It doesn't directly, but mass vaccination may have enabled the mutations specific to omicron and its heightened transmissibility among vaccinated populations.
It's also the case that a lot of the people currently getting omicron are catching it during the 21 days post-vaccination when their immune system is suppressed. So in a way, the rapid spread does seem partly facilitated by the ill-timed mass booster rollout (at least in countries like the UK).
I read that the mechanism of action of the new Merck’s shit is basically that the virus cannot replicate itself properly. Every replication makes mistakes. That is a new variant by definition. They say that each variant is detrimental for the virus. But I read that this is too risky and new more serious variants could appear. Again, sounds like a silly risky game. Similar to creating powerful virus in labs…
I live NYC, which is now a psych ward again. 2020 was more tolerable. Fascinating how the fully VAX and boostered are all getting Covid. We finally get some glory from all their propaganda & untruths. Masks. Quarantines. Utter nonsense over a cold for the large majority.
Now the narrative changes because everything they said, failed! Soon the healthy won’t be allowed to get tested, and only the critical will counted as cases. It’s endemic. It’s over! Unvax and staying that way. 🙌🏼 Happy New Year
I too am in NYC. The sheer amount of child abuse I'm seeing with masked children outside is insanity, and the jab propaganda will only drive them to potentially cause irreversible damage to their own kids. I've become so ashamed of being a New Yorker. Grown men look so afraid of me when they see me without a mask. I don't know if any policy reversal will pull these people out of their drunken fear.
The new mayor will likely not reverse anything, as he has made publicly clear. In fact, I expect him to use the force to crack down on the last "refusers" of masks and vaccines. They know that their mandates are nonsense which is why they're so dependent on private businesses charging you with tresspassing. I know they're afraid of having to prove in a court of law that masks or jabs are effective policy. So why are they even doing it? Pfizer runs our city.
Attended a certain gathering the other day (not in NY). Extremely blue place, but not a very blue crowd. Only a few people wore masks.
This guy is trying to get in with his kids. The door was locked, so I opened and held it for them. He and one of the kids already wearing masks, they walk in. The other kid (~6-7 years old) is standing outside desperately trying to put the mask on. In the rain. I told him that it was OK to first get in then to put on the mask. He hesitated (!!) for a few seconds looking at me with what I can best describe as a mixture of disbelief, hope, and fear. Then he walked in and promptly put on his mask.
This whole situation really is revealing how little parents understand their own children's development. We're going to see an entire new generation of insane hypochondriacs with completely unrealistic ideas about illness and health. Your story makes me so upset, because these children have no control over whats being forced upon them and they are mentally dependent on others to make the right decisions for them. The children that grow up past this and learn the truth will end up rejecting authority (right or wrong) far more than the kids that found out marijuana doesn't 100% make you violent or mentally ill. We're creating a storm of which I cannot even attempt to predict.
My 5 yr old niece is so damaged from wearing masks for 2 yrs. it’s abuse. When she’s w/ me, I tell her, be free take off the mask. She’s scared but does it. Now she is rebelling a bit. Finally, thank the Greek Gods. This must end. It’s criminal. #childabuse
Your last sentence - it is so, so true. The ramifications of what we have done - impossible to predict. Of course the PH experts who insisted we had to do all of these non-pharmaceutical interventions will have to alter their PH research in the future to prevent the public from fully grasping the effects of these interventions.
Masking children is child abuse. No country but the USA has kids in masks under 12. Not one! It’s criminal. Now they are all getting RSV, lying again, saying it’s Covid.
Just wait, bacterial pneumonia is next. That’s how kids will die.
History will not be kind to these fools. Be assured, I will become the oral tradition of PHARMA bought science. We all will.
This is not true. My daughter in primary school spends every school day wearing masks, including PE lessons. She's supposed to wear a mask in shops, but we tend to "forget" this.
In Spain, sadly, the age for mask-wearing was brought down from 9 to 6 just before the 2020 autumn school term started. A lot of schools went further and "recommended" them for kids aged 3-5.
School has programmed them. They did this to mine last year (since stopped, school fighting mask Nazi parents in court!). I had to make them take off masks. Now we laugh together and mock masked soi bois and karens walking fearfully, alone, outside. Progress.
Mine are home-schooled. Except for one who recently decided that school is fun. The state just announced that purebloods have to wear masks there. Let's see what happens after the break.
I'm from upstate NY and actually that is a beautiful place. You should still try to make it to the area where Letchworth State Park is someday. NYC policies ruin the state, but many upstate towns have very different political views, they just don't have much say. I feel sad that such a beautiful state where I have so many memories is so badly mismanaged. It could be wonderful.
It was an overcrowded, claustrophobic, snobby, filthy, rude, obnoxious place when my sis & bil lived there 40 years ago. I can't even imagine it now. You are missing exactly nothing.
I just had a chat with my usually cheery lifelong New Yorker friend. How was your Christmas? "Well about as good as it could be -- we're still employed and our family has only had light cases."
No I don't think that is the best it gets, my family had a big and fun Xmas in the midwest without a drop of worry!
Sounds like New Yorkers threw away their precious holiday season over this stupidity. They really have no one but themselves to blame, they embraced this narrative when it made them feel superior and now they will have to figure out how to ditch it..
People have drunk the Kool Aid here in the NY Metro area. My family is all on board with vaccines, masks, and nothing else. Won’t talk about Early Treatment. Fauci will save us. Last family gathering was Feb 2020, and I’m sure they think I am incubating variants with the pathetic horse dewormer.
They’ve all convinced themselves that they would have died without being vaxxed, so it’s still imperative that everyone do it. I’ve seen comments in the Washington Post where people gleefully can’t wait for all us filthy unvaccinated to start dying in the streets, as though the 99.98% survival rate doesn’t exist.
It can't be over. If it's over, angry mobs will be chasing Covidian high priests with torches and pitchforks. Hence, they will never drop this absurdity. And morons like Rubin "forget" about seasonality every summer.
And in the end she is wrong again. Omicron poses very little threat to the unvaxxed, but poses a way bigger threat to the double jabbed and especially the triple jabbed I read.
I am unjabbed and intend to remain so. We live in a predominantly triple jabbed area. I have seen some data leaning toward your claim but I still think we are seeing vaccine failure. Looks to me that we are still at square one, that is not taking into consideration those injured and killed by the jabs. Looks as if my ultrajabbed neighbors and I have similar chances of contracting Covid with outcomes depending on individual health and viral load and strain contracted. Boosted folks likely at high risk if exposed shortly after getting boosted, like getting a bad cold if exposed shortly after flu shot, mini OAS.
