When does the COVID-19 panic end?
By: Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro in his creators syndicate article is exactly right. We need to stand up for ourselves and not let bi. Coastal urban secular progressive elitists control our lives. We need no more lockdowns. We need no mask mandates. We don’t need to show big brother our papers either. We have our role models in Governor Abbott and Governor De Santis. De Santis was exactly right as he ripped Biden a news one and publicly humiliated him as he richly deserved. We will not be controlled.
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Two weeks to slow the spread.
That was the original rationale for the lockdowns, masking and social distancing: Prevent transmission of the coronavirus so that Americans could be assured that we would not overwhelm hospital capacity, causing needless death.
Wait until a vaccine is available.
That was the next goal post: an admonition to continue to take precautions to avoid spreading the coronavirus until a vaccine could be developed. Despite the warnings of COVID-19 pessimists that a vaccine would take years to develop, despite the unjustified alarmism of figures like Vice President Kamala Harris that the Trump administration would skew the vaccine protocols to achieve political ends, vaccines were miraculously developed.
Wait until every adult has a chance to get the vaccine.
That was the final rationale for caution. And as states began to tranche out vaccines by the millions, every person above the age of 12 in the United States was given the opportunity to get vaccinated. As of today, over 90% of adults over the age of 65 — the most at-risk population in the United States — have been vaccinated, and more than 70% of all Americans over age 18 have been vaccinated as well.
And yet.
We are told that we are experiencing a massive COVID-19 crisis. We have been told that the vaccinated must mask up again; that the unvaccinated should be barred from public establishments; that children must be masked in school. We have been told that America faces doom and death on a daily basis and that we’re seeing a crisis akin to the last wave of the coronavirus in January. We’re masking up and checking vaccine cards in Washington, D.C., in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, in New York.
The statistics simply do not bear this out. According to the seven-day rolling average as calculated by The New York Times, fewer than 400 Americans per day are dying of COVID-19; at the height of the pandemic, well over 3,000 were. In Washington, D.C. (total population: 692,000), that number is 0; in San Francisco County (total population: 875,000), that number is 0; in Los Angeles County (total population: 10 million), that number is 9; in New York City (total population: 8.4 million), that number is 3.
The current delta variant spike has resulted in a massive case count, particularly in Florida, but deaths are not following cases — and if the United States follows the pattern of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, we’re likely to see the case count begin to crater in the next few weeks. Those who are vaccinated are not dying of COVID-19; their death rate is minuscule. Those who are unvaccinated have chosen not to vaccinate; they are independent adults capable of determining their own approach to risk and reward.
All of which requires us to ask the question: When are we done?
When are we done telling children to mask up to protect adults who don’t want to vaccinate? When are we done telling businesses to close up or bar customers based on vaccination status? When are we done with mask mandates (data suggests that mask mandates are ineffective, even if masking is sometimes useful), with evidence-free social distancing rules (six feet is pure conjecture), with the ever-vacillating, Delphic pronouncements of Dr. Anthony Fauci? We have hit the goal posts; every adult now has the capacity to protect himself. There are no other realistic goal posts: Zero COVID-19 cases was never a realistic goal.
When is the job of government done?
And yet.
Our public health “experts” continue to promote more and more outrageous restrictions. This week, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins went so far as to recommend that vaccinated parents mask up in their own homes around their own children . There is no limiting principle to this, no end goal. There is only a bureaucratic and political elite unwilling to treat citizens as adults, recognize their own limitations and leave us all the hell alone.
And if we accept that, we deserve nothing less than subjection to their paternalistic control.
Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.”
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This will not end until everybody gets vaccinated.
At least 90-95% of adults need to get vaccinated.
We already have herd immunity between the vaccinated and the already infected with natural immunity now. Vaccination is a person free will choice. It is not something that government can coerce others into doing. Especially since is still an experimental drug at this point. We reached Bidens original July 4th goal.this month. Lockdowns and mandates will only happen in blue political areas.
If that was true hospitals would not be full and infection rates would not be skyrocketing.
