A Hypothesis

[ecosophia]

I’ve been watching the unfolding of the current Covid-19 pandemic since the first news stories about it in the late fall of 2019, and like many people, I find the official story that’s grown up around the virus and the response to it impossible to take seriously. Partly that’s because the official narrative has been veering around like a well-greased weathercock on a blustery day, and partly it’s because large elements of that narrative are contradicted by scientific studies or, in many cases, the press releases on which the narrative itself is based. The fact that people are now being banned from social media for quoting pharmaceutical companies’ own documents is a good indication that there’s some serious falsification going on here. 
 

Yet I find it just as hard to believe the main alternative story on offer these days. This is the claim that the virus and the vaccine are part of a sinister plan to take away what remains of civil liberties worldwide, along the lines of Klaus Schwab’s maunderings about a Great Reset. The problem here is that this sort of scheme would require governments and corporations everywhere to behave with a degree of competence they very clearly don’t display in any other context. 
 

On reflection, it seems to me that what’s happened over the last two years makes sense if you simply factor in the shortsightedness, incompetence, and venality that government and corporate sectors alike have displayed in all their other dealings of late. With this in mind, I’ve sketched out a hypothetical reconstruction of what has actually been happening.  It’s speculative but it accounts for the facts as I know them. As usual, I’ve focused on events in the United States, the one country I know tolerably well; readers in other countries will need to modify this story to fit their own local conditions.  I haven’t footnoted anything; do your own internet searches on the important concepts listed below and you’ll find plenty of data. 
 

At any rate, here’s a hypothesis about the real story behind Covid-19.

*****

Stage One: Business as Usual
 

The Covid-19 coronavirus was manufactured as part of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. Gain-of-function research?  That’s one of the currently hot fields of virus research, involving genetic engineering to make viruses more virulent in their effects on tissue cultures. It’s dangerous enough that federal regulations prohibit it in the US, which is why it was going on in China. Funding for the research, however, came from one of the many US government slush funds that prop up the pharmaceutical industry, by way of a pass-through entity to provide a fig leaf of plausible deniability. This is normal practice, part of the culture of kleptocracy that funnels tax dollars into corporate pockets with zero accountability. 
 

Stage Two:  A Minor Little Oopsie
 

Someone made a mistake, and the Covid-19 coronavirus got outside the supposedly secure facility where it was being kept. People in and around Wuhan started getting sick. Early on, there were a lot of deaths, but the death rate slid as the virus adapted to its new hosts in the usual way, ending up about as serious as a bad flu. (Respiratory viruses reliably do this: the sicker a patient gets, the fewer people on average they can infect, and this selection differential very rapidly turns novel respiratory viruses into highly transmissible but not especially dangerous members of the ordinary human respiratory flora.)  So we saw an initial wave of stark panic and overreaction on the part of politicians and the media, followed by reassurances that everything would be fine after all, along with various more or less frantic attempts to keep anyone from finding out that the US government funded the creation of the virus.
 

Stage Three:  Cashing In On The Sick
 

Then the pharmaceutical industry realized that Covid-19 had the potential to be a gargantuan cash cow.  Since the Covid-19 virus could be counted on to mutate at the usual pace, if they could come up with a vaccine, they could count on being able to release a new booster shot every single year, and make the kind of reliable profits they now make from the annual flu vaccine.  Since big pharma’s profiteering at the expense of patients has become a political hot potato in the US of late, the idea of a new source of extreme profits had a very definite appeal. This is why several effective dietary and pharmaceutical treatments for the virus got deep-sixed, since nobody was going to make billions off them, and it’s also why dud pharmaceuticals such as Remdesvir got hauled off the shelf and heavily marketed—they’re still patented and so can be sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars a dose.
 

Stage Four: Super Geek To The Rescue
 

At this point Bill Gates comes into the picture. Most of our current crop of kleptocratic godzillionaires like to play at saving the world in one way or another. (It apparently helps them avoid thinking about the way their firms maltreat their employees, cheat their suppliers, and screw the public.) Gates’ save-the-world hobby is vaccines, and the Gates Foundation is accordingly a major player in the vaccine industry. One of the foundation’s biotechnology patents was well suited to the situation, at least on paper. Pharma corporations thus churned out competing versions of a Covid-19 vaccine using that patent. Mind you, the technology in question has had very mixed results, because it has serious problems with antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), a known complication of immunization in which an ineffective vaccine makes it easier for a virus to make you sick. Nor was adequate testing done to find out if the Covid vaccines had that problem.  The vaccines went into production anyway, since the pharmaceutical industry has a long history of launching inadequately tested drugs on the market with serene disregard for safety issues. (Remember Fen-Phen?)
 