I agree that we don't have evidence of enhanced virulence in the jabbed, but the data out of Denmark and the UK certainly indicates enhanced infection in the double and triple jabbed. We won't know the long term risk to their immune systems or risk for cancers, autoimmune disease, or neurological disease for some time.
I think you’re right to suspect political motives behind the pivot. There are *always* political motives, even when the statements appear benign or even, *gasp*, reasonable.
If they are retreating, we must continue to advance. We can never let our guard down as each apparent concession is only an “occasional indulgence” from Biderman’s Chart of Coercion (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant) and a pit stop on the way to “demonstrating omnipotence.”
This! "If they are retreating, we must continue to advance." We must overrun them as they collapse and take control of their territory. Not sure how to do that, but that must be our objective.
These liberal women (I used to be one) are the death of Democracy. I even predicted we would lose abortion rights on the back of their behavior. It’s like Karen’s gone wild.
I have to work hard inside myself not to feel real hatred for these people, the harm they have caused our societies, our economies and - most especially - our children.
I have to remind myself that for the most part they are well-intentioned. Just not that bright, and carried away by their own egos and biases.
What's well-intentioned about denying others basic freedoms? Have you watched Brandon, de Blasio, and Lightfoot gleefully castigate those who refuse the poison? How about stirring up irrational hatred for the unvaxxed, or cheering loudly when a critic of covid policy comes down with it or dies from it?
These people have revealed themselves to be cruel, heartless individuals worthy of seething contempt.
Anger in the face of injustice is not a failure of character; it's absolutely a proper, righteous response.
I think they were well intentioned until the vaccines came out and the bullying began. After that it was about punishing the unvaxxed. Sadistic fantasies, firing, starving, killing by denying organ transplants—that’s not well intentioned.
They seemed to be nice, well-intentioned people - like the landlady in the novel Cousin Pons, who was a decent, law-abiding citizen until the possibility of gaining wealth through deceit and theft arose and turned her into one of Balzac's human gargoyles.
I reckon that intelligence is uncorrelated with COVID hysteria at best, and might even be positively associated with it.
Instead, these seem to be people who are either embroiled in a Girardian mimetic crisis (mostly, IMO), or who are extreme hypochondriacs. The crucial problem is that the people exerting massive influence on policy -- the public health folks -- tend to be *both*: woke, status-obsessed, germaphobe academics. And make no mistake that they earnestly believe they're the good guys.
"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."
Yes, I think this is right. IQ is only one dimension of cognition (like horsepower is only one dimension of an automobile) – there is some correlation with tendencies to hypochondria, and also the fact that higher-IQ people lead urban lives, in offices, withdrawn from natural circumstances that would correct for some of their more feverish fantasies.
Your last criterion is easily explained. The city has always been where business and government operates, and they need intelligence. Lesser known (and much less insidious) than the Nazi's infamous "Arbeit macht frei" is an older German saying: "Stadtluft macht frei" ("City air makes one free.") Even centuries ago, the wise and talented were drawn to cities, because that is where the best opportunity was.
Many authors have written about this. One I'm familiar with is Charles Murray in his "Coming Apart." Being highly intelligent has always been an advantage. But at least in the USA since the mid-20th century, being highly intelligent became even more valuable leading to various social outcomes, such as cognitive elites (his term) that tend to become insular societies, especially among the wealthy, academia, upper management, government and so on. While Murray doesn't dwell on one aspect, I believe it's a factor: as other forms of previously legal discrimination were outlawed, filtering out undersirables by lack of education became one of the main methods to keep out the trouble-makers. Even in just two or three generations, America's social structure has profoundly changed, perhaps due to other factors too, but Murray makes a good case that the value of intelligence/education is a major factor.
Concentration of resources has its advantages, surely. But as we've seen, a ruling elite like any human society is vulnerable to groupthink, in this case woke or similar ideations.
In my experience, very high intelligence (I've known a few) does not necessarily correlate to success in business or in life and is often associated with mental health issues. I'm not saying these people are stupid. They're not. But neither are they super-geniuses. They have the "right" combination of cognitive and emotional intelligence with a sufficient lack of concern for others. They know how to recognize and exploit intelligence and talent in others, but they often lack the abilities themselves. They also are risk takers who are not hindered by a fear of failure. The world needs these people to advance, but they should be kept on a tight leash by those of us with a moral compass...and not worshiped as they are by so many today.
The data shows that IQ is strongly correlated with both economic outcomes and life expectancy. Smart people tend to live longer, more productive lives surrounded by more resources. So don't think your premise about success in business or in life is correct.
I also don't think there is any negative correlation between IQ and "moral compasses."
I'm not saying these people are stupid. They're not. Neither are they super geniuses. It takes more than intelligence to have huge success in business. It takes drive, focus, high risk tolerance, and a certain degree of psychopathy. It also takes some luck.
True, there may not be a negative correlation between IQ and moral compasses, but there sure as heck isn't a positive one either. 15/25 Einsatzgruppen commanders had a PhD level sheepskin. Stalin and Hitler would have undoubtedly scored high on any intelligence test. IQ and education level are meaningless in measuring a man's goodness and decency.
If there is no God, there is no such thing as a moral compass, something Voltaire joked about in his statement about his lawyer, servants, and wife.
People expend so much ink on this subject. Young and childless people often love cities as it gives them the stimulation they want. A few stick with it because they really love city life, a few others end up stuck there for vocational reasons. But for the most part, once people settle into family ways they want to leave cities and return to land, nature, and peace. People love to zoom in on one part of this cycle and privilege it but this same cycle has been in operation my whole life and will always be so.
This really hits the nail on the head, and shows why we need to state by state, province by province harden our politics against the next 'emergency' that this class of hysterics will hijack.
Yes, this is the way to go in the U.S. Utah did some of this this year when the legislature limited the governor’s powers under emergency and said no mask mandates without running them through the legislature. That effectively ended most mask mandates. (Private enterprises are still free to make their own.)
