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Gee, I Wonder Why Most People Are Shrugging Off Omicron?
Townhall.com ^
| December 2, 2021
| Kurt Schlichter
Posted on 12/02/2021 3:00:14 AM PST by Kaslin
The news of the emerging Omicron variant was greeted with a giant shrug by most of America, and it’s no surprise why. The total failure of our establishment to earn our trust over the last two years of this pandemic made it inevitable that a huge number of people, at best, don’t care, and at worst think it’s a calculated lie designed to prolong this nonsense. The COVIDians are positively turgid over the idea of more mandates, more lockdowns, more masks, and more viro-fascism. So when the CEO of Moderna states that the vaccine might not be as effective against this new mutation as to earlier ones, in direct contradiction to what President Asterisk assured us just a day before was “unlikely,” we just see it as more bullSchiff shoveled by the manure mob.
They’ve lied to us before, and often, and then they get all huffy when we point out their lies. You are not denying science by pointing out how wrong, and how often, Fauci has been. That malignant dwarf is so high on his on supply that he’s now offering his insights on politics to eager legacy media hacks. His takes are, no surprise, just as stupid as his takes on COVID.
It’s not a conspiracy theory or kookiness to assess that our so-called leaders have failed in every way in this crisis. Look at Biden – the guy who was going to wave his magic wand and make it all better has seen more people die under him than Trump. But the establishment never criticizes this guy; why would they, since he gives them whatever they want?
They lied to us. The experts told us masks are no good, then that they are, then that you need two, then none, then masks again. And they knew the first mask denial was a lie – at least they believed it was, making the fact that what they intended to be a noble lie to keep us rubes from using up all the mouth thongs was actually the only time they got anything right in this whole sorry saga.
What about natural immunity? They never discuss it, yet the science – I was informed that science is super important – says it gives you the best protection. How come it’s never part of the discussion? We never get a reason, just a demand that we take a drug those of us who beat the virus might not even need. And a booster too because, well, shut up and obey.
Look at the vaccine. It’s a nice drug. Like all drugs, it has some side effects, but it does seem to make it less serious if you do catch COVID. If they sold it as that, fine. But they sold it as preventing COVID, which we know it does not do, nor does it keep you from spreading it. Yet they never came out and said, “We were wrong when we told you that you would not catch it and get your life back if you took this drug. Here are the facts as we now know them.” No, they accused you of denying science, whatever that means, and hordes of bloodthirsty blue check sissies began toobining to their fantasies of murdering those who will not submit. There’s no humility, no transparency, just a desperate scramble to keep the emergency powers our society idiotically invested in these incompetents. So, this is their time to shine. No wonder it goes on and on.
Fauci loves this and never wants it to end. Ever. And if you disagree, point to one shred of evidence that this is not true. What has the evil elf ever done that lessens his own power or prominence? Nothing. Here’s Exhibit A for my assertion: Turn on CNN. He’ll be right there, demanding you submit to his tiny will. But don’t look for him on, say, Hugh Hewitt, who told him to his smug face that he lacked any credibility and should quit.
The fact is that we gave a bunch of lab-coated human beings power, but we forgot about human nature and allowed them the “But muh science!” trump card to escape accountability. Fauci recently, before opining on January 6th, essentially claimed that to oppose him is to oppose science. He’s not science. He’s an intensely fallible little man. This is the problem with so-called experts – well, one of the problems, another key one being that they mostly suck at what they purport to be experts at. When progressives insist that we give up our sovereignty to the rule of experts, the unspoken premise is that science is going to be their sole decision-making criterion. But that cannot be – they are human, or in the case of that ridiculous gnome Fauci, humanoid. Human beings are never neutral and never disinterested. Human nature always intrudes. Humans are selfish, egotistical, proud, arrogant, and often foolish. And those adjectives make up Fauci’s CV.
This is why we have – wait for it – a system of checks and balances instead of a dictatorship of the incompotentariat. Moreover, even if the premise of “pure expertise” was true, we do not want a scientist with narrow alleged expertise making societal-level decisions. Coming up with measures to keep us from catching COVID is not the only question. What do the proposed measures do to the economy, to the culture, to kids’ development? These are societal decisions, and as the 1/6 onanists keep reminding us, our democracy is very important. Yet, these people are the first to cut us normals out of having a say in our own governance. We elect politicians to synthesize information and consider the effects on all aspects of society, not just the narrow issue regarding the mechanics of a glorified cold.
So don’t look for normal people to panic like the clown governing New York did, cancelling elective surgeries. We are Chicken Littled out – the sky is always falling and the only thing to do is give up more of our freedom!
No. We’re done. If you want a vaccine, get it – hell, you probably already have. Get a booster if you want it. Or don’t. Go out. Live your life.
And GOP pols, stop playing along with this farce. It’s been two years – two years – and it will never end on its own because Dem politicians love the power, hack docs love the limelight, and people with empty lives love the excitement of the faux perma-crisis.
You need to stop it. Open everything. No lockdowns. No mandates. No panic. Let people live their lives. Channel Ron DeSantis.
And tell the pandemic pack to go boost themselves.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; kurtschlichter; omicron; schlichter
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To: Kaslin
When Fauxci/Mengele was acked yesterday about our open southern border and the thousands coming being let accross, his answer? Oh that’s an entirerly different subject that I won’t address.
And they wonder why people are starting to say f this and just move on with their lives as best as their state will allow.
So friggn sad that America has been reduced to this.
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posted on
12/02/2021 3:58:58 AM PST
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: Kaslin
There has been a lot of chatter behind a Washington Post report about the White House planning to introduce new COVID travel and quarantine restrictions tomorrow (Thursday). However, tuning out the noise – remember which agency of the Fourth Branch uses the Washington Post and things make sense.
The problem for the White House is the public reaction to the new COVID variant Omicron did not meet their expectations.
The White House needs more concern, more fear, more panic to enhance their larger objective {Go Deep}. The Biden team really need Omicron fear to permeate the American psyche, in order to achieve the Build Back Better agenda. They desperately need it.
If people just shake it off and go about living their lives, the White House will be facing an electorate angry about inflation; that’s a problem.
The Washington Post report is framed around new international travel restrictions, increased COVID testing, and quarantine mandates as an outcome of the Omicron variant arrival. However, given the nature of the 48 hour advanced notice provided to The WaPo, it’s likely the announcement tomorrow will contain the change that all vaccine advocates have been demanding, mandatory vaccination prior to any domestic airline travel. Forcing domestic airline travelers to prove their vaccinated status has been a goal of the vaccine media for several months.
The worker vaccine mandate was unconstitutional federal overreach; the Biden administration knew that in advance and did it anyway because the vaccine isn’t really the end goal, it’s just a tool. An airline traveler vaccine mandate would be similar federal overreach, and also likely to lose in court; however, that is not going to stop them from announcing one for the same reason they announced the worker vaccine mandate.
WASHINGTON – […] As part of an enhanced winter covid strategy Biden is expected to announce Thursday, U.S. officials would require everyone entering the country to be tested one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure. Administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival.
In addition, they are debating a controversial proposal to require all travelers, including U.S. citizens, to self-quarantine for seven days, even if their test results are negative. Those who flout the requirements might be subject to fines and penalties, the first time such penalties would be linked to testing and quarantine measures for travelers in the United States. (read more)
As long as the White House needs to exploit the politics and control of Omicron; and as long as the American people refuse to be controlled by the exploitation of Omicron, this mandate dynamic will continue. In essence, the Biden government is demanding that we behave more fearfully and pay attention to the distractions they are presenting in front of us.
Our government needs your compliance comrade citizen in order to retain their objective.
