So it’s been two years since we first heard about COVID-19, corona virus disease 2019. It’s time to take stock of what we have witnessed in that time.
First of all, this is a real thing that causes real problems. Although we don’t personally know people who have died from it, we do know people who have gotten very, very sick. It’s hard to establish lethality with COVID because payment policies at hospitals encourage them to label admissions, treatments and deaths as COVID-related because charges can be increased when the virus is involved. One neighborhood doctor friend said that the premium for COVID was 50% over normal billing. Furthermore, any viral attack will make co-morbidities more morbid. If your health is already compromised, then a viral attack can indeed become much more serious. As the La Jolla Institute for Immunology says, reaction to virus attack varies with the individual. It’s not so much a function of the virus itself and what it does to us, but what our body does to the virus in trying to combat it. One person can have COVID and not know it, another can have a cytokine storm that kills them.
That said, COVID is not SARS 2 with his high lethality. One of the reasons it’s so infectious is that it’s possible to be up and around spreading the disease while feeling nothing or little in terms of symptoms. Which brings us to the most important revelation about the disease, and that is why we have it in the first place. It is well documented that a corona virus was manipulated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology to be more contagious than in its natural state. In a piece of journalism that should merit a Pulitzer Prize but which has been ignored by the popular media, Steve Hilton went on the air documenting the role the United States government played in funding the Wuhan research: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/02/01/steve-hiltons-exclusive-investigation-of-covid-19-origin-leads-to-more-on-dangerous-research-obama-halted-new-details-1024027/
Apparently Tony Fauci awarded the funds, and they were distributed to the Wuhan lab through the agency of Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance. The chain of support has also been documented by the American Conservative here: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/america-might-have-funded-the-chinese-coronavirus/
Both pieces of research are based upon documents that are available to the public, and are beyond reproach in terms of authenticity. So if it’s true that the U.S. Government, and particularly “America’s Doctor” Tony Fauci played a primary role in the creation of this pandemic, then it’s no surprise that people disbelieve the government when it comes to how to control it. There is an alarming correlation between conservative political views, conservative religious beliefs, and skepticism about COVID. My church friends are split down the middle between those who get the vaccine and anti-vaxers. Now it occurs to me that there are two reasons to not get the vaccine: 1) that it does not work, or 2) that it’s harmful. Other than that, go ahead and get it. The science of vaccinations is well-established and the basis for much disease-free living. When Jonas Salk came to La Jolla to dedicate the new Salk Institute in the early 60’s, my mother marched me up to the podium and made me shake his hand. His work, which included giving the vaccine to his own children, freed up that and future generations of parents from the fear of polio. So when the COVID vaccine became available, I did not walk but ran to get it. I have received the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer booster, and had no negative reaction to either. Nor have I ever contracted COVID, even though I no longer use a mask or take precautions. It’s all over as far as I’m concerned, in spite of warnings of new variants.
So if nothing else, COVID has shown people up for what they believe in the privacy of their own hearts. Some trust the government and the press, others to do not. Some of the latter are willing to risk getting sick in order to register their distrust, and are in fact getting sick. Perhaps it would be good for doctors and hospitals to have a policy whereby they require the unvaccinated to pay for their treatment out of their own pockets if the gamble doesn’t pay off. At the very least, we need to see the whole thing as an attempt of governments to control and thin the population. Why engage in gain of function research in the first place? The rationale that by increasing transmissibility you get to do more productive research is a specious argument. No. You increase transmissibility for one reason only, to make it easier to spread the disease. You turn a hand gun into a machine gun for one reason: to increase lethality. Same with a virus. Dr. Fauci, Peter Daszak and the Chinese have militarized a virus, and may have more in store. The Nazis in Germany started to cleanse their society by killing off the aged, infirm, and deficient in a systematic process to euthanasia. I don’t see how this situation is any different. Just as the whole Global Warming scare was an attempt to redistribute resources from first world to second and third world nations, COVID has done much to centralize social and legal control in the hands of national, state and local governments. The politic threat to American liberties has often been characterized as being from the left. I would counter that it’s not from the left, as socialist and communist assaults each have the virtue of containing critiques of uncontrolled capitalism. The new attack on our liberties comes from the right, from people who make no pretensions about economic reform, but who simply want to be a minority in control over the majority. That’s the very definition of fascism: those in the know get to call the shots.