A Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of all the credible studies concerning lockdowns has found that government measures to contain covid were useless:
We are always all complicit to some extent because of the inter-related nature of the world, but you at least Sir, have been one of the moral voices of truth in a really difficult time
We the people have little influence on mobs. The proper response is to remove the tyrants, hopefully "with extreme prejudice," but removal will be sufficient.
Ultimately, the cause if the disaster was the gullibility of much of the public to be driven to panic by malicious governments, like a bovine stampede. Competent people are not, and were not, so easily manipulated. This was a natural outcome of several generations of failed education system. Until we reinstitute critical thinking as a primary focus of education and journalism, we can expect these events to become more common.
Enlightenment was very successful. It was the power that brought critical thinking to the masses. My observation, though, is that even smart, educated, well-meaning, critical thinkers prefered to stay in their normal life, taking the lazy way out of the whole thing, hoping that everything will be fine in the end. Partially including myself, being one of the non-essential workers on this planet.
It takes a lot of effort to look behind the curtain, finding alternative, credible sources of information, trying to talk about it with the lazy part of your loved ones, colleagues, etc. Let's not be too tough with ourselves. Let's make sure the learnings are put on the table now, so that we're much better prepared next time. And your article is a great contribution for that. I'm going to share it widely.
People naturally prefer the easy way. Extra effort is an unnatural act. We need to justify the extra effort with some perceived better outcome, or just curiosity. Most people seem to lack the vision or the curiosity to seek those improvements. Many of them seem innately pessimistic. I'm not sure if their pessimism drives their lack of vision, or if their lack of vision makes them pessimistic. But helping others to become more optimistic seems to be a good way to encourage them to excel.
You did lots. I know the feeling watching people in my family take the shots based on what they hear from their doctor who doesn't do early treatment. You always feel like you should have done more but those that took the shots for whatever reason will have to deal with it.
Problem is those who took it DO feel morally superior to the point where forcing and coercing others into taking it even when they still get sick. They took the shots, still got sick and yet they feel everyone should have to do the same stupid, non-workable solution they did.
When you read a post from a nurse, who is suppose to know 'science', saying that she 'feels so much safer in Melbourne than Sydney, because everyone is wearing masks', you know the worlds gone mad. She may have felt safe too because she was at the tennis & only the 'vaxxed' were allowed to attend!!
Praise God he expects us to do what he has placed before us to do! Little is much in his hands... Five loaves and two fish fed the thousands.
We make mistakes, we are fallen, but what do we do when we become aware of those mistakes? Do we carry on or do we repent, ask forgiveness and change direction. Yes, Lord have mercy (there is always more to be done), but thank you for your Son! Not my work, but yours is sufficient!
stopping OS travel was useful to a degree, I believe, for Aus at least. Limiting incoming and 14 days isolation DID slow any spread for some time. slipups happened and then we Did get spread to wider community. after that? it was a bit late with Delta with oh mi god its been so differnt of course transmission but limited fatalaties. the shutdown of trade INside the nation and locking people into homes flats and a 5k limit and curfews were just STUPID and helped incubate the damned disease, made people fat and fearful and did zero good. we quarantine all animals and plants coming into Aus and it has kept us safe from many diseases that ruin crops and kill animals and result in trade restrictions so there is merit in the basic process but NOT how our idiots in power took it to extremes
Question of what more could one have done.. it’s a difficult one. I wrote letters to my MP - just got blandness in reply. I went unmasked. I did see a sticker campaign, which is something but a very slight something and also graffiti basically. I saw some folks doing a vigil for Extinction Rebellion, one could have emulated that. Very cringe though.
You have to look like you’ve already won, or you are losing. Acting like a Protestor or Petitioner is weak on its face.
People generally did not want to hear the other side. Taking part in lockdowns, they were both flattered and beaten down at the same time. To resist was to lose the upside of the bargain.
I hated seeing kids in masks and wish (but one should be careful what one wishes for) that I’d yelled at them to take them off. You can’t win by looking like a nut.
The vax mandate got a fatal blow from this anaesthetist Steve James - because the optics were spot on.
It was evident from the very start, and the negligible difference in mortality between the majority of European and Western countries which chose lockdowns and Sweden, the only major country who did not, should have made it chrystal clear! But everybody hurried up to deny this evidence, and the so-caled "second wave" saw another surge of more or less stringent and generalised half-lockdowns everywhere, once again with no results from a sanitary point of view, but socially, economically and psychologically as destructive as the first ones! In Italy we saw it worst of all!
Belarus had less restrictions than Sweden. Similar population size and geography. Similar but better results as they used HCQ for early treatment. Sweden missed the early treatments.
We are always all complicit to some extent because of the inter-related nature of the world, but you at least Sir, have been one of the moral voices of truth in a really difficult time
We the people have little influence on mobs. The proper response is to remove the tyrants, hopefully "with extreme prejudice," but removal will be sufficient.
Ultimately, the cause if the disaster was the gullibility of much of the public to be driven to panic by malicious governments, like a bovine stampede. Competent people are not, and were not, so easily manipulated. This was a natural outcome of several generations of failed education system. Until we reinstitute critical thinking as a primary focus of education and journalism, we can expect these events to become more common.
It was no different in the past when education was supposed to be better.
This is why millions were marched off to slaughter in WW1 and WW2.
We like to think we're smarter than that now. Apparently not. As always, some understand better than others.
Enlightenment was very successful. It was the power that brought critical thinking to the masses. My observation, though, is that even smart, educated, well-meaning, critical thinkers prefered to stay in their normal life, taking the lazy way out of the whole thing, hoping that everything will be fine in the end. Partially including myself, being one of the non-essential workers on this planet.
It takes a lot of effort to look behind the curtain, finding alternative, credible sources of information, trying to talk about it with the lazy part of your loved ones, colleagues, etc. Let's not be too tough with ourselves. Let's make sure the learnings are put on the table now, so that we're much better prepared next time. And your article is a great contribution for that. I'm going to share it widely.
People naturally prefer the easy way. Extra effort is an unnatural act. We need to justify the extra effort with some perceived better outcome, or just curiosity. Most people seem to lack the vision or the curiosity to seek those improvements. Many of them seem innately pessimistic. I'm not sure if their pessimism drives their lack of vision, or if their lack of vision makes them pessimistic. But helping others to become more optimistic seems to be a good way to encourage them to excel.
You did lots. I know the feeling watching people in my family take the shots based on what they hear from their doctor who doesn't do early treatment. You always feel like you should have done more but those that took the shots for whatever reason will have to deal with it.
Problem is those who took it DO feel morally superior to the point where forcing and coercing others into taking it even when they still get sick. They took the shots, still got sick and yet they feel everyone should have to do the same stupid, non-workable solution they did.
the vaxxed militants are hell to cope with! when i made it known I was NOT vaxxed and would NOT be ..they had kittens! i was a threat to them etc
hmm IF? you have faith the never used experimental vax is so good then HOW am I a threat to you?
crickets
When you read a post from a nurse, who is suppose to know 'science', saying that she 'feels so much safer in Melbourne than Sydney, because everyone is wearing masks', you know the worlds gone mad. She may have felt safe too because she was at the tennis & only the 'vaxxed' were allowed to attend!!
Praise God he expects us to do what he has placed before us to do! Little is much in his hands... Five loaves and two fish fed the thousands.
We make mistakes, we are fallen, but what do we do when we become aware of those mistakes? Do we carry on or do we repent, ask forgiveness and change direction. Yes, Lord have mercy (there is always more to be done), but thank you for your Son! Not my work, but yours is sufficient!
stopping OS travel was useful to a degree, I believe, for Aus at least. Limiting incoming and 14 days isolation DID slow any spread for some time. slipups happened and then we Did get spread to wider community. after that? it was a bit late with Delta with oh mi god its been so differnt of course transmission but limited fatalaties. the shutdown of trade INside the nation and locking people into homes flats and a 5k limit and curfews were just STUPID and helped incubate the damned disease, made people fat and fearful and did zero good. we quarantine all animals and plants coming into Aus and it has kept us safe from many diseases that ruin crops and kill animals and result in trade restrictions so there is merit in the basic process but NOT how our idiots in power took it to extremes
Question of what more could one have done.. it’s a difficult one. I wrote letters to my MP - just got blandness in reply. I went unmasked. I did see a sticker campaign, which is something but a very slight something and also graffiti basically. I saw some folks doing a vigil for Extinction Rebellion, one could have emulated that. Very cringe though.
You have to look like you’ve already won, or you are losing. Acting like a Protestor or Petitioner is weak on its face.
People generally did not want to hear the other side. Taking part in lockdowns, they were both flattered and beaten down at the same time. To resist was to lose the upside of the bargain.
I hated seeing kids in masks and wish (but one should be careful what one wishes for) that I’d yelled at them to take them off. You can’t win by looking like a nut.
The vax mandate got a fatal blow from this anaesthetist Steve James - because the optics were spot on.
It was evident from the very start, and the negligible difference in mortality between the majority of European and Western countries which chose lockdowns and Sweden, the only major country who did not, should have made it chrystal clear! But everybody hurried up to deny this evidence, and the so-caled "second wave" saw another surge of more or less stringent and generalised half-lockdowns everywhere, once again with no results from a sanitary point of view, but socially, economically and psychologically as destructive as the first ones! In Italy we saw it worst of all!
Belarus had less restrictions than Sweden. Similar population size and geography. Similar but better results as they used HCQ for early treatment. Sweden missed the early treatments.
'In fact, I feel ashamed that I did not say more, that I did not do more, and that I am, in fact, complicit in this great evil to some extent. '
You are as complicit as a man standing on a beach watching a massive tsunami coming in.
This was all well planned and set out by many of the most powerful political players in the world, it was going to happen no matter what you did.