Wouldn't it be lovely if we could haul all the writers and pundits into a public forum and require them to explain why they lied, distorted, gaslite during the pandemic. People died because they believed masks, distancing, staying home and vaccination might protect society. Anybody who spoke the truth was shouted down and cancelled. Group thinkers in the NIH directly opposed science and scientists who had data proving official proclamations wrong. The harm to society was high yet none accountable.
The systematic errors of pandemic public policy were both striking and horrifying. We would literally have done better to flip a coin: we could expect to be right around half the time, rather than as systematically wrong as policy was. This will be the subject of analysis in later essays, including one specifically on pandemic policy failures.
The combination of pravda-model media, bureaucratic incentives and self-deception need to be clearly and publicly analysed.
Quite correct. Event 201 cued up the TNI in advance. Sadly Event 201 centered around a pathogen that was much more dangerous then SARs-2 turned out to be. Not sure why nearly all media and officials refused to deal with the 1000X age vulnerabilities. Using some average IFR given the age differences was really bad science.
I see a confluence of factors arriving to create a bad response. Reading Dr Atlas's book, I could sense his huge frustration. But he could not move Trump who was preoccupied with other factors. Once the pandemic became political, all hope was lost.
The world group-think still amazes me but points to other weak leaders not willing to face any of that TNI effort. All level headed debate was crushed and fear dominated.
I'll look forward to your assessment of how and why we did so poorly. Even now those who benefited by bad policy are asserting another pandemic is looming. They have tasted great power and want more of that.
Orwellian is supposed to be a warning, not a how-to manual. But, for so many folk, it is the latter.
I want to close every single University Media/Communications department/faculty. Any media class that identifies with/as elite will betray the citizenry and, despite stratospheric self-deception, universities train folk to so identify.
Much has gone radically wrong. Not sure how it seems to have evolved but seems it started in the turmoil of the 60's. Lucky I majored in physics, technology.
It seems that the Long March started in schools of journalism and had early success there. (Then we thought the fight was merely one of words on paper.) Strategic move! Next came the law schools, et cetera et seq. Dominoes toppling dominoes.
Looking back, the strategy is so obvious, while then it seemed not a march at all but a children's spontaneous crusade, clouded with ambiguity and rife with fatal uncertainty.
These bad guys know how to plan a victory parade. It's the Lenin-Alinsky-Clinton-Obama in them. And the Jimmy Carter-John Kerry-Lindsay Graham-Mitt Romney in us.
My assertion about schools of journalism is based (merely) on a CSPAN Book Notes/ Brian Lamb (always the best) interview (7-8 years ago?) of a Dean Emeritus (at USC's School of Journalism?) whose Then new book traced the Long March history and concluded it was the journalists who started the yellow brick road ruin. I can't recall the book or the author, and I don't vouch for the opinion. It makes intuitive sense (to me) that the LM began there. After all, in the movies about coup d'etat the army always invades the palace first and then takes over the radio and TV stations. Recall also that in the movie Network the "I'm tired as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" movement toward revolution starts with a news anchor. But shool teachers too, like the media, are tools of revolution, just much slower working. They need generations!
Great subject for a cultural history of America's decline and fall. Maybe one day there'll be as many theories about that as Gibbon fomented about Rome. But PLEASE don't blame it on Christianity!
I bought Harry Frankfurter’s book years ago.
Lies and bullshit kill people. I don’t know what we can do if we can’t follow the bullshit back to punish the source.
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could haul all the writers and pundits into a public forum and require them to explain why they lied, distorted, gaslite during the pandemic. People died because they believed masks, distancing, staying home and vaccination might protect society. Anybody who spoke the truth was shouted down and cancelled. Group thinkers in the NIH directly opposed science and scientists who had data proving official proclamations wrong. The harm to society was high yet none accountable.
