Man, how true was this? One of the things I appreciate about your substack is bits of wisdom from solid thinkers. I remember in July 2020 I was working by myself in a rice field thinking, How many different plans are they going to try before enough people stop believing them? It's gotta end soon. But man, it lasted forever. Until Januaryish 2022 when EVERYONE got Omicron and people just collectively stopped playing along.
You posted this December of 2021. A couple months later, everyone got Covid and it didn't matter how many shots you'd gotten. A lot of those teachers who held out against these mandates are the kind we want teaching our kids. It's a shame. I hope this letter helped others.
From the post:
"If institutions have recipe knowledge, means and ends align.
Responding to the pandemic, have our governments demonstrated recipe knowledge? Joe Biden signed a 100-day mask order immediately after he was inaugurated, and he said that 100 days of mask wearing – January to April – would end the pandemic:
The City of South Pasadena closed outdoor tennis courts to stop the spread and end the pandemic. Did it? Anthony Fauci said in November of 2020 that we were about to end the pandemic by vaccinating up to 70% of adults. We did that. Did it end the pandemic?
So governments say, if we do X, we'll end the pandemic, and then we do X and it doesn't end the pandemic, and then governments say, if we do Y, we'll end the pandemic, and then we do Y and it doesn't end the pandemic, and then governments say, if we do Z, we'll end the pandemic, and then we do Z and it doesn't end the pandemic, and then governments say, wait, wait, we've got it this time, and then...."
This is going DEEP into the archive. I had forgotten that email message to the school board. It was rational and full of evidence, so they thought I was a dumb asshole. I live in a small town, and I pass school board members in the aisles at the supermarket. They glare. What a moment that was.
Yeah, I was looking for a specific post from way back and I thought this was it. Lol I'm not surprised they glare, it's hard to claim ignorance if you're giving good evidence like that.
Man, how true was this? One of the things I appreciate about your substack is bits of wisdom from solid thinkers. I remember in July 2020 I was working by myself in a rice field thinking, How many different plans are they going to try before enough people stop believing them? It's gotta end soon. But man, it lasted forever. Until Januaryish 2022 when EVERYONE got Omicron and people just collectively stopped playing along.
You posted this December of 2021. A couple months later, everyone got Covid and it didn't matter how many shots you'd gotten. A lot of those teachers who held out against these mandates are the kind we want teaching our kids. It's a shame. I hope this letter helped others.
From the post:
"If institutions have recipe knowledge, means and ends align.
Responding to the pandemic, have our governments demonstrated recipe knowledge? Joe Biden signed a 100-day mask order immediately after he was inaugurated, and he said that 100 days of mask wearing – January to April – would end the pandemic:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/jan/21/joe-biden-mask-up-100-days-covid-coronavirus-pandemic
Did it?
The City of South Pasadena closed outdoor tennis courts to stop the spread and end the pandemic. Did it? Anthony Fauci said in November of 2020 that we were about to end the pandemic by vaccinating up to 70% of adults. We did that. Did it end the pandemic?
So governments say, if we do X, we'll end the pandemic, and then we do X and it doesn't end the pandemic, and then governments say, if we do Y, we'll end the pandemic, and then we do Y and it doesn't end the pandemic, and then governments say, if we do Z, we'll end the pandemic, and then we do Z and it doesn't end the pandemic, and then governments say, wait, wait, we've got it this time, and then...."
This is going DEEP into the archive. I had forgotten that email message to the school board. It was rational and full of evidence, so they thought I was a dumb asshole. I live in a small town, and I pass school board members in the aisles at the supermarket. They glare. What a moment that was.
Yeah, I was looking for a specific post from way back and I thought this was it. Lol I'm not surprised they glare, it's hard to claim ignorance if you're giving good evidence like that.
Virus gonna virus, and fascists gonna fascist. But we can't shoot the virus.