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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    He said : " it looks like a lot of what were called covid deaths were really a lot of the normal , non covid, but covid like things people die from, maybe they just claimed all the noncovid deaths on covid, we should just count the total deaths and compare the number to historic rates of noncovid but covid like deaths to see if there is a real difference"
    I inferred your replay as " but what if mitigation efforts worked against the deaths from historic noncovid things"
     
    But maybe you mean there wasn't an overall uptick in total deaths from covid combined with noncovid, and that without the mitigation efforts the total would have been higher due to historic trends plus added covid deaths , which were lowered also , that the case fatatlity rate was so high that the mitigation worked to slow covid too, just not as effectively against covid ?
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    tadmjones reacted to necrovore in Reblogged:Will Independents Save the GOP From Itself?   
    I don't think it's OK. It's evasion, pure and simple.
    Among some people familiar with Objectivism this evasion sometimes takes the form of "don't look in the closet, because anything you see in there is arbitrary and has to be dismissed from rational consideration."
    When the mainstream media is very biased and refuses to report facts that don't support their point of view, one has no choice but to look for those facts in alternative media. It's difficult to dig through alternative news sources where facts that you can't find anywhere else are intermingled with articles about the Second Coming of Jesus and who knows what else. The alternative press consists of "rags"; it consists of scruffy rebels with small budgets; all they have is whatever facts they can find to report on. If they find important facts, they try to get them out, and usually have to square off against official and unofficial censorship in order to do it. But then they'll sometimes reach very wrong conclusions with those facts, and this is because many of their abstract principles are not reality-based, and are neither mainstream nor Objectivist. The facts they report are never the ones that poke the holes in their own mistaken principles, but they are, nevertheless, facts, and often poke holes in establishment principles.
    What you have to do to find out the truth amounts to "rag-picking." You have to go through the "rags" anyway. Their facts are often undisputed, but their principles may be wrong. Keep the facts, discard the Jesus. And of course discard the antisemitism and the UFO aliens.
    The thing to understand about "alternative facts" is that they are not alternatives to facts; they are facts that the establishment doesn't want anyone to know and would prefer everyone to ignore.
    Maybe some people haven't learned to distinguish between statements of fact (which can, in principle, be verified, or wrong) and statements of opinion (which rest on abstractions, and those abstractions might be true, false, or arbitrary). Or perhaps they know how to make the distinction but find it to be a lot of effort. Or maybe they think that, since the rag-writers' principles are wrong, their facts have to be wrong, too. It's much easier to go along with the mainstream press where everything is neatly packaged for you and you don't have to think about it.
    And then there are people who have become part of the "aristocracy" in some way or other, and they guard their positions jealously, and they need to be seen looking down their noses at certain facts because those facts are socially unacceptable among the aristocracy. (The aristocracy seems to include the legal profession, which has become an aristocracy itself, and has developed its own principles and traditions which are older than Objectivism, some of which are probably incorrect in light of it, and will be difficult to make correct.)
    There is one more important thing.
    Most people understand deductive logic and reasoning, so they start with certain principles and then plug in the facts and deduce downward from there. Deduction has been well-understood since ancient Greece, and it's also easy to write a deductive argument on a piece of paper and check it for correctness.
    However, there is also an inductive side to reasoning, and this is not as well understood -- but almost all of the arguments for Objectivism are inductive in nature. Induction is the only way to come up with new principles. Induction is why Ayn Rand wrote novels and essays and not just syllogisms. Induction is like figure-and-ground to deduction; whereas deduction requires examples, induction requires for its proof an absence of counter-examples. So it is reasonable, as part of an inductive argument, to show that you have really looked for counter-examples, everywhere, systematically, and not found any. This is also how you prove Newton's Laws. This is why evasion is a fallacy that you don't much hear about outside of Objectivism. Evasion is almost completely inapplicable to deduction. Evasion "works" to prop up incorrect abstractions by suppressing the facts that would disprove them. The arbitrary, in turn, is just a larger example of evasion; it ensures the necessary absence of counter-examples by suppressing all of reality. The arbitrary is that which is impervious to evidence. You can't identify something as arbitrary unless you can identify at least the type of evidence that it would be impervious to; it's even better if you can identify the evidence itself.
    But that requires reading those "rags"...
