Category Archives: COVID-19

COVID Derangement Syndrome

sunbeam May 13, 2021 Comments Off

Morning Consult’s recent Return to Normal poll returned some eyebrow raising results: the vaccinated are considerably less comfortable doing basic human things than the unvaccinated.

To be sure, the vaccinated are already a self-selected group of risk-averse people, but this is still a ridiculous result. Why did you get the vaccine if you didn’t think it made it safe for you to go out, to go to a restaurant, to go to the movies, for heaven’s sake?

West Virginia To Bribe People

sunbeam April 27, 2021 Comments Off

On Monday, West Virginia’s Governor Jim Justice offered a bribe to get people aged 16-35 to get vaccinated. Specifically, he offered a $100 savings bond as an incentive to get jabbed.

Why? It appears that the fact that serious side effects have been observed in a small part of the population is diminishing the fervor of people to step up and offer themselves as guinea pigs in this great socialist experiment. Certainly, the fact that the recovery rate among this age group is 99.9996% is also a factor among those deciding to not get jabbed.

Climate Change Is The Next Pandemic

sunbeam April 24, 2021 Comments Off

The effectiveness of fear about the COVID virus is diminishing. More and more people are seeing through the hysteria that was built up around it. More and more people are coming to understand that the virus is little different from the seasonal flu. The fear porn was used to control large segments of the population in this country and around the world. Basic human liberties were stripped away under the guise of protecting the public.

Dr. Tom Woods has been an invaluable source for exposing much of the nonsense about masks, lockdowns, etc. Such mitigation measures have proved to be entirely ineffective and quite deleterious to the public at large.

Recently Dr. Woods produced a post that touched on the next great cudgel that will be used to beat the public into submission. That is climate change. The Avatar in the White House recently exposed the left’s plan on this with his call to “climate refugees.”

Project Veritas has done their usual excellent job in uncovering those who would attempt to dupe the public over this. Dr. Woods helps to expose this with his post which is reproduced below.

Disinformation

sunbeam April 19, 2021 Comments Off

I found an interesting post over the weekend that I am sharing below. In my opinion, more and more Americans are seeing through the disinformation campaign that is put on by the Democrats and their media allies. Conversations that I have regularly with people has a common theme. That is, one cannot trust anything that the media publishes.

I will refer to the author as Sylvester.

We. Don’t. Know. Anything.

All of us are being subjected to such a blizzard of propaganda and disinformation that you nor I can make any, real assessment of what Americans really think about much of anything. ...

A Conspiracy Or What?

sunbeam April 12, 2021 Comments Off

We have heard a lot about “vaccine passports.” Completely unconstitutional, of course. But considering how freely the Washington political hacks ignore the Constitution, it would not come as a surprise to me if the current administration would coerce people into using such an item. They would probably create the necessary intimidation under the guise of a public health emergency. Some media bobblehead recently advanced the idea that racism was a public health emergency. So anything is possible.

The White House press secretary has denied that the idea of vaccine passports. However, there are numerous anecdotal reports that the administration (sorry, I will not refer to it as the Biden administration since it is clear that he is not running anything) is quietly working with major companies on how to implement such a system.

New York State has already announced such a system, Excelsior Pass. This would seem to be the proverbial trial balloon. However, I think in this case, it is more of do it in NY first and then spread it across the country. This is the first, clear step toward subjecting people to controls over when and where they travel, whom they associate with, what places they can go into, etc. NY State is not mandating it. However, the intimidation factor is clear. You will not be allowed to participate in society if you do not get jabbed.

This leads me to the whole issue of the vaccines. I have never accepted the idea that COVID-19 was particularly dangerous. While it was not clear in the beginning just what the mortality rate was, it was clear early on that there were efficacious treatments literally sitting on the shelf.

The New Normal

sunbeam April 5, 2021 Comments Off

More and more people are waking up to the fact that fear of COVID-19 is being used to fundamentally transform America. First amendment liberties were stripped away across the country to fight a virus that is no more deadly than the flu. In fact, as more and more data comes out, it turns out that the only people who should be really concerned about this virus are the same people who are more susceptible to complications from the flu.

