Since 2020 we got to experience two worldwide mass hysterias: Covid and 10/7

Since 2020 we got to experience two worldwide mass hysterias: Covid and 10/7.

~ Erupted overnight: 11 March 2020 cries for lockdowns; 7 Oct 2023 cries of ‘gEnOciDe!!” at Israel

~ Redefining terms to fit the new righteous cult’s narrative: ‘vaccine,’ ‘genocide’

~ Unclean out group: ‘deniers,’ ‘Zionists’

~ Membership signals: masks, Keffiyah

~ Patently absurd membership signals: masks, ‘gEnOciDe!!’

~ Post-hoc justification of membership signals to become virtue signals: hundreds of observational studies suddenly appear “showing” masks work; sophisticated pretzel-logics erupted arguing that ackshyually Israel’s hyper-combatant-targeted defense was ‘genocide’

~ Discrimination: firing & banishing of unvaccinated; boycotts and denial of entry to Jews

~ Adherents across the political spectrum: both Left and Right initially agitated for COVID mandates; both Woke Left and Woke Right aligned in their hatred of Jews I mean Zionists

~ Cutting family / friends / colleagues for not jointing cult

~ Ethics become single dimensional: minimizing Covid transmission dominated entire calculus; minimizing the total short term number of Gazan deaths became the only measure

~ Embracing obvious falsehoods: “Covid is an equal opportunity killer!”, “Gaza was an open air prison!”

~ Ritualized public displays: TikTok nurse dances, rainbow-mask selfies, daily death tickers; river-to-sea chants, die-ins, campus encampments

~ Elite narrative engineering: WHO, CDC, and mainstream media messaging in lockstep; UN, NGOs, and media instantly framing Israel’s defense as “genocide”

~ Apocalyptic framing: “Flatten the curve or millions will die!”; “This is 1948 all over again!”