„The pandemic’s transition toward becoming a disease that the world can manage more easily and learn to live with. “Really?!?It’s the disease which needs to become something we might be able to learn how to live with?!?””
„That’s how pandemics work. Like the 1918 flu…”
„Well…The virus itself is being passively selected by the naturally occurring ‘evolutionary forces’. We, as a conscious species, act more or less ‘uncoordinatedly’. We develop vaccines, determine that masks are good for us and then refuse to use them to their full potential. Doesn’t make much sense, evolutionary speaking…”
On the other hand, the article is interesting. Like so many other times, the content is ‘somewhat’ different from the click-bait title/presentation….
And, maybe, I should remember you that ‘nicichiarasa’ is the Romanian word for ‘don’t overstep it’, …
According to Charles Darwin, natural evolution is the process which has brought us, animal beings, to where we are now. Each to its own place.
According to some, evolution is about ‘the survival of the fittest’. According to Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, evolution is about ‘the demise of the unfit’.
It’s up to us to ‘choose sides’. For no other reason than the fact that Darwin’s evolution was driven by ‘accidental’ changes in the environment. The species which happened to live ‘under the weather’ had to adapt to those changes. Or to ‘exit stage right’! While nowadays we have to make do with consequences resulting from our own decisions…
“Dr. Jack Lyons remembers the pandemic’s early days when grateful communities banged pots and pans to honor frontline health care workers. But now, faced with hostility just for trying to save his patients’ lives, he says that, sadly, those days are long gone.”
“Now health care workers fighting on the front lines of the pandemic are also coming face to face with patients who dismiss and even threaten them over how they are being treated for the virus. “Folks act as if they can come in the hospital and request any certain therapy they want or conversely decline any therapy they want with the idea being that somehow they can pick and choose and direct their therapy. And it doesn’t work,” Lyons told CNN from the CentraCare hospital he works at in St. Cloud, Minnesota.””
“They insult your intelligence, they insult your ability, and most hurtful, they say that by not using these therapies you are intentionally trying to harm the people we’ve given everything to save,” Lyons said.” “About 70% of the patients in Lyons’ ICU are sick with Covid-19, and almost all of them are unvaccinated.”
Evolution happening under our own eyes. The ‘pot and pan bangers’ got jabbed and no longer have to go to the ICU. Not with Covid, anyway.
Hence the likes of Dr. Lynch are left with the Covid deniers… who already know the ‘right’ treatment…
In the context of Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial, a friend asked me ‘which right takes precedence?’
A ‘right’ can be understood in two ways.
As something granted to somebody by somebody else. Or as a consequence of modus vivendi. A consequence of how people interact among themselves.
People who see it in the first way, will ‘fight’ to establish that ‘precedence’.
Those who understand rights as being a consequence of social evolution will negotiate among themselves about the order in which rights should be exerted.
Hence my assertion. No guns should be present at a ‘peaceful’ manifestation. Where people come to manifest their grievances. Where a car or two might get torched. Where a window or two might get smashed. But where – if things go as ‘planed’, nobody will loose more than a couple of teeth. No matter what!
But as soon as guns are brought along, the ‘atmosphere’ is changed. People start loosing their lives. And while a car, or a window, can be replaced… lost life cannot be brought back!
And for me, life takes precedence over property. I would aim a gun – If I had one, at somebody trespassing through my bedroom but I would not shoot at them unless my – or others, life was in danger.
So yes, Rittenhouse was right to defend himself but he shouldn’t have brought that rifle to a manifestation. No matter how riotous. It wasn’t his job to police the town. A town which wasn’t his home, where he owned no property… but where he eventually had taken two lives while ‘protecting property’. While asserting “his right to bear arms“.
For sometime now, I was having a very hard time trying to understand what’s going on.
Seemingly intelligent people keep sending messages demonstrating the exact contrary. On ‘social media’!
So. Communism is good and life saving masks and vaccines are bad… Communism is good because some of the capitalists have been bad and life saving measures are bad because they are forcefully imposed!
Communism – which has failed each and every time when and where it had been attempted, is better than capitalism. Because some of today’s capitalists refuse to pay their taxes. The fact that people living in the ex-communist countries still struggle with the consequences of the systemic errors inherent to the communist ‘order’ isn’t relevant anymore. The selfishness of the tax-dodgers ‘trumps’ everything else. Pun intended!
Life saving measures are bad for the single reason that they are forcefully imposed by a majority which wants to live upon a minority which considers liberty to be more valuable than life. I’m not going to argue that you cannot enjoy liberty while being dead. That would be idiotic. I’m only going to ask
Liberty from WHAT?!?
