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The Birdemic is Dead; Long Live the Birdemic

6/23/2022

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If I didn't know better, I would be positively convinced that the birdemic is dead.

After all, so much of "normal" has returned since the spring. In my neck of the woods, people can leave and enter the country without any sort of intense questioning or testing.

Huge pop music festivals and other cultural events are drawing boisterous throngs from around Europe and the world.

Refugees continue to pour in from the country to the east, and as far as I know, none are required to show any proof of being pecked.

Furthermore, the media has more or less fallen silent on the birdemic. Instead of running seemingly endless pieces on the pecks, masks, social distancing, peck passports, and all the rest of it, the media is now content to focus on pressing issues like where Hungarians plan to spend their summer vacations.

Against the backdrop of what I was experiencing a mere three or four months ago, it is all a rather surreal.

Be that as it may, the birdemic continues to linger. Like the stench of a rotting corpse hidden somewhere beneath the floorboards, the birdemic refuses to go away. I sense it is just a matter of time before we are back to what has become a sort of customary fear program, augmented this time around by other factors like climate change, war, high prices, supply shortages, or whatever.

Every now and then a ripple rolls across the placid surface of the media's birdemic coverage. Short articles about some minister somewhere prophesying a return to masking; a blurb or two about the infant peck program initiated in America; or the odd mention of the WHO's global birdemic treaty. Other than that, a person could easily be persuaded that the birdemic is not only over, but that it will never return. 

In all honesty, I wish I could persuade myself that the birdemic is over, but I can't for the simple reason that so much of it is still ongoing. And come September or October, I suspect we'll be right back in the thick of it.

​Contrary some opinions, the masses will not reject the fear and manipulation this time around. No, no -- they will likely be on board with whatever program the System serves them . . . yet again.       
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NLR
6/23/2022 13:57:28

Yes, it's amazing how quickly people have dropped the birdemic. And what's more, it was being ramped up more and more until it was dropped.

One thing this shows is the extent to which people just adapt whatever comes down the pipeline. I think this also shows that the number of true believers in the birdemic was relatively small compared to the whole population. But the number of people who just go along with the media and government is much larger.

And you're right, whether its the birdemic or something else next time, these things won't just go away.

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Francis Berger
6/23/2022 17:22:55

@ NLR - Yes, people will adapt to whatever comes down the pipeline. I suppose another way of thinking about that could be to say people are conditioned to respond in certain ways to whatever comes down the pipeline, and I think conditioning is a big part of the birdemic. Provide the same kind of stimulus repeatedly over time and the behavior becomes predictable.

The ruling class has conditioned people to adapt to things like the total loss of personal liberties, lower standards of living, increased meaninglessness, increased atomization, increased corruption and evil, etc., all for the noble cause of health and safety.

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John Venlet link
6/23/2022 22:39:51

For many individuals, the Birdemic is definitely over. Will the fear of sudden death, which IS indeed occurring in individuals who submitted to the peck(s), be weaponized by the propaganda machines and the government, or, will more individuals minds be opened to the evil of The System as those they know who are indeed pecked and boosted begin to succumb to early deaths?

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Hari Seldon
6/24/2022 06:32:08

I like to remind people that all public-facing employees in America's largest city are still legally required to be injected with an experimental and obviously dangerous substance to this day, because birdemic. Many colleges still require the "booster" peck for incoming students; in at least one case that I'm aware of, students that can secure an exemption are subjected to sadistic rules such as once-a-week testing and being banned from living on campus. This is now, today. And no one cares.

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Francis Berger
6/24/2022 07:45:54

@ Hari - That addresses my overall point -- though there has been some easing here and there, this thing is still very much ongoing and far from over. I don't think the ruling class will let go of this thing so easily, especially after they have invested so much into it.

The only reason most people think the birdemic is over is the relative media silence on the topic. Once the media begins amplifying the birdemic again -- or some variety of the birdemic -- then the birdemic will be "on" again in a snap. I'm not very good with predictions, but I sense that will happen by October at the latest.

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Hari Seldon
6/24/2022 15:35:13

Agreed. Maybe that will be "the second pandemic" that our dear leader explicitly told us was coming earlier this week.

Francis Berger
6/24/2022 07:41:42

@ John - Yes, for some individuals, the birdemic never even began, but it definitely gripped the masses. As for what happens going forward, only time will tell, particularly regarding your overarching question.

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Colin
6/24/2022 18:41:40

Is it still mandatory to get pecked to be employed? Big companies seem to be doing this but luckily not all

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Whitney
6/24/2022 18:55:12

There are people that are never coming back from this. You've gotten all the pecks and you still get covid? You're happy because it would be worse if you hadn't had them. You got a vaccine injury? It's not actually a vaccine injury it's long covid. Young athletes dropping dead? it's the heat, it's climate change, it's long covid. The mothers that are vaccinating their infants? They will answer to God in heaven but they're my enemy on Earth

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Sue
6/25/2022 03:31:03

It still lives under the surface. I have been in the hospital recently and they still require masks and testing before surgery. In other words, they are still acting like there is a pandemic.
Sue

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WJT link
6/25/2022 04:47:00

I wish it was "dead" here in Taiwan. I was just stopped by a cop for not wearing a mask on a motorcycle on an empty country road at 11 at night. Luckily I was able to talk my way out of a fine, but still!

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