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Early on I felt a lot was wrong here. Numbering to help anyone that wants to address anything below. Not in any particular order:
1) Trump sent a hospital ship to NY to serve as extra beds and it ended up not being needed.
2) The median age of death in Italy at the time was reported to be 80. It think in the US it still is around there. In my region, median age of deaths is men, 75, women, 82. 75+82/2= 78.5. There really an existential threat to us all?
3) I read early on that it was unlikely in the extreme that this could have come from a lab. (Atlantic had an article on it). This seemed, as joked by John Stewart, as if chocolate from Hershey Penn. does not come from the factory there, but perhaps a tractor ran into a cocoa bean.
4) I am a military vet that wore chem warfare gear that included a gas mask. Thick tight rubber fit flush to my face with air going through special heavy duty filters and even this was not meant to save my life: just keep me alive long enough to help launch two sorties before croaking. The surgical masks as an anti-viral tool struck me like using chicken wire to ward of flies.
5) Faucci told us we don't need these masks, then said we did but he didn't want us knowing that initially in order to ensure medical staff had access to them. But I've seen a 2018 video of a woman reporting the results (from the CDC? I don't recall but it looked like an official review) stating an epidemiology study from Japan? (Hong Kong?) showed the masks do nothing physical. They can cause alarm in others making them think you have an issue and social distance from you. But do we know social distancing works? And will that happen if both people are wearing masks and know why each is doing so?
6) We have old footage of Faucci saying it is silly to take a vaccine if you already had the disease and now have natural immunity. Yet our governments appear to have colluded with private interests, including hospitals, to get people FIRED if they didn't take the jab, regardless of whether or not they already had the illness.
7) Official action seemed extreme and nonsensical. We were letting millions of illegals into the country unmasked and untested, un-vetted. No lock down for hobos but no reports of a particular problem for them either. Yet my buddy went to go surfing by himself and the cops threw him off the beach for violating lock down.
8) I assume people like Gavin Newsome and Nancy Pelosi know more about this then we do and they are NOT afraid, violating their own rules.
9) The jab has been put on the schedule of recommended shots for kids to attend public school yet it will have virtually no beneficial impact and could make kids sick and even die. Why is this happening?
10) Bill Maher states that if you get Covid, there is a 0.8% chance you will require hospitalization. Democrats thought the number 50%. He blames media that did their level best to scare the heck out of everyone.
11) My own experience. In my greater circle, where a number of friends and family repeatedly got jabbed, they also caught Covid. My frail 85 year old mom just passed. She was hospitalized for some time. She died of Aspiration caused by inactivity and a common cold that caused pneumonia. At one point, she had Covid but survived it. Even so, my sister insists it was Covid that killed her, despite the hospital's diagnosis. I know one person in my greater circle, which includes people of all sorts of levels of fitness, who died reportedly from Covid: a buddies 86 year old, morbidly obese mother with advanced COPD.
I know of others in this forum that lost loved ones during the pandemic. I cannot square their experience with mine and the observations I made above.
This horrible thing still resulted in winners and losers. When you follow those, a new narrative appears to be the truth.
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