Progressives Still Fail to Progress
June 14th, 2024Were they Sarcastic When they Coined the Term?
Coronavirus keeps getting more interesting.
Certain facts are now known and beyond dispute.
1. The evidence overwhelmingly points to a man-made virus released accidentally from a Wuhan lab. It’s not proven, because it’s unprovable, but our universities teach “facts” that have a lot less support.
2. The vaccines didn’t prevent nearly everyone on Earth from getting infected, so they weren’t very effective at slowing transmission.
3. The conventional vaccines cause dangerous blood clots in some people. Our medical establishment admits this and has placed restrictions on these vaccines.
4. The mRNA vaccines are associated with higher rates of myocarditis and pericarditis, which kill some people.
5. Masks work so poorly they are virtually useless.
6. Covid can’t produce serious health problems in the vast majority of human beings.
7. Covid is nearly risk-free for minors.
8. Fauci made up the oppressive social-distancing rules based on the general idea that the disease might spread more slowly if people stood farther apart. He did not have science to back him up.
9. Natural immunity is exactly the same as vaccine immunity, except for the lower risks of blood clots, myocarditis, and pericarditis.
10. Ivermectin, which was developed for humans, is harmless when the dosage is correct, even if you take it in veterinary form. The veterinary stuff is exactly the same, except it has edible goo added to it to make it taste better to horses. You can eat anything a horse can eat. Leftists told us it was only safe for animals.
There is a new vaccine coming because the establishment thinks a new variant is going to spread. The new vaccine is mRNA-based. I’m not taking it. Are you? I have done a lot of stupid things in my life, but I have never knowingly taken an mRNA vaccine.
People like Fauci would force us to take it if they could. He has been recorded talking about coercing people, so his position is not subject to reasonable debate. Given the problems with the existing vaccines and his reputation, it will not be possible to force us to take it. Thank goodness for that.
Even now, leftists are snotty and irrational about covid. I just had two leftists say insulting and ignorant things to me because I said I was going to skip the myocarditis this time around, meaning I would not take the new shot.
One of them questioned the heart-disease link as though it were an Infowars theory. That’s amazing. Go Google. The establishment itself openly admits the problem exists. How can anyone not have noticed? You really have to bury your head in the sand to miss things like this.
Another one suggested I was “spewing BS.”
I get it. You think capitalism is bad. You don’t like conservatives. You’re against people who believe the Bible because you think Christianity retards progress toward a man-made utopia. Why should that have anything to do with drawing conclusions about coronavirus? Where is the link?
Another guy, who was not snotty, said the risk of heart problems was lower than his risk of having problems with covid.
First of all, I question that. Just about everyone on Earth has had covid several times. If you’re going to have severe symptoms, you should know it by now. Second, I do not get severe symptoms. To me, covid is like a cold, with a few extra symptoms that don’t amount to big problems.
I had covid in 2021 when I went on a Nile cruise. I can’t prove it, but I had typical symptoms for covid. My wife and I pranced around the pyramids and demonic temples in the burning sun, in heat approaching 115°. I blew my nose a lot, but I was fine. Never slowed down. I had to slow down for her.
I had covid in Turkey. I had an hour or so of mild nausea, and I felt like I had a little cold. Then I was fine. Never stopped walking several miles a day.
My worst episode was my first, in early 2020. I had conjunctivitis in one eye. I threw up exactly 4 times and then stopped. I had diarrhea for a few hours. I had a mild sore throat. I had chills for one night, but they weren’t bad. I actually enjoyed it. I turned up the electric blanket.
What purpose will it serve if I get vaccinated again? I may risk dying from cardiac arrest. The vaccine will not prevent me from getting sick. If I get sick without the vaccine, I won’t be very ill. If I get sick after vaccination, it probably won’t be much different.
“You’ll be less likely to infect other people.”
