Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 70

[ecosophia]

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. 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. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.   

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open thread archive .epub, txt, html / the whole open thread and comments

[(Anonymous)]

The following links contains the archives (.epub and html, and for Vol. 2 text too)

Volume 1 (everything before 1st March 2022)
Volume 1 - .html archive
https://mega.nz/file/8dBxzC4B#AkuddhK1eMAHK8xtCquBd7Es_19uU0UVAuO26PJ61ow

Volume 1 - .epub archive
https://mega.nz/file/8JYV3QBT#ydwISn-_JZGsa3KCfNlMPZSmCKWEFgTYMJJnsvN0D9c

Volume 2 (everything after 1st of March)

Volume 2 - .html archive
https://mega.nz/file/INBEUapS#hp4rZVkoJCZ4yKEfz-gr48iMpOfLcSVqFWHeoGWq5a4

Volume 2 - .txt archive
https://mega.nz/file/lQ5mEDiR#hrMVcUi03aJLuODjvTrFQbrmq4IRfqJMdO-Osd4c8Rc

Volume 2 - .epub archive
https://mega.nz/file/xFomBI4K#qXMkKUAW2TErbruBb9i7pp30QNmQ8I-0isT7Yj1gfbo


Volume 3 - .html archive
https://mega.nz/file/8Uw1VYYT#8LnVf0wl-fXQSiTLcr1umJZrPY0NoFC22L7zBmommaQI

Volume 3 - .txt archive
https://mega.nz/file/RVIwwLTT#HNW2j3B7c5-3plxNAfptz2NfAumq4nyfECPz6QgKQbE

Volume 3 - .epub archive
https://mega.nz/file/dY413TaB#lLZ7zHVcNXhUT7WYth92yqtDlNvQjPnmMbhmcEGd5d0

Re: open thread archive .epub, txt, html / the whole open thread and comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

the new medical freedom

[lp9]

Guest post at Robert Malone's substack that fits right into "what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries":

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-new-medical-freedom

"In 1999 I began an odyssey in medicine few would believe possible. I met and apprenticed with a curandero - a type of old-time, natural healer - who gave me an excellent base for what would become my medical career.

I obtained a license to practice acupuncture and Chinese medicine in 2005.

And since then, I’ve lectured at places like Cleveland Clinic, UVA Medical center, Stony Brook University Medical center, and UCSF.

I even created two hospital teaching clinics on two continents, including Mercy Hospital in Chicago.

And I did all of this without going to any medical school as a student. The only reason any of this was possible in the first place is because…

The system of self-healing I learned from my mentor works.

Unlike modern emergency medical care, ancient medical systems have incredibly sophisticated ways of evaluating and counteracting the one category of illness affecting more patients than all others: chronic conditions.

In fact, you could say that just as modern medicine is an almost magical system for handling serious health emergencies from life-threatening infections to serious trauma…

Ancient medical approaches (like the one I learned) are equally as impressive in teaching patients how to target and even reverse their own chronic conditions.

Of those two categories, chronic, daily symptoms are by far the biggest unmet market need. That trend shows no signs of slowing down... But real medical freedom goes beyond generic advice and expensive alternatives to modern medicine.

Medical freedom means learning targeted, self-healing methods that go way beyond the kind of generic advice usually referred to as “well-being.”

To me, medical freedom means something specific:

It means having the power to heal and maintain your bodily and psychological health without relying on modern medicine for simple, common, everyday complaints.

At a minimum, medical freedom means government and private corporations don’t get to mandate untested “vaccines” on an unwary population.

I'll even go one step further…

Medical Freedom means using the modern medical system for the conditions it treats best - while avoiding any reliance on pills and sugary foods when self-healing is clearly a better option.

Most people have no idea how to heal on their own - without falling into the hands of our very dysfunctional medical system."

(more at the link above)

Re: the new medical freedom

[escorcher]

Thanks for this. Got a few days off work (finally) so will have a proper read.

Always liked the Chinese 5 element way of thinking since I came across it.

Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

Week 70!!

Dear John Michael Greer,

Thank you so much for hosting and moderating, and thank you all who show up here.

This week feels different to me, the energy out there is so craggy and speedy.

As the holidays near, some painful memories of covidianism this time in 2021 and 2020 come to the fore. So many things to compare and contrast, so many things gone, while others persist.

In part thanks to this forum, I'm seeing my way forward more clearly than I did a year ago, as I dance with the questions of what to do, what to avoid, what to say, when to remain silent, whom to reach out to, whom to let go.

Focusing on nutrition, healthy living habits, and ramping up my skill set.

