The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time

Cold War: smaller in global scale, generated questioning and a monumental cultural explosion.

Covid: the greatest disruption in modern history, generated absolute cultural emptiness.

And where is the movement that emerged from this collective experience of fear? Nothing. We have TikTok dances. Humanity went through the biggest collective trauma since World War II and came out…smaller. More fearful. More cowardly. More willing to obey. More willing to sacrifice the young to protect the old. And not even with a single Woodstock to show for it.

When Science, the Wall Street Journal, and even the scientific community itself admit that mandates no longer make sense? Silence. No one apologizes. No one reflects. They simply change the subject. In many places, the mandates continue to this day, as in Brazil.

What makes it even more perverse is the grotesque moral inversion. Throughout history, the old sacrificed themselves for the young. Captains went down with the ship last. "Women and children first" on the Titanic's lifeboats. Parents protect their children, not the other way around.

During Covid: to hell with the children, we need to protect the old. Even with Prasad's study showing that young people had a higher risk of hospitalization from the vaccine than from the disease itself. "It's worth sacrificing them," the world concluded, for a possible transient, short-lived reduction.

In primitive societies, when the gods demanded sacrifice, it was always the young. Virgins thrown into volcanoes. Firstborns offered on altars. The elders decided, the young died. We thought we had evolved.

"People found it normal to ruin children's health in the name of false protection for the elderly. They were deceived, they lied a lot, and now they want all this evil to simply disappear. They react with contempt or aggression when confronted with the truth," a friend of mine, a cardiac surgeon, told me.

The language used wasn't scientific; it was religious. "Do your part," "Protect the vulnerable," "Follow the science." Dogmas, not method. Questioning became heresy. "Denier," "anti-science," "murderer." Moral accusations, not scientific disagreement.

Experts as priests. Young people as sacrificial offerings. Obedience as virtue. All for a "greater good" that never existed, that was a deception.

In the Cold War, the military-industrial lobby controlled the fear. During Covid, the pharmaceutical lobby was the one running the show. Decisions favored record profits while 160 million people were pushed into extreme poverty. Not a coincidence.

We are, in fact, the most cowardly society of all time. It wasn't cowardice to be afraid of Covid. The fear was legitimate. The disease was real. The deaths were real. The cowardice was something else. It was accepting the moral inversion - old people sacrificing the young - without anyone raising a voice.