Another TikTok creator commits suicide. Why isn’t social media treated as the toxic environment it truly is?

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Social media exposes people to the worst of the worst of human behavior. Anonymous comments are on the level of the writing on a bathroom stall. The bullying and judgmental behavior has a serious, sometimes deadly, effect on their target, often driving them to substance abuse or suicide. And yet social media is promoted everywhere, including schools. Why? TikTok has been promoted in my elementary-aged kids’ school. Thankfully, they have no desire to begin filming videos of themselves for others to then view and judge. The push to saturate childrens lives with social media is vile, because it means exposing them to the sewer-level behavior and rhetoric that thrives online.

Only 25 children died of COVID-19 in the UK, new study finds

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From the Wall Street Journal:

“Children are at extremely slim risk of dying from Covid-19, according to some of the most comprehensive studies to date, which indicate the threat might be even lower than previously thought.

Some 99.995% of the 469,982 children in England who were infected during the year examined by researchers survived, one study found.

In fact, there were fewer deaths among children due to the virus than initially suspected. Among the 61 child deaths linked to a positive Covid-19 test in England, 25 were actually caused by the illness, the study found.”

And yet, if you ask anyone on the street, they’ll tell you that thousands of children died. What a total failure of public health at every level. Or total success, depending on what you believe to be the motives of the public health establishment.

Does this ever occur to anyone at all?

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The Pfizer vaccine appears to be totally useless against COVID mutations

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Israel is finding that the effectiveness of the Pfizer mRNA vax is falling off a cliff, now that the far milder COVID mutations are becoming dominant. I wonder who could’ve predicted that? Life truly finds a way, and fiddling with a complex cellular process that is the product of millions of years of evolution will always be the height of folly. We are not smarter than evolution. We are not smarter than a virus. Now, rather than admit that the vaccines are a failure, Pfizer is demanding that a booster shot be given emergency use authorization. This is Monty Python-level self-parody. There is no longer any emergency. COVID has mutated into a more contagious, far less dangerous form. We’ll all catch it, probably multiple times over the course of our lives. We should have admitted as much a year ago, but the least we can do is admit it now.

My case for optimism

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The events of the past 15 months have been harrowing. Devastating. A monumental crime committed by mayors, city councils, local health departments, governors, and Presidents. Much has been destroyed, many lives ruined. Many formerly “free” Western nations have passed the point of no return in regards to respecting the rights and dignity of their population. Despite this, I believe that we are on the precipice of a great awakening, along with an enormous economic boom, at least here in the United States. The doomsday cult that erupted like the Yellowstone caldera is now a smoldering ruin. It inflicted so much unnecessary pain, but its burned itself out. The cultists choked themselves on their own contradictions, and either descended further into mania, or wandered away from their broken idol. Liberty is being reaffirmed in many US states the likes of which we have never seen before. There has been a conscious rejection of the lockdown ideology, of masks, of the Doomsday Virus. Small Town America never succumbed, but Big City America is now on board in most red states. The almost unlimited power of unchained social behavior is on the verge of being unleashed. Over the next five years, if the lockdown authoritarianism is kept firmly at bay, we’ll see growth on the level of post-World War 2 growth. Despite the hedonism of the screen-addicted masses, multitudes of like-minded and liberty-minded thinkers are finding their way to each other. This will be a renaissance for liberty. And it won’t be led by the stale scribblers among the professional libertarian class. It will be the unpolished amateurs who write and speak and act, more firmly sealing the cage of totalitarian government than the book-writing class could ever hope to accomplish. The miracle of unrestrained social power/cooperation is about to be unleashed. Witness it.