It is that time of year again. I am sending out my New Year’s message.
This is my version for all who read my blog posts. I am having enough response to this project to encourage me to keep going. I hope readership keeps growing in 2022.
As usual, my wishes to all are for a secure and healthy 2022.
As usual, I will pass on my own predictions for the coming year. We are in some difficult times. I predicted a couple of years ago that this decade would be called “The Turbulent Twenties”.
I am being proved right. The norm in the present world is governments utterly unable to govern. They cannot even use epidemiology 101 to eliminate a virus which should never have become the huge problem it has.
Worse, they are trying to start wars with those few countries which have been able to manage the virus and run their economies to the benefit of the public, not business elites. The publics of the ineffective states have been shown to be varied in their capacity to force governments to adopt protective measures.
I think capacities of populations to do this will improve as this goes on. I think we will start to see irresponsible governments being forced to concede control of all pandemic related government policy to ad hoc committees.
I do not think anything else is going to end the pandemic. It is becoming clear to me that this will go on for years and will get worse before it gets better.
I do not think there is much point in fighting with the antivax and antimask crowd. They are not the big problem. I know it is hard for most people to get their heads around, but what is really driving the pandemic is the worldwide medical industrial complex, which is making a lot of money out of it.
I know what am talking about. This is becoming the main topic of my blogging project, which is developing pretty well. I am getting some readers.
Forget about the nonsense put out by the med industrial complex about counter
pandemic measures. That is, surface cleaning, plastic barriers, surgical type masks, and over reliance on testing.
Get N-95 type masks. Make sure they fit right. Wear them when in indoor, public spaces.
Understand that covid is an airborne disease. The infective particles move in the air just like smoke. Whether and how severely you get infected depends on how much virus you get in through your nose.
Focus on ventilation. Insist that CO2 testing be done in all common spaces, filtration systems installed, circulation problems corrected.
Do not place too much trust in testers. You need several tests over a period of days for them to be much use. They can give false positives and negatives.
Shun people who refuse to follow these rules. Shun establishments which will not implement and enforce them.
Fight like hell against any attempt to make you go into places where these rules are not in place; to work, to receive any kind of service, or to send your children there.
Remember that the virus is spreading mostly among people who cannot afford to protect themselves from it. Try to help them. Do not condemn them over something mostly outside their control.
Finally, use the pandemic as an opportunity to learn how to live a quieter, simpler life. If most people do that it would be the one good thing to come out of this calamity.
I cannot say if things will look better on New Year’s day 2023. I would like everyone on this e-mail list to make it through the year without their health compromised by covid.
Happy New Year.
All great advice. The problem with anti-masker/vaxxers is their extraordinary need to create narratives that tell us we need to obtain natural immunity and their inclination to want to force us into situations where none of your rules are respected, then, to act like they are victims of discrimination if not allowed into businesses with strict rules. Also, most tend to be McCarthyites which I find ironic, given they typically worship greedy corporatists.
The Gates Foundation portfolio to me all along was a sham. But, hey, that is capitalism. Then they have to try to label him a communist, when they so willingly let them gut our communities and any semblance of local self reliance. They wanted our rich to be richer and more powerful! Some serious cognitive dissonance.
There is two ways this could go. Omicron could give birth to a worse virus, or it could blunt the spread after peaking. A new report has now emerged that now says that among these surging cases that Delta is participating in a much bigger way than they thought. So, I ran out and got my Moderna Booster, as I never liked doing business with Pfizer.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/covid-19-omicron-patients-unlikely-to-be-re-infected-by-delta-variant-says-study/ar-AASlwXE?ocid=BingNewsSearch&pfr=1