"The use of the word “credit” makes it sound like the lender believes in us or has faith in us. It’s silly, but I get a kick out of this type of language manipulation. (Reminds me of “credit card companies” — ok, you mean banks? Lol.)"
You have a gift for sizing/ expressing the essence of the matter:
"I think people like us — naturally curious and questioning people who read a lot — are always unconsciously (or consciously!) assessing risk. We know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and that means — it literally means — that people in power are the most potentially dangerous of all."
Thank you for your analysis. It's the best one I've seen.
One writer (Jeff Childers at Covid & Coffee) tried to paint this editorial in a positive light, by saying that it will make it easier for other people in the medical industry to speak out. But these disgusting amnesty pleas all boil down to "Yeah, we made some teeny tiny mistakes, but we couldn't have known, you were right for all the wrong reasons, so it's OK that we made your lives miserable, let's move on."
I have always known that if any one of the legions of people who need to apologize to me about Covid, primarily my father and brother with whom I do not speak, that the first question I would ask is: “what are you apologizing for, exactly?” I am fairly certain most people do not grasp the scope of their errors and just how profoundly awful they became. That I had block and tackle to protect my children from getting injected with a useless and dangerous pharmaceutical at the insistence of a pro-vax ex-wife and a pathetic pediatrician who was just thrilled with the new drug that proved to have no purpose and considerable risk still leaves me dumbfounded. Hysteria driven by irrational fear led millions upon millions - billions really - of people to inject a pharmaceutical product into their bodies and the bodies of their children and then they turned on me and my kids and attempted to coerce me into doing the same damn misguided dumb thing. “So what are you apologizing for, exactly?”
I appreciate this article of yours is some time ago now, but well said. I note with amusement that Kevin Bass is an anagram of 'BS ks naive'. On the basis that BS could be bull shit, that seems suitable.
As regards the expert class, who are they when they are at home? Anagrams of that phrase include the single top longest word 'traceless'. In other words they don't exist.
Brilliant analysis: on trust. I loved:
"The use of the word “credit” makes it sound like the lender believes in us or has faith in us. It’s silly, but I get a kick out of this type of language manipulation. (Reminds me of “credit card companies” — ok, you mean banks? Lol.)"
You have a gift for sizing/ expressing the essence of the matter:
"I think people like us — naturally curious and questioning people who read a lot — are always unconsciously (or consciously!) assessing risk. We know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and that means — it literally means — that people in power are the most potentially dangerous of all."
Thank you so much, Zoltan!! Appreciate you reading & commenting!
All of these articles sound like they came from college educated students that learned how to write flashy without saying much.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/
Hey Rob, **thank you** for sending me this article — it’s fascinating!
Thank you for your analysis. It's the best one I've seen.
One writer (Jeff Childers at Covid & Coffee) tried to paint this editorial in a positive light, by saying that it will make it easier for other people in the medical industry to speak out. But these disgusting amnesty pleas all boil down to "Yeah, we made some teeny tiny mistakes, but we couldn't have known, you were right for all the wrong reasons, so it's OK that we made your lives miserable, let's move on."
Thank you, Mark, for reading and commenting!!
Best takedown of that impossibly bad Newsweek article I have seen. Many thanks.
No, thank *you* Dr. K, for reading & commenting!!
Simply awesome
Thank you so much!! I so glad you liked it!
I have always known that if any one of the legions of people who need to apologize to me about Covid, primarily my father and brother with whom I do not speak, that the first question I would ask is: “what are you apologizing for, exactly?” I am fairly certain most people do not grasp the scope of their errors and just how profoundly awful they became. That I had block and tackle to protect my children from getting injected with a useless and dangerous pharmaceutical at the insistence of a pro-vax ex-wife and a pathetic pediatrician who was just thrilled with the new drug that proved to have no purpose and considerable risk still leaves me dumbfounded. Hysteria driven by irrational fear led millions upon millions - billions really - of people to inject a pharmaceutical product into their bodies and the bodies of their children and then they turned on me and my kids and attempted to coerce me into doing the same damn misguided dumb thing. “So what are you apologizing for, exactly?”
Thank God you protected your kids 🤍🤍🤍
Hello from the UK
I appreciate this article of yours is some time ago now, but well said. I note with amusement that Kevin Bass is an anagram of 'BS ks naive'. On the basis that BS could be bull shit, that seems suitable.
As regards the expert class, who are they when they are at home? Anagrams of that phrase include the single top longest word 'traceless'. In other words they don't exist.
These are some full phrases:
actress ex pl
spectral sex
excels prats
pal secret xs
lex par sects
All very suiable for those who try to BS us.
This is really excellent analysis, and very insightful.
Thank you, David!! That means so much to me … it takes about 11 hours to write a post like this & then 15 people like it lol … thank you kindly 🤍🙏🏻🤍
I know the feeling! But then I write because it is true, not because I want to please anybody.
Anyway, you are now at 17 likes, so that is a 13% increase which is staggering.
Such is the power of statistics to those who won't check the context.