Gratefully,

Cetiosaurus

Re: Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

Would be Week 71 if we include the hypothesys.


I have this system in my mind were the posts are linked to the Tarot

now post ID changed to
21xxxx I expected to end by 21xxxx

it started at 14xxxx
maybe the crazyness will end by 22xxxx

at week 78
what I saw last year as an worse case scenario nou looks like optimistic take

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny because it's true:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFjMG7b6WYAE9Juo.jpg

I'd post the image, but I'm not tech savvy.

The Ninth Mouse

[ecosophia]

Easily done.

[(Anonymous)]

Time for my coffee, then off to the orifice, but before I go, here's one from Igor that raises some interesting questions:

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/china-ends-lockdowns-says-covid-is

Are the authorities downplaying covid numbers now to hide their failure? Is the disease mild if one keeps getting it multiple times a year? Is this VAIDS?

"When we look beyond such self-serving numbers, we see high rates of Covid positivity, sick people repeatedly infected and getting sicker each time, and little sign of improvement.

A “mild” illness that reinfects sufferers three times a year is not so harmless.

We also have an AIDS-like immune deficiency problem affecting millions of people — getting sick with EVERYTHING from scabies to fungi to severe cases of ordinary colds, flu and RSV. Rintrah Radagast described them in an amazing post that I highly recommend reading."

I remember someone telling me about a tweet from some egghead along the lines of: "If the vaccines cause VAIDS, then where are all the fungal infections as per AIDS?"

Well, it sounds like they've arrived.

The Ninth Mouse

[dendroica]

"off to the orifice..."

Is your autocorrect secretly conveying how you feel about work?

Vaccine Injuries

[tunesmyth]

My MRNA vaccinated father, previously in above average health for his age-- in retirement, found a new passion for yoga and became a certified instructor, teaching free classes at retirement homes -- suddenly developed arrhythmia a few weeks ago and can hardly move any more without becoming tired. :-( Of course he could just be getting to that age, but this is a problem that as far as I know has never manifested in our family before, so... I'm suspicious.

Just out of curiosity, do any of you have opinions about whether any of the current resources out there suggesting possible modes of remediation for vaccine injury look particularly promising?

Re: Vaccine Injuries

[tunesmyth]

By the way, JMG-- perhaps it's my imagination recalling something that doesn't exist, but-- I seem to recall that there might have been a historically documented cell salts protocol for vaccine injury? Am I imagining this?

First person andecdata

[(Anonymous)]

I'm stubbornly unfoxxed, and here's an interesting tale from the past few days. For about six hours last weekend, I was sure I had the 'Vid. Out doing errands on Saturday, I got a coffee, took a sip expecting the usual bittersweet delight, and... nothing. A sensation of hot water, nothing more. I finished the coffee quickly, and walked back to my car. As I walked, I did another test with a peppermint candy in my pocket. No taste at all, just the sensation of coolness from the mint. In the next half hour, I did thee same with a variety of tastes analogous to fireworks or a rock concert-- mixed Indian pickle, a raw cardamom seed crushed in my molars. No taste whatsoever.

Now, a co-worker whom I'd worked closely with had just spent the last half of the week out sick with the 'Vid. I figured my number was up, and wondered what to expect. Came home, hit it with everything I had-- vitamins C and D, zinc, quercetin, black cumin, aspirin. Since you are obviously more at risk for tapeworm and malaria with a viral disease, I turned to the full FLCCC arsenal that advised that I use my stockpiled Vitamin I and HCQ to boot. :-) Went to bed for a long nap, and woke up in a bit over two hours. Came downstairs, and lo and behold, I could taste my dinner, not just in a muted way, but quite intensely, even better than I remembered the dish tasting.

I continued to nap liberally for the next two days, at times I felt a bit tired, but the hint of a sore throat I had on Saturday has not returned, Went back to work today, and felt better than normal, no doubt, from all the naps. In total, I did 3 days of vitamin I, and the same with HCQ, all prescribed legally by doctors with a conscience and a website. I think over two years of nutritional prep made a difference, and I probably beat it off mostly in under a day. (I'm not a doctor, though, I just make fun of them on TV.)

----------------
Part 2 of this anecdata. I work in a highly vaccinated publicly funded facility that is responsible for housing quite a few people and taking care of them. Staffing is really suffering, lots of poorly defined "illness", and a recent re-do of a policy that had required rigorous cootie testing. Now, if you don't test and feel able to work, you're free to come back. No more obligation to test, but they do still force a minimum time-out for anyone who tests positive. It is everything but explicit-- we can't admit we were wrong, but nothing really controls it, and we need staff to fill needed positions. They are really struggling, though. A considerable portion is just that the work is demanding-- I think turnover has always been high. But I've never seen it like now.

