I can confirm that the letter in the thread below was sent to me and Tom Sowell. It's really worth reading, in a time of widespread panic.

The work of centuries can be torn down in hours. The destroyers will live and die in the ruins of something they cannot rebuild or replace.

Happy 90th birthday, Thomas Sowell! Some of his best quotes 👇

#Sweden - #Mortality deaths per months 1980-2020 "I think it's like a severe flu season" Professor Johan Giesecke (update, putting all charts into one single pinned thread )

0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors. I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created... x.com/MarkChangizi/s… This thread gets more at the many facets of common sense it wrecked. <thread>

I kinda envy the people who think we're one voting cycle away from fixing our system

A movement opposes science when it doesn't want assertions tested, challenges arithmetic when its claims don't add up, ridicules 'merit' when it wants to triumph by other means, seeks to censor when it fears discussion. Those who coddle such demands sow the seeds of our undoing.

If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?

Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.

It’s naive to think that you wouldn’t have taken part in historical atrocities once considered normal if you embrace all the trendy ideas of today.

Yeap

Could an AI allocate resources with alternative uses better (for whom?) than a market and price signals? Both scary and intriguing

It's not complicated. I don't think people should be experimented upon against their will by pharmaceutical companies.

The national security state oligarchy always has preexisting goals they want to implement and they always use shocking events as a means to sell them to the public. If you want to know what the state really wants to do to you, observe what they push after a big spectacle.

It’s interesting how seemingly different systems have produced similar realities. In China, government controls social media. In the US, social media controls government. Both are able to create a social credit system that’s capable of enforcing ideological conformity.

Wow. Everyone has to see and hear this.

"Excess deaths per 100k people since country’s first 50 Covid deaths" Scroll down until you will find No Lockdown & "failed" Sweden 🇸🇪. What do you think? Top 5? Top 10? Let's see. Please share. Thanks. Thread. 🧵⬇️

If you're struggling to understand people who are outraged at the idea of vaccine passports just imagine it's Donald Trump introducing them.