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Andy Kirkpatrick's avatar

I used to go for walks with my wife down along the river beside Galway university, as did most of Galway seeing as we were all told we could not go anywhere or do anything. Then the university decided to place three layers of barriers on the path to stop people walking along the river, maybe to protect the non-students and non-staff who were not in buildings fifty metres from the path?

People being people, they just started climbing over a stone wall besides the barriers, which now meant - if the pandemic was real - thousands of unnecessary close contacts every day as people queued up to pass each other, not to mention they were all touching the same bit of wall.

Anyway, one day we came across a woman who'd fallen off the wall, and could not walk, and while my wife rang back to get a first aid kit, I just thought "fuck it" and started dismantling the barriers, as people where now climbing over this poor women.

With the barriers removed, and the ambulance called, people started to just walk through the open path... but not everyone. Some people continued to climb over the wall, the reason being they were good little lab rats.

I have no doubt these same people still drive around, alone, in cars, double masked, and think people like me, the asozial, who have failed to pass their loyalty tests, should be made examples of to others (death would be letting us of, but to be impoverished and made mad would be good enough).

I think fighting this madness is the moral position to take, but for me, when I realised the level of that madness we're up against, and control, and the complete brainwashing of once highly rational people, friends and family, what is the point?

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FreeFrench's avatar

Well said! Good on you for being so brave and principled and trying to wake people up throughout this whole crazy time. Like you, I’ve tried to warn people over many months but most don’t want to know. They don’t want their cosy, safe view of the world upended. I’ve been fortunate that some friends and family are awake and they keep me sane. I’ve learned not to waste my time on the asleep people but I’ll still try with those that seem somewhat open or curious.

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