Taking the Third Booster

A year ago, people lined up to get their boosters for Christmas. We were still talking about a new normal, and a system of green passes was still under way. But it was nevertheless easy to predict that the project was going to fail. My estimate was that less than 40% of the population would be fully boosted by now.

As it turns out, less than 4% of the US population is currently fully boosted, and the number is probably not much higher in Europe or anywhere else in the world. That means that we've seen a total collapse of the vaccine narrative. The unvaccinated is not merely in a majority. We represent more than 95% of the population, and it's now the ones taking the boosters that are the odd ones out.

The ones still encouraging people to booster up are out of tune with the zeitgeist, which has made a complete reversal over the past 12 months. They are not only making a fool of themselves. They are setting themselves up for all sorts of trouble.

We are continuing to see excess deaths, and it seems to be the fully boosted that are most at risk. However, no-one seems interested in finding out why this situation persists. The team of scientists that delivered us vaccines at warp speed are unwilling to perform a simple correlation study to see if the vaccine may be causing trouble. Others are similarly reluctant to say anything.

With all of this relatively easy to predict from the start, we have further proof that most people are terrible at risk/reward analysis. Knowing that the vaccine carried risk, and was something that couldn't be un-taken, the prudent thing to do would be to watch and see, and then take the evidence for or against it seriously. Yet, very few did this. Many took the vaccine despite clear evidence of risk being higher than any potential reward.

An important lesson to draw from this is that most people are gamblers with little sense of risk/reward or timing. There's little wisdom to be found among most people, and we are best served making our own decisions and ignore the chatter of the so called experts.

Mask of the beast