Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 24
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ecosophia
The semi-open posts I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a very high number of comments, so I'm opening yet another space for discussion. The rules are the same as before: 1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, as more and more vaccinated people call in sick with the disease the vaccine was supposed to keep them from getting, and the euphemism "died suddenly" sounds like a repeated drumbeat in the media, the floor is open for discussion.
Vaccine Injuries
Date: 2022-01-23 02:32 pm (UTC)Just posted at https://www.realnotrare.com/post/denise-drew-douglass-hr-manager
Denise Drew-Douglass, HR Manager
First Dose of Moderna on 03/09/21
Second Dose of Moderna on 04/06/21 Lot #020B21A
Saint Charles, Missouri
EXCERPT:
Q: Is there anything that has helped, and have your symptoms improved?
Chiropractic treatments. NAET treatments from my holistic doc, but what has helped me the most is giving up my anger and resentment. This was very difficult. This is the new me now. I am not the same person and I accepted that,. However, it was extremely difficult. I grieved for the old me.
Q: What do you wish others knew?
I do not wish this hell on anyone. I am sorry to others who are going through this. These type of groups do help; sharing any information that can help us feel better.
The question is, how rare?
Date: 2022-01-23 02:37 pm (UTC)20 JAN 2022
BY JENNIFER COUZIN-FRANKEL, GRETCHEN VOGEL
https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-cases-coronavirus-vaccines-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms
Re: The question is, how rare?
Date: 2022-01-23 04:28 pm (UTC)Interestingly, I find that people in my Long Covid group are respectful about people's decisions regarding vaccination. I think it's because many of us have had adverse reactions and long-term negative effects from the vaccines, more so than the general population.
-beneaththesurface
Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations
Date: 2022-01-23 02:40 pm (UTC)The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs
by Stephanie Seneff, Greg Nigh, Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos, Peter A McCullough
https://www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas
Re: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations
Date: 2022-01-23 05:47 pm (UTC)The level of scholarship and understanding here blows anything presented by "The Science" out of the water. I would describe this as a "cellular ecology" approach, which asks not "does the vax do X?" but rather "given what we know about the vaccine, how might we expect it to disrupt cellular and systemic processes, what might those effects look like, and can they explain what we are seeing in terms of adverse effects?".
This paper brings together cell biology, epigenetics, immunology, endocrinology, neurology, cardiology, and much more. It has 215 citations. Some of the mechanisms discussed are new to me. It would take me several days to truly comprehend all of it.
If all the antibody and infection rate papers are the equivalent of asking "what is the effect of glyphosate herbicide on corn yields, on weed growth, on survival of lab rats?" then this is the equivalent of asking "how might we expect glyphosate herbicide to affect agroecology and human health writ large?".
Some of the most important takeaways for me in a too-brief reading:
--It seems possible that anti-spike antibodies may actually be produced in response to spike-bearing exosomes which are one of the later effects of vaccination, which could explain the relatively late appearance of antibodies, and also implies that spike protein is traveling around the body for prolonged periods.
--Vaccination appears to suppress some aspects of innate immunity, particularly the interferon response, which are not similarly suppressed by infection.
--The ham-fisted RNA modifications of the vaccines, designed to maximize translation into protein, have implications with regard to disruption of transcriptional and translational processes within cells via micro-RNA signaling and competition for protein factors, and micro-RNA transfer in exosomes may allow for systemic propagation of this disruption.
The sobering conclusion:
"It is imperative that worldwide administration of the mRNA vaccinations be stopped immediately until further studies are conducted to determine the extent of the potential pathological consequences outlined in this paper. It is not possible for these vaccinations to be considered part of a public health campaign without a detailed analysis of the human impact of the potential collateral damage. It is also imperative that VAERS and other monitoring system be optimized to detect signals related to the health consequences of mRNA vaccination we have outlined. We believe the upgraded VAERS monitoring system described in the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. study, but unfortunately not supported by the CDC, would be a valuable start in this regard [208].
