That’s not the half of it.

Yes we are in the bread and circuses stage right now.

Kennedy seems clearly to have both spoken inarticulately in formulating his point, AND to be making an unfounded assumption.

That a disease has disproportionate effects on some ethnic groups compared to others is actually a very common reality. Human biology is real and has consequences. American society in particular is very stupid for its reluctance to notice this reality and to think and plan accordingly. The vast numbers of people who deny it is reality are idiots on a flat-earth level.

That does not mean that the fact that a disease does so means that it has been engineered to do so. It is so common for diseases to work this way, because human biology is real, that a given disease doing so is in no way evidence of engineering for that purpose. Anyone who assumes from this ordinary reality alone that a disease has been engineered to target some and not others is also an idiot on a flat earth level.

Here we see idiots of the first kind shouting down an idiot of the second kind. They both on some level seem to share the same foundational error- that human biology is not real. The former merely conclude from that premise that there can be no disparate impacts from biology, the latter that any disparate impacts must have been engineered.

These are the key issues. On a secondary level, the plausibility in general of the argument that a disease has been engineered to be a biological weapon. Again, some people stupidly leap to this, others stupidly assume it is impossible.

Most of the time it will not be true. The world is fantastically dangerous and always has been and disease is a big part of that. People will die. They will die by the millions in short order during many future outbreaks of something, as long as there is anything resembling biological humans and anything resembling an independent, uncontrolled biosphere, and long may both continue before some posthuman, postnatural world is born.

Rarely, but many times given the scale of the world and of history, it WILL be true. People have been using disease as a weapon since ancient times and probably since prehistory. Governments and maybe others have been learning to manipulate biology for a century at least with a view to bioweapons. This is not a secret.

IF anyone in today's world is working seriously on them and is more than average likely to use them, it is the People's Republic of China. That cannot reasonably be denied based on the nature of that regime, facts about other things it does well in evidence, and that it is the regime in today's world most comparable to the USSR or Nazi Germany, previous leaders in the field, in terms of ideology, state form, structure, state conduct, goals and the nature of its interests in reshaping the existing world order more around itself. That does not mean they would do so willy nilly- unlike western nations, they seem to have fewer obvious fools in high places. On the other hand I well believe they could be working on more such projects with weaker controls than would be the US. Hence an accidental release of something dangerous would be more likely.

Hence, a superpower with the capability and far more likelihood and motivation to release a bioweapon designed to debilitate the world order as presently constituted, but not foolish about when or how to take extreme measures, but with almost certainly more activity in the field and weaker controls.

The bio weapon, accidentally released, theory was ALWAYS at least plausible and worthy of consideration and frankly seems always more plausible than the wet market or, at least, AS plausible. That we were subjected to a relentless bombardment of denial of this obviously plausible scenario from day one is the most suspicious aspect of COVID by far and always was.

If everyone would just wake up you'd all realize that we live in 1950 Soviet Union with all our party leaders are aged vile and evil only wanting obedience to the party line and to think I gave over 2 years of my life as a child fighting and losing countless comrades and friends in the rivers and rice paddies of SE Asia and to see it all here now.....I'm ready again but not as nimble and fleet footed but ready!

Ah, the many uses for the logarithmic function. Who here has heard of Edward Thorp, the under-appreciated genius of 20th century finance? He developed an approach to portfolio construction based around maximizing the expected logarithmic return. This resulted in a feud with the MIT economist / Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, who said that this approach, while producing superior outcomes in almost all conceivable outcomes and simulations, and while also seemingly the preferred approach for most investors, was nonetheless insufficiently rooted in utility theory.

Samuelson won the Nobel, Thorp merely became a billionaire.

Ms. Stauffer, I wish I could sit down with you and have a face to face conversation with you. There is so much you believe to be true that is simply not true.

Well you just created another definition for arrogance.

and a display of assumed tolerance for sheer backhouse ugly on 'Lizbeth's part.

Arrogance? A better word is confidence. Ms. Stauffer's positions on many subjects aren't based on facts, they are based on allegations and assumptions. I would like to sit down and go through those. I would certainly listen to what she had to say, but I would try to point where her assumptions are leading to wrong conclusions. It would be a give and take. She could point out to me where zi am wrong, either based in the facts or because I'm tell nf in bad assumptions.

What are your credentials that make you an expert?

I have an unhealthy interest in politics. :)

Write up a rebuttal and post it on your substack. Give us a link.

To be clear. Hunter's laptop was a smoking machine gun and the Democrats suppressed it. Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Power were two of the three impeachment articles against Nixon.

Why does America have to claw her way out of the abyss? Just ignore it. They will monitor us with, I assume, Artificial Intelligence, as no group of people has the ability to deal with all that information. As a result the American people are intelligent enough to avoid anything that might signal to AI suspect behavior. We will learn to keep our thoughts to ourselves, and the net result will be that the government will not have a clue as to where we hold on vital issues. They will talk for the US, and we the citizens will be busy with our own concerns. Just don't get the US into anything where public support is needed.

A typo in the paragraph starting with LIKEWISE. Surely you meant least formidable opponent.

Thanks, Democrats.

And RINOs, too.

If you saw the two 400 pound female shoplifters on the national news yesterday, you sense there is no hope.

😱

I saw them. I don't see how they could walk. Not sure how you wrangle that beef, but once she's down, she's down!

I don't know. Somewhere in the USA.I had to shield my eyes.

Where was that?

There are too many frogs in the pot that do not know the temperature is reaching the boiling point so they ignore the possibility of any critical danger. Without massive resistance to the evil plan they win. It will be over before the ignorant know it mattered.

About half the frogs think they aren't in the pot. They think only the bad frogs are in the pot.

