Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

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    I doubt the Indian government can even get specific numbers due to petty corruption and who is in charge now. The same in China where lying is incentivized. The only way the USSR could estimate statistics was from the KGB spying on the state.

    Then you have the Hindu nationalists blaming Muslims for COVID. These guys are the same guys who believe that Hindus were the Aryan master race and invaded pre historic India armed by the Vedic gods with UFOs and cosmic death rays. I wish I were making this shit up. This is like the Muslims on MEMRI who believe the Quran predicted modern science but next level like the guys who believe that the Ancient Hebrews beat the Caananites with nukes but an actual political movement that elected a guy capable of behaving like Milosevic as the leader of a billion people.
     
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    Dude. This is not a regular cold which your immune system can handle.

    The immune system of plenty folks does not know WTF to do with this shit. So shit hits the fan and the immune system start to indiscriminately terminate everything affected. And in many cases folks (supplemented or not) end up in the ICU and sometimes in the incineration facility.
     
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    Which Bitchue video you got that one from?
     
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    Oh, I get it. My dad will quite typically say things like, "you never had to suffer through the Carter administration so you'll never know". And I try to empathize; I find it absolutely appalling that things like the 1971 Senate bombing and 1972 Pentagon bombing, etc. took place and at the time we literally had an insurgence of left-wing militarism that'd make the Proud Boys jealous, and that Carter essentially sided with the leftists by throwing the FBI under the bus. That period (1972-1981) was absolutely crazy. I can totally understand how anyone who lived in the USA from 1969-1981 would probably want to shrink the Gov't to the point where it could be drowned in a bathtub. Unfortunately, we're just not in those same times. Maybe that's part of the "lesson" here, is that the Boomers who inhabit the majority of our governing bodies, and at the same time hold the majority of wealth in the USA are attempting to right all the wrongs of the formative periods of their adult lives. Again, I can empathize with that commitment to country.
     
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    I have had reason to notice how prevalent this is in various people close and not so close to me lately. Most of us understand that part of maturing is not projecting the formative experiences and (largely emotional) lenses (good and bad, traumatic or not) of your childhood/young adulthood unto the rest of your life and/or everybody else. Yet this virtue and maturity seems to be lost in the Boomers in particular. Is it because they considered themselves to be a "revolutionary" generation which was able to free themselves from the shackles of all that came before them, and now that they are "free" they don't know how to stop revolting? I don't know the answer...
     
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    Adjusting one's position based on changing information seems to be anathema to the Boomers I've had personal and professional experience with.
     
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    It's part of growing old. The mind becomes less flexible. Combined with higher life expectancy, then all these things.

    Oh, I've heard it. It's kind of sad. My response is usually if this were true, then obviously you suck now. A glorious past with spaceships and cosmic death rays should have developed into United Federation of Planets by now.
     
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    Maybe they hold certain truths to be self-evident?

    Maybe we all hold certain truths to be self-evident. If we don't then people tell us that we have no principles. It just seems to be hard for all people to agree on exactly what they are.
     
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    This is part of the modern struggle. Humans, at least in the West, have developed to the point of eliminating much of physical suffering, but not quite enough of to be like United Federation of Planets. The problem is when something comes along to remind us how fragile we really are. We are mere dust motes in an incomprehensibly large universe. People who truly realize this will be more accepting of death, that life itself comes with the risk of death (which is not the same as inviting death - I'm saying this because I'm sure someone will misconstrue what I said as being nihilist).

    How don't we know that SARSv1, COVID, and weather catastrophes are manifestations of Thanos? Expect to see more of Thanos. The five year aftermath (all the sad faces) of Thanos' snap in Marvel is bullshit. Human beings are extremely resilient.
     
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    A Zoom Thanksgiving is better than a ICU Christmas

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    I can't put life on hold. Still going to Texas to visit a few cities.

    Doesn't mean we won't be wearing masks, N95 on the plane, darth vader face shields, and not attending big gatherings. Maybe meet with real estate agent or two, but mostly keeping to ourselves. Nothing like Gavin Newsom parties.
     
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    Emmy for sure. Great acting.
     
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    Why are you parachuting in here with a web archive of a student newsletter from Johns Hopkins? It would help if you explain your thoughts and tell us why you're posting this.

    FWIW, you can still find the original page with a link to a PDF version of the article and big disclaimer at the top explaining why the article was retracted.
     
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    [​IMG] We spent some time here discussing what is called excess deaths during COVID. The graph comes from the Gov of Canada website and was reproduced by major newspapers, most of them advocating extended lockdowns. But if you actually looked at the graphs you realize that the second wave, that produced extraordinary number of positive test results, did not cause, so far, any excess deaths in Canada. It looks like so called journalists do not understand the data they are using to advance their narratives.
    That obviously varies from country to country, Poland for example that locked down hard and early in March is experiencing huge spike in deaths in Oct, Nov. But in Canada lockdowns are escalating in spite of the fact that gov data does not indicate any increased risk. The latest narrative is to reduce the number of positive cases, because it may overwhelm the system Well, in three largest Toronto hospitals there are 21 cases all together, 11 in ICU. People are still dying in retirement homes because fixing those problem was not a priority for some reasons.


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