Many people are upset at being compared to Germans supporting the rise of Nazism when laid out next to COVID and how the military, political, corporate, educational, and media complex, not to mention the individual, dealt with the “unclean,” during the pandemic of 2019.
So, let us recapitulate the history of COVID and its Holocaustic resemblance.
A fifth of the population was labeled as “unclean,” barred from most public spaces, including theatres, restaurants, movies, pubs, clubs, swimming pools, sporting events, concerts, conventions, etc. People had to carry a digital mark so authorities could confirm they weren’t unclean to get into a public place.
They were fired and barred from most jobs: education, healthcare, courts, all public sector work, union jobs, and private employers. Fired, they were denied employment insurance because of being unclean.
They could not travel on trains, planes, and chartered boats. They had no legal means of leaving the country. Even if they wanted to, they could not escape the country that hated them.
It became illegal to socialize with them. They were not allowed to attend weddings or funerals or visit sick relatives or friends in hospital. Special laws were made for them, subjecting them to house arrest if they were around anyone who had recently had a positive PCR test.
They had to continue to cover their faces in public even after “universal masking” ended. And it became socially acceptable to wish death upon them in social media and major news organizations.
Public health figures and other politicians gave press conferences, shaming and insulting those who refused the COVID shot and all its booster. The public developed negative opinions of them and relished calling them names.
News media regularly ran polls asking if they should be arrested or fined. Public figures spoke openly about withholding healthcare. Indeed, some were removed from organ transplant lists, condemning them to death.
There were no end dates for these measures. Instead, it was called the “new normal.” And criticizing data found to be questionable made the person asking a social pariah and likely cost friendships, family relations, and jobs.
The lesson of the Holocaust and COVID isn’t that the Nazis or people of the 21st Century are uniquely gullible or evil, but that most people adopt the dominant group ideology based on fear and give over to wanton irrationality or brutal inhumanity.
As in certain cults or gangs, the brutality or irrationality of the acts or beliefs required to signal group inclusion further entrenches people into the ideology rather than repel them.
So, yes, if you’re a typical person, it is overwhelmingly likely that you would have been a Nazi had you been born in Nazi Germany. And if you cheered for the lockdowns and mandates, forced children to wear masks in class, and pushed an ineffective vaccine and its boosters, you are no better than a natural-born Nazi.
Live with it.
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