Covid – PHASE LINES

Guilt by Dissociation

Recently, nothing has amused or entertained me as much as watching the total and almost overnight disappearance of SARS-CoV-2 from the media/government narrative and the public as a whole. It seems impossible to overstate this phenomenon. One moment the media classes were busy wondering out loud how best to punish the unvaccinated as government ministers gave them cover* to hide their authoritarianism behind; the next, all is forgotten in the rush for the new, glorious war breaking out in Eastern Europe. The existential struggle against the world’s deadliest virus, the only known cure for which is the total subjugation of all individual soverign rights was, apparently, over.

The Mistake We Can’t Even Look At

For a theory to go into a textbook as knowledge, it does not need the unanimity of checkers’ assent, but it does need far more than a bare majority’s. It should be generally recognized as having stood up better than any competitor to most of the tests that various critical debunkers have tried
‘Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought’ – Jonathan Rauch

I recently re-read Jonathan Rauch’s ‘Kindly Inquisitors’ as an exercise in poignancy over the damage wrought upon liberal science during 2020-2021. I have been shocked by the scale and blatancy with which the weaknesses in intellectual liberalism have been exploited during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

What’s the Time, Mr Wolf?

The speed with which many of the narratives of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ organisation have been accepted among the mainstream is quite staggering. Almost every major news channel, paper, broadcaster, politician, public figure and corporate brand have not only accepted their claims without any rigorous checking of the facts but also willingly propagated them.