They lost the working class. The working class became middle class. This should be a victory, but if the goal is death and destruction, peaceful gradual improvement is a massive fail.
Here is a factor to consider: what Herd Immunity looks like will vary a LOT depending on the overall health of the population. I see all these experts say that 60-70% of people need to get the disease for it to disappear.
But what they MUST mean is they must be EXPOSED to the disease. This is just how the math works.
Some 20% of Americans get the flu each year. The flu comes, kills some tens of thousands of people, then disappears. It sickens about 60 million, even though many have had the flu vaccine.
It seems reasonable to assume though that perhaps 200 million Americans are EXPOSED to the flu virus, that year’s iteration, or one of them. They just don’t get sick. Perhaps they develop antibodies that disappear soon enough, or perhaps the disease doesn’t even get that far. I’m not entirely sure what specifically happens when a virus stumbles into a perfectly functioning immune system. If two tiny, tiny little viruses happen in, and are both killed immediately, would you see that in a blood test? I don’t think so. I think that likely happens dozens of time a day for most of us. We are under continual attack, but most of us are well defended.
And what happened, plausibly, with the Spanish flu is that many million of people had weakened immune systems, so that a very much larger number failed to fight it off. It was not more deadly: the people were less well defended.
But with respect to the flu, I think this is how you get Herd Immunity with only 20% of the population.
This also means that you could get Herd Immunity with respect to COVID when only 20% of the population has tested positive. That seems to me a tenable hypothesis, in any event.
There is a great deal the “experts” obviously don’t really understand. Amplifying this inherent defect seems to be the added and artificial defect of a political agenda oriented around using this pretext to terrify people, in order–so it seems, since it makes no sense otherwise–to hurt President Trump’s reelection chances and to further train people in compliance with respect to overreaching and abusive government.
And I wonder, with respect to Farr’s Law, if this thing is not very much like a forest fire, where it sweeps in and kills everything weak and vulnerable, then runs out of fuel. This means the first wave will almost always be the worst, IN A HEALTHY POPULATION.
This could easily mean that most of the dying is done, even if not all the being sick.
But however we carve this thing up, we need to reopen the country. The kids need to go back to school. This hunkering and bunkering needs to end. This is no way to live, and we aren’t saving any lives, in my view.
There is an ENORMOUS–trillions, probably–amount of money to be made on a vaccine, so there is no reason at all to trust the sanguine salesmen of the miracle cure. Around here, it is called Betting on the Come. Smart people make plans based on what is at hand, or what is very plausibly and palpably near.
So they embrace their plight by doubling down, and seeking to make everyone else’s lives worse. This is why they mock others, are driven to mock others.
It is a cursed life, made necessary by their fear that love does not exist, and that there is no remedy in the universe anywhere for their pain but the temporary pleasure they feel in causing it in others.
Whatever unions they may form are known to be temporary, and they are unified not as soul to soul, but only in outer form, under symbol and rite, under external form, since no internal form, no internal order, is present. It is chaos and ripping only. This is what brings about the necessity of power relations. There is and can be no rest, no easy give and take, take and give.
I am enough of a demon to see this. Efforts were made to destroy me, but they failed. I did survive, however, only by hibernating in shock. I have both angel and demon blood in me.
Joe Biden is a guy who is always looking in both directions, waiting for cues as to the right things to say at that moment, to score political points. There is nothing even remotely spontaneous, warm, funny, or likable–much less lovable–in him. He is much like Hillary in this regard, and probably for the same reason: he is sick in his soul, so he HAS to lie.
But Trump will do well–after preventing cheating, which as sitting President he is much better positioned to do now, and to which he needs to deploy considerable resources–just by saying “I brought you prosperity once, and I’ll do it again. We need to laugh again, get together again, cheer on the home team. Our kids need to be in school.
“Joe Biden wants to surround himself with people who will tell you all the things that are wrong, all the ways you screwed up without doing anything, all the things most of you owe someone you’ve never met. He wants to surround himself with people who get excited telling all of you NO NO NO over and over, while using the power you give them to make themselves rich.
“Not me. I want a giant party, in a giant tent, where everyone is welcome, having fun, and where the punch bowl never runs dry. Prosperity, justice and fairness for all.”
But there are MAJOR differences. The main one is that we are a middle class, bourgeois society. And WE ARE NEARLY ALL ARMED.
Our government could be turned against us. That would be bloody and awful, although even there I think vastly more people would defect than obey.
