So much for the benefits. What of the costs?
COVID-19 policies destroyed businesses and lives. They drove many to depression and some to suicide. They contributed to increased drug abuse and violence. They deprived our dying loved ones of their family members. They deprived, and continue to deprive, our nursing home residents of the only thing that makes their remaining lives worth living: the faces, voices, and touch of loved ones and caregivers.
COVID-19 policies stunted the education and social development of our children, instilling them with insecurity and fear. They pushed the disease burden to working-class people, while the privileged classes cloistered themselves against waves of infection. They drove families and friends apart, set strangers at each other's throats, and engendered general mistrust and animosity towards government and society alike.
This is just a smattering of the detrimental effects of these policies. The true costs are incalculable.
the US patent for the the virus and fake “vaccine”
were conveniently issued before the virus was released.
does anyone care?
apparently as much as the CDC and FDA forcing the
KNOWN POISONS into fetuses, babies, pregnant women,l
children, adults, the old, the immunocompromised,
those with cancer in remission.
no accountability on Earth, as yet.
Never lost control of my life.
“Unfollow the science”? I don’t think so.
As the article says, science is a counselor. Even now, I occasionally check to see how many new cases are occurring here in TN. If it goes up much, I’ll start wearing a mask.
Still not going to sit down restaurants. Going to stores only in off hours to avoid the crowds.
My choice.
Let’s not get so disgusted with the past choices, right or wrong, that we stop paying attention.
The deep Left considers this experiment a success and know how far they can go to control the population without armed resistance.
They will go further at the next scheduled emergency.
We must live with the common cold and seasonal flu. Bio weapons are our main concern.
“One cannot “follow the science””
I have a science degree.
One thing I was always taught is question EVERYTHING!
I was a Mathematics major at one time.
It should scare the schiff out of you that none of our Math is “solid” is it all based on observations that are almost always true, but cannot be proven to be so.
in other words anecdotes.
Or in my world they are called “identities”.
One thing is certain - politics is not how society should be run and certainly not by Hormone driven Democrats.
Unfollow the science...
...because science is done by CHALLENGING the prevailing view, not by blindly accepting it. If the prevailing view is constantly reinforced by repeated failed challenges to its validity over a long period of time, THEN AND ONLY THEN can that prevailing view be called science” or a “fact.” Otherwise, calling something “science” because it sounds good, is cheaper, lines someone’s pockets or comports with the view of those in power is just non-scientific PROPAGANDA.
It has always been a threat that must go through the population, since it was a new virus.
The rest was hype, control, agenda, overreach.
#Pureblood
#NaturalImmunity
#FreeRangeCitizen
I don’t agree Covid is a threat. The only threat is our government.
My cousin has been vaccinated 4 times, and had covid twice. Similar for most of her family
She a liberal karen. Our government, media and the covid industrial-complex have these poor dupes confused and running scared like headless chickens.
> We are told we must “follow the science.” <
Oh, do I hate that phrase. It makes sense to “follow the science” when that science is firmly established through decades of observation and experiment. But even then, the science should be open to challenge.
But none of this holds when it comes to Covid “science” or climate change “science”. We are told that we must unquestionably accept whatever the current party line is. And no debate is permitted.
That ain’t science. It’s fascist politics.
AGW killed Mr Science and COVID buried him in a shallow grave.
That's simply not true.
We took a much less restrictive approach than many countries. Look at the zero-Covid policies of Australia, New Zealand, China, etc.
We took a balanced approach, and for at least the first year of the pandemic the shutdowns were much more bottom-up than top-down.
We never really followed the science. We have solid evidence from multiple randomized controlled trials (RCT) that cloth and surgical masks do NOT stop viruses. N95’s seem to work for brief encounters only, not for prolonged wearing. There is only one RCT that shows masks work...done in rural Bangledesh and only worked in those above 50 yo. The rest is pure politics. It was all based on Trump not wanting to wear a mask that ramped them up even more.
Uncouple the politics from the science and all will be fine and dandy.
Just as it would have been through the plandemic, too, if we could have just had the raw, unplugged, ‘nothin’ but the facts, ma’am”, science.
Instead, we got months and months of undiluted, straight from the bottle, fear-based political marketing playing doctor on TV and now just look at the freakin’ mess their scaredy-cat Karen-in-charge politics has made of everything!!!
