Snap Out of It: COVID Impression VS Reality

Every time I see someone in a car wearing a mask like they’re going to a Halloween party as a surgeon, I wonder when we will finally get a grip on reality. Vast numbers of Americans are still acting like it’s February and we have no idea what to expect from this virus, or how deadly it actually is not. In reality, we have nine months of data that directly contradicts the panic porn narrative, and we can look back and see how we were lied to, manipulated, and emotionally abused by a willing political and media class for their own ends. We can see how COVID-19 is still being used to create a false dilemma between safety and freedom, with those who wish to control our lives holding out the fool’s gold of guaranteed safety in exchange for our God-given freedoms.

We must expose the lies and repeat the truth, explain to the perpetually afraid that they’ve been lied to, and encourage them to rejoin the land of the free.

Start here:

Impression:

Deadliness: In mid-July, a survey revealed that Americans think that 9% of the country had died from the novel coronavirus. This is 30 million people.

Spread: Dire warnings of so-called “superspreader” events like auto races, Trump rallies, and church services (but not violent protests, of course) predicted major increases in coronavirus spread and severity. Participants in these events are characterized as heartless killers.

Mitigation Efforts: The importance of masking, distancing, and avoiding large gatherings is not only believed to be effective but is considered so important that many people support fines and jail for those who don’t submit to government mandates. The effectiveness of government-forced mitigation efforts, while not supported by scientific data, is still accepted as fact by the majority of the country.

Hospitalizations: Americans believe that people are being denied hospital care and ventilators because hospitals are being overrun with people sick because of a coronavirus infection.

Reality:

Deadliness: There has been no appreciable excess death in 2020 due to COVID-19. Recorded coronavirus deaths have been met with an almost perfect decrease in deaths attributed to other causes. The true death figure back when Americans thought 9% has died was actually 0.047%. In Colorado, despite all the hysteria and the hundreds of scared but healthy people clogging testing sites, less than 50 people have died under the age of 70 absent other serious conditions. Zero children have died apart from comorbidities.

Spread: Evidence of “superspreader” events, so-called asymptomatic transmission, or reduction of spread using behavior control has yet to materialize despite nine months worth of data. So-called “second spike” spreading is entirely corollary with massive increases in testing. Asymptomatic transmission is exceedingly rare.

Mitigation Efforts: Studies demonstrating the futility of popular mitigation efforts are suppressed and censored. While government-funded consensus claims that masks stop viral spread, 85% of new coronavirus cases were in people who claimed they “always or almost always” wore a face covering.

Hospitalizations: Aside from a spike in hospitalizations being a direct result of a spike in testing, medical capacity is being strained by coronavirus operational requirements, not by a dramatic influx of patients. That is, hospital staff are being tested for coronavirus constantly, and positive tests are sent home for two weeks. In prior years, staff members infected but not sick with influenza would not be sent home – they would simply keep working. Beyond this obvious difference, many hospitals engage in onerous protocols for anyone receiving a positive coronavirus test, regardless of whether the person shows any symptoms of COVID-19 at all.

It is long past time to get things back to normal.

Waiting until things are “safe” to return to normal means never. And the technocrats in government have convinced a good number of Americans to believe something entirely contrary to what they see with their own eyes. Simply watch the reaction you get while walking around without a mask to see the indoctrination of fear that has taken hold of so many people as they dive out of your way. Even people who are not scared of the virus are scared of what others will think of them, creating a domino effect of fear and compliance that plays perfectly into the hands of government and media elites who are desperate to maintain the illusion of expertise.

We must stop caring what ignorant people think about our desire to live lives with risk and without fear. We must stop responding to their fear of our unmasked faces, and instead proudly own our rebellion. We must smile and remind them it’s going to be okay, and when they respond with “it’s still killing people!” respond with “Yes, it is. So does a hundred other things you’ve never lived in fear of. Don’t be afraid.” Not every American can lead. But everyone follows something, and it’s up to us to be courageous and give them something to follow.