Masks never worked in schools. Time to ditch mitigation voodoo entirely.

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Look at the results of mask mandates, student density requirements, ventilation upgrades, and “social distancing”. All of it failed totally. Nothing more than voodoo that too many people were afraid to challenge. It has now congealed into an orthodoxy, rites to be performed at every new rise in case counts. It’s mindless, and madness. I’m fairly surprised that nothing at all worked. The lockdownists, the panic peddlers, the Doomsday cultists were totally wrong, every step of the way. And now they’re too deep into their own BS to admit that they were wrong. It would discredit not just them, but entire fields of research. The scientific establishment desperately needs a humbling. 

Tulsa World reporters really don’t like their lies being challenged

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Here is a fact-free, irresponsible piece of panic porn published recently at the Tulsa World: “New surge of COVID patients, young and unvaccinated, ‘very scary’ for St. Francis physicians”

It’s the typical fearmongering, ancedote-as-journalism tripe, complete with the apocryphal 11th-hour, ICU-bed confession of vaccine faith, patient “surges”, angry/frustrated doctors, et cetera. Except this has been the hospital’s occupancy rate over the course of the entire pandemic:

And here has been the entire state’s ICU occupancy:

There was zero information in the Tulsa World article from the latest Dept. of Health epidemiology report. I pointed this out to the reporter in question, followed by graphs. This was her response:

The propagandists can’t take the heat.

COVID-21 is here

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Not a new virus, but a mutation of the narrative. A PR makeover. We knew this would happen though. This level of power is never relinquished voluntarily.

Data, combined with perspective, is cold water on the peddlers of fear

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COVID coverage has proven that journalism is dead in Oklahoma. Panicky news stories are spewing forth like radioactive bile, the creation of wannabe lackeys and stenographers to fascists, and are scaring the everloving crap out of people who don’t know any better. It’s the work of thugs, dregs, blue-collar dirtbags eager for a pat on the head from the Political Class. So, as antidote to filth produced by these wretches, here is real data from our own health department that, in a sane and moral world, would receive coverage. Notice that deaths are completely uncoupled from cases. Case counts are meaningless without corresponding increases and deaths/hospitalizations. Now look at the recovery rate in dark blue. Identical to the case rate. Okies are catching COVID at an increasing rate, but recovering at the exact same rate, and developing long-term natural immunity in the process. Peruse the Oklahoma COVID-19 Weekly Report here.

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Heartening to see, but do they fully understand what they are standing against? Much as I hate to say it, many of these people either fully supported the policies and politicians all the way up to lockdown. We need a movement that doesn’t form until after the crisis is at our doorstep. We need a movement based on principle. Through the use a philosophical framework, we would better recognize the early steps taken toward totalitarianism.

Digression: here is a paradox that I’ve been obsessing over for 18 months now. Let’s say, in a semi-free society, a philosophical freedom group does exist, and does operate effectively by stopping totalitarianism before it takes hold. They do this for decades, and by now, no one is alive who has much memory of totalitarianism itself. These newer generations of people look at the freedom fighters with scorn and ridicule, believing their task to be pointless. “It will never happen here!” they say, when in reality a genocidal totalitarianism may have been snuffed out before it could grow to its full potential.

This is the same scenario that Nassim Taleb used in one of his earlier books, but applied to jetliner cockpit security. If 747 cockpits had been totally secured from outside entry by a group of well-organized, effective activists, the 9/11 attacks would have never happened. The activists would have in effect prevented the deaths of 3,000 innocents, but no one would recognize it as such. They would instead be on the receiving end of ridicule for forcing a seemingly useless policy onto the airline industry.

Busta Rhymes on masks

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A better angle of the Wu Tang Clan legend speaking out against masks. WARNING: LANGUAGE

Visualizing herd immunity

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Justin Hart has been doing God’s work throughout COVID panic. Here is his latest contribution: an inarguable visualization that shows that the vaccines were not the cause of the rapid, massive decline in COVID cases over the course of late Winter/early Spring. What could it have been? Probably the fact that the virus was running out of places to go; tens of millions of Americans had already been exposed.

Inflation because of “temporary things”?

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Jerome Powell does not fit the profile of a Fed chairman at all. He is lightyears away from a Ben Bernanke or Alan Greenspan. His demeanor is more middle school math teacher than that of chairman of arguably the most powerful organization in the world. It’s interesting to listen to him speak, almost as if even he is baffled by what he’s saying. His nondescript demeanor may be the very reason he was chosen as chairman, given the fact that any microscopic change in the behavior of the chairman can trigger wild swings in the market.