As a public service, occasionally I visit the Guardian website to see what’s going on in the hive mind.
Today, the narrative is we should hope the Chinese authorities can sort out these irresponsible protestors otherwise the worst disease since the Black Death will finally take hold and kill billions. Billions, I tell ye.
And jeesh, what an insane take it is, filled with code words and catchphrases to signify the author is in the “in group”:
On Chinese lockdowns, “Yet, despite the cost to civil liberties, it worked in stopping Covid-19 initially”
That cost to civil liberties; no point in detailing anything more than that. No space to describe the utter horrors and crimes against humanity executed en masse just to prevent a respiratory illness 99.97% of people shrug off in three days. Just call it “cost”.
“….several safe and effective vaccines were approved, which meant that widespread protection could be delivered to western populations.”
Safe. Effective.
Even if one is prepared to deliberately look past the statistically obvious vaccine-induced cardiac issues in the demographics least at risk from the virus, you must be living under a rock if you can convince yourself they are effective. Joe Biden had four doses of the damn thing and caught Covid twice. I’d hate to experience your definition of ineffective.
However, perhaps the biggest signal for the in group is the use of the phrase Long Covid.
Nobody, literally nobody in the real world has used this expression for two years. None of us know of someone with this phantom condition, none of us believe it’s statistically significant, certainly not relative to the obvious vaccine injuries we have witnessed.
However, if you are of the mindset that the Guardian is the paper of record and that it gets things more correct than incorrect, this residual fear of the dreaded Long Covid is keeping you from going outside without a mask and prompting you to book your monthly vaccine update.
This attitude is epitomised by this Guardian article and the author’s wiki entry. It’s a world where inconvenient facts are not allowed to enter. It’s a world where the reason the west is out of lockdown is that the vaccines have prevented the spread of the virus, despite all evidence to the contrary.
It’s a world where Long Covid is a real phenomenon, impacting young and old, not just neurotic middle aged left wing women.
Bill’s Opinion
Devi Sridhar has been consistently wrong about Covid for three years. Wrong about its deadliness, wrong about the best approach to deal with it at a population level, wrong about the safety and effectiveness of the rushed vaccines, wrong about the balance of civil liberties and public health in the west and now China.
Look at her wiki entry. At every stage, her expertise failed to accurately predict the future.
Your instincts were exponentially more accurate during this time.
And yet, she is the Professor and Chair of Public Health at the University of Scotland, she’s the one who co-authors books with Chelsea Clinton, she’s the member of SAGE who advised the UK government on how to deal with the virus, she’s the one who gets to write inaccurate Guardian columns (but I repeat myself) and you’re not.
She’s pretty hot. That could explain it.
Careful! You are processing on just one axis of the Crazy/Hot matrix…..
Sorry about the inconvenient facts, but I know two people with long covid, one with long ‘flu, and another with long bronchial pneumonia.
In reverse order, myself (6 mo. to recover and involved steroids, blech), my old boss, who had to take early retirement, and a husband (FLCCC protocols did the trick), and my best friend, a covidiot who refuses any care not approved by The Narrative. She was one of the index cases in the USA, and never got any treatment.
Severe, untreated (I and my boss and husband didn’t get hospital care until we were half dead because we’re idiots) respiratory diseases have *always* had lasting consequences.
It’s the goofball LABEL itself that is the tell,
“It’s the goofball LABEL itself that is the tell”.
Yeah, that’s fair.