It's Thanksgiving Day for us Americans, and I was just thinking that one of the main things I'm thankful for this year is that I was in Taiwan when the birdemic BS hit the fan. Here the response has been, while still insanely out of proportion to the actual health risk, much more measured than almost anywhere else in the world. No lockdowns, no forced closures of businesses, nothing like that. People wore masks for a while, but there was never any strict enforcement, and now even that has gone back to normal ("normal" including, in East Asian countries, a certain background level of voluntary mask-wearing).
I was, as I say, just thinking that -- when someone told me the news: Masks mandatory in most public areas in Taiwan starting Dec. 1, to be enforced by fines of up to US$500. This would be a stupid and evil policy anywhere in the world, but the stupidity and evil is particularly transparent in Taiwan. Here's the birdemic death data for Taiwan, according to Google:
That's right, a whopping seven deaths -- not 7,000, not 700, just seven -- have been attributed to the birdemic to date, with the most recent more than six months ago. For comparison, Taiwan has a population of about 24 million. Lightning strikes kill an average of 12 people a year. Billionaires outnumber birdemic victims five-to-one. "It's just the flu, bro" would actually be an absurd overstatement, since last year's flu killed 89 people 530 people, plus 15,185 pneumonia deaths, here. In short, the risk of dying of the birdemic in Taiwan is not appreciably higher than the risk of falling victim to spontaneous human combustion.
The mask mandate has generated no noticeable controversy or resistance. After all, winter is coming! There might be a second wave! Seven more people might die! Maybe even eight!
So this is the reductio ad absurdum of 2020. If people in Taiwan -- where IQs are among the highest in the world, and where literally nothing is happening -- can fall for this, then all bets are off. This isn't a case of people erring on the side of safety, or even being innocently bamboozled. This is people with fully functioning brains willfully choosing to be dumber than a bag of hammers. This is civilization committing suicide. This is "2 + 2 = 5." This is the end.
Oh, I almost forgot: #GiveThanks
1 comment:
I have to agree. Surely this Must be the end - because nobody is trying to stop it being the end. I would hardly be surprised if people started burning their own houses (to kill the virus, presumably) - at a civilization level, this is a close analogy.
Indeed, if I was one of the Global Establishment who was trying to implement The Technocratic Totalitarian Agenda, I would be very worried that things were going to go too far too fast, and that within not-very-long the infrastructure (needed for monitoring and control) will be wiped out by the masses.
If the Establishment are Clouseau, trying to break down the resistance of the population by barging hard at the door; then the masses are like the butler who suddenly opens the door wide - so that Clouseau runs all the way through and out the other side...
See the (brief!) clip commencing 2:49 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5sRDJtqNc
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