I'll admit that I'm not as witty, well-spoken, and loquacious as some people in the Dissident Right. Words, of which we clearly have too many today, are becoming increasingly cheap. But where I really score over the "submasculine telegenics" who dominate the vlog-o-sphere that now defines dissident politics is in the brutal efficiency of my intelligence. This means that I not only avoid getting drawn into sterile and retarded intellectual positions, as happened to the Rump Alt-Right, but also that my predictions and judgments tend to have an extremely high incidence of accuracy and utility.
This efficiency is based on a number of factors, the most important of which is avoiding time-and-intelligence-draining detail when and where possible. Needless to say this has been my attitude to the coronavirus, which is why I soon concluded that it was essentially a new kind of flu and not a particularly deadly one, and then quickly figured out, without too much effort, that the real "virus" was the mental one that tapped into the latent hysteria of the multicultural West and the wider world.
Using the same relatively low-data-imputing methods that mean I can still lead a relatively normal life, I also soon concluded that the virus was lab-based and even "designed." That was back in April as this item from Trad News shows, or earlier
For my next "macro-empirical" trick, I then used timelines, quo bonum, my knowledge of Chinese-generated memes, and a tonal awareness of the sort of thing the Chinese Communist Party would be likely to do to hang on to power, to conclude that the lab-created virus had an extremely precise purpose: namely to shut down the extremely dangerous (to the CCP) pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
This was from a couple of months ago.
By the way, any good logic chain works backwards as well as forwards. The teleology evident in the effect also shines light on the causation. So, what was the effect?
On the back off the pandemic, which cowed and shamed Hong Kong's potent pro-democracy movement into collapsing, a whole raft of repressive laws were quickly rammed through in Hong Kong's new "National Security Law." This package includes the following:
- Crimes of "secession," "subversion," "terrorism" and "collusion" with foreign forces are punishable by a maximum sentence of life in prison
- Damaging public transport facilities can be considered terrorism
- Those found guilty will not be allowed to stand for public office
- Companies can be fined if convicted under the law
- Beijing will establish a new security office in Hong Kong, with its own law enforcement personnel - neither of which would come under the local authority's jurisdiction
- This office can send cases to be tried in mainland China
- Hong Kong's chief executive (appointed by Beijing) will have the power to appoint judges to hear national security cases
- Some trials will be heard behind closed doors
- People suspected of breaking the law can be wire-tapped and put under surveillance
- The law will also apply to non-permanent residents and people "from outside [Hong Kong] who are not permanent residents of Hong Kong"
Nice! And they got all this through with barely a whimper, whereas before the pandemic just the suggestion that some criminal cases might be extradited to China had the whole territory in a near permanent uprising. An impressive piece of CCP gleichschaltung for a relatively low cost: even taking the pandemic stats at face value, only 103 deaths were enough to ensure that Hong Kong would become another squeakless cog in China's statist machine, and to kill off the hope that China would ultimately imitate Hong Kong rather than the other way round.
Now my deduction that China had a clear interest in unleashing a new virus and then meming it into a pandemic of panic appears to have been right, with more detailed data now backing it up.