I enjoy creating cognitive dissonance among management-- according to their script, I was putting myself at great risk by refusing. It is increasingly appearing to me, though, that everyone who bought this story has put themselves at risk. I hope it resolves without disaster, but in any case, this is going to be a very challenging winter, I believe.

Sign me,
Lucky

Re: First person andecdata

[(Anonymous)]

I recently found sciencefiles.org again. It was the first source of skeptical information I could find way back in the beginning long before I found the various substacks, twitter profiles and this forum.
They helped me quite a lot.

They have some recent findings which are pretty interesting and support your observations.
Quoting from
"Reusch, Julia, Isabell Wagenhäuser, Alexander Gabel, Anna Höhn, Thiên-Trí Lâm, Lukas B. Krone, Anna Frey et al. (2022). Inability to work following COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers-an important aspect for future booster vaccinations. medRxiv"

they find that 87% of all vaccinated have to take medications to cope with the after effects and 27,9% have to take sick days

“Overall, 3·8% (51/1,704) of HCWs [Health Care Workers] were on sick leave (0·1 average sick days) after the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination, 21·8% (370/1,698; 0·4 average sick days) after the second and 27·9% (378/1,355; 0·5 average sick days) after the third one. With each additional dose, there was a significant increase in the proportion of HCWs on sick leave (p<0·0001, comparing first and second dose; p<0·0001, comparing first and third dose; p<0·0001, comparing second and third dose; Figure 2F) as well as in the mean sick leave (p<0·0001, comparing first and second dose; p<0·0001, comparing first and third dose; p<0·001, comparing second and third dose; Figure 2E).”

https://sciencefiles.org/2022/12/02/nebenwirkungspandemie-covid-19-impfung-ursache-der-personalknappheit-im-gesundheitswesen-90-benoetigen-medikamente-rund-30-sind-arbeitsunfaehig/

Link to Dr Fauci's transcript

[team10tim]

Of note, Fauci says "I don't recall" 174 times, roughly once every 2.5 minutes.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/transcribed-deposition-of-dr-anthony

Warning, it is over 400 pages long and not going to answer any questions that you may have. Either he is not mentally fit for the position or he is lying under oath.

Re: Link to Dr Fauci's transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one thinking, probably both?

[ivn66]

Admittedly this has little to do with covid but if our host will permit it, I'd like to ask the commentariat if anyone reading this was the person who posted, in a previous open post, some links to those online narcissistic-parent support groups (I think they came up as part of an analogy for the behavior of the Canadian gov't - something like that). I briefly perused those sites and was pretty taken aback at how much I related to what people were saying, how much the behavior there described mirrored one or sometimes both of my parents' behavior in my own upbringing. Alas, I lost the links and have long since forgotten the names of the websites. From what I can recall I liked those resources much better than what I've been able to find doing my own search-engining (there's something about Reddit that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth no matter the subject) so if you're the one and you see this I'd love to get those links again.

[ivn66]

Thanks, JMG.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello JMG,

Might it be possible for you to explain why your mood is "bleak", any new insights on your original prognosis ?

Many thanks in advance,

Sapienter Si Sincere

Can't remember hating being right before

[revert2mean]

Hi everyone,

First week of summer at the bottom of the world and I'm nervous. It's really happening.

(1) Lots of media coverage about how the medical system is failing. Lowest number of elective surgeries ever performed last year, for example.

(2) A major hospital in Melbourne put out an announcement asking people not to come in last week. Basically said they had no capacity to see people. Said there was lots of covid around. Spokesdoctor sounded very frustrated, said, "It's like people's immune systems aren't working as they should", or words to that effect. Then started banging on about quacksination and bringing lockdowns back. I just hate it when people get 90% of the way there and then - whoomp - they've looked away again.

(3) Kirstie Alley's death sounded like a turbo cancer.

(4) TWO heart-wrenching stories on my Facebook feed in the last week about mothers of young children suddenly found to be within inches of death from widespread cancer that was never suspected. I think this used to be really really uncommon.

I really thought we'd have a peaceful few months in the sun, but maybe not.

Re: Can't remember hating being right before

[(Anonymous)]

In terms of elective surgeries, I'm wondering if part of it is the expense of them. With regular health insurance, the amount out-of-pocket can be many thousands and I saw that household debt overall is at the highest levels ever recorded. People might not be doing surgery because they just can't afford to do it.

anecdotal of course

[(Anonymous)]

but the plural is data.... I am unvaxed and exposed again weekend before last ver two days, the first day working and handing tools to the father of the family helping to work at my house indoors, the next day the whole family was over helping outdoors, the father of the family sick and symptomatic and I spent an hour holding and playing with the infant. They all tested positive for COVID and were "worried about exposing me a few days before".( Yes, the parents it turned out were vexed, I don't think boosted, but since the baby was only born last January, the hospital would not let Dad go into the hospital without getting the shot, etc...)

