Let us attempt yet again to separate COVID reality from the cocktail of hysteria and propaganda that continues to be served up by governments and their sycophants in the media.
REALITY: My mother once again has tested positive for COVID (no specific variation has been shared).
She is an 85-year-old woman confined to her bed in a long-term care facility. She has had COVID once before while staying there, exhibiting basically no symptoms, but testing positive. Since then she’s had various vaccines and boosters.
She’s lived since all the COVID mania began in a facility at which visitors at first were banned, and then had to be masked to enter. Staff members not only wear facemasks, but of late now wear clear plastic face shields, too.
But still my mother has tested positive again, and has been moved to the Red Zone, into solitary confinement.
My brother got her on the telephone earlier today and said she seems fine, but is disgusted yet again to have tested positive and therefore to have been denied visitors, despite all the vaccines and boosters. What was the point? Indeed.
REALITY: Even the VaccinNazis have had to ratchet down their rhetoric from the starting-point fallacy that vaccines are the be-all and end-all in preventing infection, to the vaccines work at a high level in preventing infection, to although they don’t prevent infection at least the symptoms aren’t as severe, to maybe they do little if anything to prevent infection but they sure do make a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies.
REALITY: England finally got it and announced Wednesday that it is ending vaccine passports, mask requirements and work from home mandates. In other words, the dog and pony shows, the Kabuki theater, the Potemkin villages are being dropped in a concession to the reality that they are all show and no go.
REALITY: I know plenty of people who have come down with COVID and zero have ended up in the hospital due to it. This would be passed off as anecdotal evidence. But, at some point, personal experience means more than some crackpot models cooked up by academics along the line of scientists who once cited statistics that bumblebees should not be able to fly due to wing mechanics vs. body size. The fact that most of us have seen bumblebees fly is merely anecdotal evidence.
REALITY: Speaking of flawed models, one concocted at Penn State ignores falling COVID death rates since the onset of the Omicron variation, and similarly ignores that the COVID case rate is falling in 34 states, including Pennsylvania. Despite all this, the model predicts a surge in COVID deaths in our near-term future.
REALITY: Reports from around the world note top-notch male athletes – vaccinated athletes – keeling over in competitions. There are studies indicating vaccines increase rates for various maladies, particularly in young men. Under the anecdotal evidence category, a friend of my son, a thirty-something JAG officer in excellent physical condition, came down with COVID and had little in the way of major symptoms. But the military, in all its genius, required him to be vaccinated, and that vaccination did more to him than the virus itself.
OPINION: Historians are going to view this COVID mania in much the same how-could-this-have-happened? wonder formerly reserved for exercises in public lunacy such as Holland’s Tulip Bubble.
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