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    tadmjones got a reaction from Jon Letendre in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    Except covid ? Masking, distancing, and curtailing social engagement had an effect on respiratory disease transmission but did not limit the spread of covid ? The mitigation efforts stop somethings but not that one?
    Are you proposing the transmission mechanism of covid was different than the mechanisms operational in the other diseases? I'm having a hard time understanding your logical cause and effect argument here.
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    tadmjones reacted to AlexL in Israelo-Palestinian Conflict: 2023 Edition   
    I will add @whYNOT, @monart and @SpookyKitty
    While @whYNOTis, curiously, pro-Israel, he is anti-Ukraine and an avid consumer of Putinist propaganda.
    All 6 are, possibly, also Trump and conspiracy theories sympathisers.
    I did not ask them about 9/11 and moon landing, though... 😁
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    Except covid ? Masking, distancing, and curtailing social engagement had an effect on respiratory disease transmission but did not limit the spread of covid ? The mitigation efforts stop somethings but not that one?
    Are you proposing the transmission mechanism of covid was different than the mechanisms operational in the other diseases? I'm having a hard time understanding your logical cause and effect argument here.
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    Yeah the fact that the CEO of Thomson Reuters is a Pfizer board member is interesting as are his activities with the WEF.
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    tadmjones reacted to monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    No, I didn't misunderstand your implication; I chose to respond to the debunking article itself, instead of your implication, because the former is more factual than the latter (even if the latter is still interesting to me).
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    I believe you may have misunderstood my implication, I posted a link to an easily found article ie an article someone that 'googled it' would find rather quickly. The article debunks claims made that call into question the 'existence' of a specific 'covid viron' via 'scientific techniques' by questioning the rigor of the techniques and the assumptions that the rigor shown is the amount of rigor to categorically claim the existence thereof.
    CM is also questioning the rigor , to what end ? If she and her cohorts 'prove' the nonexistence of the covid viron by not accepting the current amount of rigor or the adequacy of the techniques in establishing that rigor, what benefit do they stand to attain ? What is a motivation we can ascribe to their actions, financial or reputational advancement of scientific knowledge ?
    What motivation might we ascribe to a guy who heads the company that compiled, published and 'fact checked' the article that  'googling' readily presents? He also sits on the board of a company that gained financially and reputationally, by saving humanity, based on the existence of said specific viron, which the article claims to prove.
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    It has to do with the idea that ‘non-sterilizing’ or less than 100% transmission blocking vaccines should not be mass administered due to mutation forcing. And the associated downstream effects of ‘vaccine/immune’ escape would be a net negative for mitigation and disease control going forward.
     
    An ideal situation would be one in which a population was isolated and inoculated prior to infection appearance which was not the situation circa vaccine roll out.
    The fact that ‘officials’ were suggesting that the ‘best’ mitigation efforts were those that pushed the idea of vaccinating the highest percentage of global populations in the initial wave(s) contradicted my understanding of what was or could be considered best practices of the sciences of virology and immunology. 
    Not to mention the idea of mass inoculation with a novel platform! mRNA shots highjack healthy cells to produce proteins alien to the host and the targeted production was aimed at multiplying a serotoxic protein, a wholly different strategy than other immunization techniques, but somehow that was the ‘best’ solution?
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2LS27P/
    Easy to find article, plainly debunks the idea that SARS-CoV 2 virus was not  isolated or purified. Reuters fact checker team declares a false verdict on a story about a Canadian doctor claiming the virus was never isolated and that the identification the medical officials and pharma companies used as evidence was basically a mish mash of RNA and other materials commonly found 'in' human bodies.
    Now as to conspiracy hypothesis, what does Chrissy have to gain from the fight she is picking? (Because the CEO of Thomson Reuters, who  also sits on the Pfizer board and works very closely with World Economic Forum, does have a dog in the fight and a fact checking team to back him up.)
     
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    tadmjones reacted to happiness in Identifying subject and theme for video   
    I’ve had an itch to make content pertinent to me. Perhaps no one will care, but I’m still going to do it.
    I want to start by making a video about my unique form of exercise. In my own opinion, I have a high level of knowledge on this subject that is quite superior to what 99% of successful fitness influencers preach, although it’s difficult to convince anyone of this. The exercise philosophy I subscribe to is like Objectivism in that it is a heterodoxical truth (there is a nexus of leading trainers/influencers in this genre who are in fact Objectivists).
