Downplay version 1.0 now that all units have shipped. Play up the benefits and necessity of version 2.0 for new strains and uncertain futures.
How is it that Pfizer can develop an omicron-specific vaccine in 3 months? Yet, we have had delta for over a year, and no company developed a delta-specific vaccine, despite it supposedly being deadlier. Can anyone explain that to me?
I have long taken it as axiomatic that if an institution implements a requirement of information about me, that institution is not being truthful about its reasons for doing so.
The evidence of institutions both public and private attempting to cover their own incompetent and acquisitive asses by forcing me to reveal information about myself has been overwhelming throughout my life, and I have continually resisted such attempts at great cost to myself. Nobody has any right to make me do or say anything unless I grant them that right.
This is how I define liberty: my business is my own, and short of my committing some act which compromises the freedoms of others, no one may interrogate me about anything and expect to get an answer about things that are none of their business.
But modern life is so full of illusions of advantage or security being offered, in exchange for individuals surrendering their fundamental liberties, that apparently most people simply cannot resist the temptation of allowing institutions to treat them as property.
In essence, this 'covid' phenomenon is the logical outcome of an entire global civilization so addicted to its institutions regardless of the undeniable fact that they never have one's own best interests as a motive. The cult of medicine and the cult of government have shown themselves utterly at a loss as to how to deal with just another routine outbreak of contagion which in truth has affected very few individuals in any genuinely threatening way, that their only means of making it look as if they have any reason for existing is to allow this social-media-generated mythology to transform itself into an unstoppable monster, and then pretend to be committed to trying to find means of containing it. The fact that nothing they do has any meaningful effect is supposed to pass as justification for them to force even more exercises in futility on us, because they are not trying to solve anything, they are seeking to sustain this crisis mindset indefinitely so they can hang on to their powers.
And of course, those means have taken the form of enforcing more addiction to the needless hocus-pocus of doctors and bureaucrats, more demands for personal information by which to compel obedience to the random improvisations of government policymakers, and more hollow assurances that incompetent office-holders have some kind of plan when the truth is that they have no working concept of what this 'covid' really is or even whether it ever existed at all.
When going through the motions for going through the motions' sake becomes the primary law governing human behavior, it becomes inevitable that such a world will find itself in the jaws of this kind of non-crisis being made into a crisis of vacuous leadership and institutions using every means available to expand and thus preserve their own advantages over the people they dishonestly pretend to be serving..
In short, since humanity has long since refused to treat each other as neighbors and to seek solutions among ourselves in neighborly cooperation, the institutions we expect to rule over us instead have been caught in a calamity of fictitious emergency with no basis whatever in reality, as meanwhile ordinary people have so long expected their institutions to serve them even though they never really have, that the longstanding comic ineptitude and cynical power-grabbing now being revealed in all institutions is the one thing nobody is prepared to confront.
I have said it all along: this 'covid' episode is nothing but an opportunistic drive to expand the surveillance mechanisms and coercive powers aimed at all of us. Allowing ourselves to be continually monitored, spied on and interrogated never was in our interest, but too many people have been caught in a life where they had agreed to allow these continual incursions anyway because of some advantage they believed they would receive in return for sacrificing their own liberty and dignity to going through the motions.
Your freedoms are vanishing, because you gave them away long ago. Why is anyone surprised at this? I have spent my life waiting for something like this 'covid' to begin the final dismantlement of human liberty, and I am not surprised by it in the least.
Just appalled. You did this to yourselves, humanity. I won't say 'I hope it was worth it', because I have known all my life that it never was and never would be, that a life of obedience to institutions eventually would lead to us to catastrophe. You wanted credit cards and airplanes and cushy lifestyles and bitchen vacations in other people's neighborhoods, and you got them. Now you pay the real price, because you agreed to, without even pondering what that price might eventually become.
I have long taken it as axiomatic that if an institution implements a requirement of information about me, that institution is not being truthful about its reasons for doing so.
The evidence of institutions both public and private attempting to cover their own incompetent and acquisitive asses by forcing me to reveal information about myself has been overwhelming throughout my life, and I have continually resisted such attempts at great cost to myself. Nobody has any right to make me do or say anything unless I grant them that right.
This is how I define liberty: my business is my own, and short of my committing some act which compromises the freedoms of others, no one may interrogate me about anything and expect to get an answer about things that are none of their business.
But modern life is so full of illusions of advantage or security being offered, in exchange for individuals surrendering their fundamental liberties, that apparently most people simply cannot resist the temptation of allowing institutions to treat them as property.
In essence, this 'covid' phenomenon is the logical outcome of an entire global civilization so addicted to its institutions regardless of the undeniable fact that they never have one's own best interests as a motive. The cult of medicine and the cult of government have shown themselves utterly at a loss as to how to deal with just another routine outbreak of contagion which in truth has affected very few individuals in any genuinely threatening way, that their only means of making it look as if they have any reason for existing is to allow this social-media-generated mythology to transform itself into an unstoppable monster, and then pretend to be committed to trying to find means of containing it. The fact that nothing they do has any meaningful effect is supposed to pass as justification for them to force even more exercises in futility on us, because they are not trying to solve anything, they are seeking to sustain this crisis mindset indefinitely so they can hang on to their powers.
And of course, those means have taken the form of enforcing more addiction to the needless hocus-pocus of doctors and bureaucrats, more demands for personal information by which to compel obedience to the random improvisations of government policymakers, and more hollow assurances that incompetent office-holders have some kind of plan when the truth is that they have no working concept of what this 'covid' really is or even whether it ever existed at all.
When going through the motions for going through the motions' sake becomes the primary law governing human behavior, it becomes inevitable that such a world will find itself in the jaws of this kind of non-crisis being made into a crisis of vacuous leadership and institutions using every means available to expand and thus preserve their own advantages over the people they dishonestly pretend to be serving..
In short, since humanity has long since refused to treat each other as neighbors and to seek solutions among ourselves in neighborly cooperation, the institutions we expect to rule over us instead have been caught in a calamity of fictitious emergency with no basis whatever in reality, as meanwhile ordinary people have so long expected their institutions to serve them even though they never really have, that the longstanding comic ineptitude and cynical power-grabbing now being revealed in all institutions is the one thing nobody is prepared to confront.
I have said it all along: this 'covid' episode is nothing but an opportunistic drive to expand the surveillance mechanisms and coercive powers aimed at all of us. Allowing ourselves to be continually monitored, spied on and interrogated never was in our interest, but too many people have been caught in a life where they had agreed to allow these continual incursions anyway because of some advantage they believed they would receive in return for sacrificing their own liberty and dignity to going through the motions.
Your freedoms are vanishing, because you gave them away long ago. Why is anyone surprised at this? I have spent my life waiting for something like this 'covid' to begin the final dismantlement of human liberty, and I am not surprised by it in the least.
Just appalled. You did this to yourselves, humanity. I won't say 'I hope it was worth it', because I have known all my life that it never was and never would be, that a life of obedience to institutions eventually would lead to us to catastrophe. You wanted credit cards and airplanes and cushy lifestyles and bitchen vacations in other people's neighborhoods, and you got them. Now you pay the real price, because you agreed to, without even pondering what that price might eventually become.