Sick of the lies
ANOTHER day, another example of Andrew Bolt making sense. Wait, what now?
As we begin to emerge from our collective cocoon, questions are being raised about the legitimacy of the panic, despite our leaders insisting we must still live in fear of the virus.
This week Bolt accused State and Federal governments of making up the data about COVID-19 deaths in Australia and popped in a juicy quote from Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young, in reference to a young man who recently died.
“He had a complicated medical history and that also needs to be worked through,” Dr Young said on camera.
So did he die from COVID or not? Actually it turns out he didn’t have the virus at all.
But as Dr Young said, it doesn’t really matter.
“Whether or not COVID-19 was the precipitating cause for his death, that is how we report it: any person who died who is infected with COVID-19 we declare it as a COVID-19-related death,” she said.
Where is the outrage? There has been literally none.
They are literally lying about the number of deaths, here in
Australia and around the world.
We don’t know the real virus mortality rate yet the government bods are acting as though they do.
And when they do speak truth — like Dr Young — no one bats an eyelid.
Where is the demand for the real statistics? Are there actually any to be found?
Where are the videos of doctors around the world telling us the exact same things about fudged stats? Oh, that’s right. You can’t see them because YouTube censored them. You can’t even get health advice these days unless it’s Big Pharma-sanctioned advice.
Because this is the Brave New World, the average punters believe censorship is OK because they are so scared. I get it. Their cognitive dissonance is a powerful and controlling influence, and cannot easily be shaken.
While everyone is watching as the US descends into the murky depths of racial and social despair, our leaders keep giving us cute pep talks as we venture out into our world again.
“Staying apart keeps us together.”
Yeah, so does the truth. But they don’t give us the truth.
As Bolt said in April, politicians
“don’t have the courage” to tell us what is really going on.
Of course, we already know politicians lie for a living, so I guess it’s a case of just sucking it up as we limp back into our fractured and frightened society.
Our collective mental health is now the worry — the stats are unlikely to be fudged on that one. No one ever considers diagnosing a whole society from a mental health perspective because it’s such an individual thing. If we did take a collective view we’d probably declare our poor society certifiable. Since lockdown began, domestic violence and suicides, including among teenagers, have gone through the roof. Meanwhile our hospitals stand empty.
And the unemployment line continues to grow.
Chairman Dan has insisted on another few weeks of an emergency declaration and workers are being forced to stay home longer.
It will be curious to see, in this environment of fear, how we get the wheels back on the cart.
Our most recent event was the global financial crisis and that shaped the confidence and foundations of our collective experience for the next decade. It was a hike getting back from that one and this virus trek will be far longer.
We now need to define the new normal: more people wanting to work from home, shorter work weeks; kids demanding to be homeschooled; fear of handshakes, hugs and blowing out candles on a birthday cake.
The new normal is about a life lived in fear. Get used to it. Big Psychiatry is going to have a field day.
It won’t be long before viral anxiety or sickness depression make their way into the diagnostic and statistical manual.
Bolt has done his little bit to help rock the faith in our “system”. Now it’s up to all of us to demand how we want the new normal to look.
We might not be America but tensions are rising. The distrust is evident. More and more people have legitimate concerns. It is time to speak up and be heard.
Bolt has done it. Anyone else game? As the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti so aptly pointed out: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”