Cases are high. Hospitalizations are much smaller in proportion to the number of cases than before and death rates much smaller still compared to total cases. The people with natural immunity and the vaccinated will greatly mitigate the spread of this variant for the 1-3 weeks it remains a force here.
While some hospitals are full, the total count of hospitalized patients is nowhere close to what it was back in Jan.
Peak - 1/11/2021 - 130k hospitalized
7/31/2021 - 44k hospitalized
Also the 7 day average case count is less than half of what it was in January. Then the 7day average was 250k where as today it's 90k. While the numbers are still bad, this shows that the hysteria and fear thta is being pushed by main-stream media.
They are selling hysteria and fear in a vain attempt to strip us of our rights.
Some conservatives have more rights and (White) privileges than they deserve.
Correct.
But some "mentally challenged" people make the wrong choice!
A conservative radio host who downplayed vaccines on his show is on an oxygen machine after a severe COVID-19 infection
Now that he's contracted the disease, he "regrets" his comments about the vaccines, his family said.
They are selling hysteria and fear in a vain attempt to strip us of our rights.
Yes, of course!
Everyone knows that!
GOP-invited Ohio doctor Sherri Tenpenny falsely tells Ohio lawmakers COVID-19 shots 'magnetize' people, create 5G 'interfaces'
The COVID panic will end when the MAGA's leave the planet.
Actually, it's the Democratic party and their complicit and compliant allies in the leftist media who are driving the hysteria and the panic....
in order to persuade people to get the shots.
Sure. Convince the dead and the sick. Grind the axe without the handle.
And using the border as a super spreader so that they can re implement lockdowns, mandates, and passports.
As I recall you got your two shots early-on and that you'd be ready for a booster shot. With your situation it's the best decision.
So why are you calling out Democrats for urging people to get the vaccine ?
DeathSantis, with his idiotic policies, is intentionally causing thousands of people to get sick, and to die, because he is so stupid he thinks it will provide him with a political issue when he runs for President. He is going to lose even worse than the Big Loser, Coup Plotter trump.
Desantis' approval ratings is tanking right now!
Great map of Biden’s resentment locations…
Shameful. Now Jesus is portrayed as merchandises in the palms of a liar. This has sunk lower than I ever imagined.
I am appalled and condemn this meme.
Good. I hope he craters in the ratings. DeSantis is a idiotic despotic fool! And some conservatives are foolish to turn their children over to one ill-advised foolish man!
If these fools want to take on a microscopic virus unvaccinated and one-on-one, then so be it. Let's get out of their way and leave 'em to their mayhem! (I pray that the rest of us survive their disappearing from our ranks! Color me: Tired of caring!
So gay lol. Did they soap each other up in a bubble bath later? How about a sensual massage with the happy ending (both ways)?
It was a great counter point to 3.1.8 and I make no apologies for it.
Okay, you are obligated to explain how Donald Trump (who never asked God for forgiveness in his life (his words)) and who lies on an impulse (which you sanction to your shame) is under guidance from Jesus (a man who knew no sin)! Please proceed. And if you hedge or 'drop' this one. . . it will say something about you!
I'm not. I call out Democrats for their dishonesty, their stupidity, their name calling and blaming, and especially their hypocrisy.
You are dreaming...0
Covid is currently more than 99.5 percent survivable.
The science says: We are not " going to disappear.
Then, continue pruning, some conservatives, continue scissoring and chopping away at your base! 'Long-Covid' is a thing, Chronic health problems are long-term (and can be "for life") and you can have as much of that as you like!
They are guilty of all of the above!
Here's some more political masturbation material.
I can think of others who have much higher rates of vaccine reluctance that you might want to preach that message to and most of them aren’t conservatives.
Let me be blunt: Fix your own damn political house and be part of the vaccination solution some conservatives and maybe you can model "success" for others who are failing at it. At the least, y'all can point without the 'finger' accusing yourselves!
Right back at you. Take care of the issues in your community before pointing fingers at mine.
