The Post-Partisan Emporium

Errors, Forced and Otherwise There is nothing as revealing as their mistakes. eugyppius Complex human institutions, which have eschewed rigid hierarchy and command discipline for a looser, consensus-based administration, are characteristic of western societies and their liberal democratic governments. Such institutions have a lot of idiosyncrasies, and among them is the inability to pursue any kind of complex strategy. Strategies are birthed in the minds of individuals or small groups; they require clear lines of command and a lot of people willing to follow orders unquestioningly. Institutions that have succumbed to committee government have  tendencies  instead of strategies. Western Corona policies reflect the diffuse, profoundly demobilised attitude of the institutions that sustain them. We might say that these are tendential rather than strategic regimes. Their policies are not machines, carefully assembled to produce a desired outcome, but instead a random assemblage of ...

Let them eat bugs The elites’ war on meat has taken a disgusting turn. Andrew Orlowski Last winter, as the prospect of yet another forced isolation loomed, the lines of queues snaked around the block. I couldn’t tell what they were for, at first. But every one of these queues led to the door of a butchers, and there, in the freezing fog, the stoicism and patience of the queuers told its own story. Meat matters. The revival of butchers in gentrified neighbourhoods resembles the changes in the pub trade: there are fewer than there once were, but speciality or ‘craft’ butchers are springing up to feed the demand for quality. However, the comparison falls short, for it isn’t only wealthy millennials who have retained their enthusiasm for cooking meat. ‘It’s working-class families, too’, food journalist Joanna Blythman tells me. In fact, as a nation we spent an extra  £600million more on meat  in 2021 compared with 2020. The  top-down messaging  assures us that veganism i...

Coronavirus outbreak hits Belgian Antarctic research outpost After two years of the pandemic, one of the world's most remote regions - a 25-person Belgian outpost in Antarctica - was exposed to COVID-19. By  JERUSALEM POST STAFF     Penguins are seen in Curverville Island, Antarctica, February 15, 2018 (photo credit: ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI/ REUTERS) A coronavirus outbreak has  hit one of the world's most remote regions, with two-thirds of the 25 workers at the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Polar Station in  Antarctica  having caught the virus since mid-December, according to the  Le Soir  magazine. All of the employees at the station are in light condition and all were vaccinated with at least two doses of the coronavirus vaccine. The first case was detected on December 13, with three infections. Although the three were evacuated on December 23, the virus spread throughout the station. It is equipped with two emergency physicians and all the necessary e...

Fear in the Time of Coronavirus Things Are Getting Real Heather Heying I wanted to come to you this week with a carefully considered, thoughtfully written post. It’s a new year, after all, why not start fresh. But that’s just not where my head is at. So here are several things I have read or run into this week which are fraying my consciousness. I keep seeking falsification, looking for the evidence that I, and so many others, are wrong about what we are seeing. About some of it, I want desperately to be wrong: I want the Covid vaccines to be both safe and effective. I want them to be the simple, easy solution that was promised. I want the public health measures to have been effective and for us to be returning to a democracy that is intact and healthy. I see many pronouncements asserting the veracity of these claims, but no evidence that any of them are true. About much of the rest, though, I can’t wish to be wrong. I won’t wish that it was actually a good choice for public health off...

What if the largest experiment on human beings in history is a failure? A report from an Indiana life insurance company raises serious concerns. Robert W Malone MD, MS A seasoned stock analyst colleague texted me a link today, and when I clicked it open, I could hardly believe what I was reading.  What a headline.  “ Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64 ”.  This headline is a nuclear truth bomb masquerading as an insurance agent’s dry manila envelope full of actuarial tables. People frequently write to Jill and myself. People we have never met.  They call, they arrive at the farm by appointment or unannounced, they fill our email in boxes with their inquiries. They all want something; time, attention, an interview.  Many want to tell us about their fear, illness, nightmares, or (what often seems like) outright paranoid conspiracies.  And then, over time, these fears and “conspiracies” keep getting confirmed.  As Jan...