Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 99
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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.
The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-27 06:23 pm (UTC)An excerpt from Matt Taibbi "The Elite War on Free Thought" (ties in great with graphic!)
https://www.racket.news/p/the-elite-war-on-free-thought
"A political movement has long been afoot in America and other places to reduce every political question to simple binaries. As Russell knows, current political thought doesn’t like the idea that there can be left-neoliberalism over here, and right-Trumpism over here, and then also all sorts of people who are neither – in between, on the peripheries, wherever.
They prefer to look at it as, “Over here are people who are conscientious and believe in science and fairness and democracy and puppies, and then everyone else is a right-winger.” This is how you get people with straight faces calling Russell Brand a right-winger.
But it goes deeper. Michael and I found correspondence in Twitter about something called the Virality Project, which was a cross-platform, information-sharing program led by Stanford University through which companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook shared information about Covid-19.
They compared notes on how to censor or deamplify certain content. The ostensible mission made sense, at least on the surface: it was to combat “misinformation” about the pandemic, and to encourage people to get vaccinated. When we read the communications to and from Stanford, we found shocking passages.
One suggested to Twitter that it should consider as “standard misinformation on your platform… stories of true vaccine side effects… true posts which could fuel hesitancy” as well as “worrisome jokes” or posts about things like “natural immunity” or “vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway.”
This is straight out of Orwell. Instead of having “ambiguities” and “shades of meaning” on Covid-19, they reduced everything to a binary: vax and anti-vax.
They eliminated ambiguities by looking into the minds of users. In the Virality Project if a person told a true story about someone developing myocarditis after getting vaccinated, even if that person was just telling a story – even if they weren't saying, “The shot caused the myocarditis” – the Virality Project just saw a post that may “promote hesitancy.”
So, this content was true, but politically categorized as anti-vax, and therefore misinformation – untrue.
A person who talks about being against vaccine passports may express support for the vaccine elsewhere, but the Virality Project believed “concerns” about vaccine passports were driving “a larger anti-vaccination narrative,” so in this way, a pro-vaccine person may be anti-vax. They also wrote that such “concerns” inspired broader discussions “about the loss of rights and freedoms,” also problematic.
Other agencies talked about posts that shared results of Freedom of Information searches on “authoritative health sources” like Dr. Anthony Fauci, or used puns like “Fauxi.” The VP frowned on this.
“This continual process of seeding doubt and uncertainty in authoritative voices,” wrote Graphika, in a report sent to Twitter, “leads to a society that finds it too challenging to identify what’s true or false.”
It was the same with someone who shared true research about the efficacy of natural immunity or suggested that the virus came from a lab. It all might be factual, but it was politically inconvenient, something they called “malinformation.” In the end, out of all of these possible beliefs, they derived a 1984 binary: good and ungood.
They also applied the binary to people."
Pallid Gaseous Worm
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-27 11:14 pm (UTC)Sherlock surveys a room full of messily murdered people. Blood and murder weapons are scattered everywhere. "You'll think me mad, Watson," he says, "but I believe, just possibly, a crime was committed here."
"Are you f***ing serious right now?" Watson asks.
"It's true! The pattern is subtle, but I believe the data points ineluctably to a crime of some sort."
Watson picks up an item from a nearby table. "Holmes, this is a daguerrotype of the murderer, holding a knife and a severed head. There's a note on the back that reads, 'I killed them, I killed them all. Me, Professor Moriarty. I will kill again, as detailed in the manifesto lying upon the desk in my study. Postscript: Mwuhahahahah.' He then gives his home address."
Holmes strokes his chin. "But what is the pattern, Watson? What... is... the pattern?"
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 01:01 am (UTC)https://consentfactory.org/2023/01/11/the-mother-of-all-limited-hangouts/
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 12:24 pm (UTC)But things do get spooky in spookyville.
As far as all this social media stuff goes, I keep remembering a particular line from War Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk4T-SxTkWA
Pallid Gaseous Worm
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 01:17 pm (UTC)https://www.racket.news/p/first-roger-waters-now-this-germany
(The term limited release as used in marketing also comes to mind)
Pallid Gaseous Worm, still not on twitter, facespook, or any of that other garbage.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-01 03:00 am (UTC)but i've decided to wait a week or so and see how it all plays out.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-27 11:43 pm (UTC)"If you want people to cooperate and build community, get them to think of themselves as part of a unary; if you want them to quarrel and resist change, convince them they’re on one side of a binary; if you want them to make change, make them think of their community and their world as a ternary."
https://www.ecosophia.net/getting-beyond-narratives/
Martin F
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 04:27 pm (UTC)Pallid Gaseous Worm
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 06:41 pm (UTC)Whether it's a ternary or unary we need to move to, I'm not sure, but it seems clear we need to avoid this strong pull to make everything binary.
We seems to have a ternary model where we see the 'evil' elites are manipulating the hapless masses who believe the manipulations of the BS MSM machine, and we are the heroic bearers of truth trying to 'red pill' the masses. And once we succeed in attaining a critical mass of 'red pilled' normies, we will unite and the 'evil' elites will pay for their crimes.
Or is it perhaps we see ourselves in a binary of vexxers vs no-vexxers? The ultimate goal to eliminate the other?
Or should we move to a unary and acknowledge that the multiple crisis of Western Civ today was brought about by the actions of all Western Civ. Accept that these problems are our collective problem and we need to come together to solve it without divisions?
Lots to ponder here.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 01:24 am (UTC)Very relevant.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 03:40 am (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 04:25 am (UTC)Had a conversation 20 odd years ago about the advent of the digital age and how the very foundation of it polarized thinking, one and zero. Theory was the deeper we went into the digital age, the more intense the polarization would become until it caused a crisis, a breakdown. What would follow is a leap in human evolution, telepathy.
Not so sure about the second part but the first seems pretty spot on.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-29 03:55 am (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-29 04:18 pm (UTC)Quoting from memory, so it may not be word for word, but Herbert seems spot on. 'Never trust a smartphone junkie,' to update the line from Sid and Nancy.
Some years ago JMG did a post on that topic. Instead of the Butlerian Jihad, he recommended the Butlerian Carnival. Celebrate life without the electronic shackles instead of a jihad. Holy wars get messy.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 11:41 am (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-28 08:50 pm (UTC)For over 25 years I was on the Stanford campus nearly every week for music rehearsals until the week before my county lockdowns started because Stanford began locking down a week early. I watched the faculty, staff and students go evermore wacko-wokie over those years. How and why did all those ticket-puncher fools flock to apply to Stanford making it as "desirable" as Harvard?
I also have visited and worked at the Stanford hospital for nearly 60 years. Worked for 2 years as a high school volunteer in the emergency room and on the wards. I saw the underbelly of that institution and its medical school under the same roof and did not like what I saw. A creeping callousness and disregard for patient safety by 99.99% of the doctor staff who looked on patients as scary inconveniences most of the time. Worsening "us v them" dynamic over the years as California became so litigious on medical malpractice. "I got hurt so SOMEONE must pay!" Medicine is not an imperfect "art" anymore but a black & white simple recipe where all results must be perfect for everyone all the time! So what if my daily habits or diet is a cause of my illness! If I stick my hand in a farm machine and my arm is ripped off (while doing a stupid human trick) someone has to pay me!! The State finally limited malpractice awards to a pittance of under $200k for even gross negligence and then it was off to the races for malpractice with impunity.
I saw Stanford's nurses ever more overworked and underpaid. Lip service at best for the hippocratic oath. Nurses and doctors spending more time typing on computers for insurance reports than observing or talking to patents. Gross negligence constantly covered up. Death certificates issued fraudulently to cover up disasters easy to in the computer records of pill and potion dosages administered. I learned a few years ago from doctor-friends at the hospital never to go to the ER after 5 pm on weekdays or on any weekends or holidays since that is when as they said, "the maintenance crew" of low level residents were on duty. Go at those times to a nearby non-teaching hospital 15 minutes away even if in full cardiac arrest.
I once did legal work in front of the Stanford Medical School's human subject research oversight board and let's just say they all looked at human test subjects as idiots to be abused and underpaid in their own publish-or-perish and get-patent-royalties races but for one board member who was a non-doctor pastor required by federal law to be the token non-medical doctor on the panel. A binary "us v. them" in the extreme. Petty authoritarian dictators, ticket-puncher go-alongs, and resume builders from birth allowed - no, encouraged and enabled! - to run amok.
As the software tech boom started in the 1970's and the words "Silicon Valley" hit the mainstream press by the early 1980's, I saw ever more Gold Rush get-rich-quick students and faculty arrive as the Leland Stanford Junior Memorial University board of trustees got evermore pasty-faced software "bros" tech titan-tyrant-geeks who had usually no skills in math or biology whatsoever. Poor people skills having grown up glued to computer screens. Now many of them seriously think A.I. can replace all doctors and artists, too. Add in equally dumb trustee fools from the venture capital, real estate redevelopers, lawyers, investors, and banking sectors and here we are. The bankruptcy this year of Silicon Valley Bank and the Sam Bankman-Fried scandals - the latter is still under house arrest at his parents' Stanford Faculty Ivory Tower Happy Ghetto house one block away from the Stanford president's house built by former Stanford trustees' chair US President Herbert Hoover and his wife - are the tip of the iceberg on that board of rot which gleefully rubber stamped all that online bat flu censoring and has invested way too much of the university's endowment in risky securities.
