[ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: sjatkins <sjatkins at protonmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

 

 

>…If that is so then why was it people were getting censored left and right including major professionals.  I heard Fauci make lots of pronouncements about "the Science" supporting whatever was the claim that month.  Much of it later rescinded.  I don't think it washes to say he didn't enable a lot of political games.   
He was deeply involved in gain of function research.  He knew that such research was done on exactly that sort of virus family and even written up in 2015. It was done in North Carolina before such research was seen as too risky and shutdown in the US. A major contributor was a Wuhan.   There was no way he didn't know it was a very serious possibility and more likely than some natural mutation animal model. 
I won't forgive him for going out of his way to shutdown and make fun of all early treatment protocols that seemed to have some promise clinically.  That costs lives. I don't forgive locking down the country either.  For nearly a century that had not been considered at all the right thing to do in face of pandemic.  It adds panic, depression, major economic damage to the pandemic itself. And there is not evidence it works well enough to offset the many problems.  It was the greatest loss of freedom for most American in American history.  It did huge and unnecessary damage.  It is high time it was questioned and looked into.   That is much better than the default Stockholm Syndrome behavior or just trying to believe it was all on the up and up and necessary.  Wanting to forget and not see it in a darker way is understandable.  But it makes the next worse imposition of major restrictions on freedom easier and more likely to be accepted since "after all we survived the late one".  

*	samantha

 

 

Samantha!  Why the heck don’t you post here more often please?  You are among friends here.

 

Your post is right on.  There was a very severe cost in the extreme actions of shutting down schools, when we already knew that covid was nothing for kids.  I don’t know why covid was that way: for old people it was really bad, for kids it was almost nothing.

 

I was involved with the local school at the time.  I was helping coach competition math, helping with Science Olympiad, generally volunteering with the smart ones.  I am not pretending it was as much a community service as helping the academically needy: it isn’t.  Working with the smart ones is a lotta fun, very rewarding.  I only worked with the smart ones.

 

My observation: during that shutdown, the social cost to the students was enormous.  But there was another very obvious observation: the academically poor got poorer, the academically rich got waaaaaay the hell richer.  The ones who took advantage of online resources took off like a Falcon Heavy.  About 10% of the students never logged on.  So they had about 16 months out of school.  We had to arrange to pass them somehow, even though they were waaaaay behind.  We are still dealing with that at the high school.

 

The authors of the Great Barrington Declaration had it mostly right.  But they were vilified, their reputations damaged.  The cost of the shutdown was very high.

 

spike

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