Deep Thoughts by Neil

02/15/2024

test two

02/11/2022

How do you define effective? 3X’s less likely to test positive and 15X’s less likely to die seems effective to me. Is the lowered risk worth it? I would say yes, but that is for everyone to decide for themselves. But that doesn’t mean it has not worked.

02/11/2022

Would you ever say "If you don't like slavery then just don't own a slave."?
Would you ever say, "If you don't like the Holocaust then just don't kill a Jew.”?
Would you ever say, "If don't like abortion then don't have an abortion."?
All of these involve the death or stripping of humanity from an innocent victim.

02/11/2022

How is sustaining drug addiction helping any person of any race?

From the article below DEFENDING this program:
“The program provides funding for ‘safe smoking kits’”
To “purchase equipment and supplies to enhance harm reduction efforts.”
Saying there is “no specific mention of glass pipes” is bu****it back tracking and buying “rubber mouthpieces, brass screens, lip balm, disinfectant wipes” like in London to make smoking crack safe is just bad policy.
Feel free to answer my real question, How is sustaining drug addiction helping any person of any race?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/us/politics/biden-crack-pipes-claim.html

01/26/2022

I wish the evidence was against me, but human cruelty is historical, not religious. The scale of abuse humans give to “outsiders” seems to only be limited by a social groups opportunity to get away with it.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any...

01/19/2022

Told that I do not understand logic or how wrong religion is, I replied:
Please try to defend your position without Ad Hominem attacks. Your Appeal to the Authority of history, science and logic is a Circular Argument using only history, science and logic to prove your point. Prayer may not be your thing, but it is a False Dilemma to say there is only religious allegiance or no faith at all. Prayer is not a Slippery Slope to religious abuse, that is just a Red Herring that uses the Strawman Argument of blaming religion for humans acting badly. You are Appealing to Ignorance based on your Causal Fallacy that religious people doing bad things means that religion caused it. That is a Hasty Generalization using an Appeal to the Hypocrisy of religious people to ignore the misdeeds of the faithless. Appealing to Pity for those persecuted by religion is just jumping on the anti-religion Bandwagon and using a Reduction to Absurdity that any religious misdeeds are proof that religion is bad. It is Equivocation to pretend that non-religious people not have what I would call beliefs.

LOGICAL FALLACIES
Ad Hominem
Personal attacks not logic
Strawman Argument
Attack a different subject as misdirection
Appeal to Ignorance
Must be true if not proven false
False Dilemma Pretend
Only two extremes no middle ground
Slippery Slope Fallacy
Argues an action will lead to unlikely or ridiculous outcomes
Circular Argument
Argument that just repeats your assumption without proof
Hasty Generalization
Use a few examples rather than substantial proof
Red Herring Fallacy
Uses distraction to shift attention to a false conclusion
Appeal to Hypocrisy
Focuses on hypocrisy of opponent to distract
Causal Fallacy
Incorrectly concludes that a cause is related to an effect
Fallacy of Sunk Costs
Keep doing something because of time or money already spent
Appeal to Authority
Misuse of an authority's opinion to support an argument
Equivocation
Saying one thing but meaning another
Appeal to Pity
Provoking emotions to win argument rather than evidence
Bandwagon Fallacy
Something is true (or good) because others agree
Reduction to Absurdity
Make opposing argument or its consequences seem ridiculous

01/17/2022

I was accused of being an imbecile for not believing the Presidential election was stolen. I agree that I am an imbecile, but what do you call someone who believes that an election was stolen when the election results were reviewed by the courts (with half by Republican nominated judges), recounted by Republican state officials in the closely contested states, and certified by all 50 states in the Electoral College, including a majority by Republican legislatures? I am just curious because even an imbecile can figure out that conspiracy theories are not a substitute for proof. And if you do not have actual proof that the election was stolen then aren't you just another blowhard spreading internet rumors?

