Dakota Beacon

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Many months ago I posted an article in which I asserted that perhaps the greatest loss society has suffered as a result of “covid” has been that of civility. Remember? We once greeted each other, smiled, made small talk at the checkout counter or in the aisles of the grocery store. Once we enjoyed dressing up and going out to dinner in a pleasant restaurant, enjoyed a movie or a concert, in a normal way. Then masks became a focus of what seemed to be a weird building up of hostility in some people. We stopped looking at each other, making any kind of brief eye contact. We started dreading going into a store or office of any kind because either we were expecting to be attacked for not wearing a mask, for wanting to breathe the air freely . . . or because we were in deadly fear of some invisible killer. Of the two forms of dread, I guess I'd have to prefer to be among the former. At least this group knows where the enemy is and it isn't invisible.

The masks were, in retrospect, a vital part of the whole virus conspiracy. And yes, I am using the word “conspiracy” advisedly. It has been a vast conspiracy and by now most of us should have caught on. We know more now than we did two years ago when all this mess began for most of us. Now we know that not only was the coronavirus not a wild thing that got loose in a wet market in Wuhan. It was created in a lab in Wuhan, but not without the direct participation of American scientists and American tax dollars. How's that for a conspiracy? We all know this is true. Is anyone denying it? So, yes. A conspiracy.

The masks were an essential tool because they made fear visible. Many of us realized early on that the masks truly did nothing. All we needed was a scientific demonstration. Many of us recognized also that the masks were harmful – all we needed for evidence of this was to simply wear one and then take it off and feel the rush of oxygen refreshing us and waking us up. There are a lot of reasons why the masks were important. They had not only a psychological effect on us in symbolizing fear, but they had an actual physical effect, causing mental fog, lethargy, anxiety – which is what happens when we are deprived of oxygen.

The masks created a kind of misery as did the shutting down of businesses. No physical relief and no pleasure in life. One cannot hunker down in fear as a way of life without terrible consequences. The social distancing, while it sounds innocuous, is an intolerable punishment. Look at your pet – your dog would become very stressed without a touch from you. Imagine your child. Imagine grandparents. Humans show love through touching. A grandparent needs a hug. A child needs a hug. What possible purpose could be served by separating people from loved ones – no hospital visits, no nursing home visits, no family celebrations, no social occasions in public spaces? There is a very, very good reason.

We were masked up, stifled, we were kept at home, in some places under curfews, isolated from family, from friends, loved ones. Our restaurants and bars were closed, our churches were closed. Why? Well, what do we do at restaurants, bars, churches and other public places? We talk. We share information. We exchange ideas. Obviously this is not what someone wanted. It was important that our sources of information be strictly controlled. We began to see the censoring of opinion and the suspending of people's YouTube and Twitter accounts, then the systematic canceling of scientists and doctors who began to question.

In a normal epidemic the use of medications to alleviate the illness would be immediately distributed, deployed. People who fell ill would immediately be treated – not only to help them to recover but to help to stem the spread of illness. Not so with “covid”. This has been an exceptional epidemic in many ways. This is another important aspect of it. Early on, doctors were finding that hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc and other safe substances as well as ivermectin – both proven safe and effective in humans for a wide variety of illnesses cured covid. Yet instead of ordering supplies of these helpful drugs and supplements, what were our “authorities” doing? Banning them. Physicians were threatened with losing their jobs if they prescribed them. Pharmacists refused to fill prescriptions for them. Although throughout the world these drugs are being proven – even today – to be highly effective against “covid”, they are banned in America. Yes, the land of the free. In fact, our postal service is intercepting packages they even suspect might contain ivermectin – again, a safe and approved drug in America as well as throughout the world. In fact, citizens are being robbed of their property by these agents of the federal government.

There is a reason for everything. Nothing happens without a reason. When we see a manufactured disease (funded with out own money) and a safe and effective treatment for it, both inexpensive and widely available, approved by our own FDA, banned and seized and those who try to use them to treat patients punished, when discussion and debate on the subject is censored and silenced, it is for a reason. The first obvious reason is because by closing all other avenues and creating hysteria and panic in the population about a disease no one knows anything about, through intense media hype, the public began to demand a cure-all. It was to take the form of a “vaccine”. This “vaccine” had already been developed – the producers of it were merely waiting for an excuse to market it. It has since made nearly $100 billion for its makers, including people such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates and others and companies such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson (the latter paying off so-called “fact-checkers” to disparage anyone who questions any of this on Facebook). The government response has been a disaster, beginning with Trump and his daily press conferences, dominated by Fauci – designed to evince fear and dread in the public, his dismantling of all safety regulations surrounding introduction of new “vaccines” and continues in the Biden administration, where business owners are being ordered to ensure “compliance” with “vaccine mandates”, with a devastating result in our economy and transportation of people, goods and services.

The reason for this disruption, of course, is that thinking people are “vaccine hesitant”. They want more assurance of safety. This we are finding elusive. The fact is that the “vaccines” are dangerous, ineffective and even counter-effective, appearing to cause more illness than they prevent, with some devastating effects up to and including death.

But back to the hysteria. Why? Why would otherwise intelligent people flock to this authoritarianism? We have seen hysteria before. It is usually preceded by some kind of mass anxiety or event which causes the anxiety. In Nazi Germany, a defeated Germany and Austria, once the center of the European universe, culturally, economically, politically, intellectually, had been basically dashed against the wall, all of this destroyed along with its leadership and dynasties. Someone must be blamed. In Germany that someone was the Jews. For good measure, Hitler also threw in the gypsies and anyone who was infirm, physically or mentally. No one objected. The “good Germans” helped out, throwing stones through windows of Jewish shops, beating up Jewish children, snitching to the Gestapo, all with the approval of the government and society in general. The “othered” were scapegoated. This was the approved behavior. People wanted to comply and conform to the approved behavior. They wanted to be affirmed by the “authorities”. They wanted leaders to take control and “fix” things.

