As we move forward and begin the inevitable and rational move towards re-opening, don't let yourselves be bullied by appeals to emotions and authority.
I'm seeing one too many absurd claims that 'we want granny to die!' and 'we're not out of the woods!' and 'there will be waves!'
I'll address the final one out waves because the 'granny to die' is just a despicable thing to say and is without merit or intellectual currency.
At this point, it's fairly obvious that not only is the virus here to stay a vaccine won't be arriving any time soon. While the former can be said with a fair amount of confidence the latter could surprise us. But I wouldn't base decisions and policies counting on it.
For those of us old enough to remember, they used to say that about the Aids vaccine back in the 1980s.
We're still waiting.
We have no experience with the coronavirus and only began to understand it in 2020. It takes, on average, years to really come up with a safe and effective vaccine.
Look at it this way. We've been working with influenza for decades and it's essentially 50% effective.
Recall, we isolated the healthy not to protect them per se but to slow the spread and while it looks like that helped the worry now is focused on successive waves.
Social distancing indefinitely is impractical if not irrational. From the second we emerged on this earth, man was a social animal. The only way for social distancing to work indefinitely is to basically enforce it through ruthless law enforcement if not martial law. By forcing it, we invite social unrest and it will all collapse under its own weight.
Is this really what we want?
*****
The truth is, in my view, people will perceive our leaders for having failed miserably. The entire success and existence of our democracy rests on the simple principle of people having perceived confidence in it.
Our government's broke so many laws to the point of shattering the precarious sacred sanity shared between institutions and citizens.
They did so all without consulting legislatures. It's a highly troubling development in the West in recent years.
This is what keeps me up at night. How we let a virus hijack our sense of liberty.
When all this settles I am absolutely certain we will realize we made the WRONG CHOICE.
Unless politicians who let this happen pay a serious price, I fear the Pandora's Box is open.
*****
In this together? I don't think so. We're in the same storm but not the same boat.
Leave it to clueless people who aren't sharing the financial burden to engage in arrogant platitudes that lack self-awareness.
Justin Trudeau is NOT going to be there with you.
Put it to you another way. If the government shuts things down again. There won't be another round of loans and what not. Small businesses and certain industries have already paid their part and paid the price to 'save granny'. Next up to the plate will be government workers and people who work from home. Oh, did you think you would never potentially get hit?
*****
About Sweden. People are missing the point. When all is said and done, Sweden is likely to be right in line with other Western countries with one key advantage. They will not have shut down. They're betting on taking the hit now to be in good shape later.
It's pretty interesting to read people passively-aggressively root for them to fail.
Which makes me wonder if ego and ambition is what's really driving those who think this way.
*****
The English school board in Quebec completely dropped the ball. Legault basically told them I have confidence in you. We feel it's a good thing to open up a little. Go. Instead, the government was met with a wall of irrational resistance and arrogance publicly stating they will decide to open up.
Teachers are employed of the state and they will do what they're told. We're in a pandemic and it's time to normalize. All they did was bitch and moan about trivialities completely missing the big picture point.
Instead of saying, 'Thank you Mr. Legault for putting trust in us. While we feel this will be challenging we appreciate the chance to get back to work and show Quebec we won't let the virus control us. Blah, blah' they wasted precious political capital challenging him publicly.
Not wise.
And somewhat embarrassing I say.
*****
I notice that people who are screaming not to go back to work are the ones getting paid while hurling guilt on those who do. The people who want to go back to work aren't getting paid and are asking for some semblance of fairness and understanding.
Gee, the 'save granny' people don't seem to give a single lick about the secondary social ills a prolonged shut down will have on people.
Worse. When it starts to come out, they'll be commenting on it as if they had no hand in it and even pretend to care. They will, of course, blame everyone else except the fact their own thoughtless actions borne of fear contributed to it.
This is all but a certainty.
*****
/Looks unde rock.
Yup. Democrats still hypocritical scoundrels.
Their behaviour in all this has been quite astonishingly cynical and corrupted even by their standards.
*****
Duranty
Gareth Jones.
*****
I think they just want panic.
That's what I think.
I don't think this about health per se but has now crossed into ugly, naked politics. That includes the medical bureaucrats. Particularly Fauci who is rather enjoying his time in the spotlight a tad too much. He and Tam here have been less than impressive in my view.
That the left has elevated them to hero status should leave on to ponder.
