Accuweather.com stops Reporting on Covid-19. "Sorry, Dave. This Machine is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."

 

The number of deaths from Covid-19 have never been higher, nor has the number of daily new infections. It is at this point that Accuweather decided nobody was interested any longer in their reportage on the pandemic, and so has stopped reporting on it. "Covid doesn't do it for me," the vast majority of their readers have apparently decided.

Oh, the irony! Why? Well, as the title suggests, it is my observation that here on Spaceship Earth, we have given priority to machines over people; so 2001's Space Oddity was that no one realized the space ship was earth and the people of earth were Dave. Their needs, in 2001, was indeed handed over to the machines, as vast precious acreage of a once-pristine prairie, across more than ten of the United States' States, was churned over by the plow for the production of food crops in order to fuel the ever-growing thirst of the Machine. Which continues to this day to draining irreplaceable resources to create "renewable" fuels via enormous federal outlays, at the heart of which were plans to triple the number of coal-fired power plants in the USA by the time the GW administration left office. But that's not the part that's ironic. What's ironic is that the only reason I ever read Accuweather at all is that IBM (the company from which the acronym HAL is derived) bought the web-site, wunderground.com, which was my go-to site for climate change articles; but since its purchase by IBM, it has become a graveyard for old news. Imagine, a weather site that has "news stories" pertaining to weather, today, on Groundhog's day, dated January 5'th! Gone are the insightful (too inciteful for a Corponational, perhaps?) articles by Chris Dolce and Bob Henson; instead we are treated with weather news a month old and the ominous, "If we continue on our current path, these trends are expected to accelerate," as its final word on Climate Derangement.

Let's apply that to COVID-19, shall we?

 "If we continue on our current path, these trends are expected to accelerate:" 

There were 22 million new infections last week, and here in the US, where the average number of daily deaths from COVID-19 has climbed to over 2,600, according to the New York Times tracker, it is now higher than the peak surge in the fall, when the deadlier delta variant was dominant, are close to the peak of last winter, when there were no vaccines available. But who needs to know that, right?

We're just so over this pandemic that Deaths up 36% from two weeks ago is just so boring; and the fact they show no sign of plateauing is a mere data point of no interest to the "Let me back on the Cruise Ship called the Globaloney economy" crowd, who have become the "New Normal." 

"If current death rates persists, the U.S. may see 900,000 fatalities from COVID by mid-February."

(YAWN).

"Cases, now that the highly infectious omicron variant is dominant, are coming down from their January peak and averaging 424,077 a day, down 44% from two weeks ago."

That "down" figure, sitting as it does, at more than twice the number of daily new cases as were reported during last July's peak, may in fact be down 44% from two weeks ago, but the death toll is still rising. 

But that's not news any more. It's just background noise. 

 Dr. Monica Ghandi….Yes, that Dr. Gandhi. The ID TV expert promising all for weeks that California was bulletproof for hospitalizations and deaths from COVID. The vaccine rate was just too high and there was no way it was going to happen. Monica Gandhi has been one of the most reliable predictors of what was going to happen all throughout this pandemic: an almost 100% success rate if you simply  assume the opposite of whatever it is she's saying.

Fun fact – I was witness to another expert being asked a question today – “Are these deaths from omicron or delta?” “Is anyone testing these strains?”

His answer – “Why would you need to do that? It is obvious from the data that Omicron is not lethal.”

These are world experts.

“Alabama infectious disease director: ‘The rate of cases is like a rocket ship.'” 

While the Delta strain was still the predominant strain, the CDC was telling Americans that the milder Omicron strain was responsible for upward of 93% of new infections. Then, once their travel plans had been made, and Christmas Eve was at hand, on Dec 23, 2021, they informed us that that was a miscalculation: only ~ 22% of those infections were omicron. So the people on those jets you were sitting next to, if infected, were carrying the more deadly delta strain, but, test them?  "Why would you need to do that? It is obvious from the data that Omicron is not lethal.” First of all, no it isn't. But secondly, it is anything but obvious that what they were contracting (and spreading) was in fact the omicron, and not the Delta, variant.

So, taking the two "if's" postulated by the Corponationals, we have our climate change solution:  

 "If we continue on our current path, these trends are expected to accelerate." 

"If current death rates persists, the U.S. may see 900,000 fatalities from COVID by mid-February."

If energy usage is to be cut, the human population of the wealthiest nations must plummet, as they are  by far the largest emitters of CO2, no mater what geo-economic games you play to transfer their CO2 footprint to China and other enslaved populations around the globe. Weekend after weekend during 2019, the Free peoples around the globe, taking their cue from the Gilets Jaunes of France, were up in arms about the escalating cost of energy; and those costs were minimal, far less than the cost the current rise in oil prices is imposing on them, but that's without the taxes that the French were so hysterical about not having imposed (in other words, they have no problem paying more so long as their money goes straight to the Corponationals' bottom lines and from there into the bank accounts of their shareholders, yet not a nickel will now go toward the road repair and other infrastructure maintenance that the comparatively slight raise in taxes would have provided).

