We promise some sports on this blog, an aspect sorely neglected of late, but here is a crossover entry.
Big-time sports operations, in an orgy of virtue signaling, have demanded vaccinations. Yet just last week news broke that no fewer than eight members of the New York Yankees – players and staff — had tested positive for COVID-19.
The knee-jerk reaction among the vaccine Nazis would be how selfish and disgusting these people are to have refused to take the jab. But, no, all eight had been fully vaccinated for more than 14 days prior to testing positive.
The question, asked here previously, why get vaccinated if it possibly does nothing for you?
Predictably, there has been a rush to obfuscate the situation. Seven of the eight had no symptoms, so the vaccine worked is one claim.
Well, I know unvaccinated people who have had COVID-19 and their symptoms were mild. I also know at least one person who got vaccinated after having “recovered” from the virus and found the post-vaccine symptoms worse than the disease had produced.
My favorite rationalization for the Yankees outbreak was they got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is not as effective as alternatives.
This Yankees news has come out against a continuing backdrop of COVID-19 mania despite conflicting facts.
A porky Wisconsin school teacher lectured an unmasked student, calling him a jerk in a scene that of course was captured on video and posted on social media. Said teacher is cooling her heels on administrative leave – no doubt with pay.
But wait, the student claimed to be fully vaccinated and the teacher didn’t care. The student still could infect others, she screeched.
Didn’t she listen when our figurehead president Joe Biden proclaimed that the vaccinated no longer had to wear face diapers, an act of contrition now reserved for those refusing to surrender to the jab?
There was an insert in the teacher story showing a social media post from a virtue signaling young twit noting that he wears a mask outside even though he’s been vaccinated just to be sure he’s not mistaken for – horrors – a conservative.
No problem, twit. Similarly, you never will be mistaken for an independent thinker or someone no longer needing mommy’s help wiping your butt.
The party line being preached is vaccines are great, and those who chose not to get the jabs are Neanderthals. Except, super bureaucrat Dr. Anthony Fauci, the guy who makes more in salary than any other federal government employee, including the president, had to admit to a dirty secret.
Testifying before the U.S. Senate, old One Mask Is Never Enough Fauci had to concede that about 40 percent of his staff at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had not been vaccinated. Similar percentages were reported for people at the Food and Drug Administration and the Marine Corps.
It is estimated that maybe one-third of the general population in the United States has been vaccinated. And yet, according to a report from the Human Mortality Database, deaths in the United States are down to pre-COVID levels.
An interesting side note to that report was that as much as one-third of the so-called “excess deaths” during the COVID-19 lockdowns were due to untreated medical conditions (owing largely to the lockdowns) as well as increased drug overdoses, suicides or murders.
This drop in the overall death total was not supposed to happen until 70 percent or more of the population had been vaccinated.
Could it be that cutting back on the lockdowns and forced isolation has helped as much as vaccines?
The message of this report will be lost on the must-vaccinate crowd, whose blind evangelism is scary to behold. They cannot be expected to let the facts get in the way of advancing their cult of control.
This doesn’t mean that you need to join them just to fit in.
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