@LaurenceBettle There is a self delusion in Western logical thought that is completely disabling. To investigate and adjudicate requires the assumption that all parties are or can be compelled to investigate. This is false. China has already shown its desire to coverup the origin facts.
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@LaurenceBettle China failed to disclose human to human transmission, have steadfastly failed to meet treaty obligations, and so on. In such cases we must revert to a different standard of judgment acting with caution. When not allowed to see the evidence we must not assume innocence.
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@LaurenceBettle We can not pronounce in the Western press that these are unfounded theories, instead we must act that there is the possibility they are the truth. It is simply not prudent, where international investigations are blocked, to assume that others are innocent until proven guilty.
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@LaurenceBettle I am not declaring China guilty but I do subscribe to Ronald Reagan’s postulated thesis, “Trust but verify.” And it’s corollary, “If you cannot verify, do not trust.” The application of concepts of the Western jurisprudence process simply do not apply, and are dangerous.
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@RWMaloneMD It was said yesterday in your spaces meeting that this is much bigger than just COVID19. In fact it is. The paranoid launch of an overt surveillance state started with the fear of 9/11. It was advanced by the CIA, NSA, FBI and new DHS. 1/ @LynnFynn3@KLVeritas@BrendanEich
@RWMaloneMD@LynnFynn3@KLVeritas@BrendanEich Pattern is simple, fear lowers defenses, then political, military, energy, investment banking, big tech and Pharma industrial complexes kick into high gear to steal from the people. Craven politicians orchestrate economic feedback loops to get their share. It is getting worse.
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@RWMaloneMD@LynnFynn3@KLVeritas@BrendanEich We let our guard down for a few months and they erode our rights and steal trillions. (Used to be millions then billions, this should be informative) The entire system has been compromised including the press and big-tech which the NSA and CIA actively recruit.
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The bad actors slowly chip away at freedom, in our case one dramatic event after another. The guaranteed privacy of IRS filings was used to justify forcing you to fill them out. Now they are often exposed for purposes other than tax collection and used politically.
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9/11 ended anonymous travel and the fight against terrorism has slowly eroded almost any right to financial privacy. As the enemies of freedom do their work they get their nose under the tent in one area and suddenly you have a camel standing next to you.
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FISA abuses, IRS over-reach, financial deplatforming, limitations on entry and exit from the country have all arisen from things done ostensibly to protect the people but it will expand inexorably; sucking freedom and liberty out of our country until we stop it.
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We are living in increasingly chaotic lawless times, but we are often insular and unidimensional in our thinking, this limits our awareness of what is really happening. Piqued?
Lawless behavior, when celebrated or allowed, encourages corruption and undermines freedom. As the process accelerates things face us daily that create anxiety. But the truth is, many events that distress us are symptomatic of much deeper rot. 2/ @MarkChangizi@EduEngineer
Cultural and social decoherence ensue, criminality increases, arbitrary justice replaces the rule of law, and winning over-rules right and wrong. Literally thousands of examples exist but I will focus on a few. We are on a big slide accelerating downward. 3/ @BillGertz@ooana
Let’s celebrate the pageantry of the Winter Olympics in Beijing and on a fake ski slope in the dusty mountains nearby. Again we look away from the stark reality of China. Do the people not understand the depravity, do they not care, or have they sold their soul for profits?
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The Uyghur raped by the CCP advisor in her house while her husband is in the concentration camp, the young boy that spits on a police officer and is beaten to death, the trafficked teenagers giving massages and happy endings, or the prisoner about to be executed for parts.
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@NickHudsonCT An interesting dilemma; emergencies require action without complete data. At first, caution is warranted and mistakes are almost always made, the aim is to save lives, but then an arrogant authoritarian approach set in. Inductive and deductive logic both disappeared.
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@NickHudsonCT One of the ways you contain risk is to have detailed plans of how to react to the emergency. In this case, we threw all the plans away, this was the first signal we were off the rails. Then, medicine and treatment itself became politicized. Vaccines were the favorite son.
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@NickHudsonCT The bureaucrats directed tens of billions to developing vaccines despite the history of being unable to find a durable and safe vaccine for this type of fast mutating virus. Still, all in all, the development was worth a shot(bad pun, I know). But the subterfuge started.
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