    Although none are very popular, Influencers in this genre of exercise have already made videos, and each excels at certain things. One is a master of the biology of exercise, one specializes in crunching studies in exercise physiology, another excels at practical exercise instruction. I’m trying to identify aspects of exercise that I excel at, that will be original. 
    The only thing that I can do right now that I’m sure is reasonably original is explain my own intellectual journey and my own use of this form of exercise. In particular, I use this method to overcome a serious physical problem that would cut me off from strength training done any other way, hence allowing me to avoid the ravages of sarcopenia. This would be relevant to many people in a similar boat who have joint and spine problems, although I still assert that this is the best method of training even for healthy people.
    So I made a video that is kind of a subconscious brain dump of things I have to say on the subject. This is a very rough draft and it sucks, but it was my first attempt.
    To be sure, I rehearsed this—I don’t have the ability to talk for six minutes straight off the top of my head. 
    in this video, I explained my background with exercise, my condition, and how this method of training allows me to continue training when I wouldn’t otherwise be able to. I briefly explain the overarching philosophy of exercise, then the particulars of this specific technique. Then I explain my routine and demonstrate how I apply it to myself in the context of my debilities and limitations. In closing, I anticipate objections from “haters,” flip off the camera, and declare myself  one of the world’s leading intellectuals in the field of exercise.
    I can easily see that a lot of stylistic improvements (tonality, emotive speech, body language) are needed, and I will remove the tacky cursing and flipping off the audience at the end. These are easy fixes.
    The harder part is deciding a final script or outline. I consulted “The Art of Nonfiction” for guidance, and it occurred to me that I don’t know how to identify my subject and theme These could be:
    Me—I’m primarily making a video about myself. Exercise in general This particular form of exercise How I use this particular form of exercise to train through a serious physical problem. According to TAONF, the subject is what your article is about, and your theme is what you want to say about it. Rand recommends explicating exactly why you are writing to help clarify these issues. 
    I never explicated why I made this, so I’m trying to do so now. 
    I have a constellation of health-related interests, of which exercise is a crucial component. I have some original insights on these subjects, and I want to put them into the form of tangible content before someone else does. 
    This video is only original in the sense that it shows how a person with a serious joint disease applies resistance training to good effect. I talk to people in online groups for people with joint and back pain who want to know how to exercise with their condition, and a nicely revised version of this video could be of value to them.
    But I think on a subconscious level, I intended for this video to be an introduction that could serve several useful purposes as part of an overall platform. It seems I’m trying to showcase myself and my knowledge, even realizing that few people will care. I’m doing so in this video by explaining the basics of why and how I train this way.
    At the time I made this video, on a subconscious level, I envisioned myself posting other videos that I’ve had ideas for, where I attack the ideas of other fitness influencers whom I see as frauds. Then people click on my channel and see this: a guy who is disabled and has an unremarkable physique and all of 22 followers is claiming to know a lot more than fitness influencers and professional athletes with millions of followers. Most people laugh or block me, but one person in 100 sees the logic of it and follows me.
    So is my subject really exercise, or is it actually ME? And if it’s me, is this aim legitimate, or am I in danger of becoming a pretentious second-hander whose aim is clicks, likes, and follows rather than originality and legitimacy? 
    Thanks for any insights!
     
     
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    Like mass inoculation in an effected population during the first wave of a novel infection being less than optimal strategy or even dangerous, that kind of 'old school' virology practices ?
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    tadmjones got a reaction from monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    I think there is an immediate third step, find the origin and assess the likely-hood of similar 'outbreaks'.
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    tadmjones reacted to Grames in Reblogged:Will Independents Save the GOP From Itself?   
    I suspect that the cultural brainwashing could not possibly work as well as it does if children did not grow up drenched in chemicals from plants and plastics that emulated estrogens.   Excreted body fluids contain the remnants of all birth control pills ever taken, which all flow downstream into water supplies.  
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    tadmjones reacted to AlexL in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    Oh, you are a virology professional ! Nice ! Too bad that, according to Christine Massey, M.Sc., "Virology is not a science, [it is] made for pandemics and vaccines". Which is only understandable, because viruses do not exist😁
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    tadmjones got a reaction from Jon Letendre in Reblogged:Blog Roundup   
    In what way is setting strictures for immigration a violation of freedom of movement? Is your right to freedom of hydration violated when Yankee Stadium disallows you to bring beverages into the ballpark?
