Scamdemic
This subsection contains posts I wrote during the Great Covid Scamdemic of the early 2020s. As you will see, I was very angry and sarcastic about what was going on, and wrote about it in a white-hot fury. I’m still angry about what happened (and is still going on), but the fury has died down.
Copy Shop, Unaccountable Censors
Following the lead of social media like Front Porch Forum, we now have the joy of a copy shop acting as agents of the Ministry of Truth. They will refuse to print anything that doesn’t agree with the Standard Misinformation and Lies Narrative, and will tell you to take your business elsewhere. I think that is excellent advice. Don’t give these censors your money; take it to shops that respect free speech.
January 15, 2022
Merry Hatemas from the White House
As if the last two years of lockdowns, masks, anti-social distancing, vaccine mandates, censorship of dissent, and non-stop fear porn weren’t enough proof that our government loves us and wants us to be happy, here’s a cheery little holiday message from the White House: For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.
December 25, 2021
How to Calculate the Positive Predictive Value of a PCR test
The issue of false positive rates of the PCR test has generated a great amount of controversy over the last two years, because the PCR test has been the centerpiece of fear campaign. But a more relevant metric for a PCR test is its positive predictive value, or PPV. This is the probability that a person testing positive actually has the disease. In other words, if the PPV were 50%, then the test would be no better than flipping a coin to determine if you actually had the disease after testing positive.
December 21, 2021
Front Porch Forum, Unaccountable Censors
Front Porch Forum is a social network that is popular in Vermont. It is essentially a set of mailing lists, one for each town group in the state. It’s useful for posting event notices, or selling things, or asking for help. FPF is also censors anything that contradicts the Covid fear narrative. If you regurgitate propaganda and fear porn from the Vermont Department of Health or the CDC, you’re fine. If you try to post a message containing factual information that points out the lies and deceit from the DOH and the CDC, you will be censored, because you violated the FPF Covid-19 Content Policy. There is no recourse, because the policy is entirely arbitrary. FPF merely has to claim that you are providing “false or misleading” information in order to justify shutting you down.
December 18, 2021