Sinister Cynicism

Sinister Cynicism.

The Covid-19  plot has become more complicated than an American noire novel. And the more we dig and logically assess it, the more nefarious the incompetence appears. 

Ham fisted, one-size fits all measures have, to put it bluntly, failed not just through simple observation but to the extent we completely confuse causation and correlation in a desperate attempt to show 'doing something' has rendered results. 

Has it? Is anyone in the Quebec government actually monitoring the results whether masks actually provide any results? Not doing so leaves us vulnerable to the pitfalls of falsifiability including assuming masks worked to stop the flu despite decades worth of evidence showing the opposite. 

If masks worked for the flu, then why is Covid-19 still around? Without an actual well constructed study all we'll get are conjectures and assumptions. Where up is down and down is up and everyone does the Safety Dance talking out of their asses.

What we need now is to change the lyrics of the Safety Dance to fit the Covid-19 hyper-hysteria.

Another tiresome tactic are the tiresome appeals to emotion. Yeh, yeh. I want granny to die and I'm selfish because when I'm gonna need the gold plated public health system it won't be there for me! Worse, I will be denied entrance! 

Citizens who claim to have compassion but support the measures, are exhibiting the inability to consider Frederic Bastiat's 'unseen'. 

For example,  the child struggling through on-line schooling. The person with a medical condition suffering through a mask mandate. The denying of one's right to work or worship robs the former of their independence and the other of their faith. The issuing of fines and use of coercion to shut down small business, which ironically, pay the salaries of public officials and law enforcement. The breaking up of people playing hockey outdoors despite a healthy lifestyle being one of the best things we can do to keep our immune systems strong. 

The stunting of children's physical and psychological development is also a travesty and points to a failure of leadership from officials and teachers alike. More perniciously, conditioning people - especially kids - to believe they're a threat to one another based on a combination of unsound, unclear and unproven science.

Indeed, the idea of asymptomatic spread is all the more questionable when one considers humans are generally asymptomatic of something pretty much for all of our existence since we live among so many microbes, viruses and bacteria many of which are unknown to us. It's called human nature. That one can be murderous without a mask doesn't strike me as something borne from science but more of superstition. 

Our collective adherence to sound science, or lack thereof, now extends itself to an incoherent Kafkaesque nebulous world where one can't buy 'non-essential' items. 

A true empathic person considers the unintended consequences of these illegal mandates on public health. A true leader considers the trade-offs or collateral damage. A leader doesn't make one group suffer at the expense of another and claim responsible governance and 'following science'. 

We have weak leadership in Quebec or Ontario at the moment. As U.S. states run by Democrats shamelessly begin to re-open for political reasons, Canada finds itself maintaining the most restrictive measures on the continent. If our politicians were leaders of men they'd all take a pay cut. But it's easier to scapegoat, without evidence, other people to protect their political careers. It's just how I perceive it.

In a recent enlightening article in The Calgary Herald, Lt.-Col David Redman took dead aim at the country's poor and incoherent response rooted in futile punitive measures. But this quote stood out at me:

“I never had a problem finding volunteers for really bad tasks in the armed forces,” explains Redman. “One of the things I was taught as a lieutenant is you never ask a soldier to do something that you wouldn’t do yourself. So you say, ‘I’m going? Who’s going with me?’

Exactly. Except this is not what we got did we? We got pubic officials across this continent who were very good at barking and dictating decrees masking them as law while not following their own orders. 

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Question Authority. 

It's appalling to come to the grim reality Dr. Fauci and Democrat governors (who allowed for infected patients to be sent into nursing homes to their sure deaths) sacrificed the lives of people for politics. Dr. Fauci himself admitted to The New York Times he lied about the thresh hold for herd immunity in order to scare people to take a vaccine that already officials say may not work.

The unethical aspect to all this is a crime against humanity at this point. 

In any other walk of life or employment, Dr. Fauci is relieved of his duties. Instead, he's revered for his incompetence.

Canadian officials aren't any better and are foolishly falling in line with the European model (with the exception of Sweden and Norway) despite our situation not being as severe. We continue to be led by faulty projections and models that all but assures a virus control our lives. In the process, we've lost our sense of independence, courage and ability to assess risk all because we lack ICU beds thanks to decades of public health mismanagement. You're in a lockdown not because Covid-19 is an existential threat (it has a very high survival rate) but because we don't have enough ICU beds.

Does this strike you as a fair trade? People lose their livelihoods because the Quebec government has a dysfunctional health care system?

We haven't just traded our liberty for security. We did so to shield gross incompetence.

Ostensibly to 'save every life'. A noble if not completely impractical ambition.

We continue to suffer (pretending we're all in this together) because of such unattainable notions as we've ceded broad emergency powers to politicians who have shown themselves to be ineffective mere mortals.

No single person or groups should hold such power. It should involve the consultation and inputs from all aspects of civil life. instead, we have shunned and censored those who do not share in the current approach to dealing with the health panic.

No human should have this kind of concentrated powers and an enlightened society that cherishes its liberty would move to remove or at least enumerate clearly with strong checks emergency powers. 

Medical bureaucrats at the moment wield a disproportionate amount of power misapplying the precautionary principle without a thought or concern to the collateral damage so clearly unfolding before our eyes.

The psychological morale of a nation shouldn't be held hostage on the whims of politicians who have to consider their own political careers as part of the calculus. Even for public health. 

It's ironic those of us who question all that has transpired are accused of 'not listening to the experts or science' when in fact, our concerns are firmly based on the science, data and literature available. Do not be, moreover, bullied into thinking your opinion doesn't matter because you're not an expert. These people are taking decisions that could impact your life forever. You have every right to voice your opinion or concern. God gave you the ability to critically think and assess. It is our collective duty to question authority. Man is not infallible and politicians and doctors aren't gods. They make mistakes all the time. 

The old adage government makes things worse is no longer an adage. It's now an axiom we'd better learn to heed.