It isn’t too early for the body politic to engage in one gigantic spasm of retroperistalsis and expel that tyrannical medical pest from the community.
Ah, yes, “greater good of society”—as defined, it goes without saying, by A. Fauci.
It’s long past time for this fomenter of hysteria to go. He has been terrorizing the American populace for decades.
Give him a padded cell, a mirror, and a TV camera and he will be happy.
The fact that this Bela Lugosi of the medical establishment also is a publicity addict who can’t pass a television camera without primping and dispensing contradictory but depressing dicta makes him a public nuisance.
You see his baneful influence everywhere.
According to the NY Times, the fact that the deaths of 700,000 people in the United States have been attributed to the virus means that it’s now officially more deadly than the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which killed about 675,000 people in the United States.
Remember the old saw about “lies, damned lies, and statistics”?
The CCP virus can be serious, no doubt about it. But it represents a significant threat to a tiny part of the population, mostly the elderly, especially those with certain co-morbidities like diabetes and obesity.
The Spanish flu, by contrast, cut a wide swath through the young and healthy.
The so-called Delta variant seems to be more infectious but less virulent than the original.
It has affected some younger people, much to the delight of the NY Times and other members of the Fauci fan club.
Now, on to those numbers.
One critical distinction you won’t find mentioned in the NY Times’ cri-de-coeuris is the difference between dying from the CCP virus and dying with it. Millions upon millions are infected.
It is, after all, a very contagious virus.
But not only is it the case that many who are infected experience mild or no symptoms, it’s also the case that many who are infected with the virus and happen to die, in fact, die from other things.
Another set of numbers you rarely see in the reporting about COVID fatalities is the age of the people who died.
The average life expectancy for males in the United States is around 78.
If Mr. Smith, who suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, comes down with COVID and dies at 87, is his death due to COVID?
You see why I like to say that the great thing about COVID is that it abolished death from old age.
It also essentially abolished death from influenza.
Generally, there are anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 deaths from the flu in this country per annum.
Masks, lockdowns, and “social distancing” impede the achievement of herd immunity.
At last, the clear voice of common sense—which is also, by the way, the voice of that “science” we’re supposed to be following.
- “Vaccine passports are unjust and discriminatory.”
- “Most of those endorsing the idea belong to the laptop class—privileged professionals who worked safely and comfortably at home during the epidemic.”
- “Millions of Americans did essential jobs at their usual workplaces and became immune the hard way. Now, they would be forced to risk adverse reactions from a vaccine they don’t need.”
- “Passports would entice young, low-risk professionals, in the West and the developing world, to get the vaccine before older, higher-risk but less affluent members of society. Many unnecessary deaths would result.”
- “The widespread use of vaccines against polio, measles, mumps, rubella, rabies, and other pathogens has saved millions of lives. Vaccines are one of the most important inventions in human history—the reason that before last year many in the West had forgotten that infectious disease could pose a population-wide threat.”
- “Those pushing for coercive COVID vaccination threaten all this progress by undermining public trust in vaccines. In this sense, they are more dangerous than the small group of so-called anti-vaxxers have ever been.”
We all would have been saved a great deal of irritation, not to mention economic ruin and political despotism.
