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R, the Reproduction Number, and Exponential Fear The Chloroquine Wars Part LXIII Mathew Crawford “ To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved .” -George McDonald From the outset of the pandemic, metrics that represent (sort of) the first derivative of infection waves/curves, have been promoted (by media, politicians, and acolytes of “The Science” more than from real scientists or good faith health experts) seemingly in the best ways to induce anxiety and fear. You may have seen R, R_0 (“R naught”), R_t (“R at time t”), or even R_Z (“localized R”) along with the extra-sciency-sounding enunciations of the subscripts being used by well-practiced public speakers carrying the message, THIS IS ALL SO BAD THAT WE NEED TO TAKE AWAY YOUR JOBS, YOUR RIGHTS, AND YOUR DIGNITY TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN! That bad ?!  Yeah, so bad that we have to submit to massive experimental interventions too quickly to think about the associated risks ( here  and  here ),  alternatives...

Actually, Progressive-Liberal abortion policy never went far enough. If only abortion were retroactive! We could send “Joe Biden” (and maybe all of Wokedom) back to the pre-embryonic cosmic darkness preceding conception? Otherwise, we’ll have to run him out of the Oval Office like some short-timer Guatemalan generalissimo, since he has completed the transition of the USA into a Third World backwater… and thus, served his purpose. Was that it, by the way? Was “Joe Biden” a kind of suicide bomber sent into the White House overtly by dimly-perceived parties to blow up the ragged remnants of a once-dignified republic? There’s a cohort of observers, including many sage commenters on this blog, who would say so. One way or another, Ol’ White Joe’s days at the helm are numbered now. Even the claque of quasi-literate brown-nosers in the news media are turning on him since he glanced at his watch too many times while the dead marines’ bodies were rolled out before him at Dover AFB...

Newspeak definition opens the door for more authoritarian control, huge Big Pharma profits…and potentially the worst deception of the entire “pandemic”  Israel has been at the forefront of the vaccination push ever since November 2020 , when they signed agreements with Pfizer to run what were essentially medical experiments on their civilian population. They were the first country to roll out the Pfizer vaccine. They were the first country to try out the ( since abandoned ) “Green passes” system of medical segregation. And now they’re the first country to change the terms of the “get vaccinated and get your freedom back” contract. That’s right. Just as “three weeks to flatten the curve” turned into around 18-months (and counting), “double jabbed” is now evolving into “triple jabbed”. To quote Dr Salman Zarka, Israel’s “coronavirus czar”: We are updating what it means to be vaccinated,” So, there you have it. In Israel, officially, those who have been injected with two dos...

  The Covidian Cult (Part III) In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II) , I characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not “insanity” or “an overreaction,” but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, a globalized, pathologized, depoliticized form, which is being systematically implemented under the guise of “protecting the public health.” In order to oppose this new form of totalitarianism, we need to understand how it both resembles and differs from earlier totalitarian systems. The similarities are fairly obvious — the suspension of constitutional rights, governments ruling by decree, official propaganda, public loyalty rituals, the outlawing of political opposition, censorship, social segregation, goon squads terrorizing the public, and so on — but the differences are not obvious. Whereas 20th-Century...

Visual Representation of Your Chances of Dying from Covid A reader creates a striking video. Chris Waldburger Loyal reader, Paul A Dennis, has created this video of my article,  What Are Your Chances of Dying from Covid : Follow Paul  here . Meanwhile, the CDC in the US has admitted, along with Israel, that the vqaccine is fading. Booster shots are beginning. So much for the pandemic of the unvaccinated. You should have known this the moment the third shots were announced. To confirm the phenomenon, the New England Journal of Medicine  has released a study  demonstrating massive vaccine efficacy failure after a few months, with the most shocking finding being that after a few months, there is no difference in the chances of being symptomatic among vaxxed and unvaxxed alike. From the study: Symptoms were present in 109 of the 130 fully vaccinated workers (83.8%) and in 80 of the 90 unvaccinated workers (88.9%). (The remaining 7 workers were only partially vaccinated.)...