Monday, October 19, 2020

Conclusions without consequence

 These are my conclusions about what is going on in the year 2020.

They are of no consequence, for many reasons. First of all, no one reads this blog. Second of all, even if someone did, it can be readily ascertained that I am an old, white male, cis-gendered and heterosexual, of western European descent, and a Christian. I am therefore pre-canceled, as falling in an intersection of categories (even though most of said categories are federally protected) that cannot credibly express an opinion.

On Friday, March 13, 2020 my world came to an end, and a new one came into being. I have already written of this.

At the time, I (and almost everyone in the USA) agreed with the necessity of a 15 day lockdown, to "flatten the curve," due to graphs like this one (from here):


But now, 15 days has turned into more than 7 months, and no end is in sight.

My first conclusion. This graph is inaccurate and misleading. The two curves depend on the R₀ value for contagion without and with "precautions" such as "social distancing." I'm willing to assume that the two curves are correct. But do note that the number of deaths is proportional to the area of the curve (not the height), and that the two areas are about equal. So, no matter what we had done, the same number of people would have died. The only thing at risk was a predicted collapse of our health care system if we took no action. People were going to die no matter what we did.

The problem is the horizontal line, whose vertical position shares the same y axis as the two curves. But, and this is a big "but," the health care capacity doesn't relate to the number of cases, but to the number of hospitalizations, which will be much much smaller. So the correct diagram should look like this:


I drew this on a whiteboard in my office building to explain this point to a colleague. I call it "the chart that couldn't" because a correct showing of the two curves and the health capacity could not have convinced anyone that we needed to choose the flatter curve.

The other thing going for the accuracy of the whiteboard sketch is that the numbers that give the heights of the two colored curves were wrong! They were too large by a factor of about 25, and came from a well-known error made by Dr. Ferguson of the Imperial College University.

Now, would you have agreed to a lockdown based on the second graph? I know that I would not have.

Conclusion: the economic collapse of the western world was completely unnecessary!

Add to that hospitals that virtually closed their doors to all but Covid-19 patients, resulting in furloughs for medical staff and thousands of people delaying treatment for other health problems. In the end, many more people have died because of the lockdown itself.

Who gains from the destruction of the western world, and of the USA in particular? Who? WHO? WHO, among other world powers.

It is the Fabian socialists and their genetic and philosophical descendants. Those who believe they, by right, should rule the world. Who should rule? Their answer, "the elite." And the big obstacle to their program is the USA with its constitutional republic, whose answer to the question, "Who should rule?" is very clearly,"the people." America has to go down.

Conclusion: the economic collapse of the USA (not to mention its retreat from the basic rights that ought to be unalienable) is necessary to usher in the new world order. So that elites can rule over all of us.

Second major topic. The SARS CoV-2 virus escaped (or was deliberately released) from a lab in Wuhan, China. At the time it began to infect humans it had already evolved to efficiently infect humans. The work of internationally known Alina Chan demonstrates this. Of her work, she says, "It is very difficult to do research when one hypothesis has been negatively cast as a conspiracy theory." Much has been vociferated about "science." As she points out, "The world of science is still a bit medieval in its power structure." So, her conclusions, however well documented, and however much evidence is marshaled, will likely be struck down by the emperors of science and the accepted way (acceptable to the elite).

Conclusion: the virus may very well have been deliberately engineered to take out the older people of the western world. Taking out the older people is a well-used technique of domination (e.x. Pol Pot in Cambodia). Less-developed countries (and even China) appear to have been largely spared. I do not believe that is accidental.

Not just the deaths, tragic enough in their own right, but the destruction of our economy, discrediting the free-market system, also benefits the global elite. Their immediate mission is to bring America down to the level of other countries so that there is little need for us to resist a single global government. What would we have to lose if American exceptionalism were no longer a thing?

Conclusion: we are being lied to and manipulated by greedy, power-hungry people, who want to rule. Who will not flinch at killing millions of people to reach their goal.

Those are my conclusions. For the record. So long as the Internet lasts. But really, of no consequence.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Consternation without Consolation

I am inconsolable.


Sorrow

I mourn the passing of our American way of life. It. is. gone.

I miss gathering with the Saints and singing the hymns of Zion.

I miss facing dozens of students in a classroom and watching them learn, and working with students one-on-one, and holding lab meetings.

I miss the possibility of traveling to Mauritius or France (or even Canada) to renew dear acquaintances, and a thousand other things which are no longer possible.

I miss being able to trust authority.

I am grateful to be able to be with my immediate family, and enjoy food and shelter, so the grief is not unmitigated.


Some enemy did this*

I believe that our way of life crumbled under an enemy attack.

I believe that we allowed this to happen because of fear.

America is no longer "the home of the brave," but now a country of the fearful cowering in their homes.

Even the military is afraid of holding "a 12 person, 45 minute meeting in a conference room," according to an informal survey conducted in Fairfax County, VA.

To see where we're headed, read the short science fiction story "The Machine Stops" published in 1909.


Our weakness as a people

America's greatest weakness: its people's fear of death.

Our way of life has been destroyed by some enemy preying on our greatest fear, the fear of death.

Two great experiments conducted by our enemies to test this: 9/11 and the corona virus**.

The outcome of the experiments confirm that, yes, the American people will fold and give up their way of life when faced with the threat of death.

A single unjust death can be used to enrage them to the point where they will burn down their own cities, unjustly killing many more people in the process.


I don't trust the numbers

The enemy is not just external. There are factions inside our country wanting to tear down our history and our Constitution. It is no longer possible to get accurate information. It is no longer possible to trust our leaders (whether elected or appointed) and our news media. An appeal to science is useless, as evidenced by headlines of the form "999 scientists agree that X" with ever escalating numbers, but contradictory conclusions. We are left to our own experience.

Within the last few days I have learned from trusted people whom I know personally that a) the illness is real and devastating, and b) that deaths are being wrongly reported as due to the illness when they are not. So, the threat is real, but the numbers cannot be trusted.


Personal fear

After 9/11, to prove that I would not succumb to fear, I took a flight as soon as possible, for no particular reason other than to demonstrate that I had not been terrorized. A very small thing but one that I felt very strongly about.

In the case of this corona virus, I am personally unafraid, but can't think of a big gesture. I do go about my life as much as possible as before. But I am met with disapproval. Fear has morphed into contempt for the unafraid.

I am no stranger to fear myself.

I am afraid to publish this point of view.

I feel the flood of contempt which would follow.

I fear that no one will actually even read this.

I fear that I will die without having had any positive impact on the world, and that that death, however it might occur, will be counted as a death from COVID-19.

I fear that the corona virus will get the last word (actually, a shout (right?)) in this post, hence this feeble sentence to prevent at least that.


Notes

*Matthew 13:28

**Freeze this video to see the outcome of this game of Risk ™. Not just America, but the entire industrialized world has been conquered. By a country which, if we can trust its own report (hah!), lost only a thousand of its own citizens.