Since the beginning of the COVID-9/11 story I've watched it break so many people who couldn't answer these basic questions. The fear of the virus uncovered a lot about all of us.

For many, unfortunately, it provoked their inner tyrant.

Last year, during the height of the COVID insanity after publicly hanging up on an unhinged Lee Stranahan live on Sputnik Radio I tweeted this out.

This wasn't just directed at Lee, but it really was.

The hard investigative journalist of February 2020 turned into a sniveling, state-worshipping baby by late April. Fear of death uncovered his Room 101. That incident, among others, eventually took down his radio show with certified stand-up guy, Garland Nixon.

Today it's a shadow of its former self.

I don't know if my action was the catalyst for the changes that came, but I do know after that day nothing was the same.

The sad truth is that Lee wasn't alone. His collapse was just the most public version I ran into personally.

When you buy into fear, you sell your reason. Gone is your skepticism as your world collapses. Your eyes focus on your next step too afraid to raise them to the horizon.

There is no bigger picture, there is only the moment.

For 20 months now, we have lived among people terrorized by a story, not a virus but a story, that told them they are the heroes for being afraid and the skeptics are the villains.

To save ourselves we just have to give up our humanity and submit to an authority incapable of telling us the truth.

Because the truth is we had very little to actually fear.