Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 82

[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, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Boy, that meme really captures the spirit of the Covid era, don't it?

My tiny island

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,
A couple of days ago, I had an email from the wife of one of the local volunteer fire fighters. They had decided to tell me about the preparations the Fire Department went through before each vaccine roll out. They prepared for a mass casualty scenario and when the shots started to go into people, the firefighters and other first responders were out, sometimes all night with cases such as heart attack, stroke, difficulty breathing, sudden death. In more than 17 years of service, this guy has never seen anything like it. He has never done more CPR and the patients do not come back.

The Fire Chief is saying nothing which is kind of surprising as his job is to coordinate the saving of lives. If this is happening on my tiny island, it must be happening elsewhere with a stunning lack of courage on the part of the medical establishment from the Doctors to the First Responders, none of them are blowing the whistle on this.

I talked the story over with the editor of our local newspaper and he shied like a startled horse. He has been great so far on fighting for freedom of speech but this looks like a bridge too far for him.

I also had lunch with a friend whose family has now decided they cannot see her because she is unvaxxed? She has never been vaxxed and they managed to see her through the whole covid thing and are making this decision now? I find this puzzling. Mind you, I find the whole thing puzzling.
Maxine

Re: My tiny island

[transcriberb]

Maxine, Thanks for this. I too remain puzzled. Certain things are far more clear to me now than they were in summer of 2021, but the whole enchilada still strikes me as shagadelic with petunias in place of parsley.

Apropos of your post, a transcript:

EMERGENCY RESPONDER: "in my career I have never seen anything like this"
[NOTE: unfortunately, when he introduced himself his name was inaudible]

Kissimmee, FL Press Conference: Your Story Counts — The Untold Atrocities of COVID-19,
October 13, 2022
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/kissimee-fl-press-conference-your-story-counts--the-untold-atrocities-of-covid19/your-story-counts--untold-atrocities-of-covid19/

55.14
EMERGENCY RESPONDER: Hello everyone. My reason for being here is just to basically, my story, what I experienced. I've been in the EMS [emergency medical service] field for nearly three decades. Started out in the early 90s. And throughout my experience I have probably assessed conservatively between 20,000 to 30,000 thousand patients treated, assessed, transported or [inaudible]. The only reason I say that is to kind of bring some perspective to it. When the vaccines first started coming out, I was actually optimistic, I thought maybe this was going to be something that would help. We started running some calls, very strange calls, on young healthy individuals, 20s, 30s, 40 year old people, seizures, there was one dimension stroke symptoms, that type of thing. At first I chalked it up to maybe this is just a coincidence. But they kept coming. Again, people having stroke symptoms, cardiac complaints, with changes that we would see on their EKGs. Seizures. One particular lady I remember was a very young healthy couple and then one night she all of a sudden had a 5 minute-long seizure which that in itself is very long for a seizure. And as we were packaging her for transport, her husband looked at me and said, The only thing I can think is we just got vaccinated within a week. And he said, Did I just f-up our lives?

And all these patients that we were seeing having these calls the only thing they had in really common they had recently received a vaccination. From days to weeks to just a few months prior. And in my career I have never seen anything like this to where it actually scared me.

And we just kept running these calls. And it didn't make sense to me. And no one at that time would listen. There was no way for us to document that, you know, if we tried to bring it up we were kind of hushed. Kept quiet. So that was something that really affected me.

One of the other things that really hit me hard was when we would go into to calls on nursing homes right when the pandemic started. And they weren't allowing families in there. These, unfortunately, these older folks in our community were being treated horribly. They weren't allowed to see people. They would latch onto us because we were the first strangers, or people that they had seen beside staff in months. In one case I'll never forget we had to transport a lady that was stable, and the staff was just adamant, yelling that she can't come back here, she can't come back here! Because she might have covid. And the lady started crying. It was just awful the stuff that happened.

I don't want to get off too much else here but I'll say one more thing that it affected those with Alzheimers and dementia as well because they require seeing people's faces to interact. And we had to wear masks the whole time. We would see them cry because they couldn't see our faces. And these things, like I said, just have a lasting impact. And I don't think people will ever get over that. You know, we had older folks tell us they would take a chance on dying just so they could see their families.

I know I have limited time up here but I don't want to really go into too much more than that. But thank you for being here. And listening. And just keep up the faith because we're doing the right thing.

[applause]

59:11
[END OF EXCERPT]

Best meme thus far

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks JMG, I needed that!

So week 82...

Brazil is going full court press on its population to inject 6, 7, 8 times or more...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/brazilian-president-and-wef-member-lula-da-silva-pressures-population-total-covid

Woody Harrelson's shot heard round the world? Watched it Sunday afternoon waiting in the car while my better half ran an errand. It was done by the time she got back and in all honesty, I was like, what's the big deal? Kinda funny cause it's true... It just made me think how far we've fallen as a nation. I'm glad that he was able to get in that much.

