For internet quarantine: Ace of Spades edition

Sorry about the 'ronaposting. But.

A pattern among wishful-thinkers is to find, and tout, outliers; and ignoring such studies as show a contrary opinion. In this case, that "contrarian" opinion - that is, the correct opinion - is that this virus be deadly to some, long-term deleterious to many, and contagious to all.

Recently a study came out of Stanford. Ace posted "50 to 85 Times as Many People May Have Been Exposed to Coronavirus Than Who Have Tested Positive for It, Indicating That the Chinese Flu is Far Less Deadly Than Models Suggest". (Don't fret about the "flu" bit; Ace knows and he knows his audience knows it's a corona.) It turns out that this study is a bad joke, to the extent apologies are being demanded.

There exist ways to support our defence against this plague without being a Leftist. In fact, I'd argue that there are many such ways: stopping immigration is certainly one. Also, commentary supporting Medicare For All simply doesn't mesh with a unionised nursing staff (which I do support). Imagine during the next plague if the nurses strike. Mind you, first Right sites need to build a reputation for non-foolish content...

We learnt in 2008 that Ace's site goes stupid when times are tough. In mid October 2008, the economy got into a tailspin; after that, Obama looked likely to beat McCain and (more to the point) Palin. As a result Ace and his co-bloggers went grasping at straws to stop this Leftist from taking over. 23 October 2008, a post came out on blogspot, "Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging", to summarise the paranoia; though you'll have to wayback that one to read it. I was hoping the pattern wouldn't still hold, twelve years later.

Here's a tip for fellow Rightists or "Right-adjacent" commenters: if the "consensus" looks useful to the globalist Left only, like "global warming", it may well be political bullshit. But if the consensus concerns a visible danger to the whole human race, and its political repercussions require a rethink from both sides, like - I dunno - a transmissible plague - then, take the consensus seriously. And watch out for the hoaxers in one study appearing in sequelîs.

I flat don't have the time or energy to rebut every broken study that might get floated on any given site. One study (like Epstein's) will be quashed in three days, but by that point the linker site will latch onto some other one. Now that we know the pattern at Ace's particular site, we know to avoid that for the duration. . . Like The Plague.

In the meantime, whilst we're awaiting that apology from Ace : the same holds, physical distancing, testing, contact tracing. Steve Sailer, hardly a Leftist, recommends pulse oximeters. If you question the lockdowns (Doherty offers sympathy - and I'm not disputing that), you'd best be supporting those alternatives.

If however your take is to deny the problem, then prepare for nurse counterprotests and for a complete lack of sympathy on my part. If you want to call that Stasi, then call me "Karen".

UPDATE 5/15 - oh yeah, Ace was fucking had.