Those in the middle need to hear our voices - constantly. I try to target mainly Doctors in my area. it's really rather remarkable that our doctors read so little- quite shocking really. They literally get their CDC bulletin and bing- that's it! I started several months ago with numbers from Israel and the dropping efficacy. It's sometimes difficult but I put the spin about how I'm deeply concerned for the truly vulnerable and how they think they are invincible, etc. Then I talk a lot about Sweden. A lot of them pretend they have no idea what is going on over there- I tell them right away- hey, my best friend lives there (actually true), let me tell you all about it! The harder things to discuss involve vaccine injuries- there is oftentimes complete cognitive dissonance. So instead I couch it with numbers, if a young male has a 1 in 6,000 chance of getting hospitalized with myocarditis but only a 1 in 25,000 chance of being hospitalized for the virus itself, why should they get the shot? I live in New England and I'm just exhausted at how weak the people here are. Most have zero critical thinking skills.
I live in the People's Republic of California and have one teenager left in the house.
Just before Comrade Newsom his latest diktat mandating jabs for schoolchildren, I had a conversation with our pediatrician, who has cared for our children for over two decades.
She of course highly recommends the jab. I asked her some pointed questions:
- The risk to our child is near zero. What is the risk reduction benefit from the jab?
"I don't have that number".
- What are the long-term effects of these mRNA jabs.
"Nobody knows."
And then the kicker:
"You just have to take a leap of faith."
This put me at a loss for words, which for me is a rather uncommon event.
So, a Stanford Health Care pediatrician with decades of experience is using religious terminology to justify recommending the experimental jab to a child with almost zero risk.
We have truly passed into the realm of the surreal.
I agree with your basic premise here, and I'll illustrate with a little story. Here in WA we had mask rules basically the entire 'crisis' (starting July 2020) until the CDC came out and said vaxxed people don't have to wear a mask. Predictably, most of the masks disappeared from stores and shops.
Here's the important part - during that brief little window (Inslee re-instituted masks in August) the maskers would come into a store and get funny looks from the unmasked. This put them on the opposite side of their comfort zone. Some of them would remove the mask, others would just keep their heads down and do their shopping quickly. They REALLY REALLY REALLY didn't like being on the 'wrong' side, and I'm convinced that's why we have mask rules again. This way the sheep feel like they are on the 'correct' side again, since 'the rules' say that masks are required. Now the sheep are once again with the 'go along' gang, and said sheep feel protected by the expanded size of the flock.
I am an NP in MI that sees primarily elderly patients with vascular disease. Most are at high risk from multiple comorbidities (DM, obesity, HTN, etc), as well as advanced age (70+). Most are eagerly pursuing boosters, and the population that I see has been heavily vaccinated early on last winter-several, with breakthrough infections and hospitalizations. It seems to me, as generations are now widely-spread out geographically, the decreased physical closeness of an extended family, and perhaps decreased spirituality or religious presence in many people's lives, many of my patients are truly fearful of dying. They are staying home, masking up, and avoiding people and thus potential exposures. Many are very anxious about dying, and I suspect they are all watching way too much TV. They are spending their final years choosing not to live, in an attempt to avoid death.
Very insightful! I would just add that human beings need a sense of meaning in their lives. In the past, most people got that through traditional religion and family. As traditional religions have waned in the West, and family structures have broken down, many have become increasingly anxious and desperate and susceptible to charlatans promising some new cult will fill their empty lives with meaning. It could be Scientology, or the Global Warming Cult, or the Covid Death Cult… The people who turn to these weird faiths do so in a sad and futile attempt to rescue themselves from nihilism and despair.
As someone who grew up in a christian cult, I can tell you that Desmet is right on target. Mass hypnosis does not require a "Grand hypnotist" or any sort of central control/plan. Mass delusions are normal in human history, and occur with alarming regularity. Remember the "sonic weapon" that we accused people of using against our embassy people? Mass delusion. Look through history and you'll find countless examples of large numbers of people (I hesitate to call them low IQ or low intelligence, for many of them were not), falling for a storyline/narrative that entirely distorts reality into a contrived bit of nonsense.
