Summary and Key Points
The document addresses several myths and misconceptions surrounding COVID-19, vaccines, and public health measures. It combines personal anecdotes, data, and opinions to refute these myths while offering a critical perspective on societal responses to the pandemic.
See also a link to the officially released report = COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward (Selected USA Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded its two-year investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic and released a final report titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward.”)
Key Points by Myth:
1. Social Distancing Works
- Social distancing is effective against viruses, as evidenced by educational campaigns in Italy. However, panic and misinformation undermined its implementation in other places.
- Criticism of public health policies often ignores the lack of public education on viruses and vaccines.
2. Masks are Effective
- Masks reduce virus transmission, even if they don’t block 100%.
- Personal protective equipment like masks serves multiple purposes, including air filtration in polluted environments.
3. Lockdowns and Mental Health
- Lockdowns had varied psychological impacts. The author argues that social adaptation and personal preparedness can mitigate trauma.
- Opportunities like virtual learning and events (e.g., Tony Robbins seminars) emerged during lockdowns.
4. Vaccines Slowed the Virus Spread
- Vaccines are vital for public health, as demonstrated historically by increased life expectancy.
- The creation and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines involved complex logistics and global coordination.
5. Political Influence on Vaccine Approval
- Vaccine approval processes were expedited during the pandemic, with political pressure playing a role (e.g., Donald Trump’s efforts).
- Skepticism toward pharmaceutical companies is common but often ignores the critical role of vaccines in saving lives.
6. School Closures
- The closure of schools had negative impacts, particularly on mental health and education systems.
- Despite these challenges, online learning systems were rapidly implemented, and technology-enabled global education initiatives.
7. Vaccine Side Effects
- Side effects are often due to pre-existing conditions or improper screening before vaccination, not the vaccines themselves.
- Medications are statistically far more likely to cause adverse reactions than vaccines.
Broader Themes and Critiques:
- Misinformation and Media Panic: The media’s tendency to sensationalize issues fueled public panic rather than providing clear guidance.
- Education Deficiencies: A lack of public understanding about science and health systems exacerbates vaccine hesitancy and distrust in public health measures.
- The Role of Leadership: Both political and scientific leaders influenced public perception and vaccine rollout success, though often with mixed results.
- Value of Learning: Emphasis on education as the key to combating ignorance and ensuring societal progress.
Takeaways:
- Public health measures like masks, social distancing, and vaccines are scientifically supported and crucial during pandemics.
- The effectiveness of these measures is often undermined by misinformation, poor public education, and media sensationalism.
- Preparation, adaptability, and education are vital for managing crises like COVID-19 effectively.
- Trust in science and informed decision-making are necessary to combat future health challenges.
Details
Myth = 3. Social distancing measures were arbitrary and not based on science
Social distancing works against viruses. On Italian television, there were series with biologists and virologists explaining from scratch what viruses and vaccines are, and people understood what to do. They followed all the distancing rules and the lines drawn on the asphalt and in stores. Here, there was only panic and batches of vaccines seized. Okay, there were exceptions, like those chasing me on the street shouting “Bastardo,” questioning why I wore a mask and didn’t shake their hands.
Then there was a scandal because the Ministry of Health ordered many vaccines. Well, that was its duty. How could they know the education system was in shambles, most people had no idea what viruses were, and they read reports like this one, written by others who exploit ignorance to make money with nonsense? How could they know that television, in the race for ratings, would do what all TV stations worldwide are tempted to do—spread PANIC?
Paradoxically and ironically, the same TV stations now criticize the Ministry of Health (with reports, tables, and sensational figures … “You have no idea what you’re losing,” “Breaking News”)—how stupid.
Myth = 4. There is no conclusive evidence that wearing masks prevented the spread of COVID-19
Masks work. Perhaps they mean that masks don’t block 100%.
Those who don’t believe this should try spray-painting cars without a mask.
