2 July

When politicians ‘opened up’ to Covid, vaccinations stopped. Stone dead. And less than half of us went to get a free flu shot since then. And now stories like this. People are not seeing the bigger picture here I don’t think, we have a public health system (not hospitals, doctors and nurses, that’s medicine), whose job it is to maintain control over infectious disease, 365 days of every year. Politicians who don’t believe the ‘public’ is a thing are destroying it, deliberately. Because public health action (they think) interrupts the ‘Economy’. Look at how schools, hospitals, airports, and businesses more generally are collapsing right now. That’s what governments invented public health (more than 200 years ago) to prevent. In this pandemic libertarian politicians used classic propaganda techniques to describe public health action as ‘lockdowns’, so people felt they were being locked up. It’s beyond idiocy. Every person who parrots lines like ‘live with the virus’, ‘it’s just like the flu’, we’re all going to get this eventually’ is just repeating this propaganda. The ear worms worked. Fertile ground for the anti-vax crowd, as we see below, they weaponise the ongoing Covid deaths as evidence ‘the vaccines don’t work’. And then they move on to all other vaccines. But those deaths are just politicians sidelining the public health teams, who do all the control work, alongside vaccines, to keep infections down.