What is that smell?
Why, it’s the sound of millions of peoples senses of self-righteous indignation, their mode of instant social sorting, their handy form of smug virtue-signaling, and that little knot of terror that they cultivated and nursed into their worldview, slowly smoldering into ash:
A whole lot of Merriam Park harpies are feeling bereft today. Go easy on ’em.
Go easy on ’em
Why?
Also in the news: “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that adults aged 65 and above get an additional dose of the […] COVID-19 vaccine […]
C’mon grandma, die already.
Forgive and forget? Not that simple. This is not a case of “mistakes were made, we couldn’t have known any better, time to move on.” This is a case of “lies were told despite knowing better, and lives were ruined because of it.” Somebody needs to pay for that.
Medical science knew from the day the Diamond Princess docked that Covid was a bad flu, nothing more, and it should be treated the same as any other influenza outbreak, exactly as The Great Barrington Declaration said. Covid was hyped into a world-ending apocalypse for reasons everybody knows but nobody wants to admit: it’s easier to steal a Presidential election with absentee ballots, accepted without authentication, counted in secrecy, uncontestable in court.
Covid was Trump, pure and simple. Democrat politicians jumped at the chance to scare the public to help defeat him. Governor Walz banned the right to free exercise of religion, a shocking defiance of the Constitution that even Abraham Lincoln in the darkest days of the Civil War refused to do. Karens everywhere felt empowered to serve as voluntary Mask Police, berating customers at hot dog stands standing outside in the wind for lowering their masks to take a bite. Employers demanded employees submit to experimental gene therapy or lose their jobs. People who sunk their life savings into a business couldn’t survive being shut down for months and went to jail for trying salvage their investment.
And it was all in service of a lie – that it was too risky to vote in person, that everyone should vote absentee, to Preserve Our Precious Democracy.
In 1965, The Mitchell Trio had a hit with the “I Was Not A Nazi Polka” mocking the millions of Germans who insisted they never willingly participated, never shot a Lugar, never goosed a single step, thought that Dachau was a nice resort and I.G. Farben manufactured children’s toys.
We need something similar for Covid Nazis. They need to be shamed and mocked and held accountable. We can never forget how quickly and completely the politicians embraced the lie, medical establishment sold out, employers jumped on board, and ordinary citizens turned on each other.
Hmmm, moderation. And I didn’t use the Canine word at all. I did correctly refer to a political party active in a foreign nation during a world war. Maybe that’s banned? Try again, substituting METHODIST.
Forgive and forget? Not that simple. This is not a case of “mistakes were made, we couldn’t have known any better, time to move on.” This is a case of “lies were told despite knowing better, and lives were ruined because of it.” Somebody needs to pay for that.
Medical science knew from the day the Diamond Princess docked that Covid was a bad flu, nothing more, and it should be treated the same as any other influenza outbreak, exactly as The Great Barrington Declaration said. Covid was hyped into a world-ending apocalypse for reasons everybody knows but nobody wants to admit: it’s easier to steal a Presidential election with absentee ballots, accepted without authentication, counted in secrecy, uncontestable in court.
Covid was Trump, pure and simple. Democrat politicians jumped at the chance to scare the public to help defeat him. Governor Walz banned the right to free exercise of religion, a shocking defiance of the Constitution that even Abraham Lincoln in the darkest days of the Civil War refused to do. Karens everywhere felt empowered to serve as voluntary Mask Police, berating customers at hot dog stands standing outside in the wind for lowering their masks to take a bite. Employers demanded employees submit to experimental gene therapy or lose their jobs. People who sunk their life savings into a business couldn’t survive being shut down for months and went to jail for trying salvage their investment.
And it was all in service of a lie – that it was too risky to vote in person, that everyone should vote absentee, to Preserve Our Precious Democracy.
In 1965, The Mitchell Trio had a hit with the “I Was Not A METHODIST Polka” mocking the millions of Germans who insisted they never willingly participated, never shot a Lugar, never goosed a single step, thought that Dachau was a nice resort and I.G. Farben manufactured children’s toys.
We need something similar for Covid METHODISTS. They need to be shamed and mocked and held accountable. We can never forget how quickly and completely the politicians embraced the lie, medical establishment sold out, employers jumped on board, and ordinary citizens turned on each other.
Nope, still didn’t work. No banned words. No links. It’s as if the AI monitoring the comment thread doesn’t like the fact I disagree with the host so it is refusing to allow contrary opinions to be expressed. Weird.
What?
Does that mean I have to give up wearing my mask?
If so, I’ll feel naked.
