Manchester Vermont thought it had become a COVID19 hot spot. The areas went into crisis mode, but the problem was not a coronavirus outbreak; it was a crappy CDC test outbreak. By the time the dust settled, nearly all the positive tests were negative.
Related: Update on Vermont COVID19 Testing – Most of the Tests Were False Positives
This is a bigger problem than I think anyone realizes. Sure, we can laugh at the stupid CDC and its dopey test. Wow, those things suck, right? But the majority of our readers are not living in irrational fear like many people, and a lot of people are living in fear. So, when dozens of folks get positive test results, it stresses everyone out when it should stress almost no one.
If you are under 60 and healthy, you have very little to fear from this flu. If you are under 40 and healthy, you have nearly nothing to fear. If you are under 20, the odds of you getting sick enough to need a hospital are almost zero.
If you are at risk and don’t have you head up your ass, there are cheap treatments that will stop the infection. Hydroxychloroquine with Zinc and an antibiotic (if needed) works. You do not need a vaccine or a poultice made of unicorn dust, John McCain’s tears, and the ashes of the SOTU speech Nancy Pelosi tore up and burned later in a secret midnight ritual.
Most people will need nothing. Some might need some over the counter relief, and some extra naps.
But when people are afraid – and the media and politicians and corporations and sports teams and colleges, and school districts, and celebrities, and radio-talking heads, every ad on TV is repeating the same misinformation, it’s hard to come back from that ledge. It’s so bad that actual doctors sharing actual science is not just inadequate to assuage the fear giant social media corporations censor them, and the Ruling Class political machine pumps out fake news alerts because they want you to stay afraid!
The problem is not the virus; it is the politically-motivated fearmongering water-carriers.
The Manchester Vermont “outbreak that wasn’t” ended up testing over 1660 nervous people. Five of them were positive. In the original group of false positives, about 77% of those were wrong. But how many thousands more lost their minds about whom we that we will never hear?
Harm or death form heavy drinking, drug use, suicide, domestic and child abuse, PTSD.
This has become a massive PsyOp. Psychological warfare. Domestic terrorism. And it’s harming far more people than will ever be lost to COVID19. And it has to stop.
