I basically have my dream job. Six months ago, the CFO had an all-hands meeting where he plainly stated that they wouldn't be creating their own vaxx mandate, but the moment the fed or state passed one, they'd enforce it. From that, I got:
#1: Become self-employed as fast as possible. Don't waste your life laboring for another.
#2: Leadership is dead. Even the higher ups insulated from consequences have no interest in being leaders. If you're willing to stick your head above the other poppies, people will flock to you (for good and ill).
And in general, expanding on your #2:
#3: My coworkers and most of the people around me are actively evil and would assist the state in murdering my family. Render them no aid, hurt them whenever possible, give them as little personal information as possible. Hell is full and demons walk the earth.
I had my "moment of clarity" on that when my (at the time) employer described their WuFlu policy stages and how they determined when to move between them:
Someone (who knows who) set some "objective" criteria that allowed a location to transition between stages. Most likely based on what the CDC and/or WHO said
Each location had an "advisory committee" which would monitor local progress and make a "recommendation" to some higher-up thousands of miles away
Someone (who knows who) thousands of miles away would take this "recommendation" into consideration and make a determination
The "objective" criteria made sure no one had to actually make a decision. The "advisory" nature of the local committee ensured the local employees couldn't assign blame to their peers and ensured they felt no responsibility for their decision, and the physical disconnect between the higher-up making the decision for the locale ensured he could simply feign ignorance of the local conditions and place responsibility on the committee.
That was when I knew there was no one at the wheel.
As much as I want to label them evil I don't believe that to be the case. They are simply too small. They don't see the boot that is stepping on them. All they see are other ants. So it must be those other ants doing all this harm to them. Their perspective won't allow them to see otherwise.
Glad you put retrospective in quotes, but I'd rather just not use the word. It's not behind us, it's still very much in front of us until they answer for it all, especially the jabs. So I guess that's my number 1.
The other biggest thing that I learnt was that the sum of all scientific and medical learning doesn't amount to dogshit on my shoe. To the extent that anyone in those professions knows anything useful, they still can't be trusted to convey that knowledge to the public nor use it to benefit them. They would rather poison the human race and lie through grinning teeth, than openly agree that fire is hot and the sky is blue.
Those that would like to help inform their fellow man cannot ever do so effectively because all information channels are corrupted. The pandemic has made me downgrade my rating of all media and academia, from 'worthless' to 'hostile'. If they ever happen, miraculously, to give you the unvarnished truth on something, it's only because they can't avoid it or they're playing you with another goal in mind.
This sounds like I'm bitter but it's actually been a positive development; I've turned from a semi-nihilist rationalist into someone more spiritual. "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" - this works even if the Truth is that every single trusted institution is a bunch of lying cunts.
I got CCed on an email from a company nurse that explained that her certification required she use a flow chart of "the current science" and that relying on her own observations could jeopardize her employment.
Professional certification in general, and medicine in particular, is a joke.
My thoughts are probably a little different because day-to-day life has been normal around me for a while and I really don't have and never had a ton of close contact with the raging leftist demographic either. I mean there's things like the air travel you mention, and that's certainly something that has changed for me as I just don't find myself wanting to go through that hassle anymore.
Mainly what I took from it all though was a bit of a personal re-prioritization. The first being to be careful to not get too mentally invested in certain things, activities, etc. I'd almost say it's akin to fanboy-ism but not in the outward sense, meaning that things I couldn't control got too tied up with my mental state. Having fun travelling, planning trips, etc. would be one example. But it's more of an overall "better myself" thought process than calling out any one thing. The second would be to make more effort to connect with family that I might actually enjoy being around. I sort of neglected that and stuck around immediate family that are getting old and some of which went a bit too Covid-bonkers. It was more laziness and not being the best social person that got me to that point, but I sort of got out of it that the only family I had any relationship with were the stick in the mud types and I have a lot of other choices of fun and not totally nuts people I should focus on instead.
I basically have my dream job. Six months ago, the CFO had an all-hands meeting where he plainly stated that they wouldn't be creating their own vaxx mandate, but the moment the fed or state passed one, they'd enforce it. From that, I got:
#1: Become self-employed as fast as possible. Don't waste your life laboring for another.
