It's a cultural memory hole. When this kind of thing comes up in conversation, I try to point out that we never freaked out about colds and flu before. People seem to have completely bought into the idea that there must be a zero *sickness* going forward. Not just zero Covid.
Wasn't it you, Brian, who said the question to ask is "Compared to what?" (Although it might've been Chris Bray.) People are freaked out about Covid, but only because of the incessant testing. We never used to test for rhinovirus or influenza, which probably would've yielded similar numbers. Yet we've survived to overrun the planet.
Correct, I own copyright of "compared to what." On the same lines, a news story popped up with the headline or quote or whatever, "people never used to understand just how severe flu can be." Was tempted to look for a "a bad flu is like... uh... Covid" line somewhere in there but decided to leave it to the imagination...
"people never used to understand just how severe flu can be."
That's apparently a real thing. I have a nurse niece who's told us that ICUs regularly overflowed during flu season in past years, but nobody paid any attention.
Unrelated news - a new preprint proves yet again that Ivermectin works. It may even help prevent damage from the spikey vax. In some sense, it's the antidote to spike.
Nice that they compared multiple variants, though as always I wish there was some other comparison offered namely with another coronavirus.
Also interesting that FLCCC pivoted to HCQ in the BA.1 era. Maybe it's just too blood-cell glommy to defeat. On the other hand, glommy-ness could be an innate immune function that shouldn't be interfered with since it potentially stops the virus from spreading.
Masks definitely have more psychological benefits than medical benefits. Back in the day we would call it a talisman. But now that I understand more, this is how the world works. You have to BELIEVE.
A mostly futile benefit, anyway - like nicotine, it merely becomes required for the addicted to achieve the state of mind that was normal before its introduction.
I read this earlier today and thought I should see if there was some way I could get it to you, if only for the high absurdity quotient you'd find in it. Not at all surprised to see you didn't need my help.
While reading it, my first thought was, "But anyone is free to wear a mask. Why do they need to be enforced?" Later in the piece, the authors state that masks are more effective when two people wear them. I nearly fell out of my chair. Kudos on covering all the bases, I suppose.
I just noticed a crowd of people visibly experiencing a lot of psychological benefits today, and asked them where they got all those psychological benefits from.
Also tangential, last week I was discussing how much of "science" is a trap where like for instance you're already in a house-worth of debt by the time you learn dinosaurs aren't real and so what else can you do but bail to MPH and try to siphon money off of government for the rest of life. Seems non-accidental.
At least in popular writing, credit for the dinosaur/bird connection goes, I believe, to Bob Bakker, who published The Dinosaur Heresies in 1986 (Bakker's mentor was John Ostrom, who I don't think published any nonacademic books). Jurassic Park came out in 1993. I don't remember either one putting feathers on their dinosaurs, but the reason Bakker's book was heretical was proposing warm-bloodedness based on a number of factors, not just a chip of hip bone.
From the Wikipedia article on John Ostrom, it appears he had a much greater impact on the field of paleontology, including what Bakker characterized as a dinosaur renaissance which Wikipedia claims more than doubled the diversity of known dinosaurs since the 70s. So humans've been digging holes for more than 150 years, sure, but they're paying closer attention to what's in the holes lately.
I apologize for committing that most tiresome of faux pas, waxing pedantic on someone's offhand comment or running joke. I always wanted to be a paleontologist and never managed it, but did do some volunteer digging with Bakker at the fabled Como Bluff in Wyoming. A treasured memory.
So, ironically, that dovetails with the major dinosaur truther argument - humans did not just start excavating huge amounts of earth 150 years ago. It has happened since forever.
Now, to be clear, I am being totally coy and insincere about the dinosaur truther subject. It's definitely just a long-running joke of mine, as no serious person could possibly doubt that T Rexs were real and not just two big horse leg bones attached to some scraps of a whale skeleton.
It's a cultural memory hole. When this kind of thing comes up in conversation, I try to point out that we never freaked out about colds and flu before. People seem to have completely bought into the idea that there must be a zero *sickness* going forward. Not just zero Covid.
Wasn't it you, Brian, who said the question to ask is "Compared to what?" (Although it might've been Chris Bray.) People are freaked out about Covid, but only because of the incessant testing. We never used to test for rhinovirus or influenza, which probably would've yielded similar numbers. Yet we've survived to overrun the planet.
Correct, I own copyright of "compared to what." On the same lines, a news story popped up with the headline or quote or whatever, "people never used to understand just how severe flu can be." Was tempted to look for a "a bad flu is like... uh... Covid" line somewhere in there but decided to leave it to the imagination...
