Going back to March 2020, I lamented the lockdowns and all the other grotesque deformations of the past year or two, unleashing unbounded social, economic, and psychological harm just to show fealty to a new ideology, or theology, called safteyism. The work ethic was euthanized for many. Kids were allowed to cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally atrophy. Labor and capital entered a forced coma; no wonder supply chains are frazzled and inflation is enflamed – it’s more than the Democrats’ and the fed’s overheated money machine. The same people who wrecked community life across the country also wrecked our public square. The streets were set afire in riots and raging crime, and littered with filthy tent encampments, needles, and feces. The year(s) of COVID were made into a dark age.
Assisting in the civilizational collapse, the Biden gang persists in a collective Retinitis Pigmentosa (tunnel vision). All they can see is vaccine, and force everyone, literally everyone, to get it. It’s coercive utopianism. They are fruitlessly forcing a naturally heterogenous population on medical practices into being an imaginary homogeneous one. In the end, 15-25% won’t get it, no matter what, but we’ll be forced to endure the threats, mandates, and the loss of many of the basic functions of life in pursuit of the unattainable. It’s foolish.
An obvious alternative exists. It’s the same one during any health scourge: get vaccinated if you choose, stay healthy, and if you catch the bug, rest at home, see a doctor, and seek many of the prescribed and over-the-counter treatments. Curling up with a couple of glasses of cognac probably wouldn’t hurt.
Thus, therapeutics are a big part of epidemiology if we can escape the mental prison of vaccine-only, and our big wheels jettison their commitment to sucking the air from therapeutics and toward their favorite pet of vaccine-only. Anti-malarial drugs such as Atovaquone show promise. Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck and Biotherapeutics’ Molnupiravir are medications that don’t require the intravenous apparatus of the monoclonal antibodies. But the FDA is dragging their feet in granting them the same emergency authorization that it did for the vaccines.
Really, let’s face it, the masking, social distancing, and avoidance of crowds should be limited to the vulnerable and frightened. Home delivery, curbside pickup, and Zoom are for them. For everyone else, go to work, got to school, shop, attend a game, see a movie, hit the gym, and pay a visit to grandma and grandpa. Stop forcing all of society to bend to the will of the small portion who can’t physically or emotionally handle it.
RogerG