Fauci Fell, and No One Noticed

I should have switched to the shotgun three years ago. I went out for an hour today and plugged two squirrels. Both kicked a little, but neither one was breathing when I got to it, so it looks like they died quick.

I blasted one, walked around the property, missed a good opportunity at a second, and blasted another. Both of the dead ones were near my house, which is great, because those are the ones that need to be killed. By the time I made my circuit of the property, the first one was gone. Hope it went to a hawk and not a coon, possum, or coyote.

I think from now on I’ll throw the dead ones on the workshop roof. That way, I’ll be sure they go to the birds.

It’s really nice not having to find a squirrel in a reticle or worry about how high he is off the ground. With a shotgun, you can get a shot off in a couple of seconds, and you get way more opportunities. It’s also hard to miss. I nailed one of today’s squirrels from about 30 yards, and I would say the other one might have been 40 yards off. It was so far off, I wasn’t sure it was a squirrel. I figured it was best to shoot it to be on the safe side. Worst-case scenario: I kill a stick.

I looked at the news when I got home. I checked to see if anyone was excited to find out that Fauci lied about gain of function research. It’s a surprisingly low-key story. Even Rand Paul, whom Grouchy Fauci slandered while lying to Congress, was not very vocal about it.

I’m not sure why gain of function research exists. My understanding is that they take nice, harmless viruses that could never bother human beings and “fix” them so they can make us sick. I assume there must be some purpose to it, but it sounds really stupid on the surface, especially after two years of a pandemic.

I wonder if Wikipedia can tell me.

Okay, it says gain of function research CAN be “research which could enable a pandemic-potential pathogen to replicate more quickly or cause more harm in humans or other closely-related mammals.”

You know, science can be amazing, in very bad ways unrelated to science itself. Science can be so obscure or so hard for the public and the government to understand that eggheads can be allowed to make incredibly dangerous decisions without legislators or executives finding out about it. I am guessing, but I’ll bet no one ever went to Donald Trump and said, “We’re making a SARS virus much more dangerous to humans, but we have a good reason, and we’re letting the Chinese handle security, so is that okay?”

We all know military people can’t be trusted with policy. The president can’t say, “Go fight a war the way you think best, and tell us when you’re done.” Wars are fought to achieve objectives that may be thwarted when the military does as it pleases. Similarly, it may be that we need to make certain scientists and engineers get permission from Congress or the White House before doing stupid things. Aren’t we doing that already? Apparently not, since it took two years just to get proof we were doing what Fauci said we were not doing. If there was any kind of transparent mechanism for sanctioning insane research, Trump could have called some underling and gotten the facts in 10 minutes.

The Wikipedia article is short, and it’s Wikipedia, and I am not a virologist, but the sense I get is that super-viruses can be useful in developing vaccines. That sounds great, but how are they helpful if you release them on the entire world, before creating the vaccines, through stupidity?

You take a virus which may or may not be a problem if it gets loose, and just to be safe, so you can make a vaccine, you turn it into a virus which will definitely cause a pandemic, and THEN, before you’re anywhere close to creating a vaccine or treatment, you let some butterfingers drop a vial in the lunchroom. And you put the CCP in charge of letting us know China dropped the ball.

Who made this possible? Somewhere, there are some men and women who signed the papers. Who are they? Why haven’t we dyed them green or something so everyone knows not to hire them again?

Isn’t China our enemy? Did I dream that? Isn’t there a country called Taiwan, which we are sworn to defend, which China is currently threatening to take by force? Didn’t China just launch a shocking hyper-sonic missile that made everyone in the Pentagon and at Raytheon soil their pants? Isn’t it bad form to pay your enemies to learn how to develop weaponizable viruses?

Or is this just me, being a deplorable, ivermectin-buzzed hick who doesn’t understand nuance?

It reminds me of the War Room scene where Dr. Strangelove commented unfavorably on the secret Soviet Doomsday Machine, which was intended to deter nuclear strikes by assuring that if one bomb went off, the planet would be cleared of all life. He said, “Yes, but the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost…if you keep it a secret!” Similarly, the whole point of creating a killer virus to save lives is lost if you put the Chinese in charge of containing it AND reporting any embarrassing accidental exposures.