Current trustee chair is Jerry Yang, a former Stanford student computer geek who founded Yahoo!, and sold it shortly after the People's Republic of China tried to impose tough censorship on it. He now does venture capital. Married to a Stanford MBA student he met while starting his company. She has served a long time on the San Francisco Ballet's board and they are big supporters of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. No kids. He has served multiple terms as Stanford's board chair. Current term expires July 1, 2023.
https://boardoftrustees.stanford.edu/board-members/
Glad I am old enough to have been assigned to read in high school Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, and Huxley's Brave New World books along with extracts from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with lots of US history, too, studying many primary documents from George Washington's and Ike's farewell speeches to the US Constitution. Plus I took a lot of biology, math, physical science and history courses in college. Trained to drill down to primary sources, do math without calculator, and writing without a computer.
What I saw in 2021 from a 2020 Massachusetts candidate for US Senate who was deplatformed from Twitter right before balloting by a fascist gov/corp scheme which he uncovered with FOIA demands and lawsuits detailing Stanford's involvement in gov/corp online censoring means I will not participate in any Stanford activities until they clean house. But, I suspect they have to hit the rock bottom of bankruptcy for that to happen. Thanks to old Railroad and Junk Bond Dealer Leland “Robber Baron” Stanford, a former California governor and US senator, the university he built on his old trotting horse farm sits on a massive ever expanding real estate tax-free portfolio held in a special trust Old Leland pushed like a royal emperor through the state capitol before he died.
History teaches empires always rise and fall. Power always corrupts giving rise to reformers who become corrupt themselves. Some empires and their enablers fall faster than others.
W.R.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-29 01:38 am (UTC)It occurs to me that "I got hurt so someone must pay my medical bills, and if it's me that'll bankrupt me" might be more apropos.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-29 06:07 am (UTC)Long ago I did work helping people who couldn't pay their medical bills. First thing I learned was merely calling the medical billing folks and offering to help make a deal would knock at least 10% of the total due. Then, just offer a realistic payment plan. $25/year in cash from an elderly migrant farmworker who only gets work a few weeks a year and is facing a full coronary ER, ICU and hospital huge bill? OK, approved! Seen that happen. The medical billing folks just don't want a stone cold dead debt on their books.
Many medical bills can also be reduced 30% if paid in full in cash or check within 30 days especially if no medical insurers are involved. Plus, new US federal laws in 2021 and 2022 require more transparency on many medical services so some consumers can shop a bit better for prices such as out-patient tests.
If anyone needs to hear something positive about Stanford after my rant above, I suggest reading or listening to professors Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and PhD-classicist Victor Davis Hanson such as here for audio, video and transcripts:
https://www.hoover.org/publications/uncommon-knowledge
W.R.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-29 07:56 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing your experience!
I see the same where I live in The Netherlands, Europe. Nurses complain about reduced hours, increased administrative load, fewer colleagues, reduced time per patient, reduced opportunities. The worst is the schedule uncertainty: they learn only days before when they are allowed to work. Not knowing your hours is very hard to combine with raising children. Interestingly there was an increase in all of these factors early 2020.
Those who get rich in software tend to have no software skills whatsoever. They can't retrieve a row from a database, open a file, or commit to source control. Their idea of how working software is born is not even right or wrong, it's an unrelated mental spectacle. Technical skills are not substantive to success.
If you visit a university city in Asia, you will find skilled mathematicians who live in relative poverty. Their skills are far beyond what goes for mathematics in Western universities. I think this disparity is relatively young. I examined some Dutch exams from the 1950s, and back then our universities were much more selective than they are now.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-29 12:31 pm (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-06-30 04:51 am (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-01 07:52 am (UTC)In my family, if any of us are in a hospital as a patient unable to stand up and roll an IV stand to a nurses' station, that patient should have an advocate 24/7 bedside. It's saved two members of my family from dying in minutes after being grossly overdosed. Once due to a ward change and medications' computer entry error by a very tired nurse on a Thanksgiving weekend, the other by a unqualified ER "maintenance crew" resident proscribing a lethal dose of Fentanyl, more than the amount to stop a heart to hook up a heart-lung machine in an operating room and, oh yeah, proscribed and administered only because that "senior" resident did not want to bother to call in a geriatric care resident with the computer codes to proscribe a slightly more expensive medicIne that was already proven to work great for that patient.
Then, the Stanford Hospital's overworked "pain team" doing patient ward corridors fast walk-by's rarely entering patients' rooms. After a one hour telephone conversation with one team leader after midnight to get more effective pain meds for a patient stuck in ICU (thanks to her heart being stopped in the ER), after I'd done my own research and thus got the order for patient's first ever dose of CBD oil which I suggested to the groggy pain team leader after nothing else used had truly worked. It worked like a charm. In less than 15 minutes the patient had no pain an fell into a deep REM sleep. How the ICU nurse giggled when she opened the blister package and the whole room instantly smelled of hemp. She'd never dispensed it before in her entire nursing career.
I know a lot of nurses who have that same practice of 24/7 advocacy for their close friends and family because innocent mistakes will happen at every hospital, ever more mistakes or less than ideal care when staff are overworked or hog-tied to a computer list of The Pre-Approved Treatments. The extra pair of eyes and hands of the "visitor" are there to support the patient and the medical staff, too. Often all that's needed is just a nearby set of kind hands to smooth sheets, get fresh water, or give foot rubs - simple tasks hospital nurses rarely have time to do. Glad to see many of the new patient rooms at Stanford have sofa-beds for visitors - a very good start for better patient care.
W.R.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-01 04:10 pm (UTC)One family member in particular has to have a power-of-attorney-equipped bodyguard every time he's in a hospital (and that's been frequent!), because somewhere in the bowels of his medical records, it notes that he was once on seizure meds. It does not note that the side-effects of those meds were so awful he'd rather die than go back on them, because the doc who helped him wean off them would not (could not) go on record for that, it was so risky, and also doesn't note that he has recovered from the injury that caused the seizures, and no longer needs them. So every. dang. time. he ends up in a hospital, some fracking neurologist gets called in because of that decades-old record, and they try to put him back on the meds. The family has nearly come to blows with hospital staff over it, and on at least one occasion has had to call in a pastor and a lawyer as reinforcements. Totally, completely bonkers. These are not people who believe in informed consent or patient agency.
And that's before you even get to actually *innocent* mistakes...
Nearly lost a very young relative after a totally routine tonsillectomy, because they prescribed an adult dose of opiate painkiller to a six-year-old. Same would have happened to another child in the family if the parent hadn't opened the bottle at the pharmacy, looked at the pills, and been like: are you sure these are right? I don't think the kid can swallow anything that big... Always check, double-check, triple-check. This is the internet age-- you can look up the medication and verify that the pills are the right color, shape, size, and dosage for the patient's weight.
And don't go to hospitals alone if you can help it. If you don't have a team, now's a good time to set one up!
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-01 04:25 pm (UTC)This is probably under-reported as well for very few hospital deaths are blatantly obvious medical errors - after all the person is in hospital for another malady and the hospital certainly doesn't want to admit its negligence.
Post plandemic, I wouldn't be surprised if 'medical errors' jumps a spot or two upwards when you include the vex effects.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-01 07:21 pm (UTC)The USA system has already run down the statute of limitations clock on malpractice on many of the bat flu "assisted suicides" by intubation and use of deadly drugs like remdesivir 2020 - 2022.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-02 03:08 am (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-03 05:44 am (UTC)Absolutely do not trust your loved ones to those who clock in and out for a paycheck.
Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-04 12:06 pm (UTC)Re: The Good and the Ungood
Date: 2023-07-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-27 08:15 pm (UTC)Well, I have seen masks (here and there) be wearing by the Fauci 'sect'. And not those over the nose tied things that hang as loose, but the actual (cheap) ones. They still do as much as they always did. That is to say - nothing. But, I guess people can feel good about themselves...
Covid remains that something mark pointing me to - the exit from what good people are supposed to do - regardless of whether it makes any sense or not. And - still, I very much doubt the bug has personally visited me. And to think - I didn't even that one of the shots! Oh, well.
Looking around - it's a good time to check out of the usual options we are all supposed to do. For me - what little is left of me and standard organized religion is done. Frankly, what a bore. Regardless of the left or right versions being put out for public use. Thanks - but, check please.
I have made the decision to begin over the next several months the first grade of OBOD. It's time.
-Dav
Convoys
Date: 2023-06-27 08:31 pm (UTC)Re: Convoys
Date: 2023-06-28 11:42 am (UTC)Re: Convoys
Date: 2023-06-28 04:31 pm (UTC)"Folks, we need to do something that gets the attention of people in USA and Canada."
