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I am blessed by a sense of curiosity that leads me to places like TAE that lets me encounter intriguing souls like oxymoron who shares tales from beyond the pale with us. I envy you. The peasant Chinese called rats-as-food “household deer”. Like deer, they’re rough on gardens — and have a gamey taste, one presumes.
We finally snagged some elastic (it has vanished from the shelves like TP had). Sewed two trial face masks last night. Way more work and much less airtight than my sock masks, which you can make in 2 minutes with scissors and something to hold the back end together — clothespin, office binder clips, Ace bandage holders (the best), anything — and there’s less air pressure directed at the filtration/diffusion surface area.
Fauci does strike me as an O.H.D. Doctor of Obfuscating Horseshit Dissemination, but so does John Cullen aka John E Hoover.
Also, I want to point out that ‘Oh noes! we’re all gonna die if we don’t have a giant bureaucracy to tellus what to do, how to do it, and how much they’ll pay/taxus for it!’ suffers the same mono-ideation insufficient to address the array of issues involved as is also suffered by ‘Oh noes! bad thoings are happening and this can opnly be because of Evil Rich Men!’
Sometimes they really are after one. Other times one is just paranoid.
P.S. Who needs flying cars now that we’re going to have Flying Pizzas!
One reason they give flu shots is to create a population in which far less people get the flu from other people because the vaccinated (allegedly) get it at a much lower rate than the unvaccinated. I suspect the vaccinated/exposed have a brief contagion period as the virus lives in their body until vaccine antibodies take it down, but nothing like if it readily spreads to invade your entire body and you get sick aka ‘a *case of the flu’. ( *a vernacular that surely drives the doctors here nuts.)
Vaccines aren’t foolproof and don’t adress the entire spectrum of flu viruses making the rouonds at a given time. Sometimes they miss the main target pretty badly, I understand. It’s a “long game” played over decades. But the concept is to keep it under control, which is why — according to the concept — I have only gotten the flu twice in my life although I was never vaccinated until very recently.
Our understanding of this is based more on modeling than adequate inspection-based data; adequate inspections would be impossible wtihout some kind of majickal nanotech of the mostly scientifically impossible beloved by sci-fi writers but not those who actually work in material fabrication/molecular engineering. Or something equally impossible even if by being too expensive except in the silver-spun future where flying cars used to freely roam until their extinction by an unexpected reality event, i.e., the future that actually came to be, which is rarely expected until it’s so obvious it’s almost over.
So we model. The modeling itself isn’t so bad. From the little I know, it seems more good than bad, i.e., it works well enough.
But, as others more informed on medical specifics than I am have pointed out, the premises for the modeling suffers from complacency, laziness, corruption, and general information entropy (too many messengers ruin the message), and eventually, the relationship of the model tends to separate from the facts. Not unlike how currency inevitably detaches from the value it nominally represents, and eventually becomes a bloated bag of mostly empty markers, unless we take regular stringent measures to make sure that the vlue represented by x-zillion dollars in currency accurately represent the yz’s of genuine hpysical wealth the currency claims to address. Same principle: insufficent, sometimes deliberately false data sets, and bogus unbtested ideas “proven” by scinecy-seeming unscientific methods.
Good models using good data are wonders of more-reliable-than-not prediction. Bad models and/or bad data grow into evil monsters.
We have no solid models of this coronavirus because of the above factors. We can’t say it’s a deliberate scamdemic (altho we can count on our authorities to reliably exploit it as if they’d planned it). We can’t say it’s gonna kill this many or that many of a given population at a given exposure rate because a) we don’t have enough real-time data across a large enough sample of the populace, and b) we live in the present not the future, which is where we’d have to arrive in order to accrue obtain a seriously reliable data set, an act which requires time unfloding in history to be retrospectivel analyzed after the fact.
It’s funny: we demonize Bill Gates because he has placed so much money and energy stressing that such things be done. How effectively he has created appropriate action on this is another question, along with the sincerity of his emotions.
