Informative article at the BBC, The people with hidden immunity against COVID-19:

“Several studies have shown that people infected with Covid-19 tend to have T cells that can target the virus, regardless of whether they have experienced symptoms. So far, so normal. But scientists have also recently discovered that some people can test negative for antibodies against Covid-19 and positive for T cells that can identify the virus. This has led to suspicions that some level of immunity against the disease might be twice as common as was previously thought.

Most bizarrely of all, when researchers tested blood samples taken years before the pandemic started, they found T cells which were specifically tailored to detect proteins on the surface of Covid-19. This suggests that some people already had a pre-existing degree of resistance against the virus before it ever infected a human. And it appears to be surprisingly prevalent: 40-60% of unexposed individuals had these cells.“

South Korean researchers have found that newly infected individuals are far more likely to have caught COVID at home from others who they are in close contact with, rather than while out in the world.

This lends credence to the emerging theory that COVID is spread through feces, and shared bathrooms, not respiration. Contact tracers should be focusing on who shares bathrooms, and whether they wash their hands.

From the Daily Mail.

Delays in healthcare, people too scared to leave their home even when they need medical attention, unemployment, despair, and other causes that many warned about, but were silenced. 45,318 Britons have allegedly died from COVID, but how accurate is that number really? How much lower will it go once the people who were at Death’s door already are taken out of the count? And those already fatally ill? Why did the world so abruptly throw itself into this abyss, seemingly without a care for the obvious consequences? Our lives depend on a functioning, free economy. We are entirely dependent on this system of exchange for our food, housing, and well-being. We are staggering toward the light, but the authoritarian forces are exerting their gravitational pull to drag us back in.

THIS is why it’s extremely dumb to get tested for COVID-19 if you are experiencing zero symptoms. The man and woman both tested positive despite experiencing no symptoms, but refused to sign the voluntary self-quarantine documents. Shortly after, law enforcement showed up, forcing the couple to sign papers for themselves and their young daughter. They were also forced to wear GPS ankle monitors, and forbidden from traveling further than 200 feet from their home without police approval.

This sounds like a lawsuit, but this young family is suffering because COVID hysteria has been allowed to run wild through our culture. In this environment, where hyperbolic paranoia is infecting everyone around us, it’s best to not draw too much attention, or this could happen to you. Will the thugs committing these egregious rights violations ever be held accountable, or will history just chalk these instances up to the effects of the ‘madness of crowds’ that infected the entire world during the 2020’s?

A recent news story has been making the rounds in Oklahoma: Oklahoma experiences first pediatric COVID-19 death. The headlines are all similar to this, and most people won’t make the effort to read beyond the headline, instead assuming that COVID can kill children. The full story is that the 13-year old girl that tragically passed also had juvenile scleroderma, making her susceptible to the infection.

Healthy, normal 13-year olds are not at risk of death from a COVID infection. A COVID infection, on the contrary, would act as a natural vaccine for these kids, protecting them later in life when the infection would otherwise pose a risk to them.

Real journalism is not practiced by established, well-funded outlets. These trashy tabloids merely act as propaganda publishers in service to a very specific narrative.

Great article by Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity:

“…what is striking is that those under the age of 25 are at significantly lower risk of death from COVID-19 than of the flu. Under our assumptions, for example, school-aged children between 5 and 14 have a 1 in 200,000 chance of dying of influenza, but a 1 in 2.5 million chance of dying of COVID-19.“

For toddlers, the relative risk is even more pronounced. We estimate that Americans between ages 1–4 are 20 times more likely to die of influenza than of COVID-19.“

Of course, this won’t satisfy the hypochondriac fundamentalists, for whom this brave new world of pandemic authoritarianism has become a part of their identity. They don’t want to go back to the way things were before; they’ve found meaning and purpose in this crusade against a non-existent threat. And they will never take the time to understand just how many lives will be destroyed during this holy war.

In this sense, the COVID crusaders mirror the War-on-Terror fanatics of the early 2000’s, who were convinced that they were witnessing an apocalyptic, End Times war between Christians and Muslims. Southern Baptist evangelicals preached it from their tents and many conservatives ate it up. Just as COVID apocalypticism is being consumed like a drug by the establishment Left.

Both events, COVID and the War on Terror, have had the same effect on the public mind, triggering our primitive brains, while shutting down the more fragile reasoning centers, and dosing us with emotional heroin. For too many people, it’s impossible to resist.

Is COVID the Al Quada of viruses? Well, what virus will take its place when the majority of the public begin to realize it isn’t a threat? Is there any way off this psychotic merry-go-round?

PJmedia:

“FOX 35 News in Orlando discovered this after asking Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino about two young COVID-19 patients in their twenties who died, and whether they had any preexisting conditions that contributed to their deaths.

“The first one didn’t have any. He died in a motorcycle accident,” Pino said.“

Great article at Reason.:

”A 2019 study from the researchers at the University of Chicago analyzed violent police incidents following a 2003 Florida Supreme Court decision that granted sheriffs’ deputies the right to organize. This sophisticated analysis compares agencies with newly granted collective-bargaining rights with other police agencies that already had such rights. “(T)he right to bargain collectively led to about a 40-percent increase in violent incidents,” the report concludes.”

Public sector unionism is a plague upon the taxpayer. They strangle public institutions, draining them, and blackmailing them into conceding to their outrageous demands. They protect bad employees. They engage in a broad-daylight grift at the expense of a captive customer. They lead to worse employee behavior, worse service to the public, and should be abolished.

The Independent.

The testing scam is beginning to unravel. The numbers are being fudged and it’s just a matter of time before we’re forced to admit it.

The world is a sick, grim place at times.  And the greatest evils are committed by people who sincerely believe they are doing good, and in full public view. Usually to the sound of thundering applause.

The boy was diagnosed with “oppositional defiant disorder”, a manufactured phony condition that could be applied to anyone who didn’t meekly submit to authority, and was prescribed female hormones. Shortly thereafter, the boy developed breasts and now requires corrective surgery due to the damage that 13 doses per day of the hormone caused.

White-collar thugs hiding behind the mantle of “expert” are the most dangerous kind, because society trusts them to not behave like savages. They should be punished just as severely as their blue-collar counterparts, if only to discourage similar behavior in the future.