Let Them Breath COVID

Marie Antoinette is famous for saying to her subjects, “Let then breath COVID.” In our century millions are dying since officials and those who serve them are more concerned about the economy rather than their subject’s health. The media has gone silent about over 300 deaths a day or a 9/11 levels of death every week. The fact is that the pandemic is far from over, and it is far worse than any politician has lead you to believe.

When the pandemic began the upper class were not concerned about public health, they were concerned about maintaining their power and keeping the economy healthy.  Millions of deaths are just collateral damage when profits are to be made. Half measure were made like mask mandates and some lock downs but they soon realized the economy would slow down if such measure stayed in place. When subjects protested all protective measure were simply lifted. Let the people infect one another and die but keep the profits climbing.

It took forever for most to even admit that the virus was airborne. The World Health Organization (WHO) has still not said as much in full. We have known for years that it can spread through aerosol as papers from the New England Medical Journal, National Library for Medicine, and the Wiley Online Library demonstrate going back to 2020. Aerosol is composed of much smaller particles that bounce around between air particles, and can stay suspended and infectious in the air.

So how does the Biden administration handle this health crisis. Why they are doing the same as the 45th president. Deny deflect and ignore. If no one talks about the pandemic maybe it will go away on it’s own. Let them breath COVID. But mass infection is not a cure it is genocide.

COVID Does Merica


A few of the lies promoted in America by politicians and public health “experts” to help the economy and destroy public health.

  • Masks don’t work. Masks work.
  • Masks do work, but cloth masks are fine. Get a quality well fitted n-95 and wear it properly around others.
  • Stop the spread by sanitizing surfaces. Surfaces aren’t the primary way an airborne virus spreads, do sanitize.
  • 6 feet of social distancing will stop the spread. The virus can remain airborne for much further than 6 feet.
  • COVID is not airborne. COVID is airborne.
  • COVID is airborne, but that’s not the main way it spreads. If you smell a smokers cigarette you can catch COVID.
  • The only people harmed by COVID are old and immune-compromised people. All ages are harmed.
  • Children don’t get COVID. Children get COVID and their life expectancy is reduced with each new infection.
  • Children can get COVID, but they can’t spread it. Children are the primary spreaders of the virus. 
  • Reinfections are rare. Reinfections are common.
  • Breakthrough infections after vaccination are rare. Breakthrough infections are common.
  • Reinfections and breakthrough infections happen, but they’re mild. Each reinfection increases chances of organ failure and death.
  • Once enough people have been exposed, herd immunity will end the pandemic. There will be no herd immunity with a virus that is allowed to mutate indefinitely.
  • Viruses naturally evolve to become less deadly. There is no guarantee that the next variant will be less deadly.
  • Once you recover from acute infection, you’re out of the woods. You can easily be reinfected with a worse outcome.
  • Long COVID is psychological, not physical. Long COVID is debilitating for children and adults.
  • Long COVID is physical, but not a big concern. Long COVID will destroy the lives of 1 out of 10 people.
  • Heightened lethality of non-COVID diseases is due to “immunity debt.” Avoiding exposure to a deadly virus does not damage you immune system. You do not need to get sick to be healthy.

 

Casa Feliz

I often venture off to sketch Casa Feliz with my Crealde Urban Sketching students. Since I have sketched the same structure many times, I get to play with how I treat the subject without much concern about the final result. I don’t focus explosively on the sketch but also circulate among the students to give them tips and show them my progress.

I think it is a good idea for students to see how much time I spend on each stage of the sketch process so they can make adjustments to their time management. Finishing a sketch in the course of two hours is a challenge if you are studying every detail. The key to this sketch is the blue door. Even outdoors, I remain masked when sketching on location.

Crealde Urban Sketching classes resume on Sunday January 27, 2023.

Golden Globes Superspreader

The hands down winner at the 2023 Golden Globes Award Ceremony is COVID-19. In the spirit of “the pandemic is over”, more COVID-19 infections were handed out to the mask less crowd than awards at the Golden Globes on January 10, 2023. LA County where the awards were held had recommended mask mandates to help stop the spread of the virus. Despite this the privileged felt it was their right to spread disease at the ceremony.

