Thursday, May 7, 2020

Covid-19: An American Bioweapon? A Proposition Only Those of Exceptionally High IQ Can Believe

For some time now, Ron Unz, an anti-Semitic Jewwho has claimed an IQ of 214 (which would place him in the one-in-a-trillion category), has deployed in his web "zine," the Unz Review, articles and reader comments promoting the idea that Covid-19 is a bioweapon unleashed on China by the United States government or Zionist Jew elements therein.

 That the idea may be self-evident to those of exceptionally high IQ, is suggested by its endorsement by comics publisher Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day or Vox Popoli, who's high self-assessed IQ is implied by his frequent disparagement as "gammas" those whose views he derides. Thus, Beale quotes approvingly an Unz response to a comment at the Unz Review:

Well, ignorant retards like you can believe whatever ridiculous nonsense you get from FoxNews or similar sources. But the actual evidence is pretty strong that the Coronavirus outbreak was an American biowarfare attack on China (and Iran), presumably arranged by the Deep State Neocons in the Trump Administration.

Otherwise, how could our Defense Intelligence Agency have distributed a November report to all our top government officials and European allies describing a “cataclysmic” disease epidemic taking place in Wuhan OVER A MONTH before any Chinese officials had become aware of it:

Four separate government sources described the report to ABC News and its existence was independently confirmed by Israeli TV:

Now go back to watching Mike Pompeo’s silly accusations on FoxNews…
Well, LOL, where to begin.

First, "Well." 

Not the pithiest way to begin an argument.

Second, " ignorant retards like you."  

Well, LOL again. Nothing like a bit of abuse to begin a high IQ argument.

Third, "you can believe whatever ridiculous nonsense you get from FoxNews or similar sources." 

Here there is some ambiguity. Is this the granting of permission to believe "ridiculous nonsense," or a statement about his protagonists gullilbility? Most likely the latter, i.e., a reiteration of the "ignorant retard" label.

Fourth, "But the actual evidence is pretty strong that the Coronavirus outbreak was an American biowarfare attack on China (and Iran), presumably arranged by the Deep State Neocons in the Trump Administration."

Here we come to the heart of the argument: "[T]he actual evidence," none of which (actual or otherwise) is to be sourced, is "pretty strong". So, boy, you'd better believe it.

Fifth, and here's what's supposed to be the clincher: "Otherwise, how could our Defense Intelligence Agency have distributed a November report to all our top government officials and European allies describing a “cataclysmic” disease epidemic taking place in Wuhan OVER A MONTH before any Chinese officials had become aware of it."

Well I dunno how they could, but could we please have a link to the text of that "Defense Intelligence Agency report distributed in November," or other evidence of its existence and contents.

Maybe here really is a killer argument. But we're supposed to take it on trust from someone who'd call us an "ignorant retard" if we refused to swallow without demur his unsupported account of the contents Defense Intelligence Agency report? Surely only a gamma, or probably a sub-gamma, would buy that.

And even if the high IQ Mr. Unz has seen, or been given convincing evidence of, the contents of a report such as he describes, what is so conclusive about it? The novel corona virus, Covid-19, is reported to have been circulating in Wuhan in November of last year. Why then should the US Government not have been aware of it? The US has a world-spanning network of virology labs designed, at least in part, one assumes, for precisely such detection -- a network that, for some reason, both China and Russia demand be shut down. Moreover, as Cambridge University virologists have reported in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, Covid-19 was circulating in China earlier than November, not in Wuhan, but far to the south of that city. So the US  probably had at least several months to detect the circulation of Covid19 in China prior to the end of November. 

Sixth, more proof without any actual evidence:  "Four separate government sources described the report to ABC News and its existence was independently confirmed by Israeli TV".  Now you're really screwed. Proof positive of what you deny based on "four separate government sources" to none of which a reference is provided, merely a reference to one of America's mass media "News," sources, which Unz has already derided as totally useless. And, plus, Israeli TV, which you no doubt watch every day. 

Seventh, another sneer: "Now go back to watching Mike Pompeo’s silly accusations on FoxNews."

Then, Beale continues, in case you are beginning to feel uncertain what to believe, "remember to apply Vox's [i.e., Beale's] First Law of Media": 
the Official Story put forth by the mainstream media is always false. 
Which is an odd way of endorsing Unz, since the mainstream media, i.e., ABC News and Israeli TV are the only information sources Unz explicitly mentions in support of his claim that Covid19 was a bioweapon deployed against China by the United States or rogue Zionist elements therein.

