The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Infectious Disease Frenzy By  David Bell In our enlightened age the public seems tirelessly bombarded with warnings of existential threat from infectious disease. Another distant outbreak is spreading, this time it could be Disease X ! “…and there is no vaccine …!” How, one might ask, is our species still extant? A few decades ago, life was less torn by impending doom. Public health officials were investigating diarrhoea outbreaks linked to the local café. The Woodstock festival happened during the last large influenza pandemic, and no one really noticed, let alone wore a mask. They just listened to the music, lived as their ancestors had, and somehow managed to expand the species. Medical technology and biotech innovation have blossomed since Woodstock. If you had a heart attack in the 1960s, you got some morphine for pain and a firm mattress, a bit of nitroglycerin under the tongue or some basic drugs to steady an erratic heartbeat. Now you will be rushed into a maze ...

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this article... Interview with Nick Hudson Scam-spotting, the failure of central control, and why the local will outlast the global Unbekoming Nick Hudson’s rule for spotting a scam runs as follows. If a problem is presented as a global crisis, if the only permitted solutions are global ones requiring global authority, and if dissent is censored, you are looking at a scam. Global problem, global solution, censorship. You don’t need the who, the how, or the why. The fact-pattern is the proof. I built a short piece around a clip of him explaining it in May 2023. Until then he had sat in my peripheral vision, a name attached to PANDA, a South African voice that kept saying the unsayable about COVID. That clip changed things. Scam Spotting Unbekoming · May 14, 2023 Watch now In the years since, I have watched a great many people try to teach scam recognition, and nobody has produced anything cleaner. Most frameworks demand that you first untangle ...