Lovely article Laura. Thank you. I would like to see a campaign now to completely unearth ALL the psy-op manipulations, games, plans, techniques and campaigns that have been so very effective during the last two years in undoing the mental health of the nation. I can't think of anyone who has not been affected by them. And then there's the children! So wrong. There needs to be a discussion around the ethics of all of this. Is it right that a government should invoke fear in it's population at all? I would argue that it is not, that the more grown up , truly respectufl relationship would have a government being upfront with the citizenry, about the risks and the harms of say a virus such as this. It's not okay to destroy our mental health. Will we see a moratorium on this issue? A campaign perhaps ? There needs to be a complete rethink on use of psychological weapons upon our own people. It's actually domestic terrorism, and is I believe already against the law, but you wouldn't think so.
Typical example based on weak science data is vaccination mandate imposed by coercion on NHS and Care workers with a threat of job losses. Thereby putting more lives at risk by not enough staff looking after patients.
Dear Laura…..I’m in tears reading this…and the comments. As a small child I witnessed my mother battered, bruised, teeth broken by a wicked stepfather. I grew up an angry person, hating bullies and getting in trouble because of it as a young man. My dear mother remained gentle and forgiving throughout her difficult life. I made a promise to her on her death bed 14 years ago that I would lose my anger….it troubled her. I learnt to meditate and pray, I gave up my rat race job and switched the 2 hour commute for a 2-3 mile walk or run in nature every morning. Whilst I am a changed man, I suffer from health anxiety, I have real symptoms, heart problems, mental anguish at lumps here and there, digestive problems that I think are the worst thing it could be….but turn out to be fixed with ACV. I’m sure that if I could just release my anger I wouldn’t suffer so much. These last 2 years I’ve felt like the little boy looking through the gap in the stairs watching his mum get punched and kicked…the same torment in my head, the same feeling of helplessness, the same pent up anger that I have to hold inside me. My body holding the emotion, It feels like I’m having a heart attack every day, I have dizzy spells….my intuition sees these government policies as no different to the abuse of my wicked stepfather. Add to that the daily threats from certain people in the media attacking unvaccinated, unmasked, anti lockdowners….add to that the video’s on social media of policemen punching 14 year old girls in the face, throwing elderly women to the floor then spraying the point blank with pepper spray etc etc. I am angry, I do not fear these people I fear that a time will come when I break my promise to my dear mum. I’ll continue to pray, meditate and lose myself in nature.
Hi Ron just want to share that I can relate to resurfacing of old pain and reactivation of things from the past. I have had moments of feeling thrown back in to past situations of control, violence and mind games. I have been angry for 2 years now. So angry. Furious, raging within and just trying to get through every day and like you not wanting to let that anger spill out in harmful ways. I see how angry other people are and feel the tension around me. And I try to feel hurt in the anger and the desire for agency in myself and in others. Anger is a powerful emotion and it makes sense to me when you say it's affecting your health (I think that's what you said, apologies if I misunderstood) Moving, meditating, praying and connecting with nature has helped me too.
In the past two years when I've felt like I was going mad for intensely feeling that what is being done/what we are doing is life-and-soul-destroying and felt powerless to influence it, my mantra throughout has been 'I belive in nature'.
Which is just short hand for 'I believe in life and death, in pain, illness, decay and fragility, in disaster, powerlessness and being out of control. I believe in seasons and rhythms and cycles, in the wonder of the return of the sun and of spring, in the dance of the moon and the oceans, in the interconnectedness of all things. I belive in each human body as a unique, adaptable, amazing, living organism. I believe that everything is alive and interdependent and I belive that nature does was nature does no matter how humans feel or think about it'.
I've always understood science to be an attempt to understand nature and life, about exploring and coming up with theories and arguing with scientist who have other theories, and creating experiments and research to illustrate theories to others. A playground, a place to wonder and be in awe, a search for knowledge to satisfy the curiosity of the human mind. Nature doesn't need science, life doesn't need science. The human mind does.
When science becomes about controlling nature I bow out.
What we are dealing with is the greatest betrayal of trust that has ever happened in human history. Short overview of what happened, how it happened, and possible directions where things might progress into.
This is a brilliant analysis. I would add that I although I agree there is some intentional corruption/greed/hubris about what is good for humanity at play, most of what we are seeing is from years of incompetent lazy selfish, less than authentic courageous human behaviour in action…there is no defined enemy, it is within all of us…you don’t need a defined evil “they”, our human nature and resulting less than stellar actions, is more than enough to bring us to this moment.
"Heaven smells like the fragrant clouds of lime blossom in June. "
Oh yes. We live in a small village in rural Somerset. Part of the manorial estate of the Asquith family. Asquith family from way back are big on trees - so much so that Grandfather Asquith way back planted a huge parade of Lime trees along the road going out of Mells, which in June are like walking through clouds of heaven.
