This Is What We Are Dealing With

November 1, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General Rants, Political, sophistry 25

I mentioned social media in a previous post regarding the lock-down. Any hopes that the masses will rise up in a pitchfork rebellion are crushed when we see the kind of idiotic, sanctimonious fuckwittery such as this:

Yes, people actually believe this idiocy.

This is the point where I rest my head in my hands and sink into a pit of despair. We are doomed.

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  1. I am tempted to go on the BBC or some other media platform pretending to be a scientist and say that scientific studies have shown that dipping your genitalia in boiling chip fat will lessen your chances of getting the virus so if enough people dipped their genitalia in boiling chip fat together we will stop the spread save lives protect the NHS and therefore save Christmas just to see how many people are stupid enough to do it

  2. The parallels with the climate change crap are quite obvious. There is a wierd perception that “Climate Change Deniers” are somehow making the problem worse just by refusing to believe.

    The thing about this virus is that it can spread quickly or slowly but it will spread. What about those countries that have managed to isolate themselves really effectively? Non of the population will have any resistance, so they will be left with a choice between isolating for the foreseeable future or replaying 2020 at some time in the future.

  3. This is the point where I rest my head in my hands and sink into a pit of despair.

    The missing apostrophe did that to me too.

      • Interesting read. Of course, people have difficulty grasping the concept of infinity just as they have difficulty grasping microscopic sizes.

        The only issue I take with the article is that it does not state the difference between the normal rate of death and those directly caused by Covid and nothing else. In the UK, this was less than 400 out of a population of sixty million. So, that three million deaths is meaningless on its own. We always need to be careful in differentiating between “died with Covid” and “died of covid”.

        My answer to the posed question though is to do what we have always done with these viruses – carry on as normal and use common sense. Allow those most at risk to make their own assessment and do what they think best, not to treat them – and the rest of us – like children.

        • The problem being that a significant proportion of the adult population effectively are children.

        • The normal rate of death is not significant to the thrust of the article…as the normal rate of death is not exponential… obviously?

          When you say 400 out of 60 million (69 million more precisely) to what are you referring? Are you saying that only 400 people in the UK have died of covid 19?

          • I couldn’t quite remember where I’d got the figure from. It stemmed from an NHS figure of 253 deaths of people under sixty with no other health problems – as of May. This was muddied somewhat by a Question Time contributor adding 100 to the figure to round it up…

            So the figure is a bit flaky, however, the amount of people who die from Covid and Covid alone is small.

            As for the other point, I’m not quibbling with the main thrust of the article as it makes the point well about exponential growth. It’s the issue of the 3 million deaths. If these people are dying anyway, the exponential grown is neither here nor there. Indeed, it needs to be exponential if herd immunity is to be achieved. My dispute, therefore is that it is not a simple dichotomy of throwing either money or lives at the problem.

  7. Incredibly good today, many articles crucifying the SAGE and Gov’t data/projections. Worth reading all and sharing with others

    A standout
    ” – The data from the Cambridge statistical unit that the Chief Scientific Officer relied on was three weeks out of date. More recent data from the same unit is less apocalyptic. Why didn´t he use that?

    – The PHE/Cambridge model predicted 1,000 people a day would die (with C-19) by November 1st. They´re not, x4-x5 lower. Therefore the model is invalid.”
    https://lockdownsceptics.org/2020/11/03/latest-news-182/

    and
    Professor Carl Heneghan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0vL0281s5c

  8. As one of the tenets of the Frankfurt School philosophy is constant change to keep people confused and so less likely to form an organised protest, perhaps the ever changing policies of the numpties in government is part of their plan? While one ‘expert’ supports one form of action, another ‘expert’ denounces it as rubbish, leading to confusion.
    To be honest, I don’t know what or who to believe. A very good friend, in his 40’s, marathon runner, and with muscles in his spit, spent 3 weeks in hospital after collapsing and being diagnosed with the CCP virus. He said it was the worst 3 weeks of his life. Now recovering, he says he has little energy and found it difficult to walk down his street, never mind run it.
    Confused? I certainly am.

  9. That poster has a point. Look at that BAME mob outside the French embassy last week. Look at photos of the streets the night before every local lockdown. Look at the pix tomorrow of the streets in the major UK cities the night before this stupid and useless national lockdown starts. SAGE has blown it by failing to recognise cross reactivity of the immune system triggered by a previous cold producing corona virus. About 30% of the population. This is basic 1st year university teaching in immunology and microbiology re cross reactivity and T cell ‘memory’. Also using old data suggests a hidden agenda and using this data to achieve a preordained conclusion. That ain’t science. Neither is extrapolation to theorise about 4000 deaths per day. It’s all bollox. Curiously enough the local lockdowns are working so the national one is not necessary certainly not in my county (Huntingdonshire) resurrected by the ONS. We have very few cases. Coz we are a RURAL county! SAGE also forgets that for 99% of people SARS-2 is a mild infection. I am close to despair, I really am.

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