The New York Times, one of the more notorious media outlets for spreading COVID-19 disinformation by a clown college of unqualified opinion editorial pundits, pretty much openly mocked the public with a recent article titled:
“How Bad Is Another Case of Covid? Repeated infections are ‘a fact of life’ at this point, experts say. But they warn that there is no such thing as a risk-free case.”
The NYT goes on to describe “repeated infections” as playing with a loaded revolver:
“Doctors tend to be more concerned about the chance that someone will develop long Covid from repeated infections ... Covid can cause long-term damage to nearly every part of the body and repeated cases can compound those harms. ... Researchers often compare it to Russian roulette: Any infection could be the one that leads to long Covid.”
After years of spreading harmful disinformation through their rag, The New York Times is now going: “Tee hee! You might just wind up horribly disabled by the virus we lied to you about! And there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it! Good luck!” Actually, that isn’t entirely true, there is a throwaway line at the end where “Doctors said … people should take precautions, like getting vaccinated and masking when traveling or in crowded areas,” which would…prevent reinfections…would mean that they’re not…a “fact of life!” You’re contradicting yourself in your own article!
Now, we had some warning that a significant percentage of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 would wind up disabled prior to 2020, thanks to research from the SARS-CoV-1 debacle, which was completely ignored. The CEO of vaccine manufacturer Moderna also warned that that vaccines were not a “silver bullet,” and layered mitigations would still be required in December 2020:
Who knew?! Preventing viral transmission remains a good thing!
Leonhardt’s Legacy
Unfortunately, the President people elected in 2020 on a promise to “follow the science” chose to listen to unqualified economics reporter David Leonhardt instead of top doctors and scientists advising precaution, as confirmed by Politico in 2022. Leonhardt insisted that his background in economics meant that he simply knew better than actual public health experts. Leonhardt will become notorious for committing what can only be described as “data crimes;” outright misrepresenting or manipulating statistics in order to:
Suggest “the pandemic may now be in permanent retreat” (“Covid on the Run”)
Attack masking & public health mandates (“Do Covid Precautions Work?”)
Shrug off breakthrough COVID-19 cases (“Breakthrough Covid, in Perspective”)
Endorse economist Emily Oster’s MAGA-billionaire backed fictions (“Covid and Age”)
Suggest COVID-19 is merely a “red state” problem that is only killing white MAGA anti-vaxxers (“COVID and Race”)
Attack people still protecting themselves from COVID-19 infection as “irrational” (“Two COVID Americas”)
...and so much more!
David Leonhardt would also frequently appear on the program of a noted pedophile defender to spread further disinformation, especially when it came to COVID-19 and children. Long COVID is now the leading chronic illness in children, affecting millions of kids. Congratulations, David! This is your legacy.
Moving Past the Pro-Pestilence Mythos
Clearly, it’s long past due to implement layered mitigations to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens, and there are multiple ways to do so. This was the job of the Biden Administration, who instead chose to drown the nation in pestilence through misleading guidance and mitigation-free schools & workplaces. The public was organized and coerced into embracing COVID-19 as a requirement of getting an education or earning a wage.
Employing Ashish Jha as a public relations mouthpiece instead of a COVID Response Coordinator, Jha would also exclaim on NPR that “Testing positive for COVID is beginning to feel ordinary for some Americans,” encouraging reinfections. Alongside Emily Oster in The New York Times, he attacked teachers protesting schools being overwhelmed with COVID-19 outbreaks as “irrational,” having failed their “individual risk assessment.” He would also falsely claim that “there’s no study in the world that masks work that well,” before later appearing on Chris Cuomo’s program to whine about “the radical fringe left to skill mask indoors.” In an opinion editorial for The Boston Globe, Jha would outright lie about there being “promising treatments for Long COVID.” The Biden Administration had completely betrayed the American people.
The New York Times’ cherry-picked “experts” who insist “Repeated infections are ‘a fact of life’” need to be discarded and shunned out of the conversation. We have engineering solutions to reduce the transmission of airborne viruses, and the experts with relevant experience are the ones who need to be listened to and given the resources & authority to implement them nationwide.
The International Wildfire Dogma Consensus
This should not be controversial. Instead, many liberals (Scott Galloway, Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, etc.) have subscribed to the fantasy that should could have remained fully in-person and mitigation free in 2020, even after dozens of NYC educators died of COVID-19 in just a few weeks. This fantasy was dreamed up by crackpots such as Emily Oster and David Leonhardt in The New York Times. This leaves us gravely vulnerable should another pandemic such as H5N1 (bird flu) strike in our lifetimes, which climate collapse puts at us greater risk for.
This unscientific consensus is not limited to the United States of Pestilence, however. Across the pond on Plague Island, the 2024 National Health Service pandemic plan declares:
“...it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This is utterly atrocious, especially in the wake of the U.K. COVID inquiry, which found that the scandalous incompetence of Conservative leaders was responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths. From Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak to Matt Hancock, the Tories drenched their hands in the blood of their citizens and smeared it across the walls of 10 Downing Street in what is now known as “Partygate.”
So, what’s the plan should another pandemic emerge? It’s what we need to start calling Wildfire Dogma: Mass infect millions of unvaccinated people with a new pathogen before we know anything about its potential for harm, or worse, willfully ignore evidence suggesting a serious potential for harm. That’s what United Kingdom Health Security Advisor Shamez Ladhani has publicly advocated for, even going so far to insist that the media not report on children’s deaths caused by COVID-19.
Government and Disaster
Dating back thousands upon thousands of years to the dawn of civilization, it is one of the central responsibilities of government to organize people and resources in response to disasters, and pandemics are no different. This is not open for debate, yet, across both the UK and the US, the new mentality is to tell people that they are on their own; that they are only entitled to the survival they can personally afford. For example, the current head of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, as part of a controlled demolition, has told states that they should expect to be on their own and without federal assistance. That is the “plan” for future calamities, including pandemics: shrug as massive numbers of people die.
So just how many of our friends, families, and children do we let these jerks get killed before enough is enough?
You’re seriously demonizing *Biden* here?? 🤦🏽♀️🤯