Anyways, I wasn't worried of course but did take the "pre-covid" recommends from Stephen Buhner, for the next 10 days or so, fairly standard immune support really, cordyceps, Siberian ginseng, Japanese knotweed, etc... and then took 1g Vit C and Vit D daily. I am sure I am exposed plenty of other times, at the grocery store or whenever with no t notice. I have never tested postitive for the virus.

day to day I take the standard cell salt mix of 12, for the past more than a year, I have been forgetting the months ones. I do other things for health

Atmospheric River

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who is still believing the MSM, gods help them. Substacker Igor Chudov has a crunchy post on the flu jab.


"CDC FAKES High Flu Numbers in the US to Scare Us into Taking Flu Vaccines
Does Flu Vaccine Worsen deadly bacterial infections?"
by Igor Chudov
Dec 6, 2022
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/cdc-fakes-high-flu-numbers-in-the

The Club of Raving Lunatics

[(Anonymous)]

It's occurring to me many times a day that many people's health would have been far better had the doctors with their clinics instead been priests with temples, where, rather than take jabs that unnecessarily muck up their immune systems, at various special altars, devotees could make their ritual devotions (some kind of candles to light, a special little something to do, eg, burn some incense, recite prayers, stamp feet 27 times in a circle, etc). I might sound like I'm joking, but as you all who've been here on this forum for a while know, I'm not.

Grumbling Grumbledore, today channeling my inner interior decorator (because temples and altars can be so pretty)


More on the flu shots--

"Giving Up the Belief in Flu Shots
Truth Tellers Sound like Raving Lunatics"
by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
December 3, 2022
https://drtenpenny.substack.com/p/giving-up-the-belief-in-flu-shots


* * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
A QUOTE FROM THAT (LONG) POST:
https://drtenpenny.substack.com/p/giving-up-the-belief-in-flu-shots

For Flu Shot Devotees

I know that most who are reading this column avoid flu shots like the plague. But I’m sure you have many friends and family members who rush out to get their flu shot each season like it was as good for them - and as harmless - as a B-12 shot.

If they listen to you at all, learning that flu shots, similar to the Covid shots offer risk but no benefit is disturbing, The reaction to this information is predictable. Many people will deny it. Then many more will become angry and call it ‘misinformation.’ Denial is most pervasive among doctors and public health officials who encourage everyone to “get your flu shot NOW!” despite convincing evidence that they don’t protect you from getting the flu.

Denials from friends and family may sound something like this:

“Well, the flu shot always protects me.”

“Shouldn’t some people get the flu shot?”

“My doctor would never recommend something that wasn’t beneficial or could be harmful. I really LIKE my doctor!”

Reversing the ingrained beliefs about the effectiveness of flu shots is difficult, even in light of solid evidence. Many will never give up their long-held belief that a flu shot protects them from the flu.

I’ll close today with two of my favorite quotes:

The first, by Dresden James, a pen name of the writer Donald James Wheal, said: ‘It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat.’

James is also noted for saying one of my other long time favorite quotes:

“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”

Welcome to the Club of Raving Lunatics.

Re: The Club of Raving Lunatics

[(Anonymous)]

There is some universal need to actively take care of your health, I had this conversation with my mom recently and she mentioned that she felt good about taking the flu shot. She had the flu last week and is fine now but said it could have been worse.

Not much to say to that, the goalposts just move from immunity to severity.

[(Anonymous)]

This morning I made a list of a dozen colleagues who have had to take months off from work for health or mental issues or “burn out.” There’s a lot more people who just fade out and disappear, some return apologetically saying they had health/mental issues, others still gone. None of them I’d put in the Covid and vax fanatic camp or the anti-vac fanatic camp. They just don’t really talk Covid and I’m assuming they vaxxed when they were told too because that is what most did.

So I’d imagine the pressure is getting to them. They are watching the vax fail and people around them get diagnosed with all kinds of things and people die more frequently. But thanks to The Narrative (tm) they can’t talk about what they see or feel with anyone, not even their doctor or their therapist, because they were in on it too. They also don’t want to be seen as one of those crazy anti-vax people.

It’s been astounding to watch over the fall. The lack of honest conversations is such a tell. People can’t even say “wow this whole Covid thing has been nuts” in the PMC world. They just don’t talk about it. Then next thing they are needing to take an extended break.

