What we need to emphasise, in other words, is not reason, or not reason alone, but emotion. We quite clearly live in an emotional age – one in which ‘don’t kill your granny’ is a more effective argument than any Ivor Cummins video. So emotion has to be emphasised. What do lockdowns mean emotionally? They mean suicides. They mean depression and anxiety. They mean school closures which harm children’s life chances. They mean rising inequality. They mean cancelled hospital treatments. They mean poverty and economic devastation in the developing world. They mean lack of hugs and family and social warmth. It is not that we haven’t talked about all of these things. But we haven’t talked about them enough. We have to acknowledge that while we have all manner of fantastic knock-down factual arguments and statements of principle against all of this nonsense, people aren’t interested to hear them: nobody wants to be knocked-down, fantastically or otherwise. People want to conform with what they perceive to be a moral truth. So we have to set about generating that. We have to start talking not about numbers or rights, but about the human tragedy that lockdown has created. We need stories about real people, real sadness, real misery, real illness. It’s not charts, graphs, numbers or science that will convince people. It’s establishing a moral truth that matters.

What I WAS preaching in this sub, all along, future worst case scenarios included.

Suicides, depression and anxiety are planned to kill 3 billion out of 4 billion by the end of this decade in Covid World.

TOXIC FEMININITY

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Why is it that so few of our fellow citizens seem willing to even listen to arguments which we find so convincing? ... we have made arguments that are either factual or which appeal to our love of liberty. Neither of them has had much traction amongst the populace at all....

....most people are just not actually interested in finding out the truth for themselves. They are much more interested in conforming....