More than two years after the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the lives of more than seven million people world-wide, I find it sickening that some are now attempting to misdirect blame for this carnage onto the preventative measures undertaken to arrest its onslaught.
Even more depressing is that the three-headed hydra of disinformation, fake religion, power and patriotic chicanery continue to override attempts to restore order to our health system, and only hate and resentment dominating this conversation.
So-called “Christian evangelists”, ever vigilant in their efforts to treat the human anatomy as some form of “temple of God”, continue to resist scientific and medical attempts to fully unlock the mysteries of cure for Covid-19 by placing roadblocks into research that of necessity must use stem cell materials in conducting such investigations. Even when such results provide positive clues as to the direction the next phase of research must take, even these notes of hope are questioned and brought into suspicion. Take, for instance, the manner in which the two vaccines developed utilizing m-RNA technology were critiqued. No mention was made of the deep knowledge science has garnered since Mendel first made his primitive investigations into the structure of DNA, genetic combination and the role that m-RNA plays in the replication of cellular structure; instead, they focus upon the reconstruction of the sequence of genes that might originally have been part of the mechanism that allowed the virus to penetrate a human cellular wall and infect that organism, but now will immunize that cell to prevent such infection.
What these people are really saying to humanity is, “Can we trust this ‘artificial pairing’ of nucleotides to mere scientific mortals”, when in the past we have relied upon prayers to heal our wounds? Such doubt is then allowed to reverberate its concern upon other constructs utilizing this technology, such as Tylenol, where the U.S. court system is now being “encouraged” to revive a 2023 class action lawsuit allegedly maintaining that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, resulted in some 500 children becoming inflicted with autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The case was originally thrown out of court for lack of evidence that such linkage between these supposed “side effects” and the drug existed, but unfortunately when someone is only too willing to repeat an obvious fallacy, sooner or later “true believers” will arise from their caves of ignorance and champion the cause to its extreme limits.
In watching the seriously unnerving documentary, “In the Same Breath”, we also have opportunity to see how political machination of events and its handmaiden, patriotic zeal, pushed the leadership of the two most powerful nations on Earth, China and the USA, to gild their handling of this pandemic into a campaign demanding congratulations for their efforts, as opposed to the condemnation both so richly deserved.
In this film “must watch”, Nanfu Wang, the Chinese-born American director of the piece, will in the end ask the standard questions as to why so many need have died, when IF the Chinese government, upon “discovering” the virus, had acknowledged its potential for creating disaster, advised nations to encourage its citizens to take precautions such as limiting social activity and wearing a face mask due to the virus being airborne, AND the world had replied in kind, followed suit and cooperatively worked upon finding a vaccine solution, millions less would have succumbed to this illness.
Unfortunately, none of this happened…
Irrespective of the many theories bantered about and suggested as to the actual origin of the virus itself, all we know is that this pandemic started in China’s Wuhan province, and it was left to its people to put forward their best face in demonstrating just how well the Chinese government was handling the situation, all without “burdening” its inhabitants by restraining their freedom to move, socialize and work. During the festive seasons, a government-controlled media presence eagerly shot film showing citizens out on the streets celebrating, even if only wearing masks for preventative purposes. Behind the scenes, however, a different picture was being painted, as funeral homes were overwhelmed in their capacity to handle the 20,000 to 30,000 deaths being sustained within the province – far above the 2,300 or so the Chinese government would eventually report as being casualties of this affliction.
Donald Trump, it seems, bought this picture of tranquility hook, line and sinker, even as friendly European nations at the forefront of the pandemic invasion claimed otherwise. Even up to his own illness and being aware as to how many unprotected participants in political rallies were dying after attending his campaign stops, Trump insisted that this new virus was nothing more than a “flu” variant, and by Spring it would be gone – a message the more Trump-friendly media outlets would continue to push even as the nation’s death toll was spiraling towards its million-plus casualty count. Trump’s message, like Premier Xi’s of China, was that nothing could keep their respective nations from “allowing” its citizens to bask in the freedoms each nation pretended were the foundation of their power and economic stability.
Today, however, we have a public that having been put on hold by world governments trying to paint the world in rainbow colours, all while creating an atmosphere of despair and depression in our children, and an element within that population that not only suggests but believes that such inconvenience in treatment of the pandemic’s ills severely “inconvenienced” them, all while allegedly and somehow violating their personal rights and freedoms, and even turning others to simply ignore the medications and advice of health officials that have saved us from plagues of diseases, mumps, polio and others among them, that we long ago felt safe to ignore.
More than ever, we need a plan for dealing with any potential pandemic activities. With the increasing deterioration of our health care system, we need action, and soon…
