Support Group

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain 
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
--Bill Withers

Tech-led selloff finds major indexes sitting on their 50 day moving avgs.

Whether those levels serve as support will be first test of severity.

Same As It Ever Was

And you may ask yourself

Am I right, Am I wrong?

And you may say to yourself

My God! What have I done?

--Talking Heads

Although the latest example of surrendering freedom in the name of security seems unprecedented, it can be seen as the latest in a long train of capitulations and compromises.

Typically, people don't first vote on it. Instead, liberty is compromised, then people consent to it. Government expansion happens first. People adapt to and live with it second.

People trading God's precious gift for some earthly good. Same as it ever was.

Elderly Choice

I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud
--Roberta Flack

Even among those skeptical about lockdowns and other CV19 countermeasures, there has been broad agreement about staying away from the elderly--to keep them and other vulnerable groups isolated from exposure to the virus.

A free, self-governing people would find a way to respect personal choice. #BigBrother #COVIDー19 #freedom #liberty #America #USA https://t.co/m6I2o0WXBv

— Tara Ross (@TaraRoss) September 7, 2020

However, many elderly people are realizing that they do not want to waste their remaining time in isolation. They want to live.

No worldly policy can rightly dictate who gets to live a full life. We have all been equally endowed with that right by our creator.

Old age does not disqualify freedom of choice.

Over Reporting Deaths

In violent times
You shouldn't have to sell your soul
In black and white
They really, really ought to know
--Tears for Fears

Some people claim that CV19 death counts are accurate or in vastly under reported. Why, then, do we see the following practices?

1) With vs From. Counting deaths of people thought to have CV19 (either now or in the past) rather than deaths of people who die because of CV19.

2) Legacy Death Laundering. Looking at past records (possibly months ago) for deaths that can be attributed to CV19 and reporting their occurrence today.

Real cases, despite false pos's - are indicating that Covid is over....

Even with the weekend rate, still 33% of the deaths reported today actually occurred 3 - 6 weeks ago.

Yellow line will hit EOS first, then the Gompertz Curve will confirm it (unless we choose to cheat). pic.twitter.com/GEgoBEDoUD

— Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) September 7, 2020

Under reported? No way. These bogus practices tell us health officials, politicians, and their media lackeys are all working to over report CV19 deaths.

We have a classic agency problem.

With vs From

Purple haze
All in my brain
Lately things
They don't seem the same
--Jimi Hendrix

Analysis of Swedish mortality data indicates that fatalities with CV19 assigned as direct COD are about 15% the 'official' country death count.

presuming this is correct, this is truly striking data.

it shows how much the incredibly inclusive swedish covid death counting (any death from any reason within 30 days of + diagnosis) affected the numbers.

5813 reported. only 872 as direct cause. https://t.co/L1Wl3mcFGU

— el gato malo (@boriquagato) September 6, 2020

Stated differently, far more people die 'with' the virus than 'from' it--something that overt data manipulation really told us already.

Suspect that analysis of US data would indicate similar.

Critical Race Theory

Dean Yeager: Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable. You are a poor scientist, Dr Venkman.
Dr Peter Venkman: I see.
--Ghostbusters

Critical race theory (CRT) is a collection of propositions related to the social justice movement--e.g., that so-called 'white privilege' and 'institutional racism' restrain upward mobility of black people. Calling this 'theory' is like putting lipstick on a pig. It is a rhetorical device meant to cast legitimacy on an amalgamation of popular tripe.

Not surprisingly, agencies under the Obama administration had been using taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate CRT on the masses. Thankfully, the Trump administration is ending this indoctrination program.

The days of taxpayer funded indoctrination trainings that sow division and racism are over. Under the direction of @POTUS we are directing agencies to halt critical race theory trainings immediately.https://t.co/dyMeJka9rt

— Russ Vought (@RussVought45) September 4, 2020

Government should not support 'training' of any type. The CRT situation demonstrates why.

Contextual Rot

"You're dead, son. Get yourself buried."
--J.J. Hunsecker (Sweet Smell of Success)

A classic practice of shyster journalism is to interview a target that you want to blacken, collect pages of conversation from him/her, and then cut and past small snippets out of the original context to fit your very different context.

Clay Travis demonstrates here. Out of 28 pages of interview quotes, the Washington Post writer hell bent on producing a hit piece selected 94 words to fit his narrative.

Yesterday the Washington Post published a front page hit piece on me in their sports section with many wildly out of context quotes. But I recorded the interview & today I’m publishing the transcript. Get your popcorn. This is what destruction looks like: https://t.co/50T1C3xYwM

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 4, 2020

As Travis observes, many people don't have the resources to defend themselves against media ambush. Fortunately Travis does.

If the Washington Post will take my quotes wildly out of context in an effort to make me look bad, how many other people who don’t own their own media companies do they do this to daily? Go read this. And share it. Widely: https://t.co/50T1C3xYwM

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 4, 2020

We're all fortunate, really, since Travis is willing to endure discomfort to expose contextual media rot.

Atlas Strength

We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution
--Red Rider

President Trump's appointment of Dr Scott Atlas of the Stanford biomedicine group to his White House CV19 team strikes fear into the authoritarian lockdown crowd. Not surprisingly, the appointment has fostered smear pieces from the mainstream media aimed at discrediting Atlas.

Fact checking Dr. Atlas’s reported views from the lede of @nytimes’s hit piece: True, mask wearing is uncertain (at best); not-quite-true (kids spread the virus, but rarely); true, lockdowns have failed.

The silliest bit is the effort to smear Sweden. See the “disastrous” curve? pic.twitter.com/aPn3rs3sEE

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) September 2, 2020

It won't work.

If Atlas is able to wrestle the podium away from Anthony Fauci and broadly share his evidence-based approach with the American people, then the game is up for the lockdown crowd.

Let's hope that Atlas intends to flex his strength.

Needing Fear

Danny Costanzo: What's wrong with being careful?
Captain Logan: Careful gets you killed in this line of work. You think about getting shot and you get shot.
--Running Scared

There is a certain faction of the lockdown crowd that is fearful. They NEED to be fearful.

If they did not fear for their lives and that things are terrible, then they would need to admit that their view of the world was wrong.

The psychic pain of that specter is perceived as greater than the cost of their charade. So their psychosis persists.

Reset and Degrowth

"Now, if my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit!"
--Dr Emmett Brown (Back to the Future)

Building on yesterday's post of coordinated authoritarian policies meant to effect large-scale social change, we have this quote from a WEF bureaucrat:

Welcome to one "root cause" for the irrational hysteria we see... https://t.co/YoB9I3EfIX

— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) August 30, 2020

It is easy to postulate that a degrowth mindset provides a unifying force among factions that require a 'reset' by the strong arm of government to advance their agendas.