The phenomenon of Democrat-Party Denial, fortified by our corrupt narrative-managing media and big tech, has harmed our republic in numerous ways, but unlike the limited reputational damage to the Party inflicted by past failures of its narrative du jour, such as on topics like Russia-gate, the failure coming down the pike on the "vaxxes" will be quite clear.
Had folks like myself been heeded back in late July about the injustice and foolishness of mandates, this just around the corner, major-egg-on-the-face Democrat situation could have been avoided.
But now, the Mandate Sins have been committed. Unconstitutional and essentially segregationist government/corporate actions are now part of daily life, and the FIRINGS are well underway.
I’d say thinking about what not a few will say is impossible, a politics of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation, needs to be undertaken. Dems and other establishment supporters must realize: the civic wound experienced by your fellow citizen who has been fired on the basis of not being vaccinated (or for refusing to report her status) is one that is going to fester, unless just such a politics at some point unfolds.1
In near-term political analysis, however, it is key that the Dems will be far less able to do their usual thing of changing the subject once their claim is disproven--for this time, what they did will be felt by every American, and will not be a matter of straining to remember Russia-gate details.
Disasters are now piling up quick, and by around April, regardless of the others with inflation, Biden’s basic capacity, the erased border, etc., with Covid-19 policy we will likely be looking at a situation of a.) tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, many of them well-publicized, due to the nurse, paramedic, and first-responder shortages caused by the mandates, b.) chaos in multiple economic sectors due to similar shortages, and beyond whatever aggregate economic suffering comes from all this, c.) tens of thousands of families driven into poverty due to the firings [Interviewer: “Why is your family of five now living in your cousin’s basement?” Interviewee: “Because Mayor ____ ____ (D), or CEO ____ ____ (D), or state reps ____ ____, ______ _____, and ____ ____ (D’s all) mandated my firing.”], d.) widespread strikes/sick-outs (and withdrawals of school-children) attempting to resist the mandates, which may add to the crippling of the economy, e.) perhaps some dramatic filmed killings due to police and/or protestors getting out of hand, f.) likely new evidence of developmental harm to children in mask-mandate schools, g.) likely new evidence that Fauci directly enabled the creation of the virus, h.) the dam against prescription of Ivermectin breaking, due to its non-prescribed use becoming so common and normalized, given the undeniably positive results in nations like India, i.) widespread scientific-community admission that it was an egregious error not to have exempted from mandates/passports those who could prove previous infection, j.) no let-up in the mounting evidence--often of a heart-wrenching character--that the "vaxxes" bring a far greater rate of adverse reaction injuries and deaths than any comparable medical product, and finally, the BIGGIE: k.) widespread science-community admission that the "vaxxes" are having little to no lasting benefit in diminishing aggregate spread.
Existing data and common sense indicate that a.)-d.) and h.)-j.) are nearly 100% done deals. Of the few factors here about which there might remain uncertainty, k.) is both the one about which there should be the most, but also the one that if it holds, would be particularly brutal for the Denial-crats.
"Yeah, we coerced you, we shit-canned you, said all manner of nasty things about you, and even concocted a second-class citizenship for you, for…for nothing. For at best, a slightly lower rate of deaths among the unvaxxed, but only in the short-term. We thought doing these exceptional things, these sacred-rights-violating things, would be shown to be good community-solidarity moves by the final results. We failed to be skeptical enough, and to allow enough democratic debate."
So the honest would have to admit.
On factor k.), watch this below. It’s based on a study a month old, but its basic finding is being confirmed by other studies, such as one that Dr. John Campbell reports in the video I link to further on, and by shocking new data from Ireland.
Every Dem and med-establishment-backer now faces a choice: just how long are you willing to stay on the train of Denial? Will you wait for five more studies like this? Ten? Until April? Until August? I could be wrong in some part, and maybe there will be a new deadliness for the unvaxxed with the winter surge, or maybe—and this is what the Denialist really needs to hope for--the trend of evidence indicated in the studies above will cease, and the existing embarrassments will be explained by some other factor besides the most obvious one, namely, the over-time aggregate ineffectiveness of the "vaxxes" against spread. Maybe areas that tend to have high-vax-rates are high-spread areas due to other factors that outweigh vax effectiveness.
Sure, some analysts on Covid-19 matters who have earned the public’s trust by admitting basic facts, such as Dr. John Campbell, still believe in the booster-strategy. And sure, if you’re in a vulnerable category, there are plausible arguments for that strategy remaining the best one for you personally, even if the aggregate case for it being recommended to (let alone demanded of) the public collapses. Dr. Campbell talks as if all the experts expected the fade-out of efficacy, but the facts will not support that assumption, particularly not regarding a fade-out this stark.
Again, the booster strategy makes sense on the personal-decision level for some categories of persons. But if factor k.) remains confirmed, no sense I can understand will justify a society-level decision in favor of trying to keep booster-ing our way out of this. Rather, we’ll have to accept the virus as endemic. The current round of boosters did not arrive in time to prevent the uptick of spread that seems in large-part due to the fade-out of efficacy. And an adverse-reaction risk is taken each time a person gets a shot, such that repeated boosters increases his overall risk, and that once he gets up to around 5 shots existing VAERS data makes it a bad risk calculation for most age groups. What is more, whenever a “leaky” medicine is widely prescribed, and our current “vaxxes” all fit this profile, it increases the likelihood of new strains resistant to the medicine evolving.
I suspect that k.) will be confirmed, and with it, a total collapse of the Dominant Vax Narrative will begin to unfold.
And even if “factor k” does not pan out, most if not all of those other factors a-j will still be at work. That is, there will be all kinds of in-everyone’s-face evidence that with mandates and passports, we took the wrong path.
Note also that all of this reasoning, as bleak a picture it paints for our Denial-crats, excludes the most fearful and black-box factor of all, call it “factor x.” Given the mysteriousness of many of the adverse reactions, and the novel character of these medicines, there is still (God please no) the possibility lingering out there that some very harmful yet delayed side-effect will emerge for most or all who received the shots. I don’t expect this “x” to ever be a factor, but I must admit that I have no rational grounds for excluding it from the realm of possibility.
I do think it was reasonable for Trump and the health organizations to have pushed rapid development of the "vaxxes." I am not categorically opposed to our society's trying an experiment like this in a pretty dire situation. Rather, it's the insistence on an OFFICIAL NARRATIVE, one which smears and squelches all "let's-think-of-it-as-an-experiment" thinking, and which thus refuses to admit a broad range of voice-able opinion on this, treating us like cattle to be "carrot-ed" or "stick-ed" by designated experts, that I so detest and will forever denounce.
So forgive me for welcoming the growing evidence that the experiment is proving to be something of a failure. It is after all not good news that the vaxxes' effectiveness against spread is being dramatically disproven, nor that so many of my fellow citizens bet everything, including a radical suspension of civilized decencies towards dissenters, on the basis of expert assurances that if Only Enough Were Vaxxed, that big aggregate benefits would arrive.
While I hope for massive Democrat election losses in response to the coming situation, I frankly fear how many who bet this way will react once they begin to glimpse the sad truth. I fear the shame of admitting to themselves what they have been doing to their fellow man on the basis of Expert Error will drive many of them into deeper Denial yet, and into whatever mental and spiritual sicknesses, and lashing-out behaviors, come with it.
Christian conservatives need to begin thinking about how to best guide their co-religionists who are going to experience this sort of civic wound, to handle their outrage and pain, and to best imitate our Lord who said “forgive them, they do not know what they do.”