Glossary
Sheep-like: your triple masked, triple boosted neighbor, your know-it-all forty year old cousin with a PhD who has had seven boosters and a stroke after each one
Hyena-like: Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, et. al.
Lion: You & Me
I like to generally ignore what the more sheeplike folks are doing, to generally ignore what the more hyena-like folks are doing, and to put most of my attention into the effort of lions — which is both an edifying place to give some focus and an effective place to give focus. For the other two groups do not determine the trajectory of history. The lions do.
In what may be the most shocking polling data I’ve seen since the stolen 2022 elections a month ago, Rasmussen reports that a full 80% of democrat voters believe that Covid vaccines are either very effective (47%) at preventing “infection with the virus” or somewhat effective (33%).
First of all, what the term “infection with the virus” means is a pretty generic one. By measuring with the useless PCR test, which continues to be used far and wide, there is clearly “infection with the virus.” If one listens to public health officials based on case number or media accounts there is clearly “infection with the virus.” If one believes the thoroughly disproven claim of asymptotic spread, there is clearly “infection with the virus.”
But all of that is junk information, far removed from the science.
We know this much. Unlike claims made about other vaccines, this vaccine doesn’t seem to prevent infection, doesn’t seem to prevent illness that looks a lot like the illness it is taken to prevent, it doesn’t seem to prevent transmission. It appears to do the exact opposite. That’s what research on those topics indicate.
While I see that the vaccine is totally unsafe and totally ineffective at preventing SARS-Cov-2, almost certainly even leading to increased respiratory illness and flu-like illness, even some of the vaccine’s most ardent advocates are now saying that it looks less safe than originally thought (though totally worth it still) and less effective than originally thought (though totally worth it still).
It is hard to even reliably watch the mainstream news and get the conclusions from this poll spoken there. I don’t even know where 80% of Democrats are getting this idea. Are they still watching last years news? Are they caught in a milieu of general faith in the jab and therefore willing to say any positive thing about it without examining what they are actually saying?
Whatever is going on, 80% of Democrats are that out of touch. And so are 45% of independents and 40% of Republicans. While party appears to play some role in this, the reality is that 26% of Americans overall remain “very” out of touch and 30% of Americans overall remain “somewhat” out of touch, as this poll’s results indicate.
This is all the more reason to focus not on the sheep-like folks, to focus not on the hyena-like folks, but to keep speaking to the lions, encouraging the lions, keeping in touch with the lions, waking up the lions, cooperating with lions, gathering with lions, planning with lions, organizing with lions, and living life like a lion.
We’ve got work to do.
So many people still get the majority of their “news”from malign voices. The corporate media and their local affiliates. Their local papers do not have independent journalistic staffs; they are fed by AP, UPI, NYT, WaPo... It’s not so different in why our political divisions stand as they do.
Many just cannot accept that they would be lied to. I am particularly saddened by the revelations that “educated” colleagues I long admired for discernment still hold to the notion that “our leaders just did not know what we were dealing with...there was just so much death.”
They just refuse to believe that the fire being fought was started and accelerated by the arsonists. And the arsonists are not done.