*****
Amazon isn't in this together. Their delivery service has all but slowed down though it's not entirely their fault. What is their fault is to abandon clients by shutting down their customer service offices.
Not a good move in my view. I discovered this when I had a problem with an order. Thankfully I reached out to the seller and they were professional and courteous responding in a prompt manner.
Amazon left its clients out to dry while they continue to stay open for business and make money.
Sure. We're in this together. Sure.
Costco meanwhile decides they'll ask pant-shitters to hold their beer making it mandatory to wear a mask to shop on their hallowed cult grounds. My question to Costco shoppers is are you really going to submit? Do you need it that badly? It's not like the savings are that amazing. And while I get the high quality food and bulk options, one would think they'd say 'fuck you' I'll shop elsewhere until this blow over.
I know quite a few people who are huge Costco shoppers basically tell they won't shop there for the time being.
I left Costco a while ago. It's Scientology for shopping in my view.
But that's another story for another time.
*****
If the Golden Horde were to resurrect and assess us here's how it would go.
They'd notice all the rainbows on the windows. People sheltering in place hiding from a non-lethal virus believing they're saving granny and descendants of Ann Frank as they watch #CanadaTogether collecting the pay check from a job they still have.
General: My Khan. The horses are antsy today. We may not be able to mount a calvary attack.
Genghis: It's ok. We won't be needing them.
Women with rainbow poster singing, 'Ca va bien aller' hops passed them.
Genghis: Poo-Tee-Weet?
*****
Dunno about you but I've read my share of doctors exhibit low-grade logic during this pandemic. In warning us all about how this is dangerous they've employed just about all the logical fallacies in the arsenal from false dichotomies (we have no choice) to false equivalence (this is like Vietnam; same amount of deaths as Vietnam) to ad hominem (you lack humanity) to appeals to authority (what do you know about micro-biology? Just listen to Dr. Fauci) and appeal to emotions (you want granny to die!). It's the mother load of circular logic and doctors have proven to be the worst offenders of this.
Doctors are humans. They're not infallible. What's been especially shocking and disheartening is their apparent unwillingness to accept the unintended consequences to people at large to all this believing it's all for the 'greater good'. It's foolish as it is bafflingly creepy.
Me: Did you ever notice how the left likes 'Five year plans?'
Doctor: What five year plan?
Let me go on.
But don't you dare challenge anyone or else you're the one being political. In one argument sequence here's what two separate people have told me. Ready?
*****
I noticed parks were full and little social distancing this past week-end.
I'd like to think people are noticing, like with the climate change crowd, all the worst case scenario predictions have not come to pass and as we go on and learn more about the virus, the more we realize it's not an existential threat despite its high infectious rate.
I've been skeptical from the get-go. For one simple reason. Early on, the experts were telling everyone we know little to nothing about the virus but that didn't stop them from taking extremely volatile and unreliable data to form projections around to set policy.
As we moved forward, we kept adjusting the numbers but the rhetoric remained firmly entrenched in the original faulty position. These two are not in friction with each other.
Here's just one recent example about how people without symptoms could spread it was flawed.
Yes, it's still a serious virus. And yes, we need to be vigilant. Just follow guidelines and protocols. Don't snitch and be a bitch. Use common sense (I know, I know).
*****
The Mayor of Chicago Lightfoot and people like her are terrible, authoritarian leaders without vision or wisdom. All they know is how to be heavy handed.
*****
Why do I get the feeling the Americans are going China behind the scenes?
I hope they do.
The CCP is a rotten, dirty communist organism ruling China.
I'm seeing one too many absurd claims that 'we want granny to die!' and 'we're not out of the woods!' and 'there will be waves!'
I'll address the final one out waves because the 'granny to die' is just a despicable thing to say and is without merit or intellectual currency.
At this point, it's fairly obvious that not only is the virus here to stay a vaccine won't be arriving any time soon. While the former can be said with a fair amount of confidence the latter could surprise us. But I wouldn't base decisions and policies counting on it.
For those of us old enough to remember, they used to say that about the Aids vaccine back in the 1980s.
We're still waiting.
We have no experience with the coronavirus and only began to understand it in 2020. It takes, on average, years to really come up with a safe and effective vaccine.
Look at it this way. We've been working with influenza for decades and it's essentially 50% effective.
Recall, we isolated the healthy not to protect them per se but to slow the spread and while it looks like that helped the worry now is focused on successive waves.
