By Roland Rottenfußer
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) To the same extent that the vaccination campaign is becoming implausible, its advocates are stepping up the pressure – but they will not be able to hide their failure forever.
What helps when vaccinations often prove ineffective and even harmful? More vaccinations! And if many people just don’t want to go along with it anymore? Then more violence is needed.
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With this “logic,” the Covid clique in Germany and elsewhere is not only destroying the already crumbling trust in politics, but also the remnants of our democratic system.
Debates on compulsory vaccination, the expulsion of unvaccinated people from the Bundestag’s plenary chamber, shortening the period of validity of convalescent status – the champions of the coercive regime continue to rely on ridicule and division.
They behave confidently, as if their path through the crisis, which so far has been accompanied by a trail of destruction, were a brilliant success story. Perhaps we are indeed witnessing the last gasp of a dying narrative – or perhaps its champions will manage to make it through one more time in the extension.
One thing is certain: at this point, one would not like to be in the shoes of those who have to justify a seemingly largely useless vaccination, especially in the case of Omicron. The moment of truth may still be delayed, and the high incidence rates allow those in power to play on people’s fears once more – but sooner or later the final sigh will reach us.
Already more and more misguided people are gathering at the gates of the spiritual fortress in which their tormentors have entrenched themselves.
In Germany, mandatory vaccination has not been abolished, only postponed. For the first time in post-war history, people may end up in prison as early as this spring, not for something they have done, but for what they are.
The unvaccinated may soon be fined by their government and imprisoned as a substitute. It is no longer enough to get 60, 70, or 80 percent of citizens to vaccinate but, as the saying goes, “everyone must do it.”
And how do most citizens respond? Instead of directing their aggression against those who oppress them, they direct their aggression against those who point out the oppression. Kai Strittmatter describes the mentality of the submissive very aptly in his China book:
“A special stage of numbness is that in which the subject hates everything that is good and just. Every idealist is to him a hypocrite, everyone who stands up for justice is to him a shameless opportunist, who in reality acts only for himself.”
Why is this so?
“The impression of moral inferiority arouses defensive reflexes in people everywhere. Even in the West, studies have shown that those who are the only ones in a group to act morally right do not reap admiration, but hatred. They show the others their own flaws and remind them that other actions are still possible.”
THE FEAR OF TRUTH
The current situation is simply absurd. The compulsion to vaccinate seems to increase as the ineffectiveness of this injection for real protection becomes apparent.
The more the prevailing narratives crumble – especially that about the supposedly protective effect of the injection – the more confident and intolerant its proponents seem to become.
We can only hope, as the Viennese psychiatrist Raphael Bonelli hypothesizes, that this is the last of several phases of “defense” – a psychological term describing resistance to a truth that comes to light in the therapeutic process and is perceived by the patient as unbearable.
People die in connection with the vaccination. Noticing this is the first step. The second would be to accept this fact, believe it, and draw the necessary conclusions – for example, to distrust the current mass vaccination campaign or to reconsider one’s own intention to vaccinate.
Why do so many contemporaries fail to see the obvious and remain loyal to the government in the worst attack on freedom in 76 years? This, says Bonelli, has much to do with the dynamics of repression well known to psychiatrists.
“When a belief system to which one’s own sense of security is closely tied threatens to collapse, people consistently and often aggressively reject truths that don’t fit into prefabricated images.”
THE VULNERABLE VACCINATED
Let’s look back: by early fall 2021, 60 to 70 percent of people had already received both vaccines. But instead of covid problems declining as a result of the supposedly beneficial vaccination, dramatically rising “incidences” were reported. A wave of discrimination against a particular population group followed, unprecedented in postwar history.
But again, none of this seemed to help, again the number of incidents rose. And one reads reports everywhere of overcrowded intensive care units – mainly because there had already been a turnover of nursing staff during the epidemic, not because the physical object “bed” had become scarce.
This was followed by a modern witch hunt of the worst kind: unvaccinated people would “occupy” the scarce hospital slots actually reserved for decent (vaccinated) people.
The official figures on the ratio of vaccinated to unvaccinated in intensive care units can be safely doubted – in many cases there are not even usable figures. In any case, the effect of the injection is not so impressive that one could not also respect the renunciation of it as a rational and humanly understandable decision.
In fact, recent figures from the Robert Koch Institute now suggest that vaccinated people are more likely to contract the Omicron variant than unvaccinated people, as Gunnar Kaiser, among others, reports in a video.
“Of the 5,116 Omicron cases whose vaccination status was known, 4,020 were fully vaccinated.” Of those who were fully vaccinated, those who were “boostered” did better.
Rounding up the numbers, we can say that one in five of those affected was unvaccinated, another had received a booster, and the remaining three had been vaccinated “only” twice.
So it looks like the double vaccinated are currently a particularly vulnerable group as far as Omicron is concerned – and that after a year of trying to sell us this status as the best there is.
