Of Salem And Covid

It is believed the Salem witch hunts kicked off when two families - the Porters and Putnams - began to feud which bitterly divided the town as people picked sides between the two feuding families. 

Sound familiar? 

Media and politicians divide society into 'pro and anti-vaxxers', "essential and non-essential", "pro and anti-mask" and "asymptomatic people being a threat."

We're primed for a contemporary Salem witch hunt except this time we replace witches with a virus.

While this went on, the first person to be accused of being a witch was Sarah Good. A person of lower class status. 

Sound familiar? 

Who is paying the biggest price for continued lockdowns? 

Good was accused of, among other things, not following Puritan values. 

Sound familiar?

Lockdowns and masks are seen as a (false) virtue installing itself in the value system framework.

Politics, naturally, also played a role in Salem. New England was to be a 'Bible-based society' when the Puritans landed. The original Charters of 1629 and 1684 were eventually replaced through the efforts of Increase Mather in 1691. Mather wrote a book on, you guessed it, witchcraft.

In 2020 and into 2021, the friction between national sovereignty and collectivist oppression through international structures seemed to reach a boiling point. The health panic exposed this reality and it has been revealed that unelected global elites - often supported by elected political officials - there was to be a 'Global Reset' in order to 'build back better' culminating into a science and technology-driven  Fourth Revolution. 

Within this vacuum of chaos, major pharmaceutical companies and possibly all those interests (ie Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci and others) connected to it, saw a great opportunity to capitalize on the pandemic through mass immunization. The pandemic has exploded the profit motive.

Follow the money as they say.

But evil always overplays its hand. Power corrupts. Greed overtakes senses.

Where feuding families the Imperial College models and PCR tests kicked off a health panic. In Salem, mysterious "fits" in Salem were investigated. ^[Theories ranging from hysteria around Indian attacks to rye infected with fungus to sleep convulsions attempted to explain convulsions experienced by people. 

Enter another fabricated panic and the "crime" of the asymptomatic helping fuel a panic along with Imperial College model and PCR testing. 

Witch hunters went from preying on easy targets like outcasts and the poor to eventually accusing upstanding and well-regarded members of society. People, slowly emerging from their trance, realized if they can go after God-fearing Church goers, they can come for them.

With the theory of asymptomatic spread, we're all vulnerable to being targeted, since being asymptomatic in of itself is not threatening. Healthy people are not drivers of outbreaks of diseases. 

Notice the assault on people who question the mask narrative based on sound judgment and data. Notice the rhetoric on the faulty premise about the asymptomatic. People have been conditioned to believe they're a threat to them. They can't see the perniciousness of this foul accusation for we are all asymptomatic of something all year round. In this way, are we to self-isolate, social distance and wear masks for life? 

Even the narrative on masks has shifted. The original protocol was to wear masks where social distancing was not possible. One or the other offering has now been combined. It then went from 'it's just a mask' promising people with medical conditions would be exempt to companies changing policies where all people must wear a mask. No exceptions.

Masks are the equivalence to superstitious witch cakes that were baked in an attempt to ward off witches. Another is the "Touch test". If a person accused of being a witch touched someone having a fit and it ceased, this meant the person was guilty. 

There is no logic. No respect. No dignity. Just blind authoritarianism. One can just imagine how many miserable people afflicted with various issues including anxiety, asthma, claustrophobia, migraines etc. are these days. To be dismissed and discarded in this way points to how easily we can abandon compassion in a fit of hysteria. 

Accusations were wild (think modern snitches) and warrants were issued (think Quebec's warrant mandates and the approval of the Ombudsman stating the measures enacted were 'reasonable') during Salem.

Prove you're not sick. Prove you're not a witch.

Different cause. Different setting. Different era. Same irrational behavior as human nature. 

The question is, what will be the cost of all this? 

Eventually, if history is any indication, hysteria gives way to truth. 

Slowly people recover their senses.

The problem is, we're losing many of our freedoms and this may be harder to regain than our senses.