Another brilliant and thought provoking piece, el gato. I have felt for many, many months that most of this is unadulterated propaganda on a level that we have not seen for decades. Recently I sent an email to dozens of prominent activists, (formerly known as journalists) with 11 questions that to my knowledge had never been asked of the pseudo experts, TV docs and politicians. The result? I did not receive one response or acknowledgement of my email. Of course I tried this tactic because I got absolutely nowhere with the elected lords that govern over me here in the province of Ontario. I am sure you and many here could likely guess what some of these questions were - I asked about such silly things such as a proper cost/benefit of lockdowns, why were cost effective and efficacious prophylactics not pursued instead of emergency approved treatments (loaded and circular question I realize), why is debate not encouraged and displayed in a transparent fashion between the unelected and conflicted “Scientology Table” and other world renowned experts etc. The fact that this crazy never ending feedback loop of fear propaganda, stoked by power hungry politicians, praised by the Journos who benefited from the fear and ultimately aided and abetted by the likes of Gates, Soros et al is not as plain as the proboscis on my face speaks not only to our collective laziness but also to our dogmatic beliefs and overall apathy. The bottom line is we are not demanding more from our politicians and the media who are supposed to hold them to account. I will continue to fight the good fight but I must admit I am exhausted. So disappointed with many of my friends and family who are so disengaged and uninterested in the stripping of our rights and freedoms. I guess if we are not going to fight for these freedoms and our power hungry leaders know it, they will continue to pepper us with soft tyrany, you know for the good of the collective society
The official data from official sources was pretty much always accessible, and outside places where they sped up the curve by infecting all the at-risk at once, there was never much of a hospitalization crisis at all. Jay Inslee dismantled the field hospital at Century Link in early April 2020, and there's no way he does that if he thinks there's even a 1% possibility that it will be needed.
Gatito! Listen from this Brazilian, we know stuff. Print screen as much as you can, keep doing this, and hopefully in our lifetime the truth will come, then publish all the print screens (because by then they will delete all the past info) and hopefully we will have our day of justice... if that doesn't come, then we will be onMad Max/Matrix world (and I will be in some remote area in Brazil)
I created a quiz with Tom Woods to help people on the margins escape the cult. If NPIs worked, a minimally data literal layman should be able to tell apart the places with the hardest vs softest restrictions, right?
Yes, it's propaganda. And it's very effective. These are not stupid people...not most, anyway. And they're the first to flash credentials. My question: do they actually believe the narrative? And, if they don't, what is their end game? Why would they tell such ridiculous, incongruous, easily falsifiable lies? Is stupidity, hubris, avarice, greed, weak character, or even tribalism enough to make sense of the past fifteen months. My instinct says no...even if the alternative is dystopian and incredible. Nothing about the past year makes sense to me.
I know why people believe them. Most don't have the time or the inclination to investigate. Some don't have the aptitude. They cannot fathom that public health officials, medical doctors, and the media would collude to lead them down the primrose path. They want to believe these people have their best interests at heart, that they are truly working for the greater good...even when none of it works or makes sense. They can't see it. Not yet, anyway.
We can hope the nonsense back and forth over masks, the push to vaccinate children, the change in detecting and counting breakthroughs (better understood as concealing) will finally shake the multitude from its stupor.
I've heard a few of the leading dissident voices say we can't worry about these people. In truth, I was horrified. How is that any different than the arrogance displayed by the bad guys? I realize they're frustrated and weary...and probably hurt. Many have taken a lot of flack for their efforts.
But these people need our help. Even the nasty ones. So we have to keep trying.
El gato, do you not fear the collapse of the global psyche that could accompany the realisation that most people have been living in a delusion? The after effects could be far worse than the virus or the lockdown, with the possible collapse in the belief in science. Maybe the "shame evading variants" (excellent phrase) may be necessary to save the collective sanity of the world. Question is: should we be complicit in supporting the paradigm that lockdowns were good science. This could be our Darkness at Noon moment, when the idealistic communists went along with their show trials to save communism.
seen on twitter, [i won't hunt it down] some 'science guy' (bs mech eng, i studied with many none of us had a bio class) at cnn or msnbc said words to the effect 'unvaxxed would incubate new horrifying varaints'. no bio engineer used the word incubate!!
i won't go any further than to observe the 'editors' would let nothing out which does not reinforce dogma that you and i are the cause of covid cases, icu, dead etc. that we direct the virus and any case is our fault.
the editors would breech no implication that the positive 9negative i am old) RNA strands known as SARS C oV 2 are not totally under human control.
as to economy the dogma says dumping trump usingh huge unemployment does not hurt the economy....... shorter; as keynes noted 'don't [sweat the small stuff] worry the economy in the long run we are all dead'!
