Why can’t people just face it? The evidence is overwhelming at this point
Why can’t people just face it? The evidence is overwhelming at this point
Expanded government power is the goal. If the subjects find out government funded the virus development they might start to get unruly.
Cognitive dissonance. Think about how many "educated and informed people", you know, the type that read The New York Times and The Washington Post, who thought so highly of themselves as they consumed media and began forming beliefs on the pandemic during Spring 2020, would need to accept they were wrong about a lot of what they prided themselves in believing and acting upon.
Imagine Joe Liberal. Joe fits the profile of the above. Joe wore his mask, watched Fauci's press conferences, wiped down his groceries with Clorox wipes. avoided and shamed any members of his community who got COVID by being "irresponsible", was an ardent keyboard warrior in his battle against misinformation online claiming the virus came from a lab (because the Proximal Origins report Fauci commissioned said so), and most importantly, flew from California or New York to Mississippi or Louisiana in January/February 2021 to get his mRNA shot.
Now imagine Joe these past few years... more and more evidence coming to light every day about what really happened during the pandemic including how it started. Information that if true, would be extremely emotionally distressing to Joe as he faced the possibility that his carefully constructed identity as the "good guy" isn't quite what he thought it was and in fact, he played an active role in many negative externalities from the pandemic such as the impact of the lockdowns on young people now developmentally delayed or damaged or the destruction of small to medium sized businesses.
Also, imagine how Joe might feel about his heroes... surely FAUCI wouldn't have lied to him, right?? So much pain, so many emotions...
Joe decided, "No, it cannot be". Joe continues on as Joe has learned and been conditioned to these past four years. Joe will not listen.
The government and its media ho's deliberately raised huge riots all throughout 2020. Of course the riots were pro covid scam, not against it. But they aren't afraid of unruly people; any really big movement, you can be sure it's already infiltrated and controlled from above. Organic movements go nowhere.
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Cognitive dissonance. Think about how many "educated and informed people", you know, the type that read The New York Times and The Washington Post, who thought so highly of themselves as they consumed media and began forming beliefs on the pandemic during Spring 2020, would need to accept they were wrong about a lot of what they prided themselves in believing and acting upon.
Imagine Joe Liberal. Joe fits the profile of the above. Joe wore his mask, watched Fauci's press conferences, wiped down his groceries with Clorox wipes. avoided and shamed any members of his community who got COVID by being "irresponsible", was an ardent keyboard warrior in his battle against misinformation online claiming the virus came from a lab (because the Proximal Origins report Fauci commissioned said so), and most importantly, flew from California or New York to Mississippi or Louisiana in January/February 2021 to get his mRNA shot.
Now imagine Joe these past few years... more and more evidence coming to light every day about what really happened during the pandemic including how it started. Information that if true, would be extremely emotionally distressing to Joe as he faced the possibility that his carefully constructed identity as the "good guy" isn't quite what he thought it was and in fact, he played an active role in many negative externalities from the pandemic such as the impact of the lockdowns on young people now developmentally delayed or damaged or the destruction of small to medium sized businesses.
Also, imagine how Joe might feel about his heroes... surely FAUCI wouldn't have lied to him, right?? So much pain, so many emotions...
Joe decided, "No, it cannot be". Joe continues on as Joe has learned and been conditioned to these past four years. Joe will not listen.
I started to write something with the same sentiment, realized I couldn't state it the way I wanted, deleted it, and moved on. Then, I come back to read this. So well written. You've absolutely nailed it. Well done!
Above poster got it right.
When it first spread, Trump and lot of right winger kept talking about how China likely started this, it was a lab leak etc.
Many liberals reverted to their normal talking points of "thats certainly VERY racist, of course China is telling the truth, trump and GOP are racist!"
well turns out evidence points to the it WAS a lab leak. they cannot in their mind go back.
its like many liberals seeing the border crisis, migrants in NYC etc. they cannot admit to themselves that having open borders is bad. they had "all are welcome" signs in their yard. were happy to receive the first bus loads of illegals from Gov Abbot because "We arent racist texans here in NY". well now that its a clusterphuck in the city, migrants are beating up cops and shooting tourists in times square....they simply cannot let the right be correct.