Saagar's point
The Hill TV, while failing to get the basic facts about immunity, continues a useful focus on the rich vs poor aspect of the holocaust.

In a clip yesterday, Saagar made a strong historical point about the complete uniformity in DC. When governments commit major crimes, we remember the one or two politicians who saw the crime and spoke up against it. We remember the Cassandras, and occasionally we even form a movement around them.

In this war there are no dissenters, no outside. Nobody in DC took the opportunity to leave a legacy of truth, nobody even wanted to bet on gaining power after the failure became obvious.

The situation is slightly better among governors, where Kristi Noem of SD made a clear statement AND clear actions** to avoid the apocalypse. A few others made the same courageous actions without the open rhetoric.

Anyone who still believed in "accountability" and "checks and balances" after 2008 is a fool, and anyone who still believes now is an incurable fool.

I didn't expect anything from the Repooflicans or Democrats or Trump, so I wasn't disappointed by any of those monsters. I did expect better from Putin, and more personally from Art Robinson. I was strongly disappointed by those specific failures.

[Footnote: One of Art's regular monthly newsletters, dated December, came in the mail today, and he did discuss the issue there; but even there he's missing the political point. He trusts Trump to "let federalism work". Sorry, that won't do when some governors are intentionally slaughtering their own people, in total violation of morality, "law", and above all SCIENCE.]

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** For clarity: Noem and Sweden and Belarus didn't take action. They chose inaction. They chose to CONTINUE DOING WHAT WORKS.

Our nervous system notices departures from ambient. When the ambient is a mad rush toward the precipice, we notice the few animals who are standing still, or even running somewhat slower than the mass. But careful analysis needs to break away from this natural salience and measure the movement and speed wrt an absolute reference frame. From that Newtonian perspective, inaction would have seemed to be the ONLY path for everyone. We had a fully functioning public health machine, ready for epidemic surges. It was ALREADY HANDLING the surges of this epidemic, as it had been doing for a century. We DIDN'T NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING. But we did change everything. We halted the public health machine in its tracks and started up a war machine, creating a state of siege to starve our own country.

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, Metrology

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