In 2020 it was the lockdowners who destroyed Christmas, and in 2021 it was the vaccinators. All of it was for nothing. Sweden, which never locked down, has lower cumulative excess mortality than Germany, which locked down longer and harder than almost any other country in Europe. Nor did anyone even try to pretend that excluding the unvaccinated from public life would reduce the incidence of infection or death. The vaccinators claim that their elixirs protect against severe outcome from SARS-2 infection, but mass vaccination has coincided with increases in all-cause mortality and higher rates of transmission almost everywhere that it has been tried.
In the end, the lockdowners and the vaccinators lost. Alas, it wasn’t our alleged rights or democratic principles that saved us, but only Omicron, which crashed the pandemicists’ mythology faster than the Federal Republic of Germany could get their coercive proposals for a vaccine mandate before the Bundestag. Today, the German Corona regime is all but dead, and even China has sworn off Zero Covid.
While I like to think that we may have played a small part in defeating the hysterical clowns and their virus circus, their greatest opponent was always reality. They stirred up enough panic and utopian hope to impede ordinary social life for the better part of two years, but they were too wrong about too many things to survive as any kind of durable political movement.
They’ve done incalculable damage and changed many aspects of our lives and our societies forever, but it feels really, really great to have Christmas back again.
Merry Christmas to all of my readers.
Christmas food thread. What are you eating for the holidays?
Tonight we will have ham from a suckling pig, tomorrow it will be goose, and then (to round out the birds) duck on boxing day.
eugyppius,
So glad I found you on substack. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. Enjoy your family.
I look forward to your material in 2023. The deranged and those suffering from covidmania will no doubt continue to supply any needed material for your observation and comment.
There is no doubt we are immersed in the Big Ugly. I think that 2023 will be the "Year of the Great Disclosure." We will need to keep the Narcissist’s Creed in mind as things move on:
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, it’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Thank you!