Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code

[Rick Newbie <nuttin@nuttn.nowhere>]

> Just as a local note, Sweden, with its limited shut-downs, has had about 
> 5 times more covid-19 deaths per population than Finland, where I live, 
> which did more extensive shut-downs.

And New York which has one of the most stringent lock down regulations 
of the world has a 4 times higher death count per capita than Sweden 
which has basically no lockdown as you observed. I don't think the 
numbers are obtained in a manner that is even reminiscent of anything 
science related anywhere in the world. They are merely numbers that 
various governments and organizations pull out of the air.


> Eh? He had one-one-one (I assume) meetings with a lover, that's hardly 
> breaking much social isolation. Problem was, the rapacious British 
> press, always hungry for scandal, got to know of it.

But he was single-handedly responsible for the shutdown of the Western 
World and the destruction of our economy. He is the one who's mangled 
code was taken as a basis to put millions of people out of work, destroy 
hundreds of thousands of small businesses and he is also responsible for 
the millions of people who will lose their homes and be kicked out on 
the streets once the protective measures run out. Not to mention a whole 
generation of children that will grow up mentally damaged and deprived 
of all social interaction. There is a reason prisoner advocacy 
organizations call isolation imprisonment a form of torture!

I think Mr.Ferguson's act has to be measured against a slightly higher 
scale than the acts of normal people. It's called lead by example. If 
somebody tells me that millions of people are going to die unless we 
lock ourselves in our homes until a vaccine is found and then goes out 
and meets another man's wive in a lover's nest thus breaking his own 
rules I can not help but wonder how much he believes in his own predictions.

We live in a world that makes no sense anymore and where our leaders are 
acting out of sheer panic. Look up the psychological mechanisms of panic 
and you will easily identify many of the symptoms in today's politics 
all around the world. If the one man who's work started it all leads his 
own doom-and-gloom prediction ad absurdum by blatantly disregarding 
everything he said, that is counterproductive to any attempt to stemming 
back that panic