Oh Fuddy Duddy (Translation… I have other things I need to do). You claimed that the disease wasn’t fake but you go on endlessly that everything related to it is fake and far more dangerous. Ask the dead folks about that. In just this missive you: (1) discredit all “ sources of information”. (2) discredit the entire medical establishment, (3) challenge the “truthfulness in a public sector”, (4) discredit the “profession claiming that its output is ‘news’”. (5) Your comment about abortion is directly contradicted by scripture (Job, Exeikiel) so I guess that’s out as an authority as well otherwise I might use Thomas Aquinus' discussion of authority. In previous responses, you trashed far more than that and this whole chain started with you trashing the credibility of the media. Is it possible that all your trashing of establishment sources of information including their discussion of the Covid 19 pandemic amounted to ‘this virus incident is fake’? If not, it’s about the only thing they have said that you didn’t trash. Honestly, that is what I got from reading what you wrote — “it’s all hysteria”. Looking at that list though I can only think of nihilism or am I missing an authority you do actually find acceptable? I’ve never believed that nihilism led to anything good…. but that’s just what I believe.

Yes, my response was simplistic. Sometimes that’s what is needed — simple logic and reason without the ... hype. I didn’t say that is what you said. I said that is what I got from all your messaging. Your first post was a testament to skepticism about the virus because it was just reported by the media. I think you said you were willing to believe that all the doctors and nurses posting about it on the internet were lying as well. That was a little less clear.

I repeat, why not look at what the … experts… were saying for 50 or so years about pandemics. It actually started with the cholera epidemic in London when somebody or another invented “statistics” to examine what was going on with the disease in that city. A lot about disease was learned during the building of the Panama Canal. It really started getting wondered about when anti-biotic resistance was noticed shortly after penicillin was discovered. In high school biology, I was told about “tropical diseases we have never encountered and know nothing about”. They are just a feature of evolution. I have studied the topic since then and wrote books (2012, 2016) about the longer term meaning of diseases like that in terms of genetics. (Heck, you can watch the video — Genetics For A New Human Ecology.) Then, I think starting with Pres Bush, governmental agencies like the CDC started looking at the problem and how to both prepare and deal with it (it was probably actually earlier). Under his successor were developed detailed plans for how to respond to pandemics and the Chinese learned a lot from the SARS event. Every bit of this was before the Covid 19 event. There was no hype, just sober-minded medical professionals doing their jobs studying diseases or preparing for the inevitable diseases that would either emerge or evolve.

So sure, there is a lot of disinformation but I think it is fair to say that all or most of that has come since the start of the outbreak. Why not go back to the information developed over the years before the outbreak and its resulting hype? No one was impressed by people studying emergent diseases. I know, I’ve studied them all my life and no one has cared any. No one cared enough to hype it much except maybe a bit from Hollywood and that was short-lived. Was all that work before 2020 just a sham then? Whether it was your intention or not, just in this essay you have trashed all sources of public information. Are statistics, the foundation of studying epidemics a sham as well? You gave your reasons for trashing the authority of the medical establishment. More specifically, are you then comfortable tossing their decades of research about pandemics into the trash? Is there anything you accept as a standard of truth? If not, congratulations, you seem to be an Existentialist Nihilist that accepts no authority. I always thought that that would be hard to build on but then tearing things down is easier. … Ugggg. Speaking of building. I’ve got to get back to building something I need but it is going to take a lot of work developing an understanding about it from some experts. Luckily I’ve gotten fairly good at identifying the ones I can learn from to solve the problems I need to solve.