You know what? If you’re one of the unfortunate people who get severe covid, you should stay home. I don’t mean social distancing. I mean quarantine. Nothing else will prevent you from catching the disease. The shots might reduce your symptoms, so go ahead and get them. But don’t tell me to risk my life for you, even if the risk is small. You WILL be exposed to covid over and over for the rest of your life, even if they vaccinate us every day, so grow up and take measures that work instead of living in a fantasy world where vaccines can save you.
Maybe the caregivers who slide food through the slot in your door should take shots. Maybe it will result in some small mitigation of risk.
It is possible to isolate yourself and others from a virus effectively if you’re serious. Maybe not if you’re a Wuhan scientist, but it’s possible for the rest of us.
Very few people who are actually allowed to walk around in public are going to take the new shots, so if you think it will decrease your exposure odds if I take them, you must be thick. If you and I are in the same Walmart, and there are 500 people there, and only 30 have been vaccinated, the figure might as well be zero.
I, quite literally, can do nothing whatsoever to help you. There is no way I can reduce your risk of dying or suffering permanent damage.
I still see people with masks sometimes. Not just fat old people, but thin young people. What’s the story? Do they have AIDS? Are they transplant recipients? Maybe they’re just unable to admit they’re wrong.
There are at least two Chinese restaurants near me with plastic curtains between the customers and staffs. I went to China and didn’t see that. I was in Hong Kong. Is it a mainland fad?
Leftists are much more afraid of death than Christians. This is one aspect of the problem. I see death as a ticket to heaven, where there will be no leftists. They have no idea what happens after death. They think prolonging life is as important a goal as there is. Except for babies and healthy depressed people who want doctors to kill them. Leftists fear death and love abortion and euthanasia. That’s weird.
Leftists are terrified of their own deaths but not yours.
I still remember a wonderful statistic from the pandemic hysteria. When polled as to how likely covid was to kill an infected person, the average figure they gave was 40%. Can you imagine what the world would look like if that were true? Around three billion people would have disappeared by now. We’d all be rich, just like people who survived the Black Death.
They kept yammering that we should follow THE SCIENCE, which said the risk of death was way below 1%. How could they miss that?
I shouldn’t ask. Without cognitive dissonance, there could be no leftism. And leftists are heavily influenced by demons of delusion. They can believe nearly any absurdity.
Did I write “nearly”? I should correct that.
I listed facts above, but there is also anecdotal stuff out there.
When it comes to covid, leftists love to shout “anecdotal,” because they think it means “false.” Boy, is that crazy. If it weren’t for anecdotal data, most of modern medicine would not exist. Just about all known health problems began to be recognized because of rumors and stories, and many of history’s most important medicines became popular because people told each other they worked, without studies.
ANECDOTALLY, doctors are saying cancers among young people have increased a lot. Old-people cancers like colon cancer. We’re hearing about this at about the same time we’re hearing that the mRNA vaccines were contaminated in ways that could cause cancer.
ANECDOTALLY, we are hearing a lot of tales about young people who dropped dead. Athletes, especially. As though they had some kind of unusual heart problems rarely seen before 2020. Hmm.
Back when the leftist CCP was hiding coronavirus, evidence of the disease was strictly anecdotal in the West and much of China. It had to be anecdotal, because no one in the Chinese government or medical establishment was allowed to publish facts we now know to be true.
Why am I writing this? I’m yelling into a hole again. Screaming at fence posts. No one’s mind will be changed. Things won’t change in the least. Those who know I’m right already know, and the others are immune to correction.
I admit, reinforcing the truth in the minds of people who are resisting propaganda has value.
What a time we live in. We went through several years of the most amazing, flagrant, unopposed censorship in American history. People were fired from jobs unrelated to healthcare for questioning Fauci. The socials deleted our posts and banned us. A president coerced them to ramp it up, and there were no consequences. Doctors have had their credentials threatened.
Things have only improved slightly.