12/31/2021

Homeopathic remedies, exercise, sleep, sunshine and a good diet are tremendously effective ways to avoid many illnesses and I recommend them to everybody (though I have not always been a faithful practitioner). But as unenlightened as it may be, healthy, clean living people do get cancer, or in my case, inherit a genetic disease that is wasting my body away. And yoga will not make it go away.

And I hate to say it, but most health food brands have been gobbled up by the same greedy big companies that stole the goodness from our food to begin with.
https://makechange.aspiration.com/when-small-healthy-food-companies-get-eaten-up/

Then your eyes settle on a slightly smaller box down at the end of the aisle that doesn’t look like the rest of these clownish feedbags.

12/28/2021

I want less people to die from Covid. Period. I do not care whether by vaccine or therapeutics. I do have to say though that the horse pills and the Clorox alternative (Ivermectin & hydroxychloroquine) have less testing and worse results than the vaccine so far. I am especially amused that the new therapeutics being developed in a rush have come from the same evil, greedy bastards who cannot be trusted to create a vaccine. I pray that the new therapeutics work better than the vaccines, but I have no idea why someone who is not willing to trust big pharma to develop a vaccine would trust them to develop a therapeutic.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-treatment-whats-in-development

Fighting the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, is a top priority in medical research and pharmaceutical development. Hundreds of organizations are working on innovations to reduce the impact of the disease and prevent further infection.

12/21/2021

It is fair to say that if Covid has not already gone from a Pandemic (a global epidemic) to an Endemic (not going away), then it will certainly get there soon. I do plan on taking flu shots to help fight the flu endemic (the yearly jab) for the rest of my life, because my doctor says that it may save my life. It is not guaranteed to save my life mind you, but I am one of those crazy flat earth type of people who thinks that being less likely to die is a good thing. And I will do this knowing that there are very rare, serious adverse reactions because I am a real risk taker. I mean, there has already been three proven cases of death by Covid vaccine after only 500 million doses. I will also continue to wear a mask if visiting high risk populations during flu season even though the Constitution gives me the right to not give a s**t about the health of others. I guess I am just a bleeding heart liberal. Worst of all, I will do all of this even though the flu vaccine will only slow the spread of the flu and will not stop the flu from spreading entirely. I am one of those poor souls deceived by the press, big pharma and our corrupt government into thinking that less flu is better than more flu. Pray for me.

12/21/2021

If we only decide how to handle a state of emergency after we know how it will end, we will never declare a state of emergency. “The technologies used to develop the COVID-19 vaccines have been in development for years to prepare for outbreaks of infectious viruses.” (see below) So we already had the missile to attack Covid and it only took a few months to develop a new guidance system. I think that there is value in science and medicine. The system that lines big pharma’s pockets is the same system that now cures many forms of cancer, etc. I do not believe that throwing the healthcare baby out with the greedy big pharma bath water is a good choice. .
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/is-the-covid19-vaccine-safe
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w

Hundreds of scientists had worked on mRNA vaccines for decades before the coronavirus pandemic brought a breakthrough.

12/20/2021

Headline: Emails Show Fauci And Collins Conspired For ‘Devastating Takedown’ Of Alternative COVID Plan
To quote this article:
“There were people [like] Scott Atlas that said don’t worry about this business of putting on masks or asking people to isolate themselves or stay distanced. Let it rip. Let this virus run through the country until everybody has had it, and we’ll have herd immunity,”
“The consequence of that would have been hundreds of thousands of additional deaths,” he said. “That didn’t make sense to me.”
Collins argued that COVID’s “capab[ility] to shape-shift, it gets in the way of herd immunity.” “We might have herd immunity to the original Wuhan virus but not to omicron,” he said. “It’s like we have a new character here, a screwed-up sibling of what we started with, and our immune system has potential to fight it off, but it’s challenging. So the herd immunity concept assumes that you deal with the same virus all the way along. This has not turned out to behave that way.”
https://conservativebrief.com/emails-56700/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=539&fbclid=IwAR121bVBgK7Bo_YehGOeUlPO_w3QFlOeGo92VSVK2rKsobA7qp7RFFMLesk

He better have an explanation for this.