Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 75
Jan. 10th, 2023 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 uselessness 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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Date: 2023-01-10 06:47 pm (UTC)The following links contains the archives (.epub and .html, and for Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 there is .txt too)
Volume 1 (everything before 1st March 2022)
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Volume 2 (everything after 1st of March 2022)
Volume 2 - .html archive
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Volume 2 (everything after 20th of September 2022)
Volume 3 - .html archive
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Re: open thread archive .epub, .txt, .html / the whole open thread and comments
Date: 2023-01-10 08:29 pm (UTC)Re: open thread archive .epub, .txt, .html / the whole open thread and comments
Date: 2023-01-10 10:13 pm (UTC)death rates
Date: 2023-01-10 06:56 pm (UTC)Last year the crude death rate in the US fell by ~7% last year but is still ~13% above pre covid/ vax crude death rates.
If mRNA induced immune system tolerance for covid is as bad as suspected ( some expecting the over 80 years olds having a ~60% higher chance of death ) we should see it there.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/uk-age-stratified-all-cause-death
I think (hope?) that by the end of this year we should have much more accurate expectations on the effects of covid and its vax.
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-10 07:41 pm (UTC)*one must assess full risk/reward to accurately gauge a medical intervention
*this bar is especially high for vaccines given to the healthy
*by may 2022 having ever taken a covid vaxx was associated with 22-74% greater all cause mortality vs being unvaccinated and this was true in ALL age stratifications.
*risk rates were still rising when publication of this data series was discontinued and could well be higher now
*some benefit against “death by covid” was still in evidence but was rapidly diminishing and was clearly either being miscounted or swamped by some other form of mortality.
*this implies deeply negative overall risk/reward from covid vaccines and raises pointed questions about their continued promotion and the processes by which they were approved. there was no age group in which they were associated with overall mortality benefit.
*ok, let’s dig in -
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-10 08:34 pm (UTC)"*by may 2022 having ever taken a covid vaxx was associated with 22-74% greater all cause mortality vs being unvaccinated and this was true in ALL age stratifications."
If that statement is true i would have expected this years crude death rate to be higher. It is still very elevated ~13% above pre covid pre vax, but down ~7% from the year before. So i am a bit skeptical about the size of the % increases that the bad cat is talking about.
if the crude death rate goes back up or stays the same this year, it would indicate to me that we have a big long term health crisis. If it goes down and keeps going down to pre covid pre vax times we only have to deal with the other predicaments.
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-10 11:00 pm (UTC)I keep trying to see where this pattern fits, or doesn't fit, with other countries and their vax vs. initial virus death rates, and can't make out any consistent patterns. Frustrating. So annoying when multivariate puzzles don't have simple and obvious answers!
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 12:24 am (UTC)Consider if there were 1000 people, and in 2019 10 would die, in 2022 12 would die if the crude death rate were to increase by 20%.
If in 2022, there are 1000 people and 800 are vaccinated, at 2019 mortality rates, 8 vaccinated and 2 unvaccinated die. If you had a hypothesis that the increased mortality is associated with the vaccinated group, and the unvaccinated had unchanged mortality, you would need to have 10 die in the vaccinated group, which is a 25% increase on the 2019 mortality rate.
Although it is a different comparison, it isn't actually very different as long as the vaccinated percentage is high, you would only get the big difference between changes to crude death rate, and relative risk of death between vaccinated/unvaccinated if the percentage of people vaccinated were lower, working under the assumption that only the vaccinated's mortality changes.
If vaccination were 50%, you would have 5 out of 500 die, and 7 of the other 500, i.e. the vaccinated group's relative mortality risk goes up by 40%, and the overall mortality risk goes up by 20%.
Mawkernewek
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-10 08:26 pm (UTC)https://nitter.net/destatis/status/1612770226088849409#m
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 03:23 pm (UTC)https://americanreveille.com/international/germany-breaks-pandemic-record-for-excess-deaths-despite-being-one-of-worlds-top-vaxxed-countries/
I really hope that this is just a random short term jump in the rate. But i fear that it is not.
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-12 06:10 am (UTC)https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3602202-europeans-risk-death-by-cold-for-green-folly-and-we-could-be-next/amp/
"A combination of utopian climate initiatives, inflation, a decline in American fossil fuel production, and an unwillingness to buy Russian oil or natural gas could lead to as many as several hundred thousand deaths across the continent this winter."
Historically excess deaths go up by 1.5% for every 1 degree celcius drop in temperatures. But this winter people are turning down thermostats because they simply can't afford it.
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Date: 2023-01-10 08:53 pm (UTC)Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 12:04 am (UTC)https://unglossed.substack.com/p/struggling-to-make-sense-of-the-egm
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 03:22 am (UTC)I quit at "Why no one has “noticed” the ONS “smoking gun” before (because it doesn’t show higher mortality):"
According to the OECD every country it tracks is showing excess mortality. This by itself is enough to convince me that Brian Mowery is just another tool in the propaganda toolbox.
https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/excess-mortality-since-january-2020
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 04:23 am (UTC)fruitless. I stared at that chalkboard and understood nothing. Less than nothing. And I hadn't even signed up for the high school 'Drug Club' yet. So when I read his blog, and comments, I tried to get some 'feeling' for it all beyond the numbers. I tried to understand if it was of value in being 'fair minded' or bullshit. My feeling was 'this is all skittering sideways.'
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 12:51 pm (UTC)- the first pattern is that countries that had a high or low excess mortality from the virus, kept having that relatively high or low excess mortality during the first year of the vax. Only since Spring 2022 things have switched and countries that have low vax rates are now having the lowest excess mortality. With google translate you can read this article from Herman Steigstra who published a few days ago an article about this with a comparison of most European countries and who made a few nice and clear graphs to go with it: https://www.maurice.nl/2023/01/07/oversterfte-in-34-landen-falende-vaccins/
- the second pattern is that in the past excess mortality was highest in the eldest people and is now highest in the youngest age groups (in %). I mentioned it last month https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/210995.html?thread=37602867#cmt37602867 (Dutch data; Ed Dowd noted something similar in the USA).
The first two patterns suggest that the positive effect of the vax was very limited, if any, and that we are now in negative effectiveness territory. Pull-forward could be part of the explanation of the current low excess mortality in low-vaxxed countries, but doesn’t explain why the vax didn’t have much effect on the relative level of excess mortality per country in the first year after the start of the vax rollout. It seems to me that factors like state of the healthcare system and general health of the population were more important determinants of excess mortality in March 2020-April 2022 while currently we have entered negative effectiveness territory with some pull-forward effect added.
- the third pattern in the data is that at certain periods (Delta late 2021 and Omicron since September 2022) there is a pretty strong positive correlation between the amount of virus going around and excess mortality, but that C19 deaths do not come close to the amount of excess death. I mentioned this last week (https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/215249.html?thread=38183121#cmt38183121). I haven't seen any convincing explanation for this pattern although there is a lot of speculation.
