Posted on 08/28/2024 4:15:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you weren't aware, there is a spike in COVID-19 cases around the country. It's all over the place. Part of it is the return to schools, part of it is that it's really warm in parts of the country, so we're staying together indoors more, and part of it is that it's a communicable disease that isn't going anywhere.
Every flu season, we get flu vaccines. Those vaccines are developed based on predictions of what the strain of flu is most prevalent that season. We don't worry about flu season because we as a society have internalized that it comes as we have taken preparations.
There is no more COVID-19 pandemic. It isn't some major outbreak that is killing a ton of people. We get sick, we go through (largely unproblematic) symptoms, we get better. It isn't the flu, but at this point, the pattern is very flu-like. It is serious for some people, but not nearly as many as it was in the beginning. As viruses mutate, they tend to get weaker because the whole point of any living organism is to live and replicate, and it can't do that if it is killing all its hosts.
There are some folks out there who have a level of Covid Paranoia equal to their Trump Paranoia (that COVID-19 became a pandemic under his watch, though not his fault, is certainly enough for these very volatile people to have similar reactions to the two). They think we still need to be worried about it. That we should be doing more to mitigate spread. Hell, some folks long for the days when Dr. Anthony Fauci was still in charge.
And there are reporters who are in this camp. They want us to still be worried about the virus. Take this story at POLITICO today: "Democrats and Republicans greet Covid spike with a collective shrug."
Infections are running rampant after the Democratic confab in Chicago, with staffers on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, reporters and other convention-goers all stricken — and in at least one case claiming the positive test was “worth it.”
Cases also cropped up after the Republican National Convention in July. And yet the single most-animating issue of the 2020 election is an afterthought for the major-party nominees coming out of two of the 2024 campaign’s biggest milestones — even as the virus remains an ever-present threat that’s shaped broader debates over key electoral issues like strength of the economy and the future of families’ health and child care.
Both campaigns have struggled with how — and how much — to address a pandemic that the U.S. never fully defeated, but that few Americans still want to dwell on.
This really shouldn't be a story. But it is because there are people invested in keeping COVID-19 panic alive. They want us to be worried and they want to be able to use it to force certain societal changes - changes Americans don't want.
On our side, there is a growing number of people who point to reports of the spike as a sign that the Biden administration is going to steal the election from Trump. I don't think it's that complicated. I simply think the people who care about COVID-19 are scared and paranoid and want to shut things down again out of fear. There isn't anyone among the Democratic political set calling for what they called for in 2020, and I don't think there's any stomach among them for that fight again.
Especially after what it did to Trump in 2020 - it was the biggest factor in his loss to Joe Biden. At a time when the economy is still uncertain, there's no reason they want to risk that happening to their side.
I also don't think that the Democrats, if they were trying to "steal" it, would run the same con twice in a row.
Regardless, COVID-19 is the new flu season. It will come in waves, and it'll disappear again each time. There is no reason for us to panic about it these days because it isn't the serious disease it was in 2020. The pandemic is over and the world has finally begun to heal. You'll see people who are panicking about it, but they are an extremely small minority.
Heard in every Democrat household last week:
No, honey... It's the Covid! Yeah, that's what it is. I swear!!-PJThat woman you saw standing next to me on TV was... it was just a coincidence! She wasn't even from our state, she was from New Hampshire... No, I mean... New Hampshire was next to us... I don't know anything about her...
I got Covid at the convention!!! Everybody got it! It's spreading again, I swear!!!
It reduced one’s reaction to the virus made it feel more like the flu
It was a no big deal shot
Me.
Never jabbed.
No pre-existing medical conditions, was in excellent physical shape (5’8”, 130 lbs., spent 2 weeks in 2019 trekking across Italy), lived and ate clean.
I was 54 when the first round hit. January 2020 chest xray and MRI showed lungs in excellent shape.
Covid, hospitalized twice. Never vented.
April 2020 chest xray show lungs were destroyed. Pulmonologist confirmed massive COVID scarring. Stage I COPD.
Summer 2022, caught COVID again. Shut down my digestive system for 3 weeks; hospitalized.
Fall of 2022, began experiencing novel seizures where I would collapse, go blind, become paralyzed and stop breathing for up to 45 seconds at a time (these episodes would go on for minutes while my family or animals were freaking out around me). Took a year to diagnose. My system could not shed the base spike proteins and they were messing up my neurological system. Got on a detox program and got some relief.
February 2024 caught COVID again. Five life-threatening seizures in 9 days. Digestive system shut down again. Ambulanced to hospital due to fluid build up in and around my lungs so severe it was coming out my nostrils when I coughed. Hospitalized 5 times in 6 weeks. More lung damage. Banned from driving. Have to mask up in public.
NEVER VAXXED.
You are the exception, and I will say I was actually referring to the people in my sphere who been jabbed and boosted many times getting this current summer variant of SARS-CoV-2.
I do want you to know that I pray daily for you and the other FReepers I know who suffer greatly from CoVid. I do take this seriously.
It took my brother’s life 3 years ago yesterday. He had 3 comorbidities, so would never have been able to do anything much, even if he had survived it. I’m sure he would be bedridden if he had. Still, I would’ve preferred that than missing him like we do. Maybe he wouldn’t have wanted to live like that though. Who’s to say? He’s gone and we all miss him. The best big brother a girl could ever have.
I pray for your health.
I am truly sorry for your loss. I’m close to my family and cannot imagine what you are going through. And thank you, sincerely, for the prayers. They mean a lot.
For the overwhelming majority of people, COVID was no big thing. I saw that just from my husband and 3 children. Husband and eldest son shook it off without missing a beat. My two younger kids were sick for a few days, nothing more.
It destroyed me.
Interestingly, my sister had the exact same response to COVID that I did. She was hospitalized, chronic fatigue, brain fog. She was exposed again and is now starting to also have seizures. She went from a dynamo to struggling in just a few months. Like me, she saves all her strength for her job, to provide a comfortable life for her family. On the weekends, she crashes.
For our 3 brothers...nada. Again, COVID was no big deal.
There are several hundred thousand of us out here...never vaxxed long haulers who were wrecked by Fauci’s monster. He has a lot to answer for.
Comrade DR. Fow-Chi is down with West Nile or some other thing and is not available to spread panic and lies.
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