So, as it's Christmas Season, I work 4 days a week and spend the other three on schoolwork, and I can guarantee, unless something juicy happens that demands a full blog, this will be my last Small Bites of the year. I really hope to do better next year. My apologies.
The news hit today the Brown/Raiders, Seahawks/Ram and Eagles/Team Formerly Known as the Redskins games will be rescheduled. Anyone who thought the NFL was going to let any games be forfeited is taking some really good drugs. At no point, and especially during playoff races, did the NFL ever have any intention of a game not getting played. Also, their policy was specific in that it related to unvaccinated players, and not vaccinated players, and most of the 100 players currently in COVID protocols are vaccinated. Apparently, the NFL is the number one proving ground for the idea, promoted not just by fringe "anti-vaxxers" that vaccinated people can contract and spread COVID. If you want to throw that one out, look at the NHL, who has put three teams out of action until Christmas. Or the NBA, who cancelled several games this week due to huge COVID outbreaks, almost all of them among the vaccinated. It's so bad for the Brooklyn Nets that they activated the controversial unvaccinated Kyrie Irving, because their vaccinated players are in COVID protocols. The irony is delicious. Maybe it shouldn't be, but it's been clear, since late summer, that new variants of COVID are able to break through the protection the vaccines offer. Despite protestations to the contrary, there is such a thing is natural immunity, and it may very well be as robust as the vaccines. We don't really know, because in this country we won't do the studies to actually find out. Israel did, but we don't pay attention to that science. Regardless, I find this whole situation incredibly amusing. If that makes me a bad person so be it. I don't think it does.
Everyone is so wrapped up in COVID panic, that they are drowning out the voices in the wilderness who are talking about all the bad things that happened because of how we chose to deal with COVID. We know that children are generally not susceptible to serious illness from COVID. We know that schools are not superspreaders for the disease. And yet we kept vast swaths of kids out of school for more than a year and subjected them to substandard education. We took away their ability to socialize, to see people laugh, to hang out with their friends. The effects of that will plague them long into the future. In the short term, they are showing up in ERs in droves and not with COVID. With mental health issues that no child should have. Suicides are up, attempted suicides are up. Mental health units are overwhelmed and have no beds available. Drug use and abuse, along with overdoses are magnitudes higher. Also astronomically high is the incidence of heart attack and stroke, which happens when people forgo medical treatment for more than a year due to fear. Hospitals are closing, after losing billions of dollars when hospitals were basically only operating as emergency wards. People are living in abject fear of a virus that has a 98% survival rate. They test positive and show up in the ER, even if they have mild symptoms, or none at all. It's crazy, and it's a public health failure on the highest level. The cure is far worse than the disease. Walk a mile in my shoes, or my husband's shoes, and you will see a far different picture than the media and the politicians portray.
Meanwhile, while so many people are acting like Chicken Little when it comes to Omicron, little factoids are lost in the shuffle. After the mess in Afghanistan in August, the State Department told us only about 200 Americans were left behind. Last week, a small detail was released and no one even knew it happened. That State Department said they had exfiltrated 900 Americans since then. Apparently, their numbers were bull, but we knew that didn't we? With all the evidence in major sports, our *President is still saying that vaccinated people can't spread COVID. They keep acting like inflation isn't a big deal (tell that to my gas and grocery bill), and have spent months blaming everything and everyone that isn't them for the horrible side effects of their own policies.
In short, 2021 was barely any better than 2020, and 2022 could be worse. All things being equal, 81 million Americans voted for this. Apparently many of them are regretting that, but I have little to no sympathy for them. You get what you ask for.
As for me and mine, we will not lay down and die so the elites can live in their utopia where they rule and everyone worships the ground they walk on. It's more likely, if that happens, we will feel more like North Koreans than say, the workers paradise that these people claim they can bring about. Either way, I won't back down. I hope some of you will do the same.
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