Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 231

[ecosophia]

We are now into the fifth 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 all these 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 remain 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; new revelations are leaking out about just how bad the Covid vaccines are for human health; 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.

7. Please don't post LLM ("AI") generated text. This is a place for human beings to talk to other human beings, not for the regurgitation of machine-generated text. Also, please don't discuss large language models (the technology popularly and inaccurately called "artificial intelligence" these days) except as they bear directly on the Covid phenomenon. Here again, my finger is hovering over the delete button. 

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

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[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG and dear forumistas,

Thank you.

Yesterday, after lovely and long overdue catch-up conversation, I was sharply reminded, once again, that the communications abyss that opened up some years ago with the advent of convid remains in place, ever deeper and ever darker, between me and some of my oldest and previously closest friends. One pair in particular. For a few years now they've been suffering from all sorts of "doctors are baffled" issues from allergies to cardiac, hematologic and digestive, and now they tell me they've taken the latest covid booster. How many shots have they taken? I don't know, I wouldn't ask, but if they're taking boosters now in the winter of 2026 that number would likely be north of 10 each.

Much as I have looked, I do not see a way across that abyss.

It's a beautiful day out where I am, light filtering through trees. Now I'm going to put some marrow bones in the oven for the dogs.

Cetiosaurus

Re: 231

[(Anonymous)]

PS I mean to say with that last line, I'm taking it one day at a time, and I am grateful for my life, and that very much includes the companionship of my dogs. Apart from their food, they are mainly concerned about the doings of the squirrels in the backyard.

Re: 231

[(Anonymous)]

It seems to me almost as if a significant part of the quaxxine obedience programme were to systematically divide friend from friend, spouse from spouse, and family members from one another, thus shredding a good deal of the fabric of society and dissolving the glue that holds it together. I can't definitively say that this is deliberate on the part of anyone in particular, I can't prove it even to myself, but it sure does tend to give that impression...

Amusing Coof lockdown effect

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

Atmospheric scientists were a bit perplexed at some of the things happening during the coof lockdowns (with subsequent lessening of auto travel.) One was that methane concentrations in the atmosphere went UP; they expected them to go down. Now they’ve identified a likely mechanism:
https://cen.acs.org/environment/atmospheric-chemistry/covid-shutdowns-methane-spike-emissions/104/web/2026/02

Summary: the NOx pollutants produced by ICEs apparently, via a step or two, destroy atmospheric methane. So fewer cars and such pumping out NOx meant that LESS methane was being destroyed. Methane, BTW, is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

This is reminiscent of the 9/11 contrail effect (no jets, no contrails, no stratospheric soot, higher surface temps) and the post-Soviet warming effect of soviet-era factories suddenly being shuttered, cleaning the air of soot over Eurasia which caused a sudden spike up of surface temps because sunlight wasn’t being attenuated by the pollutants. Reduce human pollution and you may get noticable effects on weather and climate, and often those changes are “worse” rather than “better” (I put those in quotes as, meh, with such a complex system who can really say with any authority what’s good or bad.) 🤷‍♂️

JMG, I hope your grumpiness has passed. As a possible de-grump nudge, I offer:
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender pauses from cleaning a glass and asks: “Hey buddy, how come the long face?” 😊

Re: Amusing Coof lockdown effect

[ecosophia]

I think they missed an obvious confounding variable, which is the sheer volume of verbal flatulence generated by government flacks during the shutdowns. Talking out of one's backside ought to generate quite a bit of methane! ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

AAP Hit With RICO Lawsuit Alleging Decades-Long Vaccine Safety Fraud

https://dailyclout.io/aap-hit-with-rico-lawsuit-alleging-decades-long-vaccine-safety-fraud/

well thats good..

[scotlyn]

I have to say that this looks like a well-constructed law suit, carefully crafted to do an end run around the legal immunity enjoyed by vaccine manufacturers since 1986. Hard to say how it will go, but I wish it every success!

[(Anonymous)]

this case has been going on with dr bowden, and ken paxton is standing with her:


REPORT: Texas AG Ken Paxton just blindsided the Texas Medical Board, and marybowdenmd now stands at the center of a battle that could redefine medical authority nationwide.

In a stunning move, Paxton refused to defend the state’s medical regulator and intervened on Bowden’s behalf, escalating what began as a disciplinary action into a high-stakes constitutional reckoning.