Then what are you here for to just shovel bull patty back and forth?!!! My "community" is getting vaccinated and so have I (and will again if needed). However, some conservatives - we all see and hear them 'bigly" talking about dumb abstracts like freedom and liberty as if SARS-2 does not have freedom to "f" up anybody it can.
And Jefferson, you can bluster all you want. It's republicans and some conservatives lungs that are having the "wind" sucked out of them the most and this winter just might tell the story.
I have ordered my masks (and shots) stockpile and so has my family. So you can talk bull patty all you want and everyone and a while look over at your "friend" SARS-2 to see if "he" gives a patty.
As for conservative blacks and "superstitious" disaffected liberals, let them eat "freedom" until it downs them. I have no more words for 'running' ignorance.
Are you ready to see LA and NYC become as segregated as the Jim Crow south ever was? Just wait until their vaccine passports fullly kick in for businesses restaurants and entertainment due to vaccine reluctance in the African American community at a far higher % rate than rural conservatives.
All I can suggest to those blacks is they better have some science on their side when SARS-2 comes through. As to the rest of your 'concern' I'm speechlessly numb.
Yeah, get your passports right. Black people are not a pretext for discussion about right-wing idiocy. Can you dig it, Jefferson? It is your disingenuousness that shows you up at every turn up at comment. It strikes me that because I have established that I am a black male - homosexual-Christian though the last two you see no need to 'prod' for exploitation you can rather insultingly and on an impulse 'stab' the blackness for effect? How pathetically ridiculous.
FYI I don't dislike Tim Scott or Larry Elder because they are Black republicans - I don't appreciate that both mean stripped themselves of identity essentially to be in your world. I am pretty sure you stripped yourselves of little to nothing to have them join.
You see, when I join 'something' or a group I look for what's in it for me - and everybody else. Some conservatives are "one-way" and that is "f-ed up" on its face. Ditto for Scott and Elder. And any conservatives and liberals in New York who are allowing themselves to be exploited by right-wing news media.
When we all get to Heaven, what a wondrous day that will be…
Not looking to get raped by Jesus....
let's at least hope that when Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) tries to enter one of his favourite victims, that at least he has the compassion to use a bit of K-Y!
Your heart needs k-y?
Well. there's an interesting irony here. The MAGAs, the most fanatical Trump supporter ,are the ones mostly like to believe the MAGA propaganda-- that Covid is, in the words of Sean Hannity speaking about Covid:
This is the Democrats latest hoax
And most of these MAGA crazies are the most like to believe that the Vaccine is an attempt to implant electrodes in their brains when injected in order to control them!
And these morons are the most like to rant and rave about how we have choice, and sine the Vaccine is a gov't plot, we should reject it!
So these a$$holes are the most likely to refuse to be vaccines...and ultimately, the group that will die in the largest numbers!
(Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? Well, of course, opinions vary!)
Perhaps after enough people are magnetized?
(Link to discussion on NT is HERE)
Those who are unvaccinated have chosen not to vaccinate; they are independent adults capable of determining their own approach to risk and reward.
Not if they pay attention to the author.
Opinion.
BI sexuals? How exactly can they control your life?
Get elected then you can participate in making the rules.
Get elected then you can participate in making the rules.
If a christian can refuse to bake a cake on religious grounds then why can't a business man in fear for his health refuse to serve any
unvaccinated person?
Two of the worst, especially the idea of defunding schools if the schools mandate that kids wear masks, the other acts with impotence when a third of his state loses electric for many winter weeks.
When the hell was that, lol? Some people have been "ripping a news one" on Biden since 1972, I think he ignores it quite well.
You are being controlled, you just can't see the forest for the trees.
During the 2003 SARS outbreak in VietNam they initiated masks, hand sanitizer and distancing in public. They were the first country to contain the outbreak. In 2020 they began the same protocol. They have had 105 deaths in a country of 96.5 million people.
On the other hand where 'freedumb' is prized above all else in the USA we have had 614,000 deaths out of 330 million.