I still use professional masks like PP2 (or whatever they’re called, there are various grades and two comparison systems) for unblocking toilets in basements or at neighbors’ homes who ruin the whole villa with their mess, or for cleaning glasses with strange chemical sprays.
Even wearing a mask alone in the car works because car filters are not designed for viruses (not necessary on highways, but if you’re driving at 5 km/h through northern Paris among street vendors lining kilometers of sidewalks…). Next time you point fingers at an elderly person wearing a mask alone in their car … you’re the blonde (fool).
What Did Not Work in the Masks at the Wuhan Military Laboratory?
The real question is this: What failed in the masks used at the Wuhan military laboratory? And most importantly, how can we improve masks to prevent similar failures in the future?
This topic reminds me of a striking image: the special protective suit and mask worn by Vladimir Putin when he entered a biological military laboratory. The footage aired at the time, showcasing an intense moment. Strangely enough, during that critical period, both China and Russia were the first to land planes and laboratories in Italy, offering immediate help, while the European Union was still locked in endless discussions. As the EU talked and talked, Italy faced increasing devastation, with more and more lives lost.
Ironically, the Big Bosses of the EU, many of whom have medicine diplomas according to their CVs, seemed paralyzed in action while Italy was dying. Meanwhile, the global narrative focused on painting Trump with “funny labels” rather than questioning the EU leadership’s delayed response.
Eventually, the EU stepped up, organized, and delivered the vaccine—a milestone that deserves credit. And yes, I took four doses of it, appreciating the results. However, the lessons remain: rapid action, decisive leadership, and technological improvement, such as better mask designs, are essential to preventing such disasters in the future.
Myth = 5. The effects of lockdowns were mostly mental and psychological trauma for the population, especially the youth
I was dropped into cities where I didn’t know the language for very long periods, and I suffered no trauma.
On the contrary, more social opportunities arose, like tons of courses, including a 5-day one with Tony Robbins, attended by 25,000 people online, displayed live on giant monitors in a super studio specially built during COVID.
I was prepared for these traumas—on my first flights, I only thought about chess player Fischer, who isolated himself before championships (or maybe I just convinced myself it was possible to cope), and the person who barricaded himself to make manifestos—if you remember that movie. What actually happened? I didn’t have five free minutes. So, traumas arise in those predisposed to them, repeating endlessly, “Now I have trauma. If I look out the window, I’ll feel traumatized. Let me look out the window now” (Don’t try this at home; it’s a negative example).
Myth = 6. There is no evidence that COVID vaccines stopped or slowed the spread of the virus
I’ve reached 60 years of age thanks to vaccines. Check how long our ancestors lived before vaccines. Learn how vaccines are made and why the inventor tested it on himself without reading reports.
Myth = 7. The Biden administration pressured the FDA to approve vaccines, even though several FDA-affiliated scientists opposed it
Donald J. Trump led the creation of the vaccine and pressured the FDA to approve it faster. The vaccine was deliberately delayed to be released three days after the election (Georgescu’s tricks in the USA).
There were endless meetings and press conferences, lasting months. But if you believed all the labels attached to Trump, you didn’t follow how the vaccine was created. I would go to the pharmacy on the ground floor of my building and buy whatever was discussed in meetings hours before doctors and pharmacists in Italy woke up and emptied the stock.
Biden didn’t do much here—as you may have noticed, he has simpler issues to handle—and was inaugurated three months after the vaccine appeared (launched three days post-election—another scam like Georgescu).
Trump implemented military measures to convert factories into ventilator production (like Putin now with armaments) and vaccines. He squeezed Big Pharma in endless meetings. Now, books claim Big Pharma charged $10 per vaccine instead of $1. The truth is, if I had come to your door with a $100 vaccine, you would have paid it and been indebted to me for life, greeting me from the end of the street. After the war, all kinds of opportunists come out to sell us reports. He negotiated everything he could.
But the real heroes were people like Bill Gates, who built factories before the vaccine even existed or was approved (super idea!). After realizing no one understood what he was doing, he recently started frequent blogs and videos on 1,000 topics, hoping we might understand something. An employee in a Netflix documentary about him said, “He goes to meetings where he knows ten times more than everyone else in the room—I don’t really understand why he attends.”
