I can’t really jump into this topic without first asking a basic question which I’m sure most conservatives and many moderates are also asking when it comes to the COVID mandates and the vaccine response:
Why should we take an experimental mRNA vaccine for a virus that 99.7 percent of people outside of nursing homes will easily survive?
This question alone usually explodes the heads of vaccine cultists. Ask any of them what they think the death rate of COVID is and most of them will say 3 percent or more. Why do they believe this nonsense? Well, I would note that the mainstream media never discusses the death rate of COVID; they instead let people make assumptions based on things they have heard in the past from entities like the World Health Organization or the CDC.
The 3 percent stat appears to have come from predictions made by the WHO in January 2020 before the virus had fully hit the U.S., as well as a preliminary study by Lancet. These predictions were pushed forward by the Imperial College of London, a globalist institution that created the complex mandate and lockdown models that nations across the world are now using to control the public. Their models were so utterly wrong that it is bewildering to anyone familiar with statistical theory or medical management.
As it turns out, the death rate for COVID is a mere 0.26 percent of those infected (it was never 3 percent). Nursing home patients with preexisting conditions make up around 40 percent of all deaths. Over 80 percent of all deaths were people over the age of 65. And, according to the CDC, at least 30 percent of all COVID hospitalizations were due to complications associated with severe obesity.
So, if you are not over 65 and you are not obese, then you have very little to worry about from COVID statistically. If you are over 65 and you are obese, then you have around a 0.26 percent chance of dying if you become infected. If you are over 65, obese and live in a nursing home, then maybe you should be worried.
Of course, this is not accounting for places with third-world conditions and nutritional deficits, but this does not seem to matter much either. There is a lot of hype about India right now, but I would bet that when independent studies are released on their death rate, it will be close to 0.26 percent of the infected. The bottom line is, COVID is a non-threat to the vast majority of people, but there is a large group of obsessives out there that seem to want to be afraid anyway, or, they just want us to be afraid.
I am speaking of course about the cult of the woke. We know them by many names, including social justice warriors, snowflakes, puritans, leftists, Marxists, communists, globalists, collectivists, narcissists, etc. Basically, they are some of the worst people on the planet, and while they usually drone on about “institutional racism” that doesn’t exist, or a rape culture that doesn’t exist, or patriarchy that doesn’t exist in western culture (though I’m starting to wonder if maybe we should start one), they have now found a new love in the COVID “crisis.”
Why does this not surprise me in the slightest?
The virtue signaling around the vaccines in particular is incredibly bizarre. There are numerous YouTube videos, TikTok videos, articles and social media posts by people smugly proclaiming their jab status as if they have just been touched by the hand of God as the chosen ones. The propaganda for the jab is also getting weirder by the day. If you don’t believe me, you can see some examples here and here.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I am detecting some serious desperation behind this AstroTurf movement against “anti-vaxers.” No one listens to the cult of woke, no one likes them and no one trusts them to be informed or honest in their agenda. They are the worst cheerleaders the pro-vaccine crowd could ever recruit, but I’m starting to think they are the only cheerleader their movement could dig up.
The mindset behind this behavior could be attributed to some base frailties the average leftist suffers from. First, they have a habit of relying on the government and the system in general to provide their feeling of normalcy. That is to say, they worship the COVID vaccine partly because they see it as their ticket to relative comfort when really they could have taken their lives back any time they wanted.
In my county, there have been only 17 total deaths due to COVID out of 20,000 people and the majority of residents here have been ignoring the COVID mandates for most of the past year. No one wears the masks. No one is using social distancing. And over 70 percent of the population is not vaccinated. Yet only 17 deaths, and we have been free the whole damn time because we chose to be. Leftists choose to be slaves to the system.
Second, leftists always argue from a position of “the majority,” even when they are not the majority. COVID is a tool, like a psychological crowbar used to leverage compliance, because the presumption is that it is a threat to everyone. And, if everyone is threatened by the same bogeyman, then everyone is part of the same monolith, the same collective. And if everyone is part of the same collective, then everyone must fight that bogeyman together in unity. If you do not work with the collective, that means you are working against the collective. “We live in a society,” the leftists arrogantly spit and sneer, “which means you must do what WE say is best for everyone.”
