One little covid-related tidbit that I find myself fixating on is that the government sent
$136 million last year to Merck to build a new factory for at-home testing kits in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The money is a drop in the bucket compared to the trillions that have been printed as part of the 'American Restoration Act' or whatever it's called. What I keyed in on was the
three-year timetable to be fully operational; in the winter of 2024, the government will finally be ready to crank out at-home testing kits to its full capacity. Do you think this is going away? Scientists could find a legitimate cure for coronavirus cell binding, and "public health" would pivot to any random new crisis, by necessity.
What is equally daunting to me is concept of this government contract. Merck is a wealthy international cabal with over 60,000 employees, so I am sure they have built a factory or two before. The hitch with the government oversight is the
mandatory diversity. Sure, you will need a few scientists to wear the lab coats, but as for the physical construction, supplies, zoning, oversight, and then the day-to-day operations like HR, staffing, compliance, maintenance, custodial work, and unskilled labor, you are going to have a lot of jobs from this sort of infrastructure.
The 9/11 incident was 21 years ago, and we still take off our shoes and belts to fly on a plane now (unless you pay extra money). I think at this point, you can't dismantle the TSA because of the sheer amount of makework diversity jobs - what would all those people do instead? I am certain that once the rhythm of the covid industry settles into a regularity, we will see new and exciting ways to bake in mandatory diversity as part of the whopping cost.
Sheboygan has about 100,000 people and is 83% white and 2% black (Hmong is actually the largest minority group), whereas Milwaukee is just an hour away, is six times as populous, and is 37% black. I know where Merck can look if they need to check some boxes!
Back to covid theater, here's a compendium of 150 studies all proving that masks don't work. I didn't really read any of them because I figured that out myself rather quickly two years ago. Hopefully, a few of these studies also use explicit language about masks being "stupid" and "useless," too.
https://brownstone.org/articles/mor...d-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/