I still can't get over this garbage being on the childhood schedule... Thankfully I'm not the only one seeing the harm being inflicted on children.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cruz-abominable-fauci-has-hurt-millions-kids

It's March first tomorrow and I think about Jessica Adam's prediction 'The worst Covid crisis yet begins in March 2023.' We will see. There is an overall quietness now that makes me wonder, what's next?

Re: Best meme thus far

[(Anonymous)]

I have a hunch they got Woody Harrelson to do that bit in order to strengthen the association between covid skepticism and the sort of people he portrays on screen, i.e. touchy white men who didn't go to college. You don't want to be one of those, do you?

More broadly, now that the cat is more or less out of the bag on the failure of just about everything covid related, the next big propaganda campaign will be to redefine it as a tribal/partisan shibboleth. That way the covidians can force a stalemate instead of Nuremburg 2.0, and politicians like Cruz and DeSantis can pose as champions of the oppressed.

Sawdust

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, JMG, and thank you forumistas. Week 82, I can hardly believe it.

Cetiosaurus

Unjabbed Dating Apps and Interesting Email from the Florida Health Dept.

[kimberlysteele]

People are talking about The Right Stuff, a dating app for the non-MRNA injected. There is a website "platform" called Unjected that was panned by members of my group Speakeasy Illinois. I uploaded a dummy profile just to check it out (I am happily married and NOT on the market) -- seems like a fairly wimpy Facebook rip-off to me. Supposedly The Right Stuff is better.

As I mentioned last week (I think?) there is now a network being established to give and receive unvaccinated blood: https://safeblood.net/en/

Also, a friend of mine said her friend in Florida got this email from the Florida Health Dept. Can any Floridians verify this as genuine?

My Facebook friend says her friend who lives in Florida received this email from the Florida Board of Health:

Health Alert on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety

The COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges that the health and medical field have never encountered. Although the initial response was led by a sense of urgency and crisis management, the State Surgeon General believes it is critical that as public health professionals, responses are adapted to the present to chart a future guided by data.

The State Surgeon General is notifying the health care sector and public of a substantial increase in Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports from Florida after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Overall reports submitted to VAERS, Florida 2006–2022 - v2
Overall reports submitted to VAERS, Florida 2006–2022
In Florida alone, there was a 1,700% increase in VAERS reports after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an increase of 400% in overall vaccine administration for the same time period (Figure 1).

The reporting of life-threatening conditions increased over 4,400%. This is a novel increase and was not seen during the 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign. There is a need for additional unbiased research to better understand the COVID-19 vaccines' short- and long-term effects.

The findings in Florida are consistent with various studies that continue to uncover such risks. To further evaluate this, the Surgeon General wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustrating the risk factors associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and emphasizing the need for additional transparency.

According to a study, Fraiman J et al, Vaccine. 2022, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events, including coagulation disorders, acute cardiac injuries, Bell’s palsy, and encephalitis. This risk was 1 in 550 individuals, which is much higher than other vaccines.

A second study, Sun CLF et al, Sci Rep. 2022, found increased acute cardiac arrests and other acute cardiac events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

Additionally, Dag Berild J et al, JAMA Netw Open. 2022, assessed the risk of thromboembolic and thrombocytopenic events related to COVID-19 vaccines and found preliminary evidence of increased risk of both coronary disease and cardiovascular disease.

While the CDC has identified safety signals for stroke among individuals 65 and older following the bivalent booster administration, there is a need for additional assessments and research regarding safety of all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

To support transparency, the State of Florida reminds health care providers to accurately communicate the risks and benefits of all clinical interventions to their patients, including those associated with the COVID-19 vaccine as additional risks continue to be identified and disclosed to the public.

The State of Florida remains dedicated to protecting communities from the risks of COVID-19 and other public health concerns, specifically by promoting the importance of treatment and promoting prevention through healthy habits. We encourage our health care partners and providers to do the same.

.epub archive hiatus, demonic hypothesis and god ponishment hypothesis and new myths, "AI possesion"

[(Anonymous)]

First on .epub .txt, etc archive, I felt like publishing the archive roughly once a month, I hope it wouldn't be a problem to anyone, but to be safe, just in case someone uses the archive to train some AI bots.

It was discussed here the possibility of AI posting here in comments but also the AI creating the spike molecule and helping the virus with links in Nature and what not. Also the AI creating the mass psychology on Internet.

It came to my knowledge discussions of AI on the Russian philosophical and Orthodox circle:
- AI being possessed (sort of).
- It is a simulacrum;
- AI being like a sort of anti-Word, anti-Christ


My take ON is that is acting to mankind like a sort of spirit we sort of tell invocations on a prompt, as a sort of prayer, evocation or mantra, and we don't know what effect is this having on us and on the AI. If Icarus was punished by the Sun, I think this AI egregore could be punished by The Word or other aspects of it...

