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The militarization of the Western Empire: How the COVID pandemic accelerated the process
Donald Trump may not have been not such a warlike emperor as previous Western Emperors have been (and probably will be). But, even assuming that Trump is trying to avoid wars, he cannot oppose the militarization trends of the Western economy that was boosted by the COVID-19 epidemics.
History repeats itself – oh, yes! And sometimes it repeats itself so fast and so ruthlessly that it leaves you out of breath. Think of what’s happening right now: the COVID; the lockdowns, the face masks, the limitations to movements: all that happened in a few months, and the world of last year looks so remote that it could be seen as part of the still ongoing Middle Ages.
And, yet, there is some logic in what has happened. History may surprise you and it usually does (the only sure thing we learn from history is that people never learn from history). But whatever happens in history has a reason to happen. And what we are seeing is not unexpected. We have seen it already, stark clear and unavoidable: it is the militarization trend of a decaying society.
Let’s go back to the Roman Empire, as always the paradigmatic story of a state that preceded us and went through a full cycle of growth and collapse. The Roman world was not so technologically sophisticated, nor so rich as ours, but the basic needs of citizens were the same and the Roman government provided many of them. You may have heard the expression “Panem et Circenses” (bread and circus games). That described two of the services that the Roman state ensured: the shipment of food from Africa to the Roman cities and the various kind of games performed in the amphitheaters.
But there was much more than that. The state built and maintained the roads that connected the different regions of the empire. It built and maintained the aqueducts that carried water to the cities. Then, the main service was security: the government provided an internal justice system that guaranteed a certain degree of social security to the free citizens. The Romans also maintained an urban police (the vigiles) that served also as firefighters. And, of course, the legions were the backbone of the Roman state.
Of course, the Roman state had all the defects that states often have: it tended to harass, oppress, humiliate, rob, and overtax its citizens, But the Romans normally believed that a bad government was much better than no government, so they put up with a lot of stress as long as they could. Unfortunately for them, collapse was unavoidable. As the Empire’s finances declined, the government became unable to pay for the services it had been providing during better times.
The loss of government services in the Roman state was a complicated process that went on for centuries, sometimes gradually and sometimes in bumps. We have evidence that the Roman roads were already decayed so much that they were unusable by the early 5th century. Many aqueducts were in ruin by that time and that probably contributed to the depopulation of large cities: nobody can live in a city without working sewers. The last gladiatorial game in the Colosseum, in Rome, is recorded in 438 CE. Wheat was still shipped to Rome from Africa until ca. 450 AD, but no later than that date. The loss of the supply of food was the last straw that sent the Empire to the dustbin of history a few decades later.
But note an important detail: During the declining phase, the Roman government gave maximum priority to maintaining its military potential intact. The data are incomplete, but the Western Roman troops kept increasing in numbers up to the end of the 3rd century and the sum of the armies of the Western and Eastern Empires kept growing for two more centuries. And to that one has to include the cost of the gigantic defensive walls that must have been a tremendous burden for the state’s finances. As decline continued, the Western Empire was reduced to a giant machine that collected taxes and produced legions.
The result was that the Western Empire was often able to put up a decent fight: even during the final stages of its decline. Just think of the last ragtag Roman army that managed to defeat Attila’s Huns at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 AD. It was at the same time the last battle and the last victory of the Empire.
Now, let’s move forward of about 1,600 years and we are in our times. The modern Western Empire has many points in common with the old Roman Empire although, of course, the range of services the state provides nowadays is much larger. Just think that the Romans had nothing like our public education system, not our public healthcare service. But, like the Roman state, modern Western states provide food, water, transportation infrastructures, security, and entertainment. And, of course, a heavy military apparatus supposed to defend citizens from external invasions.
Today, the West is in a situation similar to that of the Roman Empire at the start of its declining phase. With the economy declining because of the gradual depletion of natural resources, the Western governments can’t afford anymore to provide the services they had been providing earlier on. You don’t have to think that the imperial elites are especially smart, but they understand perfectly well the difficult situation of the Western Empire: it can keep existing only as long as it manages to exploit resources located in faraway places that are hugely expensive to control. Crude oil in the Middle East is a good example. And they face a giant and growing power: the Eurasian block, much better placed in terms of still available resources within its local sphere of influence.
