Waning Trust in Government

The number of mask wearers out in the streets are now so few that I expect the practice to collapse any day now. Once wearing the things go from a sign of virtue to an embarrassment, the practice will collapse.

I'd be surprised to see the practice make a comeback from the current levels. The novelty and sense of righteousness is gone. When first mandated by government goons, there were hobby fascists everywhere, confronting anyone not wearing their mask according to protocol. Those days aren't coming back. The practice has become a personal choice thing.

The same goes for the vaccine. The peer pressure is long gone. Taking the experimental injection is no longer a public matter open to debate. It's no longer any of our business what vaccine status some tennis player may have. There's no virtue associated with public declarations of disgust against people who refuse to inject themselves with the drug.

The shift in sentiment started before there was a widespread awareness of the consequences wrought by the mandates. But the shift is gathering momentum now that the consequences are becoming increasingly hard to ignore.

This month looks set to become as bad as June 2020 and June 2021 when it comes to notable deaths. More people than normal are meeting God, aka nature. Many are starting to realize that restricting oxygen supply to our lungs comes with consequences. Experimental injections aren't all that safe either.

Notable deaths according to Wikipedia

But the banquet of consequences isn't limited to excess deaths. Two years of lockdowns, papered over by money printing, has consequences too. Small businesses have been devastated. There's financial ruin. There's also price inflation due to lack of production and increased money supply.

We're looking at widespread destruction wrought by politicians, and trust in government is therefore at all time low. The next wave of mandates will be far harder to sell, and evidence for this can be seen in how quickly public support for Ukraine has faded.

Most people now want a negotiated end to the war. They don't buy the "Russia is pure evil" narrative.

It's becoming increasingly hard to pull the government's favorite trick, where a desired outcome is decided upon in secret, and then executed through a four step program:

1. Bombard the public with a myopic opinion about a real or fictitious danger.
2. Follow up with a poll where the public is asked about their opinion.
3. Note that there's a majority in favor of the myopic opinion.
4. Execute the policies demanded by the public.

With less confidence in government and their friends in media and "science", this trick becomes harder to pull. People are tired of government inventing one crisis after another. We want it to end so that we can go back to focusing on our own things.

The social contract