Unpacking Truth

Stages of Grief

In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross published a book called On Death and Dying. In this book she outlined what would later become the world’s recognition of the five stages of grief: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. We currently are a nation grieving and we all are in many different stages. I suggest these people in this short video clip are in the stage of bargaining as they sing about their fear of dropping the mask mandates. Just as my heart breaks for people grieving the loss of a loved one, my heart aches for these people to be so blinded by the lies they have been fed for the past two years.

In this article from American Thinker, Dr. Deane Waldman outlines the stages of grief our nation is experiencing:

As COVID spreads and trust fades, Americans are experiencing grief in five stages: confusion, panic, control, disillusionment, and renewal.

Early in the COVID pandemic, Americans were confused.  Based on advice from the COVID Task Force, state governors implemented mandates for masks and other PPE, social distancing, the prohibition against gatherings, testing everyone, and strict lockdowns.  The FDA prohibited therapeutic drugs, though frontline doctors were reporting success.  Fauci told people to wear two masks, not merely one, even though studies in Florida, Massachusetts, and school systems in New York and Sweden found no "correlation ... [between clinical outcomes and] mask mandates."

Maybe someone should send these studies to the women in the video 🙄

With a constant drumbeat of imminent death, Americans entered the second stage: panic.  Generating public fear was intentional.  In fact, NIAID director Anthony Fauci told policy expert Dr. Scott Atlas, "Yes, they need to be more afraid."

A fearful public naturally turned to the federal government for protection.  Doctors like Fauci and Deborah Birx are bureaucrat M.D.s who do not practice medicine and have no expertise in public policy.  Yet in the name of public health, they recommended policies that took away constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and did irreparable harm to the nation.

Hmmm, doctors not in the treatment room dictating medical interventions. Seems I have written about this before 😡

As panic persisted and intensified, America entered the third stage: control.  To protect the narrative used to justify their power-grab, Washington had to control the flow of information.  The CDC released misleading data; later, it changed its tracking methods and definitions.  The FDA "canceled" promising drugs to treat sick COVID patients.

Washington also controlled the available information using proxy censors such as news (really propaganda) outlets, social media, and even search engines like Google to label contrary data "misinformation" and to suppress any reports that question or dispute Washington's policies.  When Scott Atlas tried to dispute the fake science touted by Birx and Fauci, the press viciously attacked him to "cancel" his credibility.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts….perhaps the fear of loss of power.—John Steinbeck

Though Washington remains in the control stage, Americans have moved to disillusionment.  People have experienced the disconnect between what Washington says or promises and what actually happens to them.  Masking did not stop the spread; neither did social distancing.  People died despite vaccination.  Many gathered at football games, in churches and temples, without incident.  The virus spread in states with strict mandates as well as those without.  The data increasingly looked untrustworthy, such as counting a motorcycle crash victim as a COVID death.

Disillusionment deepened when Washington failed to prepare the public for the harms inflicted by mandates.  Millions lost their jobs and their savings when more than 200,000 small businesses closed.  Crime, drug usage, and teen suicides hit new highs.  Children locked out of school lost the opportunity to learn.  This was especially hard on poor families, whose children could not learn online, lacking home computers and internet access.

I love anything with the sound of hope. We all need a bit of that now because if you are awake to the truth of what just happened, it has been a pretty dark place 😞. I think the Freedom Convoy traversing America is a huge indicator of the awakening and hope we have that some people are standing up for freedom!

But there is hope in the final stage: renewal.

As trust fades in elected officials such as President Biden, in appointed officials like Merrick Garland, and titled bureaucrat-M.D.s (viz., Fauci), Americans are renewing their faith...in themselves: their own judgment, their independence, and their power!

Instead of blindly following orders from politicians and self-styled experts, Americans are demanding to make their own decisions, especially medical choices.

Honk, honk!