As a famous Democrat once said, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”
And the press and politicians who pimp that fear to advance their politics and enhance their power.
Like is happening now, as the suits squawk and balk at the “Delta variant” and “breakthrough infections,” decrying each as instruments of our impending doom.
Like the idiots they are.
Because, for all their hashtagging of science, the current conduct of the covid industry seems to indicate they are completely ignorant of the natural and expected course of this virus through our population.
To whit: Both the variant and the infections of vaccinated people are to be expected as easily predictable events which should neither surprise us nor panic us.
That is a viewpoint which ought to be grasped by anybody who got through the eighth-grade, where we learned about both natural selection and statistics.
Let’s start with the variant.
The virus is a living organism, and it is reproducing. As any organism reproduces, there is the potential for genetic variation, which is why your cousin looks funny. That variation will create difference in the resultant organism. Every now and then, that difference will give the offspring a reproductive advantage, it will increase the competitive ability of the organism in its environment.
Which, in this case, would be your snot.
But once that odd little organism pops up, the one that is better at reproducing than its parent, it begins to take over. It is able to make more of itself competitively, and it does, becoming an ever-larger part of the population of its kind, and its predecessor organism becoming an ever-smaller part of that population.
That’s called natural selection.
If you’re confused by it, study the beaks of finches in the Galapagos and, apparently, it’ll become obvious.
So, to apply this to the ‘rona, the virus came into our species – thank you, Hunan lab! – and began reproducing, with resultant genetic variation. One of those variations – Delta, who racists say came from India – had a competitive advantage over its mom and dad and set to work making them go extinct.
And so it was that, wham-o blam-o, the new and improved covid displaced the old and tired covid.
And the percentage of sick people who had the Delta variant went through the roof.
Which is exactly what they taught us in the eighth-grade would happen, and which anybody who stayed awake in class could have told you would happen. This is simply a natural process, an organism evolving in real time to better function in its environment.
Which, again, is your snot.
So, the covid variant, if I may repeat myself, is nothing we shouldn’t have seen coming, and it’s nothing to get worked up about. Its development is deadly for the strain of virus from which it sprang, but not for us.
So lighten the frig up.
Now, to the horrifying “breakthrough infections,” in which vaccinated people catch covid.
Being upset at this is even more stupid.
Because, if you rewind the tape, you may remember that, back in the days of Trump, when they rolled out these (actually pretty miraculous) vaccines, they each had about a 90-percent effective rate.
Do you remember that?
Do you think it has any significance?
What it means is that, under most circumstances, nine out of 10 vaccinated people will not get covid if exposed to it. But what happens to that tenth person? Well, Einstein, he gets covid.
And if your country had, say, not 10 people in it, but 300 million people in it, and every single one of them got vaccinated, how many would still, at least theoretically, be susceptible to covid?
I don’t know either, but I sense it would be a very large number. Whatever 10 percent of 300 million is.
That’s not because the vaccine doesn’t work, it’s not because Fauci’s a prick (which he really is), it’s because 90-percent effective leaves you some vulnerability. And that vulnerability will present itself as a small percentage, but – in a large population – a large number.
Those are the “breakthrough infections.”
They are not a surprise. They are not a crisis. They are an anticipated reality.
It’s kind of like condoms. The covid vaccine is, statistically, just a little less effective at fighting covid than condoms are at preventing pregnancy.
And yet here you are, and there are your parents, still resenting each other after all these years.
But that’s a tangent.
The point is that breakthrough infections were always going to happen, and instead of overselling the vaccine in order to herd you like sheep to the needle, the president and the governor and that prick Fauci should have leveled with us. But they didn’t.
And the morons at the network desk were too stupid to figure it out.
And so it is we get breathless reports every night sowing fear and uncertainty, telling boogey man stories about a killer variant and vaccinated people getting sick. All of which stokes the fires of fear and empowers the clutching hands of government.
And none of it is necessary.
We are on a march against this disease. It is going to follow natural laws as it passes through our population. We have natural and vaccine immunity as our main tools. The tide will ebb and flow, and much of it will be easily predictable.
And none of it will be worth getting worked up over. There is nothing unexpected or insurmountable in anything that has happened or is happening.
Fear, Franklin Roosevelt knew, was a social weakness. Fear, his successors know, is a political tool.
Let’s get back to counseling courage, and get over this pantywaist panic.
We should remember the science and math we learned in the eighth-grade, and stop letting them use fear to manipulate and subjugate us.