Yep, let’s go ahead and say it. Right out front, I want to get this straight. It’s a real disease and people are really dying from it. Everything else you hear about it should get a healthy dose of skepticism. I don’t know any more about this disease than the idiots on the morning news and I don’t even have someone writing copy for me. Does that mean you should trust what I tell you? I guess you will have to decide for yourself – how’s that for a unique perspective?
I am totally convinced that it’s a real virus that came out of a chemical warfare laboratory in China. Was it released intentionally or accidentally? I have no idea. It certainly has been a huge economic boom for China, but I have no way of knowing whether it was an accidental effect or intentionally planned. I suspect we have a better chance of knowing for sure about the Kennedy assassination than we do this story. For now, the jury is still out.
I have tried to get some real facts about the epidemic, but they just aren’t available. General tendencies can be gleaned from the chaff but not enough info to really get the big picture. This morning on the “news” they said yesterday was the biggest new case number in the history of the disease. Reading the fine print below the numbers you see that the “yesterday” they refer to was nearly two weeks ago and that’s today’s tv news.
What do we know? Well, the latest variant is much less deadly than the previous versions so that’s good news. On the other hand, it is much more contagious. Oh well. The vaccines, all of them, drastically improve your chance of not getting really sick if you catch the virus. If you do catch it and survive, you have less chance of catching it again.
Let’s talk about masks. Let me say that I have a different outlook because I just can’t do the mask thing. I have an unrelated disease which won’t allow me to breathe through a mask. I say that just for perspective. “They” said in the earliest days of the disease that the masks keep you from spreading the disease but do very little to protect you from catching it. There has been lots of opinions by everybody including the guy who cuts my grass but very little hard info about effectiveness. I encourage everyone to wear masks if you have any chance of having been exposed. That is for my protection, not yours. I have had all three injections. I don’t think I got the chip, but would they tell you? 😉
What a joke, huh? These folks that are worried about the mythical tracking chip are carrying around a cellphone all the time that no one doubts can be tracked and they are worried about an injected chip? My dog has one, and she doesn’t complain.
One thing we have learned for certain is that when it wants to, our government can do many amazing things that I doubt were intended by the founding fathers. Have you noticed that the current administration has quietly taken credit for all the things the previous administration did to fight the disease? I mean like developing vaccines and getting them distributed and developing treatments? The serious downside is there is no such thing as “temporary emergency” powers when it comes to government. Our current government is using these extraordinary powers for things that help public health, but once established these powers never go away. There will be nothing stopping them from using them for what ever they wish in the future.
I was going to say something about “social media” but I think I’ll save that for another day.
Opinions expressed here are just opinions – exactly like everything the media publishes except that I admit it.
That’s the way I see it. How about you?