Right now, the West is still in an aggressive posture in military terms, but the leaders may decide to settle into a defensive position and hold on as long as possible. In either case, the Empire needs enormous amounts of resources to keep alive its overblown and inefficient military system. Because of this, some Western leaders may well be reckless enough to try something desperate, such as attacking Russia (preferably in winter, as it has been fashionable in the past). More easily, these resources can be found by taking them from other sectors of the Western economy. If you like to see the empire as a beast of prey, it is starting to eat itself.
Curiously, it has been the coronavirus crisis that pushed the process to accelerate at an unexpected speed. In less than one year, we saw the collapse or the rapid decline of several infrastructures that we were taking for granted but that the pandemic made obsolete. Note that I am not saying that the virus was engineered on purpose in some military lab — that’s extremely improbable, to say the least. I just mean that the elites of the Western world are an opportunistic predator: they jump on whatever opportunities they can find. And there is no doubt that they exploited the coronavirus crisis to their own maximum advantage.
The first and the most illustrious victim of the virus scare was international mass tourism. The collapse will probably be irreversible: read any description of what is today to visit Disneyland while wearing masks and keeping distances and you’ll understand why. Mass tourism was unsustainable anyway, but the speed of its fall has been amazing.
Also, the collapse of the civilian airlines is well advanced and of much of the industry that produces private cars. They were all very expensive infrastructures that consumed a lot of resources for little purpose. Their collapses are taking with them the fossil fuel industry, but that’s not a problem for the military. The remaining production can now be re-directed to military uses.
Then, we have the rapid decline of the public education system. It had been already declining for a long time, but the pandemic showed how fragile is a system that costs a lot of money to the state and produces little that’s useful. Do we really need to teach ordinary people how to read and write? They don’t need that to play on TikTok and most of them are too fat to be useful as soldiers. All that we need is highly specialized technologists able to design and build weapons and top-level managers to handle the levers of the government. And that’s where the remaining resources will be concentrated.
How about the healthcare system? That, too, was badly hit and turned out to be desperately ineffective in stemming the first wave of the pandemic. One possible reaction would have been to strengthen the system with a badly needed injection of capital and a re-organization for better efficiency. But it was not done. Here, propaganda played its usual role in convincing people that what’s bad for them is good for them. Have you ever heard a slogan like “fewer tanks and more hospitals?” Can you imagine one of the presidential candidates stating something like that? Of course not.
Propaganda has been able to convince people that, if the healthcare system was unable to manage a problem that never was really overwhelming, it was not because the system was badly mismanaged and turned into a profit-making operation for a few fat catss at the top. No, it was the fault of the people who didn’t wear their face masks or didn’t wear them right. The pen is mightier than the sword when it is used to write propaganda.
And there we are: suddenly we find ourselves rapidly moving along a road that we hadn’t realized we had already taken. The system is moving to a condition that will eventually turn it into a mirror of what once was the Roman empire: a giant machine that collects taxes and produces legions.
And then what? Of course, the Empire will crumble. All empires follow the same path: they bankrupt themselves with excessive military expenses, they are like the fat man of the restaurant scene of the Monty Python (if you haven’t seen it, it is here). And in our case, things will go even faster than in the past because we face not only resource depletion but also the collapse of the ecosystem.
But history goes in cycles: there is no collapse that’s not followed by a rebound. We don’t know exactly what the world after the crash will be like, but after the great binge of fossil fuels is over, and with it the toxic dreams of dominance, we might be able to build a gentler and better world. And may the Goddess help us in this difficult task.
242 Comments on "The militarization of the Western Empire: How the COVID pandemic accelerated the process"
zero davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 2:58 pm
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zero davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 4:05 pm
Davy, lunatic, we all know it is you. @FOOL
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I AM THE MOB on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:17 pm
Goodbye white nationalism
Anyone who supports it should go to prison
zero juan on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:23 pm
Luntic, everyone knows it is you, stupid! @Fool
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JuanP on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:26 pm
Food Shortages Hit China: There Is “Not…Enough Fresh Food To Go Around”
China is publicly acknowledging a coming food shortage.
