CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – I had an unusual reason for not wanting the COVID vaccine. I tested positive twice – and both times I was asymptomatic. The first time I took the test because some co-workers at the radio station were sick. I felt fine, until I got the automated phone call telling me I was positive. A year later, I tested positive a second time with an at-home test, which were notorious for their false positives. Again, I had no symptoms.
So if I could get COVID and feel… nothing… my interest in an experimental vaccine was… zero.
And there were labor department rules that I needed to wear a mask in the office when no one else did. President Biden told me that I was putting my co-workers at risk, and that not getting the shot was unpatriotic.
I escaped having to get the shot by a 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court. The order from the Department of Labor would have barred workers from their places of business unless they were vaccinated. I was ordered to pay child support at the time. I would have been ordered to roll up my sleeves if I didn’t meet my child support obligations.
So now that COVID has faded comes this little nugget from Dr. Anthony Fauci, called to testify on Capitol Hill for the first time since he retired in 2022. “The COVID vaccine was not as effective as initially thought.” Well. Consider that. We were told that COVID was a disease of death for the unvaxxed. And that vaccinated people could go on with their normal lives.
If you were fully committed to being vaxxed and boosted, you would have had 10 booster shots by now. And what have we learned from earlier testimony? The vaccine did not prevent you from passing COVID onto others. The vaccine did not prevent others from passing COVID onto you. At best, your symptoms would be milder. We were warned that future variants of COVID would be more severe. In fact, they were milder. One British study suggested that as the pandemic wound down, half the people who had COVID didn’t know they did. At best, they thought they had a mild cold.
Wear a mask, social distance, stand behind the plexiglass, follow the arrows as you walk down the aisle in Wal Mart didn’t work either.
I understand that COVID was a novel virus. No one had perfect information. But at this point, isn’t it a fair question to ask, “How did we get so much wrong?” You can be certain there will never be an apology.
Chris Conley
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