Lockdown #1 here was fine, bar the pub being shut. We get rammed with tourists and visitors in the summer, but in 2020 you could walk the half mile thru' the village to the village shop and not see a car. A glorious summer as well, during which I completely re-designed our garden (much to our satisfaction), and ended the day with a couple of bottles of Cider in the gazebo.
Lockdown didn't really happen for the villagers, we socialised, kept on walking our dogs in close proximity and mingled when we met.
Great article! It still makes me laugh when I watch University Challenge and the supposed creme de la creme, the brightest students in this country, sit next a tiny bit of plexiglass. They come out with the most complicated answers but are still forced to sit next to the least complicated answer - viruses can travel around plexiglass!
Decisions made by following the "science" can only be credible if science is openly questioned and debated but not suppressed by pushing one narrative.
The current goings-on with unvaccinated NHS and Care workers who are threatened with "no jab no job" coercive policy with an ultimatum of losing their livelihoods is unfair especially based on very weak scientific data. NHS is already over-stretched and is at risk of being obliterated.
The government needs to reverse this coercive policy and STOP vaccine mandates.
There is actually no such thing as following the science. Science can only give us information. How we act on it depends on our values, which are necessarily subjective.
Thank you for your insights Laura and for giving me some interesting ideas to think about. These all help me to manage my rage over the waste of lockdowns.
That was a good and thoughtful read. Thank you for writing it and for all your excellent work shining the social pathologist‘s spotlight on this deeply disturbing episode of misgovernance and institutional hubris.
What a wonderful article. You do write beautifully Laura.
I've spent many years observing events through the eyes of a 'conspiracy theorist' - for want of a better term. So on the first day that they reported covid deaths in March 2020 I heard deception. I knew immediately that 'X number of people have died HAVING TESTED POSITIVE for covid' told us absolutely nothing. I turned my radio off on that day and have not listened to it since.
I work (currently) at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and I was trying to point the deception out from that moment on. I've failed miserably. The inability of people to hear is quite astonishing. You're absolutely spot on about the fear Laura. But it's not just a fear of catching the lurgy. The fear of consuming alternative information is intense and absolutely rife. I'm no psychologist. I hear what you say about their own neurosis. But, having listened to the Gent University Professor Mattias Desmet talking about 'Mass Formation' or 'Crowd Formation' I find myself unable to fathom any better explanation for what is taking place around us.
I've recently lambasted middle management for not standing up for all those people - the healthiest ones who have had no time off because a useless test told them to (whilst in perfectly good health!) - that are going to be dispensed of due to them suddenly becoming a health hazard. But not today. Oh no! Today we're ok, tomorrow too ... and next week and the two months between the first and second jabs ... and for the past 18 months! But at 00:01hrs on a pre-determined date we all become a bio-hazard. It took me a while to prize it out of my own manager, but, it turns out that they're not supporting us because they actually believe it's a good idea to blackmail people into becoming lab rats!! Go figure.
If your followers haven't seen this yet I'd highly recommend the blog of someone who calls him/herself 'The Covid Physician'. They can be found here https://tcp.art.blog and their writing is quite brilliant. They are a GP who refuses to follow the garbage and who writes really very well about their experience in possession of knowledge that most (but far from all) doctors in this country seem unable to access ... or access and understand. It's moving, amusing and infuriating and, like the content created here, worth every second spent reading it.
Again another fantastic essay from Laura. If only more people realised they've been manipulated by fear, of death physical & social, into compliance then we'd be out of this mess the sooner. I'm telling my friends, regardless of their stance on this 'crisis', to read your book The State of Fear.
Laura, it is very uplifting to read your work. Your now famed book is a must read for everyone and as you said to one of my previous comments, once seen it cannot be unseen.
Right from the get-go I coined the term KCS (King Canute Syndrome) which I believe aptly describes the designers of this ongoing madness.
Lovely article Laura. Thank you. I would like to see a campaign now to completely unearth ALL the psy-op manipulations, games, plans, techniques and campaigns that have been so very effective during the last two years in undoing the mental health of the nation. I can't think of anyone who has not been affected by them. And then there's the children! So wrong. There needs to be a discussion around the ethics of all of this. Is it right that a government should invoke fear in it's population at all? I would argue that it is not, that the more grown up , truly respectufl relationship would have a government being upfront with the citizenry, about the risks and the harms of say a virus such as this. It's not okay to destroy our mental health. Will we see a moratorium on this issue? A campaign perhaps ? There needs to be a complete rethink on use of psychological weapons upon our own people. It's actually domestic terrorism, and is I believe already against the law, but you wouldn't think so.
