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I recently tried in vain to argue with a convinced Covidian that, while it was without doubt a deadly pandemic, the actual risk of Covid-19 had been grossly exaggerated by governments, health bureaucrats and the media. “But I’ve seen the fear in people’s eyes when they get tested!” she spluttered (a pathology worker). Which, I replied, is only proof of how unconscionable the propaganda has been, given the almost-certainty that almost all of them would be perfectly fine.
One of the few laudably reasonable voices in the mainstream media on covid has been The Australian’s Adam Creighton. Creighton has regularly set Covidian heads exploding but then he caught covid. Ha! Bet he’s changed his tune now, huh?
Well, no.
Three friends and I, all fully vaccinated, at least according to the prevailing definition, had a week of fever, aches, fatigue and some of us, not me, temporarily lost our sense of taste and smell.
It was unpleasant, but we’d all been sicker before and we’re all back to normal. My Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine, which I had in April, probably helped soften the blow, although a recent research paper found its effectiveness dropped to 13 per cent after six months.
Whatever, it’s obvious vaccines do not stop transmission of Covid-19, which was the only justification, however flimsy, for mandating them.
As Creighton points out, for all the hysteria, it’s notable how few people, even in “covid-ravaged” America seem to know anyone who has actually died from (or more pertinently, with) the disease.
Yet, supposedly nearly half of Americans have supposedly been infected by SARS-CoV-2. Around the world, the figure is as high as one-quarter of the human population who are now “covid survivors”: “a group that includes everyone from obese former New Jersey governor Chris Christie to Europe’s oldest woman”.
My experience with Covid has only underscored the urgency of not just “living with Covid” but preferably forgetting about Covid.
It has been 21 months of rolling restrictions in what can be described only as the greatest, and arguably one of the most destructive, obsessions in world history given the economic and social chaos governments have caused. We urgently need to move on.
To the fury of the covid obsessives, Creighton really does follow the science (unlike a great many publicly lauded “experts”) and correctly notes that almost none of the government measures have stopped transmission. As The BFD has been reporting from the first months of the pandemic, everything from forced masking, to lockdowns, to vaccine mandates and even the vaccines themselves, have done little to “stop covid”.
It was always a hubris on stilts to think restrictions could control a highly contagious virus, as all the world’s pandemic plans from before last year clearly argued.
How then do we escape the doom loop when Pi, Rho and Sigma are just around the corner?
The simple answer is one that Donald Trump correctly identified (and was endlessly vilified for doing so): end mass testing. Encouraging (or worse, forcing) people to be tested when they weren’t even sick, let alone seriously ill, is a waste. It grossly exaggerates the perceived risk (especially given the tests’ propensity for false positives) and costs a fortune to boot.
The US has conducted more than 620 million tests since the pandemic began, even more per capita than test-obsessed Australia. At a cost of a few hundred dollars each, when the whole chain of Covid ticket clipping has been tallied, that’s more than $US100bn spent on testing in the US alone.
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And there’s the rub: someone’s pocketing those hundreds of billions — and you can bet they’re not about to give up that river of gold any time soon.
Nor will media give up what has been an endless source of clicks.
Most importantly, a great many politicians are not about to lightly give up almost absolute power.
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