Restaurants and theaters begin to close as omicron grips U.S.

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5 thoughts on “Restaurants and theaters begin to close as omicron grips U.S.

  1. Demonizing the unvaxxed is not the answer. Doing so is either dull or ill-advised. Virus must run its course and herd immunity is the only true way out. Vaccines are bandaid surgery as Pfizer effects wear off in 201 days while Moderna is done at 121

    1. They should be demonized. Their acceptance of misinformation and refusal to get vaccinated is crushing our health care system and holding us all hostage.

      I agree the virus should run it’s course, and it will over the next two months. Those of us who got vax’d and boostered (the answer to your vaccine misinformation) will get COVID and most have a cold, if any symptoms. Those who didn’t or believe natural immunity alone will save them will face much worse symptoms and clog the hospitals.

      Send the unvaccinated elsewhere to die, have hospitals focus on the easier breakthrough cases, and let the rest of the herd move on. There, I agree with you.

  2. And, ladies and gentleman, for those who wondered how Weimar-era Germany shifted so quickly to the Third Reich, look no further than the virulent hatred of Joe Bluepill.

    Here’s a man who devotes hours each day to regurgitating the messaging from his beloved, dying legacy media sources–who seemed practical if somewhat arrogant a year ago, now reduced to his own hyperpartisan “news” sources (The Guardian, Media Matters for crying out loud). Imagine such moral narcissism that you belittle other people for their confirmation bias–for gravitating toward news sources that reaffirm their existing beliefs–while thinking yourself too good and too smart to be susceptible to confirmation bias as well.

    Now imagine this moral narcissism writ large, spread across an entire society, and you see how a country as affluent and Germany could get steeped in doo-doo back in the 1930s. It’s a common fallacy, that prejudice and discrimination are directly a byproduct of poor education. Yet Weimar Germany was the among the wealthiest countries in the world at the time (possibly #1), and it had achieved a near-perfect literacy rate, which was the golden standard for educational attainment. Still went full Not-See. And let’s not forget that Mr. Adolf himself was quite well read and had numerous leading academics among his inner circle. So steeped in collectivistic humiliation (after losing WWI and recovering through unstable economics), the German people took Nietzschean ideals of the “ubermensch” combined with Marxist class struggle and foisted it into a new context, placing all the blame on an entrepreneurial subgroup who lacked any real institutional protection. But sure, the Jews CHOSE to retain their religion–they could have avoided all this trouble if they marched along with the hive.

    Joe, we’ve had one death from Omicron recorded thus far in the US and one in the UK. One. South Africa (country of origin) has decided to eliminate contract tracing and quarantining because it just isn’t serious enough. As for the vax, well, it’s the best we can do if you’re old and/or fat, but it’s pretty mediocre. Gibraltar is a micro-nation that is 160% vaccinated (completely vaxxed and 2/3ds with boosters) that still saw a surge in cases this fall, enough to prompt more tyrannical winter lockdowns and they have a death rate ahead of the US. And a normie like Trevor Noah (whose country of origin is South Africa) dares to question the pharmaceutical companies’ conflicts of interest and gets shot down by the COVID cultists.

    Keep citing MSN and Guardian! And keep cheering for the death of the untermensch. You’re so eager to promulgate the narrative (how many times a day do you post?!) that one might almost think you also work for Big Pharma. I wonder.

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