Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Sheldon Cooper
Posted on 04/26/2020 6:12:00 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...he Aztecs, as is well known, practiced human sacrifice. They placed their victims on a sort of altar atop a temple, sliced open their chests, and extracted their still-beating hearts. Hard cheese on the slicees, of course, but at least they died in the knowledge that their sacrifice was in a good cause. For the Aztec priests did not perform this grisly ritual wantonly. They did it in order to appease the sun god Huitzilopochtli who was constantly at war with darkness. If they omitted the ritual, the darkness would extinguish the sun. How did they know? Simple. They performed the ritual. And the sun rose today, right? Obviously, it was because they performed the ritual that the sun rose.
Or was it?
By now, the political and public-health establishment has an enormous amount invested in a logically similar piece of reasoning. We shut down the country. It was (is and will be) painful. Millions have lost their livelihoods. We are already seeing an uptick in suicides, drug addiction, and other pathologies that follow on economic collapse. But this wasn’t done for nothing. Nosiree! If we hadn’t done it millions would have died. According to the original Imperial College model, the number was 2.2 million...
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The cock crowing makes the sun rise.
Excellent article.
Yes, it is.
I wish the author or editor would have titled it something like, “Aztec Human Sacrifice and Coronavirus.”
That would have gotten it more attention.
The pinkos will claim that the lockdowns saved us from global warming.
Count on it.
Liberals don’t care how many people have to die, as long as they gain power and control.
Liberals don’t care how many people have to die, as long as they gain power and control.
Liberals don’t care how many people have to die, as long as they gain power and control.
Some historian a few years ago said that the bodies were dumped down the side of the pyramid, where there were cooking pots and the ‘meat’ was fed to the crowd - to supplement the low protein diets of the Aztec city dwellers.
Burritos anyone ?
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