But we all like to think we know, just like I like to believe that Dr. Fauci is a classic whiney-butt punk who was probably a nice, reasonably idealist and moral human being when he graduated from high shcool in ’58, a little insecure about his nebbish appearance, maybe, and maybe a little ego-inflated concerning his IQ and ability to make it through school in the honor student arenas… but now has become a snide little schweazel who has been surrounded by expolitative and manipulative assholes for so long he’s become just another flying monkey to the evil witches who employ him, who has come to sometimes even delight in performing the evil they task him with although will bend rules and alter tasks given if he thinks he can and feels like it, sometimes using this to prove he’s actually ‘working to improve the sytem’.
For allI we know, he might just be another highly knowledgable expert risen to his Peter Principle point and is so high on being successful that he doesn’t pay all that much attention to how incompetent he’s really become in relation to the tasks and issues his high office is supposed to positively affect.
As for the presence of evil witches in upper tier positions of wealth and power and position, I cannot prove it but I’m also confident few would disagree.
Remarking on the general themes of today’s posts: when conventional practice is challenged by whatever means, intentional or accidental, human or otherwise, flaws in the system that were previously unquestioned or hidden tend to become more apparent. This includes the obvious suspects discussed above regarding medical practice, but larger beliefs, such as the belief that we must have a public consensus to deal with large public issues. We must mount some kind of campaign: war, popularity contest election, focus group, etc.
It’s funny/intriguing: to deal effectively with this virus way back when iot first emerged, the best action I can think of would’ve been to halt all air traffic and cruise voyages for 40 days. Like they did way back when sail travel was close to interplanetary travel in terms of difficulty, reliability, and mortality rates.
Everyone would, of course, say that is way too over the top. Technically, this is true until one considers the sociological aspects alone. Once a thing like a runaway flu gets about in today’s hyper-socilaized, culturized, indoctrinated world, then one has to contend with a zillion conflicting aspects from corruption to ignorance to denial. Like we are now, we who have yet to form an effective consensus on whether global climate disruption, anthropgenic or natural cycle (or both, my choice for most likely climatic reality), is real much less what to do if it became regarded as undisputable truth. And that climate-mother happens glacially slow (although glaciers move faster of late). This thing is fast as 400-600 mph on average, with about 4 billion people a year going from here to a there several hundred miles away, around 8 million people a day, although other statistics make it closer to half that. Still, an awful lot of daily vectors.
This air travel thingie is a new-found power scarecely half a century old. (Major air traffic, especially global, didn’t kick in until the 60s.) Now it is deemed indispensable because our paradigm is addicted to it in many ways, from Creates Jobs!!! to the getaway vacation carrot to shipping to… and none of it is even remotely necessary. But stopping it would’ve taken a leader with major gonads on the scale of a Terran demiurge to take brave action and be followed likewise by other leaders. One would have better luck running a casino on Heisenberg indeterminacy in a roomfull of rocking chairs and self-driving boxes containing cloned Schrodinger’s cats.
A virus transported globally within 24 holurs from one gaggle of folks hanging around one highly contagious locale, is one very rapid wave. Which then produces more of the same, in a compounding logarithm or something like that.
Even now, we here spend as much or more energy arguing if this is a genuine global health crisis or some “scamdemic”. Not being able to answer this question to our satisfaction, we plug it into more easily understood concepts, from Orange Man Bad to Zonist NWO cabals strike again! (I’m waiting for the UFO angle on this. UFOs — and porn –ruled the internet until 911 took over. It’s time for a UFOlogy renaissance.)
I’ve read more rants about our unpreparedness, the greedy blind ignorance of our authorities, how this is all part of a massive conspiracy to resurrect Orwell as the New Hitler, etc., than about how to deal with the inescapable wave of viral contagion and associated social behaviors.