It was so hard being unvaxxed last year but I did it for moral reasons and I found all of you for support. These normal people have nothing. Two crazy fringes shrieking at them and a government and public health establishment offering nothing but more vaccines and masks.

Idk what my role is in this - just keep observing or offer some kind of help to them. Last year they were for vax mandates (it’s for the common good!) so it’s a spiritual struggle for me.

[hearthspirit]

Do you have any ghost stories?

My boss and I were just talking about Died Suddenly, and why with the Bigfoot and conspiracy - was it a QAnon setup?

And she said "Are they trying to say it's real like Bigfoot? Or fake?"

See, she was an archaeologist - no one has good non-materialist stories like ecologists and archaeologists (I'd also wager experimental physicists, but I don't know any to test this theory). To get a bunch of scientists to believe in Bigfoot and ghosts, the data have to be over the top, undeniable, and unlooked-for. And so that's what they get. Like a structure, built of five foot diameter tree logs, with tanned skin roof, in the middle of deep, mountainous forested nowhere - and the First Nations assistants explain this is a typical Bigfoot house.

Everyone has stories like this, though, you start in, then they all start coming out, then they're allowed to talk about other things no one believes in, but they have irrefutable data for...

Spain was the 'developped' country wuth more death excess in the COVID hard phase.

[(Anonymous)]

(Unfortunately, it's only in spanish, but the OECD report is in english).

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/sociedad/2022/12/06/espana-pais-desarrollado-exceso-muertes-fase-dura-covid/0003_202212G6P22991.htm

https://www.oecd.org/spain/health-at-a-glance-Spain-EN.pdf

The best public health services in the world, says always our dear government...

-A Spaniard.

A Brilliant Piece by a Lioness of Canadian Freedom

[(Anonymous)]

Dr. Julie Ponesse has been mentioned by me as well as some other Canadians in this forum from time to time. This ethicist academic shot to fame in September last year due to a ‘farewell lecture’ to her Western University medical students hours after she was terminated for refusing the fox: the video was such an unique blend of rationality and raw, authentic emotion that it is no small wonder that it went viral. From the moment that I saw the video, I said to myself “this is a hero in the making”. Since then, Dr. Ponesse has been a tireless advocate of freedom against medical tyranny from her own ethics-and-philosophy perspective. Her brilliance is matched only by her courage and passion.

Julie is a regular contributor to Brownstone Institute publications. The latest has just been published, which appears to be the text of the speech she recently gave at a conference hosted by Rebel News in Calgary. There is so much packed into the speech, it is amazing! One can read it here: https://brownstone.org/articles/if-we-only-knew/

Julie names the names of individuals in the diseased heart of the Prime Minister’s Office who worked tirelessly at manipulating the public in recent years. As far as I know, nobody has done this before.

There is so much quotable material in the speech that to do it justice, I’d have to quote the whole thing. However, I’ll just leave a couple of teasers:

“The real COVID war is not a battle over what is true, what counts as information, what it means to #followthescience; it’s a battle over what our lives mean and, ultimately, whether we matter. It’s a battle over the stories we tell.”

“We tell our stories because this is what we’ve done for thousands of years to make sense of our fears, to communicate with people from other tribes, to give our ancestors some degree of immortality and to teach our children. We tell our stories because we believe a cry in the dark will eventually be heard. These stories are what set a crisis in context. And sometimes a crisis can be productive.

“In 1944, Jean Paul Sartre wrote an article for the Atlantic about those who fought against the occupation of France. Sartre begins the article with an apparent contraction:

“Never were we freer,” he wrote, “than under the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, and first of all our right to speak. They insulted us to our faces….The deported us en masse…. And because of all this we were free.”

“Free? Really?!

“For Sartre, it isn’t our circumstances that control us; it is how we interpret them. Sartre said they were unified because they all experienced the same fears, the same loneliness, the same uncertainty about the future.

“And it was the courage of those who resisted suffering amidst all of this that led them out of it.”

To this I add: salutations to all the writers and artists of all types who put their heart and souls into telling the stories that matter at this time; and to all the brave ones who put these stories into action in their own unique ways.

Freedom! Liberté!

Ron M

Re: A Brilliant Piece by a Lioness of Canadian Freedom

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this, Ron.

As Ponesse says, it's about "whether we matter." We, as unique individuals.

I mean, what's with the one-size-fits-all all must be jabbed? For those who think it is, we see how the authorities and so many other righteously injected people treat the vaxx injured. They made no meaningful provision for them at all, and they gaslighted them, censored them, neglected them, and even laughed at them.

