Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 157
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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 and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. 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 wholly owned 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.
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Date: 2024-08-06 05:24 pm (UTC)What worries me is that there might be diseases that can jump into humans and establish themselves among people with weakened immune systems, and then adapt to become able to infect even those of us with normal immune systems. Does anyone know if this could happen?
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Date: 2024-08-06 08:12 pm (UTC)So there's some obscure research, buried without publicity and with no follow-up, suggesting that a certain miracle compound seems to work it's magic against lyme too. Yup.. the one and only.... VIM. That starts to open up another huge can of worms about the official theory about lyme, that it's caused by certain bacteria.
Anyways, I would suggest a different risk assessment when looking at a vexed person with an immuno-compromised system, who frequently gets sick with the coof or whatever. It's not the 'new variants' story which MSM has been pushing from the beginning, as the real risk is that the person is just carrying a huge viral load, thus making him much more infectious if you are in close proximity for long.
If you think your immune system is not strong enough to handle the potential workload, then remember to help yourself to that which restores your vim and vigor.
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Date: 2024-08-06 06:59 pm (UTC)New COVID-19 variant causes cases to double, CDC says to protect against getting
Source: CBS Philadelphia
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Date: 2024-08-06 07:12 pm (UTC)Thank you, JMG, and thank you, forumistas.
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Anecdotal changes in maternity care
Date: 2024-08-06 09:29 pm (UTC)For context, my oldest is 9 and my youngest was born last week, so I've got about a decade of comparison. I'm also under 35 and have never had any complications (aside from some very easy twins), so I'm a very low-risk ob patient.
All that said, with this most recent baby, I started noticing some weird behavior from the OB. Right around the third or fourth appointment, my OB started giving me the hard sell to see the high risk specialist for an ultrasound. Not because she was concerned, but because it was a new practice policy because the "high risk specialist had a better ultrasound machine and they liked the data they were getting."
This isn't a research institution. It's just a suburban ob/gyn practice. They aren't even affiliated with any of the larger mega-practices, just three doctors and a few PAs.
I blew them off, because I didn't really see the need for seeing the specialist, and a few months later we moved states and I switched practices.
But the same thing happened at the new practice. "Oh, we're making you an appointment with the high-risk specialist, because their ultrasound machine is better and we like the data that it gives us."
Around this time, I noticed that the "What To Expect" app had also changed in the last two years. All of a sudden, the app was sending me aggressive notifications that "it's time to do a kick-count!" (Meaning it's time to sit in a quiet room and count how many times the baby kicks in the course of 20 minutes to an hour). There were highway billboards and bus ads advertising kick counts too, where once were speech therapy/early education intervention PSAs.
This time I did go to the high risk specialist for the mandatory ultrasound, and I ended up chatting with the doctor about the fact that I didn't expect any issues, because even with my twins I never had any problems.
Which is when the doctor let it slip that she's been ridiculously busy the last few months, and that people will come in for one small issue and end up having a cascade of complications, and that she really enjoys having patients come in who don't actually have anything wrong for once.
It's minor anecdotal evidence to be sure, so take it with a grain of salt, but it seems like there has been a sea-change in the world of maternal medicine, and that internally the policy has changed on monitoring for complications. But at the same time, no one wants to say that the policy has changed, and instead they want to pretend that "oh, we're just getting better data this way," as if "data" was just something that existed in a vacuum and that you collected for the sake of it, instead of being used to identify problems and try to correct them.
It definitely lends credence to the concerns that people are having more issues conceiving and carrying healthy babies post-jab, in my opinion.
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Date: 2024-08-07 12:27 am (UTC)We're not really expecting any problems at the neighbourhood bbq but 'just in case' we're sending in some officers with incredibly effective stun guns.
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Date: 2024-08-06 10:04 pm (UTC)US, Canada, and Western Europe hugh as I expected, Africa and the Middle East low as I expected, but I agree, the "medium" rate showing in Russia and China is a bit odd.
They did try killed-virus vaccines whch as I recall from a conversation on this forum a couple of years ago, as well as Wikipedia's article about coronaviruses in general, are pretty much a non-starter with coronaviruses. The immune system doesn't react in the usual way, rather it turns into a blithering idiot re the coronavirus and lets it infect you worse after the vaccine.
Could the effect be a general, not specific supression of the immune system, which would make it less able to clean up cancer cells as well?
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Date: 2024-08-06 10:34 pm (UTC)I have no idea what the author views on the ongoing Covid affair are. Whether she fell for it like so many people of liberal bent did - how Naomi Klein completely missed the greatest example of The Shock Doctrine ever and became a total Branch Covidian is totally shocking - or did she recognize the echos from her work enough to keep herself safe?
I don't know how many people's vaccine hesitancy derived from this work - the all in vaccine campaign felt eerily familiar to similar advertising campaign for BlyssPluss described in the novel. The novel certainly had an influence on my thinking. We now know that she also nailed the business dynamics of the pharmaceutical and medical industry, even though it seemed like satire at the time.
