Have you figured out yet why Zuckerburg won't let his own kids use any of his products? >“Congresswoman, My daughters are five and three and they do not use our products. Actually that is not exactly true my eldest…
That's a pretty big cop-out. Yes it is, but France and England are pretty similar.
Months? I'm going to be paying for this folly, probably for the rest of my working life. I thought you told me that we couldn't compare numbers between different countries, what with them being different and all? Wales…
Typical. Those still exorting us that lockdowns were worth it, are those who did not feel the ill effects. Personally, lockdown as I experienced it here in Wales (which was particularly draconian and frankly absurd at…
Yet France did no better in deaths per captia, than the "shambolic" UK, or Sweden, where life seemed pretty tolerable, nor most of the other EU countries, in fact. (Nor many developing countries that did very little to…
More like - Brexit has highlighted the state of our crumbling and badly-run domestic HGV industry, now that there isn't a pool of Eastern Europeans prepared to do the work for lower wages. Personally, I'm excited to see…
Like? The formation of large blocs of people who will not tolerate any dissent to the current state of Covid thought, and the scapegoating of those who question or do not fall in line, and a corresponding decline in the…
>Honestly i think the French government's action was among the best possible Is that because you were relatively unaffected by the downsides of the various restrictions? It can't be because the overall Covid fatality…
If you're at risk of Covid, stay at home (which is behaviour very common in old folks anyway, during flu season). Frankly, even then your risk is very low. I know several people in their 90's who tested positive for…
Which makeshift morgues? Which people dying in the streets? Remember that video from China in early 2020, showing people literally dropping in the street? You can't be talking about that, surely. >And where do those…
Ah yes, the asymptomatic aspect of Covid, a disease so deadly most people need to be tested to know they came near it. How did the "connected" nature of our existence make it necessary to shut down entire countries, as…
Your other comment got removed, probably for being overtly hostile and lacking in any objective facts or evidence. Here is my reply anyway: The IFR of Covid overall is very low (0.4%, by some estimates). If you are…
I really feel for you. What kind of pandemic has turned huge numbers of formerly healthy people into overweight, demoralized, and socially isolated individuals? A pandemic of the mind, perhaps.
"Mass hysteria" is exactly what this is, and probably one of the greatest ones in history. I recently read "The Delusions of Crowds", written by E. Bernstein and published in 2021. Bernstein frequently notes that the…
When? Maybe a town or village got isolated, and becaome the "unclean" zone. There is absolutely no precedent for putting entire countries under effective house arrest for months at a time, and for a disease with such a…
I have maintained for a long time, that this will be regarded as an outbreak of mass hysteria of truly historic proportions.
Heard from where? Got any numbers for this "clustering"?
It absolutely has. I maintain that without social media, which simultaneously provided a way into everyone's thoughts, and also contented people with a feeling of connectedness while living under house arrest conditions…
So according to that article, Covid so far has been 1/3rd as deadly as the Spanish Flu, yet any comparison drawn to the flu would elicit the response of "ITS NOTHING LIKE THE FLU, IDIOT!" ?? Interesting. I'm not…
I too saw the widely-circulated picture of the "open graves" in NYC. Somehow they forgot to mention it was just a regular picture of a pauper's graveyard. Funny what fear can be provoked by context-free visual imagery.
At least where I am (UK, and in particular, Wales), it seems our healthcare system is in the process of failing. It was already doing badly, and our response to Covid has tipped it over the edge. That alone will cause a…
I do understand, and I am outraged. The stastical modellers have given science, and particularly the public perception of science, a terrible blow, as well as the actual outcomes of blindly swallowing their predictions.…
If it had been 2 million dead in the same period, it would still have been a fairly tame global pandemic, by the standards of deadly global pandemics. It was pretty clear after the first few weeks that Covid was not the…
I was referring to the broader topic of lockdowns in general, but at least where I was, it was the narrative that "selfish" parents who "didn't want to look after their own kids" wanted to keep the schools open, and…
And the governor of the fine state of CA sent his kids to private school for the entire time. Also, closing school for "just" a year and half is an enormous disruption to education.