I see this now swinging the other way out there... very messy.... so much resentment, anger, even explosive rage.

Ponesse is one of my heroes. She says what must be said, but with both heart and intelligent measure.

Cetiosaurus

Internet's Effect on Covid Response

[(Anonymous)]

It has occurred to me that without the internet the handling of the Covid Epidemic is unlikely to have occurred the way it did.
It is possible that there still could have been mass lock downs more or less simultaneously around the world without the internet, but it seems unlikely.
Workers could not work from home.
Anything and everything couldn’t be ordered online.
Would masks have even happened?
How about mRNA vaccines?
Could the hysteria mongers have stirred up sufficient mass panic?
I wonder. Orson Welles radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” is sometimes said to have started mass panic. But as I understand, it was never as extensive and did not last as long as the Covid panic. Of course, if I have heard correctly, the government and radio did try to deescalate that.
I have a suspicion that without the internet Covid would have been treated more like the 1968 Hong Kong Flu. Of course there would have been differences, since it is a different era, but perhaps the differences wouldn’t have been so extreme.
One thing that seems to me was mostly ignored, was how much of the pandemic was spread by airlines that did not stop flying, even if their passenger numbers were greatly reduced.
Passenger jet air travel wasn’t well established when the 1968-69 Hong Kong Flu occurred.
Viewing the US and European skies on Flightaware when the pandemic first started displayed a mass of flights over both Europe and the USA. However, after only a few weeks most of the flights over Europe were stopped, the number of flight were sparse, and remained reduced.
Over the USA the flights never seemed to decrease. They probably did decrease but not so much that it was very observably different to me, as was the case in Europe.

Re: Internet's Effect on Covid Response

[(Anonymous)]

The propaganda for WW1 in the US was so effective (along with the spying and threats of jail for the 20% or so who didn't immediately comply) that men signed up for the military draft and served in the trenches of Europe. All they had then was the newspaper.

At least with the internet we had some possibility of public dissent and debate. It was still censored heavily, but the regime couldn't get all of it censored.

Update on my daughter

[tunesmyth]

Hi all,

As I've popped my head in upthread regarding my father's potentially MRNA serum-induced arrhythmia, I figured I may as well go all in and give the update on my daughter's condition as well. A little over a year ago, I wrote about how my infant daughter was having paralytic episodes, apparently due to exposure to shedding-- after being touched on the foot by a well meaning elderly neighbor who had just been vaccinated, who reached out for an unwanted "aw she's so cute" as my wife was pushing the baby cart down our street.

At the time, this resulted within hours in some shingles-like sores on my daughter's foot, and the aforementioned paralysis. In time, we came to learn that she has "Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood" (AHC), a very rare (1 in a million) and poorly understood neurological disease that strikes first in childhood ("of Childhood"), results in paralysis of the left or right side of the body ("Hemiplegia"), and bizarrely alternates sides every time she has a paralytic episode ("Alternating"). She usually spends about 3 days out of every week and a half in a hemiplegic state; occasionally longer, as it does happen sometimes that one episode connects directly to another, if there is a particular source of stress. Her cognitive and physical development have both been substantially impeded by her condition.

Back when I wrote here last, I theorized that perhaps her exposure to the vaccine shedding had caused her condition. At this point, while I can't rule that out entirely, as hemiplegia is indeed a known side effect of the Covid vaccines, and it's possible in some cases that it was actually a first case of AHC, I think that is unlikely now: I suspect that if such a side effect happened at any kind of statistically significant rate, I probably would have heard about it at least anecdotally. I guess I know for sure 10 years down the road if it turns out that right around now there was a big spike in AHC occurrences. But for now I'll assume that it wasn't the cause of the condition outright.

However I think it's safe to say that the shedding was certainly the cause of my daughter's first hemiplegia episode. I never actually saw the neighbor who touched my daughter's foot again. Why not? Well, part of it is that we moved to a new neighborhood several months later. But even before then I don't believe I ever saw him after that incident. When our house move was imminent, my wife and I saw his wife and asked her about him, as we weren't going to have a chance to say goodbye. She told us in confidence that he hadn't been out of the house in over two months, as he had a bad case of shingles and couldn't go out in public. Ouch. I feel bad for him, and I hope he is well now.

That was a shock to learn, though. The exact condition that we suspected our daughter had been exposed to via his shedding, it turned out he got a much more severe case of it. At least for my daughter, when she developed the sores on her foot, they were confined to an area about the size of a nickel, disappeared after a couple of days. Still, it was enough, evidently, to put stress on her system such that it also the first expression of her AHC.