Pennsylvania had a similar outcome. Despite a Democrat Governor who imposed lockdowns and mask mandates until June of 2021, the legislature has a Republican majority. We had a state referendum to ammend the state constitution to limit the power of the governor to impose a state of emergency longer than 28 days without legislation. The state Supreme Court just overturned the school mask mandate by the health secretary due to the fact that there was no law and no state of emergency to give her that power. For most of us, life is back to normal on a day to day basis now.
I have read that PhD's are the #1 vaccine hesitant demographic. If this is true, since academic achievement is correlated with IQ, maybe there is some COVID hysteria correlation there.
There are certainly a lot of smart people with letters after their names that comprise the COVID hysteria crowd, but smart people get captured by ideological biases just like the average do. The tendency toward hubris, difficulty accepting what they can't control (this may be what Girardian mimetic crisis, but I'm not familiar with the term) probably explains a lot.
There was something posted on Revolver to this effect: an interesting bow-shaped curve showing the relation between education level and vax resistance. At the bottom of the curve (highest uptake) were those with an undergraduate degree, the moderately educated and moderately intelligent, the righteous bien pensants, our contemporary canaille.
Yeah, that convex bell curve. It's interesting. I've often said we never really leave high school. Same kind of dynamics seem to govern the adult world outside of it. The least conformists tend to gather around the tails on both ends of that curve and the most conformist comprise the groups around the median.
This PhD isn't touching them, but in my experience it isn't true, most of my former colleagues are lining up for shots without a second thought. It's actually super easy to mislead them on things like politics because they pay little to no attention and don't particularly care, so they don't even attempt to utilize the brainpower and focus they're capable of. The ones that actually look at the data see it doesn't add up, but you have to convince them there's a reason to go into the weeds in the first place.
Yeah, it makes sense on an anecdotal level. Their minds are focused on other things, the things that provide every day value to them. They're busy, focused and when it comes to areas outside their expertise they tend to rely generally on what they believe to be the opinions of other such "experts." Nobody has the bandwidth to be an expert on everything.
But still, the studies that have been done have shown PhD's are the most vaccine hesitant demo out there. How reliable is that info? I don't know.
I've seen the one study, which when sorted by education shows PhDs to be the most "hesitant" (albeit as the smallest cohort by far). I hope that it's broadly true, just not seeing it among the ones I know.
Interestingly, it appears the PhD numbers have been changed substantially between revisions, from 23.9% (the most reluctant) to 14.6% (unremarkable). The original pre-print had 10969 doctoral responses included while the current has 9975, so they've eliminated nearly 1000.
If there are any other such published studies, I haven't seen them. Hard to conclude anything from this one when they're a.) using an unreliable survey methodology and b.) apparently manually removing data points they don't like though.
I believe it is a mistake to assume that because somebody's actions contradict what you consider reasonable behaviour that they are low on intelligence, the likes of Rubin, Gates, and Fauci are clearly intelligent, a more likely explanation is they have a very different idea of what constitutes good intentions.
There are very powerful people behind this, and they don't think like us.
People who have recklessly jeopardized the lives and health of millions (governments, drug companies, doctors) and imposed absurd, tyrannical rules cannot, of course, be held to have good intentions. But neither can ordinary people who support any of the above.
The author, Sam Harris, called Biden a callous moron after Biden’s interview with Stephanopoulos on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. That is a fair description to me. These folks, including Rubin, simply do not care about me , or most of us. Many look down on the people and may even hold us in contempt. You need not feel contempt or hatred toward them but you darn well should be angry and question their intentions.
Oh I agree with that. And I do think there is actual evil. I suppose what I mean is the majority on whom the evil doers rely are not that. Wwhen I talk to the Corona hysterical among my own circle- people I know to be kind, decent humans - I have to restain my emotions. They are misguided. And because I move in educated circles they are all intelligent “of a kind”. But still somehow not “bright”.
My take is that it was the bloodiest because of the new and more efficient killing technology. Kinda hard to kill a lot of people by hand.
As far as secular vs non-secular, both have to be based on certain myths. The Jacobins and their spiritual heirs thought they would get rid of the old myths and the new ones would work better. Well, should've tested their technology first, hint-hint.
But in the process they delivered a crippling blow to the existing traditions and religion. I do not see a path back. Being a religious person myself, I see how what we have now is not at all what we used to have on some fundamental level. I might be mistaken, of course - since the only way I can judge about the past are books, letters, and stories; but I feel that I am not mistaken.
Certainly technology allowed for the almost impossible to comprehend slaughter in last century's wars, but there was a lot of low-tech murder as well. The Communist forced famines in Ukraine and China, and Pol Pot's genocide of Cambodians relied on simple, old-fashioned means to pad the butcher's bill. In these cases, the state willfully killed its own citizens, a fact always in my mind as I witness with horror the irrational hatred stoked against the unvaxxed by politicians and MSM.
Tolkien wrote that history would be a "long defeat" for Christianity, and I can't really argue with that observation. Maybe we will be swept away in the madness, but maybe we are called to resist this evil and push the long defeat down the road a bit more.
The late Stanford Professor Rene Girard has some interesting thoughts on where this is headed (spoiler: pray harder.)
>Tolkien wrote that history would be a "long defeat" for Christianity
Good that I am not a Christian, then ;)
(Apropos, there are some who say that the new religious revival would be fundamentally pagan in nature. Unfortunately, I do not remember the source.)
>but maybe we are called to resist this evil
It all depends on what you call "resist" and the particular evil.
I firmly believe that a moral person must always resist on the very fundamental level: by refusing to call lies "truth" in his heart (remember Orwell's "how many fingers"?) This of course requires much elucidation, but will do as a general rule.
On the side of active action I agree with Moldbug that most evil things around us are "regime-complete" (as in "NP-complete"), meaning that when you carefully analyze them you discover that the only way they can be corrected requires a complete regime change. Which at this time is out of the question - otherwise we'd already see clearly that it is not out of the question. Any political action that one takes to change the regime when it is too early is futile, wastes energy, and gives energy to the regime.
(Example: January 6th)
There is also resistance that is not overtly political and is not regime-complete. I believe resistance to get jabbed is one of those things. Other semi-random examples of resistance that is not overtly political: not sending your kids to a public school, not watching TV and other mass-media, carefully selecting who you associate with, being part of a real (not on-line) community
>The late Stanford Professor Rene Girard has some interesting thoughts on where this is headed (spoiler: pray harder.)
