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Over and over again the government has been disastrously wrong when it came to fighting COVID.

Should that surprise any of us?

These are the same people who created childhood obesity and Type II diabetes by eliminating PE “for the children” and publicizing a food pyramid that was created not by nutritionists but by the Big Ag lobby.

This peer reviewed article was published last week:

COVID-19 and Fast Foods Consumption: a Review

This is the abstract in its eentirety:

While all groups are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the aged people as well as those with underlying chronic medical conditions are at the greatest risk. The higher adherence to refined carbohydrate diets, sweats, and saturated fats contributes to the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes; these disorders increase the risk for severe COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Fast food consumption activates the intrinsic immune system and impairs adaptive immunity, leading to chronic inflammation and impaired host defence against viruses. Furthermore, inflammatory responses caused by COVID-19 may have long-term costs in survived individuals, leading to chronic disorders such as dementia and neurodegenerative disease through neuroinflammatory mechanisms that are related to an unhealthy diet. Therefore, now more than ever, wider access to healthy foods should be a main concern and individuals should be aware of healthy eating habits to reduce COVID-19 complications.

We figured out very quickly that there was a strong relationship between obesity and COVID-19 mortality.

We were told that gyms were super-spreader events, except that data from New York, Colorado, and Norway showed they are not.

So what did the experts do?

They shut down the gyms, told us not to go outside for a run or bike ride, banned buying seeds for home vegetable gardens, but made sure fast food restaurants stayed open and fast food workers were protected essential employees.

No wonder so many people got the “quarantine 15” or the “COVID-19 (lbs).”

The experts radically increased the mortality rates for people under 65.

The mass murder of elderly in nursing homes through policy I’ve covered before and is a different topic, albeit similar in that “experts” killed more people than they saved.  Same for the shutting down of schools leading to more teen suicides than teen COVID-19 deaths.

What should have happened is that fast food restaurants should have been shut down.  Everyone should have gotten a stimulous check from the government for a gym membership, there should have been a national weight loss mandate.

We learned that we can’t really control the spread of a highly communicable novel virus with lockdowns.   The 20 million Indians who died of smallpox could attest to that.

What the experts could have done was not do everything to increase our likelihood of dying from the virus.

The problem is gyms don’t have the corporate financial influence of fast food mega corporations and telling people to take personal responsibility doesn’t get politicians much support.

Everything single fucking thing the experts did re the coronavirus response increased the likelihood of death.

At a very minimum, these people should never be listened to again.

If I think about it too much I get the impulse to buy a welder and a DC9.

While at Wally World yesterday, I went ahead and got my flu shot (Yes, I do believe in vaccines. I am from South America and was either get vaccinated against the myriad of crap floating around or enjoying a nice warm death bed).  The missus got me a gaiter and I found out I can deal with it better than the mask, specially since it does not fog my glasses and it is much easier to breathe through while complying with the Mask Theater.

But dear Lord, I do look specially messed up.

It took me a bit to realize the unevenness is because of the beard that does not compress evenly and I really don’t care. It makes me look uglier and nastier which in today’s world might be a plus.

And since I am on the subject, might as well take it head on: Talking to the pharmacist assistant about my immunization record, she pointed out I had not received my shot for measles, mumps and rubella. I chuckled and explained to her that I had been immunized the hard way when I was a kid as it was the way back then:

Mom: “Pedrito caught the mumps, go visit him for a couple of hours.” 

I got mumps and rubella that way and mom never could figure how I got the measles since nobody close to us back then had it.  Rubella was particularly hard with our family as it was very painful for me at the time of infection, but mom also caught it just to find out a little later she was pregnant. My brother Angel was born with a heart defect which today can be addressed in womb if required, but back in the 60s was impossible to correct. He lasted all of three days.

So, if there is a proven vaccine against a malady I may get, I will take the chance if I deem I am at risk. You are free to do what you think is best for you and for your family.

An unkind thought popped as I was hitting the publish button in the last post: “What if the “recommendation” is nothing else than a veiled threat by the Biden Harris Administration?

“If you do not comply with what we “suggest” we will find ways to make you state suffer.”

