Eat your vegetables.

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Sept 23

RE: How do we avoid the next ‘tripledemic?’ By Matthew van Dongen.  The Hamilton Spectator 7 Sept 23.

When I saw the picture of Immunologist Dr. Dawn Bowdish grinning superciliously for the camera, and the conventional wisdom “get your shots,” go back to masks,” and “eat your vegetables,” I wondered if she kept up the literature on the subject she was asked to comment on, which wasn’t immunology.  The actual interview was much more nuanced than the headline writer implied.  And I can understand why Dr. Bowdish said what she did say: she was playing it safe.

I know people who have been vaxxed six times, and still caught a dose of COVID.  The drug said to be a vaccine isn’t a vaccine in the conventional sense; it is a prophylactic in the sense that if you get COVID the symptoms shouldn’t be as severe as they could be.  The latest literature on masks is that they don’t work on a virus as contagious as COVID; not even the N95 is availing because most people don’t know how to use it properly.  Surgical masks are a complete waste of time because they don’t form a close seal to the face.

Playing it safe, Dr. Bowdish delivered the conventional wisdom the Spectator wanted to hear: be compliant to orders.  The problem is that by now, people are tired of doing stupid things that don’t work on the orders of the belligerently ignorant.

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