I heard of him, but never read anything that he wrote. I looked him up on Wikipedia and have some issues with what they present there as his thoughts. However, it would be totally ridiculous for me to argue with them since for sure what presented there is not really his thoughts, but those of the Wikipedia article writer
One factor is that the record for daily cases (or 'cases' as they now say) in the US was just surpassed. It doesn't look good for the current wielders of The Science to be doing worse than the dreaded Trump. This is a good step though, next they might even realize the importance of distinguishing between people who die from corona and those who die with corona.
As the hypochondriac sociopaths that rule us get their xth booster AND an Omicron infection, maybe they can declare themselves herd immunized and end the madness. That would free up a lot of time for them to go back to trying to change the weather (Climate Change), which is as realistic as fighting a moderate respiratory virus. Also selling us all out the PRC while they're at it.
Doctrinaire hireling apologist for the billionaire class. Content to eat the table scraps and crumbs the World Economic Forum Leadership Class (Greetings, Klaus!!!) brush off their table. A groveling sycophant content to wave her "Twitter Blue Check" flag in the air as a sign of her success. A Forth Wave Feminist "With One Less Thought Each Year." On those rare occasions when one is forced to consider her... a wave of revulsion rises up and putrefies the clean air of reasoned thought. --ejd
The Australian govts have been singing about hospitalisation, ICU and death. They reversed their testing mantra - only if directed or if have symptoms. They will change the definition of "close contacts". All thanks to the case numbers; not "science". Proving yet again the power of numbers, or critical mass.
Good news except for the fact that she believes the vaccinated and boosted are the ones for whom the risk is minimal, despite evidence to the contrary.
They are starting to look more and more ridiculous now. If it were not for the thousands who died needlessly because no one wanted to treat them, it would be laughable
Right on! Thank you. Those in medicine who refused treatment should be prosecuted. Those, like Rubin, who cheered on the lack of treatment should be sentenced to silence.
It's heartening to read that even a foaming at the mouth Liberal, who would be the typical writer for the Washington Post 😁 is at least admitting a few facts. First, Covid-19 is for the vast majority of people who catch it, little more than a cold or flu. This was apparent even in early 2020, after for example, the experience of the cruise ship Diamond Princess proved. It's (apparently) a blessing provided by Nature, that viruses tend to become less virulent with time, that Omicron is mild compared to original Covid virus.
She's also correct to call for less testing. At best, the tests themselves are unreliable for several reasons that I won't detail here. But the fad for mass testing, to find "cases," is just that -- a fad -- with all the irrationality that implies. Rarely does one see a more relevant metric, such as cases per capita. Finding "positive cases" better serves media sensationalism and government fear mongering than any valid medical rationale. It's also "helpful" that many, perhaps indeed the majority of those "positive" tests are people who develop no clinical symptoms of Covid-19, perhaps not even cold symptoms.
I suspect that Rubin is hoping for less testing for less noble reasons. The more testing, the more obvious it will be, if it isn't already, that the current "vaccines" are close to useless in preventing catching or spreading the disease. Too, as I note above, the vast majority of "cases" are people with no symptoms other than a questionable positive test.
I live in NYC where the inmates are running the asylum. If you're vaccinated and positive, you can and enjoy a nice meal in the big apple for the cost of a mortgage in some of the Red States. BUT... if you are unvaccinated and negative, you are out of 'luck' and cannot 'enjoy' what NYC has to offer. Such a shame. Now people are forced to save their money and eat healthier indoors. They don't drive and park, so less money for the parking garages. They don't shop when they're there, so less money for the stores. Let's see how long the likes of NYC can afford to keep biting the hand that feeds it. They rely on tourists and their money to thrive. The realisation that the midterms are only months away is starting to set in. They have succeeded in destroying this great country to line the (already wealthy,) pockets of the very, very, very few. Insanity.
All that is well and good but we must still fire thousands of workers because, you know, the science. Mandates that fail to recognize natural immunity, demographic risk (low) or personal choice march on with SCOTUS hearing oral arguments soon. Failed policy follows failed policy which is the American way. Think Vietnam, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine ... well you get the picture. Nowhere in this mess is any genuine concern for your health or we would be hearing about obesity, smoking, poor diet and early treatment therapies. Nope. The Covid cult is a political Trojan Horse to rig elections and lubricate the coming economic re-set. Bend over, it's coming. Digital currency, no more cash and martial law like controls over your lives. Pray. Plan. Prepare. Resist.
Omicron is the vaccine.
i believe this
I read yesterday something about the new Merck’s drug. And it sounds like a factory of new variants.
Hope they tested it for a few years before releasing.
Omicron only causes mild symptoms and gives robust immunity once recovered. Like a live attenuated vaccine almost.
It doesn't directly, but mass vaccination may have enabled the mutations specific to omicron and its heightened transmissibility among vaccinated populations.
It's also the case that a lot of the people currently getting omicron are catching it during the 21 days post-vaccination when their immune system is suppressed. So in a way, the rapid spread does seem partly facilitated by the ill-timed mass booster rollout (at least in countries like the UK).
I read that the mechanism of action of the new Merck’s shit is basically that the virus cannot replicate itself properly. Every replication makes mistakes. That is a new variant by definition. They say that each variant is detrimental for the virus. But I read that this is too risky and new more serious variants could appear. Again, sounds like a silly risky game. Similar to creating powerful virus in labs…
I want to believe this but not sure we know yet.
Except this one is actually safe and effective.
Remarkably, Omicron has done more in 30 days to dismantle the cathedrals of covid than amy politicians, protest, or similar has in the last 20 months
The enemy is still dangerous when cornered and so I am wary, but optimistic for a change
By design. Just like Omicron is designed. By who? That is the question.
I live NYC, which is now a psych ward again. 2020 was more tolerable. Fascinating how the fully VAX and boostered are all getting Covid. We finally get some glory from all their propaganda & untruths. Masks. Quarantines. Utter nonsense over a cold for the large majority.
Now the narrative changes because everything they said, failed! Soon the healthy won’t be allowed to get tested, and only the critical will counted as cases. It’s endemic. It’s over! Unvax and staying that way. 🙌🏼 Happy New Year
I too am in NYC. The sheer amount of child abuse I'm seeing with masked children outside is insanity, and the jab propaganda will only drive them to potentially cause irreversible damage to their own kids. I've become so ashamed of being a New Yorker. Grown men look so afraid of me when they see me without a mask. I don't know if any policy reversal will pull these people out of their drunken fear.
