If you have the right education and training, some things are truly predictable.
April 17, 2020
It's not being caused by the Coronavirus, it's being caused by the government.
Maybe if I say it loud enough, and often enough, people will start to believe it.
Why do the fake stream media keep on lying about this?
I watch the news on my local station over my rabbit ears, and occasionally jump over to a CTV broadcast from Barrie which comes in on channel 35.
I DO NOT tune in to these stations for the NEWS, even though that is what I watch. I tune in so that I will know what kind of horseshit they are spewing into the open, wide open, gapingly open minds of the hoi polloi, and then comparing that with the behavior I see in public and the vomit that spews forth from the mouths of our political "leaders."
Okay, that is not entirely true. Because of my house arrest, and the habit I recently developed of turning on the television I have also been watching some of the re-runs of old shows like, "I Dream of Genie," "Happy Days," and "Cheers." If ever there was a time for nostalgia, this is it. The shows may be a lot of bull, but the casual, unrestricted behavior of the characters is very familiar. The spontaneous order of unregulated social interaction without the need for masks and painted lines on the floor may now be gone forever. But even those shows are being constantly interrupted by CH's Evening News repeater, Taz Boga, as she and the rest keep on pounding their message away into the minds of their somnambulating receptacles.
It's like a jackhammer pounding away, pounding away.
"Job losses caused by the virus."
"Closed businesses caused by the virus."
"Horrific government debts caused by the virus."
Over, and over, and over, and over.
BULLSHIT.
Do you remember what Climate Barbie famously said?
"if you actually say it louder, we’ve learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it!”
Oh, and that reminds me of that famous statement of another twentieth-century figure who said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Hmm, read that last sentence again,
"It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State" and compare that to a recent headline,
"Federal government open to new law to fight pandemic misinformation." -- CBC, April 15, 2020. In other words, the Liberal government of Canada is demanding that it alone has the power to define, and distribute, or restrict "the truth." Is it time to start pushing back?
March 21, 2020
Even though I think most of the responses from my favourite institution have been totally disproportionate to this new variant of the common cold, I do see one silver lining.
Most of the resources commandeered by the various governments to "fight" the Chinese virus will be misallocated.
This is an iron law of political economy. For example, they will go hog-wild buying respirators when, perhaps the money would be better spent on Hydroxychloroquine. The result will be typical of socialist lived experience; not enough resources to allocate to real solutions.
A bunch of rusting respirators. A shortage of drugs.
Pots and pans being donated to meet steel production quotas, etc.
Pigs being slaughtered by the millions and left to rot, in order to support pork prices. That sort of thing.
(Then they'll print more money.)
When governments are put in control of the disposition of all resources, inanimate and man-made, they end up wasting them. As Milton Friedman said, "People are never as careful with other people's money as they are with their own." Do you disagree?
Many, if not all, of the FEW apparent exceptions to socialist waste and failure will be emphasized as evidence of the success of socialism, as calving glaciers are touted as evidence of CO2 induced global warming. But when socialism operates on the back of a capitalist base, it can be made to perform miracles, like the socialist medicare regimes in most Western countries. The costs can be fudged, hidden, and politicized. The enterprise won't collapse because of its irrationality because it is "backed" by taxpayers.
It can even begin to deliver a product that has zero, or negative real value. The old Soviet Union might have boasted that they had universal and free medical care but the people weren't fooled, it was just as available as all of the other goods people living in capitalist countries took for granted, NOT.
Speaking of zero or negative value,
The public education system in Ontario is entirely based upon the communist model. And under all variants of communism there is fear.
Think about the degree of fear this Coronaville celebration has generated in some people. I have seen people wearing surgical masks in the supermarkets. And just LOOK at how willing they are to embrace communistic solutions to the perceived threat.
From the perspective of a free market purist, it's truly frightening.
But it really must be striking fear into the hearts of the teacher's unions and their membership. A warming planet doesn't mean that EVERYONE is going to suffer. But a mass insanity response to a flu variant has already shown us how MILLIONS of people have been harmed.
But like I said, maybe it's not all bad. Just as the end of the Dark Ages roughly ended with the Bubonic Plague, the era of socialist education may be ushered out by our new, kinder, gentler plague.
"Ontario is launching a new Learn at Home portal."
Oh! Oh!
A "learn at home portal." The internet version of homeschooling?
Imagine that same headline if there were no Corona holiday.
The teacher's unions would be GOING BALLISTIC!!!
But they can't say fuck all now. Social distancing is becoming the new normal. The classroom is, therefore, obsolete. Because it won't end with the Coronavirus, virtual homeschooling has gotten its foot in the door.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste."
May the left eat their own words.
What if Ontario's new Learn at Home portal turns out to be a stunning success?
And it turns out we didn't need those teachers after all?
April 2, 2020
He made a mistake with one of his calculations. Fifteen percent of two million is three hundred thousand - not one-hundred and fifty thousand but I think his point is still valid.
Karl Denninger goes on to speculate about the number of people who are going to die, or are going to lose their last few opportunities to gain some small human value out of their last days, because of the media-driven, political response to the Coronavirus. I started to think about this before Karl addressed it in his podcast.
In my own case, I was going to the gym three times a week and I had worked my way up to about forty minutes on the elliptical machine. I chose the elliptical because my feet can't take a lot of pounding.
Then the gym closed, so I started walking up and down Hamilton's mountain stairs. I started thinking of making that permanent instead of paying for a gym membership because it wasn't too hard on my feet. A lot of people were doing the same thing but.... "social distancing" was difficult to observe under the circumstances.
When it started to look like the people in power were going to prohibit stair-walking as well, I decided to try just straight walking. After two walking workouts I noticed that my old back problem from a disc injury had returned. After about a four-mile walk yesterday my back really started to flare up.
Now I am thinking of digging my bike out of the basement but there are physical reasons I don't ride my bike too.
None of these health consequences are likely to require the service of a ventilator and attending technician, but they are health problems that are now being aggravated by the political response to Corona.
And I know I am not the only person being impacted. I'm not going to try to guess at the numbers, but they too, could be in epidemic proportions. And that is just physical health issues. An accounting must also be made of the psychological impact.
On the spectrum of health issues, from mild to severe, that are going to be impacted as we all goose-step into an uncertain future, the question that really needs to be asked is - is the cure worse than the disease?
One of the first laws of political economy that I learned of was that when government acts to "solve" a problem, it almost always creates a whole slew of other, unforeseen, or un-thought-of problems, which ignite the call for yet further government solutions, and so on, and so on, until we end up with a gigantic welfare state which inevitably collapses. I've witnessed the incremental steps in this process over and over again. (remember the term, "creeping socialism?")
That's why it was second nature for me to start questioning the whole Coronavirus narrative from the very start.