These mass hysteria episodes are usually destructive of society, as Hitler's was. In a case in the south of Africa, a Xhosa “prophetess” claimed she had a vision in which a spirit instructed her to see to it that all of her people's livestock and crops were destroyed and then it would drive out the white settlers from the land. People did want rid of competition from settlers so they, too, flocked to this illogical prophetess for direction. They did destroy their crops and livestock. Reality and logic then set it and people starved – there was famine and destitution among the people. They ignored logic and common sense and destroyed valuable assets in a mad quest for some kind of magical relief.

When someone persists in attempting to accomplish a thing through illogical and unrelatable means we call it “magical thinking”. When we expect that by doing something unreasonable, such as deliberately destroying a society's means of sustenance, for example, in order to drive out what is unwanted, as in the case in the African community, a people is operating under a kind of mass hysteria, not governed by logic or common sense.

When a government or other authority tells us to put a covering over one's face that restricts breathing, collects harmful bacteria to be re-breathed, to isolate oneself from others, to not earn one's living, to avoid friends and family, to eschew pleasant aspects of life such as social gatherings, family outings, concerts, entertainment, sports, dining out, traveling, in order to stop a minor illness, when it bans effective cures and treatments for this illness, when it bans discussion and questioning of policy, when it censors people who dispute or quote facts because they do not agree with a set narrative, that is not a healthy government or society. When people begin to attack one another in a frenzy for not “conforming”, when people are excluded from travel, shopping or dining because they are not conforming to an illogical, even silly, order, we have a sick society. When people go along and behave against their own logic just to get along we have a very serious problem. Does this sound familiar?  Dr. Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical psychology in Belgium, has called this "Mass Formation".  It is another way of saying "mass hysteria", which is what our society is in the throes of now.  It is mental illness.  Dr. Mark Macdonald says he realized there was a mental problem in the general public when he had the same sense of disorder that he experienced when he went into a mental ward, every time he went outside his own door - seeing people all by themselves outdoors wearing masks.  You've seen them too.  I know I have.  

Some people actually do exhibit unhealthy levels of fear and behave contrary to logic, common sense, even human norms – a schoolteacher last week was reportedly charged with endangerment because she forced her 13-year-old son to ride in the trunk of her car. The child had “tested positive for covid”. This, she thought, was reason enough to put her own child in the trunk of her car. Obviously, this woman is not well. She needs a lot of help if she has this kind of fear. Especially when anyone who wants to know, has learned that everything from tap water to a kumquat has “tested positive”. How could a normal mother treat her child this way, especially if she believed the child were sick or suffering?

Many of us have seen the absolutely unhinged woman punching and spitting and otherwise assaulting a man who was minding his own business on an airplane. He wasn't wearing a mask. He was eating his dinner. She obviously had no fear of catching anything from him because she stood right in his face for a prolonged period of time, abusing him and not wearing her own mask. She just wanted “compliance”. This is what we have come to.

It is probably a natural outcome of two years of illogical public policy, approval by authorities of antisocial behavior. We are at a point where we need to stop indulging in this kind of magical thinking and illogical behavior. It is unhealthy. When police surround a five-year-old boy in a pizzeria to order him out because he is not vaccinated, when people are screaming at each other in the grocery store, when people are going into their third year of unemployment, it must be stopped, regardless of the threats of Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden or even Sonia Sotomayor. It really doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says by now. Common sense and a will to survive must now dictate that this fake pandemic is officially over. Those who become ill must be given access to the known treatments – ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine- those who do not want to become part of a risky medical experiment should be left alone, children should no longer be tormented with masks and certainly not forced into or even allowed to participate in an experiment which could destroy their lives and health.

The sane left among us must stand up now and refuse any more of this foolish, unhealthy and illogical behavior and we must stop tolerating it in others. The time is now. It is uncomfortable – it is always easier to go along. But only for a short time. If we do that we will find that before long it will be too late. That is what the people of Germany learned, and it cost the world a terrible price.

The Supreme Court will be issuing its decision on the matter of the OSHA “mandates” of Joe Biden et al. We should really just ignore them. If they affirm reality, reason and the very sound principles of the Constitution, so much the better. If not, we should ignore them. I am not one to say “ignore the court” but you know what? It's time that sanity take its rightful place in our lives once again. There is no “getting back to normal” otherwise, and the “authorities” have said as much. Their vision for our future is never going without a mask, accepting injections of poisons and metal into our bodies about once a month for eternity and a lot of death and injury and poverty without any expectation of curing anything.

These “authorities” want more than a monthly injection for you. They want to use this as a wedge issue in order to gain control over virtually every aspect of your life through these “vaccines”. We have seen in Australia how easy it is to go from sanity, reason and freedom to a concentration camp for an unlimited stay. We have seen the “social credit scores” applied to the people of communist China, determining their financial credit and their freedom in every aspect of life based on their willingness to conform. We will certainly see this in America, but only if we allow it.

I must ask you, what sane person will accept this?

Comments - (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (RE Dakota Beacon)

Great article Sally. I hope the truth finally comes out and the guilty are put in jail. For me, I have lost all faith in our health system, government, and most news sources. I can't believe the elites have not shut down the internet where I get all my news from trusted people like you.  - MR

Thank you for writing!  It seems that everything - including finding the facts - is now up to the people.  - SM