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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