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There are three things in this world for certain. Death and taxes are the two most people are familiar with. The third is this: If you don’t look for something, you’re probably not going to find it.
Of course, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again and a broken analog watch is right twice a day. But for the most part, if you’re not trying to detect something, then it is highly unlikely that you are going to detect it.
Remember back in 2020 when President Trump said something to the effect that the more COVID tests you perform, the more COVID you’re going to find? The left and Big Media purposely misunderstood what he had to say and attacked him for saying it. He was correct, but that didn’t seem to matter.
Imagine how much better off we’d be if we only tested people showing symptoms of the disease? Hundreds of millions of COVID tests have been performed in the U.S. on perfectly healthy people. You look for COVID and you’re going to find COVID. But, if you don’t look for it, then it doesn’t exist. Even the NFL agrees.
Last week, a shitload of fully-vacksinated NFL players tested positive for COVID-19. So many players were placed on the COVID injury list that multiple games had to be rescheduled. So far during this season, many fully-vackinsated stars have been sidelined after testing positive. And, when people who are paying good money to see those star players can’t, that’s a potential problem for the NFL.
I don’t pay a lot of attention to the NFL but when I heard what was going on I wondered how long it would be before the they recognized the impact COVID was having on revenue and did something to stop it.
Turns out it took about a week. Last week, the NFL’s policy was to test exposed players, vacksinated or not, and isolate them if they tested positive. The problem the NFL had with that is that the more players you test, the more players you’re going to find with asymptomatic cases of COVID. Because the NFL was looking for COVID, it found COVID.
This week, the NFL’s new policy is to simply ignore asymptomatic vacksinated players who may have been exposed. But they’re going to continue to test unvacksinated players also not showing any symptoms.
See? Problem solved. They test fewer players, they find fewer cases, and the games can go on as scheduled.
The problem with THAT is that it doesn’t make any sense.
We all know that vacksinated people can still contract COVID and asymptomatic people with COVID can still infect others. Plus, even the pharmaceutical companies say that the current vackseens provide little to no protection at all from Omicron. Regardless of what we’re being told, there is essentially no difference between a vacksinated person’s ability to spread COVID and an unvacksinated person’s ability to spread COVID. And most of the cases of Omicron have been found in fully-vacksinated people.
But that doesn’t seem to matter to the National Football League. Once they realized that having so many cases of COVID was going to impact their bottom line, they simply stopped looking for it. There aren’t any fewer cases of COVID in the NFL, they’re just turning a blind eye to about 80% of the cases there are. And because they’re detecting fewer cases, the games can continue unabated and advertising revenue continues to pour in.
Last week, I read a statistic that said that 95% of the new cases of COVID in the United States was the Delta variant. Today, I read an article that said that 83% of the new COVID cases were the Omicron variant. First of all, that’s a huge turnaround in just a week, so I question both results.
But, if this week’s data is correct, that’s terrific news. Why? Because some guy in Texas was just deemed the very first person in the United States to die from the Omicron variant. Or, maybe he was the first person to die with the Omicron variant, because he had underlying health conditions. In either case, if a huge majority of the still-flawed tests detected Omicron, and we’ve only had a single person die. Then what’s the big deal?
It’s true that they said 83% of new cases. And it does seem to take a little while to die either with or from any flavor of COVID-19. But you don’t go from zero to 83% in a single week. If there’s that much Omicron floating around this week, then it’s highly likely there are a LOT of cases last week that nobody knew about. The average number of weekly new cases in the U.S. right now is about 160,000. So, more likely than not, there were over 100,000 cases of Omicron-flavored COVID in the last week alone.
And only one person died.
Biden just announced that he’s going to buy a half billion COVID test kits. Well, Joe’s not going to pay for them, you and I and the rest of the taxpayers are going to pay for them. Joe’s just going to buy them. And there’s a huge difference between buying something and paying for something. But that’s a bitch for another day.
Instead of calming the public, Biden and his team are going out of their way to make people already afraid to breath unfiltered air even more afraid to take a deep breath. So, a half billion tests are going to be made available to a population already scared out of their wits.
Some people might be tempted to poke fun at the NFL and their irrational COVID policy. They might claim that the NFL has gone too far. I say they haven’t gone far enough. In fact, they’re about halfway there. What the NFL, and everyone else in the world, should do is to stop testing ALL asymptomatic cases. If someone starts to show symptoms, fine, then you test them. But until that happens, stop with all the testing nonsense. Especially since the newly-predominant strain is many times less dangerous than the seasonal flu.
The virus isn’t the oh-my-God-it’s-definitely-going-to-kill-you contagion that it has been hyped up to be for the last almost two years. It’s more of a make-sure-you’re-stocked-up-on-Kleenex inconvenience.
The more you look for COVID, the more COVID you’re going to find. The problem is that a lot of people still believe that contracting COVID is an automatic death sentence. They hear “COVID”, and they unnecessarily panic. And that panic has led them to an irrational fear of fresh air. Until we cease all this testing nonsense, the self-imposed agoraphobia that so many people are experiencing will never go away.
So, let’s take a page out of the NFL playbook on COVID and stop looking for trouble.
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