From WHOM?!?
Who’s the oppressor? What do they force us to do? Live?!?
Or wear a mask, get jabbed and pay taxes? As in ‘do something back for the community which supports you’? Contribute to the community where you had been born, raised and which makes your current life possible…
The eureka moment had come when
I realized that ‘it takes two to tango’.
Marx wouldn’t have had any traction without the ‘exaggerations’ of the early ‘robber barons’. Lenin wouldn’t have been able to steer the Russian Revolution so far left without the ‘benefit’ of the former, Tsarist, rulers having behaved in an absolutely idiotic manner. Hitler, and Mussolini, wouldn’t have been able to steer their countries so far right without the errors committed by the previous ‘administrations’. The current American political scene would have been completely different had the political actors behaved in a more reasonable manner. Both sides of the political spectrum…
We’re currently at war. Undeclared and mostly not understood. Let me use a WWII example to make things clearer.
Much of the equipment used by Hitler’s army to attack the USSR had been built outside Germany. Following German designs and according to technological processes developed in Germany but using foreign workers laboring in foreign manufacturing facilities and processing raw materials sourced from outside the Third Reich. France’s Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Berliet and the Czech Skoda are but a few examples. Yet despite the fact that the nazis had forced almost the entire Europe to work for them, the Allies have eventually prevailed. Simply because the Allies had pulled together! And that they had been helped by the Resistance. Which Resistance had been encouraged and helped by the Allies themselves.
The current aggressor, SarsCov-2, uses the very same tactics. It invades an organism, takes over and forces its victim to work for it. To build fresh virus armies. Which armies are then sent out to conquer more organisms. More Human People, that is.
And what do we do? The potential victims? The ‘logical’ allies?
Do we stick together? Do we have each-other’s backs, like all truthful allies? Do we make good use of whatever weapons each of us can use? Masks, vaccines, social distancing…?
Like the allies had done during WWII?
You see, WWII, like all other wars, have not been won, or lost, by soldiers alone. War is a country wide effort. To win, a country must mobilize all its energies. The “Home Front” is not an empty phrase. Not at all!
Do you see that happening in the current war?
Or too many of us have let the health-workers to fight OUR war of survival on their own? On our behalf…
ICU nurse sleeping in a box while all the beds and the chairs in the hospital (St. Pantelimon Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania) were occupied.
For knowledge to become actionable, it has to be trusted. It has to be believed as being true!
In order to cooperate with somebody, you need to trust that person.
But trusting a person is far more complicated than believing that a piece of information is true!
Evaluating a piece of knowledge is a uni-dimensional business. That piece of knowledge either corresponds with (what is considered to be) reality – it is ‘true’, or it doesn’t. Hence it is false. And it’s only after you have satisfied yourself about an information being true that you may start to ‘own’ it. To act upon it.
When it comes to trusting a person, you are confronted with a bi-dimensional endeavor. Which makes it a real problem. In order to be able to cooperate with somebody, you need to be satisfied on two accounts. That that person is qualified enough for the business at hand AND that that person ‘means well’.
Not that simple, is it?
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The amount of fake-news targeted at someone is the best indicator for how many skeletons that person had already unveiled. For how many skeletons that person had dug out from closets belonging to people who were accustomed with being ‘left to their own devices’. Closets belonging to people who considered themself as being ‘above the fray’…
Sugar, flour, vegetable oil, gas, toilet paper, soap, pork belly… and also coal, steel, timber, cement…affordable mass produced ‘things’ you expect to be able to buy whenever you need them.
Until something happens and you are no longer able to… either you lost your job or they have disappeared from the market. For whatever reasons. It is then when you realize that many of your contemporaries consider many of them to be luxuries… And that now it’s your turn to share their experiences…
Then we have the natural ‘commodities’. Things we take for granted but which have not been produced by our fellow humans. That the sun will rise tomorrow, fresh air, clean water, fertile soil… Things we take for granted… but, again, quite a lot of people find many of those things to be rather ‘out of reach’!
Finally, but no less important, we have the ‘virtual’ commodities. Man ‘made’, again, but, this time, ‘untouchable’. Love, friendship, respect, trust…
To me, the most important of the ‘commodities’, virtual or otherwise, is trust.
Once we loose trust, we loose everything!
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There’s no more love lost among your people. Anything has become enough reason to fight for. Which has transformed them into a dysfunctional collection of mobs. Too many people make themselves available to the highest bidders and too few of them ever lend a helping hand to a neighbor in distress.