Stage Five: Marketing Maneuvers
 

The political systems of modern industrial nations are riddled with graft, and so corporate interests can reliably get politicians to say and do whatever will help boost their profits.  Once the goal du jour became marketing the vaccine to as many people as possible, therefore, politicians did what they were paid to do and turned on a dime, insisting that Covid-19 was sure to kill us all unless we all got vaccinated, and slapping on mask mandates and shutdowns as part of the political theater. That was purely a marketing gimmick.  Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer was one among many official voices telling people in smug tones that if they wanted to have their lives back they’d better hurry up and get vaccinated. Various interesting irregularities in what counted as a case of Covid and what counted as a Covid fatality were also put to work in this cause. This served the necessary purpose of whipping up a classic media panic, to try to make everyone run out and get vaccinated. 
 

Stage Six: The Pushback Begins
 

The problem is that a great many Americans do not trust the medical industry.  There’s good reason for their mistrust, as medical malpractice has long been among the leading causes of death in the United States, and medical profiteering is far and away the leading cause of bankruptcy here as well.  Thus an impressive number of people—possibly as many as half the population—flatly refused to get the vaccines.  It didn’t help that the vaccines themselves turned out to have serious immediate side effects, including sudden death, at a rate a couple of orders of magnitude higher than any other vaccine currently in use. Though Soviet-style censorship was slapped on social media to keep “misinformation” from spreading, hard questions about the official narrative got asked with increasing frequency, and the number of people getting the Covid-19 shots flatlined: while the US government is now claiming that 70% of adult Americans are vaccinated, other sources of data suggest that the actual number is much less than that. 
 

Stage Seven: Don’t Breathe A Word Of This
 

There was another reason for people to be suspicious, though that wasn’t clear at first.  Everyone who’s had to use Microsoft programs knows that Bill Gates’ management style tends to produce second-rate, bug-ridden products that don’t work the way they’re supposed to work, and have to be pushed on reluctant consumers via high-pressure marketing and monopolistic practices. It turns out that the same was true of the biotechnology on which the Covid-19 vaccines are based. That would have been discovered in the usual way during the two to five years of testing a new vaccine normally gets, but the Covid vaccines didn’t get that; the first one to be authorized had a total of eight weeks of not especially rigorous testing, the others didn’t get much more, and so a far from minor problem slipped past.  In the spring of 2021 word thus began to trickle out that the Covid-19 vaccines had a serious problem with ADE: once the initial protection wore off, a process which took a few months, people who’d been vaccinated were much more likely to get seriously ill from repeat exposure to Covid-19 than people who hadn’t. Thus the federal government and the medical industry suddenly had a self-inflicted disaster on their hands. 
 

Stage Eight: Panic In The C-Suites
 

The first response of the people in power, of course, was to find somebody else to take the blame. That’s when politicians and the media turned on a dime (again) and suddenly started admitting that the virus could have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That’s when Bill Gates suddenly stopped being the poster child for the vaccine effort and got dumped in a hurry by his wife and kids, and when Anthony Fauci suddenly had to deal with a flurry of negative publicity and the unexplained cancellation of his ghostwritten memoirs. The goal was to find someone—Gates, Fauci, the Chinese, anyone—who could be made into the fall guy and blamed for the impending mess. Apparently that first round of bad news was followed by even worse news, however; I suspect that the news was that the ADE caused by the vaccine had a noticeable fatality rate, but that’s just a guess. One way or another, finding fall guys wasn’t an adequate dodge any more, since at this stage it wasn’t just careers that were at risk:  it was potentially the viability of the entire political-economic establishment.
 