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 07:46 pm (UTC)https://unglossed.substack.com/p/american-excess-mortality-does-not/comment/11795910
Overall I think Mowrey is just saying that there isn't an *obvious* signal of vaccine deaths in global all-cause mortality, especially over the shorter timescales immediately following mass vaccination which would be more of a smoking gun. Attempts to "prove" that the shots either are or are not causing excess deaths based solely on analysis of mortality data are going to be incomplete and involve a lot of cherry picking or questionable math.
All such analyses end up making broad assumptions, many of which will be wrong, thus they are one step up from models in terms of usefulness/uselessness. Although I don't think he is entirely correct, I appreciate Ethical Skeptic's analyses as they are more granular and attempt to partition excess deaths between multiple factors, e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1612191046636552199
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 09:21 pm (UTC)Life expectancy changes since COVID-19
this is a good article but no data from 2022 yet, only 2019 (base line),2020, and 2021.
Figure 2 in the article is interesting to see how covid effected the age groups in 29 countries.
Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-11 10:27 pm (UTC)Re: death rates
Date: 2023-01-17 05:45 pm (UTC)I wonder if Greta got vaxxed? She’s still kicking (literally). 😄
—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2023-01-10 07:07 pm (UTC)Those ‘ER doctors’ on Twitter who claimed hordes of patients were dying from COVID every day were FAKE
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-07-er-doctors-on-twitter-covid-fake.html
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Date: 2023-01-10 09:47 pm (UTC)Cetiosaurus
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Date: 2023-01-10 08:32 pm (UTC)Reason 1,398 to stay off Twitter.
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Date: 2023-01-10 11:04 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/tickerguy/status/1612854616676343808?cxt=HHwWgIC91dCugeIsAAAA
Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 07:17 pm (UTC)This week I’d like to highlight four prayer requests by people in the hospital or scheduled for surgery. I hope some here will consider giving them a prayer.
•Open_space's great aunt, who was taken to the hospital with a low hemoglobin count.
•Ottergirl/Valerie's husband Trevor, for healing and good fortune regarding his current hospital stay, for viral pneumonia, a dislocated shoulder, two broken bones, and a Covid positive status which prevents Valerie from seeing him.
•Lloyd, who will undergo jaw surgery on January 12th, for healing and a positive resolution.
•Jay Crystall, who underwent surgery yesterday for a resection of a portion of colon, and is now healing
If I missed anybody, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom you hold power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below and/or at the prayer list page.
Finally, if there are any among you who might wish to join me in a bit of astrological timing, I pray each week for the health of all those with health problems on the list on the astrological hour of the Sun on Sundays, bearing in mind the Sun's rulerships of heart, brain, and vital energies. If this appeals to you, I invite you to join me.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 07:31 pm (UTC)I would appreciate prayers for figuring out the issues with my milk supply so that I can breastfeed my daughter successfully. Thank you!
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 08:09 pm (UTC)I will add you to the list with the phrasing you just asked for, but may I ask: would you prefer for us to just pray directly for you to successfully breastfeed your daughter? Or even the higher level issue, for your daughter's good health and development?
My closest childhood friend told me a story. When her daughter was born, she just would not drink. Just refused. And there had been complications and the baby's health was endangered, and it just seemed to her so terribly important to get her daughter drinking. Finally, after many tears and prayers, she just sat down with her baby, and just told her: it is so important for you to drink. Please, please, just drink. And amazingly, the baby did. The prayer to get her daughter drinking was answered!
And then, after that one time, she never drank again!
Luckily, she turned out fine in the end. But it was bottles from then on out. Completely healthy girl, off in college now. I'm not sure whether there are any lessons for you to draw out there-- maybe, at least, that babies somehow seem to be understand us even when they are newborn. Which I'm sure you already knew. I guess one other lesson to draw out is that it seems sometimes not drinking is a choice the baby makes, rather than some shortcoming of the mother. And even though, of course you and I understand the benefits of breastfeeding, if your daughter just doesn't agree... it will still almost certainly be okay in the end.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 03:39 pm (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
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Date: 2023-01-12 04:36 am (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-12 05:43 pm (UTC)I will readily agree that nature’s way is usually best, but as you said a fed baby is the most important thing.
I won’t thrown any rocks at people who do what they have to do. We were there. All of us made it through.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 09:32 pm (UTC)My mother is a lactation consultant, who has a 24/7 guestroom set up for newly lactating mothers to be observed and assisted with breastfeeding problems. She lets them get comfortable, and stays within reach to come and observe/help if/when the infant is wakeful and hungry, otherwise leaving them alone and private. If I may, what I set out here is some of what she has shared with me. You may already be familiar with much of this, and if it is redundant, please accept my apology.
The most common problems are:
1. correct latching on (correct latch-on results in the entire aureola of the breast being completely within the infant's mouth, if the infant takes only the nipple into its mouth, milk cannot flow and it can be very painful. If an incorrect latch on takes place, use a finger to break the suction by letting air in between mouth and nipple (this can be very strong), and reposition the baby. Whole baby in close, and gently stroke its cheek to help it find the breast again. (baby will turn towards the stroking). A good latch-on positions the nipple at the back of the baby's mouth, and most or all of the aureola will not be visible at all. This is still a bit startling, at first, but will not produce pain.
2. Not learning how to recognise the "let down" reflex and patiently wait for it to occur. There is a knack to learning how to read the difference between a child sucking the scant foremilk (suck, suck, suck, suck, swallow) and sucking the abundant aftermilk (suck, swallow, suck, swallow, suck, swallow). (These different rhythms relate to the time it takes to fill the mouth before swallowing.) Sometimes, in new mothers it can take a long time for the let down to occur, especially when being watched by others, or when anxious about "doing it right". However the change in rhythm is the "tell" that a let down has occurred, and after this the infant will feed until full, which can happen quite quickly, at which point they simply relax their suck and (often) succumb to sleep.
3. Engorgement can also cause problems if the newly stimulating milk-making glands in the breast fill it so full that it is painful to touch. In addition to the usual "cabbage leaf in bra" advice (this is *really* useful for helping relieve the pain and swelling), it can help to adopt a temporary policy of completely emptying one breast before nursing from the other, on the basis that new milk production will not be stimulated as long as one breast continues full. One can "take the top off" the overfull breast with a bit of squeezing for relief, but very often, once each breast is emptied one at a time (this may take several feeding sessions over the course of a day), the engorgement is gone.
Anyway, all of these tips were hugely helpful to me, and - I hear - to many, many of her clients.
Best wishes to you and your small 'un, whatever happens! Many blessings on your lives together!
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-13 10:16 pm (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-14 02:13 pm (UTC)I am very aware of the degree to which any new mother becomes a magnet for unasked advice, so I wrote that with some trepidation, too. ;)
Many blessings on your new, expanded family life with small 'un.
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Date: 2023-01-10 09:35 pm (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 09:48 pm (UTC)But the weight gain was no fun.
