Mark Steyn is always worth the read. From his website:
A year and a half into this thing, how's it going?
From Canada's Globe & Mail, which is like The New York Times but without the jokes, it seems the New Normal is going to have to be cranked up a notch:
Overwhelming evidence now demonstrates that the dominant mode of
transmission of SARS-CoV2 is airborne, yet mitigation strategies have
not evolved with this knowledge.
Indoor environments where people are in close contact present the
highest risk for transmission. Work-from-home should continue as much as
possible, as it is premature to return to the office unless absolutely
necessary. When indoor close contact is occurring, cloth or medical
masks should be replaced with respirator masks, which provide superior
protection through a combination of exhalation source control and
inhalational filtration.
Respirator masks, huh? They're pricey but stylish - and your kids will soon get used to them.
[I did not know what a respirator mask was, so here's an image:
- ed.]On the other hand, from Iceland's top epidemiologist:
Þórólfur Guðnason sagði í Sprengisandi á Bylgjunni í morgun að
vonbrigði séu að hjarðónæmi hafi ekki náðst með bólusetningu. Hann segir
að einungis ein önnur leið sé fær til að ná hjarðónæmi, að leyfa
veirunni að dreifast um samfélagið.
Which means more or less:
Þórólfur Guðnason said on Sprengisandi á Bylgjunni this morning
that it is disappointing that herd immunity has not been achieved
through vaccination. He says the only other way to achieve herd immunity
is to allow the virus to spread through the community.
The great monolithic herd of public health commissars then took the tire iron to him, and Mr Guðnason has now walked that back.
Meanwhile, in America - or at least on Twitter - it's business as usual. Lars McMurtry is following the science:
The CDC should roll out a new program: Get the shot or get shot.
The unvaccinated need to be rounded up and lined up in front of open trenches, Their choice is simple.
America has had enough of their virus. We need to get back to normal life.
With or without them.
The bad news is that America can't dig open trenches, because all the
shovels and excavators are made in China and the supply chain's a bit
disrupted. The good news is that what Joe Biden calls "the pandemic of
the unvaccinated" mostly involves the vaccinated giving the Delta
variant to the un-, so Mr McMurtry may get his wish albeit a little more
incrementally than he'd like.
My view is that the Icelandic guy is right - that is, before he was
clubbed into submission. To recapitulate a pithy line from another
apparently silenced researcher, stopping humans from being human won't
stop the virus from being a virus. Whatever the original justification
(ie, to prevent the collapse of hospital systems), maintaining lockdown
after, oh, late April 2020 did nothing to the virus except retard the
development of herd immunity and, in the absence thereof, enable it to
incubate more lethal variants than it would otherwise have done.
What's the upshot? This medical prof from East Anglia now says "herd immunity will never happen".
Well, whose fault is that? Quarantining millions of healthy people
while setting a target of zero-Covid is a pandemic policy that no sane
government has ever attempted.
Given that we're now being told we have to live with Covid forever,
we could at least take measures to punish the Chinese biowarfare lab and
its enthusiastic funders in America's diseased public-health
bureaucracy for loosing this thing on the world.
Ah, but that's even less likely than open trenches...
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