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Thinking is what humans do, and separates us from the animal kingdom. It can make a Mother Teresa and Jonas Salk or produce the Parisian cabal of Cambodian college students who formed the Khmer Rouge that ravaged the country with 1.7 to 3 million dead, a 5% population decline in 5 years (1974-9). Horrible ideas come to us alongside good ones. Obviously, it’s the fashionable bad ones that should worry us. We may end up being the first civilization whose chic ideas will turn us back to the Middle Ages. No need for a natural disaster, marauding Huns and Vandals, resource depletion, or pestilence to return us to living in the dirt. We’ll just ruminate our way to collapse.
All it takes is a small morsel of fact to be encased in imaginary cause-and-effect, and we’re off in a dash to ruin. For instance, take the virus as a useful “fact”. The ground was prepared for the appearance of the virus by the pervasive acceptance of progressivism. Progressivism is a political program to hijack “science” to pursue political ends. “Science” for political activists always ends up in the same place: big and bigger government, a government of “experts” who just so happen to think like the zealots. The activists need a “fact” as a catalyst. It will give them an opportunistic justification for absolute rule, to replace their judgement for the individual’s in nearly all matters formerly thought personal and private. Thus, the vaccine-or-else commands, children suffocating behind dirty masks in eerie classrooms requiring 6-foot separation and plexiglass partitions for six hours, and the rampant paranoia when stepping outside to go anywhere and do anything.
There’s no escape from the eye of the state in a dinner-and-a-movie, or Thanksgiving, or church. All for what? Getting a virus that over 95% of us will easily weather? Most of us will be minimally affected or asymptomatic, but we’ll be forced to accede to a societal shut-down in the same failed manner as before.
We’ve simply lost our noodles. Think about it. Vaccine or no, we’ve got a multi-layered immune system, one that handles viruses all the time. Antibody levels are less significant when we have T-cells running round eradicating virus-infected ones. This internal pest control system, if you’re an evolutionist, is a product of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in pathogen-rich environments. Yet, we are pounded by test-positive numbers that send us into Chicken Little hysterics.
You don’t have to be an anti-vaxer to conclude that this is lunacy. The fear of the so-called “variants”, while useful for public control freaks, offers no valid excuse for “expert” absolutism under the guise of politicians. Our immune systems have greater flexibility than spaghetti pasta under sauce. COVID viruses don’t vary enough to trick those t-cells. Whether you’ve up-armored your immune system with a vaccine or from prior exposure, or even without having had the illness, the pest control system will be on the hunt for anything that even looks like them.
We should be starting to learn that the massive disruption of life is pointless. Vaccinate if you choose, it probably will be extremely helpful, but don’t let the demagogues of we-know-best shred the last vestiges of a free, self-governing people. Our Constitutional republic is too precious a thing to surrender to a virus that the vast majority will shake off with minimal effort.
In the end, there’s only so much that a people and way of life can absorb before more and more people start to live more and more desperate lives. At a certain point, centuries down the road, some of us will dig up the evidence of a more prosperous time and begin to wonder how we ended up reverting back to living in the dirt. Could it have something to do with a fascination for ruinous ideas?
The next “fact” on the agenda is . . . “climate change”, but that’s for an upcoming post. It just goes to show that there’s no shortage of “facts” to roll up in a monster-sized apocalypse burrito for those with power-hungry appetites.
RogerG