Right now they are enjoying that some animals are more equal than others. Then they'll get theirs. They always do.

There are too many sleepwalking through life for this downward spiral to be be reversed through logic, reason, and applied common sense. It's going to take inescapable pain to wake them up, but it will probably be too late at that point.

I'm not concerned about their inescapable pain, rather my own...

That going to be largely dependent on what you do or do not do in being prepared for it. There's an old adage: 'Forewarned is forearmed".

Math has no alternatives. 1+1=2, no matter how racist that is. History if full of declining civilizations, often following logarithmic decline. But they all had alternatives to that decline, they just selected wrong. And none of them had written into their laws, the rights of the individual. That's the difference with the US. Logarithms work both ways, and in contrast to democratic decline is perhaps a logarithmic rise in Americans' desire to rid ourselves of the dual justice system, voting fraud, Leftist influence, and outright traitors in our military.
Only time will tell which logarithmic curve wins out.

Simon Black aka James Hickman? Do better Elizabeth, there are *FAR* more credible sources to cite for these propositions.

Thanks for the downvote Elizabeth. I reiterate: you're a journalist, do better.

From "The Sun Also Rises" :

"How did you go broke?"

"Two ways. First gradually, then suddenly"

Yankee below is blowing ignorance at the readers of this thread, especially when it comes to viruses and medications, which have different effects on different persons based on the DNA of the body these viruses and medications might encounter.

For the record there are real scientists doing research, all of them anonymously, into how different and mostly new medications might affect persons of different races and ethnicities. This is real science and it is done by "anonymous" researchers who don't want to be accused of racism.

These individuals are not racists they are scientists trying to ensure that the right medications are delivered correctly in a variety of circumstances. Think Tay Sachs disease or diabetes to cite but two examples. Diabetes in this case is a weak example, as the disease affects persons of every ethnic or racial group, but it sems to affect certain groups more than others. To ask why this is so is not to suggest racism, but to seek vital clues into how to defeat the ailment.

I post this as a "stand-alone," as I will not respond to the ignorance demonstrated below.

For the record there are real scientists doing research, all of them anonymously, into how different and mostly new medications might affect persons of different races and ethnicities. This is real science and it is done by "anonymous" researchers who don't want to be accused of racism.

Where do these "real scientists" publish the results of their "real science"?

You only watch tictoc so why do you care ?

Watch Dr John Campbell on YouTube walk through the results of formal studies as they are released.

HIs latest is an analysis of a just released Swiss study that finds a 1 in 35 rate of people developing myocarditis from mRNA vaccines.

I can read the studies for myself, thanks.

Where are they published?

If you are smart enough to read the studies, why is it necessary to have someone else direct you to the studies? If you are incapable of researching Dr John Campbell on Swiss Vax study, you are most likely not able to comprehend the the conclusions.

If you'll read my original comment, I was asking about where the "anonymous scientists" publish their research. That question has yet to be answered.

Thanks for your condescending remarks, though.

Now you're being ridiculously obtuse - as fools tend to be.

Obtuse for asking for a source of information...?

Dr Campbell puts links to the subject reports in all his YouTube postings.

Several years ago, Richard Fernandez at The Belmont Club blog wrote a very insightful article or two about complex systems which relates here. Complex systems, like those found in a modern industrialized economy, will tool along as the "design margin" is slowly eroded, giving little evidence that anything is amiss to the average onlooker. The "design margin" being defined as the system's ability to absorb adverse events and conditions.

The problem is, the point at which the design margin is completely eroded away is seldom clearly identifiable, but when it happens, the system will fail quickly. It is often not until many years or decades have passed, that the final straw or event which triggered the final collapse is identified, and it may NEVER be identified.

There are countless examples, such as the sudden fall of the Soviet Union, which few (if any) foresaw.

We've been steadily eroding our design margin for decades.

Retired General Michael Hayden is an interesting character (interesting is my euphemism of choice for people I find distasteful). Like many senior retired flag officers, he has revealed himself in unfortunate ways over Twitter these last few years - he posts or retweets some of the most partisan, juvenile, and/or profane comments I have seen a supposedly respected senior officer make. He is practically to the left of MSNBC. It saddens me to think that someone so immature rose so high.
He was commissioned as a US Air Force intelligence officer in 1969 and by 1999 was in charge of the NSA, a post he held until 2005. From 2006 to 2009 he ran the CIA. In short, the organizations he led during those periods missed the chatter in the run -up to 9/11, couldn't find Bin Laden, provided faulty intel to justify the Iraq War, and constructed a massive domestic spying appartus which has interfered in the last two elections. He deserves all the opprobium that history will heap on him. I suspect on some level he knows this and that it subconsciously drives his Twitter behavior.

Might be a good place to mention the coming digital dollar where your bank account can be disallowed from certain purchases or donations, or even turned off if you're not "good."

Dems in particular are very much in favor of this. It will give them control of every individual's daily life if they wish. "Social credit scores" here we come! Cancel culture at the atomized, every person level.

Gosh and here I thought I couldn't become more concerned. This stuff is downright scary. The fact that the Biden's and their leftist minions are in control of the most lethal country on earth is terrifying.

So when I was studying engineering in college, we used slide rules for a lot of our calculations, and slide rules are built on logarithms. (Actually, slide rules and logs are pretty cool!)
You can see on the C/D, A/B, and K scales how close the numbers come together the further down the scale you go. It's like the numbers are accelerating and heading into a crash when they reach the final 0.
Same thing, I think.

God is our only hope!

God wins, but it gets way worse before He does. We have some sharp lessons on the way.

Amen. We are slow learners who seem to learn better with sticks than generosity.

Frankly, we don't seem to actually learn much either way.