Furthermore, as an aside, it should be noted that Vox's (i.e., Beale's) claimed First Law, dates back at least to the Middle Ages, and probably, to Nineveh and Tyre, if not since the dawn of civilization. Moreover, it is an apothegm that is usually stated, probably since the days of Gobekli Tepi, more pithily thus:
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
Beale then lays on more oleaginous approbation of Unz's huge brainpower applied to the mentality of the gamma, stating:
Unz further lays out his logic:
There are multiple, independent sources in both the US government and Israel that agree that our Defense Intelligence Agency distributed a report in November warning of the “cataclysmic” disease outbreak that was taking place in Wuhan. Those facts seem almost incontrovertible.

As it happens, that was indeed right around the time that the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan had actually begun, but at such an early stage that no Chinese officials were yet aware of it, just like the virus later began circulating in various parts of America several weeks before people noticed it.

So unless you believe that our DIA has developed “precognitive technology”, how can they have possibly been aware of the outbreak before anyone in China unless elements of our national security establishment had themselves released the virus in Wuhan as a biowarfare attack against China?
Taking that apart, we see that the first paragraph is merely a reiteration of what the US and, apparently, the Israeli Governments are supposed to have known in November 2019 about a disease outbreak in Wuhan, all public knowledge of which Chinese authorities were, at the time, vigorously attempting to suppress. But, again, there are no actual references, leaving the reader without evidence of the validity or plausibility of these alleged sources, assuming such sources exist. 

The second paragraph spells out the claim that the US was well informed about the emergence of a virulent corona virus infection in China, whereas the Government of China knew nothing about it. But there is abundant evidence that the Government of China was well aware of the outbreak, but was attempting to suppress public knowledge of it. 

So is Unz's claim bullshit, or what? 

And finally : "So unless you believe that our DIA has developed “precognitive technology”, how can they have possibly been aware of the outbreak before anyone in China unless elements of our national security establishment had themselves released the virus in Wuhan as a biowarfare attack against China?"

Hows that for a high IQ line of reasoning? 

First the sneer, "unless (your are such a total moron) as to believe that our DIA has developed “precognitive technology.” Then the question claimed to be unanswerable except by acknowledgement of an act of war by the United States against China: "how can they have possibly been aware of the outbreak before anyone in China unless elements of our national security establishment had themselves released the virus in Wuhan as a biowarfare attack against China?"

Fall for that and I would be inclined to think that your IQ can be stated with a single digit.

As noted, the US has a global network of microbiology labs a function of which must be to detect and follow the emergence and spread of viral and other disease agents. Why, then, would the US not have picked up early on, perhaps even sooner than the Government of China, that a novel corona virus was spreading in China? No reason.

And here's one more reason to consider Unz's claim that Covid19 is US bioweapon deliberately loosed on China, evidence of a loose screw:


As that graph shows, if it were true that the US did attack China with Covid19, it would indicate a degree of incompetence comparable to that of having accidentally dropped the first atom bomb on Chicago, rather than Hiroshima -- but with more US casualties from the virus than would have resulted from the nuke.

Amazingly, the source of that graph? The Unz Review.

 And here are two more interesting graphs (source), which indicated the existence of two strains of the Covid-19 that differ markedly in virulence. China, it is claimed was afflicted only by the milder, orange strain (see image below), whereas countries that have suffered the highest mortality from Covid-19 have been afflicted mainly by the blue strain. Are these claims true? I have no idea. Anyone with relevant details, please comment.

Related:
Dennis Prager: The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History
Rand Paul demolishes Fauci on the need for continued lock-down:

6 comments:

  1. It seems as if Unz is motivated, not to search for the truth of the matter, but to demonstrate the superiority of the Chinese gov't.

    That's why he would allow that WorldMeter bar graph showing the very small ratio of Chinese Covid-19 deaths/million of population, and a large ratio for the US. (That graph shows US Covid-19 deaths of over 200,000. This is an inflated figure, as far as I know. I hope to learn someday what WorldMeter is that it so suddenly became the go-to source for "reliable" Covid-19 data.) The Chinese gov't. handled the pandemic remarkably well compared to the U.S. if this data is trusted.

    Unz is not going to be critical of an inflated figure of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. He is going to be biased in favor. He does not want to consider the "hoaxers" are already being shown to have been correct.