We do know, for undisputed fact, that hospitals are being overloaded right now. (I’m putting off getting bloodwork to check my iron because hospitals are crazy places right now and will only get worse for some time.) Things of undisguised major import are happening to real people in real time, and we, being homo saps enthralled with our imaginations, nonetheless prefer to discuss whodunnit just like we cannot escape wondering who made the cosmos because we feel overwhelmed by said cosmos just as we feel overwhelmed by this wave of cornoavirus contagion — all of us, even or maybe especially those of us who remind us repeatedly that they have been warning about this coming for years. It’s stressful for EVERY one.
Everyone is freaked out to the max and this alone is bringing down the global paradigm. Everyone, I said, including Soros and Bill Gates and the ghosts of the Elders of Zion. Yesterday Mayor Cuomo says it’s just a sniffle, grow a pair, carry on. Today he is begging for emergency medical supplies. Some of us are keeping pretty cool about it because we’ve been expecting a shitfan event for a long time, but we still stress about what’s ahead precisely because we understand how big this is likely to be, how a reset to normal is pert nigh impossible.
We know our authorities are mostly dysfunctional spoilt nincompoops with either inherent sociopathic/narcissistic disorders, or affective sociopathic/narcissistic behaviors burnt into them from years of climing corporate/bureaucratic success ladders requiring conctant moral sacrifice along the way.
We don’t know what to do about the sweeping change, even those of us living on 40-ranches with great soil, barbed-wire electric fences, heavy-caliber machine guns, and a fleet of well-trained drones, although I envy those folks.
There is simply no way humanity can continue doing what it has been doing. This includes the Mighty Mental Moonbeam Men who secretly rule our world. Atlantis, such as it was, is failing, falling, and so are they. I am as responsible as the creeps in charge. I lack authorioty and power but not responsibility: these events will affect me and those close to me. I will have to respond.
I shared this before. It bears repitition, me feels:
Somehow I think that most readers here are familiar with BlackRock, the company that the government chose to oversee the 2008 Crashed Cash Giveaway. We weren’t aware that it was a “jewish” outfit. We were aware that it has many Jewish principal members, founding and otherwise.
But we are chastened by the reminder that what matters most is Who to Blame even though we know that said blame won’t change things for the better.
And nowm, if you’ll excuse, I have a cat to bell:
Before I entirely a-oogah, I’ma share this. I may have shared it before. But if so, this time is different. Tis time it’s what the sociologists and such call “relevant”. Here we see an old fart triumphing over the lack of face masks:
zerosum: awesome post (before, during, after)
Raul: “I got viagra scrips older’n you, son,” he said, accidentally speaking into the mic of his cheap headphone ‘hearing aids’ and losing that much more hearing. 😉
Dedicated to all the Big Shots and high-ranking corporate spokespersons and government mandarins out there. It’s your turn:
One of the world’s most amazing guitar solos.
Also, regarding where the corona virus genes meet the cornoa virus memes:
“The Gartner Hype Cycle describes a particular way that the media over-inflates people’s expectations of new innovations in comparison to how evolved they actually are for a particular market segment’s needs.”
As for money and alla that, I found this article (quoted on some loudmouth’s blog) both instructive and kinda hilarious:
P.S. I notice that youtube is easing down its intense attack to make me pay for stealing other people’s musical copyrights and sharing them for free (not that I care but hypocrisy is hypocrisy, jah?) Yesterday, an ad from Tasco Bell that, due to social distancing (there’s a loaded psyop phrase, intentional or not) they couldn’t give me a hug despite its/their tremendous desire to, but could give me a free taco a their Still! Open! drive-thru. (‘Bring your own polyfiber membrane. Tongs not included.’)
This just *might* be typo free, and all the links just *might* work. These are the days of miracle and wonder…
“THere are too virus waves of critical importance. ”
Two not too. Edit function appears to be some kind of practical joke. I remember when our machines worked as expected.
“Vanguard’s Wang said the Chinese government has likely accepted that growth will take a hit this year from the coronavirus pandemic and is willing to trade off some of that as long as there is social stability.