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Date: 2024-08-07 01:59 am (UTC)It's astonishing to me how many people who, really, truly should have known better based on past knowledge totally fell for the Cooties-19 hysteria.
Atwood apparently did not spot any echoes of her own work. Naomi Klein couldn't recognize a shock doctrine when it happened all around her. Noam Chomsky couldn't see consent being manufactured in real time right under his nose. Michael Moore couldn't see a massive assault on labor happening even as governments and corporations colluded to strip American workers of rights and sink mom-and-pop shops while transferring trillions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of global corporations. The American Civil Liberties Union decided that civil liberties were totally expendable after all, and the "my body my choice" crowd decided that it's the governments' and employers' choice, actually.
I'm still kind of flabbergasted by it all, even after all this time.
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Date: 2024-08-07 01:54 am (UTC)https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40730205/covid-spreads-australian-olympic-team
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Date: 2024-08-09 02:34 am (UTC)Thing is... I've seen a video where he was joshing with some fellow athletes a year ago and he was complaining that he just had covid AGAIN... yet no one else in his family got it, not even his GF was who still intimate with him at that point (girlfriend is a Jamaican sprinter who trained mostly in Jamaica, hence likely escaped most of the coof mandates).
So this is a world-class track athlete, who seems to have a slightly higher level of smarts for an athlete, making millions a year, surrounded by a whole team, and they still haven't figured out or told him that he needs to detox from the shots or actively keep up his base immunity? Compared to someone like No-vax Djokovic who just won the tennic gold, who stuck firm to his principles and suffered huge public opprobrium. I can tell that Noah Lyles wants to be liked, which means mentally it's much harder for him to push back at the system as he's seen how the mass media is turned against any dissidents. Oh well.. I'm seeing a ton of athletes who obvious had their 'career' year last year, or this year, and it's because their souls have chosen to go out with a bang this way. Not cursing them, but it will be all downhill for them afterwards... not cursing them as they chose their own fate, but I'm enjoying this last display of their athletic prowess.
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Date: 2024-08-07 04:13 am (UTC)This summer has been a steady litany of sirens in my general work area. No real up-and-down pattern that I had noticed before, it's been steady this summer.
Makes me wonder if the mid-term effects are finally getting through.
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Date: 2024-08-07 02:24 pm (UTC)NZ forced vaccinations
Date: 2024-08-07 06:59 am (UTC)https://www.instagram.com/wild_and_freenz/p/C-LkYqdyDVI/?img_index=wild_and_freenz
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Date: 2024-08-08 02:12 am (UTC)Existing laws in no way hindered our government's actions previously; they simply rewrote the law on an emergency basis to legalise whatever they wanted. It was quickly heading to the direction of forced injections until the parliamentary grounds protests (inspired by the Canadian truckers) threw a spanner in their works. Legality had no bearing on what the technocrats thought they could do, and no power to stop them either.
There were a whole series of what should have been cut and dry court cases to stop what our government was doing based on solid precedent and even supposedly foundational existing laws like our bill of rights. Every single one was thrown out by the judge for spurious and non-rational reasons - our judiciary may be nominally independent of the government; but it is very much a part of our (so called high) society and went just as mad.
In watching the last few years I've come to see that Law is of a fairytale nature; it is a veneer pasted over the top of actions as a post-rationalisation that says much about what the characters think of themselves but has little to do with driving reality.
Curiously the thing the finally broke our hapless Prime Minister was the relentless personal harassment she suffered wherever she went. It disrupted her own fairytale of being a pure perfect good person, and she could not cope with that. Thus she is now in self-imposed exile (in the US I think) because the challenges still happen wherever she goes in NZ, and probably will for a long time to come.
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Date: 2024-08-07 08:40 am (UTC)Hmm. That headline writer might benefit from doing a meditation or two on that phrasing... ;)
The chemistry behind the fibrinaloid clots
Date: 2024-08-07 10:07 am (UTC)Embalmer Richard Hirschman starts off by displaying a test tube of a 19 inch-long fibrinoid clot which he recently removed from a corpse.
Greg Harrison begins his presentation at 11:24
Breaking Bombshell report Greg Harrison presentation part 2 on how white clots are formed
Nova Scotia Free Speech Bulletin Podcast
https://rumble.com/v58sxv8-breaking-bombshell-report-greg-harrison-presentation-part-2-on-how-white-cl.html
Thinking in metaphor...
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Date: 2024-08-07 01:59 pm (UTC)https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/who-director-considers-declaring-public-health-emergency-over-mpox-virus-outbreak
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Date: 2024-08-07 02:02 pm (UTC)https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/stanley-plotkin-vaccine-safety-cola/
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Date: 2024-08-07 07:18 pm (UTC)* "Abstract: The slow speed of science contributes to public concern about vaccines and reduced immunization coverage. Postauthorization safety research requires timely funding linked to the introduction of new vaccines."