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    tadmjones got a reaction from Boydstun in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    That blog post describes in general how viruses ‘work’ , even the mechanism by which the corona virus in question binds to the  human ACE2 receptor site. But it doesn’t explain how a virus from a bat that doesn’t use a bat ACE2 receptor site evolved so quickly and with such affinity to that site in humans. There was/is speculation that a chimera virus was assembled with the needed furin cleavage site to facilitate such affinity, but blogs posts suggesting those types of analysis would be more ‘in the weeds’ and not for the laymen as this blog example is expressly targeted.
    Intentionally released or not , it is obvious that Covid was the product of virus fuckery.
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    tadmjones reacted to monart in Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny   
    Remembering the CG Computer-Generated Pandemic Tyranny
     
    It's been nearly four years since the "Covid-19 pandemic" campaign was announced (March 11, 2020) by the WHO and subsequently implemented by governments throughout the world -- using fear and force to "lockdown" then "vaccinate" billions of misinformed and misled, confused and compliant masses.
    How did the Covid-19 pandemic come to be? How did such a pandemic tyranny get established so quickly and easily?
    For one's mental and moral health, as well as one's physical health, in order to keep on the betterment of oneself, find out what really was/is the Covid-19 Pandemic.
     
    How to Establish a Pandemic Tyranny (with or without an actual virus)     Tyranny can be established in a few strokes, in countries where rights are not absolute and inviolate, and where they can be even more restricted in emergencies (i.e., in all countries). The extent of the tyranny depends on the severity of the emergency. Wars, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters are common justifications for invoking emergency tyrannical powers.   Epidemics and pandemics are among the less common justifications, but have advantages for tyrants that war and disasters do not have. When the “enemy” is sub/microscopic and invisible, it is easier to fool and frighten the people into believing in the emergency and accepting the tyranny. Indeed, a viral enemy is even more effective for fear-mongering than a bacterial enemy, a virus being far more minuscule and mysterious than bacteria.   For the first time in history, a pandemic tyranny was successfully established, all across the globe. How was it done?   1. Conduct pandemic simulations (“Event 201”, “Crimson Contagion”) to train and prime, among other effects, the health authorities and policy makers for the “real” pandemic to come.   2. Have the “outbreak” start in tyrannical China, where the truth is whatever the Party decrees, and the whip and gun is its main method of persuasion – and in Wuhan, with its pre-existing epidemic of respiratory illness/death caused by severe air pollution, which can be renamed "covid", as needed.   3. Have WHO previously lower the criteria for declaring a pandemic – and then to extol China as the exemplar for the rest of the world to emulate in response to the new invisible enemy, to be quickly named as SARS-CoV2.   4. Have the Chinese doctors claim that the pandemic is caused by a coronavirus, but a “novel” one - so that it could have the frightening and flexible characteristics as needed to initiate, manipulate, and sustain the belief in the pandemic.   5. Do not require that the novel coronavirus be isolated, purified, quantified, or uniquely characterized - so that its true nature (even if it exists) would not be there as a reality-check on the downstream computer modeling, testing protocols, case numbers, and mandates on social distancing, masking, and vaccination.   6. Create epidemiological models that predict, on demand, apocalyptic infections and deaths, with ready excuses that failed predictions are actually successes due to heeding the models and implementing lockdowns and mandates.   7. Design testing protocols, such as over-amplifiable PCR tests (designed for research, not diagnostic use), and the even less valid, proxy tests like anti-gen tests and sewage surveillance tests. These tests can yield false positives, as needed, on demand. Then saturate the population with tests, tests, and more tests.   8. Inflate the test-derived case numbers by providing incentives to re-label other respiratory infections as “covid-19” and ignore or downplay co-morbidities. The pre-existing common colds linked to already known coronaviruses are plentiful sources for claiming covid cases.   9. Refer to government health authorities as “top doctors”, whose scientific expertise is beyond question or reproach. Marginalize and punish those who question, challenge, or expose the covid irrationality - dismiss as being purveyors of “misinformation” and as threats to public health.   10. Ensure the medical/health, educational/academic institutions, and mainstream media are allied with the campaign - so that the masses are both intimidated and comforted in their fear and obedience, with little question or protest.   11. Enroll the evermore power-seeking politicians to enact the policies already in place by invoking public-health/emergency powers - so that the increased tyranny appears legitimate and legal, and the masses accept as necessary.   