In the end, we are not exaggerating to say that billions of lives are at stake. We call on the public health institutions to demonstrate, with evidence, why the issues discussed in this paper are not relevant to public health, or to acknowledge that they are and to act accordingly. Until our public health institutions do what is right in this regard, we encourage all individuals to make their own health care decisions with this information as a contributing factor in those decisions."
Mark L
Re: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations
From:Re: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations
From: (Anonymous) - Date: 2022-01-24 06:30 am (UTC) - ExpandRe: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations
From:Re: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations
From:Today's March to Defeat the Mandates in DC
Date: 2022-01-23 02:44 pm (UTC)https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/dc-defeat-the-mandates-livestream
Re: Today's March to Defeat the Mandates in DC
Date: 2022-01-23 05:38 pm (UTC)some of the signs:
STAND FOR FREEDOM
IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE CULPRIT FOLLOW THE MONEY, IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE TRUTH FOLLOW THE SILENCED
MY BODY MY CHOICE
GOVERNMENT IS MAKING WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE
JP Sears, in a "I WILL NOT COMPLY" T-shirt introduces Dr Cole...
Correlation between excess mortality and vaccinations
Date: 2022-01-23 04:23 pm (UTC)The authors are trying to get it published somewhere, but since I haven‘t seen the English preprint anywhere yet, here is a link to a German summary by the main author:
https://osf.io/5gu8a
imo it‘s well worth the read, down to the end, as they also deal with potential objections to their findings. If you are using a translation tool and have trouble with specific sentences or parts, let me know and I‘ll do my best to help with the translation.
At the very end, there are links to the underlying data sources, and the very last link goes to the data set they have been using (in case anybody here wants to play with the data themselves).
The short version is: excess deaths correlate quite well with vaccination campaigns, down to the federal level in Germany. I.e. the federal states show different vaccination patterns over time, depending on policies and on how many vaccines were available when and where, and the excess deaths correlate with those.
My one and only statistics course was a loooong time ago, so I can‘t vouch for their statistics, but the paper looked solid and well-argumented to me.
Milkyway
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Date: 2022-01-23 04:46 pm (UTC)Vaccine Injuries
Date: 2022-01-23 05:59 pm (UTC)https://www.realnotrare.com/post/denise-linforth-yoga-teacher
Denise Linforth, Yoga Teacher
First Dose of Sinovac on 05/17/2021
Harare, Zimbabwe
EXCERPT:
Q: What was your life like before you got the vaccine?
I am a yoga teacher. I used to practice every day. I was fit and healthy, full of life and able to have fun with my son.
Q: What was your reaction, symptoms, & timeline?
1 June 2021: I had general malaise and nausea, headache and fatigue. I saw a GP and was told I had had Covid as my D Dimer was through the roof. I was referred to hematologist who told me it was likely a vaccine reaction and not Covid. I was sent for a brain MRI on the 3rd of June 2021. There were small white spots noted, and the nerves in my ears were inflamed. I was admitted to the hospital on the 6th of June 2021 with blood pressure at 171/111. I spent 3 nights in the hospital on BP meds, pain killers and sleeping pills. My headache did not go.
I had to have a lumbar puncture. Results were normal and I was sent home diagnosed as having panic attacks.
I saw neurologist a week later with splitting migraines. I was put on Propanolol, beta blocker, and sent home diagnosed with Migraine with Aura.
My headaches did not subside. I eventually had to have a spinal blood patch procedure which worked finally.
Nausea continued, as well as a feeling of imbalance and fatigue. I saw an ENT specialist in August and had a CT scan of my sinuses. I was told all was fine and sent home.
I continued to be unwell, with morning nausea, heart palpitations through the night, numbness in my limbs, and weird tingling sensation in the base of my brain.
I was referred to specialist physician where I was diagnosed with an Autoimmune Migraine made worse by the Covid Vaccine and my contraceptive pill, Minesse. I was taken off Minesse, prescribed Epilim and he lowered the Propanolol dose as he said it was far too high.
I started feeling better, but 2 months later I was sick again. This time I had extreme nausea, rapid heart rate, pins and needles in my neck, left arm and left leg.
