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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 75

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.
Re: Big Picture Questions
(Anonymous) 2023-01-13 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)The Salomon book is for real, though hard to find (second-hand prices start above $1500), and it does contain an interview with Attali. A Spanish translation is available for $125. The English translation (Future Life), though I don’t see it on bookfinder.com, is in the Internet Archive.
From looking at it there, I believe the most startling quotes provided above are not authentic. Some of the sentences taken from Armstrong’s site are in the book, but the ones which would make today’s readers think of Covid and the mRNA vaccines are *not* present in the text of the interview. I think this one of those vaticinia ex eventu that turn up readily on the Internet. But I can’t be sure without checking the original French — conceivably, an editor “toned down” the translation.
The Attali interview — minus what I judge to be Covid-inspired embellishments — is worth reading. He values freedom, and says a lot about how the medical profession gets corrupted. To make clear where his sympathies and values lie, he says, “I believe the world we are building will be so frightful that it will mean the death of humankind. So we have to be prepared to resist it […] the best way to do so is to understand and engage in the battle in order to avoid the worst . . .”
Gray Hat