The new mayor will likely not reverse anything, as he has made publicly clear. In fact, I expect him to use the force to crack down on the last "refusers" of masks and vaccines. They know that their mandates are nonsense which is why they're so dependent on private businesses charging you with tresspassing. I know they're afraid of having to prove in a court of law that masks or jabs are effective policy. So why are they even doing it? Pfizer runs our city.
>The sheer amount of child abuse I'm seeing
Attended a certain gathering the other day (not in NY). Extremely blue place, but not a very blue crowd. Only a few people wore masks.
This guy is trying to get in with his kids. The door was locked, so I opened and held it for them. He and one of the kids already wearing masks, they walk in. The other kid (~6-7 years old) is standing outside desperately trying to put the mask on. In the rain. I told him that it was OK to first get in then to put on the mask. He hesitated (!!) for a few seconds looking at me with what I can best describe as a mixture of disbelief, hope, and fear. Then he walked in and promptly put on his mask.
This whole situation really is revealing how little parents understand their own children's development. We're going to see an entire new generation of insane hypochondriacs with completely unrealistic ideas about illness and health. Your story makes me so upset, because these children have no control over whats being forced upon them and they are mentally dependent on others to make the right decisions for them. The children that grow up past this and learn the truth will end up rejecting authority (right or wrong) far more than the kids that found out marijuana doesn't 100% make you violent or mentally ill. We're creating a storm of which I cannot even attempt to predict.
My 5 yr old niece is so damaged from wearing masks for 2 yrs. it’s abuse. When she’s w/ me, I tell her, be free take off the mask. She’s scared but does it. Now she is rebelling a bit. Finally, thank the Greek Gods. This must end. It’s criminal. #childabuse
Your last sentence - it is so, so true. The ramifications of what we have done - impossible to predict. Of course the PH experts who insisted we had to do all of these non-pharmaceutical interventions will have to alter their PH research in the future to prevent the public from fully grasping the effects of these interventions.
Masking children is child abuse. No country but the USA has kids in masks under 12. Not one! It’s criminal. Now they are all getting RSV, lying again, saying it’s Covid.
Just wait, bacterial pneumonia is next. That’s how kids will die.
History will not be kind to these fools. Be assured, I will become the oral tradition of PHARMA bought science. We all will.
In Germany, all school kids (6+) have to wear masks at school, and also in other places (eg, shops).
This is not true. My daughter in primary school spends every school day wearing masks, including PE lessons. She's supposed to wear a mask in shops, but we tend to "forget" this.
In Spain, sadly, the age for mask-wearing was brought down from 9 to 6 just before the 2020 autumn school term started. A lot of schools went further and "recommended" them for kids aged 3-5.
That breaks my heart.
School has programmed them. They did this to mine last year (since stopped, school fighting mask Nazi parents in court!). I had to make them take off masks. Now we laugh together and mock masked soi bois and karens walking fearfully, alone, outside. Progress.
Mine are home-schooled. Except for one who recently decided that school is fun. The state just announced that purebloods have to wear masks there. Let's see what happens after the break.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what have they done to these poor children. NYC is the worst, masking kids under 5. Only state that does this. Criminal … #childabuse
New York is one of the few states I haven't been to that was on my bucket list. It's been scratched off the list. Permanently.
I'm from upstate NY and actually that is a beautiful place. You should still try to make it to the area where Letchworth State Park is someday. NYC policies ruin the state, but many upstate towns have very different political views, they just don't have much say. I feel sad that such a beautiful state where I have so many memories is so badly mismanaged. It could be wonderful.
It was an overcrowded, claustrophobic, snobby, filthy, rude, obnoxious place when my sis & bil lived there 40 years ago. I can't even imagine it now. You are missing exactly nothing.
You won't be missing anything.
I just had a chat with my usually cheery lifelong New Yorker friend. How was your Christmas? "Well about as good as it could be -- we're still employed and our family has only had light cases."
No I don't think that is the best it gets, my family had a big and fun Xmas in the midwest without a drop of worry!
Sounds like New Yorkers threw away their precious holiday season over this stupidity. They really have no one but themselves to blame, they embraced this narrative when it made them feel superior and now they will have to figure out how to ditch it..
To date, I have never followed anything they have said. None of it. Traveled for Christmas and had a ball.
I don’t wear a mask. I don’t let their fear affect me. I’m calm & healthy. It’s tragic.
I feel sorry for NYC ppl who live in constant fear. Soon their health will decline & badly (mental & physical), me, 1000%.
Why I love how the narrative collapsed but the mental anguish will live on for years. Politicians in blue states should be in jail.
Well, we live our lives and they live theirs (in agony)
Exactly!!!! Tragic. I have traveled, partied, lived for 2 yrs maskless 🤣🤣💪🏼
People have drunk the Kool Aid here in the NY Metro area. My family is all on board with vaccines, masks, and nothing else. Won’t talk about Early Treatment. Fauci will save us. Last family gathering was Feb 2020, and I’m sure they think I am incubating variants with the pathetic horse dewormer.
But I long to move to a free State.
Now the narrative changes because everything they said, failed!
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Exactly when and where we said it would fail! How lucky!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/winter-is-coming-and-the-vaccine
They’ve all convinced themselves that they would have died without being vaxxed, so it’s still imperative that everyone do it. I’ve seen comments in the Washington Post where people gleefully can’t wait for all us filthy unvaccinated to start dying in the streets, as though the 99.98% survival rate doesn’t exist.
It can't be over. If it's over, angry mobs will be chasing Covidian high priests with torches and pitchforks. Hence, they will never drop this absurdity. And morons like Rubin "forget" about seasonality every summer.
And in the end she is wrong again. Omicron poses very little threat to the unvaxxed, but poses a way bigger threat to the double jabbed and especially the triple jabbed I read.
I am unjabbed and intend to remain so. We live in a predominantly triple jabbed area. I have seen some data leaning toward your claim but I still think we are seeing vaccine failure. Looks to me that we are still at square one, that is not taking into consideration those injured and killed by the jabs. Looks as if my ultrajabbed neighbors and I have similar chances of contracting Covid with outcomes depending on individual health and viral load and strain contracted. Boosted folks likely at high risk if exposed shortly after getting boosted, like getting a bad cold if exposed shortly after flu shot, mini OAS.