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Date: 2023-01-10 09:48 pm (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 09:50 pm (UTC)When our daughter was born, she would continually feed all day and night light she wasn't ever getting enough. It took a couple of weeks to see a lactation nurse who looked at her as we walked in and the way she was moving her mouth and said" I think she has a tongue tie". This was after she was checked out by a specialist before we first left the hospital. 2min procedure rectified, we still did have to do supplementation feeding as my partner's milk never seemed to fully come in after but it was night and day. Also fenugreek helped, she took it in a homemade lactation cookie.
YMMV
Mr Kemble
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-10 09:52 pm (UTC)https://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/sites/default/files/sample-articles-pdfs/herbs_for_lactation_by_sheila_kingsbury.pdf
Off the top of the head, I can say that I have myself used fennel and fennel seeds to increase my own milk, and also, with some success, that of the lactating sheep on this farm.
Also, I have used sage, both on myself when wanting to wean and dry my milk supply, and on sheep on recently bereaved lactating sheep on this farm - to help their milk dry more quickly and ease their suffering.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 12:07 am (UTC)My child was born premature and the doctor recommend that I provide him fortified breast milk (pumped milk mixed with premie formula.) Due to this recommendation we never figured out how to breastfeed. I found the pumping to be a more agreeable arrangement that allowed me to provide breast milk long after he started teething and since my supply wasn't constrained by his appetite we were able to make it to the one year mark without trouble.
I hope this helps.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 12:21 am (UTC)Do not try to diet. Lots of moms want to 'get the baby weight off'. Nah. Lactating takes a ton of calories. Eat, eat!
I will pray for you and your baby girl both, that all will be well!
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 01:53 am (UTC)My MIL says that having a beer makes you produce more milk. I know that's blasphemy in some circles, but I experimented with it-- half a beer in the evening a couple times-- and I did in fact make noticeably more milk. Dunno if it works for everyone-- and I did it just for curiosity. I had the opposite problem: one baby, and enough milk to feed two or three! Pumped to avoid engorgement/blockages, and gave away the excess.
I was told to get tons of protein and not be shy about egg yolks, and that worked great for me-- I often went in for a 6-egg breakfast where I chucked five of the egg-whites, during the nursing stage (now, on the far side of babies and nursing, I can't imagine doing that-- too much!). It kept me from plowing through a sack of bagels at breakfast (ravenous!) every morning.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 06:13 am (UTC)Alas, I dislike beer, so gave it all to my husband who does like it. Fortunately I had no problems with supply.
It was not a tribal nor a regional conviction, either, the ladies were from all over the continent.
BoysMom
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Date: 2023-01-11 01:45 am (UTC)Valerie
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Date: 2023-01-11 02:51 am (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-12 06:06 am (UTC)I don't know much about humans but believe their milk supply will be much like that of a sheep. I keep dairy sheep and I do know a lot about their lactation. I am guessing this is your first lactation which, were you a sheep, would be your smallest lactation. A ewe has as much milk as she is going to have when she lambs and there is no amount of feeding special mashes that will increase that one bit. Also, your milk production will not be the same in both breasts.
The main thing is that you got some colostrum into her. Bottle feeding, as a supplement or as her only feed is not ideal but it will be good enough. Your next lactation should be a lot more ample.
Please don't be disappointed. Lots of babies through the ages have been bottle-reared. There are even some lovely bronze-age baby bottles in Europe of ceramic or bronze that have the chemical signatures of heated milk in them. We have been bottle-feeding for ages.
Hugs and best wishes from Maxine
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Date: 2023-01-10 07:58 pm (UTC)-Cliff
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Date: 2023-01-12 08:18 pm (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 01:58 am (UTC)And thank you to everyone who prayed for me while I was dealing with the acute effects of a broken ankle and the reconstructive surgery. It's been a month and I am doing much better! With the walking brace I can put almost my full weight on it, so I'm down to just one crutch, which means I can carry things again! It's been a rough month, and I'm so grateful for all the help from my friends, but I'm planning to go to the store and buy my own groceries tomorrow. And I can take my own trash out on Thursday night. I live alone, so it's humbling to have to ask someone to take care of me like that. But I'm doing great, and expect to be getting better every day!
Let's still keep my Navy SEAL friend in our prayers (now outed as the Honey Badger, or HB for short). He still seems fine, but his blood work and his doctors all indicate that he should be dead already. Let's pray whatever's working, keeps working.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-11 02:38 pm (UTC)https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/210995.html?thread=37567027#cmt37567027
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-12 12:55 am (UTC)(Please call me Slink. I tried to get that as a username, but apparently there is another Slink somewhere. So, for Dreamwidth, I'm back to being a slinky weasel)
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-12 02:40 pm (UTC)What called my attention to this one a couple of years ago was a throwaway line in one of Stephen Buhner's pieces on treating Covid with herbs... where he said something to the effect that he had always had very little confidence in the nettle seed thing until a colleague brought two people back from the brink of kidney failure using it. I've tinctured nettle seeds every August and Sept since then.
Best wishes, and your friend is on my prayer list. Also, I was happy to hear you've done so well!
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Date: 2023-01-12 04:38 am (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-13 03:43 am (UTC)Glad to hear you're starting to get around better. We'll keep Honey Badger on the list, and do please let us know if there are any developments with his condition.
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-15 02:07 am (UTC)I will write up a small prayer, though, for our fellow plants and animals, so the Divine will help them hang in there somehow while we humans undergo our civilizational crisis.
To keep the list from getting too long, I should bow out from it at this time. If I have any further problems, I'll drop by here and tell you all about it.
I have just printed out the list for today (already Sunday in Japan) and will recite everyone's names and requests during my Sun-hour prayer early in the afternoon.
Warmest wishes to all.
Pat
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update
Date: 2023-01-15 10:30 pm (UTC)I'm so glad your condition is getting better. I'll take your name off the list starting from the next week's update, but please don't hesitate to come back on if the need or desire arises.
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Date: 2023-01-10 09:05 pm (UTC)I wonder if JMG said something about this numerological year of seven and how might unfold
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Date: 2023-01-10 11:10 pm (UTC)The apps do seem to have been around for a few years, but I'd never seen an ad for one before.
To be fair, the only TV I own is hooked up as just essentially a screen to play the occasional movie, so I don't ever see TV commercials unless it's someplace away from home. So I don't really know how long this stuff's been advertised, and maybe I just missed it. Still, first I'd seen of it.
