The Continuing Covidiocy – Opinion

Many of us witnessed in horror how our neighbors and friends, who had shown an unhealthy distrust of government in the past, gave up many of their Constitutional and God-given rights in order to protect them against a deadly virus that many were more likely to survive. Many became paranoid and obsessed with COVID stories, as the media swooped in on them.

Somehow, the “my body, my choice” crowd was demanding others be injected with a vaccine, which they could neither prove would prevent them from getting the disease, nor could they guarantee that the vaccine would not harm those who got it. This same crowd admitted that vaccines could cause harm, while immunizing the pharmaceutical corporations against all claims for any damages.

We’ve watched as elected officials stood at podiums lecturing us po’ folk about our responsibilities, only to shrug those same responsibilities even minutes later. This COVID-induced hysteria is now a country club for virtue. Its members are COVID Thespians, and parade to us the gravity of the situation only to enjoy luxury dinners or rounds of golf, which disregard that same declared severity.

As we have pushed toward ending this madness, time and time again, we’ve been promised if we comply, we will end the pandemic. “Mask up, and we will stop the spread.”  “Vaccinate, and we can end this.” Yet, when the data becomes available from populations that have complied, almost exclusively, their numbers for infections and deaths are as bad or worse than unvaccinated populations. When asked to explain why this keeps occurring, the blame then falls on the minority that did not comply, even though, again, the spread doesn’t seem to be occurring at any higher of a rate than previously described.

If I’m honest, it is totally infuriating. With all the time I spend writing on COVID data, you’d think that people would start listening not just to me, but also to those that have been reporting the facts of this pandemic since the beginning. They instead point out the government as the source of the data. However, the government has refused to make the data available to them. At least 75 percent of the articles which state “the data says…” often don’t include or link to “the data” on which they are reporting. Another 20 percent of articles report that the data says something it certainly doesn’t. The other 5 percent of articles are random journalism acts that report on the facts of the data presented, regardless of whether it offends anyone.

RedState is not immune to my insistence on reporting COVID information, much to some RedState users’ dismay. However, we will continue to use the data provided. In reality, vaccines offer a slight benefit to those who have had their vaccinations, as they protect them from hospitalizations and even death due to previous strains. With Omicron, it appears that protection has all but vanished,  as the government now plays gatekeeper to the data regarding “breakthrough” cases — while demanding those of us begging for the data to fall in line.

People are becoming more aware of COVID-related hysteria. The demands made by the gatekeepers to continue to press for mitigation strategies that prove to be futile in fighting COVID-19 have become absurd. We are treated as crazy by them for refusing to comply with their efforts. Even though many of us did, it didn’t slow down or stop COVID-19.

Some COVID cultists are now realizing that the majority of the pandemic response was a complete blunder. Their former leaders blame those who never gave in to the claims that the cult is responsible for its continued growth. If you look at all of the mandates issued by government and the continued attempts to control it, there is no argument. Masks weren’t necessary, and then they were, and then they weren’t for the vaccinated, and then they were. Vaccines were never going to be mandated, and then they were, and those that were vaccinated didn’t spread it, and then they did. Natural immunity from COVID was not sufficient to make vaccines more effective, but later it became apparent that they weren’t. Vaccines proved to be as effective against Delta and Omicron, as well as equally effective against Alpha. They are all lies.

And they wonder why we don’t listen anymore. The people keep searching for Superman and the government to protect them from the virus. However, the truth is that if it were as bad as they try to make it sound they won’t be able stop it. The real threat to our way of life isn’t COVID or a virus from China. The real threat to our way of life isn’t COVID or a virus from China. It is how Covidiocy continues to expand unabated.

There is a remedy. A vaccine exists. This is known as thinking.