As we end this tumultuous year of 2020, it is clearly a bewildering year to remember with a heavy heart and extreme cognitive dissonance.
A heavy heart because it is emotionally stressful for both the victims of the coronavirus as well as the socially and occupationally affected, which is almost everyone except the perpetrators of the bio-germ warfare.
Extreme cognitive dissonance because intuitively you know something isn't quite right despite the explanations by health experts, epidimiologists, governmental and corporate leaders.
Intellectually, our minds attempt to rationalise the pandemic origins and its shocking impact according to our cognitive biases.
To the environmentalist, the pandemic signifies man's irresponsible consumption and defilement of nature.
To the scientist, it is merely a mutation of an existing virus into a highly infectious strain.
To the opportunist politician, it is an excuse to postpone or cheat in elections and every democratic due process of the executive and judiciary.
To the New Age believer, it is Mother Nature's payback for centuries of disecrating her divinity.
For the doomsday religious fundamentalist, it is the the start of the endtimes when the mark of the beast will be given to mankind, initially on a voluntary basis and later by mandate.
And to the geopolitical strategist, it is the covert weapon to undermine the global economy by mandating shutdowns that has caused the worst recession in modern history.
And what is most powerful about this weapon is that it feeds on fear which the mainstream media magnifies with the collusion of "experts" and big pharma.
But to the man-in-the-street who just wants to earn a living and care for his family, it is a year of unprecedented emotional stress. Deep down, he knows it doesnt make sense. How can Providence or God be so unfair and ruthless?
The fear has become more harmful to our mental and physical health than the virus itself which kills 1-5% of the infected, depending on the demographic and national profile of the cases.
The battle of the 2020 pandemic is 80% psychological and 20% physical health precaution. If we cant adequately stand up to the psychological challenge, we shall not be able to conquer the fear of death, sickness and loss of livelihood.
Even without being infected, the news headlines of new mutations, lockdowns, joblessness and depression can have a lasting impact on our self confidence about the present and future.
Every media channel and expert is talking about the New Normal as if we have to give up our rights of individual and religious freedom to governmental rules and health measures.
The new decade of the 2020s will start up on a harsh note but the rest of the decade will be a time of great blessings and political shakings, according to Christian prophets such as Hank Kunneman. Whether they are right or wrong, I know we are already declaring defeat and surrender when we succumb to fear.
So as we end the first year of the 2020s decade, we shall have passed the test of the 'pandemic' if we see it as a great challenge to intimidate us with a covert global agenda to control our lives and impose a new world economic order.
While we cant flout the health rules and governmental imposed shutdowns, we can let our governments know we see through the global agenda and resist any efforts to vaccinate us without our consent.
So let us end this tragic winter mindset of 2020 and look forward to the roaring 2020s with the zeal of a warrior keen on his next battle. All of mankind stand alone like a pilgrim walking on an empty road.
Never looking to the left or to the right. The voices of the maddening crowd are nothing to the man of inner steel. Death and sickness may befall fellow pilgrims, but we, who listen to our intuitive inner voice and keep our spirits high with a joyous song, will win the pilgrim's prize.
