How Fear of a Virus Changed Our World

In the following fully referenced video commentary and print transcript, NVIC Co-Founder  & President, Barbara Loe Fisher, analyzes and offers perspective on the historic response to the COVID-19 pandemic by governments, the pharmaceutical industry, and the public. Please listen to her powerful message, and share with others.

Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder & President, NVIC
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"...if the state can tag, track down and force individuals to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the state can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow."

How Fear of a Virus Changed Our World
​by Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)

Fear is a primal biological response to a perceived threat to our survival. Fear triggers momentary paralysis and then a fight or flight reaction before the brain can rationally analyze and calibrate our response to a perceived threat.

Right now, people around the world are living in fear of being infected or infecting someone else with a new coronavirus that can kill those most vulnerable without warning. Along with confusion and uncertainty, which prolongs fear, many of us are traumatized by the authoritarian measures governments have taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in China in late 2019.

The “new normal” is disorienting, like we have taken a hit to the gut and then to the head that we didn’t see coming. Maybe that is why so many Americans, who value freedom of speech, religion, assembly, privacy and the right to work, have given those constitutional rights up, without stopping to think through the ramifications of the larger precedent being set.
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We are slowly coming out of shock five months after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared a public health emergency on January 31, which escalated six weeks later into a social distancing lockdown when the World Health Organization declared a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11.  Read more.

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"Be the one who never has to say you did not do today what you could have done to change tomorrow."

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