That picture above shows the Italian military deploying trucks to carry off the dead after the Kung Flu really started rampaging through the country. Keep that in mind as you read what follows.

I came across a rather interesting article recently on RT that basically served as a reprint of a piece by Jeffrey Tucker for the American Institute for Economic Research into the Chinkin Pox lockdowns that have plagued the world far worse than the actual, er, plague did. It contains many a fascinating – and horrifying – revelation, and is well worth reading in full:

Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020, it happened to all of us, causing an avalanche of social, cultural, and economic destruction that will ring through the ages.

There was nothing normal about it all. We’ll be trying to figure out what happened to us for decades hence.

How did a temporary plan to preserve hospital capacity turn into two-to-three months of near-universal house arrest that ended up causing worker furloughs at 256 hospitals, a stoppage of international travel, a 40% job loss among people earning less than $40K per year, devastation of every economic sector, mass confusion and demoralization, a complete ignoring of all fundamental rights and liberties, not to mention the mass confiscation of private property with forced closures of millions of businesses?

Whatever the answer, it’s got to be a bizarre tale. What’s truly surprising is just how recent the theory behind lockdown and forced distancing actually is. So far as anyone can tell, the intellectual machinery that made this mess was invented 14 years ago, and not by epidemiologists but by computer-simulation modelers. It was adopted not by experienced doctors – they warned ferociously against it – but by politicians.

Well, yes, duh. We know that part already. But wait – it gets better. Or worse, depending on your point of view. This is excerpted from an article from, surprisingly, the NYFT, which I normally consider even less useful than toilet paper, but which in this case evidently actually did a bit of research:

Fourteen years ago, two federal government doctors, Richard Hatchett and Carter Mecher, met with a colleague at a burger joint in suburban Washington for a final review of a proposal they knew would be treated like a piñata: telling Americans to stay home from work and school the next time the country was hit by a deadly pandemic.

When they presented their plan not long after, it was met with skepticism and a degree of ridicule by senior officials, who like others in the United States had grown accustomed to relying on the pharmaceutical industry, with its ever-growing array of new treatments, to confront evolving health challenges.

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And it had some unexpected detours, including a deep dive into the history of the 1918 Spanish flu and an important discovery kicked off by a high school research project pursued by the daughter of a scientist at the Sandia National Laboratories.

The concept of social distancing is now intimately familiar to almost everyone. But as it first made its way through the federal bureaucracy in 2006 and 2007, it was viewed as impractical, unnecessary and politically infeasible.

Ah, but wait, we haven’t even gotten to the really ridiculous part yet:

Laura [M. Glass], with some guidance from her dad, devised a computer simulation that showed how people – family members, co-workers, students in schools, people in social situations – interact. What she discovered was that school kids come in contact with about 140 people a day, more than any other group. Based on that finding, her program showed that in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, 5,000 would be infected during a pandemic if no measures were taken, but only 500 would be infected if the schools were closed.

There’s the punchline – and what a punch it is.

The lockdowns, the mass quarantines, the social distancing nonsense, ALL OF THIS BULLSHIT AND INSANITY, were evidently rooted in a 14-year-old HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT done by the daughter of a complex systems analyst with Sandia National Laboratories with no experience whatsoever in epidemiology.

Not only that – the computer modeling and simulations used in the project were suspect and sketchy, at best. This is entirely to be expected. Computer simulations of large populations of humans are always exceptionally poor because no computer, no matter how powerful, is capable of factoring in the trillions of decisions made by billions of humans on a daily basis. Even small-scale modeling, at the level of a village, is actually extremely hard to do. You have to put in lots of simplifying assumptions and smooth statistical distributions just to get the maths to hang together and avoid having code that looks like a plate of spaghetti.

I’ve programmed financial models for years in spreadsheets. Compared to epidemiological models, that’s child’s play. And both Excel and computer-coded risk models break constantly. I know of what I speak when I say that computer modeling is an extremely imprecise and inelegant science, at best.

When confronted with all of this silly computer modeling, the experts 14 years ago gave their verdict in no uncertain terms: lockdowns and mass quarantines were considered bloody STUPID and thoroughly impractical, not to mention highly ineffective.

That is precisely what they have proven to be in the current Kung Flu pandemic.

The data coming out of European, especially UK, and US hotspots, all tell basically the same story. The UK’s Kung Flu infection rates had already started falling days BEFORE a general lockdown was announced by the government, and draconian stay-at-home and self-isolation orders were not only largely futile, they were actually highly counterproductive.

We’re seeing the same story repeated in the US as well. In NYFC, by far the worst-hit area, the reason why the virus spread as fast and as far as it did is because the people in charge basically didn’t keep at-risk populations isolated. Nursing homes and hospices are the perfect petri dishes for a virus that kills old people with pre-existing medical conditions but mostly leaves younger folks alone. US data makes it pretty clear that locking everything down was idiotic and useless.

