New Calls for Lockdown Are Out of Touch with Reality
Working class and the poor do not have the privilege of watching Netflix at home, believe it or not.
I have long expected half the world`s grocery shop workers to die.
If lockdown logic holds true, they can only be considered the sacrificial lambs of our age. They cannot stay home. They cannot avoid talking to hundreds of hundreds people daily. Indoors.
If you believe in lockdown and its logic that it will save countless lives, then at least you should acknowledge the corollary of your logic.
Your precious lockdowns must necessarily expose some people to mortal danger whilst saving the likes of you, who can work remotely and tell your covid recovery stories on Instagram and Facebook.
In South Africa, and around the world, people live in slums. People have to travel on taxis and buses. Yet the middle and upper class who have the rare luxury of spending days on end at home isolated somehow believe that this luxury equates to some kind of virtue.
This is not a healthy belief. The notion that locking life down is ever a viable option must be thoroughly discredited if it is not to be wielded again by our bureaucratic overlords.
If you are South African, and if you are to fill your days with dread and apprehension regarding current events, youth unemployment and youth chaos should consume all your fears. Three quarters of young people are not in college or employed. That is a recipe for bloody revolution and genocidal scapegoating.
Yet there are still affluent folk out there whose focus is on shutting down schools and restaurants - possibly every three months in perpetuity - as waves of covid, or waves of positive pcr tests rather, return, retreat, and return.
It is these same affluent folk who tell us their stories about catching covid on their social media, warning us to take it seriously. I apologise - but unless you were hospitalised, you literally had a bad cold… I do sympathise. I hate feeling sick. And being sick in a pandemic is no fun at all. But such stories should not be driving our ongoing revolution of insanity.
I recall one winter, when I was 18, getting a bad case of flu at university and spending a month in bed, with fevers that had me hallucinating George Bush had sent CIA spies to get me. No joke. But Instagram did not exist yet for me to give you the live updates. And life continued. I am sure tens of thousands died of that same strain of flu that year. Yet the world kept turning.
How many people have died in total since covid apparently began?
You might be surprised to learn a massive number of 85 million people have died.
Over that time we have had roughly 4 million covid deaths recorded, but by now you should really be aware of the fact that in most countries covid deaths are completely over-counted and largely consist of elderly people or people who were highly susceptible to any respiratory virus. Hence the fact that the median age of covid deaths is above life expectancy. (There is also the mysterious disappearance of the flu to take into account.)
I keep saying this. I have to repeat it though.
We KNOW lockdowns will cause starvation around the world. Even the UN admits starvation is doubling.
NOBODY KNOWS for sure whether lockdowns work. This Stanford Professor of Medicine has described lockdowns as the greatest public health error of all time - yet we still have journalists out there telling you to lock yourself at home!
Peru has had the most deaths per capita AND the hardest lockdown. And grocery workers were not wiped out during any country`s hard lockdowns. Nor have airline hostesses been dropping down dead, by the way.
Here`s an interesting story from last year - at the height of the panic in New York, the governor admitted that he could not explain why data from 100 of his hospitals showed that 66% of all admissions were people who had been isolating at home. Those in prison were actually doing fine. Maybe they watch less CNN there? It could also be that locking people up is not good for their health.
“If you notice, 18% of the people came from nursing homes, less than 1% came from jail or prison, 2% came from the homeless population, 2% from other congregate facilities, but 66% of the people were at home, which is shocking to us,” Cuomo said.
“This is a surprise: Overwhelmingly, the people were at home,” he added. “We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home.”
By the way, if you parse through hospital reports from New York for 2020 (which for my sins I have done), you will find that at no stage were the hospitals ever full. But that was made obvious by the fact that the field hospitals were never really used, nor the navy ship they docked in the harbour.
German media are finally covering the scandal in their own country of hospitals lying about their capacity.
And because nobody learned from, or even remembered stories like the above, we still hear calls for lockdowns and continued distancing all around the world.
The logic that is sometimes used is that we must distance until we can get vaccinated.
I have a problem with this.
First of all, it is not and is never going to be feasible to keep life locked down and distanced while governments and corporations roll out vaccines for everybody every six months. (They are not one-off jabs. That is why first world countries are ordering so many doses.) At some point natural immunity and health and treatment development is going to have to be relied upon - as we do for HIV today, a far deadlier virus. To lockdown every wave whilst we catch up on vaccines is insane.
