Dr. Tom Woods has been an invaluable source for all manner of things related to the COVID insanity gripping a significant portion of the public. I present below an email from a young person to Dr. Woods concerning the situation at his university.
This email details the horrific situation that this person finds himself in. It is all due to the insane restrictions that have been imposed on the population by the COVID Stasi. This extends with even greater ferocity to those imprisoned within out institutions of higher learning. As this author indicates, the COVID Stasi are aided and abetted in their grand schemes by student volunteers. These volunteers have been brainwashed into believing that they have a moral high ground. They believe they are doing a righteous thing when they snitch on their fellow students.
As Dr. Woods says, “This is not pleasant to read, but as you’ll discover, it needs to be read.”
I am a college student at a major US university pursuing a degree in STEM. A few years ago I was diagnosed with a very mild form of schizophrenia. I am considered extremely high functioning. I have friends, do well in school, and I am able to hold a part-time job where I get along with everyone.
Ever since the lockdowns began, our school has treated us in a manner that can only be described as abusive. Our online education has essentially meant that we have to teach ourselves, because our instructors won’t. The workload for every single class for everyone I know doubled as soon as we got sent home, since every instructor believes we have all the time in the world now. Homework and exams have been made more difficult in an absurd attempt to prevent “cheating.” (This is their own explanation.) They have given us no resources to work with, and instructors treat us in an almost combative manner.
I am a hard worker, but I can’t do this anymore. Last semester, I was working for about 16 hours every day, seven days a week, with no outside assistance outside of our halfhearted lecture videos. Near the end, I had five weeks in a row where I worked for 48 hours straight with no sleep to try and make deadlines I couldn’t even hit. A friend of mine was falsely accused of an academic integrity violation, given virtually no chance to appeal, and is now on probation for the remainder of his time here.
Our families are paying a fortune for us to teach ourselves through YouTube.
Walking onto campus feels like going to a wake. There is a morose atmosphere in the air, and everywhere is as quiet as a library. There is absolutely no social interaction except amongst friends who already know each other. There are volunteer students who act as the school’s Stasi to enforce covid guidelines.
I myself am reduced to a broken mess. I feel like I have nothing. All my friends are depressed from stress and work. My family cares for me but doesn’t know how to console me. The doctors just want to experiment with a cocktail of medications that have every side effect imaginable, and they aren’t even confident it would help me. I have nobody anymore.
I have always appreciated the work you and others have done to help advance the cause of liberty. I know you were aware of how much of a racket higher education was before all this madness again, but now it feels like a hostage situation. I can’t think of ever starting a family now if my child would have to go through this just to do decently well in life. I needed to write this so I could know that someone out there understands what they are doing to us.
I can’t stress how bad it is, sir. There are freshman killing themselves here. My mental health can’t take this. I feel like my youth has been stolen from me, and turned against me. Life doesn’t feel worth living anymore.
Please never stop fighting against this. This is a horrific institution run by genuinely evil people. The people at these universities are more soulless than anyone in office. People like you are all we have left.
Not everybody reacts to the lack of social interaction as this person has. However, the overwhelming depression of this young person is an anchor that could end badly. This person is not unique. Universities are “quarantining” students in their dorms if anyone in the dorm comes down with COVID. Universities are “quarantining” students if student gatherings are “too large.” In some universities students are not permitted to go outside and exercise by themselves.
This is what communists do. This kind of thing is what the Left has foisted on the American public under the guise of protecting the health of the country. Suck the all the joy and fun out of life over something that 99.7% recover from. Suck the joy and fun out of life with something that is highly treatable with generic drugs.
The response to this virus was authoritarian, deadly, anti-public health, abusive, lucrative for those in power and poverty inducing for many others.
Suicides are up significantly. Illicit drug use is up. Violence against persons is up dramatically, especially in our urban centers.
All of this was done to try to win an election and return to power people who should not be anywhere near the levers of political power.