What have I learned?
Now that the mess is coming unglued, time to pause and ask if I've learned anything new. Good practice in teaching and learning. Start the lesson with a synopsis, run the lab and lecture, end with a synopsis.

I didn't learn anything new about governments and experts. I've known for a LONG time that all of them are INCOMPREHENSIBLY INCALCULABLY EVIL and infinitely criminal. Since 2008 and ESPECIALLY since 2016, even the apparently human experts and apparently sane governments have taken off their human masks to reveal the horrible Soros skeleton.

I didn't learn anything new about viruses and immunity. I don't have any special knowledge in this field; ordinary scientific literacy is enough. This virus is a virus, and we've been fighting them for a billion years. Nothing new, nothing special, nothing unprecedented, nothing to learn.

I didn't learn anything about real public health techniques. We didn't get much of a controlled test in this mess, but the few countries and states that stuck with real public health came out in better shape. The lockdowns didn't affect the virus either way; the lockdowns were intended to slaughter everyone, not to affect the virus. So the immediate deaths from disease are the same either way, while the long-term deaths from unemployment and suicide and starvation and loss of immunity will be VASTLY worse where the countries and states replaced normal public health with holocausts.

The only thing I learned is the concept of displaced deaths. I hadn't thought about it before. The Branded Flu killed people who would have died of old age plus accumulated diseases, or would have died of the unbranded flu. If they didn't die this season, the next season's flu would take them. The generic flu and the Branded Flu are substitutable products in DeathMart. This isn't true of many other diseases; measles and TB and polio and Lockdowns kill healthy young people who weren't already in the death pipeline.

Secondarily, I learned that people in nursing homes are effectively on Death Row, with a year or so to execution. This wasn't always the case. In previous decades many old folks with comfortable money, not really rich, retired to nursing homes for the last 5 or 10 years of life. It was a good way to transition out of independence. One of my great-aunts did this in the '80s, and enjoyed her last years. (She was a gregarious extrovert who wasn't happy living alone.) Now nursing homes are so wildly expensive that they are strictly a LAST resort.

Labels: Constants and Variables, Jackboot stomping forever

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