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Long Tyranny A Greater Threat Than Long COVID
Issues & Insights ^ | 19 Mar, 2024 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 03/20/2024 9:10:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Not to downplay the damage done by COVID, but we’re still dealing with a far worse disease and will be for some time. It has no medical name but if it did, we’d call it the tyrannococcus.

From the top we acknowledge that the novel coronavirus killed millions around the world. This is not a statistic but a procession of tragedies, and they happened despite the policy responses from those who claimed to be our guardians. Now, four years later, the experts are telling us to treat the disease similar to the way we treat the flu. The much-feared “long COVID appears to manifest as a post-viral syndrome indistinguishable from seasonal influenza and other respiratory illnesses,” says Medical Xpress.

Yet the damage wrought by governments, spread by the tyrannococcus machine, will continue well beyond 2024. “We will be dealing with the harm done for decades,” says Martin Kulldorf, the biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist who was fired from his Harvard faculty position because he objected to COVID vaccine mandates.

Rather than respond in any sort of reasonable way, elected and unelected officials acted as tyrants, closing businesses, restricting our freedom to move about, limiting the number of people who could gather in private homes, requiring mask use and mandating vaccinations. “There was very little oversight or limitation on the powers conferred to” the agencies that made those decisions, says the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. They simply gave themselves power they should have never wielded.

Consequently, businesses, jobs and livelihoods were destroyed without mercy; education was wrecked; our health suffered as screenings and treatments were delayed and sometimes canceled altogether; powerful people silenced critics and dissenters. Government went $6 trillion deeper into debt as politicians thought spending could stop the spread, bankruptcies soared and alcohol-related deaths “increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic,” reaching 488 fatalities a day during the pandemic’s lost years.

The results have been catastrophic, the carnage exceeding “by multiple times any health benefits from mandates and lockdowns,” says the CTUP. It can’t be allowed to happen again. To make sure it doesn’t, or to at least lay down a set of guidelines that, if followed would produce better outcomes, the Committee recently published a study that offers “10 key lessons that must be learned to avoid mistaken policy responses to future pandemics and other crises.”

The authors suggested that in the future leaders should calm public fears rather than stoke them, refuse to pay people more not to work than they would earn working, refrain from suppressing dissent or policing the boundaries of science, take extra steps to protect the most vulnerable, and reject lockdowns and mask mandates.

None of this counsel should be controversial. But it was in 2020 and 2021, and after. Policymakers, public health officials, institutional commissars and the vacuous, venal and fear-stricken elites of the media descended on anyone who didn’t bend the knee to the narrative. Nearly 250 years after the U.S. was founded, tyranny is not dead in this country. It’s only changed its face and its methods.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: civilrights; covid; despotism; lockdowns; mandates; marxism; tyranny

1 posted on 03/20/2024 9:10:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Marxists believe that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Even an orchestrated crisis.


2 posted on 03/20/2024 9:10:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

The greatest threat is MRNA shots. Stay on Ivermectin and you will have smooth sailing…. Yes , even if you took the clot shots…Ivermectin has qualities that reduce the spike proteins that were injected into your body.

That said, refuse ANY and all MRNA based kill shots.


3 posted on 03/20/2024 9:29:19 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

I’ve used Ivermectin but it doesn’t seem to do much good. Am I missing something?


4 posted on 03/20/2024 10:01:52 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

My friend has long Covid and it lays her flat about every two months. The ivermectin shortens the duration and her recovery is more complete than without it.


5 posted on 03/20/2024 10:39:02 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: grame
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Long Covid really sucks and yes, it will lay me out if I ever push the envelope and do too much physical activity.

If I may ask, did she get Ivermectin from her local doctor/pharmacy? I have some that I purchased from India, but I wonder sometimes it's not the actual medication and is instead a placebo.

Freepmail me if you prefer to communicate via that method.

Thanks.

6 posted on 03/20/2024 12:57:49 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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