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Date: 2023-01-15 01:39 am (UTC)In Japan, we get ads for shingles vaccinations, insurance for cancers of reproductive organs (saw first one today) and lots and lots of ads for "chiisana ososkiki" (little funerals). We still see lots of ads for anti-aging supplements and other senior concerns, and my impression is Japan has fared relatively well in this. They did reject one clearly bad batch of Moderna vaxxes.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-16 03:56 am (UTC)Steve Kirsch interview of RFK Jr
Date: 2023-01-10 08:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-10 08:45 pm (UTC)The covidian scene has definitely changed, I would say, for there are now too many reports of death and injuries, too many doctors speaking out (even while heavily censored), and now the DOD revelations-- I mean, that the entity behind the manufacturing turns out to be the DOD:
https://brownstone.org/articles/did-national-security-imperatives-compromise-covid-19-vaccine-safety/
which points to Sasha Latypova's research
So I'm bracing for a big freaking sausage-grinding rollercoaster of mess.... maybe... who knows... and meanwhile, turning back to the question, "what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries"?
Know how to make healthy soups.
Know how to remedy common skin injuries and other skin issues.
First aid-- knowledge of and supplies for.
It's an endless list iof course but that is what I am focusing on today.
Another note: I was very pleased to find Steve Kirsch airtable of healthpractisioners who do "evidence based" medicine. Perhaps you might be also. Here is the link:
https://airtable.com/shrcXaLNcNOHoZsMt/tbllWWW4RSeGrOwIl
Cetosaurus
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-11 01:28 am (UTC)is it over?
Date: 2023-01-10 08:52 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/rycunni/status/1612584399417008130
I sai open thread 78 31 of January but I don't believe it is more of a sign
Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-10 10:17 pm (UTC)Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-10 11:15 pm (UTC)Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-11 12:06 am (UTC)¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-12 05:15 am (UTC)Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-11 08:05 am (UTC)I wouldn't argue the toss with him, considering the position he is in and how he must feel.
Perhaps I shouldn't say anything, but his tweet seems to provide an example of a style of thinking that some people have of thinking in logical fallacies that seems to have gotten them into trouble, so maybe it might help to identify it.
I'm not trying to be nasty here either.
It seems to me that this poor fellow might be generalizing about vaccine refuseniks being conspiracy theorists to make a cynical/humorous point, but behind it could be an assumption that vaccine refuseniks are in fact conspiracy theorists. That's what humour is about right? Taking something real and making it ridiculous? I.e. he's making a joke/point that nutter conspiracy believers are better off than people who trust in rational science - or something like that.
But there's an error at the heart of his point/joke, and that is that vaccine refuseniks are not all irrational conspiracy theorists. In fact, most of them probably aren't.
So how did he arrive at that understanding?
In part, I submit that he probably got there through believing propaganda which was riddled with logical fallacies such as hasty generalizations and/or gross exaggerations of perceived negative characteristics of the opposition to create an inaccurate negative impression, etc, etc.
In the real world, I'm pretty sure that most of us didn't decline the vaccines because we thought they were being pushed on us by a cabal of literal lizard people in skin suits, or whatever. Instead, I'd bet that most of us probably refused the shots because we hate being lied to and manipulated by slimy lizards in suits of the more mundane and psychopathic human variety.
In this day and age, it seems like one has to read between the lines on everything, because the 'authorities/elites' simply cannot be trusted. It's just a fact man. There's a reason why trust in institutions of all descriptions was low before covid world came along.
And if you believed them, and they managed to knife you, they'd just turn around and say it was your own stupid fault for believing them. Government in Oz, for example, has this down to an art - core vs non-core election promises etc.
I bet trust is even lower now after this. I don't think that makes me, or the poor fellows with busted hears conspiracy theorists. Just realists.
The Ninth Mouse
Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-12 01:59 am (UTC)Sums up how I have been seeing this so well.
Thanks for spelling it out. Hope distrust in institution's wanes soon due to positive action, but not expecting anything soon. I have been trying to prepare my kids for some ways of dealing with a future where distrust only worsens.
[Jed]
Re: is it over?
Date: 2023-01-13 01:28 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/Sgtnewsnetwork/status/1613586759736258560?cxt=HHwWgMDTxfumzuQsAAAA
Cackle - if meeting in person is as important for building trust as Klaus says, then why weren't any of us invited?
Moreover, why have 5,000 bouncers been hired to keep us out!
https://www.eutimes.net/2023/01/swiss-army-will-deploy-5000-troops-to-protect-wef-from-common-people/
The Ninth Mouse
State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-10 09:08 pm (UTC)as somebody who works in the medical industry (on the supply side) I have the opportunity to visit hospitals and doctors on a regular basis. Here are a few key facts:
- Around here hospitals need an occupancy rate of 90% to make a profit
- For each station there is a chief doctor, 2 or 3 senior doctors, regular doctors, a head nurse and the nursing staff
- Each station is big enough that a patient sees the doctor who treats him 2 or 3 times a day, the doctor makes note of the progress (or the general condition) and adjusts the therapy plan when necessary (this was pre-pandemic)
Now in year 2 of the pandemic the situation of general hospitals is dire. The system as a whole works now on triage in some cases because quite frequently the most engaged people have left their job due to vaccine mandates and other sorts of administrative measures.
Last week I visited a General Hospital, specifically a Covid Station. I installed some appliances and I was assisted by the lab technician. Before the pandemic a doctor would visit and look at the new gadgets. I noticed that the station as a whole felt strange. The technician told me that the whole hospital is now on emergency mode. They can't fill up the required medical positions anymore.
A senior doctor now has to supervise 2 stations (before 2 senior doctors oversaw one station). These working conditions put a strain on the staff and the doctors who have remained are on the brink of burning out. Needless to say that the patients get a sub-optimal treatment due to the shortage of qualified staff.
This is in contrast to specialized hospitals where there is no such shortage (yet) and the conditions are more or less the same as pre covid. I suspect the situation is the same all over the Western World which is not talked about in the media.
The situation is pretty bad and I got the impression to better get not sick.
Best wishes for all readers, commenters. Keep up the excellent work.
Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-10 10:00 pm (UTC)Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-11 12:10 am (UTC)Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-11 08:14 am (UTC)Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-12 01:36 am (UTC)For a variety of reasons I’ve lost most of my interest in that field. (I’m more of a geek and not a people person, plus I like the idea of traveling to different sites and not being stuck in one location)
Could you give me a general idea of what would be good options for someone like me, such as particular positions or required additional schooling for your field? I don’t mind going back to school. Thanks!
Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-11 01:32 am (UTC)I started out giving each patient the time they needed. Soon I was 'balancing' the needs of the current patient against my need to provide for all my patients. I am now short changing each patient I see. I am guilty. I am.
Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-11 04:30 pm (UTC)The hospitals are trying to frame it as the nurses being greedy ('Look! We're increasing their pay by 20%!") but everyone knows better.
--Ms. Krieger
Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-12 01:21 pm (UTC)- running on immigrants who can barely speak any english
- grossly mismedicating patients and probably killing some of them
- those immigrants are working 12hr shifts
If you go into a hospital, you better have someone who loves you to look after you, because odds are good they'll kill you these days.
I wonder if there will be any hospitals around at all in a few years, the rate and direction things are heading? Where do you start to fix this, because most of this is man made retardedness.
