I and The Liberty Cast have been MIA for a while now and there is a reason. In early March I came down with Covid-19 and Covid Pneumonia. I ended up in the hospital twice because of that diagnosis. In some of the last shows I did, I mentioned I wasn’t feeling well, but that it wasn’t the Kung-Flu. I attributed it to a long season of Cedar Fever. I was wrong. I’m no longer Covid positive, but the pneumonia is lingering and it will probably be a week or two before I do any shows, but I did want to talk about my experience with the Wu-Flu.
I’ve said numerous times since it became clear that the virus is now endemic that we all are going to come down with the virus at some point and I fully expected to come down with it myself. I didn’t expect a pneumonia chaser and it has been tough to deal with, especially for my beautiful wife who has had to continue to run a business, take care of me, the dogs and everything else. Thank God we have people who have stepped up to help us out.
Some questions come to mind as a result of this experience though. Does this Covid-19 experience change anything for me? Specifically, do I now think that everyone should get jabbed and boosted? Do I now support jab and mask mandates? Do I now live in fear of this virus? No, no, no and absolutely not. I am having a tough time with it, but I know people who have had it worse. I know people who did not survive. I was told many times before I came down with it that because I didn’t want to get jabbed or wear a mask, I should not be able to get treatment and I deserve to die when I do get it. Prominent leftists in the American Pravda have made such statements publicly. That says a lot more about those people than people like me who made a prudential judgment that our immune systems and natural immunity as a result of infection is a much better alternative than an experimental substance that is now proven to be more dangerous than the virus itself. According to the VAERS database, 56.4% of all deaths resulting from vaccines are attributed to the Covid vaccines – Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. That’s not just this year, but going back since they started keeping track of this data. During the same time period, 5.1% of all vaccine deaths can be attributed to the flu vaccine. You can check the numbers here.
It is now accepted as fact that people who have been jabbed and boosted still catch the virus, spread the virus and can get just as sick as someone who did not get jabbed. There is also ample evidence to suggest that people who have been jabbed and boosted are more susceptible to contracting and transmitting the virus multiple times. And even the CDC admitted back in January that:
“Importantly, infection-derived protection was greater after the highly transmissible Delta variant became predominant, coinciding with early declining of vaccine-induced immunity in many persons.”
“Early declining of vaccine induced immunity” is newspeak for “the jabs do not work.”
The most severe symptom I had which landed me in the hospital was labored breathing. I could not take a deep breath and the slightest exertion caused me to be completely out of breath. When I first went to the doctor, even though they knew that breathing was an issue, I had to put on a mask in order to be seen and treated. My oxygen saturation was in the low 80s while in the office with a mask on. The “scientists” tried to sell us on the notion that wearing a mask has no effect on your ability to exchange oxygen. Anecdotally, I can tell you that is a lie. While in the hospital, I conducted a little experiment of my own. I checked my oxygen saturation without a mask and then I put one on for a few minutes to see if it was all in my head because, you know, I do like breathing in a crazy kind of way. It only took a few minutes for my oxygen saturation to go down 4 points. It would have gone even lower but the alarm would have sent the nurses rushing in to my room. As nice as they were, I didn’t feel like trying to explain what I was doing. Obviously, this does not rise to the level of a scientific study. However, common sense, to the extent that it still exists, supports the assertion that making people wear masks when they already have issues breathing is unnecessary and cruel. Not to mention that masks don’t work. Numerous studies have concluded that masks not only are not effective in slowing the transmission of the virus, but prolonged mask wearing has profound negative effects on the mask wearer’s health and the mental health of children who are forced to participate in this virtue signaling theater. Leftists who fell for the fear porn early on will say things like, “If wearing a mask reduces transmission by just one percent, then X lives could have been saved if more people had worn masks.” The ultimate Covid virtue signal. I will never support mask mandates under any circumstances.
I don’t know if we can consider my experience long haul Covid considering I had pneumonia on top of it, but the recovery is going to be long and arduous. There is also the possibility of long-term health issues going forward. Despite the challenges I am dealing with I am still going to live my life and deal with whatever this virus continues to throw at me. I have encountered many people who live in fear of this virus and they seem miserable; it is sad to watch and no way to live. I refuse to live in fear.