What I've been saying, but he says it better — and he quotes Shakespeare

Covid theater: A personal tale about the gaslighting of a nation and its schoolchildren.

Over at Not the Bee, “Planet Moron” recounts his experience in the bizarre world of California COVID child control. You’ll want to read the whole thing if you have a strong stomach and a taste for bureaucratic doltacy, (my spell checker says that’s not a word — I say I’m free to make up words as I see fit) but here are zome excerpts from his warmup:

Covid is deadly we are told, and in a very real sense it is. However, it's deadly in the way that getting a bee sting or eating peanuts can be for those with allergies, not deadly in the way that contracting smallpox or Ebola can be for pretty much everyone. We knew that from nearly the beginning. This is from the World Health Organization on April 20, 2020.

We know that over 95% of these deaths occurred in those older than 60 years. More than 50% of all deaths were people aged 80 years or older. We also know from reports that 8 out of 10 deaths are occurring in individuals with at least one underlying co-morbidity, in particular those with cardiovascular diseases/hypertension and diabetes, but also with a range of other chronic underlying conditions.

Those that are least vulnerable are children. We've known that pretty much from the beginning as well. The chart below is from a study across a number of countries published in May of 2020.

And here is the latest from the CDC.

In fact, depending on how you break out the ages, it's all but a straight line, from young to old, regarding how much danger this virus poses. This is from The Heritage Foundation using CDC data and published in February of this year.

Twice as many school-age children are dying from pneumonia than are dying from Covid (or "involving" Covid), and yet we are using Covid as some kind of historic juvenile plague to justify strapping our kids in dehumanizing and unhealthy masks all day long and keeping them distanced from friends, despite the fact that they are the least vulnerable demographic spending their day within the confines of an institution with likely the highest vaccination rate of any group save for liberal urban dwellers who still wear masks while walking their dogs.

They know this. They have to know this.

Which brings me to my tale of just how unserious those in charge are about something that is allegedly so dangerous.

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