I don't believe "this is a hoax", only that the social consequences, the changes in social structure, laws, the psychological effects, and the outcome are more important than the disease. To me the "this is a hoax" crowd serves a similar purpose as the "the planes were holograms on 9/11" crowd. It gives a useful strawman in the dialectic that makes the "official paradigm" seem unchallengeable. That's why the news media is happy to give airtime to people saying "this whole thing was invented by the democrats to stop trump!". They won't let anyone tell you about David Rockefellers memoir where he explains how he's going to/did set up a world government, and how the medical establishment will play a key role in that, or Brezinskys books where he says we are transferring into a technocracy. or Jacque Attali's book from 2006 which predicted where we are now. This whole thing meant more centralized power, people willing to sacrifice freedoms, people listening to the scienfic elite as neil degrasse mctyson said, and no that doesnt mean engineers or nurses are bad for utilizing science, it means that the vision that certain elites have for the incoming world will be dogmatically scientistic, darwinian, materialistic, anti-inherency and anti-metaphysical value
Edit: A good example of this is that hundreds (thousands?) of doctors medical opinions have been censored off youtube, facebook etc, because they clash with what the ruling elite call "the official science", the state sponsored, agenda approved, science
If it is not a hoax, then what kind of social changes would be considered normal? There are going to be social changes to any experience that has significance, and quite frankly, we need some social change.
I have entertained how this could reduce our healthcare system and possibly bring natural cures before. Even if that doesn’t happen, it will happen at some point down the line because we are still struggling because of technological poverty you could say, more than any real demonstration of an advancement of technology. Removing this poverty will at some point create positive change by increasing transparency.
maybe it’s not the best comparison, but it is the only one I can think of at the moment. The world as a whole is not much different than the world in 1920 when you could get away with murder by dumping a body in the harbor. People in the neighborhood would all get suspicious of everyone else and there was no such thing as forensic evidence to settle the debate.
that is kind of how we are living right now, but many people are linking technology to the problem and not the solution and maybe it is to a degree right now. But that would only be because the world has not found a way to deal with the monopolies that were created in this century and the last. There will probably have to be a reason to deal with these, and this might not be the straw that breaks the camels back, but their will be one that will help disseminate technology and the consequent information.
science may have a materialist side to it, but it also has a side that stomps out superstition, which is why it is useful in a situation like this from a social science perspective.
as for the doctors, they are largely being taken down from YouTube because their purpose is to promote the idea that the whole thing is a hoax for whatever reason. There are legitimate liability issues related to this issue and the internet is not censored as a whole. People like natural news and Alex Jones still exist and continue even though they were taken down from Facebook a long time ago.
So like in 9/11, ignorance is really being taken advantage of. people are as ignorant of the healthcare system as they were of Islam when 9/11 happened.
there are many things that are not new at all that people are suddenly shocked about, and this is only because it affects them now. Otherwise, they wouldn’t care about half of these inefficiencies that exist.
there were still paper charts in a lot of places as recently as like 10 years ago. There are hundreds of doctors still alive who grumbled a lot about going to an emr and in most cases, we are using an emr in hospitals on computers that are slower and older than most people have in their homes.
there are a ton of deficiencies that were caused by a lack of technology rather than an advancement that people don’t realize because this was never a subject of interest before now.
these deficiencies cause a sort of fumbling social response, but not all of that is due to any sort of social engineering.
and there are no shortage of blogs on herbs or ways people can try to take better care of their health. I was already interested in this before, but have definitely done a lot more hunting now. I would really love to see people gain more awareness of how to take care of themselves and their families independent of the hospital because this is possible too, but many people have taken this for granted before now.
I’m in a situation where there are confirmed positive patients clustered in one spot and I’m not worried about getting it just like I don’t worry about some throat swelling and other immune system responses I always get. I’ve had to look for remedies because I can’t just take antibiotics a couple of times a year.
I am a breadwinner for my house and I do 100% of the grocery shopping and 80% of all food preparation, so getting sick is something I already avoid at all costs because I don’t have time for it. The environment I work in creates an incentive that some people may not have had before. Hopefully, they will be inspired.
and even though I am relatively healthy and probably low risk, I try to empathize with people who aren’t. when symptoms come rapidly to the point where you lose the ability to respond to these symptoms yourself, this is when you need services a hospital provides. If you have never experienced a rapid onset of symptoms, it can be easy to assume that you would be different or that something like this happens to other people for whatever reason.
But most people if they were to experience something like this for themselves would be surprised at this experience of powerlessness. It would change the way most people considered the definition of vulnerable that they are using in these discussions across social media.
So even though I don’t see myself in a vulnerable group, I am aware that I am not automatically immune just because of an absence of this sort of experience and for many people, something like this could catch them off guard for whatever reason. It may suck for me because of how it affects my ability to move around since I am healthy, but it is not their fault whoever they may be. I blame outdated technology really.
Outdated technology contributes to the media’s ability to create illusions too. None of this is someone’s fault who may not presently even know if they are at risk. I also blame trump and most of the Republican Party for anything that might damaging to privacy right now. Mitch McConnell is the one that wanted to include fbi browser searches without a warrant. The Republican Party led by trump seem to be the only ones trying to prepare themselves for a modern cold war.
But overall, I don’t see myself as an automatic victim in a situation like this and I don’t see why other people should either. I don’t know why people are acting like the elite have already won and the only way to fight back is by shouting about how they want to control society at the top of their lungs metaphorically. That is not the only way to make a difference and help carve out a different path.
