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mRNA advocates have tried to give the vax credit for ending the pandemic, despite massive evidence they stopped working within months and the observational data showing lower deaths among the vaccinated is hopelessly biased.
The Society of Actuaries released an updated report on deaths during the pandemic - the folks who help insurance companies assess risk. Every few months, it has put out reports on trends in American deaths during Covid. The actuaries have access to enough big insurers to make the data a reasonable proxy for full national data Their most recent report includes depictions of both Covid and non-Covid deaths stratified by quarter and by age.
There is some evidence that the fall 2022 bivalent booster rollout led to more non-Covid deaths in older people, but it’s far from definitive. But the trends in Covid deaths could not be clearer. Covid deaths were relatively low in the spring of 2021 - the happy vaccine valley, the brief period when the mRNAs worked as advertised. They then soared in the summer, or Q3 2021. They jumped in ALL ages, including the highly vaccinated, representing people 65+. Overall China virus deaths rose - roughly tripling between spring and fall 2021, despite all the boosters and the mandates like the useless masks for one, detrimental lockdowns for another.
This point can’t be emphasized enough: the soaring deaths in older people came even though nearly every senior in the US was vaccinated. Except me, given my education and knowledge, was already was informed.
Then, in the spring of 2022 Covid ended and it has not come back.
What accounted for this miraculous end to the plague of all plagues? Not vaccines. They were given in early 2021, a year before the tide rolled out, and even their backers concede they don’t work well against Omicron.
No, what happened was Omicron itself. It swept through the US in the winter of 2022, the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. Its mortality rates were overall much lower than the earlier variants - probably in the range of 0.05-0.1%-that's about the same chance of being hit by lightning during your lifetime- though its transmissibility meant that the winter of 2022 still saw a lot of deaths (particularly in older people, no matter that they were vaxxed).
Ever since, various not-very-lethal Omicron strains have bounced around a population that has natural immunity, helping make them even more of a nothingburger.
In the end, the vaccines were a sideshow. SARS-Cov-2 sought and found a truce with its human hosts (assuming the IgG4 class switch doesn’t come back to haunt the mRNA-jabbed).
Meanwhile, there has been a lot of research on high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters. During the pandemic, a whole world of people used this research to promote HEPA filters and insist they would save us from the China virus. Like the masketeers, the filtrationists failed to consider that there is a very wide gulf between theory and practice. Many, many health interventions, which ought to work for very theoretically sound reasons, fail to do anything in the real world. This is why we have things like observational studies and randomized controlled trials to determine whether remedies that sound like they should work actually do work. You’d think the filtrationists would have bothered to show at literally any point that their favorite solution would stop Covid, but Nooo!
The pandemic response was not a rational program to mitigate virus infections, but rather was left-wing ideologically driven that turned on demanding specific rituals, including especially children. People were made to feel that they were participating in a larger pathogen extermination effort, and the left-wing establishment needed an opportunity to blame the non-compliant should their interventions fail. With masks, vaccines and social distancing, it is much easier to ascribe failures to nebulous rule-breakers and the smarter non-complaint, maliciously labelled right-wing conspiratorial Covidiots. It is thus best to regard hygiene interventions as a fundamentally political solution to the prior mistake of assuming responsibility for pandemic outcomes.
Researcher @ University Hospital Bonn studied whether HEPA filters actually do anything about Covid. They compared rates of 4th-wave Covid infections that had installed HEPA filters to rates of infection that had not. They found that HEPA filters are associated with dramatically higher rates of infection. But lo, rather than report this result honestly, they explain their results away with ad hoc rationalizations. This is because left-wing Science, as it works today, involves proving propositions which are fixed political let-wing doctrines. Should results contradict these doctrines, they can’t even be discussed, still less acknowledged.
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