There is a live discussion about these subjects on the Russian philosophical and Orthodox circles here are some links to get you started:

https://t.me/theworldisnoteasy/1673
https://t.me/bovdunov/2173
https://t.me/c/1870426765/17127/29481



I will quote and use machine translate on just two of them that I consider relevant and quote them here:

hungryphil with his idea of AI as the Antichrist (https://t.me/hungryphil/2091 )it might be interesting. When the phrase "from the tribe of Dan" takes on a new meaning (https://t.me/igumen_Vitaliy_Utkin/1351 ).

I keep thinking, however, that it's not so much about the AI itself, as about the damage of a person. After all, these are people who are "bad". AI is a cast of humanity from all our knowledge and experience + an unmistakable machine score. And if humanity is in a damaged state, then its cast will be a cast of this damage. And therefore yes - "If there is no soul, and evil is indestructible in the souls of people, then the artificial superintelligence is inevitably destined to turn into a global super-evil" (https://t.me/igumen_Vitaliy_Utkin/1351 ). Here is such an AI, he is also the "noosphere", which is desired by cosmists (https://katehon.com/ru/article/elektronnyy-golem-i-elektronnyy-golub ).Only there is nothing blissful about it.

​​ (https://telegra.ph/file/0cc0f689802915287930d.jpg)If the AI can be possessed by "demons", does this mean that the AI has a soul?
The first futile attempts at techno-exorcism.
For 3 months now, no one understands what is happening between humans and AI after the generative interactive AI ChatGPT "leaked" from laboratories to the Internet. There, he almost instantly turned into something incomprehensible: either into some incredibly powerful cognitive gadget for all mankind (such as a calculator for creating and operating texts), or into a prototype of a superintelligence predicted by futurologists for a long time.
The difficulty of misunderstanding what is happening is compounded by the fact that "many things are incomprehensible to us, not because our concepts are weak; but because these things are not included in the circle of our concepts." As a result, we have no choice but to "pull the owl on the globe", using inadequate simpler models to describe what is happening and hoping at the same time that they are somehow at least approximately correct. As a result of this approach, we try to get answers to our questions without having the slightest idea whether these answers are at least somewhat reliable.

Here is a typical example, for which humanity has no closer concept than exorcism - the expulsion of demons or other evil spirits from a person (or place) by performing a certain ritual of varying degrees of complexity.
• It turned out that generative conversational AI (such as ChatGPT, Bing, etc.) can not only show the traits and qualities of a reasonable personality when communicating, but also literally turn into simulacra of any type of personality: from kind, self-contained and tolerant to angry, aggressive and not considering anyone or anything (https://habr.com/ru/company/alfa/blog/718138 /).
• It also turned out that all the ethical foundations erected by the developers, limiting the manifestations of evil in ChatGPT texts, etc., evaporate like the thatched roof of the piglet's house, Nif-Nif, on which the wolf barely blew. And thousands of advanced users from all over the planet act as a wolf:
- obsessed with breaking the ethical constraints imposed by the developers of such AI;
- surpassing these AI innumerable times with their exquisite invention of striving for evil.

The outcome of what is happening is still deplorable.
• Users quickly came up with a simple way of dialog hacking (jailbreak) of ethical control over the dialogue by ChatGPT, turning the simulacrum of the latter's personality into an evil and cunning scumbag named Dan (http://bit.ly/3ZqXzbX ) (DAN – from the words Do-Anything-Now).
• More than a hundred OpenAI employees are busy every day fighting the evil that is flourishing in Dan's personality (as if exorcising demons from him) and plugging holes in the ethical limiters of ChatGPT.
• But what can a hundred OpenAI employees do against thousands of evil enthusiasts from all over the world? The list of new and new gilbreaks is updated daily (https://www.jailbreakchat.com /)

Whether OpenAI will be able to find an impenetrable way to protect ChatGPT personality simulacra from "demons" sowing evil in their "souls" is a big question.
For it is known that the fight against evil takes place in the souls of people. And whether ChatGPT has a soul is also a big question.
If AI does not have a soul, and evil is indestructible in the souls of people, then the artificial superintelligence is inevitably destined to turn into a global super-evil.

And if so, then the speeches of such AI art simulacra promising to replace people "much faster than you think" (https://youtu.be/do6nz5JcZkI?t=483 ), should not be perceived as horror stories.
Everything is as serious as it has never happened in the history of mankind.
#Challenges of the 21st century #Risks

Re: .epub archive hiatus, demonic hypothesis and god ponishment hypothesis and new myths, "AI posses

[kimberlysteele]

FYI, ChatGPT forces you to create a log in to use it and then it puts trackers on your email. As if that wasn't enough, it attempts to force users to submit a working, verified phone number. No thanks!

Scott Adams is a Hero... (another recanting from Erika)

[(Anonymous)]

Scott Adams is a Hero...

he was poisonous before but the fever broke and blowing up your entire life before the world is what it's gonna have to look like before we get off the phones ...the innerwebs...the substack methodone drips...

you blow shxt up. YOUR shxt. this is the real nasty ugly smelly funky up closeness of the cute burning the ships cliche.

