It treated exactly zero patients.
As Tom Woods observed, does this mean that the warnings of a “second wave” of coronavirus infections are just a bunch of hot air?
We know the answer to that. And we need to face the horror of the truth: every action taken by government, every sacrifice that the American public have been forced to make, has been in vain. We are victims, not of a virus, but of our own fear.
That’s a wrap for Biden. No one, not even him, could ever recover from something like this:
“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
From Reason:
“Ohio’s COVID-19 lockdown is illegal, a state judge ruled today, because it exceeds the powers granted by the statute under which it was imposed. Responding to a May 8 lawsuit filed by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law on behalf of 35 gyms, Lake County Court of Common Pleas Judge Eugene Lucci enjoined Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton from penalizing the plaintiffs or similar businesses for violating the lockdown, provided “they operate in compliance with all applicable safety regulations.””
Thank god for the judges during this crisis, who have been serving as a forceful check on the authoritarian ambitions of many governors.
The Faithful patiently awaiting their salvation through Science should probably deposit their blind faith in something other than the Oxford coronavirus vaccine currently in development. Every rhesus monkey injected with the experimental vaccine still contracted COVID-19.
We’ll have achieved natural herd immunity long before a profitable treatment is rolled out, but that won’t stop many expensive treatments from being peddled to a frightened public. Just wait, once a vaccine hits the market, the Pharma televangelists will emerge from the woodwork by the thousands, preaching the gospel of their new product.
Utterly bizarre press conference by Nassau County, NY, executive Laura Curran, where she delivers the above quote. You’d never believe this was happening if you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes:
Bear witness to the power of propaganda, and it’s ability to drive a normally good person to murder.
Jennifer Rager-Kay, also a medical doctor: “As a concerned carry-permitted gun owner, if you refuse to wear a mask and try to come within 6 feet of me or my family, I will exercise the same constitutional rights to shoot you.”
I wonder how many of the people I’ve seen driving while wearing their N95 mask, dramatically lowering the oxygen level in their blood and thereby suffocating on their own carbon dioxide, have at one time or another ever chuckled at the people who participated in the mass hysteria over satanism in the 80’s? It would be ironic, considering what they’ve succumbed to now. Or even if they did believe the absurd claims of infant sacrifice at various daycare centers, surely they balked at the Heavens Gate cult and their subsequent mass suicide (Collective suicide seems hardwired into the cult phenomenon)? And yet, we appear to be living through a mass psychological event that in many ways combines the worst aspects of both historical episodes. The unhinged fear of a phantom threat moving silently and invisibly through the population, viral infection taking the place of demonic possession, a proliferation of End Times prophecies combined with prophecies of salvation through a soon-to-arrive Messiah who will vanquish the heretics and then establish Heaven on Earth, et cetera. It’s all there.
Cults need to keep their flock in a sustained state of fear. Cults require their flock to participate in various rituals that signal their total obedience. Cults separate their members from their family. Cults demand sacrifices, culminating in the ultimate sacrifice, either total enslavement or mass suicide.
It all sounds very familiar, but it’s also highly appealing to our more primitive nature, which is why we see various doomsday cults pop up occasionally among the inhabitants of “modern” society. Our minds evolved over a period of millions of years when we only had magical or mystical explanations for the inexplicable world around us. We are descended from fire eaters, snake worshipers, and virgin sacrificers. From the millions of years when our species saw both the sun and the State as gods.
My overriding fear amid virus hysteria is that extended periods of mass paranoia and hysteria could trigger a regression, a rebarbarization, away from the free and open society from which we’ve benefited so greatly. Not much different than the way that Hitler rose to power out of the ashes of the most highly cultured and sophisticated open societies that Europe has ever produced.