I don’t know if the Chinese created the virus and let it escape, but it looks more likely every day. I mean, sure, the epidemic could have started right beside the research lab by chance. That could have happened. After centuries of Chinese wet markets with no pandemics, in which people bought and sold exactly the same revolting things they bought and sold in 2019. It’s totally possible.

Fauci is a real peach. If he doesn’t turn out to be the biggest public health villain since Josef Mengele, it will be a great testimony to the power of the lying liberal press. It’s bad enough that he lied, but he lied angrily, as though Rand Paul, who was telling the truth, was accusing him falsely of groping toddlers. Paul stood up for us, against the smug, lying press and against many of his peers. He blew the whistle for us, repeatedly. He didn’t quit when the world tried to slap him down. And Fauci shot the messenger in order to save face. Very CCP of him.

Lying to Congress is a crime, at least under certain circumstances. Is it only true when you’re sworn? I’m not familiar with the law. There must be some reason why Fauci hasn’t been indicted. I guess it would be necessary for Democrats to go along, so never mind.

So what else is he lying about? I guess we’ll never know, because he’s the one we question, and he lies. Isn’t there somebody else over there we could talk to?

The Washington Post says Fauci lied, so there is no point in commenting here, claiming he didn’t. When the Post gives up a leftist the right hates, you know it’s a lost cause.

Now they’re saying the definition of “fully vaccinated” is going to change. That’s fascinating from an apocalyptic perspective. They’re saying you may have to have three or more shots. It’s open-ended.

They told an older generation not to worry about Social Security numbers because they would never be used for anything but delivering government benefits. Remember how that worked out?

Nobody has my Social Security number. Nobody except every university I’ve attended, every bank and securities firm where I’ve had an account, every company that has given me insurance or a quote, every company that provided me with a credit card…I’m pretty sure my cell carrier has it. I should have it tattooed on my forehead.

The vaccines do not work well. I’m not saying they “don’t work.” I’m saying they “don’t work well.” We can no longer deny this. Public health officials are saying they may not be very helpful at all to a big, big percentage of the only large groups of individuals who are generally at risk of real problems. In other words, the only groups that were ever really endangered, as a whole, are the fat, the sick, and the old, and now they’re saying they’re also the only groups for which the vaccines work very poorly.

If you have any brains at all, you can see what that means.

A vaccine that has a 95% no-catch rate (to make up a flattering, unrealistic figure) for people who are extremely unlikely to become seriously ill anyway is not necessarily a good vaccine. The purpose of the vaccines is not to prevent the sniffles. No one cares about that. They were developed to prevent serious illness and death. When they came out, we were told THE SCIENCE had hit a home run. A very small percentage of the vaxxed could get something like a cold, but virtually no one would get very sick or die; that was the official line. Dying would be like winning Powerball. Now they’re saying the shots have a pretty high breakthrough rate AND the people who were already vulnerable have a VERY high breakthrough rate combined with high rates of serious disease and death.

So, if I understand things correctly, the vaccines have done a FAIR job of preventing the sniffles and a POOR job of preventing death and serious disease.

Or maybe they did better at the start, and now the disease is changing and defeating the shots. After all, we did see big drops in the stats after the shots came out. Something had to cause that, and we know it wasn’t masks or social distancing. We have a big collection of old graphs showing spikes coinciding with lockdowns, masks, and distancing.

They tell us different things every week. They’ve been wrong over and over. They don’t know what’s going on. Very often, they actually say so. My uninformed guesses may well be just as good as the best conclusions trained scientists can offer. I could be like the famous chimp who beat professional stock-pickers.

Now the Morlocks have decided I’m eligible for a booster. I was thinking I’d get it, because for all I know, it could be of some help, but now I don’t know. I used to think coronavirus was probably a one-time thing, but now I think I’ve had it twice, and I was vaccinated between episodes. I don’t know that another shot will help, I have every reason to believe future episodes will be mild, I have had dramatic improvements after using ivermectin from Tractor Supply, and I don’t feel good about going in for another round of a bizarre vaccination which has attracted warnings from intelligent, informed medical professionals.

