Know science before you claim to follow the science

October 29, 2020. Hard to imagine who is the "bigger loser," Cuomo or DiBlasio.

I watched two financial webinars today -- one from Baird and the other from TIAA -- and the speakers were all glad to assert (actually, assume!) that the 'pandemic' was the cause of all our economic problems, without recognizing or giving the slightest credit to absolutely poor public policy decisions made by politicians, such as imposing ineffective yet extremely expensive lockdowns, endorsing what the same pols call "peaceful protests" (actually, 500 of 7,000 protests were not at all peaceful, with insurance damage at unprecedented levels while prohibiting religious services, seeing some certainly non-essential businesses as 'essential' and destroying the jobs and lives of the poorest and most vulnerable, and sending sick elderly to nursing homes to infect and, effectively, kill multiples of more elderly. Assign credit and blame where they are due.

I had this random thought while walking the other day. If Joe Biden is so determined to eliminate pre-existing conditions as a barrier to cheap or free health/medical insurance, why stop there? What not ban consideration of pre-existing conditions when selling life insurance, car insurance, or home insurance? And why ask soldiers going into battle (I read this in one of my recent history books) to purchase life insurance? Who doesn't the military provide that to the people they are putting in harm's way?

Biden claims he will "follow the science" and impose both mask mandates and lockdowns, when the science, practice and reality clearly reject both of these strategies as inefective. Even Dr Fauci rejects the lockdown strategy. What don't lockdowns work? Easy. Because the theory has nothing to do with the practice, the numbers or the evidence. This is especially true when we have open borders. Even with a wall though, lockdowns are woefully ineffective. People violate them all the time, especially the politicians and the elite. The choice between qualifying a business as essential or non-essential is a political one, sometimes a practical one. Even the leading advocate of the lockdown, Nial Ferguson, the Imperial College forecaster of two million US deaths sans lockdown, violated his own edict to visit his married lover. And Sweden has suffered only a fraction of the deaths Ferguson claimed they'd have without a lockdown. Sweden made some mistakes with the elderly but never locked down and in the process, maintained their economy wheel keeping deaths "with" Covid contained.

The numbers also show that twelve-month deaths in the USA and Europe are likely to be no higher than in previous years, despite the fact that there was no Covid in those previous years. Basically, progressive politicians and the media elite focus on simple, large counts, even if those counts are questionable, to impart fear. "Covid deaths" are most often the result of many factors, rarely just Covid. Covid "confirmed cases" are not really cases and often not confirmed, yet use of tens of millions of admittedly flawed and inappropriate PRC tests are a media fixation. And intensive care unit (ICU) bed use also conflates people in the ICU with Covid with those who had Covid as the cost of their assignment to the ICU.

Unlike the devastating seasonal flu which is primarily a fall-winer problem, Covid has been a spring-summer problem, meaning that deaths are unsurprisingly higher this past spring and summer. Yet no attention is paid to the low influenza numbers that preceded this late winter outburst of Covid, a new virus that attacked many who escaped death six months earlier and who were like to die six months later. Life expectancy in many countries is lower than the average age of death"by" Covid. Age is the ultimate co-morbidity.