Posted on 01/19/2021 9:21:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Early in the pandemic, “trust the science!” could actually be used in a debate without attracting derisive laughter. But as the flip-flops, mistakes and, yes, lies have accumulated, a consensus seems to be forming that the health care authorities are no more trustworthy than the people running Congress or the Fed.
For proof, let’s start with vitamin D, which sure seems to lessen the severity of coronavirus infections. As the chart below illustrates (couldn’t find the source, but google “covid vitamin D” and you’ll find lots of studies that track with this data), people with higher levels of vitamin D in their bloodstream tend to experience covid-19 as a non-event while people low levels found the infection life-threatening.
There are obvious questions about causality here, so calling vitamin D a “cure” is going way too far. But if it has even a marginal effect – and the data suggest considerably more — a rational government would, you’d think, be handing out vitamin D like Halloween candy. In fact, since we’re mandating/prohibiting all kinds of other behaviors, we might expect vitamin D consumption to be required along with masks and social distancing.
Even covid-czar Anthony Fauci recently said:
“If you are deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. So I would not mind recommending — and I do it myself — taking vitamin D supplements.”
So why aren’t family-sized bottles of vitamin D arriving in the mail from the CDC? A cynic might wonder if the fact that Big Pharma doesn’t make much money from cheap, widely available supplements plays a role in the government’s apparent lack of interest.
Now about those lockdowns. Tom Woods has been producing charts that appear to show virtually no difference in virus outcomes between US states with aggressive lockdown policies and those without. California, for instance, has shuttered most of its small businesses and imposed widespread curfews, while Florida hasn’t. Here’s the result:
As for the rest of the world – where they’re supposedly doing better than the US – the pattern of zero correlation between lockdowns and virus spread seems to be holding. France imposed a full national lockdown in March – after which the virus spiked. Then they added mask mandates (indoor and outdoor), with fines attached. And daily new cases soared.
Then of course there’s the lying. Dr. Fauci first claimed that masks don’t help – when he believed they did help — because he feared mask shortages for health care workers. He also admits to changing the official line on herd immunity according to what he thinks we’re ready to hear.
And, in what sounds more like incompetence than dishonesty, he’s apparently been answering the question “when will life go back to normal?” with whatever pops into his head at the time. In early 2020, it was the coming Autumn. In July, it was “a year or so.” More recently it’s “well into 2021.”
But the biggest and by far the most outrageous reason for this growing mistrust has to be the World Health Organization which, well, read for yourself:
WHO official urges world leaders to stop using lockdowns as primary virus control method
The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 urged world leaders this week to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method.”
“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator’s Andrew Neil. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
Nabarro went on to point out several of the negative consequences lockdowns have caused across the world, including devastating tourism industries and increased hunger and poverty.
“Just look at what’s happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people aren’t taking their holidays,” he said. “Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. … Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.”
In the United States, lockdowns have been tied to increased thoughts of suicide from children, a surge in drug overdoses, an uptick in domestic violence, and a study conducted in May concluded that stress and anxiety from lockdowns could destroy seven times the years of life that lockdowns potentially save.
The health care establishment could have saved a lot of time — and embarrassment — by just asking regular people about this stuff. But then they would have made a lot less money.
because fake is fake?
You don’t trust or believe in science.
You challenge science and you prove it or disprove it.
Trust and belief are for the realm of religion and faith.
They don’t have an agreement if you can be re-infected, if so, the severity, how many times, on and on. From recent personal experience.
Fauci is working in the realm of pseudo-science.
Rupert Sheldrake’s banned Ted Talk—”The Science Delusion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
The guy is brilliant and well worth a few minutes of your time.
“Science” has become a vicious, dangerous and anti-human new religion.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Breaking, fauci and bill nye to host a show together
I said months ago that half of the information/recommendations regarding COVID is lies. The problem is in determining which half that is.
I’ll watch this later, thank you! (-:
The lawn ornament doesn't change its position.
We haven’t been told that asymptomatic spread is basically not happening. This is a major aspect that is left unanswered intentionally. Unfortunately at least half the country if not more is buying into the tv lies and pc nonsense surrounding this hoax. Personally I’ve lost a good portion of the few friends and acquaintances over this shit because my mere presence triggers people. People - even country working class people are often already subservient and self policing and others by extension in a defeatist manner that would make Stalin proud. Beyond pathetic.
I was at a casino in Vegas. Getting ready to leave and stopped at a machine at one of the bars. No barstool so I’m just standing there. Put my money in and was selecting my numbers when the bartender came running around to me with a stool and stuck it under my rear. He said.....you have to be sitting to play the machines at the bar. I laughed and said....because if I’m standing up in the same spot COVID will get me. He just shrugged and walked off. All these little rules they’ve made make 0 sense.
When an expert changes their position 180 degrees, I’m reminded I shouldn’t have put much stock in what they said to begin with. When they continue to change their minds 8, 9, 10 times I’m just enjoying the show at that point.
sheana wrote: “I was at a casino in Vegas. Getting ready to leave and stopped at a machine at one of the bars. No barstool so I’m just standing there. Put my money in and was selecting my numbers when the bartender came running around to me with a stool and stuck it under my rear. He said.....you have to be sitting to play the machines at the bar. I laughed and said....because if I’m standing up in the same spot COVID will get me. He just shrugged and walked off. All these little rules they’ve made make 0 sense.”
Such silly rules are common in my area. For example, at my Country Club, one can remove their mask while eating/drinking if they are sitting at the bar. However, someone standing at the bar can remove their mask only when they take a sip or a bite but must immediately replace the mask till they take another sip/bite.
I’ve noticed the same thing...if you present logic and expose the illogic and inconsistencies of the NIH/WHO/CDC positions, people will shun you.
It is a well accepted fact that depression suppresses the immune system.
Isolation causes depression in most humans.
The lockdowns are causing depression to run rampant in the US population.
The lockdowns are obviously not working. They are causing people to be depressed and ruining the economy.
I know that the Democrat and RINO governors are having a wonderful time playing dictator but is time to let people go back to business as usual.
COVID is a lot less dangerous to peoples health than these idiot politicians.
See? COVID knows if you’re sitting you’re safe! 😂
sheana wrote: “See? COVID knows if you’re sitting you’re safe!”
My favorite rule is this: one can remove the mask while seated at the table but one must replace the mask if one is talking to someone at a nearby table.
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