Stage Nine: Things Get Serious
 

All of a sudden, as a result, it was no longer enough to vaccinate 70% of the US population. Everyone without exception had to get vaccinated—if everyone gets the vaccine, after all, it will be easier to claim that what’s happening is a nasty new variant rather than vaccine-driven ADE, since nobody will be able to point out that the unvaccinated aren’t getting it.  All of a sudden, officials dropped the (inaccurate) claim that the vaccines keep you from getting Covid-19. New outbreaks flared in which most people who got sick had been fully vaccinated; stories surfaced in the media about how strange it was that so many people were getting really nasty summer colds; the labor shortage somehow just kept getting worse and other shortages snowballed, but if you suggested that it was because too many people were sick you could count on being shouted down. Authorities began to talk earnestly about how a new variant might show up soon that would kill a third of the people who caught it. Under normal circumstances, there’s no way they could know that in advance. It makes perfect sense, however, if the vaccines have been found to cause serious ADE and they already have a good idea of what the fatality rate will be. 
 

This is where we are as I write this. If my hypothesis is right, here’s what we can expect. 
 

Stage Ten: Hoping for a Miracle
 

As ADE becomes more common, breakthrough infection clusters will pop up with increasing frequency, and the higher the percentage of the population in that region is vaccinated, the worse they will be. Variants will be blamed for this. Word of the imminent crisis will spread through the upper levels of society, however, causing increasingly frantic and irrational behavior, until it becomes next to impossible to get anything done if it depends on the government or big corporations. Medical laboratories will scramble to find a way to counteract ADE, though that’s been tried for decades now without success. Meanwhile the people who refuse to get vaccinated won’t budge no matter how much furious rhetoric and punitive policy gets dumped on them. Once this becomes clear, authorities will insist that everyone but a few holdouts has been vaccinated, in the fond hope that people will believe them one more time. 
 

Stage Eleven: Into The Endgame
 

When ADE becomes too widespread to ignore and people begin to die in significant numbers, expect governments to proclaim the arrival of the predicted new hyper-lethal variant and impose a new round of shutdowns, mask mandates, and the like. The media will insist that the people who are dying are all unvaccinated as long as they can get away with it; pay attention to the vaccination status and health outcomes of people you know for a reality check. Unless some way of stopping ADE-enhanced infections can be found in a hurry, medical systems will buckle under the caseload and triage will become the order of the day. How soon this will happen, if it does, is impossible to say in advance. It’s also impossible to know in advance how soon it will become clear that the vaccines are responsible—or just how violent a backlash against the political and economic establishment this could provoke. 

 

*****
 

So that’s my hypothesis. I hope I’m wrong.  If anything like what I’ve sketched out does happen, I have friends and family members I care about who almost certainly won’t survive, given their current health and vaccination status. I also know enough about what happened during the Black Death, the Spanish flu, and other situations where a lot of people got sick and died in a hurry, to hope I can avoid seeing the same sort of events in my own time. 
 

Nonetheless, it’s possible that the scenario I’ve sketched out is going to happen in the months immediately ahead of us. I would encourage my readers to assess this possibility and consider getting ready to weather a crisis several months in length, during which food and other necessities may be available only intermittently, medical care may be completely out of reach, and local, state, and national governments may not be able to do much more than flail helplessly and try to pass the buck. If anything like what I’ve described here happens, it will be a world-class mess, and a few basic preparations might go a long way to keep you and your loved ones safe and sound.  

One more thing. I'll be moderating comments on this post very strictly. I'm not interested in arguing about whether the hypothesis I've offered is true or not -- that will be demonstrated by events, not by who yells the loudest. I've decided, after much brooding and some favorable divinations, to put this into circulation on the off chance that it may help some people. Make up your own mind and don't let anyone bully you into doing something you don't want to do. 

Comments

Astrology

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read a chart to figure out what the stars are suggesting for the 2nd half of this year or the 1st half of next? If people are going to start dying, that's probably about when they will do so.

I dunno, ADE or whatever - once you've figured out something is just bad, you can stop figuring out how or why and just focus on avoidance and mitigation. There's no mitigation, so avoidance it is...

Re: Astrology

[ecosophia]

I'll be casting those charts soon. The chart for Biden's inauguration is starting to make a good deal of sense, too.

[tamanous2020]

A cogent summary of the whole situation JMG, and what a sorry story it is. It's like watching the vengeful pied piper lead the children to their doom. I pray that the ADE is not as widespread as we fear. The numbers of injuries and death of that could conceivably match the hyperbolic numbers thrown out there at the beginning of the lockdowns. The more shrill the public voices, the more intense the pressure, the worse we know whats going on in the background. And if major slowdowns/shortages start hitting the big tech firms and government offices, that will be a hint as well.

