COVID-19: Institutionalised insanity, gaslighting, and the real exit route

One of the snappy maxims most frequently misattributed to Albert Einstein is this little gem on insanity:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

If we accept this definition, political leaders, “public health experts”, bureaucrats and various and sundry other petty tyrants all over the world have gone completely insane.

What’s a crazy would-be totalitarian to do when their policies don’t achieve the outcome they’re purportedly designed to achieve? Just do the same thing over and over again.

Mandating masks didn’t work to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2?

Well, just do it again:

… and again:

… and again:

… oh, and keep doing it after you’ve “vaccinated” most of your population, even though the “vaccine” was supposed to “end the pandemic” and “give everyone back their freedoms”:

Lockdown (a truly distasteful term derived from prison management) didn’t flatten your curve?

Do it again:

… and again, and again, and again:

Did the experimental injections that were supposed to “defeat COVID” fail to stop infections?

Not to worry, just keep right on jabbing:

… even when you already have the highest vaccination rate in the United States:

… or when you’ve fully vaccinated 87% of your adult population:

… and keep right on jabbing when you’ve injected 89% of your population aged over 16 with 1 shot, and 81% with 2 shots, but you still have over 8 times as many people hospitalised for/with COVID-19 as you did when no one except a few thousand clinical trial participants had been “vaccinated” (8340 people hospitalised for/with COVID-19 on 14 September 2021, vs 982 on 14 September 2020):

… with more than ten times as many of them sick enough to require mechanical ventilation (1060 on 14 September 2021 with 81% of the population “fully vaccinated” vs 105 on 14 September 2020 with effectively 0% “fully vaccinated”):

… not to mention nearly 16 times as many dying of/with COVID-19 in the jabbed vs unjabbed era (141 deaths per day on 9 September 2021 vs 9 per day on 9 September 2020):

… and if, after gaining the fawning admiration of the mockingbird corporate media for rolling out the experimental shots to almost your entire adult population in record time, your country’s infection rate and death rate go up, just add a third shot… because the thing that didn’t work on the first two tries will surely work on the third (or fourth, or fifth):

… and of course you should keep emotionally manipulating your citizens (or is that subjects, or peons, or supplicants?) to take an experimental injection “in order to protect the most vulnerable” despite the crystal-clear evidence that “fully vaccinated” individuals have the same viral load (and therefore the same theoretical ability to transit the virus to others), in areas with a high prevalence of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2:

… and keep going with that scapegoating of those who haven’t yet fallen for your emotional manipulation even when it’s found that fully vaccinated people are driving ongoing viral transmission.

1. Fully vaccinated people with an asymptomatic “breakthrough infection” are more likely to have a low cycle threshold – indicating high viral load – than unvaccinated people (low cycle threshold found in 29% of asymptomatic unvaccinated vs 82% of asymptomatic fully vaccinated individuals).
2. Vaccinated people with both asymptomatic and symptomatic breakthrough infections are more likely to shed infectious virus than unvaccinated infected people (infectious SARS-CoV-2 recovered from 88% of unvaccinated individuals vs 95% of vaccinated individuals with low cycle thresholds):

… and naturally, you should mandate experimental COVID-19 injections for healthcare workers who tended to the sick throughout the entire pandemic without being vaccinated, but are now somehow a risk to their patients, even when evidence emerges from a study of “fully vaccinated” Vietnamese healthcare workers that

1. Double-jabbed individuals who become infected with the Delta strain of SARS-CoV-2 carried viral loads that were 251 times higher than was found in unvaccinated cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020; and
2. They had prolonged viral shedding; and
3. They had low levels of virus-neutralising antibodies despite being “fully vaccinated”; and
4. These workers, who were locked down in their hospital after the outbreak was detected, had clearly continued transmitting the virus to each other during their confinement, again despite being “fully vaccinated” against it.

And finally, trying to figure out how to obfuscate the abject failure of your COVID-19 policy in order to deflect criticism?

Repeat the canard that Sweden’s “experiment” in managing the “novel” coronavirus disease just like every previous respiratory pandemic was a catastrophic failure, despite the fact that it ranks 40th in deaths per 100 000 of population, outperforming countries that have made their citizens’ lives a living hell for the past 18 months:

Oh, just one more thing…

In order to succeed in remaking the world in your own warped image, you’ll need to gaslight anyone who questions your insane directives, and recruit a good chunk of those you’re oppressing so that, in their fear and confusion, they are persuaded that you are actually looking out for their best interests even while you gratuitously torture them.

Never fear, you can just follow these six steps for achieving mind control of your victims, as outlined by Margaret Singer in her 1995 book, Cults in Our Midst, and neatly summarised by C. J. Hopkins:

1. Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how she or he is being changed a step at a time. Potential new members are led, step by step, through a behavioral-change program without being aware of the final agenda or full content of the group.
2. Control the person’s social and/or physical environment; especially control the person’s time.
3. Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person.
4. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments and experiences in such a way as to inhibit behavior that reflects the person’s former social identity.
5. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning the group’s ideology or belief system and group-approved behaviors. Good behavior, demonstrating an understanding and acceptance of the group’s beliefs, and compliance are rewarded, while questioning, expressing doubts or criticizing are met with disapproval, redress and possible rejection. If one expresses a question, they are made to feel that there is something inherently wrong with them to be questioning.
6. Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that permits no feedback and refuses to be modified except by leadership approval or executive order. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders must have verbal ways of never losing.

And just like that, you can achieve your insane totalitarian nirvana. I do hope you enjoy it. But count me out. I’ll be hanging out with people who have the brains, guts and gonads to admit their mistakes, learn from them, and strive to do better next time.

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