I went to South Africa to see a Functional doctor. He took me off all the meds and confirmed my vaccine reaction. My hair was starting to fall out too. He referred me to a cardiologist after seeing inverted T waves on an ECG he ran. I saw the cardiologist who ran 2 ECGs, 1 stress ECG and a 5 day holter. The cardiologist diagnosed me with IST - Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia and prescribed a Cardiocor beta blocker.
A month passed of feeling better. Then end of November I started feeling ill again. I had severe morning nausea, heart palpitations, numbness, and headaches.
Last resort, I saw an Immunologist who has diagnosed me with possible Systemic Sclerosis, but I would like to get a second opinion in 2022.
> READ THE FULL Q & A at
https://www.realnotrare.com/post/denise-linforth-yoga-teacher
Steve Kirsch
Date: 2022-01-23 06:57 pm (UTC)https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-speech-at-defeat-the-mandates
Well worth a read. I printed it out to share.
Cetiousaurus
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Date: 2022-01-23 07:41 pm (UTC)https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/dc-defeat-the-mandates-livestream
RFK Jr: "The hill you're going to die on is the hill you're on right now. And they're coming for your children"
An historic moment.
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Date: 2022-01-23 07:47 pm (UTC)https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/dc-defeat-the-mandates-livestream
Many foreign readers may not know, this is the same place Martin Luther King made his historic "I Have a Dream" speech, and a number of the speakers are referencing that.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-01-23 08:14 pm (UTC)https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/dc-defeat-the-mandates-livestream
Very strong speech by Dr Christina Parks. Announced VITA, the vaccine Injuries Treatment Alliance.
As of this moment, her website doesn't have content yet, it seems.
https://drchristinaparks.com
On Telegram
https://t.me/s/ChristinaParks
Dr Christina Parks
Date: 2022-01-23 09:34 pm (UTC)I found this on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/vrwrg1-dr.-christina-parks-testifies-that-mask-are-dangerous.-protect-your-childre.html
in which Dr Parks testifies before the Michigan House of Representatives about the dangers of the vaxx:
EXCERPT:
"I received my PhD in cellular and molecular biology right here in the state of Michigan, from University of Michigan Medical School, and so I am very well-versed in the science of both these mRNA gene therapy vaccines, this kind of technology, as well as what a vaccine is designed to do in the body, what it can do, what it can't do, and the fact that this is extremely complex science that has been oversimplified in the media to basically take away our freedom of choice. What I want to address today in this limited time is the fact that vaccine requirements and mandates are based on the faulty assumption that the vaccines in question prevent transmission of the pathogen.... Do the vaccines for covid prevent transmission? No. In fact, they were never designed to do that."
"Yes, PhDs are the most vaccine-hesitant, followed by people who have less than a high school degree, because they know what they don't know, and they don't trust their government. The other group that is vaccine hesitant is African Americans. Seventy percent of African Americans have not taken this vaccine. Why? Because they don't trust their government. Do they have reason not to trust their government? Well, between the years of 1930 and 1970, the CDC conducted the Tuskeegee Experiment..."
"As an African American and a PhD, I want to ask each of you, are we going to exclude 70% of African American people from the workforce and from education?"
* * * * *
In all, very informative testimony. It runs for 8:51. I be;ieve this same testimony was mentioned on this forum back when it first started up. I wondered why we weren't hearing more from Dr. Parks-- but it seems, after her fiery speech today at the Washington DC Defeat the Mandates rally, and with the growth of alternative platforms, she's going to be an increasingly important voice.
Cetiosaurus
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Date: 2022-01-23 09:47 pm (UTC)https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-very-concerning-data-from-scotland
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Date: 2022-01-24 04:07 am (UTC)No wonder they 'cook the books' with the counting.
They are so sneaky, I doubt it will ever be possible to get a true picture of the costs of this 'medical intervention'.
And then there is the fact that 'they' made the virus as well. . .
They just keep on getting away with blaming the victims.