Second, the vaccines have not been approved for children, because they do not have full approval, as they are new drugs which are experimental. They have emergency use approval only. Which, until now, meant you only took the drug if there was an emergency to your health. Yet now we have, all around the world, children being vaccinated under severe social pressure.
We KNOW that Covid is not a threat to the young and healthy. We KNOW that. We also KNOW that the vaccines, at minimum, have higher risk profiles than other vaccines and a lot of unknowns regarding long term effects for young people.
It is therefore WRONG to tell the young to carry unnecessary risk for the elderly. Doctors treat patients, not populations. If they didn`t, quietly killing you and using your organs to save the lives of six people would be rational. Don`t repeat that line too loudly, by the way, you never know what the Boomers will think of next… After all, nobody seemed to mind watching teen suicide and child abuse rates inevitably soar during lockdowns.
Despite what you think the right line to say is (that vaccines are always safe because of science and studies and…), stories like these ARE happening:
You can read this other shocking story of a healthy 19 year old girl who also died of heart failure after the vaccine here.
I have no idea how many people are experiencing side effects from the vaccines. The official recording system of the US for vaccine deaths suggests the number is very high compared with prior vaccines. I do know you are not allowed to talk about it and that the manufacturers cannot be held liable (which is one of the reasons why only governments can procure the vaccines as they can waive the liability for their citizens).
Here`s an estimate of the numbers in the US from Dr. Peter McCullough, an American professor of Medicine and Vice Chief of Internal Medicine at Baylor University:
“With this program, there is no critical event committee, there is no data-safety monitoring board, and there’s no human ethics committee. Those structures are mandatory for all large clinical investigations, and so the word that’s really used for what’s going on is malfeasance, that’s wrongdoing of people in authority.
“Without any safety measures in place, you can`t see what’s going on…
“Basically it’s the largest application of a biological product with the greatest amount of morbidity and mortality in the history of our country.
“We are at over 5,000 deaths so far, as you know, and I think about 15,000 hospitalizations. In the EU it’s over 10,000 deaths. We are working with the Center for Medicaid (CMS) data, and we have a pretty good lead that the real number is tenfold.
“We have now a whistleblower inside the CMS, and we have two whistleblowers in the CDC,” the doctor revealed. “We think we have 50,000 dead Americans. Fifty thousand deaths. So we actually have more deaths due to the vaccine per day than certainly the viral illness by far. It’s basically propagandized bioterrorism by injection.”
This is a doctor who has chaired vaccine safety monitoring boards. Yet he is baffled by the insane rush to indiscriminately vaccinate everybody. And describes it as terrorism.
This is what the inventor of mRNA vaccines recently said:
I do not think everybody who gets the vaccine is going to drop down and die or anything like that, but it seems to me the side effects are not negligible.
My wife has had covid. I did not distance from her. She got better. I see no reason for us to take the risk of the shot, whatever that risk is, seeing it is highly likely we both have natural immunity - which does last as least as long as vaccinated immunity - against a virus which has the statistical significance of the flu for us.
And now I am becoming something of a leper in polite society. People seem to back away from me when they speak to me here in this rugged pioneering region known as Europe. These are not sickly or elderly people, by the way.
Whatever you may think of the vaccine, do you not find it suspicious how it is marketed and foisted upon us?
Why are young people being offered doughnuts, beer, and marijuana if they get the shot?!? Is this whole drama still about health? I wish I knew.
Many of us retain a childish notion that somewhere out there in another room, wise experts are gathering and discussing global issues in a disinterested, benevolent fashion, and that clever decisions are being made for us.
That is simply not the case.
There is a Latin word for when powerful people get together and make decisions for their own interests. But if you say it out loud, you are ridiculed for believing there may be forces in this world that do not have the interests of everyday people at heart.
And that would be absurd… wouldn`t it?
Chris, thank you for this article, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it (and others)! I have similar concerns to those you have raised, particularly in relation to the censoring of legitimate questions regarding the potential (and actual) harms of vaccines to some, and the necessity of vaccinating those who are mostly in good health. I have seen this particularly in media’s banishing of all fair counterpoints, as in the case of Brett Weinstein’a recent discussion with Dr Malone. For a society that claims to be ‘ruled by reason’ it is a strange response. Have you engaged at all with the Weinstein discussion (YouTube have since taken it down, but it is on Apple Podcasts still)?
On another note: I wondered if you would have some time to help us understand the research of Dr Tessa Lawrie, who is making waves in the acadenic spaces with her considered work on Ivermectin as the best drug for COVID? If you have time, I would so appreciate your reflections on this.
Thanks! Mike