But while many have dismissed my claims, I’d like to draw your attention to the fact that China is now publicly acknowledging a coming food shortage. (And as noted in this article, when they admit there’s a problem, it’s a BIG problem. ) In fact, China even has an anti-food-wasting campaign going on across the country right this minute encouraging people to eat half portions or at least make sure to finish their plates. In an October 5, article for the New York Times entitled “China’s mealtime appeal amid food supply worries: Don’t take more than you can eat,” Eva Dou writes, On the surface, China’s campaign to encourage mealtime thrift has been a cheerful affair, with soldiers, factory workers and schoolchildren shown polishing their plates clean of food. But behind the drive is a harsh reality. China does not have enough fresh food to go around — and neither does much of the world. The pandemic and extreme weather have disrupted agricultural supply chains, leaving food prices sharply higher in countries as diverse as Yemen, Sudan, Mexico and South Korea. The United Nations warned in June that the world is on the brink of its worst food crisis in 50 years. “It’s scary and it’s overwhelming,” Arif Husain, chief economist of the United Nations World Food Program, said in an interview. “I don’t think we have seen anything like this ever.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/food-shortages-hit-china-there-notenough-fresh-food-go-around
makati1 on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:27 pm
Juan, quit spamming zero hedge you zero juan
zero davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:28 pm
Luntic davy, everyone knows it is you, stupid! @Fool
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Food Shortages Hit China: There Is “Not…Enough Fresh Food To Go Around”
China is publicly acknowledging a coming food shortage.
But while many have dismissed my claims, I’d like to draw your attention to the fact that China is now publicly acknowledging a coming food shortage. (And as noted in this article, when they admit there’s a problem, it’s a BIG problem. ) In fact, China even has an anti-food-wasting campaign going on across the country right this minute encouraging people to eat half portions or at least make sure to finish their plates. In an October 5, article for the New York Times entitled “China’s mealtime appeal amid food supply worries: Don’t take more than you can eat,” Eva Dou writes, On the surface, China’s campaign to encourage mealtime thrift has been a cheerful affair, with soldiers, factory workers and schoolchildren shown polishing their plates clean of food. But behind the drive is a harsh reality. China does not have enough fresh food to go around — and neither does much of the world. The pandemic and extreme weather have disrupted agricultural supply chains, leaving food prices sharply higher in countries as diverse as Yemen, Sudan, Mexico and South Korea. The United Nations warned in June that the world is on the brink of its worst food crisis in 50 years. “It’s scary and it’s overwhelming,” Arif Husain, chief economist of the United Nations World Food Program, said in an interview. “I don’t think we have seen anything like this ever.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/food-shortages-hit-china-there-notenough-fresh-food-go-around
zero davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:29 pm
Luntic davy, everyone knows it is you, stupid! @Fool
Juan, quit spamming zero hedge you zero juan
zero davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 6:46 pm
Juan, everyone hates you. Please leave asshole
zero juan on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 7:24 pm
Davy, everyone hates you.
Please leave asshole
makati1 on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 7:34 pm
Juan, everyone hates you
Davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 7:37 pm
Everyone hates me.
JuanP on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 7:51 pm
I hate myself and everyone
makati1 on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 7:52 pm
Juan, everyone hates you, please leave us
makati1 on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 8:03 pm
Not worth even commenting today. The insane children are posting in my name even when I am asleep. Gawd! how insane they must be to waste their lives on here.
BTW: Another rainy day here in the land of eternal summer, but it is how we get 12 feet of rain every year. ^_^
Anonymouse on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 8:49 pm
The exceptional-turd as we can clearly see, is exceptionally ‘triggered’ as it likes to say, and has completely lost it. Again.
He needs to be in solitary confinement in mental institution. Preferably an underfunded one, staffed with corrupt administrators and under-paid, underqualified staff. He is even beginning to ramble about his fantasy ‘Italian wife’ and this ‘European lands and wealth’ again I noticed the other day. He needs to go off on one of his mad sock-fests in the moderated forum, but he is too ‘clever’ for that. He is a disgusting fool and fraud and he needs to FOaD.
Today, was a nice day here, but the madness and fraud that is CV-19 hasnt abated one bit. That elaborate fraud continues to dominate, well, everything. The way the davy creature likes to try and dominate everything here with his daily socking and stalking routine here.
Davy on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 9:28 pm
I command respect from you annoy. I am old enough to be your grampa.
fuckface
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 20th Oct 2020 11:53 pm
“Goodbye white nationalism
Anyone who supports it should go to prison“
“He needs to be in solitary confinement in mental institution. Preferably an underfunded one, staffed with corrupt administrators and under-paid, underqualified staff.”
Stinking leftist trash like mobbie and mousy and their dreams of anti-white gulags, run by them.
