WHO Let the Covids Out?

WHO, WHO. . . I heard on the radio today that the WHO (World Health Organization) has officially declared the pandemic over. Most of us knew that many months ago. Of course, there are still pockets of resistance desperately fighting a rearguard action like the teacher’s unions that badly want to continue working from home. And then there are the happy maskers who are still virtue signaling or making some kind of a statement about something. Some folks just love their masks. It gave them a new identity. They cared enough to cover their mugs–and after three full years it’s just hard to give up. But some who continue to wear masks are simply poorly informed. In their ignorance they think they are protecting themselves based on something they heard on MSNBC months ago.

And there are still PSAs in the media pushing the vax–and declaring that we must remain “vigilant” because new strains will surely follow. Also, some states and organizations are still spreading something truly evil in insisting that kids get vaxxed.

But for some people it’s just hard to admit that they were fooled again. Better to cling to myths about Covid-19 than admit you bought into the lies. Me, I’m just mad as hell that we were lied to and that almost nothing we were told by both the media and our government was true about the illness or its treatment.

All too clearly I remember the early panic and the long lockdowns. It sounded like if you got Covid-19 it was a death sentence. I remember the mainstream media replaying the same stock footage of nurses in spacesuits tending to folks dying in ICUs on respirators. People were terrified. The “15 days to flatten the curve” turned into lockdowns of many months. Folks went to absurd lengths to avoid touching surfaces that others may have touched. Social distancing became an art form. Folks were so frightened that they would wear their surgical masks at the beach or while playing sports. Local officials in the gravest of tones would give daily press briefings to read the tolls on deaths, new cases and filled hospital beds. The Covid zeitgeist dredged up every bit of subconscious anxiety we all carry about serious illness and death.

The unintended consequences were massive. Many kids lost a full year in their education. Suicides and drug use rose precipitously especially amongst the young. Clinical depression and anxiety disorders reached epidemic proportions in our country. Some organizations, like small churches, already on life-support completely died.

And it intensified the political and societal drift in our country. In general, leftists and Democrats were in favor of draconian measures to mitigate the virus. Conservatives, Republicans and libertarians generally favored a hands-off policy and less government intervention. Social media like Twitter and Facebook suppressed contrarian views. Folks of good integrity who questioned the official narrative were ridiculed. I live in Florida and was angered by an up-north friend referring to Governor DeSantis as death-Santis because he was against lockdowns and followed the data instead of the mainstream narrative.

There were truth tellers out there who bravely faced condemnation by both the media and their peers: Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford, Dr Robert Malone, Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Dr Joseph Ladapo of the Florida Dept of Health. Also, Dr John McDonald in the UK presented statistics daily on YouTube based on research of the illness in medical journals. He parsed his words very carefully to avoid being cancelled. The various docs were often referred to as dangerous conspiracy theorists–but in the end they were right.

Almost everything we were taught about the virus was false including its origin. Who let it out was not some wet market in Wuhan, but almost certainly the Wuhan lab itself experimenting with gain of function research promoted and financed by Dr Fauci himself. Fauci was not the hero the mainstream media portrayed him as; in fact, he was one of the perpetrators of this crime against humanity. I hope someday the little media hungry homunculus is officially held accountable.

What is clear is that initially Covid-19 was more lethal than seasonal flu. It killed the vulnerable: the very old, seriously obese people, and those with already compromised breathing or immune systems. It was a dangerous illness and it devastated places like nursing homes.

We were also told that we needed the vax because herd immunity wouldn’t work. In fact, it did work. Succeeding strains were less potent and eventually a large majority of folks had acquired some natural immunity by exposure. Also, Docs who promoted effective alternate treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were ridiculed.

But treatment and herd immunity was a narrative that didn’t sell the vaccine. And it’s becoming clear that treating the virus with a vaccine is a giant cash cow for Pfizer and Moderna.

Sadly, I succumbed to the hype and got the first Moderna shot in March of 2021. I did not get the second mostly due to dire reports I was hearing about catastrophic reactions some were having to the second shot. I’m so glad that one and done was the end of my vax adventures. However, eschewing further shots was not something I was entirely comfortable with at the time because we were constantly being lied to about its effectiveness, its spread and herd immunity.

The vaccines so ardently pressed by most physicians and our government were next to useless. In fact, they may have contributed to the spread of the illness by suppressing immunity. There has been a mysterious rise in sudden deaths in young people concomitant with the increase in the vax. Myocarditis became a serious problem for healthy young folks. The statistics were clear that people under 30 were not at serious risk–and still the government pressed compulsory mandates. Career soldiers with distinguished records left the military because they would not submit to the vaxx, and other private companies laid workers off or completely fired the unvaxed.

Most folks gradually figured out that, like the other liberal bogeyman global warming, it was no great threat to them personally. Unvaxed or not, they got Covids and survived. And they just got tired of wearing masks and following the government hype. They were emotionally worn out. Most were happy to get back to normal life–a life sans Covid angst. Common sense and an urge for normalcy prevailed.