Pandemic, Lies and Videos – Charles Hugh Smith asks, “What were we thinking?” when the world denied the reality of the coronavirus pandemic

Charles Hugh Smith from OfTwoMinds.com is one of the best independent thinkers of the modern era. Today, he has penned a short but brilliant piece that asks how the entire world could remain totally oblivious to the exploding coronavirus pandemic that’s materializing right in front of our eyes, day by day.

Somehow, the world has been brainwashed into acquiescence, pretending that an engineered biological weapon isn’t exploding around the world in a wave of mass death and disruption that will soon wreak havoc across national economies. Rather than embracing the reality of the situation in which humanity now finds itself, we are taught to deny reality in the same way that transgenders pretend biology doesn’t count and that “gender” means whatever you want to imagine it means.

You can’t imagine away a pandemic, however, and the coronavirus proves that biology actually is real, believe it or not. I don’t see CNN sending Brian Stelter to report live from a hospital in Wuhan, by the way, which means that even the liars who work in the media know that this pandemic is dangerous, even when they’re telling their own viewers it’s not.

Here’s the full piece from Charles Hugh Smith. Original ink:

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/02/pandemic-lies-and-videos.html

Will we wonder, what were we thinking? and marvel anew at the madness of crowds?

When we look back on this moment from the vantage of history, what will we think? Will we think how obvious it was that the coronavirus deaths in China were in the tens of thousands rather than the hundreds claimed by authorities?

Will we think how obvious it was that the virus would spread around the globe, wreaking havoc on the global economy and social order, even as the authorities claimed only a handful of cases had arisen outside China?

Will we be amazed at the delusional confidence that the U.S. economy would be untouched by the virus as stock markets quickly soared to new all-time highs while the world’s largest economy ground to a halt in a desperate attempt to close the barn door after the horses had already escaped?

Will we look back at the patently false data being promoted by authorities and wonder why the majority accepted it all as credible?

Will we re-examine all the smartphone videos posted on the web by average people and wonder why all the lies were given more credibility than actual videos?

Will we recall how content that didn’t parrot the approved narrative that everything was under control and the global impact would be near-zero was suppressed, banned, de-platformed or marginalized? Will we wonder at the complacency of all those who accepted this orchestrated suppression with such obedient passivity?

Will we look back at the claim that only twelve people in the entire U.S. had the virus, despite all the direct flights from Wuhan and the tens of thousands of people who’d traveled from China to the U.S. in January, and marvel at our credulity?

Will we look back at the wreckage left in the wake of the coordinated campaign to suppress the facts and lay the responsibility for all the carnage on the authorities who devoted more energy to hiding the realities of the pandemic than to preparing us for the impact?

Will we ponder the incredible grip of mass delusion on the human mind when we recall the confidence that the U.S. economy was invulnerable to the virus and the implosion of China, and the blithe quasi-religious faith that central banks would never let global stock markets decline even 2%?

Will we wonder how the mainstream could watch the Chinese economy shutting down and still remain absolutely confident that the global economy would be untouched as the spot of bother was sure to evaporate in a week or two and all would be restored to pre-virus euphoria?

Will we wonder what were we thinking? and marvel anew at the madness of crowds? Will we wonder why we embraced the delusion so readily, and relive the moment when the gate to reality creaked open? Will we relive our realization that we’d embraced an absurd fantasy floating on a tissue of lies, or will we bury that painful moment of truth?

My recent books (from Charles Hugh Smith):

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Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World ($13)
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Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic ($6.95 (Kindle), $12 (print), $13.08 ( audiobook): Read the first section for free (PDF).
The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake $1.29 (Kindle), $8.95 (print); read the first chapters for free (PDF)
Money and Work Unchained $6.95 (Kindle), $15 (print) Read the first section for free (PDF).