Last night I spent a fair amount of time reading over statistics.
Roughly twenty-six million Americans (around 9-percent of the population) use illegal drugs (meth, crack, weed, etc).
Roughly one out of every six Americans use some legal mood-changing drugs or antidepressants. The doctors say it's fine....it passed all the tests, and you can have them.
If you figure up the two groups, you can assume that in a normal day of bumping into one-hundred people....at least thirty of them have medication in their system, or they've doped up in the past couple of days.
It's a high number, if you think about it.
The real problem though...is that you tend to only think of this group as adults. So if you were to look around the local school with 500 kids between the ages of ten and eighteen....would it bother you if sixty of them are on some type of antidepressant or mood-changing drug? If you were a teacher and came to realize in this group of twenty-two students in your room....there two kids contemplating suicide because of the antidepressants, and at least one kid who wanted to terminate some 'mortal-enemy' in the class for stealing their pencil.....would it bother you?
If you were the school bus driver, and had forty-two kids to pick up or deliver home, and eight of those kids were potentially on the borderline of harming themselves or other kids....would it bother you?
It is a heavily medicated society...something that you didn't really have to face in the 1930s or the 1960s.
So this brings me to this observation.....where exactly will this lead onto?
Thursday 3 September 2020
The Problem With a Fact-Checker in a Debate
So you build up this drama of a 90-minute debate. Figure in the 16 minutes that the moderators will take up, and divide the remaining 74 minutes among two folks....equaling roughly 37 minutes each.
First, there would have to be two fact-checkers...something that Joe Biden and the press will not agree upon. I'm pretty sure that Joe and the press will say one single fact-checker will be enough.
Second, as the individual goes into the commentary....it'll be at least two minutes before he says something that might be semi-true or mostly false. How do you work this as a fact-check, with the guy ending his commentary in less than sixty additional seconds?
Third, will the fact-checker be correct? Will we need a fact-checker to the fact-checker?
Fourth and final.....what if the commentary of the fact-checker is totally wrong?
For some reason, I don't see this lasting long. The networks running this on their own? Maybe, but it'll create more skeptical views of the whole mess.
First, there would have to be two fact-checkers...something that Joe Biden and the press will not agree upon. I'm pretty sure that Joe and the press will say one single fact-checker will be enough.
Second, as the individual goes into the commentary....it'll be at least two minutes before he says something that might be semi-true or mostly false. How do you work this as a fact-check, with the guy ending his commentary in less than sixty additional seconds?
Third, will the fact-checker be correct? Will we need a fact-checker to the fact-checker?
Fourth and final.....what if the commentary of the fact-checker is totally wrong?
For some reason, I don't see this lasting long. The networks running this on their own? Maybe, but it'll create more skeptical views of the whole mess.
Antifa-PTSD
During Desert Storm, I was lucky enough to be on a maneuvering shift situation....you'd pull three 12-hour night shifts, then get a few extra hours of sleep and then pull three 12-hour day shifts.
After just four weeks of this, most folks would agree that night-shifts were a killer, and messed up your sleep-schedule enough that you were marginally getting five hours of decent sleep per day. Fortunately for the situation...the war lasted 42 days.
Down the road from our building....another unit stood, with just two guys doing, the same thing that we were doing. There was no rotating shift, and both of them had been doing the shift thing at least a full month before the war even started.
I went over to visit this building the day after the war ended, and here was 'Airman Jim', and you'd best describe his condition as half-zombie, and half-dazed. They'd sent him back to the tent and he slept a full twenty-four hours, but it hadn't helped him at all.
I asked 'Airman Jim'....what happens once he returned to Myrtle Beach, and he responded....he had five months left in the Air Force and was getting out. He was burned out to the maximum, and probably showing three or four signs of PTSD.
So I turn now and gaze at the Antifa crowd in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, etc. Some have been on 'duty' since April. They 'work' from early evening....to probably 4 AM.....getting picked-up and taken to some hotel. With the weed and pills, they probably don't fall asleep until 9 AM and barely get five to six hours of sleep daily.....then repeat this day in and day out.
The coffee....the high-energy drinks? All help to keep them focused at the early part of the shift. A few stimulant pills fall into play, which keeps them focused.
Day in, day out....the routine continues. You start to argue more. You put up with more risks. You wake up around 6 PM today, and count up a total of 20 hours of sleep over the past seven days.
All of this is leading to PTSD symptoms....for people who are between 18 and 30 years old.
Can they continue on through November....even into the spring of 2021? I have my doubts. Breakdowns will start to occur. Drug usage will slip to more extreme drugs, and at the one-year point....even your Antifa 'Captains' will question your reliability.
Go figure around the holiday season that the news people start chatting about this, and the type of therapy required for recovery.
After just four weeks of this, most folks would agree that night-shifts were a killer, and messed up your sleep-schedule enough that you were marginally getting five hours of decent sleep per day. Fortunately for the situation...the war lasted 42 days.
Down the road from our building....another unit stood, with just two guys doing, the same thing that we were doing. There was no rotating shift, and both of them had been doing the shift thing at least a full month before the war even started.
I went over to visit this building the day after the war ended, and here was 'Airman Jim', and you'd best describe his condition as half-zombie, and half-dazed. They'd sent him back to the tent and he slept a full twenty-four hours, but it hadn't helped him at all.
I asked 'Airman Jim'....what happens once he returned to Myrtle Beach, and he responded....he had five months left in the Air Force and was getting out. He was burned out to the maximum, and probably showing three or four signs of PTSD.
So I turn now and gaze at the Antifa crowd in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, etc. Some have been on 'duty' since April. They 'work' from early evening....to probably 4 AM.....getting picked-up and taken to some hotel. With the weed and pills, they probably don't fall asleep until 9 AM and barely get five to six hours of sleep daily.....then repeat this day in and day out.
The coffee....the high-energy drinks? All help to keep them focused at the early part of the shift. A few stimulant pills fall into play, which keeps them focused.
Day in, day out....the routine continues. You start to argue more. You put up with more risks. You wake up around 6 PM today, and count up a total of 20 hours of sleep over the past seven days.
All of this is leading to PTSD symptoms....for people who are between 18 and 30 years old.
Can they continue on through November....even into the spring of 2021? I have my doubts. Breakdowns will start to occur. Drug usage will slip to more extreme drugs, and at the one-year point....even your Antifa 'Captains' will question your reliability.
Go figure around the holiday season that the news people start chatting about this, and the type of therapy required for recovery.
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