I’ll start with a recent reminder from the Washington Post that a year or more ago would have gotten you suspended from your social media accounts and perhaps tarred and feathered for predicting:
For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.
Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
With this new info in mind it seems like a good time to revisit the White House’s strategy to convince everybody to get vaccinated last year, which was to try and scare the crap out of people with warnings about a winter of death:
One year ago: pic.twitter.com/iPkX0aSJDX
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 16, 2022
At the time the only thing that was believable about President Biden’s attempt to make people think death might be nigh was the initial comment that he wouldn’t be taking questions:
THE PRESIDENT: Folks, I’m not going to take questions today because I have a direct message to the American people and, tomorrow, the team is going to be on television and talking in more detail about what I’m going to be speaking about today.
But I want to send a direct message to the American people: Due to the steps we’ve taken, Omicron has not yet spread as fast as it would’ve otherwise done and as is happening in Europe. But it’s here now, and it’s spreading, and it’s going to increase.
For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm.
But there’s good news: If you’re vaccinated and you had your booster shot, you’re protected from severe illness and death — period.
That, not unlike so much of the claims coming from the Biden White House, did not age well and was a shameless and pathetic thing to say at the time.
The WH should have been banned for spreading misinformation.
— Hyde Von Zarovich (@TheSpergScholar) December 16, 2022
Instead anybody taking issue with Biden’s “winter of severe illness and death” claim was at risk of suspension. The Old Guards at Twitter were still at the helm last year and were working hard to enforce the preferred narratives of the day.
Never ever forget. https://t.co/PbQBHalVR2
— I Am Leah (@Bossy_Leah) December 16, 2022
That didn’t age well. Almost sounds like a threat. 🤔🤡🤡 https://t.co/ozslRtdejn
— Big Papi (@77BigPapi) December 16, 2022
I think they intended it to sound like a threat. That’s how these caring followers of “the science™” operate.
Simultaneously laughable and deeply deeply sinister https://t.co/6bRVxZoCqG
— BasilValentineSays (@says_basil) December 16, 2022
“Simultaneously laughable and deeply sinister” sums up this administration nicely.
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