Israel 10M Ppl - 1+ Countries (israel, west bank)
UK 60M Ppl - 3 Countries (eng, wales, scotland)
USA 330M Ppl - 50 Countries (50 states) 4 time zones.
Distributing live and cold vaccines is one of the largest logistics programs in USA history.
22 companies worked on treatments, 13 testing, 12 vaccines, 3 succeeded in producing theirs in just months, with combined capital of TRILLIONS of dollars and hundreds of thousands of people. With the gov't red tape slowing them.
Only so many vaccines can be produced per week, and 660M req'd. FedEx and UPS have heroically split the country and can serve every zip code in the USA. The FAA gave their flights priority.
So the average idiot (Press) thinks the government has the power to do such things AND IT DOESN'T. Military assets are all but useless. The CDC and the WHO were incompetent and failed their core missions - because they don't practice yearly 'war games' that test their abilities.
This has been a heroic succes. The failure is the press to report on it as heroic. The other failure is lying to the people about masks initially and not locking down the medical and elder care sector. And it's because the chinese lied to the world.
-"The Chinese are good at everything but strategy. The Russians are good at nothing but strategy. The Russians know how to govern minorities. Both countries actively fighting the Chinese are armed by Russia. Russia always acts strategically."-EL
-"Iranian strategy requires mobilization of Shia minorities in other countries. When they try to land and operate they fail or degenerate into criminal enterprises. Shia militants are the limit of their power."-EL
-"Erdogan is not a Hitler, he is a Mussolini - with a paper military. One French fighter would sink the Turkish navy. ... The Israeli air force would sink the entire Turkish navy in about twelve minutes. Turkey looks big in Austria and Germany because of the football crowd."-EL
Of course I wear a mask, wash my hands constantly and go out sparingly. I'm older, have chronic asthma, and take care of an elderly parent on constant oxygen. I'm in the target demographic and interact with medical and elder care staff. But I don't ask OTHER people to wear masks.
Like leash laws, masks punish the Fit, Healthy, Cautious, Active and CLEAN, when it's the unfit, unhealthy, incautious, lazy, and unclean who interact, contract, and transmit the disease - at do so largely at home. These people, medical, and elder are the at-risk demographic.
However, how do we isolate people by those behaviors? Well, age, occupation, class, and race is part of it because of race differences in demographic distribution (class) and resulting behavior. But there is no way to do that.
Such that we may have this debate and seek to come to a compromise rather than the bloodiest, longest, most brutal civil war in human history, where tens of millions will certainly die:
(2 of 6)
... a) All Political Speech and Political Affiliation is Protected Speech, and Political Affiliation Protected class.
(3 of 6)
... b) The criminalization of all attempts at suppression of testimonial, truthful, reciprocal, empirical speech, and licensing of extrajudicial punishment to cease them.
--"What do you think made gold become money?"- Jeffrey Swann @AgoristView
1) Metal Commodity Money (money proper): scarce, non-perishable, universal signal good(luxury), consistent weight and volume, unitizable, countable, trade-markable (warrantable), ...
2) ... re-trade-markable (melt, re-stamp), standard of weight and measure -THEREFORE STATES CAN PAY SOLDIERS.
And states can construct, defend, tax, and regulate MARKETS.
And POLITIES can increase economic velocity (reduce friction) by converting agricultural goods to money.
3) Gold was valuable but not 'money'. But did not require refinement. And too expensive for use as money. So it was just a commodity. Silver required refinement. The first money was electrum. But any metal will do.
4. Add P-law's trifunctionalism: psychology, sociology, and politics. This is how those subjects should be taught. 5. Add P-Law's evolutionary history of man and population groups (adaptation), the evolution of civilizations, the evolution of art, the evolution of technology.
6. Science as it is taught: biology, chemistry, physics, is no longer of value. Computers are an occupational skill. Art and Literature are entertainment, not education. Civics is indoctrination into marxism-globalism-multiculturalism.
1. The European Religion: Epicureanism vs Stoicism: All classes have different degrees of agency and resulting differences in responsibility. However, all people require mindfulness within the limits of their agency and responsibility.
2. The Epicurean Program is the west's scientific and verbal analog to the Buddhist unscientific and experiential method of obtaining mindfulness, and the west's lower working and laboring class religions.
3. The stoic program is an analog of the Confucian program, of middle, upper middle and lower upper class people, have greater agency, work in business, politics, or war, and cannot insulate themselves from the struggles of doing so.