I agree with you.
Typical example based on weak science data is vaccination mandate imposed by coercion on NHS and Care workers with a threat of job losses. Thereby putting more lives at risk by not enough staff looking after patients.
Dear Laura…..I’m in tears reading this…and the comments. As a small child I witnessed my mother battered, bruised, teeth broken by a wicked stepfather. I grew up an angry person, hating bullies and getting in trouble because of it as a young man. My dear mother remained gentle and forgiving throughout her difficult life. I made a promise to her on her death bed 14 years ago that I would lose my anger….it troubled her. I learnt to meditate and pray, I gave up my rat race job and switched the 2 hour commute for a 2-3 mile walk or run in nature every morning. Whilst I am a changed man, I suffer from health anxiety, I have real symptoms, heart problems, mental anguish at lumps here and there, digestive problems that I think are the worst thing it could be….but turn out to be fixed with ACV. I’m sure that if I could just release my anger I wouldn’t suffer so much. These last 2 years I’ve felt like the little boy looking through the gap in the stairs watching his mum get punched and kicked…the same torment in my head, the same feeling of helplessness, the same pent up anger that I have to hold inside me. My body holding the emotion, It feels like I’m having a heart attack every day, I have dizzy spells….my intuition sees these government policies as no different to the abuse of my wicked stepfather. Add to that the daily threats from certain people in the media attacking unvaccinated, unmasked, anti lockdowners….add to that the video’s on social media of policemen punching 14 year old girls in the face, throwing elderly women to the floor then spraying the point blank with pepper spray etc etc. I am angry, I do not fear these people I fear that a time will come when I break my promise to my dear mum. I’ll continue to pray, meditate and lose myself in nature.
Thank you for sharing your story here.
Hi Ron just want to share that I can relate to resurfacing of old pain and reactivation of things from the past. I have had moments of feeling thrown back in to past situations of control, violence and mind games. I have been angry for 2 years now. So angry. Furious, raging within and just trying to get through every day and like you not wanting to let that anger spill out in harmful ways. I see how angry other people are and feel the tension around me. And I try to feel hurt in the anger and the desire for agency in myself and in others. Anger is a powerful emotion and it makes sense to me when you say it's affecting your health (I think that's what you said, apologies if I misunderstood) Moving, meditating, praying and connecting with nature has helped me too.
Thank you for a beautiful piece of writing.
In the past two years when I've felt like I was going mad for intensely feeling that what is being done/what we are doing is life-and-soul-destroying and felt powerless to influence it, my mantra throughout has been 'I belive in nature'.
Which is just short hand for 'I believe in life and death, in pain, illness, decay and fragility, in disaster, powerlessness and being out of control. I believe in seasons and rhythms and cycles, in the wonder of the return of the sun and of spring, in the dance of the moon and the oceans, in the interconnectedness of all things. I belive in each human body as a unique, adaptable, amazing, living organism. I believe that everything is alive and interdependent and I belive that nature does was nature does no matter how humans feel or think about it'.
I've always understood science to be an attempt to understand nature and life, about exploring and coming up with theories and arguing with scientist who have other theories, and creating experiments and research to illustrate theories to others. A playground, a place to wonder and be in awe, a search for knowledge to satisfy the curiosity of the human mind. Nature doesn't need science, life doesn't need science. The human mind does.
When science becomes about controlling nature I bow out.
I think connection to nature is one source of meaningful connection which allows you to evade mass hysteria. More in Part Two.
What we are dealing with is the greatest betrayal of trust that has ever happened in human history. Short overview of what happened, how it happened, and possible directions where things might progress into.
https://mellob33.substack.com/p/trust-and-betrayal-how-to-destroy
This is a brilliant analysis. I would add that I although I agree there is some intentional corruption/greed/hubris about what is good for humanity at play, most of what we are seeing is from years of incompetent lazy selfish, less than authentic courageous human behaviour in action…there is no defined enemy, it is within all of us…you don’t need a defined evil “they”, our human nature and resulting less than stellar actions, is more than enough to bring us to this moment.
"Heaven smells like the fragrant clouds of lime blossom in June. "
Oh yes. We live in a small village in rural Somerset. Part of the manorial estate of the Asquith family. Asquith family from way back are big on trees - so much so that Grandfather Asquith way back planted a huge parade of Lime trees along the road going out of Mells, which in June are like walking through clouds of heaven.
Lockdown #1 here was fine, bar the pub being shut. We get rammed with tourists and visitors in the summer, but in 2020 you could walk the half mile thru' the village to the village shop and not see a car. A glorious summer as well, during which I completely re-designed our garden (much to our satisfaction), and ended the day with a couple of bottles of Cider in the gazebo.
