tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post4477693801931251171..comments2024-02-24T19:42:39.876+05:30Comments on Bill the Butcher: April Fool's Day cancelledBill the Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-78111526540986473932020-04-26T15:34:44.561+05:302020-04-26T15:34:44.561+05:30You've got one of the best analyses of CoViD-1...You've got one of the best analyses of CoViD-19 that I've seen. Basically, whenever there's money involved, all sides figure out that scientists are useless, they need salespersons. So they hire salespersons who don't know anything about the subject and don't care, their only goal is to get as much money for their side as they possibly can. I've seen this with the tobacco war, the AIDS war, and now the CoViD war.<br /><br />With AIDS, it started mainly among gay men. Many rather unpleasant people did not want to spend 1¢ on any disease that only affected gay men, while those hired to raise money for AIDS had to get the broadest possible support for a massive campaign (money going more to salespersons than AIDS research, of course). I was handed what looked like a serious scientific report that AIDS would eventually kill 1/3 of the population--one's sexual preferences would not matter--unless there was a massive campaign to find a cure and/or a vaccine.<br /><br />Ditto tobacco, where the relatively few cases of lung cancer among those who never smoked are now all attributed to second-hand smoke, in order to make the correlation between smoking and lung cancer 100%.<br /><br />And with CoViD, I cannot find any reliable statistics at all. How many usually die of viral respiratory infections? I found estimates from 150,000 per year up to 850,000, so more noise than data. And with CoViD, how many more die without lockdowns than with? No idea. What about Vietnam that tested everyone who might be infected and quarantined all those who were, and let everyone else get on with their lives? Only 270 cases and no deaths (so the Western media says, 'The Vietnamese are all liars, they've been lying that they never attacked the US Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin, and they're still lying').<br /><br />MichaelWmeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7826101215822428783.post-75280864147692757632020-04-01T22:23:11.535+05:302020-04-01T22:23:11.535+05:30Disappointing to not see my piazza listed on your ...Disappointing to not see my piazza listed on your blogroll ✌Chihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01301786815598078257noreply@blogger.com