What can be said about the current burden of Covid and respiratory illness this holiday season? It has been immense. The only thing of greater immensity is the denial with which the burden has been treated by the collective. Seamlessly, the people who sing the chorus of the status quo have adopted this as their ‘new normal.’ The spectrum of how much they allow this new reality to penetrate into their consciousness ranges from overt denial to a stubbornness naming the thing that plagues them. Such is the current sentiment. ‘We will have our holiday and not allow Covid to get in the way.’
There is no greater symbol of SARS Cov 2’s spectral omnipresence than the mask. Thusly, there is no greater affront to the collective’s denial of the ongoing threat than a mask. The mask itself has traced a circuitous path directly from the retina, to the mind, to the animal brain of onlookers. It offers a direct confrontation with the subconscious fears of death and illness, and evokes an emotion proportional to the viewer’s coping mechanisms, be them camaraderie with a political affiliation, false reassurance of the ‘strength’ of their ‘immune system,’ or the delusion they will ‘train’ their immunity against a rapidly evolving SARS. To soothe the discomfort, some feel the need to express that disdain. It is a method of palliation, to lash out at those with different behavior. Remember, pride goes before a fall.
Let me speak plainly, here. The people that opt into these infections this holiday season will not fare better for it. They will not pay an immunity debt to SARS Cov 2 or RSV. They will not pay an immunity debt to Strep A. They are being harmed. Sadly, because the price to pay for staving illness is to bear humiliation from the bullies that make them feel singled out. Here is something to regard, though. The stranger on the street, sneering at your mask, holds no responsibility for you. They will not be there to wipe the sweat from your forehead, fetch you soup for your ‘cold,’ or hold your hand while you long for the other side of an illness. So why should you regard their opinion? Their protest comes from a place of aggressive hostility. And as the consequences for the most vulnerable of those among us have shown, that hostility has proven murderous.
Stay safe out there,
AJ
Elitists, politicians and corporatists are in a rage with the back to normalization resistance displayed by continued displays of masking by Refuseniks. They are upping the ante by promoting shills like Emma Green and others who are attacking the People's CDC in the New Yorker magazine (The Case for Wearing Magazines Forever).
We should not underestimate these hit pieces and what they say about exactly how threatened these people are by our continued masking. In pursuit of profit, they want to infect EVERYONE.
This past week the Infectious Disease Society of America headed by Carlos del Rios put out new recommendations that pre-procedure and pre-admission Covid 19 testing are no longer recommended for asymptomatic people. Carlos del Rios is also the medical advisor for Delta and was instrumental in urging the CDC to reduce the isolation period to 5 days for those who tested positive for Covid (he cosigned a letter from the Delta airlines CEO to the Walensky).
With these new recommendations there could be a person in the bed next to you unknowingly positive for covid. How can a patient protect themselves from covid with a policy like this in place? It sounds like forced infection to me.
We are now in an era where medicine by science has been thrown out the window. The medical goal is no longer to do no harm but a goal of normalization by creating no safe spaces and infecting as many as possible. All in the pursuit of profit.
What is next? Is there anything we can do?
Superb article. You are correct, Dr. Leonardi. More than you could know.:((