https://www.aier.org/article/madness-in-melbourne/
Turn Off The Fear Porn On The News And Look At The Statistics
Do you know how many people had the flu listed on their death cert in Australia in 2019? 1013
Do you know how many people have the flu listed on their death cert in Australia in 2020? 30
Do you know how many people have COVID listed on their death cert in Australia in 2020? (Totally ignoring that many are fraudulently included as COVID deaths for the financial gain.) 331 to date.
How many do you think would have been saved from COVID death had the government not banned the use of Hydroxychloroquine? Most.
How many increased suicides, or injuries from domestic violence let alone economic hardships have occurred from the lockdown?
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/05/850470436/u-n-warns-number-of-people-starving-to-death-could-double-amid-pandemic
From the fear perspective that the media are promoting, lockdowns feel right.
When you look at the statistics, lockdowns are more destructive than Sweden’s letting their population build herd immunity naturally. (Something you cannot get from vaccines.)
Cooking Vegetables: When Should You Boil The Water?
The reason? Cooking aboveground vegetables simply requires softening the cell walls to make them more palatable and digestible. Because most green vegetables are small with thin cell walls, that process doesn’t take very long. So all you need to do is boil water, add the vegetables, and cook until they are just tender.
Root vegetables, on the other hand, contain a great deal of starch, and that starch needs to be dissolved before most can be eaten.
Starting potatoes off in cold water creates more even cooking. Throwing cold potatoes into boiling water gelatinizes the starches at the surface of the potato too fast, leaving you with a mushy exterior that falls apart and dissolves into the cooking water before the center cooks through. By starting in cold water, the temperature in the potato rises more gently.
Killers All
The actions of these 5 Governors accounts for 40% of the US COVID deaths.
For goodness sakes get them recalled or at least vote them out next election!
A Quote From Norman Cousins
If something comes to life in others, because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Complex Application Design: A 5-Layer Framework
An interesting article on the various contexts of complexity that should be considered by user experience designers and researchers designing complex applications, including complexities of integration, information, intention, environment, and institution.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/complex-application-design-framework/
Human Rights Video #3: The Right To Life
One of my principle concerns with the current scene is the rapidly escalating speed with which human rights are being trampled. The lack of peace in certain regions is proof positive that these principles are actually valid and needed, more than ever.
This trend needs to be reversed. The entrance point is educating people that they do have rights. Hence this post and the request you share these posts so more people are aware of and insist upon their rights so that we can live in a peaceful society.
Watch the video and if you think so too, please share it!
On Getting Things Done
A mate sent me this quote from Plato: “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato – Philosopher (427-347 B.C.)
Considering the number of people who have things they would like to do but who never get started on them I can see Plato’s point but I find it pretty easy to start things and not as easy to finish them.
From what I have learned (and observed and experienced) it is not just me, more people find it easy to start tasks than they do to finish them.
In fact, the worst off amongst us cannot finish anything they start. Which is actually a very reliable way to pick the people to stay well away from and not let in your life.
I well recall visiting two different people. One worked at home and did not appear to be able to throw anything out. He had so many stacks of paper, magazines and books on the furniture and floor in his lounge that he had to move some off the lounge to make space for me to sit. He ended up not paying all his bill.
Another I visited at work. His office was so full of papers, magazines and books that he was unable to get two people to sit in it. He was occupying a meeting room and was hard at work filling that one too!
Ideally one should be as competent in starting, continuing or changing and finishing anything they wish to undertake.
As it is easy to get distracted prior to finishing tasks, I play a little game with myself from time to time to feret out any tasks I have started and discipline myself to finish them off.
It is amazing how many attention units this frees up.
I commend it to you as a useful exercise to try.
See if your experience matches mine!
Choose Your Leaders Well
The Original Obituary to Common Sense by Lori Borgman
Three yards of black fabric enshroud my computer terminal. I am mourning the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. His obituary reads as follows: Common Sense, aka C.S., lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he was, his birth records were long ago entangled in miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape. Known affectionately to close friends as Horse Sense and Sound Thinking, he selflessly devoted himself to a life of service in homes, schools, hospitals and offices, helping folks get jobs done without a lot of fanfare, whooping and hollering.
Rules and regulations and petty, frivolous lawsuits held no power over C.S. A most reliable sage, he was credited with cultivating the ability to know when to come in out of the rain, the discovery that the early bird gets the worm and how to take the bitter with the sweet.
C.S. also developed sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adult is in charge, not the kid) and prudent dietary plans (offset eggs and bacon with a little fiber and orange juice).
A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, the Technological Revolution and the Smoking Crusades, C.S. survived sundry cultural and educational trends including disco, the men’s movement, body piercing, whole language and new math. C.S.’s health began declining in the late 1960s when he became infected with the If-It-Feels-Good, Do-It virus.
In the following decades, his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal and state rules and regulations and an oppressive tax code. C.S. was sapped of strength and the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, criminals received better treatment than victims and judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional baseball and golf.
His deterioration accelerated as schools implemented zero-tolerance policies. Reports of 6-year-old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing classmates, a teen suspended for taking a swig of Scope mouthwash after lunch, girls suspended for possessing Midol and an honor student expelled for having a table knife in her school lunch were more than his heart could endure.
As the end neared, doctors say C.S. drifted in and out of logic but was kept informed of developments regarding regulations on low-flow toilets and mandatory air bags. Finally, upon hearing about a government plan to ban inhalers from 14 million asthmatics due to a trace of a pollutant that may be harmful to the environment, C.S. breathed his last.
Services will be at Whispering Pines Cemetery. C.S. was preceded in death by his wife, Discretion; one daughter, Responsibility; and one son, Reason. He is survived by two step-brothers, Half-Wit and Dim-Wit.
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Institute for Rational Thought. Farewell, Common Sense. May you rest in peace.
And the altered version of it doing the rounds:
An Obituary:
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.
No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn’t always fair and
- Maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility and
-by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepchildren;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I’m A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.