I know. Things are, indeed, very bad!
And what you going to do about it? After all, you’re in charge now… Do I need to come back? Take things into my own hands?
The treatment is already under way. And I’m sure you’re aware of it!
It might be. But your cure seems to be making things worse … The old and feeble die alone, the commoners distrust their leaders, the leaders no longer care about those they are supposed to lead, the con-artists command more respect than those committed to the ‘things well done’, ‘fake’ is widely admired while ‘true’ is left behind… where are they headed?!? I’m afraid some drastic measures are called for!
During the last 2000 years I’ve been thinking hard about the past. About what you had done when confronted with similar situations. Your measures had been efficient indeed. Harsh but very efficient. It’s not the harshness of your methods which have prevented me from following in your footsteps. It’s the short memory of my people. Of our people… they haven’t changed that much, you know… They forget quickly. A short ‘episode’ leaves a short memory… and the more ‘intense’ the episode, the quicker they ‘clean’ it from their ‘comfort zone’. ‘Something like this cannot happen again!’ So instead of an all cleansing flood or a pestilence which would have decimated them I had chosen a milder cure. A disease they will not be able to tame until they will learn, again, to cooperate. In earnest! And across every barrier they have erected among themselves! Until they make a habit of helping each-other instead of running each-other into the ground.
OK, Son, let’s give your method a try. After all, it was you who to love them to love each-other… It’s your teaching they no longer obey!
There’s something else, Father! Something I wanted to ask you for a while now but didn’t find the proper occasion. What were you thinking when you gave them freedom of will? Without teaching them first how to learn?
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Then why on Earth would anybody make such a gift to a ‘federal employee’? Oh, to give something ‘trivial’ to such an ‘honorable character’ would diminish the stature of the giver… Not to mention another fact! That it’s the receiver’s job to obey ‘their’ rules… the giver has nothing to do with what happens after the gift has changed hands…
And what else might become lost in the American bureaucratic maze?
Why do I waste my time with things like these? Why do I waste your time with things like these? Why does the US State Department waste its time reporting on things like these?
Until recently – historically speaking, people had two ideologies to choose from.
Conservative and liberal.
The conservatives used to posit ‘law’ as a ‘cage’ which didn’t allow any transgression while the liberals understood ‘law’ as an agreed upon environment which allowed people an individual but orderly pursuit of happiness.
The advent of Marx’s communism changed everything. His promotion of ‘class warfare’ as a legitimate political instrument had effectively muddled that which had previously been considered a clear choice.
After communism proved itself to be an abject failure, the naifs have forgotten about Marx. Flying under the ideological radar, ‘class warfare’ has metastasized.
Nowadays, Regular Joe is confronted with three ideologies. And to make things worse, their names – attributed and/or assumed, are misleading.
We have a line of thought which uses (natural) ‘law’ as a line of defense against any kind of change. And as a means of bringing back the ‘better yesterday’.
Another line of thought which sees (man made) ‘law’ as an instrument to implement – forcefully, if needed, whatever the ‘implementer’ wants to achieve. One of the most often professed goals being ‘equality’. Close on its heels comes ‘diversity’.
And the ‘classical’ liberals who are squeezed between the previous two.
The state/government – whose job is to keep ‘the playing field’ level and functional, is paralyzed by the first two factions fighting to control it. The ‘conservatives’ want to use the state/government as a ‘preserving agent’ for what they consider to be their (natural) ‘rights’. The ‘progressives’ want to use the state/government as an instrument of (forceful, if needed) change towards what they consider to be ‘the common good’.
Meanwhile, the classical liberals – berated by both of the above, have a hard time explaining to a shrinking audience that the state/government is an extremely dangerous instrument if allowed to fall into the hands of ‘single-minded’ operators. That as soon as the freedom of the markets (the economic and, way more importantly, the ideatic ones) is curtailed, everything starts to go south. Fast!
Democracy and the free market have brought us so far. The freedom of thought/expression and the freedom to act as an honest entrepreneur have been instrumental in us reaching the present state. With the goods and the bads in it.
Each instance in which the state/government had fallen prisoner in the hands of ‘men of state’ with ‘focused vision’, history started to run backwards. No matter whether that ‘limited vision’ had been focused in the past or on “a certain” future.
Each time this subject comes about I remember about Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History. About how concentrated he was on the future he considered to be forthcoming. About how his ‘hard focus’ had prevented him from noticing the sunken part of the iceberg.
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