COVID retrospective - What a wild time that was!

[Radion_Godiva]

This was never the case where I live. What kinda hellhole do you live in?

I know for a fact that Turkey and Greece had strictly imposed stay at home orders. I had a friend living in Greece and he had to text this government app in order to get a pass to leave the house.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

In hindsight, it really showed how easy the masses are to manipulate via cable news. Same thing is happening now with Ukraine and most definitely whatever the next big rallying cry for the NPC masses is going to be.

 

[Screamer_2]

What frustrates me is that it seems everyone knows there was a cavalcade of fuck ups when it came to the pandemic response. As it was so politicised people don't want to actually look back and examine what went right or wrong. What actually happened? I also think the fact most people were made to get the jab is a leading cause of this.

People don't want to examine the fact that the jab was probably worthless and possibly was something you shouldn't have gotten. Maybe there was some benefit if you were at risk, but I am a bit ambivalent on this.

So where are we now with the vaccines? We were lied about what they did. They were never tested to stop you from getting the virus or transmitting it. Despite this clearly being the message and a factor in public policies around it. Those policies don't even make sense with what we were told at the time. It almost seems as if they knew they didn't work and were just trying to force as many people as possible to get it.

We're told it worked for the original strain. New variants are the issue. Yet if new variants escape it, why would it offer protection? It targeted one protein. If that mutated to evade the vaccine. Why would it have any effect at all? Is it an entire coverup for the fact the virus was never that bad to begin with?

The threat of the virus was clearly overstated. We know it's mainly an issue for unwell, old and unhealthy people. We know the figures for deaths are completely unreliable. I have friends who work in health care who openly said if you have to go into hospital for anything you will get covid.

Yet there were excess people dying early on in the pandemic. What was that? Was it just ripping through the most vulnerable? New York for instance doesn't normally have to dig mass graves. I have the feeling it was complete mismanagement. Putting sick vulnerable people into places with other vulnerable people.

Then there's the issue of were treatments completely fucked up early on? Remember ventilators? I've read the odd thing here and there that they were actually killing people. Where's the investigation? They clearly stopped using them. Let alone all the claims of other treatments that people were told not to use. Did ivermectin work? I don't know but I do know they lied about it. I do know there was incentives to not have any working medicine because of the vaccine emergency use authorization.

Then to what extent was it politicised to get Trump? Remember he was racist at first for responding. Then he was racist for not responding. To what extend did the campaign to fortify the election inhibit the US government's response to the pandemic because everything had to be negative about them. Then the US shadow states just have to go along.

What was all that stuff early on of people dropping dead in the streets in China? Was that all fake?

I watched a documentary on an Antarctic Cruise Ship that had an outbreak right at the start of the pandemic. It had people who survived, severely disabled months after recovering. Learning to walk again. That's not COVID. Was it an incorrect medical treatment that damaged them?

It also most certainly came from that lab. Yet why are people either still in denial, or just deal with it as if it doesn't matter? More political tribalism about these issues.

Anyone else anecdotally notice it seems to only be people super concerned with COVID that seem to keep getting it? Is there truth that getting boosters make you more vulnerable?

Why were things like vitamin D and being healthy ignored from advice?

There's just endlessly so many red flags and gaping holes in the narrative we were fed. Yet there can be no reflection on it. Why does it seem every single instinct of the state's ability to respond was to do the wrong thing? Something is seriously fucked up and I think people know that and don't want to face it.

 

[ZipDisk]

The deal with the vents is that they were hard to clean BEFORE Covid, and the turnover was so heavy they literally did not have enough time to properly break down the equipment and clean them.

When I see the unsympathetic "IT WAS UNDERLYING CAUSES THAT KILLED PEOPLE, NOT COVID" responses I want to fucking fight. No SHIT, people who had underlying conditions like COPD died from Covid, their systems were already fried, Covid was a fucking tipping point.

They don't even know what to call the current variant of this fucking virus.