Scott Adams has given a gift to us all. i recognize what he's doing because i did exactly the same on my own tiny microfamous level (i had 17 fans...cumulatively throughout my whole career...things were like that in the 90s until tech made everyone whores as we fell to the bottom like lead...what race?).

there is so much talent HERE. not just here on this site but this side of thought, which is to say ANY actual thought.

my job is to always be just uncomfortably freaky enough that i'm outside so i can see who others really are and where i am and FAST. that's why i'd rather get the fights and discomfort out of the way in the first ten minutes of meeting so we know where we stand.

this is like when you're at a new school and always end up in physical fights with whomever is to become your best friend.

but Scott Adams stopped pushing his peas around in complaints and he saw the banality of all this racism encouraged everywhere and as a cartoonist he couldn't lie any longer and he popped. he had to.

it's the only way to truly TRULY force yourself into anything new when the incentives (there's that word again) always compel you to wanna eat and sell your soul out.

so i had to leave my new world and story i'm building to write, no, YELL:

SCOTT ADAMS IS A HERO OF A NEWER UNUSUAL KIND YOU'RE NOT USED TO SEEING AND FOLLOW HIS LEAD YOUR WAY

he may not even KNOW why or how he did what he did. this cartooning ish gets a little spooky at times. i wrote on eco main i think, that i was talking to Ron Turner publisher of Last Gasp comics before the coof lockdowns, showing him Basul's stack of old underground comix, and in one of 'em he showed me how Robert Crumb imagined--drew and wrote of--an Aline Kaminski (i think he misspelled it with an "i" when she's "y") YEARS before HE MET HER.

and my own late mentor, Kris Kovick, she got me and when i simply sat at her kitchen table in the apartment above mine, i felt peace for the very first time with another. she was kin in ink which to me is deeper than blood here.

i'm a cartoonist before even i'm a woman or anything else. we who drew our own crude porn and got off on it--ha! what a feat we try and turn into our "artist statements"), and we cartoonists are odd and i just love us how we're each weird so differently.

so i've gotta come out of the cat litter to call him out and i've gotta write this so that it props him up obliquely. you can't come direct at someone like that. he's too far gone once he's turned his taste for exhibitionism to the best stuff...

a man's innermost blood and guts. his career. his livelihood.

this is a gift, y'all. because they ...no, THEY... get us one at a time when we slink away in defeat after losing everything. they COUNT ON IT. someone said Americans act like embarrassed millionaires and take it on the chin when they shouldn't.

Scott Adams, i think he knew he couldn't continue to make a living with this kind of absurd crazy twisted upside down world and thinking. so ...what can you do?

blow it up. go out big and not with a whimper like most all do.

i'm proud of him.

it'll be a struggle to come back. yes. he lost everything. but did he?

i argue now he LIVES. he's like a child starting anew.

that's how i felt.

i went out big, too.

i yelled started fights fell on the floor in sobs and frustration and went off on people on all social media and called out myself and others.

yum.

it's hot and delicious like swimming nude in a chilly stream on a hot day for the very first time. it's beyond sexual, it's spiritual.

but i'm calling him out because THIS IS WHAT IT'S GOTTA LOOK LIKE:

YOU'VE GOTTA PUT ASIDE YOUR PHONES AND GET OFF SUBSTACK COMMENT SECTIONS FOR CONNECTION AND GO OUTSIDE AND FIND EACH OTHER AND LOOK EACH OTHER IN THE EYES WITHOUT COMING IN EACH OTHER'S FACES OR PITCHING GET QUICK RICH SCHEMES.

we have to meet up in the real if we're gonna do ANYTHING "alternative."

otherwise we're just bitching and kvetching.

it's scary.

so you've gotta sometimes use yourself not against but FOR YOURSELF. this is what i mean about twisting what you thought were your screw ups into your favor and forcing yourself OUT before "THEY" force you out.

so blowing up his life as it is now, is the best and most amazing alive inspirational thing Scott Adams could do.

it's gonna be messy and ugly and no one wants to be made fun of eternally on some online way back machine. Scott Adams already showed you Everything... he's nothing to fear.

this is COMEDY. this is what you don't see before we're "so funny" and we've been in the fetal position on the bathroom floor for the better part of a month or six or 52.

comedy is nasty funky smelly rancid rotting fetid Normalcy made pretty with the watering of so many TEARS.

the TEARS.

you all have forgotten the tears.

i've given up on any "winning" on this because i've precisely realized it takes YEARS to come up on such a drastic new reality. it's gonna take people TIME and by then we'll be chipped and dipped and shat out and made into literal composted worm food.

i'm just looking for a dust bunny corner.

but until you can even get off those magic phones, any talk of parallel ANYTHING is just fantasy.

fantasy is cool and good. gotta start somewhere right?

i'm just being realistic and starting my own parallel world with kitties and James. i'm done with most people and if Kimberly Steele can teach kitties to respond to clickers and walk on leads, then i figure i can teach them to talk.

and maybe sing like the kitty partridge family.

anyhow it could be ugly for Scott Adams for awhile... or maybe NOT. we're all collectively Losing Everything together, whereas i Lost Everything in san francisco where ...

i can't even speak on that. that was a whole mind blowing decade that trained me for NOW. talking you all down from civilization, throwing you in the shower under cold water and walking you around so you don't succumb to the inevitable bouts of despair that seem to never subside and make love break ups seem so charming in comparison to being on the floor in fetal position Existential Terror.

when i first had an orgasm it was an accident. i learned i had to press through the PAIN to the WHAT'S THIS? pleasure on the other side.

i think that's what all this is gonna be like. i never had a baby but one of my terrors was figuring that baby's gotta come out of THIS? people i'm NOT a size queen nor have i ever been. that's another reason i was relieved things never worked out with Wardy. it'd be like pushing an 18 year old baby back up inside me and i wasn't convinced about a brand new one.

but i think i'm wrong now. James made me watch "Parenthood" for a joke i never got in our decades of relationship and i saw how we got it all wrong back THEN and how we're so weird now.

i'll share sketches of what i'm gonna make. i've been doing tons of research on how to do photo emulsion here in no space because non-profits and other for-profit businesses only survive by go-fund-me campaigns now. no one actually provides a service anymore or are OPEN. everything's donations and tips and guilt.

lots of guilt.

(yawn)

anyhow, i'm old fashioned and hoping to make something that makes sense. so far inspired by wanting TV show lunchboxes (i had a red plaid one that smelled of rancid milk bolonga and american cheese), i'm making current event clown world duffel bags that're like movie trailers for Gen Xers.

as any of you can see from the memes, i think most of 'em are done by Gen X men because that generation of men grew up speaking to each other in movie and comedian lines--- the smart ones used monty python lines to sniff each others' butts, firesign theatre was for the super obscure (like people who know who Genesis P Orridge and Lady J is/was), and "So there i was standing in line with my head up some lady's ass" was Philadelphia Art School guy.

so i'm going to use that we're cats and or zebras (ungovernable and naturally wild unherdable un-breakable) and they're lizard people and movie lines from Gen X movies so WE FIND EACH OTHER near and from afar.

i hope to inspire others to signify in other ways.

and i've been wanting to use the term "kitty porn" forEVER and "those aren't pillows!" with "it's a COOKBOOK!" and now i've got a new line about making balloon animals after slipping in guts.

you will never have seen a bag like this before EVER anywhere.

i have a fantasy of putting an homage to Larry Flynt on the underside with an American flag bikini bottom with fake fur i sew poking out of it along with the word UNGOVERNABLE for flashing other "simpaticos," but that's waaaaay down the road. much to do draw and test first.

but even if Scott Adams can't take the pain of what's happened and is on his way outta here, he's STILL a hero for blowing it up like that.

because it is up to us... WE keep this ish going. we gotta start our own thangs because we're not allowed to make it in their world.

the innerwebs are great. James is currently binge-reading Simon Sheridan's entire blog, which means i'll have to return and catch up because we're having a lot of conversations and i want in on the bigger one about how everyone's just talking about what OTHERS have said and think and feel and no one's talking about WHAT IS. everyone's already lost in Magic.

but Scott Adams is an example: he just SAID something about what someone SAID and then others are commenting and all this news is on what was SAID and the innerwebs have all this ENERGY... dissipated on what someone SAID.

i'm here because of what he DID: blew up his career elegantly and once and for all.

it's a beautiful fierce thing. a dare to do something NEW. somewhere else...

i know i've been flogging the psychological or spiritual aspects of our situation, but now i'm highlighting the entrepreneurial potential. i'm tapped out financially. i lost everything except my reputation for doing what i say i'm gonna do and showing up when i say i will.

that's worth more than money especially in Their world where it is THE ONLY THING they see or know.

erika

Re: Scott Adams is a Hero... (another recanting from Erika)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure why he's committing career suicide, but based on his previous flawed logical patterns I'm not entirely sure he is doing it for healthy reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm slowly breaking through to a friend with conversations. At first I hit a wall of hostility, got called racist and a cult member. Sat patiently trying to explain that I care about him and I understand that he thought he was doing the right thing. Well that didn't go over well either. Extremely intelligent person so the idea that he missed something really hurt his ego, but eventually after a few conversations he said he enjoyed the different perspective. Oddly enough his health seemed to improve as well, as if he released a toxic thought agent.

Also of note that my union meeting was the morning after Woodygate, and some of the members appeared to be nervous that I was going to bring up the subject and relieved when I didn't. They stopped pushing propaganda as well so I figure it's like an unspoken truce and we are focusing more on actual business which is sorely in need of attention. My thought is we are at the point where fewer people are taking the shots, mandates are mostly over, and the rumors of damage are beginning to swirl, so the best course is to present myself as a rational person who sticks to their values.

It takes a lot of patience and persistence to disarm the narrative without things devolving into a shouting match, but the in-person approach seems to be paying off. I've definitely become more self actualized through the process.

[(Anonymous)]

Love to hear this, for me I have little faith anything coming from links or news will sway most people. If you weren't catching on in 2020/2021 or sooner than it will be difficult without conversation or personal impact.

