Here are four more aspects of the COVID-19 narrative that feel like a Twilight Zone episode. I assume the same is true for many people. Unfortunately, it’s easier to assume you just don’t “get it” than to say it just doesn’t seem right and go against popular belief.

Monday’s brief had #1-4. Here’s #5-8:

5. Why are full page newspaper ads telling us to “stay home and stay safe?” The vast majority of people dying from COVID are over 65 with with pre-existing conditions, according to the European Respiratory Journal. Stay home, stay safe, may apply to an 80-year-old man with a weak heart in a nursing home he never leaves; but is it not a slow suicide for anyone else with a modicum of health? Why is the government not encouraging us to strengthen our immune system (e.g. exercise in the fresh air) rather than infecting our minds with germaphobic slogans?

6. Why are so many countries falsifying the number of COVID deaths?  Professor Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health reported: “On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three.” If one has smoked for 60 years why are we not saying tobacco killed them?

7. Why are they claiming health care workers are at a high risk of dying from COVID-19 when the stats are showing that they are less likely to die than the general population? Why do we not praise trash collectors, who are exposed to far more germs, endure harsh weather, while risking their lives hanging onto the back of a moving trash compactor in order to keep our cities sanitary?

8. Why are people treating some businesses as essential and others as not? Are golf courses essential? If you are an employee or owner of one and that’s how you earn money to pay for food and shelter, would not the answer be yes? (And, no, I don’t play golf!)

And one of the biggest questions is why are “investigative” journalists not giving more attention to these questions rather than spreading fear with the official narrative?