In June of 2020, Trump said these words and it had people lighting their hair on fire and screeching about the ‘end of the world’…it was truly an amazing time, back then…and carried on through more lunacy for the last 2+ years.
Hypochondria had never been so widespread until people were convinced that they needed to be tested to see if they were sick. Truly the most amazing thing.
Now…I get it…there are a lot of neurotic people out there consulting the internet to self-diagnose themselves with a plethora of diseases and to a certain extent, I believe we’d all at least done a little of this at some point…and if not this, taken herbal cures, vitamin supplements, homeopathic medicines…for conditions that most likely do not exist inside of their bodies.
We chatted a little about this at the Friday Zoom Meet…of course, Vitamin D being brought to the conversation…
And while I really don’t care if people want to address their health with vitamin supplements, I do believe that the pendulum between Pharmaceuticals has swung so far in the opposite direction that what we actually see are pill pushers on the opposite side of the health spectrum…there are those that demand prescriptions for every symptom vs those who unnecessarily take fist fulls of vitamins under the guise of being healthier.
The thought process is the same.
It’s a built in dependency on simplified solutions through taking a cure pill.
Now…admittedly, I’ve fallen into this same trap…have a bin full of supplements that I’d taken for various reasons…but have come to the understanding that my health problems were driven by poor consumption habits and by addressing these, I’ve stopped taking vitamins and only really focus on sustaining energy to my immune system and playing around with Non-Shivering Thermogenesis through a metabolite of one of the Branched-Chain Amino Acids…because I hate being cold…and the violent shivering reaction sucks.
Enough about me though…
There is no sustainable plan that works with a ‘get out of jail free’ card by way of taking a pill to absolve you from your consumption sins. You’re either on a healthy path…or your not. If you are…why do you still need supplements?
I digress…
This neurosis has carried on from 2020 to where people still believe that they need to take more jabs and wear masks and that this not only protects them, but makes them a better person than you…up to the point that the Vaccinated are now blaming RSV on the Unvaccinated, where there is no benefit from either the influenza nor the mRNA jabs for RSV and where no RSV jab actually exists.
With all of this…it seems like they’re trying to fade out COVID in the news cycles and out of the mainstream by blending it into the trifecta of respiratory viruses and it can’t be more clear than by what they are actually providing by way of information on the Provincial Dashboards - specific to Alberta.
If you look at the current outbreaks in Alberta for COVID right now…it would appear that COVID has massively declined:
Where in comparison to this, is that influenza is seeing the Highest Case Spikes since 2009-2010:
And over the last 3 weeks, we’ve seen influenza death move from zero to 16:
And while this is troubling to see this massive spike in influenza and the deaths associated…what is even more troubling is that in the last week of COVID reporting, there were a total of 39 deaths…
Which would seemingly indicate that COVID is still the most major issue that we’re dealing with…but check out the difference in “Laboratory Testing” between the 2 viruses:
AHS is testing almost 7x more for Influenza than is for COVID.
How does this even make sense…if they’re actually concerned about the most virulent and deadly between the 2 viruses?
And…where’s the RSV dashboard?
And do you know what is even more troubling than this?
Is that one of the Provincial COVID Deaths in Alberta from the most recent report is in a Male - aged 20-29…listed as “Probable” for Death Status:
Important to note that deaths on the COVID dashboard aren’t necessarily ‘FROM COVID’, they are listed as deaths here if somebody died ‘WITH COVID’…because at this point, we all know that the amount of people who died specifically FROM COVID, is closer to ZERO than any ‘Expert’ is willing to admit.
As for this being “Probable”…why wouldn’t they test and find out?
I mean…even if they did test…and there was COVID found in this individual…it’s statistically a very low probability that it was an actual COVID Death…because in 3 years of COVID and with over 100,000 cases of Verified COVID…including this death, there’s only been 22 deaths:
Meaning that for this age group…rate of survival is 99.98%…and without testing, listing this as a probable death, is completely insane.
You see…we’re still seemingly applying the same standards of mortality since the beginning of the tracking of COVID deaths…we’re just not talking about them anymore because COVID is trying to be faded from the conversation.
They fucked up this whole shooting match from the beginning…continue on with the same metrics…talk about it less…because they think that we’re just not going to pay attention anymore and will allow them to do this.
They’re literally using the Trump Strategy that offended so many millions of people throughout the western world, Find Less COVID by Testing for COVID Less…to escape judgement from how poorly they’ve all done and how wrong they’ve all been over the last 3 years.
And while this will probably work with the masses…
Here at YakkStack…that dog won’t hunt!
Enjoy your Sunday, my friends!
As with most things, Trump was 100% correct. Canada's federal and especially provincial governments were grossly negligent in their obsession with testing. Testing mattered before community spread. Once community spread existed, testing became meaningless. If not for infinite deficits, a steady creep of fascism, and the failure of socialized medicine, Canada would not have suffered so badly. I am writing from an Ontario perspective, for context. Listening to Doug Ford babble complete nonsense for 2+ years was nauseating.
Sheldon, you’re a work horse! Comin in hot with an essay on a Sunday, respect!