I hope they at least lose some sleep over it, but I bet people who have the kind of mentality that permits them to work on developing new killer viruses sleep like babies.
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From: (Anonymous) - Date: 2022-01-24 11:13 am (UTC) - Expandmandate = voluntary
Date: 2022-01-24 09:29 am (UTC)Quote:
> Ich glaube also, dass Ärzte jeden impfen sollten, denjenigen, der geimpft werden will, weil er der Impflicht nachkommt oder denjenigen, der sich impfen lässt ganz freiwillig. Es wird ja niemand gegen seinen Willen geimpft. Selbst die Impflicht führt ja dazu, dass man sich zum Schluss freiwillig impfen lässt.
Translation:
> I believe therefore that doctors should vaccinate everyone. Those who want to be vaccinated to follow the mandate and those who want to be vaccinated voluntarily. After all, Nobody is being forced to be vaccinated against their will. Even the vaccination mandate results in that one will be vaccinated voluntarily in the end.
Questions? No, I didn't think so.
Re: mandate = voluntary
Date: 2022-01-24 04:07 pm (UTC)Re: mandate = voluntary
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Date: 2022-01-24 01:57 pm (UTC)When JMG stated in an early post in this set that he expected more frantic attempts to vaccinate to continue, I thought "I hope he's wrong because the narrative is cracking now." Now after reading that email, I can completely see the college mandating a second booster (shot #4) after spring break. They really think that whatever is happening is due to their efforts and can not be explained in any other way.
Plus compliance with the booster shots shows one is a true believer in the regime and a caring member of their community. Plus wearing the N-95 shows the everyone that you are truly truly worshipping regularly and correctly.
I thought digital vaccine passports were a goner, but these colleges are using them now on campus and I can see a possible future where they demand them be brought over to their work life.
Covid and the vaccines are more about having the right politics than health, safety, keeping people out of hospitals, etc etc. People are fighting back agains the wrong thing. The managerial class now has a new way to measure who their true followers are and they are going to keep using it.
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Date: 2022-01-24 04:27 pm (UTC)I agree -- and to me, it's obviously obvious that, as you say, "Covid and the vaccines are more about having the right politics than health, safety, keeping people out of hospitals, etc etc."
What has really surprised me however is how utterly incurious and rigid-minded so many people, of whom I would have expected otherwise, have been, and continue to be. (Of course I also know plenty of people whom I would have described as incurious and rigid-minded before 2020, surprises there.)
I just keep thinking of our host talking about the benefits of avoiding the vectors.
Amazing to me that I just typed that. I loved university life.
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From:Vaccine Injuries
Date: 2022-01-24 02:13 pm (UTC)https://www.realnotrare.com/post/jocelyn-burkhart
Jocelyn Burkhart
First Dose of J&J on 08/27/21 Lot #1808982
Nevada
EXCERPT:
Q: Was your reaction reported, and what was the response?
Reported to CDC website - no response
Q: Is there anything that has helped, and have your symptoms improved?
Low dose of prednisone
Q: What do you wish others knew?
I don't think you should take the shot.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-01-24 02:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-01-24 04:39 pm (UTC)I wonder if something like this is anything like what you are talking about, or if others have noticed a significant... difference, shift, reloading that occured a little while back.
Recent shift?
From:the hive mind is strong
Date: 2022-01-24 04:13 pm (UTC)This morning she just texted me that my (red state, civil libertarian) dad talked her into getting the booster so they can fly to see my brother in March. My brother who, despite being triple vaccinated, currently has a mild case of Covid. My mom was boosted yesterday and was sick all night; she's still sick today. Her doctor and my dad say that's a good sign.
My family is not pressuring me or my kids to be vaccinated, but I feel like I just lost the battle for the last unboosted family member.
Re: the hive mind is strong
Date: 2022-01-24 07:09 pm (UTC)I'm in the same situation, too.
