It's an Ill Wind

Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH kurt.buff at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 04:08:48 PDT 2020


On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:18 AM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Uh, no, they're only not quarantining or taking other measures. That
> > is not the same as "trying to infect"
> >
> > Some of your analysis is OK, but this statement is false. I don't hear
> > of government agents with spray bottles of viral concoctins chasing
> > down their subjects on the streets, or invading their homes, in order
> > to infect them.
>
> Governments murder people all the time, literally on news every day.
> Doesn't matter whether it's via spy poison dart umbrella,
> spraying humancide from a lorry in the streets,
> carpet bombing the "enemy",
> shooting sleepy people,
> stealing and starving them to death,
> etc.
>
> Rest assured, if govt has a gameable angle on plague,
> they're going to leverage it. History full of game examples.

Indeed yes, but not in this case. Accuracy in speech and thought is
the desideratum, and Peter failed to meet it.

Kurt


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