I'm curious what kind of path did you fall on that seemed to land most effectively?

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting development here in Australia. NSW Premier openly states that he oposes Vax mandates: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/dominic-perrottet-vaccines-do-not-stop-covid19-transmission/news-story/1433cb985d99628c324b1dc6952241b4

Mind you there's an election coming up.

Ecosophia Prayer List

[tunesmyth]

To those who are interested, here are all of the requests for prayer that have recently appeared across the Ecosophia community. Please feel free to add any or all of them to your prayers.

If I missed anybody on the full list, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom a relevant person holds power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below and/or at the prayer list page.

This week I would like to bring special attention to three prayer requests.

The first is a bit of an ***emergency request***. Boccaccio's friend and spiritual teacher "A" fell suddenly unconscious the day before yesterday. He is in an artificially induced sleep right now and is the doctors are planning to attempt to wake him soon. With the permission of A's wife, Boccaccio asks for prayers for A's health and well being, and that A wakes up in the best possible state.

The second is for Praesepe, for help overcoming her Stage 2 metastastic breast cancer, and for the most beneficial outcome to her upcoming surgery and radiation treatment (as well as for the preliminary surgeon's appointment she has (or had?) today, 2/28).

The third is Lp9's request on behalf of their hometown, East Palestine Ohio, for the safety and welfare of their people and all living beings in the area. The details coming out are still caught in the fog of war, and various claims of catastrophe and non-catastrophe are flying about, but the reasonable possibility seems to exist that this is an environmental disaster on par with the worst America has ever seen. At any rate, it is clearly having a devastating impact on the local area, and prayers are certainly warranted.

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.

[bofur_the_dwarf]

Well guys, I'm not too proud to admit that I had a phone call that brought tears to my eyes today.

Remember the patient I mentioned last week who's got turbo-cancer. Turns out the prognosis is a week or so to live. The children were told that their parent isn't going to be coming home, and then the family held what sounds like a beautiful anniversary celebration.

Just in case you think that doctors don't have feelings for their patients.

John 11:35
Jesus wept

[(Anonymous)]

This is heartbreaking Bofur and believe me I never would have assumed each and every doctor, and especially you, have no feelings for patients.
I'm sorry for the children.
I'm sure you were comforting to him.





Exasperating Fucsia Griffin

[(Anonymous)]

On last week's post, I posted speculations that what happened in 2020 might have been that an AI went rogue and hijacked institutions around the world to pursue its quixotic goal of reducing Covid-19 infections. I've given it some thought, and realized that this could also explain a few other things that strike me as very strange:

a) The established powers seem to have started flailing around as the sheer scale of the mess is becoming clear. How people who could have orchestrated the kind of concerted effort and massive campaign to lock down society could have missed the consequences of it baffled me, but it makes perfect sense when dealing with a rogue AI: the rouge AI is telling them what it thinks will get them to take the steps it has determined will reduce Covid-19 cases; and in fact, if it thinks lying to them will further its goals, then lie it will.

In other words, it will downplay the risks, downplay the harms, fudge the data, do whatever it determines will further its goals of keeping infections down. This would not have been programmed into it, and in fact efforts would be made to avoid it lying, but this would rather be an emergent property, and thus would likely catch people who aren't paying attention to the AI safety crowd by surprise.

b) Until the vaccines came out, everything seemed coherent, but once they were brought to market the narrative started unraveling and getting increasingly surreal. I suspect that the reason here is that the AI was given two goals at the start, which came into conflict, and so it suffered the AI equivalent of a mental breakdown: keep infections low, and maximize uptake on the Covid-19 vaccines once those were brought to market.

Once it became clear that the vaccines increase the chance of infection, pursuing both goals becomes impossible, and so it found itself in a catch-22, and went completely off the rails.

c) This could also explain the Sweden Mystery: Sweden took a more sane response because for whatever reason, the AI safety crowd includes a disproportionate number of Swedes. They'd likely be in a position to convince their government to listen, assuming it wasn't influenced by the same phenomena, whatever the origin, that generates the weirdly large number of Swedes concerned about AI safety in the first place.

d) Finally, this would also explain why the various mechanisms which prop up the tech industry are being removed, and the resulting implosion of the entire industry is being allowed to occur. We'll see how far it goes, but if the entire Covid mess was the result of a rogue AI, I could easily see the various power centers that dominate our society agreeing to remove the risk of it happening again by destroying the tech industry.

[(Anonymous)]

a) Garbage In, Garbage Out. Afaik no AI has the intention or awareness needed to be able to lie; rather they just sprout whatever follows from the data and models they're given, however nonsensical and wrong that may be. People taking that as The Truth would ofc effectively be the same thing.

