Aug 6, 2026 · 31 min · 13 segments
I talk about why Fauci trending again is bringing everything back and why I don't care he was wrong, I care he lied. I trace the line from COVID's institutional breakdown all the way to the…
Ami KozakHost
Like, I felt like, I don't know when the COVID chapter officially closed, but it was such a crazy time.
And I think s- there were some people who were a little bit cynical at the time who were like, "You know, I really liked that chapter, that, that period.
It was like a reset, got to shut down." Maybe people who hated going to work liked it, but I hated every second of it.
I thought it was, like, such a peak, like, worst time in, uh, you know, in terms of passing the normalcy bias where people thought something that could never happen actually happened.
Like, I remember when it first-- I have vivid memories of, uh, March 2020, and everybody was saying, "Well, they're not gonna shut the schools down." I mean, look, it's a thing, okay? Just like anything else.
Up until, like, there was a whole period of life before COVID where there was a normalcy bias.
Like, we, we-- COVID was one of the first, like, world events where you really felt it at the most local level as possible, where it affected friendships, communities, families.
You know, throughout all the years, whenever there's wars or, uh, y- you know, world events that have an impact, they do have an impact, but it's felt more in the abstract.
But COVID was, I remember, a very clear thing where it was that first time when it disrupted all of our lives in such a fundamental way.
And then it just gave you this, uh, sense of just how far, one, the government is willing to go in restricting our individual rights and freedoms, and also what can turn a civil society against itself.
'Cause it also coincided with, like, peak, you know, peak wokeness, peak virtue signaling on the left, and then just this idea that, I don't know, the sh- looking back on it, the way the unvaccinated were shamed and just what, what, what it would take in terms of all you have to do is scare enough people and they will do horrible things to each other.
They will judge each other in the worst ways, and that was a really just such a dark time for...
Like I was saying, I don't know when the chapter officially closed, but I feel like we all just moved on and we haven't spoken about it.
You know when you see those clips of, like, boomer parents in therapy with their kids and they're like, "I don't know what you're talking about.
You had a wonderful childhood," and they've just repressed all the horrible things they, uh, they did to those kids or, or maybe the way they were either neglectful or controlling or you see those clips on TikTok or funny memes like the narcissist mom who, um, you know, denies any which way she was to her children growing up and now her adult children are finally confronting her.
What are you talking about? I was a--" It's like he's like this, like this, um, patronizing parent trauma figure of ours, and we're all of us as soc- society looking at him and saying, "This is what you did to us.
Like, I felt like, I don't know when the COVID chapter officially closed, but it was such a crazy time.
And I think s- there were some people who were a little bit cynical at the time who were like, "You know, I really liked that chapter, that, that period.
It was like a reset, got to shut down." Maybe people who hated going to work liked it, but I hated every second of it.
I thought it was, like, such a peak, like, worst time in, uh, you know, in terms of passing the normalcy bias where people thought something that could never happen actually happened.
Like, I remember when it first-- I have vivid memories of, uh, March 2020, and everybody was saying, "Well, they're not gonna shut the schools down." I mean, look, it's a thing, okay? Just like anything else.
Up until, like, there was a whole period of life before COVID where there was a normalcy bias.
Like, we, we-- COVID was one of the first, like, world events where you really felt it at the most local level as possible, where it affected friendships, communities, families.
You know, throughout all the years, whenever there's wars or, uh, y- you know, world events that have an impact, they do have an impact, but it's felt more in the abstract.
But COVID was, I remember, a very clear thing where it was that first time when it disrupted all of our lives in such a fundamental way.
And then it just gave you this, uh, sense of just how far, one, the government is willing to go in restricting our individual rights and freedoms, and also what can turn a civil society against itself.
'Cause it also coincided with, like, peak, you know, peak wokeness, peak virtue signaling on the left, and then just this idea that, I don't know, the sh- looking back on it, the way the unvaccinated were shamed and just what, what, what it would take in terms of all you have to do is scare enough people and they will do horrible things to each other.
They will judge each other in the worst ways, and that was a really just such a dark time for...
Like I was saying, I don't know when the chapter officially closed, but I feel like we all just moved on and we haven't spoken about it.
You know when you see those clips of, like, boomer parents in therapy with their kids and they're like, "I don't know what you're talking about.
You had a wonderful childhood," and they've just repressed all the horrible things they, uh, they did to those kids or, or maybe the way they were either neglectful or controlling or you see those clips on TikTok or funny memes like the narcissist mom who, um, you know, denies any which way she was to her children growing up and now her adult children are finally confronting her.
What are you talking about? I was a--" It's like he's like this, like this, um, patronizing parent trauma figure of ours, and we're all of us as soc- society looking at him and saying, "This is what you did to us.
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