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Open Thread – Weekend 22 Jan 2022
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How many in England and Wales died solely from COVID without any underlying causes between 2020- 2021 Q3?
Following a FOI request, the Office for National Statistics released the following figures: 2020: 9400 (0-64: 1549 / 65 and over: 7851) 2021 Q1: 6483 (0-64: 1560/ 65 and over: 4923) 2021 Q2: 346 (0-64: 153/ 65 and over: 193) 2021 Q3: 1142 (0-64: 512/ 65 and over: 630) In total, 17, 371. The usual quoted statistic of deaths within 28 days of a positive test over the same period is 137,133.…
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Meme of the Day #10
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Open Thread – Mon 17 Jan 2022
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Meme of the Day #9
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Open Thread – Weekend 15 Jan 2022
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Weekday Reading #18
Sohrab Ahmari, The Post-Liberals’ Fight For The Weekend, The American Conservative Niccolo Soldo, The Zürich Interviews – Darren J. Beattie: If Only You Knew How Bad Things Really Are, Fisted by Foucault Edward Feser, Geach on authority and consistency, Feser’s Blog Adrian Vermeulle, “Who Decides?”, The Postliberal Order Allen Mendenhall, Remembering Kingsley Amis, Chronicles
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Meme of the Day #8
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Open Thread – Mon 10 Jan 2022
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Guest Post: Cardimona – How to break a loved one out of a hypnotic trance
Cats, this is today’s long-form LTE, sent to ten papers but highly unlikely to get ink anywhere. However, I’m sincerely hoping that it might serve to redpill ten letters desk journo-listers… *** Experts in psychology say that the safest way to wake a loved one from a deep hypnotic trance is with gentle questioning. Here…