I've given up on predicting things. I thought they'd keep WuFlu going just long enough to give Biden the W on it. But it turns out that despite being known as a cynical and pessimistic person, my predictions have been on the optimistic side compared to what actually happens.
Two things, it's a real virus and they've lost the reins on that one. Can't control the virus and can't control the mob. They just claim to speak for the mob and then run cover when the mob turns mostly peaceful.
You can't control the virus but you can control how you report on it. For a time they were trying to manipulate the statistics to make things seem better, both by changing the PCR cycles for infections for vaccinated individuals and by changing fatality reporting for the vaccinated.
Had they continued manipulating the figures in such a way as to make it seem like the pandemic was waning, they could have gotten people to calm down about it. Because ultimately the present hysteria is much more about our reaction to the virus than the virus itself.
The ones in power can plant the rumor that this year's crops were ruined because of witches, or the plagues started because of their witch cats, but once the witch hunting begins, you stand back lest you get burned yourself. It's a free-burning witch hunt at this point.
Big players don't always have the same end results in mind. I know it's very comforting for conspiracy theorists to hug the security blanket that is the thought that the world is really actually at peace, and every powerful person works hand in hand with every other powerful person in one big loving cabal, but no. Much like a poor ill-networked person can hate or compete with another poor ill-networked person, so can the rich well-networked one. You're far too optimistic about human nature, assuming a conflict-free utopia exists anywhere, even in the upper eschelons of power.
Someone sparked the witch hunters into motion. A different someone fanned the flames. A different someone maintained and grew the immense conflagration. And none of the three are deciding who gets thrown into it.
I've given up on predicting things. I thought they'd keep WuFlu going just long enough to give Biden the W on it. But it turns out that despite being known as a cynical and pessimistic person, my predictions have been on the optimistic side compared to what actually happens.
Two things, it's a real virus and they've lost the reins on that one. Can't control the virus and can't control the mob. They just claim to speak for the mob and then run cover when the mob turns mostly peaceful.
You can't control the virus but you can control how you report on it. For a time they were trying to manipulate the statistics to make things seem better, both by changing the PCR cycles for infections for vaccinated individuals and by changing fatality reporting for the vaccinated.
Had they continued manipulating the figures in such a way as to make it seem like the pandemic was waning, they could have gotten people to calm down about it. Because ultimately the present hysteria is much more about our reaction to the virus than the virus itself.
The ones in power can plant the rumor that this year's crops were ruined because of witches, or the plagues started because of their witch cats, but once the witch hunting begins, you stand back lest you get burned yourself. It's a free-burning witch hunt at this point.
Big players don't always have the same end results in mind. I know it's very comforting for conspiracy theorists to hug the security blanket that is the thought that the world is really actually at peace, and every powerful person works hand in hand with every other powerful person in one big loving cabal, but no. Much like a poor ill-networked person can hate or compete with another poor ill-networked person, so can the rich well-networked one. You're far too optimistic about human nature, assuming a conflict-free utopia exists anywhere, even in the upper eschelons of power.
Someone sparked the witch hunters into motion. A different someone fanned the flames. A different someone maintained and grew the immense conflagration. And none of the three are deciding who gets thrown into it.