This Meme About Covid Is Viral Again — But Is It Truth or Just Trauma?

A raw reflection on grief, division, and the healing still ahead

Jul 01, 2025

*“Symbol of safety — or of mass hypnosis?”*

⚠️ My take might be unpopular, but here it is…

This meme is currently doing the rounds on Facebook — lots of people liking it, sharing it, calling others out for “how they acted during Covid.”

I get it. I understand the pain circulating behind this.

Many people made ruthless choices. Many of us were deeply hurt by what unfolded — emotionally, financially, spiritually.

However, the message in the meme feels judgmental and unnecessarily divisive:

“How you acted during Covid is exactly who you are”?

Let me ask you:

Is who you are today the same as who you were yesterday?

Is it who you were a year ago?

The point is — if we’re still lashing out, still needing to point fingers years later — then something in us hasn’t healed. The trauma lives on, erupting in plain sight when we least expect it.

If you have open wounds and someone touches your skin, your instinct is to scream or hit back. But it’s not the person you need to fight — it’s the wound you need to tend.

✦ Reflections on the Past: How Trauma Was Created in the Collective

To share something deeply personal:

👉 I was unable to fly from South Africa back to the UK to be with my father as he lay dying in hospital — all because of the so-called “Covid rules.” South Africa had been placed on the ‘red list’, and that meant flying home with my then-wife and young son would have forced us into a government-run Covid “hotel.”

I use that word loosely… it was more like a concentration camp — and we would’ve had to pay £3,000 for the privilege.

The rules had changed (yet again) — from self-isolating at home to mandatory solitary confinement for 14 days. Meals devoid of nutrition (think “hospital food”) dumped outside your door. You were allowed outside for short, timed breaks — masked, monitored, restricted.

Prison might have been the better option.

It wasn’t just me and my family, of course. Tens — even hundreds — of thousands of people were needlessly separated from dying loved ones: partners, grandparents, cherished friends, even children.

Too many left brutally alone to suffer (and die) in a clinical, cold system that claimed to prioritise life, but in truth, often devalues it.

Why?

Because you cannot separate life from death.

They are two sides of the same coin.

From a spiritual vantage point, death has always been a sacred passage.

And being present with a loved one at the moment of their transition is not just emotional — it’s an act of deep reverence.

A way of honouring the life they gave to this world.

Many people suffered horribly — not because of the time that was Covid — but because of the ignorance, fear, and sheer inhumanity with which it was handled.

Let me remind you: these “rules” were made by self-righteous, cack-handed ‘leaders’ running the Covid clown show. The same leaders who bent the rules at will — jetting in and out of countries, attending parties, hugging relatives — while the rest of us were guilt-tripped, shamed, and imprisoned by government-sanctioned fear.

Let me be blunt: none of them followed the rules they forced on us.

But they expected us to fall in line — while the media did their dirty work with relentless propaganda.

✦ Moving Beyond the Cycle of Pain & Reactivity

How any of us acted during a global crisis likely reflects who we were at that time — shaped by our level of awareness, trauma, fear, courage, conditioning, or confusion.

But it’s not a fixed or permanent definition of our character.

It’s not a final verdict on anyone’s soul.

If we’re honest — what we all need now is grace, not judgment.

Grace for ourselves.

Grace for each other.

Many are still living through fractured relationships on both sides of the fence — perhaps with no clear way back.

And maybe we can’t go back… maybe we shouldn’t.

All we do is draw a line under it, and move forward into the unknown, grieving whatever was lost.

A Lesson That Will Keep On Repeating — Until We Get It

One of the greatest lessons humanity is here to learn is this:

Forgiveness removes the sting of the past and breaks the cycle of reactivity.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning harmful behaviour.

It simply means releasing the emotional charge — dissolving the pain, softening the reactivity, and freeing ourselves from the loop.

Only then can we meet the present moment clearly — without the distortions of memory.

Because the truth is, this pattern plays out in our personal lives too.

We judge others for what they did to us in the past.

We hold them hostage to old behaviours.

We fix their identity in amber.

And then we wonder why we can’t move forward.

Living in the present takes deep inner work.

So the question becomes:

Are we going to keep holding people hostage to their past behaviour… or are we willing to make room for growth and change?

Because if we don’t allow others to evolve…

we block our own evolution too.

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Here’s what happened behind the scenes.

Shortly after posting my first reflection on this meme, I received an email lashing out — laced with pain and blame.

That email actually triggered a total rewrite of this article… more nuanced… more balanced… so thank you, Universe, for that.

And I want to be absolutely clear — for the sake of my integrity and this community:

I stood up for truth.

I spoke out publicly very early on, in May 2020, when it was actually taboo — I could already see the psychological manipulation, the constant flip-flopping of rules, and the agenda forming behind the scenes.

As things rapidly escalated, I knew I couldn’t trust our so-called “leaders.”

I saw the censorship creeping in. I saw the coercive tactics being rolled out — all under the banner of “safety.”

So I spoke up. I warned people about what was coming.

And I paid the price.

The mainstream media ruthlessly targeted me, and also my family.

My 2.5 million–follower health page on Facebook was deleted overnight — 11 years of work gone without a trace.

My family was torn apart.

And I’m still rebuilding, slowly, from the wreckage.

✴️ The Fork In The Road — And How To Rise From The Ashes

For anyone who’s suffered, you have a choice:

You can complain and wallow in self-pity. Or you can get centred, and ultra clear, on who you are and what you want to share with the world, and rise like the Phoenix that you are.

Turn your pain into power. Channel it.

If you were forced to comply… I hold compassion for that.

But please — don’t project your pain and rage onto me or others helping you to look within, it’s entirely misplaced.

I was trying to prevent the divide and the deceptions, along with a few other brave souls who could see beyond the thick fog of fear that had engulfed humanity.

None of this is about turning a “wrong” into a “right.”

Covid cut deep.

I’ve had to forgive a lot of things that felt deeply personal.

This post is about cultivating higher awareness, and emotional intelligence.

It’s about creating a space for healing.

It’s about allowing in grace.

Because that’s what we all need to move forward.

So here’s my final word for now:

Disagreement is welcome. Dialogue is welcome.

But anger and hatred are not.

We rise by staying human — even when it’s hard.

💬 Does this resonate with you? Or challenge you?

Drop a comment below — I’d love to hear your thoughts.