My COVID Rant

We are now 18+ months into a global pandemic.  We are seeing variants of the COVID strain that are much more virulent than the original COVID strain.  According to the WHO, there have been 201M cases and 4.2M deaths from COVID.  Of that 201M, there are untold cases of long term COVID effects that we have not even started to understand or tackle. And yet, there are Americans who are utterly convinced that all this is fake. It's a lie.  We are sheep being lied to by the main stream media and the government.  I have yet to get a coherent reason as for why this is the case, and how the media and government managed to get the rest of the world to play along.

People who believe COVID is fake, or overblown are morons.

And as the pandemic rolls on we have people who claim they can't breath with a mask on.  Millions wear masks every day, but these people can't for some reason, breath with a mask on.  The rest of us people wearing masks have been duped into it.  For what reason I have no idea other than some nebulous connection to freedom?  Yeah, I don't get that at all. 

Anti maskers are not just morons but complete fucking morons, and dangerous.

And of course we have the anti-vax crowd.  Now I will be the first to acknowledge that there have been vaccine failings in the past; most notably in my memory, thalidomide.  However there have also been some amazing successes like small pox, polio, rubella and so on.  Get the fucking vaccine and help the world out, won't you?  

No its not the mark of the beast; how the fuck do you figure that?  

No, Bill Gates did not put a chip in the vaccine.

No it does not cause autism you fucking potato.

The anti vaccine crowd are bunch of fucking clowns, but sadly the rest of us are not laughing.

And no, the vaccine is not some sort of impervious shield that prevents the virus from infecting you.  Nothing stops that, but what it does is allow the body to react faster and with more efficacy than if you had not had the vaccine.  This allows you to combat the virus much more effectively and can prevent it being passed on to others.. Without the vaccine it is quite possible that the virus can kill you. 

We have indeed seem numerous cases of COVID deniers, anti vaxxers etc [1] [2] [3] [4], pleading for vaccine once they realize they are sick and dying.  Too fucking late morons.  I have no sympathy.

Now I am sure some of these people 'don't trust the government'.  I don't either but this is not a US problems, this is a global issue.  This is not the US government telling you to mask up and get the vaccine, its the whole fucking world. This is greater than just the USA and the US government (unless of course you are a moron from the first paragraph).

I am sure there is an element of "fuck you, I won't do as you tell me" but in this case, enlightened self interest might indicate that while governments are asking us to wear masks, socially distance and get vaccinated, you might consider it advantageous to do this anyway, you know so that you don't die yourself, or kill someone immunocompromised. 

We all love a conspiracy theory from time to time, but to continue that in the face of overwhelming facts and truth makes you deliberately negligent, willfully ignorant and fucking stupid.  I don't care if you die and frankly you would be doing the gene pool some good if you did.  What makes me angry is that you may take innocent people who don't deserve to die through your stupidity with you.

People who spout COVID conspiracy theories should laughed at and viewed with derision and distain.

What we are really seeing here is evolution at work.  We are watching the vaccine mutate and we are watching idiots die from stupidity.  I will exit this rant with the following observation from Terry Pratchett:

“What shall we do?’ said Twoflower. ‘Panic?’ said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry sabre-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying ‘What a magnificent brute!’ and ‘Here, pussy.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic