Will we ever recover from our COVID insanity? Q&A with Jon Ronson 

Jon Ronson was one of the first to sound the alarm for the arrival of cancel culture and the terrible implications it could have. Also snuck into Bohemian Grove with Alex Jones. What a legend.

"Insanity" being the operative word

Jon Ronson … national treasure. His work leaves me gobsmacked and most importantly, curious and determined to be open minded.

47:01 We need more of this character in movies. Chronically anxious, can't handle a phone call, or talking in a work meeting... then real shit goes down and they become the hero.

I was fired from my job at Forsyth hospital for declining the vaccine. I’ve been struggling since. I declined because I suffer from heart disease and lupus. I’m now waitressing and I’m grateful to be working but I’m not making nearly what I use to make. I’m a single mom with two children on the spectrum. I’m constantly faced with financial hardships and can barely support my children. I’m overwhelmed at times. But I know I made the right decision. I’m tired of struggling. Struggling to buy groceries. Struggling to pay rent. It hasn’t been easy. Yet God will see me through faith over fear. ❤

Quite a disparity between the name of this channel and the comments section.

Words like trauma, racist, (sexual) assault, and harm have been allowed to expand in current usage to cover simpler interactions they were not originally intended to describe. The motivation appears to be to controlling conversation by inflating the language to ever more emotionally charged terms. And like most other inflated measurements (trophies, pinball scores, toady compliments, Federal Reserve Notes), the further they get from describing the underlying reality, the less valuable they become.

I've seen a lot of the sanity return to places I thought were lost. I had my annual physical, yesterday, and there were very few masks. They had a sign _requesting_ those with respiratory issues to _please_ wear a mask, & they were still providing them at the front desk, but they weren't mandatory & the few people choosing to wear them where staring at any of us not wearing them with daggers in their eyes, so, there's SOMETHING (especially since we're still in cold & flu season). Also, my doctor & the nurse who ran the preliminary checks _mentioned_ the Jab, but still didn't push it or the flu shot. Also, I haven't seen masks much anywhere, let alone any mentions of any mandates. Even when I still worked at the kennel during the outbreak of the new canine influenza and various colds, masks were available but not required. Even our customers didn't give us grief about it.

“Here is some reason from someone who believes in gender identity-or is at least too much of a coward to say he doesn’t” Hard pass.

Especially since they're planning to do it again in May of this year, no, I expect we won't.

This is so bizarre. How did I never hear about this Miami story before?

Deliriously Excited!

Thank you for spreading a hopeful message at the end. It's very easy to get into a rage feedback loop, not so easy to be an emotional shock absorber and calm things down.

Ive just listened to series 2 , and its absolutely excellently done ✔️ 👏 👌

We're not going to fully recover from hysteria while any mention of the vid triggers a propaganda response like the banner seen on this RU-vid video.

The GOAT!!!

Schwab is German not Swiss

I have anxiety, and it was so much better during the pandemic. Thank you for noting that. I thought I was alone

Thanks!

The problem isn't describing excited and delirious people as having excited delirium. The problem is thinking of excited delirium as a simple and specific medical condition.

Someone really ought to interview Ronson specifically to have elaborate on what he was getting at with Jordan Peterson and more seeming to become caricatures of themselves. A Daily Beast article of all things summed up Peterson's descent quite well: the drama with that one Canadian bill boosted him to his peak, then he became a content creator and the money rolled in, Tammy's struggle with cancer, his addiction to benzodiazepines, then he joined up with The Daily Wire, which cut out an important section of his audience by limiting him to an ecosystem of conservative and Libertarian podcasters and social media, then COVID happened which kept cooped up for a time. Combined with his Twitter addiction and it's a perfect recipe for a man to become a shell of his former self. Not to mention that all throughout this timeline, his sense of fashion seems to become cartoonish, especially with the two-toned devil suit. However, one of the most important factors in all of this is that these people think that Twitter discourse reflects reality, an especially dangerous position to hold if Kremlin-sponsored bots have been fomenting hatred of America (and Anti-Semitism) since before COVID. ReasonTV should really bring Walter Russell Mead on because he brought that topic up on an episode of his podcast about Tucker Carlson effectively spreading propaganda for the Kremlin.

