We are now in the 3rd calendar year of a raging pandemic in which at least 5 and a half million individuals have died, including 848,000 Americans, as a direct result of the virus. That number remains, and will forever remain, harrowing, and a reminder of the general failure that global governments and corporations have been over the last couple of years.
Omicron Panic
Before we get into the bad news that will be most of the rest of this article, we first of all need to address some good news. While case numbers are at absolute record highs, with the current 7-day average in case numbers being at 2,802,336 cases per day, daily numbers are at the lowest number on the 7 day average since October 2020. That means that the virus is currently the least deadly it has ever been.
There are three reasons for that. The first is that the omicron variant is significantly more infectious but also much milder than any previous variants. The case numbers do not lie.
The next is because more and more people globally are vaccinated. While the vaccine has pretty much been proven by these case numbers to not protect against infection, the death numbers make it appear to protect from the worst effects of the virus. That makes it worth taking. We’ll get onto boosters later.
Finally, and perhaps least importantly, there has been more effort into therapeutic cures, such as pills like paxvloid and molnupiravir, and, while these are not as effective as the vaccines generally, they do seem to work to some degree in preventing hospitalization and death.
All of this is to say that covid isn’t as serious as it once was. According to those death rates, for every person who has died of covid in the last week, 417 have got it and lived. That is a disease that is simply not worth shutting down the whole world over, especially as such a great number of people are vaccinated. We’ll get onto the problems with the current vaccination programs soon.
But covid isn’t as bad. Now is the perfect time to take the Swedish model, and protect the elderly but otherwise live life pretty much as normal.
Most people are going to get covid now. That is a fact of life with omicron, and it doesn’t really matter what we do about it. We have a choice now. We can all get infected pretty quickly, open the world back up to allow us to make some return to something resembling normalcy, very few of us die because of the nature of omicron, stay home when we get sick and life goes on or we can shut down segments of the world, make people stay home and drag out this whole process with the end result being the same covid-wise, but we lose out on years of our lives in stay-at-home orders. I know which option I’d take, and it’s not the latter.
Now is the time for us to ignore bullshit report like that of the New York Times and the CDC which claims that kids who get covid are 2.5 times more likely to get diabetes. Vinjay Prasad has proven that to be nonsense. It was purely a scary headline to try to convince us to support covid-zero policies that we really don’t need.
We have seen many pushes such as that one from the media, the CDC, Dr. Fauci and the Biden administration to make covid and omicron seem much scarier than it is at present. We have heard much about how it is very infectious but very little about how much less severe it is. I follow this shit like a hawk, and I didn’t know just how much more mild omicron is. I knew it was more mild but not to this degree. That is because the global health establishment have such a great hold over the information that we get about this virus.
Ignore them. The crisis that they are trying to make covid out to be doesn’t reflect reality in the slightest.
A figure that they often bring up is that hospitalizations because of covid, especially in the United States, are up significantly to record highs. However, as Dr Fauci let us know in something of a freudian slip, people are tested for covid whenever they enter the hospital for whatever reason, and if they tested positive, they were counted as a covid hospitalization. Because omicron is spreading faster and faster, it is more likely for people, however asymptomatic they are, to test positive, and, despite many of them are there for a broken leg or for cancer treatment or to give birth or for any other reason, they are counted as a covid hospitalization. In New York, the governor released data showing that 42% of covid hospitalizations were cases with covid, not because of covid. We can assume that that figure will be similar nationwide.
All in all, covid is much less serious than it once was, and therefore we ought to treat it as such, but the global health establishment don’t want us to.
Vaccine Efficacy, boosters, mandates & patents
Anti-vaccine rhetoric has spread big-time over the last couple of months as big pharma and the mainstream media have become less trustworthy and more people have woken up to that fact. However, these people have taken it too far.
There is no evidence that the vaccine doesn’t prevent hospitalization or death, and, in fact, the opposite is true. This French study of over 22 million people found that the vaccines are 90% effective against those 2 results. This directly rebuts the previous claim.
The other question is over side effects, and some people have used the global increase in general deaths as evidence for the vaccines causing them.
They are right that there was a significant increase in deaths in 2021 from 2020, the best comparison considering both of those 2 years had a raging pandemic but only the latter had a vaccine for the most part.
But the virus was worse in the second year than it was in the first. And the increase in deaths between 2020 and ‘21 was barely more than the increase from ‘19 to ‘20, despite the worsening virus and relaxing of restrictions in the later period. The evidence again rebuts their theories.
The vaccine works, and if you haven’t got it, you should.
However, a number of these big pharma corporations and mass media figures are now pushing booster shots and, in some cases, even a 4th dose.
Now, the booster should be available for those who want it, and for some long-vaccinated elderly individuals, or those with comorbidities such as immunocompromised people, it could be useful to keeping them safe from the worst effects of the virus.
However, for your regular Joe or Jane under the age of about 65, it isn’t really necessary.
