It becomes increasingly risky to have an opinion about the cov19 contamination that is not conforming to the official opinion. Main stream media did it's job: spreading the fear and not asking any questions about brushing law and liberty aside. In some European countries the police goes after dissidents and if you ever want a job again it is also better to shut up in the shutdown... We get a taste of the totalitarian democracy, with media that deliver systematic propaganda instead of news. Another phenomenon is equally frightening: the anger of the mob. The mob already takes propaganda as fact and having a different opinion or even suggesting that matters should be discussed openly leads to ostracism and agression.
As any totalitarian system in which there is no place anymore for rational discussion and rational behavior people feel intimidated. They are intimidated. It brings out the worst in people.
I had planned an article on the real figures. That cannot be done anymore. Authorities monopolized the statistic (that is based on models with arbitrary parameters) and saying anything else can get you convicted for spreading "fake news". Fake news is all news that is not official.
What should worry us most is the prospect that what is presented as temporary will proof not to be temporary. Already politicians design new laws that are designed to make it easier to cancel constitutions and laws when an acting government declares any kind of emergency.
That is what modern democracies have become. Totalitarian democracies. This move was well prepared. We have seen new censorship, new censorship laws and ostracism on basis of opinion already appear during the last years. Trickling in. Always with the same intention: limit free speech and limit civilian freedoms. What also is going on a long time already: declaring things secret and/or classified and in the hands of unaccountable very lavishly funded "services". The very thing Ike Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy warned against. It has become reality.
Brace for a totally new order resulting from this. Even if you think the official assessment about the corona virus is true (no proof so far!), it does not logically follow that this justifies measures taken. Au contraire! Scenario's like this were on the shelf and the level of coordination between states in their reactions (shutting down complete countries and their economies) is at the very least suspicious.
For each individual going trough this lockdown and excessive abolishing of fundamental rights, it is important to evaluate and prepare strategies for the new time that will emerge from this. Many freedoms have died these days and will remain dead.
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