If you didn't lose anyone to this virus, and it was merely an inconvenience to you, I'm happy for you. Not all of us were that lucky.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

When I see the unsympathetic "IT WAS UNDERLYING CAUSES THAT KILLED PEOPLE, NOT COVID" responses I want to fucking fight. No SHIT, people who had underlying conditions like COPD died from Covid, their systems were already fried, Covid was a fucking tipping point.

Fight the Wuhan bioweapons lab and their funders, the US government.

They don't even know what to call the current variant of this fucking virus.

Probably because it's about as deadly as a fart in the wind.

If you didn't lose anyone to this virus, and it was merely an inconvenience to you, I'm happy for you. Not all of us were that lucky.

Old people die all the time.
Fat people die all the time.
Frail people die of the flu all the time.

I'm glad your loved ones are dead, true believer. This virus had a 99% survival rate.

 

[Grub]

This virus had a 99% survival rate.

I know someone who has a brain tumor, is diabetic and some other health problems, she got covid and was pretty sick for a few weeks but was fine. I also know an old morbidly obese, like deathfat size obese man who got covid at least twice and was again fine. I also know another old diabetic obese man who got covid a couple times and got pretty sick but was again fine. None of those people got the vaccine. All of them are still alive.

However, I did lose a fairly close family friend who died because he was unable to go to his cancer treatments during covid and he died alone in his apartment and wasn't found for two weeks. He at least, somehow miraculously, didn't get counted as a covid death.

 

[deepcuckingvalue]

This was never the case where I live. What kinda hellhole do you live in?

Many choices of hellholes across the world: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and France. All had draconian pandemic paranoia nonsense and mandates which were strictly enforced.

All of them also happen to be territories under heavy WEF control, Trudeau, Macron and Jacinda Ardern (also known as Horse Lady) being notable installed rulers who were very vocal about the unvaccinated and very pushy with their vaccines.

In my state, people were cautioned to only travel if strictly necessary, but it wasn't like the cops were pulling you over and checking. Leisure travel was discouraged in some states.

The EU reinstated their borders. This was a big deal given the EU's stance on freedom of movement between member countries.

Australia and Malaysia completely banned interstate travel. Special approval had to be obtained to cross state lines. Prior to 2020, this restriction had not been seen in the region for nearly a century since World War II. Later, the restriction was "loosened" so that only the vaccinated were allowed to travel between states.

With the way government officials, the CDC, and the mainstream media deliberately demonized people for exposing the truth and stirred the shit constantly... calling it a pain in the ass is an understatement.

People still wearing masks are a red flag these days.

The whole of Asia then. Depending on where you go, mask wearers can be as many as 30% of the crowd. It is not just about them wearing masks when we are closer to 2024 now than 2022. It is about the beliefs behind why they are still wearing one.

 

[Land of Noz]

I mostly ignored it, it didn't seem that strange. Maybe the area I'm in is less pozzed than others, but basically everyone put on masks and sighed to each other, then as soon as they were allowed to not do that anymore they stopped doing it and everyone went about their business.

It's really nothing to still be ruminating and getting mad about, is that like a condition of people who insist on constantly watching the news? Either way still harping about Covid is cringe.

It was ridiculous in a lot of ways, but that simply qualified it as a normal and expected extension of clown world.

This is how it was in my area too, and also pretty much how it was when I visited Las Vegas, which was the only other place I went at the height of the pandemic. In my area, masks were a thing from April of 2020 to June or July of 2020, maybe into the fall. After that the only people you saw wearing masks were employees of national companies that required them. There were a couple concerts I went to in early 2022 that were still trying to do vaccine certs or negative tests, but that's gone now.

For me I still just can't believe it happened and that everyone went along with it, even when it was proven covid wasn't really that dangerous. Just one of many events that has caused a rather nihilistic reaction in me towards society. Way more people just go along with stuff than I ever realized, it felt like 9/11 and it's aftermath in a way. People fully accepted covid measures just like they accepted the need for war in iraq and afghanistan and enhanced airport security/loss of civil liberties after 9/11.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

For me I still just can't believe it happened and that everyone went along with it, even when it was proven covid wasn't really that dangerous. Just one of many events that has caused a rather nihilistic reaction in me towards society. Way more people just go along with stuff than I ever realized, it felt like 9/11 and it's aftermath in a way. People fully accepted covid measures just like they accepted the need for war in iraq and afghanistan and enhanced airport security/loss of civil liberties after 9/11.

