Almost a Zombie Apocalypse?

"Hi. I'm Scott and I'm... worried."

Group: "Hi Scott!"

I am not one prone to worry. Some have even accused me of wearing rose colored glasses. I'm 53 and Gen Z. A bouncy, happy-go-lucky monkey. I lived through the "Millennium Bug" hysteria, and countless "The air will be unbreathable, too hot, too cold" government power-grabbing scares.

I lived through child homelesses, extreme poverty, a brain tumor, numerous bone-breaking experiences, putting type 2 diabetes into remission through diet and exercise, the horror of having a medium-sized penis, and alien abduction so they could make me smarter, stronger, and uhm be able to teleport. OK that last part is a dream, not reality. See? This proves you can trust everything I say!

I tend to shy away from giving credence to "this is End Times!" And "this is mind control" type pronouncements. Though I'll admit sometimes they are exciting to ponder IF they propose situations I could grow through. But I'm no Thanos!

...But...

Did you see that butt coming? I usually see em going but that's another topic.

I can see this time being a "perfect storm" or confluence of a few factors that have been building for a couple generations that I've noticed.

These factors seem to feed each other. But before I go into what I see these factors to be...

First, my biases and assumptions

• Skepticism of motives of most doctors, especially those under the boot of hospitals, insurance companies, government, and Big Pharma. For most ailments, I rely on my healthy body to handle it.
• Knee-jerk negative reaction to government force and propaganda, including "data," "studies," "messages," and "teaching".
• 100% belief that Big Pharma funds studies that promote their financial interests (duh?) and it is a huge amount of money at stake for them.
• 100% belief Big Pharma spends huge amounts of money on politicians via lobbying and other means. Here we see a double incentive (at least) in that politicians gain emergency powers, usually quite ambiguous. Most politicians are at least 50% human, so since it is human nature to acquire more power (security for self & offspring, for example), this fits. "The world is a turd circling the drain, zombies are at the fences, I'll do anything to secure my family's place in a dying future."
• 50% belief Big Pharma spends huge amounts of money on media. Not sure on this one because (a) main stream media has plenty of [short term] needs met by overhyping any fear porn so may not require additional incentive; and (b) money transfer methods unknown. That said, especially with the ease and efficiency (and depending on various factors, anonymity) of cryptocurrency, a few "gifts" of $10,000+ to various main stream media talking heads with low integrity can go a long way.
• 100% belief Bill Gates, Fauci, et al, have much to gain from more people getting vaxxed.
• 75% belief Bill Gates, Fauci, et al's end goals are self-empowerment and population control.

I do hear a plethora of presumably unfunded scientists, doctors, and health nuts (whom I tend to trust because they helped me put my diabetes into remission) warning about what this vax can do.

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A confluence of factors

On their own, not necessarily a big deal. But all at the same time? Scary. Increased and more widespread:

• "Bulldozer" parenting (remove physically and emotionally challenging obstacles from child's path), leading to...
• Emotional fragility.
• Prescription of harmful "quick fix" drugs.
• More ease from tech also contributing to the Emotional fragility and...
• Consumption of processed "foods" and [trigger warning] lack of animal products leading to...
• Physical fragility.
• Public school indoctrination camps.
• View socialism as good.
• Misunderstanding of capitalism.
• Financial issues.
• Media increasingly divisive, dark, violent, and projecting hopelessness.
• Media preparing us for the end game; full control of media intake, food intake, and personal connections.

I had a hard time ordering that list above because most items here relate to, lead to, or exacerbate other items. If I laid that list out visually, there would be a confusing mess of arrows pointing from each object to three others, ha!

Leading to what?

