

Glad I lived life normally the whole time.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@MrBrownstone This is probably the case for all those who kept their TVs turned OFF in the face of all the high drama fear-generating grandstanding by "journalists" and "experts" representing "The Science" (trademark)

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@WalterF Not watched 'news' in years.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@WalterF my own life was not affected much but I know some people had a rough time.

@MrBrownstone the news is nothing but crap, you are better off not watching.