In the book "1984" people were told to believe that reality was the opposite of what they'd seen with their own eyes.
With my own eyes, i saw it work. With my own ears, i heard doctors attest that it worked for their patients.
Soon after, the recordings of those doctors saying what they said were disappeared.
Then i'm told again and again that it doesn't work, that all i saw was someone getting better on their own, that those doctors were lying, that it does more harm than good. All that in just this one thread.
Over and over, the Outer Party repeats that Emmanuel Goldstein... pardon me, that Donald Trump was wrong, stupid, evil, lying when he said that it could work and that i must be a supporter of Goldseinism... oops, of Trumpism if i believe that was i saw and heard is so. That i must comply with orders to wear a face mask and practice...what's the Newspeak term?... "social distancing" or else "shelter-in-place" so we can "flatten-the-curve" in the war against Eastasia... sorry, against coronavirus.
Right now, i wait nervously for the Ministry of Plenty... dang, for the state Department of Labor to decide if my re-application for unemployment insurance payments will be approved and for my husband's payments on Big Brother's... gosh, why do i keep doing that?... on the Federal government work-share program to come. i and an insane number of others are nervous as Hell about our financial well-being, all because of deranged exaggerations and fabrications.
Half the people in Oceania... um, America can say it's not so and the ever-present screens can keep repeating that we don't know what we know and the Ministry of Truth can tell us that what's happening isn't happening, i still saw what i saw and i heard what i heard and so have plenty of other Proles.