“ ‘As long as we have some … social stability, that’s probably what the Chinese policymakers fear the most rather than just the growth numbers,’ she said.”
Part of me is mentally staggered that people are waiting for “maks” to magically be made available by the Good Factory Fairies. Even a primitive mask filters out half or more or airborne pathogens. Our culture has become so automatic (TAE reference intentional), so infantile in its dependence on the forumale of ;factories make things/we buy them with money’ that we seem virtually incapable of making or doing anything on our own.
UNtil some Facebook videi that is properly “sticky” makes the rounds with some kind of official seal of approval, or a proper amount of that mystery bug: “buzz”. All the cool kids are making masks from ad hoc materials on hand, I better do this too or I won’t be cool.
THere are too virus waves of critical importance. One is the physical; contagion wave through physical contagion vectors. The other is whatever corona-message goes full-spectrum viral through our various media. Where those two intersect will be, I think, the defining nodal point in all this.
“But if he is fired he loses the ability to try and keep the train on the tracks.”
Via governmentally official means, yes. But that doesn’t mean those methods are very good. When Fauci is reduced to making commentsd along the lines of “Yes, the prez says lots of bullshit about the virus, but in private he listens to reason”, I’m not sure who’s benefitting. The result is a crap shoot of credibility/incredibility vis a vis credulity/incredulity. So I don’t see it being clearly defined that losing his job equals losing the ability to positively direct public opinion on the matter.
A pleasure discussing the matter with you, D.O.
The point of official pronouncements is to give clear directions not vague comforts.
Fwiw, I still feel he is simply adding more layers of confusion to the disinformation… but this is a day-by-day long game, and your view may prove to be correct.
Disinterested Observer: thank you for your moderating counterpoint. It deserves respectful consideration and should be honored with same in any response given you.
“He cannot just up and say Trump is completely wrong or lying as he is most of the time. He gets fired.”
This contains something like a false equivalency. Fauci can “just up and say”. Being fired IS an option. This not only wouldn’t affect his financial estate (unless he’s spending his high-level income profligately, which seems doubtful), it would also not move him out of the dialog. He already has an enormous public platform, if he chooses to use it, outside of the government and away from the presidential podium. Trunmp Twittered and CNN’d his way into office. Fauci has enough star clout during a time when his star is most valuable, to inform the public properly outside of oblique utterance during a Trump-driveled White House press conference. He could hire a savvy PR person and make a big roar on the internet.
Some might argue that if he did so, he might well be given an offer he couldn’t refuse, to which I’d reply that this, too, is a false equivalency. He can, theoretically at least, grow a pair and be a hero. But what if they threaten his kids and wife of 34 years’ marriage? At that point, we’re in even deeper doo than the deep well we already believe we’re in and it hardly matters.
That said, I got a ride from some gnarly dude back in my vagrancy days long ago who examined that aspect for me. He claimed to be involved in drug-dealing at a level where he came into conflict with larger dealers.
I asked him about having his family threatened.
“They already did that,” he said. “I said, ‘I ain’t got no family. Or I won’t after you take them away. But you do. ANd they’re no more invulnerable than mine.'”
A deal was struck. The king always has to allow his nobles room to move.
Intestinal fortitude is what it is — and isn’t wehen it isn’t. I see in Fauci little evidence of the kind of intestinal fortitude needed to be properly valuable to the American public from his office at this time. That doesn’t make him a sociopath… but he seems far too content in his circumstance for me to give him more than a cursory benefit of doubt.
Well, after all, we are in something like a war (with a viral spectrum of inbred corona cousins), and first victim in war is truth, said the man who practically invented the pencil mustache. The guy who said:
In such times, peculiarly, many people seem to believe they have the Actual Genuine Truth that no one has but them and a select group. I guess it’s a miniature reflection of the supernal architecture of war: us vs them cuz they is wrong and we isn’t… which is too easily confused with ‘they are wrong and we are right’.