    Now on to the next discredit of the U.S. compared to China. The bioweapon has been demonstrated to be of U.S. origin... There is incontrovertible evidence (LOL) this is so! The U.S. gov't. is thus responsible for one of the worst catastrophes in human history. China is the U.S. gov't.'s innocent victim here. The Chinese gov't is superior in this way also. It is not the aggressor.

    However, discredit one and discredit two appear to involve a contradiction.

    As you point out, if Covid-19 is a U.S. bioweapon, "it would indicate a degree of incompetence comparable to, having accidentally dropped the first atomic bomb on Chicago, rather than Hiroshima -- but with more US casualties." That the U.S. gov't might be this irresponsible and incompetent probably would not, however, be an unpleasing or unwanted conclusion to Unz and Beale, if what they are after is that the U.S. gov't be arranged more along the lines of the Chinese gov't. Unz and Beale might even believe they killed two birds with one stone.

    I don't know, though. This is beginning to make me dizzy. I think you hit the nail on the head the other day with the list of "why this crash isn't like the others." The questions of whether we're dealing with a bioweapon and if so, from where, are comparatively minor, almost distractions from the more pressing ones. We'll be better if we leave them for the time being, until much better data and information becomes available. We need to figure out how we are going to keep the seven horsemen of the apocalypse from riding on in. (Starvation, chaos, open violence and civil war.)

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    1. "The questions of whether we're dealing with a bioweapon and if so, from where, are comparatively minor, almost distractions from the more pressing ones."

      Yes, that is the question: what is it about?

      Are we observing governments responding with varying degrees of incompetence and corruption to a naturally occurring public health emergency?

      Or is there a devious plan, set in motion by the corona virus, whether the emergence of the virus was the result of a natural occurrence or deliberate human action?

      Propagandistic lies make one fear the worst, although I am in two minds as to whether Ron Unz is lying to some purpose or merely spewing nonsense.

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  2. Oops. The bar graph shows 220 deaths per million so 350x220= 77,000 US Covid-19 deaths. Not 220,000. Maybe I am an ignorant retard. At least I caught it, just not before I pushed PUBLISH.

    My points still stand, I believe.

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    1. Here are some interesting Covid mortality stats. New York has 58 times as many deaths per million as British Columbia! With respect to this difference, one would like to know:

      What are the respective infection rates?

      What are the criteria for identifying cause of death?

      Or more generally, would the numbers be so vastly different on an infection-specific basis if the criteria for assigning death to Covid19 were the same.

      But will probably never know.

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  3. If Unz is going around telling people he has an IQ of 214, he is simply a liar and a fool.

    The IQ test contains a finite number of questions and it is possible to answer all of the questions correctly. A certain number of people will do so. The cumulative responses of people getting none correct, some correct, and all correct is normally distributed, the famous bell curve. The people getting all of the questions correct are three standard deviations to the right from the average score. (100 IQ.) That's as far as the IQ test can go. It is possible some of the people scoring 100% are smarter than others scoring 100%, but it is not measurable. There are already so many frail and in my opinion faulty assumptions at play in the IQ test in terms of what the human brain is and can do as it is. In my opinion it is merely an assumption it measures "intelligence." The book by Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man is a good history of how wrong it has often been, and how much damage it has done. There are many others and from other angles. I do not trust anyone who goes around quoting their IQ, especially when they are quoting a number I find doubtful. This doesn't necessarily address your question of whether he's lying to a purpose or spewing nonsense. Of course it is possible it is both. It is hard to keep track of lies and they get tangled into nonsense quite easily.

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    1. Poor Unz! He will likely be dogged for life by the story that he once claimed an IQ of 214. As a source for that, I gave the wrong link. My source was Unz's Wikipedia entry:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz

      As for IQ as a measure of intelligence, it is based on a misconception which I came to understand through critiquing a series Unz Review posts by psychologist James Thompson. For that reason I am in some debt to both Ron Unz and James Thompson.

      The claim that IQ estimates "general intelligence" or g is based on the fact that Pearsonian factor analysis shows a common factor among different tests of mental ability. This common factor is, however, trivial and can be explained in terms of such factors as cardiovascular health or mitachondrial efficiency, etc. that will affect every form of mental activity.

      The brain, however, comprises many systems that are independently regulated genetically and environmentally. Hence, the absurdity of attempting to rank the intelligence of all on a single scale.

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