I agree that we don't have evidence of enhanced virulence in the jabbed, but the data out of Denmark and the UK certainly indicates enhanced infection in the double and triple jabbed. We won't know the long term risk to their immune systems or risk for cancers, autoimmune disease, or neurological disease for some time.
It never takes very long at all for Jennifer Rubin to be wrong.
I think you’re right to suspect political motives behind the pivot. There are *always* political motives, even when the statements appear benign or even, *gasp*, reasonable.
As I wrote in a comment about this topic at bad cattitude (https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-fool-winds-up-where-the-wise):
If they are retreating, we must continue to advance. We can never let our guard down as each apparent concession is only an “occasional indulgence” from Biderman’s Chart of Coercion (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant) and a pit stop on the way to “demonstrating omnipotence.”
This! "If they are retreating, we must continue to advance." We must overrun them as they collapse and take control of their territory. Not sure how to do that, but that must be our objective.
This ENTIRE TIME, covid has MUCH MORE closely followed POLITICAL science than actual science.
100% politics; 0% science.
That bad cattitude column is A-1.
These liberal women (I used to be one) are the death of Democracy. I even predicted we would lose abortion rights on the back of their behavior. It’s like Karen’s gone wild.
You never had abortion "rights". You don't have a right to take an innocent life even if courts declare you can.
Liberal women lost "abortion rights"?? That's a stretch.
They wanted to keep us in the kitchen for a reason. Lol.
The new sickness of the time - hysteria. Oh wait, wasn't that the sickness of the 1800s upper class ?
I believe they're called 'Kyles.'
I prefer Kevins.
I have to work hard inside myself not to feel real hatred for these people, the harm they have caused our societies, our economies and - most especially - our children.
I have to remind myself that for the most part they are well-intentioned. Just not that bright, and carried away by their own egos and biases.
Give them no quarter, the media are the enemy of the people.
What's well-intentioned about denying others basic freedoms? Have you watched Brandon, de Blasio, and Lightfoot gleefully castigate those who refuse the poison? How about stirring up irrational hatred for the unvaxxed, or cheering loudly when a critic of covid policy comes down with it or dies from it?
These people have revealed themselves to be cruel, heartless individuals worthy of seething contempt.
Anger in the face of injustice is not a failure of character; it's absolutely a proper, righteous response.
I think they were well intentioned until the vaccines came out and the bullying began. After that it was about punishing the unvaxxed. Sadistic fantasies, firing, starving, killing by denying organ transplants—that’s not well intentioned.
Denial of proven prevention & therapeutics was not well intentioned.
They seemed to be nice, well-intentioned people - like the landlady in the novel Cousin Pons, who was a decent, law-abiding citizen until the possibility of gaining wealth through deceit and theft arose and turned her into one of Balzac's human gargoyles.
I reckon that intelligence is uncorrelated with COVID hysteria at best, and might even be positively associated with it.
Instead, these seem to be people who are either embroiled in a Girardian mimetic crisis (mostly, IMO), or who are extreme hypochondriacs. The crucial problem is that the people exerting massive influence on policy -- the public health folks -- tend to be *both*: woke, status-obsessed, germaphobe academics. And make no mistake that they earnestly believe they're the good guys.
"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."
Yes, I think this is right. IQ is only one dimension of cognition (like horsepower is only one dimension of an automobile) – there is some correlation with tendencies to hypochondria, and also the fact that higher-IQ people lead urban lives, in offices, withdrawn from natural circumstances that would correct for some of their more feverish fantasies.
Your last criterion is easily explained. The city has always been where business and government operates, and they need intelligence. Lesser known (and much less insidious) than the Nazi's infamous "Arbeit macht frei" is an older German saying: "Stadtluft macht frei" ("City air makes one free.") Even centuries ago, the wise and talented were drawn to cities, because that is where the best opportunity was.
Many authors have written about this. One I'm familiar with is Charles Murray in his "Coming Apart." Being highly intelligent has always been an advantage. But at least in the USA since the mid-20th century, being highly intelligent became even more valuable leading to various social outcomes, such as cognitive elites (his term) that tend to become insular societies, especially among the wealthy, academia, upper management, government and so on. While Murray doesn't dwell on one aspect, I believe it's a factor: as other forms of previously legal discrimination were outlawed, filtering out undersirables by lack of education became one of the main methods to keep out the trouble-makers. Even in just two or three generations, America's social structure has profoundly changed, perhaps due to other factors too, but Murray makes a good case that the value of intelligence/education is a major factor.
Concentration of resources has its advantages, surely. But as we've seen, a ruling elite like any human society is vulnerable to groupthink, in this case woke or similar ideations.
In my experience, very high intelligence (I've known a few) does not necessarily correlate to success in business or in life and is often associated with mental health issues. I'm not saying these people are stupid. They're not. But neither are they super-geniuses. They have the "right" combination of cognitive and emotional intelligence with a sufficient lack of concern for others. They know how to recognize and exploit intelligence and talent in others, but they often lack the abilities themselves. They also are risk takers who are not hindered by a fear of failure. The world needs these people to advance, but they should be kept on a tight leash by those of us with a moral compass...and not worshiped as they are by so many today.
The data shows that IQ is strongly correlated with both economic outcomes and life expectancy. Smart people tend to live longer, more productive lives surrounded by more resources. So don't think your premise about success in business or in life is correct.
I also don't think there is any negative correlation between IQ and "moral compasses."
My experience says otherwise.
I'm not saying these people are stupid. They're not. Neither are they super geniuses. It takes more than intelligence to have huge success in business. It takes drive, focus, high risk tolerance, and a certain degree of psychopathy. It also takes some luck.
True, there may not be a negative correlation between IQ and moral compasses, but there sure as heck isn't a positive one either. 15/25 Einsatzgruppen commanders had a PhD level sheepskin. Stalin and Hitler would have undoubtedly scored high on any intelligence test. IQ and education level are meaningless in measuring a man's goodness and decency.
If there is no God, there is no such thing as a moral compass, something Voltaire joked about in his statement about his lawyer, servants, and wife.
People expend so much ink on this subject. Young and childless people often love cities as it gives them the stimulation they want. A few stick with it because they really love city life, a few others end up stuck there for vocational reasons. But for the most part, once people settle into family ways they want to leave cities and return to land, nature, and peace. People love to zoom in on one part of this cycle and privilege it but this same cycle has been in operation my whole life and will always be so.