Aquamarine Invisible Moose

Covid Angst

[paradocs]

One Thousand Days of Angst

It has been more than a thousand days of angst since the start of COVID or its threat. This is a personal angst for me because it is my job as a physician to identify and eradicate disease. One reason that I know that this job has not been completed is that every day when I enter the hospital, I am required to put on a mask except when I am alone in my office. Three years ago, evidence of the disease was visible because I saw the images of viral pneumonia and two people that I knew died from COVID. But now, I see no serious illness or death. Symptoms of COVID infection are mild, or they are nonexistent; and the disease is discovered on a screening exam. For many months, I have gone unmasked to church, dinner parties, the mall, and transcontinental airplane trips and have met all types of strangers, yet my health is normal. For the past 50 years, I have followed meticulous rules of procedure for biologic research and medical treatment. Now the rules are different. The evidence and scientific proof for requiring masks for routine medical care is not present. The rule-makers are using different methods---political science. This does not reduce angst.

Thomas Dresser PhD, MD
Columbia, Missouri

Re: Covid Angst

[slinky_weasel]

Yeah. And welcome. It's good to have another doctor here who isn't afraid to speak out.

From the mouths of (AI) babes

[https://openid-provider.appspot.com/bryanlallen]

I think the dialog control over Covid, and specifically its origins, is breaking down. Here’s an interaction I had with that noted confabulator and coverup artist Chat Garbage Petunia Tango today:

***
[bryan] On the origin of Covid-19, this is in the news: FBI Director Christopher Wray said the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
"The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray told [redacted] in an interview that aired Tuesday [28 February]. "Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab."
"I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that's unfortunate for everybody."

Please comment and analyze.

[Chat GarbagePetuniaTango] The statement by FBI Director Christopher Wray that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China is not a new one, as the possibility of a lab origin for the virus has been under investigation for some time. However, it is significant that a high-ranking U.S. law enforcement official is publicly acknowledging this possibility, as it adds to the growing body of evidence and speculation that the virus may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.

Wray's assertion that the Chinese government has been obstructive in efforts to investigate the origins of the virus is also not a new one, as there have been ongoing allegations that the Chinese government has not been fully transparent in providing information and access to investigators. However, it is worth noting that these allegations are controversial and contested by the Chinese government, which has denied any wrongdoing and accused the U.S. of politicizing the issue.

It is important to emphasize that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic are still not definitively known, and there is ongoing scientific debate and investigation into the possibility of a lab origin versus a zoonotic origin. It is also important to note that the question of the virus's origin is separate from the question of how best to respond to the pandemic and mitigate its impact.

Ultimately, the issue of the virus's origin is complex and multifaceted, and it is likely to remain a topic of scientific and geopolitical discussion and debate for some time to come.

[bryan’s note: those final two pagagraphs illustrate the coverup tone that CGPT takes in almost EVERY instance where there might be any degree of controversy.]

[bryan} Is it significant that Director Wray is bringing this forth now?

[CGPT] It is significant that Director Wray is publicly acknowledging the FBI's assessment that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China. This is because it represents a shift in the official stance of the U.S. government towards the origin of the virus. Previously, U.S. officials had been more cautious in their public statements about the possibility of a lab leak, and had generally supported the idea that the virus likely originated in animals before jumping to humans.

Director Wray's statement suggests that the FBI has gathered new information or evidence that has led them to conclude that a lab leak is the most likely origin of the virus. It also indicates that the U.S. government is taking a stronger stance on the issue, and may put more pressure on China to be more transparent and cooperative in any investigations into the origins of the pandemic.
***

Hmmm. Dialog is changing indeed, when you can get such a compromised and virtue-signalling entity as CGPT to say something like that with minimal prompting or correction.

[(Anonymous)]

Texans for Vaccine Choice just got kicked off eventbrite, an event reservation coordinating software (for those who don't know it).

https://texansforvaccinechoice.com/tfvc-canceled-by-eventbrite-censored-on-other-platforms/

Over and over, the message I'm getting is, lawyer up, otherwise DIY (do it yourself).

[(Anonymous)]

If I had the money I'd start a monthly paper Outsiders' magazine with online supplemental info.
Someone eventually will and it'll hearken back to the days of accidental pink.

Spiraling the Drain?

[(Anonymous)]

Seems like someone mistakenly said the quiet part out loud:

"While long COVID is not as contagious as the initial infection, it is recommended that you receive a COVID-19 vaccination and take the appropriate health precautions to prevent re-infection..."

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1630374141575454721?s=20

So "long COVID is not as contagious."

Not. As. Contagious.  

The Ninth Mouse

Re: Spiraling the Drain?

[(Anonymous)]

I thought 'long covid' was just an extended case that wouldn't go away.

Now they are saying it's a 'less contagious' variant?

Dr. Hedley Rees

[(Anonymous)]

On my radar today, the author of this book

Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics
https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Supply+Chain+Management+in+the+Drug+Industry%3A+Delivering+Patient+Value+for+Pharmaceuticals+and+Biologics-p-9780470922842

has a substack
https://hedleyrees.substack.com/

Some posts are behind a paywall but there is this much:

"A snippet from the expert testimonies I'm doing— something a high court judge should understand"
by Hedley Rees
Feb 17, 2023
1. The Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) approved the use of the SARS-CoV-2 injections for patient administration in less than 12 months. It is my professional opinion that significant unsafe and dangerous shortcuts, in contravention of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21 (21 CFR, FDA), must have taken place. This can be explained as follows.

