Happy New Year to those who celebrate!
Let’s check in with party animal SARS-CoV-2. The vaccinated masked Followers of Science in Massachusetts are currently hosting a raging COVID-19 epidemic (“Very High”) while Deplorable Florida seems to be COVID-free (“Low”). CDC data:
The Dana-Farber hospital in Maskachusetts went back to forced masking on December 23, 2024 and visitation is limited:
(If a mother of 3 kids is being treated for cancer, only 2 of the 3 kids can visit at a time and it would be best from a COVID-prevention point of view if the father (or “second mother”, since this is MA) is out of the picture.)
Separately, I wonder if these data can be trusted. I don’t want to sound like a Science-denier, but how can levels of plague in the nation’s Capital of Filth (New York) be “Minimal” while simultaneously being “Very High” in Maskachusetts, which actually borders New York and is part of a travel corridor with New York City?
So… Happy New Year and let’s note that Anders Tegnell‘s February 2020 prediction of SARS-CoV-2 continuing to thrive seems to have been confirmed. (Dr. Tegnell, MD, PhD said that SARS-CoV-2 would be with us forever and, therefore, our coronapanic measures should be ones that we were willing and able to maintain for years if not forever.)
A recent tweet from another Swedish heretic:
Related:
- My January 2, 2021 post: The social justice of coronashutdowns
Obama always said if you like wearing your mask you can keep wearing your mask.
Jay Bhattacharya came on h1b visa? looks like he is American now https://x.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1605011463814336512?mx=2
Advocates for the H-1B will certainly say that Albert Einstein and John von Neumann came here on H-1B visas. I don’t know if they’d want to claim a heretic such as Jay Jay Bhattacharya, though. If they did, his Wikipedia page would be a problem because it says he got his first college degree here in the U.S. and, therefore, couldn’t have arrived on a visa that requires a college degree.
The H-1B itself is based on lies atop lies. The first is that Western citizens cannot maintain the technology that their fathers and grandfathers invented, but that people from an open sewer[1] with the world’s worst educational system[2,3] can.
The other lie is exposed by disevad’s comments here: If Indians are such “skilled talents,” then why doesn’t India fight to keep them to develop its indigenous technological base, rather than fighting like mad to get rid of them? A smaller country like Canada can say “We’re just as good on a per-capita basis (McGill, UBC, UT, Waterloo), but we go South because USA is just a much bigger market: we simply don’t have the population to have something on the scale of NASA or General Motors,” but India has over 4x the population of the US. What other self-designated “superpower” bases its economy solely on emigration, remittances, colonizing foreign institutions[4], and scam call centers? Even Russia provided a substantial amount of the US’s space launch capability until recently. The harder disevad argues, the weaker his case becomes.
I am passionate about this because I actually AM talented, educated, and experienced and yet grossly unemployed in my country of citizenship, thanks in significant part to[4].
[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/12/08/even-by-the-standards-of-poor-countries-india-is-alarmingly-filthy
[2] https://asiaconverge.com/2023/12/is-india-scared-of-the-pisa-truth/
[3] https://blog.theleapjournal.org/2012/01/first-pisa-results-for-india-end-of.html
[4] Evolution of the hiring process in Western companies: https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1873422075437977973
@Faucian Bargain hiring their own kind is not new and not specific to indians. Look around in other sectors you will see everywhere throughout 19th century
@Anonymous
I’m not talking about the 19th century. In the 19th century I would have had my pick of Whites Only employers. I’m not talking about the 20th century, where a 1923 Supreme Court resulted in the revocation of citizenship from the handful of Indians who had obtained it, and where a later quota of 100 Indians was considered more liberal than the previous strict exclusion.
I’m talking about the 21st century, RIGHT NOW, where the government aggressively pursued SpaceX for NOT hiring asylum seekers on contracts with strict government security restrictions. And where having a “Whites Only” company would be blatantly illegal. But where one group, as a commenter said in the comments at right-wing hate site The New York Times, practices blatant discrimination “like we have not seen since the 1950s,” which has been proven in court[2]. And where said group is heinously over-represented[3,4] for no plausible reason other than “accepts substandard pay in substandard conditions + nepotistic corruption.”
This is an economic issue, a justice issue, and a national security threat[5, 6].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind
[2] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/work/cognizant-discriminated-against-non-indian-workers-us-jury-says/articleshow/114032651.cms
[3] https://x.com/S1S1B1/status/1109459333023174656
[4] https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/feds-probing-migrant-ny-government-workers-19877732.php
(see also https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/insiders-say-fraud-computer-programming-sector-19941411.php)
[5] https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/editorial-glaring-security-gap-19994278.php
[6] https://files.catbox.moe/fucfpv.mp4
Philip, what about other H-1B visa benefactors – Alexadra Graham Bell and Joann Audubon ?
This blog more and more looking like a bunch of old women sitting around bitching and moaning instead of discussing real issues like starting Jan 1st we here in FL cannot access porn hub
@Faucian Bargain
>>>I am passionate about this because I actually AM talented, educated, and experienced and yet >>>grossly unemployed in my country of citizenship, thanks in significant part to[4].
sorry to hear about that, I was not aware of your situation. I hope you get a positive breakthrough in your job search that utilizes your skills…While I don’t know the specifics, you may try taking some external help in cracking interviews (I am sure you would find good references on leetcode, etc.) and trust me you don’t want to join the tcs/cognizants you are better off them.. they are designed to be body shops..(sadly..)
One truth that nobody except Indians knows is that we are the biggest victims & perpetrators of the crab mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
>>> If Indians are such “skilled talents,” then why doesn’t India fight to keep them to develop >>>its indigenous technological base, rather than fighting like mad to get rid of them?
We are a poor country with lots of aspirational folks & fewer opportunities, so naturally people tend to flock where there are chances of a better life. I truly wish this changes in the next decade or so … will take time ..
Thanks for the kind words and advice. I mistyped and meant to say “grossly UNDERemployed,” which means that I’ve been spinning my wheels in low-paying tech-adjacent roles, which unfortunately have left me with relatively little time for interview prep.
I think there will be some changes in India, if for no other reason than I hear numerous reports to the effect of “my company’s careers page shows 3 open positions in North America and 1200 in India.” I’m less concerned with this, as it does not contribute to a) ghost jobs which waste my valuable job-seeking time and b) rampant housing inflation. American men’s labor force participation rate is substantially lower than it was in the Apollo era, which should, certis parabis, mean “at least traffic is light and rent is cheap,” but due to 30 years of record-breaking immigration the opposite is true.
@Faucian Bargain you should come and spend some time in northern FL counties starting with Hernando then you will understand why American men’s labor force participation rate is substantially lower than it was in the Apollo era.