Fear-mongering
Our erstwhile experts love pumping up the fear factor. It’s a simple equation: Fear-mongering = money squared
Worked spectacularly well with the 911 anthrax lab-escape - now look what we’ve got - Covid-19 - the fear-monger’s wet-dream.
In the throes of manifesting that wet-dream our heroes are still not satiated. They dream of more perversions... bigger ones:
This pandemic has been very severe, Mike Ryan huffs, reaches for the tissue box - But this is not necessarily the big one.
Back in the real world for a minute, how likely are zoonotic crossover events, really?
Growing up in a country town, with a father who liked hunting-shooting-fishing, i did a lot of those. We’d go on 10-day camping trips up the Lachlan River. Shoot pigs (feral pests), kangaroos (dog meat - human food if we didn’t get anything better), ducks (human food), water rats (for the fur). That’s a full on viral hotspot existence including bush meat literally cooked at the coal-face.
Then came home to 20 backyard chooks and racing pigeons (with attendant rats and mice and bats). It was my job to clean the shit out of those sheds - without a mask.
I fucking hated that job - breathing in shit-dust... But don’t remember being plagued by deadly coronaviruses. I’d never heard of them until SARS-1. Now they’re everywhere supposedly.
These days, i still live in the countryside, go fishing, camping, though i'm not into shooting anymore. Still got backyard chooks, & wild animals, bats galore ... so a lifetime of continuous hotspot inhabitation. Should that be banned now?
Despite the talk of bulldozers, cattle-farms, and mining causing Covid, according to Daszak et al’s actual theory - it’s people leading my kind of lifestyle who are committing the highest risk behaviour.
Interestingly, so are those living indigenous lifestyles. Take my Bunun neighbour, A-de, for example - our shared farming/hunting experiences is kinda how we clicked. He’s got a living-larder of farm animals at his house - goes hunting for wild pigs and goats. Then get this - traps/eats civets! I also trapped them! (released far away) Because they raid chicken sheds - for the eggs mostly but also chickens - daily if you don’t trap them. Never saw A-de wear a mask while doing any of the above. How high risk is that?! Quickly ban it now - for the sake of humanity!
What Daszak et al are actually promoting, apart from more money for themselves, is a War on Indigenous Lifestyle. You won’t hear them say that directly - but that’s what it amounts to.
A modern, well run factory farm ...usually (has) better biosecurity, as people don’t want to lose all their animals – and income.
No farmer wants to lose all their animals - and income - i would have thought - or you mean their income doesn’t matter - just that of the subset of bosses of modern, well run factory farms, paying good money for biosecurity experts, like yourself?
Daszak laments: What you’ve got now is a lot of amateur farmers, who have converted old properties that are pretty unsecure from a disease point of view.
Ok, so it’s also a War-on-Hippies. A War on Alternative Lifestyles.
So what’s left in Daszak’s ideal world of biosecurity when you cancel indigenous and alternative lifestyles? Apart from massive funding for biosecurity experts?
As with all THE Science dogma, all roads lead to centralization - with themselves at the centre.