I can blog here and say anything, but Facebook reduces people like me to shooting blanks. You write a post, and then people tell you they can’t see it. Youtube still censors people. The more popular you are, the more they censor you. I’m unpopular, but my comments get deleted all the time, with no explanation at all. They don’t even tell me which comments they deleted.
We keep lumbering along like happy cows. Everything is okay as long as there is enough grass right in front of us. In 1784, patriotic mobs with fresh scars and stumps would have protested the First Amendment deniers and driven them from their jobs. They would have treated them the way modern First Amendment deniers treat rational people.
America is an apartheid state. No, it’s not as bad as the old South Africa, but conservatives and Christians are oppressed by leftists, who are privileged. They sue and prosecute our candidates and government officials unjustly. They imprison conservative rioters and reward leftists. They drove us out of the arts and journalism. They drove us out of academia. They get us fired from jobs. They ban and shadowban us, and they delete what we say on the web. All so they can promote Satanic foolishness and error without opposition.
I guess I’ve written enough. I pray for the rapture every day. Human beings are not going to fix the world. Voting won’t help much. Armed resistance is an unbelievably bad idea that would make us like our oppressors.
Whatever. I’m not taking any more shots I don’t trust. And my choice doesn’t make me more likely to die.
June 14th, 2024 at 3:16 PM
“I’m not taking any more shots I don’t trust. And my choice doesn’t make me more likely to die.”
My cousin, who is a huge fan of Alex Jones shared a theory with me. What if, they make another virus (a more deadly one) and introduce it into the wild while at the same time, develop a vaccine that actually works against it. The only thing that works.
A brilliant 3d chess move that would serve to cull all the conservatives and free thinkers at the same time.
June 14th, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Don’t get me wrong, I do not listen to AJ. (Cannot stand to hear him rant for more than 5 minutes.) I also don’t know if AJ said this or my cousin came up with this on his own. Just thought it interesting.
June 15th, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The Left views language as nothing more or less than the spoken component of the spell they use in an attempt to gain power. As such, it’s integrity is unimportant (or so they think). The only thing that matters to them is they end up in control, regardless of the damage done. Because of this, they will happily corrupt the language whilst claiming that it is not them, but the fact that languages evolve over time.
The original meaning of “liberal” prior to the successful Presidential campaign of that amazingly racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson is another prime example.
June 16th, 2024 at 12:50 AM
If you’re under 20, all that makes sense. If you’re over 20, it doesn’t.
Cf. http://hertzlinger.blogspot.com/2022/10/yes-covid-vaccines-save-lives.html
A correction to point 9: The difference is that natural immunity from a case of covid is twice as effective as a vaccine but the side effects are worse.
June 16th, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Whether what I said is right doesn’t depend on your age per se. It depends on whether you are personally susceptible to severe covid. A few young people are, and many people over the age of 90 get covid and never have symptoms. By now, just about everyone has had covid, and most of us should know how bad it is when we get infected. Most people who say they haven’t been infected are lying, mistaken about what they had, or asymptomatic.
That being said, it makes sense for young people who haven’t had severe covid to avoid the shots, because their risk of severe covid is about like Joe Biden’s risk of making it through this week without getting caught lying. Young people who have been hospitalized with covid should probably take the shots as one part of a strategy that should involve other steps.
My vaccination is not going to save anyone else’s life, and it won’t save mine, either, because I am not among the people who get severe covid. You can’t be saved from something that can’t hurt you. If I want to save myself from early death, I can improve my diet, carry a pistol, avoid Islamists, stop cutting my own trees, and try to drive safely, but the shots won’t have any effect. Not unless I suddenly develop a susceptibility to covid problems.
If I were a 500-pound diabetic with AIDS, with a history of hospitalization for covid, I’d take the shots. But given their very low and short-lived effectiveness, I would not bet my life on them. I’d do my best to quarantine myself.
As for natural immunity and vaccine immunity, both are misnomers without the word “partial.” They’re both pretty bad. The best immunity is a natural ability to block infection or stave off major symptoms. Most people are born with one or the other.