In Canada, it's the population that pushed the governments (feds and provinces) to lockdowns/mandates, every step of the way. In the US, I think the same can be said. Until March 2020, we were still running on recognised science, and Fauci still knew masks didn't work, he changed his position when the fear-mongered population pushed on politicians who pushed on him (not to excuse him in any way shape or form). The same way his "enough immunity" percentage kept getting pushed higher and higher as the population became more and more hysterical/demanding.
This is the definition of populism.
I remember back in the earliest days, somewhere around January or February, there were videos of people in China falling dead on the street. I've always thought those videos were absolute fakes, yet no one seems to have bothered to "fact check" those videos.
Ultimately, it's the Pfizer owned media that pushed the fear-mongering narrative. It was pushed because it creates profit. Those who want endless profits know which buttons to push in humans to cause Hysteria. No the hysteria was not "timed", but we KNOW that marketing and mind control works. People like to think we are free agents, but 99% of the population are not free thinkers. I invite all to watch Century of Self, a wonderful 2002 Adam Curtis documentary on how the masses are controllable. https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s
Glad you said that about the population running things. If it wasn't the population pushing the governments to do these things, the governments wouldn't do them. I wish more people understood this.
And if people actually enforced their boundaries and said, "no, we won't comply," then the governments would have stopped. It did eventually happen in some places.
Our leaders follow what they think the people want in many cases because they do want to look good and stay in power and don't want to fight against the majority of people.
This is why the majority of people having integrity and courage matters a lot more than what the governments do. If we all had courage we wouldn't have put up with the erosion of civil liberties.
All Pandemic Preparedness Planning said no to NPIs and no to authoritarian mandates. Sweden's the only country that followed accumulated scientific knowledge, planning, and respect of civil rights.
In Canada, it's the population that pushed the governments (feds and provinces) to lockdowns/mandates, every step of the way. In the US, I think the same can be said. Until March 2020, we were still running on recognised science, and Fauci still knew masks didn't work, he changed his position when the fear-mongered population pushed on politicians who pushed on him (not to excuse him in any way shape or form). The same way his "enough immunity" percentage kept getting pushed higher and higher as the population became more and more hysterical/demanding.
This is the definition of populism.
I remember back in the earliest days, somewhere around January or February, there were videos of people in China falling dead on the street. I've always thought those videos were absolute fakes, yet no one seems to have bothered to "fact check" those videos.
Ultimately, it's the Pfizer owned media that pushed the fear-mongering narrative. It was pushed because it creates profit. Those who want endless profits know which buttons to push in humans to cause Hysteria. No the hysteria was not "timed", but we KNOW that marketing and mind control works. People like to think we are free agents, but 99% of the population are not free thinkers. I invite all to watch Century of Self, a wonderful 2002 Adam Curtis documentary on how the masses are controllable. https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s
Glad you said that about the population running things. If it wasn't the population pushing the governments to do these things, the governments wouldn't do them. I wish more people understood this.
And if people actually enforced their boundaries and said, "no, we won't comply," then the governments would have stopped. It did eventually happen in some places.
Our leaders follow what they think the people want in many cases because they do want to look good and stay in power and don't want to fight against the majority of people.
This is why the majority of people having integrity and courage matters a lot more than what the governments do. If we all had courage we wouldn't have put up with the erosion of civil liberties.
And democracy is not supposed to be mob rule. But Leftists tend to only apply the words Populism and Fascism to the right.
I’m pretty sure it was scientists who recommended it. It’s even in pandemic response exercises.
All Pandemic Preparedness Planning said no to NPIs and no to authoritarian mandates. Sweden's the only country that followed accumulated scientific knowledge, planning, and respect of civil rights.
Anders Tegnell deserves the Nobel peace price.