I PAT MY BACK
Before we begin our main update, allow me to congratulate myself.
Jaw-dropping exchange between Spectator Editor Fraser Nelson and Graham Medley—chair of COVID modeling for UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)—in which Medley admits outcomes not requiring restrictions are systematically omitted from SAGE’s models. https://t.co/05kvEK7gmE pic.twitter.com/KFBgb8AAH3
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) December 19, 2021
A screenshot of the picture, in case it disappears, is here.
I have said it a hundred times, or more, that all models only say what they are told to say. Here is a formal paper on the subject; and here is an instructional video.
If a model is told to say “Lockdowns work” it will—it must—conclude lockdowns work.
But this model is not independent evidence or proof lockdowns work. “Lockdowns work” was an assumption. It remains an assumption. Replace lockdowns with whatever solutions you like. Same thing.
At least we have an Expert admitting these simple, and indeed indisputable, facts. If you saw yesterday the definition of an Expert and expertocracy, you will understand.
Long-time readers will also know that I have warned about trumpeting “cases”, that “cases” are not cases, that “cases” are fake & gay, that nobody should talk about “cases” because “cases” only generates needless fear. For instance:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472671850572431365
Oh my! “Cases”! What about something that really matters?
“Cases” are fake and gay. Here is the final proof, for which I will also accept congratulations.
CNN: “Biden admin eyes potentially stark shift in messaging around ending pandemic … toward focusing on severity instead of case numbers.”
HHS Sec: “We're getting to the point now where… it's about severity. It's not about cases. It's about severity.”https://t.co/CXWcJKBIUU pic.twitter.com/zFp0YrZ0qx
— Jerry Dunleavy ?? (@JerryDunleavy) December 19, 2021
It took these brilliances two years to figure out what we figured immediately, and they’re doing it for purely political reasons because they want to declare success, but better late than never.
Wait. I changed my mind. Here is final proof “cases” are fake and gay.
‘Silent’ COVID twice as prevalent as feared: 4 in 10 patients have no symptoms, study warns.
Not only does this prove “cases” are fake and gay, this is direct confirmation Experts and rulers are mewling effeminate cowardly simpering jelly-livered shaking nitwits.
CRACKING DOWN
I loathe despise and abominate propagandists.
It seems we are headed for a (keyword) #ViralBlizzard.
Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/8MexnPVF1b
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) December 21, 2021
This is being written Monday evening, before they wheel Biden out Tuesday to announce more “solutions” to our routine pandemic (which, as a pandemic per se, has been over for some time).
The word is penalties will be coming to “unvaccinated Americans.”
I don’t know what these punishments for failure to obey will be, but my guess is vaccine slave badges for travel. Show your papers or no airplanes or trains. “Your paperz are not in order.” But these punishments would not start until after New Years. Which would instantly disprove the “science” behind them, because if they work, they should be used immediately.
And they don’t work. However, we have two year’s experience showing observational evidence does not matter (incidentally, this is why falsification is a silly philosophy). Rulers ignore all but their desire for power.
We saw the ladies on an Appeals court reinstated the OSHA power grab, so now it goes to SCOTUS, which is filled with progs, woke, the cucked, and two based justices. Two is not enough.
The Court has surprised us before, so there is still hope. Still time for you to pray.
MAIN UPDATE
I have been warning us since late summer that, as always happens, deaths would begin creeping up in fall, peaking in January. As always. I warned us to get ready for it, as our arrogant masters and Experts, loath to admit error, would mandate, yet again, all their “solutions” that failed before.
They, on the other hand, assured us, often and loudly and with force, their “solutions”, including the vex, would be 100% effective.
https://twitter.com/solo_XV/status/1471896282579013642
Here is a basic science question. If made to choose between two rival models, one that predicts Reality fairly well but with occasional error, and the other which is almost always wrong, which model should you pick?
Right: the one that guarantees you the best living. Which is the model of Experts and rulers.
For never forget that the likelihood of a model being correct is only one component in the decision calculus. The other is the gain and cost of the choice itself.
