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Multitude of People are In Denial But we do have the Great Inte
rnet
By: Masked Man Date: August 20, 2024, 9:35 pm
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Here’s some grim albeit useful news;
Reality: a pervasive disease is mutating/changing every season
four and a half years straight… thats never happened before in
any of our lifetimes since 1917 .. the disease is new and it’s
real.. long covid will accumulate and prevail .. people are in
denial they can’t help it… they can’t handle the fear properly
and they can’t handle it psychologically.. they don’t have the
discipline or attention span… all they want is what they
perceive to be is normal. They just want things to be normal.
But this is not normal. It’s not normal for us to be in this
world where people get sick all year long here in America every
season for four and a half years straight… this isn’t my
opinion.. it’s a fact and it’s true. To not fear this disease
and simply go along with the crowd pretending all is well is to
be in denial such is the temptation to simply belong to the
group … nothing will change and things will get worse if we deny
the existence of this four and a half year long pervasive
disease that continues to circulate. It’s not normal to simply
hope it goes away or pretend it won’t happen to us. Many of us
have never been very sick before so it must be hard to fathom
that this isn’t a yearly cold. It is a mutating virus unlike
history has ever seen before.. respect this reality: dare to be
different .. if we don’t take control and behave differently
this disease will continue its reign and if we pretend: it’s to
live with a disease that people are catching sometimes three
times a year we gotta be crazy or stupid not to be scared … if
people aren’t scared right now and they just want to act normal
then they are in denial. I’m wearing an n95 mask with a vented
valve .. I’m not going to act normal when this mutating virus
still reigns. This is an abnormal disease ridden era unlike I’ve
ever seen and I’m protecting and defending myself and not going
to pretend the disease doesn’t exist .
Now here’s the GOOD news about today’s pandemic challenge …
never before in history have we had an amazing means of
communication and way of collaborating; namely the internet!
Never in history have we been able to trade, communicate ,
collaborate , inform , educate , and share before via online
internet! We can even be creative and often engage in arts,
entertainment, hobbies , reading, etc. we have never had that
power at our disposal and at our fingertips ever in history!
It’s a powerful tool to connect with one another without being
in person… so that’s the good news we have an amazing tool
besides just the mask to help us all get through this. That is a
powerful tool that wasn’t available to those in the previous
times when plagues and pandemics also hit. We should be okay If
we use all the tools we have today!
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Re: Multitude of People are In Denial But we do have the Great
Internet
By: Masked Man Date: August 20, 2024, 9:37 pm
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.. more factors to consider … I’ve never been afraid of covid
but I’ve always been afraid of Long Covid before it was even
discovered or it’s existence confirmed. I always knew to guard
against the long term repercussions of contracting covid or any
disease for that matter. My grandfather caught malaria in the
war and had long term health problems for rest of his life and
even though malaria is not covid , long term repercussions and
chronic health problems are not my cup of tea… furthermore I had
asthma as a child and had to get shots every week and almost
died once from it when I was little. I am free of asthma now
but maybe I learned to guard against covid more because I
learned from these past experiences how important it is to
remain disease free since disease is definitely not pleasant
even if you survive it. Since I’m against pain and suffering, I
am for taking precautions and measures against disease.
Compare this to the Spanish flu times here’s some major factors
involved… 1) currently the diseases seem to be mutating which
means the disease is changing all the time making cures obsolete
faster or possibly even impossible 2) we have a higher
population than during Spanish flu and a denser “super
spreading” population nowadays 3) we have super high rate of
personal travel and personal transportation galore which means
illnesses fly as fast as a plane town to town overnight 4) we
have climate change which might play a role only making diseases
in third world countries worse and therefore everywhere since we
all travel…
…however we have do have better faster online communications
worldwide to help us communicate about where the diseases are
coming and going and to help us with the science of
understanding the germs. So we have better technology to
communicate and share without being in person but at the same
time we are definitely amidst a mutating virus that has touched
the lives of many for four and a half years and so we are in a
pandemic/ plague no doubt. At least we know it so we stand the
greatest chance to use all the tools and adaptive behavior to
be able to chose how we want to defend ourselves.. at least we
have that understanding given to us from the beautiful online
world we call the internet.
