I amn't interested in what existing governments and institutions should do or should have done. Perhaps, WE should be taking a more individualist approach. In my opinion that means forgetting what our "government" who've become rulers can do. They are working toward their interests. We need to be working toward ours. I'm not sure that anybody knows how to do that now in this situation and that is what I hope to figure out.
In the end they did use our cultural individualism in their favour when the fear began to die. They promised people free fries, they can dine indoors, they'd be put into a raffle for a free car, they could travel without a €100 negative test result meaning their travel expenses will be cheaper just as it is in China.
I know that what is needed is to rebuild our institutions. How to get people organised enough to do that is where I'm stuck. And that's where collectivism might have helped, but it isn't in our nature.
For as long as I've lived we relied on a network that is now incorporated into the cult and is gradually ostracising us out of that network. (By "us" I'm referring to anybody who chooses not to comply with this cult in one or another way.) We took the important of that network, our economy for granted.
It's like forking away from the chain and finding ourselves on an abandoned legacy chain that none of the exchanges will use. With the people we have left we've got to rebuild into something powerful enough to hold our independence and even compete with their system of rewards for compliance. This is colonisation and we on the losing side of a war.
It's only a hundred years since Ireland last established its freedom. Last year was the centenary. We should have been celebrating our freedom and instead we gave it away.