Yea they didn't 'go along with it', they actively work to enforce and allow it.

 

[Power Appreciator]

If you think the 2020-2022 was a one time thing when things went WACKY for no reason at all, and quickly ended, you're in for a big surprise. As soon as the last ukrainian gets his legs blown off on a mine, the cough season will be back. For so many people it was the time of their life, because it was unlimited power to everyone from the highest echelons of the government to the retarded security guard at a Walmart who could (try to) turn you back for not wearing the facediaper, or the cashier who could decide to not sell to you, or random old fags daring to ask you why you're not wearing the facediaper and so on, and so on. Normies absolutely loved every second of the pandemic. It made a ton of money to a ton of people, it was the best deal since the holocaust was invented. None of the people responsible suffered ANY consequences whatsoever, so why not keep doing it? But most importantly, from the psychological operations point of view, the 2020-2022 era was just conditioning. Teaching the pavlov dogs what they are supposed to be doing when the master says the "pandemic" command. Now that they have learned a new trick, the master will have them do the new trick whenever they want.

Maybe it will be another covid, maybe some entirely new virus, but you'll see it back very soon. The "war on terror" as the leading global emergency lasted for 20 years, there's no reason not to milk the "war on viruses" scam for less than a few decades

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

The pandemic confirmed my most cynical opinions about people.

• The largest wealth transfer to the upper class in recorded history
• The rise of COVID Karens who monitored and screeched if you weren’t compliant proved there is a willing and eager commissar class
• Conservatives who talked a big game about being mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore were put in their place and the vast majority who talked shit all their lives didn’t put up a fight
• Nigger rioting felt like the cherry on the shit sundae. Everyone was told to keep six feet away but made exceptions for rioting
• Got to see white women of all politics trip over each other to brag about who was the most virtuous of all

In hindsight it felt like the world’s biggest shit test and everyone collectively flunked. We were proven that in a SHTF/Year Zero scenario, the vast majority of people will be compliant, even as they whine about “face diapers.”

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

i look fondly back on those time because i got to be a NEET for 6 months and just wasted that time playing world of warcraft and hitting the gym. the gym were i was mostly the only guy there and could use any equipment i wanted.

the only down side was my vacation to Poland was cancelled.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

It was the single greatest disappointment I've ever experienced and my dad still hasn't come back from buying cigarettes. I was always on the cynical side when it came to the average person but even I didn't expect 98% of the general public to just roll with whatever TPTB decided to come up with that day. Not because the Coof-gestapo was banging down doors, not because you got shot or imprisoned for not complying. Because the news told them and because they would risk a minor fine and maybe have to deal with an irate Karen.

People who had the loudest mouth and biggest anti-conformity dick up until February/March 2020 mostly got zogged and domesticated the hardest, pathetic.

That's it, that's all it takes to gain compliance from the niggercattle.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

The people who were able to stand firm in their convictions and refused the poke & other bullshit laws deserve a medal, not just an apology.

I agree, as do heroes like those truckers in Canada who stood up against the tyranny at incredible personal cost. I didn't, I just grumbled and followed orders and that's a humbling position to be in.

If one of these people who backed these masks, mandates and other measures and went insane with their irrational fear and hatred of their perceived enemies truly admits they were wrong and seeks reconciliation, with a commitment to making restitution or achieving justice for those who were harmed, they deserve forgiveness. That doesn't mean a blank slate like nothing ever happened.

What they want, however, is amnesty where there are no consequences for what they did wrong.

There ought to be, in the upcoming years or later, some deep expose against how these corrupt politicians, health organizations, etc. just fucked the whole country up for no reason other than a dick measuring context and keep the docile lambs under control, which wasn't even that hard to do, because a. Joe Schmo just wants to be left alone with his family/grill and b. most were more than happy to be in their pseudo pods and rot away on the couch.