Jamie Lee Curtis proudly announced on the red carpet that “We are out of COVID” just prior to being infected.  So far, Jamie Lee Curtis, Colin Farrell and Brendon Gleason, ans Jen Statsky, have have tested positive after the ceremony. Michelle Pfeiffer, tested positive before the ceremony and did not attend.  Jamie Lee Curtis  also pointed out that “life is short and precious” and COVID has trimmed 10 years off of every American’s life expectancy. Lisa Marie Presley attended the Golden Globes and died of a cardiac arrest days later.

Curtis took to social media to announce the results, posting a picture of three positive rapid antigen tests and sharing that she would be sitting out of some other upcoming award season events. According to the CDC, it can take up to 10 days for COVID-19 to develop once a person is exposed, and it’s possible to spread the virus before becoming symptomatic—so while Curtis tested positive Friday, it’s possible that the actress could have been contagious at the January 10, 2023 in-person award show.

With hardly anyone in attendance wearing a mask and over 11,000 reported cases in Beverly Hills (where the ceremony took place), the Golden Globes had all the makings of a “super-spreader” event, and some say it’s only a matter of time before more stars fall ill—especially as stars return to the social award circuit. Many of the infected will soon be going to Sundance for another super spreader. After many stars see the back lash from early COVID positive tests being announced, I suspect many will sweep their positive tests under the rug.

One actress, Jessica Chastain, wore a sequined mask that went beautifully with her sequined gown. Shockingly she was not infected at the Golden Globes super spreader. Of all the photos I saw from that evening, hers is the only mask I saw. The awards show was also a dinner, so stars chowed down on food and drink with open mouths as they shouted across the table at each other. It is amazing that people feel they can remove the mask to eat as if the virus will pause at that moment. A full list of the infected from the Golden Globes is slowly coming to light.

Los Angeles County reported 1,534 new infections and 25 additional virus-related deaths, bringing the county’s cumulative totals to 3,659,260 cases and 34,969 fatalities since the pandemic began. Health officials have stressed, however, that the official number of cases is an under count, due to the large number of people who rely on at-home tests without reporting the results to the county. Other people don’t test at all, despite being possibly infected. The county is also averaging 23 new COVID related deaths per day. I am amazed I need to say this, but the pandemic is not over people.

COVID: The Boomer Remover

COVID-19 is known as the Boomer Remover and it is also setting its sights on Generation X. The median age that people are dying at has dropped by a decade, dropping from 78 in 2020 to 69 years in 2021 thanks to COVID.  Long COVID is now killing more people than COVID itself. Kraken is dominating in America right now with deaths increasing by 44%.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing system problems of US health care ranging from access barriers, excessive costs, inefficiency, unacceptable quality, widespread disparities and inequities, and marginalization of public health. The existing healthcare system has been ill equipped to respond effectively to the pandemic.

America has focused on magic bullet drug solutions promoted by highly profitable drug companies. COVID has found ways to dodge every one of the pharmaceutical magic bullets. Under paid and exhausted healthcare workers are abandoning their jobs because of the endless and needless COVID deaths.

In America and other countries like Sweden, officials intentionally promoted mass infection. At the end of December 2022, Sweden saw more deaths than at the height of the first Omicron wave. Japan is now seeing the highest number of deaths since the start of the pandemic. Some reports say 9000 people are dying every day in China.

As the virus spread unchecked,, immune systems are being harmed and the healthcare system seems to be under continual strain. For the mask less drones, let me simply state once again, the pandemic is not over. Braces in a toothless mouth will not change the course of the pandemic. Vaccines only offer marginal protection from infection. Despite this, denial is the American norm.

Child COVID Resevoir

Children spread COVID-19. Children’s ability to fight off infections of all kinds is damaged for months by COVID. We are forcing them to catch the virus repeatedly.

Babies under age 1 might be at higher risk of severe illness with COVID-19 than older children. Newborns can get COVID-19 during childbirth or by exposure to sick caregivers after delivery. If you have COVID-19 or are waiting for test results due to symptoms during your stay in the hospital after childbirth, wear a well-fitting face mask and have clean hands when caring for your newborn. Keeping your newborn’s crib by your bed while you are in the hospital is OK, but maintain a reasonable distance from your baby when possible. When these steps are taken, the risk of a newborn getting COVID-19 is low. However, if you are severely ill with COVID-19, you might need to be temporarily separated from your newborn.

Infants who have COVID-19 but no symptoms might be sent home from the hospital, depending on the circumstances. It’s recommended that the baby’s caregivers wear face masks and wash their hands to protect themselves. Frequent follow-up with the baby’s health care provider is needed — by phone, virtual visits or in-office visits — for 14 days. Infants who test negative for COVID-19 can be sent home from the hospital.

Children with COVID-19 might have many symptoms, only a few symptoms or no symptoms. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 in children are cough and fever. Possible signs and symptoms include:

  • Fever
  • Cough that becomes productive
  • Chest pain
  • New loss of taste or smell
  • Changes in the skin, such as discolored areas on the feet and hands
  • Sore throat
  • Nausea, vomiting, belly pain or diarrhea
  • Chills
  • Muscle aches and pain
  • Extreme fatigue
  • New severe headache
  • New nasal congestion

Anyone who has had COVID-19 can develop a post-COVID-19 condition. Research suggests that children with both mild and severe COVID-19 have experienced long-term symptoms. The most common symptoms in children include:

  • Tiredness or fatigue
  • Headache
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Trouble concentrating
  • Muscle and joint pain
  • Cough

These symptoms could affect your child’s ability to attend school or do his or her usual activities. If your child is experiencing long-term symptoms, consider talking to your child’s teachers about his or her needs.

90% of Children Infected by COVID

Based on a study by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), 90% 0f American children have been infected with COVID-19 along with over half of the adult population. Those figures do not include the numbers of people infected during the huge Omicron wave of last January 2022. Children were hit particularly hard by COVID during the Omicron wave of last winter 2022. 140 million blood samples were tested. The study looked for the existence of antibodies and could differentiate between antibodies produced by infection as opposed to a vaccine.

As of January 5, 2023 there were over 15 million children reported to have had COVID-19. As of January 11, 2023, there have been 634 deaths among children 0-4 years old, 986 deaths for kids 5-18 years old, 43,634 death between 19-34, 225,014 death for ages 45-64 , 246,715 death between 65-74 and 574,218 deaths for those 75 and older.

Some folks honestly believe that children are immune to COVID. This is false. People were fed this falsehood in order to get children to crowd into poorly ventilated classrooms. Children do become infected with the new coronavirus, and they do get sick, some of them seriously sick , and children can die from Covid-19. Almost half of children who contract covid-19 may have lasting symptoms. They can suffer the same long lasting symptoms as adults who “recover”. Symptoms of Long COVID include, include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache, insomnia, respiratory problems and heart palpitations.

The first study of long COVID in children suggests that more than half of children aged between 6 and 16 years old who contract the virus have at least one symptom lasting more than 120 days, with 42.6 per cent impaired by these symptoms during daily activities. The UK Office for National Statistics‘s latest report estimates that 12.9 per cent of UK children aged 2 to 11, and 14.5 per cent of children aged 12 to 16, still have symptoms five weeks after their first infection.

INFECT and KILL

Attack Big Bird, attack Mickey Mouse, attack M&M’s candy, that is the moral high ground the right wing media use to distract from over two thousand deaths a week in America due to COVID-19. The latest distraction campaign involves attacking M&Ms choice to promote 3 colors of candy, Purple, Brown and Green which equates to the the candy’s trio of female characters. The packaging shows the female characters upside down with the tag line,  to “celebrate women everywhere who are flipping the status quo.”

The advertising campaign works to create a world where everyone feels they belong,” said Gabrielle Wesley, chief marketing officer for Mars Wrigley North America, in a press release. In a world of hate, such a message can not be tolerated. The all-female pack quickly sparked “culture wars” outrage on right-wing news networks and on social media. One anchor said the feminist-forward pack emboldens China. Apparently there is such a thing as “woke” candy. There seems to be outrage over the characters new boots as well. I just don’t get it. None of it makes sense. It is smoke and mirrors.

In the real world, Omicron variants continue to spread world wide, resulting in the World Health Organization (WHO) advising countries worldwide to “consider recommending” that passengers wear masks on long haul flights.  The United States is the hot bed for the new highly transmissible Karkan variant (XBB.1.5). WHO wants to save the world from America’s stupidity and ignorance as the virus once again spreads across America. All domestic flights in America were grounded on January 11, 2023.

