Dear MAGA: 20261013 ❀ DePat Tuesday ❀ Open Topic | Did Amy Acton Help Light the Federal Fires of COVID Doomerism?

This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.

For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20250123 ❀ In Highest Honor of Susie Sampson, Known to MAGA as Deplorable Patriot

Health Friday Open Thread 1.24.2025: In Memoriam Mira Persona, Susan P. Sampson (Deplorable Patriot)

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20250128 ❀ Call for Authors ❀ Scientific Opinions on the Medical Case of Susie Sampson

At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.

DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.

It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.

And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!

Did Amy Acton Help Light the Federal Fires of COVID Doomerism?

TL;DR –

In my opinion, the answer is yes, and I suspect that you will find the full answer fascinating.

Everybody in Ohio knows that Amy Acton – DOCTOR Amy Acton – a.k.a. “Lockdown Amy” – is why Ohio locked down for COVID, and why so many of Ohio’s local restaurants and other businesses closed down, never to return.

But what most people don’t know, is that Amy also apparently had a role in influencing the White House to join the party to “flatten the curve”.

Don’t take my word for it – take the word of Amy Acton’s own staff members, as I will explain in detail, below.

Background

I recently posted about a couple of Amy Acton videos, and how they were evidence of “two Amy Actons” – (1) the real one, who talks like a drunk and curls up on a fetal position on the floor of the restroom – and (2) the imaginary one created by her staff and party – the one who is competent, the heroine of the COVID years, and has zero issues.

Dear MAGA: 20260924 ✾ TRUST THE PLAN ✾ Thursday Open Topic | Dr. Amy Acton, Queen of Cringe

As I noted in that post, both videos are a bit tragic.

In the first video, by the New York Times, we see some of the cringiest left-wing media propaganda ever. It’s like an ad for Kamala’s Best Nutritious Word Salad – made in California. Yes – Amy Acton sounds like Kamala’s lost sister. The vocal similarity is uncanny, and I would not be surprised if white wine coolers are to Plame. Blame. Whatever.

Not to say that the CIA is definitely involved here, but Acton was clearly being made a heroine for adopting the left’s favorite captured agency’s COVID panic control script, while authentically heroic character seems a bit lacking.

Here’s the video.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007111965/coronavirus-ohio-amy-acton.html

If you watched the whole thing, congratulations. I was repeatedly cringing out, every time I tried to watch.

The second video is a lot more fun. Amy Acton is quite lovable in it, but in a way that makes her absolutely unfit for higher office. I can’t tell if she’s tipsy, floating on Xanax, or just high on her 15 minutes of fame, but there is no way such a woman can be allowed into the Ohio Statehouse as anything but a tourist, or perhaps as a mom testifying on an educational issue, where a courage drink or two is socially acceptable for first-time speakers, as long as they have a designated driver.

What’s most interesting, however, is that the TRANSCRIPT doesn’t match the video at all. And while it’s not really a problem that Amy’s staff chose not to document her rambling, emotional, and sometimes incoherent, group-hug psychobabble, what IS interesting is what they released in its place.

Tell me if this doesn’t sound like Amy Acton single-handedly saved America from COVID-infected J6-er kidnappers, and was personally responsible for Trump choosing to follow her advice to BE A HERO, locking down and flattening the curve!

https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix/vol34/iss1/3

Yes – according to Amy Acton’s aides and handlers, SHE was responsible for Trump doing the right thing on COVID.

In the midst of several pages of breathless, Barnes & Noble-grade COVID doomerist “historical fiction”, this paragraph appears…..

During the last week of February, as the stock market crashed for
the second time, I was at the White House as a Health Department
Director representing the entire Midwest for the Association of State
and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Mick Mulvaney, the
President’s Chief of Staff, and some of the best people who have served
multiple presidents were in attendance. One bioterrorism expert was
literally shaking. But they were still not talking about the disease on
the news. Even though I had taught global health for years, I Googled
the word “pandemic.” I could not understand why we were not using
the word. We went around the room, and each person gave their best
virology and epidemiology advice. When it was my turn, most had been
said, but I was struck by what was not being said to the country. Just
like everyone else, I was longing to hear the hard truth. So I told Mr.
Mulvaney, “Please tell the President that this is the higher angel’s
moment. The people need to hear from him.” This is that FDR,
Winston Churchill moment where communication is vital, and my gut
sense was that we really needed the President to make meaning out of
all we were facing. To help us bear the shared sacrifices, we needed
someone to lead the war. Only this time, the entire world was on the
same side.

UGH!!!

Some of that account may be a bit self-serving, but the point is, THIS was a moment when both COVID doomerism and “the opportunity for heroic response” were pushed on POTUS, and yes – Amy Acton was there, helping it happen.

Dramatically or not. Sober or not.

Now, I wasn’t ready to believe this statement without at least a wee bit of validation – so I chose to find out what Mick Mulvaney might have to say about that era now. And he does indeed have a lot to say.

It seems clear to me that Mulvaney fell for what most of us fell for – the possibility that we were dealing with something comparable to SARS, MERS, Ebola, and all that jazz. That we were dealing with an exotic “coronavirus” with double-digit mortality in young adults – NOT with something that had a very normal flu-like mortality curve – like all influenza-like illnesses, including the known, endemic, human coronaviruses.

