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by throwaway1723 2051 days ago
And today it's absolutely the same situation like the one described in the article.

History taught no one. Once again, no one seems to be willing to resist the beginnings and consider the end.

The beginnings go by the name COVID-19 and include lockdowns, closure of national borders, obligatory mask-or-starve-to-death, social distancing, temp checks, QR codes assigned to people in order to leave home, and other totalitarian bullcrap that would be considered absolutely insane and unacceptable as little as a year ago. Everyone is trembling with terror at dying from the single virus and the single disease as if no millions of other viruses and diseases existed. Everyone is so scared for their dear asses that all critical thinking is blocked, because, to cite the original text of the article, 'there is so much going on around', and so they turn a blind eye to all the manipulation and brainwash backed by absurd amounts of money. All they want is that the great wise men in power come and save them. And the end is clearly a one-world medicine-mediated techno-fascism even Hitler and his creators couldn't dream about.

But instead of thinking, what will my bright contemporaries do now? They'll engage their downvote machineguns and flag me the hell out of existence. And HN will help them by counting their pro-covid downvotes as 3 to 5 regular ones. Start your timers, gentlemen, if any still remain here, and watch this post disappear in no time.

But always mind the end, dear downvoters and especially, flaggers.

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I know you probably think you're right, but I can't help read this with pity that you think you're in the same position as the precursor to a totalitarian state because people don't want to kill their grandparents.
There is always an excuse that "this time is not the same as before", and this is exactly why the history keeps repeating itself.

There's always a deception that makes the most part of population believe THEY'RE right, be it a virus that kills elderly, a foe nation weaving plots against the fatherland, whatever, it's literally anything that makes people act with pride as if they were fighting the greatest evil. But the Hell is paved with best intentions. Failing to understand that will keep you feeling pity for those who predicted what comes next, and then feeling pity for yourself for you did not listen when it was not too late.

Look, we are all a death threat to each other, but there's one thing called immunity that keeps us from dying out. Elderly always were less immune; are you 100% sure that none of your droplets ever killed someone less immune back in the reckless unmasked days? Someone with a rare condition? Did you track fates of all people you ever contacted?

You people seem to have some panic button in your minds that has been activated by some great NLP masters, which now prevents you from accepting simple facts of life and death. Especially of death. You are willing to wrap life in masks and barbwire, to make it immobile and constrained, to eat and inject all kinds of poisons, to accept any kind of atrocious attitude and orders just in order to keep this undead state for indefinitely long. But that's not going to happen, and you all know that. The clock is ticking for everyone. The only way out of this mess is to live a good fearless life and enjoy every second of it.

And I highly recommend watching these 2 videos in succession to all the good intended people who believe there's nothing ominous going on right now.

Berlin in 1936: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es6f7K4c-y8

Berlin in 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5i9k7s9X_A

Be well and do try to join the dots...