Social distancing indefinitely is impractical if not irrational. From the second we emerged on this earth, man was a social animal. The only way for social distancing to work indefinitely is to basically enforce it through ruthless law enforcement if not martial law. By forcing it, we invite social unrest and it will all collapse under its own weight.
Is this really what we want?
We're never going to be 'out of the woods'. That's the point. Whether you shelter down or not, it's pretty clear the virus is here to stay. Now the question becomes do we let it control us? You can shelter indefinitely all you want but at some point out of basic primal realities encoded deep into our DNA, we're going to come out. I fear we're actually doing damage to our immune systems to say nothing of our mental health for what's looking like a virus that a) can mutate into a more milder form that can act more like influenza and b) not as lethal as first thought.
There will be waves.. But now we're armed with more knowledge and preparedness. I see little 'scientific' or straight basic math reason to keep the economy shut at all or even keep people locked up. The cure is already worse than the disease so why keep on this track?
Don't feel guilty for going out without a mask. If people want to engage in psychological theatre to make themselves feel better and protected, so be it. They have not right to demand this of anyone else. If you want to send your kids to school, don't let someone bully you into thinking you're a bad parent. You're not. You're just weighting the trade-offs which best suits your situation.
In any event, the government and society at large better come to terms with the fact we will need to consider the trade-offs because as of now, the cost-benefit analysis to all this can permanently alter our economy - and not necessarily for the better.
To me, it's looking more and more like Sweden may have read this correctly.
I absolutely could be wrong but this is how I'm reading the information to date.
Yes, I want to granny to die.
The truth is, in my view, people will perceive our leaders for having failed miserably. The entire success and existence of our democracy rests on the simple principle of people having perceived confidence in it.
Our government's broke so many laws to the point of shattering the precarious sacred sanity shared between institutions and citizens.
They did so all without consulting legislatures. It's a highly troubling development in the West in recent years.
This is what keeps me up at night. How we let a virus hijack our sense of liberty.
When all this settles I am absolutely certain we will realize we made the WRONG CHOICE.
Unless politicians who let this happen pay a serious price, I fear the Pandora's Box is open.
*****
In this together? I don't think so. We're in the same storm but not the same boat.
Leave it to clueless people who aren't sharing the financial burden to engage in arrogant platitudes that lack self-awareness.
Justin Trudeau is NOT going to be there with you.
Put it to you another way. If the government shuts things down again. There won't be another round of loans and what not. Small businesses and certain industries have already paid their part and paid the price to 'save granny'. Next up to the plate will be government workers and people who work from home. Oh, did you think you would never potentially get hit?
*****
About Sweden. People are missing the point. When all is said and done, Sweden is likely to be right in line with other Western countries with one key advantage. They will not have shut down. They're betting on taking the hit now to be in good shape later.
It's pretty interesting to read people passively-aggressively root for them to fail.
Which makes me wonder if ego and ambition is what's really driving those who think this way.
*****
The English school board in Quebec completely dropped the ball. Legault basically told them I have confidence in you. We feel it's a good thing to open up a little. Go. Instead, the government was met with a wall of irrational resistance and arrogance publicly stating they will decide to open up.
Teachers are employed of the state and they will do what they're told. We're in a pandemic and it's time to normalize. All they did was bitch and moan about trivialities completely missing the big picture point.
Instead of saying, 'Thank you Mr. Legault for putting trust in us. While we feel this will be challenging we appreciate the chance to get back to work and show Quebec we won't let the virus control us. Blah, blah' they wasted precious political capital challenging him publicly.
Not wise.
And somewhat embarrassing I say.
*****
I notice that people who are screaming not to go back to work are the ones getting paid while hurling guilt on those who do. The people who want to go back to work aren't getting paid and are asking for some semblance of fairness and understanding.
Gee, the 'save granny' people don't seem to give a single lick about the secondary social ills a prolonged shut down will have on people.
Worse. When it starts to come out, they'll be commenting on it as if they had no hand in it and even pretend to care. They will, of course, blame everyone else except the fact their own thoughtless actions borne of fear contributed to it.
This is all but a certainty.
*****
/Looks unde rock.
Yup. Democrats still hypocritical scoundrels.
Their behaviour in all this has been quite astonishingly cynical and corrupted even by their standards.
*****
Duranty
Gareth Jones.
*****
I think they just want panic.
That's what I think.
