Michael Senger asks a really good question about which I had never given much thought.

Who paid for those well-choreographed and super-high production value videos of nurses dancing, and why?

I’m not talking about those ridiculous self-produced videos which were inflicted on us daily. Those were clearly part of a trend, and a rather obnoxious one at that.

I mean videos like these, which Senger has clipped.

One of the lingering mysteries of the response to COVID is why we were presented with this onslaught of high-production-value TikTok videos of nurses performing well-choreographed dance routines in hospitals across the world in 2020. Theories welcome.pic.twitter.com/IX8YzyH0im

— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) April 30, 2023

They come from all over the world and clearly aren’t done by some volunteer with an iPhone. You’ve got professionals shooting the video, including drone footage and matching music. Lots of time and money went into them, right in the middle of a pandemic that was supposedly overwhelming our hospitals and forcing nurses to work ridiculous shifts.

I shouldn’t have said supposedly, because that was certainly true for some nurses and hospitals, but a little-known fact is that hospitals also laid off tons of staff during the pandemic as they stopped providing non-emergency care.

That’s one of the reasons why hospitals have such huge staffing problems: tons of people were laid off

In April 2020 alone more than 1.4 million healthcare workers were laid off. So next time you deal with staffing problems in a healthcare facility, remember that the damage was self-inflicted. By 2021 30% of healthcare workers were out of the business. A lot of workers quit due to burnout, but the burnout was caused by downsizing the workforce in the first place.

Still, we got these videos. Expensive, well-choreographed videos. Why? Who did it?

Great point.

— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) April 30, 2023

Some people see a sinister backstory, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true. Yet it could also be that the videos themselves were simply an outgrowth of the conformist atmosphere that was being shoved in our faces during the height of the COVID pandemic.

We were getting lectured constantly, forced to comply with a dizzying and ever-changing array of mandates, and choreographed dances fit that mold perfectly.

In unison, Comrades, we will defeat the invisible enemy.

It only takes a few of these to start what amounts to a social contagion among the right set. People who are looking for a sense of community and stability in the midst of upheaval. Individuals are subsumed into a group. Add the depersonalization of the masks and PPE and you get something that matches the mindset that the powers-that-be wanted us all to adopt.

Was that the point of whoever started the trend? I am tempted to think so, although the explanation could be something much less sinister.

The mindset itself was hideously destructive, but such mindsets have a life of their own. Clearly, the tone was set early from the top, so this phenomenon could just be a natural and organic outgrowth of the original propaganda.

Or it, too, could be part of what amounts to a psychological operation that was required to get us to comply during COVID. It’s pretty clear that much of what we saw during COVID was intended to brainwash us.