However, the left is not yet ready to give up.

(VIA CBS) “We’ve been told that this virus will disappear. But it will not,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and medical director of the National Foundation For Infectious Diseases, tells CBS News.

“We need to control it. We need to diminish its impact. But it’s going to be around hassling us for the foreseeable future. And by that I mean — years.”

[…] Schaffner says it would be best to give up the idea of going “back to normal,” and instead settle in for the “new normal” where COVID continues shaping our lives. (read more)

Things that Make You Go…Hmm

sunbeam April 3, 2021 Comments Off

In the trial for Derek Chauvin over George Floyd’s drug overdose death, one of the issues is the so-called tolerance to higher and higher doses of the drugs in question. Keep in mind that Floyd had more than three times what was considered a fatal dose in his system. An addict who is using regularly needs more and more of the drug in question to experience the “sweet spot” high that he/she was able to achieve more easily when he/she first started using. However, the body’s tolerance to the depression of the respiratory system does not move in lockstep with the “high” effect. Thus the window of “safe” drug use becomes smaller and smaller before the respiratory system becomes overwhelmed and stops working.

Addicts who are irregular users (was George Floyd one of these?) can be much more likely to overdose because they will not know just what they need to achieve the desired drug effect. Fentanyl is particularly problematic in this regard.

More COVID Insanity

sunbeam April 2, 2021 Comments Off

Dr. Tom Woods has posted again about the insanity going on with our so-called medical experts within the Washington establishment.

Orwellian Ideas

sunbeam March 31, 2021 Comments Off

Dr. Tom Woods continues to be a great source for COVID-related stories. Every time the Left gets too far out over their skis, he is there to expose them and their allies in the media. Below is another such post from Dr. Woods.

The Orwellian proposals keep piling up, and Ron DeSantis continues to be a hero.

When Joe Biden hinted weeks ago at the possibility of further lockdowns, DeSantis spoke to the press and said that that would absolutely not be happening in Florida.

When it sounded as if Biden might restrict travel to Florida, DeSantis pledged to resist.

Oh, and by the way: the anti-Florida ghouls are reduced to claiming that DeSantis must be suppressing Florida’s true numbers.

Ha, yeah, that’s plausible! So this theory is that the hospitals in Florida are actually bursting at the seams with COVID patients, but we can’t know that because the official numbers aren’t reliable?

I see. So every single hospital is in on the grand conspiracy, too? Not even one bit of anecdotal evidence of hospital overflow has managed to escape a single hospital?

It’s almost sad what the Doomers are reduced to.

In a way it’s encouraging, though: these people cannot explain Florida’s numbers without dreaming up wild conspiracies. That means they’re implicitly admitting that Florida’s numbers are great. Otherwise they wouldn’t need to be explained away.

Well, now DeSantis is resisting vaccine passports — the Orwellian idea proposed by whoever is running Joe Biden — as well.

“It’s completely unacceptable,” he said. “You want to go to a movie theater, should you have to show that? No. You want to go to a game, [or] a theme park? No. So we’re not supportive of that.”

He is pledging to take executive action, as early as today.

As Jeff Deist put it, “No private business or industry would require vaccine passports without state sanction and a strong assist from lapdog media to overcome the terrible PR optics. It’s a sick and crazy idea.”

Meanwhile, check out media coverage of Florida. The New York Times just ran an article about rising “cases” in one of the four states in this chart. Which one do you suppose it was?

(Dark blue is New York, light blue is New Jersey, green is Michigan, and pink is Florida.)

(Source: Financial Times analysis of data from the Johns Hopkins CSSE.)

Yes, they looked at those lines and decided to write an article about Florida’s “rising cases.”

Meanwhile, back on this planet, here’s a comparison they won’t make (but thanks to @yinonw on Twitter for making it):

Now which governor is facing a recall vote due to his absolutely inept handling of the COVID scam? Hint: It’s not the one where the state unemployment rate is 4.7%. Of course, you will not hear this from the NYTimes or WaPo. The prospect of a recall election does not fit with their narrative of how good a job the blue state governors have been doing. ...