h/t OddJob
"Heads On Pikes!" should become a national rallying cry, and ground reality in 50 states and 7 territories, until they live in mortal terror of discovery from coast to coast. They should be stoned, tarred and feathered with actual scalding hot tar, beaten mercilessly, and on many occasions, simply hung where they are found without relent or remorse.
If anyone thinks the comments after the death of the United Healthcare CEO were icily harsh, imagine the accolades that would be heaped on the first guy to take out a Communist News Network anchor, or run the coven on The Spew over a cliff. "What is the frequency, Kenneth?" parties should become a daily event. The nightly news should start to look like interviews with American aviators shot down over Baghdad in 1991.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of visigoths, and they have done more to corrode the republic than any other group, in a feat that cries to the heavens for unrelenting justified retribution. At least when cows crap on everything, we get fertilizer. The only way to get fertilizer from the media is to grind them up and sprinkle their remains on the fields.
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ReplyDeleteMost everyone in our society becomes a victim of one outrage or another...large, small, real or imagined. Many people, maybe most, accept the condition as a cost of living in our society. You have good neighbors and bad, you meet good people and bad.
ReplyDeleteSome people who are victimized are determined not to remain a victim, and will actively seek redress...seek justice. In our society, some see justice as obtained through the courts. The courts, however, do not dispense justice, but rather the rule of law. If you have a lot of money, you can find justice through the court system...a lot of money. For the vast majority of our population, this is not an avenue to redress.
Sooo, what to do? How do you approach a corporation or large bureaucracy with any hope of success? The court system is not a viable avenue...they have OPM and echelons of lawyers ready to bankrupt you or delay proceedings until you go away, or die. Short of legal options, there is what I have referred to as "asymmetrical tort reform". Luigi Mangione addressed the problem at it's core...addressing the shot-caller directly. Will there be positive results? Will other shot-callers, whose lives become burdensome with hired security, much less freedom of movement, and continued vigilance change their bottom line -driven decisions to reflect a more just corporate stance? Maybe, to some degree.
I am not advocating this method of redress, just describing how and why it might exist.
In all seriousness, that is an unfair slur on the Visigoths. They weren't trying to bring down Roman civilization, weren't notably savage, were probably heavily Romanized and Christianized before they ever entered they Empire, and I think that had the Roman bureaucracy been less venal and more wise, they could have been an asset to the Empire instead of destabilizing it. The Visigoths weren't the villains of Late Antiquity, more like tragic anti-heroes, caught between the Huns and a very disfunctional Roman government.
ReplyDeleteThe Vandals, OTOH, are a much better comparison...
On an entirely different note, have you read anything about the respiratory disease that seems to be spreading on the Congo-Angola border?
Nope, and frankly couldn't care less, because the internet cabal of idiot savants will all self-congratulate themselves that "It's just the flu", right up until they're being zipped into body bags, or immolated in corpse pyres.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance to bad rubbish.
When any form of African Ooga Booga bleeding-out-your-eyes disease shows up in the front door of my ED, I'm quietly walking to the time clock, and clocking out, on the spot.
The stupid fuckers who think they can stay and play in that shit can count me out next time. One pandemic per lifetime is quite enough, and we're due for another one, inevitably, because most people were morons the last time around.
The Death Vaxx is a deliberate disaster, and the people who foisted it should hang, but I really wish we'd left everything business-as-usual during COVID, until it had killed another 10M or so of the total @$$holes who still think it wasn't real.
Instead, having both over-reacted and under-reacted, we'll try that "just the flu" nonsense next time, having inoculated people to common sense, and it will kill 10M-20M. Minimum. It'll take that many before the stupid people get beaten to death for piping up, and then the adults in the room will take over.
I'll be watching from far away, behind sandbags and concertina, and we can let the dipshits see how their plan works out. From a safe distance, it's going to be fun to watch. The sooner the smart people realize they're on their own, the better for all concerned. The people who think they can have their cake and eat it too, and stay and play in whatever comes, are going to self-select right out of the gene pool, and it's long overdue. Nature doesn't give a shit about stupid people's opinions, and it's time to stop saving them or listening to them.
Someday, people are going to realize the Black Death and smallpox were among Nature's greatest gifts to mankind, like a giant dose of ipecac to humanity's excess, and whittling off the left half of the IQ bell curve. The same ones who had villas in Pompeii.
I have adopted a rule that applies to NYT, WaPo, LAT -- Read the last 5 paragraphs of any article they publish. Therein will be the likely truth. Not that they want to, but the lawyers insist or slander and defamation may ensue. So they bury it in page 33 of the A section. All the rest is just a story.
ReplyDeleteBut the editors at these enterprises know few people read past the headline and the lede paragraph.
