Yeah 100%. If people weren't scared into submission with videos of people supposedly dying from standing up and the tankbulances in Italy they never would've gotten people to go along w/ this shit in the first place.
The problem is you need a critical mass of people with spines and Los Angeles is at least 98% retarded faggot, so the fact that they somehow maddogged that Halloween decoration of a woman who makes public health policy is pretty impressive and a whitepill for the state of the cattle.
This is going to be a long wall of text but you can find an even longer version here:
https://deepcuckingvalue.substack.com/p/culture-covid-fear-mongering-effectiveness
Since scaring everyone into lockdown and accepting the restrictions using the Wuhan sudden death and Palermo coffin photos, we never saw pictures of or heard about mass deaths from COVID again, even in winter 2020 before the availability of the COVID vaccines.
However, the fear-mongering material was replaced with overcrowded hospitals, patients on ventilators and interviews with patients who were supposedly extremely sick with COVID and on the verge of dying. A few months ago in early 2022, Hong Kong tried to repeat the same fear-mongering campaign used in 2020 (overcrowded hospitals, dead people) to get more people to take the vaccines.
Fear-mongering only worked in Europe for 2 long years
In Europe, the COVID fear-mongering campaign worked to justify the lockdowns and mandates for 2 years. There was no resistance during the first year of lockdowns and restrictions in 2020 because people wanted to do the right thing and stop the spread.
However, enough people around Europe cared about their civil rights and used critical thinking when vaccine passports were introduced in 2021. As a result, there were many protests, especially in France and Italy. The scope of the protests expanded to also protest lockdowns when the governments tried to do that again in late 2021.
The governments eventually conceded and removed most of the mandates. I say most because:
- Rules for vaccination status discrimination continues to exist at the border-level for some countries like Luxembourg and the Netherlands. I can’t see how enforcement is effective because there are so many ports of entry to the EU and land borders between countries are porous.
- Mask mandates are still present in many EU countries. Though they are currently limited to public transport and medical care locations.
Border entry rules and COVID mandates for European countries (Jun 2022)
Mandates are mandates. As long as they still exist, no matter how limited in scope, a country is still playing into the pandemic paranoia nonsense.
The only country in Europe that has truly returned to normal is the UK with no masks, quarantine or testing requirements, vaccine passport use or vaccination status discrimination.
Fear-mongering in Asia continues to work till today
In comparison, the same fear-mongering campaign in Asia has been a smashing success. People fully accepted all the lockdowns, restrictions and mandates. There have been no real protests over all the pandemic paranoia nonsense. In fact, this whole charade actually stopped a protest in Hong Kong which was ongoing since May 2019.
The irony of everyone there, protesting a bill that had the potential to infringe on their human rights, succumbing to a fear-mongering campaign that led to restrictions and mandates which most definitely infringed their human rights.
Given the most rowdy countries in Asia had the most lockdowns, hardest restrictions (including quarantine policies) and mandates, I am very surprised that no protests or riots started at all over the pandemic paranoia nonsense in those locations.
Instead, in many of those countries, people were actually enforcing the mandates on one another!
- China is given. We all know what happened there and how it’s going. We only first saw riots in Apr 2022 because of starvation during their latest lockdown. I wouldn’t count this as a riot caused by pandemic restrictions. I suspect they would have endured the lockdowns again if food was not an issue.
- Malaysia had 3 rounds of hard lockdowns (late Mar-May 2020, Jan-Feb 2021, May-mid Aug 2021). They robbed everyone of 7.5 months of their lives in 18 months.
- Indonesia has had restrictions, mask and vaccine mandates which continue to this day.
- The Philippines has probably the worst restrictions in Asia outside of China. President Duterte is a full tyrant dictator.
- They have had more lockdowns than Malaysia, switched on and off by region and with the military involved.
- Their military has also been involved with their vaccination drive. Their vaccine discrimination has been one of the most enforced and draconian, tied with Singapore.
- They not only have had mask mandates, but also face shield mandates in 2020. Mask mandates have no end in sight (Apr 2022). From the article: It was "reckless" for some countries to lift the face mask mandate, President Rodrigo Duterte said, as he announced that the wearing of the facial protection against COVID-19 would be required until he steps down from office.
There were never any real lockdowns in South Korea, Japan or Taiwan but South Korea has the most pandemic paranoia nonsense of the 3.
Most of the governments in Asia reduced many restrictions in the Mar-May 2022 time frame as a knee-jerk reaction to the US and Europe dropping most of their mandates. However, more mandates have been kept in place than Europe. Indoor masking is mandatory in all Asian countries, there is enforcement of testing requirements or vaccine discrimination (sometimes both) at the border, and quarantines still exist in some countries like South Korea if you test positive on arrival or Singapore if you are unvaccinated.
The most normal country in Asia is currently Thailand, which dropped mask mandates, quarantine policies and restrictions, and local-level vaccination status discrimination. There is still minor vaccination status discrimination at the border where you have to show your COVID vaccination papers or take a supervised test before arrival.
The underlying cultural difference
The COVID fear-mongering campaign has worked very successfully in Asia which has a “collectivist” culture compared to Europe which is more about “individualism”.
That collectivist culture that promotes social conformity and following the herd. Questioning authority is frowned upon in Asian culture and critical thinking is discouraged, especially if the outcome is against the collective consensus of the herd. Not surprising given the education and examination systems of Asian countries revolve around regurgitation of memorised information over creative problem-solving.
Anytime America is mentioned, the obese people of Walmart stereotype and other logical fallacies get brought up. I think this comparison between Europe and Asia is hard to beat.
You cannot argue that Asia has more restrictions than Europe because Asians are more health conscious. If anything, Europeans are healthier and fitter than Asians across all age brackets.