By Samuel Strait – January 14, 2023 It hasn't been that long ago when walking through our local Home Depot that I saw the cutest elderly couple also perusing Home Depot's wares wearing matching powder blue face masks. I am not one to point out the futility of wearing the face coverings, particularly to what is so obviously a well indoctrinated elderly pair. While I think it is unfortunate that any one continues in the mistaken belief that a face mask, no matter what kind, has anything to do with protection from illness, I am not about to point out the unintended consequences to anyone who continues to think or perhaps virtue signal their collective stupidity over masking. I am not sure how many scientific studies it takes to penetrate the true believers cranial cavities that they have been had for nearly three years now by what was formerly a medical community that was trusted by most people in this Country. Granted, particularly public health and our various layers of government felt they had to do something in the face of what seemed to be an overwhelming experience with a frightening and invisible peril to the entire population, yet the mechanism chosen to begin the fight had been dismissed by experts just two years previous in 2017. For the next two years, 2020 and 2021, and even into much of a third year, we still hear the call to mask up, social distance, and stay at home if possible from the CDC, the FDA. and even some State Public Heath Departments, long after masking, distancing, and staying at home have been solidly debunked as effective mechanisms for prevention of infection or transmission. Hospitals, doctors offices, and Federal Buildings continue to require such behavior in spite of the Federal Government's acknowledgement recently that multiple studies have shown no protection from virus infection from wearing a mask. Fortunately, the Covid Authoritarians are beginning to encounter a growing resistance to vaccinations, in particular the most recently approved booster. While there has been a great deal of information over the past two years surrounding cardiac issues in young males up to and including death, the new boosters are setting off alarms in seniors over 65. Clearly the rush to develop a vaccine to reduce death from Covid has encountered a number of issues, not only from being unable to prevent infection, reduced efficacy, and a growing number of negative outcomes, but there is growing evidence that the vaccines may not even mitigate the effects of Covid in any way. PCR testing which has been enshrined as the gold standard for detecting Covid, has also produced a statistic that seventy percent of those testing positive are asymptomatic. This fact and that of a further thirteen percent have very mid symptoms makes it very difficult to determine whether the mRNA vaccines have any measurable mitigating effect on those that are ill. Coupled with the described issues with the vaccines are what has recently been determined that those who have taken the vaccine now appear to be much more likely to become ill from Covid a second and even third time than those who are unvaccinated. This combination of issues with the mRNA vaccines have caused many countries to halt the continued distribution, until proper studies over a long term can be completed. Recently studies of the potential effects of various vaccines already approved by the FDA were found to be inadequate or not performed at all. China, whose population is over ninety percent vaccinated, has recently revealed a massive problem with the virus that has ripped through the population in several waves. As the early dictators of Covid policy have begun to fall on their swords over what was very clearly misinformation for the past three years, it remains clear that the indoctrination of a portion of the population continues unabated. While for most who have shed their masks and refused further injections, there remains an amused tolerance for those that continue to mask, and line up for injections that certainly was not found in those authoritarians early in the Pandemic reign of mandates. What has clearly become an enormous problem going forward is that blind faith in expertise, particularly in the medical fields, public health, the government, and most media, will take years to be restored if ever. When considering the debacle surrounding the handling of Covid, experts in many other scientific fields might wish to take heed in their pronouncements. Climate change, green energy, and EV's come to mind when looking out over the landscape of cracks already appearing in the validity of these three in particular going forward. We, as a population need to be able to restore public faith in our medical practitioners, scientists and experts in many fields. The continual alarmism of disasters to happen in the future, yet never seems to appear, need to take a breath and and come to grips with their "chicken little behavior" in the event that some actual disaster were to occur. The Covid Pandemic is for all intents and purposes over. Climate alarmism needs to follow suit.