I told friends and family to avoid the vaccine unless they had a significant comorbidity. Asthma? Smoker? Black? Get the vaccine. Over 70? Get the vaccine. Otherwise? Unknown risk far outweighed the purported benefit.Bruce » 28 Jul 2023, 3:26 pm » wrote: ↑ Covid caused excess deaths.
As in, died before their time.
Governments exist to help their people.
So of the 190 or so nations on this earth Russia denied it was a problem and North Korea claimed to not have Covid and the Chinese had horrendous restrictions, the most severe on earth.
I supported what Donald Trump’s Covid firefighters suggested we all do.
And I never caught Covid. I am not among the sick or dead. I’ve had five shots, and I’ll get six this fall.
Did you do your part?
The hype and authoritarian **** that came with this virus was the **** part of it.Vegas » 28 Jul 2023, 1:03 pm » wrote: ↑ I am not saying that Covid wasn't real. I am saying the fear behind it was fabricated to make make billions for the rich and powerful. It worked. This **** always works for the elite because people don't know how to think.
- Businesses didn't need to shut down.
- The economy didn't need to shut down.
- The vaccines were not needed.
- Masks weren't even needed.
- Social distancing was a joke. People stood 6 feet apart in line at the airport, then packed themselves in planes like sardines. LOL.
Vegas » 28 Jul 2023, 1:03 pm » wrote: ↑ I am not saying that Covid wasn't real. I am saying the fear behind it was fabricated to make make billions for the rich and powerful. It worked. This **** always works for the elite because people don't know how to think.
- Businesses didn't need to shut down.
- The economy didn't need to shut down.
- The vaccines were not needed.
- Masks weren't even needed.
- Social distancing was a joke. People stood 6 feet apart in line at the airport, then packed themselves in planes like sardines. LOL.
You are pretty close in the unanswered questions. 40% completely asymptomatic is a little low from studies I have read. They suggest that the number was closer to 60- 80% asymptomatic or mild enough people didn't know they were infected.Bruce » 28 Jul 2023, 7:49 pm » wrote: ↑ If not for the politics, there are so many questions to be answered.
China is a somewhat closed society but not completely.
One sick traveler to Wuhan from anywhere on earth could be patient zero. But did Covid leak from a lab or did Covid cross over from an animal at the Wuhan wet market? Or did a traveler to Wuhan bring it?
Why did about 40% of positive cases have no symptoms?
Why did France and Italy at first report a near absence of heavy cigarette smokers in Covid wards?
Why did each strain of Covid become more contagious and less deadly?
Rumor is often much stronger than sound science. The wealthiest man in Polk County Missouri refused a new scientific treatment and died, and his wife took it and lived. Both contracted Covid a year and a half after they ought to have been vaccinated. Why did people play Russian roulette with their own lives?
But the biggest mystery is, in early 2003 Covid just went away all around the world as a pandemic. There are still scattered cases, but declining. It might go completely away, become extinct.
Some unlucky bastard may be the world’s last Covid death. If he’s in the Western world, they’ll have a name.
Otherwise not.
More striking was the media calling Trump a serial killer a week before the George Floyd "murder" for holding open air rallies. When millions of people stopped socially distancing to protest police brutality those concerns instantly vanished.Z09 » 29 Jul 2023, 8:25 am » wrote: ↑ Excellent...
As soon as Trump left the media had less and less interest in Covid..
I recall CNN having a chart on the screen all day..
As soon as Biden was elected it disappeared