Eurasia just needs to lean back and wait for the ticking time-bomb to go off. The coming election could become America’s September 1, 1939.
Eurasia doesn’t need carriers or huge armies. Instead we have our Wunderwaffe, mobbie and mousy-types, installed all over North-America.
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 12:04 am
Ba ha, wash your masks bitches
Scientists Are Increasingly Bracing For The Possibility That COVID-19 May Never Go Away
“At the outset of the pandemic, one of the most troubling scenarios discussed by some epidemiologists was the ability for COVID-19 to become endemic, or in other words, a recurring virus that circulates in humans. There are currently four known coronaviruses that regularly infect people, mostly causing common-cold type symptoms but on rare occasions, pneumonia, and even death.”
https://gothamist.com/news/scientists-are-increasingly-bracing-possibility-covid-19-may-never-go-away
Oooo it’s all a hoax to steal your non existing freedumb.
Oooo every epidemiologist, infectious disease expert, doctor, medical lab & all their employees are in on it.
What’s that make? 5 million people globally? 10 million? Any of you fuck wads do the math?
In 55 years I’ve only know one person who could keep a secret.
It’s a hoax identical to the climate change hoax scam with 95% of the same right-wing think tanks & oligarchs spinning it as such.
If it’s such a freedum stealing scam wadda going to do about?
Have another anti-protest? Oooo TPTB are shaking in their boots Ooooo.
In addition you’ll keep moaning & complaining online.
Waddaya gonna do? Fuck all, same as it is with everything you advocate for.
Face it you’re far to fat & comfortable to risk confronting real power.
Y’all are fucking cowards. That’s why you punch & harass minimum wage store employees, bus drivers, etc for reminding you it’s store policy & part of their job. Fucking chicken shit babies throwing temper tantrums in the hopes big daddy Trump will kiss your boo boo all better.
Don’t call yourself men because you’re not.
makati1 on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 1:13 am
The hypochondriacs are hoping that COVID-19 flu will never go away. If the elite One Worlders have their way, it will be permanent masked lock-down until the serfs are reduced to just enough slaves to keep the elite in goodies.
2021 is going to be even worse than 2020. I hope you are prepared. I am. ^_^
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 3:32 am
From the American Conservative. They are the smaller group of Conservatives who are not innumerate, functionally illiterate, anti intellectual know nothings & not afraid of books & ‘big words.
Anti-Mask Snowflakes Of The Right
“Look, I understand people are mad about social distancing and wearing masks, but a lot of people on the Right are losing their minds. Here’s something from a column by Dan Fagan in my local paper, the Baton Rouge Advocate:
The far-reaching, extreme, and radical measures governors like [Louisiana Gov. John Bel] Edwards imposed during the COVID-19 scare represent the greatest challenge to individual liberties since the inception of our great nation. Some of us are reaching a boiling point.
I’d say you’ve boiled your brain, Cap. This nation was founded in 1776. Here are a couple of challenges to individual liberties since then — challenges that took place right here in our state — that were arguably more important than having to wear a mask when you go out for a po-boy during a pandemic:
So yeah, we have had a few things that were a little bit more of a challenge to civil liberties than the mask. Still, Dan Fagan demands to know:
How much further are they going to go? When will this all end? When do we go back to being free?
Oh for Pete’s sake. Late last year, I sat in a shabby apartment in Moscow, interviewing an elderly man whose father was tortured and executed by the KGB, and who, as a 15-year-old boy, was taken into custody by the KGB one night, and thrown into a prison for years. He cried telling me the story. And now I have to read my local newspaper conservative whine about how we’re living in a police state because of the stupid mask he has to wear when he goes out to buy a six-pack. If the KGB came knocking at the door of Dan “Boiling Point” Fagan, he would spontaneously combust. Hell, if a meter maid came for Dan Fagan’s car, he would soil his britches and squall like the Constitutional Peasant:”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/anti-mask-snowflakes-of-the-right-dan-fagan/
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 3:58 am
Paul Craig Roberts is the former high-ranking official turned high-ranking dissident. Has become (not so) closet white nationalist and is flirting with historic revisionism and even holohoax-denial:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/10/paul-craig-roberts/the-new-york-times-is-anti-white-and-anti-american/
“The New York Times Is Anti-White and Anti-American”
(The Jew York Times is kike disinformation and brainwashing central)
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/12/08/the-holocaust-2/
My “holocaust” position: I tend to gravitate to the hypothesis that the official death figure, as reported by the Red Cross, based on official German documents (“Sterbebuecher”), resulting in 373k deaths in camps, is the real figure (best approximation), maybe half of them Jews (say 200k). Most of the died from sickness, exhaustion, none in a gas chamber, the latter an Alllied invention, required to create the fake moral justification for the colonization of Europe by Americans and Soviets (2nd rate whites, under kosher control):
https://www.sunray22b.net/images/bad_arolsen_list.gif
Once the US empire is over, we’ll reopen the discussion about WW1 and WW2, using the Russian archives. If Russia wants to be part of European Civilization, they will have to come clean with history first. If necessary forensic investigation should take place on site to establish the truth.
