Money makes the lies go around
I said a page or two ago why - there's no money in saying a pandemic is over.
More bloody lies!
The Atheist has been worried about the
expenses that it would take to do something about the pandemic to the extent where his panties get in a twist when any of the things that would limit transmission of the virus in schools are proposed:
No, I don't expect or care whether anyone listens to me. Those who did made a heap of money and those who didn't, didn't.
It's blatantly obvious why you don't try supporting your fantasy with actual evidence, because you don't understand any part of how the economy works.
Pretty funny though, so please do go on.
I'll even give you an example to play with, because it's something I'm quite well-versed in. The approximate cost of sterilising the air at school in New Zealand is about $5 billion.
Explain where that money is going to come from, but more importantly, explain how you're going to do it in a market where there are no people to do the work.
I need a good laugh.
Maybe it would work in your communist haven of Cuba, but other countries don't allow governments to steal money off rich people just because some complete idiot thinks they should.
There have been plenty of conspiracy theories about the UN during the pandemic. QAnon has delivered them. Trump's MAGA Republicans love them. So it's no surprise to see The Atheist embracing and distributing them, too:
Saying it is means
the organisation can ask for more and more money, and since the pandemic will never end, it's
a gravy train they're not going to get off anytime soon.
Tedros Ghebreyesus himself linked the "public health emergency" phase to the pandemic phase, but has backed of that when money came into the equation.
It doesn't even concern him that air purifiers are damn
cheap because expenses aren't even the problem for The Atheist. That is why he ignores posts about cheap air purifiers. The problem for him is that air purifiers in schools make it conspicuous that there is an ongoing
pandemic (that's why he's a natural ally of jt512 in this question), and
that can't be allowed to happen. That is also the reason why his arguments shift. When it becomes obvious that the pandemic won't go away by ignoring it, he may claim that limiting transmission of the virus just can't be done.
Nothing works. People shouldn't be told to wear masks. It doesn't work. And schools shouldn't have air purifiers because
that also doesn't work. He doesn't have to
know anything about the
science of filtering the air, be it through face masks or through HEPA filters. The important thing is that people should be
free to ignore the spread of the virus because that will save billionaires a heap of money. He thinks.
Accept that airborne disease is a problem and clean the air. Masks are point of use, but ventilation and filters can have a dramatic effect, not to meantio far-UV. It ends up that current building codes in most places *already* require removal of pathogens, it's just nobody is doing it. All we have to do is implement existing regulations using modern tech, and IMO we can *dramatically* impact public health.
That's the bit I can't have.
The cost would be prohibitive everywhere in the world. Schools in NZ are ventilated by windows and
the cost of giving just schools adequate clean air
would run into billions of dollars we don't have. Add in every medical facility and office and you're talking numbers more than our GDP.
Then there's the issue of skilled people to do it. Given that we can't find enough people to put HVAC systems in data centres, the chances of getting just schools done is plain fantasy. NZ is a relatively rich country and if we can't do it there's even less chance other countries can.
The idea that we can use tech to fix it is nonsensical.
Yes, the alleged lack of people to install air purifiers is also a major problem in The Atheist's world of make-believe! Why bother telling him that air purifiers in schools don't need any complicated work of installing them?! It would be ideal, of course, to have professionals do the job, but you can even bring your own transportable filtration device and plugging it in!
But again, that would make it obvious that the virus is being transmitted everywhere, and The Atheist can't have that. The virus wants to be free, and The Atheist wants it to be free, and consequently limiting transmission of the virus is not only
expensive, it is also
physically impossible. Filtering the air just can't be done ... and yet:
Dann has repeatedly stated that the world should be conforming to the protocols in place at Davos - from masking and distancing to HEPA-filtered air cond and all the other things it's easy to do when a group of very rich people decide to have a get-together. It would unquestionably cost billions of dollars a day. And that's aside from being a physical impossibility.
The gold standard must be air from outside that has been filtered. That's what
we use for data centres, so it seems to me that if it's good enough for inanimate objects,
it's what should aspire to for children.
Only problem is, it's not cheap.
Better than nothing isn't the aspiration of the "
Davos standard at any cost" brigade, who I notice are rapidly backing away from that, because air purifiers weren't the only means of clean air provided at Davos.
That is The Atheist's solution to his own little made-up problem with actually
cheap air filtration: When confronted with the
fact that air filtration
can be done, that it is not only
technically but also
economically feasible, he confronts it with a
higher standard that (allegedly)
isn't economically feasible to make it
seem to be impossible.
'Well, it would be nice, but I want only the best for kids, and - alas - the best is too expensive and should only serve to protect the data (or
pigs!) that billionaires pay good money to protect. Sorry, kids!'
The
hypocrisy would be astonishing if it weren't what we are used to from minimizers.
In
post 423 I copied in a number of tweets from the minimizer brigade panicking when they heard the story about a women who was happy about her dentist having acquired a HEPA filter! (Somehow not physically or economically impossible!)
'We can't have that! Can't you see we are busy denying there's a pandemic?!'
Or, as The Atheist would put it:
Yes, lots of people are catching covid.
Nobody cares.
The ongoing
pandemic doesn't disturb minimizers nearly as much as any and all attempts to limit the transmission of the virus.
That's what makes them panic, and that's why it's so important to The Atheist and to jt512 to pretend that the
pandemic is over.
