I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had COVID at the end of July. I know several people who have had COVID recently, so yes, it’s going around. There have been reports in the media trying to drum up fear and alarm again – some hyping a “new variant”, some hyping an increase in hospital admissions and along with all of that is the same people, who wanted to keep the social mitigations in place forever, are back at it trying to push masking again.
Here’s CNN today – using a photo of a kid in a mask, even though children are at a very low risk. Yep, I’m still quote-tweeting on X some.
In the beginning of the pandemic, I was pretty trusting of health “experts” and by nature, I’m a rule follower – in public, especially. My Miss Rules personality has been a family joke at times. I recall when I was in my 20s, one of my sisters was visiting my husband and me, and I became the brunt of a joke with my driving. My husband related the story of me asking who had the right–of-way when he was teaching me to drive on the backroads of Fort Bragg. A Blackhawk helicopter swooped down and landed in the road and I asked my husband who had the right-of-way. He laughed hysterically at me. I got what he meant immediately – our Subaru was no match for a helicopter. I tried to explain that I hadn’t read about that situation, of a helicopter landing on the road, in the driver’s manual. That made my husband laugh even more. So, there was my sister telling my husband that I’ve always been a stickler for following all the rules. She asked me, if a traffic light stopped working, how long would I wait to drive through the intersection? I didn’t have an answer and my husband said – “forever” and started laughing.
My husband also carried around a jaywalking ticket in his wallet for many years. A Unit Police officer gave him that ticket outside our kaserne in Germany, when I was pregnant with our first daughter. An American kid had been hit by a German driver, for crossing that street, between the housing area and the kaserne, against the crosswalk light. That light took a long time to change and many adults crossed while the light was red, my husband included. After that kid was hit, the commander wanted the UP guards to ticket adults, so they would set an example for the kids. My husband crossed against the light and he was yelling across the street urging me to just cross, because there were no cars coming. I kept yelling back that I wasn’t crossing until the light was green and I waited. The UP guard laughed and told my husband that he should have listened to his wife. Yes, I am a bit stuck on “following the rules,”
With the pandemic, I believe my husband got COVID towards the end of February 2020 and he had acute respiratory failure, ended up on hospice care and never recovered. So in the beginning of the pandemic craziness, I had already had it strike my home. Of course, my husband was in very poor health and had late stage COPD – he was at very high risk for complications from any respiratory bug. At the first sign of any respiratory illness, I got him to the doctor quickly. He was already on antibiotics from our primary care doctor, when I took him to the ER when his condition got worse.
Some people brag about how they were right about COVID all the time and brag about not getting “the jab” and smugly talk about how so many people were sheep, etc. However, I think there are a lot more people like me, who trusted in America’s medical community and public health officials. And over time, I think a lot of those people lost trust. I know I lost trust, as I began to think the social mitigation efforts were about partisan politics more than public health.
I hope more Americans think about the pandemic “rules,” especially the efforts to silence differing views, by labeling them “COVID misinformation or disinformation.”
This video is over 4 minutes long, but it’s illuminating, to see the Dem/liberal media repetitive messaging spin attack in action. In this video President Trump is attacked over commenting on the fatality rate from COVID probably being below 1%, while the media and medical experts were hyping 3.4%. The death rate was well below 1%:
“However, at the global level, if viewed in terms of percentage of the global population effected, the corona crisis is (so far) one of the least deadly pandemics the world has experience over the last 2000 years. In all likelihood, unless the pandemic evolves in an unforeseen way, the consequences of COVID-19 in terms of health and mortality will be mild compared to previous pandemics. At the end of June 2020 (at a time when the outbreak is still raging in Latin America, South Asia, and much of the US), COVID-19 has killed less than 0.006% of the world population. To put this low figure in context in terms of lethality, the Spanish flu killed 2.7% of the world’s population and HIV/AIDS 0.6% (from 1981 to today).”