Kunstler on RFK Jr this Sunday in Washington DC
Date: 2022-01-24 04:46 pm (UTC)https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-real-american-hero/
EXCERPT:
"Sunday, at the March Against Mandates in our nation’s capital, the resistance to Covid vaccine tyranny laid it out, none with plainer eloquence than Bobby Kennedy:
"'We love the United States Constitution. And we have witnessed over the past 20 months a coup d’etat against democracy and the demolition, the controlled demolition of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And starting with the censorship. James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson all said the same thing: we put freedom of speech in the first amendment because all of the other rights that we were trying to protect relied on that right. If you give government the license to silence its critics, you have given them the capacity to commit any atrocity they want, and to obliterate all the amendments and rights in the constitution.'
"The message is getting through and the tyrants are running scared. They are perhaps having bad dreams involving torches and pitchforks. Naturally CNN took the lead in attempting to defame Mr. Kennedy as an anti-Semite for mentioning the name of Anne Frank in alluding to the Nazi insanity of the last century and people’s desperate efforts to escape it. CNN said:
"'The son of former Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy has a long history of spreading vaccine misinformation…. Sunday’s event, billed as a protest against vaccine mandates, featured speakers repeatedly spreading misinformation about vaccines and showcased several bigoted comparisons to the Holocaust. At least one man was seen displaying a yellow Star of David, which Jews were required by law to wear as an identifier in Nazi Germany.'
"So, wearing a Star of David now makes you an insurrectionist in the twisted logic of Wokery. How stupid and confused are they? Anyway, heroes emerge out of adversity. Let them pile it on, insulting history and reality. In fact, Bobby Kennedy stood in the cold at the Lincoln Memorial as a heroic figure for these times, giving a speech that carefully and succinctly denoted the stupendous criminality of the US public health bureaucracy and the corporate-government fascist partnership with Pharma Inc. that has poisoned hundreds of millions of Americans in a medical experiment that has only begun to kill possibly more people than the Nazis ever dreamed of murdering. There has not been a more important public utterance in this land than RFK Jr.’s since this century began."
Re: Kunstler on RFK Jr this Sunday in Washington DC
Date: 2022-01-24 08:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-01-24 04:52 pm (UTC)https://brownstone.org/articles/the-dc-rally-and-the-rise-of-the-resistance/
The DC Rally and the Rise of the Resistance
BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER JANUARY 23, 2022
By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument and culminating in speeches at the Lincoln Memorial. At long last, after two years of astonishing attacks on fundamental rights that most everyone once believed were protected by the U.S. Constitution, this happened today, January 23, 2022.
It didn’t just happen actually. It wasn’t spontaneous. It was paid for, planned, organized, put together, and broadcast on online media. There was nothing but sincere love of what we used to call liberty behind these efforts. The speakers, organizers, and people who showed up took huge risks in order to salvage what is left of the Founders’ vision. They deserve every credit for this. Bless them.
The enduring question is: why did it take so long? Why did people not pour out into the streets on March 13, 2020, when the government first issued its lockdown directives that were put into place the next week and lasted for months after? How is it possible that governments around the country could have locked up the churches on Easter 2020, smashed 100K-plus small businesses, and kept many schools closed for the better part of two years and yet protests against lockdowns were few, far between, and mostly unattended?
Let us not forget that “social distancing” rules were structured to “keep people separate,” in the words of the crank doctor Deborah Birx who concocted all these protocols and talked Trump into accepting them. Combined with capacity restrictions, they amounted to a ban on public meetings. In many states, you could not gather with more than 10 people. This was enforced by the police and cheered by mainstream media.
So let us not be too hard on people for not living a life of utter defiance. In addition, in those days, people were utterly shell-shocked. They feared not only the virus (which data had already shown was not a threat to most people of working age) but aIso arrest, doxxing, and shaming. The George Floyd protests got the green light from the same institutions, so people used the occasion to let off steam, but that light quickly turned red thereafter.
The lockdowns gradually mutated into another attack on basic freedoms. The vaccines seemed like they might emancipate us from the panic and tyrannies but the beast of tyranny had already been unleashed. What seemed like a promising way of dealing with a disease revealed itself to be an unprecedented attack on individual choice and biology. People who have not complied have seen their lives utterly upended.
