Month: May 2020

I wonder how many of you are aware that the last time the numbers were calculated a 1% increase in unemployment caused 40,000 deaths in this country?

Here is a link: https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/explaining-the-link-between-unemployment-deaths-amid-coronavirus/

Cut it in half: figure 20,000 deaths per percentage point. Figure a 10% increase in one year unemployment. That is 200,000 deaths.

Michigan has a population of about 10 million, or 1/34th the overall US population. Proportionately, then, it seems reasonable to say that 5,882 people will die BECAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT. In the next YEAR. It will go on the next year, if high unemployment continues.

This is over and above the simple despair and anxiety of not being able to pay your bills. This creates stress. This is transferred to kids, who grow up unhappy. It causes divorces, which are bad for many reasons. The host of ills should not need to be listed.

Right now you have 50 people dying a day and 53,000 infected. That is one daily death per 10,000 infected.

A bit over 98,000 Michigan citizens died last year of some cause or other. That works out to about 8,100 a month. You currently have about 5,060 deaths TOTAL from COVID-19, over the past two months, and those rates are declining.

NO ONE WHO SAYS THEY ARE COMPASSIONATE OR THAT THEY CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIFE CAN SUPPORT THIS FORCED HUMILIATION AND FORCED JOBLESSNESS A DAY LONGER.

The worst human beings on the planet—at least, the most destructive—are sadists who have convinced themselves they are humanitarians. Ordinary sadists can be sated, at least for a time. The Lenins and Hitlers, and perhaps the George Soros’ and Bill Gates of the world cannot. The world would not be enough, even if it were a good start.

The mental health consequences of this whole nightmare will long outlast the labor lockout, the government tyranny, by a lot.  People are hanging on by a string, by now, and many of them, of course, did not hold on.  At some point one of the very, very, very few honest journalists will do the tally of suicides and drug overdoses.  I expect them to be substantial.

But over and above that, this whole thing is traumatizing.  For me, personally, it has been a Godsend.  But I thought about all this.  I had plans in place.  I was ready, in many ways, although I will admit some of it was pure blind luck or Grace.

But some of these lockdowns are severe.  Even though salt air is one of the most sanitary, sanitizing natural substances on the planet, Democrats like Bill DeBlasio and Gavin Newsome are denying their people access to both the physical and mental health benefits of fresh air, sunshine, and ocean waves.

It’s unconscionable, especially now that the disease seems to be done completely.  It’s monstrous.

If the American people–and indeed, the citizens of the world–do not blame them and hold them to account for what amount to crimes against humanity–something far in excess of mere incompetence–then our future is bleak.

I am reminded of the last scene in Taps, which I think was Tom Cruise’s first major film.  He played a trigger happy hard charger in a military school.  In the last scene, he is firing a machine gun, and when Timothy Hutton confronts him he says “It’s beautiful, man!!!”, with a huge smile, right before they are both killed. (about 1:40).

I feel like, among others, Gavin Newsome thinks his labor lockout is “beautiful, man”, and for the same reason: it gives him a boner.

But just as  Tom Cruise’s character had to know it couldn’t last, Newsome  SHOULD know that as gratifying and exhilarating as ordering millions of people to live in fear, misery, desperation, and penury might be, it can’t last forever.

He’s just not ready to stop, just yet. Not yet.  It’s still too much fun.

His inner dialogue: ‘There are still people saying it’s out there, right?  Fauci says we need a vaccine.  Let’s wait for a vaccine.  Or a CURE, we could wait for a cure, right?  Let’s order them off the beaches.  Fuck the peasants.  God that felt good.  What else can we pull back?  Oh, let’s make it last all summer. yes, then demand that only mail in ballots be used.  Let’s send five to every household (you do have those lists, right?  And the people to work them?  Good).   God it is good to be governor.  I long for the days when it can be like this all the time.  My job would be so much easier.”

What we are seeing is a foreshadowing of the sort of control and government the Democrats want.  A Universal Basic Income basically would make them the Sugar Daddies of a large percentage of the populace.  And when Daddy wants some sugar, he gets sugar, you understand?