Re: State of Hospitals
Date: 2023-01-12 06:13 pm (UTC)A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-10 09:15 pm (UTC)Besides point of my art underground is you've gotta go to the trouble to get this stuff in person here in sf so art and place mean something again...
Since I'm doing everything so i don't have to ask for anyone's money favors blessings or permissions... i'm designing the bag patterns, along with the art which I'll then burn onto multiple screens for color separations... then printing and sewing them all up... then figuring best way to showcase and sell online first to give readers here first crack...and affordably ship in affordable boxes... all unsubsidized by cheap money and endless venture capital...
I've gotta run through and streamline the process to keep 'em as reasonable/realistic as possible.
Since I've finally got sketch outlines of answers ideas or directions, I'm hoping to not write on here or even be online much.
I'll be back for photos eventually.. of anything...
They're two computers away.
Anyhow, as much as I figured I sucked yesterday after my shredding, now I think y'all are gonna think me hella pretty after all... if I can pull off the fantasies already dancing in my head into The Real...
Be back eventually... much to do and test out the entire process using my old motorcycle art from old books of mine that I still love.
It's like having my own back catalogue of clip art.
But I have to ask no one for permission.
James isn't permission... he's the beat down I wanna take in private so don't lose face as bad so publicly. I may be a cheap tawdry exhibitionistic art chick, but even hookers gotta keep some things private like earlobes, to quote myself.
This is also using my vanity creatively because the work must come first.
(Smile....and a distant echoing scream...to audible sigh)...find an emoji for that!
X
Erika
Re: A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-11 06:22 am (UTC)Re: A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-11 07:14 pm (UTC)Your comment, although dearly well meaning, shows me how futile this is likely to be on my watch.
(Sad wan smile)
Erika
Re: A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-11 07:59 pm (UTC)The interesting thing is it was a 'text based' idea. Concept + text. Might play to your strengths interwoven
in another context.
:-)
Re: A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-12 12:24 am (UTC)I eventually want to enclose artfully made zines with each purchase, but that's as far as I plan to get at publishing much text again.
After I decided to work on monsters and gods for bags and a gorgeous silkscreened calendar, I woke up to Jeff Childer's image of a kraken on his coffee and covid yesterday i think.... yes it was written here first in text... that and Kimberly and old Kay Neilson book I found in garage brought me home...
But SEEING THE IMAGE ...eeek! Oh yesssss!....does what text takes longer and harder to do... erotica VS.an online money shot. you use words to seduce listener/reader to do the imagining from their own psyche.
If writing is seduction, images are rape. PETA videos. I want my art to seduce AND rape because... well as that prof said... the worst thing for an artist is to be ignored.
Back to the art nouveau tendrils of a beautiful rape
Images ...I see what William Bonzai on zerohedge sees...that's why I find his daemonic oprahs and Obamas comforting...because I don't have to pretend I see otherwise.
And I love kraken and Medusa and serpents and art nouveau because meandering phallic symbols everywhere...why not?
When I got here in '94, writing took over. But I'm a cartoonist. I think pervy and creepy like one.
envisioning balacing perfecting and merely making such lines physically feels dreamy and tingly like tiny dancing but not like peeing over hoods of cars... something more private atop the covers of the blank white sheet...
So after hairy palm apotraic (!) kraken ideas ...these drawings take many weeks to pull off and I wanna do many color separations...but no room and much equip.. too much equipment to buy...
I was an artist back in Philadelphia and knew all the old secret stuff there/not here.
I did many searches for silk screen studio to rent time at...
Google sucks for unpopular things like doing real things in the real world
No dice.
So I got realistic (boring) much sooner than I wanted to and quickly started scaling back the crazy complicated color combinations and designs that got me finally excited (like my offering to the "ungovernable" concept)...
But then... deep in reading about something else on printing tecniques, I found out there's such a thing as a cheap printing studio just down the street on mission, at the mission cultural center!
I'd done about a dozen different searches and bupkus but I was wrong!
So "crazy ambitious colorful" is hella back!
Just down the street!
I can pull this off because miracles not only happen but there are so many of 'em just lying around WAITING.
I'm such a putz sometimes.
So there it is. It's all coming together....
X
Erika
Re: A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-12 04:52 am (UTC)Re: A boring, less insane update...
Date: 2023-01-12 06:35 pm (UTC)You're so fun!
Xxxxxxx
Erika
Rabbi Chenanya Weissman
Date: 2023-01-10 09:19 pm (UTC)Urgent Health Warning
January 9, 2023
by Rabbi Chenanya Weissman
From: https://chananyaweissman.com/article.php?id=499
After a discussion with experts from Israel's Health Ministry, leading rabbis have issued a call for Jews to stop striking their chest as a sign of penitence during the thrice-daily Shemoneh Esrei prayer, the selichos, and on Yom Kippur. The longstanding custom, widely known by the Yiddish term klopping al chet, may lead to cardiac arrest.
According to data from a study, striking the chest in this fashion can lead to a condition known as commotio cordis, in which the impact of an object striking the chest area over the heart at just the right millisecond can cause sudden death. Although such cases are rare, they have been known to happen, and the increase in sudden deaths among people without a history of heart problems has caused experts to examine this as a possible cause.
The Rabbinic organization known as All The Gedolim put out a statement: “The Torah commands us to listen to whatever doctors say, all the time, without exception. The Health Ministry is in charge of doctors, and therefore we must listen to anything the Health Ministry says. It has been brought to our attention that striking the chest is a safek pikuach nefesh, and therefore it is forbidden. No distinction can be made between how forcefully one strikes his chest, for who can measure such things?
“Anyone who strikes his chest is a sinner who is endangering his life and his prayers are rejected. Furthermore, since his actions may lead others to strike their chests as well, he can be considered a rodef.”
Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, Shmuel Eliyahu, wrote in a Facebook post that the Shulchan Aruch and Megilla 3B support this ruling.
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, director of the Center for Jewish Ethics at Tzohar, posited that people who strike their chests should be denied medical care if they have a heart attack. “Their reckless actions may cause medical care to be diverted from patients who are more deserving,” he stated. “Although Israel's medical system treats injured terrorists without bias, sometimes at the expense of their victims, kloppers are on a lower level, like anti-vaxxers.”
Rabbi Herschel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and posek for the Orthodox Union, ruled that children who klop al chet can be thrown out of yeshiva, lest they cause a bad influence on other children and endanger their lives.
Leading Modern Orthodox and Reform Rabbis quickly embraced the scientific findings and issued a similar ruling, though they added that their followers stopped klopping al chet long ago, as they preach separating the sin from the sinner, and even embracing sin with love.
The Prime Minister said there are no plans to send police into synagogues and yeshivos to enforce the new health guidelines, though he warned that “all options are on the table” if cases of sudden death continue to rise.
After all, he concluded, if stopping the klopping saves one life, it's worth it.
*
Note: Since it never seems to be obvious enough, the above was satire. The following is not.