 

COVID Resistance is NOT Futile

COVID-19 resistance is futile. The infected want to see you infected. Some think it is their moral obligation to make sure you become infected. From the top down humanity is being sacrificed to help corporations and the economy. It started with a campaign to infect all children. That campaign is close to completion with 98% of children in the United States infected.

When the COVID Borg see any individual taking any form of protection from the virus they move in to infect any soul that still thinks for themselves. Masks are a sure sign that you are a thinking, sentient being, and not a part of the mindless collective. Personally I am upgrading to a quality N95 mask but you, do you if you fear being different.

Mass infection is being promoted under the false theory of “immunity debt“. The idea behind this, is that children should get infected to pay the debt for adults inability to follow simple health precautions. People were told the lie that children are perfectly safe from the virus and they were sent back to crowded poorly ventilated, classrooms to infect one another. Those children then went on to infect their parents and grand parents. The children will suffer the same consequences of repeat infections of COVID, with damage to lungs, blood vessels, heart and mind. They might not die immediately but their life expectancy is being diminished.

People were told the lie that an infection would build immunity. They are being encouraged to get sick to become healthy. Amazingly some people believe this sort of insane reasoning. The problem is that immunity is short lived and second and third infections result in increasingly worse outcomes. Immune systems are being destroyed by the virus making infections to other pathogens like the flu and RSV more common and with worse outcomes.

Some Borg try to claim that COVID is natural and therefor good for you. Infectious diseases are natural, but they aren’t good for you. If avoiding the pathogen all together is not a viable option, the next best option is to get the immunity without getting the infection. That’s what vaccines do.

Someone should explain to the Borg that herd immunity is impossible. Since so many people have been convinced to not get vaccinated the virus will be around forever. There remain plenty of people to infect. The previously infected and vaccinated are both being re-infected. The only difference is that the vaccinated are not having to go to hospitals. Only a precious few have remained uninfected. So when does the nightmare end. The fast is, as long as COVID minimizes keep spinning their lies, it doesn’t.

Bottomless

So far, the COVID waves are not spiking as high as they did back in January of 2022, but the lows keep getting higher. There is no relief, hospitalization remain at a high plateau and are climbing. More people died in 2022 than in the previous years of the pandemic. With the wide variety of new COVID variants the amount of COVID flooding the country keeps getting higher. The death rate is higher than the birth rate.

Politicians and the media have been selling the idea of herd immunity. The general premise is that everyone should become infected, starting with the children and then the pandemic will be over. Vaccines as well were sold as the solution to the pandemic. The trouble is that neither offers lasting immunity. The other problem is that repeated infections cause increasing risk of complications and death.

What we are left with is a population who thinks the pandemic is over despite that fact that it will drag on endlessly until people take meaningful steps to stop the spread of the virus. The steps are simple, but if you even mention a mask people fearfully start shouting out about their personal freedom to spread the virus.

Despite the flood of virus, most people no longer wear masks or social distance. Kraken has changed the game being the most contagious variant of COVID so far. You should note that tools that were being used to combat past variants no longer work against the Kraken. At home tests are even less effective at being able to test for the variant. One at home test, DxTerity, was pulled from the market for being useless.

While everyone else is living their pre-pandemic lives, I have decided to upgrade my mask by getting N-95s. I used to use a KN-95 held in place with a cloth mask but this new variant is so contagious I feel the need to upgrade. Even if you wear a well fitted N-95 mask you shouldn’t be around unmasked people, indoors or outdoors. If you are the lone N-95 mask wearer you might become infected within an hour if others are unmasked.

Kraken has proven itself more effective at binding to cells which means fewer viral particles can cause an infection. The original strain of COVID might infect two other people and it spread around the world quickly. With the original Omicrom variant, an infected person could infect maybe 5 other people, but with Kraken an infected individual could infect up to 18 other people. That would make this one of the most infectious viruses ever known.

The next month is going to be a wild ride, since no one sees what is coming. They have been told the pandemic is over, since capitalism is more important than human life. Brace yourself and take every precaution you can. Regardless several thousand people continue to die from COVID every week, that being the new norm of “living with the virus”, but things are about to get a whole lot worse.