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I'm confusing nothing. A preponderance of evidence leads to my conclusion. Even the article in nature (budley linked) alludes to that but stops short of admitting it while swearing up and down that lockdowns reduced transmission of covid. Even the studies which were conducted in order to...

All-cause mortality was actually the main sticking point I had, which clearly undermines your repetitive and asinine assertions that "lives were saved, end of discussion". Also, in regard to global supply chains, especially related to food, fuel and medical supplies, the financial aspect means...

The US gov't would love a crisis as long as it hurts the other guy more. I'll put it this way, comparisons between Ukraine and Taiwan did not originate in the PRC. They started with former US generals saying "oh boy I sure hope the PLA doesn't see The Ukraine and think they can pull it off"...

No, the US is not belligerent. At least not in this case, not this year. But understand the meaning of this word 'bellicose' that has recently resurged in popular usage. Some dictionaries show it meaning the same as belligerent and some show a bit of nuance. Bellicose = wish a motherfucker...

You don't see the US doing everything possible to provoke it? Really? You don't see Pelosi and that fat ass who worked for Trump, I forgot his name, it sounded Italian, visiting Taiwan? You don't see over a hundred 4th gen+ jets being sold to Taiwan by the US? You don't see FONOPs? You...

I don't mind if "people disagree". In fact "people agreeing" was part of my problem. Weren't you saying something about proof? You had months to post it.

It is a unanymous "sorry for the lack of proof" from the scientific community. Meanwhile any researchers who actually make an argument that would produce proof that they did not work are vociferously attacked mainly with political arguments. The best anyone in the scientific community can...

Exactly. This is really the only way they can do it and the US desperately wants them to try the military approach.

Not even close. The fact is, political alignment dictates one's need for proof in this. The very language you chose illustrates it. You refer to it as "my claim" which has been "killed". It is not simply a claim. It is a fact that such proof does not exist. The best you've done is to dismiss...

What are you talking about? If by "we" you mean the US, then no, that has little consideration of US interests. It is in the interest of the US for the Chinese Communist Party to jump with both feet into a fool-hardy invasion of Taiwan and get their shit pushed in just like what Putin has done...

No. I'm saying that there is no proof that government interference into social interactions and the associations of citizens had any material impact on all-cause mortality. It is established and proven that herd immunity is the only solution to the pandemic. I am not arguing otherwise. I am not...

Hittting a moving ship on the surface of the sea is a far cry from training sights on a rail-bound mockup. Actually scoring a hit with "carrier killers" is much more like throwing rocks at cats in a stadium from the parking lot. Currently, the notion is that they simply fire dozens or even...

Still waiting for that proof. Sounds like lockdowns work as well against pandemics as drugwars work against drugs. US lockdowns didn't work because people didn't respect them and Chinese lockdowns didn't work because they didn't continue them forever. It is clearly MRNA vaccines and not the...

On the other hand, Russia shares a land border with Ukraine and is the successor of the government that actually included Ukraine. The Chinese Commy party has never ruled Formosa, nor has there ever been a Lapse in the sovereignty of the RoC, which predates the CCP. The Ukraine's entire arsenal...

This is a poor analysis and even worse as a comparison with Russia's "Special Military Operation". China has flown ever greater training sorties near Taiwan's airspace and naval exercizes, basically pounding their chest just in the hopes that the US will take them seriously. If there is one...

Weakness invites hostility.

Still no proof? Oh, 5 thousand deaths per day in China despite having had the most stringent lockdowns for so long... How are those people dying if they were under lockdown so long?

and how many times does someone quit smoking before they die of lung cancer? The curve followed access to vaccines and all cause death rates didn't seem to appreciate the efforts of militant lockdown activists.

Let's see those studies.

This is really all you had to say. You are arguing with more intent than evidence but the fact is, you don't know. You just want to have the last word I guess. You're kind of taking this in circles. Let me refocus this for you. The intent of the lockdowns, all along, was alway very specific...