All of Biden energy policy, and all of Biden spending around the Build Back Better agenda, is designed to take us from where we are now into some distant place where fossil fuels are not the energy mechanism; that’s the Green New Deal component of this. However, there is no energy policy position for their transition – they stopped all current energy development around oil and coal.
This is not a flaw in their program for fundamental change, it is a feature.
Biden halted pipelines, cancelled oil and gas leases, blocked expanded refinery capacity and regulated the entire U.S. oil industry into a place of diminished capacity. That is why energy prices have, as Obama promised, “necessarily skyrocketed.” Depending on how cold it is this winter, you can expect natural gas and home heating oil to double in the next few months.
The near horizon looks pretty clear. Gasoline will keep rising fast and will cost $6 to $7/gal before next spring. There is no way under current Joe Biden policy to avoid this, unless he was to completely abandon his energy policy; that’s not likely. The climate change ideologues, academics and far-left communists behind the Biden policy are not likely to see the catastrophic economic damage as a bad thing. Instead, they will likely say it’s the new normal.
With that level of supply side economic chaos seemingly unavoidable, the only way for Biden to try and mitigate political damage is an attempt to halt the demand side.
That’s why the administration needs Omicron to change our behavior.
- COVID-19 is a sword to destroy & fundamentally change the U.S. and global economy.
- COVID-19 is also a shield to protect the politicians as they destroy and fundamentally change the U.S. and global economy.
- COVID-19 is a tool for Build Back Better.
Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:06:35 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: nevergore
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:08:32 AM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: Blennos
Are you serious? Once again they are bending the knee to China? Unreal.
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:09:24 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: Doofer
It’s kind of like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:16:14 AM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children.)
To: Kaslin
We are two weeks away from the second year of Two Weeks to Flatten The Curve.
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:22:40 AM PST
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Caipirabob
Excellent….You can’t say it any better.
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:30:32 AM PST
by
Blennos
( )
To: ComputerGuy
My doctor, who has kept his practice open through all this bs, said this to me yesterday If this was a real virus, I'd be dead by now
You ever notice they didn't quarantine every single nurse, doctor, intern, orderly, or hospital receptionist for 2 weeks every time they found someone with COVID in their presence...shouldn't EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM got COVID and/or DIED, by now?!?
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:40:49 AM PST
by
ExTxMarine
(Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
To: nevergore
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:41:27 AM PST
by
WWG1WWA
(Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
To: Kaslin
Anagram of “Delta Omicron” is “Media Control”.
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:42:49 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Der impfstoff macht frei. The vaccine will make you free. Your papers, please.)
To: alloysteel
What will happen (if it hasn’t already) is that the media will find one person, undoubtedly elderly and with comorbidities, whose death is attributed to the Omigod variant. This story will be splashed everywhere, and nothing will be said about the millions who acquire natural immunity at the price of a mild illness.
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
It’s a jumble of moronic.
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:49:43 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: ExTxMarine
The medicos I deal with all know this is bs. Both UNC and Duke Med. They just have to choose their words carefully. This is basically a scam, nothing more.
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posted on
12/02/2021 4:55:19 AM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
12/02/2021 5:01:50 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Doofer; Mark17
Remember what the government did to the Branch Davidians?
Just wait until the voters rise up to stanch COVIDians!!
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posted on
12/02/2021 5:08:32 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Kaslin
It’s just like calling us racists anymore, the hand has been waaaayy overplayed.
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posted on
12/02/2021 5:10:22 AM PST
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking. )
To: alloysteel
This is all about inflation and the need to slow the economy to slow inflation.
Nothing more.
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posted on
12/02/2021 5:11:08 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intend to RULE.)
To: Kaslin
There are a whole lot of people who never learned from the story of the boy who cried wolf. My biggest fear is the long term damage this plandemic is doing.
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posted on
12/02/2021 5:12:19 AM PST
by
liberalh8ter
(The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
To: Kaslin
Leftist speak: “Science deniers” are “on the wrong side of history” because... um, science.
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posted on
12/02/2021 5:13:51 AM PST
by
Hatteras
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