"The biggest recent event US politicians have been talking about for 3 years was an armed insurrection in DC."
"The biggest recent event Canadians are talking about was the trucker's march to Ottawa."
"Let us combine them and do a armed trucker's march to Moscow."
Priggy called the scriptwriters at his troll factory to get the script written.
Re: Convoys
Date: 2023-06-28 07:35 pm (UTC)Best explanation so far! Thanks for this!
Re: Convoys
Date: 2023-06-29 09:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-27 08:43 pm (UTC)https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hundreds-of-canadian-military-members-file-500-million-lawsuit-over-covid-jab-mandates/?utm_source=featured-news
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Date: 2023-06-28 01:03 am (UTC)Meanwhile, I heard today that Warrant Officer (Ret'd) James Topp -- the old soldier who walked across Canada last year in protest of the issue that this lawsuit covers -- is doing well, but is preparing for his court martial that is scheduled for September this year. No doubt he is using the same hyper-focused energy that he used last year for walking 50 km a day, every day, regardless of the weather. BTW, June 30 will be the first anniversary of James's arrival to the Cenotaph in Ottawa's centre. Veterans and other freedom-oriented peoples plan on honouring the day, and the cause which propelled James, at cenotaphs in cities throughout Canada this Friday.
Honk honk!
Ron M
Dr. D Martin in EU Parlament
Date: 2023-06-27 10:11 pm (UTC)Dr. David Martin Speaks to The European Parliament and it appears that the room is not empty! “C... Is Genocide - A Biological Warfare Crime”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaD8qEWJglY
vandy
Turbocancer
Date: 2023-06-27 10:35 pm (UTC)While there are definitely genetic factors at play on that side of the family, the speed with which it went from diagnosis of breast cancer (a couple of months ago) to "it's in your liver and you're going to die" (today) makes me think turbocancer. Which makes me think v induced, or at least helped along.
I am exhausted and angry and horrified and depressed. Again. Still. Forever now?
Re: Turbocancer
Date: 2023-06-28 06:09 am (UTC)Re: Turbocancer
Date: 2023-06-29 08:00 pm (UTC)Re: Turbocancer
Date: 2023-07-04 01:14 am (UTC)Re: Turbocancer
Date: 2023-07-01 04:31 pm (UTC)Re: Turbocancer
Date: 2023-07-03 11:05 am (UTC)https://mycancerstory.rocks/
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Date: 2023-06-27 10:40 pm (UTC)Britain must prepare for harder lockdowns, says Matt Hancock
Health secretary at time Covid hit admits the Government's pandemic strategy was 'woefully inadequate'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/27/britain-harder-lockdowns-covid-inquiry-matt-hancock/
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Date: 2023-06-29 06:26 pm (UTC)Asking for a friend.
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Date: 2023-06-29 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-07-01 02:47 pm (UTC)Deagel ‘Depopulation’ Website Debunked
Date: 2023-06-28 12:50 am (UTC)Trozzi’s video apology is here: https://drtrozzi.org/2023/06/26/retraction-of-massive-military-global-depopulation/
Looks like the grain of salt that I had advised last week when sharing this information has come in handy. One of the challenges we face is information bombardment: there simply is not enough time to independently verify everything of interest that is reported. And there are parties out there who are more than happy to ‘lead us down the garden path’.
Take care, all!
Ron M
Re: Deagel ‘Depopulation’ Website Debunked
Date: 2023-06-28 04:19 am (UTC)Death stats at the ABS here: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release
"There were 14,578 deaths in March, 11.3% more than the baseline average but 1.0% less than March 2022"
2022 overall death rate was ~16.6% above baseline = ~23,000 excess deaths, or put another way 1 in 7 deaths was 'excess' in 2022 after the jab and booster campaigns. Govt claims ~96% of the population have 2 shots.
Those excess deaths remain a mystery, but no investigation is required.
The ABS says: "World Health Organization called an end to the emergency phase of the pandemic in May 2023." and stats will be less frequent from now on, next release July 2023.
Also: "There were 190,775 deaths which occurred in 2022. This is significantly higher than usual and is not considered to be a typical year for mortality in Australia. Therefore 2022 has not been included in the baseline average and is instead presented separately in graphs and tables. The baseline average presented in this report remains as the average of the years 2017-19 and 2021. 2020 is not included in the baseline for 2022 data because it included periods where numbers of deaths were significantly lower than expected and is similarly not considered to be a typical year for mortality in Australia."
Hmmm . . .2020 was the peak year of the (propaganda) pandemic, but deaths were lower . . . interesting.
Re: Deagel ‘Depopulation’ Website Debunked
Date: 2023-06-29 03:31 am (UTC)Martin F
Re: Deagel ‘Depopulation’ Website Debunked
Date: 2023-06-29 12:33 pm (UTC)Re: Deagel ‘Depopulation’ Website Debunked
Date: 2023-06-28 03:12 pm (UTC)https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2020/12/world-satanic-society-2020-year-end.html?m=1#more
Funny read now in light of our twists and turns since early 2021.
Chlorine Dioxide
Date: 2023-06-28 01:09 am (UTC)Mike Adams talks about it here: https://www.brighteon.com/d8c991fd-994e-4d0c-b41f-27981e4a23d6
You can choose a video or audio stream, I usually use audio after downloading (available under "more options").
Chlorine Dioxide starts at 25:47. Lots of prepper-style stuff before and after.
Usual medical disclaimers apply, consult your doctor etc.
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Date: 2023-06-28 01:50 am (UTC)https://brownstone.org/articles/pandemic-leaders-were-biodefense-puppets-and-profiteers/
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Date: 2023-06-28 02:51 am (UTC)https://waikanaewatch.org/2022/01/11/banksy-the-great-resist/
However, note that the ventilation grille in the linked image does not appear in JMG's copy above.
Banksy might have made more than one copy or...
- Cicada Grove
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Date: 2023-06-28 06:36 am (UTC)Well, what's occurred to me is that this may very well help explain what happened in 2020. It wasn't a sudden shift: the rhetoric around vaccination was always problematic, but it started getting really weird in the time around when Trump was elected. Things got extremely messy in 2020, but there was a very, very strange shift in late 2020 and early 2021, when the vaccines were first brought to market. It was as if millions of people suddenly lost the ability to think clearly about vaccination; and could only see them as positive no matter how many people died from them. Meanwhile, a huge number of people who previously strongly supported vaccination, suddenly had insight along the lines of "This vaccine is going to be very dangerous; I'd better not take it." I'm one of them: things suddenly fell in place, I suddenly found myself with a whole lot of understanding and insight; but this always felt very odd to me.
Well, this matches what you said you'd expect if both of those intentions were to have been activated; and we also know, courtesy of the person who brought the old Magic Monday questions about workings to kill people who support Trump, that some people in the alt-right occultist scene had absolutely no problem with doing magic to try to kill the Magic Resistance, so it seems uncomfortably plausible to me that this working may have been given that kind of attention...
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Date: 2023-06-28 11:54 pm (UTC)My brother, otoh, definitely fell into a mild "well anti vaxxers are kinda dumb" in real life, like he believed "the science" about all of this. He's the only one in my family who got the covid shot, and he regretted it afterwards as more came out about how it was made, and a lot of other stuff. We have not talked about this a lot. I have to say we don't tend to align politically, and he's far more right wing than I am. I am left, sometimes middle, he's right, sometimes middle. Anyway. I was fine with masks and some of the pandemic measures (though in retrospect it seems many weren't as well planned and effective as they claimed), but I was absolutely immune to anything vaxx-pushing and I think the phrase "vaccine hesitant" was such a mind fuck to push onto people who were not hesitant - they were saying NO.
I saw something online about how technology keeps trying to remove "no" from us. We don't want to sign up for this or that - there's no "no" it's just Yes or Maybe Later. In many areas, this just being one. That's how it felt with the vaxx shit. They wouldn't believe that No Means No. My body, my choice - I don't want that in me.
In my area, there were frankly rather offensive billboards with lots of mexican-american families, bland statements about "hesitancy" and "getting the facts" and stuff about protecting your loved ones, helping them "understand" why they needed it. I don't know if the latino community was particularly "hesitant" here or if that was just their way of trying to make people look down on the "hesitant" or what. It just felt like really dumb propaganda nobody would believe. The subtext was pretty clearly "dumb minorities need educated." I'm sorry, but it was really gross.
It almost seems to me like everyone had their mind made up about vaccines before it all happened. Like completely made up already! It's so weird to me. I very clearly remember when we were all focused on lockdowns and people were still saying we just needed a bit longer to flatten the curve - all these posts about how great it would be, how they hoped for a vaccine soon, so that the lockdowns could all end. What a wonderful thing it would be, when this savior of a vaccine would arrive and free us all!
I just remember thinking it was weird everyone was so obsessed with vaccines before they were even on the horizon, instead of continuing to talk about how to prevent or cure this problem.
