Gavin Longmuir says, “Indeed, Democrats in places like New York did the opposite and put the old & sick in nursing homes into deadly danger.”

I have a theory that the rise and fall of civilizations in roughly 300 year patterns is the time it takes for an empire to slowly allow the rise of psychopaths to move up into positions of power. As they do things get more and more corrupt and the gas lighting of the public gets more and more blatant. What we are seeing now is the end of this process. Psychopaths are great at moving up in organizations but they could care less about actually making them work. They only care about feeding on them, manipulating people and pushing destruction. Destruction is exciting to them and they are bored.

This is standard epidemiology, and it was explained at the beginning by experts like Fauci. However, at some point people, even the experts in public, began to think that the ultimate number of deaths and cases could be diminished. They can’t be.

The Cassandras are unknowingly correct in so far as total deaths and cases is concerned. But they are wrong to believe anything can be done about it.

Fate/Karma, the Will of God, whatever.

What is the death count from COVID? As opposed to the lockdown death count?

Not that any of that has to do with shuttered churches, small businesses destroyed, woke ones richer by trillions stolen, or stealing the White House. And its just getting started.

The Cassandra’s today — the ones we should have paid attention to — were the ones predicting that unnecessary never-ending Lock Downs would have a very damaging long-term effect on the economy, and that the long-term consequences of unnecessarily disrupting education for school children would be major.

But we have to sympathize with Megan McArdle, who has bills to pay. The Washington Post would not publish anything contrary to the conventional wisdom of the DC Swamp herd.

Check out this graph of per-week, total deaths straight from the CDC:

https://public.tableau.com/profile/dataviz8737#!/vizhome/COVID_excess_mort_withcauses_12302020/WeeklyExcessDeaths

Change the drop-down to individual states like Oregon, Hawaii, NJ, and NY to get a feel for state variance.

The CDC page this graph is from:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

There are similar graphs out there on the Internet for Euro+ countries. They look and vary like the US states.

US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted
22 December 2020

2.5M is the bottom of range for decade, below average.

Megan Mcardle and Bezos aren’t bankrupt, therefore USA is not bankrupt.

I don’t recall Cassandra taking billions from Greeks, nor profiting Trillions from the sack of Troy.

COVID kills the people who would normally die from Flu.

COVID is a real disease that is a miracle for the Democrats.
Annus Mirablis; they got to destroy the economy, steal 10$Trillion, destroy small business, ban churchgoing, burn down the cities to demonstrate raw power to urban hipsters and steal the White House.

There is no ^ vaccine^ for the evils these men did.

A good rule of thumb these days is that if the source does not allow comments, it is not worth the time to read it.