This is a pandemic of the UNPROTECTED AND THE UNTREATED.
Not the unvaccinated . Obviously.
The beauty of talking points it that, as H.L Mencken pointed out, for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, obvious and wrong. That’s an approximate quote.
Talking points distil this basic insight. It is easy to be glib when all you have to do is repeat simple ideas, and this holds equally true if they are wrong. Repeat a simple bad idea that SHOULD be true often enough–and this is really the sort of lie Goebbels meant–and what should be true eventually seems like it IS true.
The psychology of all this is not hard to understand. Falling into error is easy. But it was for some time the purpose of education to teach people to recognize and avoid such errors. Now, it is seemingly the task of education to perpetuate them and the lazy mental habits which sustain them.
Give a person a fish, you feed them for a day. Give them a fish every day, and they are your bitch for life.
Here is an analogy whose value is not fully clear to me but which I will offer anyway: what has been done is much like PROHIBITING people from wearing seat belts, then requiring ambulances to let them sit on the side of the road for an hour if and when they get in accidents. You know, to see if they get better on their own.
The seat belt itself, the protection, the first line of protection, the thing that keeps you from getting thrown out of the car–from getting severe complications, to be clear–is an optimized immune system, if possible, and isolation from potentially infected people if not.
An optimized immune system, at a minimum, WAS KNOWN IN 2020 to include Vitamin D sufficiency, even if there was and remain valid questions about how to define that. We knew and know how to define INsufficiency. We’ve been doing that many years, as in you go in for a blood check, and the doctor says your Vitamin D levels are low and recommends a supplement. I knew people this happened to long before all this COVID bullshit.
We knew zinc was important. I don’t think “we”, certainly not me, knew about such a thing as a zinc ionophore. But we knew that HCQ helped a LOT early on. We still know that. We will never stop knowing that, unless the Democrats get the demonic oligarchy they want, and memory hole all of the present era’s knowledge on the subject.
So, the seat belt, THEN, was at least Vitamin D sufficiency, a healthy weight, and being active. Being fat: bad. Unfastened safety belt. Saying “don’t be fat” would not have made obese people skinny, but it would have provided them a de facto Informed Consent on the risks of carrying a lot of extra body fat around. They would have known to take more Vitamin D, too, which would have made a huge difference.
Now of course the seat belt would be, in my view, daily Turmeric with Piperine (easiest as a supplement), 500 mg Quercetin, 20-25 mg zinc, 1,000 mg Vitamin C, D sufficiency, however you get there, which is probably at least 1,000 iu in the summer and 4,000 in the winter, and optimally Black Seed Oil, which has done well, even if it is understudied. Get regular exercise, saunas can’t hurt, circulate with live human beings regularly, and talk to them, don’t be too fat, don’t eat shit, and try to keep your Zen about all this.
And the not treating is the decision the AMA and the nations doctors en masse made to just watch people get well or turn blue and wind up in a hospital where their incompetence killed them most of the time.
So, yes, you could ban seatbelts then want to reduce how many miles the average person drove because of the pandemic of traffic deaths, but this is idiocy of the sort Monty Python was created to mock.