Here is the thing, though: the people have a say.  When you push, people often push back.  When you step out of the shadows and people see you are an ugly monster, they never after stop looking for ugly monsters again.  When you lie to them, only some of them will accept it forever.

My FEELING is that there is nothing I can or should say right now.  The wheels are turning, and with this much pain, and this much stupidity, and this much abuse, either Americans wake the fuck up, or it is simply not possible, which itself is a useful data point as well.

This book, Influence by Robert Cialdini, is worth reading.  I read it perhaps 20 years ago, and parts have stayed with me.

I was in the grocery store just now, where in theory everyone is supposed to be wearing masks.  Masks piss me off and there is no hard penalty in my State for not wearing them, so I strolled in quickly in the middle of a crowd, bought three things, and scooted out.  Nobody said anything.

First, though, it occurred to me that there is no perceptual difference between a truly invisible enemy and a non-existent one.  That is why I have been calling this thing a Snipe Hunt.  Obviously, tens of thousands of people have died, but as with the flu every year, I don’t know any of them.  No one I know knows any of them.  It’s literally, exactly like the flu season.  Well, the END of the flu season, or to be more accurate, about a month after the end of flu season.  But it may well be that people are coughing their last in hospitals somewhere even now–we are losing about 2 people a day right now to COVID, or at least that is their story and they are sticking to it, for now.

Secondly, though, returning to  Cialdini, he pointed out that people will often rationalize unchosen sacrifices retrospectively as worth it.  One obvious example is the practice most car dealers have of dragging the process of buying a car for several hours.  They have to “go check with their boss”.  That takes 15 minutes every time.

What they are doing is creating an investment for you, an investment of time, and perhaps emotional energy.  Nobody wants to sit there for nothing, so what they are doing, in general, with most people, is increase your motivation to buy a car.  You don’t want to spend an hour there, then walk away.  Most people don’t.  Some people do.  They get better deals.  (Me personally I walk in an tell them what I’m willing to offer, take it or leave it.  Usually they take it, because I understand a bit of profit is needed.  I just don’t want them flying to Hawaii on their commission.)

Here is the thing with masks: the psychology is that are not really wearing masks because it is worth it.  The disease has passed, and all but the most sickly are in more danger driving to the store than they are in the store without a mask.

No: they assume it is worth it BECAUSE THEY ARE WEARING A MASK.  The act of wearing a mask becomes a symbolic act whose value is acquired in the act.  This is why I see joggers wearing masks.  Why I see people in cars driving alone with masks.  Why I see people in the park wearing masks.

As I understand the facts, no study has ever been done that has validated the value of masks when it comes to flu viruses. 

And the studies that have been done concerning the long term wearing of masks seems to indicate they lead to elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the blood, and following reduced alertness.  I do the Wim Hof breathing daily.  It gets you high.  Your body intakes oxygen, does its thing, then emits carbon dioxide as a byproduct.  If you then reinhale that CO2, well you get more of it in your blood, don’t you? 

So the logic and the science are really lacking.  And wearing a mask is a pain.   I have to do it for work sometimes for some tasks, but only for short periods of time.

So why do it?  Well, obviously if it weren’t worth it, you wouldn’t be doing it, which means LOGICALLY it must be worth it.  That is how the psychology works.

For the Governors ordering this bullshit, they are in some cases hedging their bets, and in other cases trying to dilute the stark reality that this labor lockout hasn’t been necessary or in any way helpful for at LEAST a MONTH.  My vote was ten days, just to do what they initially SAID they wanted to do, which is make sure we had an adequate stock of hospital beds and ventilators. That was about six weeks ago.

All in all, I comment on this thing, still, pretty regularly, but if America can’t figure out how badly our experts fucked up, and how Democrats took the fuck up to the next level then doubled down, then our Constitutional Republic really stands no chance of surviving in anything but shell form.

And I wonder, on that score, WHY Barr feels no need for criminal investigations of Obama and Biden?  They dug into every last corner of Trump’s life for a long two years and change, and at that WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT.  When COVID-19 started hitting our shores, he was defending himself from a bullshit impeachment proceeding.

