Author: Mark Tokarski

Just a man who likes to read, argue, and occasionally be surprised.

Happy Monday!

We had a family gathering last evening, highly illegal. We played Scattegories, or as I. call it, “Mind Freeze.” I swear that if the letter than came up was “M,” and the category was “Boys Names,” I would sit there drawing a blank. We also ate pizza, played ping pong, and discussed how stay-at-home is affecting us all, even as my wife and I happily avoid every aspect of it.

At the grocery store, about the only social gathering place left to us, I still see less than half wearing those stupid face masks. Fear is all about but fewer people than I expected are buying in. This is encouraging. 

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Viruses are real

Note to readers: I am officially backing away from this post until I have more and better information. There are people of sound mind and good reasoning skills on both sides of the “virus” issue. I have to get up to speed, and it may take weeks or months.

The comments on this blog have been both numerous and insightful, but some of them lean towards political. We here been accused of not “believing” in viruses. However, any path of discovery has to weigh all options.

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Hospitals, clinics, testing centers infested with a wave of crickets

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The screen grab above is from a video left in the comments yesterday, thirteen minutes showing that hospitals, clinics, testing sites are all empty. I grabbed the above shot because it demonstrates how corrupt our news media is. The lower image is Sky News on March 22nd reporting on Italy and showing an emergency room there. The upper image is CBS reporting on New York City and an emergency room there. The exact same footage used in both.

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Any virus will do

Note to readers: I am officially backing away from this post until I have more and better information. There are people of sound mind and good reasoning skills on both sides of the “virus” issue. I have to get up to speed, and it may take weeks or months.

Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute is someone I enjoy listening to – he does very thoughtful interviews. Previously I linked to him, perhaps just in the comments, regarding mathematical proof that Darwinian evolution is impossible. (Species adapt, but do not become other species – this is all that Darwin discovered).

This interview is with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, a medical professor. I learned quite a bit, and have my doubts about some of it. It is 35 minutes, and as always, readers are wandering off. I get that. But a few will stay and watch.

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Jesus faked his death (and is twins)

On the crossThe events of year 33 AD (note the number) were scripted. Let’s go back to the beginning.

Jesus Christ arrived in Jerusalem to great fanfare, riding in on an ass and enjoying the adulation of fans. We don’t know when that procession took place, however. It could easily have happened any time in the preceding weeks, perhaps months. All that was necessary was for various players to be in place to carry out their parts of the play. Later confusion would allow writers to place the events in a compressed time frame. That is how these events are often stage-managed. Continue reading “Jesus faked his death (and is twins)” →

Coup d’état.

From the Chris Spivey blog:

“As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak.

Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID” Source: Status of Covid-19, High Consequence Infectious Diseases, Gov.UK)

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Oxford study suggest virus has already run its course

This article features a study done by a group headed by Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist. It concludes that the Coronavirus had already reached Great Britain in December of 2019, and that by mid-January half the population had been infected. Because it is a mild bug, there were no rushes to hospitals or pressure on the health care system. Gupta and her group our now going to do research in the general population to find out what percentage had it and got over it, and are now immune. If, as she suggests, immunity has reached 50%, then the pandemic is over.

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How does he live with himself?

Regular readers here know that I maintain lists of what I call “Bokanovsky Brats,” movie stars and at least one athlete who bear remarkable resemblance to one another. One group is called the “Matt Damon batch,” after the lightly-talented actor who’s had far more success than his face, acting and “writing” skills warrant. (He and Ben Affleck were credited with writing the script for the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting. I do not believe it.)

One member of his Batch is quarterback Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.

 

I cannot speak to Brady’s skill as a quarterback other than noting that the Patriots, while sitting atop the league since 2001 and suffering low draft picks, still managed every year to assemble a Pro Bowl-caliber line to protect this slow-footed GOAT. Some sort of magic, fraud or fakery must be at work there.

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I’m in!

We have not been harmed by Coronahoax. As retired people we stay at home mostly anyway, though I’ve been deliberately going out on unnecessary trips just as a matter of principle (yesterday: Green Giant frozen corn). We’ve lost money on investments, but I knew people who were devastated in 2008, and so will not complain. We all take it in the shorts at times, and we are very fortunate to have investments that we do not have to rely on for monthly income. So yes, we count our blessings daily.

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