Posted on 08/04/2021 10:59:06 AM PDT by lightman
It's been a bumpy ride for America and the world ever since the Wuhan Coronavirus first emerged in late 2019, killing millions around the world, and sickening many more. People can be excused for feeling anxious about what lies around the next corner. Adding to and amplifying the anxiety, however, are misleading and fear-mongering doomsayers who overstate risks, fail to provide meaningful context, and generally stoke overblown concerns -- distorting how the public feels about the pandemic. By nearly any reasonable standard, the worst of this nightmare is behind us. This is certainly true in countries with high vaccination rates. In the United States, more than 70 percent of adults have received at least one vaccine shot, meaning that at least some robust protection is now widespread -- in addition to the existence of natural immunity. "Breakthrough" cases among vaccinated people (like mine) are relatively rare, are much less severe, are shorter in duration, and appear to be less transmissible to others:
While the virus is still rampaging through unvaccinated populations (children, thank goodness, remain overwhelmingly low-risk), cases have been decoupled from hospitalizations among the vaccinated -- and from deaths overall because America has done a pretty good job of getting our most vulnerable citizens vaccinated. The Delta wave, while serious due to the variant's enhanced contagiousness, will not be nearly as deadly as earlier waves. The exact same wave spiked then plummeted in the UK, a trajectory that we are fairly likely to follow. Nervous buzzing about a 'Delta-plus' variant seems to be overhyped as a threat, according to this doctor:
We are not collectively out of the woods yet, future variants could imperil the effectiveness of our outstanding vaccines (experts explain that the vaccines can be easily and quickly tweaked to keep up with mutations), and there are still ample causes for concern. But to state the belief that the worst is yet to come on COVID is wildly unsupported by all available facts and evidence -- and the fact that said belief is now held by a majority of Americans is an infuriating indictment of our national media, as well as public health officials responsible for messaging to the public. Irrational fear is overrunning reason and evidence:
Massive, humiliating screw-ups like this don't help, and have not exactly been infrequent
One can only hope that as the US Delta wave crests, then peters out (hopefully in a matter of a few weeks), the hysteria will recede as well, and people will begin to put things into better perspective. On that front, I'll leave you with a happier thought -- be grateful that we have superb vaccines that work, unlike this weak sauce from China:
This is by design. This is Overton Window stuff here. They’re deliberately sowing chaos, because they know most people don’t bother to look past the fog.
There must be bodies everywhere.
no one i know thinks this. Most people are so sick and tired of the bullshit that they have gone from compliance to protestor.
I have known of one person who died of COVID and he was elderly and had long-term COPD. His wife and mid-50s son also got it (from a worker who didn’t have the good sense to stay home while he was hacking up a lung) and both of them recovered nicely without going to the hospital. I have known two other mid-50s people who got it and recovered at home. I’ll believe what my eyes and experience tell me. Filtering through all this Panic Porn is exhausting.
I don’t see any panic, except for some people wearing masks at the grocery store.
Wait until they experience The Great Reset. Brought to you by the same globalist oligarchy
“no one i know thinks this.”
If by “the worst of COVID”, they also mean totalitarian power grabs using Covid as an excuse, I totally think this.
You can make a poll say anything you want. You start by deciding what the results will be. The next step is who you ask and what questions you use. Then you have conclusions that you draw and how you express the results. Finally you have error corrections. All you have to do is toss out evidence that doesn’t fit the conclusion. Lying is not rocket science.
Throughout history, how many plagues and epidemics has the human race lived thru? Sure, people have died-lots of people, but we always came back better and stronger than ever!
Damn the politicians! It’s time we took this country back from them!
There’s only one solution:
Mass mail in balloting.
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In Austin the local enemedia news stations (even Fox7) are ChiCom-virus/variant-4/vaccination gaslighting 24/7. Almost every news story has a virus/vaccine propaganda spin to it. There is no alternate viewpoint even mentioned, except when promoting someone denouncing any alternate viewpoint.
In before the Free Republic Vaxx Karens jump on this thread to blame all unvaxxed people as the root cause and that a weekly dose of the vaccine will soon be required.
The stock market is starting to think the same thing.
Yup. They saw that we were having too much fun this summer. They concocted the scary Delta virus, and, in case we get too happy, there’s the Lambda waiting to kill anyone the Delta doesn’t get.
They are going to implement vax “passports” so that the public will know who to direct its anger at.
They’re not letting go of it any time soon. They just turned landowners into slaves. Next they’ll be coming for your IRA or 401K. Then the tax on all financial transactions. Then the gas-powered car will be rendered useless, with its entire value gone and your entire investment wasted. Then the installation of inner city thugs in quiet, peaceful, crime-free suburbs.
Same here. I see robust crowds at stores and restaurants and people going about their lives.
I see a few more muzzles at the grocery store, but still not even half the people are wearing them.
I still see retards driving around in cars by themselves obedience signaling with their masks. Young ladies out walking by themselves on wooded trails, too.
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