That is staggeringly stupid of Americans and yet,
on and on some of us bitch about public health guidelines and vaccines.
Every time I read that phrase, which is all the time on here, I just laugh at how feeble and pathetic the political sentiment behind it really is. And its propagandistic value is zero except for those besotted by grievance politics.
Kind of like heartland flyover America being bitter clingers to God and guns, deplorables, and chumps?
No. nothing like that at all.
De Nile is a River in Egypt.
The Mississippi is a river in the United States. So is the Hudson. The Columbia is a river in the United States and Canada.
Your continued denial of the fact that there are terms the left use that we dislike regarding certain regions of the country as well is duly noted.
I'm also not quite sure what that bizarre phrase means.
(Maybe if someone could hum a few bars I'd recognize it!
)
No freakin kidding. All creators syndicate articles whether conservative or libertarian or liberal are op-Ed articles. When was that ever a question?
I said no coastal. Not bi sexual. The secular progressive elite left of the east and west cost urban areas. They do try to control our lives.
A more reasonable and acceptable alternative Is to vote and then get involved on the issues and write letters and lobby the people we select to be our public servants. We have no local government lockdowns or mandates.
If Christians actually can refuse to bake a cake, do art, make floral arrangements, then liberal. A n na
You seem to believe in many things that don't really exist.
Wth?
Just stop with the science crap already. None of this is about science any longer. None of this about whether or not masks work or about herd immunity or, even, how the virus spreads.
The debate now is about authority. The question now is not when the pandemic ends. The question is when authority justified by the pandemic ends. When will government officials imposing dictates onto the public become unacceptable?
Bureaucratic authority has intruded into every aspect of daily life. That bureaucratic authority has controlled how we fulfill our needs, how we travel, how we work, how we socialize, how we practice religion, how we obtain medical care, how we educate our children. Bureaucratic authority has even intruded into our own homes; we are being told to wear masks in our own homes. When does that bureaucratic authority become unacceptable? And will that bureaucratic authority end when the pandemic ends? There haven't been any assurances.
Some conservatives are having a 'debate' about authority. SARS-2 does not care what your petty political arrangements. More and more chronically ill, hospitalized, and dead some conservatives will be the outcome.
And there isn't anything about science in your comment. So just stop with the science crap already.
You're only arguing for more government authority. When does that authority imposing itself onto every facet of daily life become unacceptable?
I'm sorry, when did this discussion switch from SARS-2 pandemic to "freedom fanaticism"? Are you vaccinated, Nerm? I don't remember if you were a part of the online NT discussion and polling on this. (I am vaccinated 2x.) Care to share? Or would it violate your "HIPPA"? (If so remain silent and I will just continue on.)
And I know damn well you do not intend on lecturing me about interference in "facets of daily life."
Because the regime is perpetuating the pandemic and using it to take away our freedoms that progressives want to take away from us.
Okay, is it the "regime" that is taking away your freedoms or "progressives"? You're confusing me.
They are one and the same. Progressives dominate and control that regime
Jefferson: Dog days of summer
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How come when Trump had his half assed travel bans and restrictions you weren't on here every day bashing the "regime"? He banned Chinese nationals entry to the USA but allowed tens of thousands of Americans and other nationalities to return without testing them.
How come when he made these announcements you weren't all apoplectic about it?
The CDC and the Red Cross have now figured out that we had hundreds of cases of blood samples that had COVID antibodies in them 6 weeks before China locked down Wuhan, two weeks before China started to suspect a "new" virus.
These people had survived a flu like event and survived prior to 12/13/19 in the Red Cross samples.
The mysteries of COVID are still being unraveled.
Another way to look at your predicament is the progressives are trying to save the regressives from themselves.
You should be grateful not hateful.
There is no gratitude to the progressive and their attempts to take over control of our lives our rights, our freedoms.
Your comments are evidence of living in a fantasy.
Just stop with the science crap already.
OK, will do!
When Does The COVID-19 Panic End?
How about when new infections in America are less than 100,000 a day?