Aside from the vaccines and bountiful treatments that now exist, as an ethical matter I believe that there should be an option to be intentionally infected with COVID-19 if a consenting adult so wishes. I have no idea what form that would take: spending an afternoon in close contact with a COVID-positive individual? But if it is finally admitted that natural infection is safer and more long-lasting than the vaccine, then we will have missed an opportunity to speed us to herd immunity faster. I’m aware that this option carries with it a stigma: we’re not supposed to want to be infected! But how else will we reach the end, other than widespread infection? Rather than avoid infection, if the goal is to drop cases down as close to zero as possible, and allow the normal respiratory viruses to outcompete the remaining COVID cases, the non-vulnerable among us should welcome natural infection.

If the potential for death, seizures, anaphylactic shock, blood clots, platelet loss, paralysis, among a host of other side-effects, wasn’t enough to keep you from the local mRNA gene therapy drive-thru, this may do it: development of “herpes zoster”, or shingles. Tel Aviv researchers found that the reaction occurred in 1.2% of vaccine recipients.

I don’t know about anyone else, but for me, that vaccine better be doing a heck of a lot for me personally, in order to spin the side-effect roulette wheel and get injected. Instead, we’re now being told that an annual booster might be necessary, and that we still can’t take off our masks or emerge from pandemic authoritarianism anytime soon. No thanks. I feel much better having not fiddled with the cellular processes within my own body, the outcome of millions of years of evolution. Can people outsmart the immune system, or a virus, both the products of that same process of evolution? This is the Hayekian “fatal conceit” applied to the biological world. I’ve already had COVID-19. My immune system has been in contact with it and has mounted the only defense I’ll ever need. My immune system isn’t currently paralyzing me, or handing me a case of herpes in return. I’ll take evolution over this strange form of creationism that I see running rampant.

Meanwhile, India is having its own bout of #Covid vaccine hesitancy after a well-known actor died less than a day after very publicly getting jabbed. Not to worry, though! The authorities are certain his death is unrelated.

How do you spell coincidence in Hindi? pic.twitter.com/wyj4RLrFoz

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 20, 2021

The US is now in a situation where some states are completely open, while others are still locked down, and it’s nearly impossible to tell the difference in covid outcomes.

Just take the loss, lockdowners.

The longer this goes on, the more embarrassing for you it becomes.

— Team Sweden Unlocked (@SwedenTeam) April 18, 2021

The searchable database can be accessed here: www.openvaers.com/COVID-data

The thugs destroying the UK now strut around like big shots, thinking they own the place.

A UK pub owner kicks out a pro-lockdown politician. This is the most satisfying video you’ll see all day. pic.twitter.com/i4YbD1AKBy

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) April 19, 2021

The power that political correctness wields over the public mind can be seen most clearly in how few people are criticizing the swathes of violence and destruction that Antifa are cutting through American cities. Most are too afraid to say anything, even after seeing brutal acts like the one below. This vast, organized campaign of violence is being virtually unopposed by the political establishment, corporate press, and chattering upper class commentators. The victims of this violence are just as forgotten as the victims of the violence of lockdowns.

Antifa set the Apple store in Portland on fire pic.twitter.com/h3hqxJW1gq

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 17, 2021

The level of organized energy and intelligence it would take to mount an effective challenge to this emergent authoritarianism is probably too great for the people in many of these countries. Most of the people who are demanding an end to pandemic authoritarianism have spent their lives supporting policies that would lead directly to this outcome. You can tell someone that they can’t have it two ways, but it won’t matter. You support the piecemeal creation of an all-encompassing, cradle-to-grave nanny state, don’t be surprised when it takes total control and unleashes brutality on its foolish creators.

Crazy police brutality in Germany! I fear Germany is drifting towards another totalitarian regime. This has nothing to do with an open free society. Disgusting. https://t.co/Eb3hwIyXKe

— Ben Marten 🙂 (@BenMarten) April 18, 2021

Many of the politicians in places like Oregon, California, NY, and others, would gladly weld you into your home, and enact a permanent Ontario-style shelter-in-place order if it were politically feasible. COVID-19 has become a totalitarian ideology, and its adherents are embedded deep within Western governments.

It was inevitable that some of the “believe in science” states would have permanent mask mandates

As more and more evidence accumulates that mask mandates don’t matter, they have to keep doubling and tripling down to avoid admitting that it never actually accomplished anything pic.twitter.com/hyhEsHps8l

— IM (@ianmSC) April 18, 2021