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MISIS WIRE ^ | September 7, 2021 | Jeff Deist

[Grandpa Drudge]

Mr. Berenson is famous for creating a viral (no pun intended) phrase which swept across Twitter last year: virus gonna virus.

Which means: whether one is in Sweden or Australia, whether in New York or Florida, whether you have mask mandates or lockdowns or close schools or require vaccine passports—or do NONE of these things—virus gonna virus. Covid hospitalizations and deaths will be concentrated among the obese and elderly. In almost any community, two-thirds or more of deaths are over age seventy, but even among the elderly more than 90 percent of those infected survive covid. And among all covid deaths, only about 7 percent are “covid only” without other serious contributing factors.

What we won’t ever know, unfortunately—because we don’t have a control group, at least in the West—is what would have happened in a society which simply did nothing in response to the virus. What if a country simply had encouraged citizens to build up their natural immunity through a healthy diet, exercise, vitamins, and natural sunlight? What if it had taken precautions for elderly and immune-compromised populations, while allowing younger and healthier people to live normally? Would such a country have reached a degree of natural immunity faster, with overall better outcomes for the physical and mental health of its citizens? And with far less economic damage?

All of this is the unseen. And no, it wasn't "worth it" to shut down the world.

[Grandpa Drudge]

[MNJohnnie]

Very good points

[Grandpa Drudge]

Thanks.

I recommend reading this article in full.

I repeat the link for the article here:

https://mises.org/wire/terrible-economic-ignorance-behind-covid-tradeoffs-my-speech-ron-paul-institute

[refermech]

Good read, I hope he’s right.

[EasySt]

From the article:

“ Search for his Twitter profile and you’ll find something spooky. His name
is still there, but with a quietly menacing “Account Suspended” warning.
All other traces of his existence are erased: his header photo is gone,
his profile photo is blank, and the descriptive bio is missing. Just blank.
It’s eerie, and reminds me of that famous old photo of Stalin by the
Moscow Canal. He’s standing next to Nikolai Yezhov
(I had to look him up), who fell out of favor with Stalin and was
executed—then erased from the photo by Soviet censors.”

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Yup, that’s how they’ve done some 200,000 of us that they have admitted
to, probably more.

@easystreet4

[livius]

Interesting ideas. I don’t think the evil that is DC (centralized government) is going to give up its power to regionalism without a fight, though.

[Grandpa Drudge]

Of course they wont, in fact, they are currently doubling down right now, with ever more (unconstitutional) impositions on our liberty, (mask and vaccine mandates,) unwarranted censorship, false propaganda, and more.

What's worse, it's not just one side against another, or even socialism vs democratic republic government. It's centralized government by the powerful and the elite, vs constitutionally limited central government elected by the people and for the people.

And of course, "the powerful and elite" is amply populated by some Democrats, some Republicans (secretly), many RINOs (openly), international corporations (secretly), and even some foreign government officials and very rich individuals (openly).

The ultimate objective is "One World Order" and "One World Government".