@Frank Apisa,
I got that ****, as you say, from observing a year and a half or so of Coronavirus behavior. After smelling something fishy about it, I decided to stop reading about cases and numbers, and read instead about government action, and business failures, and general paranoia. When I did, the narrative fell apart.
I got to know some of the people before. My immediate family (mom and dad) , people from businesses I regularly patronized, and my siblings. I learned more or less how they thought.
And I learned that it's really not enough to believe in God but to distance oneself from this-world-ism. A fair number of so-called Christians readily folded, despite scripture telling them that God has saved them from disease in several verses, and despite the fact that Jesus died for our sins, and we have eternal life after death. What do we need all these precautions for, I asked myself. And I flatly refused. I saw firsthand the end result, as these people wanted me to be vaccined or masked inside a church. No no and again no, the people of God are not to be afraid of death. I walked out even before they could insist in that case that I should wear a mask, making them call "No" after me. These people in their heart believe what they are doing is right, but their fear has made them as rejecting as the secular world. My siblings mostly went along too, my sister a lot more than my brother. My sister before all this was a marginal Christian, only attending Christmas and Easter, and being overprotective of her children. Now she barely sees us. And her kids have gotten sucked into her phobia and has depressing lives. Ironically, my brother's kids, I thought were spoiled brats, but largely because they're willful, and because they live in Texas, they aren't having to go along with this much. My brother is kinda phobic, but much less so that big sis. Then there was our library, which I decided to enter despite everything, they are largely chill. But for awhile, they weren't. This having a large portion to do with a certain girl who I had a rather heated discussion with about a week or so after all this.
But all around, I've also seen how the atheistic "scientists" pushed this narrative, and how secular ppl not only swallowed it, but spewed it all over the rest of us. The worst precautions? People who didn't even allow others to socialize outdoors together? They were around people who had not even a sense of spirituality. Who forbade Thanksgiving meeting without a number of rules? Was it tolerant secular liberal California? Or was it deplorable bigoted states like Florida? It was California (of course). These are the worst restrictions on personal freedom, among those that as a state very few believe in God. But this was already evident. Communist China where tanks were rolling down main street so to speak (Tank Man is awesome)? North Korea, where the dictator is worshipped as a god? For that matter, ancient Babylon? In all cases, there might have been gods worshipped, but people's prime focus was on this world. In Israel, which bases its religion on God awarding us in this world instead of Heaven/Hell (they barely discuss an Afterlife), they have near 100% vaccination. Despite the fact that they should have believed in God, they went along. This should tell you loads about what is really going on. These are neo-Nazis developing this to target the Jews. The blacks in America also had first priority, even over the elderly, which were viewed as the highest risk group. This was another red flag to me.
In any case, yes, the people who supposedly had freedom as a result of not following God, were instead the first to fold, and then in turn policing others. When the Fauci gain-of-function thing happened, some of the more conservative or more Christian people wearing masks under duress stopped doing so, at least outside. And many stopped period. So because this "delta variant" came up that was sooooooo deadly, people got swept up in their fear again. Listen, this entire time, the only thing I ever gotten is a case of pneumonia and conjunctivitis. Meanwhile, the most Christian and the most conservative areas are nonetheless the most free. The most secular are not. Or you could always prove me wrong and head to North Korea, and tell me how free things are there. Interesting that they don't have any COVID there. Could it be because their society is already exactly where world government wants it?
You've never said that. I understand you alot better than you understand yourself though, to quote something you've told me lately. This time, I'm sure it's true.
