This is my commentary on truth, and the falsehoods springing up around covid-19.
There is a continuation of corrosive divisiveness and contrariness of many citizens within our population. There is a bizarre perception that if the facts are disputed enough, then they are no longer real, and we can then substitute what we wish to be real in their place. This is called magical, or fantasy, thinking. This is how President Trump has triumphed over the years, by getting the overly politicized, the undereducated and some normally rational people to start doubting what really is real, and allowing a powerful figure, such as Trump, to substitute his own convoluted version in its place within the susceptible mind. Thus, is hypnotism and manipulation, born and maintained in an increasing divisive world, and the perfect world for corrupt leaders to thrive within.
Everybody has a point of view on almost anything that interests them. If an issue truly interests them, they study it, and find as many facts as are available. If it is understanding how to build an airplane, we certainly do not look within medical journals for our answers. If it is understanding how to prepare better, more nutritious meals, we certainly do not grab a bible and see what recipes are in there.
If it is understanding how to prepare for a pandemic, we certainly do not watch tv personalities or manipulative Presidents who promote misleading or false statements about that which they do not understand. Yes, we seek experts, and we tend to trust them, as long as their knowledge has not become “politicized”, and used for self-serving or self-aggrandizing purposes. We might dig a little deeper, and see if there are any other historical precedents to help in our search for the truth. But the key is to access as many available information sources as possible, and expose them all to our internal bullshit detectors.
I TRUST THE CAT!
We have a President who trusts his gut more than he does scientific reason and mathematical statistical probabilities. He has a need to be the last world on everything, so you know that, in the end, the last word is likely to reek of his constipated, uncleaned bowels. That is why most intelligent, rational human beings have bullshit detectors that are constantly ringing, every time this hypnotist and liar speaks.
It is OK to have a point of view on the COVID-19 pandemic. But make sure that it is a well-informed point of view, and not just the result of someone’s conspiracy theory who has an axe to grind with the truth. This is a dangerous pandemic. The aware, intelligent, and even medically and scientifically trained among us knows that. The responsibility of the aware is to know the probabilities, and weigh and measure appropriate responses to mitigate future hazardous activity.
Yet conspiracy theories continue to sprout up like poisonous weeds, usually promoted by angry crackpots and those trying to cover their own mistakes in reason and in action. There is so much at stake within our world right now, with power and money hungry politicians and capitalists attempting to seize the day, and promote and foist their twisted values upon the rest of the population. We see it on daily TV, with pop-culture doctors spreading lies and disinformation. We see it with protestors who are clamoring for their right to die in freedom and not under the house quarantine that the socially responsible of our society are now adhering to. Wow, we get to witness those clamoring for self-imposed late, late term abortions! Those that take their guns to mass protests against our pandemic response show how poorly their reason functions in the face of threats they do not have the intelligence to understand. We see it with a President who fears for his political future, because of his own malfeasance and incompetence in preparing for and executing a sound pandemic response.
Oh, masked marauders, your bullets do not stand a chance against a virus. The gene pool of those who believe covid-19 is an overblown hoax is about to get chlorinated. Late, late term abortions apparently are not illegal, if they are acts of “free will” by those not yet birthed into intelligence and good reasoning.
Merely by his presence, Donald Trump can be an extremely dangerous diversion from the truth.
Doctors and health experts urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested scientists should investigate inserting the cleaning agent into the body as a way to cure COVID-19.
“(This is an) absolutely dangerous crazy suggestion,” said Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at Britain’s University of East Anglia.
“You may not die of COVID-19 after injecting disinfectant, but only because you may already be dead from the injection.”
Trump said at his daily media briefing on Thursday, April 23 that scientists should explore whether inserting light or disinfectant into the bodies of people infected with the new coronavirus might help them clear the disease. Trump is just plain off of the rails, and, potentially, so is our country as a direct result of his incompetence and stupidity.
Truth can be difficult to ascertain, and we should never rely upon just one or two sources. A mind untethered to pseudo-science, radicalized political and religious affiliations, or any other prevailing hypnotic suggestions of the day, or short term solutions to long term problems is free to explore, and may be the most receptive and responsive to whatever the next moment reveals. This openness brings the truth to ones doorstep. When enough truth seekers, and finders, gather together in unity, then we as a collective can find solutions relevant to all individuals within that society.
Information is power, and never should be considered as a source for fear, unless it has already been spun into a web of corruption, hypnotism, and deception. Watch out for those who start with a questionable conclusion, support it with unsubstantiated opinions or “alternate reality facts” of Fox News or other questionable news services and their so-called “experts” or pseudo-scientists. These rabbit holes are created for a reason, to trap the unsuspecting, and keep them from embracing a truth that is threatening to those whose lives and positions are built upon false pretenses. A country held together by the truth cannot be divided into chaos and revolution. Yet, without chaos and revolution, the status quo cannot be challenged and defeated, even if the status quo is standing on a superior moral and ethical ground. This is why alternate reality facts have been introduced into our society, so that we may be divided, and conquered, by those with the darkest of intentions.
Be aware.
