Posted On: Wednesday - November 2nd 2022 7:28PM MST
In Topics: China Kung Flu Stupidity
(BTW, I cannot remember what the * was about. I'll look for this again and report back.)
There's lots more to discuss here about the vaccination business that just won't die, but this post will just be a quick one on this and that. Somehow, we often drift toward writing about China. For the case of the Kung Flu, that does make sense now, as this cloud of stupidity seems to have been blown by the upper-level Easterlies all the way across the Pacific where that air mass has been stalled over mainland China for months running. There's a trough and occluded front near the surface above Beijing that is funneling some of the most violent of the stupidity ... OK, I'm no weatherman, but I know which way the wind blows...
The sign above was seen much closer to home. In fact, I saw it the very same day, and right after, I wrote the post Cloro-Prepping, but it has stayed on my phone till now. Really, should we have been simply using Clorox this whole time? Could we have avoided all the LOCKDOWNs, social distancing, and face diapering, if we had known the secret? How 'bout the generic store brand... no, not trying to be a cheap-ass, but I mean, $7.59 a gallon? Wait, it's not a gallon? 121 ounces don't make a gallon, do they? Who knew? Only Peak Stupidity knows*.
The Kung Flu Stupidity cloud seems to have been blown off from my location. At the Halloween carnival at the school, it was as if the whole PanicFest had never happened. Is it all because everyone is so confident due to the vaccines, cause I hate to spook all those hot halloween Moms and their kids, but, uhhh, we never did get ... ahhh, never mind, carry on.
On the other hand, I've read the stories from Mr. Ganderson and others about Massachusetts, and others about various other States. I will say that I'm happy to see Federalism in action. Of course, most of what went on, and still is going on to a degree, in the more Totalitarian of the States is undoubtably illegal per their State Constitutions. Still, this PanicFest has been said to have gotten people voting with their feet. Unfortunately, some of the same people vote with their grubby hands for the same crap their feet voted out of.
I talked to a lady who was sitting waiting on a delayed flight at LaGuardia airport a while ago who had just moved to the South. I was pretty blunt - "Yeah, lots of Yankees are moving there [her new location in particular]. Hey, you aren't going to vote that same way..." "Oh, no, no, no! We're really happy to get out of here, and I like the way the people are ..." Well we talked politics for an hour or so. It was very enoyable. She's not one of them.
On to China (not physically - I really don't think I'm goin' back again). Peak Stupidity featured about a dozen posts this Spring and Summer about the LOCKDOWN resurgence in China and their quest for the formula for Covid~Zero. Yes, it's stupid, really, really stupid. They are a smart bunch of people. Is there something they know but we don't? Well, I've read some recent articles about the Gain of Function virus research labs and their work on making Omicron a REAL honest-to-God deadly virus again . (Is this strictly necessary?!) Some, cough, cough, Ron Unz, cough, opine that the Chinese are rightly fearful of the dastardly Americans sending over these deadly germs again to come and wipe them out. (Wipe them out?! 1,400,000,000 people? I mean, come on.)
Is the Chinese government (actually the CCP that rules the government) trying to do its best to protect the Chinese people from a real massive epidemic? Do they mean well and are just going
No, this is about control. This Xi Jinping they've got in near-absolute power now is the biggest control freak in his position since Chairman Mao.
I'm hearing from people in China that the people are not fearful of the germs, but they are of the government willy-nilly mandatory LOCKDOWNs and quarantining.
It wasn't me originally, but Instapundit linked me to yahoo-finance and this like about Pooh Bear over there - How Xi sacrificed China’s future in pursuit of total power. It rings true though.
The lockdown created an atmosphere of fear. “Everyone felt scared. Not of the virus. But about being sent to these makeshift Covid hospitals,” says Maggie, who didn’t want her surname to be used.If you think the Kung Flu Panic was bad here ...
“You didn’t know where you’d be taken to, or how long you’d be there. Some people had their flats broken into in the middle of the night and were taken away. Or their homes were ‘sanitised’ when they were in quarantine and a lot of their belongings were ruined. I didn’t believe this would happen in Shanghai.”
But she believes she’s lucky. A white-collar job meant she could work from home. Others haven’t been so fortunate.
The world’s strictest lockdown has destroyed both lives and livelihoods – and there is no guarantee it won’t come back. But its architect has just become China’s most powerful ruler since chairman Mao.
* That post is called Inflation by Deflation. We have also posted a building materials version of that concept along with one on tires.
Comments:
Al Corrupt
Monday - November 7th 2022 6:15PM MST
PS
I must be slow, but since it’s become obvious that the “vaccinations” don’t prevent Covid, and claims of reduced harm are dubious considering prior claims, why would any breathing human with an IQ over room temp get a “booster vaccine”
I must be slow, but since it’s become obvious that the “vaccinations” don’t prevent Covid, and claims of reduced harm are dubious considering prior claims, why would any breathing human with an IQ over room temp get a “booster vaccine”
Adam Smith
Thursday - November 3rd 2022 12:22PM MST
PS: Lol... No worries. ☮
Moderator
Thursday - November 3rd 2022 11:10AM MST
PS: Ha, would you believe 1,400,000,000 people, Adam? Yep, that's the ticket.
My bad - I'd better fix that prontomundo. I was thinking of my State's budget or something ...
My bad - I'd better fix that prontomundo. I was thinking of my State's budget or something ...
Adam Smith
Thursday - November 3rd 2022 9:31AM MST
PS: 140,000,000,000 people? ☮
Moderator
Thursday - November 3rd 2022 8:33AM MST
PS: Oh, man. I always thought that was one of the best album titles ever: Beelzebubba, haha.
Moderator
Thursday - November 3rd 2022 8:31AM MST
PS: I like the lyrics. I'll give it a listen, Alarmist.
The Alarmist
Thursday - November 3rd 2022 8:28AM MST
PS
Cue the Dead Milkmen....
🎶 I've got some buddies and we all drink bleach
You know we practice what we preach
We're not a drunken bunch of frat boys drunk on beer
Or a stoned bunch of hippies with no careers
I wanna drink bleach with a Georgia Peach🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sumb3GYuAT8
Cue the Dead Milkmen....
🎶 I've got some buddies and we all drink bleach
You know we practice what we preach
We're not a drunken bunch of frat boys drunk on beer
Or a stoned bunch of hippies with no careers
I wanna drink bleach with a Georgia Peach🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sumb3GYuAT8
I actually know who the dead milkman are but only from this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyaK3jo4Sl4