#2: Leadership is dead. Even the higher ups insulated from consequences have no interest in being leaders. If you're willing to stick your head above the other poppies, people will flock to you (for good and ill).
And in general, expanding on your #2:
#3: My coworkers and most of the people around me are actively evil and would assist the state in murdering my family. Render them no aid, hurt them whenever possible, give them as little personal information as possible. Hell is full and demons walk the earth.
No, hell is empty, because all the demons are on earth,
I prefer the term "ideological possession" but it's de facto demonic.
I had my "moment of clarity" on that when my (at the time) employer described their WuFlu policy stages and how they determined when to move between them:
The "objective" criteria made sure no one had to actually make a decision. The "advisory" nature of the local committee ensured the local employees couldn't assign blame to their peers and ensured they felt no responsibility for their decision, and the physical disconnect between the higher-up making the decision for the locale ensured he could simply feign ignorance of the local conditions and place responsibility on the committee.
That was when I knew there was no one at the wheel.
As much as I want to label them evil I don't believe that to be the case. They are simply too small. They don't see the boot that is stepping on them. All they see are other ants. So it must be those other ants doing all this harm to them. Their perspective won't allow them to see otherwise.
What you're describing is evil.
I don't disagree.
I think it's important to understand how big of a threat it is to have a licensing body hold the power over you to revoke your license.
It's the ultimate tool to quell dissent. It's also the professional equivalent of cancel culture.
It's also completely extrajudicial. I don't even think there's an external avenue of appeal.
Glad you put retrospective in quotes, but I'd rather just not use the word. It's not behind us, it's still very much in front of us until they answer for it all, especially the jabs. So I guess that's my number 1.
The other biggest thing that I learnt was that the sum of all scientific and medical learning doesn't amount to dogshit on my shoe. To the extent that anyone in those professions knows anything useful, they still can't be trusted to convey that knowledge to the public nor use it to benefit them. They would rather poison the human race and lie through grinning teeth, than openly agree that fire is hot and the sky is blue.
Those that would like to help inform their fellow man cannot ever do so effectively because all information channels are corrupted. The pandemic has made me downgrade my rating of all media and academia, from 'worthless' to 'hostile'. If they ever happen, miraculously, to give you the unvarnished truth on something, it's only because they can't avoid it or they're playing you with another goal in mind.
This sounds like I'm bitter but it's actually been a positive development; I've turned from a semi-nihilist rationalist into someone more spiritual. "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" - this works even if the Truth is that every single trusted institution is a bunch of lying cunts.
I got CCed on an email from a company nurse that explained that her certification required she use a flow chart of "the current science" and that relying on her own observations could jeopardize her employment.
Professional certification in general, and medicine in particular, is a joke.
When you eliminate shame (ban bullying) and turn victimhood into a virtue people will happily debase themselves publicly for social credit points.
Most of my school has gone has gone maskless, but there are some danger haired humanoids of indeterminate gender still running around in them.
Aposematism is real bros.
My thoughts are probably a little different because day-to-day life has been normal around me for a while and I really don't have and never had a ton of close contact with the raging leftist demographic either. I mean there's things like the air travel you mention, and that's certainly something that has changed for me as I just don't find myself wanting to go through that hassle anymore.
Mainly what I took from it all though was a bit of a personal re-prioritization. The first being to be careful to not get too mentally invested in certain things, activities, etc. I'd almost say it's akin to fanboy-ism but not in the outward sense, meaning that things I couldn't control got too tied up with my mental state. Having fun travelling, planning trips, etc. would be one example. But it's more of an overall "better myself" thought process than calling out any one thing. The second would be to make more effort to connect with family that I might actually enjoy being around. I sort of neglected that and stuck around immediate family that are getting old and some of which went a bit too Covid-bonkers. It was more laziness and not being the best social person that got me to that point, but I sort of got out of it that the only family I had any relationship with were the stick in the mud types and I have a lot of other choices of fun and not totally nuts people I should focus on instead.
I learned that I can do big stuff during horrible times, and horrible times means I should move.