Zero Covid Is Not An Achievable Goal
Boy, after slamming finer with hammer: “I hate when I do that!”
Father : “Then stop doing that”
It used to be that people knew the seasons by weather. Winter, Spring. Summer. Autumn. The eternal seasons. But, thanks to our elites, we have a new way to calibrate the passing of time. Distance. Mask. Lockdown. Vaccine. Repeat.
The people who brought you Panic Porn are once again resorting to mask mandates to combat the more infectious-- but less aggressive— Delta variant. Even as their own advisors admit that the hustle of paper masks has been a sham they want kids to spend another school year with faces covered.
“We know today that many of the facecloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out — either you’re breathing out or you’re breathing in,” former Biden advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm told CNN’s John King. (Osterholm’s remedy? Industrial strength N95 masks for everyone.)
Some have resisted, citing the results from other nations that show that Delta typically blows itself out in about six weeks. As Florida governor Ron DeSantis said when told he’d have to bend a knee to Joe Biden’s latest mask edict for school children, “If you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way,” DeSantis said Wednesday. “If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m gonna stand in your way and stand up for the kids in Florida.”
This latest attempt to impose draconian solutions on an exhausted population does beg one honest question, one we asked last October. Is the end goal of this societal vivisection Zero Covid? Or is there an acceptable level of mortality such as society absorbs each flu season?
In the past health authorities tried for a balance between deaths and societal balance. The media that today has suffocated the public with its wildly inaccurate Covid coverage previously let them operate without frantic scrutiny. Society continued as normal while the vulnerable were given help. Pandemic damage wasn’t made worse by lockdowns and closing churches.
So far, few of the leaders in Canada and the U.S. will answer this question— although there’s a trend that they like Zero Covid better because it keeps the dependency going. The media certainly loves to play up every death as if it were a symptom of a plague. Fear works best for this.
“Admitting that the worst is over would blow the game. And why waste such a great weapon? Covid-19 is the engine; fear is the fuel. Fear is power. In Canada fear phobia (phobophobia) has been raised to an art form since Dr. Theresa Tam (and her #WHO pals) flipped the narrative 180 degrees from “no big whoop” to “say goodbye to your loved ones”.
After first declaring masks and border closings pointless she then told Trudeau to shut it all down. Which, being a fear fan since his Diversity and Green campaigns, he did. Now, as numbers of deaths and ICUs fail to keep pace with the burgeoning positive-test industry, fears mongers have switched from “you’re about to die” to “the after-effects are deadly”. Trudeau and his minions picked that one up, too. Anything to keep the game going.
Fear was understandable in the pandemic’s first months. People trusted the authorities. But now much more is known of the virus and how to treat it. For Fear Fans that’s not enough, however.
Even today, journalists and citizens who should know better scold families for getting together. Killers, they cry. Spreaders. “Listen to the people who’ve gotten it wrong from Day One!" It comes as a shock to these Church Ladies, but most people fully understand the risk and choose family and getting on with life ahead of missives from dart-throwing health poo-bahs. They understand some might die from Covid-19. Many more will also die in lockdowns. They know it’s time to get on with life.”
There are signs that some in authority are getting this message. Alberta chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw has signalled that her province is transitioning from oppressive measures to balance. “We will not eliminate COVID, which means we need to learn how to live with it. Testing every person with a runny nose or sore throat is an extraordinary measure that we cannot sustain, particularly through the respiratory virus season.
“Legally mandating everyone to stay home for 10 days if they have any symptoms is also an extraordinary measure. It was necessary before vaccines, but it is also incredibly disruptive; it could only be justified when the risk was unchecked by vaccine protection.”
She also debunked the latest panic stories propagated by the manic media about the effects of Delta on children. “We navigate risks for our children every day, and looking at how COVID-19 risks for kids compare with other risks is important to help inform the way forward. For example, for kids 0 to 9, the risk of an ICU admission for seasonal influenza in the year before COVID was roughly equal to their risk of an ICU admission for COVID.
“In another example, kids aged 5 to 14 had a 140 times greater risk of an emergency department visit for a sports-related injury in 2019 than their risk of COVID-related hospital admission since March of 2020. This doesn’t mean we should ignore the risk to kids from any of these things, but I believe it means we should consider COVID risk in context of all other risks that we face.”
Of course, much of this was known last year, but Henshaw and Alberta needed cover from vaccines to make their move— unlike Florida which accepted reality a year ago. DeSantis’ is now taking aim at Biden’s goal of vaccine passports. “Law-abiding citizens have to show proof of their medical records to go to the gym or attend an event? He wants that. But if you want to vote, he thinks it’s too much of a burden to show a picture ID… We can either have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state” .
Needless to say Hinshaw and premier Jason Kenney have been called murderers, derelict and worse by the critics in eastern Canada vying in vituperation. The Covid fear crowd has no intention of surrendering easily— or admitting the terrible damage they’ve inflicted by their draconian societal controls. All because they won’t answer a simple question: How much is too much?
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx