Are You A Covidiot?

Remember when cold and flu season used to be… cold and flu season? Like, you’d get sick, drink something neon out of a bottle, sweat through a hoodie, and re-enter society like a wounded animal that survived winter. Simple. Normal. Human.

Then the modern media machine looked at a yearly biological routine — something your great-grandma handled with soup and spite — and somehow turned it into a full-blown psychological demolition derby. Twenty-four-hour panic loops. Breathless “breaking news” graphics. Doom counters. Moral grandstanding. And a public so whipped into a frenzy that people started treating other humans like walking biohazards for having a nose.

In Covidiot, I dig into the history of media manipulation — how fear gets packaged, sold, recycled, and rebranded — and how the world somehow overreacted to something that happens every single year like it was the first time anyone ever sneezed in public. We’re talking narrative control, mass compliance, social pressure, corporate “hero” messaging, and the weird new religion where saying anything out loud gets you labeled a heretic.

This isn’t medical advice. This is cultural archaeology. A time capsule. A roast. And maybe—just maybe—a reminder that if the headlines can make you afraid of your neighbor… you’re not informed. You’re programmed.

Welcome to Covidiot.

Try not to clutch your pearls too hard — you’ll need your hands free for the next manufactured emergency.