Meanwhile, in the midst of this whole trajectory of decline, the harms multiplied seemingly without limit, affecting every aspect of life quality for people of all ages. The political establishment and public-health officials have been stunningly obtuse, refusing to apologize and often only doubling down on the insanity, even though everyone knows they are lying. To everyone’s amazement, Big Tech and Big Media have not only gone along but allowed themselves to be enlisted in what amounted to a war against life and liberty.
So, yes, after two years, we finally have it, the DC protest we’ve long needed. I very much admire the speakers for keeping their composure in the midst of all this. After all, do we really need to explain that something has gone fundamentally wrong? Is it not unbearably obvious that we’ve been lied to, abused, and played very hard by a fascist-style regime that is utterly foreign to American ideals, institutions, history, and aspirations? We should not have to, but we do, and with the eyes of the world watching.
Many of the speeches spoke not only to the vaccine mandates but to the lockdowns, which seem perhaps like ancient history, but which are very much present day with cultural, economic, and public-health damage that has been inflicted.
The spirit of the event was striking. It was diverse in terms of religion, ideology, and demographics. The theme of every speech centered on that beautiful word freedom, even if there were a range of different perspectives heard from the microphones. And surely, freedom is a theme on which everyone can agree. And surely most people, once it is explained, understand that a medicinal mandate of limited public utility and questionable safety, as a condition for participation in public life or even for getting paid for one’s job, is contrary to the ideal of freedom.
Why, then, were not millions present at this rally? Yes, there should have been. My answer: because this is not 1963. Consider:
D.C. has a vaccine mandate in place, so anyone not vaccinated, or anyone who refuses to participate in the new segregation, would have to stay and eat across the borders in Maryland or Virginia.
We live in very dangerous times when social-media trolls can wreck your life if you are targeted by them: showing up to an edgy, anti-regime protest in D.C. is very likely to enliven them.
Facial recognition technology allows anyone with a camera, including the major media, to capture a pic of any face and identify and discover everything there is to know about you, which means basically that there is no privacy anymore in public spaces.
The media had already spent days pre-reporting the event and characterizing it as a bunch of Trump-deluded anti-vaccination activists with dangerous associations with unseemly ideological movements.
Plane travel these days is a huge pain in the neck, with loudspeakers endlessly blaring patronizing messages about masking and social distancing, and filled with threats that non-compliers will have their lives ruined.
Plus, anyone could watch and listen to the speeches from laptops at home instead of braving the very cold weather.
The corporate media has spent the better part of a year doxxing and smearing absolutely anyone who showed up to the January 6, 2021, pro-Trump rally at the Capitol even if they didn’t participate in the unruly entry into the building. They all became and remain suspects to this day. Do you really want to protest in DC?
Given all this, it strikes me as remarkable and a sign of great strength that several thousand people managed to show at all. And while anyone can criticize this speaker or that, this line in a speech or that, I’m reluctant to do so simply because I have no idea of the herculean effort it would require to organize something on this scale and the anxiety that would be associated with all the landmines planted in such a terrain.
My attitude is: respect for those who did this.
The question is: for every person in attendance, how many people did they represent? I hope that every person there represents one million more. Ten million more. I do not see that as entirely implausible. We needed this rally if only as a show of what could be. And the overarching spirit, what was it? It was the most fundamental thing, the aspiration for simple freedom. That is what is at stake. It’s more important than ideology, partisanship, religion, race, or any of the other things that previously divided us.
When foundational postulates of civilization itself are sweeping to destruction, what do we do? We do what we can in every way that is possible. If that means organizing a rally, or slogging to D.C., or pulling up an app to watch it on TV, great. Or maybe it means donating to a good organization like Brownstone. Or perhaps saying no whenever or wherever it is possible to do so. We are out of the habit of resistance, but if there is another way to fight against the end of human rights, I do not know it.