I mean, who knows. Though AHC is considered a genetic disease, its causes and the reasons it expresses in some people and not others is very poorly understood. Maybe she would never have developed AHC at all if she hadn't been exposed to shedding at that particularly fragile and overly receptive time for her body's immune system. Who can say? Not I, certainly. But still, I suspect it's not a particularly common result of such exposure.

Anyway, since then we've made some adjustments to our lives. It's not very pleasant when one's daughter goes through tough physical times like that, but she and we have lived with her condition for a year now and have largely adjusted to the experience. (Though there was a particularly heartbreaking period a few months back where my daughter really seemed to cotton on to something really being bad about her condition, and for a while took to lifting up her paralyzed arm with her good one and letting it drop, limp and useless.) Modern medicine has no cures on offer for AHC. We are pursuing various alternative medicine strategies, and we haven't yet given up hope that her condition might be cured. Apparently occasionally AHC cases spontaneously disappear, and our hope is that could be the case for our daughter too. I wonder how often such cases are actually the result of families pursuing alternative medicine, and Science not recording the reason when healing actually occurs (because clearly there couldn't actually be any effective therapies in alternative medicine...)

Anyhow. I'm sorry I basically dropped out without updating again a year ago. That's my update for now.

Re: Update on my daughter

[(Anonymous)]

Prayers for your child and my hope that she will fully recover.

Stay strong.

Liam in Toronto

Accidental help to the narrative

[(Anonymous)]

It occurs to me that myself and others accidentally helped the narrative spread to surrounding population. I am embarrassed to say that "they got me" early in the narrative. Looking back, it was so sneaky, supposedly we were looking at "leaked" imagery out of China ( really, leaks out of China, what were we thinking ? ) Some doctor at an Italian hospital imploring us to stop this plague. I remember.

SO, I and others independentally took a deep breathe, and took precautions. I did not go to a store or public place for a month. I went over to a prep type acquaintance outside and I was in googles, a real N95 mask, gloves. I was not the only one initially worried. A small number of people went to Costco and other grocery stores in similar equipment. This was a component of spooking the rest of the people. Next thing, we get stores volunteering to bring things outside to hand off, limiting how many people inside, etc.... this was before any government mandate, it was done to serve the customer base demanding it. It was voluntary, so not all public places, this was retail, while other public places did not see the customer demand to do so. I was very upset when we started to get government MANDATED rules on grocery store and other public places.

Especially ludicrous the mandates to close the beaches and redwood forest parkland. And, make no mistake, this was mostly done to keep the out of towners away, the "others" that locals did not want to spread it here. Total government overreach, and it is GOOD for people to go out of doors, and the government does not have the RIGHT to do this. And, so far as the locals here, well, these are not "our" beaches and forests, these are parks that belong to everyone in California, and California specifically has a law that declares ALL ocean front public, a certain distance from high water line, etc... there is really no such thing as a private beach, but some defect ones as people can't get there, but if you were to walk there along the water line, of course you are on public property.

Anyway, I became very alarmed by the mandates. Meanwhile people like Chris Martenson was being very alarmist about R0 ( that is R naught) the idea that any help even with a substandard mask could give a smaller viral load and thus a less virulent course to your illness. This, while not his intent, of course does feed into masks are needed, and all those people believing that masks of some type help is then translated by government authorities to mandate it.

Anyway, I started to doubt the whole narrative, while initially starting to sew masks for the cause, I did not, the material for donation sat unused. I worried more about the mandates. I also had been gathering other data points into my mind. The initial data that the cruise ships, full of old couples sharing rooms, did not become deathtraps. The idiocy of putting COVID ill into nursing homes to spread the illness. It was easy to read and see that the initial testing on the vaccines were not testing for spread of the illness, the test and data never looked for that. But then we were soon being lied to about how they worked. etc...

SO, sometime by end of spring 2020 I decided that the whole thing really was overblown. By this time, everyone around me had pivoted and everything was closed down and no one would hang out, etc... do inperson things.

As time went on, I would have previous friends and family members say, but you were originally worried, and I tried to explain, but then I got new data, the new data showed overblown worries, so I stopped worrying about it. They of course stayed firn in their worry and insistence on mandates, vaccines, etc....

The point is, at this point, how do we guard against the psyop that was pulled on us ? It could happen again. Maybe not so soon via a virus, but other problems. I feel duped of course. Those were not leaked videos I now think, this was purposeful. To draw us in. People demanded masks and mandates. Yes, especially the teachers, it was all about protesting themselves, they were scared.

