Is COVID-19 a religion? - Blind belief in vaccines, government etc

[V2DHeart]

Over 20 years ago, I was teenager on holiday watching a TV on the island of Cyprus at a bar waiting on food to arrive and I saw everyone, including the bar staff glued to the TV. It read 'terror attack' on United States along the banner at the bottom, with a smoking skyscraper in New York City.

There was definite fear, uncertainty, and a frantic need for a corrective action, solution of some kind. We not only seeked answers, but we needed them. Even though the odds of dying in a terrorist attack in a Western country were around 1 in 25 million, while simultaneously the deaths from avoidable heart disease were 1 in 5, it was the terrorists we feared most. It was on “terrorism” that brand new framework and Western ideologies were built upon; heightened security measures against the population, the Patriot Act, new snooping charters, along with an increased dipping of tax payer money to enhance military budgets. It allowed for a perceived improvement of security, at the expense of an erosion of civil liberties.

The sheer dominance of the situation on mainstream media across the world certainly induced global fear, but it also allowed many anomalies to appear for the first time. Many things that didn’t make sense, things that were deliberately withheld from the public, all helping to create a veil lifting experience for many, for the first time when people were looking beyond just their national governments and who may be pulling strings from behind the scenes.

Fast forward 20 years later, and I see this same thing, with another ‘global threat’ – only this time in place of ‘global terrorism’, it is a ‘global virus’. Similar stats also befall to this current situation that puts a realistic aspect to it. The IFR rates (infection to fatality rate) for a guy, like me, in his 30’s catching any contagious respiratory illnesses, whether that is Covid-19 or anything else, is less than 0.1%. Statistically, I have the same risk of being struck by lightning, and because 90% of those that are struck by lightning live, therefore my chances of death from lightening are even rarer. What that 0.1% doesn’t tell you is that those that do perish, do unfortunately have many other medical issues, perhaps in remission from cancer, so the risk to myself is far less as I don’t have any other health issues. The CDC just said that a new study found that 75% of such deaths among fully vaccinated individuals involved people with at least four comorbidities.
 
So why so much mass fear around this? I know many well-educated people that have succumbed to this, so it’s certainly not a class thing, it’s not an ethnic thing, it really is a global thing, much like a religion. The fear of something, which the data can reveal is an ‘irrational’ fear (obviously perpetuated by the media), with an unproven belief in something else (government, vaccines, restrictions on their civil liberties etc), which again follows the signs of a religion. The difference between 9/11 and now however is that now, the other side is well armed with the technological advancements to refine how we digest our information and news, coupled with psychologists and behavioural scientists to help modify our behaviours. There is a cohesive strength in how countries can follow a broader set of governing rules. This is how committee’s work, but it has never been so operationally sound on a global level.   
 
I had an argument with a guy a few months back, who claimed that if people ‘refuse’ the vaccine, that they should be denied any hospital treatment (for anything!) bare in mind, that the national health system is publicly funded, with the leading causes of hospital admissions and treatments (besides accidental) are actually due to non-diabetes-related cancers, and ischaemic heart disease. Across the Western world and similar across the globe, poor diet and smoking contributes to a whole host of health issues, which can create the poor environment necessary for the 5,000+ respiratory illnesses out there to become deadly, so why not the same stigmatisation on smokers and those who eat junk food? There’s actual genuine loathing out there for those that do not wish to partake in the religious ceremony of taking a new unproven trial drug our lords and masters have deemed as a collectively righteous act. Many who do wish to partake, like to indulge in showing their badges of honour via profile picture frames, stamps, images and even framed appointment letters. Even though the data shows the vaccine to be largely ineffective, it doesn’t seem to matter at all. Right now, 70% of all covid hospital admissions are those that have had at least 1 dose of the vaccine, but it doesn’t matter. Like religion, when fact and reason come into play, it is ignored, and usually quite aggressively to cling on to a stance, a belief in something, which to me just doesn’t make sense?

Is Covid like the new age scientology?