After a season of hope that covid was finally on its way out, we find ourselves in a sharp ‘spike.. Just this week, the CDC reversed its mask guidance, and progressive governments and businesses are gleefully reinstating heavy-handed vaccine and mask mandates. There are three parts to this: the actual Covid infections, government-led controls, and the big picture.
Let’s take a quick look at these. Several weeks ago, I characterized the spike as a mini-spike, roughly half of last summer’s profile comparing the case chart from last year to this year. In the weeks since then, that’s morphed into an infection curve actually looking more like Autumn 2020 going into the winter high. What’s happening? We’re getting the same spike that India experienced about three months ago. You’ll recall that they had a huge, deadly spike after an enviable streak of low cases. We’re getting the spike without the corresponding jump in deaths that India experienced, as well as presumably also less hospitalizations. India got over it quickly, we will as well. High caseloads only bolster natural immunity rates in addition to vaccinated rates. What’s the bottom line for us? A) Covid is a Coronavirus, one of the same families of pathogens as the common cold. Think of it as having the same transmissibility as a common cold. Are any of us fully exempted against colds? No. We. All. Will. Get. Or. Get. Exposed. To. Covid. Thank you Dr. Fauci (more on that in a moment). B) If you have natural or vaccinated immunity, the lethality of Covid is roughly equivalent to the flu. Yes, some flues are deadly, but mostly if you’re very old or have underlying conditions. If you’re unvaccinated, your chances of dying are greater, less if vaccinated. Period. C) Covid is not Ebola or any other greatly feared pathogen. This only needs to be said because that is the level of panic with which even now, some people are acting about the present spike.
Our government response: They are construing it as a great struggle of the vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated. ‘Unvaccinated’ is their dog whistle for Republicans, most specifically, Trumpers, thus the government response is a hysterical opportunistic reflex of outright frantic persecution. The problem with this is that there are just as many or more of their ilk and assumed constituency that have not taken the vaccine. Their frantic crusade will cut both ways and may actually backfire on them. As I’ve said before, they’re responsible for sowing the seeds of doubt about the vaccine, during its inception and even now as they fail to get it past emergency authorization. The Biden administration is failing.
Big picture: There are two parts to this. First, Covid is again being used as a pretext for authoritarianism. That must be fought even harder now. Second is Covid itself. It is a Franken-virus developed by gain-of-function manipulation as per the specifications of Dr. Anthony Fauci and carried out by the CCP and Wuhan lab in China. Fauci should sit before a war tribunal for his actions. At the end of the day, we may have yet to learn that Fauci’s Covid pathogen has tricks up its sleeve that we have yet to experience. It’s starting to look like it’s capacity to infect along with governments willing to use it as a pretext for extreme disruption is nowhere near exhausted. All the more reason why Fauci should be held to account. Ultimately, we can manage the virus, but we cannot tolerate year after year of opportunistic social upheaval. Managing Fauci is the first step to managing the disruption.