I’m not going to apologize over my focus on politics and Covid lately. It is still the most relevant issue, as it’s being used for overt government control. It is also being used to push a dangerous vaccine that you will have to continue getting year after year, just as you’ve been getting the flu vaccine seasonally. Perhaps I don’t mean you you, but there are plenty of people who get it every year, and this is what will end up happening with the Covid vaccine because Covid is the new flu.
Look at the numbers. Here is a good compilation of them, but they are easy enough to verify on your own. I did. I always do because numbers matter to me. There has been little to no flu this year, and when you go ahead and verify these numbers, you will find noncredible articles with idiotic titles such as “Flu rates have been very low this year. Here’s why.” And then the journalist proceeds to make up some garbage about how well social distancing has worked (just not for Covid) and how yay! we stopped the flu because sooooo many people got their flu jab (because they’re pretending to be British, how cute) and this just happened to be the year when the flu vaccine has an unprecedented 90+% effectiveness rate. I mean, wowie, what a blessing in the year of the Covid pandemic which completely supplanted the flu.
But honestly, I don’t care about the number of infections. Yes, it is relevant that Covid has become the flu, or the flu has become Covid. This alone should have us wondering what is really going on. However, the more important number has been and remains the death rate over the past year. And that is a number you will have a much, much harder time verifying. This is the most relevant number because nobody cares about a high infection rate, if the disease is mild. The common cold has a high infection rate, and few people die from it — elderly people, generally. Yes, it happens. The common cold can lead to heart attacks and/or piggyback infections like pneumonia in susceptible people.
And yet we don’t shut anything down for the common cold. We don’t shut down entertainment, businesses, churches, and holidays for the common cold. Heck, we don’t even shut down restaurants when half the staff is calling in sick with the much more dangerous flu. We just carry on and do what our parents have taught us to do: drink tea and pop vitamin tablets. Our respective governments have convinced us to shut everything down and huddle in our homes because of the supposed high death rate of Covid, not due to its rate of infection.
I live in the U.S., of course, and where do we get our death numbers? From the CDC. The problem is the CDC is usually behind by at least a year when it comes to finalizing death numbers. Where were these up-to-the-day death stats coming from? Well, hospital and coroner reports. Whereas hospitals normally are giant, slow-moving bureaucracies with incompetent people manning their computers, they were suddenly swift and sure and true! The same people who can’t type in a name or address correctly have been retrained by the seriousness of Covid to report that (as of late 2020) there an approximately 10%* excess death rate over the predicted death rate and we know this death rate practically to the day.
That’s a very high death rate. Think about how many people that is. I don’t believe the high number, but I can’t verify it either way. I have anecdotal evidence that I listen and pay attention to, but I can hardly convince others using anecdotes, nor even convince myself. E.g. I have eye-witness accounts that hospitals are doubling numbers. But I also know that people see what they want to see. I know of cases where families insisted their stage-four cancer suffering relatives were put in Covid wards so hospitals could add Covid to the death certificates. But I can’t prove it. Not ultimately.
In the end, I look around me, and I see that few people are taking Covid seriously any longer, and those who thought getting the vaccine would bring things back to normal have already gotten it. The rest won’t unless forced. Why? Well, perhaps this high reported death rate isn’t real to them. Why isn’t it real for them? Perhaps because it isn’t and wasn’t ever real.
But, hey, who am I? I’m just a curious culture watcher who likes numbers and who is very frustrated that I can’t actually verify them. I can only imagine this is how some politicians feel when election results produce a bunch of statistical anomalies, but they can’t challenge the anomalies because the Supreme Court throws out their pleas. An entity operating on a higher plane than they are is controlling the numbers, and what are the little people left to do, but shout at the wind until they get banned from shouting?
This isn’t meant to be depressing. The less I read the news, the less I care about Covid. The closest it has reached me is a daughter who tested positive and has had zero symptoms. I see people operating how they want to, going where they want, doing what they want, and not donning masks. There is only the background worry that as people stop taking it seriously, the “higher entities” will strike back harder.
*What I meant to say here is that the predicted death is expected to increase at a statistical pace at something like 1.6% over the previous year, and according to the data was at closer to 10% higher. Those deaths above the prediction would be considered “excess” deaths.
Jill Domschot 