Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1hxlbhp/we_should_not_be_made_to_forget_about_lockdown/
>>>
>>> We Should Not Be Made to Forget About Lockdown
>>> Sensationalism and stupidity reshaped the world. We should remember.
>>> Matt Whiteley
>>> Jan 09, 2025
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A friend of mine’s wife is a paediatric nurse who works in a ward that
>>> is, like most NHS hospitals at the moment, completely overrun. She
>>> happened to mention that the nurses refer to the current raft of sick
>>> children as “lockdown babies,” in other words, those who were incubated
>>>from accumulating immunity to germs because they were shut in their
>>> houses for the best part of two years.
>>>
>>> We’ve forgotten about that now, haven’t we? At the time, those who
>>> objected to the idea of government’s rationing the public’s daily walks
>>> or interaction with their friends, made the point that the danger of
>>> such an act was the sacrifice of the future for the present, the payment
>>> of huge and diffuse consequences in exchange for the capitulation to
>>> sensationalism.
>>>
>>> So it is not beholden to the media that were clamouring for lockdowns
>>> and promulgating said sensationalism to now pay attention to the fact
>>> that you can see the scars of lockdown almost everywhere in society,
>>>from health and mental health to culture, politics, in our relationship
>>> to technology, and to one another.
>>>
>>> Even in the most absurd places, even in a generation’s relationship to
>>> sex. Recently there has been outcry across media outlets at the
>>> popularity of OnlyFans girls such as Bonnie Blue staging mass orgies
>>> with “barely legal” young boys and Lily Phillip’s sleeping with 101 men
>>> in a day and ending up being filmed in floods of tears because of the
>>> emotional exhaustion.
>>>
>>> When and why do you think these people and the many others they
>>> represent started to say “f*ck it” and began doing this? Yeah, lockdown.
>>> Lockdown when all social accountability was stifled, when the seemingly
>>> endless, plan-less, indefinite state of lockdown felt like there was no
>>> reason to think normality would ever return, when politicians were
>>> talking about us accepting that this dystopian reality is the “new
>>> normal,” selling sexual content to people you will never see for easy
>>> money seems like an obvious and perfectly reasonable outcome. At the
>>> other end is a generation of young men doing what young men are
>>> obviously going to do when locked in their houses with nothing to do
>>> except flick on their computer screens.
>>>
>>> In fact we have not noticed the way in which the subtle features of
>>> dystopia that lockdown induced have never really left us. Lockdown
>>> convinced us that atomisation is somehow acceptable and survivable,
>>> propelled us into Elon Musk’s world where social media is the new media,
>>> it’s truth is the truth and our silos are where we shall remain.
>>> Countless public figures have gone down the conspiracy theory or
>>> political rabbit holes never to return, where the mildest suspicion
>>> about whether coerced mass vaccination was a legitimate idea led
>>> gradually to the unravelling of institutional trust altogether, and with
>>> it not freedom from the tyranny of a controlled narrative but credulity
>>> to any narrative selling the opposite.
>>>
>>> Then there is the generation of children not properly socialised during
>>> crucial periods?—?periods that we know if socialisation does not happen
>>> there are lifelong effects. The generations of missed education, of
>>> addiction to screens, lack of exposure to the world, of the collapsing
>>> of social accountability.
>>>
>>> Then there is the fact that the last four years in the UK have seen the
>>> highest rates of alcohol related deaths ever recorded, that 2020 was the
>>> first time in two decades when the rates of decline of smoking slowed
>>> considerably, which continued throughout the pandemic. An illness that
>>> affected mostly those with co-morbidities, many of them related to
>>> lifestyle, saw health messaging that led to most people waiting it out
>>> with a takeaway and a bottle of wine. What else would you do?
>>>
>>> Then there is the warped sensationalism that justified lockdown in the
>>> first place. The BBC reports today that because of the current scale of
>>> Flu cases patients in A&E in Liverpool are facing up to 50 hour waits.
