My lessons from the pandemic

Identities, language, harms, marketing

Dr. Toby Rogers who writes about the ramifications of corporately influenced medicine released his own piece on the lessons he took from the pandemic:

Four key lessons from the pandemic

It inspired me to put down my thoughts as well.

1. Social belonging and the conception of one’s social identity is so much more influential than any investigation towards the truth. The identity many formally educated people have as ‘informed citizens’ or ‘good and law-abiding people’ needs to be protected and upheld against outside forces. When the covid-19 vaccines and mandates are framed as necessary interventions on behalf of society, initiated by the benevolent experts, then any criticism towards them is literally a dangerous act that is only perpetuated by the unenlightened troublemakers.

You can’t listen to any criticisms by any of the counter-establishment voices. That would be a deeply wrong thing to do. It would be a betrayal of who you are. The ego’s view of being a “good person” — which is basically a corporate and state induced mold — must be protected. It’s like listening to Satan or something. A misinformation spreader whispers “the vaccines aren’t actually safe and effective” and you must yell out “NO!” as a sign of loyalty inwardly and outwardly and to ward away the evil doers.

Even if the orders and theories are totally contradicting, to be a good person, you have to follow what is being told, because after all, that is what the informed and thoughtful person does. Questioning whether any of this makes sense is not even on the table. Only the bad guys do that.

2. Some people would rather see their own children die than admit that they were wrong. This one is so crazy, but in light of #1, it now makes sense. I had been wondering what would take someone to change their mind about the safety of the covid-19 vaccines. I thought in the beginning that if you unfortunately experienced a direct tragedy, you might reevaluate the safety of these novel products. And some people, to their credit, actually did. A number of people experienced side effects and were able to realize that something was wrong. But SOME PEOPLE NEVER WILL. They just will not get over that hump, maybe ever. Not everyone escapes a cult, sadly.

3. Fear will shut off all intelligence, if you let it. I think all of us on the critical side have seen people around us become totally irrational and sometimes very nasty. We’ve seen this in many of the so-called experts. It doesn’t matter how clever someone is or how educated they are or how great their accomplishments are. Once that fear threshold has been met, rational thought is shut down. And once that happens, there is no reasoning with them. The slowest turtle on Earth could beat Usain Bolt in a race if Bolt’s legs refuse to work. Similarly, no matter someone’s intellect, once it has been overriden by fear, they can’t follow any logical or philosophical thought.

4. Coronamania really solidified that what is expected of the 'intelligentsia' is obedience and the production of rationalizations necessary for the powerful. Those who walk outside of that are brave and embody the true critic's spirit so I treasure them and on the other hand watch the propagandists with great suspicion for the next deliberate 'crises'. Now we have 'publications' in the English language that exclusively focus on telling the professional classes which absurd Pfizerian rituals to perform (The Guardian, Vox, TheConversation, etc.). Even Noam Chomsky was calling the unvaccinated as basically criminals. That is no different from his supposed ideological opponent, Alan Dershowitz, who was also in favor of mandates, argued it would be just for the unvaccinated to be dragged into a medical center, held down, and injected. That was until yesterday or so, when he admitted he got sick after his booster, and then changed his mind on them). Chomsky and Dershowitz are supposedly on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but in the end, they were unified for the broader goal of stifling dissent.

The Canadian truckers demonstrated more courage and critical thinking than all of the radical posturing academics, legal scholars, political activists combined, who supposedly were all about 'speaking truth to power' but in the end were acting as enforcers for the pharmaceutical mafia via the mandates. I never want to hear any of them ever talk about civil liberties, democracy, human rights again, because they obviously don't believe in any of it at a fundamental level. In the end, their allegiance wasn't to those ideals, but to their own social climbing as an elite class away from the resistant pro-medical freedom people. They were happy to watch a PHARMA-COUP in action and aid and abet in its expansion. Don't ever talk to me about democracy when you were selling pharma-fascism.

5. People only speak in a language they understand. I remember going to a protest early on in the mandates, and there was a small group of unthreatening guys in masks shouting “get vaccinated! Get vaccinated!” at the massive crowd of protesters. At the time, I thought this was perhaps some kind of taunt. But online, I saw the exact same commandments issued by the vaccine proponents. They would message/tweet/comment to completely random strangers to “Get Vaccinated.”

