Well, guys, it looks like America gave up and threw all concepts of better safe than sorry out the window and decided to do nothing. We’re sick of all the COVID this COVID that and instead of making basic, minimal efforts to protect ourselves, decided to embrace what is likely becoming a more and more endemic reality.
Watching China fail has been interesting from afar–obviously draconian measures like that would never be sustainable–people do not like being locked in and permanently barred from living their lives. Without the vaccine protection we had, they are likely to suffer even worse outcomes medically than even we are careening towards. Without any training for their bodies to recognize and fight that virus, they aren’t going to be in a great place to do it. It is China though, so you can only take what they reveal with a grain of salt–there’s no chance they will admit to any failures, and an even lesser chance these failures will be accurately presented by their government. Maintaining the appearance of competency by exerting full control is a prerequisite for a communist dictatorship, and any moments of acquiescence to mistakes made would be just that, fleeting and momentary. Certainly there will be no grand reckoning–they have the population so fully in control that spaces for that are pretty impossible.
We still never got COVID, and it’s not because we haven’t been around any public or people, though I definitely was hesitant to shop in the store myself during the Christmas rush. I did it, I needed stuff clearly, but there were a few times I had people do my shopping for me to avoid some of the more prolific times. I still wear a mask, always, of course. To me it’s a basic simple non-sacrifice of myself and my efforts. It is base level caring about other people, and yes, caring about myself and my family to the level where I will practice better safe than sorry.
I continue to see misinformation printed about the vaccine killing people–ironically the thing people blame the vaccine for are the exact same predicaments COVID creates. Remember, and keep in mind I found this information nearly 3 ENTIRE years ago–that COVID causes kidney failure, blood clots, early onset Alzheimer’s, MS and ALS. Keep in mind it has been shown to cause diabetes and one of the the most frightening realizations…the damage COVID does also causes mental illness. That certainly is no help in a country that is already prone to mental weakness and inflexibility. It certainly is no help in a country chock full of guns either.
So are people going to look back at us and know that our narrative was fucked up, misinformed and something we were too ignorant to recognize? Or are we ever going to largely correct ourselves? I know, that would require an admission of wrongness, of something many people are not able to do, but it would serve humanity to allow people to change their minds without ridicule.
Many people were VERY fucking wrong about COVID, but as I’ve said, my historical perspective on it I got from reading about it being a SARS virus, and what vs 1 did, which was all of those things I illustrated above aside from mental illness, and kidney issues. I didn’t really find evidence of that at all. Again, its presentation reminds me of some of the worst aspects of my connective tissue disorder (ACTA2). I became mildly obsessed as it was a time I was not working and had been freshly mildly retired-I had quit a job that started to affect my general health too much and knew I had to have this open heart surgery that got delayed a bit.
So by the way. I have had heart problems. I just had open heart surgery a little over 7 months ago. I had 4 shots by September. I wear masks in every public space. I wear glasses most of the time and will scoot out of the way of most people and am generally taller than most, too. My husband also does this. I also have that medical grade air filtration in my house, too. I justify it as another set of lungs to fully clean all the shit out of the air. I have not had to take a test since I left the hospital–there have been a few days I sneezed a few times and maybe coughed a few too, but nothing that lasted. I credit my extra lungs, the air filters for that. The vaccine also has its uses obviously–I am on blood thinners and test the thinness of it often enough to generally not worry about any blood clots. Moving as much as you can also helps that.
The point I am making here is that as someone predisposed to many of the heart problems that people are crediting vaccination for–if it was going to happen so easily, it would likely have happened to me. All of this blaming for adverse reactions to the vaccine–I get it, of COURSE it has happened. But the frequency is often misrepresented–there has never been a vaccine so quickly dispersed and made in such large quantities before–all of the data coming in at the same time for billions of shots would of course have some adverse reactions. Generally speaking a healthy person would not–and I am certainly not a healthy person, but my risk factors and my early research presented me with opportunity many of you did not get. I did try to share as I could, but my suggestion that the former President would likely expire of his COVID infection before next election completed was shot down as hate speech. Again. I didn’t wish it. I just suggested it was a likelihood. It’s also one with the current though senility would be hard to overcome bc of that infection…but yes. I am still banned off Twitter. Election deniers and people suggesting people died of the vaccine totally cool. A prediction it will hurt someone who so publicly got it, nope.
Get the fucking jab and the boosters, people. Eventually you hope the government comes up with the solution and figures out a way to sell it to other governments, but usually there has to be a greedy sociopath at the top trying to glean the opportunity and putting up roadblocks in the way of all regular progress.
Again, that vaccine is just training for your body to fight a virus humanity didn’t have the know how to fight–most people’s egos are normal-sized and can admit training is always better than having none when starting a new job.
Remember.
NOT EVERYTHING WITH SOCIAL VALUE IS PROFITABLE…just like
NOT EVERYTHING PROFITABLE HAS SOCIAL VALUE
this is why you hope the vaccine CEO’s burn in hell forever.