Pandemic Notes 8.25 On Covidiots and Silent Film Classics
Pandemic notes eight and a quarter. Another brief interjection in my chronicling of the semi-great pandemic of 2020-2, referencing covidiots and silent movies.
Eva Bartlett is still doing the covidiot thing. About a year ago now she out of the blue put out a ‘covid is a conspiracy against civil rights’ article. It seems to have cost her a big chunk of her readership and she was upset about that. Until then she had been a pretty good ‘on the ground’ source of information about the middle east.
I delivered a sound scolding over twitter about this behaviour. She blocked me on twitter. I laid some snarkiness into her Wordpress comments box hoping she would stop sending that as well. She did not.
In fact I am unable to stop receiving blog notices from her and another covidiot I had previously subscribed to. I went into the Wordpress website and it indicates I am not subscribed to their blogs anymore. Somehow I keep getting their stuff.
Recently Eva has been sticking to war stuff, mostly in the middle east. Then just lately she contaminated my in box with another rant against public health in Canada. She wanted to know when the famously volatile Canadian populace would rise up against the evil forces of…hm. These covidiots are always a little vague about who is behind the fiendish plot to employ standard health measures during a pandemic.
You can read this crap here. https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/canadians-growing-rebellion-against-draconian-covid-restrictions/#comment-134496
It is less crappier than a lot of covidiot crap in that it relies less on spurious claims that have been refuted a thousand times. It addresses people’s justified and growing anger about the incompetent pandemic response of Canadian government. It tries to turn that into support for the ridiculous claim that the pandemic is made up or that no measures are necessary.
It is worrisome that this somewhat more sophisticated approach may be a harbinger of methods the covidiots network will start to use. However, so far they have not had much effect in Canada. Most people are still taking the pandemic seriously, even if there is growing dissatisfaction with clowning governments.
People now know better than the politicized public health officials what they have to do to stay safe. Often they are unable to do it; to take sick days, refuse work that has not been organized to eliminate transmission. But covidiots will be covidiots, until they end up in the ICU or with ‘long hauler’ syndrome. Or in a jail.
There are some very good blogs about public health under pandemic. There are some really good twitterers on the topic, often M.D.s and PHDs. They are increasingly coming under attack from the cyberbully fraternity, covidiot division.
The same type of cretins supportively filled up Eva’s comments box and they seem quite resentful of the #covidzero and #canadianshield twitter tags, expressing frustration at their inability to shut them down. But what they really hate is the #covidiots hashtag. That is my favorite hashtag; a ray of sunshine every morning.
To reiterate, the thing to get up in arms about is the incompetence of government in dealing with covid. The paradox of this is that the covidiots are the people who take the greatest advantage of this incompetence. It government and the internet vectors were doing as they ought, they would all be promptly locked up, not locked down.
What government ought to be doing, and requiring net providers to do, is a topic I will get into in my big blogs. Very briefly, we do not have an emergency measures act that is worth a shit. It is long past time the internet became a public utility. That would get all covidiots locked up until they agree to wise up. The ones operating from abroad, like Eva, could be locked out of the Canadian internet and dealt with if she ever decides to return to Canada.
It is a shame that covidiots cannot be dealt with as severely they deserve. Ordinary , quiet, shy people like me end up having to be the covid police. It is clear there is some organization behind all this covid denial which needs to be looked into and shut down.
The motive for this is of course, clear. The same people have been pursuing the same motive over many years. They think there is too much democracy. They think government is getting in their way. They think the population is too large; especially, there are too many ‘economically unjustified people’.
This is why Eva and her B.S. calls to mind the silent movie ‘Metropolis’, which I had watched shortly before reading it. Lately I have been watching a few old black and white and silent movies. This has been restored and is available for free on YouTube at
Part of the plot of Metropolis is that there is this character, ‘Rotwang the Inventor.’ He invented a way to create a robotic duplicate of a human; just what most good sci fi stories need. As well, we have this young woman, Maria, who is preaching for a nonviolent revolution against the tyrannical ruler of this Metropolis, Joh.
Good Maria is too pretty and saintly for Joh to just assassinate in the usual ways, so he gets Rotwang to kidnap her and make a duplicate of her. Joh does not know that Rotwang has a secret grudge against Joh, and bad Maria goes beyond just doing bad things to discredit good Maria and other critics of Joh.
Bad Maria gets a mob together to start destroying the machinery that enables everyone in the Metropolis to live. They only get stopped at the very last minute. The moral I draw from this is that people need to look very closely at who is telling them to tear down everything they need in order to maintain existence and a decent standard of living.
Eva has ceased to be a good Maria and is acting the Bad Maria. Where is the Rotwang behind her? I leave my readers to contemplate upon that.
I will soon be putting out an article on exactly what government in Canada should have done in the first pace, what needs to be done now, and what the public needs to do to insure that in the next pandemic, things are done right.