More Thoughts on Covid

Following up on my earlier post on Covid (11/30/24), I would like to share a few additional observations.

A calling card of the Left has always been the redefinition of terminology, so that words are transformed into a fundamentally altered, or even opposite, meaning. This tendency went into overdrive during the Covid campaign.

For example, the term science. How many times have we heard “the science is settled,” or its variant, “a consensus has been reached among scientists.” This notion has been employed with great dexterity in the Global Warming scam, but in the Covidocracy it reached new (and dangerous) heights.

Science is what we, the experts, say it is! And we declare that it is settled! This, of course, is the precise opposite of what science has always been taken to mean: an endless process of hypothesis, proof, new evidence, challenge, debate, new hypothesis, new experiment, etc. It can never be insulated from challenge and revision. If it did, it would be religion, not science.

Another case of language rape is the word vaccine. My 1991 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as:

“1: matter or a preparation containing the virus of cowpox in a form used for vaccination 2: a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease."

[In other words, what every person in the world thought was a vaccine, before 2020. Here’s the current definition at Merriam-Webster:]

"1: a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease: such as

a: an antigenic preparation of a typically inactivated or attenuated pathogenic agent (such as a bacterium or virus) or one of its components or products (such as a protein or toxin)"

[So far so good, though they did sneak in “protein or toxin.” But then...]

"b: a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)"

[There you have it. A vaccine is whatever we say it is. And if that wasn’t bad enough, a few examples of usage are provided, including:]

"Moderna's coronavirus vaccine … works by injecting a small piece of mRNA from the coronavirus that codes for the virus' spike protein. … mRNA vaccine spurs the body to produce the spike protein internally. That, in turn, triggers an immune response. —Susie Neilson et al.

The revolutionary messenger RNA vaccines that are now available have been over a decade in development. … Messenger RNA enters the cell cytoplasm and produces protein from the spike of the Covid-19 virus. —Thomas F. Cozza

Viral vector vaccines, another recent type of vaccine, are similar to DNA and RNA vaccines, but the virus's genetic information is housed in an attenuated virus (unrelated to the disease-causing virus) that helps to promote host cell fusion and entry. —Priya Kaur”

Good grief.

A related phenomenon is the abrupt about-face on a point of ideology. Consider the controversy surrounding the views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on medical issues. The Left is up in arms over his nomination as Secretary of Health. But within recent memory, our Progressive masters were advocating a very similar approach. Not all that long ago, the Left would have asserted:

• Big Pharma is a swamp of greedy, corrupt capitalists, making huge profits by brainwashing the masses to take their poison, addictive potions. [Remember the wave of anti-Pharma movies, such as The Constant Gardener (2005), where Pharma was portrayed as virtually taking over the world? (Reminds me of the anti-CIA films, which also preceded an abrupt about-face.)]
• Alternative medicine is great. Regular doctors just want to sell you drugs (in cahoots with Big Pharma) and wield the scalpel. You’re better off with reflexology and acupuncture.
• If you're smart you'll eat organic food. Cows and chickens happily grazing in a green pasture, before we eat them, is a good thing.
• Let’s all sing Kumbaya while we hug each other.

Well, all that went out the window when the Left realized that the Medical-Industrial Complex could be harnessed to its agenda. Go ahead, folks, take those pills and injections, eat the fake meat, wear a mask that traps your waste matter, whatever; it’s all safe and effective. Big Pharma has joined the pantheon of heroes, alongside our intrepid medical personnel, who will treat you at the hospital, even if you have the dreaded, unspeakable plague.

In the immortal words of George Orwell, we have always been at war with Eastasia.