Stay strong everyone, there's turbulent waters ahead. I personally have found Dune's litany a rock to rely on these days and for the upcoming times.

"Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Tamanous

[ecosophia]

Interestingly, the Golden Dawn has a rather similar text:

"Fear is failure and the beginning of failure. Therefore be thou without fear. For in the heart of the coward, virtue abideth not; and he that trembleth at the fire and the flood and the shadows of the air hath no part in God." I like to repeat that and then follow it with the Dune litany, including the first line you left off: "I shall not fear."

[stcathalexandria]

Read this opened up Twitter to this thread

https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1423053831605129216?s=21

I think your onto something. Very worrying

[ecosophia]

Thanks for this. I expect to see such questions asked more and more often as we proceed.

[avalterra]

JMG,

Your hypothesis has a lot to say for itself. Most of it I have read before in bits and pieces. The one new bit of info was the ADE. I had not heard that there was evidence/speculation that that was happening. I know you asked us to do our own research, but my internet search pulled mostly articles claiming that was impossible with this vaccine for various reasons.

Got a direction you can point me?

Thanks,

AV

[ecosophia]

Sure. Start with this one from Nature and then this one and this one from the counterculture side of things.

Stock market

[(Anonymous)]

This would fit roughly into the timeline of an expected stock market crash as well. If you have ever studied stock charts it can be uncanny how the charts themselves predict crashes, and the reason for the chart crashing can take any form of course. In this case the chart would be S&P500.

A scary prediction. The concept that the United States and China exist as a kind of duopoly in regards to gain of function research is undeniable and business as usual as you have posted. Fauci has already been made to walk the plank in the public view via Rand Paul already. A lot of this lines up. It's all reactionary and I guess easily readable in that way. Attributing the labor shortage to the ADE is the key assumption. It is plausible that people are simply Fed up with working lifestyles that keeps them away from their children get them nowhere and give them nothing. But it is also plausible that both of these things are happening; one cause of labor shortage is sentimental and could be used to cover the existence of variables attributed to the virus.

Re: Stock market

[ecosophia]

My guess is that the labor shortage is a combination of the two factors you've named. On the one hand, the lockdowns gave a lot of people the private time they needed to look at their lives and decide they wanted something different; on the other, I suspect there's a fair number of people who got the injection and -- like the many people who put their stories on this website -- haven't been healthy enough to work since.

Reasons to be cheerful?

[(Anonymous)]

JMG -

Just to counter the doom-ish tone of your post (which sounds fairly accurate to me), bear in mind that good nutrition, exercise, fresh air, sunshine, etc. can minimize our risk of serious illness whether or not it's "enhanced" by pre-existing antibodies (that is, ADE). If 5% of the vaccinated end up dying, that will be a disaster that feels like a catastrophe, but it's not the catastrophe of 100% of the vaccinated (50% of the population) dying (which some might, incorrectly, read into your post).

Here's a link to the Pfizer-run six-month study on the efficacy and safety of their vaccine:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v1.full.pdf

The bottom line: with about 21,900 participants in each arm of this double-blind study, 15 of the vaccinated died, 14 of the unvaccinated. 1 of the vaccinated died of "covid-19 pneumonia", while 2 of the unvaccinated died of "covid-19". In the first six months, the vaccine seems to shift risk of death to different causes, but not reduce it! Or, we could just say "14, 15, small numbers either way."

Lathechuck

Re: Reasons to be cheerful?

[ecosophia]

Many thanks for the study! Six months, however, isn't even remotely long enough -- that's why 2-5 years is considered normal for vaccine safety studies. As for your broader point, of course there are reasons to be cheerful. Even if the claims being made by authorities in Britain and Australia are to be interpreted as I've suggested, the mortality rate is only 33% or so, which means you have a 2/3 chance of survival -- and you're right, of course, that there are plenty of things that can strengthen your immune system and tilt the balance further in your favor.

A moment of dark whimsy

[(Anonymous)]

So, we're hearing all about the "delta" variant, and there's an "epsilon" variant also making itself known. The next logical step is the "fubar" variant.

