Sending Covid patients into nursing homes infuriated me. Why no relative of one of those poor souls gave Cuomo a real punch in the nose, I don’t know. It was beyond an outrage, it was downright evil.
But why should it bother you, as you think the virus that causes Covid does not exist? You posted before that you thought Covid was caused by “the vaxx” which you claimed was developed before Hillary’s first run for president and intended for use after “her coronation” but Obama beat her out, then Trump in 2016, so they finally used it against Trump in 2020. You claimed they had surreptitiously put the Covid “vaxx” into other vaccines prior to the Covid outbreak. Um, sounds like the Underpants Gnomes to me, but if that’s what you believe, it’s what you believe. You said you got the idea from Bryan Ardis, the chiropractor who also claimed the Covid vaccines — and the water supply! —contained snake venom, and that it was actually the snake venom that was sickening peop!e, not a virus. Watch the water!
If you believe there is no such thing as a Covid virus, and the disease was caused by vaccines (or snake venom in the water), then why be upset about sending “infected patients” to nursing homes? If anyone had received vaccines lately, it was nursing home patients who are routinely vaccinated for flu, pneumonia, etc., so by your lights they were already “infected”. If you’ve changed your mind about the Covid virus being nonexistent, why did you post this piece about Yeardon claiming if does not exist and defending his claim? You must still believe it.
Same with your critique of NYC’s lockdowns (which I happen to mostly agree with). If there is no such thing as a Covid virus, how can you say “if you force people to stay inside with other sick people, then it increases the exposure to the virus and thus the likelihood that they will also get sick”? You can’t have it both ways.
I can forgive the initial response to Covid, as they thought it was spread by droplet (like flu). Masks and social distancing, etc., are rather effective in preventing spread of droplet borne illnesses, but not so much for airborne diseases, and it turned out Covid can be airborne. So, yes, it spread anyway, especially in high-rise buildings where infected people were using elevators, stairways, hallways with a shared air system.
Fauci and our Surgeon General lied to our faces when they said masks did not mitigate transmission (at the time, they believed Covid was spread only via droplet). Fauci later admitted they they had lied because they were afraid the public would buy up all the masks and leave none available for frontline healthcare workers.
A properly-fitted and handled N95 mask can indeed help protect against Covid. Even a properly handled surgical mask can help reduce initial viral load, and thus perhaps limit the severity of your Covid case. But they are not totally failsafe when it comes to airborne viruses (and rather useless if not properly fitted and handled). I suspect they kept up the masking and social distancing and lock downs because the majority of people *wanted* them. Their fear mongering had worked only too well. People want to believe they have some control over their fate, some way to protect themselves, something they can *do* — and *something* the authorities can do and should do.
Some cultures still use magic talismans (an object carried, a red thread tied around the baby’s wrist, etc.) to keep illness at bay. Long ago, people wore garlic or asafetida bags around their necks to ward off diseases (and it might have kinda sorta worked if the awful smell kept others at a distance lol). Back in medieval times, those who could afford them held perfumed hankies to their noses to filter out noxious odors and “airs” believed to cause diseases.
During Covid Time, some believed in masks, gloves, bleach, etc., while others turned to ivermectin or HCQ and/or vitamins. Or all of these. The gloves and bleach probably didn’t do much of anything, as, as far as I know, there has never been a documented case of Covid contracted via surface contact. But we didn’t know that at the time, and wearing gloves and disinfecting surfaces seemed reasonable. Those dopey bandanas worn like an Old West bandit were just silly. Anyway, people doing all these things still caught Covid. Well, duh. It turned out to be airborne. But we had our magic talismans, even though at least some of them were useless.
I can forgive some of the fearmongering and measures taken at the very beginning, when Covid was a whole new animal and all we had to compare it to was SARS1 (far more deadly, but less easily spread). Once it became clear that the vast majority of severe and deadly outcomes were among the elderly and those with comorbidities, it would have behooved us to protect the vulnerable elderly and frail and drop the crazy prolonged lockdowns. The prolonged school closures and forcing little kids to wear masks was insane.
The prolonged lockdowns may well possibly have cost more lives than it saved. Skipped doctor appointments, skipped screenings for cancer and other diseases, long postponed surgeries, BP meds not adjusted as needed, etc., etc., etc. And then there were the other bad health outcomes of prolonged lockdowns (increased suicides, increased drug and alcohol abuse, worse mental health, less exercise and sunshine, etc.)
Yes, Remdesivir is not advised (and not administered) to patients with hepatic dysfunction or impaired kidneys, but there is no evidence it “kills” everyone as you assert. President Trump seems to have survived it just fine:
Yes, it would be interesting to see how many died “of” Covid rather than “with” Covid. Other than those who died of injuries after car crashes, etc., it might be hard to tease out, though. If granny was an obese diabetic and caught Covid and died, was it because she was an obese diabetic or did Covid kill her? Yes. She might well have lasted nine more years had she not caught Covid. She might have survived Covid had she not been obese and diabetic. I think it fair to say it was a combination of all her maladies, but it was the Covid that pushed her over the edge into the grave.
I did?????
Remind me with a link.