You are right about rabbit holes. The first one I fell was the Bitcoin one all those years ago. Back then I frequented slashdot a fair amount, and the abuse you got on there for
being pro-bitcoin was quite something
just wait til you hear my views on covid they get me in some right trouble
This just gave me some shivers. I was prowling around slashdot in my youth (heh) and lurking around, there were quite a few Bitcoin rabbitholers with the new wave of millennials (the actual generation born in the 1990s), actually wish I'd paid them a lot more attention.
I'd really like to hear your views on covid some day;) You are. Entertaining.
*from the occasional lurker on this thread*
P.S. Any thoughts from any of you on
these new letters -- some interesting discussions on the earliest concerns when Satoshi released his white paper. Be forewarned, this is Coindesk, I'm not sure where their allegiance lies these days.
I was born way before the 90's
COVID is a mass delusion, fuelled by mainstream and social media's insatiable appetite for controversy.
I have no doubt there is a real virus out there, I have no doubt that sadly many people have died from it. However when this is put into perspective, it is just A.N.Other virus passing through.
I'm incensed at the way governments have leveraged the opportunity to pass legislation that curtails individual freedoms. Even more so at the way the general public has cheer-lead them all the way through.
That's not even the controversial part!
Virologists readily admit that they still have very little understanding of the human virome. In fact its estimated that there are some 380trillion viruses in each and every one of us. The state we call "healthy" is the emergent property of these viruses interacting with all the other aspects of the human biome.
Viruses aren't malicious entities hell bent on killing humans. Indeed this particular virus does its work - it gets in the lungs and cleans them out. Unfortunately some people are already so broken by age, ill-health, or maybe even just bad luck that in doing its work their immune system shuts them down (the cytokine storm). Covid is at the scene and everyone agrees its a deadly virus that most be stopped at all costs case closed.
(this is similar to how cholesterol got maligned because it was present at the site of atherosclerosis - latest research suggest that actually the cholesterol was the thing trying to the fixing! who knew?)
What is that virus doing in the body of those that are lucky enough not to die from it (thats most people btw). What if its doing something beneficial (its certainly stimulating the production of antibodies, t-cells). If it is then all measures intended to stop people contracting it are actually preventing people from the benefits. COVID mortality by age is not particularly different from all cause mortality.
Numerous studies have shown the link between prior flu-season severity and subsequent covid severity. World Health organisation recently published its annual flu numbers, mysteriously this year there have been relatively speaking no flu deaths. (I forget it was 2 digit number, down from 5digits in every previous year the report covered).
I'm not entertaining conspiracy theories about it being a hoax, or bill gates trying to chip everyone etc im looking at the evidence from around the world, ignoring popular opinion and finding my way to the truth of the matter.
That's my method. (and its been my method for 10 years on Bitcoin related matters!)
Hope you were entertained.
I dont think much about those emails, perhaps they are real in which case the timestamp thing is a curiosity. Suspect its a CoinDesk sideshow designed to try and cast more doubt.