Tea at Trianon: The Jaywalker and the Covid Experts

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, March 6, 2023

The Jaywalker and the Covid Experts

From Dispatches from a Scamdemic:

During the past three years, our public health bureaucrats and governors and mayors have resembled that daytime Camden policeman. They’ve been full of self-importance but devoid of actual importance. While the Covid enforcers were paid much better than the cop was, both sets of public employees pretended that they were protecting people by enforcing a set of ridiculous rules and mandates. While politicians and bureaucrats liked bossing people around, they’ve been plainly unhelpful. At least the creaky cop was merely annoying and didn’t wreck a society. He wasn’t taken seriously.
During Coronamania, instead of trying to terrorize everyone, why didn’t the “experts” continually point out that reasonably healthy people under 70 were at near zero risk? Throughout the Corona scare, there remained a wide array of safety and health threats about which, like that Camden cop, public health bureaucrats said nothing. Why not remind heavy, diabetic people that this was a good time to cut the sweets and shed some weight? Why not exhort everyone to get outside to get some Vitamin D and to be active? Why not promote inexpensive, immune-boosting nutrients and therapeutics, instead of pretending that the public’s survival depended on top-down “mitigation” measures like lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, tests and hospitalizations? These interventions were not only ineffective but bad for public health, including mental health. They’ve often been fatal.
It’s unfortunate that many Americans believed, during Coronamania, that a government title or medical/academic credential conferred or connoted knowledge, capacity or motivation for constructive intervention. People and the media bowed down to dishonest, agenda-driven, power-hungry bureaucrats and a bunch of scientifically-illiterate, opportunistic governors and mayors. Instead of obedience, these bureaucrats and pols, like the Camden cop, deserved disdain and ridicule.
As H.L. Mencken said, “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.”
After three years of foolish rules and abject failure, the Coronamania cruise directors won’t admit that they’ve been wrong about anything, when they’ve been wrong about everything. This misplaced arrogance continues. They continue to push injections that have not only failed to stop viral infection and spread—as they had assured—but are temporally linked to tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries. The pols, the experts and the media are covering this up. They’re bought by the Medical Industrial Complex.
Tellingly, instead of having “experts” appear on camera, the last few months of NYC/NJ Metro Area (where I live) TV vaxx ads now depict only cartoons. The medical bureaucrats who used to appear in these ads seem to have become ashamed of their prior advocacy for the shots and no longer want their faces connected to the vaxx hype. Besides, their MDs, job titles nor faces no longer suggest credibility. As the vaxx news worsens, will vaxx shills like Dave Chokshi, Torian Easterling and Mary Bassett go underground as do those in witness protection programs? I’ll remember their names and faces, as well as those of the many pro-lockdown/pro-vaxx politicians and celebrities. I hope others also will. Their Scamdemic conduct should cast a shadow over them for the rest of their lives and, after they die, over their legacies. A long-term shadow should be cast over governments, the media, Pharma and medicine, generally. (Read more.)