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Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The case for reading fiction from Harvard Business Review.

- Interesting - reportedly US intel helped India rout China in 2022 border clash. We need to be closer allies with India. 

- If you have a Samsung cell phone there's a critical security bug you need to be aware of.

- Matt Ridley on the "Racoon dogs" being the latest - it wasn't a lab leak distraction out of China. It was a lab leak. "Don't trust China - China is asshole!"

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Let's Not Forget

The Orwellian Re-Defining of "Vaccination"

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The Media Blackout on Fauci's Damning Emails

The emails suggest something nefarious was up on the lab leak theory yet the press has refused to notice. 

Fauci is an evil narcissist but it looks like people are afraid of going after him because that could drag China through the mud too. And the people getting money from the Chinese certainly wouldn't want that.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"When science becomes big, it stops being science." - Peter Thiel

"Big science is unmotivated to investigate the lab-leak hypothesis, as the findings could recast it from the hero to the villain." - Naval Ravikant

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The only problem with capitalism is that it works so well that people think they don't need it." - Dan Held

"An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague - one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character." - Marcus Aurelius

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk

"I'm old enough to remember when chicken soup, ginger ale and rest were prescribed for the flu instead of communism." - Mattea Merta

The Absurd Covid Rules (and Rulemakers) Should Be Mocked

Adam Carolla praised for mocking Covid tyrants.

There are some comedians who will not hesitate to mock these ridiculous rules - think Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan for just two examples. I'm guessing Rogan will have at least 20 good minutes devoted to the subject in his next special. 

I miss Norm Macdonald - he never hesitated to mock the ridiculousness.   

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He's Still the Bad Guy

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America Today

The saying a decade ago was:

America is not at war. The Marine Corps are at war. America is at the mall.

Today the saying may as well be:

America is not at war. Communist China is at war. America is on lockdown.

The Lab Leak Fiasco

"For over a year the media enforced falsehoods about the pandemic's origins, never evaluated the evidence, never apologized, and was never held accountable."

The media still isn't being held accountable. Fantastic job by Ashley Rindsberg and The Tablet. Well detailed account of how the US media has bended the knee to the Chinese and why. The angle of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and the Washington Post was not something I had considered before.

The pandemic started at the Wuhan Institute for Virology. Anyone who says otherwise does not have eyes to see or is somehow beholden to the CCP.

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History Will Grind Out the Truth

VDH makes a good point on how the truth did come out about the "Russian Collusion." But it took time.

The good professor argues the same will be true about both the origin of the Wuhan virus and the January 6th arrests.

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Lab Leak and Natural Origin Proponents Face Off

Lab-leak and natural origin proponents face off - civilly - in forum on pandemic origins. Not sure why the author used scare quotes on "lab-leak" but not on "natural origin" but the article seems fair.

I'm 100% in the lab leak camp. If it were "natural origin" why hasn't the culprit animal been found? When Ebola first had it's outbreak we quickly found the source. It's been two-years now an no bat, pangolin or other source animal has been identified. At the same time the Chinese government has actively suppressed information from and access to the Wuhan Institute for Virology. 

What are the Risks?

My understanding is that there have been 3,409 deaths from VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) which easily could be a low number because of cases never reported. Taking this number at face value though that's roughly a fatality rate of just 0.00002% of all the people who received a vaccine shot in the US (211,776,515). The VAERS numbers above are just deaths but if you added in all reported adverse side-effects that number becomes much bigger. These adverse effects include serious side effects such as triggering dormant MS (happened to my friend's wife) or myocarditis - among other side effects.

The mortality rate overall in the US from COVID compared to the overall population is roughly just 0.002% (COVID deaths in US divided by overall US population). It has been reported that 95% of these deaths were in people with on average 4 comorbidities.

The odds of winning the lottery is a reported 1 in 300 million. That's statistically a much lower number than the VAERS fatality rate mentioned above (which works out to 1 in 62,123). However, when it comes to winning the lottery the state governments will actively try to persuade you that today's your lucky day! Whereas with the VAERS fatalities they would seemingly try to convince you that the number is too small to be likely (or hide the number in ways that make it hard to determine).  

No matter how you slice it - we are talking about some very small numbers here. Numbers way too small to warrant lockdowns or forfeiting Constitutional rights. And with numbers this small - shouldn't each person be allowed to weigh their own risks and choices without being forced by government mandates? 

What happened to common sense?

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute for Virology applied for a grant applied for a grant from DARPA in 2018 for gain of function on bat viruses. The COVID-19 virus came from the Wuhan lab. This should be the biggest story in the world.

- Heh Heh

- VDH: The Afghanistization of America. 

- The Appalachian Trail in 4 minutes. Love these videos. Some day I'll make the through-hike.