Don's Tuesday Column

          THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   1/25/2022

The left projecting its own villainy

Recent critics may find their arguments refuted; or they may not.

A couple of blatant “fake news” stories (Democrats first aimed the term at Trump conservatives; Trump famously reversed the barb against the media): 1) NPR’s debunked assertion that a diabetic Justice Sotomayor requested, with Chief Justice Roberts’ approval, that all Justices wear masks, while Justice Gorsuch refused, causing Sotomayor to participate via remote.

All 3 justices stated their denials of that story, meaning it was made up by someone at National Public Radio, or was fabricated elsewhere and fed to NPR. Just the left projecting a) their disregard of the unhealthy effects of masking and COVID-required postponement of medical care; and b) venomous ill-wishes upon conservative Gorsuch—accusing him of wanting Sotomayor to die, and wishing he died from COVID.

2) Then came thinly-veiled propaganda to sow discord among Trump-supporting Republicans: A (phony) schism between Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis. Issuing from the bowels of Democrat mischief, it spread rapidly as news/social media tried to beat out the denials by both Republicans. Just Leftists projecting their own discord.

Knee-jerk reversion to censorship, of what they call “misinformation,” often dovetails with “fact checks” by those who’ve forgotten their need for a daily tally of presidential lies now that the liar is named Joe Biden. Conservatives have had fun repeating dated assertions by such “gold standards” of truth as Dr. (treats-no-patients) Fauci, or the CDC’s Walensky, or the NIH’s Collins, that are now—if written or stated by us—used to cancel media accounts for “speech or thought crimes.”

No assertions here have been false or inaccurate when written. “When the facts change, I change my mind…” as Winston Churchill pithily said; hence, COVID vaccine protection has yielded to the reality that they no longer prevent infection (Walensky). Also, school closures over “safety,” in favor of “remote learning,” have undermined students’ personal and mental classroom learning—and emotional maturation.

This column echoed other calls for ending mandates last year based on, among other examples, Sweden’s (never locked down or mandated) and Florida’s (abandoned mandates in favor of focused protection of elderly) experience allowing citizens to live free of onerous personal and business restrictions.

Previously lock-stepped medical and science thought-leaders are coming around to “living with it.” Who was really out of touch, spreading “misinformation”? More are taking the advice of Dr. Peter McCullough: “Vaccines failed in stopping COVID-19 and mandates have to be dropped.” The emergence of the vaccine-resistant, clearly milder, Omicron variant has put previous justifications—for consigning the “unvaxxed” to second-class status, unworthy of medical treatment—in the trash.

A paper by Young-Xu in JAMA (gold-standard medical journal) found vaccine effectiveness dropped from 62.0 % (month one) to 57.8 % (month three) and reached a low of about 20 % (months five through seven). “And now a paper from Hansen from Denmark, and from the UK public health security report, indicated [that] against Omicron the vaccines are basically ineffective,” McCullough continued. “The Danish study…found that vaccine effectiveness against Omicron” declined to 36.7%.

We’re vaxxed and boosted, and glad of it for the margin of protection from serious illness. People should be confident in their own, and their doctor’s, determination of need. However, the COVID-19 vaccines have largely failed in stopping the transmission of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, especially for the most recent Omicron variant, so the vaccine mandate should be thrown away, according to Dr. McCullough.

“The vaccines themselves have basically now become obsolete as the virus has continued to mutate,” McCullough told NTD’s “Capitol Report” in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. “So, at this point of time, the vaccine mandates have to be dropped across the board…

“We can’t have Americans have fear about losing their job or school or travel related to a failed vaccine,” McCullough said. “But even more so we need to re-examine what we’ve done with respect to our public health priorities and COVID-19.” McCullough said that in March and April 2020, America should have had large randomized trials and moved very quickly into studying multi-drug treatments. However, the federal authorities refused to do so and made a big push for vaccines.

McCullough also shared the treatment for COVID-19 patients with the Omicron variant. “Fortunately with the Omicron variants very mild, the main treatment is oral nasal virucidal washes with dilute povidone-iodine or hydrogen peroxide 12. Clinical trials show the biggest benefit of that is more than any other form of treatment,” McCullough said. For our part, we use Golden Seal, Pau d’arco, vitamins C, D, and saline flushes.

Shane Miller speaks for me: “It’s time to put the pandemic era behind us,” citing cancellation (in the UK, EU and Canada) of “the COVID-induced madness that has done more harm than good for the last 19 months…”

Unlike the left-side writer, it’s rather obvious to me that that great advocate for a color-blind nation, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would—rather than cast aspersions at America’s patriotic, right-leaning citizenry—have harsh words for the race-obsessed Democrat progressives. Dr. King sought to have Americans united in the cause of removing barriers to advancement for the downtrodden of all colors.

“What Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would say about Biden’s new COVID-19 policy,” by Speaker Newt and Mrs. Gingrich, critically looks at the FDA’s use of “race or ethnicity” to guide doctors’ prescribing of monoclonal antibody treatments. To Biden’s shame, the administration-wide misuse of race to castigate political opponents, and stoke animosity between Americans of different ethnicities, is among the vilest acts of any leader in our long, otherwise improving nation’s history.