Paxton’s filing accuses the Board of acting out of “personal animosity and spite,” alleging it imposed a public reprimand while disregarding its own protocols and violating Texas law. The State says it stepped in “to protect and defend the citizens of this state from improper conduct” and to prevent “irreparable harm to its sovereignty.”

The reprimand dates back to 2021, when Bowden sought to provide ivermectin to a hospitalized patient while following a court order and legal counsel. The Board sanctioned her anyway. The State now argues the penalty lacked medical expert testimony and was marred by serious due process failures.

This is no longer just about one doctor.

If the court sides with Paxton, the balance of power between doctors and medical boards across America could shift overnight.

https://xcancel.com/VigilantFox/status/2023922092316545234#m


It's still sinking in. Over four years of fighting. Now we wait to see how Texas Medical Board will respond.

https://xcancel.com/MaryBowdenMD/status/2023929825631891901#m

Dr. Mary Bowden

[(Anonymous)]

The "Medical Boards" are long overdue their dissolution. Between Dr. Bowden and Meryl Nass these medical boards have proved themselves to be an unelected police state and pharma shills not worth a darn. They have attempted to bully and kick out very prestigious and principaled medical professionals.
Lots of people see that game and are moving away from the great poisoning.

Britain, vaccine claims firm v high costs to NHS

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrvyv4zlzo

I thought I'd share this, it's in main stream news but it does show that there have been a large number of claims related to disabilities from the covid vaccine. It's an article on bbc news this morning about a firm which contracted to assess injury claims but the costs claimed by the company became very high, which the company seems to say is because of the large volume of claims.

[(Anonymous)]

FDA Reverses Rejection of Moderna MRNA Flu Vax, Will Now Review for Approval.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/02/18/fda-reverses-rejection-of-moderna-mrna-flu-vax-will-now-review-for-approval/

i guess i should have expected that..

A Happy Day!

[(Anonymous)]

On first blush, this big announcement may not seem to have anything to do with Cooties-19, but bear with me.

Big announcement: the brother of my king, (former) Prince Andrew has been arrested - on his 66th birthday at that. Text of the announcement: "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested and held in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office." I wonder if they serve birthday cake in UK jails (or 'gaols' as they spell it over there).

In essence, while he was a trade envoy for the UK, Andrew handed over sensitive market information to the notorious Jeffrey Epstein. Cue to insider trading and the rich illegally looting the markets (as usual). Apparently the release of the Epstein Files has helped police in the UK to tighten the noose around Andrew's neck. I am reminded that Al Capone was first arrested for tax evasion, so I hope that this initial arrest may be the crack that allows serious investigation into his 'PDF-file' crimes.

This is the first time I have ever heard of a member of the royal family of the UK being arrested. I hope they are housing him in the Tower of London - you know, for historical reasons and all that. Some are suspecting that King Charles gave a nod for the arrest; methinks the process of recently de-princing Andrew was the first step in the process. Oh - and speaking of King Charles, a few years ago, several Vedic astrologers predicted that he would be in a wooden box by April of this year. We'll see if that happens.

So, what does this have to do with Cooties-19? Well, due to the efforts of loads of people poring over the Epstein files that have been release so far, it has become apparent that Epstein was a fat spider in the middle of a very big structural web that included funding and enabling the gain-of-function stuff, funding the biotechs in producing the mNRA crap, as well as funding and setting up the horrific industry of medically transitioning "trans" kids - especially at New York's Mount Sinai hospital, if I recall correctly.

Kinda looks like this genie has got too far out of the bottle to put it back in. Carefully crafted narratives and efforts at obscuring, obfuscating, denying, and contradicting truths by the biggest propaganda machine in humanity's history don't seem to cut it anymore. It would be nice if King Charles III were to confess, prior to kicking the bucket, all that he knows of the whole sick affair and gives a green light to the legal arm of the UK government to aggressively pursue all the traitors and sick 'PDF-files' in Westminster, the House of Lords, and other major UK institutions. It is nice when a monarch does at least one good thing during their reign and Charles still has an opportunity to do that - if for no other reason than to convince the public that the House of Windsor is not a total House of Horrors that deserves to be burned to the ground. We'll see; I'm not holding my breath, though. Personally, I'd like Amelia to be the Queen! :)

Ron M

Re: A Happy Day!

