Rioters continue to provide material for Trump campaign

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We’ll rarely ever see something like this again. Rioting thugs surrounding a police vehicle with rifles, forcing it to stop. During the night they burned an entire car lot, and rampaged through Kenosha.

Oh how the mighty have fallen

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Taleb has a heart of gold, he did endorse Ron Paul for President a decade ago, but unfortunately also a vanity that extends beyond the solar system. He’s committing the same intellectual sin he constantly attributes to his opponents: building a strawman caricature of his opponent, and then dismissing them entirely. Sad that he included Ioannidis, an intellectual superior to him in every way, in the graph.

 

I rarely come across anyone that believes “the virus is a hoax”. I do, however, encounter greater numbers of people realizing that COVID-19 isn’t aerosolized Ebola, that it’s far less dangerous to children than the flu, that it doesn’t kill randomly but targets a very specific group of people with very specific symptoms, that masks, unemployment, and school closings pose a clear and present danger to children, and that allowing COVID to spread among the non-vulnerable population (which makes up over 99%) of everyone will protect the vulnerable far more than cowering in hypochondriac terror for the remainder of their lives. Do the elderly really want to spend their remaining years mired in this fear, hidden behind several masks and an eye shield?

Taleb’s ego is apparently preventing him from admitting he’s been on the wrong side for months. Does he ever mention lockdowns as a cause of apocalyptic devastation of the very most vulnerable in society?

CDC no longer recommends mandatory 14-day quarantine after international travel

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Sanity begins creeping in.

Next will be the public aknowledgement of vast and devastating human rights violations. Countries and US states currently doubling down on police state tactics should be considered as engaging in a form of genocide against the most vulnerable among their population, and the leaders who made the decision that led to this outcome must be held accountable.

Which virus originated in China, the coronavirus or the fear?

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Did a coordinated effort by China to promote fear of COVID-19 and totalitarian lockdowns as the only possible policy response result in the lockdowns that they sought? Fascinating/disturbing info in this Twitter thread. Click through to read the entire eye-opening thread.

Australia’s police state propaganda reaches 1984 levels

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This is 1984-level, “friendly Big Brother” totalitarianism right here. Orwellian doesn’t even begin to describe it. This is like being gaslit by an evil stepmother who never breaks her friendly demeanor as she sucks out your soul. “It’s for your own good my dear!”

Dictatorships always need an external threat, whether real or imagined. In this case, the “threat” has perfect  characteristics: invisible, silent, existing everywhere and nowhere simultaneously.

 

Biden would impose national lockdown, mandatory masks once elected

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“I would shut it down, I would listen to the scientists.”

This would mean another 50 million unemployed, food and home insecurity during the dead of winter, effectively inflicting a mortal wound to the US economy, and causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. The professional class applauds this insanity, a policy that would usher in a true apocalypse for millions of the most vulnerable. How is it possible that anyone thinks this is something other than national suicide?

One example of why we should never blindly “trust the experts”

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More often than not, they are the most deranged people in the room, as this person appears to be. These people should not be allowed anywhere near power or public policy decision-making. We are staring into a black future due precisely to the fact that people like this have been taken seriously over the past 6 months.

This is suicide-pact logic. This is the raving of a person who believes government should and could be safely transformed into some kind of leviathan Santa Claus, with no ill consequences whatsoever. It’s the raving of someone who has, her entire life, backpedaled into a belief that government should be God. It’s the pre-historic, tribal view of government and power. It has no place in our world.

New Zealand has no exit strategy in its war on COVID

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How do New Zealand’s leaders think they’ll win their “war” on COVID?

COVID-positive citizens are currently being forcibly quarantined in hotels, guarded around the clock by military personnel. They don’t get to leave until they test negative. Some have pointed to the swanky digs as proof that its not as inhumane as it sounds. But forced imprisonment and isolation is about as totalitarian as a government can get. And as is the manner of all totalitarians, New Zealand has banned photography and video of the facilities. For the safety of the “guests”, of course.

The hotels will run out of room very soon. COVID-19 is extremely contagious, but also extremely mild. Cases in New Zealand will increase, just as they have everywhere. What happens when the hotels fill up? I’d bet a silver dollar that the internment camps are being built as I type. And they will be filled.

The “stop COVID at all costs” strategy will bring with it the highest of costs. Are New Zealand’s leaders really willing to force their citizens to pay up?

The War on COVID is a quagmire for all foolish enough to take it on.