Reflections on Current COVID “Crisis”

Too much panic, contrary to medical science, caused by inept government actions

Where I live the big news stories are on hospitals facing historic highs in dealing with COVID patients in emergency rooms and ICUs.  All this supposedly due to omicron rampaging through society.  Yet hardly anything happening makes sense based on medical science.  From all over the world there is solid evidence that omicron is not deadly and should not cause major hospitalizations.  So, what is really going on in our corrupt and crippled American society?

First, in reading about many hospital doctors’ reactions to what they are facing this is what accurately sums up the current situation.  The key, important word is “mild.”  When people come down with omicron infection, they almost always have mild medical symptoms.  Often these are described by those reacting more intelligently, and not going to a hospital, as a few days of a bad cold.

But hospitals are being flooded with panicked people.  In large measure this emotional response has been cause by the endless inept statements and actions by Federal officials.  The government has done nothing sensible to calm the public, sending a clear message that omicron is not to be feared as a killing virus.

My explanation of this government failure is this: The government wants to maintain FEAR so that they can keep forcefully pushing COVID vaccines and booster shots.  THIS MAKE NO SENSE BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY ALL THE REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE IS THAT VACCINES DO NOT STOP GETTING OMICRON OR SPREADING IT.  The vaccines are a failure.  But the government refuses to stop pushing them.  Every day we learn about big name politicians and sports and entertainment stars coming down with omicron despite being fully vaccinated and boosted.

The vast majority of people going to hospitals with MILD symptoms have been fully vaccinated.  Reliable data from several countries show that 70% typically are fully vaccinated.  They do not really need hospital care.

They are also flooding hospitals to get TESTED.  Testing has been severely overemphasized.  Most people do not need to get frequent testing.  Only people who have major underlying medical conditions, such as diabetes, obesity and heart problems, should be concerned about testing.  But this is the other BIG government failure.  Fast home test kits remain far too expensive and difficult to get.  So people go to hospitals for testing.  This is a huge problem caused by utterly stupid government messages.

Much more attention should be given by public health agencies and media on pushing people to emphasize healthy lifestyles and using proven immune system boosting vitamins (especially D) and supplements (especially zinc and quercetin).

We are living in endless days of stupidity and insanity.  The more that hospitals are flooded with people seeking tests and attention to mild symptoms that would almost always dissipate in a few days, the more that critically needed health care for people with all the normal medical needs is being withheld.  So, as before, more people will die from collateral impacts of the pandemic than from omicron infection.

I agree with many very smart health experts that letting omicron run its course through society will, in the longer term, benefit everyone by building natural immunity that will help bring the pandemic to an end.  We must and will learn to live with COVID as just a natural, routine respiratory virus that will kill very, very few people and that cannot be totally eliminated.  Especially if we emphasize the many actions people can and should take to strengthen their innate immunity through healthy living.  And many of us will use ivermectin as a prophylactic to prevent serious illness and as a far better and safer choice than the new, hardly tested Pfizer and Merck medicines that the government is pushing.