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Modeling: The Most Important Parameter of Them All
The recent Ferguson Follies in Great Britain have provided everyone with a moment of clarity. The idiocy of the supposed greatest epidemiological authority in the world makes us realize how badly we have subconsciously accepted our own lack of autonomy. Personal autonomy requires that we believe that we have the ability to chose freely our moral path. If we don’t believe in our own personal autonomy then what is the use of bellyaching about democracy or rights.
It has become so very chic to opine about illiberality or Caesarism. As if these are some external natural phenomena we must defend against. The virus is an external natural phenomenon that we can take measures to mitigate. However, our internal personal autonomy is dependent on our own belief in such. Stop believing that you have autonomy and you don’t.
What were Ferguson and Fauci and Gates and WHO and China up to? Their premise was that human beings don’t have personal moral autonomy so they can’t be told the truth thus allowing them to make their own decisions. This gang unilaterally decided that what the situation required were monstrous lies that would frighten people into behaviors that they thought would help. Of course, the supreme farce resulting from this mentality is that the very behaviors people have been stampeded into are the very behaviors that may have the most lasting ill effects.
What then is the most important parameter of them all? Faith in personal autonomy. In America, we back that faith with a governmental system based on human rights and the consent of the governed. In the last two months, we have watched the stampede artists trample on the average American citizen’s rights. Now that Mr. Ferguson, the supreme expert, has been caught with his pants down, it is time to reassess this whole damn thing.
We must learn to believe in ourselves, not imaginary idealized experts, and then we won’t give our freedoms away next time.
Published in General
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Amen.
It’s past time to end the mandated shutdown.
Locke On,
How very unchic of me to have missed the proper spelling. Perhaps it was a Freudian slip.
This may have been an unconscious reference to Biden. At least that’s my excuse. Biden could use one too.
Regards,
Jim
Henry,
Time to take back control.
Regards,
Jim
There is a vicious feedback between government scientists and the MSM. The MSM promotes the most extreme utterances of any government scientist and the most extreme (political or vainglorious) government scientists pander to and feed the MSM. The sane and moderate voices are drowned out.
Don,
You have it 100%. You could watch Pelosi drooling as the virus hysteria hit full screech. Like some silent movie villain, she thought she could get her wish-list filled of wacky lefty nonsense while all the nice people were locked down, and little Nell was tied to the railroad tracks.
Hopefully, as we are waking up from this psychodrama we’ll get to hear Pelosi say, “Curses, foiled again!”
Regards,
Jim
The doctor in this mini video clearly understands the problem and is not scared of speaking his mind: https://twitter.com/i/status/1258628590926729217
I often find it astounding that people hit my FB feed to ask me if I am a doctor after I mention a study explaining that the massive lockdowns will have huge effects on not only our economy but also the health of people whose income has been negated, whose small businesses have been shuttered, or who might have had to postpone needed med treatment due to COVID 19.
So apparently if a person is not a doctor then they must submit to whatever the Gates, Fauci, Birx and every petty officer from Miami to Maine and San Diego to Seattle decide we must submit to. It was refreshing to have Dr Peake speak his mind to let all of us know we are not alone.
I am sad that this fine post only got 16 rec’s.
Occasionally someone here writes a post that expands on my thoughts and expands on them in an eloquent manner. The expansion involves pushing my thinking out into a realm I had somehow avoided. It is rather kuhl how the internet allows someone else, who you have not met face to face and probably never will, to then fine tune your attitudes and thinking and display them in a finer realm.
You did this and I wish there was a way I could like it twice.
Carol,
Thanks.
Regards,
Jim