When It’s Socially Unacceptable To Question
I don’t think these questions and musings are full of misinformation and conspiracy theories. I think they’re valid questions that should be asked. We are at a crossroads.
I am adamantly opposed to all of your misinformation and conspiracy theories. You simply research the information to support and justify your already held beliefs.
-In an email to me from a long-time friend of mine
It’s a fundamentally anti-Western, anti-Enlightenment idea, that people must be prevented from speaking.
-Konstantin Kisin
Is there any person reading this post whose personal relationships have not been impacted by the response to COVID-19? My friend accused me of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. I’d like to have a conversation about it, but my friend stated, “I am not interested.” If there were interest, here are some questions I would ask:
Is it a conspiracy theory to state that CDC death records from January 2020 to the present show 511,673 Covid deaths in the 65 and older age groups compared to 439 in the 0-17 age group? And to point out that the Covid deaths in the 65 and older age group accounted for just 12.45% of the 4,110,063 total deaths in that age group, and the 439 deaths in the 0-17 age group accounted for just 0.78% of the 56,092 total deaths in that age group?
Is it misinformation to quote the American Cancer Society report that states there is an average of 1,662 cancer deaths every day in the U.S.? And then to compare that total to an overall daily average of 1,057 Covid deaths? (658,754 deaths divided by 623 days from Jan. 1, 2020 to Sept 15, 2021)
Am I spreading misinformation to look at the total of 439 Covid deaths in the 0-17 age group and wonder why face masks are being advocated by the American Academy of Pediatrics for all children ages 2 and up? Is it inappropriate to ask what developmental harm is being caused to children who cannot see people’s faces, and cannot breathe freely?
Is it wrong to question why there were curfews imposed on people for a disease that doesn’t know the time on the clock, and whose greatest spread has been among households? Is it misinformation to quote Gov. Cuomo from May of 2020, expressing dismay that 81% of new Covid cases in the New York hospitals during lockdown were people who were self-isolating or living in long-term care facilities?
Is it misinformation to point out that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is measured in nanometers, which is a particulate so small that it passes right through cloth and surgical masks? Is it wrong to ask to see the actual studies, not just the modeling, that back up the ubiquitous phrase, “We know that masks work?”
Is it misinformation to point out that while the laptop-workforce has been able to work from home without too much disruption to their earning potential, hundreds of thousands of small business owners have had to close their doors forever because of the lockdowns and limitations on gatherings?
Is it a conspiracy theory to state the Covid response has been focused on vaccination, and not on finding treatments for the illness? And to point out that in modern medicine we have never been sent home with diagnosis of disease without any treatment, except to come to the ER if our lips turn blue?
Is it misinformation to look up India’s stats on worldometers.com and see that with less than 10% of their 1.3 billion population vaccinated, Covid cases and deaths have dropped in their country? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to look at that, while people are saying vaccination is the only way to control COVID-19?
Is it okay to wonder why Ivermectin, a drug on the World Health Organization list of essential meds, and safely used by millions of people in the past 40 years to treat parasites in humans, is on the poop list for treating Covid in the U.S. while it’s being credited with the drop in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in India? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/huge-uttar-pradesh-india-announces-state-covid-19-free-proving-effectiveness-deworming-drug-ivermectin/
I’m wondering if it’s biased to listen to Pres. Joe Biden’s address to the citizens of America a week ago, and ask why he is forcing everyone to receive a vaccination? Is it unreasonable to expect the leader of the free world to provide calm and reasoned perspective on the pandemic, rather than trying to stir up anger and retaliation against the unvaccinated?
Is it misinformation to point out the CDC says the two ways to gain immunity to a disease are 1) through exposure to the disease organism, resulting in natural immunity, or 2) through vaccination? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/immunity-types.htm And then to ask why natural immunity is not even being considered as a reason to not be vaccinated?
Is it reinforcement of a conspiracy theory to look at every purported super spreader event from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota in August 2020, to the present, and note that not one of them resulted in a large outbreak of Covid cases?
Do you remember hearing about even one documented large outbreak from someone attending the movie theatres, or a concert, or sports arena, or amusement park in the past year? Is it then improper to ask the motive for Pres. Biden calling on those who run large entertainment venues, sports arenas, concert venues, and movie theatres to only allow vaccinated people, or those who can show a negative test, to enter their facilities?
Is it misinformation that the CDC reports that 30-50% of Americans get the flu shot every year, and compare that to 55% of the population that is fully vaccinated against Covid? And then to ask why Covid is being treated like a deadly disease when 99.98% of those who are infected recover?
Is it misinformation to look at COVID-19 disease in every state and country, and note the up and down curve of the disease is the same everywhere, independent of masking and lockdowns, and then question whether the masking and lockdowns were effective?
Is it okay to wonder why Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford, Dr. Peter McCullough of Baylor, Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, Dr. Pierre Kory, and other highly reputable medical professionals are on a list of people that national boards want investigated for "spreading misinformation," because they are asking these same types of questions?
Is it a conspiracy theory to note that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google are shutting down the conversations surrounding the questions being asked in this paper, actually removing videos, posts, and even entire accounts?
Is it improper to wonder when most of the mainstream media stopped trying to provide information and instead became a propaganda arm for the official narrative on COVID-19, failing to engage in investigative journalism, and promoting character assassination of those who don’t march in lockstep?
I don’t think these questions and musings are full of misinformation and conspiracy theories. I think they’re valid questions that should be asked. We are at a crossroads.
Konstantin Kisin, who I quoted at the beginning of this paper, is the son of Russian immigrants. His parents grew up in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United Kingdom.
Kisin states that the phrase “politically correct” comes from the Soviet Union. “The point of political correctness and the reason it’s called political correctness is so that you could say to somebody, as [happened to] my ancestors who went to the gulags for expressing all the wrong opinions, you could say, ‘Well comrade, what you’re saying is factually correct, but it’s politically incorrect.’ What that meant, of course is that it’s not helpful to the party line.”
“My issue with cancel culture,” says Kisin, “is not that people get upset about something I said, or that a comedian said, but that there’s a lot of ordinary people who have fear. They fear the consequences of speaking their mind. They fear the consequences of having the wrong opinion. I hear from these people every single day.”
Kisin states, “The only thing I ever say to people, the only thing I ever ask of people is do not be a useful idiot. Do not suspend your own judgment about right and wrong, about morality, about truth and justice for the sake of some system, some oppressive ideology, for not being fired from work, or for convenience. Do not be a useful idiot, because you will regret it.” (see interview with Konstantin Kisin on American Thought Leaders, “A Society Gone Mad?” September 7, 2021)
Now that’s some food for thought.