It’s true the Reality-based model predicts Reality better. But that doesn’t make it the best choice, not when your livelihood depends on agreeing with the regime. Just as fear of being called a “racist” hamstrings Republicans, fear of being a “denier” hampers Experts. Going against the “Consensus” can be a career-destroying event.
A reader reminded me of this Consensus event (from the Wiki article on the Appeal to Authority Fallacy):
[L]eading American zoologist Theophilus Painter [in 1923] declared, based on poor data and conflicting observations he had made, that humans had 24 pairs of chromosomes. From the 1920s until 1956, scientists propagated this “fact” based on Painter’s authority, despite subsequent counts totaling the correct number of 23. Even textbooks with photos showing 23 pairs incorrectly declared the number to be 24 based on the authority of the then-consensus of 24 pairs.
Simple math shows this error held sway for over three decades. In the modern era. That, my dear readers, is a long time.
This is, of course, one example of a legion of such blunders—a list of which is in a separate chapter of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. All made by our intellectual betters.
Now the odd thing about history is that most believe extreme events only occur in history, and never in their own times. This is strange because the list of Consensus events is large and important. I mean, the list is about important matters in science. And there must be many more smaller events mostly unremarked on because of their relative unimportance.
The only possible rational conclusion is that these events, massive Expert blunders, must continue to happen.
One is happening now.
MORE VERIFIED PREDICTIONS
Speaking of verified predictions, remember when conspiracy theorists were dismissed as conspiracy theorists for this?
https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1471797322531049472
This, too, is, as long-time readers know, one in an endless line of conspiracy theories come true, each the vindication of conspiracy theorist predictions.
I emphasize conspiracy theorists because the words together clearly do not mean what each means independently and taken in series. Instead, the term can only have a working definition of regime-despised Realist.
How’s this headline grab you? “Health officials to weigh limits on J&J vaccine as deadly blood clots continue“.
Remember this picture we did about two weeks back?
VAERS data shows adults taking J&J were reported as dying much earlier than the other vexxines. I’ll count the CDC’s actions as another verification. The data also showed kids taking Pfizer were recorded as dying more often. Pfizer is experimenting with the kiddies even now, upping their dosages.
Shouldn’t vexxine companies worry about these deaths? Nah.
?? “Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show” by @Reuters https://t.co/EJkQ0omodU
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 16, 2021
You already know that you, dear non-refugee citizen, have no value to rulers.
Steve Kirsch has something like James Randi’s old challenge, which fits here: “Who wants to be a millionaire?“. Examples “I will bet anyone $1M that the CDC lying to everyone about number of deaths” and “$1M research grant if you think Mathew Crawford made a math error that would change the result”.
If you are one of the woke who are sure of vexxine utopia and so on, prove it and make your million.
CULT OF THE MASK
Two major airline CEOs question the need for masks on planes
Both [CEOs] Kelly and Parker, who each have announced plans to retire as CEOs in the coming months, mentioned that high-grade HEPA air filters on planes capture virtually all airborne contamination and air quality is helped by how frequently cabin air is exchanged with fresh air from outside the cabin.
On the way out, they can speak the truth.
This follows a major propaganda organ piece “The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School“. This is most curious, because it admits the Experts at the CDC were wrong about masks. It will be interesting to see what happens to the author.
PUNISH THE DISOBEDIENT
‘Hardcore Vaccine Refuseniks’ May Need To Be ‘Deradicalized’ Like ‘Terrorists’ And ‘Punished’
A “deradicalisation” programme like those given to former terrorists or cult members might be the only way to dissuade some hardcore antivaxxers from their beliefs, according to one psychology expert…
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, chair in cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, was keen to stress that many of those are likely to be “marginalised” people who are “very difficult to reach for anything”, and for whom access is likely to be the biggest issue rather than psychological or ideological factors.
But for a small section of “hardcore refuseniks”, he said, it may be difficult to reach them by conventional means because their beliefs are so ingrained….
Another measure would be introducing a vaccine mandate, which he said “will disgruntle a few people” but “can be effective”.
This Lewandowsky is ignorant of the stats, epidemiology, and medicine, but, like we saw yesterday, take Experts in the fields at their word. Therefore—do read yesterday’s post—the people who disagree with Experts are flawed in some way. They must be taken in hand and made to believe Expert “truth.”
