The Jurassic Park shutdown
This was a very quick response to a Jurassic Park meme, “You know what else was opened before it was ready?” Presumably, comparing people’s livelihoods to carnivorous dinosaurs. Other people’s livelihoods, as the person posting it was a government employee and still had a job.
Ghostbusters and William Atherton: You know what else was shut down by a bureaucrat who had no idea how many lives it was saving?
Mind you, neither of these memes withstand serious scrutiny. But then, you’re not really supposed to think about memes, just regurgitate them. If you find it useful, great; if you don’t, well, you can never go wrong with a Ghostbusters reference.
In response to 2020 in Photos: For photos, memes, and perhaps other quick notes sent from my mobile device or written on the fly during 2020.
More COVID-19
- COVID Lessons: The Health Care Shutdown
- It’s fortunate that COVID-19 was not as bad as the experts said, because our response was almost entirely to make the problem worse. We shut down everything that could help, including health care for co-morbidities. We locked the healthy and the sick together, and cut people off from routine care. Most of the deaths “from” COVID-19 were probably due more to our response than to the virus itself.
- Better for being ridden: the eternal lie of the anointed
- Whenever there’s a crisis, politicians and the media always tell us that if we do what they say, we’ll be all right. This is always a lie. And however often they fail and however many die from their ministrations, their wabbling fingers always return to the mire.
- Mitt Romney Day 2020: Coronavirus Calvinball
- The competition for the Mitt Romney Day award in 2020 became dangerously competitive come March, as contestants worked hard to kill the most jobs, the most small businesses, the most lives. But there can be only one winner.
- Rudyard Kipling: The Humility of the Plague Doctor
- Charts and graphs are not science. You can get charts and graphs with astrology and biorhythms. Computers can model scientific superstition just as well as they can model real theories. Bloodletting is superstition even if its done in the name of a computer model.
- Mongols and turnips: coronavirus roundup
- The Mongol and the Turnip farmer; Georgia on my mind; isolation causes death.
- Two more pages with the topic COVID-19, and other related pages
More memes
- Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution
- Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.
- The eye of the insulter
- The left has become so unhinged that they’re sending out promo photos for President Trump, thinking they’re insulting him. They seem to have a pathological inability to appreciate working, and don’t recognize a serious working photo when they see one.
- Slavery does not create wealth
- Frederick Douglass was born in slavery and escaped it. He tells us that slavery by its very nature destroys rather than creates wealth. That it creates a poverty not just of mind and spirit, but of the pocketbook as well.
- Left believes atheists are wasteful bullies?
- The left is touting a new study that claims to show that those without religious upbringing are more likely to sympathize with victimizers than with victims, and are more wasteful with other people’s resources.
- Red Light Cameras and rock-throwing children
- When the left sees a kid throwing a rock at other kids, they see an opportunity: to stop budding geologists from collecting rocks.
- Nine more pages with the topic memes, and other related pages