Not that I’ve seen many instances of either camp being right. Wrong seems to be the human cofgnitive default state. Generally, like the suite of viruses named corona, some are so little right that they might as well be wrong, some are vice-versa, and most are closer to the middle than not. Each camp cluthes their little shards of right and wrong with little distinction between the two: it’s their hand, and even if they’re not right, they’re more right than the other guy, who is just SO wrong.
While I agree with the sentiments of the song, I do so only in theory not in practice.;)
P.S. How does a drummer do so much with just a single snare beat per measure oberr two bass beats per same? Old Ringo was simple, but a simple genius.
Yoo iz good and funny poet, my parents. That one is a keeper.
Raul: Trump’s NPD has now been oberved directly by countless admin staff. Reports have this have also circulated the shop-talk rumor circuit. IN fact, Americans have seen him so much many of them have a handle on it, and that could well lead to something like this:
any sharp sociopath loves dealing with NPDoids.Having little or no moral conscience themselves, sociopaths are uniquely equipped to manipulate a mere malignant narcissist like Trump. Per this logic, the longer Trump is in office the less able he is to run amok as he would like (which is pretty much his sole virtue aside from that mazing hair). Increasingly, he would be corraled, then harnessed and ridden by socios who have his number and are even working in concert. (While Fauci has an inherently smug facial expression due to bone and skin structure, but I feel that his natural resting face sincerely reflects his character: a conniving little sociopath quite high on his own butt fumes without being particularly vulnerable in the narcissistic sense. He’s a genuinely arrogant asshole, not a falsely arrogant but internally insecure asshole like Trump.)
If we want an interstitial bullshit detector/pattern analyzer about what the creeps in charge are up to, and for how long they’ve been up to it, watching the consistencies among the contradictions expressed by Trump’s various #1s might be a useful tool.
Trump still has that priceless loose cannon aspect, so they can’t ride him too brazenly. He’ll buck and they won’t like what happens. DOnald’s genius for being reliably unpredictable in specifics although uber predictable in generalities, is one remaining saving grace I see in the scenario I described above. I find it hard for something like I described to not be happening.
Also: since PUtin pioneered mastering Trump early on, playing him adriotly without missing a beat or making a flase note, I suppose he’s an uncommonly useful indicator regarding how the non-Euromerican creeps in charge are circling their wagons/planning their offensive regarding USA involvement in all this.
Ok. Break over. WHere’s my a-OO_gah horn! DIve! Dive!
AND!… a musical fable of our current economy:
People crowded into apartments like people I know whose children came home for the duration since their service sector jobs folded. Getting crabby but learning to live together. Quarantine will be rough in many ways, too rough for many of us, probably. But it will have its positive aspects:
It’s Monday, isn’t it? Oy. Back to the novel. (blows bloated verbal gaseous ballast tanks, submerges, heads for deep subconscious waters where stories swim and novels form slowly into something like a school of fish that swims in unison)
Maxwell: if nothing else, start a blog. There are still free ones for the taking, I assume. Most of them let you upload images from your computer. THen you can open the image from your blog and paste its URL here. I tyhink it’s what the digitali calls a “hot link”.
“Long article returns to the bat/pangolin route. But still taking that as gospel today seems a bit out of sync.”
I don’t think that secret underground government bio-labs are necessarily exclusive of bats and pangolins used as test animals. We don’t just slaughter and eat animals. We torture them for (often misleading) experiments in which they suffer for possiblre benefits whivch, if realized, do not benefit the animals, their offspring, or species.
No prob for us to use unwilling live hosts to create bio-whatevers. We do it with humans too, cuz “inasmuch as ye do it to the least among ye” (like the animals we callously dominate), we set the template for doing it to ourselves.
I suspect that before learning how to tame animals into beasts of burden, human slavery was virtually unknown. Start small, work your way up.
While it’s a bit late, to put it mildly, it is at least action of the proper scale and severity. Russia is another nation whose people have been indoctrinated with a functional collective spirit even as its people hustly singularly for the almighty ruble.