(no subject)
Date: 2022-01-24 04:57 pm (UTC)https://brownstone.org/articles/what-i-saw-at-the-dc-rally/
Sen. Ron Johnson's C-19 Roundtable LIVE today (Jan 24)
Date: 2022-01-24 05:15 pm (UTC)Link (good for Mon, Jan 24 only):https://thehighwire.com/watch/
How things have changed
Date: 2022-01-24 05:34 pm (UTC)Covid times arrived, to grind on & on & on.
The other day, after nearly two years, I went back to look at my list of news sites for the Freedom app to block, and, wonder of wonders, NOT A SINGLE ONE IS A SITE I WOULD DEIGN TO BOTHER CHECKING, they are all such total lying bull-cakes.
It's as if I'd had a terrible struggle falling into temptation with Whoppers with a side of fries, but now, I suddenly realize, the sight and smell of them just makes me gag.
Funny how that it is.
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Vaccine Injuries
Date: 2022-01-24 05:38 pm (UTC)https://www.realnotrare.com/post/kevin-brill
Kevin Brill
First Dose of Pfizer on 05/21/21
Second Dose of Pfizer on 06/11/21
Maryland
EXCERPT:
Q: What is your life like now, after getting the vaccine?
My life has been ruined by this vaccine. Most activities are too draining and I have to rest all the time.
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Q: What do you wish others knew?
I wish that others would know that there are other people out there going through this. You are not alone and there are people that know what you are going through.
Re: Vaccine Injuries
Date: 2022-01-24 07:37 pm (UTC)Now I think, hmmm, that's a lot of "the lady doth protest too much" on her part, and on the part of the doctor.
Danish Data
Date: 2022-01-24 05:41 pm (UTC)https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/all-you-need-to-know-about-covid
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"All you need to know about Covid vaccine failure in one chart"
Courtesy of the good people at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark
by Alex Berenson
January 24, 2022
I know the screen is dirty. Ignore that.
I know it’s in Danish. Ignore that too.
This chart tracks the number of patients hospitalized for Covid in Denmark since vaccines became available in December 2020. Denmark is one of the world’s most highly vaccinated countries. Roughly 95 percent of Danes over 12 are vaccinated, and almost two-thirds are boosted. Denmark is also going through an unprecedented Omicron outbreak (more to come on that very soon).
The chart breaks down the hospitalizations by vaccine status. Dark blue is fully vaccinated, light blue is unvaccinated. Yes, the unvaccinated make up more than their share of the population. We know this.
But remember: IN LIBERAL, SUPER-HIGHLY VACCINATED COUNTRIES LIKE DENMARK, VACCINE HESITANCY IS NOT A THING. NOT IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY. The unvaccinated elderly are unvaccinated largely because they cannot be. Being unvaccinated is a MARKER for sickness. Of course the unvaccinated are disproportionately likely to be hospitalized for Covid.
So ignore the three-card monte game public health authorities and the media have played since the summer, when it became clear the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission. Forget relative rate ratios.
Look instead at the WHOLE chart, how the trend of hospitalizations has changed over the last 13 months. Human biology is the same everywhere. In the spring and summer, the vaccines worked. Cases fell almost to zero. A miracle of biotechnology.
But the miracle - the dubious miracle of vaccine-generated spike protein antibodies - did not last.
By September, vaccine protection was waning. The dark blue line (vaccinated) grew thicker relative to the light blue line, though that failure was masked by a general decline in cases after the summer wave.
Then, in mid-October (2021-week 41), a new wave began. The vaccines did nothing to stop it. Once Omicron hit hospitalizations accelerated exponentially.
Now Denmark - 95 percent adult vaccinated, 65 percent boosted Denmark - HAS MORE COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS NOW THAN IT DID BEFORE A SINGLE DANE RECEIVED A SINGLE MRNA VACCINE. AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE VACCINATED. Even boosters have done nothing to reverse the trend. The dark blue line now is about to pass the peak of the light blue line from last year.
CONTINUE READING at
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/all-you-need-to-know-about-covid
Re: Danish Data
Date: 2022-01-24 07:09 pm (UTC)I can't put an image in here but click through to see it.
Looking at that and it sure looks like they are injecting people with covid when they give a vaccination. Its crazy.
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