People Are NOT Immortal and Never Were

But Toxic Positivity of Our Society Made US forget About It Altogether

Fear of death is as old as humankind, and it is this fear exactly which was getting exploited by our corrupt fascist elites during COVID scamdemic. It might be exploited again during next scamdemics. Hence, in order to prevent next scamdemics, we must address the fear of death as their main enabling factor. Luckily, as a Taoist I’m not afraid of death at all (not because I believe in mythical afterlife as Christians do - Taoism doesn’t have such sweet illusions) but because I made peace with death. I perceive it as an intrinsic part of life and as a great unknown (and why should we fear the unknown? It might be good too). But most people aren’t Taoists sadly, so fear of death must be addressed. Hence, here’s my three-year old article written in the end of COVID scamdemic.

I noticed a glaring hypocrisy of our governments and media with regard to COVID deaths as opposed to all other deaths (from other causes than COVID). Now one has an impression from our glorious media that we are indeed truly IMMORTAL, and that COVID is the ONLY thing which could possibly kill us, hence we should invest all our resources in fighting COVID at the expense of literally EVERYTHING ELSE. This toxic attitude actually warrants a separate detailed analysis. Indeed, how could we fall so low and go mad so completely?

I think it has a lot to do with toxic positivity of Western societies during last decade, when death and all negative stuff at large was removed from people's eyes and wasn't allowed to be discussed even on social media. Well, ofc not only that. There was really much less negative stuff in the West during last decade compared to previous decades, and compared to other parts of the world as well. I mean, mortality levels from diseases and crime in the West were largely decreased, while quality of life and life expectancy - largely increased. Hence, death and disease had indeed become much rarer guests in the West than they used to be. So, with this regard it's quite understandable that people in the West began to treat any premature death quite seriously.

But still, was it only that though? Could the quality of life and increased life expectancy in the West over time really explain such HUGE paranoia and literal mass psychosis over relatively mild virus with survival rate over 99% for those who aren't in risks groups? Not really. Also, despite all increased life expectancy and quality of life, many deadly diseases still weren't defeated in the West - HIV and cancer being incurable diseases most notably. Some diseases like cardiovascular ones got even worse in the West due for example unhealthy diet. So those diseases were still taking their large death toll. Also, crime and traffic accidents weren't gone either. So, premature death was still pretty frequent guest in the West. Yet, it seemed people there were not noticing it until very recent. Why so?

Here I think where toxic positivity comes into play. The better quality of life in the West was becoming and the more life expectancy was increasing, the less people in the West wanted even to hear of death and any disease and suffer at large. So, slowly Western society began to isolate itself from death and any negative stuff. It wasn't discussed during regular social gatherings, not even on social media. Disease belonged only to hospital wards and wasn't discussed much outside of it - why to ruin other people's moods by such a grave topic? Death likewise belonged only to morgues and graveyards. Sure, everyone still was dying, but the death was kept behind the closed doors. Not so many public funerals so people would be spared the sight of coffins and of crying mourners. No posts of death on social media. Well, one might be grudgingly allowed to post the death of a pet but never of a relative. Why to ruin people's mood by your problems?

Now, do you realize the all significance of that? Death, disease and misery were largely removed from people's lives or at least from public attention. They were happening behind the closed doors, in special separate places - hospitals and graveyards. Outside of them, society lived as if they didn't even exist. People were partying and clubbing, attending cultural and social gatherings, having fun. They were not thinking of death and disease. Why to bother themselves with such dark topics? Indeed, many people learned to ignore those topics completely and to shield themselves from anything even slightly unpleasant. Now, what do you think happened when people as society isolated themselves from death so successfully and so completely that many of them had almost never seen a real death (not in movies or in media) during their entire lives? (unless it was death of their old relatives which they took for granted). Right, many people ceased even to believe in reality of death. Nope, ofc in the back of their heads they realized that everyone is mortal, but since they had almost never seen death in real life, it was pretty easy to forget that, and to pretend that we are indeed immortal. This was very, very toxic attitude, and it had backfired at us during COVID crisis pretty heavily.

