It’s no way a zero sum game …

 … forget this rushing into opposed camps at loggerheads, e.g. in JFK in 1963, in which it suddenly became Single Bullet Theory versus collusion.

Will Jones, in the Daily Sceptic mailing this morning, raises more questions than he resolves:

Dr. Engler has argued that “it was the manner in which healthcare was delivered which was relevant to the death rate, not the spread of a virus” and his analysis has been picked up by others. Dr. Jessica Rose has stated that “what has taken place over the past few years is government-assisted termination of our elderly using such tools as the injections themselves, lethal cocktails of respiration depressing drugs upon declaration of ‘Covid positive status’, improper do not resuscitate (DNR) declarations and use and neglect (starvation and dehydration)”.

The crucial words in all of that, indeed in the entire article, are “not the”. It reads as if it’s a zero sum game, an either/or, whereas he himself also quotes:

It’s not based on any single, fallible measure such as PCR testing, but on a host of factors that together build a clear picture.

This post is not specifically about the health thing, as against the climate thing, as against the Ukrainian thing, as against the justice system and so on. I’m looking at this as just one example of the malaise.

For example, were we in a family law court which was deciding on custody and assets, the person presiding is either female or male. Were it to be either a wispy-bearded tree hugger with LBGT leanings … or our Julia … I know which I’d choose straight away for justice and/or fairness.

Which in itself blows open the gender issue, one of my fave topics. No, I’m not arguing that there are more than two biological genders … but I am arguing that there’s more than one factor involved. In A&E with my heart attack, a Spanish lady orderly smiled upon my situation stuck on a trolley, plus the cardio lady was good … I even briefly had a private room … but then the odds took over and my last night before the op was appalling, in the hands of student age nurses never bothering to wander the wards but spending the night shrieking with laughter over whatever was entertaining them in their room.  Someone near me died that night … then they all rushed out, hysterically.

If I’ve rushed to the Anti-Woke label, it’s simply far easier than using left-right, it’s more accurate, easier to focus on the first thing needing to be excised … globo-Wokery … plus it includes former left, former right, plus (genuine) centrists. It’s more useful than using twenty words to describe my stance.  But that doesn’t mean that many issues the Woke latch onto and abuse are not based, originally, on genuine concerns.  They can be.

How does this relate to the health thing? Well it just seems logical to me, personally, to self-isolate, to avoid like the plague medical centres where sickness visits, to avoid supermarkets, to take care of diet and mild exercise, to stay busy, sipping a tonic and lemon concoction now and then, to keep my place reasonably clean (ongoing battle). Without being fanatical about it.

Because health fanaticism, imho, is one of the biggest issues in itself. Nuff for now.