Rant #2,693: It's a Crying Shame

All right, let’s stop the nonsense.
 
The American public has been lied to about the coronavirus from the beginning of the pandemic, and the lies just continue.
 
We are opening up our world again, yet we have a strain of this virus that is infecting thousands of people, whether they are supposedly vaccinated or not.
 
And the shots are not vaccinations.
 
A vaccination literally prevents the recipient from getting whatever virus or disease it is directed at, such as the measles and polio vaccines.
 
What we have now is an inoculation that could prevent you from getting the virus, but does not fully prevent you from getting it, and it supposedly mitigates the virus’ effects if you happen to get it.
 
So it is nothing but an inoculation, and nothing more.
 
And then we have been lied about the vary totals of Americans who have gotten their shot(s).
 
If roughly 50 percent of Americans have received the inoculation(s), why is the total never broken down by what shot they got?
 
Why don’t we know precisely how many people got the Moderna shots, the Pfizer shots, and the Johnson & Johnson shot?
 
The answer is just so obvious.
 
We are not being told the breakdown to literally boost the number of people who have gotten inoculated, but we are finding that those who received the Johnson & Johnson one-dose shot are about as inoculated from this virus as I am when I get my allergy shot.
 
First of all, there is no way a one-dose inoculation is going to be as potent as a two-dose shot … I mean, there is just no way out of that, even though they are being portrayed as pretty much the same thing by the press, our health officials and our politicians.
 
Look, as I have said time and time again, the one-dose shot is nothing more than a statistics padder to make the current administration look good. It is around to basically pad the numbers of those getting inoculated, leading to President Biden’s desire to have 70 percent of the adult population “vaccinated” by July 4.
 
Even with the one-dose shot added in, we were nowhere near his goal by that date, and if you take out all of those who innocently took the Johnson & Johnson shot, thinking they were really protecting themselves, how much do you want to bet that the percentage of Americans getting fully inoculated is closer to 30 or 35 percent?
 
This charade has to end, and yes, the reason I am so upset today is that a high-profile case has thrown me into a dither.
 
With the world opening up, and our country proclaiming that we have licked this thing, yet with a more virulent variant putting people in hospitals from coast to coast, the New York Yankees are once again in the middle of a major coronavirus outbreak, one that postponed their game last night against the Boston Red Sox, and might just postpone all the games in this four-game weekend series.
 
You remember a few weeks ago, when various Yankees personnel had to be quarantined—one for six weeks—due to contracting the virus? One player that got the virus got it for the second time.
 
Well now, the current situation is much worse.
 
At least three players—three pitchers—have contracted the virus, and three or four other players are thought to have the virus. The Yankees admit that at least two of the definitely infected players took the Johnson & Johnson one-dose shot.
 
One of the players who is thought to have the virus, Aaron Judge, played in the All-Star game, along with two other Yankees who were at the game.
 
Due to them being there, a whole swath of All-Stars and other personnel must be tested, just to make sure that everything is A-OK with them.
 
The Yankees are running this whole thing through the PC mill, trying to feed pabulum to the public by stating that even though their personnel received the Johnson & Johnson shot, it proves that the shot works to ward off hospitalization and death, because none of the players are actually sick or showing symptoms.
 
Of course, this is balderdash because 1) if this was a real vaccine, none of these players would have contracted the virus to begin with, and 2) the last time they said the same nonsense, Phil Nevin, the coach who contracted the disease, was off the field for six weeks, so in retrospect, I guess he actually did get hit pretty bad by the virus.
 
And yes, in this previous case, the people infected received the Johnson & Johnson shot.
 
Let’s see what happens now with all of this.
 
But the fact of the matter is that it has been proven time and time again that if you take the Johnson & Johnson one-dose inoculation, you are pretty much putting one of the company’s Band-Aids on a much more serious problem. If you take the two-dose inoculations, you are putting more of a wall around yourself, protecting yourself from the virus as much as you possibly can.
 
I do feel bad, to a certain degree, for those who got the Johnson & Johnson shot, because they did think they were doing the right thing by getting this shot, but in fact, they simply were not doing enough to protect themselves—and others—from the disease.
 
I really believe that our health officials must mandate that those that get the Johnson & Johnson shot must get a second shot. I know it has been spoken about, but without that second shot, those people are not fully inoculated.
 
What makes matters worse is that they truly believe that they are, that they are as fully inoculated as those getting the two-dose shots.
 
Statistics show that not to be true, and it is certainly not true versus this more virulent variant.
 
I blame the health community, the politicians and the president and his staff for this mess that we are in with this.
 
They did not follow the science, they followed the numbers, and the numbers do not lie.
 
And now, we find out that the Johnson & Johnson shot can have a terrible side effect: Gullain Barre syndrome, or a nerve disease that my grandmother had a variant of.
 
It is painful, it is horrid, and it is something that no one wants to have. I saw her have days where she was in such pain that she could barely speak. The pain was that intense.
 
Again, my hope is that those groups I mention come clean about what we are shooting into our arms, but on the other hand, I know that they won’t, because there is too much at stake here that has nothing to do with the science.
 
We have a long way to go, with our without a mask on, and these people have lied to us from day one about what is happening.
 
Shame on them, and shame on us for believing them, not knowing that we are being treated like we are sheep headed for slaughter.
 
It is a crying shame.
 
Have a good weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.