"the plague" is over ..... proof of assertion to follow .....

i traveled to walla walla, washington the other day after breakfast to get a little dessert:  i got a small cherry vanilla danish.   nope, that in itself doesn't prove "the plague" (covid-19) is over.

the streets and sidewalks were very crowded, with people walking and browsing everywhere, without masks, and talking and conversing with friends and passersby.  in other words, "to hell with social distancing," and all the other little absurdities associated with trying to avoid communicable diseases.--   children, teenagers on skateboards, teenagers looking for boyfriends/girlfriends/gender identified friens/whatever, old people and not-so-old people, all out socializing.

now, i don't know what anthony fauchi thinks of all of this (nor do i care particularly what the lying son of a bitch thinks), but the people have decided that the whole thing is not worth fussing with any longer.  the "sickees," in other words, don't much believe in the supposed dangers of the "sickness" any more.

oh, some people died, to be sure.  but, when the whole thing is counted and "corrected" for deaths caused by covid, and not merely associated with it in some tenuous manner, it won't amount to much in my view of things.   certainly, in my view, not worth shutting down the economy of the whole nation, and not worth shutting down the whole world.  in reality, it will probably be viewed in time as not so much more than a normal flu season, and just another thing among the myriad of others that kill people.

now, there is a curious fact starting to emerge about covid-19 (aside from the fact that donald trump's view that the wuhan lab cooked it up, and released it not-so-accidentally)-- and i owe "knowledge" of this because an ex-wife heard it on the radio-- and that is about 80% of the persons who died also happened to be obese.   so, did covid kill them, or did being morbidly (as it turned out) obese kill them?  being fat apparently didn't help them any when they contracted a disease not really impacting a more fit population.

i have frequently referred to the whole matter as "the plague that wasn't."  well, that little issue aside, it appears that the persons who were to suffer from it have simply decided that it is over, and whatever risk is still associated with it, and that life is to be gotten along with.

no longer will it be a political issue, designed to curtail & exploit the liberties, speech and political activity of the people by shutting down the society.

"herd immunity" has triumphed, and the herd's indifference to the nonsense of america's far left seems to be, by contrast, rapidly increasing in full measure.   and, yes, in my view, the two things are one in the same, just different sides to the same coin.   so, to hell with anthony fauchi and his leftist minders, and may he and they vanish into a/the well deserved obscurity that so befits them:  non-entities & lackeys/lick-spittle's, important no longer.

"the plague" is over.  gone.  the "news" will pimp it for all it is worth, and oregon's and washington's idiot governors will try to continue to govern by "emergency" powers, but to the general populace that is increasingly tiresome and irrelevant  .....  as will be governor's inslee and whatshername.  newsome, newhouse, whatever his name is in california, has already vanished into irrelevance so much so that he was assaulted the other day by a street bum.

they who would be kings, go phffft in the wind, just like "the plague" that spawned them.   good riddance.

john jay @  06.20.2021

p.s.   as for those who political fortune waxed in the plague, and wane now in the general indifference of the people they had their little day in the spotlight.   and, now they vanish.   good riddance.

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[Drew458]

I pray that you are right. Yet I also hope you have some agri-mectin set aside. But Delta is coming, and Delta Plus is right behind it. The UK "alpha" variant took about 3 months to become dominant in the UK. The Indian Delta variant pushed aside the Alpha in 1.5 months, and cases are spiking there so much that the gov pushed back "freedom day" until whenever. Russia is having a tremendous surge in cases, all of which are Delta. They were caught napping; low vaccination, poor health habits, hospitals unprepared. The Plus variants are brand new. They may have originated in Indian communities in the USA, as there are more cases here than in India. But in India, there were 7 Plus cases last week and now there are 22. Plus is vaccine resistant like Delta is, and is more resistant to monoclonal antibody treatments than Delta is. Ivermectin seems to do the job, but politics gets in the way, and India reverses position on it almost weekly.

[jj]

drew:

yep, people die.   mostly the elderly, and mostly the obese.  i am given to understand that in the united states about 80% of the persons who die are very much overweight  ....   goes along with breathing problems right from the get go.

and, yes, people will die.   but, the point is, are the deaths significant enough to warrant shutting down the entire society to avoid?   i think not  .....   and, the perfect example is war.   you suffer casualties in war, very many in fact, and those losses are among your most vigorous vital young men, those persons you can ill afford to lose.   they say that wwi killed france for 100 years, and i tend to agree:  you cannot afford to lose the cream of your society very often.

the point is, life goes on.   in the midst of war.   in the midst of pandemic, if there is one.

now, along with a host of others, i believe that covid-19 was developed at wuhan as a part of gain research, and probably leaked by the chinese as part of that, both on their own populations and the rest of the world.   and, i dont believe that the fact that it attacks the elderly, the sick, and the obese is particularly an accident:  i think that is precisely the people the scientists in charge of the research were looking for.   i think the chinese view the elderly are a drain upon societal resources, and a limit on the efforts to mobilize a society toward a specific aim.   something the leaders of society would deem desirable, were they capable of being candid on the whole issue.   in that regard, from the point of view of our leaders, the wuhan virus has been a rousing success.  the only failure attributable to it, from a logical standpoint re: the united states, is that joe biden was not taken out with it.

more strains will appear as the fellows at wuhan work with it.  (do not forget, as financed by the united states agencies run by stanley/anthony fauchi (whatever the hell his name is.))  we cannot afford to shut down the entire economy society every damned time a new strain is released.   and, that is precisely the aim of the people who run it, and release it, in my view.

they aim to cripple destroy modern societal norms associated with economic productivity/consumption and effort.   again, more strains will be forthcoming, precisely the aim of gain research, which the u.s. and china remain active in.

john