Regarding Covid, if anyone thinks I'm armchair quarterbacking the whole debacle in hindsight, here's my facebook commentary on the sh*tshow from the onset. You'll note that I was fairly spot on at every turn, pointing out how medicine and science were being corrupted and the average citizen was the casualty.
September 29, 2021
Unbelievable. If you want to look like a shill for big State or a propaganda arm for politicians, this is what you do.
Instead of allowing free exchange of ideas, curating what opinions are permitted will surely create the beginnings of revolution.
All it will take is one conspiracy or alternative from mainstream viewpoint to be proven true and it will be complete distrust of all social media and entertainment. Statistical odds of some blind squirrel eventually finding a nut? 100%.
washingtonpost.com
YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
Google-owned video site YouTube previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago.
August 21, 2021
From the patently obvious but everyone has been in denial news desk:
Cloth masks were largely ineffective. It was obvious to any reasonable thinker that they were ineffective. Politics dictated that it was a grand gesture we had to do to appear to care about others. But again, it was all a bunch of hogwash. 10% effective is what the studies now say. Sounds about right. Of course the health officials wouldn’t tell people that at the beginning (And they have admitted it off record) because there weren’t enough n95 masks and they were worried hoarding was going to create a problem…so they let the world believe the stupid notion that cloth masks had measurable benefit.
And those n95 masks that are not designed for the purposes used? 50% effective. Which is obvious as well to any reasonable thinker. They are designed to blow vapor back and to the sides of the wearer, as is their purpose to keep a surgical field in front of a healthcare worker from getting direct blasts of various pathogens.
studyfinds.org
Most face masks won't stop COVID-19 indoors, study warns
Despite wearing a face mask, the study finds a large buildup of aerosol droplets suspended in the air coming from wearers.
August 18, 2021
Headline, Vaccines losing effectiveness. Anecodotal data point from Fauci / CDC was that the best vaccine in the US was losing efficacy at 6% month over month.
The statistical concern I have about believing the efficacy was as strong as claimed in the beginning is as follows:
1.) Mentality of the US was that you get Covid, you could die. Everyone was begging for testing. It was a bizarre obsession to get tested even if you were asymptomatic or had mild flu-like symptoms. Hospitals were also obsessed with this, because if you rolled into the ER with a gunshot wound or an anvil on your head they could get government subsidies if you were a "Covid" patient. Hence, the private sector really, really wanted to see Covid everywhere.
Act II
2.) The mentality of many people, especially old people, was that you could not get Covid if vaccinated and then later if you could get Covid, you would not die. Hence, people are prone to suck it up at home and not run out for testing.
Those two factors, zealous over-reporting in early covid and now under-reporting in the later covid era, give me pause to think that the vaccines are far less effective than the "6% loss of efficacy month over month" reported by health data.
But in light of all of that, governments want more of the same vaccines issued as boosters, are not requiring masks for vaccinated that can spread it just as commonly as unvaccinated, and are creating many penalties for refusing the somewhat ineffective vaccines.
MSN.COM
Vaccines show declining effectiveness against infection overall but strong protection against hospitalization amid delta variant
The results were pivotal to the Biden administration's decision to recommend booster shots.
June 14, 2021
This seems like an Onion article but it’s true.
Covid-19 vaccines haven’t prevented getting, transmitting, or dying from Covid. (Data suggests they work, their efficacy in actual data is sorely misunderstood by people) There is no science that supports vaccinated people giving up social distancing practices. 1/3rd of UK Covid deaths last week were fully vaccinated. Nonetheless....
Yet, the government is going to host a parade for health workers where everyone is asses to elbows in a crowded area spreading disease.
audacy.com
NYC to throw ticker tape parade in July to celebrate health care and essential workers
Mayor Bill de Blasio is following through on a promise he made last year to celebrate the city’s health care heroes and essential workers with a ticker tape parade.
June 3, 2021
Movie theaters and Covid, the reality:
-Malls, the primary traffic generator for movie theaters, has been in decline for more than a decade. Retail in shopping malls was in decline way before Covid.
-Consuming content (movies) has been in a long-term swing to on-demand streaming services for the past ten years. The consumer's behaviors have further changed since movies are now available same-day on streaming services as they are in theaters. The consumer doesn't want to go to a theater before Covid and they really don't want to go to one now.
-Movie Theaters have troubled real estate. Their properties are not easily converted to other uses. So the assets of a theater are troubled because they are tear-downs to repurpose, and further troubled because they are adjacent to malls that people do not want to shop at based on the past decade's economic data.
So why, why in the heck are people buying AMC and other movie chains stocks sending them to insane prices separated from all reality? The individual investor is buying stocks based upon memes while egging each other on to pump-pump-pump stocks that should be in bankruptcy.
Beware. Logic and economic data do not support current valuations! This is insanity and insanity always precedes market collapse.
June 3, 2021
Lets take a trip down memory lane today.
ZeroHedge, the investment site blogged about the incredulity of Dr. Fauci's statements that the Covid19 virus was not man-made and leaked from the Wuhan lab.
SocialMedia "Big Tech" decided that ZeroHedge was spreading misinformation and fake news by suggesting as a media outlet that the lab-leak theory was possible. ZeroHedge is not able to post on most social media platforms at present.
Dr. Fauci's emails were hacked and leaked to the Internet. In the emails, Dr. Fauci is told by an expert virologist at Scripps that the virus does have characteristics of being modified by man. Fauci immediately forwards those emails to his direct report marked "Urgent" and states to have his phone on him to deal with these emails same day.
