Editors’ Note: We are not a scientific journal or institute so we don’t pretend expertise to comment on “science.” However, we certainly can comment on public policy and think we have some common sense. The obvious facts show that the Coronavirus and its variants are spreading, despite the emphasis placed by officials on preventative vaccines. With the obvious failure of the vaccines to stop the spread of the virus, how can enforcing mandates using vaccines that don’t work advance public health? We also don’t understand the reticence our national health and state officials have in determining the origins of the virus, their financial affiliation with pharmaceutical companies, the suppression of data about vaccine side effects,  and their constant food dragging as it pertains to therapeutics. It would seem that if vaccines fail, you would want to have a backup plan to treat the virus, which most people are going to get anyway. We have never supported lockdowns and don’t know why the government, and its partners in the giant social media companies, go out of their way to suppress dissenting opinions. Normally, when your doctor fails you and seems ineffective in treating you, you seek a second opinion. The patient is harmed when second opinions are put off-limits because the failing doctor either does not like the opinion or feels his turf has been invaded. Medicine should center on the patient’s needs, not the needs of politicians or unelected bureaucrats. Finally, while health concerns are important, they cannot and should not be the ONLY concern of officials and public policy. Our Constitution and our history of liberty are also very important. If we all will face the virus in one form or another, would you prefer to face it as a free man, or a slave?

Just as President Biden’s unconstitutional vaccination mandates were being ripped up by the courts, authoritarian politicians, public health bureaucrats, and the mainstream media announced a new Covid variant to justify another round of lockdowns and restrictions. The things that didn’t work last time would be a good idea to do again this time, they claim.

For these authoritarians, the timing of omicron’s emergence was perfect.

The variant was first discovered in South Africa, with the US and European media running endless scare stories. Authoritarian politicians used the manufactured fear to justify another attack on liberty. Europe shut down and became a virtual prison camp. In Austria, Germany, and elsewhere, citizens became non-persons without a vaccine passport.

South African health officials reported that the variant seemed to be more contagious but far milder than previous variants, as usually happens with such viruses. But the lockdowners would not hear of it. From Boris Johnson in the UK to DeBlasio in New York City, the variant was the perfect cover for them to put their boots back on the necks of terrorized citizens.

As to be expected, Fauci reveled in the emergence of the new variant, warning of “record deaths” for the unvaccinated. Similarly, President Biden warned that this would be a “winter of death” for the unvaccinated.

But here’s something the media isn’t reporting about the omicron outbreaks: they are taking place among the fully vaccinated. Cornell University, with 97 percent of the campus fully vaccinated and a mask mandate, has announced that it would return to online-only instruction after a massive Covid outbreak. Likewise, the National Football League has postponed several games this weekend due to Covid outbreaks, even though the League is virtually 100 percent vaccinated. And the National Basketball Association, which is above 95 percent fully vaccinated, has just announced that due to a surge in Covid cases it too will postpone games.

The vaccine is not working to prevent infection or transmission of the virus: cases are raging in states with the highest vaccine levels. Yet the “experts” continue to maintain that the only thing that can stop the spread of omicron is vaccines! More people are catching on that this makes no sense. If vaccines don’t stop the spread, how can vaccines stop the spread?

Meanwhile, South Africa, with one of the lowest rates of vaccination, has just announced that they are only seeing a tiny fraction of hospitalizations with omicron compared to previous variants. South Africa’s Covid response authority has written to the health minister recommending an end to containment efforts, contact tracing, and quarantines.

Unvaccinated South Africa is ending Covid restrictions while the hyper-vaccinated North is locking down. Something doesn’t add up.

Fauci loves to say that to question him is to question science, but this has nothing to do with science. It’s about power. Fauci, the political authoritarians, and the corrupt Big Pharma billionaires are trying to make a last stand, desperate to push omicron as a justification for further tyranny and profits. But actual science is not cooperating.

Omicron is spreading and vaccines are not stopping it. Thus far nearly half of the omicron infections are asymptomatic. Some experts are predicting that omicron will spell the end of Covid-19. But we know that as long as people like Fauci are around, Covid-19 will never end. Unless, of course, we repudiate the charlatans and profiteers and reclaim our liberty!

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This article was published on December 21, 2021, and is reproduced with permission from the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  Ron Paul is a medical doctor, a former U.S. Congressman, and has been a Presidential candidate both as a Republican and Libertarian.