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.

[Dancing nurses](https://brownstone.org/articles/above-all-else-it-was-a-spectacle/)

> Nothing captured the psyop better than the thousands of videos on TikTok of nurses and doctors in empty hospital wards at a time when the world was locked down in order “to preserve hospital capacity.” These are elaborate dance routines that would have taken many hours to choreograph, practice, and record.
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> Perhaps the videos were organic — nurses had time on their hands, dancing videos are popular, TikTok was exploding in popularity. But the cumulative effect was to say, “We shut down the global economy for the first time in history under the guise of preserving hospital capacity, but hospitals are empty, so the joke’s on you.”

They were anointed as the new priest class. The upper echelon of society, purveyors of all knowledge and virtue, above everyone else, even doctors. Similar to how the church withheld knowledge during the dark ages, to try and consolidate their power over everyone else.

That’s my personal theory, given how many nurses at the time straight up acted like this.

If all it takes is a Pandemic for more videos of nurses dancing then sign me up!