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A strange thing happened during the DC Diary’s festive break. The Covid arguments once written off as fringe and dangerous not only went mainstream but were made by some of the high priests and priestesses of the public health establishment.
Dr. Anthony Fauci Zoomed onto the cable news shows to point out that case numbers aren’t necessarily the right metric to track and clarified that many of the children registered as Covid hospitalizations are hospitalized with Covid, not because of it. He said that the Omicron variant may end up being “more of a bothersome upper-respiratory infection” for the vaccinated or previously infected. Dr. Leana Wen, a former Baltimore public health official and CNN regular, has said that cloth masks don’t work. Former FDA commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb agreed on the Sunday shows. These are the sort of statements that, not too long ago, would get you booted off of social media or, at least, have your posts flagged as misinformation.
When it comes to the national policy response, the CDC dropped its recommended isolation to five days. Joe Biden, whose core 2020 campaign claim was that a more competent president would bring the pandemic to an end, declared that “there is no federal solution” to the pandemic. The administration that promised to defeat Covid decisively now says that America must learn to live with the virus. Everywhere there are one-time Covid hawks reminding Americans of the need to keep calm and carry on.
What is going on? Is the medical establishment taking a leaf out of George Constanza’s book, deploying an “opposite” strategy in hope of better results?
COVID19 does damage the brain. But not primarily by binding to neurons. Instead it creates irrational anxiety among a certain class of social media user who continually escalates what is necessary to “keep us safe.” It has now reached an apogee with rising cases.
Fortunately, karma has a way of taking care of vaxxers:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/nyt-editor-makes-video-boasting-about-taking-his-3rd-shot-dies-the-same-day-of-a-heart-attack/?source=patrick.net
Fortunately, karma has a way of taking care of vaxxers:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/nyt-editor-makes-video-boasting-about-taking-his-3rd-shot-dies-the-same-day-of-a-heart-attack/?source=patrick.net
Thank you @richwicks
How do you know? Do you just recognize him?
He's not a NY Times editor then, right?
This shit is spreading like fire. Freinds coast to coast are all getting it this week.
And drug OD's will kill far more than crime will.
But the PTB don't care about those either.
This shit is spreading like fire. Freinds coast to coast are all getting it this week.
Victorians are being urged not to buy more meat and vegetables than they need, as the rise of COVID-19 cases across the state forces food processors to reduce staff numbers.
There are warnings some food supply will be impacted in the coming weeks, as industries adapt to tough new restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, but experts say the pain will be short-lived.
The Australian Meat Industry Council warns reduced staff at abattoirs will lead to less meat being available for customers
The Victorian Premier says there may be gaps on shelves but there is no need to stock up on supplies
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A small supermarket in regional Victoria has hired security guards to check identification at the door to prevent shoppers from Melbourne from clearing out the shelves.
Victorians are being urged not to buy more meat and vegetables than they need
Fuck me running. Neighbor tested positive today. We shared a hitter Saturday night and we all hung out for 6 hours inside. I have no symptoms outside of not smelling mostly since Thanksgiving, so nothing recent, but have to test Wednesday. Getting ready to forge some tests potentially. I'm 95% sure I had it and still experience long covid symptoms.Genuine question given most of us are hardcore anti-Covid-vaxx...if you knew that taking the vaccine would've kept your taste and smell in tact when you got Covid, would you have gotten it?
I'm at the point where just throw me in jail. The restriction on my movement is already like I am in jail and I've done nothing wrong. And I'll sue the fuck out of you and win if you fuck with me. Sorry. Angry. Between covid and the fucking car issues 2022 has been shit. I'm looking on the bright side though as I know I can get the the Caribbean as Jamaica gives zero shits and only contact traces, which is done.
Genuine question given most of us are hardcore anti-Covid-vaxx...if you knew that taking the vaccine would've kept your taste and smell in tact when you got Covid, would you have gotten it?
It’s official — I am a Covid conspiracy theorist. Aren’t we all, at this point?
When I used to share my forbidden opinions about the virus and the vaccines, acquaintances called me crazy and friends thought I was joking. They’d cry that surely I don’t really believe that the vaccines could affect my fertility, or that government officials wouldn’t just allow us to return to normal if we all got the vaccine, or that Covid hospitalization and death numbers could be artificially inflated.
But with every new admission from the CDC, every study and piece of reportage, we “conspiracy theorists” are vindicated. And everyone who mocked our distrust of public health officials is eating crow.
I wasn’t always so obstinate about the pandemic. I naively trusted that “fifteen days to slow the spread” was a temporary measure meant to protect our families and avoid overwhelming hospitals. As soon as the government started to shift the goalposts so they could continue the lockdowns, I realized that I had allowed myself to be duped. Never again, I vowed.
As it turns out, aggressive skepticism and even outright disbelief of everything the government tells you during a pandemic is a pretty reliable policy to have.
The idea that the virus was engineered and either intentionally or unintentionally leaked from a Wuhan lab went from a conspiracy theory to regarded by scientists as the most likely scenario regarding the virus’s origins.
Hydroxychloroquine went from “fish tank cleaner” and ivermectin from “horse dewormer” to potentially effective early Covid treatments. A deep dive into the data will eventually prove that hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved through the use of therapeutics, but that wouldn’t have made as much money for pharmaceutical companies.
Women who were worried the vaccines could affect fertility were called crazy, but now the public health regime admits there can be “mild” and “temporary” changes to women’s menstrual cycles from the mRNA vaccines. How long until we learn those changes aren’t so “mild” after all and could have long-term effects on women’s reproductive systems?
Government scientists screeched at young, healthy people not to return to normal because they would inevitably die from the virus or kill others. Now, we know that incidental asymptomatic spread is not a threat to others and that the vast majority of people who have died from the virus were elderly and/or have multiple other comorbidities.
Those who warned that the vaccines weren’t as effective as they were made out to be have been denounced as anti-vaxxers and a threat to public health. CDC director Rochelle Walensky now confirms that the vaccines don’t stop people from catching or spreading the virus, undermining the entire case for vaccine mandates. We learned pretty quickly after their emergency approval that the efficacy of the vaccines wanes over time. Pfizer’s CEO, in a video that’s oddly been removed from social media, admitted that two doses of their vaccine isn’t enough to combat the omicron variant and even three shots only offers “decent” protection against hospitalization. The European Union recently warned that constant booster shots could even weaken the immune system and advised against a fourth jab.
We weren’t allowed to question the death and hospitalization numbers. Yet that narrative started to crumble when the Cuomo administration in New York was confirmed to be fudging its data on nursing home deaths to save political face. This past weekend, the CDC director indicated that data would be forthcoming on how many Covid deaths were “from Covid” and how many were “with Covid.” This would mean that some portion of the nearly 900,000 people we were told died from Covid may have just tested positive when they were hospitalized with other issues.
How can you watch all of the “conspiracy theories” about Covid come true and not consider yourself a “conspiracy theorist”? Isn’t it rational to reflexively distrust the people who have repeatedly lied to you? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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