Borders should have been shut far sooner than they were. Not that I think that would have stopped it. But it might have slowed the spread more than any of the draconian measures. The flights around the world were really not cracked down on as any sane measure of safety could have recommended by a working government. I don't remember if any country did actually bother trying to close their borders for international flights to slow the spread, but ours sure fucked that one up for far too long.
Then the things like suppressing information about how to best fight off the disease, or keep yourself from getting it, even really basic things like vitamin D levels just weren't disseminated to the public and were sometimes even suppressed, much less more "controversial" treatments (such as not putting people on respirators).
I was super disappointed in the left wing crowd about this, but I saw a lot of bad actors in the right wing arena, too. Nobody in politics really gets a pass from me on this whole messy event.
I am now at the point where hearing about sudden deaths and shocking diagnoses and "weird" health events leads me to the sort of silence I've long held about the whole "anti vaxx" issue. Like I'm not going to bring it up, I'm not going to argue, I'm not going to challenge your worldview. Believe what you want. But I'm not shocked when people who've been vaxxed are dealing with more of this than most.
People who didn't / don't take this sickness seriously are playing with fire, IMO. It definitely hurt me and people I love. It left a lot of people weakened and with complicated. But none of them as bad as the vaxx, and no matter how bad this sickness has been to so many, I don't think the actions for pushing the vax on people was justified. And I think it would have been morally wrong even if it did what they said. If it was world saving and magical, and cured all the world's ills, it would still be wrong to use coercion to make people take it.
There is blood on many hands because of this, and i shudder to think how it will play out as the damage continues to unfold. I feel this is the thing now that we as a society can't talk about. The big unspoken THING. Who's next? Who got it? What will happen to us all, if they can do all of this to us, is there any hope at all? I think a lot of people can't even think this in their own minds. It's just there, in the subconscious, driving them slowly mad. I hate that for them. I don't wish harm on the antivaxxers who wished harm on me. I think they were duped and fell for it. There but for the grace of god, you know?
Sometimes a real reckoning never comes. It just gets buried and poisons a society. I think there's a lot of that in America. I think there might be more to come. Would love to be wrong about that! Would love to see some actual justice and a clearing of this miasma of evil we all live in.
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Date: 2023-06-29 12:17 pm (UTC)Vaccines have been some sort of sacred cow for many years (if not decades) now. We've had threads here about it before. I've mentioned how deeply weird it is that it's still possible to have rational conversations about other medical interventions, of the "yes they have their place but they do have risks and get over-used variety," but the second you suggest that vaccines have the same risk-benefit considerations as other medical interventions, one size does not fit all, just because a little might be good doesn't mean more is better, and there is likely a profit motive behind all the vax-pushing and the explosion of the childhood schedule, all of a sudden previously reasonable-seeming people will go full head-swiveling-360-degrees dead-eyed bat-shale bonkers and start shrieking pro-vax mantras like they're possessed by demons (maybe they are, at this point I can't rule anything out).
Somewhere, somehow, vaccination became a marker of an in-group belief system among certain groups of people. The Good People, the Smart and Educated ones, all KNOW that Vaccines Save Live, Vaccines Are Safe And Effective, Get Your Vaccines!, and that people who are "vaccine-hesitant" need to be Educated (coerced) into getting them (ALL of them), and anyone who questions this program is a stupid, ignorant, uneducated, misinformed, potentially dangerous "anti-vaxxer" moron, and clearly Not One Of Us, Dear.
The fact that this particular medical intervention has achieved this status is just....bizarre, to say the least. I've been watching it and puzzling over it for a good 20 years now. Seems like it just keeps getting more extreme.
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Date: 2023-06-29 08:20 pm (UTC)If you're old enough, you might remember that as late as the 80s, smoking was still pretty normal in the US. There were still matchbooks and ashtrays on restaurant tables. Then there was an absolutely massive campaign to get people to stop smoking-- I think it may have started in the 90s, but I was a kid then and it wasn't really on my radar. It went into super high gear in the early 2000s, when they were pushing legislation to ban public indoor smoking. Ultimately, I think the legislation was needed, but the campaign around it was completely psychotic-- when educating the public didn't get the desired results, they switched to demonizing, social pressure, early-internet-prototypes of paid media trolling... It was the first time in my adult life I'd really *noticed* propaganda, and AFAICT, it was the first such campaign that was conducted in the internet era, using "social influencer" strategies and troll farms. It's become a template for internet-based propaganda/social campaigns, though they have exciting new tools now-- automated keyword censoring, botnets, that sort of thing.
There's been a similar campaign against "antivaxxers", and it has worked. It has been a bit slower and lower-key, and the pieces of legislation attached to it have mostly failed... but it's there. The paid online social-media trolls/influencers, the spokesdoctors pretending they aren't being paid by drug companies, TV news talking points...
I've seen other smaller, more targeted campaigns around breastfeeding and home/natural childbirth. At that level, there are probably a lot more campaigns going on, and those are just the ones that crossed my radar, because they happened while I was new to motherhood, and still reading in the "mommy sphere". The common thread to all of those things is: if it advocates doing things naturally, and buying fewer commercial products, it's ruthlessly attacked on multiple fronts, with the goal of making anyone advocating such things a guilt-ridden pariah.
To anyone paying attention, the CVAX campaign looked familiar. Same template, same actors, but with more resources backing it, supposedly neutral platforms censoring unapproved info and dissident users, and the volume turned up to deafening.
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Date: 2023-06-30 12:02 am (UTC)hereticsskeptics. Someone asked me the other day if I'd thought about increasing the site's visibility on search engines. I replied that basically I didn't think it would be worth the effort-- all relevant keywords would just get us sunk to the bottom of any search results. And likely draw unwelcome attention somehow.It feels like electronic samizdat. Or a website speakeasy, hidden in plain sight. If you really want to, you'll find us. That resembles my approach to the topic with anybody I don't know well. Ask me, and I have tons of info and suggestions. But my lips are sealed unless you ask.
(It's unfortunately that way with my spouse, as well.)
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Date: 2023-07-03 01:29 pm (UTC)I did this research as a smoker whose eyes were opened by a surgeon friend who told me that there's no difference between the smoker's lung and the non smoker's lung except for, maybe, a slightly thicker mucus, and that smoker's were much less likely to develop cancer from Asbestos for example.
At that time I knew that smoking helps keeping my genetically messed up blood pressure in check I unwittingly performed an experiment on myself by quitting smoking for 2 years and developing familial insane blood pressure problems, then smoking again then quitting smoking for 6 months...the result was that I simply smoke 10 cigarettes a day since I consider this more healthy than taking a handful of pills that work sometimes.
But to my point and the rabbit hole that I entered.
Unfortunately majority of my research is no longer accessible because the links to it went dark. Nowadays with the search engines finding anything on my research seems impossible. This one survived but I don't know for how long:
https://www.sott.net/article/338885-A-comprehensive-review-of-the-many-health-benefits-of-smoking-Tobacco#
The anti-tobbaco propaganda did not start in the 80's it started in the 50's.
The governments of the West poured money into research that could explain the cancer epidemic (as they called it). This in itself is interesting because no such epidemic existed at the time.
At first both, alcohol and tobacco were targeted but alcohol was dropped pretty fast (I have my theories as to why).
The first big study on tobacco and it's correlation to lung cancer was 1950 Wynder and Graham Study which was just...bad.
But it's accepted as a great first step.
There were some links pointing out that the study was so bad it was ignored by the community and it was understood that the government funding it had more to do with the result than anything else.
But this study paved a way to even more bad studies. To date we don't have 1 experiment showing causation ie. The cigarette smoke or tar actually causing cancer of any type.
It's not for the lack of trying.
Instead we now are dealing with an epidemic of lung cancers in women that were never affected by smoke, not even as children. The epidemic skews the regular ratio of the men/women lung cancer very hard and the Science TM cannot explain it with cigarette smoke although they are trying.
The rabid anti-tobbacco propaganda in my opinion serves a purpose of obscuring something else that's causing the cancers.
It may be a vaccine or one of them. Or it may be a simple fact that at the same time that the government got very interested in the research they also started "mass" nuclear tests. I don't think we will ever know for sure but at this time the propaganda is so ingrained that the tobacco is doomed in my opinion so the possible positive health effects may never be known.
Epidemiological studies show over and over again that rhe smoker cohort has a significantly lower blood pressure than the non-smoker cohort.
But I was told that if I start smoking again my blood pressure that the "modern" medicine cannot and will not help, will go up.
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Date: 2023-06-29 12:47 pm (UTC)Yes, totally agree. I found that kind of propaganda extremely stupid, arrogant, and offensive.
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Date: 2023-06-29 10:43 pm (UTC)Why?
Because I live in what was apparently identified as a "low uptake community,"* and the county government, in all their magnanimity, had decided that communities like ours were lacking in things like Information and Education about Salvation through the Miracle of Science. So they pulled lists of people who weren't on record as having participated in Vaxmass, and sent out missionaries in Holy Regalia (masks, badges) to "educate" us. The first time they showed up I didn't realize what was going on until after I had confirmed my identity, but before informing the missionary that my religious practices were none of her business. The second time I just asked if they had a warrant.
