Here’s why,

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Combine that with packing animals and humans in close proximity, using human and animal shit on all their fields and you have your answer.

Now I will tiotally contradict myself. In India they have much the same thing with dead bodies floating down their rivers and shit everywhere but they don’t seem to be the primary vector for this sort of thing. I don;t know why. Do these people have iron ore or titanium immune systems? The only thing I can come up with is they don’t shit in the fields they do so in the streets. If anyone can explain why everyone in India is not running a constant fever and close to death constantly please explain it to me because I can’t explain it.

When everything is a lie, there is no truth. Because that’s the way most people want it. The only question is: can you get people to share a lie? Or will it be competing narratives?

People who sincerely care about objective truth are oddballs, on the fringes of society. When society collapses, they stand on the edge of the smoking crater and look down, shaking their heads.

What a surprise, Kirk. I didn’t know that you were an old-type revolutionary Marxist libertarian.

Usually only men of this old type have the spine to stand up to the Progressive machinations of Global Capitalism.

Someone wise — wiser than me — once said something to effect that the real dividing line within humanity lies between those who want to be left alone — and those who can’t leave anything or anyone alone.

An event like a public health crisis — whether real or not or someplace in between — offers ample opportunities for the control-minded, would-be tyrants, and the busy-bodies to interfere in the lives of others in ways great and small. And if anyone protests, they can wrap themselves in the mantle of the “common good” and accuse the dissenters of being the problem, when in reality it is them.

C.S. Lewis once said, quite-correctly, the following…

“My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position [imposing “the good”] would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under of robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some points be satiated; but those who torment us for their own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Since mid last century, it seems that all of the major flu outbreaks have originated in Asia. I wonder why that is.

You do enough of those at the worms-eye level, and you start to develop an awful lot of cynicism about the benefits of our selection and training system for mid- and senior-level officers. You also start to wonder if maybe, just maybe, the whole thing is skewed by that initial “…here’s what we want to train…” briefing, and that maybe human nature is just contrary to that sort of thing. Tell people not to do something during a training event, and that almost guarantees they’re going to do it, apparently.

I honestly have to question the entire system we’re using to select, train, assess, and promote these people. So very rarely do you actually get to see effective, rational behavior out of the mass of them that when you do see it, it seems as though it’s some sort of amazing miracle. As opposed to it being a rational expectation routinely encountered.

There’s a major problem with a system process when the lowest levels in the hierarchy become inured to nonsensical and ineffective action by their higher-ups. You’ll note that across the board, in the government, military, and industrial operations we experience on a daily basis.

I remember one situation where I and all the other mid-level leaders were looking around at each other in confusion, because the upper layers in the hierarchy were actually doing things that made sense to us, and which we would have done if we were making the decisions in their place. The dislocation that stemmed from that could not have been helpful, at all.

All of this “stuff” represents things we’ve been doing badly, and for a very long time. Do note that the fish rotted from the head, in the Spanish Influenza case–Nearly everything that is described here as creating problems stemmed from the control-freak Progressives of the Wilson administration, and their attempts to “take charge” of things that are essentially immune to being “taken charge of”.