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On certainty, part II

11.27.2021 by Tank Green //

Last time I wrote about people’s need for certainty during the pandemic, and how this need for certainty was driving people to try to control others. As I was writing it, I thought about my neighbour who has very serious contamination OCD which causes her pronounced mental and physical ill-health. I realised how much of my neighbour’s private behaviour is currently being publicly replicated by people’s corona-fuelled madness.

I live in a flat in a house which has been split into 4 flats, which means that each resident shares a communal hallway. This is, of course, normal for the billions of people who live in flats around the world. What is not normal is that my neighbour’s need to control her environment causes her to lie about her neighbours, because our use of the communal hallway (i.e. accessing and leaving our homes) leaks into her plastic coated world. So she lies about us to try to control us by way of sanctions from the landlord. Her reason for doing so is to try to bring us into line with her needs and desires for the space she is forced to share on the rare occasions she leaves her flat. The problem is, her needs are not normal needs, they are the needs of a profoundly unwell person.

The enormous irony is that modern research is showing that OCD is likely caused by a streptococcus infection. So no matter how much my neighbour washes and sanitises and scrubs, she will never be clean because the pathogen is inside her. In fact, the research is showing that it is precisely the pathogen which causes her to obsessively clean, since it is impervious to washing, unlike other microbes. Therefore, her most likely route to physical and mental health is, perversely from her perspective, for her to encourage more bacteria into her life so that the beneficial ones can thrive at the expense of the pathogenic ones. (As an aside, Sea Moss / Irish Moss has been shown to do just this in respect of streptococcus.)

It seems to me that people suffering from acute COVID-fear are suffering from a type of OCD in one way or another. Terrible lies are told about unvaccinated people to try to get us to conform to the needs of their neuroses, just as my neighbour lies about others in the house. And also like her, given that COVID has a recovery rate of over 99%, the real pathogen is already inside you: your fear. Let’s not forget that the risk from COVID is disproportionately borne by the elderly and those already in poor health. You can’t do anything about age, but you can do something about your own poor or ill-health. So why won’t you empower yourself?

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Categories // COVID-19, Health, Thoughts Tags // ethics, mental health

On certainty

11.20.2021 by Tank Green //

When I was studying religion at university, I came to the realisation that people who were religious had a need for certainty that I did not share. It seems pretty clear to me that vast swathes of the world have gone mad out of a need for the same thing: certainty. And it is precisely this neurosis which is driving them to (try to) control others.

It seems pretty clear to me that it is impossible to control a virus. Aside from the fact that they are a part of the ecology of the earth and our bodies at all times (what else would we “test positive” for if we swabbed for it?*), they are microscopic organisms invisible to the naked eye. Rationally, how do you think you can control something you cannot see? You can’t.

This is why everything that you are doing to try to control the virus doesn’t work, and that is why you are moving on to trying to control others. You will never control the virus because you cannot see it. You can see me though, and that is why you want to control me. I, and others like me, stand as proxies for the thing you cannot see and cannot control.

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Categories // COVID-19, Health, Thoughts Tags // power, religion

Leave our bodies alone

11.19.2021 by Tank Green //

Together Declaration March FlyerI just read the sickening news that Austria is mandating population-wide COVID-19 vaccination as of February 2022. No disrespect to the unvaccinated Austrians – and my heart literally hurts for you – but I suppose it’s fitting that this final stage of COVID totalitarianism begins there.

It’s true what they say about mandates and coercion: it hardens people’s hearts on both sides, and makes those of us on the fence get off it and pick sides.

At this point, and with this much evidence, anyone who (still) thinks that the vaccines stop contraction or transmission of the virus are either profoundly stupid, wilfully ignorant, in a cult-like hypnosis, or a combination of all three.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it over and over and over until this madness stops: there is no health-based reason for mandating vaccines. All they do is stop the recipient from developing severe disease. It does not stop anyone catching it nor giving it to others. So there is no health-based reason to force someone else to do something to their body that they do not want to happen. If you want it, take it. But leave my body alone.

I will be on that march tomorrow, #together with other rational and just people who still believe in bodily autonomy and freedom of choice.

Categories // COVID-19

On indifference to injustice

11.17.2021 by Tank Green //

My friend gave me a lift to work yesterday; if we were living in Australia, that would be illegal.

What a weird sentence to type.

How can a world exist where a friend giving another friend a lift could be liable for an AUD$11,000 fine and/or imprisonment for 6 months? It should be an impossibility. It should be a fiction, not a fact.

I can imagine there’s not a few of you who are shrugging as you read this: so what? Serves the unvaccinated right, right? We should just comply and obey and be more like everyone else.

If you feel that way, and especially if you feel that way and you are from an otherwise minoritised community, please inspect your emotions and thoughts right now. Please map the terrain of your heart and mind and remember why it is that you do not care about this particular discrimination, or think it serves the unvaccinated right. Are you bored of me banging on about this? Remember that.

Why?

Because now you know exactly why so many people are indifferent to racism or transphobia or “woke” politics more generally. Now you inhabit their psychology, share their fatigue, and match their selfish lack of justice. How little you care about the basic rights and civil liberties of unvaccinated people, is how little the anti-woke battalion care about you. Your indifference sits cheek by jowl with theirs in the waiting room of injustice.

Now you and they are sharing a mirror. Embrace your kin.

Categories // COVID-19, Thoughts

On scientism

11.10.2021 by Tank Green //

Recently I was disturbed to hear the following from a friend: ‘but they are scientists, they wouldn’t lie to us!’ Something about that statement rolled about my brain for days. I finally settled on the naivete of it: how someone could think that a scientist was somehow different from other human beings. As if scientists were above normal human impulses, free from the taint of greed, ambition, and power. Anyone who’s spent more than 5 minutes in academia knows how laughable such an idea is.

Science is a method performed by human beings. What is investigated and researched is decided upon by human beings. The direction any one field of science goes in is decided by human beings. What is excluded from scientific investigation is decided by human beings, as is what is included. All of that is to say, scientific fields are constructed and produced by human beings doing scientific research. As such, despite what politicians would have you believe, there is no The Science to follow. Science is not some sui generis category which exists freeform, pure, and above us. Science is constructed and produced by scientists doing research informed by their competing interests and beliefs.

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Categories // COVID-19, Thoughts Tags // censorship

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