Welp, looks like ol' Aesop is gonna learn ya everything you need to know about the Chinkypox and what he and his intrepid healthcare professionals are doing about it!!! Math!!!! Science!!!!
Aprapos of nothing at all, this is the guy that seriously argued with me about hobby drones, saying that my two pound toy could pick up 35 lbs of tank busting ordnance, and kill our squaddies with them in numbers too high to count! I'm serious. That's where his math skills are at.
I dunno where his numbers come from, and I don't care. Folks - just use your heads. If this was a deadly pandemic, you wouldn't see cops proudly posing with dog walkers that they busted for violating quarantine, or hassling joggers on empty beaches. You wouldn't have squads of them bursting into your house to make sure that you aren't having a social gathering of more than 10 people. Hell, Aesop wouldn't be humping his keyboard the way he is.
If this was a pandemic, YOU would nail your doors shut - adequate stocks of TP and supplies or no. Aesop would be stacking dead bodies by the score. The cops would be getting run off their feet. Two weeks ago, Aesop and his clucking old women were projecting death figures of 1.5 million - by this time, right now... with more surely to follow. Think about what that would look like. You don't go from a figure of 1.5M to less than 6000 with half arsed lock downs. Anyone that says so is an idiot that can't do math, and doesn't understand how pandemics work. If this were actually a pandemic, you wouldn't need a monkey like Aesop trying to prove it. It would be obvious already. Everyone would have lost someone, or been lost themselves by now.
But, if panic is a hobby for you as it is for many - go ahead and fill your boots.
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It's a new variety of virus. 80% of us are going to get it. If not this year, then next year or the year after. The human animal has been getting viruses since before we crawled out of the trees. We are still here. The planet hasn't been able to shake us off as a species yet. It will probably take an asteroid strike like the one that killed off the large dinosaurs to get rid of us.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the numbers logically. 20 people out of a 100 will never get this virus; why are they cooped up at home? 50 people will test positive and tell you they had little or no symptoms. Why are they cooped up at home? 70% of the work force is under house arrest because Chicken Little got hit on the head by an acorn? 20 people will get it and be very miserable but be back on their feet in a couple of weeks. They need to know their jobs will be waiting for them when they get well enough to return to work plus paid sick leave to keep the wheels on their respective households. The 10 that end up in the hospital need all the help and prayers they can get because 1 to 3 of them are not going to make it.
These numbers play out with every virus, every year since TPTB have been keeping numbers. The same group of people who need to protect themselves every year are 'it' again this year.
So why the hysteria this year? The idiots playing with 'bugs' released one and they don't know if they have released Steven King's The Stand or not? Or did all the old farts who run the world suddenly realize they were part of the vulnerable population? Beats me! My patience is about gone with the stupidity, though.
I think you are exactly right, Judy. I have no idea why TPTB insist on playing with these bioweapons. If they don't work as advertised, they can devastate the users as well as the intended victims. I think we can say for sure at this point, that if we ever do get an outbreak of a serious illness... we are all dead! Our leaders will not protect us.
DeleteGlen, would it be possible to hook up a drone control system to something like an ultralight? That could tote way more than 35 pounds.
ReplyDeleteYou could, but then you are well out of the hobby drone market by then. For terrorists, the trick isn't in making the kill - that part is easy, they do it every day with conventional explosives. The trick is in getting away afterward. Using an aircraft of that size moves you out of the hobby drone into a weapon system that will require a skilled crew to handle it, and a supply chain for parts, spares, training, etc. In short, you'd need everything Uncle Sam does to run his drones. And it costs him billions of dollars to do. The terrorist and mudflap militants are far better served by low tech weapons like IEDs, RPGs and similar weapons.
DeleteHey Glenn. New to your site. A question? Who is Aesop? I know the greek fella with the cute stories but there seems to be some animosity between thee and he.
ReplyDeleteAnyway... just wanted to say hello.
Aesop is a neurotic blogger that is obsessed with doomsday and claims to be an expert on pretty much everything. His MO is to be the all knowing authority on any subject, and anyone that disagrees is bombarded with insults, ridicule, and BS. He is a product of California, and conducts himself much as you'd expect. I suspect that he is a fudge packing pedo too, but have never been able to prove it, HAR HAR HAR.
DeleteLong story short, we are a couple of grumpy old men that disagree often. :)
Hey! Thanks for stopping in!
For quite a while I thought I was the only one who'd noticed him for what he is!
DeleteI felt so alone.
Thanks!
If you're still reading him and keeping tabs on what he's blustering, you're a better man than I. I just scream incoherently at the screen until my wife calms me down with a bat.
Aesop's hair is still on fire. I would go to his site and tell him where he could get a fire extinguisher but... I don't go to his site anymore because it's all: "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!".
ReplyDeleteYep... and the hell of it is, that he is good enough at it to stir up the other morons and get them spun up and cowering in fear too. It's craven and unmanly, if you ask me.
DeleteRich, Aesop is a blogger, a Californian and a nurse. He's very opinionated, very mouthy, and on medical issues, sometimes he's right.
ReplyDeleteGlen, the National Geographic claims there are wild pigs in Canada! Any near you? Anybody hunting them? Any hope of you chasing some into Alaska? I've been envying the Texans their pig hunting opportunities, and now wild pigs are just one border away!
We have them but apart from a few escapees - they all live on game farms where you have to pay to hunt them.
DeleteI don't get the pig-thing at all in the US. Pigs, folks!!!! BACON...??? I'd be knocking them down and eating them faster than they could breed!
I heard the Texans had a company called HeliBacon - you hunt them from a chopper with AR15's! I'd prefer to actually hunt and stalk them... but shooting from the air is one of the things that is on my bucket list if I win a million dollars... :)
Parts of Texas are almost awash in pig flesh. The reason they opened up air mobile is to wipe out as many as possible. The damage to farmland, and Texas is a giant farm, is pretty stiff. I've been told, if I see them, I should park right there, and bang away at them over the fence. I don't think we even have to have a license to off them now.
DeleteCome on down, and visit. There is a night hunt with suppressors and NODs over in Seguin. That isn't too far away.
And I ate Aesop's foul brew during the American Ebola Tour. It was the same song as this one. There are nuggets of truth, but you have to wade through a whole outhouse of yurg to find them. Basically, use your own pen at the eatery, wash your hands during flu season, and don't pick boogers unless your hands are freshly scoured. Easy-peasy.
Thanks for the info..ref; Aesop. I'll give him a miss.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there are wild pigs in parts of Canada. One of my postings in my military days was Cold Lake Alberta. Used to have wild game dinners. Boar was on the menu. Delicious.
I believe they have viable herds of caribou up at Cold Lake too. Unfortunately, hunting is forbidden on the range itself...
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