Revealed for who and what they are

 

A personal friend wrote on social media recently:

The covid bull**** did us all a favor. I know that sounds crazy, but hear me out for a minute. All the people demanding more lockdowns, that the unvaccinated be punished, that vaccine passports be required, that mask mandates remain in place forever, and all that **** are all speaking loudly and openly about it. Those are the people who are a threat to anyone who wants to remain free. They are the people who will report your activities to the government. They are the secret police. They're the people who will expose the Jews hiding in your attic, metaphorically. Take careful note of who those people are. Smile. Be polite. Tell them nothing. Do not invite them to your home. Do not make friends with them. Watch your communications carefully when they're around, and don't talk to any of their friends or family they haven't cut off. Those people may not be quite so far gone, but they are also an information security risk, because they will casually and unthinkingly tell their friend in the secret police anything you tell them. Because of this covid disaster, we no longer have to wonder who in our local area is a threat. They have self-identified, and we should act accordingly.

I agree.  What's more, my friend is a nurse (in a very demanding area of medicine and health care), and so is fully informed (and then some) about COVID-19 and its risks, and the extent of the masquerade being played out by the so-called "authorities".

I'd like to emphasize a couple of things in what my friend said, and didn't say.

• Nowhere is it argued that we should target those who act like that.  This isn't about retaliation, or revenge, or anything aggressive.  This is about preserving our own security, keeping our own counsel, and not exposing ourselves to the risk that a "Karen" (or multiple Karens) might tell the authorities that we don't go along with their program, thereby making us more vulnerable to external pressure.
• The comments about "report your activities to the government" and "secret police" resonate with me.  That's exactly what I've seen in more than one part of the world.  The authorities don't have to blanket a town, or a region, or a nation with uniformed statist enforcers.  They only have to have enough of them to deal with known threats.  How does a threat become known?  Because somebody tells the authorities that they're a threat.  That "threat" doesn't have to be overt, or violent, or even dangerous.  Mere independent thought, mere refusal to go along with the official line, is all too often considered dangerous by those intent upon imposing their views on the rest of us.
• "Information security risk".  Another good phrase.  Unless you're in an area where you can be open about your views without endangering yourself (and in large parts of America today, you can't do that), you should (as we've said many times before in these pages) "be the gray man" (general information at these links, and more specific advice for emergencies here).  Don't do anything that makes you stand out as a potential target.  Beware the "tall poppy syndrome" when it comes to thinking for yourself.  The very fact that you do so will be seen as a threat by those who don't.

A final thought.  If you're surrounded or outnumbered by COVID-19 "Karens" in your area, or place of work, or whatever, remember that they feel safe because there are lots of them.  They draw strength from each other.  Take a leaf out of their book, and build up your own circle of like-minded people who can (and if necessary will) provide mutual support against "Karen" pressure.  Don't stand alone against the storm;  stand with, and stand by, those who'll resist it with you.  It helps.

Peter