Another good post by Bill Buppert of ZeroGov. He GETS IT:
"Disease and the Will to Power by Bill Buppert"
Publishers Note: I have been carrying on my life as normal during this latest wholly owned subsidiary of government madness. I continue to go to work and I have used this as an opportunity to conduct a gaps analysis on my preparations. One of my life-long friends has been sharing our home with us when he and his wife escaped their expat location overseas just in the nick of time (days before they locked it down).
Use this time to do the same and get to the range.
If you get the stimulus [to inflation] check, use it for guns and ammo.
A short PSA for the government:
You wearing a gun right now? If not, unfuck yourself.
Get proficient, spicy time is coming. -BB
A lesson I learned from this ancient culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotles ethics), a sense of grandeur that was superseded by the Christian value of humility. There is no word for it in Romance languages; in Arabic it is called Shhmbest translated as nonsmall. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you dont take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Ill keep this short because I have been very busy contending with the idiocy of government from the local to the federal level and everything in between.
This is not a pandemic.
CDC Data 2019-20 Flu Season
CDC COVID-19 Data
There are an estimated 38 million to 54 million flu illnesses, versus 103,000 COVID-19 cases, so COVID-19 is less than 1% at worst, 0.3% to 0.2% of the number of influenza illnesses. In other words, 368 to 524 times more influenza illnesses vs. COVID-19. And the number of this years influenza illnesses is somewhat lower than the average over the years. And remember, these are illnesses, not tested positive, which means zip.
This is an ancillary upper respiratory complication in the large majority of cases that replicate some earlier flu variants.
You will find that the actual death numbers are low. You will also discover that the science behind this is incredibly compromised as is all science in the west today thanks to the cognitive infection of federal and government funding of science. This is especially true in the current climate (pun intended) of the virulent Neo-Lysenkoism of climate alarmists. Not to mention the scientism or things that have the cosmetic attributes of science but without its rigor. These poorly educated reprobates have no grasp of empiricism, scientific methodology and an infantile worship of flawed models in everything they do.
You have to ask two questions to get at the heart of this:
Why are the elderly dying? They are dying because like humans for eternity before them, they have natural expiration dates. What you are seeing is some of the same cognitive malpractice you see in climate alarmism. The conflation of correlation with causation and a tendency to bend evidentiary rules so that one can cherry-pick premises to fit the conclusion formed before investigation began.
The old and frail are dying of comorbidity. In medicine, comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional conditions co-occurring with a primary condition; in the countable sense of the term, a comorbidity is each additional condition. Rare is the end of life one primary cause but rather a bundle of conditions and ephemera racing to score the coup de grace on the usually witting victim. Unless I expire in a fight in peacetime or wartime, I have a very good sense of my body mechanics starting to slow down or function less effectively.
In this case the elderly are dying because that is ultimately their career path whether we like it or not. In this case, it would be instructive to see the autopsy reports and I will bet a brick of .22LR that all of them had failing health or pre-conditions of less than optimal function. Keep in mind that less than ten percent of all assigned COVID deaths occur below the age of sixty. And this data is coming from the voodoo clown circus known as the World Health Organzation.
Hmmm
And keep this is in mind:
Its important to note that seasonal flu, which causes outbreaks every year, should not be confused with pandemic flu, or a global outbreak of a new flu virus that is very different from the strains that typically circulate. This happened in 2009 with the swine flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed between 151,000 and 575,000 people worldwide, according to the CDC. There is no flu pandemic happening currently.
The second question is easy to answer, cui bono? Who benefits from this, of course.
The government.
You can see economically illiterate overreach everywhere. From your local communist mayors shutting down businesses, like Detroit South here in Tucson, where the petri dish of collectivism and the progressive cult has turned the city and its burgs into Plissken Acres complete with failed roads, high crime and the highest property taxes in the state. At the Federal level, the national CP-USA has consummated its sloppy wet dream of tempting the Mango Emperor to the dark side with ill-advised and economically unsustainable bailouts.
The term we used to describe this in the military was slamming your dick in the cash register.
So you can get gas and go to the grocery store and other retailers but you cant sit in a room and eat food because
A primary transmission vector may be shit.
Thus since we know that ONLY restaurants have public restrooms since no other retail outlet or vendor has restrooms, only they should be closed.
And if there is any retail venture in the USSA that lives on the razors edge for survival, it is food venues that serve eat-in customers but why not order them all closed because fuck you, thats why.
The government, as usual, has turned a crisis into worse proportions than originally conceived. Do I assign this to conspiracy? Of course not, not where incompetence is always the right answer. The only conspiracy that occurs is covering up for who or what was responsible for the latest miles-long train of traveling dumpster fires rocketing down the track.
The collectivists have collectively gone mad [h/t to Phillip].
Again.
I am not a medical doctor nor an epidemiologist but I do wonder at the quarantine and self-isolation effects on herd immunity, only time will tell."
https://zerogov.com/2020/03/28/disease-a....
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