In an interview, Dr. Peter McCullough mentioned so many of his fellow doctors seemed to be walking in a trance. When I first heard Desmet in an interview, I thought of McCullough's comment. Desmet's explanation would explain that trance.
I find mentioning that the CDC says 100 million Americans have natural immunity, and that many studies from the support that natural immunity is best, it is accepted in some countries, and that Fauci said he “doesn’t know why” (yeah, right) it’s not counted here, gets through to some of the 40%. Then they think maybe many people are not infectious, and maybe we do need to examine the policies more … they feel they have learned a little science, and it’s easy to grasp.
The 40%, I find, simply have no curiosity and don’t want to hear about any of this but they give me maybe one minute before losing interest. They don’t seem to mind that one point about natural immunity, and I say how they could test health care workers and first responders instead of firing them. Then they think about the loss of those services and how that impacts them. Gotta make it about benefits to them.
I pray you are right. I do see it unraveling but not fast enough. Living in batshit crazy Bay Area makes it harder to see the middle growing skeptical as we have no middle here… but California has a middle. They just don’t live here (and I hate it too!).
There are significant groups of people who are themselves miserable and rather than work on themselves, they would rather make everyone else miserable, believing this is "equity" or "equality". You could also apply this to climate activists and most leftist causes in general.
The problem here is that the hypnotized 30% pretty much run everything. They run the media, the censoring tech companies, the schools, most of the GloboCorp 500, the churches, the entertainment industry, nearly all the Federal bureaucracy (more powerful than the elected officials), all the Blue State governments and Blue Cities. Where are the power centers for the awake 30%? Substack? They're banned from everything else.
While I totally agree with your analysis of the problem, I don't think it's going to be that easy to get to the 40% because the information stream is damned up at a million points, while the disinformation stream flows 24x7 like Niagara. But there are cracks. Even things like "Let's Go Brandon" slipping out into mainstream consciousness is helpful.
But historically, revolutions always come from a place of power. There are no "revolutions of the people." That's a myth. I think this is going to take longer than you think, but perhaps we'll get there eventually. But the Karens have to really feel some pain, and so far they haven't.
Not so simple. I personally know a few normal successful middle class people that fell for it "head over heels". They are playing with people's fear of death on the subconscious level. After they were made really scared for their or their loved ones' lives, they are offered a wonderful remedy that will make them whole and secure again. This is the critical fate-defining moment! If and after they buy that, they feel enormous relief and a regained sense of security. Now a schmuck like me comes along and says that not only are they safe again, but, in fact, doomed now, not then, and because of their own making. How do you think they will feel toward me? They start hating me with passion. And now they are told that, in fact, they are not safe yet also because of me and the ilk - the pandemic of the unvaccinated, breeding variants - rabid dogs. Day in, day out. So they go berserk. Not because they are bad people, just because this is the way we are built, and someone knows how to pull the strings. And someone is pulling them real hard, real well...
Like I said in the other thread. Facts don't matter even to the middle group but the idea that they are about to have to take MORE injections really rings their bells. Loudly.
"How many shots are you going to take?"
Then tell them the following:
"Canada has bought 135 million MORE shots for 38 million people. That's 3 MORE each plus extra for spoilage and waste"
Then follow up with:
"Israel just took away privileges from 1.5 million people for refusing the 3rd injection. They've announced the 4th is coming. Lithuania is the same but announcing the 4th & 5th shots"
And finally leave them with this thought:
"You can say "NO" at zero injections or you can say "NO" at 3, 4, 5 and the result is the same. When you REFUSE you lose all your PRIVILEGES because you have NO RIGHTS. You gave them away when you agreed to the vaccine passport"
The deer in the headlights is obvious. Some deny but you can see the gears kicking into action in the vast majority.
How many shots are you going to take? Say "NO" now or just leave your sleeve rolled up and be a pin cushion for experimental gene therapy injections.