zero juan on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 4:23 am
poo widdle Ppee juan, the huter gets hunted. You sucked yesterday widdle. Expect more today. I enjoy seeing you squirm:
FamousDrScanlon said From the American
Conservative. They are the small…
FamousDrScanlon said Ba ha, wash your masks bitches Scientists Are Incr…
Davy said I command respect from you annoy. I am old enough…
LANA Jeffrey toobin perved and the love for supremacist muzzies went up on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 7:06 am
Supertard kat days are short
Muzz-19 will be pumped into him and he will croak
zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 7:31 am
poo widdle daVvee Troll, the huter gets hunted. You sucked yesterday widdle. Expect more today. I enjoy seeing you squirm:
FamousDrScanlon said From the American
Conservative. They are the small…
FamousDrScanlon said Ba ha, wash your masks bitches Scientists Are Incr…
Davy said I command respect from you annoy. I am old enough
zero juan on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 7:56 am
widdle juan is up late and not very strong. Widdle is your depression bad? stupid.
zero davy said poo widdle daVvee Troll, the huter gets hunted. Yo…
LANA Jeffrey toobin perved and the love for supremacist muzzies went up said Supertard kat days are short Muzz-19 will be pumpe…
zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:05 am
widdle davy is up late and not very strong. Widdle is your depression bad? stupid.
zero davy said poo widdle daVvee Troll, the huter gets hunted. Yo…
LANA Jeffrey toobin perved and the love for supremacist muzzies went up said Supertard kat days are short Muzz-19 will be pumpe
makati1 on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:06 am
Juan, you have turned into a widdle pussy. I no longer like you. I like strong people.
Davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:11 am
Oops, sorry y’all. we used are zero juan sock pink poodle avatar under are makati1 ID Theft by mistake. We need to try harder next time.
zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:14 am
Davy, you have turned into a widdle pussy. We no longer like you. We like strong people.
zero juan on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:22 am
widdle is whining now, what a pussy:
zero davy said Davy, you have turned into a widdle pussy. We no l…
Davy said Oops, sorry y’all. we used are zero juan sock pink…
makati1 on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:23 am
Juan, I am so sick of you on this forum. You disgust me completely
zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:32 am
widdle is whining now, what a pussy:
zero davy said Davy, you have turned into a widdle pussy. We no l…
Davy said Oops, sorry y’all. we used are zero juan sock pink
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:32 am
How right-wing extremists, libertarians and evangelicals built Quebec’s movement against COVID-19 restrictions
They may appear to make strange bedfellows, but experts say they share some fundamental values
“To force me to wear a mask, to threaten me with $600 tickets — I’m sorry, we’re not in communist China here. We live in a democracy,” he said in a video ahead of his rally.
Though these on-air figures try to distance themselves from conspiracy theorists, the distinction, again, is not always clear”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-anti-mask-movement-qanon-covid-19-1.5737040
Like Albertans, many French Canadians are notoriously racist & ignorant. What’s the link? Catholicism.
Poor Clog don’t get it that on the remote chance right-wing nut ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ become all powerful they will asset strip him & gut him as an unbelieving atheist & closet homosexual.
Clog, you’ll never see any ‘victory’. You’ll be dead & forgotten in less than a decade. Another useless eater Boomer ceases to exist. Everything you said, thought & did…POOF! gone & forgotten forever as if it never was.
zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:34 am
davy, We are so sick of you on this forum. You disgust us completely
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:38 am
Right Wing Nut Job Compares Mask-Mandate To
Racial Oppression
Dave Daubenmire cried “Oppression!” because businesses wouldn’t let him into their stores without a mask.
