Pandemic, Redefined
What we really have is an epidemic of people who will not admit they were wrong.
We now have a new COVID-19 variant circulating around the world. Named the “omicron” variant, it is being touted as the new threat by various media outlets and government officials. And hardly anyone cares. Do you wonder why?
The complete failure of our establishment institutions to earn our trust throughout the pandemic has led most people to believe that the breathless announcement of the omicron variant is likely a calculated lie designed to prolong the panic. With the realization that the measures taken to contain the virus have not worked, and the continual drumbeat of COVID horror on the evening news being transparently ridiculous, people rightly question the intentions of those who have been proven wrong over and over again.
As a society, we allow for emergency powers to be bestowed on officials in the event of something that needs urgent attention. In response to COVID, and through vague reasoning and a total lack of logic from the “experts” in charge of mitigating the impact of the virus, we have endured the most crushing series of mandates, restrictions and rules that ended up having no societal or public safety benefit. Sickness and death did not lessen, and viral spread went on without pause.
We were told that by taking severe and unprecedented precautions (e.g. masking, social distancing, lockdowns, injecting experimental drugs into our bodies) we would “beat” the virus and “return to normalcy” in short order. The “fifteen days to flatten the curve” reached 600 days this last November, with more COVID restrictions now being proposed - many of which have been previously implemented without generating any of the benefits that were promised.
Is the damage and chaos resulting from these mandates being done intentionally? It’s a fair question to ask given how wrong our “experts” have been over the past two years. When obvious power grabs are taken and unworkable unilateral orders are issued that make no practical sense, the population eventually becomes cynical and suspicious as to the motives of those who run our institutions.
Looking back at the COVID rules and mandates, can you think of anything that has actually benefited the public? Have the “experts” in charge gotten anything correct regarding COVID?
The U.S. Government recently issued a rule requiring all international travelers to submit a negative COVID test within one day of arrival, regardless of vaccination status. The resulting chaos and confusion at the airport does nothing to improve public safety; rather it will discourage international travel and further damage global economic activity. And viral spread will continue like it always does.
Here is the problem with turning decision-making over to “experts”: Human nature intrudes into the process. The premise that the scientific method is going to be the sole decision-making criteria of these “experts” is naïve – these “experts” are human, they are never neutral or disinterested. They are self-serving, arrogant, and often wrong.
Furthermore, having scientists and bureaucrats with narrow fields of expertise making societal-level decisions is a recipe for disaster. Keeping the population safe from COVID is not the only issue – what impact do their proposed measures have on the economy, on our mental health, on our children’s development? Clearly, none of the societal-level issues were considered or, perhaps, they were ignored. Your “experts” at work.
The fear over COVID is rapidly declining. The massive death wave that was predicted did not happen. The lethality of the virus among the population was grossly exaggerated. Locking down the country did not affect the viral spread. The promised efficacy of the mRNA vaccines did not stand up to reality. Masking did not prevent anyone from contracting the virus.
The amount of error, bad judgment and outright lies have compounded and are now producing a cynical, suspicious population exhausted by the ever-changing mandates and contradictory guidance. At this point I have to wonder how the “experts” could have any credibility at all.
There is no humility, no clarity, no consistency. There is only a desperate scramble among these “experts” to change the subject and demand that you ignore their track record of utter failure. A brutally hyped and nonsensical pandemic with a 99.7% survival rate has morphed into an epidemic of people who will not admit they were wrong.