Then I realized it. Like a parrot, they repeat “Get Vaccinated” so endlessly because that’s what worked for them! That’s what made sense to them. That’s the language they speak and that’s what they understood. Someone yelling at you, to perform something that other authorities are saying. That’s the way they interpret the vaccine decision.

Is it about mutually discussing the evidence, flaws in argumentation, discovering the hidden assumptions, connecting it to other instances in history? Is it about considering various ethical or political principles and seeing whether certain ones are contradicted or applicable? No, it’s about telling someone what to do. Someone told THEM what to do, and they did it. Now they’re telling YOU. Simple. It’s like the simplest propagation of memes that you can model. This is similar to point #1, when it is intertwined with one’s ‘duty’.

6. There is no honor among coronamaniacs or people in the fervent craze of a media hysteria. I’ve seen people who were towing the establishment line completely, only to get dropped by their peers when they got covid-19 vaccine injured and spoke out about it. The talk about ‘caring for others’ is used as emotional blackmail to coerce people into giving up their medical autonomy.

That is why I warned people. If you take these new injectable products, and you have a problem, these people pushing them on you WILL NOT GIVE YOU ONE CENT. You can be in medical debt, permanently disabled — they will not donate you one penny on your GoFundMe. (The GoFundMe would probably be removed anyway, for spreading ‘misinformation’.) So who cares what they think? In the end, the decision is yours to live with, not theirs. It’s your body you go home to every night and shut your eyes with before you fall asleep. Whatever issue you have, is the one you’re going to have to live through. And if you do have a problem, they’ll pretend it doesn’t exist. Remember point #1 — the authority must be followed and internalized, even if your own eyes are giving you opposing signals.

7. All marketing techniques are on the table during a crisis — and the dominant form of communication is through marketing techniques. Because in the end, a product must be sold (the covid-19 vaccines, or other dubious 'solutions’). This could be expanded into its own article. But I highly recommend the books on copywriting by John Caples to see the essential lessons on the marketing techniques used to motivate people to act in a certain way that are used everywhere you look. It’s a distilled and applied psychology textbook.

During coronamania we had:

• Celebrity endorsements. First to sell the virus, because somehow every celebrity was getting covid at the same time. Second, to sell the covid-19 vaccines.

• Limited time offers. You need to get your dose now for optimum protection. You need to get another one by this date or your time may run out and covid will find you.

• Fear. Near-infinite examples of this.

• In-group marketing. This wasn’t even subliminal. There were articles during the first roll out about Moderna being the cool people’s vaccine.

• Product stories. Remember all those articles about “this unvaccinated man caught covid and now he’s dying in the hospital. He has the following message for people against the vaccine.”

• This one deserives its own line. Do you remember Steve Colbert was hosting a “Together At Home” concert, in the style of Live-Aid/Band-Aid and other past musical awareness initiatives? It was so pathetic and lame and was memory-holed quite quickly. But it was another instance to create a fake community of people who would identify the narrative and follow the message.

There are many more examples but the point is, interpret such actions from the perspective of marketing and everything is clear. The messages they say may contradict at times, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is a certain objective is accomplished in the audience.

8. I will end this one on a more optimistic note as this article is getting long enough. #8 is, as bad as things get, as evil as the people in power can be, YOU ARE STILL ALIVE. You have to understand that at some level, they didn’t want that to happen — your existence was an obstacle to the plan. I think all of us who have survived the last 3 years without conforming have understood how important critical thinking is. But now, after all that has taken place, what we are doing is even more than critical thinking. It's critical LIVING. Just living in a certain way (that is, by not taking these dangerous products, and sharing your experience if you did take them and had a negative side effect) is an important and even radical act that the authorities want to shut down. Just being alive and not looking at the pharma mafia for answers is a critical act of defiance and independence.

You are keeping the truth alive. You embody basic principles that should be the right of all humanity. It’s not a principle in a textbook that no one can see. It’s a principle in you.

You lived through the most manipulative psychological operation in human history. It had the largest marketing budget, the most participation from big players across governments and corporations, and varied and insidious tactics.

But you dodged their attacks, saw through their plans, and connected with your allies. We may never meet but we are never alone with so many souls aligned in the same direction.

If you had some other lessons, leave your comment or even write your own article! We’re all recording an important moment in history and our direct impressions are part of that. I think I will probably write another article on this topic later.