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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
Never gets old, literally.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
COVID has milded itself out further, and hardly anyone is dying from it now, aside from super old people. It is very rare for anyone who is under 70 and at least semi-healthy to get hospitalized from it now.
Anyone healthy/non-elderly person wearing masks to avoid COVID is a complete retard at this point.
Anyone getting a vaccine for it (again, except for the elderly) is also a complete retard at this point.
Notice you are hearing crickets from the left about this. Where was the mass celebration that COVID was abruptly turned into a flu-like virus in early 2022?
Honestly, despite how wacky the left was regarding COVID, I thought they would at least acknowledge when it was essentially over. That still hasn't happened. It is funny talking to the left wing COVID fanatics nowadays, as most of them have quietly stopped masking and vaxxing, but they can't coherently explain why.
We've actually got a funny situation here. When COVID was actually a danger in 2020-2021, the right misportayed it as essentially being the flu. The left sanctimoniously chided the right for 2 years about this, and while they were wrong about a lot of things policy-wise (and lied to the people fairly often), they were correct that it was a dangerous disease. However, once Omicron 2022, COVID transformed into what the right had been claiming it was all along! So COVID basically mutated into the right's initially inaccurate claim about it. The left had a very hard time explaining this to people, so in order to avoid looking like they were wrong all the way, they just played down the massive difference in Omicron, and pretended COVID danger was still a thing.
This is all a perfect case study as to why you don't politicize a novel virus.
It's also a case study as to why science needs to completely stay independent of politics, and why censoring opposing viewpoints in science is a disaster.
Lots of extra lives were lost, lots of kids were unnecessarily kept out of school, the economy unncessarily suffered, and people permanently lost trust in public health officials. Not good.
The correct way to have done all this?
Both sides should have agreed not to bicker with each other, and join forces with a singular goal to handle this optimally. Then the TRUTH should have been disseminated -- the truth about masks (no proof they worked), the truth about the disease itself (very dangerous to elderly, moderately dangerous to middle-aged, not dangerous to young adults and kids), the truth about the vaccine (it was a risk but not as big of a risk as COVID for those 45+), and the truth about the origin (likely a lab escape in Wuhan).
All of the "noble lies" ruined public trust forever.
Sad!
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