I find the idea that excited delirium not existing as a broad category befuddling. I always understood it to not be a specific etiology rather a collection of symptoms, a syndrome if you will.

I never once put a mask on during those years.

A friend of mine got all the COVID shots and all the boosters he had a stroke and now he has type 2 diabetes . He was in great shape exercise all the time never smoked or drank a day in his life . I never got any of the shots I'm overweight I drink too much I smoke weed and eat poorly and if I had COVID I didn't know it , just saying.

The beginning is a bit slow, or off-point, but hang in there-- it gets worse!. Waiting for the title about the pandemic!

I keep wanting to call you Ron Johnson.

No we will not. The reason is much deeper than anyone of those authors can imagine. It goes far back to antique times and the roots are even from stoneage. Any social phenomenon can be tracked down to two things. (actions of the earth and most pecunary things are a bit different tho)

Of course...Nick is NOT Alex Jones. Nick is more than happy to keep the channel monetized and state that 'the jabs worked'. *applause

Is this the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon??

There's a good play by JG Ballard called Home . It describes what happened to people during lockdown 😃, even though it was written long before it happened. I had a kind of excited delirium after lockdown, now im back to daily mundane morbid depression 🫥

Excited delirium is very much a real thing but is not a diagnosis of something specific out of the DSM etc

Jon Ronson or Ron Jonson?

overturned everything he said in last 5 minutes and even understood that himself, cowardly, lazy, pointless in the end

There were no deaths with the drug AZT?

(Inter) National Treasure.

Nick's being a bit too deferential in this interview. Ronson's dismissal of Mikki's documentary as stemming from an obsession with the 'Hero' in Campbell's books is a terribly weak argument.

What is the difference between the COVID vaccine and the food at McDonald's ? When the food at McDonald's kills you, you die happy. Just kidding. I'm still loving it !

Thank you for keeping the public well informed. We all need aids to understand the effects of vaccines on healthy immune systems. Medicating healthy populations is next to do no harm.

I’m sorry do these two still think George Floyd was murdered? Anyone that’s ever watched the police tape the entire chest cam video knows George Floyd was not murdered. He was saying I can’t breathe before he was ever in handcuffs and on the ground. His heart blew up because of drugs and high blood pressure. That guy was on the way to being dead no matter what. As far as going crazy with Covid. Not where I am. I’m in South Carolina. Most of the south didn’t go crazy like other places. Other than for a brief period Our lives went on like normal. Other than certain places that would require you to wear a mask. And of course I resisted that at every turn. And never ever came close to getting jabbed. But for the most part in the south, we lived relatively normally. And we laughed at schools and colleges being shut down because we knew it was stupid and ridiculous.

Please, people, stop talking in terms of “.. ‘we’ went nuts../.. ‘our’ COVID insanity… ‘we’ were wrong…” - it is- and was not ‘us’ who went lunatics, it were very specific individuals who ought be named by their names ! Just as we understand that “… for the good of society…” and “… its best for the group..” are misleading terms, as the group and society are, in reality, made up of individual human beings, it is Not us who are COVID-insane !

BatShit Crazy is Right 😅

Ronson (along with many others) smeared his former friend Graham Linehan as a deranged bigot over his alarm at ‘gender affirming care’ which we’ve known for a long time has been an ideologically-driven medical scandal. He’s indirectly referring to Graham in this video when he’s talking about friends going down a rabbit hole. Lost a lot of respect for him. I hope he can front up to his cowardice

First 😊

"Keep the conversation going" is one way to put it. I know that I would always "keep the conversation going" because I believed that I was right and thought I could change someone's mind, on the internet, via text, by insulting them and hopefully shaming them to seeing how wrong they really are, which never works. I don't do that anymore, and I actually try to understand what I am talking about too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0sV-sAWUYk0.htmlsi=3uoODJGf0QOtljPL&t=387