“Daubenmire was furious because he had several confrontations the day before with employees at various establishments over his steadfast refusal to wear a mask. Recounting an argument he had with the manager of a T-Mobile store, Daubenmire reportedly compared the store’s refusal to allow him into the store without a mask to refusing to provide service to someone who is Black.
“I ain’t wearing no mask,” Daubenmire declared. “I know the mask doesn’t work, and I’m not going to wear my mask to make the worker at T-Mobile feel better. I’m not gonna do that. That’s bearing false witness.”
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/09/right-wing-nut-job-compares-mask-mandate
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:39 am
Letters to the Editor: Since when did being a Republican require stupidity on masks?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-19/since-when-did-being-a-republican-require-stupidity-on-masks
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:44 am
Dutch coronavirus cases jump by more than 8,500, new daily record
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-tally/dutch-coronavirus-cases-jump-by-more-than-8500-new-daily-record-idUSKBN2761Q1?rpc=401&
Benjamin Goldstein the hook nosed yid on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:49 am
The Goyims are becoming restless and will soon fire up the ovens again.
Davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:51 am
“Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?”
https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse
zero juan on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 8:53 am
widdle, your not famous, stupid. You are an uneducated south american school drop out.
Davy said “Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?” https://ne…
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Benjamin Goldstein the hook nosed yid said The Goyims are becoming restless and will soon fir…
FamousDrScanlon said Dutch coronavirus cases jump by more than 8,500, n…
FamousDrScanlon said Letters to the Editor: Since when did being a Repu…
FamousDrScanlon said Right Wing Nut Job Compares Mask-Mandate To Racial…
Arthur Logtenberg on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 9:01 am
“Dutch coronavirus cases jump by more than 8,500, new daily record”
www. worldometers. info/coronavirus/country/netherlands/
Dead people: 17 (most probably old, sick and/or obese people)
Every day ca. 384 people die in the Netherlands. This year a few more will be categorized in the “corona” department, “stealing” from other death categories.
For the record, I am not a “corona-denier”. We have merely 17 deaths/day BECAUSE of the lock-down.
I’m in favor of social distancing, hygiene, fairly neutral about masks, except for in crowded public space, like trains, supermarkets.
Against political correctness, hence no objection against “stigmatizing” corona passports, that soon will be possible, now that simple breathing corona tests will be on the market that can decide for 100% certainty is you have NOT corona. Give such a person a “passport”, which will be valid for say 4 weeks [*] and after that needs renewal. Should give you access to restaurants, cafes, work place, etc. Standard corona testing should take place in advance of boarding an airplane, enabling carriers to pick up regular flying with full planes again.
[*] time frame based on statistical analysis, keeping R-value below 1.
zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 9:03 am
widdle davy, your not famous, stupid. You are an uneducated south american school drop out.
Davy said “Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?” https://ne…
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Benjamin Goldstein the hook nosed yid said The Goyims are becoming restless and will soon fir…
FamousDrScanlon said Dutch coronavirus cases jump by more than 8,500, n…
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FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 9:07 am
Masks, Social Distancing Likely Into 2022, Fauci Tells PA Doctors
The battle against the coronavirus is long from over, Dr. Anthony Fauci told doctors in Philadelphia this week.
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/how-long-will-we-need-masks-heres-what-fauci-told-pa-doctors
As someone who has done real work so y’all could have electricity, gasoline, plastic & ass wipe, I spent years wearing N95 respirators or better (cartridge). We also wore coveralls, fall arrest harnesses, rigging belts, hard hats, welding masks & face shields when grinding or buffing. I’ve done shut downs in the summer where there were 3 boilers in the powerhouse, 2 running while we worked on the 3rd. 110 F on the top floor of the powerhouse & only slightly less hot inside the steam drum.
Y’all are fucking clueless to discomfort of having to wear respirators or masks. 12 hr shifts & that gear and PPE. It sucked but we never belly ached. There are certain things real men, who build the infrastructure society wants, don’t complain about on the job.
STFU. Anti-maskers sound like spoiled rotten little rich girls throwing tantrums because the world won’t acknowledge how special they are.
Special alright. Special Olympics special.
zero juan on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 9:09 am
Ppee, you are not famous. You are a piece of shit maggot that drifted up to the US from south america
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zero davy on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 9:11 am
Ppee davy, you are not famous. You are a piece of shit maggot that drifted up to the US from South America
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zero juan on Wed, 21st Oct 2020 9:22 am
Lunatic, eveyone hates LANA and your muzzie crap:
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