I believe it is important to mention the bright side of the Corona hysteria as well: never before have so many people stood up against tyranny as in 2020-2022. At it's high point, millions and millions world wide were doing marches for human rights. Many people spoke out, many lost their jobs, their friends, their social status, but still they did the right thing and stood up for freedom of speech, for bodily autonomy, freedom of medical choice, for democracy and against totalitarianism. And all this not once or twice, but week after week, month after month, against the most intense indoctrination program ever rolled out.
It dazzles one to even think about it: school closures, church closures, business closures, indoctrination of children, death threats, restriction of movement, forceful confinement to the house, threats of not even being able to buy food, people explicitly calling for the removal of the freedom fighters from society by force. Main stream media, high profile public figures preaching hate and division. Police brutality, arrests, complete alignment of all main stream media with the oppressors, compliance by many religious figures and churches and cultural establishments, severe censorship on all media channels. In several countries, the military was deployed against the peaceful population. No notion of when it would all end. Yet many, many people stood up, signed petitions, wrote politicians, spoke out, protested, went to the streets, collected money to fight the oppression tooth and nail, took the perpetrators to court, despite the costs. Many people have united, new media outlets have founded, groups came together to discuss what to do, time and time again. An enormous feat. Those are the heroes of humanity, they actually rose up when history called. Many did, even though the politicians are trying to hide it. Let us not forget their strength, their courage and their sacrifices.
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Date: 2023-07-20 09:09 am (UTC)And all this not once or twice, but week after week, month after month, against the most intense indoctrination program ever rolled out.
It dazzles one to even think about it: school closures, church closures, business closures, indoctrination of children, death threats, restriction of movement, forceful confinement to the house, threats of not even being able to buy food, people explicitly calling for the removal of the freedom fighters from society by force. Main stream media, high profile public figures preaching hate and division.
Police brutality, arrests, complete alignment of all main stream media with the oppressors, compliance by many religious figures and churches and cultural establishments, severe censorship on all media channels. In several countries, the military was deployed against the peaceful population. No notion of when it would all end.
Yet many, many people stood up, signed petitions, wrote politicians, spoke out, protested, went to the streets, collected money to fight the oppression tooth and nail, took the perpetrators to court, despite the costs. Many people have united, new media outlets have founded, groups came together to discuss what to do, time and time again. An enormous feat.
Those are the heroes of humanity, they actually rose up when history called. Many did, even though the politicians are trying to hide it. Let us not forget their strength, their courage and their sacrifices.