I don't think this about health per se but has now crossed into ugly, naked politics. That includes the medical bureaucrats. Particularly Fauci who is rather enjoying his time in the spotlight a tad too much. He and Tam here have been less than impressive in my view.
That the left has elevated them to hero status should leave on to ponder.
*****
Amazon isn't in this together. Their delivery service has all but slowed down though it's not entirely their fault. What is their fault is to abandon clients by shutting down their customer service offices.
Not a good move in my view. I discovered this when I had a problem with an order. Thankfully I reached out to the seller and they were professional and courteous responding in a prompt manner.
Amazon left its clients out to dry while they continue to stay open for business and make money.
Sure. We're in this together. Sure.
Costco meanwhile decides they'll ask pant-shitters to hold their beer making it mandatory to wear a mask to shop on their hallowed cult grounds. My question to Costco shoppers is are you really going to submit? Do you need it that badly? It's not like the savings are that amazing. And while I get the high quality food and bulk options, one would think they'd say 'fuck you' I'll shop elsewhere until this blow over.
I know quite a few people who are huge Costco shoppers basically tell they won't shop there for the time being.
I left Costco a while ago. It's Scientology for shopping in my view.
But that's another story for another time.
*****
If the Golden Horde were to resurrect and assess us here's how it would go.
They'd notice all the rainbows on the windows. People sheltering in place hiding from a non-lethal virus believing they're saving granny and descendants of Ann Frank as they watch #CanadaTogether collecting the pay check from a job they still have.
General: My Khan. The horses are antsy today. We may not be able to mount a calvary attack.
Genghis: It's ok. We won't be needing them.
Women with rainbow poster singing, 'Ca va bien aller' hops passed them.
Genghis: Poo-Tee-Weet?
*****
Dunno about you but I've read my share of doctors exhibit low-grade logic during this pandemic. In warning us all about how this is dangerous they've employed just about all the logical fallacies in the arsenal from false dichotomies (we have no choice) to false equivalence (this is like Vietnam; same amount of deaths as Vietnam) to ad hominem (you lack humanity) to appeals to authority (what do you know about micro-biology? Just listen to Dr. Fauci) and appeal to emotions (you want granny to die!). It's the mother load of circular logic and doctors have proven to be the worst offenders of this.
Doctors are humans. They're not infallible. What's been especially shocking and disheartening is their apparent unwillingness to accept the unintended consequences to people at large to all this believing it's all for the 'greater good'. It's foolish as it is bafflingly creepy.
Me: Did you ever notice how the left likes 'Five year plans?'
Doctor: What five year plan?
Let me go on.
But don't you dare challenge anyone or else you're the one being political. In one argument sequence here's what two separate people have told me. Ready?
Doctor: Not in so many words but 'you want granny to die and you lack humanity'. This a great buying opportunity and proceeds to tell me which stocks he plans to buy. I lack humanity but he's looking to score off the misery of the economy.
Friend: Oh Rufus. You're letting you penis think for you. How can all the countries of the world be wrong about the lockdown! I mentioned Sweden and get immediately shot down with a 'I have no patience for this'. Sweden is an outlier! And not all countries are the same!
Hoo-kay. All the same when it suits the argument. Not the same when you poke a hole in the argument.
In these two instances I had the disheartening realization that the lockdowns are absolutely the wrong approach.
*****
I noticed parks were full and little social distancing this past week-end.
I'd like to think people are noticing, like with the climate change crowd, all the worst case scenario predictions have not come to pass and as we go on and learn more about the virus, the more we realize it's not an existential threat despite its high infectious rate.
I've been skeptical from the get-go. For one simple reason. Early on, the experts were telling everyone we know little to nothing about the virus but that didn't stop them from taking extremely volatile and unreliable data to form projections around to set policy.
As we moved forward, we kept adjusting the numbers but the rhetoric remained firmly entrenched in the original faulty position. These two are not in friction with each other.
Here's just one recent example about how people without symptoms could spread it was flawed.
Yes, it's still a serious virus. And yes, we need to be vigilant. Just follow guidelines and protocols. Don't snitch and be a bitch. Use common sense (I know, I know).
*****
The Mayor of Chicago Lightfoot and people like her are terrible, authoritarian leaders without vision or wisdom. All they know is how to be heavy handed.
*****
Why do I get the feeling the Americans are going China behind the scenes?
I hope they do.
The CCP is a rotten, dirty communist organism ruling China.
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