These people really deserve old-school justice in this world first, before God can have them for His final Judgment.
I had my annual BP check done at My HMO/PPO, on 5 May 2022.
I got out of my car and put on my mask from India. Then, I walked about 125 yards from the parking lot to the BP checkin station in the clinic.
Then, I was ushered into a BP monitoring room by an RN.
I sat down with the mask still on, and the RN got the following results using her stethoscope and a BP arm band.
BP with mask still on: 137/87
3-5 minutes later after removal of mask:
BP without mask: 128/71
5/5/2022 ~ @ 2:15~2:25 pm.
It is not “science” we’ve been ‘following’ nor have the destructive policies that were implemented (& some are still in place) followed “science’. No, what was inflicted on us was POLITICAL science and as it was meant for political results & not the HEALTH & wellbeing of humanity, the results have been catastrophic with millions dead & millions with adverse effects, including death by jab, economies destroyed, the country split into factions, discrimination, loss of personal freedoms & bodily autonomy, etc.
True science needs to be restored, but this will not happen as long as censorship & tyranny are active in this country & in fact, around the world in what appears to be a highly coordinated effort.
Hypocritical politicians violated their own illegal diktats to march in support of rioters and arsonists, showing that it was about supporting the theft of the election of 2020.
Korporate Pfascists and their corrupt government counterparts intentionally buried evidence, lied about "data models", and suppressed information on treatments other than the Jim Jones Jab.
Korporate Pfascists and their corrupt government counterparts intentionally buried evidence about known natural immunity, especially from those who had been exposed to the SARS Coronavirus in 2003.
Korporate Pfascists and their corrupt government counterparts lied about the Jim Jones Jab being 100% safe and effective and buried evidence about its side effects.
Congress issued unconstitutional mandates to take experimental injections while exempting themselves and illegal aliens.
The Center for Disease Coercion (CDC) changed their definition of a vaccine because the mRNA experiments are NOT a vaccine.
Democrat governors sent known sick patients to nursing homes instead of quarantining them.
Politicians issued illegal diktats to wear face diapers that were known to be incapable of stopping the spread of a coronavirus.
...Nuremberg II for all of them.
Covid was never a threat - it was another head cold.
Anyone who is honest, and makes a rational assessment of their own health, and the health of their direct acquaintances and family members over the last two years, must admit we were had.
Without the non-stop media and government fear-mongering, the lockdowns and mask-wearing nonsense, the crazed “testing” frenzy, and the “vaccine” mandates, Covid would have gone entirely unnoticed.
The supposed symptoms of Covid were not even enough to cause anyone to call the doctor, much less get “tested” or take a “vaccine”.
We were completely had - and they have had us jumping through hoops for almost two years.
Why? I’m not 100% sure.
- Big Governments always love a crisis.
- Bloated bureaucracies are always full of people who exist to run other people’s lives.
- Big Pharma always looks for ways to exploit and reap windfall profits.
- Dishonest Politicians always look for opportunities to assume control or cheat in elections.
There are lots of reasons - but mostly because in the early days of fear-mongering, when that self-important ass Anthony Fauci first began to spew his BS, too many were weak and compliant.
As soon as people followed the first set of “guidelines”, those power-happy bastards got big giant boners, and were never going to stop dreaming up new hoops for us to jump through.
I hope enough people learned a lesson - the state is loaded with people who love to mind other people’s business.
In this country, they hate things like the Constitution that limit their power, so they exploit anything they can call a “crisis” to justify overriding our rights. But the same thing happens in other nations too.
It’s part of human nature - there is a certain percentage of us who want to run other people’s lives - they can’t mind their own business.
I remember there were always kids down the street, or classmates, who wanted to be in charge - as early as kindergarten! Well, they grew up - now we call them Democrats or RINOs, and they are all around us.
They run for class President, then they get on school boards, town council, etc..
Those of us who want to mind our own business have no interest in that stuff, so we leave it to the Lefties - and these little would-be tyrants - they grow up and take over everything - and we let them.
A threat that is not a threat because the risk was next to nothing.
The equivalent of a dog distracted by a squirrel. But now in hindsight we see that the globalist remedy was the real threat to civilization. A pox on both their houses.
COVID was a politicized, highly exaggerated threat from Day 1, due to false attribution, unreported easy recoveries, and a junk test for it.
Great thought piece, thanks for posting.