Plus I think you still had a large enough chunk of the population that had trust in authority. I mean, you should be able to rely upon what an agency created to protect the public says, whether it's the FDA, CDC or OSHA. Especially older people who were in fact more vulnerable to this disease just like respiratory infections, and who lived in a time when we as a society had more trust in each other and institutions like government or media.

And of course the vaccine mandates were designed in such a way it was almost impossible to get around them. There was no way employers with 100 or fewer people, or healthcare providers that don't receive CMS funding, would have been able to absorb those people. And that was by design.

Sick, evil wrong...just makes my skin crawl thinking about what these people wanted to do to us, especially the young.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Didn't kill nearly enough people. Total disappointment.

 

[Matt Damon]

Old people die all the time.
Fat people die all the time.
Frail people die of the flu all the time.

Pneumonia has been called "the old man's friend" and other similar nicknames for a very long time because it ends the suffering of the very frail so frequently and yet the old and infirm dying of a respiratory infection terrified millions of people because the news covered it this time.

It encapsulates perfectly just how utterly detached from reality the niggercattle are.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

"It's totally OK to riot peacefully protest for BLM! Here's a letter from 1000 doctors proclaiming as such!"

"Does that mean Trump's rallies are OK too?"

 

[deepcuckingvalue]

In hindsight, it really showed how easy the masses are to manipulate via cable news. Same thing is happening now with Ukraine and most definitely whatever the next big rallying cry for the NPC masses is going to be.

Global boiling and climate lockdowns. They always telegraph their next move.

Nicole Schwab already provided notice and fact checkers are all over this conspiracy theory and debunking it.



Dementia Joe has already leaked the climate emergency too early that they had to backtrack. CNN article "Biden incorrectly claims he has declared a national emergency on climate" dated August 9, 2023.

In this article by Bloomberg, "Deadly Heat Triggers Covid-Like Shutdown in Iran, With More to Follow", dated August 2, 2023, they describe a two-day weather-induced "public holiday" in Iran as "an eerie echo of restrictions enacted to protect citizens from the Covid-19 pandemic".

The article's permalink (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-02/heat-lockdowns-are-the-new-covid-lockdowns) mentions "lockdown" twice but the word does not appear even once in the article itself. We can presume this, and calling it a "public holiday", is to prevent people from panicking or worse, waking up, while nurturing the idea that climate "public holidays" are fine.

The article goes on to mention several other countries like Mexico, Greece, the Phillipines, Germany and Spain to normalise climate lockdowns as a widespread practice.

If you think the 2020-2022 was a one time thing when things went WACKY for no reason at all, and quickly ended, you're in for a big surprise. Normies absolutely loved every second of the pandemic. It made a ton of money to a ton of people, it was the best deal since the holocaust was invented. None of the people responsible suffered ANY consequences whatsoever, so why not keep doing it? But most importantly, from the psychological operations point of view, the 2020-2022 era was just conditioning. Teaching the pavlov dogs what they are supposed to be doing when the master says the "pandemic" command. Now that they have learned a new trick, the master will have them do the new trick whenever they want.

Maybe it will be another covid, maybe some entirely new virus, but you'll see it back very soon. The "war on terror" as the leading global emergency lasted for 20 years, there's no reason not to milk the "war on viruses" scam for less than a few decades

They are going to tie in climate change, one way or another. They've been investing for literally half a century into climate panic. Compared to a pandemic that will eventually lose traction like it did with COVID, the climate panic narrative can run a near-indefinite course due to the long timespan (decades and centuries) of the earth's cyclical temperature change.

I think they're going to link vaccine adverse effects (died suddenly, myocarditis, blood clots, turbo cancer) with global boiling.

Vaxidents could be what they call disease X, caused by climate change. Then they will use this to usher in climate lockdowns, green credit score (ESG at individual level) and CBDC.