Here is an actual screenshot [goes to a FB link] from Hatzolah of Melbourne in May of 2022.
"Get vaccinated for your chance to win a CellAED defibrillator".
Hatzolah should be banished from the Jewish community and replaced with an organization that has no ties with the World Economic Forum and other enemies of Hashem and humanity.
Re: Rabbi Chenanya Weissman
Date: 2023-01-11 01:37 pm (UTC)Stopping the klopping is fantastic, and for me as a non-Jew, all the exotic Yiddish and Hebrew words are a special flavoring that makes the whole thing more believable.
In a way, most news articles I‘ve been reading recently looked a bit like this, as if they were full of words and concepts alien to me, but apparently very important to the authors and their audience. Cool thing!
Re: Rabbi Chenanya Weissman
Date: 2023-01-11 04:40 pm (UTC)--Ms. "Klop, Drop and Roll" Krieger
More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-10 09:22 pm (UTC)--------------------------
IM Doc
January 9, 2023 at 3:01 pm
About the herd immunity article —–
I apologize – I am on a work laptop today and I do not type well on laptops. I hope there are not a lot of errors.
I have said this before in the comments, and I will say it again. This is likely to be the last time. I am not interested in being a broken record.
When one is in medical training, one realizes that the TEXTBOOKS of medicine are the repository of the stored wisdom of the ages. When things change or are found to be different as time goes on, the textbooks change as well, but very slowly. So, as a physician, you are trained to look at textbooks for the stored knowledge of whatever issue you are questioning. Good textbooks are not “UpToDate” no matter how much the medical corporations would like us to run on algorithms. Also not Twitter, not last week’s journals, but the textbooks. Every time I have ever read about coronaviruses or other families of rapidly mutating, highly contagious RNA viruses, ie influenza, it specifically states in the first few paragraphs of these textbooks that there is NO SUCH THING AS HERD IMMUNITY in these situations. There is population immunity that develops over time that is much different than the herd immunity we are used to in things like measles. Measles outbreaks are uncommon and very limited because there is a level of “herd immunity”. Coronavirus OC43 and Influenza cause people to be sick over and over, even if you had them 6 months or a year ago. MEASLES vs OC43 ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS.
I therefore realized early on in the pandemic that this was going to be the case. I have commented about this repeatedly. It is not because I am any smarter – it is because I was trained to look at the sources and to value each source for different kinds of wisdom. The fact that on all sides this “herd immunity” fallacy has been continually spewn about COVID by people who know better has been very depressing for me.
Our species and this virus will eventually learn to live with one another. It has happened many many times throughout history – and please realize, if this were not the natural course of events, WE WOULD NOT BE HERE. This has all happened before, and will all happen again. This species has survived through them all. Whether the rapprochement is years or decades or longer, is not known. When these pandemics come to the world, you can view them as a hot war – with casualties on both sides. Eventually, the hot war will become an eternal cold war. Our species and this virus will live together. We are not there yet.
As I have also stated repeatedly, introducing a NON-STERILIZING vaccine into an acute pandemic like this, pre-rapprochement, has never been done in the history of human medicine on a global scale. We vaccinate all the time now in the “cold war” period – like the flu. When the “acute pandemic” program has been done in animal models, either the vaccine was withdrawn when discovered to be non-sterilizing OR unfortunate things happened to a limited number of subjects. But to administer a non-sterilizing vaccine in a highly mutable and contagious global acute pandemic to this many subjects has never been done before. You are living through the greatest experiment ever conducted in medicine. It is too late to go back now. We are just going to have to see what happens.
Being armed with this information – it is imperative that you arm your body the best way we can until the cold war time is reached. When that will be, I do not know. I go over this repeatedly every day with my patients – EAT WELL. EXERCISE. DON’T SMOKE. GET OUT IN THE SUN. LOSE WEIGHT. GET YOUR A1c DOWN. SMILE. DE-STRESS. HUG YOUR KIDS. CHECK ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-10 10:50 pm (UTC)Thanks for this Temp.
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-11 02:12 am (UTC)Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-11 02:58 am (UTC)Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-13 07:04 am (UTC)my hope is im doc writes a book about the whole experience of cootie-mania from a personal level, once safely retired. i bet that would get pretty salty!
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-11 03:55 am (UTC)We've all been lied to so much and for so long; perhaps it's high time to just stop all this lying (for your own good, of course) and let people just decide how they will respond to the complex world around them. Some will surely sink into despair, while others will finally get riled up. Something tells me that continuing to lie to people (for their own good) will cause considerably more despair in the end than just coming clean with the truth. Getting treated like an independent adult really has some astonishing therapeutic effects.
— Christophe
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-11 06:12 am (UTC)My father-in-law who is 5x boosted is now having heart issues. Earlier on I tried to dissuade him and my mother-in-law from getting the shots, but now I just try to be positive and avoid stressful topics or activities. The whole thing makes me profoundly sad, but for them and many others with permanent serious damage the time for anything other than compassion has passed.
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-11 09:27 am (UTC)The Event managers depended upon creating panic to embed the Narrative in the public mind. Removing the embed is a necessary stage, just as draining pus from an infection is part of cleaning a wound.
If a panic reverses with tidal force to the disadvantage of the Authorities, so be it.
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-11 08:27 pm (UTC)"As I have repeatedly stated for the past 2 years, when one looks at any of the standard textbooks of Infectious Disease, this “lack of herd immunity” concept is front and center in the chapters on Coronaviruses and even other respiratory virus families. This is nothing new. This has been settled science for decades.
Coronaviruses, influenza viruses, and other respiratory viruses simply do not behave with herd immunity the way others such as measles and smallpox do. They just do not. It is not in their nature. Those of us who have taken care of flu patients all of our lives know this. It has been just horrible watching this complete misconception that COVID has herd immunity being preached by our media for the past two years. And both sides have been doing it. One side is all about vaccine immunity – the other is natural immunity. HINT – Vaccine immunity will not last but neither will natural immunity. There is debate about which would last longer, but both sides have been completely out of line professing this for the past 2 years. Anyone who had bothered to read a word in these textbooks would have easily been able to predict the failure of the vaccines to decrease transmission and infection. But they also should know that infection based immunity will not last either...."
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-12 01:25 am (UTC)https://temporaryreality.dreamwidth.org/25327.html
Re: More IM Doc
Date: 2023-01-13 08:00 am (UTC)i found the first (new) im doc comment interesting:
Your nurse relative has informed you correctly.
I just found this out last week when I had to admit an elderly patient for osteomyelitis of the toe. I was horrified to learn they had not had a podiatry appointment for some time. It is not that they are not covered – it has to do with how many they have in a year, etc. I just cannot keep up with the regulations anymore. Standard Medicare has one approach and then the infinite numbers of Medicare advantage plans have all their own. I often joke that they each get together and change the plan coverage every Tuesday afternoon. There is no primary care physician or office staff on this planet that can keep up with all of this. It is absolutely overwhelming.