For those not familiar with naval jargon, FUBAR can be bowdlerized as "Fouled Up Beyond Any Repair". It's a step beyond SNAFU: Situation Normal (All Fouled Up).

Thus far, the epsilon variant does not seem to be more dangerous than the delta variant, though it has its own special talents.

Lathechuck

Re: A moment of dark whimsy

[ecosophia]

Too funny. When I learned the Greek alphabet they forgot to tell me about the letter Fubar; I'll have to remedy that gap in my education. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

I will admit that I am given to conspiracy theories, especially after witnessing how the Patriot Act suddenly appeared after 9/11, Ed Snowden showed us what was hiding in our devices, and Klaus started reading off the Agenda 21 script on a suspiciously timed year.

Where i differ from other conspiracy theorists is that I am well aware (thanks to my favorite collapsenik authors) that it will never work. These people could not tie their own shoelaces without help and are so easily distracted by garden variety corruption that there is no way they could stay on script.

That does not mean they won't wind up killing off a whole lot of people in their half baked attempts. If what you say is true then I am going to have to tolerate more persecution from my coworkers, friends and family for another few months while trying to spend some quality time with them just in case. This really sucks.

[ecosophia]

Yes, it sucks. Sorry. I wish I had better news.

[ecosophia]

Yes, I could see that. My guess is that the Fubar variant (to borrow Lathechuck's term), the one used to provide cover for ADE, will be portrayed in the most lurid possible terms in order to make the actual death toll look modest.

Fact-check: Mostly true

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, I think you may be right. I fear that it may be even worse: regardless of whether the vaccines are dangerous or not, regardless of whether new lock downs "work" or not, people are so fed up with the lock downs (and in some cases, the vaccines) that they will protest anyway, and social unrest will follow. I don´t think this will happen in Sweden (where we only have a "soft" lock down), but it could definitely happen in the US and most certainly in the "Third World". This is the best case scenario, remember, in which the vaccines may not be dangerous. If they are...well, I think most Swedes are vaccinated at this point, so then things might get nasty around here, too (2022 is an election year, btw).

I also hope I´m wrong - I know people who are vaccinated, and I don´t think some kind of bizarre "anti-vaxx vendée" or whatever you wish to call it, is what the world needs right now. Also, even in the best case scenario, the Swedish economy might not be able to take another sharp down turn.

The media are, interestingly enough, of two minds about this. Or three? Or four? Hateful attacks on anti-vaxxers co-exist rather weirdly with articles admitting that the vaccines don´t work on the Delta variant, and variant articles claiming that they *do* protect against Delta. Trial balloons? Or genuine insecurity at the top? Or - if only - cracks in the wall and a possibility for critical voices to be heard? Of course, the claim that vaccines don´t work against Delta can be turned into demands for new lock downs and/or new vaccines! So probably "trial balloons".

Once again, let me re-iterate that I don´t want any of the horror scenarios to happen, so for once I would be pleased if the "official optimists" and cornucopians turn out to be right, and we just go back to normal (say 2019 normal) later this year, but I suspect and fear that it might be for real this time...

A reader in Sweden

Re: Fact-check: Mostly true

[ecosophia]

I don't want it to happen either. But we'll see.

One more thing

[(Anonymous)]

One more thing. Even the non-vaccine aspects are enough to create a crisis, since the world´s governments decided last year to make good use of the pandemic to pass various "relief bills" which mostly aided the rich, propped up various speculative bubbles, and subsidized an economy which would otherwise have tanked. So what will happen when these gimmicks no longer work? Note the irony: even if we go back to pre-pandemic normal, we might get fracked anyway, this time by a "normal" crisis the pandemic response simply postponed!

Thanks for the Golden Dawn quote, btw.

A reader in Sweden

A Hypothesis

[(Anonymous)]

John,

This is pretty much the scenario I've been worrying about for months. I got a handle on the ADE issue right after my wife got her second jab. She is six months from that now. I try to argue her out of it, but I had nothing at that point but the vaccines had not been tested enough for long term effects. I remember crying about it, as something felt very wrong about them.

I also hope that you are very wrong about all of this, but I suspect that you might be right.

I look forward to seeing you and Sara and many others at the next Summer's potluck.

