Hindsight is quite literally 2020.
Four years ago (roughly) today, the world lost its marbles and began to shut down. And as we have noted before, it was effectively all for naught. In the end, the lockdowns, masks, and jabs did more harm than good on balance.
From the ever-insightful Dr. Steve Kirsch's recent Substack article last year, in a nutshell:
"Special mention for the fact that the entire pandemic was completely unnecessary. 3 supplements work better than vaccines and are safe and cheap. All the lockdowns, masking, vaccines, mandates, social distancing, etc. were all unnecessary. And even though this is now known, nobody will pay attention since it will make them look bad.
"Uptake of vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc were significantly associated with the reduced risk of infection and severity of COVID-19 (OR: 0.006 (95% CI: 0.03–0.11) (p = 0.004)) and (OR: 0.03 (95% CI: 0.01–0.22) (p = 0.005))... this study was conducted before the start of mass vaccination against COVID-19 in Bangladesh."
That's over 150x decreased risk just from taking these 3 dirt-cheap supplements that everyone has known to be safe + effective for decades! And it was all pre-vax, it was for the original Wuhan strain that was most dangerous!"
Read that again, and again, and again and let it sink in. Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc. Those three things alone would have largely defanged and declawed this overall already relatively humdrum virus to begin with, which was basically a classic super-flu at worst, and never an existential threat.
And especially for Vitamin D, but the others too, this was confirmed time and again. And again and again.
Oh, and one of the other thing that we at the TSAP have long advocated, the humble xylitol nasal spray, has also been confirmed yet again as prophylaxis.
It gets even worse still for the powers that be, apparently, when one also notes that the standard of care for patients with post-viral pneumonia was abruptly changed worldwide, at or before the beginning of the pandemic. And not for the better, either. The change was to no longer give antibiotics for pneumonia if Covid was thought to be the cause, even though it was very likely that many if not most of such deaths were from secondary bacterial infections. And antibiotics would have been given had they not been inexplicably removed from the protocols, and thus deliberately withheld from patients for political reasons. A good chunk of excess deaths could thus easily be attributed to that alone.
Just #3tablets of azithromycin or doxycycline would often have been enough to save their lives.
What should have been done? "Letting it rip", that is, "adopting the flu strategy", ultimately would have in fact been the least-worst alternative in the long run, all things considered. That is precisely what a properly right-brain dominant person would have advocated from the get-go, at least if they were properly informed and NOT bombarded 24/7 with fearporn news media.
Looks like "Stockholm Syndrome" should really be renamed "Melbourne Syndrome" because #SwedenGotItRight. The verdict is in. In terms of cumulative all-cause excess mortality, Sweden, who famously eschewed lockdowns and masks and such, actually came out as one of the best in Europe, and not very different from their much stricter neighbors in the long run. Ditto for other countries and US states that largely ignored the plandemic, but did similarly or better than their stricter neighbors. Lockdowns, masks, and jab mandates were thus worse than useless.
On March 12, 2020, interestingly enough, the band The Killers released the song "Caution". The song, while not about the virus, is nonetheless basically about the theme of "throwing caution to the wind". And in hindsight, that is ironically pretty much what should have been done in regards to the virus, at least for the vast majority of the population who was at relatively low risk overall, whose resulting "herd immunity" would have thus ultimately protected those who were truly vulnerable to the virus. Lockdowns, on the other hand, merely dragged things out and ultimately put the genuinely vulnerable at greater risk. The science of epidemiology and public health didn't really change, but the politics sure did.
And failing that, once those who were genuinely fooled (including myself somewhat as well, regrettably) had wised up early on, the second least-worst policy would have been to, as the same song says, "go straight from zero to the Fourth of July" in terms of reopening and ending all restrictions at once. That's right, ALL at once, all the way back to 2019 normal, period, and don't look back.
But instead, the unholy "public health" trinity of collective action problems, prevention paradox, and precautionary principle had all been turned on their heads and weaponized against We the People. Benjamin Franklin spins in his grave.
Moral of the story: NEVER give up any rights "temporarily", that you are not willing to say goodbye to forever. Or at the very least, you will not get them back without a fight.
Indeed, hindsight is 2020, in more ways than one.
There is a great interview on theTucker Carlson Network which just came out which talks about the sudden increase in mortality in the past few years due to the Covid vaccine and boosters.
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