Another brilliant and thought provoking piece, el gato. I have felt for many, many months that most of this is unadulterated propaganda on a level that we have not seen for decades. Recently I sent an email to dozens of prominent activists, (formerly known as journalists) with 11 questions that to my knowledge had never been asked of the pseudo experts, TV docs and politicians. The result? I did not receive one response or acknowledgement of my email. Of course I tried this tactic because I got absolutely nowhere with the elected lords that govern over me here in the province of Ontario. I am sure you and many here could likely guess what some of these questions were - I asked about such silly things such as a proper cost/benefit of lockdowns, why were cost effective and efficacious prophylactics not pursued instead of emergency approved treatments (loaded and circular question I realize), why is debate not encouraged and displayed in a transparent fashion between the unelected and conflicted “Scientology Table” and other world renowned experts etc. The fact that this crazy never ending feedback loop of fear propaganda, stoked by power hungry politicians, praised by the Journos who benefited from the fear and ultimately aided and abetted by the likes of Gates, Soros et al is not as plain as the proboscis on my face speaks not only to our collective laziness but also to our dogmatic beliefs and overall apathy. The bottom line is we are not demanding more from our politicians and the media who are supposed to hold them to account. I will continue to fight the good fight but I must admit I am exhausted. So disappointed with many of my friends and family who are so disengaged and uninterested in the stripping of our rights and freedoms. I guess if we are not going to fight for these freedoms and our power hungry leaders know it, they will continue to pepper us with soft tyrany, you know for the good of the collective society
The official data from official sources was pretty much always accessible, and outside places where they sped up the curve by infecting all the at-risk at once, there was never much of a hospitalization crisis at all. Jay Inslee dismantled the field hospital at Century Link in early April 2020, and there's no way he does that if he thinks there's even a 1% possibility that it will be needed.
We're still locked down in Washington.
Gatito! Listen from this Brazilian, we know stuff. Print screen as much as you can, keep doing this, and hopefully in our lifetime the truth will come, then publish all the print screens (because by then they will delete all the past info) and hopefully we will have our day of justice... if that doesn't come, then we will be onMad Max/Matrix world (and I will be in some remote area in Brazil)
I created a quiz with Tom Woods to help people on the margins escape the cult. If NPIs worked, a minimally data literal layman should be able to tell apart the places with the hardest vs softest restrictions, right?
https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
I don't know if I can stomach the entire piece. I just got to the part where they present as an insight:
"It shows a highly nonlinear sensitivity of Pinf to changes of Nv."
Yeah, no shit Sherlock, two lines above you made the assertion:
Pinf=1−(1−Psingle)^Nv.
That equation defines that nonlinear sensitivity. Again, if your model assumes the result, you'll get that result! Science!
Yes, it's propaganda. And it's very effective. These are not stupid people...not most, anyway. And they're the first to flash credentials. My question: do they actually believe the narrative? And, if they don't, what is their end game? Why would they tell such ridiculous, incongruous, easily falsifiable lies? Is stupidity, hubris, avarice, greed, weak character, or even tribalism enough to make sense of the past fifteen months. My instinct says no...even if the alternative is dystopian and incredible. Nothing about the past year makes sense to me.
I know why people believe them. Most don't have the time or the inclination to investigate. Some don't have the aptitude. They cannot fathom that public health officials, medical doctors, and the media would collude to lead them down the primrose path. They want to believe these people have their best interests at heart, that they are truly working for the greater good...even when none of it works or makes sense. They can't see it. Not yet, anyway.
We can hope the nonsense back and forth over masks, the push to vaccinate children, the change in detecting and counting breakthroughs (better understood as concealing) will finally shake the multitude from its stupor.
I've heard a few of the leading dissident voices say we can't worry about these people. In truth, I was horrified. How is that any different than the arrogance displayed by the bad guys? I realize they're frustrated and weary...and probably hurt. Many have taken a lot of flack for their efforts.
But these people need our help. Even the nasty ones. So we have to keep trying.
El gato, do you not fear the collapse of the global psyche that could accompany the realisation that most people have been living in a delusion? The after effects could be far worse than the virus or the lockdown, with the possible collapse in the belief in science. Maybe the "shame evading variants" (excellent phrase) may be necessary to save the collective sanity of the world. Question is: should we be complicit in supporting the paradigm that lockdowns were good science. This could be our Darkness at Noon moment, when the idealistic communists went along with their show trials to save communism.
Great insightful read.Brilliant as usual
seen on twitter, [i won't hunt it down] some 'science guy' (bs mech eng, i studied with many none of us had a bio class) at cnn or msnbc said words to the effect 'unvaxxed would incubate new horrifying varaints'. no bio engineer used the word incubate!!
i won't go any further than to observe the 'editors' would let nothing out which does not reinforce dogma that you and i are the cause of covid cases, icu, dead etc. that we direct the virus and any case is our fault.
the editors would breech no implication that the positive 9negative i am old) RNA strands known as SARS C oV 2 are not totally under human control.
as to economy the dogma says dumping trump usingh huge unemployment does not hurt the economy....... shorter; as keynes noted 'don't [sweat the small stuff] worry the economy in the long run we are all dead'!
Another dose of brilliant feline insight from the king of bad cats.