The East German Stasi were prolific gaslighters. In the 1950s, repression was brutal, physical torture. Early in the 1970s, eager to be accepted on the international stage, the East German Secret Police had to get more subtle.
Their job was to enforce arbitrary laws that were put in place to protect the Communist iron-fisted rule. They job was to switch off dissent—the way they did it sounds like a few things that are now being proposed because of COVID-19.
Police collected medical, school, and police records, interviews with neighbors and relatives, and any other evidence they could get and would then customize a direct hit on an individual’s mental health.
They offered rewards to people who would snitch on their neighbor.
If someone looked like he might challenge the Communist Party’s legitimacy or control, the Stasi systematically destroyed his life. They used blackmail, social shame, threats, and torture. Careers, reputations, relationships, and lives were exploded to destabilize and delegitimize a critic.
The United States is now starting to recruit the new Stasi in order to somehow curtail the spread of COVID-19.
There is a group called “Partners in Health” that are claiming on their website that “Injustice has a cure” and that is a worldwide response of Contact Tracers, Resource Coordinators and Case Investigators that will pay you a visit in order to secure those who wish to violate the arbitrary laws being proposed to combat the spread of COVID-19.
https://www.groundzeromedia.org/5-1-20-the-spread-stasi/