Posted On: Wednesday - January 14th 2026 7:01PM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
I don't like the sound of THAT!
There have been a few headlines here and there about some new spreading flu. We got it. At least one guy at work got it and probably gave it to me, my wife got it, probably from one or both of two guys coughing continually during our trip, and then I got it again. It didn't help, for my wife and this 2nd instance, that we ended up stuck in a far away airport for 20 hours and then I ended up being up for 46 hours, not counting nodding off just a few times. Get yourself in that weak of a state, and you're asking for it... something.
Perhaps some of my disdain for the Kung Flu PanicFest was due to my being blessed in never experiencing ANY lung problems, no matter how sick I might be otherwise. It's nice to be able to always take a deep breath and feel that O2 do what it's supposed to.
Therefore, not very much distinguishes any kind of flu from just a cold for me. This time I've been weak, sneezing in spurts, blowing out phlegm on occasion, and had the chills. It's a cold, pretty much ... but... it was a little different, I gotta say, with the chills. Normally, one will feel cold and only get over it by putting a sleeping bag over the normal covers. Within 2 or 5 minutes, you'll be warm. This time it took half an hour! of being wrapped up to finally feel warm. I also got this slightly queasy feeling and a very short mild headache a couple of mornings after getting up.
So, that must have been the flu, bro. Big damn deal. After what we went through 6 years ago, there aren't many people who are going to glue their eyes to the TV and internet awaiting the latest symptoms to worry about, the latest case counts, and further instructions. The boy didn't just cry wolf a couple of times to set himself up for failure - in the case of the Kung Flu PanicFest, it was two year long piercing scream that pretty much did in any further opportunities to scare the populace with tales of scary germs.
As for doctors, with the exception of seeing one just to obtain a prescription - we didn't require any medicine, and I forwent my wife's home concoction - that doctor-patient relationship has been ruined for many of us. Were a few more people traveling wearing face masks? Maybe, but nothing significant.
If we're going to try to come up with anything to worry about epidemic*-wise, let's get all paranoid and conspiracy-minded here: What if these people, the Faucis and Scarf-ladies and those behind them, are smarter than we think? If they want to wipe out much of the population, to fulfill Georgia GuideStone Point #1 (in 8 languages, it was!**), they could put us off guard first. Imagine that the whole Kung Flu PanicFest was a set-up. They not only wanted people to panic for a coupla years, but they wanted people to realize afterward that they'd been duped and get mad about it. Never again will we listen to these CDC and WHO idiots!
Ahhhh, see, that's how they WANT us to think now... as they work in the lab, with their Pangolins and Bats up there on the slab... in deepest yellowest China ... on a virus SO DEADLY that 8 Billion of us will die because we will refuse do the only things that would have saved us, continuously wiping down doorknobs, wearing face masks, and standing 6 feet apart on stickers.
PS: Before I looked deeply into this possibility, I was just like you readers. I thought the people in Government and the Legacy Media were just stupid. Then, I read 17 books this weekend while laying in bed covered with 5 sleeping bags and a case of Kleenex ... [/Ron Unz mode]
* When did these things change from being epidemics to pandemics? Will there ever be any more epidemics, or is it all pandemics, going forward?
** ... till some stupid with a flare gun... no, it was more than a flare gun... but, thank you, Blue Oyster Cult.
Comments:
Moderator
Thursday - January 15th 2026 9:32AM MST
PS: AI on google agrees, M. However, I'd never heard the term pandemic from the media before the late unpleasantness in '20. Yet, there were a number of these viruses that came from the Orient before. I dunno. Your 2nd one sounds right.
M
Thursday - January 15th 2026 5:01AM MST
PS
Epidemic is lots of people sick in an area; pandemic is lots of people sick all over the place.
Or so I read a long time ago.
Pandemic may be being used more now for a couple of reasons.
- travel is easy so spread is also easy.
- pandemic sounds scarier because it's been less commonly used.
Pick your poison.
Epidemic is lots of people sick in an area; pandemic is lots of people sick all over the place.
Or so I read a long time ago.
Pandemic may be being used more now for a couple of reasons.
- travel is easy so spread is also easy.
- pandemic sounds scarier because it's been less commonly used.
Pick your poison.