Slaves to Convenience

Delta is already in decline in England. From the looks of it, the numbers will follow the same pattern as in India where Delta had its first major outbreak. There was a 36 day period of increasing numbers followed by 36 days of falling numbers. That's a perfect bell curve, which is the textbook example of how diseases come and go. If this keeps up, there won't be much talk of Delta in England a month from now. Something else must take its place in order to keep the population scared and easily led.

An interesting aspect of this is that I used the bell curve as my reference model when I was tracking the 2020 outbreak in its early days. I noted down the numbers as they came in, and I made predictions for the future. This worked well until mid March when the numbers suddenly started to deviate. Soon, it became clear that the disease was no longer tracking the bell curve, and I concluded from this that the numbers were manipulated. By April 2020, I no longer believed the scaremongering related to the disease.

Having figured out the scam, I expected this soon to be widely understood by everyone. However, here we are more than a year later, and people are covering their airways in fear and lining up to take the experimental vaccine, just in case. To me, this is pure madness, because everybody should know by now that something nefarious is going on.

I've long known that I'm a bit of an eccentric. But it wasn't before the plague struck that I fully realized to what extent I'm different from most people.

Most people don't think. They listen to talking heads on TV and they take decisions based on how they feel. Thinking is too much bother. It's much easier to defer this to experts, and simply respond to whatever primitive emotions are stirred in the moment. But this cannot possibly have been the typical mind-set in the past. It must be something new, and I'm merely blessed with a personality that has retained the old habit of forward planning.

Imagine a farm where no-one thinks of next year's crops, or a ship where no-one cares about the clouds on the horizon or the destination of the ship. Such enterprises will soon end in disaster. Hence, forward planning must have been common in the past. Just about everyone would do some risk-reward analysis, and try to avoid high time preference situations. Only bums and whores would take excessive risks in the now with little to no regards for what tomorrow might bring.

But things have changed over the last hundred years. Enterprises have become larger. There are fewer farmers and captains. Forward planning and risk analysis are now done by experts only. Everybody else is free to gamble and waste. There's always a safety net. Nothing can go truly wrong. Hardly any action is so stupid that it ends in disaster.

People have become slaves to convenience. Even the slightest inconvenience will trigger compliance with some suggested action. Hence, people flock to vaccination centres the moment they learn that it will make life more convenient than if they remain unvaccinated. No-one thinks of the future. There's no awareness about the brisk pace of change that we see everywhere. What was news a few weeks back is already forgotten. No-one can imagine the future. Least of all a future where things don't sort themselves out on their own. The prospect of potentially horrendous side-effects from the vaccine are simply not considered.

This may sound terribly grim. However, there's a silver lining. The fact that minor inconveniences work so well as incentives makes it less likely that harsher measures will be put into effect. We're not likely to see much brute force being employed as long as things move along without it. Furthermore, there's little conviction behind any of the measures. Hotel staff don't care if someone puts a flu test all the way up their nose or merely moves it around its edge. An unvaccinated friend of mine did the latter under cover of his hand, and no-one blinked an eye.

Enforcement of regulations are made by individuals who are just as much slaves to convenience as are the ones rushing off to get the vaccine. There's no zeal. I can't imagine any of these people going door to door to root out the unvaccinated, because such work would be unpleasant and tiresome. Hence, we can remain unvaccinated, provided we're willing to put up with whatever inconveniences the authorities decide to implement.

There's also a time limit to how long people will put up with restrictions before finding ways around them. The restrictions may stay around for years, but the loopholes will appear almost immediately. After a few weeks, things adjust to new rules, and everybody remain provided for. No-one will starve for lack of a vaccine passport. Any famine coming our way will be due to high food prices. Vaccine status will be the least of anyone's concern.

There's no need to despair. Things are seriously messed up. But things are also unfolding at a rapid pace. Some kind of reckoning is on its way. My guess is that we'll see some weird stuff happening this coming winter. It will become increasingly evident that masks and vaccines are counterproductive. But it won't be before a year later that the evidence will be so clear that no-one can deny it. A few months later, the whole sham will implode. That's two years into the future. But the rewards in the form of integrity and peace of mind will present themselves shortly. Everything else will be theatre for the unvaccinated, while deadly serious for the vaccinated.

Four horsemen of the apocalypse

By Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov - http://lj.rossia.org/users/john_petrov/166993.html, Public Domain, Link