Best regards,

John of Red Hook

Re: A Hypothesis

[ecosophia]

Ouch. I hope that the death rate is low and she comes through just fine...

[realmscryer]

I have a similar outlook and hope I am wrong as well. More than a few emotions are showing up this week regarding this topic.

My wife is a Social Worker at the VA, a Type 1 diabetic, and has a few other immune system issues. Still couldn't get out of the vax mandate. Any other employer in her field would have just made her get it eventually anyway so she got the first Pfizer shot yesterday. Frustrating also because she doesn't have direct contact with patients and is 95% tele-work with or without the Covid BS. True to the times, the letter the VA sent to employees about the mandate admitted vaccinated employees made up %80 of recent Covid positive employees.

Nearly everyone I call family is vaccinated now. Most willingly, often for social reasons, some not willing.

Reading the perspectives, research, and experiences of doctors and scientists, many internationally known in relevant fields, is not comforting. What they are finding has kept me up a night or two very angry in recent months.

Anger is a powerful force. ADE related issues, clotting issues over time possibly leading to cardiac deaths, etc. will push some, maybe many, to lash out. If these things happen in noticeable numbers, as in nearly everyone loses 1 or more loved ones to vaccine caused death over the next 2-4 years life could get nasty.

On another note, for a while I was getting a bit put off about not being able to attend the Argentine tango events which are coming back after lock down. Many organizers are insisting on proof of vaccination to register and attend. The way things are developing groups of vaccinated people might be best avoided. So I may have to hang up my dance shoes for another year. Hopefully, everyone is still healthy when the dust settles.

For myself, I am staying unvaxed to the end and gathering resources to help those who might be injured in the near future. At best the health care industry has let the world down. I don't expect to be able to depend on them to fix the situation.

Worried in Bellingham

[ecosophia]

It's important to deal with the anger, and also the feelings of fear and grief and helplessness that underlie the anger. Hang in there!

[readoldthings]

Do you think it would be helpful to set up some kind of more or less formal support network, to help facilitate information and resource sharing?

[ecosophia]

Good question. Are you volunteering?

[drhooves]

JMG, I think your write up is pretty complete, and certainly plausible. Any theory at this point involves a lot of speculation, IMHO. I lean a bit more to the conspiracy side as a cover for the coming economic collapse for a number of reasons:

1. Event 201 - a simulation of a Covid pandemic in October 2019, 65 million dead estimated. Some of the off parts of the script(plandemic) make more sense if the response is based on fatality numbers 10x higher.

2. Coordinated shutdown with little resistance - in March of 2020, with the NCAA basketball, NBA and NHL tournaments and playoffs starting up - it was all shutdown with nary a whimper. On paper, the financial losses were staggering, and don't we usually follow the money to make sense of things? You covered this a bit in Stage 9, but I'm thinking earlier.

3. Basic destruction of small businesses - too small to fight .gov and the "temporary" emergency orders, as well as difficulty in getting relief from .gov loans. The "essential" big box companies fared very well.

4. The push for 100% vaccination rates and rise in the percentage "needed" for herd immunity just provides more of a smokescreen for a number of agendas. Not sure what to think, but I sure hope Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is also mistaken about the roll out of vaccines in the middle of a pandemic....

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/virologist-huge-price-covid-mass-vaccination/

I would add I think the next 6 months are key to how this pans out - enough of the "alternative" data sets have made it into the public eye that I am HOPING sanity prevails.

[ecosophia]

I'm sure plenty of money changed hands, and big pharma unquestionably has the money for that. As for the Event 201 simulation, I wonder if you or anyone else has checked to see how often things like that take place.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's pretty solid analysis. The preface is appreciated as well. The rabbit hole of this being a plan by the Davos crowd is a real easy one to fall into. Just because authorities lie does not mean they are competent.

As far as people taking the jab, I think most people have already made their decision. Our company has gotten a bit more serious about mask rules for us unvaccinated. My two other co workers that I work with regularly and myself are willing to take a pink slip over any vaccine mandates if they happen. Hopefully not. I'm eligible for my pension in 2 years. Good thing I took the advise on "collapse now and avoid the rush" a while back. Might have to change the green wizardry to a more serious version of down home funk.

Also good advice on preparing. Next paycheck may just go to extra groceries, garden seeds, dog food , and pony paste.

