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When Every Death Is a Morality Play
One of the worst parts of the pandemic was its timing. Had it occurred at any time other than an election year things may have been remarkably different. It may not have been done in a conspiratorial manner, but it was universally accepted that part of the story was going to be told to maximize Covid-19’s political impact.
Every failure point had to be framed as being due to Donald Trump’s incompetence, therefore every death from the disease was going to be portrayed as a preventable human tragedy. Trump did not follow the science and now these people are dead. And we will tell you each of their stories, every single one as an individual morality play and all with the same moral: Trump kills.
Then something happened. Operation Warp Speed actually produced three “vaccines.” I use that word in quotes because they are not vaccines as we traditionally understood them, but rather an artificially produced prophylactic trick. The introduction of this “miracle” was delayed until after the election lest the news impact voting in Trump’s favor.
But there is a problem. Now that Biden (or whoever is really in charge) is ensconced in the White House, how do you dismiss deathly reactions to the vaccines as insignificant when you’ve already established that every single death is a moral tragedy? Take these two stories:
“Unvaxxed mother other of two, 35, dies of Covid, urges others to get vaccinated with dying breath”
“Mother of three, 35, dies of stroke after second jab, husband says she was forced to take vaccine”
Two deaths, two widowers, all motherless children. If every death is a moral failing, how does one make a case that the latter is more insignificant than the former?
If Trump had won, it would have been so much easier. “See, the vaccines don’t work! Trump’s incompetence forced these to market too quickly! It’s all Trump’s fault because he is ignorant of science! Everybody knows it takes a minimum of six years to get a vaccine safely to market! The idiot!” So all they can do is downplay the adverse reactions and pretend they don’t exist.
This has happened before. As we gear up to vaccinate children and adolescents, Saskatchewan-based blogger Kate McMillan reminds us of the great Canadian Blood Scandal. At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, public health officials in Canada ignored the evidence that HIV and Hepatitis C were rampant in the medical blood supply chain and they weren’t doing enough to screen it out. Journalist Vic Parsons watched as his son David, a hemophiliac, first learned that he was HIV-positive in 1986 at the tender age of 15.
In a review of Parson’s book, Bad Blood, the Canadian Encyclopedia contains this passage:
Safety was second to budget trimming, Parsons contends. Turf wars buried scientific data that alerted blood agencies to potential dangers. Hemophiliacs, who became the miners’ canaries of the blood system, were themselves self-destructively passive. At every turn, writes Parsons, “eyes were shut to mounting evidence, until it was too late.”
And so McMillan asks the following, “Should it come to pass – say in five years time – that there’s a spike in leukemia, rare cancers, autoimmune disease or other long term side effects in these children that no one could have foreseen (because no one did long term trials) — what’s the game plan?
“I mean, surely there’s a game plan?”
Will this become a morality play or just a game of statistics?
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I am sure our
sickcarehealthcare industry will remain profitable.Hahahahahaha! Man, that’s funny.
Free choice matters. To die when forced into an action is unethical.
To die from a choice freely taken, that’s on you.
I believe that Mr. Trump would still be President were it not for Covid and that he would not be forcing people to take the jab.
Trump was never afraid of COVID. And people who are ruled by fear are capable of great evil.
I find the vaccine mandate puzzling, given the questionable efficacy of it:
I would not give these to kids unless their pediatrician ordered it for some reason.
Yes, it’s interesting. We have the choice of a poorly tested novel vaccine created in a laboratory, which may kill us, or take our chances with the novel coronavirus created in a lab, which may kill us. Interesting choice.
That probably is the game plan.
Or no fear. Biden has no fear at all.
I doubt that.
In updated news, the FDA approved EUA vaccines for ages 5-11. They admitted to not knowing the long term effects and said how could they if they don’t do this?
We’re now lab rats.
I doubt that he is any longer aware of the concept. It is very sad and disconcerting to see him in public of late.
Really? What might he fear?
People rising up against him. He governs as if he knows he lacks authority. The way weak men govern. Ham fisted in a way to demoralize and isolate his opposition.
You may be right, but I think that’s just a reaction from his mental confusion. Well, you make me scratch my head.
Certainly the fencing of the capital was fear. But I thought Pelosi did that. Naming conservatives as domestic terrorists is fear. But I thought Merrick Garland did that. They’re purging the military out of fear, but I thought that was Lloyd Austin did that.
I think Biden is afraid of something, though. I think his personal nightmare that he awakes sweating from every night is a vision of Jen Psaki staring at him from the top of the steps of Air Force 1.
“No brain, no pain!”
I think Biden is backed into a Coronavirus corner from which he cannot escape. The Democrats and the media have so successfully convinced the American public of the terrifying dangers of Covid, that Biden can never declare victory over the virus. If he does, millions of lefties will be up in arms over his endangering the public. Thus, the “revolution” against this scourge must continue in perpetuity, the same way that Castro had to continue his “revolution” into the 21st Century, even though he won the war 50 years earlier. Same phenomenon with Global Warming. The fight must continue no matter what the outcome, even if the World gets too cold. It is the fight and unwarranted panic that keeps leftists voting, not any demonstrably beneficial outcomes.
For the duration of this pandemic we have seen improvisation dressed up as strategy. We would’ve accepted shifting messages if they’d been honest about how they’d adapted and adopted to accommodate new information, but it’s as if they’ve been Right All Along. As if this is the best strategy for maintaining our institutional trust.
There’s a ready opportunity for an update to Michael Kelly’s “I Believe” column waiting for some writer. Ahem.
That’s an interesting thought. I’ve always figured that all the government would have to do was spend a month suggesting and the telling people that the pandemic is waning and success is being gauged in lives saved rather than lives lost (or some such) and people would be happy to go back to their normal lives.
But you sound like you’re saying covid is more like a department or an entitlement or a bureaucracy, that once opened, it can’t be shut down. That means that people would really rather maintain their secondary gains, as they’re called, then return to normal.
You people and your negativity … we have a National Gender Strategy.
We have a National Gender Strategy!
Does China have a National Gender Strategy? Does Iran? Does France?
As you were.
Yes! I like your characterization in the part that I bolded. I don’t think democrats can unravel themselves from the mess they’ve made. I know too many democrats, even in my own family, that are permanently spooked by the hype of the pandemic, and they may or may not ever go back to their normal way of life again. For many people, the genie cannot be put back into the bottle. Biden (and some democrat governors) simply can never claim an end to the pandemic because their base would cry bloody murder. They must continue the “Revolucion!”
This is absolutely nuts! Are you sure that isn’t from the Babylon Bee?
Maybe she was hacked … durn kids.
This is particularly appropriate.
If this is so, you understand this a sickness, right? :)
Well, didn’t Michael Savage write a book called “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder?”
We wish.