When hysteria strikes: the newest meme

 I posted a video the other day on my facebook account, by a priest/physician who described how Covid was affecting our people in the barangays (the press tends to report the elite news and official news). 

VIDEOLINK

He is hopeful that the omnicron will explode and make the epidemic burn out....about 40 percent of those tested are now positive and the DOH reports 28 thousand cases, up from 500 a few weeks ago.

The physician priest here explains how many people at the start of the epidemic just died quietly at home, but now he notices that not everyone is being tested... there are a lot of folks out there with the sniffles who are just self isolating at home and using symptomatic treatment...meaning the statistics are not accurate.

I post the link again because this is what we also see in our area.

In the meanwhile, there are still lines in the plaza waiting to get their shot and/or booster. (Since it is cool and dry outside, it's safer to give it outdoors).

Since they now need a paper to get in some businesses, I suspect many unvaxed will get it. 

But although there may be a couple hundred people there in line, notice our town has over 50 thousand living here, so put the numbers into perspective.

I had to laugh at blogs posting that Duterte said he's force people to stay indoors or else. The US press seems clueless that Duterte uses irony and hyperbole and humor when he says these things, and here everyone knows that.

But the press and NWO prefer to pretend he is a murderous dictator, blaming all murders on him (even private paybacks and drug dealers murdering snitches) while ignoring that we lost several neighbors in home invasion robberies by drug addicts...not to mention the pre Duterte hits between various political clans that killed bystander, including our nephew...and there is another election coming up....

Here, our main worry is that Joy's elderly mom is sick....as is her whole family in Bulacan...Joy got over sniffles, 

Cold or Omnicron? one day someone will get a test and we will figure it out. But why test if you are not too sick.

and I am not sick anymore, but as I tapered off my prednisone, I relapsed with asthma... I finally figured out it was because the maid bought a generic form from a cheap pharmacy, and it doesn't work. They try to keep cheap drugs out of the Philippines, but counterfeit drugs, which are often not fake but contain a lot lower amount of the drug... this is a major problem in Asia: mainly from China (and India), which is why sometimes we used known generic names or brand name medicines, when it is important not to underdose treatment.

In the USA, I cannot judge what is going on: I remember living overseas in the days of Ronald Reagan, who the press said was going to start World War III, kill old people by cutting Social Security, etc etc....and how much hysteria was in the news back then, so I take a lot of the nonsense with a grain of salt.

And now of course things are worse.

the latest "headsup"about this mass hysteria is that it is a "Mass formation psychosis" LINK

this is getting a lot of "pushback"and denial on mainstream news sites, but you know, such things are not new: Think Tulipmania.

Classic book about this Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles MackayLINK.

Scott Adams (Dilbert) has discussed a lot of this in his recent podcasts. LINK and he not only analyzes the spin by various people, but notes that the problem with the Dr Malone interview with Joe Rogan (which started this conversation) was one sided, without free give and take with some other expert who might point out the problems with his argument.

JoeRoganDrMalone on bitchute. Bitchute is quite toxic, so I hate to go there, and I have been too lazy to listen or even read the entire thing.

But the politicization of the epidemic is not helping matters, nor is the hysteria against those who don't want a newfangled vaccine.

Here, because the DOH refused to sign liablity papers to get the Pfizer vax a year ago, we are behind in shots, but we are using all sorts of vaccines from all over the world that use different ways to manufacture the vaccines.

So is there is anti mRNA vax hysteria in the USA, why don't they just let those suspicious of the new mRNA vaccine have a choice to be given other vaccines that use older technology, i.e. AZ or J&J Sputnik adenovirus template, or the lousy Sinovax, which uses an inactivated virus? 

The crazy anti vaxers don't seem to notice that there are a lot of choices out there, probably because it's not being publicized or made available. As for side effects: part of this hysteria is because they are giving it low risk folks now, and people don't want to risk it: that is not true for high risk folk, who have a good cost benefit ratio. 

a pox on both their houses.

I can see the hysteria types now grabbing on to the anti vax to demonize the left. A pox on them.

But on the other hand, why does the left pretends the ordinary Trumpites, i.e. the tens of thousand of folks who attended the peaceful demonstration at the mall are the same as the many peaceful protesters who were invited into congress by security guards  and took selfies, and publicizing the few who got excited there and destroyed things?  indeed, you can see it is propaganda because the press always shows a photo of the so called qanon shaman, (a mentally ill guy who demonstrated for both left and right wing causes in the past ).

It's enough to be paranoid and wonder if manipulation is going on. So is there a the plan of control?

But there are serious questions out there:

Why is there such hysteria and even legal sanctions against physicians for carefully  prescribing  HydroChloroquin or Ivermectin, both of which are legal drugs, and drugs which some of us have used for our patients in the past? Dr. Malone brings up this question in his interview.

In the past, there was no legal reason doctors can't use them off label: we do this all the time, with our patient's permission.

Indeed, I am old enough to remember when HIV positive patients had to fight a pompous Dr Fauci like bureaucrat at the CDC to use experimental or off label drugs that they thought might save their lives. The movie the Dallas Buyers Club.

 

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update: This Inquirer editorial refutes the priest's claim.

But it doesn't note that he didn't make up the claim, but was quoting experts from both South Africa and Europe, including Dr. C, that the Omnicron gives immunity.

as for his comments that people are self treating at home: He did not cause this, because he is reporting what is already going on: Something I have also observed.

The govt/DOH here resembles the US CDC. 

as for anti vax stuff, I live a block from the Plaza where they are giving out shots, and there is now a line stretching 3 blocks, around the block to the east end of our compound.

Its not so much that people are getting the disease deliberately, but that it is so infectious that you catch it easily despite masks etc. 

and with the problem of getting tested, why the complaint that they are self treating cold symptoms at home instead of waiting in line to get a test?