Aug 5, 2022·edited Aug 5, 2022Liked by Mark Changizi
I agree. I believe it comes down to people fear death way too much, and people have less faith than they used to.
People, in general, didn't have faith in their immune systems, didn't have faith in doctors being able to treat everyone (media did feed that pushing overcrowded hospital messages), they don't have faith in humanity, they don't have faith in themselves or a faith in God. Having faith in just one of those things would have led to so much less fear because fear is a lack of faith that things will turn out alright eventually.
We had people who actually thought they could get to 100% vaccination rates (or really close to it) because of their lack of faith everywhere else they turned the vaccine into an idol, thinking it would save us all. We had people who thought we could get to 0 COVID deaths, as if old people weren't going to die any longer. Of course some of their deaths would be from COVID. It doesn't mean COVID was horrible, just means that was the one disease getting past the immune system.
People have horrible cost-benefit analysis skills. They thought that a lockdown was worth it because they couldn't see all of the things that would go wrong (food supply shortages, children being abused, suicides skyrocketing, etc). People projected their fears onto other people so the hypochondriacs thought everyone was afraid as they were and couldn't see why people would want to risk being exposed.
If I had any way to teach this to the world, I would focus on increasing people's acceptance of death (not to be terrified of it), promote cost-benefit skills, remind people that others are willing to risk things they won't and should be allowed to do so, and try to build up people's faith in doctors and themselves and their immune system. Good messaging on that might have helped a lot.
People had no faith that doctors could come up with early treatments (instead they waited for the vaccine), and it is wrong that the scientific community and news tried to say those treatments like Ivermectin should be feared. They also downplayed or rejected Vitamin D and Zinc suggestions.
If people felt like they had some control and could DO something themselves, personally, they wouldn't have been so afraid. If they could take vitamins, minerals, exercise, etc, they wouldn't have feared what other people were doing nearly as much or at all.
Maybe they didn’t purposely engineer the mass hysteria, but they did purposely engineer the polices out in place at the behest of those hoping the lockdowns would enable a new “world order” borrowing as much from the Chinese model as they thought the Western populace could stomach, with billionaires and the “experts” in their massive orbits driving the policies: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-dragnet-in-lombardy-italy-patient
I agree. I believe it comes down to people fear death way too much, and people have less faith than they used to.
People, in general, didn't have faith in their immune systems, didn't have faith in doctors being able to treat everyone (media did feed that pushing overcrowded hospital messages), they don't have faith in humanity, they don't have faith in themselves or a faith in God. Having faith in just one of those things would have led to so much less fear because fear is a lack of faith that things will turn out alright eventually.
We had people who actually thought they could get to 100% vaccination rates (or really close to it) because of their lack of faith everywhere else they turned the vaccine into an idol, thinking it would save us all. We had people who thought we could get to 0 COVID deaths, as if old people weren't going to die any longer. Of course some of their deaths would be from COVID. It doesn't mean COVID was horrible, just means that was the one disease getting past the immune system.
People have horrible cost-benefit analysis skills. They thought that a lockdown was worth it because they couldn't see all of the things that would go wrong (food supply shortages, children being abused, suicides skyrocketing, etc). People projected their fears onto other people so the hypochondriacs thought everyone was afraid as they were and couldn't see why people would want to risk being exposed.
If I had any way to teach this to the world, I would focus on increasing people's acceptance of death (not to be terrified of it), promote cost-benefit skills, remind people that others are willing to risk things they won't and should be allowed to do so, and try to build up people's faith in doctors and themselves and their immune system. Good messaging on that might have helped a lot.
People had no faith that doctors could come up with early treatments (instead they waited for the vaccine), and it is wrong that the scientific community and news tried to say those treatments like Ivermectin should be feared. They also downplayed or rejected Vitamin D and Zinc suggestions.
If people felt like they had some control and could DO something themselves, personally, they wouldn't have been so afraid. If they could take vitamins, minerals, exercise, etc, they wouldn't have feared what other people were doing nearly as much or at all.
Maybe they didn’t purposely engineer the mass hysteria, but they did purposely engineer the polices out in place at the behest of those hoping the lockdowns would enable a new “world order” borrowing as much from the Chinese model as they thought the Western populace could stomach, with billionaires and the “experts” in their massive orbits driving the policies: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-dragnet-in-lombardy-italy-patient