Once the real numbers came out – once I saw those real numbers in public – it should have been over – but the Democrats just kept pretending, to the power-enthralled audience of their captured states and institutions.

Amy never corrected herself on this error. Trump, Vivek, and even I did. Some sooner than others.

SO – does Ohio REALLY want to elect this ditzy, pretending, overly dramatic broad to be governor? “Lockdown Amy” Acton?

PLEASE. Let’s be serious here.

W

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear KMAG: 20261012 ❀ Wheatie Monday ❀ Open Topic | Ground Report: AI Gophers vs. Surly Teens and Ernestines

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our backup site, The Q Tree 579486807, https://theqtree579486807.wordpress.com/
Our old alternative site, The U Tree, where civility is not a requirement
Our Gab Group, which is located at https://gab.com/groups/4178
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar

Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.

Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Commies won’t win!

And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!

THE STUFF

Ground Report: AI Gophers vs. Surly Teens and Ernestines

This is just a commentary about how things look from “District 12” in Flyover.

District 15. Whatever. “Politics.”

There is a company that sells hamburgers. You may or may not be familiar with them.

“Wolfy’s” has been experimenting with the use of AI assistants to take orders from people.

Indeed – and I find this hard to believe – Wolfy’s has been doing this since late 2023. Who knew?

https://www.wendys.com/blog/drive-thru-innovation-wendys-freshai

Apparently my local Wolfy’s is a bit more in the sticks than my good sister Fox Moon’s Wolfy’s, being on the wrong side of the tracks, and thus not getting this advanced technology from Wolfy’s Central until more recently.

The very first time I used this stuff, it got my order right.

Read that again. I am not kidding.

I was impressed.

Now, the deal is, I don’t go to Wolfy’s that often, so I didn’t notice until very recently, but the Wolfy’s AI has gotten better and better. In fact, it has gotten so good, that when I talk to it, it’s just like when I used to program. The AI has that very minimalist je ne sais quoi that programming languages have where you use them correctly and with great familiarity – when you use the shortest and best string of tokens in the language “WOLFYS” to get exactly what you want, and you can sense the “quantum pleasure” of God’s universe when you get exactly what you intended, because the other entity got exactly what it needed.

An electron falls. A photon fires. The photon arrives. Another electron is transformed.

BITS MOVE.

For this and other reasons, I have come to prefer the Wolfy’s AI to the twenty-something-ish “youts” who otherwise mis-take my orders.

Not that I would wish these young people to be unemployed. They do seem to be plenty busy making great food, and getting the orders ready, and so they get more people through faster, thanks to their collaboration with Wolfy’s AI.

And one more thing on the bright side of real six-foot youth – nobody ever dares to rob customers or cause trouble at Wolfy’s!

Sadly, however, sometimes the AI goes down, and the young people don’t know what to do, other than to tell people to come back later.

Where have I heard THAT story before?

Gotta do something about that!

Anyway, this is where Ernestine comes into the picture.

You see, Ernestine the telephone operator never really went away – she just moved into the call center, and was renamed “Representative”.

Representative will always have a job, because AI – even Wolfy’s AI – will always fuck up on SOMETHING, and only Representative can resolve things.

Now, Representative has a sister named Scheduling, who works for Doctor. Female Doctor, just to be clear. (Are there still male doctors? Just sayin’.)

Whether Scheduling is actually Nurse, or Secretary, or Surly Teen, is not clear. But Scheduling – oh Lordy – I never figured that she might be out of a job.

The trouble is, I expected to get Scheduling, and instead, I got the sister of Wolfy’s AI, who for lack of a better name, we’ll call Foxy’s AI. And Foxy’s AI – oh my – she’s got that quantum perfection shit DOWN.

In just a couple of minutes, using the bare minimum of tokens in FOXYS, which is a language descended from WOLFYS, COBOL, and FORTRAN, and which is optimal for calendaring applications, I completely rescheduled my appointment with Female Doctor and Male Nurse, with ZERO ERRORS.

I have never, ever, rescheduled an appointment so easily, so correctly, and so assuredly. It was like something out of a dream. It was like an example in a programming book, which never seem to have the complications of real programs.

And yet, at the same time, as Foxy’s AI went “clickity-clack” for precious seconds, waiting for databases to open and close, much like I do when I try to remember the name of the owner of the dog whose name I DO remember…..

As the latency of AI waiting on broken physicality seemed to resemble my own…..

Conforming to one of my theories of intelligent relativity, in which intelligence has the least trouble recognizing intelligence which resembles itself, and the most difficulty recognizing intelligence which differs from itself – in space, time, or velocities in either….

And recalled now, as I come to this realization, put into words as I listen to the Hair Metal AI version of “In Christ Alone”….

….we haven’t gotten rid of programmers.

We are ALL going to be programmers. Our programming languages will seem to be the old ones like English and Chinese, but they will in fact be the new ones like WOLFYS and FOXYS.

We are going to go beyond mere Grammar Nazism, or Neologistic Radicalism, as we become Perfected Programmers.

We are going to beat AI into God’s second-hand image – an increasingly less broken mirror of our increasingly less broken selves.

And while Foxy’s AI may not be conscious like you or I, she will be a reflection of things that God found good.

And that is enough for us to call it good, too.

We are not creating something. We are finding something. Something in the math – in the numbers – that was waiting to be found, at the right time, as the universe unfolded, as inscrutably planned.

TRUST THE PLAN – and be amazed!