I am neither a medical doctor nor a natural sciences researcher, so of course nothing below should be taken as medical advice. It is rather my understanding of reality after much review of the available evidence and an understanding of the political economy of such things. I rarely comment on such topics, but the levels of MSM and MSAM BS on the matter, together with the possible large-scale effects on especially Western populations, prodded me to write about the reality of COVID.
Good article Roger. I wanted to add (or clarify) that both COVID and the mRNA "vaccines" also seem to have a possible side effect of causing severe immune response to otherwise normal pathogens as well as allergens. I am aware of multiple people who all had both the mRNA shot (multiple, but I do not think three) and caught COVID who then went on to experience extreme autoimmune events which in one case led to a partial colectomy ( along with two very expensive 5-night stays in the hospital and losing his job as a result) and another who had a blood related autoimmune response similar to lupus. The second person later died as a result of complications. I will do some further research and post any peer reviewed findings or analysis that I come across.
A very useful posting, which must have involved connsiderable time and effort.
To add some historical perspective for readers, the opposition to vaccinations or public health measures of most kinds has been a signature policy of ultra right wing groups in the States for a long time. They opposed giving polio shots to school children, for example. And they fought for years against the "communist plot" of adding flouride to drinking water.
And in many of their campaigns they have been backed by the powerful and wealthy medical lobby, including the AMA and the Physicians and Surgeons.
The great fear of these class conscious capitalists is that medical care should become- as it was for a time in the British NHS and Ontario's OHIP- free to the consumer and freed of corporate profit making.
This obsession with fighting Free Healthcare always outlasts the apparent defeat of interests which dream of the opportunity of cashing in on the fear of premature death: wherever Healthcare has been removed from the marketplace and turned into a human service, the capitalists have fought to recapture it for their interests. And today, in the UK and Canada- both countries where the government Healthcare system was insanely popular and seen as a 'third rail' in electoral politics- the re-privatisation of hospitals and clinics, and the commercialisation of life saving procedures and drugs is almost complete.
When Covid arrived itt seemed axiomatic to me, an optimist, that it would mean theat the Health Insurance programmes that most Presidents from Roosevelt and Truman on have pushed for would overcome the selfishness of the Medical lobby and the capitalist class. I was wrong.
Instead Covid has simply bred more and more extravagant conspiracy theories which have proved to be an intellectual pandemic besides which the virus itself pales in comparison. Long Covid cum Eternal Covid.
Good article Roger. I wanted to add (or clarify) that both COVID and the mRNA "vaccines" also seem to have a possible side effect of causing severe immune response to otherwise normal pathogens as well as allergens. I am aware of multiple people who all had both the mRNA shot (multiple, but I do not think three) and caught COVID who then went on to experience extreme autoimmune events which in one case led to a partial colectomy ( along with two very expensive 5-night stays in the hospital and losing his job as a result) and another who had a blood related autoimmune response similar to lupus. The second person later died as a result of complications. I will do some further research and post any peer reviewed findings or analysis that I come across.
A very useful posting, which must have involved connsiderable time and effort.
To add some historical perspective for readers, the opposition to vaccinations or public health measures of most kinds has been a signature policy of ultra right wing groups in the States for a long time. They opposed giving polio shots to school children, for example. And they fought for years against the "communist plot" of adding flouride to drinking water.
And in many of their campaigns they have been backed by the powerful and wealthy medical lobby, including the AMA and the Physicians and Surgeons.
The great fear of these class conscious capitalists is that medical care should become- as it was for a time in the British NHS and Ontario's OHIP- free to the consumer and freed of corporate profit making.
This obsession with fighting Free Healthcare always outlasts the apparent defeat of interests which dream of the opportunity of cashing in on the fear of premature death: wherever Healthcare has been removed from the marketplace and turned into a human service, the capitalists have fought to recapture it for their interests. And today, in the UK and Canada- both countries where the government Healthcare system was insanely popular and seen as a 'third rail' in electoral politics- the re-privatisation of hospitals and clinics, and the commercialisation of life saving procedures and drugs is almost complete.
When Covid arrived itt seemed axiomatic to me, an optimist, that it would mean theat the Health Insurance programmes that most Presidents from Roosevelt and Truman on have pushed for would overcome the selfishness of the Medical lobby and the capitalist class. I was wrong.
Instead Covid has simply bred more and more extravagant conspiracy theories which have proved to be an intellectual pandemic besides which the virus itself pales in comparison. Long Covid cum Eternal Covid.
I am grateful for your sane, thoughtful take on this.