Sunday, May 9, 2021

Thoughts on Covid-19

 Dennis Prager who writes a weekly column for Townhall.com has made a point on several occasions that a substantial portion of the population does not want to be free. Instead, they want someone to take care of them. And he has the best of evidence. In the book of Exodus in the Bible, the people of Israel had been in bondage to Egypt for 400 years. God brought them out of Egypt. They were free. While they didn't have much meat, they were also not starving. But, they complained, "Why did you bring us out to this desert to starve to death." God was not pleased, to put it mildly.

Yesterday, I met a person I had not seen in a year because the place where I met her was closed. After noting that each of us were doing well, I mentioned that the place where we met with others was opening up again. Which led her to state that whe though it was fear that had both closed our meetings down, and that drove the mask mandates. I have said the same thing. It is an irrational fear, in light of the data. One should always distinguish between things are real, and things that are not. If someone is pointing a gun at your head, that is cause for actual fear. If you are not afraid, there is something wrong with you. On the other hand, this virus has a 99.987% over all survival rate. It makes sense that some people should take rational precautions, but others who are healthy should not be worried. The healthy and the young should go about their lives as normal. But even the older people should be allowed to make their own evaluation of risks. My wife would be devastated if she couldn't see her grand children.

As for masks, the size of the SARS-CoV2 virus, which causes Covid-19 is 0.125 microns. On the other hand, the pore size of a typical cloth mask is 80 microns. 0.125 is much less than 80, so as you can see, even if you have a well fitting mask, that mask is not preventing the spread of Covid-19. In his article at Townhall.com today, Jeff Courere makes the point here that mask mandates have not been about the facts, but about enforcing control.

The left has more than an affinity for masks, they have a true love affair. A mask shows your obedience to the government. It creates faceless Americans, devoid of personality, following orders from all-knowing health officials.
In our country, too many leftists are quite willing to submit to government authorities, while conservatives are more independent minded, enjoy their freedoms and have a tradition of questioning authority.

Meanwhile, Leftists are trying to implement vaccine passports. This is a horrible idea, and in fact, is totally illegal. The Nuremburg Code grew out of the trial of Nazi doctors who conducted inhuman reseach on Jewish subjects during the Nazi era and World War II. To demand that a person have taken a vaccine or he or she can not work, can not go into a store, a restaurant or other business is to coerce that person into taking the vaccine, against the Nuremburg Code. New York state already demands this paperwork, and I wonder if New York wants to be known as no different that the Nazis?

Finally, I have been asking what the hysterical push for everyone to get the vaccine is all about. After all, if someone has had the virus and survived, they have better immunity that the vaccines can give. That is at least 20% of the population. And of course, very few people under the age of 30 should take an experimental vaccine. But, there could be a reason for the hard sell. Today, at the American Thinker Monica Showalter has a post entitled PLA dossie shows that China is running a Dr. Evil lab in Wuhan. If the government believes that SARS-Cov2 is a bioweapon, then it makes sense that they would want to try to develop a way to keep as many people as possible alive. It would also explain why the unspoken need to have everyone on board with the chosen defense. Thing is, this seems to be an undeclared war on both sides. Our Constitution doesn't have provisions for giving up liberties in times of war, much less other times.

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