Perhaps the biggest casualty of the past three Covid years has been TRUTH. Everything we were told about Covid may be the biggest lie in human history, if not medical history.
So what is truth? The secular humanists would say since there is no higher power in their view, we must rely on human experience and decide what truth is. While there is some "truth" in what they say, many people in this camp say that truth is in the eye of the beholder and that everything is subjective––there is no objective reality.
The people who believe in a higher power think God is the force that dictates the ultimate truth. In other words, the "Word" or "Logos" is what God conveyed through biblical messages.
Both viewpoints are correct. A complete way of expressing it is that whatever power or intelligence manifests itself in the universe, the result is Universal Laws which are inviolable. Whether it's the force of gravity, laws of motion, or mathematics, these are objective universal truths.
The Covid era shattered many so-called truths or illusions about the world.
Social Media Is Not Social At All
Social media was promoted as the ultimate human connection. Billions of people worldwide could connect and share viewpoints, no matter what side of the political spectrum. While this worked for a while, we found that if you stated something that Twitter, Facebook, or Google considered inappropriate, you could be censored or ultimately banned.
Social media companies now became the arbiters of truth. They were the expert doctors, immunologists and virologists, all rolled into one, as they struck down or censored real experts, including front-line doctors seeing Covid patients.
How did we get to a point where we suppressed vital lifesaving information from sick patients on social media? How did Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies become deacons of health? They were practising medicine without a license. The result of the suppression of vital information was that people died.
Loss Of Faith In The Medical Community
I have encountered many people who lost faith in the medical profession. As the saying goes, "The customer is always right." Some individual doctors expressed their concerns and spoke out. As a body, medical associations and their boards kept promoting a toxic vaccine and suppressed cheap, safe and previously approved lifesaving drugs.
A perfect example was banning the use of Ivermectin even though it has been shown in an Australian lab to be a potent inhibitor of Sars Cov-2 virus replication.
Then some doctors refused to treat Covid patients, and hospitals blocked patient choice resulting in unnecessary deaths. Covid brought out the worst in the medical profession. Sound medical ethics, once holy, were violated in so many instances. Many doctors disregarded the Helsinki Agreement and Nuremberg Code.
Government Is Not Your Friend
We live in an age where people have increasingly relied on the government to care for them. The nanny state is well and truly entrenched. We have pensions and government-run health care. While there needs to be a safety net for those who have difficulty providing for themselves, we have given more power to the government. Years ago, I learned that when the government pays people like health care providers, they call the shots.
For many people, when Covid arrived, the government issued edicts that resembled the policies of Nazi Germany. At one point in West Australia, we couldn't leave our homes for more than an hour. Authorities switched off water fountains, forced restaurants to close, and issued government-mandated Covid jabs. For many, it was no jab, then no job.
Around the world, leaders appeared to relish in this new-found power where they could dictate every facet of life. There was no empathy for those who chose not to vaccinate. Leaders used disgusting language in tarnishing those unvaccinated as unclean aliens.
We found out, of course, the government lied blatantly. The vaccines were not safe and effective; they were useless and dangerous. The regulations such as the six-foot rule and mask-wearing were all lies––there was no science behind these policies. No, many saw the government as our enemy, not our friend.
Government deception has now spilt over to the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, where President Biden has refused to visit. Once again, people were lied to and ignored. Meanwhile, Biden visited Ukraine. Why would people trust their government?
America: A Beacon Of Freedom––Just An Illusion
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".
The line from the poem emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty has been lauded by Americans and non-Americans as the ideal of a representative republic. It symbolized that the masses could enter to engage in the freedom that America had to offer. However, Covid showed us that it's just an illusion.
Yes, if you are an illegal crossing the southern border, you can enter the U.S. at will––and stay. However, for Americans, despite the Constitution, freedom is just a suggestion and easily abused. All the mandates, lockdowns, school closures masking kids on planes, and arresting those who failed to comply, showed us that America is now as much totalitarian as those countries that we supposedly despise.
A perfect example is what happened to this Florida doctor.
Police Forcibly Remove Doctor From Hospital After He Endorsed Ivermectin: Full Footage | Facts Matter
However, America was, and is, no worse than the other western democracies that claim freedom as a virtue. Australia was notoriously bad, and we've seen the images. However, the arrest of gym owners, hairdressers and restaurant owners for having the audacity to stay open to keep earning a living shattered the illusion that America is a free country.
The media censorship and partnership with the left-wing administrative state confirmed that America has descended into a fascistic value system instead of a free enterprise system. When Joe Biden called many Americans semi-fascists, he wasn't kidding. What he failed to do was look in the mirror.
Big Pharma Is The Modern Day Mafia
"Anderson Cooper 360°, brought to you by Pfizer."
"ABC News Nightline, brought to you by Pfizer."
"CNN Tonight, brought to you by Pfizer."
We could extend the quotes to "This hospital, brought to you by Pfizer." "This medical journal was brought to you by Pfizer." Then there is the self-promotion video below by National Geographic showing Pfizer's "benevolence" in saving the world. If you dare to watch it, try not to regurgitate.
The Covid era made us realize that Big Pharma has paid off nearly every facet of the medical-governmental complex. If you play ball, take hush money from Pfizer, there'll be a job for the boys––or girls. What this does is help perpetuate the lie that vaccines and other dangerous products are safe and effective, with no downside.
Dare to express opinions counter to the official narrative, and Big Pharma will ensure you never get a job again, as many doctors found out. While the Mafia was ruthless and earned billions for its families, they pale in comparison to the totality of the pharmaceutical giants spearheaded by Pfizer. They are one big happy family, making multi-billions and laying waste to humans in the process.
The Masses Are Hypnotized
Movies like "Nineteen-Eighty-Four" or "The Manchurian Candidate" depicted brainwashed people succumbing to a regime. These were people under a hypnotic spell. Most probably thought that these manifestations could never occur in real life. Yet here we are, and you still see people walking around in masks daily. They have been hypnotized in the belief system that a mask will protect them from Covid. Such policies characterized governments worldwide.
The mask mandates were lifted, yet some continue to comply with a non-existent edict––they have been programmed.
As Mathias Desmet so eloquently put it, a certain percentage of the population is susceptible to "Mass Formation Psychosis"––hypnosis on a large scale. It was done with the intent to get people to comply and relinquish their power. When individuals give up their power, someone else takes it.
The Mistrust Of Science
Science, which we once knew to be uncompromising and followed data wherever it led, was turned upside-down with Covid.
It's true that before Covid, we saw the erosion of rational science. This was evident with the Climate Change hysteria. Covid merely sealed the independence of scientific discourse. Scientism meant that we had to trust whatever we were told about Covid, even when the facts spoke to something different. Scientists made science political.
The public became confused when supposedly scientific “experts” had diametrically different viewpoints on early Covid treatment and the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines. So what were the people supposed to believe?
Science is more than ever imbued with an agenda class that skews scientific papers to fit an agenda. In today's science, two plus two equals five in some quarters. Therefore, don't protest because they will silence you in the woke culture that has even infested scientific bodies.
This essay hits the spot today. I have similar observations and they extend much further back than the past three years. You are 100% correct that we are meant to be learning something from recent events. The tendency of all of us to blame some other for this is treacherous. I think the responsibility is on each of us - including each of us who is very likely more in the right here. This is why mass delusion is so attractive here. It extends father back in time and across many frontiers we may well not want to consider. There is an elephant in the room we do not want to see.
Great article Ely. A worrying summary of how the world has changed during the last three years. I suspect that everything you mentioned was already going on to a much lesser extent, mostly covertly. Not now though. They don’t care who knows it.