The Reclaiming of Our Pre-Pandemic Lives and the Latest 5 Conspiracy Theories to Claim Victory
Is it possible? Do we even want it anymore?
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have a dream... actually, I had a dream and then the pandemic hit. It was so unnecessary and cruel as to how our governments dealt with it that not only did they interrupt my dream, my life, my relationships, my trajectory but they turned my enthusiasm into bitterness.
That’s not okay!
But I’m done being bitter and I choose not to be a victim. How about you?
Let’s take a look back before we look forward.
I’ll admit it, in March of 2020, at first, I was afraid. My intuition told me something was off but I still had some level of fear. Maybe it was sensing the malfeasance in the air. I didn’t know what to do but I knew things didn’t add up. This resulted in a ‘straddling the fence’ sort of existence for about two weeks. I would oscillate between feeling paralyzed as to what action I should take and obstinate as to investigate ‘where I shouldn’t have’.
While the world locked down and my immediate family complied, I would venture out of the house each day - sometimes multiple times a day - to go to the grocery store, check out downtown, look for signs of meaning while observing the spontaneous uniform appearance of pandemic mottos and ‘commandments’ littering society - “Stay 6 Feet Apart”, “Safer at Home”, “We Are In This Together”, etc., etc. etc. This was the “New Normal”.
My wife and kids would ask me why I was leaving the house again. I used to say something like, “I had to”, or “I just need to go to the store quickly”. They knew I wasn’t onboard for the ride.
Those first couple weeks, I hardly slept. I was worried and piled into the available literature of covid. It was a mishmash of contradictory and largely speculative information that felt to me to be at odds with the existing medical theories and societal sensibilities. I could not accept that lockdowns were rational. The virus didn’t seem that bad from my analysis of the data available but I somewhat succumbed to the idea that I was not trained sufficiently to see the real danger of this pathogen.
I guess my biggest concern was the safety and health of my wife and children. As two weeks turned to three and the curve was not flattened but the media and government were stoking the flames of fear and hysteria exponentially, my mystification galvanized into action.
I knew something was wrong that was not being openly conveyed and expressed that publicly in April of 202. I received significant blowback for this following post.
Still, I knew that regardless of the nature of this crisis, I would need to be prepared to protect my family, be strong, and be prepared to handle anything.
So… I ordered a crossbow. You can always retrieve arrows, or even make your own. When it arrived, I felt a greater sense of ease.
Next…
I got off the couch and began my ascent back into physical fitness. This would not stop and has not stopped to this day. Three years later, I am probably in the best shape of my life in many ways. I have gained considerable strength, endurance, speed, and muscle.
Many early morning workouts and painful exertions were fuelled by the anger and frustration generated by the nonsensical government pandemic measures that boiled my blood for so long.
2020 was not that bad compared to 2021 for me. 2022 was a healing, rebalancing year. After the spring of 2020, the summer was actually a lovely period. The region I lived in was basically in a quarantine from the outside with the provincial government demanding we stay in our health zone.
This offered great opportunity to explore many spots in nature that I had yet to visit and there wasn’t the crowds and tourists that usually appear. There was no demand for me to leave the area to visit extended family or do business elsewhere. It was quite magical. I’ll always remember that summer fondly.
However, with the fall, which brought the mask mandates and the coming of the vaccine - which I anticipated to be the shitshow it was - things got sour fast. It just escalated from there. The anticipation - conspiracy theorizing, if you will - of the upcoming repeated betrayals by government on our inalienable rights fomented a rebellious indignation in me.
As each predication turned out to be true and the government continued to infringe on human rights, ignore informed consent, and crush our constitution with no demonstrable evidence of it being necessary or logical, I grew more irate and bitter. There was nothing else to think about or focus on then the historical and unparalleled injustice that was flooding over civilization.
The masses’ compliance with the medical tyranny and diktats - while even seemingly celebrating of this erosion of Western ideals - was like vinegar in a wound. It is very disheartening when people you believed were good, intelligent, educated, reasonable humans turn into ‘just following orders’-”Follow the Science”-”Trust the Experts” zombies.
I believe the pandemic - for those of us who did not succumb to neuronal pruning due to extended and extensive cortisol spikes caused by manufactured fear-inducing stress - has been a big wake up call. Even if you knew society was fucked up before, it has become clearer than ever now.
I will not go into further detail about the past three years here but I have in previous articles like this one:
And this one:
There are others too. Nonetheless, let’s jump to now. In the last few weeks - as well as in the previous months, year, years - a variety of dismissed and scorned ‘conspiracy theories’ have come to full fruition as FACT, against the very fabric of the fuct-checkers’ existential being.
This has helped my healing throughout 2022 and has me in a place in 2023 that I actually feel good about. More on that in a minute but first, here are:
Five ‘conspiracy theories’ that have become basically ‘indisputable facts’ in the last month or so
Watch a summary video here or read below.
Vitamin D is highly effective at preventing severe covid and curbing infection
Natural immunity is as good if not better than vaccine derived immunity
Masks make no difference
Mandates did not curb hospitalizations or deaths
Covid’s most likely origin is a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Woody Harrelson’s SNL monologue was 100% factual and the media’s reaction proves it.
Here’s a caveat though. I think all these now accepted positions are still soft when it comes to the truth. They are gentle on the lies, dis/mis/mal-information that was purposely disseminated.
However, it is important to take wins and move the fence sitters with low hanging fruit. These were once forbidden fruits. Now they sit on the kitchen table (except #6, which ironically is the most obvious truth).
Remember, I do not want to be bitter anymore nor play the victim. My dream that was derailed has been revived or more accurately replaced by a clearer dream. I know I can no longer rely on any institutions and I need to have significant independence in as many areas of my life as possible.
That is my dream and that is fuelling the work I am doing to make it a reality. Instead of complaining and focusing on the nefarious plots of these cretin elites, I gaze in their direction, acknowledge their stench, and double down on improving my life and the world around me.
This might seem foolish to some. Maybe you think I am burying my head in the sand and being an idealistic, spiritual bypasser. Maybe I am. But I know bitterness is self-destructive and giving too much attention to the evil in the world feeds it.
In reference to the quote at the beginning of this article by Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have mourned my past life and the loss of certain things through the pandemic, including faith in particular people.
I have come to a greater understanding of who I am and what I want and need.
I had all but lost my patience but in regaining it, it is deeper and more unflappable than ever before.
I know how important love is and that is what drives this shift more than anything. I cannot let my love of and from my children be soured by the darkness in the world around me.
And that is why, even if I am being foolishly idealistic, I choose vulnerability in still being open to love, hope, and the goodness in the world - both in giving and receiving.
Where are you at?