Mild-mannered academic slams COVID hysteric
In the fight for COVID sanity we have many good and highly credentialed scholars on our side. In general, though, they tend to have the quiet disposition of the academic rather than the fiery, attack-dog style that those of us outside of academia (I left 14 years ago and have never been happier) sometimes display.
So I have to say, I was rather pleased to see our own Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School take the gloves off the other day.
Dr. Ashish K. Jha is a prominent COVID hysteric on Twitter. When Dr. Scott Atlas announced the other day that he was deleting his account because the platform was toxic and unproductive, Dr. Jha took the opportunity to take swipes at him.
Among them:
“That’s also how many Americans we have lost in the last few days — in no short part because of the misinformation and bad policies you championed. ”
To which Professor Kulldorff responded, to my great delight:
“Dear Ashish: By quietly working his butt off to make more COVID-19 tests available for nursing homes, under enormous hostility, Scott Atlas saved more lives during a few months in DC than you have during your whole life.”
Boom.
Our friend Ashish is the sort of person who instead of focusing on the elderly thinks it’s equally important in the fight against COVID to make sure your kids can’t play football.
Somebody else jumped in to ask: since many American deaths yesterday were in California, which policy California might have adopted (and of course California has been insanely locked down) did Scott Atlas prevent them from adopting?
Crickets, of course.
In another matter, here’s an excerpt of an email the heroic Alex Berenson just received from a personal trainer in Illinois:
“I’m watching kids and adults fall apart around me. Two kids in the next town committed suicide last week (one was 18 with a full ride to MIT/star quarterback, and one was 20). On top of the insanity of two suicides in a small, wealthy town in a week, the school then prevented the grieving football team from running on the field together to try and honor him. They cited COVID restrictions as their reason for preventing kids from running on the field, outdoors. While this is heartbreaking, the sheer number of kids failing academically, depressed, or simply despondent is staggering.
“I work with 20 to 30 or so kids — and remember these are kids whose parents prioritized them getting exercise and activity during COVID — and 50% of them are struggling. Their friends who can’t afford or whose parents are afraid, 80-90%.
“As for my adults? I’m watching grown men and women crack and struggle under the depression and anxiety this causes. Marriages that were once strong seem to be teetering, people lashing out at strangers for no reason. And without fail, the ones struggling the most are the ones adhering to the insane protocols best. Maybe as if there is a direct correlation between cutting yourself off from society and depression? If it wasn’t so sad it would be laughable how dense people have become.
“And don’t even get me started on the 90% of rich Illinoisans who jetted to Florida for 4-8 weeks while crying about how DeSantis is a murderer. The honest ones at least came home and admitted what we’re doing is insane. Yet even those honest ones fall right back in line with crazy COVID precautions while acknowledging they took almost none in Florida.
“Sorry for ranting. This is all just insane.”
In recent weeks, as I noted in a previous issue, some people I would never have expected to hear the phrase “back to normal” from have begun discussing precisely that. At the same time, some public health officials almost appear to take delight in warning us that just because we wear masks/socially distance/get vaccinated doesn’t mean we’ll get back to normal.
Screw these deranged people. Reward the decent states with your vacation dollars. Heck, move to them, so they become invulnerable to destruction by twisted lockdowners.
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The scary thing about the many restrictions and mandates imposed during the C-19 scamdemic is the tendency for people to be encouraged, in the media and ads, to make a lifestyle out of such things as masking and social distancing. The media tends to show that doing stupid things, like social distancing outdoors while eating, is cool and woke. The implication is that we should all adapt forever to mandates that should be only temporary at best and some not imposed ever.
Making masking and Zooming seem fun and woke is an evil thing. Showing people pretending to be delighted with being physically cut off from their friends and relatives is just wrong and suggests that this is our new way of life and it’s great fun.
We should never tacitly accept warrantless intrusions into our lives and then, without protest, accept making them a lifestyle, but that is what the authorities want. We should always consider these restrictions and mandates as temporary and often unfounded intrusions into our lives—intrusions forced on us by politicians with an agenda all their own. Social engineering is NOT a role of government. It is our job to resist and always seek to return to our normal lives.
The term “safe” has become a part of the dialog, but its use ignores the fact that getting out of bed in the morning is not really safe. Life is a series of chosen risks and we try to avoid risks that do not have an upside. Driving to work is a risk, the upside is your job. Walking up and down stairs is a risk, the upside is your office access. Now “safe” means that we have to always keep in mind the presence ANYWHERE of a virus that is 1/10th as lethal as influenza. We have been sensitized to be alarmed over a relatively mild contagious virus. [This is not ignoring the danger of any flu season virus to infirm elderly and and immunocompromised. The rest of the population is at very low risk.] Every time “safe” is used, the implication is that the person addressed should remember to comply with the stupid mandates and restrictions, which clearly do nothing in the first place. Being woke is usually not a good thing, as just like “politically correct,” it is a means of altering your thinking..
Some like to say that masking is a sign of respect. However, as there is no evidence that masks are at all effective against a contagious virus, they are worthless. Then they say, “So what’s the problem, show some (token) respect. However, there are over two dozen studies that have shown masks to be ineffective and many reports describing his they can hurt the health of healthy people and make sick people sicker. This completely obviates the token symbolism of respect.
However, this does bring back the fact that the government cannot demand that you do something that is not good for you and can hurt your health. LIFE, liberty, and pursuit if happiness.
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