{"id":334649,"date":"2023-01-25T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=334649"},"modified":"2023-01-24T23:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T04:30:21","slug":"the-game-is-over-and-they-have-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/01\/the-game-is-over-and-they-have-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game Is Over and They Have Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Robert Blumen, Brownstone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" The Guardian on Jan 15, 2023 published the most perfect piece of new normal nostalgia that ever was or could be: Coronavirus: \u2018People aren\u2019t taking this seriously\u2019: experts say US Covid surge is big risk by Melody Schreiber.<\/p>\n

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This piece may be studied as a\u00a0Platonic Form<\/a>. Nothing could more perfectly demonstrate the inability of the covid fear porn publishers to let go of the narrative. If the author didn\u2019t have her own\u00a0website<\/a>, I would have attributed the piece to an instance of ChatGPT trained on every\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0article from the past three years.<\/p>\n

The writer employs every single discredited covid\u00a0trope<\/a>\u00a0at least once. I will list a few of the best, here. To cover them all I would have to quote the entire article and that would violate the\u00a0Fair Use Doctrine<\/a>. I have chosen a tabular form with a quote alongside the trope that it is derived from:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Quote<\/strong><\/td>\nTrope<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cIn the fourth year of the pandemic.\u201d<\/td>\nWe are still in a pandemic. It will never end.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cThis is one of the greatest surges of Covid cases in the entire pandemic, according to\u00a0wastewater analyses<\/a>\u00a0of the virus.\u201d<\/td>\nThe current wave is the worst wave ever.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cCovid-19 is once again spreading across America and being driven by the recent holidays.\u201d<\/td>\nSuper-spreader events and family gatherings.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cThe Omicron subvariants BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 as well as the quickly expanding XBB.1.5 make up the majority of cases.\u201d<\/td>\nJust when you thought we were over it, a new variant has emerged.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cWith XBB, there\u2019s such a significant transmission advantage that exposure is really risky \u2013 it\u2019s riskier now than it\u2019s ever been\u201d in terms of transmissibility, Sehgal said.\u201d<\/td>\nThe new variant is more dangerous than previous variants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cAnd the more the virus spreads, the more opportunities it has to evolve, potentially picking up mutations that make it easier to overcome immunity.\u201d<\/td>\nThe variants only get worse over time, never more mild.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cthe winter surge, which is once again putting pressure on health systems.\u201d\u201cWilliams is worried that hospitals are reaching maximum capacity.\u201d\u201cHealth workers have experienced three years of burnout, disability and death, and some have needed to exit the workforce.\u201d<\/td>\nThe health care system is under pressure. It will probably collapse. People will be dying in the streets, unable to obtain care.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cDespite the high rates of Covid spread, hospitalizations have not yet reached previous peaks seen earlier in the pandemic, probably due to immunity \u2026 but that protection should not be taken for granted, he said, particularly because immunity wanes.\u201d<\/td>\nNatural immunity does not protect you. Even if you are immune, you should still get all the vaccines and boosters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cThe severe cases we are seeing are probably at least somewhat avoidable, if folks make sure that they stay updated on vaccination, because that\u2019s still the safest way to gain immunity.\u201d<\/td>\nVaccination stops the spread.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re just fighting a lot of misinformation.\u201d<\/td>\nEverything that you have read contrary to this narrative consists of lies by malevolent misinformation spreaders.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When Joe Biden\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0the pandemic was \u201cover\u201d in September, he said, it probably stalled public enthusiasm for the new booster.<\/td>\nHappy talk about the end of covid is dangerous.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cWhile vaccines are very important\u2026\u201d<\/td>\nAll roads lead to vaccination.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cIn New Hampshire, nursing homes will not admit those that they feel that they cannot staff to care for, which I think is admirable, but the consequence of that is that the hospitals are jammed up,\u201d he said. Hospitals that might release patients to care facilities for transitional or long-term care will see beds filled for longer.\u201d<\/td>\nThe elderly in care homes are at risk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cThe share for children under four\u00a0roughly doubled<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.\u201d<\/td>\nChildren are at risk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u201cAs Ray put it: \u2018When we could be wearing a mask, why aren\u2019t we?\u2019\u201d<\/td>\nMasks work to prevent respiratory viral transmission.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n

My favorite part of the piece is, \u201cYet because of poor messaging from officials, many people may not even realize the US is experiencing a surge.\u201d I am one of those many people who did not know this. A surge of what? A normal seasonal flu that makes people feel a bit under the weather for a week? A bad cold-vid?<\/p>\n

We can celebrate our return to the old normal when an outbreak of a seasonal virus is of concern to those who are infected or who care for a family member. All of society need not be thrust into a panic over such things. The more normal the world is, the more resources of those who are impacted will have to deal with their troubles. And the better will those who are not directly affected be able to support them.<\/p>\n

As a software engineer I note with some amusement that the variant (or as I like to call them \u201cscariant\u201d) names now have two periods. In a\u00a0software release version<\/a>\u00a0a version with double dot is used for a minor bug fix release, (e.g. 3.0.1). \u201cMinor\u201d means that the release is not important enough for users to upgrade immediately. Perhaps the same thinking should be applied to the way we handle the emergence of new viral variants.<\/p>\n

When Biden said that the pandemic is over, followed by \u201cIf you notice, no one\u2019s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape,\u201d that may have been his dementia inhibiting the filter that was supposed to kick in before he said something truthful. Biden only\u00a0said the quiet part out loud:<\/a>\u00a0the public has put the panic phase in the rearview. Even Anthony Fauci made the\u00a0incomprehensible<\/a>\u00a0statement that the pandemic isn\u2019t over but we are out of the \u201cpandemic phase.\u201d Every statement like this is more toothpaste for the pandemic\u00a0dead-enders<\/a>\u00a0to put back in the tube.<\/p>\n

The article bemoans the low acceptance rate of the booster vaccinations. We are told that cases are avoidable if patients had sought additional injections. First thing: do we care about cases? Second thing: it is not true that the covid vaccines prevent infection. That could only be so if the failed claim of sterilizing immunity were valid.<\/p>\n

Vaccine advocates have\u00a0walked back<\/a>\u00a0the earlier claims that one or any number of shots would prevent the recipient from getting infected. It\u00a0was let out late in 2022<\/a>\u00a0that the clinical trials did not even test for the ability of the drugs to stop transmission. It\u2019s hard to believe that anyone can still say that after so many multiply-vaccinated-and-boosted public figures have gotten covid.<\/p>\n

My friend Kevin Duffy, a professional investor, after seeing the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0article, sent me this image. The graph shows the market psychology of a financial bubble and subsequent market crash. I have added the red oval highlighting where Kevin thinks we are now: in the denial phase, after the bubble has burst.<\/p>\n

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