COMMON SENSE: After our entire nation and most of the world has missed the spring and summer of 2020 by staying at home, the CDC, the gold standard in medicine, has finally admitted that 94% of the reported COVID-19 deaths have been caused by other underlying issues. In other words, these people were going to die anyway. They had an average of 2.6 additional illnesses causing their deaths.
My question is this: Why are we just now learning about this? The COVID-19 death count has been announced as a daily, almost hourly, ritual on every news outlet in America since March. Escaping news about the pandemic, as well as the fear it has caused, has been unavoidable. Now, we are learning that we have been deluged with misleading information from our scientists and our political leaders for the entire duration of this pandemic. As a result, the losses we have needlessly suffered have been catastrophic.
This entire pandemic has been a massive con job on the American people, but why? Who would do such a thing to us, and why?
I believe the reason has been that the government wants to exert a massive amount of control over us. Mayors and governors have become drunk with the power this has afforded them, and they don’t want to give it up. There’s a reason why they don’t. Governmental leaders like Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo don’t lose their jobs. They don’t miss a paycheck but the rest of us do.
But our scientists are equally at fault. The way we have learned this is even suspicious. Instead of having a major press conference admitting their error, their miscalculation, the CDC simply changed its website to reflect the accurate information that only 6% of the COVID-19 deaths have come from the disease alone. That’s about 10,000 deaths in a nation of 330 million people. That’s hardly a blip on the radar and certainly not a legitimate reason to shut down an entire economy.
Now that we know this, where should we go from here? At bare minimum, the fearmongering and economic repression have to stop. Open restaurants and allow us to live our lives like adults. Play football and let us enjoy the fall. Most of all, stop telling us what to do by hiding behind the cloak of “following science.”
Our mayors and governors aren’t following science. They are following their lust to control us. They seem to have an overwhelming need to keep us repressed, docile and compliant. More than anything, they want to continue treating us like children who require constant guidance and spankings by them, our benevolent superiors. Except they aren’t benevolent, are they? They’re authoritarian and repressive. Because they are, we will simply need to take back power ourselves. We must reassert our own authority, and we must to do it immediately. The time to stop being compliant to authoritarianism is now!
—Jack Watts