The whole thing was unbelievably stupid, arrogant, and offensive.
*"Low uptake community" is bureaucrat speak for "neighborhood full of dirty working class, poor, immigrant, and/or dark-skinned people who don't rush right out to obey when their betters tell them what to do."
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Date: 2023-06-29 12:48 pm (UTC)Thank you for pointing this out. I have noticed it, and it annoys me, but have not brought it into the light and articulated it yet, and it needed saying out loud.
I hate it. Do you want to upgrade to more expensive service? (hell no) yes/maybelater. Do you want to give us your phone number? (hell no) yes/maybelater. "Maybe later" is permission to keep nagging you about it until you either give in, or accidentally click the wrong button and then have to climb the glassy hill of inhuman "customer support" to undo it. They're counting on people being willing to pay extra for a service they don't need/want, rather than have to spend hours navigating the deliberate maze that is trying to reach a human being at the company who can fix it.
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Date: 2023-06-28 01:36 pm (UTC)Dear JMG and forumistas,
Thank you, thank you, and thank you again.
Cetiosuarus
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Date: 2023-06-28 04:23 pm (UTC)I'm not sure how much wiser I'm feeling, though I'm pretty good at misplaced arrogance spotting these days!
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Date: 2023-06-29 12:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-07-01 05:34 pm (UTC)Abusive relationships
Date: 2023-06-28 02:29 pm (UTC)15 Signs That You Might Be In An Abusive Relationship...
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/15-signs-that-you-might-be-in-an?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=602373&post_id=131660899&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Myriam
Re: Abusive relationships
Date: 2023-06-29 03:01 am (UTC)https://www.thewmhi.com/download-mental-health-resources/
Martin F
Re: Abusive relationships
Date: 2023-06-29 03:37 am (UTC)https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-abusive-relationships
Martin F
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Date: 2023-06-28 05:56 pm (UTC)Will we get to 200? 1,000?
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Date: 2023-06-28 09:39 pm (UTC)Like, are people going to start waking up to what's going on? Why isn't this issue getting More popular instead of less?
I just don't understand why this isn't getting more talked about across the world when millions upon millions might be dying soon. Potentially billions.
Also, I want to thank you for recommending the book "When Prophecy Fails" many years back. It's been really enlightening to what's been going on.
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Date: 2023-06-29 05:03 pm (UTC)Kind regards
Sean
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Date: 2023-06-29 12:49 pm (UTC)flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 06:43 pm (UTC)A data point is that in October of 2019 my college student offspring became very sick, and it was long lasting, a few weeks later when my offspring came to visit me, I caught it, this is November 2019. For what we knew of typical virus this should have been past the window of being contagious when off spring gave it to me. Offspring was a student at UC Davis in CA, so between SF and Sacramento, students started back in general end of September and came to campus from all over the world and states.
I had thought for a while that it was "early COVID" that we had. But, offspring has told me that in early COVID, when the Red Cross was desperate for blood donations, and the public was leery of contaminated blood supplies. that offspring donated blood to the Red Cross and the Red Cross did a blood test on it and reported back to offspring that there were no antibodies to COVID in offsprings blood. So, it was not COVID. Offspring has finally convinced me of that.
Whatever it was, it was very nasty. That November 2019 illness is the sickest I can remember being. I finally had an "official" case of COVID a few months ago, January 2023 which was so much milder than whatever I had in Nov. 2019. The case my offspring had was even worse. Not only was offspring very ill Oct 2019, but has had symptoms and health reprocusions for years after, still lingering health issues. By spring 2020 offspring had to go to the ER twice with bad respiratory issues, couldn't breathe, had to be taken out of class to the ER, was diagnoses with asthma, although before that time had never in life had an asthma symptom ( there is asthma in the immediate family though, just had never expressed in that offspring). The COVID PCR tests were negative. The doctors had offspring use multiple daily steroidal inhaler of whatever usual type they do for a couple years, offspring is finally off that, still gets sick easier and tires much easier than mid 20's otherwise healthy, athletic, fit young people are expected to do.
So, I wonder that there may have been more than one illness going around. And we have it all mixed together so don't know.
Atmospheric River
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 08:41 pm (UTC)I also lost my sense of smell for two weeks, couldn't even smell peppermint tea. It became my daily ritual to stick my nose into that glass with dried peppermint leaves to see if it had returned. For a while I was worried I'd never get that sense back - I felt crippled, as if I had lost my sight or hearing.
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 09:41 pm (UTC)A more basic issue is that nobody can say whether the genetic material it is testing for is actually from a virus called sars-cov2 or not. Nobody has actually seen one of those viruses - they are purely hypothetical based on computer modeling (and yes, I know that is standard practice in virology, but that doesn't make it any better). And the sequence for the original test was extracted from something coughed up by a pneumonia patient in Wuhan, which likely contained biological material from a variety of unknown sources.
Another issue, of course, is that the tests have never been validated. Typically, you would want to compare the results of a test like this to some other test to see how reliable it is. In this case, the thing to do would be to compare PCR test results to clinical diagnoses in the same patients to see if they match up. Problem is, there is no clinical diagnosis for covid. The PCR test (and now its cousins the antibody and antigen tests) is the one and only diagnostic criteria for covid, which means there is no independently verifiable criteria by which it could be validated.
So the fact that your test is positive or negative doesn't mean anything - except perhaps meaning that your doctor is being lazy and relying on a lab test instead of actually looking at your symptoms and history.
Whether or not there actually ever was a new disease called covid is perhaps an open question. But all of the "covid cases" in the last three years, without a doubt, included grab-bag of various colds and flus and who-knows what else that were misdiagnosed on the basis of meaningless lab tests.
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 10:10 pm (UTC)https://www.eugyppius.com/p/covid-suppressed-influenza-during
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Covid suppressed influenza during the first years of the pandemic. This isn't a testing artefact, it's not a win for lockdowns and it doesn't make SARS-2 a special flu-eating supervirus
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The flu was substantially suppressed across much of the world for the first two years of the Covid pandemic.
Many, many people disagree with me on this point, more than ever before. While I’m generally happy to let ideas I think are wrong persist alongside my own point of view, this is an exception, because it touches on the phenomenon of viral interference, which is very real and very important.
Properly understood, viral interference calls into question the entire rationale for non-pharmaceutical interventions to slow the transmission of viruses, and suggests that mass vaccination against old endemic pathogens like influenza is a very bad idea – even in a fantasy world where those vaccines are absolutely safe, and especially if they’re in any way effective.
I want to be as clear about this as I can, so I’ll pull a Pueyo and tell you what I’m about to say before I say it:
I’m going to explain how we know influenza infections were heavily suppressed, especially in the first year of the Covid pandemic, from data that has nothing – zero – to do with mass pandemic testing.
I’m going to explain why viral interference is such a conceptual problem, and how it becomes easier to understand if we drop one of the core assumptions of epidemiology.
Finally, I’m going to suggest that ordinary endemic viruses are an important defence against potentially dangerous novel pathogens.
This is not a post about mass PCR testing and its reliability. Even without mass testing data, we have good reason to conclude that Covid coincided with the widespread suppression of influenza.
That said, it’s very important to acknowledge that influenza testing changed drastically after March 2020. Equally important is the fact that influenza was never diagnosed via mass PCR testing, as Covid was, and this makes it easy to get lost in meaningless apples-to-oranges comparisons. Furthermore, there is no denying that the raw number of flu tests fell nearly to zero for the entire space of the pandemic period. Finally, there existed in most jurisdictions considerable financial incentives for diagnosing Covid infection in as many patients as possible, especially when those patients died.
These points raise grave questions about the integrity of our pandemic-era influenza data, but they don’t make a positive case in either direction. In what follows, and for the sake of argument, I’ll assume that ordinary diagnostic influenza testing ceased the world over on 1 March 2020. I’ll assume that the WHO FluNet statistics and CDC numbers are hopelessly confounded.
Evidence for influenza suppression after 2020
I’ve made my case for what happened to influenza during the pandemic multiple times, and I suspect that none of you want me to rehearse that in detail ever again. If you are, however, interested in links to the data and closer discussion, please see this piece on the Mysterious Disappearance of Influenza and this piece on the phenomenon of viral interference.
Here I’ll simply spell out the main points. There are four of them:
1) Various jurisdictions have small self-contained influenza surveillance programmes. Mass Covid PCR insanity did not affect these programmes. In Germany, participating sentinel clinics swab patients with respiratory symptoms and send these swabs to a testing centre. During the pandemic, they tested each of these swabs for each of seven viruses: rhinoviruses, ordinary human-infecting coronaviruses, influenza, RSV, parainfluenza, human metapneumovirus and SARS-2. They’ve been doing this for a long time, yielding a wealth of data going back years about the seasonal patterns of the endemic viruses we live with. And this is the key point: After March 2020, influenza disappears entirely from German sentinel clinic swabs. Other viruses are heavily suppressed but not totally gone; only rhinoviruses seem unaffected.