The Expert Lewandowsky joins the Experts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (a hilarious word here, because it means a one-way communication). They too wonder how people can disagree with Experts, and have concluded these deniers must be a security threat.
THE NUMBERS
They are now pushing “super immunity“, which is, they say, conferred after one has the bug while vexxed and recovered.
This is partly propaganda in acknowledging that nearly everybody (except naturally immune) will get the bug eventually, but married to the propaganda that the vex protects against infection. The two beliefs are mutually incompatible, but incompatibility with logic or Reality, as we have seen, means nothing.
Buy my new book and own your enemies: Everything You Believe Is Wrong.
This has gone on far too long, so only a few numbers this week, all good news.
First—-drumroll—-the glorious Return Of Flu!
The drop off at the very end is late reporting. But the bump is there and real.
I offer no causal explanations for this, but it must be good news, because it signals a return, in a way, to the old normal. Another signal is this, the weekly attributed coronadoom deaths.
Ignoring the late-count drop off, yes, deaths are indeed going up. But only by a very little.
We expected the rise to be stronger, but while there was a bump up from the end of November, that was all it was, a bump. Daily December attributed deaths are like the were in October.
Yes, they may, and likely even will, rise again, but that they haven’t risen by now to where we expected is good news.
The Panic Index is decreasing:
Recall that ideally the Panic Index would be 1, but anything under, say, 5 to 10 is good. We’re just above it. This means people aren’t panicking as they have before.
Now the Worry Index: it too is decreasing, or at least holding steady:
Ideally, this is 0. We see the flattening after the Ominous Omicron announcement, but it isn’t really going up either.
All these numbers, especially the return of flu, have to bring some cheer. At just the right time of year.
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“This Lewandowsky is ignorant of the stats, epidemiology, and medicine….”
Surely is!
Sort of surprised you didn’t add a parenthetical identification of this Expert Lewandowsky. He’s better than an Expert. He’s a Meta-Expert. A consensus defender defending the consensus of consensus builders. Guardian and propagator of the 97% nugget of consensus.
He’s the Meta-Expert on “conspiratorial ideation” among “climate deniers.”
Who’d have ever guessed that he’d end up Experting on the bad cold going around?
Here’s his 2016 meta-hagiographic ode to consensus and those who consensus-ize fake scientific opinion.
“Consensus on consensus: A synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
John Cook, Naomi Oreskes, Peter T. Doran, William R.L. Anderegg, Bart Verheggen, Ed W. Maibach, J. Stuart Carlton, Stephan Lewandowsky, Andrew G. Skuce, Sarah A. Green, Dana Nuccitelli, Peter Jacobs, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Ken Rice
“The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%-100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper.”
From
Kent
LouAnnDowskyhas been on Briggs’ radar since March 2012
“The psychologist Lewandowsky is concerned that many are not as concerned about climate change […]”
Briggs has seven posts now with Lou Ann figured in
Expert = Kommissar
“‘Silent’ COVID twice as prevalent as feared: 4 in 10 patients have no symptoms, study warns.”
If someone is infected with a disease with no symptoms, how do they know when they are cured? A clunky test that has a 50% false positive/false negative rate?
Regarding the recent, startling announcement from a SAGE official, I worked inside the Beltway for almost 20 years as a wonk. The running joke was always, “The decisions have been made, the analyses and studies will follow.” This wasn’t just tongue-and-cheek. Everyone knew that their livelihoods depended on its verity.
Unfortunately, I can’t post a graphic here but just out of curiosity I’ve been plotting Wikipedia’s Deaths due to COVID since the beginning of the pandemic. This, as many know, is derived from their “Recent Deaths” section which lists the deaths of notable people. There is qualitative agreement between my plot and the CDCs weekly deaths due to COVID which you show above. In other words, to get such a plot doesn’t require very precise record keeping beyond what a media outlet provides. This begs the question related to the topic as to what is driving what? Is “science” driving the news or is the news driving “the science.”
The Experts are desperate to remove the control group. Like a doctor who buries his mistakes.
