Hence, this thought will never attain to a vision of the real, that is at the same time complete and crystal-clear. It will have to resign itself to plodding along the tedious and painful path of abstraction and of discursive reasoning in order to throw a bit of light on the data of experience. Never is the ego of the man in the world and exclusively thinking ego, for it is not in his power to strip himself of the complex of his sensations. These latter too, go to make up an opaque image, which clouds the vision of the mind and resists perfectly transparent intellection.(from The Philosophy of Being by Louis De Raeymaeker pub.1954)
Even the very intelligent are led from the righteous path of evidence based reasoning by the way they carve up the world. Bemused butchery is patent in this interview:
Dr. Cahill speaks out
Outside of the science which I am not qualified to asses there occur those wood notes wild of conspiracy theory which my lay ear can catch. She doubts the fact of excess deaths. So then we are supposed to believe that the pressing of an ice rink to serve as a morgue was a device to further the narrative and the array of freezer trucks sheer theatrical ebullience.. Dr. Cahill was fed the line that the focus on meat plants as centres of contagion and infection was part of a plan by Bill Gates to promote his cultured protein factories. She did not demur.
Lacing up our sensible shoes and tying a double knot we plod along 'the tedious and painful path of abstraction and of discursive reasoning'. I love the Gregorian chant cadence of Raeymaeker's prose as translated by Edmund H. Ziegelmeyer.
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Outside of the tragic situation of nursing homes, Ireland has brought brought the curve of infection and death down the other side. It'd be a shame to abandon a successful course of action now, when making the transition to a prudent incremental easing of lockdown would seem to be at hand, restoring social institutions and also saving lives. Australia has succeeded; the US has failed: Ireland should tilt antipodean.
On Monday 18th. there will be an easing of the lockdown with some more shops open, garden centres and diy stores. There will be mask wearing on public transport with social distancing. Our son who is living with us and saving to buy a house is hoping that prices will come down. They need to. They are vastly overpriced. I am glad he is with us as being in a small apartment in town would have been hellish combining total exposure at work with containment after the days work.
At some point we may catch it but then we will have a fighting chance with the hospitals prepared.
The US response is fragmenting. I don't even know what the rules are for North Carolina anymore, or for the city of Durham which takes precedence over the state regs. Our daughter lives with us and can do her work from home. In the fall she begins grad school in Oregon, though who knows what the situation will be by then.
From today's Reuters: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday the state’s new confirmed COVID-19 cases are predominantly coming from people who left their homes to shop, exercise or socialize, rather than from essential workers. “That person got infected and went to the hospital or that person got infected and went home and infected the other people at home,” Cuomo said during his daily news conference on the coronavirus outbreak... “The infection rate among essential workers is lower than the general population."
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