{"id":939,"date":"2025-06-15T23:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/?p=939"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:39:15","slug":"looking-back-speculatively-at-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back Speculatively At Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, out of speculative thought, I have begun to look back at Covid-19 and I am actually alarmed and feel kind of stupid now just blindly following all the rules,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s look back at some the rules that where implicated to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In 2020, the world went into lockdown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2021, we were \u201clet out in stages\u201d if we had permission slips<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2023, Ireland proposes a hate crime bill to lock down language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2025, the Digital Euro was announced programable and trackable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency powers can easily override constitutional rights, and permission slips are introduced to allow visits to people and checkpoints everywhere. For the first time, movement became a privilege, not a right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is there a need for a hate speech bill? Is the right to freedom of speech being severely restricted? Speech, like the movement, seems to be subject to permission. Speculative thought was the hate speech bill designed to shove the debate of COVID-19 under the rug so those in power at the time could not be blamed? You Tube bans Social Media platforms targeted for silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Digital Euro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Programmable, Traceable, and Conditional one false move and they could wipe your entire savings or freeze your digital assets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a future where you\u2019re traveling and it says that due to your carbon footprint, you have exceeded your travel quota or your account is frozen for misinformation and your rewarded for social behaviors. This is highly speculative tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the speculative end game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A society designative points system? A global scoring system? A future where your house becomes a cell due to no credit score?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ireland is at a crossroads, people need to speculate more and join in on the speculative debate, and if your words are your money, requires permission, ask yourself? Are you still free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, out of speculative thought, I have begun to look back at Covid-19 and I am actually alarmed and feel kind of stupid now just blindly following all the rules, Let\u2019s look back at some the rules that where implicated to us. Emergency powers can easily override constitutional rights, and permission slips are introduced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,43,6],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-speculation","category-world","tag-speculativethought-questioneverything-whatifsociety-narrativecontrol-controlleddemocracy-digitalslavery-permissionbasedfreedom-postpandemicreality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speculation.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}