Guess you haven't been to the wealthy parts of Brooklyn, aka Strollerville.
"government operates...they need intelligence."
You're not an American, right? Our cities are governed by ruthless political hacks.
This really hits the nail on the head, and shows why we need to state by state, province by province harden our politics against the next 'emergency' that this class of hysterics will hijack.
Yes, this is the way to go in the U.S. Utah did some of this this year when the legislature limited the governor’s powers under emergency and said no mask mandates without running them through the legislature. That effectively ended most mask mandates. (Private enterprises are still free to make their own.)
Pennsylvania had a similar outcome. Despite a Democrat Governor who imposed lockdowns and mask mandates until June of 2021, the legislature has a Republican majority. We had a state referendum to ammend the state constitution to limit the power of the governor to impose a state of emergency longer than 28 days without legislation. The state Supreme Court just overturned the school mask mandate by the health secretary due to the fact that there was no law and no state of emergency to give her that power. For most of us, life is back to normal on a day to day basis now.
Every Single Canadian province needs to do this, but I dont believe provinces have a mechanism to do this.
I have read that PhD's are the #1 vaccine hesitant demographic. If this is true, since academic achievement is correlated with IQ, maybe there is some COVID hysteria correlation there.
There are certainly a lot of smart people with letters after their names that comprise the COVID hysteria crowd, but smart people get captured by ideological biases just like the average do. The tendency toward hubris, difficulty accepting what they can't control (this may be what Girardian mimetic crisis, but I'm not familiar with the term) probably explains a lot.
There was something posted on Revolver to this effect: an interesting bow-shaped curve showing the relation between education level and vax resistance. At the bottom of the curve (highest uptake) were those with an undergraduate degree, the moderately educated and moderately intelligent, the righteous bien pensants, our contemporary canaille.
Yeah, that convex bell curve. It's interesting. I've often said we never really leave high school. Same kind of dynamics seem to govern the adult world outside of it. The least conformists tend to gather around the tails on both ends of that curve and the most conformist comprise the groups around the median.
This PhD isn't touching them, but in my experience it isn't true, most of my former colleagues are lining up for shots without a second thought. It's actually super easy to mislead them on things like politics because they pay little to no attention and don't particularly care, so they don't even attempt to utilize the brainpower and focus they're capable of. The ones that actually look at the data see it doesn't add up, but you have to convince them there's a reason to go into the weeds in the first place.
Yeah, it makes sense on an anecdotal level. Their minds are focused on other things, the things that provide every day value to them. They're busy, focused and when it comes to areas outside their expertise they tend to rely generally on what they believe to be the opinions of other such "experts." Nobody has the bandwidth to be an expert on everything.
But still, the studies that have been done have shown PhD's are the most vaccine hesitant demo out there. How reliable is that info? I don't know.
I've seen the one study, which when sorted by education shows PhDs to be the most "hesitant" (albeit as the smallest cohort by far). I hope that it's broadly true, just not seeing it among the ones I know.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1
Interestingly, it appears the PhD numbers have been changed substantially between revisions, from 23.9% (the most reluctant) to 14.6% (unremarkable). The original pre-print had 10969 doctoral responses included while the current has 9975, so they've eliminated nearly 1000.
If there are any other such published studies, I haven't seen them. Hard to conclude anything from this one when they're a.) using an unreliable survey methodology and b.) apparently manually removing data points they don't like though.
I believe it is a mistake to assume that because somebody's actions contradict what you consider reasonable behaviour that they are low on intelligence, the likes of Rubin, Gates, and Fauci are clearly intelligent, a more likely explanation is they have a very different idea of what constitutes good intentions.
There are very powerful people behind this, and they don't think like us.
Evil & intelligence are not mutually exclusive.
Nope, not turning the other cheek to the neonazis. Reap what you sow.
People who have recklessly jeopardized the lives and health of millions (governments, drug companies, doctors) and imposed absurd, tyrannical rules cannot, of course, be held to have good intentions. But neither can ordinary people who support any of the above.
The author, Sam Harris, called Biden a callous moron after Biden’s interview with Stephanopoulos on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. That is a fair description to me. These folks, including Rubin, simply do not care about me , or most of us. Many look down on the people and may even hold us in contempt. You need not feel contempt or hatred toward them but you darn well should be angry and question their intentions.
Oh I agree with that. And I do think there is actual evil. I suppose what I mean is the majority on whom the evil doers rely are not that. Wwhen I talk to the Corona hysterical among my own circle- people I know to be kind, decent humans - I have to restain my emotions. They are misguided. And because I move in educated circles they are all intelligent “of a kind”. But still somehow not “bright”.
Since when is deliberate, planned mass murder "well intentioned!"
I hope you’re wrong. I hate idea of a world where evil is that pervasive. So yeah, maybe I’m naive.
It is pervasive. Last century was the bloodiest in human history. The secular state has proved itself to be a cruel, highly efficient murderer.
If you're American, take full advantage of the 2nd Amendment.
My take is that it was the bloodiest because of the new and more efficient killing technology. Kinda hard to kill a lot of people by hand.
As far as secular vs non-secular, both have to be based on certain myths. The Jacobins and their spiritual heirs thought they would get rid of the old myths and the new ones would work better. Well, should've tested their technology first, hint-hint.
But in the process they delivered a crippling blow to the existing traditions and religion. I do not see a path back. Being a religious person myself, I see how what we have now is not at all what we used to have on some fundamental level. I might be mistaken, of course - since the only way I can judge about the past are books, letters, and stories; but I feel that I am not mistaken.
I hope there is a path forward, though.
Certainly technology allowed for the almost impossible to comprehend slaughter in last century's wars, but there was a lot of low-tech murder as well. The Communist forced famines in Ukraine and China, and Pol Pot's genocide of Cambodians relied on simple, old-fashioned means to pad the butcher's bill. In these cases, the state willfully killed its own citizens, a fact always in my mind as I witness with horror the irrational hatred stoked against the unvaxxed by politicians and MSM.
Tolkien wrote that history would be a "long defeat" for Christianity, and I can't really argue with that observation. Maybe we will be swept away in the madness, but maybe we are called to resist this evil and push the long defeat down the road a bit more.
The late Stanford Professor Rene Girard has some interesting thoughts on where this is headed (spoiler: pray harder.)