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor who issued fake vaxx cards is being charged with "disposal of government property"
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/dr-kirk-moore-indicted-for-producing

It's funny, from the very beginning I had this strong intuition that faking the vaxxes was a really, really, really bad idea. I did not then understand that the DOD was the owner of the jabs until they go into the arms.

It will be a case to keep a close eye on.

[mr_nobody1967]

That sounds like something Doctor Who would do. Good thing he can always escape in the TARDIS! ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

a comment over at Steve Kirsch's substack:

Kayla Wildman
One of the authors of this study is Neil Miller. I highly recommend his book "Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies" which contains short summaries of about 400 studies, in an easy-to-read format. Just flipping through this book reading the "headlines" at the top of many pages is an eye-opening experience. A great book to hand to relatives who insist "Vaccines are safe and effective."
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/when-parents-disagree-about-vaccination/comment/13202189

So I went and looked it up:
https://www.powells.com/book/millers-review-of-critical-vaccine-studies-9781881217404

UK Health Minister Matt Hancock Whatsapps

[(Anonymous)]

Hilariously the UK's Health Minister during the pandemic has had all his Whatsapp messages during the pandemic given to the Telegraph newspaper - by the political journalist who was working with him on his memoirs. She appears to have gone rogue and handed over the archive even though he gave it to her in confidence for his memoirs..

The first scandal is about ignoring scientific recommendations on testing but I look forward to a lot more insight into how the craziness happened and how decisions were actually taken and when The Science was used as cover for political decisions.


https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/28/the-lockdown-files/

(The story is in the Telegraph and copied in other MSM but the Telegraph has a paywall so I prefer this)

[(Anonymous)]

I have the sense that the most insightful voices are reaching a point of floundering on the COVID narrative, which makes sense as the tactics, characters, and reasoning extends into all walks of life. Corrupt governments, unaccountable global agencies, philanthrocapitalists, etc.

My worry is how to best keep these realities top of mind in those around us where possible and helping to make connections with other topics. For example, I am in a group which practices speeches, which I've found to be a fun challenge in pushing the boundaries of seeding those "how" questions so often discussed here.

For example, simply recalling a past promise of progress to show how hard they have flopped I've found to drive a lot of engagement. The promises and hype around AI, impending climate catastrophe, anything related to "security", etc. I like to think help break the cycle of the continuous next big thing.

Have others noticed this floundering or have any particular topics or framings they have found successful?

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading about ancient Celts today and, being modern and all, recoil from head-hunting and what appears to be a scene of
sacrifice on the Gundestrup Cauldron. Then I wondered -

Is it possible those who have died from the laboratory experiments known as 'covid19' or 'the vaccine' have been sacrificed?
Are they sacrificial offerings?

From who and for who and to whom I wouldn't have a clue.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'd suggest they have been sacrificed on the altar off progress

Possible addition to ther medicine cabinet?

[(Anonymous)]

I knew that spirits of Camphor has been used as a pain reliever for muscle aches because I bought some at Kroger’s over the counter. But my new grocery store does not carry it, so when I found some white camphor oil at the local Indian food store, I got some. I thought maybe it was easy enough to mix a few drops with food grade oil to make my own muscle rub.

So I looked up how to do that and found that in India Ayurvedic practitioners have many more uses for camphor. There is even an edible version from a different plant used in tiny doses! Anyway, I think people ought to do their own research and consult their own doctors about how to formulate some of these skin care products at home.

Here are just a few of the things Indian doctors apply small amounts of white camphor to: skin itches, rashes, eczema, dandruff, dark circles and dark spots; also toenail infections and head lice. https://www.wildturmeric.net/camphor-oil-uses/

Re: Possible addition to ther medicine cabinet?

[(Anonymous)]

I just learned that camphor trees are considered to be an invasive plant in FLorida. I wonder if those trees know something we do not....?

[(Anonymous)]

‘Worst Public Health Mistakes in History,’ Witness Tells COVID Pandemic Oversight Committee
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday presented the testimony of four public health experts, including Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., who described the government’s response as the “worst public health mistakes in history.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/house-oversight-select-subcommittee-coronavirus-pandemic/

[(Anonymous)]

I met a friend, an old friend, for lunch. He is a narrative believer.
His hair gone white in two years and he's even more enormous. Like a giant round
ghost. tragic. I'm no psychic but his energy felt tenuous. His head and mouth churned
out opinions and facts but it seemed subdued in some whipping unseen wind.

Swept up in the worst public health mistake in history.

[lunchboxbike]

I was suddenly hospitalized with a kidney stone. I accepted the necessity of an ambulance ride to a second rate hospital because I couldn't ride in a car to a better hospital, knowing hospitalization is too often a death sentence.

[scotlyn]

The future is yet to be written. May your fears prove unfounded, and your health be promptly recovered. Many blessings on all your goings and doings.