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Good points. In the area of quality management, assessments should always start with operational definitions. https://digestibledeming.substack.com/p/operational-definitions

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I was talking to a chap from Darwin about this very subject, including, the voting fraud going on in Arizona. We are sure the same thing is happening in Australia. Because government has no intention of providing the obvious remedy, I wondered what others might conclude. I asked a regular contributor to an online discussion "What can we do"? To my shock, he offered a blunt "Kill them".

Now, at almost 80, I am a little beyond this kind of extreme activism and I should have walked prudently away, but my curiosity got the better of me. "How? Why? Who"? A confusing lineup of scenarios emerged in my rural seedhead mind, prosaic plodder that I am.

"Every pusher for these policies should be identified and quiretly executed" he said, "And also the poiticians who have heeded such lobbies, killed as well."

I fully appreciate that some people are absolutist in their problem/resolution logical sequences but this simple... nay , simplistic solution seemed to ignore the avalanche of reprisals that would be visited on citizens if such an event occured. He ventured this opinion: " It's how you do it that counts. You kill the psycho as painfully as possibly and in a remote wilderness location where the body will never be found, and record his death on video then deliver the video to all his associates".

OK. I get it. Their exuberant promotion of mRNA jabs, CO2 repression, geoengineering, LGBQT etc demands, global government, digital ID, totalitarianism, and various democides, would most certainly be discouraged. Actually, probably stopped dead in their tracks; but I ask you, fellew peaceniks, do we really want to go down this slippery road? Do we really want to become like the psychos?

The Darwin bloke dismissed my wisdom with a dismissive flick of his hand, "Hell yes" he said.

I walked away. I am now huddled under my bed, in faetal position, sucking my thumb and whimpering "At least I have retained my honour". I am sure you are all joining me.

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Nov 25, 2022Liked by Margaret Menge

Excellent read. Thank you. We are living in a time of nominative misrepresentation where connotation has been elevated above definition. Honest doctors don’t use the words safe and effective. Honest doctors speak of risk and benefit. Safe and effective are marketing jargon used by someone trying to sell you something. Buyer beware.

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You probably already know this, but even the alleged success of the polio vaccine was likely the consequence of changing definitions. Polio was redefined as acute flaccid paralysis, Guilliane-Barre, and other paralytic conditions. So it appeared that the incidence was decreasing when it actually was being defined away. Additionally, the environmental contributions such as DDT and other toxins was ignored. In ways not dissimilar to the public health ignoring of the significance of vitamin D and insulin resistance in the current viral saga.

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Nov 24, 2022Liked by Margaret Menge

It feels like we are now all bathing in polluted language soup, or meaning and mean entanglement.

"Sensemaking is driven by organizational beliefs and actions that direct attention and frame the interpretation of information."

The covid response insanity is value driven psychopathic specialty framing.

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One of the big ideas from Confucianism is The Rectification of Names. From Wikipedia

Nets are for catching fish; after one gets the fish, one forgets the net. Traps are for catching rabbits; after one gets the rabbit, one forgets the trap. Words are for getting meaning; after one gets the meaning, one forgets the words. Where can I find people who have forgotten words, and have a word with them?

— Zhuangzi, Ch. 26

Somehow I think of an email this week from my friend Lydia Liu, another brave lady journalist:

"Why are there so many mental health issues for young people? I've received two death threats this week, one calling for a car accident for my whole family and the other calling for death to my family and extended families “nine kinship exterminations (诛九族)”. It is a weekly if not daily routine of my life. Those kids need to grow tough. Yes, you can."

Of course they aren't really going to kill her grandparents, cousins, etc.-- they just misuse words.

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Thanks again Margaret!

We knew the desperate and frantic change of description for 'VACCINE' was part of the Covid/DEADLY Vax con, but I never knew the dates, which prove our argument that it was NEVER A VACCINE. My theory is that it is a World depopulating product.

LIABILITY’ must be reintroduced for Vax makers then they will have to stop the mayhem and pay massive compensation = Hopefully resulting in LIQUIDATION!

Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed because I read the small print that Pfizer chose to remove.

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Wonderful title! Happy Thanksgiving, Margaret.

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We still can't talk about it

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The CDC's unconstitutional alterations re-write the definitions of Congressional law without electoral oversight.

In this case, the definition "introducing a vaccine to produce protection from a specific disease" would now expand immunity-to-liability to drugs in general. Any drug manufactured that protects from a disease - say, an antiviral, for example - is now classified as a 'vaccine'.

The Seventh Amendment explicitly states a person has a right to a jury trial for any and all civil lawsuits. This would include any lawsuits against child murdering vaccine companies. Neither the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act nor the PREP Act are Constitutional as both force civil lawsuits to use non-judge "special masters" with no juries allowed if the 'product' in question is a vaccine.

Oh, and here's a few other definitions that have changed - enjoin no longer means to 'enjoin a lawsuit' (as in, enjoin together). It means to pass a law to prohibit something. Now, I thought the word proscribed meant something similar: 'to pass a law' (with the implication to ban something), but proscribed now means to 'publish someone's name in order to condemn them'.

I can only cast my mind back to how Merriam-Webster surreptitiously changed the definition of "anti-vaxxer" to also include those opposed to vaccine mandates. I wonder if there is a giant George Orwellian re-writing of the definitions?

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