We’re headed to COVID herd immunity whether we like it or not

It’s simultaneously horrifying and entertaining to watch bureaucrats and health “experts” scurry about in a vain attempt to cobble together a policy that would prevent the spread of the virus. Standing amid the devastation of the economic lockdowns, the Political Class is going full steam ahead with a mandatory mask policy, despite the evidence that masks do little to stem the spread, while slowly suffocating the wearer. But it does make everyone feel safer, whether it works or not. That’s the goal, apparently. First an illusion of danger, then an illusion of safety, with massive power grabs taking place while we are held in thrall by the illusion.

There is no stopping COVID-19. It will continue to spread until herd immunity is reached. Lucky for us, it’s not much of a danger to anyone. It poses no risk to children or young adults, and minimal risk to anyone under 65. The median age of death is 79. Positive cases are rising, and yet the death rate is falling. This news should be celebrated by every corner of our society. The rapidly growing group of recovered individuals means herd immunity is on the horizon. This means we will never need a treatment, a vaccine, or social distancing and lockdowns. Ever. Society can reopen safely. In fact, the numbers show that the one thing we should be doing is opening as fast as possible, because we will reach herd immunity much more quickly. To better protect society, the young and healthy must be exposed to this virus. No different than a vaccine, except that a wild COVID infection doesn’t come with the laundry list of dangerous preservatives.  Our immune system is the product of millions of years of natural selection. It was made to handle COVID. Let nature do it’s magic. I can think of no more dangerous, foolish enterprise that attempts to intervene in the process of evolution, or attempts to tinker or alter products of evolution. Evolutionary forces are smarter than the “experts” currently setting the world on fire. If any positive change is to emerge from the self-inflicted chaos we’ve suffered from over the past several months, it will come in the form of a complete rejection of “expert-ism”, or the reliance on the advice of experts. The “experts” got COVID wrong, but nevertheless inflicted a massive amount of pain on the world.  Civilization can’t afford to listen to their advice ever again.

 

Candace Owens, just another generic Republican demagogue

According to Ballotpedia, Candace Owens endorsed Thomas Massie’s opponent, Todd McMurtry. Massie is almost alone in his courageous defense of liberty in this nation. He alone demanded a recorded vote on the multi-trillion dollar COVID bailout of corporate America. He is as close to a young Ron Paul as we’ll probably ever get, and Owens endorsed his opponent. McMurtry appears to be a generic Trump clone, someone who tries a little too hard to come off as a tough guy. He exudes the anti-intellectualism and lack of nuance characteristic of the blindly pro-cop, pro-Israel, pro-war Right that we’ve come to expect of many Republicans during the War on Terror years. He appeals to people of that same limited intellect, people for whom difficult questions regarding war, peace, and liberty, induce painful migraines that they would rather avoid. Thankfully, Massie’s constituency is composed of uniquely intelligent individuals, people who see through McMurtry’s fraudulent facade. McMurtry would be nothing more than a rubber stamp for more war, more spending, more debt, all at the price of diminished liberty. McMurtry, if elected, would have gleefully leapt head-first into the Swamp and become just another RINO invertebrate among thousands. This is what Owens wanted over Massie, which despite her witty Tweets, tells you all you need to know about her. McMurtry stood no chance against Massie, who received over 80% of the vote.

Consequences of appeasing the mob

City leaders currently allowing mobs to rampage freely through their streets, refusing to denounce the violence and chaos, must believe that by doing so the mob will be more quickly satisfied and dissipate. Let them mindlessly tear down statues, destroy and deface property, attack various bystanders caught in the wrong place and time, and hopefully they’ll just go away, is apparently the logic here. But for a violent mob there is no rhyme or reason, there is no satiating it. Rather, the lack of consequences enflames and emboldens it. And it is definitely an ‘it’. A mob is re-barbarization made starkly visible, in the same way that fire is the more violent, rapid, and destructive form of the oxidation process that the rust is also a part of. The punitive, feeble-minded lockdowns conjured into existence powerful forces of what I can only describe as re-barbarization, where primitive human drives awaken from a civilization-induced slumber and run amok. The mob has no intelligence and no goal other than inflicting chaos and destruction upon a modern world that must appear very unnatural to it. If there exists anything in human nature that could be called ‘original sin’, it’s this primitive impulse to drag society back to the Dark Ages, the impulse that is currently allowed free rein under the guise of ‘anti-racism’. But it’s no longer about racism, or police violence, and sadly it appears that the opportunity for real change in police accountability has passed. The voice of the mob is speaking, and it’s the voice of anti-civilization.

The mob is rejecting the modern world, rejecting the very values of equality and liberty that the modern world was built on. And so it tears down monuments to those ideals. But the toppling of statues will never be enough. The mob, being a predictable force of nature, requires atonement via the deaths of flesh and blood human beings. Not merely the many deaths that have already occurred at the hands of the mob, but executions, will follow from the symbolic destruction of property.

But, American citizens won’t let it come to that. Which is why the next phase of this nation’s spiral will manifest in a populist counter reaction to the left-wing mobs. This will not be a good thing, because it will mean that the citizens of this country have lost their confidence in the ability of their own government to put a stop to the left-wing pogrom. A right-wing analogue will emerge, with their own mob and their own leaders. ‘Law and Order’ will be their rallying cry, and it will attract wide support. Leaders will eventually emerge, and center on personalities that more closely resemble Brazil’s Bolsonaro or the Philippines Duterte. This would be a devastating development, and it would be true, populist fascism. Homegrown, as it always is. They’ll be swept into power in order to subdue the left-wing mobs, but once they’re gone, they won’t leave office. The American Strongman will emerge in what will be the final act of a play that began with a trumped up reaction to a phantom illness that will soon be forgotten.