>>> Two days. Which is to say that emergency departments are essentially not
>>> operational. This is nothing short of a medical crisis, an absolute
>>> catastrophe, a horrific, dire situation, a situation arguably worse than
>>> the covid pandemic. In fact, the NHS has today declared the pressure to
>>> be as bad as the “height of the pandemic.”
>>>
>>> But it barely even breaks the front pages of the news. Why not? Why
>>> shouldn’t the entire country be on crisis footing, shouldn’t we be
>>> banning person to person contact to ease the burden and “flatten the
>>> curve?” Ambulance waiting times, A&E times, woeful cancer treatment
>>> times, all these things are actually costing lives, and we don’t care
>>> because it can’t be translated into the same kind of sensationalism that
>>> covid could during lockdown.
>>>
>>> But besides rehashing old complaints and arguments about lockdowns, it
>>> is more important to consider how it happened, why media and governments
>>> became so simplistic minded and short sighted, and what it actually means.
>>>
>>> Misinformation, Misinformation
>>> If you cast your mind back to the murky, parallel universe days of the
>>> pandemic, you would remember the obsession with the word misinformation.
>>> Everyone from the then social media overlords, to the news outlets, to
>>> governments made themselves concerned with the “spread of
>>> misinformation,” probably expressed by the then prime minister of New
>>> Zealand Jacinda Ardern announcing that the government “will continue to
>>> be your single source of truth, unless you hear it from us, it is not
>>> the truth.” With this came a million news stories from the BBC obsessed
>>> with correcting “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation.”
>>>
>>> Yet the irony is that the entire of the lockdown movement depended on
>>> the public believing things that weren’t true, and on a perception of
>>> the situation built on sensationalism and the opposite kind of
>>> misinformation that the most part of the news was concerned with.
>>>
>>> I remember the very first confirmed cases of covid in the UK. I remember
>>> then it feeling like a science fiction movie, how the news reported
>>> every case with a kind of looming terror. One imagined them strapped to
>>> ventilators fighting for their lives, a belief confirmed by images
>>> circulating on social media of people collapsing in China and being
>>> dragged away screaming by men in hazmat suits.
>>>
>>> Of course, looking back, this seems comical. Most of those early covid
>>> “victims” were probably sitting in an isolation room reading a magazine
>>> wondering when they could go home. As Jeremy Clarkson tweeted after
>>> reports of him “battling” covid in 2021: “Dear the newspapers. I didn’t
>>> “battle” Covid. I lay on my bed reading a book till it went away.” Yet
>>> If you’d gone door to door in March 2020 as we were plunged into
>>> lockdown and asked the public the average age of death of covid, most
>>> people would have not said “80.” I’d guess they’d have said 40 or 50.
>>>
>>> On a daily basis the BBC was filled with stories they’d found of young
>>> healthy people being struck down. This reporting, at a time such as
>>> lockdown when people were drip fed the news as their entire way of
>>> trying to understand what the f*ck was going on, meant that a mistruth
>>> was smuggled under the door. People simply believed for some time that
>>> covid was catastrophically worse than it was.
>>>
>>> Not to say it wasn’t serious enough, it was, and for some people it was
>>> tragic. Healthy people really were struck down. But so is flu today,
>>> right now, so are 50 hour waits in A&E, and if they BBC wanted to they
>>> could find the same kinds of cases right now, because sadly that is
>>> reality. The problem was that this reporting was filtered through a
>>> newly created dynamic in which anyone not saying that covid was
>>> basically winged ebola was a “conspiracy theorist” spreading
>>> “misinformation.”
>>>
>>> So you weren’t allowed to ask how the decision was made that the
>>> response to a bad winter respiratory virus was meant to be the rationing
>>> of daily dog walks, the interruption of education, the banning of social
>>> contact, the ruin of businesses, the wrecking of mental health, in
>>> short: the suffocation of the orientation points of human meaning and
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> Or indeed, where it came from. The fact that by March 2020 cases in
>>> Wuhan seemed to be receding seemed to be justification enough that
>>> copying the policy of a country that literally welded doors shut to keep
>>> people in quarantine was somehow a morally legitimate idea for
>>> democratic Western countries. No one ever pointed out that no
>>> epidemiologist before 2020 had ever even heard of the idea of lockdown,
>>> yet almost overnight they all appeared on out televisions as if they
>>> were experts on it. ‘Pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’ became synonymous in the
>>> news, when the BBC wrote about schools, for example, it wasn’t the
>>> ‘effect of lockdowns’ it was the ‘effect of the pandemic.’ Because all
>>> pandemics mean lockdown now.
>>>
>>> The irony, then, is that news and governments were content with this
>>> “misinformation” because it served the agenda of compliance with
>>> restrictions. By misinformation they meant anything not in line with
>>> “covid-bad-restrictions-good” and resulting in obedience. Sadly, some
>>> leaders actually liked it. There is no question that during the Canadian
>>> truckers protest, when even struggling single parents who donated 10
>>> dollars to the protest found their bank accounts frozen, that the absurd
>>> abuse of power on the part of Trudeau was a corollary of the dynamic of
>>> lockdown. Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
>>>
>>> The snapping point for a lot of people was when this same dynamic was
>>> applied to vaccination. A six month old vaccine was virtually mandated,
>>> in some countries literally mandated, and anyone who observed that given
>>> that the FDA expects most vaccines to be tested for five years before
>>> they are considered safe, calling a six month old vaccine “safe and
>>> thoroughly tested” wasn’t just fast and loose with the truth but a
>>> transparent lie, was suddenly an “antivaxxer.” It’s unsurprising then
>>> how many people were flung down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. If
>>> people are popping up on social media telling you the government is
>>> lying to you, when the government is literally lying to you, why not
>>> believe them?
>>>
>>> If you are Elon Musk, you now believe free speech on social media is the
>>> solution. His catchphrase has become “you are the media now,” a
>>> representation of the belief that X provides an unfiltered access to
>>> facts and a freedom from the tyranny of the mainstream media narrative.
>>>
>>> The problem though is that social media was half the cause in the first
>>> place. Social media algorithms siloed people into entrenched and
>>> absolute positions and ran events through the inevitable catastrophising
>>> of the attention economy. Consider, for example, how every time anything
>>> to do with Russia and Ukraine is in the news, immediately “nuclear” and
>>> “world war three” start trending. In a time where clarity instead of
>>> sensationalism is what is needed to make sense of a situation, social
>>> media projects the maddest and the worst of a situation: it is
>>> absolutely useless. It was social media that in part created the bough
>>> wave of mad sensationalism that made lockdown possible in the first
>>> place; the images of hazmat suits and screaming covid patients were
>>> around the world before the facts about covid had got their pants on and
>>> made it out of Wuhan.
>>>
>>> Maybe I’m pessimistic, but I actually don’t think we can recover from
>>> it. I think the blown trust in establishment media is so damaging its
>>> consequences are too enormous to track, I think our new dependence on
>>> social media is terrible for the possibility of any decent political
>>> discourse, and I think almost every public crisis since has leant upon
>>> the same idiotic dynamics. The world is reshaping itself politically,
>>> culturally and technologically because of the effects of the maddest few
>>> years in a long time in our history.
>>>
>>> But we can begin to look at the causes of the madness, and we can bring
>>> ourselves into some fresh air. We can recognise that real human
>>> perspective is vital, that representing disagreement as an extreme to be
>>> shunned as conspiratorial and sinister is a disingenuous and appalling
>>> way to deal with people’s legitimate concerns. We can remember precisely
>>> what makes liberal democracies so precious and valuable, before they are
>>> sold down the river to populism or tyranny. We can have better dialogue.
>>> It is the strangest of times, and in many ways it still feels like we
>>> are wandering around in the dream world we were cast into in 2020. But
>>> we can wake up. We can be us again.
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

USENET source:
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Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart

....because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2028 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis