MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 6
th, 2022 at 12:33pm:
Frank wrote on Dec 6
th, 2022 at 12:19pm:
But the a BRAVE media would have questioned the excessive government measures in both kinds of jurisdictions, not change its principles depending on what kind of government is enforcing excessive Covid rules. But Western media and commentariat feared for their own career and so they fell in with the government lines.
In the context of a panic situation, governments did what they thought was right - their politicians also having been driven by panic - even if that was to blindly follow the moves of the first to react - a totalitarian regime.
Panic is the enemy of reason; the antithesis of reason, so yes it's inevitable that institutions yield to its force in the absence of any other plan.
However, the democracies didn't take the opportunity to indulge in an orgy of inhuman brutality, as the CCP did, and continued to do until the Chinese people found out the CCP was lying to them about the need for brutal measures.
Western Governments copied the totalitarian panic response, to the point of beating, arresting their own people and making their lives impossible by not allowing them to work and run their businesses, even though NONE of the Western pandemic plans included lockdown and draconian totalitarian measures. All Western governments, except Sweden, threw out their own pandemic response plans in order to imitate Xi Who Must Be Obeyed.
Western politicians' instincts were shown to be exactly the same as the instincts of the hideous Chinese Commies: not trusting their own people whose servants they are supposed to be and by whose grace they are in power, but treating them as the internal enemy needing suppression and control. If anything, the MSM questioned governments that did NOT act like the CCP.
Western governments followed the Chinese example with lockdowns after the CCP flaunted false figures about their massive success, claiming that they had zero covid transmission - it turned out to be another cha bu duo moment.
Data were either straight-out fabricated or covid-positive cases were bussed away from an area when that area was being tested, such that cases reported were few to none, then sent back to their homes after the general check. The other covid cases were included from the second area prior to its general check. Rinse and repeat until each locale, town and city were reporting near-zero figures.
The WHO accepted these reported figures out of hand and advised world medical seniors that lockdowns worked.