Leftists never left mere facts and reality stand in the way of their narrative.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ed Feser is a gem. I had the privilege of teaching at the same school for many years.
Just wait till they get to the part of dies “with” and “from”. Oh, and wait till they found out when the only protocol they could use in hospitals was harmful (Redemisvir) they were not allowed to not use it. Just wait till they find out about those who “died” from Covid. I have a different term I use but hey.
Yeah, that’s why we through a fit. Next time will have to get political affiliations before we through a fit for their sorry a**.
Well said. The dies “with” or “from” is not a minor distinction. Tony Annett has no idea how many Americans actually died “from” COVID. However, we are beginning to find out about excess deaths whose only explanation is the vaccines and/or the lock downs. In either instance, forcing experimental drugs on healthy human beings or destroying certain livelihoods, but not “essential” livelihoods, could not be considered “mild mitigation measures”. I’m guessing Tony was essential throughout COVID. He needs to talk to some folks who weren’t. Unfortunately, many of them, like the residents of New York nursing homes decimated by Gov. Cuomo, aren’t around anymore to have a chat.
It was all phoney baloney.
In the almost 36 months since China hit the World with the Wuhan flu 1,100,000 in the US died. That’s about 340,000 each year, in a nation of 335,000,000. That tells me the survival rate is over 99%. And most of those people died with two or three additional chronic medical maladies.
Anecdotal. The Warden and I [each 70+] contracted the dreaded ‘it’ in January. We were driving back from Louisiana. I had chills one night. No big deal. Except I have asthma and it gave me one of my coughing episodes. Then I tested positive in a soaking parking lot. The usual meds cleared up the coughing quicker than usual.
Boo! The Warden made me stop working out for a week because she said that irritated my asthma lungs.
Morning’s Minion, PR hack, is trying to sell you the idea that the ‘mitigation’ accomplished anything above and beyond shifting the caseload from one time period to another. Conscientious officials were bound to make mistakes. What was notable about the public health apparat in this country is that they retained and doubled-down on nuisance measures even though they had every reason to know they were minimally effective and they engaged in information ops against people who disputed them. We have reason to believe (from Dr. Atlas’ account) that Fauci, Birx, and Redfield were paying no attention to studies coming in on the efficacy of various measures and could not or would not discuss them at meetings on policy. We know from other sources that they were co-operating with each other to stymie the president’s direction of public health policy. We knew by April of 2020 that the virus was not a mortal danger to people under 50, we knew by July of 2020 that the mode of transmission was indoor air, and we had a pretty good idea by July of 2020 that the two risk factors of salience were age and excess weight. We knew by September of 2021 that the vaccines were like flu shots, not that effective in real time and effective for one season only. The only vaccine mandates should have been for people who work in hospitals and nursing homes, if them.
That’s about 340,000 each year, in a nation of 335,000,000. That tells me the survival rate is over 99%. And most of those people died with two or three additional chronic medical maladies.
Most people who die have a menu of problems. That’s nothing new. Mortality from COVID infections in this country during the period running from March of 2020 through February 2021 exceeded that of a typical flu season by a factor of 15. The situation is much alleviated, but mortality still exceeds what you see in a typical flu season by a factor of 4. The latest iterations of COVID in the United States, Britain, and France are not seasonal phenomena, by the way. There are places where COVID appears to be settling down to the status of a minor ailment, but not here yet.
Arnett is not making a logical argument about risks and costs. He is expressing his joy at the thought of the public being oppressed through harsh lockdowns.
Our garbage medical institutions will lie more, fail harder and we’ll burn the bodies of innocents in pyres.
Mayhap the culpable members of said rotten institutions will be tried and executed.
So, yes, while it is difficult, I can imagine a brighter future.
At the age of 87.6 (my good lady) and 92.8 (me), we recovered from a bout of covid with no apparent after-effects…Let me modify that last; my wife’s pain from sciatica has become much less. (Why? God knows.) She has several co-morbidities: asthma, type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure; I have one: obesity. But it was still like a bad cold with an additional fatigue factor added. So balance that vs deaths of younger folk (rare but linked) and does one still recommend the vax (irrespective of moral considerations and links to use of fetal tissue)?
Our garbage medical institutions will lie more, fail harder and we’ll burn the bodies of innocents in pyres.
I’ll wager our hospitals and ambulatory clinics could have done a better job. (See Dave Griffey’s adventures with his primary care physician when COVID swept through his household). My impression has been that it is the public health apparat that’s been the problem, with the federal apparat the worst of the lot.
I was thinking more of the bureaucracies and corporate leadership of the medical industry, not the treaters on the ground. But after thinking for a bit, I think that a generation of woke medical indoctrination and DEI struggle sessions will percolate down to them and ruin personal care, too.