In other words, both  of the above "ifs" should be "since, or then."

Since we will continue on our current path, the current US death rate will persist, and we consider the million dead by this summer in the same way we consider a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea:

A Good Start.

Not-so-Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Denmark, have all dropped any Covid restrictions, considering the mowing down of the most vulnerable of their populations to be a boon to their own well-being and economies.  Other than Japan, (which is the most homogeneous population in the OECD "community", one similar to North Korea), every one of the End of History liberal democracies is letting the virus that causes Covid run amok among their populations (even, as previously stated, going to the extreme of assuring them, so as to not jeopardize their Christmas profits, that a far milder version of it was the dominant variant  when, clearly, they knew it was not), because, like Accuweather, they are, like, so over this pandemic. But, of course, it isn't through with us ...not by a long shot. But, of course, that's the point. There are too many of "us"; but we, as in those in the OECD countries, think of that "us" as "them," ie the global South. But as much as we like to deny it there is also a "they", and the they, largely comprised of mega-billionaires and Corponational CEO's, can plainly see that their future lies not with the energy-hungry OECD nations, but with the billions of willing slaves in the "developing" (as in never to attain the per capita energy consumption of the "West") countries who have not the  slightest interest in global warming, nor pollution control, nor anything else so cerebral. Living a hand-to-mouth existence, they will, as both India and China have so dramatically shown, tolerate any level of poisoned air, water and land, so long as it brings even the promise of Western style living ... or dying. 

These billions, the product of the Green Revolution that ushered in a fossil-fueled, unsustainable burst in agricultural production that doubled the human population in less than a generation, is now to be eclipsed by yet another Green Evolution, toward zero-emission energy production, hailed by people who "listen to the science", even though basic physics would inform them that there is no such thing as either net-zero or zero-emission energy. And that that is never more obvious than when you have a population that is the most coddled in human history still clamoring to be even more cosseted in their effortless existence by even more energy slaves. There is, in other words, no one on the face of the earth who doesn't want more for less, and doesn't crave something for nothing; and the West is determined to re-educate anyone who thinks there should be any "Limits to Growth", as ... "Freedom" ...  in the way the west interprets it: "Live Free or Die" (as in, for me to Live Free, you must Die"), or I will run you down, crush you like a bug under the tires of my 4-ton SUV-EV because the energy I use is Clean and Free. It's from the sun .... it's just the wind ... it comes from hydro. The fact that the scale of creative destruction embodied by each of those Green energy technologies is never reflected by a subsequent reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere, and are all responsible for the increase in methane in the GHG atmospheric mix, need never be addressed, never mind actually measured. 

It is no coincidence that the Biden administration, that is pushing the fantasy of Green Machines onto a "Please lie to me" constituency, is the same administration that last May informed the public that vaccinated individuals could congregate indoors sans masks, flying in the face of its own CDC, in order to let the vaccinated feel rewarded for getting vaccinated, yet knowing that vaccination had little to do with asymptomatic spread of the then-exploding, and deadlier, delta variant of the virus.

So, whether you ever thought of it as a "Plandemic", it should be obvious by now, that, after more than two years, there is in fact a plan, but it is one which we have been left bereft of details. 

Just as COPout26 had nothing to do with the actual plans to rid the atmosphere of CO2, it is equally apparent, if the rhetoric is to be believed, ie if you listen to the science, that there are highly-placed people who have different ideas than the ones to which we've been made privy. And the fact that the two largest economies in the world stand in such stark contrast to each other in their handling of a deadly pandemic should be a grim demonstration of what the individualistic West actually thinks about the sanctity of the individual they pretend to be so concerned about. For when the individual's survival comes at even the slightest endangerment to the Machine's Profits (not to the Machine itself, mind you, but simply to the level of profits it produces), the individual's life must be forfeited to grease the wheels. Like the famous fish eating the smaller fish, the SUV drivers callously crushing anything in their way under their wheels, are themselves now being crushed under the wheels of the all-consuming Machine ... "Sorry, Dave"), simply to pay dividends to shareholders who already, by virtue of their even owning shares, are far better off than those dying. 

While the Red Party of the, "This will Never Be A Socialist Country," throws its own citizens under the Bus, while its Black and Blue Party beats itself silly, the Totalitarian Communist Red Party puts its own citizens' lives ahead of its own Doom Machine that it has copied from the West. That is not happenstance. The Communist country of China has pulled off Lenin's trick and not only sold, but devised, the Rope with which Capitalism is using its Freedom to hang itself. That's why it is indeed a plandemic. And the plan, which they make no secret of, is to, the science be damned, do as Bore-us, "We don't heed no stinkin' Virus", Johnson suggested in the first place, and decree it endemic. Lenin would be so Proud.