The following quote from John Steppling’s Emptying the Human provides a possible (and interesting) psychological reason why half the population of the world was so willing to give up their freedom in response to an unproven global emergency:

“The pandemic is fetishized… there is a curious fetishized and cultic response in much of the population. And it is the latent masochism of the already terrorized. It also feels like a faint cry of Puritan angst, a call to piety. This is a very American sensibility, this punitive moralism. So one has a declining of experience, a cognitive deficit born of screen damage and habituation, and the psychic violence of social media which is based on paradigms of negative emotions. And the deeply imbued individuality that most Americans associate with frontiersmen and gunfighters. The morality of the Corona gunfighter, the unforgiving Puritan, but who now exhibit an impaired rationality, a rationality already instrumentalized to a pathological degree.”

No wonder so few are challenging the COVID-19(84) deception? Even when a retired professor of pathology questions the morality of COVID-19 lockdowns. Or when suicides rates are expected to jump 50%.