Yet Again on Covid

Opens April 2nd 2021 from Colorado after an interview with Rick McCracken, returning to coronavirus as the issue of the time, clarifying he wears a mask daily and is a goalposts guy demanding numbers and accountability.

Warns vaccine passports are coming that will restrict freedom of movement, and there is no plan anywhere to vaccinate the 3 billion in the developing world, so the virus spreads and mutates.

With no genomic surveillance, vaccine escape will not be detected for weeks or months, yet the CDC says nothing changes after vaccination despite Israeli data showing sterilizing immunity.

Argues that without a plan to vaccinate the world there is never herd immunity, so escaping strains return year after year forever, meaning the lockdowns never end.

Mocks the NBA making players mask on the sidelines after touching, sweating, and breathing on each other during the game, calling it control not science.

Vaccinated elderly still fear the young, and children with near-zero risk are traumatized, laughing at a vaccine study for ages 12 to 16 when almost none in that group die per CDC data.

Schools building plastic barriers and banning shared dining psychologically traumatize children, restricting movement and speech, and he wants clear goalposts before complying.

He will get the vaccine but his government is too incompetent to pre-make Johnson and Johnson, blocks AstraZeneca over five blood clots among millions, and withholds the safe effective Novavax.

Cites Hawaiians fined for sitting alone on beaches at curfew while resorts pack pools, and asks why not mass home testing with the cheap rapid test featured on Lex Fridman's podcast.

There is no science in giving Remdesivir while ignoring vitamin D's overwhelming clinical evidence, and now being told to double-mask, all arguments with no goalposts.

Blames the economic shutdown for civil wars across Africa where the bottom third starves, governments destabilize, and strongmen murder millions, unlike responsible leaders in Vietnam and Taiwan who set clear goalposts.

The US has no unified policy, since one Texan can fly to Colorado and restart the pandemic like patient zero, so destroying Colorado's economy makes no sense.

Reiterates CDC data that 92 percent of deaths are over 55, so vaccinating them collapses mortality as Israel shows, yet policymakers say it is forever while letting masked athletes touch during the game.

Calls it nepotism, corruption, and bureaucracy dressed as science, since AstraZeneca is shunned at 3.50 versus Pfizer's 35 dollars, and no one can say how boosters get made or how long antibodies last amid contradictory New York Times and Bloomberg reports.

Policy is driven by political access, with a 40-something colleague vaccinated in Texas, while his developing-world offices plan for unrest and authoritarians grab power, though humanity survived the black death and smallpox.

Policy should be honest that over-55 is far worse than under-16, and if you admit globalization you must plan global vaccination, asking why developing governments do not require a donated dose per dose bought, concluding there is no intent to end it.

Asks why Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook were not enlisted to build a unified US track-and-trace system, since Texas reinfects Colorado the moment a variant escapes the vaccine.

Begs for the goalposts to just be written down and signed, comparing it to a doctor who will not tell Billy he has cancer, and notes questioning inconsistencies gets you labeled anti-science though he never said vaccines are bad or masks ineffective.

Demands one consistent policy instead of 50, since children are barred from vaccinated grandparents in fully vaccinated nursing homes, and asks why the Defense Production Act is not used to nationalize vaccines while private companies make hundreds of billions.

Warns a vaccine passport, once established, could expand to HIV status, other vaccines, or unpaid taxes and travel, a slippery slope with no constitutional limit, asking where your red line is.

Life is dangerous and the government's job is reasonable defense against reasonable threats, not wrapping everyone in Nerf, and that a 70 percent vaccination target is a goalpost he could happily live with.

Warns the monetary consequences are dire, with over 7 trillion dollars printed, lumber doubled, and a weakening dollar, since printing hurts the poor and middle class most, driving the greatest wealth transfer of his lifetime.

A 75-year-old with both Pfizer doses has less chance of dying than from flu, so once the elderly are safe there is no reason to destroy the global economy, calling politicians who refuse goalposts cowards and demagogues.

Calls it literally 1984 with doublespeak, seeing the inconsistencies with his own eyes, citing Canada's health minister advising sex with a mask on.

Closes that he will get a vaccine and keep masking until mandates lift, tired and fatigued like society, and that this is not about vaccinating or masking but demanding benchmarks and accountability, noting April 2nd is Colorado's first general-availability day though he cannot figure out how to get a shot.