Coronavirus Over Reaction: The Die Is Cast?

It's time to talk about precedence. 

The real battle has only begun and that's the fight to untangle all the disinformation and bad science that drove governments and people to panic and enact draconian measures some of which have never been tested or tried in history.

New strains of viruses surface every 10 or 20 years (think Hong Kong and Russian flu) yet we've never shut down economies or quarantined healthy people. The odd part about the lockdown - among many irrational reasons - is that we forced people to stay in. Where viruses do their most damage. We told people not to go outside. Which is what we should have done.

Then we jumped on this ridiculous mask parade to 'stop the spread'. I've discussed this ad nausem here and will just reiterated that can't be proven and masks don't work based on randomized, controlled studies. New studies have not been able to refute the large body of evidence that concludes this fact.

On two fronts the public was misled through endless propaganda, ads and medical practitioners who pimp out pseudoscience. 

Not sure how? Don't have the interest or time to read the studies? It's ok. one way to know there's no science to back up their claims is just observe how they talk. They always rely on emotional lingo as opposed to hard scientific facts and data. The other useful thing to remember is to look for words like 'may' or 'can' or 'could' or 'suggest' in media article. As in , 'masks may lead to herd immunity'. 

The main bad precedences we've set - both rooted in bad science - are the lockdowns, masks and contact tracing. The trifecta of a civil liberties abuse. Even the WHO didn't recommend these measures citing they're not necessary and impractical.  Why they switched deserves and demands an explanation. We know the WHO is a complete mess now influenced by China. The question is how do we deal with this relationship moving forward?

And now we know they don't work.

We've never gone this far  before. We've never outright ignored established like we have.

This is troubling onto itself but we continue to double down. All we're set to accomplish is to psychologically traumatize and anger people. 

Is this the 'new science' where every single season we mask up, social distance, divide our world with plexiglass and shut down?

It's irrational superstition. It's embracing the fog of fear.

We've misread the data and misapplied measures every step of the way and still officials project with failed models. It was nothing but a panic. What happens if we have a mild flu fall? They begin to scare people for the winter? They should not be letting people live like this. It's not a life waiting around in masks for a vaccine.

The virus is simply not as lethal was first thought. It's indeed racing towards behaving like the flu and other coronaviruses. I don't even know if it met Koch's Postulates. Has it been isolated and determined it causes Covid-19?

A virus doesn't care about policies. We've scapegoated and destroyed industries only to now shift towards homes (which always was and always be the mains source of transmission as we know from the common cold and flu). Do officials back off? Nope. They threaten to come door to door. The choose to shadow box with a virus that's likely been swirling since August of 2019 and we've probably have more resistance to it than we think. It's just putting the finishing touches in the living room where it plans to hang out for good. So we'd better learn to accept and live with it - sans vaccine.

The pure nonsensical behavior of Australia, the UK, the United States and Canada (led by Quebec and Ontario) is going to be studied for years to come. 

They stole people's right to a living. Ontario now has curfews. Even the way masks are used in a community setting if one cares to observe carefully condemns it to failure as all randomized, controlled studies have always warned. It's a challenge in medical settings imagine in society at large. In other words, it has no impact at all because in order for it to work you need to NEVER touch it, dispose of it properly in a biohazard built unit, be in constant use, and with over 80% compliance.

On what planet are all this public officials to think this is remotely feasible? 

How does any of this make sense? 

Once this settles, the true work begins. Disentangling the mess the media and public officials have made. We will have to work hard to ensure we avoid such dramatic responses. We need to be wiser next time around.

Nor should they be able to get away with any kind of 'what we didn't know!' excuses. We can give them March and maybe April. But once the data came in they refused to evolve with it and insisted on doubling down acting like it was still March. By that point, it was sheer fear and incompetence driving their irresponsible decrees. 

History must drop the hammer on them for it.

We're at the Rubicon. Let's not cross it.

*Depicted. Dr. Vera Etches Medical Officer of Health for Ottawa. An image of hysterical pseudoscience personified. If she behaves this way, then it's no secret why we're mired in this rut. 

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Depiction of public officials at work:

https://www.iedm.org/in-2019-the-world-health-organization-argued-against-lockdowns/

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