[ecosophia]

Putting a little of your next paycheck into such things might well be a very good idea...

[open_space]

When this whole shebang started I got a strong sensation of: but this is not happening really, they want it to happen. Every motorcyclist knows this: where you look at is where you will go and since a considerable amount of people really want this to be a devastating pandemic, I guess it's likely that's what we'll get, by their own hands. Sigh.

Perhaps there is something that can be done to help maintain the collective consciousness from collapsing a la Dion Fortune?

[ecosophia]

Hmm. That's an interesting possibility, but it would take divination and reflection to see if it's a good idea.

[(Anonymous)]

I find this entirely likely myself. The healthcare industry is already cracking. In my 30+ years as an Emergency Department RN, I’ve never seen anything like this. We’re seeing an upsurge in COVID cases in just the past week where I work, though we’re still not seeing as many as in February. Honestly, the COVID patients I’ve taken care of in the past year and a half aren’t any sicker than people I’ve taken care of with other respiratory illnesses in the past and in most cases far less sick. I had one fully vaccinated patient with COVID every day for the past four shifts I’ve worked and one of my fully vaccinated co-workers just came down with it also.

As far as Delta goes, the UK numbers show the Alpha (original) strain was 1.9% fatal, Delta 0.1% fatal. So the risk of death overall has decreased from slightly less than 2 in 100 to 1 in 1,000. So they’re really going to need the Fubar variant to sell the ADE deaths.

What’s really scary is how short staffed we are and how sick so many of our patients are with everything else but COVID. It’s frankly bizarre and I and many of my coworkers are just exhausted from all of this. A lot of RNs and other healthcare workers took early retirement over the past year and a half, just in the organization I work for alone. Several of the younger women I work with have had babies recently and some have cut back to part time. I hear it’s like this all over. And now they’re going to mandate vaccines or weekly testing for those who won’t vaccinate; which is stupid on a number of levels but especially for those of us, like myself, who’ve had COVID, and now have superior immunity.

JMG, you are right about one thing for certain, PRAY that you don’t need healthcare, because I think the apocalypse of how broken and incapable the system has become is about to debut.

My hope is that this doesn’t lead to civil war, but with this mess they’ve created and all of the wokeness they’re shoving into every corner of life they can access, I have the ominous feeling that it will.

Sincerely,
Brother Josephus

[ecosophia]

This is fascinating. You say "how sick so many of our patients are with everything else but COVID." Are you seeing more sick people than usual, then? As for healthcare, I haven't used mainstream medicine in thirty years, for very good reasons -- I have my own alternative methods handy and use them very systematically. I suspect that's going to be even more common as this unfolds.

manufacturing oversight

[(Anonymous)]

Great summary - thanks!

Another factor that's been hinted at briefly (I don't recall the source, sorry): variations in the manufacturing runs of the vaccines, so that some lots might be more problematic that other lots. The apparent lack of oversight could muddy the waters even more.

Incidentally, I received a strong "yes" when I did a divination about if I should get the vaccine (and at age 71, I'm not so worried for myself about long term effects). I will resist as strongly as possible to get any boosters - the whole thing stinks to high heaven and I might not be so lucky this time.

Re: manufacturing oversight

[ecosophia]

That's a good point. You may have gotten that "yes" because you had a shot (pun not intended) at a better than usual batch of vaccine.

[(Anonymous)]

Whats your opinion on the monoclonal antibodies shot they give to people within the first two days of getting covid?

[ecosophia]

I haven't seen any discussion of them, other than the usual rah-rah cheerleading from the industry, so I don't have an opinion yet.

ADE

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, synchronicity. Just today I had settled on your hypothesis before it was published (in large part, to be fair, from your influence, but still...) : venality.

https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2021/07/17/letter-to-physicians-four-new-scientific-discoveries-regarding-the-safety-and-efficacy-of-covid-19-vaccines/

This is very damning, and also fits the facts. What if what they took as a "marker" (the spike protein) turns out to be a war pick axe or multi-tool, and not just a little thing it uses to hang on to your endothelial linings? Did someone even consider this possibility at all? They certainly never discussed it publicly.