As I already thoroughly outlined above, COVID is not a threat to everyone. It’s not even a threat to more than 0.26 percent of people. We do NOT “live in a society,” at least, we don’t live in their society or under their rules. They don’t care about saving lives, this is just the excuse they need to exert control. Control is what they most desire.
How do I know this? Look at the mania surrounding the very existence of anti-lockdown activists and “anti-vaxers.” Why do these people care so much whether or not we take the vaccine? If it actually works, then they are perfectly safe from us, and when we all die horrible deaths from COVID they can say “we told you so.”
But what if we are right and they are wrong? The science is certainly on our side and has been for the duration of the pandemic. The WHO was wrong, the CDC was wrong, the Imperial College of London was wrong. The anti-lockdown activists were closer to the mark than all of them combined. The masks have been proven to be useless. The lockdowns have been proven to be useless. The death rate predictions were proven to be highly exaggerated. And now the very need for the vaccines is in question.
In terms of the recent mainstream media narrative, we can draw a couple of conclusions: For one, the vaccine rollout is not going according to plan. Every day the media is awash in stories about “vaccine hesitancy” and what the government needs to do about it. This tells me that far too many Americans are refusing the shot, so, the propaganda is being turned up to 11.
I suspect the vaccine virtue signaling is a part of that campaign, or it is at least being encouraged in the mainstream. Don’t you want to be on the right side of history? Don’t you want to be on the “side that cares about people”? Or do you want to be on the “selfish side,” the side that wants to kill grandma, the side that is racist and sexist and nasty and icky?
Another easy conclusion we can draw from the media is that this is not going away, and the establishment intends to press the issue if we continue to defy them. I have seen the suggestion of “force” only gingerly broached the past year, but in the past couple of months, the narrative is becoming more aggressive. The word “force” is appearing more often. The media seeks to remind us that under that law, the establishment could make us take the vaccine. The message? We might as well get the vaccine now so that we can avoid any unpleasantness later.
We all know this is eventually going to end in war, but the elites need a huge ratio of pro-mandate people to effectively subjugate liberty-minded individuals. They don’t have it and it shows.
Woke adherents see all of this same propaganda every day; hell, very few people in America watch mainstream news anymore except the political far left. They hear the message loud and clear: The system is indicating that the vaccines will be mandatory whether by government mandate or by corporate requirement. So, leftists are scrambling to show their allegiance to their god (the state), and act as good little foot-soldiers to gain extra virtue points.
There are many reasons not to accept an experimental vaccine, some of them scientific and some of them based on principle. I would simply point out that many virologists have spoken out on the safety of these vaccines including a former VP of Pfizer, Dr. Michael Yeadon, who along with his peers concluded that no one should take the mRNA vaccines until further testing is done, otherwise there is considerable danger of long-term health effects including autoimmune disorders and infertility.
Beyond the many health concerns, there is the problem of incrementalism. One vaccination alone might not be a big threat. Maybe it’s a gamble that doesn’t end in snake eyes for most people. But what about the next one? And the next one? What about the next 20 jabs? There are now half a dozen different mutations of COVID being mentioned by the government and the media as being potentially resistant to current vaccines and more dangerous than the first iteration of the virus.
This is surely a lie, but it drives home the reality that the mandates are meant to go on forever. If we accept them now, they will never end. Just because you are vaccinated today does not mean you will be free tomorrow.
And, with each new vaccine there arises the specter of vaccine passports. And with vaccine passports there arises the specter of complete government micro-management of people’s lives. Sure, you can choose to not get vaccinated, but the system is going to make certain you suffer for it until you can’t survive without the jab. The vaccine is a stepping stone to tyranny disguised as empathy and duty.
The woke cult adores this kind of environment, however. This is the type of dark slimy cave they like to nest in. The need to control others is an aberration, a mental deficiency common to psychopaths, but in the new world, the control freaks are given justification and free rein. The striking irony here is that these people like to control, but they also like to be controlled. They find comfort and safety in their chains. The world is a scary place, and being independent within it takes courage, mental fortitude and a willingness to learn from our mistakes so that we gain wisdom and experience in the process.
The platitudes and pontificating of the leftist mob are an attempt to avoid the tribulations of real life; their submission to the state no matter how dubious or evil is an attempt to feel safe from their own irrational fears and weaknesses. As the author Robert Anton Wilson once said:
“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.”
