Bearing Necessities

"MY RECRUITER LIED TO ME.

There is an old army adage popular amongst soldiers to never volunteer for anything, a lesson learned after the realization at some point in basic training that your recruiter lied about something to you. And after months of news reports about "science deniers", crying in deathbed confessions, "I should have taken the vaccine", came the CBS News interview, a podcast, taped from the apartment of The Takeout, Major Garrett, after he had tested positive in a breakthrough infection, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most trusted voice in the pandemic, according to Aljazeera, had granted him an interview to console him with that bedside manner, beginning with "So, you were infected, which has proven something that I think we've all known, but I think you're the personification of this."

"This is a highly transmissible virus, and it is very likely that if you were not vaccinated and double boosted, that you would've had a much more severe outcome than you have right now. And you and I are very unlikely would be speaking to each other right now," said Dr. Fauci.

The President and the Vice President also had praised their personal decisions to be administered the COVID-19 countermeasure that had been developed with no knowledge of infectious dose, which is required to determine the proper correlates of protection, as Dr. Fauci had actually somewhat explained on August 23, 2021 at the White House briefing, while the FDA was rushing ahead, months before schedule to grant approval of the products, which over 95% of t over the age of 65 have taken, accepting, unwittingly, a 16 to 33% risk of a serious adverse event including death to avoid becoming a fatality to a disease with an overall case fatality rate in America of less than two percent, about the probability that, if in an automobile accident, you would become a fatality.

Dr. Ralph Northam, with the country doc voice, used the death of a child to promote child vaccines, and told Virginians that they had to think about how they wanted their obituary would read, and then, seven months after his own infection, talked to Elisha Sauer at the Virginia Pilot, and complained about his loss of smell and taste, while telling even younger people that they did not want to take the risk to end up like him, and needed to accept the free and safe vaccine. Is that morally worse than a public health official filling a balloon with hot water to simulate a human hand to comfort an elderly person dying from COVID-19, a disease that had a validated less than five percent secondary attack rate that they could not transmit to anyone, if they tried?

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are the five classic stages of grief, and there's an old saying in marketing that if it sounds too good to be true--forget about it.

At least the President didn't lie