Those in the middle need to hear our voices - constantly. I try to target mainly Doctors in my area. it's really rather remarkable that our doctors read so little- quite shocking really. They literally get their CDC bulletin and bing- that's it! I started several months ago with numbers from Israel and the dropping efficacy. It's sometimes difficult but I put the spin about how I'm deeply concerned for the truly vulnerable and how they think they are invincible, etc. Then I talk a lot about Sweden. A lot of them pretend they have no idea what is going on over there- I tell them right away- hey, my best friend lives there (actually true), let me tell you all about it! The harder things to discuss involve vaccine injuries- there is oftentimes complete cognitive dissonance. So instead I couch it with numbers, if a young male has a 1 in 6,000 chance of getting hospitalized with myocarditis but only a 1 in 25,000 chance of being hospitalized for the virus itself, why should they get the shot? I live in New England and I'm just exhausted at how weak the people here are. Most have zero critical thinking skills.
I live in the People's Republic of California and have one teenager left in the house.
Just before Comrade Newsom his latest diktat mandating jabs for schoolchildren, I had a conversation with our pediatrician, who has cared for our children for over two decades.
She of course highly recommends the jab. I asked her some pointed questions:
- The risk to our child is near zero. What is the risk reduction benefit from the jab?
"I don't have that number".
- What are the long-term effects of these mRNA jabs.
"Nobody knows."
And then the kicker:
"You just have to take a leap of faith."
This put me at a loss for words, which for me is a rather uncommon event.
So, a Stanford Health Care pediatrician with decades of experience is using religious terminology to justify recommending the experimental jab to a child with almost zero risk.
We have truly passed into the realm of the surreal.
I agree with your basic premise here, and I'll illustrate with a little story. Here in WA we had mask rules basically the entire 'crisis' (starting July 2020) until the CDC came out and said vaxxed people don't have to wear a mask. Predictably, most of the masks disappeared from stores and shops.
Here's the important part - during that brief little window (Inslee re-instituted masks in August) the maskers would come into a store and get funny looks from the unmasked. This put them on the opposite side of their comfort zone. Some of them would remove the mask, others would just keep their heads down and do their shopping quickly. They REALLY REALLY REALLY didn't like being on the 'wrong' side, and I'm convinced that's why we have mask rules again. This way the sheep feel like they are on the 'correct' side again, since 'the rules' say that masks are required. Now the sheep are once again with the 'go along' gang, and said sheep feel protected by the expanded size of the flock.
Your posts are my catnip 😻
"that most astonishing and un-killable cockroach of public health tony fauci" Still laughing!
I am an NP in MI that sees primarily elderly patients with vascular disease. Most are at high risk from multiple comorbidities (DM, obesity, HTN, etc), as well as advanced age (70+). Most are eagerly pursuing boosters, and the population that I see has been heavily vaccinated early on last winter-several, with breakthrough infections and hospitalizations. It seems to me, as generations are now widely-spread out geographically, the decreased physical closeness of an extended family, and perhaps decreased spirituality or religious presence in many people's lives, many of my patients are truly fearful of dying. They are staying home, masking up, and avoiding people and thus potential exposures. Many are very anxious about dying, and I suspect they are all watching way too much TV. They are spending their final years choosing not to live, in an attempt to avoid death.
Very insightful! I would just add that human beings need a sense of meaning in their lives. In the past, most people got that through traditional religion and family. As traditional religions have waned in the West, and family structures have broken down, many have become increasingly anxious and desperate and susceptible to charlatans promising some new cult will fill their empty lives with meaning. It could be Scientology, or the Global Warming Cult, or the Covid Death Cult… The people who turn to these weird faiths do so in a sad and futile attempt to rescue themselves from nihilism and despair.
As someone who grew up in a christian cult, I can tell you that Desmet is right on target. Mass hypnosis does not require a "Grand hypnotist" or any sort of central control/plan. Mass delusions are normal in human history, and occur with alarming regularity. Remember the "sonic weapon" that we accused people of using against our embassy people? Mass delusion. Look through history and you'll find countless examples of large numbers of people (I hesitate to call them low IQ or low intelligence, for many of them were not), falling for a storyline/narrative that entirely distorts reality into a contrived bit of nonsense.
In an interview, Dr. Peter McCullough mentioned so many of his fellow doctors seemed to be walking in a trance. When I first heard Desmet in an interview, I thought of McCullough's comment. Desmet's explanation would explain that trance.
I find mentioning that the CDC says 100 million Americans have natural immunity, and that many studies from the support that natural immunity is best, it is accepted in some countries, and that Fauci said he “doesn’t know why” (yeah, right) it’s not counted here, gets through to some of the 40%. Then they think maybe many people are not infectious, and maybe we do need to examine the policies more … they feel they have learned a little science, and it’s easy to grasp.
The 40%, I find, simply have no curiosity and don’t want to hear about any of this but they give me maybe one minute before losing interest. They don’t seem to mind that one point about natural immunity, and I say how they could test health care workers and first responders instead of firing them. Then they think about the loss of those services and how that impacts them. Gotta make it about benefits to them.
I pray you are right. I do see it unraveling but not fast enough. Living in batshit crazy Bay Area makes it harder to see the middle growing skeptical as we have no middle here… but California has a middle. They just don’t live here (and I hate it too!).
There are significant groups of people who are themselves miserable and rather than work on themselves, they would rather make everyone else miserable, believing this is "equity" or "equality". You could also apply this to climate activists and most leftist causes in general.
The problem here is that the hypnotized 30% pretty much run everything. They run the media, the censoring tech companies, the schools, most of the GloboCorp 500, the churches, the entertainment industry, nearly all the Federal bureaucracy (more powerful than the elected officials), all the Blue State governments and Blue Cities. Where are the power centers for the awake 30%? Substack? They're banned from everything else.
While I totally agree with your analysis of the problem, I don't think it's going to be that easy to get to the 40% because the information stream is damned up at a million points, while the disinformation stream flows 24x7 like Niagara. But there are cracks. Even things like "Let's Go Brandon" slipping out into mainstream consciousness is helpful.
But historically, revolutions always come from a place of power. There are no "revolutions of the people." That's a myth. I think this is going to take longer than you think, but perhaps we'll get there eventually. But the Karens have to really feel some pain, and so far they haven't.
Andreas Oehler
13 min ago
Not so simple. I personally know a few normal successful middle class people that fell for it "head over heels". They are playing with people's fear of death on the subconscious level. After they were made really scared for their or their loved ones' lives, they are offered a wonderful remedy that will make them whole and secure again. This is the critical fate-defining moment! If and after they buy that, they feel enormous relief and a regained sense of security. Now a schmuck like me comes along and says that not only are they safe again, but, in fact, doomed now, not then, and because of their own making. How do you think they will feel toward me? They start hating me with passion. And now they are told that, in fact, they are not safe yet also because of me and the ilk - the pandemic of the unvaccinated, breeding variants - rabid dogs. Day in, day out. So they go berserk. Not because they are bad people, just because this is the way we are built, and someone knows how to pull the strings. And someone is pulling them real hard, real well...
Like I said in the other thread. Facts don't matter even to the middle group but the idea that they are about to have to take MORE injections really rings their bells. Loudly.
"How many shots are you going to take?"
Then tell them the following:
"Canada has bought 135 million MORE shots for 38 million people. That's 3 MORE each plus extra for spoilage and waste"
Then follow up with:
"Israel just took away privileges from 1.5 million people for refusing the 3rd injection. They've announced the 4th is coming. Lithuania is the same but announcing the 4th & 5th shots"
And finally leave them with this thought:
"You can say "NO" at zero injections or you can say "NO" at 3, 4, 5 and the result is the same. When you REFUSE you lose all your PRIVILEGES because you have NO RIGHTS. You gave them away when you agreed to the vaccine passport"
The deer in the headlights is obvious. Some deny but you can see the gears kicking into action in the vast majority.
How many shots are you going to take? Say "NO" now or just leave your sleeve rolled up and be a pin cushion for experimental gene therapy injections.
I love you, El Gato. Great stuff as always.