HUMILIATION AND DEGRADATION.
Everyone knows now that the virus has exactly zero connection with any of this nonsense. The virus is doing what flu always does, killing people who were already dying. The rest of us just inhale it, acquire immunity, and exhale it.
Many of us already understood how viruses work, so we weren't fooled by any of the shit. Thanks to the riots, now everyone knows.
We have no power, no bullies on our side.
All we can do is physically comply. But we don't have to consent to the humiliation.
Comply minimally when ordered, treat the idiotic mask as a piece of cloth without meaning. Disconnect the emotions from the physicality. It doesn't remove the tyrant, but it removes the tyranny from our heads.
None of this would have happened if those counterforces, those intermediating BULLYPOWERS, had still existed. Unions, real political parties, Mafias, Mutual Benefit Associations. Organizations on that scale can mobilize against a tyrant and stop him.
The way to avoid a second wave of tyranny is to get some of those BULLYPOWERS up and running FAST.
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