It wasn’t that long ago when health experts and officials told us we had proven, clear tools to stop the spread of COVID. Force everyone to wear a maskand get everyone vaccinated.
Anthony Fauciin a White House briefing in early 2022, said: “We believe we can get there because we have the tools with vaccines, with boosts, with masks, with tests and with antivirals.”
Rochelle Walensky, then head of CDCsaid something similar in 2021: “What I really want to emphasize at this moment is that we have the tools we need to solve the Omicron variant. And those tools include what we’ve said…”You really need to get vaccinated…you need to practice all the preventive measures, including wearing a mask in public indoor settings.”
During a Senate hearing in 2022, she repeated this phrase: “Our ability to manage this virus today is largely due to the tools we have, vaccines, tests, treatments and masks.”
Of course, there was no evidence that masks or vaccine uptake would prevent COVID infection or transmission, and plenty of data showed the opposite. But politicians and their public health advisers committed to masks and vaccinations because that would mean admitting they were wrong.
But boy oh boy were they wrong, as research on the rapid spread of COVID showed.
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 11: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)
Research from Denmark highlights how pointless COVID restrictions were
Perhaps the simplest way to indicate how useless our COVID policies were in preventing viral spread is to examine how many people contracted COVID. There are many data points showing this error, in fact they have been compiled to more books.
But a team of researchers accidentally disproved the COVID mandates by turning their efforts to investigating how widespread COVID infections had been in Denmark during a period of extremely restrictive policies that tried to stop the spread of the then-dominant Omicron variant.
This study looked at seroprevalence, essentially how many people had COVID antibodies as a result of infection between November 2021 and March 2022. During this period, Denmark had mask mandates, extraordinarily high vaccine uptake and one of European governments’ most favored policies, the vaccine passport.
Sure enough, they estimate that as many as 66% of healthy Danish adults got COVID in just over four months. Incredibly, about a third of the infections “were not caught by SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing.”
Infections were transmitted extremely quickly, with “32% of the adult Danish population” infected in “just four weeks.” These infections occurred, they wrote, “despite high vaccination coverage in the Danish population.”
Importantly, the infection mortality for the Omicron variant was also extremely low. They estimated that per seroprevalence data was around 6.2 per 100,000 infections across all ages measured in the study. Not surprisingly, the rates varied greatly between age groups. 30-day mortality by age was as follows:
- 17-35 years: 1.6 per 100k
- 36-50 years: 4.1 per 100k
- 51-60 years: 7.6 per 100k
- 61-72: 15.1 per 100k
You can see why forcing 17-year-olds to wear masks and get COVID vaccines was so important.
These are all important takeaways, but to put it in a proper context and drive home how useless our restrictions were against infection and contagion, we can look at how Denmark handled the Omicron wave, politically speaking. As well as how some “experts” responded to their measures and compliance.
During this period, Denmark had mask mandates, vaccine passports and extraordinary compliance. And 66% of the healthy adult population got COVID in just four months.
Very strange that these documented “tools” would not have stopped COVID transmission, right?
When we say extraordinary compliance, it is not an exaggeration. Denmark had almost 90% of their adult population vaccinated by August 2021. Cases exploded a few months later, despite listening to Fauci and the CDC’s health advice.
Other “experts” at the time praised Denmark for its commitment to following science, such as former US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Eric Topol and Eric Feigl-Ding.
Topol said Denmark showed how easy it was to “squash” the virus with masks and vaccine uptake. Same with Jerome Adams, who said their data showed the “quickest way to end” increases was to “get your wax.” Both statements were obviously proven false, although they neither acknowledged nor admitted it. When Denmark finally relented on their policies after they had definitively failed, Eric Feigl-Ding strongly criticized them, saying that “Danish political leaders have completely lost their insanity” by ending all “COVID-19 mitigations.” Cases plummeted immediately after they ended their mandates because these “restrictions” didn’t work, and as this study shows, a shocking majority of the population had already tested positive.
To summarize, experts said we have the tools to stop the Omicron variant: masks and COVID vaccines. Denmark tried these tools, achieved exemplary uptake, only for a study later to find that 66% of the adult population contracted COVID within months, with over 30% testing positive within weeks.
These policies didn’t work, the tools didn’t work, Omicron was far less dangerous than other variants anyway, and none of the experts who demanded these restrictions ever admitted any of it. A masterclass in misinformation, bad science and gaslighting. The perfect COVID experience.
