My latest in PJ Media:
Yet more evidence came Wednesday that the COVID hysteria is bringing out the inner totalitarian in every Leftist: Dr. Leana Wen, who enjoys exalted status among the hysterics as a CNN medical analyst (she was previously a Baltimore commissioner of health and president of Planned Parenthood), called upon Old Joe Biden to violate the civil liberties of millions of Americans by placing further restrictions on the unjabbed — for the safety of us all, of course.
“I think what we will see with Omicron is a very large number of infections due to Covid-19,” Wen remarked sagely. This isn’t really news: as Stephen Green has noted, Richard Friedland, the head of the largest health provider in South Africa, where the omicron variant originated, said that the deadly new variant that is going to kill us all every day and twice on Sunday really isn’t that big a deal: “I actually think,” Friedland said, “there is a silver lining here and this may signal the end of COVID-19, with it attenuating itself to such an extent that it’s highly contagious, but doesn’t cause severe disease.”
Wen showed no awareness of the fact that omicron “doesn’t cause severe disease”; she was in full the-sky-is-falling-we’re-all-gonna-die mode. Wen said: “The question, though, is are we going to see a decoupling of infections with hospitalizations and death? That would be ideal, the entire point of vaccination, the main point of vaccination, I should say, is to reduce severe illness. And so, if we’re able to avoid overwhelming our health care systems, that would be the goal.”
Well, up until recently, we assumed that the entire point of vaccination was actually to make us immune from the disease, the way vaccines for other diseases have worked. Only after vaccinated people started getting COVID did we hear that the vaccines actually just make one’s bout with COVID much less severe than it would have been otherwise, which, since it is entirely unproven and unprovable, is more of a religious dogma than a scientific finding.
Wen is itching for more totalitarianism: “I do have a lot of concern about what happens to parts of this country, for example, that have very low vaccination rates. This is another reason why I think President Biden’s message yesterday was the right one in some way — in saying vaccinated people should move on with their lives with precautions. But I wish that he would go further to restrict the activities of the unvaccinated because they are the ones who are still spreading Covid and prolonging the pandemic for all of us.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Keith O says
Isn’t it amazing how the masks that worked and protected everyone from the Chinese plague, now, that the pharmaceutical giants have an expensive jab for it, don’t seem to work.
And now, we need a second, a third, a forth and maybe six monthly boosters. As the old saying goes. for the truth, follow the money.
Gordon Dolan says
Civilised countries supply the jab free; if that is not the case in the USA there is something fundamentally wrong with your health system
libertyORdeath says
Has any country done a worse job handling the pandemic? The death totals (if we can believe them) show that the US has the worst death rate from covid in the world.
No country that defied the lockdown logic or refused to enact vaccine mandates has done worse than us, yet they push forward as if they’ve done an amazing job all along.
We will always get what we put up with. It’s time for the vaccinated to read the writing on the wall and demand an end to restrictions and mandates.
Gordon Dolan says
LoD, you are correct. Challenged by Wellington over my claim that Australia had done a far better job than USA, my research turned up ‘deaths per million for almost every country. USA leads every developed nation with circa 2700, Australia 80.
His response? Deafening silence.
Impossible to predict what might have happened had the virus being allowed to spread freely.
The collective mania of anti-vaxxers is to my mind a ridiculous over reaction to such a trivial procedure.
gravenimage says
CNN Doctor Wants Biden to ‘Go Further to Restrict the Activities of the Unvaccinated’
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I’m actually generally *for* the vaccines, but this is grotesque overstepping and abuse of power–and many like this CNN doctor want much more of the same. Fascist tendencies.
Gordon Dolan says
OK then; get covid and take your chances. BUT DON’T INFECT ANYONE ELSE!
James Lincoln says
Gordon Dolan,
People who have been vaccinated (or have acquired natural immunity) can still get Covid – and spread it.
Whether or not they can spread Covid as easily as an unvaccinated person is inconclusive.
gravenimage says
I just said that I have gotten the vaccines–does Gordon Dolan read?
eduardo odraude says
Saw an article this morning with this headline:
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say
money quotes: “Walter Reed’s Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, said in an exclusive interview with Defense One on Tuesday. The new vaccine will still need to undergo phase 2 and phase 3 trials…Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein…”
Infidel says
There is something incredibly suspicious about the CDC, FDA and other TLA government agencies when they seem to frown upon all therapeutics and are advocating vaccines almost like a religion! Even though these vaccines are more like front-loaded therapeutics rather than real vaccines like MMR
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Not to mention the deliberate avoidance of considering the value of natural immunity.
OLD GUY says
As a Doctor she should be concerned about Joe’s mental health.
somehistory says
I for one, not getting the jab, am not happy to hear of anyone getting the virus, or dying, jabbed or not, but many of the jabbed have expressed the wish and hope that those not being jabbed get sick and die as “deserving” of being sick and dying.
There is yet no proof that the jabbing will end….it was reported this week, with fauci’s photo accompanying the article…that the “boosters” last all of “ten weeks.”
Ten weeks. And they still won’t say what is in the vials.
We at least can understand “natural immunity.” No one having no knowledge of what is in the vials can understand the workings of the vial’s components.
I’ve had the virus and if I have it again…which I don’t believe I will…it will be a milder case and probably won’t leave me any more prone to dying than the first time around. And, I won’t have gained any more auto-immune conditions from taking the jabs , which I am not taking, that are causing these in some people.
I don’t believe anyone *deserves* to get the virus and die, but fauci does deserve prison time for all of his evil lies, and the funding…with Taxpayer money…of , gain of function that has made this sickness from bats available to humans…which would hot have been the case without this fauciliar. and his diabolic behaviors.
somehistory says
“If You’ve Had COVID You’re Likely Protected for Life
BY Joseph Mercola TIMEDecember 21, 2021
If you’ve had COVID-19, even a mild case, major congratulations to you as you’ve more than likely got long-term immunity, according to a team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine. In fact, you’re likely to be immune for life, as is the case with recovery from many infectious agents — once you’ve had the disease and recovered, you’re immune, most likely for life.
The evidence is strong and promising, and should be welcome and comforting news to a public that has spent the last year, 2020, in a panic over SARS-CoV-2.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/if-youve-had-covid-youre-likely-protected-for-life_4169013.html?utm_source=News
gravenimage says
I’m afraid some people have gotten Covid more than once:
“More people are getting COVID-19 twice, suggesting immunity wanes quickly in some”
https://www.science.org/content/article/more-people-are-getting-covid-19-twice-suggesting-immunity-wanes-quickly-some
Not sure how common this is, though.