haw yee fuckos

what does this have to do with boiling your surgical tools? well look, the boiling water releases bubbles of steam which carries the malign influences up to heaven. you boil a knife, you send all the miasmic particles off with the steam to heaven. if you rinse the knife off in a bucket the water isn't hot enough, the particles go into the water and then right back on to the knife. you gotta boil it to get the particles all the way away. how can a tool or rag or a bed have miasmic particles on it when you can't smell them? humans have a lousy sense of smell. look at your dog on the hunt. are there no rabbits in the woods just because you can't smell them? we know that miasma is carried on the air, and is what makes stench so dangerous, and we know that humans can't smell worth a damn compared to dogs cats horses etc. a dog can smell if a rat died in a corner of the room last week. you can't. do you think licking the spot where the rat died is going to go well for you? luckily, what humans lack in snout we make up for in brains. we have extra brains where our sniffers should have been. God set that up for a reason.

and why does a rinse with wine spirits work? man, look how fast alcohol evaporates. my guess is that because wine contains a lot more vice than water, it evaporates a whole lot faster, in sort of an equal and opposite way that a rock falls faster than a feather. if you want the miasmic particles to get off there FAST, you dunk it in something that's going back to heaven at a gallop.

2020:

That was not basic hygeine in the US or most of the West at the time.

It became political the second public officials made it mandatory. It would've been even if everyone had agreed.

Most masks were not medical grade N95s.

>, and people deliberately downplaying the severity of it,

No, they just disagreed. They weren't secretly agreeing with you, but lying.

>There was literally a plague where a solid chunk of the population literally decided to make it worse,

These people said, at the top of their lungs, that they did not believe the mainstream claims about COVID.

You are ignoring that so you can convince yourself they were malicious and therefore wrong.

>the vaccine reduces your chances of infection and moderates the symptoms but it doesn't guarantee immunity,

I seem to recall a lot of pro-vaccine people treating the vaccine like it granted immunity. Only later did it switch to "oh, no, it's actually just for the symptoms".

I also saw loads of people asking why the normal vaccine development and testing time was apparently unnecessary for COVID vaccines.

I can't recall a single pro-vaccine person answering.

>nd the government's official stance is "it's just a new flu", as if it doesn't literally cause your immune system to forget how to do anything.

Multiple governments, across the world, shut down normal life and travel in order to stop COVID. Including two US Presidents, from two different parties.

That generally doesn't happen with the flu.

I wish the governments stance had been 'oh its just a flu.'

As for the vaccine, it was developed faster than most because we already had vaccines for other coronaviruses, and they were able to use those as a basis to build off of instead of starting from scratch. Furthermore, COVID-19 was constantly evolving new strains that were less effected by the vaccine, which is why you needed a booster shot every few months, because different vaccine variants were and are more or less effective against different strains.

The government's response to COVID was so much worse than COVID itself. The countries who fared the best were the ones who reacted the least, because the vast majority of advice we were told (stay indoors as much as possible, isolate yourselves from friends and family and community but keep going to work, wear a piece of cheap, soggy fabric over your nose and mouth for hours at a time,) was actually found to be counterproductive. Not only did it psychologically wreck people — it also tanked their physical health, ironically making COVID worse.

In addition to that, it tanked the economy in ways we're only just starting to realize. All the fraud making headlines across the country? It existed before COVID, yes, but it massively accelerated during those years because the government became incredibly lax during an emergency. The state of Washington flushed away billions of dollars on unemployment fraud, most of which went overseas. That's billions of dollars taken away from Americans who needed it..... and where is it now? No one knows. To cover themselves, the government printed mass amounts of money, causing significant inflation. This, also, has been extremely damaging for Americans.