Sadistically Speaking

A recent video of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny decrying the Covid vaccines has raised my ire.   Not just because she is shamelessly promoting false narratives to promote herself but because it makes clear that we are not debating important topics in this country, which allows dumb ideas to grow in the dark and virtue signalling crap to sprout in the light.

The media needs a villain and white men seem pretty good at this moment.  The latest claims are racism and increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans.  What support do they have for these claims?  And are white guys being absolved by a sexual addiction defense?

The illusory correlation between vaccines and autism has cost lives because measles has reappeared despite the fact that you autism rates are slightly lower among vaccinated children.  I thought that was a sign of moronic behavior until the recent scare about links between blood clots and COVID vaccine even though the reported blood clot rate is 1000 times LOWER than normal.

Did the pandemic lockdowns work?  This is really an important question considering the loss of freedom, effects on mental health, unexplained death increases and major impact on the economy.  There have been some recent comparisons of Florida and California as ends of the spectrum, but the numbers are not being analyzed in a rational unbiased way.  Turns out Florida now needs to help bail out the lockdown states.

This pandemic is hell for the socially awkward like myself.  We need a deadline for the current ambiguous social standards so we can go back to giving handshakes without anxiety.

Time for some inspirational quotes from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.  Hope they help inspire you for the New Year.  Surprise!

Does it matter if Jesus as portrayed in the New Testament was "real"?  I argue that it is not important...in fact, it is more important that he is not an individual person but a story of how each human has divinity.  The revolution of the Christian faith was the democritization of divinity.

Recent controversies on excess death from Covid 19 miss the point.  There are certainly more deaths this year but the biggest excess death is among Millennials and it is much larger than would be expected from the pandemic.  Why doesn't this concern us?

The right to vote in the United States is important....but so is the right NOT to vote.  More people voting does not logically lead to better governance.  Countries with mandatory voting demonstrate this.

Sports guy uses data and theories to predict the future but we think that most people can't understand science.....which uses data and theories to predict the future.  Less Fauci....more Nick Wright.