Perception and Reality

Let's take a trip back to February, 2021 and February, 2022.

It was a world caught up in Covid hysteria.

Schools were using remote learning. Millions working from home. Empty restaurants and stores.

Many elective medical procedures and surgeries were cancelled to not overload the hospitals.

Loved ones were not allowed to visit relatives in hospitals and nursing homes.

People were not allowed to gather in churches or at funerals.

Masks and social distancing were the standards of everyday life.

Trillions of federal dollars printed and handed out for Americans whose lives had been disrupted by the pandemic.

Media stories day and night about Covid and the toll it was taking on every aspect of our lives.

Death counters on the evening news.

Daily statistics on the numbers in the hospital due to Covid.

This is a graph by the CDC of the weekly hospitalizations from Covid since March 14, 2020 which is the week we first heard the infamous words "15 Days to Slow the Spread"

Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitalization-network

Interestingly, the highest levels of hospitalizations were incurred over one year after the "safe and effective" Covid vaccines were first administered.

That was also almost one year after Dr. Tony Fauci claimed that the vaccines were extraordinarily effective in preventing both hospitalizations and deaths.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/vaccine-covid-fauci-deaths-b1808878.html

“The J&J data that just came out – when you have advanced critical disease, there were no hospitalisations and no deaths. That’s good news,” Dr Fauci said in an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan.

Of course, the J&J vaccine that Fauci was so highly touting in 2021 was pulled from the market in 2023 due to concerns about serious blood clotting issues in some recipients.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12174791/J-Js-COVID-vaccine-taken-19-MILLION-Americans-pulled-FDA-plummeting-demand.html

I provide this historical context as I have recently been following CDC data regarding the prevalence of influenza and other respiratory illnesses in the United States this flu season.

One interesting data point is that the percentage of outpatient visits for respiratory illnesses (influenza, SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19 and other coronaviruses) and RSV is at the highest level it has been in the last 5 years.

This includes all of the Covid pandemic years.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-06.html

This is even more astounding to me as you would think that total outpatient visits for other medical conditions (the denominator in this equation) would have been depressed during the Covid years.

How much have you seen or heard much of anything about the current flu pandemic?

Have there been any calls for any mitigation efforts against the flu this year?

It is not much different when you look at the data on hospitalizations from the flu.

In Week 5 of this flu season (week ending February 1, 2025) the hospitalization rate for influenza in the U.S population was 12.8/100,000. There were another 2.8/100,000 hospitalized with Covid.

That totals 15.6/100,000 for Covid + flu.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-06.html

To get an accurate representation on hospitalizations over the last five years for respiratory illness it is necessary to add flu cases together with Covid cases.

This is due to the fact that during the heights of the Covid pandemic flu cases practically disappeared.

( I wrote about this mystery early in the pandemic (October, 2020). The best explanation I have seen is one of "viral interference" in that Covid in some way blocked the flu virus from replicating in the population. It is almost as if Covid was bigger and stronger so that the flu could not get firmly established in the community when Covid was present.

The other possible explanation is that a lot of flu cases ended up being misidentified as Covid.)

If you take that 15.6/100,000 number for 2025 and compare it to the comparable number of hospitalizations on the same Week 5 data for Covid and the flu in 2021, 2022 and 2023 you get these numbers.

Incredibly, there were more people in the hospital with Covid or the flu the first week of February, 2025 than there was during the same week in any of the years of the pandemic.

However, there is almost no mention of this in the media or by any public health authorities?

Considering this data I could not help thinking about the old thought experiment involving the tree that falls in a forest with no one around.

Is there a sound if no one can hear it?

Credit: https://custom-writing.org/blog/if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest

What is reality and what is perception?

Looking back, was the Covid pandemic more about perception than reality?

What can be said about what is going on right now with flu cases in the United States?

Are we ignoring the reality because the perception is different?

Interesting questions to consider.

Of course, it should be clear today that perception rather than reality permeated almost everything about the Covid pandemic

That includes the public health response to it.

Almost everything was done based on perception rather than reality.

There was no science to support that wearing surgical and cloth masks offered any real protection against the virus.

There was no science behind the 6 foot social distancing recommendation.

These were both pushed by Fauci and the public health establishment to provide the perception to the public that something was being done for their protection. It was not based on science or reality.

The "15 Days To Slow The Spread" campaign was also all about perception.

Dr. Deborah Birx wrote in her book that "15 days to slow the spread " was just the term they used to convince Trump to approve the initial lockdown. They all knew that it was just the start and they wanted to lockdown much longer

Source: https://www.independentsentinel.com/dr-birx-admits-they-lied-about-the-15-days-to-flatten-the-curve/

Dr. Birx is now confessing that the Covid vaccines were not designed to prevent transmission or infections and should not have been pushed on the younger population.

Link: https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1891690382779470104

It should be noted that while Dr. Birx is now admitting the reality of the Covid vaccines, I wrote about it in these pages two months before they were first released.

How did I, a non-Doctor, know that the Covid vaccines were not designed to be effective against infection and transmission before the vaccines were even released?

 

I did research regarding the vaccines in development and cited a Harvard Medical School professor who had followed the clinical research studies closely.

Here is what I wrote in "What You Should Know About The Covid Vaccine" in October, 2020.

Prevention of infection is the normal critical end point goal for any vaccine trial. The vaccine should be effective at preventing infection and stopping the spread of the virus. This is particularly important at this time when we have a virus that has caused a pandemic.

However, that is not the stated goal of the Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson vaccines that are currently in late stage trials with the expectation they will be ready for widespread distribution within several months.

Haseltine points out that in none of the vaccine trial protocols for any of these vaccines is the prevention of infection considered a criterion of success.

The vaccines are to be considered a success merely if they reduce the severity of the symptoms of someone who is infected with Covid.

Of course, the Covid vaccines were not just pushed on younger people, they were MANDATED.

People were told that they would be protected from the virus and it would protect others around them.

Millions and millions of people were affected.

Nurses and other medical professionals were fired for not taking the vaccine.

Military personnel were discharged.

College students were not allowed to enroll in college.

Foreign visitors and legal immigrants were barred from the country if they had not been fully vaccinated against Covid. (Of course, this rule was not applied to illegal immigrants).

Many employers who believed they were following the reality of "the science" put their own mandates in place and fired employees who would not comply.

All of this was done to create a perception of protection that did not exist in reality.

In fact, most everything was based on misinformation, disinformation and outright lies.

The sad reality is it was those who tried to point out reality were the ones who were censored and maligned.

There is an important lesson here.

There is a difference between perception and reality.

Much of what you are exposed to in the media today is designed to influence your perception of reality rather than the actual reality of a situation.

At BeeLine, my goal is to always analyze the data and facts to find reality.

I provide the receipts wherever I can so you can do your own research and form your own opinions.

Please expose a few friends to my work so that more people understand the difference between perception and reality

It can be a lonely path . However, it is the only route to find real truth.