This won’t cure people who are currently testing positive but will keep people in the future from spreading it to other people.
Of course, the same thing could have been accomplished if Democratic governors in the United States and leaders elsewhere in the world had just let the virus run its course.
Locking people down, forcing them to wear masks (which may or may not be effective) and creating social distancing kept us safe from the virus – but also kept us from getting the anti-bodies that, at least, temporally created an immunity.
Even before this virus struck, some doctors questioned the obsession with sanitizers, claiming that overuse denied people the ability to build up immunity to many common diseases – not to mention the possible health risk of sanitizers themselves.
By forcing people to live in their basements for three to five months, health officials created a whole population of potential future victims, whose immune systems were ill prepared for the lurking virus when the government finally told us it was safe for us to crawl back out into the real world.
Many of the rising positives we are seeing now may have come from the fact that – relatively healthy people were not allowed to contract the virus in the first place and acquire some measure of immunity.
So, instead of making us safer, the government created a population of future victims, while trying to sell on the concept that this is the worst pandemic since 1918 when it is not.
The death of 225,000 people is nothing to sneeze at. But statistically, it hardly compares to the 1969 pandemic that lasted from late 1967 to early 1971 and accounted for about 400,000 deaths – based on a population of about 180 million, as opposed to the 340 million the current virus threatens.
Most of those who suffered in 1969 – including my best friend who caught it and brought it with him to Woodstock – developed the anti-bodies by being exposed. Those who got mild cases or did not show symptoms ceased becoming carriers until science developed a vaccine.
Understand, a flu vaccine gives you a mild case of the flu in order to allow your body to build up an immunity – much the way mild cases would if people were exposed to the virus naturally.
By locking people down, the government successfully created a whole population of potential new victims, whose bodies were ill-prepared to deal with the virus, and who – because none were able to build up an immune system naturally – became carriers that have fed the supposed second wave.
Even if the drug companies come out with the vaccine next month to help Biden become the heroic savior of the nation, it’ll take a year for it to do what could have already been taking place – giving people mild cases of COVID so that they stop serving as carriers.
But then, our society has become more than a little overprotective, assuming that we can somehow avoid catching the virus when it is not possible.
People are going to catch it regardless of what hours you impose on restaurants or how many barriers of plexiglass you erect.
It is mother nature. And to quote and old TV commercial, nobody messes with Mother Nature.
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