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Re: Multitude of People are In Denial But we do have the Great
Internet
By: Masked Man Date: January 13, 2025, 1:14 am
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Now I'm thinking (just thinking out loud..brainstorming) about
Programming/deprograming theory about illness.
I'd like to introduce some ideas that may spur others to comment
or bring ideas to this thread... feel free to state any ideas
you have about some of the psychological challenge of this
pandemic or rather slew of outbreaks, viruses and diseases that
have reared their ugly heads to us this era over the past five
years. Think of this thread as brainstorming thread where you
can toss ideas around if you'd like feel free to post any ideas
you have no matter whether you think your ideas are dumb ideas
or not... no idea is too dumb to post in my thread at this stage
of life.
One of my latest theories is that many of us have been
programmed
or raised not to be afraid of illnesses and diseases even though
we in our present times should be afraid. Its as if we as a
society were raised to not think about that danger of diseases
and illness therefore we need to deprogram ourselves so that we
relearn a natural aversion to illness and disease in order to
react and protect ourselves and develop better self defense
skills against disease and illness. We should to develop our
sense of flight techniques rather than our sense of fight
instincts in a pandemic/outbreak age to survive.
To memory people are like babies when it comes to how to react
to the new illnesses and diseases which are more dangerous now
for us.. we are like babies in that babies will crawl right out
into a busy highway or stick their fingers right into a lion's
mouth ... we have to relearn boundaries and learn to embrace
rational fears certain fears or aversions that make sense to
have in our present times and present situation at hand.
To little old me, there's something weird going on like people
aren't scared enough or can't talk about scary things... but you
can in this thread. No one will call you a conspiracy theorist
or anything here in this thread that's for sure.
I for one think there is almost an amnesia amongst people who
get well after an illness.. like they think they won't get sick
again or they forget they were sick and then go out and take the
same chances as before.. I dunno like something people have an
inherent disability to learn from diseases. Why is that?
Regardless of that last idea,
I feel like society has to go through a little revolution of
sorts and do some changing in how they respond to threats like
illnesses and diseases. The last five years have proved an
onslaught of airborne diseases have been circulating pretty much
nonstop. Society has to reexamine its response to illnesses or
diseases.
There seem to be widespread reluctance amongst many institutions
and customs amongst peoples to discuss or deal with these issues
and social changes in a responsible sensible manner. There is
reluctance or confusion as to disclosure of diagnosis amongst
people .. there is an element of shame in diseases and
illnesses in our work driven culture or even in the family.
Soon to come I hope to explore the psychology of the
Fight/flight response in people to help understand how people
might act in various ways in the face of a threat such as when
microscopic entities wreak havoc on society and its members.
Let us begin to explore together
What is deprogramming?
Deprograming is a release (someone) from apparent brainwashing,
typically that of a religious cult, by the systematic
reindoctrination of conventional values.
What is deprogramming in psychology?
Deprogramming is a form of confrontational therapy in which the
therapist, often an ex-cultist, attempts to neutralize the
effects of cultic conditioning and restore the individual's
freedom of thought.
again this last reply is but food for thought..I'm just trying
to open up some approaches or ideas that might be useful in how
we should think about these microscopic entities and how not to
deny their existence and how to live with them without going
crazy or getting hurt by the microscopic entities and the
society that must adopt or embrace new modes of thinking in the
light of these various illnesses and diseases which have
increased in rate, number and mutations in this era and day and
age.
Feel free to comment or add any ideas, problems, or possible
solutions of your own no matter how articulate or unarticulate
that might contribute to our understanding of what might break
the curse of denial or incompetence in the face of a pandemic
or onslaught of various illnesses and diseases we as people
might face. Feel free to brainstorm with me and run with any
ideas you got here in this thread.
Later,
The Masked Man
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