Last spring, when the first two-week lockdown came into effect to "flatten the curve," I had yet to form a strong opinion on the Coronavirus story. I had even done some "prepping" in February in case the WuFlu would turn out to be another round of Spanish Flu type sickness.
I imagined people, of all ages, dropping like flies, events being cancelled due to widespread illness, businesses closing their doors because too many of their employees had taken sick or died, supply chain disruptions for the same reason, and masses of people hunkering down in their homes out of fear.
But then, when I noticed how the media had latched on to the issue with its characteristic spin and exaggeration, I started to smell a rat.
As it turned out, events WERE cancelled, business WERE shut down, and masses of people WERE confined to their homes, but not because of WuFlu. It was because of panicked government edicts.
I had seen this type of phenomenon before. I had read about it too. One excellent book I read, when it first came out around 2007, was called "SCARED TO DEATH From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth."
The book caught my eye mainly because of the chapters on Passive Smoking and Global Warming; issues I had been focusing on for some time already. I got more than I bargained for. I highly recommend it.
Here is part of the description from Amazon,
"Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. It analyzes the crucial role played in each case by scientists who have misread or manipulated the evidence; by media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay the price, which may run into billions of dollars."
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
So, in a sense, I was already "prepped" for COVID-19.
So when I started seeing the body counts being screamed across the Junk News headlines, and noticed the ages of the people who were dying it was like a lightbulb turned on in my head.
"It's the fucking flu!" I thought, which isn't to say I thought it was an actual flu virus, but that statistically it looked a whole lot like a severe seasonal flu.
I started to do some digging.
One of the first sceptics I stumbled across on fuckYouTube, along with people like Woodard and Bahkdi, was the financial writer, Karl Denninger, a real numbers guy, when he noted that the data didn't fit the models.
Which isn't to say that he is the final word on this phenomenon, but he sure gave me some ideas about how to do my own analysis.
For example, early on, he was arguing that the disease was not being spread through the air but by fomites. And he provided very good reasons for saying that, but the jury is still out on that one in my mind.
Even so, I think it's worth the time to read some of this guy's stuff.
Dr. Mark Trozzi: My Personal Testimony
I have never had much interest in local issues. If I had never driven a taxi in Hamilton, I would probably not have had any insight into just what a bunch of clueless fools most of the people elected to sit on the city council are.
Without the insights I acquired as a cab driver, I might have assumed that these councilors, and their staff members, knew what they were talking about when I heard them commenting on issues that I had zero knowledge of nor engagement with. However, given that this group of geniuses have their hands around the balls of every member of the cab business, I had strong reasons to attend several council meetings when critical issues relevent to my business were being discussed.
What I saw on vivid display was their utter ignorance of the business they were supposedly "regulating." What they thought they knew about the cab business was pure fantasy, much of which was probably derived from watching old ganster movies containing the line, "Follow that car!" That and their complete buy-in to the popular falacy that cab drivers always try to increase the fares by going "the long way around," which is utter horseshit.
I mean, if you live in, or are familiar with Hamilton, get this... as part of their brilliant mandatory taxi school idea, one of the components of the "course" was "tourism."
Fucking tourism? In my 40 year span in the business, do you how many "tourists" I had in my cab?
ZERO.
Unless you count that German wrestler who got me to drive him from the Sheraton Hotel to that strip club on Plains Rd. in Burlington.
Garbage in. Garbage out.
Those of us trying to eke out a living had to endure unnecessary, and endless suffering as a result of the crud that spewed forth from these prodigies.
Well, finally, these pocket rocket scientists have given us something that we can all see for the vacuous lunacy that permeates their "thinking."
Canadian City Offers COVID Shots to “Black and Other Racialized Populations”
Georgia Mother ANNIHILATES the Left’s Mask Narrative!
