I'm done with it now. Things have taken a turn for the worse and we are in very serious trouble now. There's only time for people who can do things to do things. Pray to God they do. And that's not me or you, so no point talking any more.I'm not convinced you have the ability to, but OK, I'm willing to listen.
Of course my worldview may be mistaken. In fact, it almost certainly is. It seems pretty unlikely that I'm right about everything.
I know for one thing that I tend to be too willing to think the best of people. Contrary to your belief about me, I'm not a liar and people who routinely lie confuse me. I tend to assume people are mostly honest which is often not correct. So I can certainly be wrong about that. But I'm pretty sure I'm not wrong about everything.
The test of a good model is whether it can explain things and make good predictions.
My model of reality told me that the Covid response was a temporary response to "a situation". My evidence of that was that the response kept changing as the situation did, and it was based on my underlying belief/worldview is that while the government are flawed, they're not hell-bent on oppression and control. Most of the time they more or less let us get on with things. They have no interest in stopping you hugging your elderly relatives or dancing at your sister's wedding, they don't care if you go down the pub or go clubbing. The government then banned all these things. So either:
1) My worldview is completely wrong and the government are interested in a level of oppression and control I didn't think we'd ever see in this country or
2) They were temporary measures designed to deal with the situation.
We can debate whether the measures were the right ones, but I'm talking about the motivation for them.
Since the Covid situation was always going to be temporary - pandemics never last for ever - I always believed that the measures were temporary and would be removed when the situation allowed. And...they were. So that gives me some confidence in my worldview.
Your worldview led you to believe that the measures were here to stay and were only going to get worse. But that just didn't happen.
All the posts I've quoted are from October 2020. So maybe you were having a bit of a wobble back then. I think we all had one at some point in the pandemic. Mine was quite early on in the pandemic, and I did struggle a bit with Christmas being cancelled so close to the date and the lockdown early in 2021. But every time I point out all the things you predicted back then, things which demonstrably didn't happen, you just deflect from it or twist events which happened in other countries to claim that's what you were talking about. We'd have a more sensible discussion it you just acknowledged that you got those things wrong.
Which doesn't mean your entire worldview has to be wrong, but you were wrong about the specifics of what they were going to do in this situation.
I do think there's things you can teach me - you are certainly much better read than me on history and politics.
I continue to raise an eyebrow that you are the authority on this, but I'm certainly willing to hear what you have to say.