I think people naturally have a fear of "doomsday" events. Apocalypse is the sort of thing that always seems just around the corner, huh?
Famine.
Floods.
Nuclear war.
Ragnarok.
Rapture.
Climate Change.
Meteor.
And plagues.
And for that reason, it's perfectly reasonable to fear a plague of a viral disease, and to be absolutely true, it's very realistic that this would happen at some point.
So then I'm here to simply say: Of course bad things happen, but how you react to them is what counts.
The most honest and harsh law of the state regarding a plague is simple: Extreme penalty for anyone venturing outside their home, and a halt on anyone crossing the border, but for an absolute limit of four-weeks.
Then it's all laid out clearly, with the ability to fully stop it in the most logical way. Official food deliverers in haz-mat suits deliver small supplies of stock foods from quarantined farms or food-tin storage depots to homes.
It would be insane. But it would work, and it would work quickly.
If every country performed this four-week lockdown, and war was threatened against countries that didn't, then the plague would be over. Yes, it's ridiculously tyrannical, but... maybe that's what is necessary sometimes.
This sort of concept isn't really what I normally would want, considering my typical freedom loving mindset. But if we shall have governments imposed on us, then the best thing that they can be is a caring parent, who knows when to help us, when to scold us, and when to let us be free.
A plague, or other major disaster is the sort of event that requires intelligent, wise, and benevolent leaders, who can take charge when the pressure is on, and make the right choices without hesitation. That's not what we see today, is it?
So it just means that we don't get some totalitarian lockdown, but with a short, effective duration. Instead, we just get this muddled implication that we should hunker down, but no one knows for how long. Weeks turn to months and months turn to years.
Lockdown. Masks on. Vaccinate.
Is this the most logical course? It's less tyrannical, and if done right, and without ANY wicked intentions, could probably work. In a sane world where governments never commit atrocities, genocides, or population-culling, and instead, the world is managed with careful benevolence, rather than reckless attempts to use power for the sake of power, I could completely trust the measures, and assume it would be done quickly.
The extended lockdown was only to hold us over until the vaccine. Nothing about it was odd, considering the vaccinated do not have to wear a mask. Oh, they do NOT! You can darkly accuse anyone of asking the vaccinated to wear a mask of "scientific heresy." As the Heretic Kitten, it is absolute heresy against science and truth to say untrue facts in such a way as to mislead people to do false, illogical things.
This virus lasts two weeks until you die or your immune system wins the war against it, thus two weeks after being vaccinated, you no longer have to wear a mask, and you can cough as loudly as you'd like. It is completely fine to revel in coughing in public again. Of course it's still awkward, but it is fine to do if you are vaccinated.
The vaccinated do not have to wear a mask.
But that's only if the vaccines work, and even if they DO work, it must also be true that they are not corrupted with something intentionally dangerous or evil. Microchips, gene-editing microbes, or whatever else could be in there. Of course it's ridiculous sci-fi, but I am indeed writing on a blockchain with my sweet homebuilt computer, so it's not as if we aren't in a golden age of technology.
Thus even if a plague IS possible, why is it going on for so long? We all know that once you get over a plague, or die from it, the plague is gone. It goes extinct if it doesn't pass to someone else.
So why is this still happening?
Why are the lockdown measures still here, and in such a form?
We all have heard skepticism about vaccines. I'm quite scientific, and so of course vaccines are real and work. I understand their principles, and it's quite logical.
But it is also a moment to inject anything else into us.
There's also very little knowledge about these specific vaccines as well. No one REALLY knows how this particular batch, made in the era of computers and genetic engineering, work. Can you demand a vial of the vaccine, and look at it under a microscope? Will they let people do that? Have you asked? I haven't, but only because I figure they won't let me.
But is that right to do? The answer is no. Most people don't actually do this, so for one or two skeptical people to want a vial to take home and study is extremely GOOD, TRUE, and USEFUL. Scientific Peer Review. The ultimate criteria of a good idea.
If people are free to take a vial home and take it to a university, or even their old highschool and ask to use a microscope on it, who would actually say no, especially considering that EVERYONE is at least a little skeptical. The more legitimate the vaccine, the easier it should be to get a sample.
The headlines read one way: "Vaccine sample denied to independent researcher who wanted to verify its contents." So try asking if you're truly skeptical, and then get it checked with your own eyes under a real microscope.
It's just a weird time to trust injectables, with all sorts of sci-fi and horror fiction concepts revolving around mysterious injections.
It's not as if I'm AGAINST masks, lockdowns, or vaccines, yet, we live in a world where governments can do some incredibly evil things.
I'm not ready to make a decision yet. I need more time and data.
I'm not going to risk my one and only life on this topic, but I am willing to discuss and think about it with an open-mind. I truly believe in evolution, so lifeforms that make the wrong decision are right to die, and those who make the right decision will live.
I cannot go this far in life, and mess up now. I've already suffered so much that I cannot let it all be for nothing. I must live, and I cannot die so young. Yes, it is a fear that grips me, but it is a fear not of the dark, but of the things themselves. I know my enemy, and it is falsity.
For now, I will keep my mask on in public indoor places, in the hope that it catches some amount of whatever "droplets" someone might spew out. It's a dry, 2-layer cloth, so it probably does SOMETHING, at least. I hope with bated breath that it's worth it.
But a vaccine is terrifying on a different level. We all have heard the conspiracies, and it's enough to make anyone think twice, no, even think THRICE. So that's what I'm gonna do.
As long as we the people, our leaders, and our pharmaceutical companies are being true, then what they do, no matter if it is the best answer, or the second best, should lead to a better world.
I still have hope, but I am indeed skeptical of a better world sometimes.
So I'll indeed think thrice before I join any cults.