Why scientists refused to acknowledge the WIV lab-leak hypothesis in 2020:

“At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn’t want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,” she said.

Now, more scientists are comfortable confronting the gamut of plausible theories — particularly given China’s opacity about the topic — although many still caution that entertaining the idea of a lab leak requires clear scientific proof, which hasn’t materialized.

Source: Wuhan lab leak theory: Behind the science and origin of Covid

In other words, politics took priority over science seeking the truth. Ouch.

(I have no idea where the virus came from. I am a brain injured idiot with no relevant experience that makes observations and asks stupid questions. But for about a year, experts were prohibited from making observations and asking basic questions due to their own politics.)

In another example, on June 2nd, 2020 we were told by experts that protesting was now more important than fighting a virus.

One does not need to look far to see that everything in public health was politicized, and thus, lost its own credibility. Over the next 12 months, they screamed “variants” day in and day out, and projected new surges upon surges that never happened.  Sadly, they never read Never Cry Wolf as the townspeople no longer believe anything public health says.

Based on this (not necessarily random sample), the CDC generally estimates that 40-55% of the U.S. population showed immunity to Covid-19 by mid March of 2021.

Source: CDC COVID Data Tracker

Exposure to the rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, can protect against infection by the virus which causes COVID-19, Yale researchers have found. In a new study, the researchers found that the common respiratory virus jump-starts the activity of interferon-stimulated genes, early-response molecules in the immune system which can halt replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within airway tissues infected with the cold.

Source: Common Cold Can Protect Against Infection by COVID-19 Virus

There were suspicions of this last year. At that time, it might have been useful to infect everyone with a common cold rhinovirus. Would that have been amazing?

In fact, the Bend hospital saw a drop of 10 patients with COVID-19, from 42 on Friday to 32 on Monday, six of them in the ICU and three on ventilators.

But Robinson says that number may not stay low for long.

“Even though our numbers have dropped today, we anticipate in one to two weeks, we’ll see them jump back up,” she said.

Source: Recent decline in COVID-19 patients good news for short-staffed St. Charles – KTVZ

One to two weeks later, what happened to patient numbers? Did they go up, stay the same or did they go down?

They went down.

Have any forecasts of “it’s going to get worse” proven correct? Rarely.

Constant fear mongering and scary projections leads to the Never Cry Wolf syndrome – and fewer and fewer people believe anything regarding public health pronouncements. We just roll our eyes and tune them out – again.

NEW YORK (AP) — A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest that the new coronavirus popped up in the U.S. in December 2019 — weeks before cases were first recognized by health officials.

Source: More evidence suggests COVID-19 was in US by Christmas 2019 | NewsNation Now

An earlier study found antibodies present in U.S. blood samples by mid-December 2019.

This implies Covid-19 was circulating in the U.S. for about 3 1/2 months before we began to “lock down”. By comparison, it appears New Zealand locked down within about 2 weeks of their first detected case. Which may explain why there have been such different outcomes between the two countries. Lock downs need to occur immediately to have a long term effect, otherwise all they do is, at best, delay the process.

Source: Novavax: Large study finds COVID-19 shot about 90% effective | KATU