Have you figured out yet why Zuckerburg won't let his own kids use any of his products? >“Congresswoman, My daughters are five and three and they do not use our products. Actually that is not exactly true my eldest…
That's a pretty big cop-out. Yes it is, but France and England are pretty similar.
Months? I'm going to be paying for this folly, probably for the rest of my working life. I thought you told me that we couldn't compare numbers between different countries, what with them being different and all? Wales…
Typical. Those still exorting us that lockdowns were worth it, are those who did not feel the ill effects. Personally, lockdown as I experienced it here in Wales (which was particularly draconian and frankly absurd at…
Yet France did no better in deaths per captia, than the "shambolic" UK, or Sweden, where life seemed pretty tolerable, nor most of the other EU countries, in fact. (Nor many developing countries that did very little to…
More like - Brexit has highlighted the state of our crumbling and badly-run domestic HGV industry, now that there isn't a pool of Eastern Europeans prepared to do the work for lower wages. Personally, I'm excited to see…
Like? The formation of large blocs of people who will not tolerate any dissent to the current state of Covid thought, and the scapegoating of those who question or do not fall in line, and a corresponding decline in the…
>Honestly i think the French government's action was among the best possible Is that because you were relatively unaffected by the downsides of the various restrictions? It can't be because the overall Covid fatality…
If you're at risk of Covid, stay at home (which is behaviour very common in old folks anyway, during flu season). Frankly, even then your risk is very low. I know several people in their 90's who tested positive for…
Which makeshift morgues? Which people dying in the streets? Remember that video from China in early 2020, showing people literally dropping in the street? You can't be talking about that, surely. >And where do those…
Ah yes, the asymptomatic aspect of Covid, a disease so deadly most people need to be tested to know they came near it. How did the "connected" nature of our existence make it necessary to shut down entire countries, as…
Your other comment got removed, probably for being overtly hostile and lacking in any objective facts or evidence. Here is my reply anyway: The IFR of Covid overall is very low (0.4%, by some estimates). If you are…
I really feel for you. What kind of pandemic has turned huge numbers of formerly healthy people into overweight, demoralized, and socially isolated individuals? A pandemic of the mind, perhaps.
"Mass hysteria" is exactly what this is, and probably one of the greatest ones in history. I recently read "The Delusions of Crowds", written by E. Bernstein and published in 2021. Bernstein frequently notes that the…
When? Maybe a town or village got isolated, and becaome the "unclean" zone. There is absolutely no precedent for putting entire countries under effective house arrest for months at a time, and for a disease with such a…
I have maintained for a long time, that this will be regarded as an outbreak of mass hysteria of truly historic proportions.
Heard from where? Got any numbers for this "clustering"?
It absolutely has. I maintain that without social media, which simultaneously provided a way into everyone's thoughts, and also contented people with a feeling of connectedness while living under house arrest conditions…
So according to that article, Covid so far has been 1/3rd as deadly as the Spanish Flu, yet any comparison drawn to the flu would elicit the response of "ITS NOTHING LIKE THE FLU, IDIOT!" ?? Interesting. I'm not…
I too saw the widely-circulated picture of the "open graves" in NYC. Somehow they forgot to mention it was just a regular picture of a pauper's graveyard. Funny what fear can be provoked by context-free visual imagery.
At least where I am (UK, and in particular, Wales), it seems our healthcare system is in the process of failing. It was already doing badly, and our response to Covid has tipped it over the edge. That alone will cause a…
I do understand, and I am outraged. The stastical modellers have given science, and particularly the public perception of science, a terrible blow, as well as the actual outcomes of blindly swallowing their predictions.…
If it had been 2 million dead in the same period, it would still have been a fairly tame global pandemic, by the standards of deadly global pandemics. It was pretty clear after the first few weeks that Covid was not the…
I was referring to the broader topic of lockdowns in general, but at least where I was, it was the narrative that "selfish" parents who "didn't want to look after their own kids" wanted to keep the schools open, and…
And the governor of the fine state of CA sent his kids to private school for the entire time. Also, closing school for "just" a year and half is an enormous disruption to education.