** https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2402379
Sadly the paper is paywalled and sci-hub have not yet filed a copy of it. I'll check back there in a few days to see if I can find it.
PS. I remember watching hours and hours' worth of a deposition from one of the paper's authors Stanley Plotkin a few years back. I have just found a link to that deposition for anyone interested.
https://njvaccinescience.org/plotkin-deposition/
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Date: 2024-08-07 02:03 pm (UTC)https://slaynews.com/news/german-media-admits-unvaxxed-winners-demands-government-apologize/
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Date: 2024-08-07 02:04 pm (UTC)https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1820829526785479035
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Date: 2024-08-07 08:02 pm (UTC)Now I wonder if all the energy being directed at a person of that name will spill-over and get me. I already received messages from people I know who think they are being ironic by linking us. It was my name before he was born.
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Date: 2024-08-07 03:17 pm (UTC)https://nitter.poast.org/ShadowofEzra/status/1820946001211093157#m
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Date: 2024-08-07 10:51 pm (UTC)You tell me, and we'll both know.
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Date: 2024-08-08 02:13 pm (UTC)I am not a doctor, but I can say that if I were in your shoes I'd try ivermectin and nattokinase, and so on and so forth.
Perhaps of interest: a coworker took 3 covid jabs and ended up with muscle weakness and pain and also many months of very bad GI issues. What cured her of the GI issues, she said, and almost instantly, was quite simple: on waking, before breakfast, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
Polkadot Possum
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Date: 2024-08-07 10:58 pm (UTC)Nb. The Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! chant originated at the Sydney Olympics, but it's now a sort of parody chant, mostly favored by the inebriated.
One of the free apps I use on my phone pays its way by throwing ads at you. Recently there's been an ad exhorting you to use your phone to monitor your heart and part of the pitch is a highlights reel of people falling over clutching their heart. Interestingly, most of the people shown keeling over are waaay younger than me, in their 20s mostly.
Is there a reason why young people are more affected by climate change than us oldies?
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Date: 2024-08-08 02:37 am (UTC)It doesn’t, however, align with the COVID vaccine hypothesis. All but 1 of them were diagnosed with cancer prior to the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 (4 of them were while I was in college in the early 2010s).
To me, it seems indicative of other environmental toxins that have become ubiquitous and pervasive. Whether it’s our food, water, or technology:
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Date: 2024-08-08 02:51 am (UTC)Did you all live in the same area?
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From:Depopulation - Falling Birthrates
Date: 2024-08-08 12:05 pm (UTC)The latest ABS birth nos were published in Oct 23, are for 2022 year and say 2022 births were down 3% on 2021. They don't publish monthly updates as with deaths, so it's spot trends.
It is common knowledge that birthrates in most of the West have been well under replacement for a long time, so the 3% drop could have been a continuation of that existing trend. Hard to say.
Obviously based on stories of stillbirths and spontaneous abortions in jab recipients, it's likely that the jab will have contributed to the decline in births, but by how much I can't say.
What's not well understood how DIFFICULT it is to reverse trends such as birthrates once they are established, whatever the reasons behind them. Governments can offer a plethora of incentives, but if people have become accustomed to not having children, or only one or maybe two, the incentives often don't work.
Coming from a Peak Oil background, Seneca Cliff etc, I've always expected that resource availability would cause a population collapse. As things stand it looks as though population will collapse of its own accord from societal trends.
Here's a post from Musk on Twitter/X highlighting the recent drop in birthrates: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1821408782712291808 The nos appear to come from a valid source, are surprising and alarming.
Note also in most Western countries the birthrates of the original (as of a few decades ago) citizens are well below the actual rate, as immigrants generate far more births.
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Births/woman from 2015 to 2023:
1.78 to 1.14 in Chile
1.79 to 1.45 in UK
2.24 to 1.35 in Argentina
1.24 to 0.72 in S Korea
What most people fail to grasp about the low birthrate crisis is the sheer speed of the decline. This chart (NYT) shows how much births dropped in 1 year.
Re: Depopulation - Falling Birthrates
Date: 2024-08-08 05:39 pm (UTC)People don't get married or have children when their personal economics don't match their expectations. Where there is access to modern birth control the birth rate drops when there is political instability. Birth rates also drop when the costs of educating children becomes an overwhelming burden.
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Date: 2024-08-08 02:10 pm (UTC)Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explains how their New Partnerships with Gene Editing Companies will correct genetic mistakes in your DNA
“Through mRNA that will be able to correct this mistake.”
“Creating DNA instead of biological manufacturing. Which means that you have virus to make it, it's a synthetic”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1821403997976334432
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Date: 2024-08-08 08:40 pm (UTC):-)
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