Lesson we won't learn
There's a lesson in this mess.

Border controls are an intrinsic part of public health.

This applies at all scales. Within the mind, logic and grammar maintain boundaries of space and time, an important part of mental health. Within the body, cell walls and organ boundaries and skin are important parts of private health. When skin or cell walls are breached, infection results.

This used to be easily and tautologously understood, and it's still understood in many places.

The outbreak in US, which (update!) has just now reached the death count of ONE DAY of ordinary unbranded flu, started in Seattle. The city of Seattle and the state of Washington have been in rebellion against public health for a LONG TIME.

Every time Trump pretended to add more border controls, Monster Inslee sued and halted the pretense. (Trump didn't really mean it, of course; if he had meant it, he could have disobeyed the blatantly illegitimate lawsuits and carried out his orders. Presidents have always been ABLE to resist the blackrobes when they want to.)

The Seattle-based tech industries have been intensely dealing with China for a LONG TIME, which involves lots of travel to and from China.

Seattle is also the epicenter of officially approved anti-vaccine activism.

Similarly in Europe, where Italy became the epicenter because its textile industry has close ties with Wuhan Province. Salvini was trying to control borders, but he was kicked out last year and the kickers immediately opened all borders.

Macron refused to control his borders, and now he's finally shutting the barn door. At the same time he's using the opportunity to send out the Gestapo to shut down the Yellowvest protests. He pretends the Security Theater is aimed at preventing contagion, but in fact it's just old-fashioned tyranny.

Within the US, states that have allowed normal public health measures are not suffering as badly as Seattle and Wash. Within Europe, countries that have been controlling their borders are not suffering as badly as Italy and France.

Putting it simply: Nature is modular. Life is modular at all scales. When you allow Nature to enforce its modularity in ordinary conditions, you won't need to impose extreme modularity in extreme conditions. Neighborhoods and ethnic groups and nations naturally congregate internally and reject outsiders. Any event that breaks these boundaries, whether it's a war or globalism, brings in unfamiliar microbes, literal and virtual. Literal and virtual immune systems are unprepared for the unfamiliar microbes and don't know how to protect the mind or the body or the neighborhood or the city or the nation. This is, of course, the PURPOSE of war and globalism, which are two names for the same evil.

Ironically, those Seattle idiots understand this principle when it suits them. See "smallpox blankets".

Labels: defensible cases, defensible spaces, defensible times

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