This just in: We’re all going to die. The only uncertainty is the timing.
If you embrace this reality, you’ve gone a long way toward freeing yourself from the fear porn types who proliferate these days.
Don’t let them scare you into submission. The fear card is all they’ve really got going for them.
It’s especially true on the subjects of COVID and climate change, where over-the-top predictions of horrific events are made with abandon and seldom, if ever, are the alarmists held to account for the failure of their catastrophes to come to pass.
This is a version of the modus operandi of the local weather people, who routinely predict weather Armageddon and, when the dire predictions fail to ring true, they practice sleight of hand by turning the conversation to us being grateful to have dodged the big one.
Maybe there was no “big one” in reality, but only in the minds of the fear porn merchants.
So it is with COVID and “climate change” the replacement for “global warming” when the numbers failed to back up that claim.
Let us begin with COVID, where the lies have been with us from the beginning. Get the vaccine and you have no worries of getting the ailment, we were told.
This was downgraded to get the vaccine, plus boosters and you have no worries.
Then it became, well, the vaccine doesn’t actually prevent you from being infected. But your symptoms will be less severe.
By the way, the father-in-law of a guy whose investment letter I subscribe to died recently from COVID despite being vaccinated. Good thing nothing more severe happened to him because he was vaccinated!
And, along the way, we were assured there are no adverse side effects of any significant degree from the vaccines. To further this mistruth, as has been proved by internal Twitter releases, the government conspired with social media to de-platform any who dared to question the party line on vaccines and COVID.
Here’s a simple question that defines the situation: If there are no adverse effects, why do vaccine manufacturers continue to enjoy total protection from legal action? That is the only absolute immunity involving COVID vaccines. Think about it.
Yet, the scare merchants are out again in force, attempting to get the populace back in their houses, wearing masks and generally worrying about a disease whose death rate is infinitesimal.
Similar to COVID hype, climate change relies on dire warnings and little in the way of substantiation.
I’ve written before about how, during my high school years, climate alarmists were warning of an approaching ice age. Five decades later, we’re still waiting.
Admittedly, dealing with sub-zero temperatures and wind chills of minus-50 degrees or so a few weekends back seemed like a touch of ice age. But temperatures warming to the 50s and 60s within a week beat back that fear.
Just the past Sunday, formerly credible CBS news show 60 Minutes gave considerable air time to a guy pitching overpopulation as his reason for predicting apocalyptic events in the near future. This is the same guy who claimed the very same thing – in a 1968 book.
But now he’s serious!
Put him in the same category as the climate experts who predicted in 2004 that coastal European cities would be underwater by now and Great Britain would be plunged into a Siberian-like climate.
They’re just as wrong as Al Gore, who talked his carbon-credit-merchandising book by predicting ice-free Arctic ocean during summers from 2013 on. Still waiting on that one, too.
Last winter, one scientific survey showed Arctic ice levels just 3 percent below 30-year averages.
But don’t let the reality get in the way of spreading fear porn.
Expecting these people to change is asking too much. Free yourselves. Don’t buy the ridiculous scare porn they are selling.
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