Are These People For Real?
That’s the question Todd Zywicki is asking. If the name Zywicki doesn’t ring a bell, Zywicki is the George Mason Law professor who won a lawsuit against his university:
On August 3, 2021, Zywicki sued George Mason University over the University's COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements, arguing that his natural immunity from a prior infection was sufficient in lieu of vaccination. He dropped the lawsuit after the university granted him a medical exemption.
I really like that he got a medical exemption—that means his exemption is based on science.
Anyway, Zywicki:
Huh! That’s a pretty good question, and the answer that comes to mind is that this seems to be an injection cult we’re dealing with. So, yes, these are real people, but not for real people.
We’re also hearing constantly about the hospitals overflowing with Covid patients—the news shows find some nurse who’s willing to wail and gnash her teeth a bit. They don’t ask about firings of highly qualified staff due to nutso mandates. Nor do they mention stats like these in Illinois (and presumably elsewhere), posted in a comment at Wirepoints:
The vaccine is underperforming expectations. By a lot. Been to the IDPH breakthrough site this week? No? okay, last week 43% of deaths were fully vaccinated. 50% of those had cobmorbidities Thus, 50% did not. That means that 21.5% of last weeks deaths were otherwise healthy vaccinated folks. THAT was not on the brochure! The spin is “Yeah but those were probably the earlier vaxed (like six or more months ago), and unfortunately, the efficiency is wearing off, so boost up. Twice a year
How about this? If we’re really concerned about hospitals being overwhelmed, stop firing staff. Or, even better: Why not allow doctors to prescribe world-essential and super safe drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin for treating their patients as out-patients. That might take the load of hospitals, right? And the results—based on the decades long safety profiles—would be bound to be far better than, say, shooting them up with J&J. How did that ever get approved, anyway?
Meanwhile, out there in America …
Remember Michael Walther’s article that I linked to yesterday?
Where I Live, No One Cares About COVID
Outside the world inhabited by the professional classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over.
There was this paragraph that I enjoyed:
The CDC recommends that all adults get a booster shot; I do not know a single person who has received one. When I read headlines like “Here’s Who May Need a Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose,” I find myself genuinely reeling. Wait, there are four of them now? I would be lying if I said I knew what all the variants were or what differences exist between them. (They all sound like the latest entry in some down-market action franchise: Tom Clancy’s Delta Variant: A Jack Ryan Novel, Transformers 4: Rise of the Omicron.) COVID is invisible to me except when I am reading the news, in which case it strikes me with all the force of reports about distant coups in Myanmar.
I also mentioned that I’d read about surveys showing, basically, that “something like a third of Americans continue to live in terror, while the rest just want to get on with their lives.”
Alex Berenson picks up on that with a post discussing the results of a Monmouth University poll:
A new poll confirms most Americans are done with Covid - and vaccine mandates
And Omicron hysteria has left the unvaccinated unafraid (while the boosted are terrified, true story).
All of which is pretty much what you’d expect.
You can read the poll results here, as well as learn what the pollsters think. Why would you care what the pollsters think? How should I know? I’m just sayin’.
Most Americans ‘Worn Out’ By Covid
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021
Public officials’ Covid ratings down; dip in support for mandates
And a few outtakes:
A majority of Americans say they feel “worn out” by how Covid has impacted their daily lives, and nearly half feel “angry” about it. And the public’s exasperation may also be having an impact on how they view their political leaders’ handling of the pandemic, according to the latest Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll. Support for face mask and workplace vaccine mandates has also declined since the fall when the delta variant started to dominate.
Six in ten Americans feel worn out by pandemic-related changes they have had to make to their daily lives over the past 20 months. This includes 36% who feel worn out a lot and 24% who feel worn out a little. The poll also finds that nearly half of the public feels angry about how Covid has impacted their daily lives – 24% a lot and 21% a little. Republicans (64%) are no more likely than Democrats (63%) to say they feel at least a little worn out by pandemic-related changes to their lives, but they are much more likely to report feeling angry (63% and 34%, respectively).
Is anger an emotion that makes people more likely to get out and vote? We’ll know by this time next year.
As for workplace injection mandates, opposition has risen to a full 50%. Weirdly, to me, opposition to masking and similar measures remains more or less steady in the low to mid 40s. The point is, however, that the cultists are making no progress in persuading or scaring the rest of the population, and the rest of the population is a pretty hefty percentage.
Now, here’s an interesting chart, but it requires a bit of explaining:
To understand this chart you need to know that there were four questions asked, not just two.
How concerned are you about someone in your family becoming seriously ill from the coronavirus outbreak –
very concerned,
somewhat concerned,
not too concerned, or
not at all concerned?
Very concerned peaked, as you can see from the chart above, in January ‘21 at 60% and has been basically trending downward, although it responds to scare goosing from the “news”. What you can’t see from this chart is that “not too concerned” and “not at all concerned” were at a low in January ‘21—12% and 7% respectively—and have been trending steadily upward. Currently they stand at 20% and 19%. A healthy percentage. I would also add that “somewhat concerned” is, to me, the squishiest of the four categories. It can easily be conflated with “not too concerned”, i.e., “not too concerned, just somewhat.” The reverse, to me, is not true. Or not nearly to the same extent.
All in all, this strikes me as good news.
Here's a fun read that fits right in:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-bluechecks-really-are-this-scared/comments
It seems to me once the appropriate scrutiny is put on the high-ups in this criminal cabal, it will be very easy to sort the lying criminal fraudsters from the contemptibly compliant.