Author: White Whale

That same bank President, who was obviously following the news quite closely, was unaware of the seeming correlation of Vitamin D levels in the blood and following robust immunity.

Why?  Why, two or more months into this, when I have been reading about the importance of Vitamin D for AT LEAST six weeks, is the public ignorant?  Vitamin D is really cheap, easily had, and seemingly a virtual cure. If you have high serum levels of Vitamin D, you don’t die.  It seems to be as simple as that.

Why is our media not doing everything possible to help our people survive this epidemic, and get through it as quickly and painlessly as possible?

Ponder it.  The ethics involved are horrifying.

As I have noted often, the degree of emotional disconnection and dissociation on the part of the Left with regard to, really, all of humanity, is striking.  They have rituals of thought which are important to them, celebrations of conformity that are important to them, but the whole thing has lapsed into near complete and clinical narcissism or, to use my preferred word, solipsism. 

Yes, of course they exist to fight everyone who is not like them, in the name of people they don’t understand or really care about, but they don’t REALLY see us as people.  We are just cartoon characters in their cartoon world. 

No one really dies, in their world.  No one really suffers.  Words are the sum total of the reality in the world.  Nothing else really matters.  This is why language policing suffices for them as complete and coherent policy, even though it does literally NOTHING to help people suffering from neglect, hunger, abuse, depression or any of the other long list of deprivations all humans are subject to from time to time.

I have for some time labeled most Leftists as suffering from some combination of Personality Disorders, but the degree of dissociation now borders on the Schizophrenic.

Read a paragraph or two of that link, then ponder what it takes to believe “Trump is literally Hitler”, despite literally ZERO evidence even suggestive of that.

By sheer happenstance, I found myself having a brief conversation with the CEO of a regional banking network.  I asked him how business was.

Not great, as you might expect, but he said the ReFi and 2nd market was very robust, which makes sense.

Here is the thing: since only banks can create money from nothing, people are surviving on credit.  A good friend of mine has maxed out what were paid off credit cards.  People who have a house are taking a 2nd mortgage out and using it to pay bills.  The very poor are borrowing money from their parents or friends. 

Those without those resources are truly miserable.

But in the same sense that some people are warning of inflation, since much of the “money” flowing into the system was created from nothing, we also need to be aware of the wealth transfer happening, from the small to the large, and from the poor and average to the already rich.

This “heyday”, as the Democrats see it–their chance for power and glory, electoral victory through cheating and blaming Trump–really amounts to an engineered recession, and recessions are ALWAYS very, very, very good for people with cash.  It’s Black Friday for the rich.  Everything goes on sale at a steep discount.

It’s hard not to wonder if some people out there wanted this thing for that reason alone.  The economy was just too good, and it had been too long since a good sale.

I will continue to insist my plan would work–not without pain in the short term, to be sure, but we are sure getting pain NOW, too, aren’t we?–and will do so until someone gives me a reason not to.

The issue with many of my ideas is that they are too original, in some respects.  People don’t know how to evaluate them since they are used to using the crutches of comparison and context.  They count the people on the one side, and then the other, and if it is close, THEN they start to sort of kind of think.

Few there are who can simply follow a path into the trackless wilderness, by the honest process of making one logical step, and then another, indefinitely.

If I have a particular strength, that is it.  There are people out there with higher IQ’s than me, but few with my stubbornness, tenacity, and capacity for being alone and different.

The only places there is a real problem is the States–New York, New Jersey, and Michigan stand out–where they pushed COVID patients into nursing homes.

If American still mostly are sane, then they should come out of this whole thing hopping mad.  Republicans are not innocent, but they CLEARLY were more reluctant to embrace extreme measures, and quick to begin reopening once it seemed reasonable to do so.

Even now, Democrats all over the map are trying to extend this thing indefinitely.  It’s unconscionable.  It’s a moral atrocity, and intellectually and empirically indefensible.

Democrats always want simple narratives.  The problem is, the world is not simple.  Inherently, then, logically, then, they will be perceiving much of reality incorrectly–which is to say incompletely–most of the time.

I don’t want to make saints of Republicans, but by and large anyone who goes through the indoctrination everywhere in our schools has to find their way back to sanity through thought, learning, and careful observation.  That makes Republicans largely a self selecting group, although there are no doubt legacy Republicans and issue Republicans out there in large numbers too.

And here is what I THINK they are thinking with respect to this whole COVID fiasco: let’s make it as bad as possible, pretend it was necessary, then blame the whole thing on Trump.  It also wouldn’t hurt if they could drag it out long enough that mail in votes become more viable as a general solution.  Mail in ballots seem to have been the weapon of choice in what I think was the pretty obvious fraud in the last election.

Simple minded, you say?  Yes.  Cynical in the extreme?  No doubt.  Feasible?  Yes, I would say it is.  It would not be with an alert, informed, and self respecting electorate, but large swathes of our populace have become complacent, ignorant, groveling fools.  The worse their cult gets, the more they want to remain in it.

I can’t say it won’t work, although this particular year they have a river of things to swim against, and I think most betting people would and should figure on HUGE Republican advances in November, if we can keep the elections mostly clean.

But on the other hand, we seem to have elected Barack Hussein Obama twice (I say seem, because it’s impossible to know now how pervasive the fraud was), despite hardly knowing the first fucking thing about him, other than that both of his fathers were Muslims–and that his mother at least had sex with one of them and married the other–and that one of his closest mentors in middle and high school was a card carrying Communist, drug dealer, and pornographer.

All that is in the rear view mirror for most.  Me, I don’t forget.  Apparently that is a Moon in Scorpio thing.  I haven’t forgotten the Vietnam War, or the creation of the Great Depression, or the machinations of the Federal Reserve, along with much else.

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.