New York Times Commemorates Four Years Of COVID By Celebrating Masks, Fear Of Catching The Virus
For the overwhelming majority of the world, the COVID pandemic has been effectively over for several years.
Despite "expert" claims, virtually everyone, everywhere, got COVID, at least once, with universal masking, vaccine passports and booster mandates. School closures were demonstrably harmful, with no benefits whatsoever to reducing infections. Lockdowns were one of history's biggest economic disasters; business shut downs had no impact on the spread of the virus, but led to rampant inflation, massive surges in unemployment and increased mortality from suicide and undiagnosed conditions.
Most sane people have long since accepted that our COVID response was a disastrous failure, marked by an endless series of incorrect predictions and pointless mandates.
Sane people though, generally don't work at the New York Times.
And to commemorate four years of one of society's biggest mistakes, the Times thought it best to cover how the few remaining COVID extremists, of which Times' employees are undoubtedly part of, are letting a respiratory virus control their lives, four years later.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci arrives at an event commemorating the 50 millionth COVID-19 vaccine shot on February 25, 2021 at the South Court Auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. (Photo by Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images)
COVID Insanity Will Never End For The Anti-Reality Zealots
The story is one that doesn't hide its bias; unquestioningly and uncritically accepting every major COVID fallacy. Masks work, virus avoidance is possible and a Moral Good. Long COVID is real and debilitating, all evidence to the contrary.
Not surprisingly, given their desired slant, the Times only interviewed people who are still scared to socialize.
"In interviews, some people said that the changes are subtle but unmistakable: Their world feels a little smaller, with less socializing and fewer crowds," the article says. Who in their right mind is still avoiding crowds in mid-March 2024, years after they had the opportunity to be vaccinated? Or years after virus mutations lessened COVID's severity? Or years after the "experts" they put their unwavering religious faith into, told them (incorrectly) they could protect themselves by wearing a mask?
The answer of course is, no one. But expecting an awareness of reality or intellectual consistency is a bridge too far for both the Times and its subjects.
"The World Health Organization dropped its global health emergency designation in May 2023, but millions of people who survived the virus are suffering from long Covid, a mysterious and frequently debilitating condition that causes fatigue, muscle pain and cognitive decline," it continues.
A massive study out of Australia recently found that long COVID is effectively indistinguishable from other viral infections. There is no increase in long term effects after COVID compared to other viruses, and the effects that do exist are generally mild and resolve quickly. But the Times is committed to spreading disproven disinformation, because its institutional reputation depends on it.
"Long COVID" was just one of many fake stories about COVID that they published. Acknowledging that means reckoning with their failures. And that's not an acceptable outcome.
Everyone Else Is Responsible For Individual Delusions
Frequently, those in the story share how they allow their disconnect from reality to influence their world view and blame others around them.
"'Unfounded or not, I believed that for the most part, others would take small actions to keep me and people like me safe,'" one interviewee said. "But now she has encountered people who resist taking a Covid test or wearing a mask in some situations," the section concludes.
There is no value to wearing a mask in any situation. Because masks don't work. Others choosing to wear a mask around you has no impact on whether or not you get COVID, because masks don't work. You choosing to wear a mask has no impact on whether or not you get COVID, because masks don't work.
But if you believe in the face of mountains of evidence, as these bewildering people do, that masks are protective, then they could easily choose to wear one! Just as we don't stop people from wearing tinfoil hats to protect against an alien invasion, we don't stop individuals from wearing masks to do something they can't.
"'What they’re communicating is that they don’t care about my health and my life,'" that same interviewee continued. "'I have lost so much trust in others.'"
This statement perfectly exemplifies the jaw dropping selfishness, anti-science attitude of those in the COVID extremism movement. This individual has had the opportunity to be vaccinated, and boosted, 7-9 times. If not many more. Again, if the vaccines are as effective as the High Holy Church of Expert Worship claim they are, what in the world are these people worried about?
Wear a mask, get your 12th booster, let other people move on. But the self-obsessed COVID maximalists are incapable of both acknowledging that their fear contradicts their own religious beliefs, or understanding that it's no one else's responsibility to cater to their irrational fears.
And irrational fear is a key component of the Times' story.
Touching Humans Is Too Scary
The Times also quoted another man who spent an entire year isolated from humanity.
"I went over 12 months without touching another human being," he said. "It was brutalizing. It scarred me pretty deeply."
There was never any justification or necessity to do this. Even the most committed of COVID frauds like England's Neil Ferguson and Matt Hancock both, multiple times, violated lockdown orders they vociferously demanded and enforced. Hancock, one of England's top health officials, was caught on video having very affectionate encounters with a female staffer on CCTV while telling the public to socially distance.
Ferguson, whose woefully inaccurate model helped influence the western world to lock down unnecessarily, was caught sneaking out to visit his mistress in the early days of the pandemic.
You'd think that learning how these individuals ignored their own advice would make these terrified individuals think for just a few seconds about the absurdity of their actions. But nope.
Another woman interviewed said that she quite literally has made avoiding COVID the sole focus of her life.
"I just don’t ever want to get Covid again — it’s something that we think about all the time," she said. "It’s part of my daily life. It’s become a part of who my husband and I are."
It's devastating what media outlets like the Times and their ideological partners in the public health community have done to people. They've terrified them, permanently, into believing falsehoods. They've made COVID the sole focus of their life by spreading misinformation, allowing them to off-load responsibility onto everyone else. They've made avoiding intellectual consistency a viable option.
Masks work, but not enough to protect those who are terrified. Vaccines work, but also apparently not well enough. The boosters are highly safe and effective, but just not quite enough. Long COVID, which doesn't actually exist, is a terrifying threat to millions.
We're seeing in real time the dangers of allowing an inaccurate consensus to become unassailable. The media, the Times, the "experts," created this insanity. And it's still causing harm, four years later.