I am very pleased to report that a 3 minute video I published this weekend on Twitter explaining why I am steering clear of government-led emergency cellphone alerts has taken off, with over 74,000 views. Here is the Youtube version:
People - a minority, yes, but a growing minority - are waking up to the fact that governments can no longer be trusted to manage public emergencies in a responsible and measured way. You might think this is a bad thing - after all, distrust in public institutions inevitably means it is more difficult to get access to reliable information and to coordinate effectively. And you would be right.
But it is also a lot better if people’s level of trust is calibrated to reality. Otherwise, they are blindly entrusting their own life, health, and liberty and the life, health and liberty of their loved ones into the hands of individuals who have betrayed their trust repeatedly and are likely to do so again in the future.
So the fact that a rejection of emergency drills resonates with a significant number of people tells me that at least a certain section of the population is waking up. Thoughtful citizens are refusing to submit uncritically to public authorities that have proved themselves to be criminally negligent in the way they thoughtlessly gave a green light to universal Covid vaccinations with no individualised risk assessments, and in the way they overlooked the vast harms of lockdowns, not to mention their scarcely veiled contempt for rights of religious worship, freedom of expression, and informed consent.
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I lived in Santa Clara County, California, during the pandemic. It was one of the worst counties in the country for covid restrictions. I turned the emergency notifications on my phone off when they abused the system in 2021 to tell people to get the vaccine.
Thanks David. I hope & pray that even more folk wake up to the evil that has already engulfed the world. Your tireless work & many others too. Will get the message of hope & improvement in the human condition out there, for more to see.