"Prof Harries said climate change and population shifts are making another pandemic more likely ... And some of it is because of climate change where you get things like ticks and mosquitoes moving to where it was previously cold and is now becoming increasingly warm"

It was the single greatest disappointment I've ever experienced and my dad still hasn't come back from buying cigarettes. I was always on the cynical side when it came to the average person but even I didn't expect 98% of the general public to just roll with whatever TPTB decided to come up with that day. Not because the Coof-gestapo was banging down doors, not because you got shot or imprisoned for not complying. Because the news told them and because they would risk a minor fine and maybe have to deal with an irate Karen.

People who had the loudest mouth and biggest anti-conformity dick up until February/March 2020 mostly got zogged and domesticated the hardest, pathetic.

That's it, that's all it takes to gain compliance from the niggercattle.

You say "98% of the general public" as a hyperbole but Singapore actually had a 98% vaccination rate which was achieved in the first several months of rolling out their vaccine mandates in August 2021. They also had a near 100% mask compliance rate for two whole years.

Keep in mind masks were mandated outdoors for over a year. Singapore has hot and humid year-round summer weather. This makes the high compliance rate for that duration of time even more incredible.

Singapore is the country to watch for what's coming. They are a highly cashless, vaccinated and digitalised society who are already on digital IDs, approved to eat 16 different types of bugs (original article) and mostly don't own anything (homes, cars and their own bodies are owned by the Singapore government).

As a cherry on top, Singapore has been governed not just by one party in the last 58 years since its inception, but one family too. The wife of the current Prime Minister is in bed with the WEF and Temasek, Singapore's state-owned "private" corporation, has deep ties to Blackrock.

One can say with near zero doubt that Singapore will be the WEF's flagship nation and prime test bed for the next pandemic and climate lockdowns when they happen. It's the Switzerland of Asia, with no guns, a fully grown surveillance state and citizens who are highly suppressed and afraid of their government with zero history of uprising or revolution (protests also require a permit)

 

[Otterly]

Anybody remember double-maksing?

This was point I hoped that fellow science/lab people might start to see how silly it was. They didn’t.

One way aisles in the supermarket

When your kids are stood there saying ‘but mum that makes no sense we just pass each other…’ you see that a child can see through it

What blows my mind is people were almost mandated to take a a still-experimental drug under EUA under penalty of destroying their livelihood. And it was done entirely through executive orders and regulations. Not a single vote.

What blew my mind was that people working in clinical trials didn’t understand this. My company forced the shots. They and everywhere else I’ve worked gave me literally weeks of training time telling me how important informed free consent free from coercion is and they were forcing an untested shot under EUA and everyone bent over and took it. People were worried they’d be fired. I kept saying they can’t, you know this, it’s not fda approved and even if it was they cannot force you. Say no. The ONLY other person I work with who o know refused was a fellow middle aged gal who loves god and guns and told them to go fuck themselves.

It completely changed how I understood the relationship between the state and citizen and how I believed the public would react when their most basic civil liberties are suspended.

Well put, and true. It’s made me think about how I see history. I’d always assumed that tyrants riled over people who hated it and only went along with it to save their families. Now I have seen first hand that 85% of people actively love it and would dob you into the stasi for a dopamine hit. Maybe 5% of people are brave enoigh to say no. It’s really been a very disturbing process. I don’t think I was ever naive and I never thought the government was a caring thing but to see the sheer corruption, atupand hatred they have for us like that has shocked me

The largest wealth transfer to the upper class in recorded history

Yes. Amd this is your way in to talk to regular people about it. They will not hear they were wrong, and many were coerced to take the shots and I really can’t hold a grudge for those who took it under duress and dint force others. But the majority cannot admit they were wrong and if you talk about them being poison they turn on you.
But if you talk about corruption- that’s not their fault and they listen. Talk about the fake PPE, the tax money wasted, the contracts given to cronies. They listen and then you start dropping in the real stuff. Testing swabs sold to genetics labs abroad for example.
Covid cost me dearly. It damaged my career and it stopped me seeing family, and there are a lot of people who will no longer speak to me and that hurts.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

If you go about telling someone that the global elites used covid to transfer wealth, they will scoff and call you a conspiracy theorist. They will instantly shut off and look at you like you're crazy. There's a couple of words engrained into public conciousness that just makes people shut off, and that's insane!