There are perhaps a half dozen red flags in all this COVID bullshit, things which should IMMEDIATELY tell any honest person that we are being manipulated. We can debate who is organizing the manipulation, and to what precise end–although less freedom is the obvious direction–but not the fact of it.
Albert Camus, in “The Plague”, comments (I won’t excerpt the exact quote) when the plague first hit that none of them really knew how many people died of all causes in an average week, month, or year. Yet, this is an obvious question, is it not?
As I have been saying over a year, about 2.8 million people die of something in the United States every year, so any death counts connecting to COVID need to be compared to and reconciled with this number. As I have said on several occasions, if we list deaths “with” COVID–particularly if they are NOT EVEN TESTED, but assumed to be “with” COVID–as COVID related, virtually every old person who dies of old age can be added to the count. Deaths, were our would-be rulers a bit bolder, could have been a million or more. They could have floated over 2 million, with even more audacity. No doubt meetings were held, and the specifics discussed. In private, of course. Invitation only, of course. Plausibility Ueber Alles must have been the rough theme informing the decisions actually made.
But here is the specific point I wanted to make: epidemics are defined as a certain percentage of all deaths. It’s, I think, 6 or 7 percent of all deaths. If some transient cause inflates such that it seems to be killing 6%, say, of all people, that is called an epidemic. If that epidemic is widespread enough geographically, it is called a pandemic. That is my understanding.
Why, then, are the numbers not being cited as a percentage of the total? Why? Because they would be obviously trivial, and all the measures being taken seen as the tyrannical social and political engineering they are patently intended to be.
This “Delta” variant, IF IT EVEN EXISTS, seems to be both more contagious and less lethal. The death rate “with” COVID may only be 1-2% of all deaths, which scarcely warrants ANY response at all, and the true death rate, calculated honestly, “OF” COVID is most likely some small fraction of 1%, and has been for some time–months at least.
This whole thing reeks of irresponsibility and contempt for ordinary people. It seemingly assumes the willing or coerced complicity of the thousands of professionals who should be calling bullshit on all this, but who are afraid to speak up, or part of the gravy train.
All this is why I was so happy to see someone speaking of Collective Psychosis. That is what this is. No intelligent person with a solid high school education should be buying ANY of this. It is a monstrosity, a crime against humanity. It is a crime against intelligence and learning.