12. Join forces with the vaxxers and mass-advertise the vaccine as the only way out of the pandemic and the lockdowns - so that the masses rush into long line-ups for the shots - so that the psycho-socio-medical experiments and conditioning, among other agendas, can be perpetrated and perpetuated - and so that the test-kit and vaccine manufacturers and purveyors continue to make their billions.   ---   The key and essential preconditions for this covert./overt campaign to establishing a pandemic tyranny include the following:   - A legally enslaved society where government controlled and tax-funded healthcare and education (along with the other welfare statist policies) are already widespread, which condition the people into dependency, conformity, and obedience.   - An intellectually and morally bankrupt world where collectivism (mob rule), altruism (self-sacrifice), and mysticism (faith) prevail, institutionally and politically, over individualism, rights, and reason – where delusion is believed over objective reality and consensus overrides logic and facts.   ---   How to demolish this pandemic tyranny? By exposing the massive deception that it is (as shamdemic, plandemic, covert-19).  Learn and understand, teach and advocate, declare and defend - ultimately to establish and institutionalize the philosophy of reality, reason, rights, and romance – and create a free, rational, individualist society.   ------   “. . . The truth twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.” – Rudyard Kipling, “If” “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” – Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” “The action is the aim and the aim is the action.” – Zarlenga, The Orator “Don’t bother examining [too much] a folly, ask only what it accomplishes.” –Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead   =====   Image: Like in a movie, the CG world of SARS-Cov2....


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    tadmjones got a reaction from StrictlyLogical in Reblogged:Will Independents Save the GOP From Itself?   
    Yeah.. MAGA is a cult
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    tadmjones reacted to Grames in Reblogged:Will Independents Save the GOP From Itself?   
    Trump's policy positions are why he has any popularity whatsoever.  There is no cult.  MAGA doesn't end when Trump goes away.
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    tadmjones reacted to Jon Letendre in Reblogged:Blog Roundup   
    Yes, we need deal with the people enabling this.
    And we have every right to stop the destruction they are engineering. Texas has every right to try. Every American citizen has the moral right to go there and try, until it stops.
    Then we can enact certain economic separations.
    Then we can open immigration back up and find out for the first time what "normal immigration" levels really are. Maybe zero. America is an expensive place to live. Telework more and more common. Yeah, maybe zero. Maybe very negative immigration under total freedom, because every country is free in this scenario. So why not telework from the cheapest beach on earth? America might empty into Florida and Central and South America. Northerly immigration could be totally contrary to "normal immigration," for all we know, given the current chaos from the various economic un-separations that distort everything.
    Therefore, we have to close the border, deal with the elite globalists doing all of this to us, enact total freedom, implement total freedom, globally, and THEN you will be able to point at the resultant immigration level and for the first time be able to plausibly claim to know what the normal level is.
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    tadmjones got a reaction from Jon Letendre in Reblogged:Blog Roundup   
    Why is the current influx of illegal immigration being assisted to the extent they are? and by whom? They are given money and travel and spread out through the country, surely they did not make these arrangements themselves , in a free country where one follows there own self interest , someone must have an interest in importing people and relocating them, some reports say to the tune of up to 5k in cash/card and then the ability to draw $2100 monthly stipends along with room and board. There are also reports that in the areas that the migrants are passing international organizations and NGO's are handing out information on routes and destinations suitable for crossing. This is definitely not a spontaneous movement of like minded poverty escapees and or political amnesty seekers, and the fact that the same situation is happening in Europe , wtf is going on ?
    What cultural change sparked the ambitions of Northern African Muslims to become Parisian baguette bakery apprentices?
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    tadmjones got a reaction from Jon Letendre in Reblogged:Blog Roundup   
    Lol, we should allow illegal entry into the country of military aged men traveling alone, because only 1 in 20k is an identified terrorism threat. The Pfizer initial Covid gene therapy trials showed that the number to vaccinate to statistically prevent 1 death was 22k, did HB apply the same argument against the introduction of potential harm to 22 k in order to ‘save’ one ? 
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