Thought For the Day

She could add;

Presidential election stolen.

With the mail in ballots validity in question and the curious dump of said ballots, the Covid hysteria created a perfect curtain to manipulate and interfere with the process.

Covid was an important player in the Biden campaign.

NB, it’s doubtful Fauci has done any actual research with his own hands in nearly four decades. That he’s been in his position for 37 years and more than a decade past an ordinary retirement age is quite irregular and requires an explanation. Observing his behavior over the last year and change, you get the impression that the man’s real skill is sophistry and bureaucratic politics and that what is true and what is false are a matter of indifference to him. It’s whatever’s convenient right now. Truth be told, I don’t think straight-up guys are all that common at the top of bureaucracies in this age.

As for HCQ, it may be effective, effective in certain contingencies, or not effective. The events of the last year have generated a mess of quick-and-dirty studies and they don’t give consistent results. What was interesting about that was the reaction of street-level Democrats to a passing reference to it in one of the President’s news conferences. Everything in their rotting brains is transmogrified into an instrument of political warfare. They couldn’t even attempt to discuss the merits of it.

OT, see Charles Calomiris comments 12 years ago on how the Treasury and the Federal Reserve handled the financial crisis. He said that instead of drawing on the accumulated experience of foreign governments in addressing these problems (and known to finance scholars), they took to mad improvising.

I’ve heard complaints about governmental responses in this case as well (applicable to the U.S. Government, state governments, and foreign governments). No clue whether that’s true or not, but it is true that state governments in this country were quite otiose about responding to information as it accumulated. We had a good idea by 1 July that this ailment is spread via indoor air, period. All restrictions on outdoor activities should have ended by then, along with the abnormal use of hand sanitizer, wipes, and what not. We knew almost from the beginning that the virus is very seldom lethal to anyone under 50 or anyone under 60 without a weight problem. All restrictions should have been targeted at transactions involving those demographic segments. Don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen a single instance of targeted regulations. Everything done smacks of ulterior motives and plain incompetence.

Art:
In January 1942 there was a similar mass panic over Japanese intentions and abilities. We interned our own citizens because of their race, we put blackout curtains and AA batteries all along the west coast etc. The first was utterly immoral and unjustified, the second understandable until Midway but not necessary as determined after the fact. I think most of the COVID restrictions were of the second type: when you don’t know assume the worst. OK, people and their governments do that. The crime was not backing off as it became clear many of these measures were unnecessary. We never needed outdoor masking (except in packed crowds) and never needed to keep the economy or the schools shut after early summer 2020. We may not need to vaccinate those who already had COVID, although since colds don’t lead to much immunity I personally would not take the risk. Whatever: it’s time for the mass panic to stop and people like Fauci should be stopping it, not feeding it.

Someone in authority (I think Frederick the Great) said, “He who defends everywhere defends nowhere.”

Re: Unending ‘security’ measures. Yesterday, almost 20 years after 9/11, my wife/Grandma of nine flew to LA to help wrangle multiple grand babies. Background: she is 74 years-old and four-foot-eleven and white. She texted me that she had been interrogated and patted down. She said she asked the gestapo woman if it was a training exercise.

Re: early hours grocery shopping for seniors during the panic: In NY we had Costco, Walmart, and most of the supermarkets with senior-only hours; usually the hour before usual opening time.

That being said, 99% of everything they said or wrote about the China virus was a lie and fear-mongering. Their insane overreactions didn’t materially reduce deaths, they reduced our liberty.

HCQ is a prescription drug,

Don’t believe so.

Sadly these revelations will not change many minds. A lot of people will believe literally anything said by “respectable” news programs and as such will just ignore the revelations. But there are also people who will admit that Fauci lied and then say it is okay because it was necessary for the greater good.

We already saw this with masking; even without the e-mails Fauci blatantly contradicted himself with regards to masks and thus had to have been lying at some point. But some of his defenders said that his original statement that masks were useless was necessary to prevent the public from hoarding high quality masks like N95 masks, and thus preventing medical professionals from getting them. Note that these people never allow for the possibility that Fauci’s current statements are lies, despite admitting that he will lie when convenient. They will do the same with the e-mails; they will excuse his lies through whatever means possible and then say that he’s telling the truth now.

The only way this will change is if the powers that be decide that Fauci’s usefulness is over and cast him aside. If that happens the media-sheep class of people will immediately denounce Fauci and deny ever having supported him (like what happened with James Comey in reverse), while the slightly more intelligent media followers will say that it was necessary to keep Fauci around because of interference from Trump or something. But they’ll all immediately condemn him.

https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1400101507358470152/photo/1

Did you catch this? Advice to Fauci on 20 March 2020 from a researcher at Penn. It’s not as if people weren’t bruiting about alternative courses of action.

And did you hear about the threats from the editorialists at China state media?