As the great Michael Crichton once observed, “ if it’s consensus it’s not science, and if it’s science it’s not consensus” i assume most of you checking in here have read “Aliens Cause Global Warming”, but if not : http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/GW-Aliens-Crichton.htm
Also, as someone smarter and funnier than me pointed out, “conspiracy theory” really just means “spoiler alert”
Great update, Briggs. So while The Great and Terrible Oz! rages and threatens, terrorizing the unwitting, we carry on in calm, peace and good humor, for the little dog has pulled back the curtain to reveal the ridiculous little men — who would be as gods! — furiously working the levers of their tawdry illusion to ever diminishing effect. May the evil spell finally be broken, Lord, and let thy justice be done.
“We’re almost always right; They’re Almost Always Wrong; Yet They’re Always Believed.” Well, sin darkens the intellect.
–>‘Silent’ COVID twice as prevalent as feared: 4 in 10 patients have no symptoms, study warns.
Isn’t this true of most pathogens? In some microscopic level (parts per million, parts per billion, etc.), pathogenic detection can be made, observed. Meanwhile, infection would depend on load. Its mere presence isn’t a sign of disease or infection.
E.g., all kinds of toxins–in minute quantities are present in out bodies, in our food, in the water we drink, in the air we breath–yet masses of people don’t die in the streets because it’s the dose that’s the poison, not its mere presence.
What am I missing…
Sorry, my link doesn’t work. Just search for “Aliens Cause Global Warming”
Thankyou Mr Briggs the consensus is in among the sane thanks to the data over the last two years, its time to move on….maybe its time to look at the cholesterol war and the science on statins.
Happy winter/summer solstice!
Watching your YouTube video…
Mr. Briggs, you sound astonishingly just like Ray Romano…
You could be his *voice double*…
Do these shots work at all? Do they prevent anything? I’m at home sick (probably not Covid, although who knows? I took a test and it came up negative, but it sounds like omicron) and had some extra time, so I tried to look up raw numbers of vaccinated people who have died of Covid. All I could find was graphs of deaths by 1/100,000 (by vaccination status) and total deaths by age. But as most people in higher age groups have been vaxxed, and people 65 and over seem to be dying in by far the highest numbers… as they have all along… I don’t see any difference other than seasonal fluctuations. Two people I know who had the vaxes (but no booster) and an unvaxed family member just got it. All about the same symptoms, though one of the vaxed was a teen and the other two were about the same age. Another vaxxed person I know in her late 60s or early 70s had it, was pretty sick even though she got monoclonal antibody treatment. Does it make a difference? I figured from the first only the oldest and sickest would be offered it (and those who worked or lived with them) and then we’d see the long-term effects. As I am healthy and not 60, I figured I might get one if they turned out to be effective after 3 years or so of experience. Now I don’t think they will say how effective the shots are, even if they’re studying that–which they don’t seem to be.
It’s hard not to be cynical when flu cases are inversely proportional to the efficiency of the vexx.
You’ve got to wonder what the decision tree was for choosing a coronavirus
over all other available pathogens. Not to mention what’s next once the
variants run out of steam.
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Quick Note: For Those Of You Who Were STUPID
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244572
Here is the thing, though, just because you thought getting vexxinated was the right thing to do at the time, as new information comes in, you can change your mind.
Your civil rights are still there. It doesn’t matter if you just got your religion this morning, it is still your right to refuse further injections.
An employer has no basis for denying your religious exemption. They can only refuse an accommodation, at their risk.
Incitadus: “You’ve got to wonder what the decision tree was for choosing a coronavirus
over all other available pathogens. Not to mention what’s next once the
variants run out of steam.”
This guy knew the deal: https://stovouno.org/2020/04/09/if-you-want-to-create-a-totally-false-panic-about-a-totally-false-pandemic-pick-a-coronavirus/
Incitatus: ”Not to mention what’s next once the variants run out of steam.”
Start a war with Russia. Or China. Or both.
regime-despised Realist…
Not bad.
a more universal term: Consensus Reality Dissident (CRD)
Ugh. Lewandowsky again.
I might have known. That guy’s been working for the Ministry of Truth since he was a lad.
