Damn Lies And Statistics.
Here is my list, a simple historical record for myself of the anti-science, misinformation, lies, damn lies pushed as dogma during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Today, ruminating on how screwed up the world is. Mandates still enforced when we know that they are empty rules, rules for the sake of rules. So much hypocricy.
In Canada, you can’t ride a bus if unvaccinated but if you are vaccinated, no problem, even with symptoms, sniffles … Remember during the pandemic, the vaccinated getting Covid and all proud, going to their “vaccinated only allowed” pub to celebrate? It’s all been about “joining the club” not fairness, not truth, not what’s best for society.
So much contradiction - we now know, the whole edifice from masks to vaccines to lockdowns does not hold water. A fandango it is and was.
Today, I was thinking to myself - I wonder how many people my unvaccinated self has killed? Just an honest question. I wonder who has this data.
For the sake of my own soul and sanity, here is my very quickly jotted-down, a list of all the lies we suffered through and which caused so much harm. I do wish there was some level of accountability but alas, not. And without consequences in life, the actions and evil and stupidity will only continue, even escalate. Sad.
The Lies, Damn Lies Of The COVID Pandemic.
Mass vaccination during a pandemic is what must be done. It is the only salvation. Science says so. (Great Barrington Declaration be damned). Yet, we now know, we should have used preventative treatments, protected the elderly and concentrated our resources there on the vulnerable. We should have used alternative treatments. How many were lost because of these errors and clinging to the lie of - only mass vaccination will do anything.
The vaccines will not be for-profit, a gift to humanity, so said our governments and the drug companies. Just cover our costs they said. Yet, we are 2 years and $70 Billions USD on in profits for pharma.
All countries in the world must get the vaccine otherwise we’ll never stop covid 19. We will assure EVERY country gets vaccines for their population. We are not even close, fully 2/3s of the world (5 billion people or so) does not have access to or is unvaccinated. Makes one think the vaccine was a rich liberal, make myself feel good, platitude.
If you don’t get the vaccine, you are harming and possibly killing others. A murderer. Yep, I wonder how many I did kill through my refusal to vaccinate. What inane logic. I also wonder how many I have killed just by existing - taking up space and eating the food of others. OMG.
The vaccines need emergency use approval because there are no alternative treatments and ways to prevent it, treat it, or stop it. The official stance. Ivermectin?, no way. It’s just a horse de-wormer (despite a Nobel Prize and being given safely to over 4 billion individuals). If it is that cheap must be harmful and not work. Monoclonal antibody therapy? - that’s just a side-track. Can’t touch that. Hydroxychloroquine? - can only use with hospital supervision. Vitamin D megadosing? That’s just quackery! Vitamins for something as serious as COVID - you gotta be kidding. Nasal saline irrigation? - not worth the bother - it’s hocus pocus. Exercise, weight loss, all kinds of prophylactic treatments? - too late (but El Salvador gets a pass). We now know different. Just look at a country like Mexico - no vaccinations, no restrictions, 1,000x better outcomes than big medicine in the UK, USA, or Canada.
Science is the ultimate compass we need follow. Trust in science. It will save us all. Yet, the question at the time was “whose science”? There was a call to authority, just trust us esteemed and lettered academics. We know best. A refusal and rejection of what science really is, a struggle, constant struggle and debate, a gutsy endeavor and not a settled set of facts to be blindly followed. We had false Fauci actually on record saying, "Sir, you are really criticizing science, because I represent science.”
“Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
We must save everyone, each and every person is precious. Zero Covid. Yes, “safetyism” pervaded throughout our culture, to the ultimate end. Not one death was acceptable, damn the other damage and harm. Yet, we now know what a lie zero covid was, how impossible. Yet even knowing this, governments still acted on it. Still. Ugh.
The vaccines came from animals into the human population. There was no gain-of-function research or lab leak. Yeah, and Fauci never ordered an emergency meeting or produced a cover-up or published false medical research and papers nor got any money from the Pentagon. No, no evidence there!
The only way to treat the viral infection is through a vaccine. In an emergency, put the patient on a ventilator. As above but with the caveat that we now know that putting a patient on a ventilator in many cases was a death sentence and medical malpractice. Yet, 100s of 1,000s of ventilators we bought for billions of dollars.
The virus can be transmitted through footwear. Yep, this was actually enforced. Ridiculous and unscientific as it is.
The virus can be transmitted through touch. Yep, hope you had some stock in hand sanitizer. All this despite the powers that be knowing that the virus was transmitted by air, by droplets and little chance of spreading through touching, touching surfaces. Part of many lies so the governments could pretend and look like they were doing something. The cosmetic part of the pandemic. So too all those stupid - don’t touch that money and other devices. Same too with plastic shields. More harm than good.
