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Coerced Cowardice

The less likely you are to die of COVID-19, the more likely you are to be afraid of it.

Coerced Cowardice

The less likely you are to die of COVID-19, the more likely you are to be afraid of it. In this episode of the Firewall, Bill Whittle explains the source of this historically-bizarre fear ratio. 

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I will refine my vocabulary from referencing “people with functional amygdalas” vs. “people with non-functional amygdalas” now to “people with well-calibrated amygdalas” vs. “people with poorly-calibrated amygdalas.”

Thanks for the adjustment, Bill!

Bill, great video, great insight. It was really great to see that you and this particular Firewall were mentioned today, June 25th, on American Thinker. Coerced Cowardice is referenced in Patricia McCarthy’s article, “Vaccines: When the Boomer generation’s wisdom meets the Millennial’s will to submit.”

Good video, great assessment.

One thing I would warn against, though, is the tendency to dismiss ALL of the measures because of the infection numbers. It is quite possible, even likely, that the infection numbers are as low as they are *because* of one or more of the measures taken.

We will never be able to measure this, which favors the people with the smaller right-side brain sub-organs. They can pretend everything that was done is responsible for all of the suppression, and therefore ever stupid over-reach, over-reaction was justified.

This, of course, is not true. Some were more justified than others. Some had pretty much the OPPOSITE of scientific backing.

As we sit here, end of the pandemic, I think of two anti-vaxers (don’t get me wrong, I am pro-vax, but I also support the rights of anti-vaxers even though I think their risk assessment abilities on the subject are underdeveloped) anyway, one is my father, the other is the woman hired to come look after him and help him out.

She had a fever last week. It broke, so she came out to my dad’s to help the next day. She began coughing that day. Monday, her COVID test came back positive.

She’s relatively young and healthy and she’s just going to feel really bad for the next several days. It’s already sucked the energy out of her.

My dad is 85, has COPD, is diabetic, and has some hypertension. He has shown no symptoms yet. But this morning is only 4 days.

IF he comes down with it, being 85 … that gives him, what, a 91+% chance of surviving it. But being 85 with COPD, diabetes, and hypertension probably drops that considerably. Probably still over 50%, but lower. And with the fact we know how to treat it better now … well that helps.

Now … had either of them been vaccinated, he wouldn’t be in this situation.

However, it was their choice (kind of hard to swallow when it’s a family member involved but it does not change the *fact*).

Anyway, all this to say that it’s not gone (it will never be gone), and some of the measures taken were appropriate, others were beyond ridiculous. And that poor risk assessment can cut the other way on this one. But it’s the same mechanism. In this case, the fear of the vaccine was overblown, and now there’s a real, tenable risk because of it.

Please get your dad some ivermectin. Do not delay. This will increase his chances of surviving significantly. The earlier he gets it, the better his chances. You can find a doctor who will prescribe it via tele-visits on the FLCCC website:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/

I’d have to convince him there is a threat, first, sadly. I can try. But the bottom line is, he thinks “it’s the common cold”. Or at least that’s what he says.

Keep trying! The common cold IS A coronavirus. Ivermectin kills them all. The old belief that viruses are untreatable is no longer true.

At least get him to take zinc, in an absorbable form. Zinc picolinate or chelated, preferably bisglycinate. (NOT zinc gluconate, the most common form.) Zinc is also a powerful antiviral but if it’s not in an easily absorbable form it can’t get into the cells by itself and needs a helper (called an ionophore). Ionophores include green tea extract, quercetin, and hydroxychloroquine.

I hope your dad recovers quickly and easily.

My brain explained it to me this way: “you’re in a room with 700 people representing the full spectrum of the US population – young, old, male, female, athletes, addicts, healthy, infirm, obese, frail, whatever – all of it (as Bill would say). One of you will die of COVID. Look around. Will it be you?”

Love this Firewall. I’m always struck by the depth of the fear. There is no reasoning with some of these people. My friend will agree that a mask can’t stop a virus but it “is to protect others”. So it works one way and not the other? I told him to wear it inside out to protect himself.

I told him to wear it inside out to protect himself.

Coffee spews from my nose as I choke back a loud burst of laughter. šŸ˜€
The question remains … did your friend invert the mask?

Wow, I’m impressed! This is a concise and insightful presentation on the angst that plagues our society today.
I’m going to watch it a second time and take notes.

Hi Ron. Yea. They found a cancer spot on my lung, Hit with 3 high doses of radiation and hopefully annihilated that bugger, Prognosis is good and I got for a PET scam in about a month to make sure it worked. Anyway, that kinda kept me busy.
Thanks for the shout out ad concern buddy!

Keep us informed. Prayers up for you! Let’s get Scott to do another zoom meeting for us!

Thanks Ron. I’m up for a zoom but I ain’t pushing Scott as the last time I think I pushed too much and might have pissed him off. Your turn! Hahaha.

This video did not show up in my YouTube subscriptions or on Bill’s channel page. Is it purposely unlisted or is this more YouTube chicanery?

