Happy New Year to faithful readers of The Racket News, and to any new readers who have joined us recently. I am really grateful that David, Jay and I have a nice little gig here (hey, we don’t do it for the money) to write whatever we want, with no mouth-breathing editors puffing over our shoulders.

This morning, I’m feeling a tiny bit “off” with a tiny elevated temperature and a sore right arm. Yesterday I got my Moderna booster, to supplement my original J&J shot back in April. The theme of the year 2022 for me is “believe.”

There are a thousand reasons not to believe anyone, and 2020-21 offered more proof of why people should live self-guided, paranoid, and suspicious lives. Why would the CDC lie about omicron figures? But why did they make such a drastic revision to the numbers? Should I believe the old numbers, the new numbers, or just discard anything the CDC says because they are an arm of the government.

The government lies to us constantly. It’s made of politicians and behind-saving civil servants at the executive level, where the media is fed. The media is a collection of personalities with their own egos, who possess the digital equivalent of Rolodexes filled with “go to” sources. For decades, health beat reporters went to Dr. Anthony Fauci for epidemic/pandemic issues. But Fauci’s importance grew to the point where his word became gospel; and we know he played fast and loose with the truth, because he wanted people to do what he wanted, not know for themselves.

From every tempest in a teapot to Crossfire Hurricane, the government and its mandarins have told some whoppers and the media has either debunked or amplified them, depending on their own opinions of the cabal in charge at the time. If Ron DeSantis were a Democrat, he’d be the savior of Florida, but instead, he’s a science-hating devil, though he comported himself with more transparency, ethics and care for the citizens of his state than former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

I know all these things to be true, that the media, the government, the drug manufacturers, and the people at Walmart who jabbed me yesterday have their own lives, their own wants, needs, egos, problems, and agendas. But in 2022, I refuse to believe that people with whom I share a nation, a neighborhood, a heritage, are evil. There are some truly evil people in the world; I’m no fool. But the evil is just as likely to be someone in your town who is struggling with demon-inspired drugs and jealousy, with homicidal or suicidal thoughts, than it is to be some suit-and-tie type on Capitol Hill.

In 2022, I refuse to organize my life around various paranoias. Instead, I will believe in the positive. I believe, for instance, that the Moderna booster will enhance my ability to resist COVID-19 omicron better than J&J alone. I didn’t have to feel a bit off this morning; I could have merrily continued unboosted. I might have gotten another bout of COVID, I might not. I believe COVID-19 is more a neurological issue than a respiratory one. The brain fog, fatigue, lasting effects, immediate loss of smell and taste, and selective destruction it wrecks doesn’t seem like a snot-and-sneeze flu to me.

Even if I got it again and had no real symptoms, I don’t want it again. So I rebuked the demons of paranoia, believed that Moderna folks made the vaccine for my good (along with Pfizer/BioNtech), and got the booster jab. That doesn’t mean I believe the Russian vaccine, or the Chinese one is any good. It doesn’t mean I’m a soft-hearted do-gooder looking to placate the CCP and Vladimir Putin. It doesn’t mean I’m going to stop advocating for conservative beliefs and standing against unchecked liberal intersectionalism. It just means for 2022, I am standing on belief, not distrust.

God has this. He really does. I begin by believing that. What’s your theme for 2022?

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Why I started 2022 with a COVID-19 booster