Enforced masking works and stops the virus from spreading. Even studies, like that of Bangledesh, oft-quoted, were misleading and clearly showed different. It was easy to compare states with and without masking and see there was no difference in transmission, hospitalization or death. Yet, kids had to wear masks, cloth masks which do nothing much. Yet we all wore masks. Part of the many lies associated with establishing visible fear.
The virus can be stopped from spreading. Mass lockdowns are the way to deal with a pandemic. Lockdowns 100% work. Enough said. We know they don’t work. They may stay things for a time but eventually, the virus will find hosts. And then we have all the harm from lockdown; economic, mental, psychological, family breakdowns, medical treatment delayed harm and more …
If you get the vaccine, you don’t need to wear a mask because you are cured, will never be able to catch or spread covid. Yes, Fauci and Biden both told us this. Grandstanding. They and all scientists worth their salt KNEW it was hogwash. Yet, politicos needed a win, however temporary. So the lies.
Lockdowns have few ill effects on society. Minor inconveniences. See above. Also, how this lie eroded free speech, all the cherished freedoms civil society had built up over decades and centuries since the Enlightenment.
The vaccines do no harm. Harmless. Thus, no need to make pharmaceutical companies accountable for any injuries. A huge lie and error. Letting an emergency drug be administered. Letting whole populations be guinea pigs. All through the lie that the vaccines are safe - now we know for a fact they are not. But even Pfizer knew they weren’t safe (as their forced data dump of info. tells us clearly), at the time. A pox on their evil houses.
If you believe you are hurt by vaccination - it’s all in the head. You’re a headcase. This gaslighting based on this huge, ideological (not scientific lie) is horrendous. Also, that there were no autopsies ordered for such individuals who died after getting the vaccine (and yes, there are many deaths, too many). Especially sad, regarding those who did as they were told, took the jab for the team and now, harmed, injured in 100s of 1,000s are ignored, jeered like we once did to our Vietnam vets returning home. This is not a world I want to live in, among - one of ideological intolerance, clinging to a false purity, fanaticism to the end, even when the harm is there infront of us to see, the numbers, deaths adding up.
The only correct data to understand the pandemic is government data. All government data is up to date, correct, and the truth about Covid. Yet, we now know that governments highly inflated cases and deaths. Counting anyone in the data, if they had COVID, even if the cause and data were totally related to other factors, co-morbidities. And this data lie was culled as needed with neat graphs to say anything they wanted, even after, medical authorities, changed the numbers to suit themselves (see the NIH data, changed adhoc, and finally stopped being published when it didn’t show the government’s argument correct).
If you get the vaccine, you are cured. Safe. You can’t catch COVID nor transmit it. We even had one pharma executive saying to congress, “If we don’t vaccinate, how will we know the vaccine is safe?” It was all about money. Confidence game. Take it and you’ll be magically cured of all. And it turned out that wasn’t the case. It allowed you to still catch and transmit COVID, even be more likely to catch it. The vaccine allowed you to feel safe but still transmit. The vaccine we now know, even only gives a temporary effect and wanes in efficacy quicker and quicker with each dose (see the 95% effective lie below).
If you don’t get vaccinated, you have a high risk of death (Biden’s Winter of The Unvaccinated). Yes, remember Biden’s lie. His demonization and venom towards the unvaccinated (who as President he is elected to help, to represent). Yet what happened? The unvaccinated didn’t all just die and succumb to COVID. Sure, maybe they got the virus but they survived and are stronger with their natural immunity, going forward. The President lied, so many lied, even knowing the risk was very low for most age groups and segments of the population. 99.85% survival for most who got COVID.
“We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated -- for themselves, their families and the hospitals they'll soon overwhelm. But there's good news: If you're vaccinated and you have your booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death," - President Joe Biden. Our protector.
Asymptomatic transmission is not only possible but happens in large numbers. A huge lie. Even Fauci is on record saying that asymptomatic transmission is very rare. If you have COVID, you’ll certainly have symptoms if you have a high viral load to transmit the virus. Yet, the lie worked. We all thought, not vaccinating, we were maybe, invisibly killing others.
Covid 19 kills children. Yes, this was out there. Get vaccinated, vaccinate children. Mask kids. Protect them!!!! Yet, in Canada, there was not even one death attributed to kids under 5. Not one. But you’d of thought kids were dying in massive numbers. Truth is, kids had robust immunity to these kinds of viral infections and it is important they be exposed to viruses - this is part of health.
Anyone with Covid 19 at the time of death, dies OF Covid 19. The lie to inflate numbers, stoke the fear. And along with this we do know that in the US, hospitals were also incentivized to put COVID on death certificates. Money in that. Almost like a bounty. Is this a way for a medical system to work - to not be strict to the truth and facts? Excess mortality statistics are showing how big a lie this inflationary tally stuffing was.
