Negative Space: COVID-19
- Better for being ridden: the eternal lie of the anointed
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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.
- Childish things: the decline of toys and the fall of man
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The old admonishment to put away childish things misses, in a very important sense, a critical point: we can never put away childish things. The way we interact with toys as children is how we interact with life as adults. If your toys have not taught you to sift evidence, weigh risks, and make decisions, the world becomes a very frightening place.
- COVID Lessons: Don’t trust socialists
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Our response made the virus worse. We trusted self-styled experts, failed models, socialists, and the media over what we could see with our own eyes.
- COVID Lessons: Government Monopolies are Still Monopolies
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Our response to COVID-19 was almost designed to make it worse. We shut down the nimble small businesses that could respond quickly, and relied almost solely on large corporations and the government monopolies that failed us, because they are monopolies.
- COVID Lessons: Journalistic Delusions and the Madness of Politicians
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COVID-19 was real. The crisis surrounding it was entirely manufactured. Everything we did took a manageable disease and turned it into a killer. And the very worst was believing a media we knew was lying.
- COVID Lessons: The Health Care Shutdown
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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.
- Deadly Perfection
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Whenever the left wants to devalue someone’s life, they call it economics.
- A disappointing COVID Summer of Death
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When the COVID summer of death failed to materialize, it challenged the religious faith of mask and vaccine fanatics.
- Eager to Believe: Stupid Americans and Smart Corporations
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The left is very eager to believe corporations when the corporations say Americans are too stupid to buy our products.
- Gain-of-bureaucracy disease
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Bureaucracies do not admit they’re wrong; scientists are always trying to prove they’re wrong. Government funding is diametrically opposed to the advancement of science.
- Growth does not pay for itself
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Growth that doesn’t pay for itself is cancerous growth. It isn’t the growth of population that gets more expensive, but the expanding grasp of government.
- How to overcome vaccine hesitancy
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We need to take a lesson from Mark Twain. The best way to reinforce vaccine hesitancy is to force vaccinations. The best way to overcome vaccine hesitancy is to act as if vaccination is desirable.
- It’s a mad, mad, mad, psychotic world
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It was once a sign of witchcraft to deny that witches exist. Today, it is a sign of madness to point out the madness of our COVID dogma.
- The Jurassic Park shutdown
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You know what else was opened before it was ready?
- Media Scare Machine: The Sky is Falling
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The media never told us to hoard toilet paper or cancel flights. They just told us that everything was shutting down and that we’d die if we flew. Totally different things.
- Mitt Romney Day 2020: Coronavirus Calvinball
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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.
- Mongols and turnips: coronavirus roundup
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The Mongol and the Turnip farmer; Georgia on my mind; isolation causes death.
- Power Play 2020
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Frederik Pohl shows why science fiction authors aren’t any better at being futurists than anyone else. Hubris is a powerful drug.
- President Biden’s most anti-vax policy
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President Biden’s decision to magnify personal decisions within the medical community about the risks of the COVID vaccines signals that he’s either anti-vaccination or incredibly incompetent. Or both.
- Rudyard Kipling: The Humility of the Plague Doctor
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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.
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- Learn to Uncode
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“Last week the President of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, called for the compulsory vaccination of half-a-billion people and, in order to facilitate it, the dumping of the Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation…”
- Vaccine Regret
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“I don’t think my deliberative process is unique or even rare. Vaccine hesitancy isn’t ultimately a political thing, or an intelligence thing, or a race thing, whatever demographic differences may be emerging along those lines. In essence, the wait-and-see approach is a perfectly reasonable response to more than a year of gaslighting, misinformation, and despotism from official sources.”
- Government bureaucrats warned not to look into COVID’s origins
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“Vanity Fair: government bureaucrats warned other bureaucrats to not look into COVID’s origins, as it would ‘open a can of worms;’ scientists issued death threats to other scientists.”
- COVID-19: interesting data from Korea and from the Diamond Princess
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“But the Diamond Princess cruise ship offers an interesting insight. It had nearly 4,000 people on board—many of them in risk groups. You’d expect these packed together on a ship in quarantine to be all infecting each others. And yet… 4,061 passengers and crew were examined, on board what effectively became an unintentional virus incubator. Only 712 contracted the virus, of which 334 asymptomatic, leaving 378 ill. Only 7 people died, all of them age 70 or older.”
