Staff member turned up to work sick yesterday. It was an insight into ‘living with’ infection culture. I told…

Staff member turned up to work sick yesterday. It was an insight into ‘living with’ infection culture. I told them to go home. ‘No, I’m fine, I have too much to do.’ Then others in the office approached me in private to ask me to make them go home. /1

These others are the same people who most embrace the ‘living with’ infection culture that started during Covid. In front of others they boast and bluster about how ‘you have to live your life’, and mock people in masks etc. /2

It’s a show. The fear at catching Covid in particular is there under the surface. They’ve had several years now of being pummelled by infections of various kinds. One who asked me in private to make the sick staff member go home was desperate, they have no more sick leave. /3

Others who affect total casual indifference to Covid have been seen emptying whole cans of Glen-20 antiseptic spray into the air and onto furniture when a person with known Covid left to go home, sick. /4

Living with Covid is a political lie that worked because it cynically tapped into some basics of human behaviour. The bastards who came up with it knew that the most basic human behaviour is to imitate others, to maintain social status and identity. /5

That ‘peer pressure’ would ensure this outrageous piece of public health bullshit would self-regulate, if this perverse behaviour could be made to ‘trend’. Most importantly, they appealed to ideas of ‘the people’, always an indication that lies and power games are in play. /6

Claiming that ‘people would no longer support public health action’. Or that ‘the community’ was over it. Groups of people never have agency in that way. Anybody who says they do is trying to lead a change to something, while attributing it to all of us. /7

By leaving public health to the ‘personal responsibility’ of the public doing it itself, it cut the head off public health itself. Public health ceases to exist, unless it’s led. Like anything humans do, all action and change must be led. /8

That’s what then gets imitated, to create mass action. It ‘goes viral’. Social imitation is what creates all collective behaviour. These cynical bastards knew that by leading a leaderless public health, there would be no more public health. /9

Instead we ended up with a libertarian-led anti-public health, not a ‘freedom’ movement of the public taking control. All change is led. Supposed freedom movements are also led, under cover of drivel about the people running the show. /10

Anyway, I had no intention of this sick staff member remaining, unlike other managers I’ve seen who just go along with the living with nonsense, for a quiet life. As an ex-school teacher I know people will pretend to be behind things they actually secretly fear and hate. /11

That’s your job, as a teacher or manager. To lead. I told the employee this wasn’t a negotiation, it was an order. Go home, it wasn’t just about their health, it was about everybody else’s. They were relieved, as was everybody in the office. /12

Not one of them would have openly said that, in front of others. They would have continued the farce of pretending everybody was having a rollicking good time, infecting each other to various levels of shocking health. You have to lead, for everybody’s sake. /end