Fear porn ads on TV and radio are still a thing. States have brought back indoor mask “recommendations” (but not mandates). My parents are still nuts about the entire thing. So much so that my father obsessed over the state’s “death count”, and uses it to slam me for “not caring enough”…
My grandmother has had, like, four booster shots (because fear). My cousins rarely ever go out, and almost never without a mask…
But it’s not just my family. Someone told me today that he is no longer doing his job for the year, and all his colleagues have taken “an extended break until next year”, because “Covid means we are focusing on only essential services, not anything else”. And this is in the healthcare sector…
It’s insane. It’s been nearly three years. Less than 500 people have died, here. And yet, still this continues…
“Hospitalizations!” “Daily infection numbers!” “One more person died!”
I honestly don’t see them giving this up, or masks and boosters going away, probably like ever, here…
Which is just sad, frankly.
I assume other parts of the world have moved on, largely?
Certainly not Asia, notably, or fucking New Zealand of course, but I would hope that other parts of the world have, at the very least…
Aus here as well. Somewhat. Some do, some don't.
As for when it ends? It never will. There are people who STILL insist on doing things that have been proven beyond reasonable doubt to be useless, if not themselves harmful (like masking), and while that's their personal freedom to do that if they so wish, so long as there are enough people like that and they make enough noise, the government (regardless of which "side" is in power) will use it as an excuse to continue to hold onto power.
Thankfully I gave up on TV and radio a long time ago. I still get exposed every now and then. I would say that I couldn't imagine your brain on that shit all the time, but I can, because we clearly see the result of round the clock propaganda and what it does to people.
I remain convinced that MK ULTRA came back with very important information for the alphabet agencies, and that's the power that fear has on control over people. And lo-and-behond, there have been decades of fear porn. War on drugs, war on terror, global cooling, global warming, climate change, cold war, iraq war, covid, etc, etc, etc. Each and every effort has been an abject failure EXCEPT in granting the government more and more power because of fear of what might happen if we don't. Fear that was put in place by the very people demanding more power.
This isn't just about covid. This whole thing is about control, and always has been. Fear is explicitly used against you because the powers that be know it can be used to control you.
Fuck off. It's been Aussie forever.