Now, what do you think happened during COVID crisis? Death, which was hidden from us almost completely for more than a decade, was ALL OF A SUDDEN in a SPOTLIGHT OF ALL MEDIA. Now daily on all media channels all of us were seeing coffins, morgues and hospital wards which before many of us haven't seen during their entire lives. Suddenly, the barrier we built between us and Death was broken down, and we had realized the reality of Death and Disease in all their terrible grandeur. Ofc, that realization had deeply shocked us as a society, it had shaken us to the bottom of our souls, and filled our hearts with horror.

Now - and that's VERY IMPORTANT! - I argue that this realization of reality of death would have been no less horrible for us as a society even if no new 'dangerous virus' appeared at all. Just if all media, who before shielded us from any sights of death and disease at large, suddenly shifted their focus and began to show us them in all their horrible detail, that would have affected us just as badly. We were not scared of COVID to be precise, we were scared of DEATH which was hidden from us before almost and now was revealed to us in all its terrible detail. Hence this exaggerated fear and mass psychosis. It was a price we paid for our toxic positivity when we had isolated ourselves from any bad stuff, death and disease most notably, so we could pretend they are not real. And when we found out they are real, and on such s large scale, it scared us to the bones.

This what evil COVID propagandists counted for. They had shown to us the dark routine of death which was hidden from us before, to evoke our great fear of death, and they blamed it all on the new relatively mild virus. So our fear of death and our painful realization of its reality was projected onto this virus. This was the dirty manipulation technique of our media and elite, and unfortunately it worked just fine. Moreover, due to this dirty manipulation, many people actually started to believe that if they defeated COVID, then they would defeat death as well. Because now in their subconscious mind COVID and death were inseparable, due to dirty media propaganda. Indeed, many people are fairly convinced that COVID kills us more than anything else in the world (that's not true, ofc). People forgot that they are mortal, and now they are paying the price of it.

This again explains why for example Russia or Africa became immune to COVID toxic fear mongering propaganda. Death and misery were always parts of daily lives of millions of Russians and Africans. Death and disease were not hidden from us. Mortality rates from crime and diseases were always much higher in Russia than in Europe for example, and people in Russia never fell into a trap of 'toxic positivity' due to it perhaps. Death was frequently seen in Russia and as frequently discussed. Premature death wasn't an exceptional event in Russia but a daily routine. Hence, Russian people weren't impressed by media demonstration of coffins and morgues and hospital wards in a way Westerners were. They had seen it all before after all, many times. So COVID propagandists didn't achieve their desired effect in Russia (same as in Africa). Russian people weren't scared, and, hence, they retained their brains and their common sense, and were able to see through propaganda and to realize what's going on COVID wise in the world much better than Westerners.

What's my main point? That COVID mass psychosis in the West was caused not by the virus itself which is again relatively mild compared to many other viruses, and which kills mostly elderly (who are left not much time in this world anyway) and most vulnerable, but by the SUDDEN REALIZATION OF THE REALITY OF DEATH. When death was almost completely hidden from Western society for more than a decade, and then shown in all its terrible detail from all media channels daily for many months, that was a huge psychological shock, even trauma dealt to the Western population, which resulted in this unprecedented levels of paranoia and mass psychosis. And that was the dirty manipulation from Western media - true enemies of people - who first had hidden death from us and then had shown it to us in the spotlight to achieve their propagandist ends. The result was spectacular. Russia and Africa were immune to this propaganda because death never was hidden from their populations and was always a part of their daily lives.

Again, I'm fairly sure people would have gotten JUST AS SCARED without any new virus, if media had shown death to them in all its details after hiding it for more than a decade. The shock and trauma would have been the same, with only difference that there would have been no new virus to project this trauma onto. And if that is really the case, then we don't actually need vaccines and even COVID treatment and even doctors at this point. We need PSYCHOLOGISTS who should deal with our fear of death and with this huge trauma which was dealt to us. Psychologists would be the ones most needed in upcoming decade I believe.

P.S. Exactly because I'm Russian and also Taoist and was never really afraid of death (it's just the end after all, or maybe even a beginning, we don't know), I never bought COVID fear mongering. I am much more afraid of misery which life could bring to us including tyranny, fascism, poverty and fear mongering.