Boomerific! I love your idea that Covid would have killed 10 million people if only we hadn't...what? Put those arrows on the supermarket floor? Handed out those little paper masks? What are you even talking about?
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that you of all people are one of the last to know that Covid wasn't that dangerous and that the unusual "protocols" didn't save anyone. No self-respecting red-blooded American male under 40 agrees with you.
You don't hate journalists enough.
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ReplyDelete1) Millenial-rific! You're a moron with delusions of reading comprehension. Represent your homies, yo.
2) It's not that COVID could have killed 10M people if only...anything.
It's that it's a damned shame it didn't, because of shining examples of dipshittery like yourself, who would have represented no net loss to the species, and whose loss would have driven mean IQs up 10-20 points, nation-wide. If only.
3) "COVID wasn't that dangerous". Thanks, Example #3,487,682 of it was "just the flu". Except for the 1.1M people it killed, out of 123M cases, after multiple waves. The initial wave death rate was between 2% and 3% of cases. (Just as I told you it would be. Any coronavirus in history has a nominal average lethality of 1%-5% [word to your mother: that's 10x-50x worse than "just the flu". This is what you bring to the discussion when you have a Common Core education, and think you know anything], which I split right down the middle of the fairway to get a guesstimate of 3%. You're welcome.) That initial death rate in the US was only 20x to 30x more lethal than "just the flu". But why let actual facts get in the way of a good brain-dead fact-free screed, right Gutless?
It got down to "only" 11x worse in terms of overall lethality than "just the flu", because after the initial wave, 7-10 subsequent waves of progressively milder variants gradually mitigated until, three years later, it was indeed no more lethal than "just the flu" (which has an average annual lethality of 0.1% since ever).
Total amount of all those basic epidemiology details that you knew, then now, or ever: 0%. To a metaphysical certainty.
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ReplyDelete4) COVID "wasn't that dangerous" nowhere, initially. It also wasn't that present in Bumfuck, unlike it was in major cities. (You know, the part of the country where 80% of the people actually live.) For anyone picking their ass amidst miles and miles of nobody, COVID was a negligible deal. For the 80% of America that lives in urban and suburban populations, particularly those with large expat Chinese populations to helpfully spread it around here months before reality swam up and bit the CDC in the ass, and they admitted it had already gotten here before they were even admitting its existence, it was actually quite a big deal. Did some places, especially those with sunshine and fresh air, do better than vertical megalopilii? Absolutely. Did some states have idiots running things, and making things worse instead of better? Absolutely.
Do either of those things make COVID "no big deal". They do not, and did not.
I carried the bodies to our makeshift reefer truck morgue, where they stacked up in a 9-month backlog. Like has never happened in a 30-year career in EMS and ER practice. So go fuck yourself up the ass sideways with a rusty chainsaw if you seriously want to tell me to trust you head-up-the-ass appraisal of things, instead of my own lying eyes, about exactly what a deadly Shit Mardi Gras the COVID pandemic was. Such grossly misinformed idiocy like that is why I earnestly hope you and 9,999,999 of your spiritual brothers are dead in the first wave when the next Shit Mardi Gras hits, ideally before most of you manage to reproduce the next generation of fetal alcohol poster children.
5) Which protocols do you refer to that were supposedly "unusual"? New York holding a Mardi Gras event amidst one of the the worst outbreaks in the country, which contributed to their silver-medal effort of peak 2.8% lethality, leading and beating every state but New Jersey in the first wave, who managed to pull out a 2.9% lethality rate?
6) Who agrees with me is immaterial, just as Galileo didn't take a poll at the Vatican council to see who agreed with him about the planets rotating around the sun.
Who's an idiot Gilligan, the exact sort of earnest moron who drives every pandemic since the dawn of time into full bloom, is the point at issue.
Own your red shirt and white sailor cap with pride, Gilligan.
You're part of the 10M who didn't die this time that will usher in countless deaths next time, because you still don't know what you don't know, and refuse to confuse yourself with the facts.
And trying to educate you on the universe of things far beyond your grasp is like teaching a pig to whistle: a waste of my time, and an annoyance to the pig, self-evidently.
Thanks for illustrating, in two lines, everything I was referring to, almost as if conjured on cue. Your ilk are nothing if not predictable.
"...both over-reacted and under-reacted..."
ReplyDeleteThat was it in a nutshell.
SARS-Cov-2 was generally not a big threat to healthy individuals unless they had other underlying health issues, such as diabeties, morbid obesity, etc. Or were 75 and older.
My 82 yr old mother had a case before the not-vaxx came out, and she did just fine, because her only health problem she has is arthritis.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his colleges were shown to be correct with their Barrington Declaration and plan to protect the vulnerable without a total lockdown, and it is sweet sweet satisfaction to see Trump nominate him to head the NIH.
Head on a pike in any case, but especially for a headline written in passive voice.
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