Broken but not Unbowed. The March Toward the New and Improved Vaccines.

The disastrous Covid policies of the last three years broke a lot of people, psychologically, emotionally, and mentally.  This woman epitomizes that brokenness such that there is no one classification in the DSM -V -TR to account for this over the top off the wall behavior. 

I live on the other side of this world view which sometime feels like the outback of some futuristic dystopian movie.  

The Coop I belong to has young cashiers that still wear masks. One woman has been doubled masked for three years now.  I forgot what she looks like and now only know her as the doppelganger for Darth Vader.  One manager, double masked, cannot enter a conversation because his voice is so muffled.  He can only grunt and point. 

This panic is pervasive among this group of Covidians (rhymes with Branch Davidians) and I sometimes fear they are in the majority.    

The campaign to terrorize the world population was so successful that many will never recover a rational and balanced perspective of a flu virus.   In this case a virus that has a survivability rate of 99.8%.  

Even de-programming camps may be ineffective and moreover not something those in government, big pharma and the media want to change.   It may be the template for more government lockdowns in our lives and violations of our civil liberties, easily done with a compliant population. 

The insidiousness of these intrusions into our private lives appear to be carefully orchestrated.  For example,  I think there is evidence that most people have lost interest in getting re-injected with a questionable vaccine, although one in which they swear prevented them from being hospitalized with Covid or even cremated.   

Further, I think this hysteria for re-injection can be ginned up again in time for the fall campaign for the new and improved vaccines that will be rolled out by Moderna and Pfizer. 

This week the Washington Post and  The New York Times posted articles that kicked off the new vaccine campaign by suggesting that Covid is on the rise again.    Realistically, the rise is insignificant and what would normally be expected with the advent of fall. However,  it subtlety triggers the Covidians with a gentle nudge back into a relapse into the hypnotic state that has so entranced them over the past three years.   

What I found clever about the article is that the author suggests that most people will experience only “mild symptoms” should they contract Covid.     But the descriptor “mild” and the Covid virus were never linked in the pandemic promotion hysteria that the government, media, and Big Pharma orchestrated.   In fact, the Covidians cannot countenance any suggestion that undermines the sensational emotional investment they made in linking this virus with the Bubonic Plaque.  Because to do so would create such dissonance that might short-circuit some brain cells resulting in a startling realization that they might have been duped.

Here are a few excerpts from the reader comment section of the New York Times article starting with the most recommended:

I tested positive for covid with symptoms that started suddenly with chills, 104+ temp, extreme fatigue, stomach upset, headache. It's been a full week and still not well -- temp is down but loss of smell/taste, fatigue, stomach issues, headaches, dizziness. I was vaccinated 3x. I'm a healthy, middle-aged person who exercises regularly. This virus has literally knocked me off my feet. I usually walk an hour plus/day, can barely make it around the block. Highly urge folks to mask up. This is no joke.

Could someone please define “mild illness.” I don’t consider anything less than hospitalization or death to be “mild.” We need better vaccines!

10-30% of infected people will get long covid.  Most of them will have their lives forever changed and very likely shortened… What happens with long covid?... Brain damage… Heart failure… Kidney failure… Fatigue/post-exertional malaise… If anyone thinks that is mild, I think that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

That is, "mild" can be "... a miserable five days. My legs and arms ached, my fever crept up to 103 and every few hours of sleep would leave my sheets drenched in sweat. I'd drop into bed exhausted after a quick trip down to the kitchen. To sum it up, I'd put my breakthrough case of COVID-19 right up there with my worst bouts of flu. Even after my fever cleared up, I spent the next few weeks feeling low.”

Recovering from my first case of COVID. Symptoms are not fun. Had a few days of fever (probably still have a bit), and now have a very sore throat. Go get your boosters, folks. Keep wearing masks, as appropriate. And if you think you have or have just had COVID, for heaven's sake don't go out in public!!! Pretty sure I know how I got my case.

NYT does no one a favor by publishing articles on covid that doesn't mention long covid risks or masks for prevention. It's a shame that this has become politicized even in one of our top papers. I proudly wear a mask aware that it’s a reminder to everyone around me that covid is still with us because that is the reality

Covid never left the building. The pandemic never ended. The epidemic in the US is ongoing--not "back."… The constellation of negative-but-not-immediately-fatal downsides to getting covid grow in number, and severity. Healthy middle-aged people are dying (in small numbers, but unpredictably) a month or two after recovering from covid, from blot clots and heart valve failure. Pulmonary and cognitive issues are common. Long covid, a catch-all, has a wide variety of symptoms--none of them all that desirable. Taken together, all that makes the case that the wisest course is to stay vaccinated and masked in public places.

Finally, evidence of a religious faith in the efficacy of vaccines regardless of any evidence to the contrary.

Updated vaccines are coming soon. Wearing my N95 until then, at least. Can't say I'm a believer that I have much lasting protection from a booster I received 6 months ago.

Don’t kid yourself! Sick as a dog with COVID in June. Had it in ‘21, double vaccinated and boosted. In bed 5 days - otherwise healthy.

I never stopped masking, and am vaccinated as many times as the government allows middle-aged people who have no risk factors, and I caught Covid from my teenage child spring of 2023… My hope and fervent prayer is that progress is made with the vaccines so that Covid becomes really like a cold. 

Over the past three years reader comments to articles that questioned the  dominant vaccine mythology were censored in the Times.  Today not so much.  I see some fissures in the comments section that would not have appeared even earlier this year that question vaccine effectiveness.  They are routinely dismissed by most other readers, but it’s something to watch.