To get back to the apocalypse, the redefinition of “fully vaccinated” opens the door to a future of increasing and unending oppression. As long as they can tell us we have to jump through new hoops to end the crisis, we will have to keep jumping, and they will have the authority to create nastier hoops. We will have to get used to life on the salmon ladder.

The first shot wasn’t the mark of the beast. The first booster isn’t the mark of the beast. Isolated mandates aren’t the mark. It has to be something big and global, and it can’t be temporary. What if the mark is something that shows you’re complying with a long-term program of repeated injections, not to mention fascist masking, isolation, AND censorship laws? Wow. That’s the Antichrist’s dream scenario.

Again, “fascist” is the correct term. It’s a value-neutral term. There are people who are proud of being fascists, and they wear hats and shirts that say “fascist” on them. Forcing people to take shots, making them stay in their houses, and deleting their publicly stated remarks about a disease are fascist measures.

I’ll bet it happens. I’ll bet the virus never cooperates. I’ll bet we get variants that really are more contagious than the flu, instead of much less contagious, like the ones we have now. Maybe we’ll get some variants that threaten healthy people. If that happens, kiss the outdoors goodbye, because Uncle Sam will nail your front door shut.

Maybe variants will get so bad, you’ll stand a substantial chance of dying if you’re not vaccinated regularly. Then you would have to obey the government pretty fastidiously, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the government denied unvaccinated people access to food and goods, claiming they were seditious and toxic and unlikely to live anyway.

Leftists love the word “seditious” now. It’s so strange. Maybe young people don’t know it, but they used to hate that word the way they hated Joe McCarthy. Liberal teachers sneered when they said it. How things change.

We could be looking at year after year of new shots and fascist curtailments of our liberty, with the mark of the beast provided as a reward for obedience. You obey, you eat. Just a guess, but it fits the way the disease and our governments have behaved so far.

I have about a dozen unopened tubes of ivermectin, just sitting around. Maybe I’ll buy a few dozen more. Who knows how many times I’ll get sick? Ivermectin may actually be helpful, and it could gain popularity and become hard to find. It may also be useful if I catch something else, and someone else might need it. Can’t hurt to stock up.

If I get really sick, I’ll try to get monoclonal antibodies. I have been told Biden won’t let anyone who has been hospitalized have them. Not sure what that’s all about. They say that if you get sick, you should absolutely refuse to be hospitalized until you’ve received antibodies. Is it a rumor? Is it true? Hope I don’t have to find out.

Every day the mark of the beast seems closer than I thought it would seem the night before. The world’s insanity isn’t just accelerating; it’s jerking.

Acceleration is a physics term. Jerk is sort of a physics term, but it’s used by engineers, not physicists. I never saw it until after I had become a physicist and then quit.

Acceleration is velocity’s rate of change. If a car is doing 10 mph now and 20 mph in 10 seconds, it’s accelerating at 10 mph per second. Jerk is acceleration’s rate of change. If a car is doing 10 now, 20 in 10 seconds, and 300 in 20 seconds, it’s jerking. I guess. Not sure what the present participle is, in engineering. I’m not an engineer. Anyway, the acceleration isn’t constant. It increases with time. Jerk can be constant. I’m sure it’s not, in my example. I would have to do a calculation to come up with a constant jerk. Wait…no, I wouldn’t. Jerk can increase, and its increase can increase, and so on. I’m digressing. Help me stop.

Think of a magnet, moving toward another magnet. It will accelerate slowly, then faster, and then it will bang into the other magnet so fast you can’t see it happen. That’s jerk. Gravity does the same thing, but we can’t see it because we’re all at the same distance from the center of the earth. Where we are, gravity seems constant. If you were to fly toward a black hole, the change would be obvious. Don’t do that, though.

Anyway, the world’s insanity isn’t just increasing, and the rate of increase isn’t just increasing; the rate of the increase of the increase is increasing. I expect things to be a certain way in a few days, based on the way things have been getting worse over the last month, but they will probably be worse than I expect.

Apocalyptic jerk is why I think the rapture is coming very soon. People will try to predict the end based on a relatively smooth timeline, but things aren’t changing smoothly. It shouldn’t surprise Christians. Jesus said he would come at a time when we thought not.