"Gaslighting the Coronavirus" by Dimitry Orlov
Thanks to Mensch59 for suggesting this excellent essay. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For the past few days I have been holding back on commenting on current events, all of which revolve around the new coronavirus panic, and doing as much research as I could because the substance of what’s happening has been unclear to me. • Why shut down the global economy because of a virus that isn’t particularly dangerous and has only been responsible for just over 1% of the deaths so far this year and has only affected 0.04% of the population and has killed off a mere 0.0028% of it? • Why quarantine healthy people instead of just the old and the sick? (In Sweden, to take a typical example, 90% of the fatal cases were among those older than 70.) • Why shut down schools and confine children indoors if they don’t even get sick from this virus? • Why tell people to remain indoors when lack of sunlight, exercise and exposure to a wide variety of antigens leads to weakened immune systems a...