I appreciate your work and willingness to give an honest witness in a 'world of lies given power'.

On previous pandemics of mass death:

I don't nit pick to find fault - but as a moment in the reading when I feel I want to add or qualify what I read.

We know of atmospheric pollutions that may both block the growing of food and poison the malnourished.

I also see Rene Girard's observation of 'scapegoating' as a social mechanism that operates when conflict builds up in persons, families, groups, societies.

We also see opportunism using chaos as a cover and means to steal, or take vengeance (see prev paragraph).

I also see belief in threats can operate on the suggestible as a curse or nocebo - that is as real to the minds of the sufferers.

The last one is why I don't invest in fear-driven narratives, but recognise that what the mind gives power to should not be underestimated in its capacity to shape or direct the mind.

This can also echo Jesus - what cometh from the mouth corrupts - that is - when we give false witness we become subject to our own wish to replace truth for personal gain (of fiction).

How deeply are we embedded in nested 'solutions' that mask compound toxic debt-conflicts? I say that only to promote willingness to question assumptions, for renewal and restoration is of realigning in truth.

There are no words for any virtue or quality of living that are not being subverted in an age or reversal.

If we don't share in renewal of a peace at heart - then we have due cause to question our 'truth'! (But not a blame-fest!)

Lies and deceit go deeper than 'They lie'. If there's a correspondence of inner and outer - then gaslighting effectively triggers an inner gaslighting script. But then bringing them to light restores the freedom to choose not to use it.

The accounts of death by sickness in indigenous Americans far exceed even the Black Death in Europe. I can't subscribe to the biotech gene-hacking virus theory of contagion, (Nor did the C17th natives!) I have to look deeper for 'contagion' which is clearly the nature of narrative control via mass media & etc.