[ecosophia]

Oh, members of the British royal family have been arrested before. The last time was in 1645, when Charles I was hauled off by the police for a laundry list of charges. They chopped off his head in 1649, as you may recall. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to take over as acting head of CDC

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nih-director-dr-jay-bhattacharya-200714099.html

more shuffling around..

[(Anonymous)]

interesting substack by natalie winters:

Gates & WEF-Backed Vaccine Fund Bankrolls Moderna’s Universal Pandemic Vaccine Research
$54.3 million is being quietly deployed

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/gates-and-wef-backed-vaccine-fund

VSRF

[(Anonymous)]

If anyone is feeling thoroughly down over all things covidian, I can recommend a listen to the latest Vaccine Safety Research Foundation livestream with Steve Kirsch and Livio Sanchez interviewing Leslie Manookian and Jill Hines giving some stunningly great news about their lawsuits and legislative efforts for medical freedom. Manookian is the angel who brought the lawsuit to get mask mandates off on US airplanes (and other transportation). Hines has been working on medical freedom legislation for years now.

Steve Kirsch lays on the sarcasm. I found it pretty funny.

There's more on the VSRF livestream, with a lawyer from Children's Health Defense Fund, but I haven't listened to that part yet.

Here's the link:
https://rumble.com/v75uyro-vsrf-live-215-medical-mandates-on-trial.html

Cetiosaurus

[transcriberb]

Note— Biologyphenom https://biologyphenom.substack.com

This person has been "documenting the Scottish and UK COVID-19 inquiries highlighting lockdown policy harms and more."

[(Anonymous)]

Good news! Thanks for the link, Transcriber.

Ron M

Doctor ethics - or lack of

[stubborn_ass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT3jqF9JvdQ

Dr Clare Craig brings up some very relevant points. Quick summary:

In the good old days, the guiding principle for doctors was - First, do no harm.
However in 2019, the official language was codified with technicalese like 'risk benefit analysis'.... but like all the legislation passed in the US "patriot act", "Citizens united", the names do not correspond to what we think they should mean.

Malaria 'vaccine' was rolled out in 2019 - Mosquirix, to Africa. The clinical trials showed that maybe 9 in 1000 kids would be spared more severe malaria effects. Not death, just severe symptoms. However, additiona 11 kids out of that same 1000 cohort would die. Yup, overall morbidity and mortality increases - and the shots are approved under the new 'guidelines'.

We already have quite comprehensive data from both the Pfizer and Moderna trials, showing that much more harm was done to the 'vaccine' arm than the placebo, even though in the placebo arms, they tried to rig the results by also injecting some form of mRNA.

My own beef:

So I see most of the lawsuits being talked about as diversionary tactics... sapping people's energies into a mostly dead end, when they should be busy detoxing, spreading useful knowledge, understanding how corrupt the system is and avoiding the obvious pitfalls. For example, in the past year, college mandates for the jabs in some prominent US colleges were finally dropped.. to me, that's just a huge neon sign telling us that the US college system has become a full-on indoctrination system - even if you were one of the few rare ones to get a say, religious exemption to the shots, most of your classmates will be jabbed up and shedding on you all the time. So you're paying bucketloads of money, to poison both your mind and your body? No thanks. I can't say that to the 'polite' company of my social class... most of them won't get it

Re: Doctor ethics - or lack of

[(Anonymous)]

stubborn, most of them won't get it. Exactly so.

It seems to me one simply has to take note, that certain actions lead to health and resilience, and certain things do not, and that's going to be true no matter what other people hold up as "the thing to do."

[the_arcane_archivist]

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-02-20/maha-activists-warn-trump-could-lose-their-support-over-glyphosate-order
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. Make America Healthy Again movement that ⁠backs ⁠Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say an executive ⁠order this week to boost domestic production of the weedkiller glyphosate risks their support in November's midterm elections.

This Administration is really schizoid in terms of what it wants, I think this schizoid approach is detrimental to the change needed for MAHA to work.

On the other hand food security is crucial to any state. I think it sourced back to that famous quote from 1906 "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy." (said probably by Alfred Henry Lewis)

[tritumi]

What the Administration does gives ample demonstration of what it wants. The schizoid-edness may just be cognitive dissonance mapping those actions on the template of normal citizens' hopes for governance.

