I was going to write about masks today, but this is part V and so it seems more appropriate to talk about this, The Holy Prick of Perfection™ Some time ago I had an idea, one of the few good original ideas I’ve had. The idea is simple to state. Take a 2-level atom in its excited state and fire it through a lossless optical cavity at a speed such that it has a 50% probability of interacting with the (vacuum) field in the cavity and emitting a photon into the cavity. The atom, if this happens, will now be in the ground state. Then, some time later, fire a 2nd 2-level atom through the cavity, but this time in its ground state. The speed you send this one through is such that it has a 50% chance of absorbing a photon in the cavity, should there be one in there.
My kids have a book called “An Illustrated Guide to Bad Arguments.” We could rewrite the entire thing using examples from the mRNA vaccine rollout. Truly, it seemed to be the end of logic among those who should have known better. Well-educated, intelligent people said stupid things— when they even bothered to try to provide levelheaded explanations. One of my favorites— probably appearing somewhere on a pamphlet provided to doctors for reasoning with stubborn patients was— “while this is a new vaccine, we know from long experience with vaccines that (blah blah blah).” Sure. That’s why I tell my kids that fentanyl is safe, effective, and has no long term side effects because Claritin, Tums, and Tylenol are on the shelves of the local pharmacy.
For vaccines efficiency, all graphs for such should start in the year 1900. The reason for this is, most of the diseases we vaccinate for dropped off /more/ between ca 1900 and 1950, than between 1950 and 2000.
Reason being, nutrition, better housing, clean water, and modern sanitation (and knowledge of such) increased the odds of people surviving infections - the much-maligned idea of a society providing basic yet decent living conditions for all is empirically speaking superior to all other measures.
What the vaccines did was that they broke the back on smallpox, and that led politicians, pundits, and capitalists to think we could eradicate disease - old magazines and books from the 1950s and 1960s are choc-full of the same fervent belief in the miracles of science "in just ten years time" as were the tech-mags of the same time predicting cities on the Moon before the year 2000.
Whereas most actual researchers into biology, vaccines et cetera were quite wary of meddling with mRNA, DNA and such and for good reason - no putting the djinn back in the bottle once it's out.
Wasn't it amazing that every world-renowned expert in virology became an anti-science nutcase by the end of 2020? It was also very interesting that getting jabbed in the back of a van in a strip-mall was deemed a medical procedure as opposed to a drug deal.
Another great article Rudolph summarizing the shit that was blasted at us from every where. Let me add that I never drove an Austin Allegro but I did drive a Chevy Vega with an aluminum block engine for a year. Burned a quart of oil every couple of days. While driving to and from my college campus pieces of the rusted fenders would occasionally fly off in the wind.
Kudos! A legitimate tour de force through the sticky, bug-infested, fecal residue of the Great Covid Dumpster Fire. I may need to stop using that moniker though. Seems that dumpster fires are actually less shitty than was the covid debacle, or the assholes who drove it and profited therefrom.
My kids have a book called “An Illustrated Guide to Bad Arguments.” We could rewrite the entire thing using examples from the mRNA vaccine rollout. Truly, it seemed to be the end of logic among those who should have known better. Well-educated, intelligent people said stupid things— when they even bothered to try to provide levelheaded explanations. One of my favorites— probably appearing somewhere on a pamphlet provided to doctors for reasoning with stubborn patients was— “while this is a new vaccine, we know from long experience with vaccines that (blah blah blah).” Sure. That’s why I tell my kids that fentanyl is safe, effective, and has no long term side effects because Claritin, Tums, and Tylenol are on the shelves of the local pharmacy.
Rydberg? Thanks, now I'm hungry!
https://swedishfood.com/swedish-food-recipes-main-courses/536-beef-rydberg
For vaccines efficiency, all graphs for such should start in the year 1900. The reason for this is, most of the diseases we vaccinate for dropped off /more/ between ca 1900 and 1950, than between 1950 and 2000.
Reason being, nutrition, better housing, clean water, and modern sanitation (and knowledge of such) increased the odds of people surviving infections - the much-maligned idea of a society providing basic yet decent living conditions for all is empirically speaking superior to all other measures.
What the vaccines did was that they broke the back on smallpox, and that led politicians, pundits, and capitalists to think we could eradicate disease - old magazines and books from the 1950s and 1960s are choc-full of the same fervent belief in the miracles of science "in just ten years time" as were the tech-mags of the same time predicting cities on the Moon before the year 2000.
Whereas most actual researchers into biology, vaccines et cetera were quite wary of meddling with mRNA, DNA and such and for good reason - no putting the djinn back in the bottle once it's out.
Wealth, WEF, and Willy-Comparisons -- true enough. But you forgot "crazy" -- or maybe I should have said, "Wonkers" instead. All co-varying.
Wasn't it amazing that every world-renowned expert in virology became an anti-science nutcase by the end of 2020? It was also very interesting that getting jabbed in the back of a van in a strip-mall was deemed a medical procedure as opposed to a drug deal.
Good times.
Another great article Rudolph summarizing the shit that was blasted at us from every where. Let me add that I never drove an Austin Allegro but I did drive a Chevy Vega with an aluminum block engine for a year. Burned a quart of oil every couple of days. While driving to and from my college campus pieces of the rusted fenders would occasionally fly off in the wind.
Kudos! A legitimate tour de force through the sticky, bug-infested, fecal residue of the Great Covid Dumpster Fire. I may need to stop using that moniker though. Seems that dumpster fires are actually less shitty than was the covid debacle, or the assholes who drove it and profited therefrom.