But mobs cannot conquer the masses of us. That is the specific reason the 2nd Amendment exists. We are all the Army which protects our freedoms. That was always supposed to be the job of all of us, just as it was in the early days of the Roman Republic, where everyone was expected to take his turn in the Legions.
If you still have not figured it out,a large segment–large enough, anyway–of our government is in active conspiracy against the American people. The specific aims are unclear, other than vastly increased and ultimately unbreakable control.
But consider in this regard that 9/11 was almost certainly a staged, planned event, one which involved elements of our government, perhaps up to and including the President, and almost certainly the CIA.
Don’t forget, never forget, that Tower 7 was brought down by explosives which MUST have been planted before that day. The first explosions started happening about when I personally think United 93 was supposed to hit the Tower. A final set of explosions finally brought it down 8 hours later.
I have mentioned it multiple times, but a study has found that there is NO WAY 7 was brought down in any way but the simultaneous failure of nearly all structural supports, which can only be done with explosives and/or cutting charges.
Here it is again:https://www.ae911truth.org/wtc7
Most ordinary Americans, until recently, really didn’t GET just how fucking crazy the Left–and the Democrats who are now their party–are. They haven’t understood that it is some new fucking imposition every day–which the skinny jeans love, because it is like new tech, and they are empty on the inside, which is why changing gender is as easy as changing clothes–and that it NEVER EVER STOPS. The goal is not rectifying wrongs. The goal is not improving the world. There is no plan. There are no ideas or vision. It’s about assault, attack, destruction. That’s all.
The thing about people who are mutable and tuned to the winds is that they can change on a dime. All the people who have been hearing out the white kids running BLM could just start saying en masse: this is BULLSHIT. If they say it in public, and start getting reinforcement, it is over for these people.
Obviously, they know this and fear this. My local newspaper stopped allowing comments after I apparently said one too many things that made sense. It’s a Gannett paper, and I looked: in other markets, comments are still allowed. Just mine where they stopped, or at least as far as I know.
But even with censorship, even with campaigns of public villification, the tide is probably going to be too strong. We are being told no at every corner. No on going out to eat. No on movie theaters. No on this, no on that.
What I think most people really don’t want is MORE scolding. Dear God no.
This should not need to be pointed out, but slavery was a Southern institution. It did not exist everywhere. This means not all whites participated in it. And even in the South, only the 1% owned slaves. The Civil War was fought as a big Fuck You to the North for telling the South how to live.
None of my ancestors participated in slavery. None of them participated in Jim Crow. Our story only starts after the Civil War in any event, and it starts in the North.
By and large, my own forebears all lived in places which were largely white and where they did not interact in any way–positive or negative, as far as I know–with persons of color.
For me to blame all black people for the actions of one black person is execrable, even if I know that if I am going to be robbed at gunpoint, the chances that it will be a black male between the ages of 16 and 45 or so are much larger than that it will fit any other demographic. Especially in the areas where there is a lot of crossover between the ghetto and the rest of the city, that holds true.
Blaming whole communities for the actions of the few is the definition of bigotry. It is morally repugnant to me. But obviously, I am neither blind nor stupid, as many seemingly expect me to be.
Personally, I DO watch certain types of black people more carefully. I watch certain types of WHITE people more carefully too, and certain types of Hispanics, and, to my surprise a few months ago at a local market, Nepalese, many of whom looked like ghetto Pachucos. Nepalese seem to have a certainly cultural affinity for Mexican style, at least around here.
But only academics still engage openly in true racism, which is assuming you know what you need to know about someone a priori because of the accidents of their births, about which they had no control.
Put another way, the only openly racist people still remaining in this country are the people who are accusing everyone else of racism.
Only academics hate entire races because of their skin color. Only academics hate entire genders–to the extent they still believe in gender–because of their chromosomal inheritance. Only academics still hate entire religions.
If we want to rid this country of hate, we need to muzzle or fire the most hateful people among us, which in the main is publicly funded, emotionally callow, intellectually weak members of our universities, and the politicians who march and rhyme to their discordant and ugly tunes.
This has been true for some time. A happy society does not produce something bordering on 100,000 deaths of despair annually.
I continue my work. I think I just found a new, fruitful and useful pathway. If it is as good as I hope it is, I will post on it.
Never, never quit.
Never, never quit. God smiles when you take one more step, even if it takes everything you have. Always one more: one more step, one more day, one more try, one more effort at hope, even if you have nothing, even if hope just looks like a blank gray wall.
Heaven is still possible on this Earth. None of us will be alone forever.
I say this as someone who really should have died of despair long, long ago. I really don’t think there is anything anyone could be going through I don’t know intimately and on a long term basis.