2) The behaviour of influenza, at the population-level, is seasonally distinct. In most places, flu infections peak in February or March. Rhinoviruses, by contrast, are most active in the fall and the spring, and other respiratory viruses are most prevalent around the winter solstice in late December. If influenza were merely rebranded as Covid or overlooked by the pandemic-era testing regime, we’d expect fever gauges like Grippe Web1 to show the usual double-peak of virus respiratory systems, with one peak for the solstice viruses in December and another peak for flu after January. We don’t see that. For the crucial 2020/21 season, the post-January influenza peak is totally missing, and the solstice peak is anomalously low, in fact barely perceptible. This data is independent of all virus testing.
Acute respiratory illnesses (ARE) by year. In green, I’ve circled the expected yet totally missing February/March 2021 flu peak.
3) Very much in contrast to Covid and the other common respiratory viruses save RSV, influenza causes a small yet nontrivial number of hospitalisations and deaths in very young children. If flu were overlooked or rebranded as Covid during the pandemic, we’d expect to see the usual flu-related February/March hospitalisations and deaths in this age cohort, but we don’t. They’re totally missing. This is another data point totally independent of mass testing.
4) Viral interference is very real, and it has been observed for a long time. Some of the most convincing data emerges from studies of the 2009 Swine Flu. In this over-hyped “pandemic,” a new H1N1 flu strain spread across the globe, causing mild symptoms in most everyone. For humans, it was a nothinburger, but for the world of viruses, it was very disruptive, because viruses don’t have to be extra special or especially dangerous to upset the viral ecosystem. Ordinary human-infecting coronaviruses were heavily suppressed across the entire 2009/10 season. Almost nobody locked down for the Swine Flu, there was no mass PCR insanity, and yet multiple studies attest to a clear interference effect.
How viral interference probably works and why standard epidemiological assumptions are wrong
Viral interference does not – cannot – involve the direct competition of viruses within the same host. Only a small minority of the population (generally 2-10%) suffers symptomatic respiratory virus infection at any given time. Many influenza-shedding hosts will never encounter a single SARS-2-shedding host for the duration of their symptoms. And yet, viral interference happens.
What is going on?
Here it will help to consider all the other phenomena we’ve been treated to since 2020 that the virus understanders are equally powerless to explain:
How is it that waves of infection generally collapse of their own accord, well before burning through the entire population?
Why were non-pharmaceutical interventions, especially lockdowns, so powerless to do anything about Covid mortality?
And, above all, why were the virus models so invariably, irretrievably wrong all the time?
We are labouring under a serious error, and that error is to be sought somewhere in the SIR model of virus transmission. In the deceptively logical, simple world of SIR (which underpins not merely virus computer modelling but much epidemiological thought) immunologically naive people are held to be Susceptible until they encounter the virus. They are then Infected, after which they either die or Recover and are immune.
This model is particularly attractive to the vaccinators of the world, who believe that they can snatch people out of the Susceptible pool by jabbing them, and drop them into the Recovered/Vaccinated column, thereby skipping the dreaded Infected part.
Well, dear readers, we have endured an unprecedented exercise in mass vaccination. It had many effects on virus transmission, but none of it looked like SIR told us it would. Many theories are possible, but anyone who seriously attempts to understand how viruses actually behave must sooner or later throw SIR into the trash.
R. Edgar Hope Simpson, in trying to account for the many oddities of influenza transmission, effectively located the error of SIR in its overly simplistic conception of what it means to be Infected and Recovered.
As for Covid, SIR looks to be entirely too simplistic in its conception of the Susceptible. An ordinary population not subject to a multi-year Chinese hygiene regime has substantial resistance to viral infection in general. Scroll up and look at the German fever-gauge data once more. Note how, across the entire German population, symptomatic infections seem to have serious trouble breaching the 10% threshold. Whenever they scrape it, a collapse is imminent.
Here’s how I read that: Innate immune defences are powerful, and they make a solid majority of everybody invulnerable to respiratory virus infection at any given time. Viruses don’t have free run of the entire uninfected population; only a small minority of respiratory tracts are open to them. That Susceptible minority waxes and wanes with the seasons. In the summer, it’s very small indeed, and many viruses drop to nearly undetectable levels. In the winter, the number of Susceptible increases substantially.
We have a good explanation of viral interference, if we posit that prior infection with one respiratory virus knocks the recovered person out of the Susceptible column for many other viruses. Interferon is one likely mechanism here, but there are probably others. If you’re in the minority 5% susceptible and you get influenza, you’re most likely invulnerable to Covid for a while afterwards, and vice versa.
Once we revise our conception of who is susceptible, a lot of things come into focus. We wasted much effort locking down and vaccinating people who were invulnerable to infection in any case. This was entirely useless if not actively harmful, because Covid vaccination, it turns out, does not necessarily take you out of the susceptible column. On the contrary, it has bizarre and unexpected effects on virus susceptibility, often increasing it both in the near- and longer-term. Infection waves collapse well before they burn through the whole population because only a minority of people are susceptible at any given time. Models are wrong because they drastically overestimate susceptibility.
SIR, on closer consideration, is not an empirical attempt to understand virus transmission at all. Instead, it’s a heavily politicised paradigm, useful for exaggerating the threat of respiratory pathogens and justifying technocratic public health interventions like mass vaccination. It persists not because it’s right, but because it’s useful.
Ordinary endemic viruses are a defence against novel pathogens and lockdowns are very bad
The problem isn’t that lockdowns do nothing. It’s that they’re just effective enough to be dangerous. Endemic viruses that have been around forever face the standard constraints of seasonality and the drastic limitations our innate immune systems place on susceptibility, but they’re also boxed in by adaptive immunity. They face antibodies everywhere because they’ve been infecting billions of people since childhood. A newer pathogen, like SARS-2, faces fewer adaptive immune constraints.
All-cause mortality in England. The red line indicates the beginning of serious pandemic restrictions.
When you lock down and put hand sanitiser on every corner, it’s the old endemic viruses that take the hit first. In preventing these infections, you effectively reserve precious susceptible respiratory tracts for the somewhat faster novel virus. We know that SARS-2 was circulating widely as early as Fall 2019, and yet it only coincided with serious mortality as influenza infections collapsed in the course of February and March.
All-cause mortality in Italy. Red line: advent of the first serious lockdowns in the hardest-hit northern regions.
The chronology suggests that influenza, already at the end of its season, was being out-competed in many places by Covid as early as February. Lockdowns are far from the only factor in play here, but everywhere the story is the same: Collapsing influenza is a precondition for pandemic mortality.
All-cause mortality in Spain. Red line: advent of the first serious pandemic restrictions.
Influenza is far from the only virus with which SARS-2 competes. It’s almost surely no accident that SARS-2 was at its deadliest in heavily restricted care home environments. These were spaces in which a draconian hygiene interventions spared SARS-2 all competition. Compare the case of the Diamond Princess, where Covid also had access to a lot of old people but could rack up very few deaths, no doubt because of endemic virus competition.
Mass vaccination initiatives to reduce the prevalence of endemic respiratory viruses, including vastly milder Omicron-era Covid, are a very bad idea for the same reason that lockdowns are. Even if they’re totally safe, the risk is that they’ll end up reserving hosts for other, newer pathogens and the unknown risks that these pose.
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-29 09:40 am (UTC)*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 11:50 pm (UTC)Today, Eugyppius posted a new article about the phenomenon of "viral interference." He believes that influenza really did disappear for two years. I can't read his whole article, because my substack budget is maxed out, and he's behind a paywall. If nobody is testing for the 1917 strain, though (and of course no one was) and if the early CT counts of 40+ could find covid on a tennis shoe how could you ever really tell if it was flu or covid?
I don't have any idea. I've also seen recent papers claiming that the high mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic was largely iatrogenic -- super high doses of a relatively new "miracle drug" (aspirin) are alleged to have killed thousands.
About some things, I feel certain: public health authorities mostly lied through their teeth and did their best to ban repurposed drugs. But, all the lies make it impossible to figure out what actually was circulating. And that, it seems, was part of their desired goal.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-29 03:33 am (UTC)Then why the vaccines ? The whole vaccine push seems to go against that theory of the COVID serpressing the actual bad virus. Wether they released either one or not, they would know this was happening, so why the vaccines ?
I know some say the vaccines to push the whole great reset or slowly reduce population. But that all seems so complex. I have a tendency to not attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by general incompetence. Release a bad virus, then release a mild one to suppress it, just to then release a vaccine to reduce population ? that just seems to complex to me. Now, mistakes involving incompetence and Hubris, that I will believe. Otherwise, if wanted to reduce population, didn't need 3 steps, could have just picked any one step it seems
I remember President Trump saying that it would all just go away soon, almost over. Initially he said that. Which made sense to me, in whatever case of which virus or how it was released, as that is usually how viruses go. And that would also make sense if he knew that the COVID was suppressing the real bad flu.
