Sociopolitical hallucinations of COVID-related facts
Sociopolitical hallucinations of COVID-related facts — where factual perceptions were warped and post-hoc justified to fit predetermined moral or membership conclusions, rather than having to argue for distinct ethical principles.
(1) Breathing is an attack
→ Allowed normal human behavior to be framed as harm, justifying moral calls for self-defense, exclusion, or punishment.
(2) Natural immunity doesn’t exist
→ Erased basic immunological knowledge to make mandates for the vaccinated seem necessary and ethical.
(3) Medications that reduce severity but not transmission are vaccines
→ Redefined “vaccine” to preserve moral narratives about responsibility and collective safety.
(4) Masks work
→ Asserted population-level effectiveness despite RCTs showing no such evidence, enabling moral condemnation of the maskless.
(5) Lockdowns work
→ Claimed lockdowns saved lives, even as data showed no consistent correlation, allowing drastic interventions to be framed as ethically obligatory.
(6) Zero COVID is achievable
→ Set an impossible moral goal to justify unlimited policy overreach.
(7) Asymptomatic spread is the main driver of transmission
→ Created fear of healthy people, morally validating mass surveillance and preemptive restrictions.
(8) Healthy children are in grave danger
→ Ignored extremely low pediatric risk to justify school closures and child masking as ethical duties.
(9) Cases = deaths
→ Collapsed all infection into tragedy to sustain fear and moral urgency.
(10) Disagreement is misinformation
→ Framed dissent as dangerous harm to others, allowing censorship to feel virtuous.
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