Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr Willie Soon, h/t Liberty Sentinel; what kind of sick person publicly celebrates the possibility that all their political opponents will die a horrible death? The answer is a journalist who works for mainstream British media, of course.
Coronavirus can trigger a new industrial revolution
The disease could be the shock we need to harness new technology and new ways of working
Ed Conway Thursday March 05 2020, 5.00pm GMT, The Times
Don’t take this the wrong way but if you were a young, hardline environmentalist looking for the ultimate weapon against climate change, you could hardly design anything better than coronavirus.
Unlike most other such diseases, it kills mostly the old who, let’s face it, are more likely to be climate sceptics. It spares the young. Most of all, it stymies the forces that have been generating greenhouse gases for decades. Deadly enough to terrify; containable enough that aggressive quarantine measures can prevent it from spreading. The rational response for any country determined to prevent loss of life is to follow China’s lead and lock down their economy to stem its spread.
And so airlines are cancelling flights; companies are scrapping travel. Factories in China and, …
Read more (paywalled): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-has-a-silver-lining-cz8wpc6xj
Going by the web link, the original title of the article was “Coronavirus has a silver lining”.
The rest of the article is paywalled, and I don’t want to give an organization which would employ someone who could write something like that any financial support whatsoever, but I think we get the idea.
Best thing about our “Concerned Comrades”,they are beyond parody.
Sure let those resistant to mass hysteria die..thats gonna work out real well.
The meme is dying rapidly,the desperation from the faithful members of the Cult of Calamitous Climate, is being demonstrated daily.
Full meltdown mode and they have not realized it yet.
Go team AGW, sorry CAGW, for the Catastrophe is everything to them.
One mark of a con,scam and con artist is the fear of experience people laughing at them.
CAGW has been an attack of the non tool using portion of society,upon the productive.
One can have all kinds of truly stupid beliefs,if they have never had to make something work.
Not so easy when you need to produce .
The only nuance in his article is which degree of degenerate he is. Total, complete, or unredeemable.
Hmmm … “the old” are more likely to be sceptics of the “Climate Change Hype”?
Why would that be?
They remember past, “unadjusted”, unhyped weather? (They saw it with their own eyes before cell phone videos.)
They weren’t victims of the current indocrin … education system?
They remember times in their youth when the MSM and politicians tried, and sometimes succeeded, in pulling the wool over the public’s’ eyes?
And many skeptics are from the private sector or retired, no longer dependent on Government grants.
I always get a kick out of idiots like this “journalist” when they make comments as though the “old” are stupid.
In fact, the old are the wisest. Funny how the young who have never experienced reality seem to know it all. My Dad lived through the Povolzhye Famine, escaped the Bolshevik Revolution, lived through hyperinflation in Pre WWII Germany, lost a farm during the Depression in Canada and homesteaded in the Peace Country. To say he saw his fair share of troubles is an understatement. He said “Many people these days take things for granted and think that this is the way it should always be or this is the way it always has been. How wrong they can be. A man will be thankful if he has had other experiences and sees what can really happen when things are not going so good. He can then be a better judge as to what is good and what is not. “
My step-Grand Pa had some similar experiences. (He told me off the price of beer going from 4,000 Marks to 8,000 Marks overnight between the wars and before he legally immigrated.)
Age is not a guarantee of wisdom. But it is a guarantee of experience.
Often, not always, experience leads to wisdom, knowledge properly applied.
An old Kinks song comes to mind…
Hey, Mr. Reporter,
How ’bout talking about yourself?
Do you like what you’re doing,
Or is it that you can do nothing else?
Whenever I see the talking heads prattling on about how the sky is falling, that song comes to mind.
If you’ve never heard it I highly advise a listen, it’s well worth the four minutes of you time.
Some people may have more receptors associated with the virus genetically in the lungs. It’s a matter of genes, not age.
Some people think this is a psy-op, designed to introduce fear, panic, and potentially profit from the outcome.
I am suspicious. There are too many travelers who have “common purpose” in extremist objectives, whether it is disruption, NWO, climate change, population control. There are many people who are “all in” on these topics. Is it possible (some of them) have actually followed through?
We are seeing events canceled. Why not cancel all events and see if this thing dies out?
The truth about COVID-19 is that it is not as dangerous as it sounds, people are going nuts about treating it like something vicious killing disease, but in reality its not.
I don’t think it will going to impact the climate change in the world. surely it will take sometime to prepare a vaccine to cure it, but from my personal advice is just stay hygienic and take precautions as much as you can.
And yet your side publicly cheers at the thought of people dying when they can’t afford health insurance. It is always the conservatives who cheer the death of those that don’t act and think along their fascist party line.
And then they try to whitewash their lack of humanity by claiming that those who suffer do so because of their own choices and actions. Greedy, selfish, hypocritical, evil people.
This is a pathetic example of blatant projection. No conservatives publicly cheer at other people suffering. This is absurd. On the contrary, one only has to make the most casual perusal of social media to see leftists gleefully wallowing in their hate for anyone not subscribing to their views.
In point of fact, conservatives and libertarians prefer a system that allows the most freedom and forces personal responsibility. It is our belief that this is the most effective way to distribute finite resources (medical care). That there are systematic issues with our health insurance market place, and indeed, the financial impact of health care in general, is generally agreed by most everyone. The conservative position, however, is the health insurance industry is broken due to government intervention (e.g. tax breaks for employer provided health insurance, and limitations on the purchase of insurance across state lines). Likewise, the costs of health care are greatly increased by the prevalence of medical malpractice lawsuits and the obscene administrative overhead required to comply with government driven reimbursement requirements for medicare and medicaid.
In general, the conservative position tends toward a restructuring of the system to remove those things that increase costs and limit freedom of choice. Nowhere in that is there any joy at the less fortunate who might struggle to afford the care they need. In fact, most conservatives I know are in favor of a safety net. We just also recognize that an individual’s health is a priority that should be primarily taken care of by that same individual…including being willing to pay to maintain that health.
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