To add on to the nightmare, there are dozens of my patients every day now playing “dial for drugs” because there are so many shortages everywhere. The above patient could not secure antibiotics prescribed by an urgent care and did not want to “bother” my office during COVID. Yes, we are now officially sending our elders out with prescriptions that may or may not be able to be filled.
If you have elders or infirm in your sphere of influence, I urge every one of you to keep an eagle eye , on them. Things are already screwed up – and getting more screwy by the week. Many of them just do not have the mental acumen or the stamina to keep up with it.
I cannot stress enough – I have never seen this level of chaos in medicine in my life. Not even close.
It is not just baby formula, folks.
i keep getting reminded of terry gilliam's movie brazil for some reason.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-10 10:08 pm (UTC)https://theprovince.com/news/covid-deaths-lawsuit-against-ontario/wcm/8b00fb50-3131-4a90-8bbd-533a977ea5b3
I've had an epiphany
Date: 2023-01-11 01:08 am (UTC)I was talking to the owner about a British TV doctor who came out against the vax after his father died. This jerk got up out of his chair mid story to play with the dog and sat down the second I was finished. The only time I've ever seen this jackass pay attention to his dog. I am done even trying to talk to these a-holes. They can all drop dead from the vax as far as I am concerned. I don't give a rats ass for any of them any more. I have no care, concern, or compassion left for anyone to stupid to look never mind see.
Re: I've had an epiphany
Date: 2023-01-11 01:42 am (UTC)Actually eight minutes return trip including standing below dark balcony and making noises (while pretending to look at phone) that would attract a dog. Lights on and no dog. I guess the dog is inside.
To segue: it must be assumed my siblings are starting to wonder about the vaxx. Surely they have seen enough things that have 'tipped them off' to something not being perfectly right. But have they, out of curiosity, asked me one single question? Of course not.
Re: I've had an epiphany
Date: 2023-01-12 01:57 am (UTC)I’m still not sure what the proper frame of mind or course of action should be.
Re: I've had an epiphany
Date: 2023-01-12 03:48 pm (UTC)Even cats are needier than you'd think.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-11 01:10 am (UTC)Dr. Long also testified that the data shows that deaths of military members from the vaccines exceed deaths from COVID itself.
https://principia-scientific.com/us-military-doctor-testifies-she-was-ordered-to-cover-up-vaccine-injuries/
Jeepers creepers.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-11 01:48 am (UTC)I've been spoken to by management twice for advocating for patients against unnecessary interventions ordered by MDs who haven't seen the patient because of patient overload, laziness, indifference, and ass covering. I've been told to do as I'm told which isn't going to fly.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-11 04:04 am (UTC)Ron M
Unity Convoy Update
Date: 2023-01-11 02:01 am (UTC)Lots has happened since the initial announcement on December 25. It started out with loads of unity… and then suddenly it wasn’t. Last week was rather rough as some egos seemed to get expressed and some supposed alt-media types (not Rebel or True North or any of the legit alt outfits, mind you) turned out to be wolves in sheep’s clothing. And, of course, the MSM started churning out with the smoke and mirrors in earnest (c’est la vie). For a while, things were looking shaky.
And then over the weekend Bigbear (Métis healer with a heart as wide as a barn door, 100% positive all the time, who is also a trucker and hard-core freedom fighter) took the high road and has managed to keep the convoy on course. And what a difference Bigbear has made! He and Freedom George (Pat King’s sidekick from last year’s Freedom Convoy) have formed a great team (I’m not even sure if Pat will be able to attend: his bail conditions are so strict he is living in a virtual prison), along with “Mr. Freedom”, Ron Clark and many others. Convoys are being arranged and organized from every province; dozens of new convoy captains are being nominated with each passing day; many very important Clan Mothers have stated their intention of participating in the Eighth Fire ceremony in the Heart of Turtle Island (i.e., Winnipeg); many other Indigenous Elders have committed to speaking at the event (along with medical doctors, freedom fighters, etc.). And the epicentre of the convoy will be outside the city (so as to not inconvenience the city’s residents). Unity and healing are the key notes of what is building up. On top of it all (I just found this out), the Feb 17 weekend also coincides with Winnipeg’s annual Louis Riel celebration. Wow!
Call it a Canadian thing: a big love-in in the middle of winter in the coldest city (with a population over 200,000) in the country. More news as and when interesting things develop… honk honk!
Ron M
Re: Unity Convoy Update
Date: 2023-01-11 04:01 am (UTC)Gonna be difficult for the mandate maniacs to label the Clan Mothers as nazis!!!!!
Re: Unity Convoy Update
Date: 2023-01-11 02:48 pm (UTC)I have no doubt that there will active attempts to infiltrate and divide.
May those of big hearts full of healing and blessing succeed in their intentions for holding the centre!
Best wishes! to them, and also to you!
Re: Unity Convoy Update
Date: 2023-01-14 08:24 am (UTC)I had the privilege in my law school's property law class of often sitting next to a member of the Turtle Mountain Band from North Dakota's border with Manitoba. He grew up speaking French thanks to his Metis relatives so I'd translate our professor's English to French for him sometimes. His home was close to the International Peace Garden which straddles the US/Canada border SW of Winnipeg.
February on those Manitoba plains... I've been there that time of year. Mother Nature is very humbling to any people who venture outside there.
Whoot! What a place to have a convoy meet-up and an Eighth Fire, too.
W.R.
Two Las Vegas School Students Die from Cardiac Arrest in a Week
Date: 2023-01-11 02:12 am (UTC)https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-student-collapses-in-bathroom-after-pe/
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Another Las Vegas student died last week after collapsing and being found unresponsive in a school bathroom.
The senior high school student, Jordan Brister, attended Amplus Academy, a public charter school. Amplus Academy posted information on Brister’s death on the school’s Facebook page on Sunday.
“The Amplus community sends our love and condolences to the Brister family as well as to all of Jordan’s family, friends and acquaintances.”
According to Brister’s father, Conrad Brister, his son collapsed in the bathroom on Tuesday, Jan. 3, and may have been there for as long as 25 minutes before he was discovered. During that time, his heart stopped.
Jordan Brister was in ICU at Southern Hills Hospital. The Clark County coroner’s office listed Brister’s date of death as Sunday, Jan. 8. He was an organ donor.
A GoFundMe page was set up to help the family pay for the teen’s funeral. It reads, “Jordan Tyler Brister suddenly and unexpectedly suffered cardiac arrest while at school with no explanation as to why. Jordan was a senior in high school who planned to join the military after graduating.”
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Last Thursday, another Las Vegas valley student died after collapsing at a flag football game. The Clark County Coroner’s office said Desert Oasis High School student Ashari Hughes, 16, suffered a cardiac death due to a “rare congenital abnormality.”
kindergarten studen passes unexpectedly
Date: 2023-01-11 02:14 am (UTC)"Evelyn Bauer, a Kindergarten student at Shawnee Elementary School, has #diedsuddenly according to a release sent to Huron School’s families Monday.
