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It’s all a social experiment...?

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Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 19:44

Couple of friends posted this on Fb, in what way could it be a social experiment and why?

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Coriandersucks · 19/12/2020 20:48

If you don’t want bizarre answers don’t ask for the answer to this question op. Believe me I live with one of these nutters and it’s frightening some of the stuff they think is happening right now.

Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 20:50

@Coriandersucks That’s why I put it on here as I’m guessing it would be a more balanced approach looking at it from deferent levels..on their posts it obviously won’t be.
Why what does the person you live with say?

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Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 20:51

*Different angles

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Standandwait · 19/12/2020 20:52

Life is indeed an ongoing social experiment. I just want to know why we have to be its guinea pigs.

Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 20:52

@Warsawa31 50k? How many has there been from this, this year?

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Coriandersucks · 19/12/2020 20:54

It’s not going to be balanced though. Their arguments are batshit crazy (if they’re following the line of thinking my dp does) - that’s really all you can say about it. If you ask them they will likely be unable to give you a coherent answer - just spout the popular lines ‘do your own research’ and ‘the storm is coming’. It’s a doomsday cult. Just roll your eyes and ignore.

TragedyHands · 19/12/2020 20:55

[quote Averyshinynose]@TragedyHands But for what reason?[/quote]
To see how easily we comply.

Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 20:57

@Coriandersucks I know theirs won’t be balanced, that’s why I’m asking here 😂
These people are incredibly smart, ‘Normal’ people (whatever that means!) that’s why I’m finding it so strange

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Standandwait · 19/12/2020 20:57

Maybe all this
is happening in some lab?
Under one lamp by day
and billions by night?

Maybe we’re experimental generations?
Poured from one vial to the next,
shaken in test tubes,
not scrutinized by eyes alone,
each of us separately
plucked up by tweezers in the end?

Or maybe it’s more like this:
No interference?
The changes occur on their own
according to plan?
The graph’s needle slowly etches
its predictable zigzags?

Maybe thus far we aren’t of much interest?
The control monitors aren’t usually plugged in?
Only for wars, preferably large ones,
for the odd ascent above our clump of Earth,
for major migrations from point A to B?

Maybe just the opposite:
They’ve got a taste for trivia up there?
Look! on the big screen a little girl
is sewing a button on her sleeve.
The radar shrieks,
the staff comes at a run.
What a darling little being
with its tiny heart beating inside it!
How sweet, its solemn
threading of the needle!
Someone cries enraptured:
Get the Boss,
tell him he’s got to see this for himself!

By Wislawa Szymborska (Polish winner of 1996 Nobel Literature Prize)
Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 20:58

@TragedyHands But why? For what reason, for what plan?

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TheRuleofStix · 19/12/2020 21:02

@Warsawa31 it’s not about number of deaths it’s about what our hospitals can cope with. Many in the SE are at breaking point. I was taken to hospital as an emergency case last month (not Covid) - without lockdown there may not have been an ICU bed available for me. That’s a bloody scary prospect.

drivingmisspotty · 19/12/2020 21:03

I have heard the idea that ‘they’ are testing how easily we will give up our freedoms and inform on our neighbours. I don’t believe this. Maybe there are some fascists-in-waiting watching with interest, but then there have been plenty of cases in history they can already learn from.

Luckyelephant1 · 19/12/2020 21:03

Every big theory or event has an alternative conspiracy theory behind it. Think flat earth, 911, moon landings, vaccines and 'big pharma' causing autism, to name a few. Usually people believe these conspiracies because for whatever reason they believe its all about government control. Covid is just another example.

TheRuleofStix · 19/12/2020 21:04

And no poster who claims it’s all a social experiment has given one valid reason why a capitalist government just for fun - what purpose???

TheRuleofStix · 19/12/2020 21:04

Would destroy the economy!

Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 21:05

@Standandwait Interesting, can you try to explain it a little? I get the gist of it but also am just about surviving on a few hours sleep a night with a teething toddler

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Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 21:06

@TheRuleofStix That’s what I don’t get

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LastTrainEast · 19/12/2020 21:07

ragedyHands which government would that be? You know it's not just in the UK right?

CalishataFolkart · 19/12/2020 21:11

OP I predict the phrase “Go and do your own research” or simply “Look it up” are marching towards this thread with ill-deserved confidence.

agradecida · 19/12/2020 21:13

@TragedyHands
I think they are making a social experiment out of it, tbh.Doesn't mean that the virus doesn't exist, but I don't buy that the gov have handled it badly as a reason we are in this shit show. They know exactly what they are doing.

That's the most hilarious think I've heard anyone say. This government know exactly what they're doing Grin. I needed that laugh, thanks.

Coriandersucks · 19/12/2020 21:13

I really don’t think these things should be given airtime - they’re dangerous, spread misinformation and destroy families. If you really want to know op just ask your mates.

DownstairsMixUp · 19/12/2020 21:13

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Sennetti · 19/12/2020 21:19

someone at work told me today that its all a conspiracy to bring in sharia law! of all the ridiculous things to say. it made me laugh but now i worry for these people!

ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun · 19/12/2020 21:25

I've seen this on Facebook:

The Psychological Operation.

GOAL: Facilitate the Great Global Reset by the use of PSYOPS (Psychological Operations).

OBJECTIVE: Break resistance to planned social and economic changes.
Most people in the world have been on the receiving-end of a criminal psychological operation unprecedented in the history of the world. The objective of the PSYOP is to break resistance to the planned New World Order, social and economic changes.

I will provide a couple of psychological warfare techniques being used.

TACTICS: Contradictory media reports

There have been numerous instances where media reports have been contradictory and where governments have constantly changed policies (e.g. as regards the wearing of masks, social distancing, Christmas is on, now off, and vaccinations).

TACTICS: Constantly change policies.

Making promises and then turning them into disappointments is an old psychological trick to demoralise people.

STRATEGY: Create atmosphere of fear.

TACTICS: Exaggerate the risk of the virus, including the (“new variant”). Manipulate data, News stories, Sack people who criticise.

Frightened and demoralised people are easier to control.

Wakey Wakey...

Averyshinynose · 19/12/2020 21:26

@Sennetti Sharia law? Why on earth would they want that?

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