(Read this first, if you can stomach him. It's Karl Denninger's response this morning from his blog, The Market Ticker, to yesterday's announcement from the President. (That should satisfy his attribution requirements, which are more than reasonable.))
Karl:
I demand that you shoot me, right now.
Joe Biden finally showed some stones last night. For the benefit of my few readers, he finally made it mandatory for any employee of any private company (exempting the Postal Service, which is the one thing I will agree with Karl on that I do NOT understand...) of more than 100 employees: No jab, no job.
This is among several other edicts the President announced yesterday.
Karl immediately announced that the President had declared war on at least 80 million adult Americans who will not and will never get the vaccine.
Son, bring it. If you're right, I'm gone any way it goes. And I knew this a year and a half, now, ago.
Some of us were reading conservative claptraps like Zerohedge when this virus was still in China in January of 2020.
I came to three IMMEDIATE conclusions, Mr. Denninger:
1) This was man-made, and it was eventually intended to be weaponized. The only question left is whether, as you put it, they were careless enough that they "own-goaled" first.
2) That if there was any other explanation as to the events of the day back then, it would be a deliberate attempt by the CCP to eliminate everyone with low "social credit" scores.
3) That the Chinese, to prevent a further unrest, have vastly undercounted, especially, the casualties and deaths.
20 months later, NOTHING HAS CHANGED:
1) Every report on the virus appears to indicate that, instead of the virus mutating to "wash out", the mutations are getting worse.
2) If you are right that the vaccine is the cause of the rise of deaths, then we are finished as a nation and we are finished right damned now. Because this virus is a Libertarian's dream scenario: It eliminates those the Libertarians might otherwise want to have done away with themselves (and you would like to see killed and eaten!), but you don't have the intellectual honesty nor the bravery to do more than shout "MOLON LABE!" and go out and shoot us as too irresponsible to live in your America instead!
And that's if you believe the virus exists at all!! If you're in the Q-Anon camp that the virus does not exist, then we are at the beginnings of an organized Purge culling. (And it would then appear that the people "on the list", as it were, are probably those speaking out against the vaccines, etc. and so forth!)
3) This is the combination of your BLS number studies, especially your alarm bells in the last couple of months, combined with a Jeffrey Shaman, PhD study, published last week: Given that the number of cases, according to Shaman, is probably underestimated by a factor of THREE, there can be little other conclusion, especially with the numbers you have discovered and published, Mr. Denninger, that the number killed by the virus is similar, and that a better estimate of the number of deaths of this virus is probably now about TWO MILLION.
I will say this: I don't see too many other scenarios (especially with the numbers you have found yourself on the roll-rate of the 16+ non-institutionalized population) this could go, other than a massive underreport of coronavirus deaths (similar to what I felt I saw in China before it came here!) or your side is correct.
So, now, to your article from this morning:
Here's a little problem with your stand that you believe that Biden's statement of that he's going to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated is an admission the vaccines do not work:
We will never reach a point that the vaccines will work as long as a good part of rural America and about 30-40% of the American adult population deliberately, negligently, and with lethal malice will never get vaccinated. Their goal is the absolute and total collapse of this country as a free nation -- and they are dangerously close to success.
The statement yesterday is a basic admission that we will probably need extra-Constitutional powers to actually force the issue. I have little doubt that the Constitution never covered something like this.
But the far more dangerous situation is that, in your hope the Supreme Court throws this out, is that the Conservative Supreme Court of the United States will declare the Right To Infect: That a person, should they so choose, has the Constitutional right to infect everyone else around them with a lethal (to about 1.5 - 2 % of cases, even with the official numbers of 41,569,813 cases and 674,639 deaths as of 8:20 AM PDT this morning on Worldometers -- and you can do the math yourself: That's not a 99.97% survival. That's, at best, about 98.5 -- the death to case ratio, given the OFFICIAL NUMBERS -- not taking into account Shaman's study, is 1.623%, or about one person in 60.) virus.
To give you an idea of those numbers: If I, as an 18 year old high school student, had the Right To Infect on that level, I would, by any measure of the current case-to-death rate, would probably have killed 2 to 3 people in my small-town Wisconsin high school.
You talk as if there's no way out of that situation, declaring material war on 1/4 of the US population (mostly rural, but some states like DeathSentence's in Florida), except nation-ending upheaval.
If you succeed, that's exactly where we are going. You speak "Good Luck!" to killing 80 million Americans, not realizing you will NEED (not just want, laugh at, or kinda sorta imply -- NEED) TWICE THAT NUMBER to go, mostly in the cities, and mostly "irresponsibles" like me who are too fat, too unemployable, etc. to live in your America.
We are dangerously close to an ungovernable situation. We are in, at best, a lukewarm Civil War in this country, and have been at least the last 16-17 months -- mostly concurrent with, but not completely caused by, the virus and the situations surrounding it. We have a recall (increasingly unlikely to succeed, thank God) based on the Right To Infect.
I had a verbal altercation Tuesday night outside my local community college with a bunch of these rabid pigs, who clearly WANT TO DIE. They told me personally they were already in Hell and confident that THEIR GOD (not THE God, Their god who DOES NOT LOVE ME -- and I told them that too!) would deliver them to Heaven -- a statement which no reasonable person can draw any other conclusion than "I want to die to this virus and be saved. I want out of here -- NOW!"
THAT is what we are up against, Mr. Denninger.
And I, increasingly, believe that the coronavirus is what the American Taliban, Q-Anon, and the other vestiges of the American Right want to use as the weapons to kill the rest of us.
Except for one problem: It's not that selective. As Keith Olbermann has said, it's the most powerful entity in the world, has been almost TWO YEARS NOW, and doesn't give a flying fig about your political beliefs or anything else!
The fact of the matter is: He has to basically shove "all in" and get this under control or he KNOWS he has no power to govern at all (whether the office of the President ever did, as a civics-class level concern, is another discussion!) and we go Law of the Jungle real good and quick -- as it appears is already happening in several major cities!
I got the vaccine, and gleefully, because I knew it's the only way out of this -- and, on top of it, if your side of the equation is even REMOTELY correct, then I am deceased.
So let me make two statements in closing to you, Mr. Denninger:
1) If I do not get shot and killed by either a law enforcement officer (given, now, three stints in Facebook Jail and an increasing urge to bash skulls -- and that's over and above the presumption of what I'm going to do to a certain singer (such presumption always existing!)) or a Libertarian/Conservative/Q-Anon Cosplayer/Trumpie, I didn't get my message across properly. Edit to add: I figure the timeframe is the next six to twelve months.
2) And speaking to you personally, I reiterate: I demand that you, Karl Denninger, shoot me RIGHT NOW.
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