The Lies We Were Told
Bill Rice, Jr.
How does a person continue to function - as a sane human being - in a world that’s apparently insane?
Nurse who recently started her own Substack newsletter must feel like a character in this satirical - and maddening - classic novel. I recently discovered an excellent Substack Newsletter authored by a registered nurse (Dee Dee) who has treated many (alleged) Covid patients. This nurse finally had enough and decided to share her stories and thoughts via her own Substack, which she started May 25th.
From reading a couple of her pithy posts, my take-away is Nurse Dee must feel like the main character in Joseph Heller’s classic novel Catch 22. In that novel, the experiences and observations of a fictional WW II bombardier tell readers the guidance and logic used by his superiors is utter madness. Dee’s observations prompted my own question:
💬 When do citizens or employees finally realize that every supposedly-true thing they’ve been told is, in fact, a brazen lie?
For most people, at least with Covid proclamations, the answer seems to be never. In other words, for many people, being lied to over and over doesn’t matter. To put it mildly, such a revelation is disconcerting. Dee Dee’s observations from a June 2nd dispatch might show readers why I thought of Catch-22, where the message to bomber crews was “just do what you are told;” don’t try to figure out the logic. With Covid, Nurse Dee identifies the goal of all orders. Instead of just “fly the dangerous mission,” the key message is: “Just take the shot.”
💬 “The logic surrounding COVID-19 was circular. Every dictated premise, required blind faith and the goal was always the same; to take the shot. ● “.. You could not question the narrative and remain a good citizen …The mantra erupted, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. ● “No argument could be interjected in the logic. It didn’t matter if you had not seen a new illness with unique symptoms … It didn’t matter if the science didn’t make sense. It didn’t matter if the measures were opposite to all your previous medical training. ● … It didn’t matter that the vaccine did not stop transmission, and it didn’t matter if you had natural immunity. Essentially, we were told to accept every claim without evidence or reason. The orders had been given, just take the shot.”