Lockdown didn't really happen for the villagers, we socialised, kept on walking our dogs in close proximity and mingled when we met.
And then... they couldn't let go
Great article! It still makes me laugh when I watch University Challenge and the supposed creme de la creme, the brightest students in this country, sit next a tiny bit of plexiglass. They come out with the most complicated answers but are still forced to sit next to the least complicated answer - viruses can travel around plexiglass!
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/
Great article Laura thank you.
The illusion of control by fear and will take decades for people to get over it.
MP Bob Seely has quite rightly questioned Covid forecasting and modelling at a recent debatein Westminster Hall.
https://youtu.be/sOM9jWijuH8
Decisions made by following the "science" can only be credible if science is openly questioned and debated but not suppressed by pushing one narrative.
The current goings-on with unvaccinated NHS and Care workers who are threatened with "no jab no job" coercive policy with an ultimatum of losing their livelihoods is unfair especially based on very weak scientific data. NHS is already over-stretched and is at risk of being obliterated.
The government needs to reverse this coercive policy and STOP vaccine mandates.
There is actually no such thing as following the science. Science can only give us information. How we act on it depends on our values, which are necessarily subjective.
Thank you for your insights Laura and for giving me some interesting ideas to think about. These all help me to manage my rage over the waste of lockdowns.
I hear you about the rage. For the first few months I walked around like a crazy woman. It was not fun for my husband.
Walked around like a crazy woman, or, was it more like continuing to walk around as a free person?
I have been campaigning against lockdowns since March 2020.
We need a grownup debate over what has worked, what hasn’t worked in order to move on and not make the same mistakes.
I would love for the people I know to acknowledge the truth, but I think that would take tremendous guts.
I have to make sure now that mentally my anger against what has been done doesn’t fester.
So nice to hear other people voicing what I have been feeling since March 2020.
That was a good and thoughtful read. Thank you for writing it and for all your excellent work shining the social pathologist‘s spotlight on this deeply disturbing episode of misgovernance and institutional hubris.
Wow 💜🙏💜 thank God for you Laura xx
Ditto Karen. A pillar of sanity in the midst of idiocy.
What a wonderful article. You do write beautifully Laura.
I've spent many years observing events through the eyes of a 'conspiracy theorist' - for want of a better term. So on the first day that they reported covid deaths in March 2020 I heard deception. I knew immediately that 'X number of people have died HAVING TESTED POSITIVE for covid' told us absolutely nothing. I turned my radio off on that day and have not listened to it since.
I work (currently) at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and I was trying to point the deception out from that moment on. I've failed miserably. The inability of people to hear is quite astonishing. You're absolutely spot on about the fear Laura. But it's not just a fear of catching the lurgy. The fear of consuming alternative information is intense and absolutely rife. I'm no psychologist. I hear what you say about their own neurosis. But, having listened to the Gent University Professor Mattias Desmet talking about 'Mass Formation' or 'Crowd Formation' I find myself unable to fathom any better explanation for what is taking place around us.
I've recently lambasted middle management for not standing up for all those people - the healthiest ones who have had no time off because a useless test told them to (whilst in perfectly good health!) - that are going to be dispensed of due to them suddenly becoming a health hazard. But not today. Oh no! Today we're ok, tomorrow too ... and next week and the two months between the first and second jabs ... and for the past 18 months! But at 00:01hrs on a pre-determined date we all become a bio-hazard. It took me a while to prize it out of my own manager, but, it turns out that they're not supporting us because they actually believe it's a good idea to blackmail people into becoming lab rats!! Go figure.
If your followers haven't seen this yet I'd highly recommend the blog of someone who calls him/herself 'The Covid Physician'. They can be found here https://tcp.art.blog and their writing is quite brilliant. They are a GP who refuses to follow the garbage and who writes really very well about their experience in possession of knowledge that most (but far from all) doctors in this country seem unable to access ... or access and understand. It's moving, amusing and infuriating and, like the content created here, worth every second spent reading it.
Looking forward to the next installment Laura. :)
Great recommendation, thank you. Thank you also for the kind words.
Thanks for the link to the Covid Physician. Already into my first post. Infuriating indeed!
Again another fantastic essay from Laura. If only more people realised they've been manipulated by fear, of death physical & social, into compliance then we'd be out of this mess the sooner. I'm telling my friends, regardless of their stance on this 'crisis', to read your book The State of Fear.
Brilliantly written, and so true 🙂
Laura, it is very uplifting to read your work. Your now famed book is a must read for everyone and as you said to one of my previous comments, once seen it cannot be unseen.
Right from the get-go I coined the term KCS (King Canute Syndrome) which I believe aptly describes the designers of this ongoing madness.
Thank you Laura for that deeply thoughtful essay. I'm forward to the next part.