The Real Pandemic: Mass Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy
It’s more than fair to say that we are experiencing a pandemic, but not the one you hear about ad nauseum. No, the pandemic is not a virus, it is a pandemic outbreak of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy which focuses its obsessions on the virus.
Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is a mental illness in which the sufferer fantasizes that others–usually people in their charge, such as children–are suffering from serious illness and require drastic medical intervention.
Observe what has happened over the last 7 months, and what if anything is increasing in intensity today. The obsession with Covid-19. The monomaniacal focus on “cases” (usually the result of hypersensitive tests prone to false positives), with the belief that people who test positive are sick, and huge numbers of those who become sick will die.
Given the actual experience over the last several months, these beliefs are wildly exaggerated–imaginary, fantasized illnesses, with fantasized severity, just the kind of thing that a sufferer of MSbP does.
And there’s more to the diagnosis. MSbP sufferers subject the people whom they imagine are ill with suffocating attention and unnecessary, and often harmful, health-related interventions. You know, like lockdowns; draconian restrictions on movement, social contact, and other features of everyday life; the shutting down of schools and colleges; and strident demands to wear masks–even between bites of your meal if you are in California.
Look at so many governors and mayors, e.g., Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Gavin Gruesome–excuse me, Newsom–in California, J. B. Pritzker in Illinois, or Tim Walz in Minnesota. (I could go on. And on. And on. Believe me.) They constantly invoke their power over you. But it’s for your own good! Trust them! Mommy is protecting you! And if you object, you will be punished! How dare you defy Mommy’s tender mercies, you ungrateful brats? If you do, you will be punished! To get your minds right and realize just what danger you are in, and why you need to listen to Mommy and do exactly as she says!
And if it were only limited to “authorities” who make Cartman look pleasant. You probably have neighbors or co-workers who have the Syndrome. Or you run into them in the grocery store. Or maybe it’s the fatso in the pharmacy checkout line. (Yeah, that’s an allusion to a personal experience, but no worries: I doubt said person can read.)
It was already bad enough before Trump was diagnosed with Covid. Then a super-virulent strain of the Syndrome appeared, through some Darwinian mechanism apparently. As soon as I saw his first remarks from the hospital–that he had learned a lot about Covid, and he was going to share that information and experience with us–I knew he would say exactly what he did say: it can be a serious illness, but the vast majority of people can beat it, and we shouldn’t let it dominate our lives.
And I knew that this would kick the MSbP crowd into apoplexy. They want a narrative of doom and gloom. They want people to be afraid. They want people to defer to them, and to depend on them, and most importantly to obey their commands. You could get really sick–ALL OF YOU! You could die–ANY OF YOU! Don’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise! They don’t have your best interests at heart, like Mommy does. And put in your earplugs (so you don’t hear the Bad Orange Man), put on your eye shades (so you don’t read the Great Barrington Declaration), you know where to put the cork (aka the mask that makes it impossible for you to speak intelligibly).
So anything that contradicts the narrative triggers a mass attack of the Munchausens.
Is Covid like the seasonal flu, as Trump said? Well, the more data that comes in, the more it appears that yes it is a danger on the order of magnitude of a bad seasonal influenza strain–the kind we have endured multiple times in the past without draconian measures that cratered economies. And ironically, the data strongly suggest that it is less of a danger to children than the garden variety seasonal flu.
But it is beyond cavil that it is nothing remotely like the last great pandemic disease, Spanish Influenza of 1918-1919. But that doesn’t stop severe cases of MSbP like Gov. Gretchen Ratched from justifying their actions by reference to that episode, and invoking laws passed during that real pandemic to control your life today.
In normal times, most of the objects of MSbP sufferers are children, who have limited power to resist. Often medical professionals are the ones who identify a MSbP situation, and intervene to protect the object.
But today, adults are overwhelmingly the objects. And too many medical professionals enable MSbP (and may indeed be sufferers themselves–just look at the lunatic Twitter timelines of many medicos FREAKING OUT over Trump’s remarks and behavior, i.e., acting like someone suffering the flu, or a cold).
Given the coercive powers of the most important MSbP sufferers, the said governors, mayors, bureaucrats, etc., this pandemic–the MSbP pandemic–is wreaking untold havoc. We need more people to say we aren’t going to take it. We need more people to push back. We should not be in the thrall of the mentally ill.
But alas, we are. Because there are so goddam many of them, and they infest the executive branches of government at every level.
HMM, was reflecting on the last few weeks this morning.
Once upon a time a longtime ago before every mad nutter got a say all the hospitals and ports had incinerators and so all the burnables from the hospital and other places went into the incinerator. High temperature and so destryed all the viruses and bacteria that infested all the conssumerbles and waste.
Most of those incinerators have been shut down these days.
So what happens to all this infectious waste.
Actually I have no idea. someone may be able to tell us perhaps.
What i really wanted to talk about was this.
Tauranga and a lot of there useless councils have handed their waste collection to envirowaste. ( Our council will fall on this. Watch and see.)
Meanwhile, at home and work we all wear our grubby masks and gloves etc and what do we do with them?
Well of course we put them out with the rubbish the contractors pick up and take to the dump.
So we have millions of infected items going to the dump.
Not to an incinerator but to a “landfill” (Excuse the PC name for the tip.)
Then we have it mixed with all manner of other items bugs and bacteria and viruses.
Most dumps become anaerobic, heat up, so we have a great place of for the breeding of new strains of bacteria and viruses.
These “landfills remain open for many years infested with rats and seagulls, so what is the potential for a monster virus?
Will it seep out in the water collection?
Lots of questions for the educated to answer.
Wasn’t the old way better, safer?
And the big ones are owned by Chinese companies who really don’t give a crap about our country other than to rape and pillage for their benefit.
Should we have built incinerators as the Scandi’s have done?
…..”Lots of questions for the educated to answer.”…..
Would you settle for an attempt by one of the poorly educated & terminally confused?…..
…….”what happens to all this infectious waste.”……
When I asked this question of the local council engineer a few years ago I was told that it was buried (covered with clay) immediately as it arrived.
…….”Will it seep out in the water collection?”……
Yes. It’s treated separately as “leachate”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S168740481300031X
The reason corporates have got involved with waste disposal is that legislation has made setting up “tips” astronomically expensive. First you have to find an area not populated with green Nimbys. Having found this mythical few square kilometres of land close to the city it is meant to serve, the expenditure cranks up.
From memory the area must be lined with two metres of compacted impermeable clay. Facilities to collect & treat leachate have to be installed. Ditto for eventual collection of methane gas. The rubbish must be compacted & covered as dumped. After each area of the tip is filled it receives another two metres of clay over the top & then planted in whatever vegetation was prescribed.
All this is beyond the average council especially those whose sole purpose is to squander ratepayers’ funds on crap art & unused cycleways.
Out she comes again –pink haired lady !! Keep up the panic porn, you stupid woman who sits there collecting her salary no matter what. She has not got the brains to work out where that salary comes from.
I wonder if she reads the NZH. Bryce Wilkinson has an article in their about the key numbers for NZ’s economy compared to other advanced countries in the OECD –short version , we will not be an advanced country for very much longer , as we are at the bottom of the list now and still going down the slide. (I have not got a link -I’m just going off what Hosking highlighted this morning).
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/123167885/the-argument-against-predeparture-testing-after-fishermen-test-positive-for-covid19
In the medical world of hypothesis, evidence based, hypothetical’s, scenarios, slogans. upsides, down sides, hmmm
About the person who in the UK who pushes masks, and got the WHO to change.
Sort of worth the short read, just to know, and most of us do, on the thinking of these “scientists”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/act-now-wait-perfect-evidence-later-says-high-priestess-uk-covid-19-masking-campaign
So how much social & political science is part of her medical science?
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I knew we were in trouble deep when I started seeing the signs on front yards
“In this house we believe in science”
followed by a list of dubious statements most of which are semantically deranged, let alone not scientifically proven.
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But then this was written about many years ago.
The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs’ mash. The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls. The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs.
At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations to the others.
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“Comrades!” [team of 5 million] he cried. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.
Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades ) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.
We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare.
It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.
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Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?
Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades,” cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, “surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?”
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Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.
When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.
[George Orwell, Animal Farm]
Ohh the fear of “JONES”, but another set of shackles are put in place, for YOUR sake.
Choice? what is that?
NZ does have “choice, bro” 🙂
I am downloading Animal Farm and reading it now. I need to know how to be a good Piggy in Jacinda land…..
Boxer is described as a hardworking, but naive and ignorant cart horse.
Not even a decent retirement.
The wrong horse got loaded out,
It should have been a New Zealand prominent nag.
It’s a miracle! Lock the country down, increase hand washing and social distance and watch the numbers drop. Quell surprise.
As Covid-19 causes mortality rates to spike around the globe, NZ sees dramatic drop in deaths
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/covid-19-causes-mortality-rates-spike-around-globe-nz-sees-dramatic-drop-in-deaths
A look at the weekly data shows fewer people have died this winter.
In June and July, it dropped by as much as 13 per cent on last year.
“Our death rate should be around five per cent less this year, so that’s saving around 1500 lives of people who haven’t died this year who normally would have,” Baker said.
“Our death rate should be around five per cent less this year, so that’s saving around 1500 lives of people who haven’t died this year who normally would have,” Baker said.”
Like the “managed” forests of California, are we not accumulating “death fuel” of people who have been artificially spared a year or two due to draconian and unsustainable conditions?
These 1,500 people. I take it that they are elderly and with multiple co-morbidities. How many more years of “additional life” can we expect to push them out to?
If NZ goes back to “normal,” then would these 1,500 people (who would have been expected to pass away but who haven’t died this year) then curl up their toes? Would them doing so (even though completely “normal”) be exploited by the NZ government as an excuse for further restrictions on freedom?
My advice, at the beginning, was correct.
Covid alarmists should have been wired to their families and burnt alive and screaming in the streets.
This humane act of compassion would have prevented suffering and death.
So there is a more gentle, caring, softer side to you then Kea 😊 but I have to agree.
I am in a continual state of disbelief at how utterly gullible my fellow Kiwis are. It seems so obvious as time goes by that this was a political virus and nothing more than that. Increasingly so.
But it seems that people are now so heavily invested that their very sense of self-worth is now at stake if they contemplate that they have been more foolish than a herd of sheep in believing the pandemic lie.
I don’t think society has the ability to admit it’s wrong and thus we have to live on in this looking glass world we currently occupy.
https://www.anti-empire.com/four-newborns-in-australia-have-died-because-lockdowners-denied-them-life-saving-surgery/
meanwhile the domino’s continue to fall,
https://www.anti-empire.com/people-arent-buying-it-trump-rips-into-dumb-bastards-at-cnn-for-obsessing-with-the-flu-of-doom-24-7/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/volunteer-in-covid-19-vaccine-trial-dies-in-health-officials_3547777.html
But wait theres a better one on the horizon that targets the kids
https://www.theepochtimes.com/study-swine-coronavirus-in-china-could-jump-to-humans_3547165.html
Lets line these fukkers up and shoot them before their germ warfare kills us all
This is how we do it (Montell Jordan)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/report-shows-40-floridas-covid-19-deaths-may-not-merit-classification/
As many a would-be dictator has known, fear is perhaps the greatest lever to power there is.