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The Epoch Times: It’s Time to Drop the Hysteria and Learn to Live With COVID
Related: ethics in medicine, gears of the machine, SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19 aka Coronavirus, The Epoch Times
re: COVID
re: ethics in medicine
Another voice calling explicitly for opening, See also the WSJ opinion piece.
See also: Prescription drugs are now the third leading cause of death in the western world
The Epoch Times: It’s Time to Drop the Hysteria and Learn to Live With COVID
2022-01-08 by Bruce Pardy. Emphasis added.
For most people, Omicron is a highly contagious cold. Lots will catch it, and most will get sniffles and a sore throat. Yes, even with Omicron, as with the flu, some people will get seriously ill, and a few will die. Masking, social distancing, capacity limits, lockdowns, curfews, and “vaccines” are not stopping the spread. People who dodge Omicron this time will face the next variant, or the one after that. Like other respiratory viruses in circulation, COVID-19 is here to stay. Therefore, COVID is done. Either mild Omicron is the end of COVID madness, or there is no off-ramp. The panic-demic must finish or we will be doing this forever.
For the past 23 months, the real pandemic has not been COVID but anxiety. According to Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, the COVID crisis is a product of “mass formation,” a collective psychosis that can occur when a significant portion of the population develops an irrational fixation on an external cause. Mass formation is most likely to occur, Desmet says, when a critical mass of people suffers from a lack of social bonds, a lack of meaning in their lives, free-floating anxiety that has no specific source or cause, and free-floating frustration and aggression not directed at a particular target.
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WIND: there are lots of mass psychoses out there, it's hardly a surprise for COVID, and definitely nothing new.
