An observation
from the 1930’s
was made by
H.L. Menken:
“The whole aim of practical politics
is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be
led to safety) by menacing it
with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary.”
During President Roosevelt’s
first inaugural address,
on March 4th,1933, he said ,
about the deep 1929 recession,
that
“The only thing
we have to fear
is fear itself”.
Fear is a valuable
human emotion
which functions as
a self-preservation
instinct.
The current Coronavirus
pandemic has resulted in
members of the ruling class
using fear to curtail our
constitutional rights
in the name of saving us
from ourselves.
Fears of climate change
are similar, in spite of
four decades of the
continued failure of
computer modeling
to accurately predict
the future climate.
We have been repeatedly
warned about the destructive
power of fear.
Politicians embraced
the pandemic and associated
public health fears, to assume
near dictatorial powers
in the name of protecting
the public health.
It's a basic urge in politicians
to use fear to control citizens.
Experts in epidemiology
turned to computer models
for answers.
Years of failed computer-based
climate predictions would have
been a good reason to doubt
the ability of virus modeling
for fatality predictions.
Computer derived predictions
of millions of deaths proved
to be grossly exaggerated.
What also has been revealed
is the enthusiasm with which
the political/ruling class
has claimed the moral high
ground in issuing edicts
in the name of the public good.
“Stay-at-home” orders
ranged from weeks to months
with no solid scientific justification
for a particular time span.
Wearing of masks by
the general public
was ordered despite
numerous studies
that claim they are
not protective against
the Corona virus,
especially homemade
cloth varieties.
At 120nm diameter,
these virus particles
are not filtered out
by surgical or fabric
face masks.
Wearing a mask
is mainly a way
to virtue signal.