We must close down any alternative scientific discussion, proposals or information because it will stop people from getting vaccinated and that’s unacceptable. A big lie is that people can’t decide for themselves what is right, what is wrong. That father “state” must protect people from their own stupidity. The pandemic saw the lie of “Trusted News Authorities” and “Fact Checkers” that didn’t monitor for truth, just the party line.
The mNRA vaccines are tested, safe and without any perceivable harm. See above. But include mNRA as an experimental treatment that should never have been administered to billions. The harm through VAERS and other reporting features (always very underreported) show large harm from the vaccine. It’s even more egregious that the means to collect data from the population was not set up rigorously - there was it seems, an intentional decision to cloud the environment of vaccine harm.
The vaccines are 95% efficacious. They work in almost all cases to protect people from catching COVID. This lie has been shown to be but marketing, even the drug company info. we’ve been privy to - shows efficacy waning and also fudging of data to get his marketing figure. Lies. Damn lies.
Natural immunity is not as effective as vaccine immunity. If you have had Covid and have natural immunity, you still need to get the vaccine to be safe, and healthy and not transfer the virus to others. For all other pandemics, in fact, a rule 101 of epidemiology is that if you have already been infected with a virus, YOU ARE IMMUNE. Yet, this simple principle was ignored, the simple practice of screening the population for prior infection before vaccination was ignored. The lie that natural immunity is not enough won. That lie is still out there.
We mandated past vaccines so there is nothing wrong with mandating this one. Yes, you heard this so often. I got all my shots when young, they were mandated and so what’s the fuss about this one? Well, first of all, it is COVID virus, like influenza, it isn’t stable. It alters and changes as its hosts change. Second, prior vaccinations were developed over years and tried and tested. Even pulled when even just a few deaths after public vaccination. And then, with many of these prior shots, you didn’t need to get the shot if you’d already recovered. But the lie remained, this vaccine is just like the others - no it isn’t and we see that through its effects on our population.
You don’t need informed consent because the vaccine is harmless. See above. But mentioning it to focus on the lie of not needed informed consent. What’s rotten is this lie that consent is not needed. That and pressuring doctors to not provide adequate and individualized care to their patients and hold to the party line or else lose their licenses. Informed consent is the bedrock of doctor - patient relationships. We’ve eroded that, the trust in our doctors to be the caretakers. Doctors are now becoming but a delivery system. Sad.
The unvaccinated are harmful to society and a risk to the health of us all. There has been a wholesale push of the lie that the unvaccinated are evil. Macron and Trudeau said it out loud. Large segments of the society called for putting “them” in colonies. It was horrible to witness such evil spread publicly and see normally beautiful, sane individuals become barbaric haters. This lie of the unvaccinated also denied the real and true diversity of those who rejected vaccination. The unvaccinated aren’t all Trump loving, gun-toting, Jesus freaks who are conspiratorial loners. This isn’t and wasn’t ever true.
A vaccine isn’t something that stops you from catching a virus or getting ill. The vaccine was never intended to protect someone 100%. So, you’ll need boosters every 6 months. Yes, this lie from a lie became the normal response to the data showing the vaccine was a dud, you probably got jabbed for naught. Now, the lie is that it stops hospitalization and death. This remains to be seen through time. But what’s disconcerting is how the lie is tweaked, made to suit any data and situation. Our cognitive dissonance is unassailable.
There is a pandemic! We must vaccinate right now! However, all solid immunologists will tell you how important it is to NOT vaccinate during a pandemic. However good, and efficacious, the vaccine. Why? It will promote many sub-variants and in the total lead to a strengthening of the pandemic, a lengthening of it. You vaccinate BEFORE or AFTER a pandemic. Along with the rule of natural immunity, a rule of thumb for all public health measures.
I’ll end with this thought. Now almost 2 years on - would you still get vaccinated if there had been absolute freedom to decide for yourself? If you knew then, what you know now?
Lemmings
It's the fear.
The fear that gets them
running
and set in a frenzy.
But the problem is
how to keep them running.
Fear only goes so far
until it's just the norm and
the boogie man is no more.
So the solution?
A message packaged
with a little pretty red bow on top
- it's all about the bow
every salesman knows that
and you, the product
will keep running
to get to that bow
to untie that bow
to honor that bow.
You'll keep running
or die trying
for that bow ...
But then it's the cliff
and you're of no use,
you're dead in the air
just another
used up
product.
That's how this world
of order
works.
How they get
nice young men
to pick up guns
and rape pretty women
on far away shores.
How they get you to
buy what you don't need
or stay in your house
with your mask on,
because they said so
and
"it's for the sake of us all."
and if you don't
they'll be no
pretty red bow
and we're all screwed then,
aren't we?