Americans chose Tucker Carlson lies over Anthony Fauci trying to save our lives. This battle is too big for me to fight alone...

Americans chose to believe purveyors of disinformation over sincere experts. They believed Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump instead of public health professionals and immunologists, they believed media celebrities getting paid seven figure salaries to read a script on Fox instead of scientists who dedicated their entire lives and moderately paid careers to trying to prevent illness and death.

It took decades to lay the groundwork for misinformation to have more credibility than persons whose whole lives have been dedicated to the truth. It started in 1995 with the appearance of Fox News in the lower 25 channels on cable news lineups, at a time when even broadcasting executives did not know the potential of that positioning. 

By the time Trump ran for office and then the coronavirus hit USA, there were two to three generations of Americans who had spent their entire lives listening to the disinformation, and believing it.

I still think this information warfare attack on USA was carried out by same parties who sent guys to America to go to flight school, then years later arranged for those select trained pilots to be on those select airline flights on Nine-Eleven 2001.

What scares me most now is how easy it was to get Americans to believe an obvious anti American message, just by putting it on a TV network with lots of red white and blue set decoration. A certain kind of human was the target of the disinformation, persons who already were angry and ready to feel hatred towards their fellow countrymen.  I have a feeling even the masterminds of this attack had no idea Americans would believe them so readily.

I'm repeating myself. 

Past two years or longer, I've posted this same stuff here at City of Angels Blog. Now it's just a matter of time before the spreading virus kills lots more people around me and there is nothing i can do. But blog about it. 

I can't even get a letter to the editor published trying to point out what's going on* I have no credentials, I'm not president of a non profit that specializes in any of the fields being used to carry out this attack. I can't even get the people who run my HUD building to realize the pandemic isn't over, which is the current sound byte of the attackers, spreading while hospital beds fill up with newly infected persons.  Or my local city council or county Board of Directors.

In my building are signs saying "Come July 22 to our Quarantine Free Barbecue" which promises to be a not so super virus spreading event, much like the recent Bingo Party in the lobby. At a Coffee with the Mayor in my town last week at the library so many people showed up they were shoulder to shoulder in a crowded room, and pictures show no one was wearing a mask.   

So it's only a matter of time before the whole state of California does what L.A. County is doing now, going back to mask mandates, after more people get sick and die and our medical infrastructure falls apart like it did as the virus first took hold in 2020. And patriots will once again shout that public health is tyranny.

All I can do is stay to myself and take care of me,  continue to avoid public areas of my building except in the middle of the night, telling anyone who questions me that my allergies are so bad I'm staying inside, which is in some ways true. Not completely, but it's a convenient way to keep the snarky misinformed from getting in my face to tell me sound bytes they heard on hate radio.

This is so much bigger than I am. Once the purveyors of weaponized disinformation saw how well this attack was going they branched out. At one point all the radio stations got purchased by Clear Channel and programmed with the "patriot" messaging. By the time Trump was in office, they got really brave, as now the person who is known as most powerful man in Earth was re-broadcasting their message from the White House.

It should surprise me that people bought into 4chan and QAnon as the message of hate they neighbor, arm yourself for a battle, and believe that mask wearing in a time of pandemic is a Communist Marxist tyrannical plot.  But by 2017 the attackers had their tin soldiers in line and ready. So MT Greene could look into a camera with a face awash in the glory of conspiracy and say, "Q is right.  No one knows who he is but Q is right," and get elected to Congress.

All I can do is stay to myself and ride this out. And write an occasional blog post to get rid of the arguments going round in my head. It does no good to try to explain to a neighbor one-on-one or even post comments on news articles and social media posts that are spreading the disinformation.

I just have to ride this out.

My technique to keep this from driving me to self destruction is to use my imagination. I pretend I'm on a looong space trip, when I look outside I'm watching the terrain of strange locations in space where the atmosphere is too hostile for me to go into it. I have lots of supplies, more get delivered in a way that I can leave the boxes in the lobby until night time when I can gather them up when no one is around. I tell myself I trained for years in advance so am capable of surviving this isolation for as long as it takes.

Then I pull out a movie or a book and wait.  And force myself not to care as more fellow citizens get sick and die. They bought into the lie, what happens to them now is out of my hands. 

* My latest Letter to Editor that did not get published: 

USA is under attack by information warfare. Bombs of lies fill our media landscape, creating misinformed angry mobs, from Jan 6 in D.C. to local Boards of Supervisors. Slowly they're destroying USA from within, one anti science anti democracy policy at a time.

I think same people who flew airplanes into our buildings on 9/11/2001 are conducting this new unconventional warfare on USA, sending mesmerizing lies through our TV sets and phones, and until Americans realize this is an attack and stop it at its core, the damage will continue.

My home is my bomb shelter where I ride out this strange war, not just avoiding infection from covid which is still spreading thanks to disinformation, I'm also hiding from brainwashed neighbors who believe the lies and are being empowered by hate messaging while acquiring weapons.

I'm angry at politicians who are dithering over commissions and filibusters and not dealing with the problem at its core. We need to stop the anti American weaponized disinformation, which is very sophisticated and effective. What kind of a nation allows a thing like QAnon to even exist?

Someone in power has to call it what it is, information warfare. Nancy Pelosi's Jan 6 commission will likely be as effective as the last two impeachments. Nothing will get better until we realize enemies of USA are using a misread of our own 1st and 2nd Amendments to kill us.

Kay Ebeling

South Lake Tahoe

(typing with a massive bandaid on tip of one finger) (Blogging the stuff going around in my head as there is nothing else I can do and it relieves some pressure knowing someone somewhere sometime will read it, repeating myself but it's better than letting it fester inside me.)