Fauci testifies before Congress and advises then president Trump that there is no support for the accusation that the virus leaked from Wuhan or was that it was man-made (modified by man in a lab setting)
Conclusion: Fauci likely lied or misinformed the president of the United States and may have perjured himself before Congress. By his influence and authority, big-tech cancelled media voices that stated there was evidence of the virus being man made and leaked from a lab.
Friends, this is the challenge with content moderation and big tech. Politically motivated people that align with Big Tech can suppress the voices of other media outlets, limiting us to the marketplace of ideas and potentially suppressing the free press. Meanwhile, anyone that said anything about potential lab-leaks or man-made modifications to the virus were viewed as "quacks, conspiracy theorists, q-anon wackos, etc.". When it comes to access to the free press, we need meaningful changes to Big Tech's approach to silencing the alternative viewpoint media.
Fauci has lost credibility.
Bonus nugget: Fauci's leaked emails support that surgical masks were not effective, all while telling everyone masks are required.
April 7, 2021
Bragging that you got the Covid Vaccine is analogous to bragging that you brushed your teeth on Tuesday or took a shower on Thursday. Good for you, you appreciate hygiene. You do have to do all three of those things over and over again you know. The vaccine wasn't a destination, it was a single page in a lifelong journey of future Covid vaccines in perpetuity just like flu shots. Considering these facts, bragging about your Covid shot is a very bizarre behavior equivalent to me mentioning I took out the trash today.
April 7, 2021
Get the vaccine or don't get the vaccine, that's a personal choice and I don't really care. Plenty of pros and cons on that one. What I do care about is reality, and few people are operating in reality at this moment.
Reality includes these facts:
-Vaccines are like flu shots, they will help with certain strains and will be ineffective with others.
-The vaccines will be a forever commitment, not a quick jab and you're suddenly immune. As such, I don't care if you skip this one or not, you'll be getting 20 vaccines per decade if you go the vaccine route anyway. They are good for some strains for about 6 months at a go until a new vaccine for new strains is created.
-Vaccine or not, the old-normal is dead and buried. Social distancing is the new normal. Vaccines are not highly effective with the ever-mutating virus nor are they a license to go back to old ways of large gatherings. Whether you vax or not, your plans of superbowls and MLB games are probably ill-advised.
-Probably a good time to take up outdoor hobbies that don't require large groups of people. Bowling league and raves aren't going to be advisable activities anytime in the next ten years.
January 6, 2021
The insanity of the left. Racist to the core. Oregon is reporting:
“The state's COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee is a group of 27 individuals tasked with devising "a vaccine sequencing plan focused on health equity to ensure the needs of systemically affected populations, including communities of color, tribal communities and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, are met." The committee's members include representatives from health providers as well as community groups such as the Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition and the Somali American Council of Oregon. Although decision making responsibility ultimately lies with the Oregon Health Authority and Governor Kate Brown, the state has pledged to follow the committee's recommendations.”
To recap: Your access to the vaccine will be based on race, rather than on medical need. Not the elderly and infirm first, then first responders, then teachers, then critical infrastructure workers, then children, then the rest of us.
Nope, the color of your skin or your protected class will dictate your prioritization for a government entitlement.
December 8, 2020
The lunacy of public health policy:
November 24, 2020
Math matters. Cost per live saved is higher than any other cost for any other policy in US history that saved lives.
news.yahoo.com
$169 bn for 29,000 lives? Study calculates cost of US shutdowns
There's little doubt that government-ordered business shutdowns to stop the spread of Covid-19 damaged the US economy, but the exact cost has not been clear.
September 18, 2020
I'm not sure why this is even a debate based upon science?
The whole mask thing is a correlation to lesser virus transmission, not causation. A.) People are socially distancing while wearing masks. B.) Those that use due care wearing a mask use due care in many other facets such as hand washing. C.) people find masks annoying so they are making less trips out to places of possible exposure because they are expected to wear masks.
So what's the point of the masks? Maintaining control of the population and trust in the government. Does that sound absurdly far-fetched?
Remember in the 1950s they had every kid in America ducking under the school desks doing weekly "duck and cover" drills in the event of a nuclear missile strike. It turns out that desks are as equal at preventing concussive damage, building collapse, and radiation death as masks are at protecting against particulate as small as smoke or viruses.
Note: Link to article blocked by social media. Fact Checker notice posted in its place. As of 2024, the blocked info is now deemed scientific fact.
August 3, 2020
I don’t mean to make light of death, but statistics are important, as is data.
Does anyone know the anticipated pre-Covid annual US mortality rate?
What I’d like to understand is how many of the 155,000 deaths in the USA attributed to Covid-19 would likely have died from their co-morbidity anyway.
Put another way, did Covid kill people that were going to die of flu, diabetes, heart failure, etc?
That number is important for me to find and grasp to rationalize how much economic damage and stimulus (debt) has occurred in relation to how many real-lives saved. (Or planned deaths avoided in aggregate)
February 13, 2020
Pretty interesting article on the coronavirus. Did the Chinese have a whoopsie containing something they actually built? A fair amount of circumstantial evidence:
zerohedge.com
Sudden Militarization Of Wuhan's P4 Lab Raises New Questions About The Origin Of The Deadly Covid-19 Virus
"Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue... If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory..."