There was also a new study from Guyana that is hinting that ADE is "moving statistically" already. I can't seem to find the link, however. However, you can find other studies admitting the possibility as very real: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32920233/ The people looking at this say it's too early too tell for sure, but the numbers look like they are trending in that direction.

I've talked with two people recently who report very severe COVID infections in the recently vaxxed (since April), one in a group of 8 co-workers and another in a family. For what it's worth, I've given infusions to positive patients, started IVs in the COVID ward, and worked a couple of times on step down COVID (where they ALL had diabetes), and been in the hospital almost the whole time, with no issues. The people I know second hand who have died were either unwell or did not exercise, and I have heard second hand of TWO deaths following vaccine, one stroke and one heart attack (60 and 40 year olds). A church member with no previous history but not a very in shape person, took the vaccine and also had a heart attack. So it's hard to ignore the evidence you see with your own eyes. I know tons of people who have had it, and recovered with little issue (COVID).

Thank you for this very well written, succinct, and pithy article. It finalizes a lot of thinking my lines had been converging on. The only question is, will they succeed in scapegoating "the unvaxxed"? Doesn't look like they will succeed, however I may lose my job. ALL the nastiness I've experienced first hand or heard of has come from doctors, co-workers, or total STRANGERS who are hell-bent on making sure everyone gets exposed to the vaccine.
Celadon

Re: ADE

[(Anonymous)]

I am not a Doctor or a nurse but i do work for a major healthcare provider/insurance company. Last winter as the major jab rollout was getting underway we had a townhall and the MD leading it stated booster shots would be needed. If they knew this why wouldn't they be telling people before they got the jab? Perhaps they thought people would be less willing if they knew they'd have to get boosters for the rest of their lives? This is wrong in my book and fraud. You seem to work in healthcare, did you hear anything similar?

The Control Group

[(Anonymous)]

I guess Australia's going to be the control group then: almost nobody under 40 has gotten the shot here because of political and logistical snafus. We truly are the "lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck."

Re: The Control Group

[ecosophia]

I wouldn't be surprised if you face massive pressure to get the shot in the next few months. If not, yeah, you might be the control group.

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

I assume that by making this public, you're also open to revisiting this post in 6 months or so to evaluate how it turned out, similar to your News Years predictions?

[ecosophia]

Six months is too soon, though I'll probably post an update by then. In two years, I'll be very happy if I can post something saying "Thank the gods, I was wrong about that."

[(Anonymous)]

Did some walking meditation on your post (a wonderful one btw.. I disliked the current counter culture take on it)

I know 3 people who were vaccinated and came down with "delta" - they have nothing in common so I can rule out any action they took - such as location or personal inclinations.

So if I were to guess - and I have to because I am vaxxed - someone gets the vaccine, then they slowly stop taking precautions. Over the months arrogance slowly creeps and the "immune" take risks that the would not have just as the vaccine not only wears off but makes you FAR more vulnerable to anything, not just Covid.

So the adaptation to the situation that I can think of is this, within 5-7 months after the vaccine take more precautions and think of yourself as extra vulnerable to anything a weak immune system may be vulnerable to and change your behavior accordingly. Boost the intake of immunity building food and low risk supplements. Exercise. Take care with alcohol and any other recreational drugs. Avoid mass indoor crowds.

It would make sense that around month 8 your immune system should be back to normal. Its a pure guess but its the best I can think of now.

[ecosophia]

That's sensible, but according to at least some medical studies, ADE doesn't go away in eight months. It doesn't go away at all. You can expect to have a vulnerable immune system for the rest of your life. That's not a death sentence, but you'll need to take care to keep your immunity as strong as it can be, and be very careful about inflammation.

[brenainn]

I'm so glad that neither myself nor my immediate family (mother, siblings, nieces/nephews) have taken the jab. A couple months ago, my mother and I nearly caved and took it. I'm very glad we didn't. If this thing does end up with a high fatality rate (whether 1/3 or kind of close), I think I can imagine the response against the political establishment will be a "Red Wave," just not in the usual sense of a lot of Republicans elected to Congress in '22. What a bleeping feces storm that might just be on the horizon.

[ecosophia]

A clairvoyant I know has foreseen at least one person involved in the Covid vaccine business being torn to bloody gobbets by a howling mob during the spring of 2022. I hope it doesn't come to that, but if I'm right, this is the kind of situation that could cause that.