Our great nightmare of 2020 won’t go away. Sure, we’re done with the lockdowns, the masks, the social distancing, the closed schools and workplaces and the steady drumbeat of propaganda badgering us with “Don’t be selfish, get vaccinated,” “We’re all in this together” and “Do your part — get the shot.” Those days are gone, thankfully, although a few mask-wearers remain and the COVID-19 vaccines are still pushed.
But now we’re looking at the debris caused not just by the worldwide pandemic but by how officials handled it. Look at public health guru poor performance this week before a congressional committee as he told lawmakers some protocols were just made up. Then there’s the vaccine.
That stupid shot may have caused an increase in deaths. of 47 counties by scientists at one of the world’s most respected universities — the Netherlands’ Vrije Universiteit — found deaths were higher than normal from 2020 to 2022 even after accounting for what were listed as COVID-caused deaths. While COVID-19 vaccines were “implemented to protect citizens from suffering morbidity and mortality by the COVID-19 virus, they may have detrimental effects that cause inferior outcomes as well,” Vrije Universiteit researchers wrote Monday in the journal Following introductions of the shots in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, controlled research showed those vaccinated were more than 20 times safer from getting the coronavirus than an unvaccinated grou.