Florida church service during pandemic
Hard to stop. Even in the best of times, people need to do something that feels positive with all this capacity for magical thinking that goes with being reflectively conscious sentient beings.
Doing a bit more shopping at the store yesterday with my wife before the real Hunker-Downer locks in, I saw that few people wore masks. Ten at most. (Wife and I wore a heavy scarf tied around the face.) The aisles were crowded with workers stocking items on shelves often significantly depleted (we managed to buy some TP!). Almost as many workers as shoppers, it seemed. Merchandise pallets everywhere every which way.
Red ‘Stand Here to Wait’ floor decals every 6 feet where people line up to shop. Lots of rent-a-cops, none of them wearing masks or gloves. Our cashier wore gloves and appreciated us using our sani-wipes to keep the customer/checker interface area clean. I told her to *please* stop, take a deep breath, and stretch before starting on our purchase. Poor old gal was working herself dizzy and being wonderfully polite and cheerful.
We held paper towels in our hands to reduce contagion as we handled purchase items. We did this as much to make other people think as for contagion prevention.
Let’s see: one narrative says the thing leaked way last summer via Ft. Detrick. Now it’s all about the Gates ‘Billionaires Saving the Planet’ fora held later in October. We seem to be weaving a conspiracy temporal anomaly, captain.
I don’t trust the durn gubmint to do the right thing or tie its shoelaces without hired help, but I don’t think it does anyone any good to run rabid with every suggestion that The Evil Cabal did it. It’s like ancient Cro-Magnons arguinbg whether the Annanuki bumped an asteroid in order to cause the Great Dino extinction.
The point of the Gates epidemic prevention projects is to provide predictive prescriptions for managing the inevitable rogue pathogenic asteroid strike. The prevention/predictive been doing this for some time, with the aid of previous epidemics in recent times to help guide them. Turns out they happened to be mostly right, and the event happened after their prediction, not before (which is how predictions are supposed to work).
The problem with the official 911 story line is that no one in authority talked publicly, and hardly anyone talked on record, beforehand about the likelihood of infrastructure being used against itself via terrorism, which was a no-brainer to any movie director or suspense novelist. We found it hard to believe the oaficial story line, and rightly so.
Now the problem with Corvid-19 is that they were talking about it beforehand.
I suggest we stopped inflating these bloated false idols know as Rich Assholes into magical demonic dark overlords with allegedly panoptical vision, omniscient wisdom, and omnipotent control of global resources. It worships fear uber alles. It continues to empower these same incompetent amoral lunatics while continuing to foster a sense of helplessness among us peasants.
“Historians of the future, pan-roasting fresh-caught June bugs over their campfires, may wonder when, exactly, was the moment that the financial world broke with reality. ”
I adore Jim Kunstler.
Also, both SARS and MERS are both cornoaviruses, so it would be natural for any global pandemic forum to focus considerable attention on coronaviruses.
The article about Bill Gates/Event 201 isn’t passing the initial sniff test. Sometimes, deeper investigation finds that it is relioable info, but sao far, pulling up the floorboards has revealed no hidden dirt, just a bored floor. Anyone find anything hiding under the basement, probably in some secret underground lab, please let us know. Otherwise, I’ll dismiss that one as more of something whose name I detest: “fake news”.
Oh, it occurs to me the mask is not immediately recopgnizable as a sock. Cut along dorsal line to top of heel, along ventral line about the same length, and voila!
“Is it also possible that the warning from Wuhan, which increased for vireal contagion, may have unveiled a number of new viruses already happening but not yet entered into the Book of Known Viruses.”
‘which increased testing’
Oh. Yeah. Gates resigning in January could just mean he saw what was coming and decided he had better things to do than pretend to run Microsoft while hanging around an apparent virus epicenter. Not that I’m a Bill Gates nor a basher. I wwould think he has a fairly unregulated narcissistc affect from being the richest man in the world for some time, in the coolest industry since rocket sceince. I also recal reading stuff suggesting he was a CIA asset, wittingly or not, since the Dawn of DOS.