And believe me, they can get creative and nasty if they want. A top of my head, The Federal government can “restrict” anybody coming from Florida to leave the state unless they prove they are not infected. An order by the FAA that airlines must demand a negative lab result prior boarding planes, trains and buses heading out of the state. The FAA can even demand proof of quarantine that ended the day before the trip.  After all, the FAA is in charge of making sure interstate commerce remains safe from threats, including the possibility of the virus spreading all over the nation, right?

And we are all in this together, we must be united in our fight to destroy this disease! [sarcasm off]

Florida bars, indoor dining, gyms and any other indoor spaces where masks are not worn 100% of the time should be closed down to stop the spread of COVID-19, according to a White House Coronavirus Task Force Report.

The recommendation comes as the state is seeing a slight decrease in new coronavirus cases, test positivity and hospitalizations.

The report, which was officially released on Jan. 17, was just recently made available following a News-Journal public records request to the Florida Department of Health.

The state did not respond to questions about how, if or when the recommendations will be put into effect.

WHITE HOUSE: Florida should close bars, restaurants, gyms to slow COVID spread

The political assassination of Ron DeSantis is now in full swing. I guess the talks that he could be the presidential nominee for the next elections and specially with the backing of Trump has the Democrats worried.

I can’t find a news article that is not critical of anything DeSantis does. It does not matter that the journo contradict him/herself in the same article, anything DeSantis does related to the Chinese Virus is just wrong and the worse governor ever. This quote is from the same source linked above.

Florida had 460 new cases per 100,000 population, lower than the national average of 478 per 100,000. The state currently ranks 22nd in the number of new cases per 100,000.

For all intents and purposes, Florida has been a “3/4s Open” State when it comes to the pandemic. There are masks mandates, but mostly enforced by the property owners while restaurants are enforcing social distancing with their seating.  I went to Home Depot and Wally World yesterday and other than people wearing the masks and an employee giving you a wipe for your car in the Big Orange Store, the traffic of people was pretty much the same as before the pandemic.  Those direction one-way signs on aisles are royally ignored and the only other precaution is the plastic shields separating the cashier from the customers.

So, rather than being the number one state in cases, Florida is somewhere in the middle of the pack.

The media lie is thick and it is only created to destroy a dangerous candidate against the Democrats. If anything, DeSantis has dare to prove the Political Doctors wrong and disrupting the conquering to the country by fear.

He cannot be forgiven for that.

One of the more (maybe most) horrible things to come out of this pandemic is the spike in teen suicides.

More teenagers died of suicide related to the lockdowns than died of COVID in Las Vegas.

Kids do not do well in isolation, locked away from their friends.  They need to play outside and socialize.  School lockdowns have been disastrous to the mental health of teenagers.

Across the country, teacher’s unions have been fighting reopening.

The Chicago Teachers Union has fought reopening and is on an illegal strike, deciding not to return to work out of “fear for their safety.”

https://twitter.com/CTULocal1/status/1353012995807457287

In Fairfax County Virginia, the teachers union got teachers moved to the front of the line, next to first responders, to get the vaccine, then claimed they can’t return to in-school teaching until the students get vaccinated, which is scheduled for some time next year.  They keep moving the goalposts so as not to go back to school full time.   They still collect full pay, of course.

But by far the worst happened in Washington.

A WA teacher's union president says reopening schools is an example of "white supremacy," concern over a child's mental health or suicide risk is "white privilege," and push to reopen schools is like rioters pushing to enter the U.S. Capitol.

READ: https://t.co/QxFazq2Taz pic.twitter.com/ny50MEZG7p

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) January 13, 2021

If you are a parent, watching your child suffer, terrified that he or she will commit suicide and there is little you can do because of the lockdown, you have white privilege and your concerns are just the product of racism.

This is an unmitigated evil.

I cannot fathom the evil, callous, soulless evil, that makes a teacher – or someone who represents teachers – turn a blind eye to teen suicide as privileged.

Every teacher that endorses not going back needs to be fired and replaced with a teacher who will teach in person.

Any teacher who called concerns from parents about teen suicide “white privilege,” needs to be fired out of a cannon – blown from a gun – in front of all the other teachers in the middle of campus as a warning not to be that much of a piece of shit.