Life giving water from the sky, I am so thankful,

Atmospheric River

Re: Accidental help to the narrative

[(Anonymous)]

I am furious they suckered me and I lost several months of contact with granddchild and children. I started to wake up after being staggered by the initial flurry of blows (like other BIG public events, 'cough').
There is indeed a sucker born every minutes, and I've apparently been born more than once.

[hearthspirit]

Another (hilarious) hopefully precedent-setting court ruling:

"The first hint the Crown might have trouble winning its case against a nightclub accused of posting videos on social media of patrons flouting COVID-19 restrictions came when the judge overseeing the proceedings asked what Facebook was.

Things just went downhill from there.
...
"There are so many holes in this case — it's like someone shot a shotgun," Adair said at one point.

"There's holes all over the place. As I say, it's not just one blast of a shotgun. It's multiple blasts."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-lambda-facebook-vaccine-tickets-1.6676478

I can't even quote anything else, because every single paragraph is so funny, I can only recommend reading it (on a dark, stormy night, to coworkers who liked health authority over-reach ;-)).

[(Anonymous)]

I know this might sound conspiratorial, but did any of non-waxxed people exeperienced some unmotivated discrimination at work after the mandates were over

[(Anonymous)]

No. Quite the opposite really. People seem a bit ashamed that they went along with it and (after a bit of stunned silence) and it feels like I have gained a little measure of respect for holding out. It never occurred to them to even try, and the thought of standing up to so much social pressure while maintaining composure must seem like an admirable quality.

[deng]

Great Pic. Amish - Gods placebo group!

[(Anonymous)]

A week or so ago, I posted a link to an article and an accompanying video both of which dealt with the concept of the "smart city" which is coming our way - everywhere and very quickly. Apparently, the video (from Zeeemedia.com) has gone viral and has had more than a million views.

In the past week, "smart cities" has been a hot topic. Australian commentator, Maria Zeee (of Zeeemedia.com) was on fire with her impassioned podcast warning of the dangers of this new technology and detailing how far along things are in Australia (particularly in her native city of Melbourne). She has also posted the video of her recent interview with Australian Senator, Alex Antic. He has been very outspoken on this subject and recently gave an awesome speech in the Australian parliament.

Catherine Austin-Fitts, who I have mentioned in previous comments, has been warning of the coming "digital concentration camp" since at least the summer of 2021. She has an excellent two-part interview with the Dark Journalist. It can be found at DarkJournalist.com or on Bitchute. I think it may also be uploaded on her site, Solari.com.

This is another must-see interview. She offers some excellent observations about what is happening in our increasingly bizarre world and some insights as to why this is so. She also warns that peoples' refusal to face the truth of what is occurring is hastening the coming of this "slavery system".

Interestingly (but perhaps not surprisingly given her devout Christian beliefs), she absolutely subscribes to the demon hypothesis. She makes the point (and I agree 100%) that all that is happening cannot be ascribed to just a lust for money or a lust for power and control. The Powers that Be already have those things. She maintains there is something else going on behind the curtain.

Very interesting and very, very disturbing to those of us who value liberty and freedom.

Liam in Toronto

[(Anonymous)]

How are they going to build these smart cities? We're already seeing semiconductor shortages. And we're going to need those semiconductors for Zuckerberg's Metaverse, hahahahahaha.

[(Anonymous)]

Old old friend. Incredibly close? No. But a friend. Coffee yesterday.
Talk about ageing. Fully grey now since last meeting beginning of covid. Even heavier.
Never mind the near-blindness over the summer in one eye, surgically repaired.
Phone conversation about his/her covid since vax: 'It could have been worse.'
At the cafe,
Interrupted by person sitting nearby who interjected self in conversation.
One of those very minor cultural figures who know everything about a couple of subjects.
My friend I believe thought it was a 'connection' showing him/her still to be a vital cultural creator.
So he/she and I never had a true conversation.
My friend due today for fifth (I think) shot.
Did I say anything? No.
Walking to car conversation became 'political' and he/she puffed up into a ball of fury.
I fizzled the fury away with a question that could only be answered by admitting something
about the government he/she so admires.
Our social encounter just felt stale and useless.I felt sick until I had a long nap today.
Am I an accomplice? No, I don't think so.
If the opportunity had developed organically I would have said, 'Why no by golly I'm not foxxed-up, here's why...'
Having been an evangelical Christian at one time
I realize what we are discussing are articles of faith.
Do I, out of the blue - unbidden, challenge one of his/her articles of faith?
I felt like I was dealing with a sickening blur. Not him/her so much as some reality.

[(Anonymous)]

I can totally relate to this, especially "stale and useless" and "Not him/her so much as some reality."