This is not my usual two cents note on Covid before an article on Covid, or three cents. This is a whole ten cents today! I disagree with the conclusion of the next article which claims it is best for elected officials to make Covid decisions for a nation, rather than un-elected government bureaucrats (like a grouchy Fauci). How about people making their own health and medical decisions?
My blogs are not only filled with articles I agree with 100%. My blogs are not about me -- they share the best articles I find online every day -- articles I'd be reading whether I had three blogs or not. If the articles make sense, I don't have to agree with them before i post them.
My job as an editor is to use my internal BS detector to decide which articles are worthy of my blogs. I have a BS degree -- detecting BS, not spreading it. All articles posted here stay here permanently unless Google shuts down my blogs! When you buy a book, the author can't recall the book you own, or revise it after you own it. But the internet allows people to delete articles or revise them later. Especially if there was a prediction that did not happen. I consider that to be dishonest. I will only change typing errors that my wife points out to me -- she seems to get great joy in spotting them, proving that she has better eyesight than me. I blame the spell checker program -- because none of my faults are my fault !
Lets get this straight -- there were no real Covid lockdowns. There were partial lockdowns. People were not home alone, locked inside. (Maybe they were in China?) Let's consider what a stewardess friend told us in Spring 2020: People on my US plane sit six inches apart eating food, while flying to and from Europe. But when I'm on a layover in New York City, every restaurant is closed to me -- I can't even sit six feet away from people at the next table. That's a partial lockdown.
It is my opinion that people should make their own health and medical decisions about viruses and vaccines, consulting with a doctor if they prefer. Hopefully a doctor who is not under pressure to sell you vaccines, and would provide early treatments with ivermectin, or other drugs off label, if you tested positive, that can help keep you out of a hospital.
The worst possible process is to have politicians and bureaucrats who know nothing about a new disease (Covid) but are eager to take charge and tell everyone else what to do. The blind leading the blind -- that's what almost every nation did. The economic damage was huge -- the government bail outs were huge -- and the resulting inflation was huge. The lockdowns were the worst economic decision in history.
A PCR test will be positive for any of 52 viruses, only one of which is SARS-2. (see chart below). And with a high CT, the PCR test can detect dead viruses up to 12 weeks after your immune system defeated them.
The bottom line:
-- Covid infection counts are grossly over estimated due to inaccurate PCR tests
-- Covid hospitalization counts are grossly over estimated, because up to half of "Covid patients" (NYC hospital survey) went to the hospital for non-Covid problems, and
-- Covid death counts are grossly over estimated, because deaths within 28 days of an inaccurate positive PCR test, for any reason, even a car accident, are counted as Covid deaths. Even if the deceased did have a Covid infection, most died WITH a Covid infection, not necessarily FROM a Covid infection -- which certainly applies to nursing home patients and others with multiple comorbidies. With all these inaccurate data, it's difficult to learn much about Covid.
What I learned about Covid:
-- Lockdowns did not work
-- Masks never worked for any virus
-- Social distancing worked until Omicron showed up
-- Covid vaccines did not reduce total US deaths in 2021, versus 2020.
-- Covid vaccines were the highest risk in the history of vaccines
-- Covid vaccines reduced Covid symptoms for a few months
-- Covid vaccines did not stop infections or spread
-- Covid vaccines were nearly worthless for Omicron
My current theories, that require more data:
-- Omicron is a new coronavirus common cold, not a Covid variant
-- Early indications are that the triple vaccinated have some amount of permanent damage to their immune systems from the vaccines. Data from Scotland, England, Israel and and Australia are showing the triple vaccinated are significantly less healthy than the double vaccinated, and especially the unvaccinated, even when adjusted for age.
-- Early indications are that the reason Covid leads to the death of some people is not the virus itself, but an allergy to spike proteins. The Covid vaccines trick your body into developing spike proteins. if you are allergic to them (a small minority are), the vaccines would be just as dangerous as getting a Covid infection (a Covid infection, not an Omicron infection)
-- Vaccines will cause far more injuries to children than Covid will
-- If the Omicron common cold virus continues crowding out Delta Covid, the pandemic will be over by this summer. There is no such thing as a common cold pandemic.
- The pandemic was real, not a hoax, but it revealed how quickly people, mainly leftists, were wiling to become fascists -- mandating vaccines and censoring any information that contradicted the government party line.
-- The pandemic revealed how stupid some people you know are, believing healthy unvaccinated people are a risk to vaccinated people. And that masks prevented spread. And there were a few unvaccinated people who believed vaccinated people are a risk to them! The bottom lie is that as you get older, you are supposed to realize there are an alarming number of subjects you know nothing about. That does not stop many people from pontificating about subjects they know nothing about. And repeating what the government tells you about a subject, like a trained parrot, is often not true. If you want answers, talk to a teenager -- they know everything ( I just had to end this ranting and raving with a lame joke).
Ye Editor