In Italy the evidence shows unequivocally that something like 96% of General Tso’s Chicken Pox victims had pre-existing conditions and comorbidities, and that the virus was especially lethal to Ye Olde Phartes over 70 with existing lung and respiratory issues. The fact that Italy has the second-oldest population in the entire world, and the fact that the virus hit the Lombardia region, which our friend Adam Piggott reliably informs us is perhaps the most polluted in all of Europe because of all of the factories located in and around Milan and the presence of the Alps, surely had a lot to do with the unusual lethality of the virus there.

Wherever we look, whenever we can find even halfway reliable data (i.e. NOT CHINA – their numbers are at least a factor of 10 too low), we see the same pattern emerging and repeating:

Lockdowns didn’t do a damn thing.

Quarantines and stay-at-home orders were counterproductive at best, and sometimes genuinely harmful.

Keeping Ye Olde Phartes isolated and protected did work, very well, in curbing both the spread and the lethality of the Kung Flu.

Children were especially unaffected.

People with pre-existing conditions and co-morbidities, especially Ye Fatte Bastardes, were particularly at risk.

At no point did any country’s health system, except perhaps Italy’s and then only in Lombardia, face anything close to a nightmare collapse scenario of being utterly and totally overwhelmed.

And, worst of all, every single major computer model used to try to predict the course of the virus turned out to be WILDLY overstated in terms of deaths and infections.

When I say “overstated”, I’m not talking about being a few percentage points off. I’m talking about being 8,000 PERCENT off.

In banking, if you are EIGHT THOUSAND PERCENT WRONG about something, you don’t just get fired. You get Federal regulators in so far up your ass that they taste everything you eat.

In epidemiology, apparently, you become something of a celebrity – until it turns out that you broke your own lockdown rules to go bonk your married mistress. Who looks like a boiled Bavarian dumpling, by the way.

That, gentlemen, is the state of the world we live in today. It’s Clown World on steroids snorting coke through a Red Vine while listening to EDM and high on acid.

We’re living in a world where governments around the world are using a completely discredited and rejected epidemiological model created 14 years ago for a school science project that the academics at the time thought was ridiculous.

And where, by the way, did this notion of staying 1.5-2m away from each other come from? Y’know, the whole “social distancing” thing?

Farted out of someone’s ass, apparently.

I mean that quite literally. Two metres, about six feet, is roughly how far away you need to stand from someone on a windless (heh) day to avoid suffering the aftereffects of your buddy’s Taco Bell volcano burrito.

The problem is that the metric is totally useless. Two metres is irrelevant next to the distance that germs can travel when sneezed out by someone.

Most people don’t realise this, but when a person sneezes, the air in his lungs is expelled at speeds of around 10mph. Now that’s a very far cry from the much-ballyhoed two-hundred-plus-mph that we all were taught in school, but it’s pretty damned fast.

What happens when you sneeze and don’t cover your mouth in an enclosed space? Like, say, a restaurant, or a movie theatre, with circulated air and ventilation?

Your germs will make their way across the entire room in under ten minutes. Every single person in that room will become a potential disease vector. It just doesn’t matter if they sit six feet apart from each other.

Now the good news is that a respiratory infection like the Chinkin Pox actually requires a very high “viral load” to become genuinely dangerous, relatively speaking. You have to breathe in someone else’s expelled air or pick up the disease directly from your hands and face. It has to go a long way into the lungs, through all of the body’s considerable and formidable immulogical defences, before it becomes truly dangerous.

The evidence we have before us indicates that social distancing indoors is basically pointless, and outdoors it is of little benefit – especially if the guidelines are enacted really stupidly.

What’s the point of standing six feet apart from someone in one direction, when in another direction you’re forced to stand one foot apart?

This is certainly the situation at cash registers or ATMs or in any major subway system. On the Moscow metro, for instance, there are signs pasted on the seats of every train car saying, Держитесь Дистанцию – “Keep your distance” – stuck about 1.5m apart, telling you not to sit in pretty much every other seat. That’s nice and all – until you remember that the width of the entire train carriage is nowhere close to six feet once you take into account the seats themselves.

As far as I can tell, there is only one type of social distancing that actually, y’know, works:

And what that means, in practice, is… keeping people from nations that are disproportionately responsible for causing plagues and socialism OUT of the West.

Which means, logically speaking, that you keep Mexicans and Chinese away from America.

Why? Because of the last seven or so serious epidemics and pandemics, at least five of them came from China – in reverse order, the Kung Flu, SARS, the 1968 flu, the 1957 flu, and possibly even the 1918 flu. And because the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic emerged from Central America and jumped to the USA and then Asia – which is kind of unusual, actually.

In conclusion, the catastrophe that we have all suffered and lived through was basically caused by politicians taking seriously models that had absolutely no basis in reality. At least one of those computer models was created by a 14-year-old girl with help from her dad, and was considered a joke of a model by actual experts at the time – back when expert opinion might have counted for something.

It really makes you wonder whether we are, in fact, living in some sort of severely phucked up computer simulation created by a demented gamer hopped up on intergalactic Red Bull and methamphetamines while on a ten-day MMORPG bender.