Posted on 08/04/2021 4:28:09 PM PDT by karpov
Much of the pathology underlying Covid policy arises from the fantasy that it is possible to eradicate the virus. Capitalizing on pandemic panic, governments and compliant media have used the lure of zero-Covid to induce obedience to harsh and arbitrary lockdown policies and associated violations of civil liberties.
Among all countries, New Zealand, Australia and especially China have most zealously embraced zero-Covid. China’s initial lockdown in Wuhan was the most tyrannical. It infamously locked people into their homes, forced patients to take untested medications, and imposed 40-day quarantines at gunpoint.
On March 24, 2020, New Zealand imposed one of the most onerous lockdowns in the free world, with sharp restrictions on international travel, business closures, a prohibition on going outside, and official encouragement of citizens to snitch on neighbors. In May 2020, having hit zero-Covid, New Zealand lifted lockdown restrictions, except quarantines for international travelers and warrantless house searches to enforce lockdown.
Australia also took the zero-Covid route. While the initial steps focused on banning international travel, the lockdowns there also involved closed schools, occasional separation of mothers from premature newborns, brutal suppression of protests, and arrests for wandering more than 3 miles from home.
New Zealand’s and Australia’s temporary achievement of zero-Covid and China’s claimed success were greeted with fanfare by the media and scientific journals. China’s authoritarian response seemed so successful—despite the country’s record of lying about the virus—that panicked democratic governments around the world copied it. The three countries lifted their lockdowns and celebrated.
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Covid is now endemic to the human population and will remain so.
And you are endemic to Free Republic.
It has a 99.7 percent recovery rate. You could do worse.
Installing a quality UVC light in your ducting on the supply side and / or adding humidity and temperature control can make any building safe from not only Viruses but bacterial and other pathogens.
Old school proven technology. I did my restaurant for about $2,000.
“And you are endemic to Free Republic.”
You probably think you said something.
Also totally unnecessary.
#2 love that meme!!!
Don’t tell anybody, but Covid is just the common cold. Perhaps artificially ramped up to spread faster, but even the old pre-Delta strain had a very low mortality rate, and evidently Delta has an even lower one.
Coronaviruses (cold viruses) are just a fact of life and as you say are endemic to the human population. Most people survive, some people develop complications, and some will die. Since it turns out they weren’t distinguishing between the cold virus and the much more dangerous flu virus (which is why flu cases “disappeared”) even those numbers are suspect.
There may have been a moment when people, such as Trump, were seriously persuaded by people like Fauci and Birx, that this was the end of the world. So we did “two weeks to slow the curve.” But then Trump lost control of it, Fauci essentially became the President, fulfilling the wildest dreams of an elderly bureaucrat, and it has been a political game ever since.
Alas, politics is endemic with the population...
Thanks, I’m glad to see that even the WSJ has an article questioning this craziness. The rest of the paper is all Covid all the time (usually articles featuring weeping Millenials and Gen Xers who say they’re deathly afraid to talk to people now and they’re not sure how they’re going to handle going back into public).
thanks for posting the “full article” links that bypass the WSJ paywall ...
Aye.
Some more reality checks:
COVID-19 is airborne.
That means, “in the air, everywhere”.
It is ENDEMIC.
We will ALL get exposed..over and over.
MANY of us will “test positive”, mostly without symptoms.
SOME of us will be “symptomatic”, and a subset will be really sick.
And (unfortunately) a FEW of us will die.
This is NOT the Bubonic plague.
This is NOT the Spanish Influenza.
Tear off that face diaper.
Breathe deeply. Inhale some COVID.
Build up your immune system.
And LIVE!
Various corona viruses have been around a long time. This is just another
I was just going to post that ...incredible fear of something that has a 99.97 recovery rate
There are natural remedies that can address COVID very very well.
It keeps the right people in charge
Installing a quality UVC light in your ducting on the supply side and / or adding humidity and temperature control can make any building safe from not only Viruses but bacterial and other pathogens.
Old school proven technology. I did my restaurant for about $2,000.
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This is interesting idea.
Is there a name for this technology?
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