Secret tetanus sterilizations? Beats abortions. There are no easy choices, and our sacred right to breed as we wish is a cultural delusion.
PLaying devil’s advocate here for sake of logical stringency:
“I make no claim to being a virologist, but this is beginning to look damned peculiar. A natural virus hasn’t the ability to simultaneously infect 85 different countries on all continents of the world, with outbreaks in multiple locations in each country – and to do it without the vehicle of a seafood market full of bats and bananas.”
I make no such claim either, but it seems to me that a world with people traveling cross-continentally and intercontinentally in trips lasting at most half a day,in whic h people are places in huge metal winged tubes with notoriously dry air, entering and exiting in mass congregation terminals with many bottleneck/checkpoints, could do such a thing quite easily.
“More peculiar is that these countries were by no means all infected with the same variety of the virus, which means the simultaneous infections in these 85 countries were not from the same source. ”
Is it also possible that the warning from Wuhan, which increased for vireal contagion, may have unveiled a number of new viruses already happening but not yet entered into the Book of Known Viruses.
We vaccinate for the flu. The Flu, we call it, although I understand (foggily, from reading done through an anemic haze) that the actual vaccines address a spectrum of ranges of predicted mutations (or something like that), is deemed Business as Usual. Someone goes to the doc with icky symptons, they generally test to see if it’s antibiotic or viral and, if needed, run a spectrum test for things like MERS, etc., right? If none of those, they send the patient home unless they’re critical, tell them to drink gobs of water, take Advil, eat healthy fresh food as much as possible, and rest, rest, rest. There could be lots more varities floating around than our med establishment tends to think. Could be that the buzz from Wuhan made people look at their usual cases of “the flu” differently. Especially when people started ‘red-eyeing’ and experiencing cytokine stoprm organ failure. Correct me if I’m wrong. I like it.
J.D.: Man says to elephant: so you stick that thing up your wife?
For the record, it works like a dream. Easy snug tight fit, the sock-foot expands and contracts like a ventilator balloon (do they still have those?), and it doesn’t get too hot cuz of the wide respirator filter surface area. It also makes people laugh, which reduces the Stanger Danger masked-man phenomenon.
The fact that few governments are incapable of doing a proper lockdown that keeps critical supplies going is not proof that lockdowns aren’t proper methods for ensuring a populace protects against a pandemic properly. It’s evidence that our governments are at the end of their rope, with or without a gallows noose at the end. (What first seemed like a neat handle for holding on to your lifeline becomes a hanging.)
Of course there will be major civil unrest and at least a little blood.
I watched Chicago burn for five days in 1968 while my fireman Dad fought fires, looters, and dodged bullets. Just because the government shot some guy telling the truth too well and too effectively. Who here wasn’t expecting at least a significant chance there’d be civil unrest over the upcoming election fiasco-in-the-making? Who here didn’t think that this virus thingie was Most LIkely to Be a Black Swan?
No One Likes To Be Locked Down except people with unusual ‘issues’
The trouble is that we didn’t do it right away, when it is highly effective and minimally disruptive.
Does anyone think the populace would behave kindly if everyone was running about normally and people started getting really really sick because their neighbor coughed on them? Meanwhile, NYC, everyone’s favorite place to get mugged, is experiencing a major reduction in able police officers. Because we didn’t lock down soon enough.
Timing is very important in things. Last I heard it shares equal billing with mass, energy, and space.
I made myself a face mask that is amazingly tight, comfortable, low pressure (due to the probiscoid air tranfer unit (PATU) and able to be filled with more filtering material due to the PATU’a large filter expansion chamber.
Tomorrow: on smiling with one’s eyes.
I’d say the author of the gold price piece is quite credible, looking at the hiostory of American Eagle prices in the article linked and the image (hopefully) shown