But, then all of a sudden was forced masking, distancing, and then the vaccine which was initially fine as it was voluntary and just for old folks. And that would calm everyone down so ...ok... but it didn't...
So, why the vaccines if they already released a coverup
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-29 02:34 am (UTC)I'm in San Francisco Bay Area. Caught a horrid flu in early November 2019. Worst flu in my entire life but sweated it out in bed under heavy covers while loading up on lemon and honey hot tea, nibbling on Brazil nuts (high in zinc) and sipping chicken broth for 3 days barely able to move being so weakened. I got super lucky feeling the first symptoms' onset while walking into a grocery store so I could get those nuts, lemons, and broth. Popped up with just a lingering cough for about 5 months.
My county's health department website noted in CY 2019 Qtr 4 a slightly unusual spike in "Influenza A" when I surfed there in mid-December 2019 wondering what kind of flu I'd likely had. Those previously easy to find annual county flu charts dropped off that county website sometime in 2020 when I next checked it after the bat flu fear porn was going full blast. See page 2 here for a hint at my county's 2019 Q4 Influenza A spike:
https://publichealthproviders.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb951/files/Documents/flu-2021-week15.pdf
I have no doubt whatsoever most USA health authorities played funny bunnies with identifying who had what flu in CY 2020.
I had been doing a lot of work indoors in very close quarters in October and November 2019 with people from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. One Asian gentleman had a very bad spitting cough. Perhaps I just got a standard seasonal USA flu or perhaps something "novel" to me from overseas. Or maybe simply work or other stressors tipped over my immune system. But whatever I got was novel to me because I never before had a flu cause me to lose so much lung capacity for so many months nor flatten me for more than 2 days.
W.R.
Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-29 03:10 am (UTC)My offspring did not come near me for a few weeks also, much longer than I would have thought was needed. Which is what was reported for the bad virus (misdiagnosed in general as COVID) initially. I remember, they were saying could be contagious for weeks for the early 2020 illness. Off spring came to see me as was not going to make it for thanksgiving, so came a week or week and a half before thanksgiving for the weekend ( and, ironically, was in Japan for thanksgiving)
Thank you for your Bay Area data point
Rogan vs RFK Jr
Date: 2023-06-28 07:33 pm (UTC)It’s a bit long but he is dropping one truth-bomb after the other.
Re: Rogan vs RFK Jr
Date: 2023-06-29 08:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-29 01:47 am (UTC)https://billricejr.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-was-dead-wrong-on-one-prediction?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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Date: 2023-06-29 04:50 am (UTC)Monochrome Impudent Turtle
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Date: 2023-06-29 09:28 am (UTC)Just like the jab pushers inevitably have the Ukraine flag on their twitter profiles - did you notice how quickly the Russian 'coup' collapsed? NYT had 7 front page articles ready on Sat morning about the imminent fall of the Russian govt/regime (requoting Jeff Childers here, as I no longer even touch NYT with a 100 ft pole). Each new initiative of the jabberwockies is failing at a faster and faster rate. Within 24 hrs, with no real bloodshed... the 'coup' was over, all the western intel assets exposed and Russia able to clean house even more. They've (deep state/jabberwockies) tried throwing everything at the dartboard.. and a la Matrix-movie style, the bullets are coming back faster and harder at themselves. We are getting to the stage whereby anyone who still consumes MSM is likely viewed as a certifiable idiot by the general public - yes, we're getting there. It does take a while for generations of brainwashing to be overturned, but it's happening.
I have 2 anec-data stories that has implication for the level of excess deaths that we'll be seeing.
1 - I've mentioned this before, so just a quick recap. My 80 yo mother took 2 P shots. Normally she's super healthy and barely any illness through the years... yet a few days before each scheduled appt, she somehows falls sick, and we (my brother and I) convinced her to reschedule the jab appts... I've known all along that there's some sort of guardian angel overlooking our family - doesn't mean we're invulnerable, but some 'other' force has always been providing useful assists here and there to us. Mom's a trained MSM viewer, so believed the govt BS about shots being limited, that they don't have enough for everyone, that it's a privilege to get it earlier etc etc. We told her, it's total bullshale, just playing on people's fear of missing out for the the rollout, and then resorting to more draconian measures to force shots later. Anyways, she did take 2 shots at much later dates compared to her peers.. About 6 months ago, she developed serious appendix pain, and given her age, it was a very high likelihood that it was the big C. Appendicitis mainly occurs up till age 30 or so. In the midst of studying up on treatments for covid, I also boned up on medical treatment and understanding our bodies and the psychic links.. .so I acquired knowledge on how to treat the big C. I did that for her, mainly using the other dewormer that starts with F. Pony paste works great for cancer too... but depending on the type of cancer (faster growing or slower), one should use a more targeted one for better efficacy. Anyways, we cleared up the appendix issue within 2 weeks.
However about 3 weeks ago, she developed serious stomach pain. When I say serious, it means that even for a lady with super high pain tolerance (which I also inherited), it's bad enough to keep her awake. At the same time, she was developing seriously swollen calves/ankles/feet. There had been addition of a new member to one of her regular weekly mahjong games, likely the old lady who joined had been jabbed again within the last 6 mths and shedding like crazy on her. I could see the dark clots on her legs, which she said 'old people will get'. Daily doses of natto/serra took care of the clotting and swelling (every 2 days is for maintenance against background level of shedding). But my previous protocol for the Big C was not gaining as much traction. Yes, pain was less but still noticeable. So I switched to a more intense treatment protocol... interspersing high dose of the dewormers ... with a day of just high dose Vit C (liposomal C), then dewormers again. So finally cleared up the pain. There's more aggressive and complicated protocols available, which I would have done if necessary. Going forward, I'm no longer going to wait till things get to that extent... every 3 months I'll get my mom to take the F treatment for 3 days in a row as a preventive measure, keep the cancer count low enough that the immune system can keep it under control. I'll also be doing the same for myself. Lesson learnt.
2 - My wife had a mental break in early June, fully coinciding with the full moon and the start of her menses. I had been worried about that possibility, as she's been a civil servant for almost 3 decades... she was extremely senior before she retired in Oct '22. And despite being unvexed, even though there were onerous jab mandates in force, again our guardian angel somehow ensured that she was left alone by a vindictive system and kept working throughout. Why was I worried about her mental state? Coz she had been in the system too long, and despite my influence, still had some belief in the system, which in my eyes is already falling apart, which she intellectually agrees with, but she has problem fully accepting. Too much cognitive dissonance is not good, and I expect a lot more mental breaks from society in general ... anyways, she had been physically pushing herself too hard, and seem possessed during her 'fugue' states as she later calls it. She can't recall those periods of time.. but when she was in that state, she seem cogent and remembered what she was saying / doing in other fugue states.. Long story short, she went on a 5K run with the family.. and then became so exhausted that she was incoherent. At that point, she as entering the fugue state more often, and when given access to her phone, was sending odd messages and calling people talking about conspiracy theories against me or others etc. Long story short, I used my connections to ensure that she got top notch medical care.. not something I was inclined to do initially, as I honestly don't have much respect for all the various hospital heads that I know personally... but another doctor friend said, look the system is overwhelmed, if the connections are not activated, who knows when or who will oversee her case. So yes, she got attention much earlier than a general patient would get in the govt hospital... tests were run promptly.. in fact, once the spinal fluid was extracted, they could see that there was some infection, and to cover all bases, some samples were sent out-country to the Mayo clinic to run even more obscure tests... aka the whole gamut of tests was done .... and in the end, all came back negative. Aka the system is going to have issues answering the medical issues that people will be getting. Anyways, while she was in the 6-bed wards, we could see that 1 out of 6 were young people who had suffered strokes or mini-strokes, often with major head bandages after falling etc.
As I told my wife, she can check her calendar... even though she only meets her retired civil service friends like every 3 weeks, they are the compiant sort and would be 'up to date' with the shots requirement.. so for sure some are likely crazy level shedders, which our normal protocol would be insufficient to counter. So her health ALWAYS suffers after each encounter.. and this time was the worse. Again, it took time for her to fully accept that... Anyways, just a few days ago, we did a day trip across the border to Malaysia... eating at our usual breakfast coffeeshop under cool / wet weather, we had some nice soupy noodles. We asked the noodles lady what happened to another stall that we liked there, as it wasn't open (this other stall cooks a lot of different type of foods which folks can mix and match), and I could do special order of eggs for myself. Noodles lady said - oh the boss has some brain issues and has been hospitalized for 3 weeks already. The help that works at the stall can't handle the logistics ... hence stall closed. Now for the noodles lady herself, now the entire left side of her face is drooping and she can barely keep her left eye open. A La Justin Bieber. She had looked fine a month ago when we last saw her.