Ethically, legally, politically: why NOT go after the bastards?  I see nothing.

Every day, more examples of stupidity, cowardice, lack of principle, and short sightedness. I can’t even begin to guess any more who is honest.  Rand Paul I like, and Trump I think comes around to the right decisions quickly, even when he strays for a time, but he is surrounded by corrupt losers who are giving him bad counsel at every turn, and failing to protect his back.  He has to do that himself.

https://www.altcensored.com/search?q=knut

I’ve linked one search, but this website hosts all the crazy and non-conforming stuff.  If David Ickes is your thing, then he lives on there.  Share this link.  It will make full censorship more difficult for these bastards.

Knut was recently pulled from YouTube, for differing from the talking points the media and Big Tech are pushing.

The thing is, he is highly qualified to render opinions, and it is a patent fact that the “experts” we have trusted so far have fucked up badly.

It will be interesting to see how many people are getting actually “woke” right now.  Even though the media and Big Tech are staying on topic and consistent, the amount of pain out there is immense, and there is no spinning or lying about that, or about the patent partisan divide between the Forever Quarantine of the Left, and the “”Let’s not destroy America” of the Republicans.

I am going to do some math. Roughly 60,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the past 8 weeks or so. About 25 million people have lost their jobs. That means that for every person who has died, 416 or so have lost their jobs.

Let us say half those people are reemployed in a month, and half will be out of work for the next year. Let’s round it down to 12 million who will be out of work for the next year.

In Trump’s economy prior to all this nonsense, there were about 164 million people participating in the labor force. This means, on this assumption, that we will see a 7% increase in unemployment over the next year.

Some years ago an economic analyst calculated that for every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 Americans die. They die from a variety of causes. There is less money for medical care from all sources, there is vastly more stress, vastly more divorce, vastly more drug and alcohol abuse, and significant increases in suicide rates. Blended, the overall mortality rate goes up.

Within the last month someone reached out to that researcher and asked if those numbers still hold. He said that the Stimulus money and various small business grants are likely making things much better than when he first ran the numbers.

So let’s cut the number to 20,000. 7% times 20,000 equals 140,000 excess deaths over the next year. That is more than TWICE the number that have died so far, and the death rate and hospitalizations are declining nationally.

No one who has put the least bit of thought into this can possibly conclude that the labor lockout is saving lives, or that the path of compassion is pretending otherwise.

And please add onto this plain and simple misery. The people that die are, by and large, elderly and at the end of their lives. The people who will die from the economic decline will be working age people, and most of them will in effect die of stress and anxiety. They will die slowly, sadly, and with no fanfare.

This whole thing is a monstrous atrocity, and I really hope it comes to be viewed as such soon, and by most of the people in this and every other country which enacted such a benighted policy.

I don’t dispute this is a really bad flu year, in effect. But nobody even noticed when 80,000 mostly elderly Americans died of the flu just a few years ago.

And I DO dispute, categorically, that a labor lockout was or is the correct policy.

If you are going to be greedy, be greedy for knowledge and understanding.

The Infector: a device for infecting people with a pathogen in such a small and gradual way that the immune system is able to respond in an optimal way.

Think about this: a vaccine is the disease, but dead.  But vaccines, themselves, are cultivated.  The disease, itself, is grown on a variety of media, including mashed up human and animal babies (as I understand it).  That disease is then killed, processed, then injected into humans.  But a lot of stuff in addition to the disease is added, and some of it seems to be harmful in and of itself.

Vaccination, itself, is a means of slowly introducing a disease into people in such a way that they build up immunity.  What if introducing the disease ITSELF could be made safer?  What if one tiny, tiny droplet were introduced into someone at peak immunity, say with oxygenated blood, maybe even on an IV of some sort. 

I know Big Money is involved in all this, as are all manner of Personality Disorders, mainly Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

But I’m just throwing that out there.  Why not think new thoughts?  All the old ones are thought already.