Just like a “disruptive disease” can be exploited to wreck controlled chaos on a society, soon, the tide turns and the cognitive dissonance awakened by an arbitrary double standard of “selective science” comes to pay it’s respects…

Can’t say I wasn’t expecting it, can say I was certainly looking forward to it… the last LA County swap meet to close was also the first swap meet to reopen since the lockdown/shelter in place began last March! Yes!! One small step closer to pre-covid “normal”. The Santa Clarita Swap Meet at the Saugus Speedway had announced its reopening the on the Friday just two days before the May 31st event catching vendors and shoppers off guard due to the short notice. But by the second weekend, things were beginning to look just a little more robust. It wasn’t a sell-out. That wouldn’t start happening regularly for about another month once the word got out on the swap meet/vintage flea market grapevine… vendors from all over, chompin at the bit to get back in the game and catch up on their livelihood, pay the rent, feed the kids and catch up with folks they hadn’t seen in months. The swap and vintage shoppers? Unlike the last weekend, a healthy turnout, and everyone abiding by house rules – masks mandatory. No one enters without. Yes, there were some who expressed resentment to maskin up, a couple buddies while passing in the aisle pulling their mask just below their chin and exclaiming, “this is Bullshit!!”

As for visible concern about catching the “deadly disease” still spreading amongst us, other than everyone wearing masks, people’s swap meet behavior seemed to be the same as it’d always been; quite a change from the mid March weekend when the swap closed, when “shelter in place” began and fear and panic was the law of the land. That’s what really got my attention as I suddenly became aware of a warm, friendly breeze of what smelled like “cognitive dissonance” descending from the near by foothills and gently blowing through the swap; people unconsciously entertaining the possibility that just maybe covid wasn’t as forecast lethal or unmanageable as the bureaucrats and health authorities were making it out to be intermingling with one’s personal views on death and livelihood. “Social distancing”… well, let’s just say that folks were doing their ambivalent best with the arbitrary restrictions. For us veteran flea marketeers, vinyl crate diggers and swap meet hagglers who tend to be cut from a different cloth…the “new normal”? Really? You don’t say.

Was this return to pre covid behavior anything to do with our ancestral human nature when it comes to communal gathering? Or was this possibly a side effect, an organic response to the corporate media’s “fear sells!” over-reaction over the last several months? Subconscious cognitive dissonance slowly oozing into our awareness through the holes in our perceptions, where the Main Street reality check does not quite match up with the constantly repeated “deadly disease” narrative being broadcast 24/7 by the fear exploiting media. I did note that not a single person dropped dead from covid at the swap that day. Disruptive disease, absolutely! “Deadly disease”, where 98 to 99 percent of those who get covid live to tell the tale…

As the covid drama continues to ever so slowly play itself out, watching the behavior of shoppers not only at the vintage flea markets and swaps, but also at the grocery store, the hardware store, etc, I’m becoming increasingly amazed at the undercurrent of cognitive dissonance, the critical questioning generated by the mixed message contradictions that have been pushing up against an epidemic of all knowing, often downright arrogant and dismissive, confirmation bias… not only from friends, neighbors and ordinary folks, but especially from bureaucratic/academic/authoritarian pontificators and spokespersons of “selective science” expert-teasing, brought to us by the corporate media with it’s obvious financial funding from Big-Pharma (you are paying attention, yes?) and, alarmingly, also by the independent progressive media by way of Democracy Now, Thom Hartmann, Background Briefing, etc. Talk about bi-partisan, they all seem to be hypnotized by the concurrent 24/7 narrative that faux-lanthrophist Bill Gates and his Magic Vax Oil is the ONLY solution to managing the corona chaos, completely dismissing and discrediting any early intervention protocols (Ivermectin, etc) successfully used by physicians with practices since March 2020 to manage covid, emphasizing vaccination as the one and only way that America and global society will be able to return to the “new normal”. Right.

I’ve witnessed the Medical Industrial Complex’s a blatant campaigns to suppress any competitive alternatives that might cut into Big-Pharma’s bottom line several times since the late seventies. And woe to those who flex their critical thinking muscles and dissent from this odious medical media funded narrative as the front line witness to tabloid corporate hype, Dr Drew Pinsky, did back in April, only to find himself buried under an avalanche of shaming critique and hostility that unloaded on him when he accurately suggested the mainstream media was over-reacting to covid. Yes! Standing by the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” to society with fear mongering, economy crippling campaigns! Unbeknownst to many, not only is he a physician with a practice (and ironically, a Fauci direct disciple) but he also had a front row seat to the inner workings of entertainment media while doing his “Love Line” gig for FM radio KROQ, etc, etc. He knows how much the corporate tabloid media loves to sensationalize in order to get the public’s attention (and sell em shit they don’t need) which most of his confirmation biased, medical brethren don’t. We’ll get to the lives and livelihoods lost to corona due to this “unethical and immoral”, CB dismissing and discrediting of effective early intervention protocols, and the possibility of opening manslaughter charges, in a future post. It seems the real shaming, and the lawsuits, are about to begin.

The problem is, the more the increasingly authoritarian corporate pharmaceutical state with their “selective science” spokespersons insisting their constantly changing “guidance” is sound, while concurrently priming/imposing their vaccine solution as the ONLY solution and also adamantly claiming any non AMA sanctioned medical alternatives to be “quack” medicine, medical misinformation, “fake news”, no matter how successful the alternatives have been proven to be by the actual doctors doing the healing (can you say Semmelweis?): this seems to be unintentionally rousing suspicion in the general public, a “lady protests much too loudly” reaction, as it slowly awakens “cognitive dissonance” (what you see does not quite align with what you are being told) from the unconscious depths of it’s blue pill slumber… something about the acrid smell of a rat, of being lied too… and before you know it, Backfire! Big time. Several years of vaccine campaign planning comes tumbling down… ok, not just yet. Patience.

An excellent example… the Director-General of The World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom’s forecast last April, “we will have many body bags in front of us if we don’t behave.” Body bags?! Nice scary optic, but it does seem to be in conflict with the reality on my big city LA streets where, instead of constantly tripping over those forecast ubiquitous body bags, what I am seeing is all those discarded masks and latex gloves not just on street corners but everywhere, which, incidentally does wonders to our local marine life’s digestion as it eventually washes out to sea. “Sorry Flipper, gotta save grandma!” Shameful, and just one of the many covid “externalities” that the bureaucrat “experts” above, blinded by their own confirmation bias, always seem to fail (or maybe just don’t give a damn) to see. Yes, many people have died. Yes, many big city hospitals got overwhelmed as any ER/hospital worker will tell you… and then returned to normal. And just like any annual flu season, there are going to be some light seasons and there are going to be some bad ones. The medical establishment knows this. Big Pharma and the tabloid Murdoch media exploit it. Undoubtedly, this appears to be a bad one. But bad enough to justify the global disruption it’s set in motion, all the livelihoods lost, the consequences of all the stress and media inflicted trauma? That seems to depend entirely on what direction one’s confirmation bias (CB – only seeing, accepting, that which confirms one’s core beliefs… an ego thing) leans and whether or not it is susceptible to challenges from CB’s mortal enemy, Critical Thinking. Hmmm, Behavioral Economics 201?

We seem to have reached a point where one’s ego attachment to one’s confirmation bias beliefs are being severely challenged. Whether you firmly believe the corporate medical/Bill Gates narrative that every living person on the planet must be vaccinated, that only the Magic Vax will save us from the “deadly disease” (are you noticing that term more or less quit being used a few months ago?) or are amongst those who strongly challenge that narrative on self-determination grounds, civil liberties grounds, bringing forth solid evidence suggesting we are all victims of a massive, premeditated social engineering experiment using covid 19 as a trojan horse, like Reiner Fuellmich, the lawyer who brought down Volkswagen over the diesel emissions scandal a few years ago. Turning a bad flu pandemic into a media fear event to create a covid cottage industry for vaccinations, PPE, plexiglass barriers, etc is brilliantly evil. And is most likely “collusion” prison punishable by law.

But, alas, this is a moment that seems to be driving that sharp steel wedge right down the center of America’s increasingly fragile psyche, just as it did most recently with Trump. The propagandists are having a field day! Those who lean towards absolute unquestioning trust in health/government authority are those most likely to do as they are told and stay indefinitely in their “shelter in place” safety bubbles till the authorities declare it’s ok to come out and play; are most likely not to suspect any foul play by the “One World Order” puppet masters aspiring to a Communist Chinese “Social Credit Score” surveillance state, and are also the first to get angry and condescending to those who dare to question the narrative; the “Covid Absolutists”, the self appointed guilt trippers, the true believers who bow to Fauci, Gates and the WHO and are the ones most likely to have their self identities be deeply invested in the perceived security and superiority of their now solidified confirmation bias. After all, to think otherwise, to have or to entertain doubts, would shake them to their core… would slowly, or quite suddenly, bring that uncomfortable, unconscious undercurrent of cognitive dissonance to the surface as their perceptions and self identity dissolve into a pile of discarded face masks. Psychological trauma?! The sense of betrayal from being constantly lied to… God forbid! Consequently, No Questioning Authority Allowed!! Bring on the Censorship!!!  

The Santa Clarita Swap Meet was not only the first swap to reopen with covid restrictions, but also the very last to close when “shelter in place” was mandated in the middle of March. I was scheduled to do the Long Beach Antique market but it was cancelled two days before. Damn! Had to scramble fast. Credit cards and rent coming due. Fortunately, the SC Swap was still open and had spaces available… plenty of them. Unfortunately, it was a double ding day, a sure fire sign of low/no turnout. I knew I was fkd from the get go as the covid business closures and fear/panic hysteria that was wiping toilet paper from store shelves had just begun. The second ding, the light rain that didn’t stop till 6 am, just when I pulled in to my reserved space. Puddles all over the place. My sales expectations were zero going in, but my attending was as much about getting shopper “covid sentiment” reconnaissance as anything else, asking the ten to twelve shoppers who came to my booth during the course of the day, “So, what do you think about this covid thing?”, playing it neutral, no influence of opinion with loaded, “corona bullshit or corona deadly disease?” survey manipulation. (Full disclosure… assuming no one was looking at the smiling skull I had just purchased the day before displaying the caption, “Stay Safe! Be Scared!”) The answers ranged from unconcerned to extremely, “I Don’t Want to Die!!”, concerned, which was from a vendor who was only there because he needed the income. Desperation often does funny things to people. The straw poll consensus was about a six on a scale of one to ten, leaning toward “concerned”. Fast forward to now…

As the virus leisurely follows it’s natural contagion cycle and now rapidly descends the downhill side of the bell curve, Big- Pharma, still waiting to collect on all those million/billion dollar juicy government contracts to produce and deliver their vaccine, must be in a panic! “All hands on deck!! Make and ship that vax! Hurry before… “, heh heh heh, the eventual karmic competition from vaccine makers in China, India… and Cuba, adds the growing competition. Delicious! Only 14% (% depends on source) of the US population is currently “fully” vaxxed as of 3/3, which means it’s highly unlikely (impossible?) the vaccine can possibly take all the credit for the natural decline in covid which started in mid January… but I guarantee the big pharma media will make damn sure it does, as it’s attempted to do in the UK! It’s now a matter of saving face, reviewing the hordes of data generated, and preparing for the next version of this continuing social engineering campaign. While the death/contagion rates drop, especially if they continue at the current rapid rate, people, many of whom are vaccine hesitant, may not be as concerned about getting vaxxed as time goes on. Of course, the medical media, now armed with the meme of covid “variants”, will do it’s best to make sure the fear campaign continues as it relentlessly attempts to force humanity into a vaccine mandated lifestyle… the Holy Grail, the total subjugation to a vaccine nation!! Unless… more and more cognitive dissonance continues to crystalize into the epiphany, “this was all about using fear to push a vaccine?!! And with my hard earned taxpayer money?! WTF!!” Sadly, this could jeopardize the whole Bill Gates/Big-Pharma “vax the world” operation in it’s tracks. Darn. And If all the naturally occurring corona virus variations now entering the global equation don’t make matters worse and continue their downward decline and don’t deliver the lethal resurgence Big-Pharma is hoping for ($$$)… alas, all those poor vax makers sitting on a product no longer needed, all those possibly soon to be “stranded assets” decaying in deep freeze lockers. 

Naturally, Big-Pharma is going to make damn sure that does not happen either, at least not until they have received final payment from all those world governments contractually on the hook to pay upon Savior Vax delivery. Hmmm, makes me wonder how many of those third world sovereign nations have an exit clause in those contracts they just signed with COVAX, etc. My concern/prediction is that the media fear campaign will continue in earnest through 2021 (with the threat of going till 2022), continue to demonize and discredit all dissent and competing medical therapies until all the orders for the vaccines, whether from states or countries, have been filled. That’s right. This fear campaign will continue even if the corona cases drop to near zero due to it’s natural cycle, not only for blatant Magic Vax sales reasons, but more psychologically important… to justify all the confirmation biased turned true believers who have faithfully followed the arbitrary Fauci/CDC/WHO “guidance” orders for almost a year; sheltering in place, self isolating in their safety bubbles, sanitizing everything in sight, avoiding all physical contact with loved ones, telling friends and family, “sorry, my safety bubble sanctuary cannot be violated…” . Ya see, when you’re that deep into buying the psy-op narrative hook line and sinker, way up in your confirmation bias, the pain and embarrassment of losing face is not a pleasant, ego stroking option. Opps. Hate to reiterate, but as Thomas Frank, etc have been saying for way too long, healing the massive divide between left and right, between pro-vax and anti-vax, etc etc… the oozing wounds dividing America’s psyche, might just take a while. 

“That they were wrong, however, does not mean they were not sincere. The histories of medicine and the pharmaceutical  industry are littered with practices and products that went from exalted pedestals to discarded dustbins”… a reading from the book of “Pharma” by Gerald Posner , p.2020, and a suitable ending to this observation… how they were misled and eventually condemned by their deeply held confirmation biases.

Hang tight kids, just like everyone else, my “self-interest” (Adam Smith) has been greatly affected by the “disruptive disease”, this social/economic engineering experiment. I’m just getting started. More Covid rants to come. Yuk! This to shall pass!

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