First and already happening to some degree

• Less availability of healthy foods.
• Increased demonization of production and consumption of animal products like meat, dairy, and eggs.
• Inflation.
• Less freedom of movement.
• Less freedom of speech.
• More propaganda from Hollywood.
• More tracking.
• Restrictions on movement/entry based on health passports. See NY City, Canada, and Australia for examples. Currently you can not leave your home without proof of health.
• Less births.
• Increased emotional fragility.
• Increased strife between genders.
• Increased strife between ethnicities.
• Increased strife between nations.
• Increased overall violence.
• Increased drug and alcohol use.
• Continued demonization of healthy bodies.
• Continued increase in demonization of the unvaxxed.
• Continued decrease in long term romantic bonds.
• Increased occurrence of Autism and ADHD.
• Decreased testosterone in average male. In 2020 T was at 60% compared to 1980.
• More high level scandals that are ignored by mainstream legacy media.
• Sharp rise in VR use. Fakebook bought Oculus, the maker of the Oculus Quest and now Quest II, best performing and selling standalone (no computer or phone needed) VR headset. It's also the lowest price by far when considering comfort, freedom of movement, and performance. The nearest competition is struggling to catch up. This is not an ad for the product. Oh did I tell you Fakebook requires you be logged into a Fakebook account to use the device? And they are adding eye tracking. Not going to use your data for anything nefarious or even just sell it to the highest bidders, nah. That all said, as much as I want this product, I will never buy it. If some perfect app or game comes out that I simply must get, I'll buy a used one and hook it to my sock puppet Fakebook account. Until then I'll keep watching the industry and hoping for the competition to step up.
• Increased cyberattacks, mostly perpetrated by governments or government-made tools.

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Coming

• More people vaccinated.
• More sickness and death.
• More lambos for me, just kidding.
• More Hollywood studios go under. Biggest eat the small. Eventually all are under one banner and produces only State-approved media.
• Mandatory tracking.
• Continued and increasing restrictions on movement and entry based on health passports.
• More people living off the government teat.
• More people living in facilities.
• Amping up media fear on cyberattacks.
• Creation of government cryptocurrencies to increase control and ward off inflation.
• Cash banned.
• Animal products (like meat, dairy, and eggs) banned.
• Mandating restrictions on ISPs and Internet Users (already happened in China for years).
  Speaking of China:
• Increased surveillance.
• The beginnings of in-home surveillance via special offers on NEST cameras and the like. Which brings me to...
• VR and AR devices now produced for consumers from not just Fakebook but also Micro$oft, Gobble, and crApple. Fakebook has not merely added eye tracking to their device but has now added a non-invasive (no chip in skull needed) EEG-like sensor to read and then interpret brain wave patterns, able to quickly build a database relating the virtual space, eye movements, actions, and brain wave patterns to then, via machine learning, begin to "read minds". This will be sold as a huge benefit! Imagine wearing your - only as obtrusive as sunglasses - VR/AR rig out and about, connected via 5G, using what turns out to be a kind of telepathy to control your device and communicate! Oh I used to think that might be too scary for most people. Now, after watching the ... people ... line up for their jabs, I think we are deep into a Brave New World. What can come after that is pure horror story.
• Increased restrictions in all walks of life.
• A social credit system!
• Slow increase in the fear porn regarding cyberattacks. https://clearsay.net/digital-covid-coming-next

A possible shift toward health, well-being, and prosperity?

Things I hope for and that keep me going. I'll admit, as we continue on this path, it is increasingly difficult for me to maintain that hope.

• I see more intentional freedom-orient communities forming. I hope this continues and the pace increases. Many seem to be waking up.
• Creation of, or rebranding and technological shift of darknet, to produce a truly decentralized and government/bigtech interference-free Internet 2.0, "Freenet".
• More people discovering repositories of data and testimonies of real doctors, biologists, immunologists not accepting money from big pharma, big tech, and governments. My favorite is https://cvFacts.net but I encourage you to explore on your own. Truth can only be suppressed for so long!
• New generations seeing through the bullshit? Doubting mainstream media and mis-trusting government. Will this extend to big pharma in time?
• Will it become popular again to exercise and eat right?
• PLEASE SHARE YOUR IDEAS! Practical, easy, hard, and unlikely!
• I won't use this article to pump all the free solutions I offer but if anyone asks, I'll go out of my way to supply them. My various web sites are easy to find. My other articles on here point the way.

What can each individual do?

Start with you and slowly carefully reach out. Strengthen your relationship with yourself and others will come easily.
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