Since it is not possible to become unvaccinated again, such vulnerable people can only take refuge in the next “booster.” Meanwhile, however, even fervent proponents of vaccination seem to realize that the protection provided by vaccination has a rather short shelf life – after two to three months, immunity declines rapidly.
And while all of this information should have impressively refuted the fixation on vaccination as the supposed only solution, the proponents’ answer is more vaccinations.
Perhaps also other, “updated” vaccines. The “perpetual vaccination”, previously only painted on the wall by incorrigible conspiracy theorists, now seems to be seriously approaching humanity.
TOWARD A ‘PERPETUAL VACCINATION’
It goes without saying that those in politics and the media who have carried out this unprecedentedly intrusive vaccination campaign will have a hard time selling an endless vaccination marathon to the hitherto patient people.
Millions of people will sooner or later transform themselves from supporters of discrimination against the unvaccinated to being discriminated against themselves. At some point, almost everyone will be unable to keep up.
State power should therefore either openly propagate vaccination for life, or admit that the entire logic it had propagated for more than two years had been extremely fragile.
It should be clear: since vaccinations not only produce predominantly no benefits for the subjects but – apart from possible vaccine damage – even increase the risk of infection (!), compulsory vaccination should, at least in the case of Omicron, be shelved as a historically nonsensical idea.
Indirect pressure to vaccinate should also be completely eliminated from public life. Finally, advocates must act with the modesty appropriate to the rather meager results of their actions.
But the players continue to play for time. From the perspective of the pharmaceutical lobbyists and “their” politicians, this tactic makes perfect sense. Even if the whole house of cards collapses in mid-2022 or 2023, millions of vaccine doses can still be injected until then. The ladies and gentlemen are playing poker.
They are trying to give the impression, through a self-confident aura completely divorced from reality, that things can go on forever, and that giving in to the call to vaccinate is the last chance for everyone to live a semi-carefree life for years to come.
Living in this state means periodically buying one’s way out of the state’s harassment by resignedly sacrificing one’s body to the invaders in the hope that things will go well once again and no worse health problems will arise.
There are already signs that the “unboostered” will become the new enemy in 2022, alongside unvaccinated. We face an endless loop of new waves, new panics, new vaccine failures, new boosters, and so on.
And even if the government’s invoked “vaccination rate” increases, people will continue to blame the remaining 20, 10, 5, or 2 percent of the unvaccinated for the misery.
However, an annual cycle – as with voluntary flu vaccination – does not seem to be sufficient. If one extends this logic to the end, 20-year-olds today would still need to be vaccinated 120 or even 240 times in their remaining lives.
And even if the vaccine damage currently occurring is considered relatively minor – which would be tantamount to making a mockery of those affected – will it remain so “few” cases with such permanent exposure to dubious, inadequately tested substances? Will the exposure not increase with each new booster?
THE SICK REPUBLIC
The sickness rate among the people in this country is already high – as far as Covid is concerned, but also other infections and diseases. Never before have I observed such an accumulation in my personal environment.
It is very difficult to prove whether this is often due to “vaccine damage”. But in the end, one can speak of a grandiose failure of health policy in recent years – whether the cause is a lack of help, especially for mental and psychosomatic illnesses, a broken health care system, or a minister who, along with like-minded people, talks and regulates health disorders. The vaccine scare only reinforces this tendency.
The more “health” became the focus of everyday politics and “stay healthy” became the mantra of our time, the sicker people became.
As a result, we urgently need the opposite of what is happening now: an end to the constant attacks on our psyche, our mental health, our social cohesion, and our physical integrity.
There are also more optimistic predictions, namely that Omicron, as an infectious variant with a relatively mild disease course, could be Corona’s farewell presentation, so to speak.
While the orchestra of political panic will be reluctant to abandon its beloved pretext of oppression, other issues may follow in its footsteps: Ecototalitarianism, a new wave of refugees, supply shortages, financial crisis, energy crisis, tensions with Russia….
Such a manipulated population can thus be further bent at will by a determined power elite.
But the future is open. For the protagonists, too, the Covid maneuver is nothing more than an experiment that – from their point of view – can succeed or fail. The contradictions I alluded to could lead to a collapse of the narrative, which is already being kept alive more badly than well.
At a time when we have been betrayed by almost everyone from whom we might have expected help, we are left to our own devices.
This may seem frightening, but it is also an opportunity for us to become politically mature – if we have not already done so. A new culture of courage, solidarity, and self-organization can emerge, and in many cases is already emerging.
Roland Rottenfußer, born in 1963, worked as a book editor and journalist for various publishing houses after studying German. From 2001 to 2005 he was editor at the spiritual magazine connection, later at “Zeitpunkt”. He currently works as an editor, book copywriter, and author scout for Goldmann Verlag. Since 2006, he has been editor-in-chief of Hinter den Schlagzeilen.
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