The price of everything

The Great Reset

“If you’ve ever wondered which side you’d be on in 1930s Germany, now you know.”

• Tweet by Creative Deduction, @CreativeDeduct, 25^th October 2020.

We can probably all agree by now that “Have you tried turning it off and then back on again ?” is no way to run a country. That may be the only thing we might come close to agreement on, given that the Great PCR Test Pandemic has managed to drive a wedge through the entire nation (if not an even wider community), dividing people into either lockdown sceptics or shrieking Karens respectively.

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The Demon-Haunted World

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

• Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

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In the mouth of madness

“I became insane, with long periods of horrible sanity.”

• Edgar Allan Poe.

 

It is nearly a year since a new virus emerged in China and rapidly spread around the world. During those months, what have we learnt ?

• China cannot be trusted.

• The World Health Organisation is politically compromised by its association with China and cannot be trusted.

The medical establishment cannot be trusted..


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A brief history of economic policy triumphs

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

• Milton Friedman.

 

Shortly before President Trump was diagnosed with coronavirus last week, two Boeing E-6B Mercury planes took off from each of the US coasts. The planes in question can be used to send ballistic missile commands and form part of the US defence system. The history of US nuclear defence, however, is not exactly flawless. On 24 January 1961, for example, a United States B-52 Stratofortress carrying two nuclear bombs lost altitude over Goldsboro, in rural North Carolina. The plane had sustained a fuel leak in its right wing, so the crew were advised to maintain a holding pattern along the coast to conserve fuel. But the leak soon worsened, and the plane was running out of fuel. The crew were advised to return immediately to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base..

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