>Tolkien wrote that history would be a "long defeat" for Christianity
Good that I am not a Christian, then ;)
(Apropos, there are some who say that the new religious revival would be fundamentally pagan in nature. Unfortunately, I do not remember the source.)
>but maybe we are called to resist this evil
It all depends on what you call "resist" and the particular evil.
I firmly believe that a moral person must always resist on the very fundamental level: by refusing to call lies "truth" in his heart (remember Orwell's "how many fingers"?) This of course requires much elucidation, but will do as a general rule.
On the side of active action I agree with Moldbug that most evil things around us are "regime-complete" (as in "NP-complete"), meaning that when you carefully analyze them you discover that the only way they can be corrected requires a complete regime change. Which at this time is out of the question - otherwise we'd already see clearly that it is not out of the question. Any political action that one takes to change the regime when it is too early is futile, wastes energy, and gives energy to the regime.
(Example: January 6th)
There is also resistance that is not overtly political and is not regime-complete. I believe resistance to get jabbed is one of those things. Other semi-random examples of resistance that is not overtly political: not sending your kids to a public school, not watching TV and other mass-media, carefully selecting who you associate with, being part of a real (not on-line) community
>The late Stanford Professor Rene Girard has some interesting thoughts on where this is headed (spoiler: pray harder.)
I heard of him, but never read anything that he wrote. I looked him up on Wikipedia and have some issues with what they present there as his thoughts. However, it would be totally ridiculous for me to argue with them since for sure what presented there is not really his thoughts, but those of the Wikipedia article writer
That road is also paved with bad intentions.
One factor is that the record for daily cases (or 'cases' as they now say) in the US was just surpassed. It doesn't look good for the current wielders of The Science to be doing worse than the dreaded Trump. This is a good step though, next they might even realize the importance of distinguishing between people who die from corona and those who die with corona.
As the hypochondriac sociopaths that rule us get their xth booster AND an Omicron infection, maybe they can declare themselves herd immunized and end the madness. That would free up a lot of time for them to go back to trying to change the weather (Climate Change), which is as realistic as fighting a moderate respiratory virus. Also selling us all out the PRC while they're at it.
"New case record as Delta and Omicron merge", says the NY Times with no attempt to scare people
Doctrinaire hireling apologist for the billionaire class. Content to eat the table scraps and crumbs the World Economic Forum Leadership Class (Greetings, Klaus!!!) brush off their table. A groveling sycophant content to wave her "Twitter Blue Check" flag in the air as a sign of her success. A Forth Wave Feminist "With One Less Thought Each Year." On those rare occasions when one is forced to consider her... a wave of revulsion rises up and putrefies the clean air of reasoned thought. --ejd
The Australian govts have been singing about hospitalisation, ICU and death. They reversed their testing mantra - only if directed or if have symptoms. They will change the definition of "close contacts". All thanks to the case numbers; not "science". Proving yet again the power of numbers, or critical mass.
Good news except for the fact that she believes the vaccinated and boosted are the ones for whom the risk is minimal, despite evidence to the contrary.
These loud mouthed covidiots are trying to back away gracefully. Nice try, folks. We got your number.
They are starting to look more and more ridiculous now. If it were not for the thousands who died needlessly because no one wanted to treat them, it would be laughable
Right on! Thank you. Those in medicine who refused treatment should be prosecuted. Those, like Rubin, who cheered on the lack of treatment should be sentenced to silence.
It's heartening to read that even a foaming at the mouth Liberal, who would be the typical writer for the Washington Post 😁 is at least admitting a few facts. First, Covid-19 is for the vast majority of people who catch it, little more than a cold or flu. This was apparent even in early 2020, after for example, the experience of the cruise ship Diamond Princess proved. It's (apparently) a blessing provided by Nature, that viruses tend to become less virulent with time, that Omicron is mild compared to original Covid virus.
She's also correct to call for less testing. At best, the tests themselves are unreliable for several reasons that I won't detail here. But the fad for mass testing, to find "cases," is just that -- a fad -- with all the irrationality that implies. Rarely does one see a more relevant metric, such as cases per capita. Finding "positive cases" better serves media sensationalism and government fear mongering than any valid medical rationale. It's also "helpful" that many, perhaps indeed the majority of those "positive" tests are people who develop no clinical symptoms of Covid-19, perhaps not even cold symptoms.
I suspect that Rubin is hoping for less testing for less noble reasons. The more testing, the more obvious it will be, if it isn't already, that the current "vaccines" are close to useless in preventing catching or spreading the disease. Too, as I note above, the vast majority of "cases" are people with no symptoms other than a questionable positive test.
I live in NYC where the inmates are running the asylum. If you're vaccinated and positive, you can and enjoy a nice meal in the big apple for the cost of a mortgage in some of the Red States. BUT... if you are unvaccinated and negative, you are out of 'luck' and cannot 'enjoy' what NYC has to offer. Such a shame. Now people are forced to save their money and eat healthier indoors. They don't drive and park, so less money for the parking garages. They don't shop when they're there, so less money for the stores. Let's see how long the likes of NYC can afford to keep biting the hand that feeds it. They rely on tourists and their money to thrive. The realisation that the midterms are only months away is starting to set in. They have succeeded in destroying this great country to line the (already wealthy,) pockets of the very, very, very few. Insanity.
Literally destroying the economy and society because they have grand ideas for building back better.
It’s the new century’s Great Leap Forward. Morons running this, with no clue what actually happens after they wreck it all.
*Green Leap Forward
Her tweets read like statements made by former Romanian communists attempting to save face during the transition away from Ceausescu.
I hope these COVID hysteria-mongers get what they deserve when the smoke clears. Nothing short of exile from polite society.
Like what they did to Iraq War champions… oh wait…
All tyrants and their collaborators should share the fate of Ceaucescu.
All that is well and good but we must still fire thousands of workers because, you know, the science. Mandates that fail to recognize natural immunity, demographic risk (low) or personal choice march on with SCOTUS hearing oral arguments soon. Failed policy follows failed policy which is the American way. Think Vietnam, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine ... well you get the picture. Nowhere in this mess is any genuine concern for your health or we would be hearing about obesity, smoking, poor diet and early treatment therapies. Nope. The Covid cult is a political Trojan Horse to rig elections and lubricate the coming economic re-set. Bend over, it's coming. Digital currency, no more cash and martial law like controls over your lives. Pray. Plan. Prepare. Resist.