Thing is, Malaysia as a whole stopped jabbing more than a year ago... now the level of death and 'odd' injuries is piling up. Public agencies previous would have kept track of heart attacks/issues, cancer rate etc.. and those that are still publishing such numbers are seeing huge increases. Neurological stuff? often not public data... so I'd told me wife prior to the Malaysia trip, what happened to her is just the very small tip of a very large iceberg... that 1 encounter with 2 confirme incidents happening... does not bode well for folks who think that the medical situation will be 'ok' for folks if they are ok for more than a year. I have been detoxing my mother since her shots, yet she picked up 2 different C cases over time. For the average jabberwockie who didn't detox, turbo cancer should not be a surprise diagnosis given the odds.
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Date: 2023-06-30 10:53 pm (UTC)May I ask, does anyone know a reliable source from which I can obtain the horse paste?
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Date: 2023-07-01 05:37 pm (UTC)I am in the USA
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Date: 2023-07-03 05:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-29 09:28 am (UTC)Let it out or tell the truth? There are so many lies underpinning 'the machine', surely speaking out is a recipe for disaster?
What to do?
Well, I'm going to defer to Assange here: “You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.”
But is that likely to happen with all the vested interests out there?
It's not hard to understand why the author of this article is pessimistic about the truth of excess deaths being revealed by the MSM. Extending on that, it's not hard to foresee the flurry of lies building into total 'white out' conditions - especially given developments in technology and techniques.
If that happens, the only way to pick a safe path through the ultimate 'snow job' may end up being to unplug completely and only trust in knowledge gained through direct and unmediated personal experiences.
That or go mad.
The Ninth Mouse
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Date: 2023-06-29 06:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-29 02:25 pm (UTC)Wayne Rohde, Veteran Activist for the Vaccine Injured
"It's been a difficult battle mainly because, one, the medical community refuses to accept or acknowledge vaccine injury. It is real. It is not rare."
https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/86945.html
I thought this announcement on his substack might be of interest to some:
15 week course -CICP & Vaccine Court Fall 2023 IPAK-EDU
https://thevaccinecourt.substack.com/p/copy-15-week-course-cicp-and-vaccine
Rohde says: "Announcing an encore 15-week 1-hour course and deep dive into the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the CounterMeasures Injury Compensation Program. Starting in September 2023. I am super excited to be teaching this course. Last year, several guest lecturers spoke to the class regarding segments of the NVICP and CICP. I have secured several guest lecturers for this fall as well. We will have some very good discussion and debate on topics of vax injury compensation, how our legal system and federal agencies process claims, the ongoing argument of policy vs science in decisions. You will hear from a few parents and individuals that journeyed through the NVICP and CICP."
Background on WHO founder Brock Chisholm
Date: 2023-06-29 04:42 pm (UTC)Some of his posts are translated to English as well, as is the one on Chisholm. Some highlights:
So if someone is wondering when the WHO got off the rails, the answer is: at its founding.
Re: Background on WHO founder Brock Chisholm
Date: 2023-06-29 11:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-06-30 03:25 am (UTC)A study suggests that up to 30% of Pfizer batches may have been placebos, or at least has poor enough quality control to have the same effect.
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Date: 2023-06-30 04:20 pm (UTC)It's a report on adverse reaction rates across over 10 million shots from 52 batches given to 4 million Danes - with adverse reaction rate broken down by batch.
They found that some batches were not associated with any adverse reactions, some had an average rate of 1 in 400, and some had a an average rate of 1 in 10. The graph shows *all* reported adverse reactions; when they limited their analysis to only serious reactions, the differences were less clear: "Compared to the rates of all SAEs, serious SAEs and SAE-related deaths per 1.000 doses were much less frequent and numbers of these SAEs per 1000 doses displayed considerably greater variability between batches, with lesser separation between the three trendlines (not shown)."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13998
Placebo, or just limited time window?
Date: 2023-07-03 05:56 pm (UTC)Jessica Rose has a look at the Danish "placebo" evidence, running the lot numbers against VAERS to see if it confirms. It does not.
Copium
Date: 2023-06-30 04:32 am (UTC)https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12245877/Excess-deaths-Australia-11-3-cent-average-not-Covid.html
"The rate of death in Australia remains well above the norm, with a rise in killer diseases other than Covid leaving doctors baffled."
" [the alarming jump in deaths] led to a Senate motion in April, sponsored by Victorian UAP Senator Ralph Babet, to hold an inquiry into why Australians are dying in such high numbers. The move was voted down by the government and crossbench Senators including the Greens."
At the end of the article a plug for . . . . wait for it . . . . jabs.
'The TGA and regulators around the world continue to monitor and analyse Covid-19 vaccine safety data covering hundreds of millions of people, and the latest evidence from clinical trials and peer-reviewed medical literature,' a TGA spokesperson previously told Daily Mail Australia. 'This information continues to overwhelmingly support the safe and effective use of Covid-19 vaccines.'
So there's the solution folks, put your mask back on and get boosted.
With thanks to:https://jermwarfare.com/cartoons
Shingles
Date: 2023-06-30 09:55 am (UTC)RFK takes Dr. Tariq Butt to School: Chickenpox Vaccine May Backfire Causing More Adult Shingles out to 75 Years after Shot
Rate of Mild Chickenpox Lowered by Vaccination but Kids May Pay the Price as Adults
Peter A. McCullough, MD
Jun 30, 2023
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/rfk-takes-dr-tariq-butt-to-school
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Date: 2023-06-30 02:37 pm (UTC)https://sandrarose.com/2023/06/tv-doctor-and-vaccination-expert-dr-alfredo-victoria-dies-suddenly-at-42/
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Date: 2023-06-30 03:07 pm (UTC)Gen X: remember when you'd get to the more boring sitcom re-runs or late saturday cartoons that sucked and were finally forced to go outside and play? that's where we're at now as of or around June 1st.
there's another guy on this week's post page 1 i think talking about his wife getting her period and going mad a few weeks ago, and i was her opposite: i went more "sane." i'm more calm and focused when i'm focusing on what i can do over here myself.
yeah, when i read zerohedge or coffee and covid i want to heave, but seeing as musk is making folks sign up for twitter, that's what made me write this today after deleting my earlier 2 or 3 posts claiming the internet is Over as a Thing.
sure we'll still use it for news business banking (while we have bank accounts) reading Ecosophia and Simon Sheridan and Naomi Wolf, but it's like AI and eating and feeding itself and drinking its own urine no new ideas information or nutrients adding to the mix.
it's deadly boring. even addicts come up short and hungrier than ever.
nothing to do but go outside and PLAY.
i felt it all change beginning of June. and while i'm honoring EL GATO with my art and Los Ungovernables, all the sudden nom de plumes seemed... trite irrelevant safe.
even someone else noticed Papa G's writings have been sparkling with life "a few weeks ago." i noticed, too.
and my art is crazy good with this paintbrush i've only recently started using in my work so my hand shouldn't be this SMOOTH... it's not ALL ME or MINE! it's bigger than me like some other artist is saying "no, go HERE with that line..."
i had that with learning sewing designing patternmaking on my own over here, so i'm not spooked.
but with musk trying to force people to sign up on twitter to see david spade now make "safe" jokes, it's like Petticoat Junction is on and it's time to go out and play.
i'm not saying it's all fun time. on the contrary... things are cracking snapping and splitting and folks are doubling and tripling down.
i'm scared AND excited. because now that the guy in london lost all his bank accounts for simply being a contrarian and not even driving a Canadian truck, there's no CHOICE but to turn away and try to starve the beast.
i'm so glad i never was traditionally successful with a mortgage and entanglements and entrapments beyond what i have just as a citizen of the world. i thought i was a failure but i'm relatively free to be a screw up.
lovely!
(smile)
x
erika
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Date: 2023-07-01 07:02 pm (UTC)Now, after reading Ecosophia's magical offerings, I end up going on to browse Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge in the often vain hope of finding anything of value. Eventually, I find myself foolishly following links into all the incessant chattering about the news of the day, as though I might otherwise somehow miss out on whatever current thing we privileged primates happen to be hooting about this week. The contrivedly staged boredom of the modern world is just a bad habit that I got trained in very young, and really do need to break.
There are so many forests calling me to explore them, and so many projects craving my attention. Why have I still not learned that staring at screens inevitably just leads to boredom and fights? How dull the amazing world around us ends up looking when we try to cram all its natural wonder onto a flattening screen. Art poorly imitating life sadly imitating Petticoat Junction — the gods help us!
— Christophe
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Date: 2023-07-02 02:48 pm (UTC)most of us are like this, Christophe! clicking links passing time... but we're frustrated thirsty tired furious... we haven't gone outside to play because no one else was outside... others also inside clicking links waiting for the one final freeing epiphany that never comes.
luckily/thankfully we're not welcome wanted or needed online anymore, so all the interesting funny people well... we're the OUTSIDERS and now we will find each other OUTSIDE... even as most of us also have social anxieties from being so long out of practice on getting over our self consciousness. (no one wants to answer and talk on phones anymore, myself included.)
P Coyle just wrote me asking about parking here! how exciting! it's happening!
good morning, Christophe!
x
erika