The systematic errors of pandemic public policy were both striking and horrifying. We would literally have done better to flip a coin: we could expect to be right around half the time, rather than as systematically wrong as policy was. This will be the subject of analysis in later essays, including one specifically on pandemic policy failures.
The combination of pravda-model media, bureaucratic incentives and self-deception need to be clearly and publicly analysed.
https://helendale.substack.com/p/the-pravda-media-model
Quite correct. Event 201 cued up the TNI in advance. Sadly Event 201 centered around a pathogen that was much more dangerous then SARs-2 turned out to be. Not sure why nearly all media and officials refused to deal with the 1000X age vulnerabilities. Using some average IFR given the age differences was really bad science.
I see a confluence of factors arriving to create a bad response. Reading Dr Atlas's book, I could sense his huge frustration. But he could not move Trump who was preoccupied with other factors. Once the pandemic became political, all hope was lost.
The world group-think still amazes me but points to other weak leaders not willing to face any of that TNI effort. All level headed debate was crushed and fear dominated.
I'll look forward to your assessment of how and why we did so poorly. Even now those who benefited by bad policy are asserting another pandemic is looming. They have tasted great power and want more of that.
Ta. Just checking, by TNI you mean this TNI?
https://www.tni.org/en
TNI - Trusted News Initiative founded under the BBC. See https://childrenshealthdefense.org/legal_justice/trusted-news-initiative-antitrust-litigation/. See https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation where "The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, such as elections.". Notice "set up last year", actually related to Event 201 planning. As if elections were a matter of real concern. Ok, Russia, Russia except the election misinformation is usually from various partisans who spend real money to influence low information people.
OTOH, the TNI was set up in July 2019 (https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-behind-trusted-news-initiative/5790640) but Event 201 was in Oct, 2019. There were earlier planning events. But back in 2017 Fauci was working for a solution to Zika, etc https://web.archive.org/web/20180723060934/https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/multiple-research-approaches-are-key-pandemic-preparedness-niaid-officials-say.
Trust in media https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/19/who-is-behind-the-trusted-news-initiative/
Orwellian is supposed to be a warning, not a how-to manual. But, for so many folk, it is the latter.
I want to close every single University Media/Communications department/faculty. Any media class that identifies with/as elite will betray the citizenry and, despite stratospheric self-deception, universities train folk to so identify.
Much has gone radically wrong. Not sure how it seems to have evolved but seems it started in the turmoil of the 60's. Lucky I majored in physics, technology.
It seems that the Long March started in schools of journalism and had early success there. (Then we thought the fight was merely one of words on paper.) Strategic move! Next came the law schools, et cetera et seq. Dominoes toppling dominoes.
Looking back, the strategy is so obvious, while then it seemed not a march at all but a children's spontaneous crusade, clouded with ambiguity and rife with fatal uncertainty.
These bad guys know how to plan a victory parade. It's the Lenin-Alinsky-Clinton-Obama in them. And the Jimmy Carter-John Kerry-Lindsay Graham-Mitt Romney in us.
Actually, it started in Schools of Education. Otherwise …
Important matter, where it started.
My assertion about schools of journalism is based (merely) on a CSPAN Book Notes/ Brian Lamb (always the best) interview (7-8 years ago?) of a Dean Emeritus (at USC's School of Journalism?) whose Then new book traced the Long March history and concluded it was the journalists who started the yellow brick road ruin. I can't recall the book or the author, and I don't vouch for the opinion. It makes intuitive sense (to me) that the LM began there. After all, in the movies about coup d'etat the army always invades the palace first and then takes over the radio and TV stations. Recall also that in the movie Network the "I'm tired as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" movement toward revolution starts with a news anchor. But shool teachers too, like the media, are tools of revolution, just much slower working. They need generations!
Great subject for a cultural history of America's decline and fall. Maybe one day there'll be as many theories about that as Gibbon fomented about Rome. But PLEASE don't blame it on Christianity!
Can you blame a religion for its heresies?
I am still going for Schools of Education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed