Reign of fear

When else to talk about fear than right now – on All Souls' Day.

It is so easy to evoke the emotion of fear – actually the easiest – much easier than laughter and joy. It is a scientific fact that fear also automatically shuts down the higher nerve centers of thought in the brain and we return to the animal within us – the response to fear is simply the primary FIGHT or FLIGHT.

For example, the fear of death, which many people have made a living from today - the fear of tens of thousands of deaths by the end of the year, visions of streets filled with cars carrying freezer boxes for bodies.
The vision of the same scientist, who, out of a thirst for sensation and fear-mongering, is increasingly being given a hearing by the media, is now quite seriously saying on television that children should be treated like toxic waste. (Although he is now trying to downplay this ex post, saying that the answer was not complete and was taken out of context. But I really don't know of a context where children could be spoken of as toxic waste...)
https://youtu.be/Wq20Qvlovzw

The government will come up with a curfew, the practicality of which is completely zero, because there is simply nowhere to go, because everything is closed - but again, it is just a feeling of fear and an atmosphere reminiscent of martial law and war.

Or maybe the fear of full hospitals.
We may ask why the state is hiding this data - but fortunately, thanks to the State Watchdog, we have information.
So if we look at the numbers in more detail, we find that out of the 7,200 hospitalized, 800 people are completely asymptomatic, who simply have nowhere to go, and almost 2,400 people have only a mild course, for which tea and a bed would be enough, but those people are scared to death, so they are in the hospital.
So we are talking about 1,000 people in serious condition and 3,000 in moderate condition – per 10,000,000 inhabitants – that is, 0.03% of the population.

And are hospitals really bursting at the seams, as the media claims?
At the beginning of October, there were 863 vacant ICU beds - today, a month later, there are 1,125 vacant beds.
There were 6,259 oxygen beds a month ago, and now there are as many as 7,480 available.
(Covid and non-Covid beds counted together, because capacities obviously overflow operationally)
The number of nurses and doctors has not changed AT ALL for a month (but the data is not entirely accurate in this regard).
https://www.hlidacstatu.cz/kapacitanemocnic

This is the objective reality of this pandemic – not the photos and stories of a few hospitals at capacity or the story of one dying person.

But the media knows this very well – the classic SLPéčko – Strong Human Story. The crying grandmother is far more than an objective number. She can perfectly evoke emotion.
This is exactly how fear is created – and it is created purposefully by the media and politicians.
We can only ask who benefits and why.

At the same time, I think I'm not wrong when I say that we are at the peak of the wave and the numbers of infected and hospitalized people are falling and will continue to fall.

Then, perhaps, people will finally start asking the essential thing - actually the most essential thing:
„"What next, are we going to keep living like this?"“

And the answer, whether we like it or not, is the same - a return to normality, because the virus will not miraculously disappear. It's just that the later it happens, the more painful and fatal the consequences for society as a whole will be.

I don't believe that even if a vaccine were miraculously produced in the foreseeable future, a large number of people would voluntarily have it administered due to lack of experience. (Normal vaccine development, including testing, takes 8-16 years... – https://www.zdravotnickydenik.cz/2019/04/vakcinolog-klinicky-vyvoj-vakcin-trva-i-16-let-hlida-jej-mnoho-uradu-peclive-se-hodnoti-negativa-naklady-se-vrati-jen-ze-40-procent/ )

When I see the omnipresent fear of speaking my mind, I feel all the more respect for the Chartists today. Back then, it was really a matter of life or death – today, it's funny. At most, the people you mistakenly considered friends think you're an ox. But still, people are afraid to speak up and express their opinion, lest the herd push them away from their midst.

Don't stand out!

It's sad that we live in a time when your remaining friends, doctors, and nurses write to you saying they agree with you, but they're afraid of their surroundings - afraid to simply speak up.
No, it's not sad – it's actually scary!
We've come this far - they have us exactly where they wanted us. A broken and divided society.

When I wrote a book two years ago Chandelier for the Pope, I ended the book like this:

„…I get in the car and drive home on the night highway. To my quiet life. To the things I take for granted and I think about how little it takes to tip the fragile balance again.
I think about how I never understood how it was possible for people to remain silent when Hitler was fighting for power and then Gottwald was fighting for us. How they remained silent when the tanks arrived in '68 and then they held out for another twenty years.
And today, when he is silent again, I unfortunately understand it and I am in tears because of how he will never learn.„

I never dreamed that in less than two years it would be back. That time of fear and self-censorship – fear of expressing one's own opinion – and especially not standing out.

If you are not afraid to speak up and express your support, we would be happy to do so.

To remain silent means to participate, and if we lose our freedom, we will ultimately lose ourselves with it.

I believe it makes sense to come together and speak out, because the more of us there are, the stronger our voice will be.
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