A text from Mr. Free Market:
“It’s 3am on Monday, and I’m drunk out of my mind. God, I love the lockdown.”
…proving that every dark cloud etc. etc.
Category: QOTD
Quote Of The Day
From some smart guy, talking about government and lockdown enforcement:
“Things aren’t getting worse, they are getting obvious.”
Quote Of The Day
From the study proving that Neil Ferguson’s Chinkvirus model contained flawed methodology (to say the least) comes this conclusion:
“On a personal level, I’d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded. This sort of work is best done by the insurance sector. Insurers employ modellers and data scientists, but also employ managers whose job is to decide whether a model is accurate enough for real world usage and professional software engineers to ensure model software is properly tested, understandable and so on. Academic efforts don’t have these people, and the results speak for themselves.”
Hell, considering what’s come out of academia in terms of climate modeling as well as this latest fiasco, I’d prefer to have bookies produce the models, rather than universities.
And this is why charlatans like the Hockey-Stick guy (of global warming infamy) steadfastly refuse to release their code — they know it’ll fall over under the slightest scrutiny.
Had I ever tried to get this bullshit past my clients back in the day when I was involved in this kind of thing, I’d have been fired on my ass and my business cred utterly demolished. These pricks deserve no less.
Wise Words
From Insty:
The purpose of “women’s groups” isn’t to help women. It’s to keep women agitated, suggestible, and submissive to leftist ideology. And leftist ideology is all about getting, retaining, and exercising power.
Women’s groups used to have a proper purpose in Western society. Then, as the wrongs they protested were gradually eliminated, they lost their need to exist, but refused to do so.
It’s like still getting upset about the use of small boys as chimney-sweeps.
Wise Words
One of the many pleasures of reading Instapundit is Glenn Reynolds’s use of (mostly) single sentences as pithy commentary on whatever link he posts. Here’s an example:
…and:
In the latter, he’s talking about the Chinkvirus pandemic models, but of course it’s equally applicable to the climate change versions, and just about all the other government- and academic models as well.
“Wise Words”, therefore, is going to become a regular feature on this back porch, gathered under the “Quote Of The Day” umbrella.
Quote Of The Day
From an email:
Dear Friends,
Today marks 4 weeks of isolation. I’ve been walking 2.5 miles a day around my neighborhood, increased my water consumption, no meat, no sugar, no dairy, no caffeine and no flour. The change has been fantastic! I feel great! Zero alcohol! Lost 17 pounds of fat and now see muscle definition.
People like this are usually murdered.