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Why are we planning to go back to “normal” anyway? CONTROL

George Lamptey
6 min readJul 4, 2020

Definition (Control): the power to influence or direct people’s behaviour or the course of events.

If you control the narrative you begin to start to build momentum to control the outcome. If it’s in a positive way then it benefits the masses. If not then it benefits a select number of people.

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When I wrote about respect in the last post I thought it was a moment to acknowledge how a lack of empathy was evident from authority who took it upon themselves to play with public emotions in many ways during recent months.

The contradiction of “giving freedoms” to the public during the pandemic is also confounded by the acceleration of a controlling nature of how the population is going to be healed of the virus.

The lack of control and laissez-faire attitude to policy is especially clear in many western countries including the US and the UK. Now the focus has turned to “the cure” for the virus and the familiar excess control by western nations when it comes to vaccines.

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