In fact, all that pushing it really does is fueling a sentiment that the vaccine doesn’t work. This is especially true when we see the Pfizer CEO suggesting that a 4th dosage is necessary, and his company telling Medsafe in New Zealand as part of their approval process that they had a 6 dose program set up. We were sold that 2 doses, or 1 of the Johnson & Johnson, would be enough, and the evidence generally is that it is. So this means that, at some point, we have been lied to.
Now, this seems as though this was purely built off a will from Pfizer and these other Big Pharma companies to make money. They make money by selling doses of this vaccine to governments, and the more jabs they convince people to take, the more money they make.
The only reason they make any money whatsoever is because they were allowed to patent the vaccines, in a clear change of general policy on vaccines. When the guy who invented the polio vaccine, for example, was asked if he was going to patent it, he replied “would you patent the sun?” That is what they are effectively doing here. They are charging governments, many of whom cannot afford it, for this medicine every human needs to have access to for us to beat this thing.
As a result of this, only about 12% of Africa is fully vaccinated, compared to a global average of 50%. They are unable to get these vaccines because most of their governments can’t afford it. Instead, they are reliant of COVAX charity from the WHO, led by greedy billionaire Bill Gates, which has failed tremendously, delivering a tiny percentage of the vaccines needed by the developing world.
Joe Biden should today nationalize Big Pharma, because all the research is taxpayer funded done at universities anyway. Then they give it to Big Pharma, who then charge the government for the medicines again. We are being charged twice for this medicine and every other one. If we nationalize Big Pharma, these problems don’t exist and the developing world can get their hands on these medicines.
Finally, this week SCOTUS knocked down Joe Biden’s soft vaccine mandate, which required employees at businesses with 100 employees either to be vaccinated or produce a negative test for the virus every week.
As I have explained in the past, I do not think the government should have any control over what humans put in their bodies. They can suggest what substances are helpful and harmful, the vaccine certainly belonging to the first category, but coercion, in my opinion, is just not something I’m comfortable with.
These mandates affect the working class too much. It isn’t Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk who are harmed by these mandates. It’s the workers who have ill-formed opinions but, for those reasons, refused to put a substance in their body. That’s fair. But, if the mandate were upheld, we would be forcing them to take hours out of their day to get a PCR test (as we will explain in our testing segment next, this is how long it can take to get a PCR test). Many of these people can’t afford to be out of work for this long. That is who this harms.
For that reason, I am glad the mandate was overturned.
Testing - at home tests, PCR lines
Probably the biggest failure of the Biden administration during the omicron surge is their inability to make testing available for the majority of people.
Just so we understand how easy it could be for Biden to send out free, at-home lateral flow tests for every American, we need to know that countless countries, including the United Kingdom, most of Europe and Singapore, send out free, at-home tests to anyone who wants them. In the UK, a person can order up to 7 at a time, free of charge. It can be easily done.
Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, recently mocked the idea of sending out free tests to every American.
For the longest time, people have been forced to fork out roughly $20 for a single at home test. Think about how easily that cost can increase. Let’s say you are a family of 4. One of you start feeling sick, so you all get a test. That’s $80. Then, because two of you tested positive, you each need 3-4 tests to regularly update whether or not you are cured of covid. That gets you up to $320. On top of that, both adults work without paid sick leave, so they miss out on these days worth of pay on top of this $320. They lose many hundreds, if not thousands of dollars as a result of getting a disease that they probably couldn’t have prevented themselves from getting.
Now, the Biden administration has tried to work with the private industry to try to create as many tests as possible. It is purely evident that they failed.
At some points, they did utilize the Defense Production Act, allowing them to manufacture a massive amount of tests - if they wanted to. But they didn’t, preferring to work with the private sector to fail to make too few tests.
The other main failure regarding tests has been concerning PCR tests, and the difficulty for many Americans trying to get their hands on these tests.
These are the most accurate way of finding out whether you have the disease, but they do take longer to get the results for.
In Harlem last month, for example, people were forced to cue for up to 2 hours in the freezing cold just to get a covid test. Just think about that. You aren’t feeling well and think you might have a disease that has killed over 5 million people globally. You go to get tested to see if you have it and end up standing in the rain for 2 hours, and you can guarantee that, if you didn’t have covid before, you definitely have it now, as well as a cold. Not exactly a dream come true, is it?
The problem is the same. Instead of utilizing the defense production act to the fullest extent, the Biden administration decided to attempt to work alongside the private sector to make enough tests, which they simply didn’t do.
There are two very obvious solutions here. The first is to piss off the private sector, and fully utilize the defense production act and make as many tests as quickly as possible. The second is to then mail every American up to 7 tests per person each week, leaving it to them to order them online, and to have them readily available at every pharmacy and supermarket for free as well.
Later this week, we will pump out a second covid update, focusing on Novak Djokovic, workers being forced to work despite positive covid tests and the general policy going forward on that matter.
Until then, adios!