THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE VAXES

While walking alone through my downtown last Sunday, I passed an LGBT++ Pride Day event that was either winding down or lightly attended. Parked nearby was a large, boxy, open-doored delivery truck, retrofitted and painted to show that they were dispensing “Covid Vaccinations” inside. A group of five uniformly rainbow t-shirted womyn sat in chairs by the truck’s entrance ready to process and jab naive passersby. This vaxx concession stand was grossly overstaffed. No one was waiting in line.

I wondered: Didn’t this jab team get the memo about the shots not working? Didn’t they hear that the shots had injured or killed tens of thousands of people? Didn’t they know that nearly no one had been injecting during the past year-plus? Were they still issuing vaxx cards/“passports” or plying people with lotto tickets or free beer? Was this jab team being paid with taxpayer funds? Isn’t it odd that liberals enthusiastically, unanimously embraced the shots—and mandates—and that some still can’t let go of them? What does this continuing tribal allegiance to the shots say about shot supporters’ judgment, both specifically and generally?

I considered stopping and criticizing the vaxx crusade. But I don’t carry a phone and didn’t have anyone with me who could have recorded what would have been an entertaining exchange. I looked down at Team Jab, shook my head and walked on.

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From Day 1, I’ve said the Covid non-pharmaceutical interventions/mitigation measures (“NPIs”) were a massive overreaction that would cause far more harm than good. I’ve been right.

Over the past 40 months, to gain political and economic advantages, politicians—mostly Democrats—bureaucrats, Pharma and the media have stacked Covid lie upon Covid lie. They’ve also censored those, like me, who called out these lies.

Somehow, despite logic and science, this neo-authoritarian conglomerate convinced most Americans to embrace the nonsensical canon of Covid mitigation, namely that lockdowns, school closures, masks, social distancing and testing and tracing would vanquish a respiratory virus. Mitigation mob members exhibited cult-like zeal. They proselytized far more intensely and damningly than did the practitioners of any latter-day religion.

Despite abundant logical, anecdotal, statistical and academic proof to the contrary, many unsmart people—some of whom had high-paying government jobs, hosted TV shows or wrote books—continued to assert that the NPIs worked. Those who admitted that these measures failed implausibly contended that NPIs only failed because not everyone complied.

In either instance, to “prove” they were right, the zealous interveners cited some bogus statistic, study or graph of dubious provenance, reliability or scale, often comparing some state or country to another; it was garbage in, garbage out. The Covidmanic would never admit the plainly visible core truth: only a tiny fraction of people—old, obese or already sick—were dying with Covid. Even using dubious, self-serving data, there weren’t marked differences in outcomes between places with tight restrictions and those who applied a lighter touch. Many of the cities, states and nations with the worst outcomes had intervened most aggressively.

The same extremists who aggressively supported NPIs later also rabidly supported the shots. Both crusades were similarly unsound. To begin with, Coronaviruses don’t threaten healthy people under 70. Why, then, did anyone—except profiteering Pharma execs and bureaucrats who wanted to con people into believing the NPIs and shots saved the world and that we would all perish without their benevolent, brilliant protection—support universal Covid “vaccination?”