[(Anonymous)]

It's an order of operations thing. Your food supply is mostly industrially based and currently very vulnerable to disruption with only 1 manufacturer of some of the most used chemicals. Your country as it currently is would not survive a serious disruption of those chemicals (say if a factory mysteriously burnt down). Farmers can't suddenly go organic cold-turkey - Sri Lanka for an example. It makes sense to reduce that vulnerability while simultaneously doing the decades+ work required to move most farmers to more organic methods.

[charlieobert]

I think we have a parallel here between the situation with Monsanto's glyphosate and agriculture, and the vaxxes and the modern medical system.

Some posters pointed out that you can't just stop using the toxic pesticide; there is a long transition period to another model of agriculture, and part of that transition involves undoing the ecological damage caused by working an agricultural system with faulty premises.

We're in a similar dilemma with the covid vaxxes and medicine. It is not just a simple matter of avoiding the vaxx, or detoxing if you took it. The vaxxes are part of an entire ecosystem - medical, agricultural, technological - that is based on faulty premises and has increasingly toxic and destructive side effects.

It is not just a simple matter of walking away from the vaxxes, or from the modern allopathic medical complex. There is a long transition period where it is necessary to deal with the ecological damage of allopathy - I am using ecological in a wide sense here, including the body's internal ecology and how that interacts with the larger world. It feels like trying to untangle a knotted ball of yarn - once you start tugging on one loose thread, all sorts of other threads start coming loose.

Also, as far as I can tell there is no one effective medical system that can be plopped down in place of the allopathic - the closest thing I can think of is TCM. (Ayurveda may be another, but I know nothing about it so I can't comment here.)

Also, healing and wellness in traditional systems is not a pop-a-pill, quick fix. Healing is a long, slow process that includes a mental, emotional and spiritual dimension. Walking away from the covid vaxxes is the start of a long journey.

News from Australia (New South Wales)

[(Anonymous)]

Another win against COVID vaccine mandates, inspired by my own
Raphael Lataster (BPharm, PhD), Jan 15, 2026

More positive news as another former employee of NSW Health, Lorraine Knott, fought back against the unjust COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and won, being inspired by my own legal battles. As is to be expected, the mainstream media couldn’t care less, so Knott kindly allowed us to break the news.

OTN: Firstly, congratulations on your legal victory, and thank you very much for reaching out. I understand that you, like me, were fired for not taking a COVID-19 vaccine, and worked for NSW Health at the time. What happened exactly, and why did you not take the vaccine?

KNOTT: I worked at the Ministry of Health’s head office in an administrative role, so had zero patient contact. I didn’t take the vaccine as I had concerns it was still in its clinical phase so it was impossible to give informed consent. My punishment for being cautious was to be placed on leave without pay from early October 2021 until 23 March 2022 when my employment was terminated. I was working full time remotely so I was no threat to my work colleagues. I responded to several Show Cause letters, and my employer’s standard response was “the vaccine is safe and effective”. I thought my employer would be reasonable and allow me to return to work when the state of NSW opened up to the unvaccinated in December 2021. I also believed my 27+ years’ service and corporate knowledge would be valued. It seemed odd that I could meet work colleagues for lunch but I still was not allowed to work with them. Also remote working was still an option being used by many of my vaccinated work colleagues. I could see from department-wide emails the vaccination did not prevent staff catching COVID-19 as there were many incidences of floors requiring a deep clean after staff fell ill or tested positive to COVID (only vaccinated staff were allowed in the building).

OTN: That all sounds bonkers. As a former NSW Health employee myself, I can relate, even down to the working from home detail, and wondering why anyone (including us!) could walk in off the street and start working on a laptop, for another company, but we couldn’t work for this company, from home. So I’m very glad that you were able to achieve some justice. What is the nature of your case and legal victory? For example, did they force you to take them to court, or did you settle?

KNOTT: I had a small win with WorkCover at a Commission Hearing in late September this year [2025], an agreement was reached out of court. They awarded me 15% impairment. I had a strong case re length of service, responding to Show Cause letters and requesting information. When I did see my GP to discuss my situation she recommended I take AstraZeneca and that I should do it for the greater good. I never went back to see her after that so the medical side was a bit sparse. The lawyer did mention that Health was a little more challenging than Education.

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