Much of the resilience of the COVID narrative resulted from the way it benefitted so many powerful interests. Big Pharma made billions. Politicians got unprecedented levels of control, and a "get-out-of-jail-free" card for all their many mistakes (particularly economic ones). The World Economic Forum made progress on its "Great Reset." Climate Change activists got a blueprint for how to shut down the world economy to stamp out Carbon emissions. The media got ratings, and massive ad buys from Big Pharma. Big Tech got to flex its muscles as the new gatekeepers of what was and was not "misinformation." Major investors reaped windfall profits. New billionaires were minted. The corrupt public health bureaucracy cashed in as well, with Fauci even getting to play president. The rich got richer, the poor sank deeper into poverty, and small businesses were crushed to the benefit of big corporations. For those actively pursuing totalitarian control of all aspects of our society, the vaccine passports have been a dream come true.

Just a couple of years ago, no one could have ever imagined that formerly free people would accept being accosted by police in a restaurant to show proof they had been injected with an experimental gene therapy. Now? Everyone meekly complies and just hopes it doesn't get worse.

We covered many aspects of the COVIDian coalition in this article. Because of the powerful, but decentralized, nature of support for Pandemia Forever - many of us wondered how we could ever bring the "pandemic" to an end. Now, we have our answer. The band is breaking up, because the members of the coalition no longer have the same goals.

How do we know this is happening? Well, ironically enough, we have the New York Times Morning newsletter to thank for this amazing news. Let us look at the ways things have now changed.

Omicron is a Bust

Here is what the NYT had to say about Omicron and COVID in general:

In truth, the virus has already been largely defanged for most Americans, and it would be surprising if Omicron changed that. The death rate for vaccinated adults under 50 is virtually zero, according to data from Minnesota and King County, Wash. (which publish detailed statistics); the hospitalization rate is similar to that of a typical flu. For children, vaccinated and not, the risks are even smaller.

Are you terrified, yet? No? You are not alone. America has treated the dawn of the Omicron variant with a giant, collective sigh of boredom. Clearly Joe Biden and his minions (among others) wanted this to be a bigger deal. But it isn't, and their attempt to oversell it is causing even diehard COVIDians to start asking uncomfortable questions.

To paraphrase the old peace movement slogan about war, "What if they gave a pandemic and nobody came?" Well, here we are. Not even the NYT is down for trying to make a mild cold seem like the Black Plague. There is simply too much fatigue among their readers and the general public. Anyone in media who wants to salvage any credibility at all is not going to go all-in for Omicron. How can you keep up the hysteria without the active, monolithic cooperation of the media?

The Need to Get Back to Normal

The NYT and the media are finally admitting that our COVID-induced panic and overreaction have really hurt us:

Not only can they reduce serious Covid illness, but they can also reduce Covid fears and help society move back to normalcy, lessening the pandemic's huge social and economic side effects.

 

(If you haven't read my colleague Campbell Robertson's story about the continuing crisis in schools — including mental health problems among children and exhaustion among teachers, nurses and janitors — it's sobering.)

No more talk about kids being "resilient" or touting the benefits of "lockdowns." The NYT is actually acknowledging the severe damage down by COVID mitigation measures. This is at least an implicit rejection of the "new normal" of never-ending crisis. This is part credibility-saving, but also an endorsement of the treatments that were the main focus of the article (which we get to later).

Even the most paranoid liberals have had enough of the "new normal" and want to get on with life. Molly Jong-Fast wrote this in the previously, reliably COVIDian Atlantic:

The right-wing media always accuses the left of wanting the pandemic to go on forever, but let me tell you, I want this f***ing thing to be over so badly that I can feel it in the marrow of my bones. And that's why the arrival of Omicron has been such a psychological blow.

 

I will celebrate Christmas by taking my children to see their grandparents in California. I've been vaccinated and had my booster. My husband has had two shots of AstraZeneca and three shots of Pfizer. All of our kids are vaccinated. We're going to mask up, but try to live as if we're almost in the endemic stage.

The foot soldiers of the pandemic are deserting the ranks, and the consequences will be profound for the pro-pandemic party. If they keep focusing on COVID and mitigations, the Democratic Party is facing a 2022 bloodbath. Joe Biden has already presided over more COVID "deaths" (with COVID, from COVID, etc.) than Donald Trump. The supply chain is broken, inflation is through the roof, job creation is anemic, the border is out of control, a crime wave is engulfing our major cities, and the Biden Regime is less popular than any presidency in history. The Democrats need to change the narrative and focus on getting the economy moving, because right now they look awful. Especially since the policies they champion (masks, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, lockdowns) are clearly not helping.

Worse, a party that relies heavily on African American support is being credibly accused of racism  after banning travel from eight African countries. Simon Ateba is an African journalist who engaged in a verbal tussle with White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki earlier this week over President Biden's sweeping travel ban. He came on Fox News and accused Biden of having "disrespected" his home continent. Ateba is the chief White House correspondent for Today News Africa. He also told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that such actions by Donald Trump would have been decried as racist:

"Can you imagine if… Donald Trump banned 8 African countries and those countries have zero cases of the variant, there would've been an uprising, and they would've branded him as a racist that hates Blacks and hates Africa."

Things that can't go on - won't. And this can't go on. Regardless of the ulterior motives (increased power, changing voting laws, serving Big Pharma), the Democrats can't survive politically if they keep the focus on the pandemic, regardless of how much voter fraud they commit. They need an off-ramp to let the saner, more moderate Democrats focus on actually doing something to benefit American workers.

For the sake of their own political survival, the Democrats must join Team Reality, and the new drugs give them that chance.

COVID is Treatable - Pfizer and Merck Say So!

COVID has always been treatable. The first multi-drug protocol for treating COVID was published in early 2020. Unfortunately for Big Pharma, most protocols for treatment relied on inexpensive, off-patent medications. Plus, if there is an approved treatment for a disease, emergency use authorization of an unapproved "vaccine" would have been illegal.  So for multiple reasons, it was necessary from the beginning to suppress treatment information and instead push a narrative that there was no treatment. Only a "vaccine" could end the pandemic. Doctors who treated COVID reported excellent patient outcomes, mostly on an out-patient basis. Those doctors were hunted down and silenced by Big Tech and the medical associations who are captives of Big Pharma.

The public health establishment joined the lie as well.  As Dr. Ryan Cole