Ask the true believes to square the Diamond Princess, 9 dead out of 3,711 passengers and crew, 0.2%. All locked on board, no one could leave, the perfect locked room labatory.
Tam and Company are charlatans trying to avoid the hangman rope. Muddy the water now, scurry away later.
(Edited--typos, old man, old eyes, big fingers, small phone)
Thanks for covering this. I did read about this today but haven't had time to pick it apart. This afternoon I have been watching an excellent documentary called "Uninformed Consent". I am sure a lot of substack readers will be very familiar with many parts of this two part documentary but it's well
Counterfactuals is a field of study in history. For real. While it sounds hokey, what it means is you must know much more history (including stuff like economy and anthopolgy and culture and sociology) - you actually must know more to able to make things up.
And it's in the details. By learning about those, we can maybe find overlooked such details in our present. To us it is unfathomable that Hero of Alexandria's engineering didn't lead to an early industrial revolution, simply because to us it is obvious what the benfits would have been in harnessing steam and using iron instead of bronze (and iron wasn't rare in any way - it was harder and more expensive to work in than bronze, until it was not).
Say Hero would have taken his automatic doors further. Then what? And combined with Arkimedes' stuff. Oh my. And it's not hard to imagine someone inventing the steam powered cannon a bit early after the first time a primitive steam engine blows a gasket or shoots rivets all over the place.
And we ae currently, all of us, making the exact same mistakes that will cause humans in the 25th century go "But why didn't they ever ______? They had the technology. They had the know-how."
I posed this question to two other substacks already, but I'm going to ask you too, since you are close to the topic with this one:
Someone on Twitter was arguing on a thread about health care workers and recalling them (they thought they should not be).
They shared this with me: "Between June 06, 2022 and July 03, 2022, unvaccinated cases were 3 times more likely to be hospitalized and 4 times more likely to die from their illness, compared to cases with a completed primary vaccine series. During the same 4-week period, unvaccinated cases were 5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 5 times more likely to die from their illness, compared to cases with a completed primary vaccine series and 1 or more additional doses (see data notes in Technical notes and definitions section)."
I can't see the actual data that goes with the sweeping claim. They do have some bar graphs that are a summary of the data from Dec. 2020 until now (which makes it look worse for the UV). But the claim above covers the period when they stopped reporting by vaxx status in ONT and BC.
This summary statement appears completely out of sync with what the data showed before they stopped reporting hospitalizations, ICU and deaths by vaxx status. We can guess if the data was actually showing what they claim here, Ontario and BC would still be reporting by vaxx status. I don't know if I am missing something, but it seems that such a claim as they made should be supported with actual stats.
A lot of the effectiveness of this deception goes back to Victorian-era ideas of 'public education'. From what I've seen in Japan, which is a copy-paste of the British industrial era Victorian model ... the purpose of education is to churn out specialized idiots ('semmon baka' in Japanese) who are just barely technically literate to be disposable labor. I just finished watching a Tess Lawrie interview of a guy helping with a new book, with not so new ideas, 'The Dark Side of Academia', and thought that though well intentioned, they were both a bit naive about the petty politics and corruption that have always been a part of higher education. It has always been about money and power, with a few altruistic exceptions trotted out on stage now and then. It has just become too infuriatingly blatant now.
On second thought, some technical progress happens, usually in small increments, but human nature and our collective understanding of it does not, can not, progress. It is more like a mandelbrot set with repeated patterns throughout history. I may be a bit harsh and jaded from my own experience (https://steven45.substack.com/p/beware-the-academic-halls-of-japan) ... but if the average person becomes educated, it is more likely despite institutional education, not because of it.
I posted this same over at Eugyppius.
CaliforniaLost
2 hr ago
How can ANYONE fall for that bull$hit?
Ask the true believes to square the Diamond Princess, 9 dead out of 3,711 passengers and crew, 0.2%. All locked on board, no one could leave, the perfect locked room labatory.
Tam and Company are charlatans trying to avoid the hangman rope. Muddy the water now, scurry away later.
(Edited--typos, old man, old eyes, big fingers, small phone)
Thanks for covering this. I did read about this today but haven't had time to pick it apart. This afternoon I have been watching an excellent documentary called "Uninformed Consent". I am sure a lot of substack readers will be very familiar with many parts of this two part documentary but it's well
worth watching. It was produced by Canadian filmmaker, Todd Michael Harris. https://drtrozzi.org/2022/08/06/uninformed-consent-documentary/ I hope this link works.
Counterfactuals is a field of study in history. For real. While it sounds hokey, what it means is you must know much more history (including stuff like economy and anthopolgy and culture and sociology) - you actually must know more to able to make things up.
And it's in the details. By learning about those, we can maybe find overlooked such details in our present. To us it is unfathomable that Hero of Alexandria's engineering didn't lead to an early industrial revolution, simply because to us it is obvious what the benfits would have been in harnessing steam and using iron instead of bronze (and iron wasn't rare in any way - it was harder and more expensive to work in than bronze, until it was not).
Say Hero would have taken his automatic doors further. Then what? And combined with Arkimedes' stuff. Oh my. And it's not hard to imagine someone inventing the steam powered cannon a bit early after the first time a primitive steam engine blows a gasket or shoots rivets all over the place.
And we ae currently, all of us, making the exact same mistakes that will cause humans in the 25th century go "But why didn't they ever ______? They had the technology. They had the know-how."
That's the point of counterfactuals.
I posed this question to two other substacks already, but I'm going to ask you too, since you are close to the topic with this one:
Someone on Twitter was arguing on a thread about health care workers and recalling them (they thought they should not be).
They shared this with me: "Between June 06, 2022 and July 03, 2022, unvaccinated cases were 3 times more likely to be hospitalized and 4 times more likely to die from their illness, compared to cases with a completed primary vaccine series. During the same 4-week period, unvaccinated cases were 5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 5 times more likely to die from their illness, compared to cases with a completed primary vaccine series and 1 or more additional doses (see data notes in Technical notes and definitions section)."
From: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/#technicalNotes
I can't see the actual data that goes with the sweeping claim. They do have some bar graphs that are a summary of the data from Dec. 2020 until now (which makes it look worse for the UV). But the claim above covers the period when they stopped reporting by vaxx status in ONT and BC.
This summary statement appears completely out of sync with what the data showed before they stopped reporting hospitalizations, ICU and deaths by vaxx status. We can guess if the data was actually showing what they claim here, Ontario and BC would still be reporting by vaxx status. I don't know if I am missing something, but it seems that such a claim as they made should be supported with actual stats.
A lot of the effectiveness of this deception goes back to Victorian-era ideas of 'public education'. From what I've seen in Japan, which is a copy-paste of the British industrial era Victorian model ... the purpose of education is to churn out specialized idiots ('semmon baka' in Japanese) who are just barely technically literate to be disposable labor. I just finished watching a Tess Lawrie interview of a guy helping with a new book, with not so new ideas, 'The Dark Side of Academia', and thought that though well intentioned, they were both a bit naive about the petty politics and corruption that have always been a part of higher education. It has always been about money and power, with a few altruistic exceptions trotted out on stage now and then. It has just become too infuriatingly blatant now.
On second thought, some technical progress happens, usually in small increments, but human nature and our collective understanding of it does not, can not, progress. It is more like a mandelbrot set with repeated patterns throughout history. I may be a bit harsh and jaded from my own experience (https://steven45.substack.com/p/beware-the-academic-halls-of-japan) ... but if the average person becomes educated, it is more likely despite institutional education, not because of it.
Agreed. I am guessing the answers are there but are obfuscated by the agenda. I can be distrusting and cynical