Why are people getting tested in the first place? Even a true negative could be easily negated the next day by picking up the virus at the store, or…..
God bless, C-Marie
Hopefully the Russian ultimatum against NATO’s merry expansionism will panic the rulers enough to drop the covidian charade and consider that Putin really will stick some really big and really fast intercontinental needles right up their ass.
Speaking of Russia… Russia is also on boaed with covidism and marks of the vexx although rolling this out is delayed due to the Russian people being hesitant to both the controls and the vexxines.
Some articles of interest:
The bigshots behind Russia’s vaccine have deep ties to the World Economic Forum
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/sputnik-v-its-what-klaus-schwab-craves
Based Russian people.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russias-qr-code-regime-is-collapsing
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russias-covid-cultists-in-full-retreat
No wonder Our Lady of Fatima wants the Russian people on board! Too bad the Church hirelings are so invested in their modernist Vatican II experimental failure to obey Christ’s request for the Consecration of Russia.
Meanwhile Russia’s own political ruling class are just as “expert” as our experts! All they do now is call the unvexxed Russians names from the safety of controlled Russian media.
Mathew Crawford has a brilliant article up on the manipulation of trial statistics!
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/manipulative-interpretations-of-trial
Amazingly, in my daily Amazon “Book Recommendations” “Based On Your Reading” email I just got a recommendation for “Everything You Believe Is Wrong”! Of course, that may just be because I already _have_ my copy (from Amazon) – they do frequently recommend to me books I’ve already bought from them – but, maybe not! Maybe others are getting this recommendation too!
Was at a long visit at a boomer aged relative for the holidays. He insisted on having the news on in the background. Twenty minutes out of a half hour of reporting were devoted to the topic of vaccinations.
Like usual there were some bits of truth sprinkled in here and there (such as that the Omicron variant “probably” is less deadly than other variants) but each and every time it was immediately followed up by a command to get vaccinated and get boosted.
This sort of repetition works on most people. The panic will only end when the news is stopped from continuing it.
And now for some fun to share with your vexxed family.
Musical Interlude: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like GENOCIDE…
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/12/22/musical-interlude-%f0%9f%8e%b6-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-genocide-%f0%9f%8e%b6/
“This sort of repetition works on most people. The panic will only end when the news is stopped from continuing it.”
As my parent used to tell me I’m not “most people” or “everyone else”.
More fun with Christmas Carols:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4G-19QB1Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7T7iTzJEQ
Why are some people suffering and dying from vexxines while many others are not?
Some strong circumstantual evidence that this is tied to specific lots of vexxine batches!
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/report-links-ballooning-fatalities-to-specific-batches-of-the-covid-19-vaccine/
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So flu numbers are rising this fall/winter season? Of course everyone (well, every thinking person) knows that last year’s flu was metamorphosed into cases of COVID. So why the rise now in flu numbers? Is it some latent desire to return to honesty in reporting? No, too late for that! Maybe the reason is that when more and more of the COVIDiots who took the jab begin to die of the aftereffects, the PICs (“Psychopaths In Control”) will say, “We saved you from COVID, but too bad you died of the flu. Maybe time to roll out our new, improved flu vaccine. Everyone queue up!”
Bait and switch, bait and switch, rinse and repeat, over and over — or at least until enough suckers are dead.
Gates is cancelling his holiday vacation I hear! What is Santa bringing??? Or should that be spelt, Satan?
Anyway… someone followed the money…
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/12/23/huge-black-letter-law-massively-financially-incentivizing-hospitals-to-poison-and-kill-covid-patients-found-save-and-share-aggressively/
Patients, trust your doctors.
Doctors, trust your administrators.
Administrators, trust your government.
Government, trust your experts.
Experts, trust your financers.
Or else!
When the fak checkas doth protest too much to the point of lying to cover-up what would’ve been perceived easily as having just mis-spoken, it reaaalllyyy makes you wonder!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/freudian-slip-director-says-covid-boosters-used-kill-children-slip-press-conference-video/
I’m shocked! Shocked!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/12/nearly-100-billion-in-covid-relief-funds-have-been-stolen/