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Friday, August 6, 2021
Call the COVID Hysteria What It Is
Do you know what one of the most common psychological torture tactics is? Isolation.
Other common tactics of psychological torture, according to the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California, Davis, include indefinite detention and a sense of futility. Threats of death are also a common tactic psychological torturers use. So is degradation and sensory deprivation.
Torture is defined as “the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the orders of any authority . . . to force another person to yield information, to make a confession, or for any other reason” (Emphasis added).
Medical professionals make no definitional distinction between psychological and physical torture.
Do any of the above tactics of psychological torture sound familiar? They should. Your government leaders, at the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the US Centers for Disease Control, have been inflicting them upon you for almost 18 months.
Lockdowns are the obvious example of isolation. But subtler is the suggestion, which is once again becoming a major talking point among our “public health” and elected officials, that if you do dare to leave your house, standing close to another human being or gathering in groups could be dangerous, even deadly.
Are you feeling a sense of futility yet? If you’ve refused the vaccine, you might be. How many times can you explain to the brainwashed masses that you have good reason to avoid taking an experimental drug? How long will the hysteria last? How can these mindless leftists possibly continue blindly to follow the immoral authority of the CDC, and somehow have the audacity to label themselves intellectuals? Will we ever return to pre-COVID norms, where a virus didn’t dominate our daily lives?
You might also feel a sense of futility if your employer, at the behest of your government torturers, is coercing you into taking the vaccine under threat of unemployment. The threat of losing your livelihood is in itself part of the torture. They’re hoping that the idea of financial ruin will break you, and that you’ll finally give in to their demands.
On the topic of degradation, what could possibly be more degrading than becoming a guinea pig for an experimental drug? Bear in mind that such drugs are normally tested on lab rats. Now, they’re being tested on you.
Masks are an obvious form of degradation, too. Being forced to wear a dirty cloth diaper over your face for months on end sounds like a fraternity hazing ritual. Only it wasn’t. It was the official policy mandated by nearly every US governor, at the behest of the CDC. Now it’s the official “recommendation.”
You might have noticed that your mask also deprived you of your sense of smell, or limited your peripheral vision if it crept up your face towards your eyes. There is real sensory deprivation involved in being forced to wear a mask—another hallmark of psychological torture.
And what about threats of death? Have you heard more than a few people over the past 18 months tell you that if you don’t follow the infallible word of Fauci, that you’ll die? Or worse, that you’ll cause the death of someone you love? Of course you have. That messaging is ubiquitous.
The overarching theme of all torture is repetition. Such repetition is meant to break you, so you will submit to the will of your torturers.
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from Call the COVID Hysteria What It Is