…Manhattan faces a reckoning.
Indeed.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Latest Elon Bashing
I’m glad this guy’s not in charge of anything.
A Rant On The Sociopolitical Madness
…from Lileks:
I think a lot of people who lived their lives in a quivering state of imminent ecological collapse-panic have moved those emotions from that box into this one, and feel energized because the dread now seems even more imminent, and they have Science! on their side, and their enemies are all the right enemies, and this time they can make a difference. And it requires nothing.
I could get the Wuhan Virus (I call it that to push back against Newthink that insists the smart people call it the European Virus) and I could die. I know that. I keep that in mind all the time when I leave the house, and gather my tools and shields, and mind my actions with care, for the same reason I signal a lane change on an empty highway. You never know what’s in your blind spot
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RTHT.
“Social Distancing”
…is snake oil, not science.
I find few things more annoying than morons who couldn’t integrate a function or even solve a quadratic equation to save their lives telling me that if I disagree with them on climate, or anything, that I am “denying science.”
It’s Destruction, All Right
…but is it creative? I think it was much more damaging than it needed to be, and will continue to be so.
[Wednesday-morning update]
The poorest counties are the hardest hit by the lock downs.
Herd Immunity
Is the percentage needed for it lower than was thought? If so, this is good news.
[Update a while later]
“‘Herd immunity’ is misleading; what we need is augmented immunity.”
Unbearable Truths
…about our current political predicament.
I think that national debt and budget deficit is another.
Hygienic Fascism
Making the world a “safe space,” but at what cost?
Markets Work
…even in crisis, if you let them. Laws against “price gouging” are economically insane.
Bob Zimmerman
We’ve been wearing one, not because we really think it keeps us or others safer, but simply out of current social etiquette. And we only do it inside, not when simply outside.
[Update a while later]
People are silently withdrawing their consent from the State.
Some not-so-silently, too.
[Update Saturday morning]
Mask shaming is just the latest form of virtue signaling.
[Bumped]