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COVID’s Dirty Secret: Our Elites Have No Idea What They’re Doing
American Conservative ^ | 2/4/2021 | Michael Warren Davis

Posted on 02/04/2021 6:57:58 AM PST by Onthebrink

Boris Johnson spent his entire adult life roleplaying as Winston Churchill, yet he’ll almost certainly go down as the next Anthony Eden: a gifted, ambitious politician who got exactly what he wanted but at the worst possible time.

Poor BoJo. It was supposed to be so simple! All he had to do was finish off Brexit. Then he could spend the next 10 years holding court with his old journalist chums in a Fleet Street pub. He’d grab his crotch and shout, “Here’s an exclusive from Number 10, lads!” while a chorus of hacks from The Sun laughed themselves silly. It would have been glorious.

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; joebiden

1 posted on 02/04/2021 6:57:58 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

They never have.

But the elites have always imagined that they have.


2 posted on 02/04/2021 7:00:50 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Onthebrink

The Elites aren’t even living by these rules they have imposed on us. They never do.


3 posted on 02/04/2021 7:01:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Onthebrink

I hate calling them elites. Political class is more fitting. Elite carries a connotation that they are somehow superior. They are not, they are generally stupid people with no shame, and a lust for power.


4 posted on 02/04/2021 7:03:41 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Onthebrink

That’s a secret?!


5 posted on 02/04/2021 7:04:21 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Onthebrink
Diktats breed conspiracies.

Freedom breeds transparency
6 posted on 02/04/2021 7:06:34 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Onthebrink

I think the writer is trying to hard to be Mark Steyn


7 posted on 02/04/2021 7:07:37 AM PST by edwinland
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To: Onthebrink

What’s secret about it.
They never know what they’re doing.


8 posted on 02/04/2021 7:11:06 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: Onthebrink

Don’t be ridiculous, Joe has a plan! President Trump had no plan! /S


9 posted on 02/04/2021 7:12:49 AM PST by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Onthebrink

Every country I know of is being ruled by some of the least impressive and most incompetent people on the planet.

Chairman Xi and Putin are probably the biggest exceptions.


10 posted on 02/04/2021 7:24:58 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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To: Onthebrink

It took a year of misinformation, disinformation, manipulated statistics, omissions and outright lies to reach this conclusion???

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA


11 posted on 02/04/2021 7:27:52 AM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: Rurudyne

Great Summary:

“They never have.

But the elites have always imagined that they have!”


12 posted on 02/04/2021 7:32:49 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: brownsfan
I hate calling them elites. Political class is more fitting. Elite carries a connotation that they are somehow superior. They are not, they are generally stupid people with no shame, and a lust for power.

COVID exposed that fact that they're not elites at all despite the decades of propaganda. It's a big reason they despise President Trump who got them to take their masks off, throw them on the ground and stomp on them. The propaganda outlets HATE that they can't control the message and that the Deplorables not only know the truth but can share it with others.

These "elites" are nothing more than puppets, whores, and sociopaths.

13 posted on 02/04/2021 7:33:58 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Onthebrink
yes they do. it is power and money.

it is about power and money.
MI Sitrep on greedy, uncontrollable, CCP-run FauXi and CDC


14 posted on 02/04/2021 7:34:12 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Onthebrink

Wrong. They know exactly what they are doing. The CCP flu was and will remained weaponized in the service of tyranny.


15 posted on 02/04/2021 7:47:22 AM PST by Noumenon (As long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. (KTF))
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To: brownsfan

“I hate calling them elites. Political class is more fitting. Elite carries a connotation that they are somehow superior. They are not, they are generally stupid people with no shame, and a lust for power.”

Boy is that the truth. Just look at John F. Kerry stating that flying his personal jet to Iceland was only fitting for someone like him. YUK!


16 posted on 02/04/2021 7:50:40 AM PST by kagnew
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To: All

They worship foreign gods, gods foreign to our ways; demons.


17 posted on 02/04/2021 8:42:40 AM PST by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: Envisioning

Joe was one of those kids in a class room while the teacher was speaking he was staring out the window making up pipe dreams and each one gets bigger as he ages a fool that never will be a hero.
Every class room had one even some girls aka Hillary.


18 posted on 02/04/2021 9:21:31 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Onthebrink

they are not elite, they are immune
They have a “Get out Jail” card
Trump tried to put an expiration date on that card back in 2016...


19 posted on 02/04/2021 8:22:07 PM PST by TexasTransplant ( I am going back to work... permission or not)
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To: Onthebrink

The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.

2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke

Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.

Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake

2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/

Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.

Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.

This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.


20 posted on 02/12/2021 9:01:45 PM PST by tbw2
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