'Barbenheimer' Covid Derangement Syndrome
Peter Hotez is a prime example of the dangerous pathology of CDS
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I’m sure there are folks who think I am reckless, ignorant, and somewhat insane. I know I feel that way towards some others. I try to to judge but I have not reached that stage of enlightenment yet. Personally, I find it exceptionally challenging to understand the mentality that drives those who are still wearing masks while 98 percent of those around them are not. If I stretch my mind and muster all the empathy I can, I think I get it. They are still afraid. They have been thoroughly convinced by the parroting of the fear and virtue signalling that has echoed repeatedly through the media, government agencies, and much of the populace across the world. This entrenched perspective is hard to come back from. It would shake the very foundation of the pfaithfuls’ worldview. For some, this is a move that is akin to severing a limb. It would be a loss of a significant part of their identity. They are experiencing Stockholm syndrome long after the hostage crisis is over. It is sad.
But then there’s the next level.
Enter Dr. Peter Hotez. Hotez is regarded as a vaccine expert and is a regular go to for the American media on all things vaccine, virus, and pandemic. He is like a Fauci 2.0 but less well-spoken, clever, or strategic. I guess he is like a Fauci 0.5. Nonetheless, he has been in the limelight in less than impressive ways a few times recently (and in the past).
After refusing to debate RFK, Jr. on the Joe Rogan Experience for a significant purse - I believe it is up to $1.5M or so - that would go to the charity of his choice, he has opined on the impending doom of the summer box office hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer.
While I would agree that ‘Barbenheimer’ - as it has been labeled - could spell doom, I don’t see this for the same reason as Hotez. My view is that these Hollywood blockbusters are likely filled with subliminal and somewhat subtle propaganda - like so many other movies - that strive to skew perspectives and manipulate sensibilities. I tend to avoid all things Hollywood but when I do venture into the ‘Manufacturing Consent’ of the propaganda wing of the CIA (just joking, sort of, not really), I prepare myself to resist the implied messaging and emotional hijacking.
However, Hotez’s concerns are not of the psychological intrusion of these films but the potential for crowds attending these popular attractions to lead to another surge of covid. Yes, he said that. But the pandemic is over. Right? Not for some of the die hard pfaithful and the preachers of their pfaith. Hotez is such a preacher and a very vocal one.
“Not to be a Debbie Downer … but anyone worried about a post-BarbieBoxOffice Covid bump? Or post-Oppie? We’ll probably never know since no one seems to be keeping track of such things anymore,” Hotez, 65, tweeted.
“Keep up with your boosters and find a pink N-95 or KN-95 if you can,” added the pediatrician and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.
I don’t know about you but this seems insane to me.
Here’s a list of why I think so:
For a guy that believes in the covid vaccine (and probably the tooth fairy too), why should people be concerned about a “covid bump”? They’re vaccinated. Right? Maybe he isn’t so confident anymore (make sure to watch his video montage below where he cannot keep a straight story for more than a month or so).
He is still pushing masks! Has he read the 2023 Cochrane review (or the 2020 one, or looked at the data of mask mandated locations versus non-mandated locations or has an understanding of aerosolized respiratory virus spread)?
There have been Super Bowls, festivals, concerts, voluminous travel on planes, trains, and cruise liners, and many more public gatherings that would be considered more likely to set the stage for viral spread. Why is Barbenheimer his tipping point? Maybe he is jealous of Ken. Maybe he secretly wants to dress like Barbie. Maybe he is threatened by the supposed feminist angle on this iteration of the Barbie franchise. Maybe he wants to trump concern about nuclear war with his very scary (said in a Transylvanian Dracula accent) covid virus.
Bringing this up in the middle of summer as people are starting to enjoy socializing as if the pandemic never happened, reflects on his deep desire to interfere with the living of life by fear mongering without due cause.
Constantly reminding people to be scared and that a flu-like cold that has well over a 99% survival rate is enough to be diagnosed as an agoraphobe and misanthrope.
He had an opportunity to address more people than he ever could by going on the Joe Rogan Experience (with an audience that can top 50 million) rather than his usual CNN appearances (which are lucky to get 500,000 views).
To be honest, I think it would be more accurate to say he is probably just lying and striving to pad his pockets more. I mean watch this (click on image):
Remember, Hotez cannot even manage his own health appropriately. Check out this admission on the JRE (click on the image to watch the video):
I don’t know about you but I don’t regularly take advice from people who do not embody the advice they are offering. I also don’t like to trust people to be forthright and unbiased who are not transparent about their significant conflict of interests.
RFK Jr. called him out on his lies and ties before his pandemic antics, which have further exposed him as less of a scientist and more of a salesman and Big Pharma pfaithful demagogue.
He’s a special man. Please do your own digging and research to verify this if you need to.
Insane is probably the most accurate and kindest word I can think of…
… because calling him a scientist or doctor is an insult to both and antithetical to their appropriate methodology and role in society. Prasad gets it.
The bottom line here is that when ‘scientists’ need to use fear mongering to drive home their point, they are no longer scientists. It is more appropriate just to state the facts backed by data and allow people to make up their minds. If public health authorities wish to get involved, they need to look at total harm minimization (which includes all other harms and costs beyond the hazard in question) AND the ethical approach to connecting with the psychology of the public. Fear, division, dehumanization, hyperbole and vitriol are not professional or appropriate.
FULL STOP.
What do you think?
I sincerely appreciate your writing...I really do. And I'm fully aware of the merits of calling out absurdity, inanity and diabolical grift wherever it is to be found. But I wouldn't waste my calories or blood glucose on pointing out the sham that this guy is. If we the sane and attentive are to "judge them by their fruits", then Hotez has been pretty productive in dispensing his fruitiness. If there are still people out there (tell me they are in the minority, please tell me) who mindlessly afford him any respect whatsoever, there's probably nothing to be done for them. They are wasted germplasm.
Anyhow, I think the thing we should all be stepping back and reflecting upon or contemplating is why are we being relentlessly carpet/cluster-bombed with absurdity and inanity in the first place? Is this some kind of test? Some kind of "experiment"? It certainly isn't covert or clandestine anymore.
For example, have you looked at the CDC's latest "guidance" on "chestfeeding" and "lactation" in trans men? Sorry..."birthing persons"? (I can no longer keep up with the recalibrations of language and meaning)
This is but one in an infinite constellation of mindfuckery to which we must "react". We - again those of whose who peskily insist on at least making the attempt at sanity in this zombie apocalypse - are forced in to trying to render sensical the patently non-sensical.
Whatever could be the ultimate purpose of this game? Could it be to dismantle our collective minds, to soften up the meat before consumption? Could it be a sort of necessary on-ramp or prerequisite to the next phase of this macabre game being played upon us?
Just a few wildly speculative thoughts.
Keep writing of course.
Sociopath and opportunist are the kindest terms I can apply to that man....