And yet here we are, with the same people who demanded masks and mask mandates and an endless series of rolling lockdowns, none of which worked, back at it again.
Whether it's trying to force children back into masks, promoting debunked information, relying on discredited experts, or pushing panic, there seems to be no limit to what the media is willing to do with COVID.
READ: Yes, COVID Extremists Are Still Trying To Force Kids To Wear Masks
The latest attempt? "Razor-blade throat." Seriously.
ABC News on Friday posted a remarkable story about the latest COVID variant, NB.1.8.1. What is this terrifying variant causing, according to them? A "severe sore throat." Seriously.
Ready to shut yourself off inside your home, put the whole family back into masks, and get some more booster doses? All to prevent a sore throat, a normal consequence of mild illnesses? No?
Well, ABC and their preferred experts have thought of that. The only way to really get their message across, as they've learned over the years, is rebranding. Suddenly, a sore throat isn't just a sore throat, it's "razor blade throat." And the "experts" they quote in the article make it much, much worse.
The variant is being tracked by the World Health Organization, they say. It's more transmissible than previous variants because it contains changes to the spike protein, and attaches more easily to the ACE2 receptors, proteins found on the surface of cells. All sounds so scary, doesn't it?
Except, just a few sentences later, "NB.1.8.1 doesn't yet appear to be causing increases in cases or in hospitalizations with rates remaining 'stable' so far," according to UC San Francisco professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong explained. And that's why they needed to use "razor blade throat." Gotta get those clicks and panic somehow.
And for the "experts," gotta keep their importance up and keep pushing for more personal interventions that don't work. For example, Dr. Alok Patel, a pediatrician at Stanford Children's Health, said that nicknaming the variant "Nimbus," is valuable because catchy terminology can keep the public scared.
"But I think it's important also because it keeps people paying attention to new COVID variants that can be different in terms of infectivity and in terms of spread," he said.
Yet with all the panic over "razor blade throat," even ABC was forced to admit that "there is currently no evidence that NB.1.8.1. "causes more severe disease or is more likely to cause hospitalization."
And here's the best part. Even after undercutting their fearmongering headline by admitting that this new variant doesn't cause more hospitalizations, severe disease, or has even led to an uptick in cases, they still rushed back to the "experts" to demand more masking, endless boosters, and staying home. Seriously.
"The experts recommend that high-risk Americans receive a vaccine twice a year," the article says. Remember when the two-dose vaccination in 2020-2021 made you "fully vaccinated" and Pfizer told us had 100% efficacy? Now it's two doses per year, for the rest of your life. Even though those doses are targeted to variants that have already disappeared.
And the pièce de résistance, of course, was rushing back to discredited Vanderbilt University professor William Schaffner.
Schaffner told ABC that "COVID-19 also tends to spike in the late summer and early fall, so people should consider opening windows to increase ventilation, wearing a mask in certain situations and avoiding crowded areas."
It's endless. It's simply endless. Schaffner has been repeating the same nonsense since 2020, been repeatedly and conclusively proven wrong in every possible way, and he still won't stop. "Wearing a mask in certain situations and avoiding crowded areas" didn't work in 2020, didn't work in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, or for the first six months of 2025. Because masks don't work. The virus is highly transmissible, airborne and endemic, making it impossible to avoid.
Schaffner, displaying a devastating lack of awareness, ability for risk assessment, or common sense, added that it's "Time to stream a movie, as I like to say, rather than going to the movies."
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Panic, get three more boosters, wear 3 masks, stay home or maybe just gargle with a little salt water.
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