Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 193

[ecosophia]

We are now in the fourth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary more than three years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health are anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; and the story continues to unfold.

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 plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.

5. 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. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 

Comments

Summoning the demon

[the_arcane_archivist]

We are dealing with other issues here, what you are describing is much like a problem of the previous century! Now we have Big Business and Big Gov treating, language, biology and everything like a software/hardware problem. Imagine how many issues are on standardised electronic hardware and software that are pretty much not diverse compared with life. But having the hardware/software paradigm about life will bring wild ramifications.

Why did Musk specifically used the phrase "summoning the demon" when talking about AI, more than a decade ago nonetheless? Not in uncertain terms, is not even metaphorical, more like pataphorical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzb_CSRO-0g

If AI in other areas is at least obnoxious and demonic as the LLMs are (the linguistic AI) and diffusion algorithms are(the "art"/image AI), we are fried.

They even discuss the risks while they are using this technologies unregulated for at least more than a decade. Strange how the obesity pandemic, started showing up just about time when synthetic hormones and enzymes showed up big time in the 90's-2000's.

"Biosecurity in the Age of Synthetic Biology" by Leyma Pérez De Haro on Routledge:

Just a summary search and you find hundreds of papers. Greek gods might know what are in the R&D labs of Big Business! Take the simplest bioactive component the enzymes, just a bad synthetic enzyme can be extremely dangerous because just trace elements are enough to disrupt life processes. And now they put this stuff everywhere from perfumes, paints and mostly in dish and clothes detergents, etc

And yes synthetic biology sheds, enzyme, cells, etc shed from people's clothes, perfumes, etc

Synthetic Enzymes
Synthetic Biology Perspectives of Microbial Enzymes and Their Applications

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Synthetic Vitamins
Synthetic vs Natural Nutrients: Does it Matter?
Transforming Traditional Nutrition Paradigms with Synthetic Biology

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Synthetic Viruses
Synthetic Viruses: A New Opportunity to Understand and Prevent Viral Diseases
Synthetic Virology Approaches to Improve the Safety and Efficacy of Oncolytic Viruses

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Synthetic mRNA Therapies
Harnessing Synthetic Biology for Advancing RNA Therapeutics and Vaccines
Making the Next Generation of Therapeutics: mRNA Meets Synthetic Biology

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Synthetic Cells
Present and Future of Synthetic Cell Development
Synthetic Cells: From Simple Bio-Inspired Modules to Sophisticated Artificial Cells

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Synthetic Proteins and Food
Synthetic Biology for Future Food: Research Progress and Future Directions
Food Synthetic Biology-Driven Protein Supply Transition: From Animal to Plant-Based Proteins

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Synthetic Organs and Organisms
Applications of Synthetic Biology in Medical and Pharmaceutical Fields
Synthetic Organisms and Living Machines

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Other Synthetic Life Innovations
What is (Synthetic) Life? Basic Concepts of Life in Synthetic Biology
Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms
Scientists Aim for 'Darwinian Evolution' with Artificial Life Project

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Software, AI, and Molecular Printers in Synthetic Biology
Artificial Intelligence Powering Synthetic Biology: The Fundamentals
How AI Is Transforming Synthetic Biology: Reaching Far Beyond Biopharma
Automating Your Synthetic Biology Workflow

Re: Summoning the demon

[the_arcane_archivist]

Why did Musk specifically used the phrase "summoning the demon" when talking about AI, more than a decade ago nonetheless? Not in uncertain terms, is not even metaphorical, more like pataphorical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzb_CSRO-0g

Strange how he is cautioning us while he is dipping in this whole universe...

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/musk-says-tesla-is-building-rna-microfactories-for-curevac-idUSFWN2E9067/