So, they knew this was one of the least deadly pandemics over the last 2000 years and at the same time pushed to shut down economies all over the world and impose all these draconian “social mitigation” policies – to set the world stage for… ta da… The Great Reset, an accelerated green (and social and governance) transformation. We were massively manipulated and lied to, I believe.
To keep this blog post from getting overly long, here’s one final point about, what I refer to as these Dem/liberal media repetitive messaging spin attacks – they’re always about setting and driving a narrative. Schwab’s Book 2 to the Great Reset is called, The Great Narrative. The left keeps hitting us with talking points and narratives to incite us, to evoke emotional responses and especially to sell fear, because fear is one of our most powerful responses. Here’s Schwab in the conclusion to the Great Reset:
“Two points are pertinent to the Great Reset in this:1) our human actions and reactions are not rooted in statistical data but are determined instead by emotions and sentiments – narrative drives our behaviour; and 2) as our human condition improves, our standards of living increase and so do our expectations for a better and fairer life.”
Setting and driving these narratives is the lifeblood of the Left’s effort to fundamentally transforming the world. Mass media is probably their largest megaphone, but they have also targeted the educational system and entertainment, because those are also big drivers of our culture.
With that video about the COVID fatality rate above, what Trump was saying was information he obviously heard in meetings with the “experts,” but then the media and “experts” went into a full-blown spin effort attacking him – even though assuredly, most of those experts knew he was right. This is what we’re up against with the “expert” class in America, especially the COVID rulemaking crowd.
I’ve thought a lot about my Miss Rules personality since 2020 and I’m going to speak up more. And I hope more people begin to ask questions and reject all these efforts to silence views and information that run counter to the Dem/liberal media narrative.
We all should be free to challenge “The Narrative”.
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8/27/2023 NOTE: I wanted to add this bit of information about that video with the hype about the 3.4% fatality rate from the WHO. Timelines matter and this was the spun up hysteria to scare people into complying with all sorts of draconian “social mitigation” policies, including shutting down the economy in March 2020.
Here are a few links to 3.4% fatality stories from early March 2020:
The WHO Estimated COVID-19 Mortality at 3.4%. That Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought
Trump disputes WHO’s 3.4 percent global death rate for coronavirus
Here’s a February 27, 2020 story about how China was handling their COVID outbreak:
Sealed in: Chinese trapped at home by coronavirus feel the strain
There were reports of people in China being literally welded inside their apartments. Here’s an article that says it did happen according to a Chinese paper, but the government decided it was an overreaction:
Were COVID-19 patients in Wuhan welded into their apartments to enforce the lockdown?
Information coming out of China is often hard to verify.
Here’s an article on their zero Covid policy:
What Is China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy?
So, for over two years people in China were living under these crazy lockdown policies, but in 2022, a deadly apartment fire in Shanghai led to protests and the government finally started easing some of their restrictions:
How a deadly apartment fire fueled anti-zero-COVID protests across China: ANALYSIS
I’m adding all this information about China for a reason. The policies that America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many European countries adopted after that WHO alarmist 3.4% fatality rate was dramatically wrong. The actual fatality rate is well under 1%.
Iran temporarily released prisoners due to COVID and then very quickly there were liberals in America proposing that. NJ did release prisoners.
Here’s the March 3, 2020 story about Iran:
Coronavirus: Iran temporarily frees 54,000 prisoners to combat spread
Here’s a March 24, 2020 story:
New Jersey Set to Release Up to 1,000 County Jail Inmates
Why was America adopting COVID policies from authoritarian regimes with terrible human rights records and also regimes where they routinely cover-up human rights abuses?
Even more disturbing in 2022, the Washington Post had a tech reporter still supporting China’s zero Covid policy and believes the US should adopt that policy:
WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz defends China’s ‘zero-COVID’ policy while blaming US for killing ‘millions’ by reopening
The new “zero” hysteria is Net Zero… and I fear the radical policy prescriptions for Net Zero will be even more deadly and draconian than the zero COVID efforts.
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