^ You may be right about that AI, Bigman. Capitol of Conformity.
Man, it was well worth the wait to get that Bigman rant out of moderation.
At this point, we know it was a lab leak from China. I still don’t trust manufactured viruses, let alone a virus from a government like China, so I don’t think I need to trust the Biden government now with the new CDC recommendations. That being said, I’m still going to eat fermented foods, exercise regularly, get my fresh air and stay home when I’m sick, like I was doing all along, even before Covid. Probably for most of us, the new “guidance” isn’t going to change what we do.
mjb003
Everyone should be wary of what the ChiComs are creating in labs, aided by funding from FAUXci and the NIH. A very good friend of mine, whose father went afoul of the regime, got him and his family out of the country to the U.S. (on visas) before they apprehended him. No one has seen him since. His dad was a scientist and shared with them that they were charged to create “race specific” viruses to assist the regime in taking over the west. Early in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Putin announced that they had captured two U. S. supported biolabs, that contained dangerous pathogens. DemoCommie party apparatchik Victoria Ulland, declared that this was false and although those labs existed, they were doing good stuff, but they were still afraid of the Russkies getting ahold of the contents. Does anyone or everyone realize the stupidity of her statement? If indeed those labs were only doing “good stuff”, why did she worry about them getting it? There is also a ChiCom biolab in California that residents are now up in arms over.
It would be one thing to say: “Viruses spontaneously mutate in the wild, and our enemies mutate viruses in labs to make weapons, so we’re going to intentionally mutate viruses in our lab to develop a cure which we will have sitting on the shelf when the bad virus mutation occurs or weaponized virus is released.” That, at least, would be defensible as a public health safety measure.
What’s not defensible is to lie about it before, during and after the event, particularly when the lies fit too perfectly into the preferred political narrative to be accidental. It’s even worse to double-down on the lies when confronted with evidence that (a) Covid was not a naturally occurring bat flu mutation but was created in a lab which we were covertly funding in defiance of US law; (b) Covid is not particularly deadly if treated early and properly, meaning (c) there is no medical reason to abandon a century of immunological science to panic the public with lockdowns and changes to election procedures during an election year. It also means (d) there is no medical reason to deny evidence of effective alternative treatments from other countries; and (e) there is no medical reason to change long-standing definitions and practices to rush through approval of an untested experimental gene therapy to treat a disease that isn’t really all that bad.
The final insult is to say, “Oops, sorry, time to move on” as if nobody remembers any of the lies or the reasons for them.
Nope, not forgiven, not forgotten.
Bigman, as a friend of a bunch of nurses who’ve worked with COVID (and father to one of ’em), I think you’re overstating the case. Early on, before the big mutations, it was indeed something that was very deadly to the aged. When it went through my grandmother’s nursing home, it killed about 15-20% of the residents in a matter of weeks.
That noted, I agree with you 100% that the steps they took to deal with it were seriously messed up, from refusing to deal with the reality of lab leak and engineered viruses to quarantining the healthy instead of the sick. And yes, there needs to be some justice for that, because anyone who remembers the great epidemics of the past knows what things really worked, and which didn’t. Guys who make their living in contagious diseases should not be making these mistakes.
Yeah, pretty much how I’ve always treated it. Have no idea if I’ve ever even had it.
Joe: Also no idea why you got moderated.
JDM/Joe: I’m looking for accountability, too. I’ve been lighting up Karen in public for a while. But that’s kinda like smashing a puppet for something the puppetmaster did.
^ MB, I don’t doubt that you’re looking for accountability, too.
To be honest, I knew the phrase “go easy on ’em” can be interpreted both figuratively and literally. In the former, there is no restriction on what going easy means. For example, it may be that those curs are being hung from lampposts and so going easy on them might only be to send them to the concentration camps they so blithely suggested for us unvaxed.
It was more fun, however, to interpret the phrase literally, meaning those SOBs get off with no repercussions. I wanted to write a rant like or even as good as Joe’s, but I knew he’d come through, so I just left an open-ended “Why?”.
My (half)sister is a traveling COVID ER RN – she often changes locales every 3 months, however she loves the outdoors in the Pacific Northwest so she tries to stick around Seattle or Portland. For more than a year, she dealt with multiple “COVID deaths” per week. During the worst of the “COVID death season”, she said to me more than once “almost every body I put in a body bag is unvaxxed”. She is fully vaxxed and boosted. Fortunately, enough of my dad rubbed off on her that she isn’t in our faces to get vaxxed ourselves. However, I don’t bring up subjects such as John’s March 4, 2024 at 1:03 pm comment, when talking to her.