It’s ‘Unlisted” for some reason, so you can only find it through direct link like on top of this page. Not on your subs, alerts, search, etc.

Yep, I realized that after I posted my comment, and I did go through the link in-bedded in the video.

I saw this play out in real time. My in-laws are 91 and 87 who grew up in the coal mines of WV and he left for the Marines and a stint at the DMZ in Korea. They were not at all afraid of Covid- went out had people over. Only changed things that they had to, like wearing masks in public.
We had a restaurant that was open for take out that had a patio adjacent. We started going there last spring and they came every saturday.
Conversely, my daughter’s roommates were flat out terrified. Didn’t want people in the apartment, kept very closed circles. When Ronette came up and joined us on saturdays, they wouldn’t quite shun her.
Even when all were vaccinated, they were extremely cautious. They were definitely scared beyond needed given their ages.

I, too watched the overwrought reaction from my daughter and her husband.
Both in their 30’s, both terrified of catching the disease from anyone/everyone. Won’t come in our house, won’t hug either myself or the wife. Masked and distant whenever we see them.
I’ve tried to explain their risk levels, but I’m talking to a wall.
Part of the problem, I think, is that both work in the tech sector and are heavily involved in social media. Practically bathing in the Kool-Aid.

I think I’ll forward this video to her….
Who knows?

Right – they hear so frequently how dangerous the virus is, they won’t believe anyone else or even their own eyes.
This seems like a good place for this quote.

Same with one out of two kids, older one was scared shit less and the second younger one was completely cool. You and we didn’t fail at all, it was college and social media.

Trying to imagine the motivation of the cowering twenty and thirty-somethings Iā€™ve encountered, perhaps they are more fearful because they feel they have more to lose. After all, they do have more of lifeā€™s potential ahead of them, while each passing day brings a dinosaur like me hints of my looming decrepitude. Having witnessed a lot over years of elder care and visiting long term care facilities under the best possible circumstances had already colored my perspective, but the sociopathic torture of the elderly during the WuFlu hysteria convinced me beyond doubt that there are far worse things than passing into the next phase of eternal life. At some point in each of our lives, of greater concern may be less itā€™s a pity she went so soon and more what a pity she lived so long.

Allison – there is a lot of truth in what you say. My mom almost fell into the “what a pity” group. She and I had a long conversation at Christmas 2019. She knew she wasn’t well and was already at a point where getting out was a challenge. She told me straight out that whatever virus she got next was going to be her last and she was OK with that. BTW – she had terrible COPD so this particular one was bad for her. She went within 4 days once she got sick, which was ok since she died in her own bed with me, my wife and Ronette holding her hands. It was pretty early in the whole thing, the world hadn’t shut down so he COD was actually COPD, but it was pretty obvious in a couple weeks what virus she caught.
She would have absolutely hated what happened in the next 18 months.
Now, Ronette watched that and also knew that her other grandparents were adamant that hugs would be had, visits would be made and they did not want to die alone. Heck both of them still drive. So when her roommates crawled into their holes, she spent a lot more time with family (unmasked) and wore a mask around he younger friends. She knew how useless the masks were, her old man is an engineer and scientist and proved it to her. But it was easier to appease the crazies than push it. One of the biggest crazies has now chosen to move out so maybe it will be ok. She learned the hard way that appeasing crazy is not the correct path necessarily.
I know way too many people my age whose parents passed in nursing homes after having gone a year or more without physical contact from family. That is tragedy and you are correct, a form of torture. We put unruly prisoners in isolation, not family.
One of the worst things to happen is that these kids got comfortable wearing their masks everywhere. I guess it’s true that it only takes 3 weeks to learn a new habit.
My big fear is that people are now accustomed to doing what those in authority tell them to do. And will do so next time as well.

Ron, Iā€™m sorry for your loss, but happy that your family was able to celebrate your momā€™s life and deliverance from her earthly suffering with the full measure of humanity before such was denied us purportedly for our own good. I too am dismayed at the tractability of young adults, but I canā€™t imagine how I wouldā€™ve reacted were I in their place. What I really wonder about is how they’ll react if they ever realize that their ā€œbettersā€ are playing them as the biggest suckers in world history.

Bill, I would love to see you do a similar post on the coerced fear or concern of what other people think. We, the people living in “fly-over-country,” don’t tend to care about what other people think about what we say and do. But, I have watched many of my friends and neighbors wrangle with this during the last few elections and especially during Covid. It’s as if we don’t have to be censored–we preemptively self-censor out of fear of what others may think.

Richard, that is an excellent idea. I would like to turn that into the next Firewall.

Bill – can you post the chart with the deaths from covid along with deaths from other causes, or cite the source? I’d like to pass that on to quite a few folks.
Great video!

I agree. As big a deal should be made out of their mental instability and inability to differentiate between an actual threat and a benign object or action as they made out of those benign objects and actions. They should be dragged through the courts and the media to expose their shameful behavior and as a warning to others who would contemplate the same sort of child abuses.

“This isn’t about the virus. This is about the host.”
Just one of so many quotable moments in this Firewall. Excellent work, and thank you, Bill!

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