"people never used to understand just how severe flu can be."
That's apparently a real thing. I have a nurse niece who's told us that ICUs regularly overflowed during flu season in past years, but nobody paid any attention.
Unrelated news - a new preprint proves yet again that Ivermectin works. It may even help prevent damage from the spikey vax. In some sense, it's the antidote to spike.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.24.517882v1.full.pdf+html
Title: SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Hemagglutination: Implications for COVID-19 Morbidities and Therapeutics and for Vaccine Adverse Effects
"IVM blocked HA when added to RBCs prior to spike protein and reversed HA when added afterwards"
Nice that they compared multiple variants, though as always I wish there was some other comparison offered namely with another coronavirus.
Also interesting that FLCCC pivoted to HCQ in the BA.1 era. Maybe it's just too blood-cell glommy to defeat. On the other hand, glommy-ness could be an innate immune function that shouldn't be interfered with since it potentially stops the virus from spreading.
"Deciding things might make some people confused, distressed even! "
Making them distressed might even give them blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks, right? ;)
Distress can be lethal.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/11/24/cleaning-the-augean-stables-part-i/#comment-260292
Please don't scoop my upcoming game-changer post, "The Mask Mandate Revocation Stress Theory of Vaccine Injury."
I don't think, I KNOW I love you.
*blushes behind mandatory benefit-conferring mask*
What Zade said! 😄🥰
Masks definitely have more psychological benefits than medical benefits. Back in the day we would call it a talisman. But now that I understand more, this is how the world works. You have to BELIEVE.
A mostly futile benefit, anyway - like nicotine, it merely becomes required for the addicted to achieve the state of mind that was normal before its introduction.
I read this earlier today and thought I should see if there was some way I could get it to you, if only for the high absurdity quotient you'd find in it. Not at all surprised to see you didn't need my help.
While reading it, my first thought was, "But anyone is free to wear a mask. Why do they need to be enforced?" Later in the piece, the authors state that masks are more effective when two people wear them. I nearly fell out of my chair. Kudos on covering all the bases, I suppose.
I just noticed a crowd of people visibly experiencing a lot of psychological benefits today, and asked them where they got all those psychological benefits from.
If only we'd known the psychological benefits of masks years ago, maybe I could have skipped taking all those antidepressants.
to anyone with the mask on: please look at yourself in the mirror.
What do you see?
Welcome to the world of build-BACK-better, a backwards evolution into the world of apes!
I see monkey's everywhere, again....
The CREATORS' IMAGE on human faces is GONE! That alone indicates truly speaking, a SATANIC AGENDA, to ERASE that IMAGE, literally.
Also tangential, last week I was discussing how much of "science" is a trap where like for instance you're already in a house-worth of debt by the time you learn dinosaurs aren't real and so what else can you do but bail to MPH and try to siphon money off of government for the rest of life. Seems non-accidental.
At the risk of taking a comment too seriously, they have found many fossil impressions of dinosaurian feathers.
At least in popular writing, credit for the dinosaur/bird connection goes, I believe, to Bob Bakker, who published The Dinosaur Heresies in 1986 (Bakker's mentor was John Ostrom, who I don't think published any nonacademic books). Jurassic Park came out in 1993. I don't remember either one putting feathers on their dinosaurs, but the reason Bakker's book was heretical was proposing warm-bloodedness based on a number of factors, not just a chip of hip bone.
From the Wikipedia article on John Ostrom, it appears he had a much greater impact on the field of paleontology, including what Bakker characterized as a dinosaur renaissance which Wikipedia claims more than doubled the diversity of known dinosaurs since the 70s. So humans've been digging holes for more than 150 years, sure, but they're paying closer attention to what's in the holes lately.
I apologize for committing that most tiresome of faux pas, waxing pedantic on someone's offhand comment or running joke. I always wanted to be a paleontologist and never managed it, but did do some volunteer digging with Bakker at the fabled Como Bluff in Wyoming. A treasured memory.
So, ironically, that dovetails with the major dinosaur truther argument - humans did not just start excavating huge amounts of earth 150 years ago. It has happened since forever.
Now, to be clear, I am being totally coy and insincere about the dinosaur truther subject. It's definitely just a long-running joke of mine, as no serious person could possibly doubt that T Rexs were real and not just two big horse leg bones attached to some scraps of a whale skeleton.
Look it's just not controversial! We made paintings! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostromia#/media/File:OSTROMIA_mario_lanzas_recomstruction.jpg