The cause of death was not disclosed, but it was reported as “extremely sudden” and unexpected."
Re: kindergarten studen passes unexpectedly
Date: 2023-01-11 04:35 am (UTC)The Bee nails it again
Date: 2023-01-11 02:48 am (UTC)Experts Say They Don't Know What Thing Is Causing Everyone To Suddenly Collapse, But It's Definitely Not That One Thing
https://babylonbee.com/news/experts-say-they-dont-know-what-thing-is-causing-everyone-to-suddenly-collapse-but-its-definitely-not-that-one-thing
Also, for any Christian readers who won’t get ruffled by a little debate over transubstantiation, there’s this:
Disagreement Among Progressives Over Whether The Vax Is The Literal Body Of Fauci Or Just Symbolic
https://babylonbee.com/news/disagreement-among-progressives-over-whether-the-vax-is-the-literal-body-of-fauci-or-just-symbolic
I’m cracking up!
Re: The Bee nails it again
Date: 2023-01-11 03:32 am (UTC)!!!!!!!!!!
Now that is disturbingly hilarious.
Re: The Bee nails it again
Date: 2023-01-11 04:49 am (UTC)Did you hear what happened to Damar Hamlin?
Yeah, I don't know what to think, but it's definitely not that thing that everyone suspects.
Re: The Bee nails it again
Date: 2023-01-11 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: The Bee nails it again
Date: 2023-01-12 05:09 pm (UTC)Whatever happened he was suddenly caught up in something bigger than his situation.
Medical images from past events, involving 'forces at play,' come rushing forward.
Novel
Date: 2023-01-11 02:51 am (UTC)Rita
Re: Novel
Date: 2023-01-11 04:00 am (UTC)Rita
Re: Novel
Date: 2023-01-11 08:00 pm (UTC)Another sad headline. Sigh
Date: 2023-01-11 05:06 am (UTC)This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-11 09:33 am (UTC)There are a lot of layoffs in IT, I see the layoffs much often include the waxxinated, is there a possibility that companies use layoffs just to get rid of people that are sickly stealthily.
Also hybrid and on-site and now the general push to get to office could be pushed just for HR to sift through the people that are too sickly to come to office.
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-11 05:41 pm (UTC)If the number of people using the corporate health insurance has suddenly increased, that could dramatically increase the costs; and at the same time, the health problems could easily cause a drop in productivity. Both of these together could easily push businesses which were doing okay into serious financial difficulties; and that's before factoring in the way investor capital is drying up....
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-12 02:13 am (UTC)Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-12 01:08 pm (UTC)Job or jab, job or jab...
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-12 10:41 pm (UTC)Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-12 05:03 pm (UTC)Quite a phrase. Tinged with the ominous and a bit iconographic.
I want to put it in italics.
Sounds like a medieval trade guild also.
Craft the matrix.
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-11 06:07 pm (UTC)Jonathan.
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-12 08:15 am (UTC)Layoffs based on politics rather than competence, in software US reigned supreme expect this to go down the drain too in the next couple of years.
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-11 07:27 pm (UTC)Another one of the ironies of the jab; people took it to keep their jobs and now they're losing them because they took it.
Re: This an wild speculation threat it as such
Date: 2023-01-12 03:45 pm (UTC)As perceived by management. Which often has an inaccurate perception of reality. That's part of the process of decline, firing the wrong people.
>people took it to keep their jobs and now they're losing them because they took it.
You are hardwired to "roll the dice and hope", even when it's statistically better to take the loss.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-11 09:42 am (UTC)Breaking: Landmark Lawsuit Slaps Legacy Media With Antitrust, First Amendment Claims for Censoring COVID-Related Content
A lawsuit filed today by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and multiple other plaintiffs, alleges the Trusted News Initiative, a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, partnered with Big Tech firms to collectively censor online news.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lawsuit-trusted-news-initiative-antitrust-first-amendment-censoring-covid-content/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6138ebec-e0c7-46db-9736-15b12c3953c8
Shelly: "I want you to look at this face, and I want you to remember my story"
Date: 2023-01-11 09:47 am (UTC)Jan 24, 2022
https://www.tiktok.com/@shelly_sytsma/video/7056636907253566766?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
also on:
https://www.realnotrare.com/videos?wix-vod-video-id=c569c9d011384a03bcc5c4ec9e0f35ca&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-l5h7mqri
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In a previous video, paired with this one, Shelly explains that after her second covid jab she suffered from heart palpitations, severe chest pain, pericarditis, and deep vein thrombosis.
TRANSCRIPT:
SHELLY: They sent me home with blood thinners. And then on Friday I still hadn't had word on the CT scan so I called [inaudible] Imaging and they told me to call my insurance agency or company, Premier. So I called them and Premier said, you need to go to the hospital right away. And I said, Why do I need to go to the hospital? You need a CT scan right away, we need you to go to the hospital. So I drove myself to the hospital. I get there and sure enough they do a CT scan and I had suffered a pulmonary embolism. And for any of you that don't know what it is, the blood clot in my leg then broke off, traveled up the vein through my tummy, through my heart, and into my lung. People can die from it. I was very, very fortunate that I didn't.
The next morning, they sent me, you know [holds up bottle of pills] I had the blood thinners, the next morning I woke up in severe pain and so I called paramedics and they took me back to the hospital. And I had suffered a second embolism on the way to the hospital.
So my story isn't to talk you out of getting the vaccine. I am pro-vaccine. I vaccinated my children. I got this fu*king vaccine. So it's not to tell you not to get the vaccine. But it is to tell you there are side effects and for some, some they go about with no side effects at all. But I want to tell you that I'm with you on those of you that want to wait, that you want to see how this pans out, on those of you that think this is an overreach from our government, on those of you who just plain are worried about it and want to give this some time. I am so with you. I will stand with you on that hill.
And for the rest of you, the ones, you know, the Jimmy Kimmels and those of you that are shaming the anti-vaxxers and wishing death or harm on them, I want you to look at this face, and I want you to remember my story. Because my life hasn't been the same since I had this vaccine. And it's not for everybody. Not everybody. My body, my choice, right? What I wouldn't do to exchange this bag, this basket [holds up and shakes basket full to the brim with medicines] of sh*t for my health back.
So I want you to think about those people. Think about other people's stories. Walk in their shoes. Give people grace, give people love. We need to meet in the middle here, we need to realize that each one of us comes to the table with a different set of experiences. And of course I'm going to say this vaccine sucks. But I'm not telling you to not get it. But we've got to listen to each other. I just hope that we can somehow meet in the middle here and just provide each other love. Be well everybody. Be well.
3:00
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
JIMMY KIMMEL [Late night TV host]: That choice doesn't seem tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes come right on in, we'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy [clapping and laughter]
Source: final minutes of the documentary film by Matthew Miller Skow and Nicholas Strumphauzer, "Died Suddenly."
https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html