You know, I don’t know the circumstances most of you are living in, but it occurred to me to comment that by and large I have left my house daily since early April, worked on job sites where no one was wearing a mask, had beers regularly in bars which were not social distancing very well (no masks of course), and all has been fine. I flew on a jet out West a few weeks back. They had everyone wear masks and kept the middle seats open except for families, but it was otherwise the same.
In other words, I have been out there in the world so many seem scared of any more, with zero problems. None. Not one, not since March, in any event.
I was actively trying to get this thing back in March, and I’m reasonably sure I succeeded. It was no big deal for me. I had one day sick sick, then three weeks of a mild dry cough. No pain to speak of. I’m under 55 and healthy. I take vitamins and supplements every day, get enough sleep, take walks in the sun, and exercise regularly. Anyone like me should have the same experience.
This fear the media and politicians are inflicting on us has become criminal. I was scared in December, January, February, and part of March. Then I got it,I think, and statistics also started emerging and it became obvious the whole thing was overblown. That was obvious to those with eyes to see in March, in my view.
We now think we know that 90% of people who get it are not infectious, and that only 6% of those who die from it do so without major comorbidities, and that even most of those 6% are either made up numbers, or elderly who had otherwise been in good health.
In other words, there exists NOW no reason to continue this bullshit.
(China, by the way, is either using HCQ–which would be the smart play–or telling people to look like they are having fun, then whisking anyone who comes up later COVID positive to wherever they take the people who just stop showing up to work one day.)
The lockdowns were at first an overabundance of caution, then a likely overreaction, then a definite overreaction, then stupidity, then reckless, and have now become criminal. We are being murdered by our own governments. Cancer screenings are not being done. People are losing their long term jobs for the long term. People are succumbing to despair and depression in a variety of obvious and less obvious ways. Mass starvation is an enormous threat to the less rich countries, and hunger and hurt a present and ubiquitous reality.
There always need to be people who push the rules. There always need to be people who wonder “what happens if. . .” . Many of them die. Many of them get hurt. But many of them discover that we are being told a Big Lie (like “The Earth is flat”) and that when you break the rules, when you cross the boundary, nothing happens, or nothing happens to most.
Maybe we needed this manufactured disaster for most Americans–and indeed the world–to wake the fuck up, and realize what a precarious position we are in, how advanced and effective the tools of political surveillance and suppression have become, and how we are on the brink of a global Superstate that cannot be avoided and cannot be overcome.