The Spectacle of Sanitizer: Compliance Over Practicality
An Examination of the Hand Sanitizer Phenomenon During the "COVID Cult"
The widespread adoption of hand sanitizer during the "emergency" period was not a practical health measure, but rather a remarkable display of religious adherence and "performance art". Observing this fervent commitment to hand sanitizer was truly "amazing" because it quickly became clear that the act of sanitizing was less about hygiene and more about public compliance and signaling. The government, through its various proxies, constantly pushed the message: "just use hand sanitizer". The overarching point of this entire phenomenon, from my perspective, was to enforce a visible ritual of conformity, turning an everyday product into a tool for social control and theater.
The Unimportance of Ingredients
The government's message was consistently simple: just use hand sanitizer. When people questioned what type worked best, the official response was that it didn't matter; using any was "better than not using any". The core concept was simply to use hand sanitizer, regardless of the brand or ingredients. The only thing that mattered was that it said "hand sanitizer" and that you were seen applying it. This lack of concern for the actual contents of the "magic sauce" strongly suggests that the actual effectiveness took a backseat to the visual ritual.
Compliance as a Performance Art
The drive behind the hand sanitizer craze was purely "performance art". It was about showing that you "complied". Public hand sanitizer dispensers were placed in prominent locations precisely for this reason. People felt compelled to be seen doing the thing, not just thought to have done it, particularly when walking into or leaving a building. True believers, or those who "got into the cult of the COVID cult," wanted to be seen "slathering themselves down with hand sanitizer," playing their "part" in what they did not realize was a grand theater.
The Mad Dash for Supply
When the "quote-unquote emergency" began, there was a reveal: a lack of adequate hand sanitizer to meet the sudden, intense demand, as it had not been a "new thing" people were stocked up on. This quickly led to a "mad dash". The product sold off the shelves rapidly, becoming a "coveted thing," and those who bought early gained a perceived superiority over others. This shortage created a fixation among businesses on providing hand sanitizer.
Businesses Pivot for Survival
Many businesses, especially those that were not "big box store[s]," had been shut down because they were not deemed "essential services". To avoid bankruptcy, people with businesses that, for example, made alcohol or other products, changed their production to start "making hand sanitizer as a product to sell for profit".
Regulatory Abandonment
During this period, there was virtually "no oversight" of the new hand sanitizer production. The government effectively encouraged this, prioritizing the appearance of people putting on hand sanitizer over public health concerns. The lack of regulation meant that compliance was the sole objective, regardless of the contents of the product. Local producers even bought up the world's isopropyl alcohol supply, using that and other substances like "wood alcohol," to "feverishly mak[e] hand sanitizers" so people could appear to comply.
The Chinese Communist Party's Toxic Gambit
The speaker believes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with its goal of world domination and destroying all competition to survive, took advantage of this situation. The CCP, facing the cost of "very expensively dispos[ing] of toxic waste" to meet regulations, decided to mix this waste with other products to make hand sanitizer during the COVID pandemic. The lack of regulation meant that anything labeled hand sanitizer was allowed to be imported into the West and "was never checked".
The Cover-up and Consequences
For a time, people were "slathering themselves in toxic waste labeled hand sanitizer," and many got sick and started dying. The government found this influx of sickness "good for the program of fake COVID" because any illness, even from poisoning, was happily labeled as COVID. The problem only began when people started "dropping dead from obvious toxicity" and families refused to accept a COVID death diagnosis, leading to investigations. It was discovered that certain new name brands were causing severe sickness and death, and that "hand sanitizer was actually a code word for anything you need to get rid of and people would pay for".
The Government Pivot and Market Dominance
Once the toxic hand sanitizer problem became known publicly, the government, "caught flooding the market with toxic hand sanitizer," had to change course and "pretend that they actually cared" about the appropriateness of the product. By this time, the supply of standard hand sanitizer from established companies had increased, and demand was waning. No longer needing to flood the market with toxic product for the sake of "compliance ritual," the government began to "remov[e] the super duper toxic hand sanitizer" over a period of months and years. This left the market to be dominated by the "tried and true big companies," ensuring their profits were maintained and ending the allowance of "Chinese knockoff hand sanitizers". The need for compliance remains, but now the big chemical companies have their own brands that dominate the market, ensuring there will be "no shortage in the future".
The story of the hand sanitizer during this time is a stark illustration of how a supposed public health measure was corrupted into a mechanism for public, visible control, while opening the door for opportunistic exploitation and profit. The focus was never on what was on people’s hands, but on the appearance of having done the prescribed ritual. From the initial mad dash and the regulatory free-for-all that allowed toxic waste to be packaged as a consumer product, to the eventual cleanup once the big players secured market dominance, the entire episode underscores a system where compliance and profit superseded genuine public health concern. Ultimately, the hand sanitizer spectacle was less about sanitation and more about the power of performance.