Every Smart Person nods their head at ‘get the virus under control first’. Especially financebros. They’ve thought about it deeply and all of them know that everything else depends on ‘getting’ the virus under control. True! QED. So just decide to do that, and then do it.
Is ‘getting the virus under control’ an action, that you can say, with words?
Yes.
Therefore, the government Can Do It.
How could there be an action relatable using words that The Government couldn’t simply decide to do and then do? That’s like saying the government isn’t God
Every Smart Person treats this issue as if they are back taking a class and the exam question is What should the government do first?
A. Allow things to open
B. Get the virus under control
C. Other (explain)
OBVIOUSLY, the answer is B. Good answer, Smart Person! Gold star 4 u
BTW what does ‘under control’ even mean? How isn’t it under control now? There’s new positive infections daily, and new deaths recorded daily, but they aren’t blowing-up or anything. Maybe that’s just the baseline rate. Does ‘under control’ mean ‘eradicate’?
Either ‘under control’ means ‘eradicate’ or it doesn’t.
If it doesn’t, explain why it’s not under control, what your thresholds are.
If it does, explain why you think that’s possible.
Of course here’s where Smart People do a motte-and-bailey. ‘C’mon no one’s saying we need to send the case count to 0’
But in practice they act as if any positive case count at all is cause to prolong the ‘emergency’, keep stuff shut, etc. ‘don’t you know there’s a pandemic??’
When are we not going to be ‘in a global pandemic’?
The only honest answer I can infer from the policy preferences of the Lockdown Cult: when there are zero positive infections of this virus anywhere in the world.
That’s how they act. So that’s the answer.
(Which = never.)
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Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how you can barely see what's even going on. Where even is this? Who are the people? Huh? You're too far away to really see the setup. Whole left side blank. Nothing here to grab onto.
I had the AI parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image and it was just way better. Instead of night, it's a gorgeous sunny day. It went ahead & moved the people outside. Everyone's smiling; this is a welcoming place.
This was a great start already, but what if we want to look deeper? What's this picture really *about*? That's where AI comes in. We parse the improved picture & create an even better one. Now the lights just pop. Everything more vibrant, modern. Just better all around.
Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how old and colorless it is. And you can't even see the girl's face. There's just no info to work with here. So blah.
But the AI was able to parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image that was way better. Just look at the vivid colors, and it also went ahead and turned the girl around.
This was a great start already, but still misses some details, smudgy like from a bad camera. So I ran it through the AI again. Amazing use of light now.
I don’t think racism is good or anything but the concept of ‘anti-racism’ as we encounter it is so simplistic/univariate I find it hard to take seriously. Like something an autistic 7yo would come up with. ‘Racism is bad? Ok its inverse must be good. I understand the world now’
When I see Kendi types whose rhetoric is all about ‘anti-racism’, and then the edifice of bureaucracy that’s apparently sprung up downstream of it, it just comes across as So Stupid How Can Anyone Seriously Think This Way.
That is its power, that is why it wins.
'I would simply take all the things that are Racisms and wrap then inside a giant NOT( ) operation. Logically this and only this makes Racism go down'
If a small child were to say this, it would (maybe!) be sort of clever/precocious. You'd pat him on the head
IMHO scientists, politicians & ‘public health officials’ acted out of some combo of: panic, ego-trip, mindless groupthink, China-worship, hubris, simple corruption, & political gamesmanship. But they weren’t ‘purposely trying to make things worse’ so it’s all ok, it’s cool
For example when ‘public health experts’ signed that open letter that, during the absolutely necessary Lockdown, Going To BLM Protests was good actually (public health-wise), that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’. Just nakedly politically-motivated nonsense. So it’s fine
When they added the Wuhan Virus vaccine to the childhood vaccine schedule, that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’, it was merely to ensure that giant pharmaceutical companies are shielded from liability for any people harmed or killed by the injection. So it’s cool