{"id":3495,"date":"2020-05-29T22:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2021-01-17T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:57:14","slug":"fuck-science-roll-dice-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2020\/05\/29\/fuck-science-roll-dice-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuck Science. Roll Dice Instead."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Science hey, who needs it? I mean, us obviously.\u00a0 But now its seen us through the scourge it\u2019s time to kick it to the fucking curb. Am I right?<\/span><\/p>

Fucking science with all it\u2019s rationalism and data and bullshit. Doesn\u2019t let me express myself. For starters, that virus was definitely started in a lab. In China. Am right? I am so right. And fuck those science boffins who are telling me otherwise. I mean, if they\u2019re so smart how come they never cured cancer? Or stupidity?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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They reckon they can peer into the genome of the virus and tell me it\u2019s natural. Mate, if they can do that then how come they can\u2019t sequence the genome and create a vaccine? They did? Fuck me. Who cares. Vaccines are a tool of oppression used by the Literati. If I hadn\u2019t been vaccinated when I was young I might have been a Rhodes Scholar. Instead I\u2019m a deadshit conspiracy theory believer, keyboard warrior, and sometime alcohol abuser. If it wasn\u2019t for science and their fucking vaccines I might have been a scientist myself.\u00a0 Or stricken by polio. Or dead from measles.<\/span><\/p>

And if the Chinese didn\u2019t make the virus, they released it. This is my theory. Somehow this virus created itself in the wild. And somehow, even though it\u2019s incredibly deadly, it didn\u2019t kill anyone. Or enough to make headlines anyway. And even though it\u2019s proven to be amazingly contagious, somehow they bottled it up and put it in a lab. That was until one day…it escaped. Someone left the back door open or something and it just walked out. Or it got a fake ID, seduced the guard, and together they hatched a brazen and complex escape plan. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Only 140,000 children died of Measles in 2018. That\u2019s only the same as the amount of people who died from flu. So it\u2019s like a mild case of flu. Or something.<\/span><\/p>

Let\u2019s not focus on the fact that I just glossed over the deaths of 140,000 children like they don\u2019t matter. Or I made\u00a0 two vaguely corresponding statements and compared them without actually drawing a causal link between then. That’s just how it works. The important thing here is other people also died and therefore we shouldn\u2019t get upset about some other <\/span>other<\/span><\/i> people dying. It\u2019s a kind of new age moral relativism. I\u2019m all about it. I\u2019ll compare anything to anything else and tell you therefore it doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ll compare steak to dog shit and tell you the whole thing\u2019s a shit sandwich anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Corona is like that. It\u2019s like a mild case of the flu. You just have a look at the numbers. Only a little over 100 people have died of it in Australia. So why are we all hiding?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Someone said to me the other day that 350,000-plus people had died worldwide. And that\u2019s with<\/em>\u00a0hiding. I said, open up the economy. Roll the dice I said. Roll the fucking dice! Can you believe my bravado? The most infectious and deadly disease for centuries and I said, roll the dice. I\u2019m in awe of my own shameless naivety here.<\/span><\/p>

They told me, there’s this place called Italy. And it got over-run by the coronavirus. People dropped dead like flies. And sure, I\u2019ve heard of Italy. I\u2019m not stupid. They invented the telescope. And diving in the penalty box. Point is, Italy, with it\u2019s wonderful healthcare system and advanced medical sciences, just wasn\u2019t ready. But we are. We\u2019ve doubled our intensive care units. Now let\u2019s fucking use them.<\/span><\/p>

That\u2019s the problem with people these days. Too much waste. Investing a tonne of money in saving lives and then they don\u2019t have the foresight to imperil those same lives so they can save them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Roll. The. Fucking. Dice.<\/span><\/p>

I actually said those words. Except it\u2019s not dice is it? It\u2019s people. People dying. Dice sounds better. I feel tough just saying those words. Like I\u2019m staring death in the eyes. Someone else\u2019 death obviously. Not my death. If it was my death I\u2019d cry like a baby and insist the government invest another 50 trillion while they close down the entire galaxy. But when I think of other people dying, people I don\u2019t know, just numbers, not even real people maybe, I\u2019m the toughest guy around. Roll the dice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And this is why we have to fuck science right off. Even with lockdown there\u2019s still 350,000 dead. The virus has killed 6% of people it infected. Those are sobering numbers. Not numbers to be contemplated while insisting we open the economy.<\/span><\/p>

All the more reason to give ourselves over to our self-aggrandising willful idiocy as put the middle finger up to science. Roll the dice morons.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Science hey, who needs it? I mean, us obviously.\u00a0 But now its seen us through the scourge it\u2019s time to kick it to the fucking curb. Am I right? Fucking science with all it\u2019s rationalism and data and bullshit. Doesn\u2019t let me express myself. For starters, that virus was definitely started in a lab. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nFuck Science. Roll Dice Instead. - SSGC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2020\/05\/29\/fuck-science-roll-dice-instead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fuck Science. 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