Myth = 8. There was no scientific support for closing schools. It had multiple negative effects. Suicide attempts among girls aged 12-17 increased by 51%.
I carried tons of servers and electronic lessons to schools all over Romania long before COVID. I conducted week-long training sessions with inspectors across the country, teaching them to create electronic lessons and lead their counties to do the same. I personally ensured that every one of them completed their work. No one left without generating electronic lessons covering all possible components. Paradoxically, when COVID began, kids worldwide launched new online education systems from scratch in record time.
Look now on YouTube—so many AI super-gurus publish free courses (people earning millions of dollars share knowledge for free on YouTube). You’d need 500 years to learn it all. It’s not lessons or teachers that are missing.
But if you remove Physics from exams and replace it with Religion, students dance on desks, stab teachers, and drug dealers’ mothers expel police from schools because “the poor boy was stressed,” it’s no wonder the education system is now on its knees, sinking in a swamp. No wonder 50% of vaccines go to waste.
At the vaccination center in Brașov (since I couldn’t get an appointment in Bucharest), I talked more than all the doctors there combined. On my way out, I noticed that the vaccine batch was the one seized in Italy two days earlier, which was all over the news. Televisions stressed out all the doctors in Romania and saw people with two university degrees hesitate before the nonsense spread on TV and online (Georgescu wasn’t the first “black hole” in rational thought). How is it possible that I talked more than all the doctors in a vaccination unit? They all stared at the ground.
At another vaccine center, a doctor told us to sign a document saying the vaccine had expired. I, along with two Chinese people, signed it. What could possibly expire in a few months in a vaccine? If it was launched out of sequence to prevent deaths before approval, it’s normal for the expiration date to be approximate. It doesn’t have five years of tests to determine the exact expiry date.
I’ve had 16 vaccines so far because I spent an extended period in Brazil, and some are mandatory (they refuse you at customs without them—random checks). I had something like three injections in one arm, a 20-minute break, then three in the other arm…
I look in disbelief at people who still read all kinds of reports and refuse to vaccinate.
Myth = Side Effects
Yes, I’ve studied this super myth that scares everyone:
- No pre-vaccine testing is conducted. You fill out a declaration, and some people lie in their answers (e.g., “Do you have a cough, throat irritation, chills…?”). Those who already have COVID lie or don’t yet show symptoms (you’ve traveled a ton of kilometers to get a vaccine, and now you’re going to check the “wrong” boxes on the form—clearly, they’ll send you home—or they’ll test you, and you’ll have to return in three days). These are the ones with side effects (it can be verified that the reported side effects align with COVID symptoms and effects). But if you don’t verify, you’ll fall for scammers selling books (including Kennedy). Now Kennedy is big in the Trump Administration for NAME and VOTES. Otherwise, Trump wore gloves even when young, is obsessed with viruses, and doesn’t eat after shaking hands (even with waiters). This means he’s carried virus-related questions all his life and may know more than the conmen labeling him and publishing “unproven” reports.
Think about how much you know compared to others due to the peculiar questions you’ve carried with you. - A medication is 1,000 times more dangerous than a vaccine. But if people don’t know how medications and vaccines are made, they believe the stories about Kennedy and Big Pharma… Those with allergies, adverse effects, or secondary reactions to medications know better—they didn’t experience those from vaccines but from a narrow set of medications that don’t match their DNA, body, other medications, or existing conditions or weaknesses.
So, if someone asks whether it’s useful to pay attention in school, learn everything, follow the curriculum and more, and read lots of books, you can respond:
- If you don’t learn, you’ll die!
Teachers are free medicine—when a teacher tells you to read a book, you should read two!
(You probably already know friends or relatives you didn’t advise during COVID… and who are no longer with us.)
The document ends here, but I still want to learn. No problem.
Link to Google Doc
The original US Report is described here
https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward
