Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 233
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ecosophia
We are now well 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; 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.
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Social Media Cognitive Collapse
Date: 2026-03-03 04:12 pm (UTC)1) With social media functioning in many ways as the public square, this meant that on a major, contentious issue, one side was unable to express themselves. The result, predictably, was a swing towards extreme pro-vaccine content on the internet.
2) The algorithms are dumb. Like LLMs, they lack any ability to actually know what they are doing. This means that a lot of things which were not meant to be banned were banned; and when there was a concern about a flu like virus, things spiraled out of control. No one meant for these algorithms to censor anyone who tried to point out that a new virus was only as dangerous a the flu: but comments about the flu not being dangerous were often used by people who were opposing the flu vaccine, so they were removed by these algorithms.
With one side of the debate (anyone who tried to say Covid-19 was not dangerous) being censored, by algorithms which act on a scale human beings cannot keep up with, and no one fully understands, while even the most absurd claims from the other side of the debate (COVID WILL KILL US ALL!) being pushed by the algorithms due to their sensational nature, of course there was a collective mental breakdown.
I've even come to suspect that this is an unspoken part of why the tech companies distanced themselves so strongly from the left in the last few years: we're still dealing with the consequences of this mess, and the tech companies can see what drove it. If it was a result of what, at the time, probably seemed like an innocuous decision to remove content which they were assured was false, I could easily see a huge realignment with the tech companies no longer wanting to risk censoring anything online. Obviously coming right out and saying that would be politically impossible; but they are rapidly walking back a lot of their previous censorship systems.
Re: Social Media Cognitive Collapse
Date: 2026-03-03 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: Social Media Cognitive Collapse
Date: 2026-03-03 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: Social Media Cognitive Collapse
Date: 2026-03-04 08:16 pm (UTC)I share your view. I was banned from FB, 2 times, actually my concern for the waxxine was purely from a quality assurance view. First time was a day second time was a lot and I deleted my account. I think I waited until the ban was over to be able to delete it.
I actually go a few step further than you theory.
I think one aspect why IT is so done right now is that a lot of IT corporate flunkies got the clot shot and is incompatible with quality coding and thinking.
That might explain two things:
- Why these companies are trying to make LLM to work for software, because things are going downhill and software is important, first they thought is work from home but it work with excellent results before the waxxine mandates.
- Why a lot of software engineers embrace LLMs because they are impaired by brain problems from the clot shot!
Re: Social Media Cognitive Collapse
Date: 2026-03-05 06:26 pm (UTC)But wasn't the online 'fact-checking' being done by humans? And didn't Matt Taibbi reveal that the US government had pressured Big Tech to censor medically heterdox positions on Covid and vaccines?
Pardon my ignorance, but I thought all this had been well-established. Perhaps I missed something?
Dylan
Re: Social Media Cognitive Collapse
Date: 2026-03-05 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-03 05:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-03 05:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-03 07:07 pm (UTC)I'm not a doctor, however, after decades of seeing people I know change in very ugly ways after starting SSRIs, and after doing my own research (oh yeah, lol, my own research), you'd have to a put a gun to my head before I'd take an SSRI.
And if I were to get married, it would be in the prenup: a committment to taking no SSRIs, and no mRNA jabs, either. In other words, no artificially messing with the personality and no messing with the genes.
As I see it, there's plenty of drama and heartbreak in this world without adding to it unnecessarily, and there are many centuries-testing ways to cope with anxiety— none of which involve going to a doctor for the latest heavily marketed Big Pharma money maker.
That's my point of view and it's been my point of view for many years now. I've seen too much.
Assuming this comment goes through— thanks, JMG, for the chance to get up on my soapbox.
Amaranth Ludicrous Gila Monster
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Date: 2026-03-04 01:23 am (UTC)I wrote:
"In addition, I am aware of the gaslighting for covid injuries..."
I meant to write:
"In addition, I am aware of the gaslighting for covid 'vaccine' injuries..."
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Date: 2026-03-03 07:18 pm (UTC)Is there some sort of magical intervention that I can do besides my daily banishing ritual when dealing with a hostile medical and legal system?
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Date: 2026-03-03 08:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-03 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-03 10:11 pm (UTC)Far be it from me to offer medical advice - but I think this can be applied generally.
Perhaps the only magic you need is a new approach.
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Date: 2026-03-04 05:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-04 12:05 am (UTC)Even the "positive" study shows that there is benefit for depression only after 6 weeks of taking it. A lot can happen in 6 weeks for a person's depression to improve. That's doubtless the reason they got the one positive study.
SSRIs have side effects of weight-gain, loss of sex-drive, and emotional flattening. They cause physical dependency, so are hard to discontinue. They have a box-label warning showing risk of "suicidal ideation", and a small risk of homicidality in patients under 25; the Columbine shooters, among others, were shown to have been on them. Returning to sex-drive: depression alone will impair it, but SSRI's make it still worse. As a doctor, I am unimpressed with their results. My Aspergers-addled brain cannot fathom why doctors and patients love them so much.
I have initiated SSRIs on only 4 or 5 occasions, but only off-label as part of an empiric drug cocktail to treat refractory neuropathic pain.
I seldom start psychotropic meds for depression. When pressed, I opine that depression is not an illness, but a normal response to adverse life circumstances versus acquired dysfunctional mental attitudes, and that neither is amenable to drug therapy. I offer referral to a counselor or psychiatrist. When I do prescribe for depression, I find tricyclics such as nortriptyline or desipramine to be the best tolerated and most effective (probably because they promote restful sleep. I consider tricyclics the best sleeping pills out there and that they should be reclassified from antidepressants to hypnotics).
But SSRIs for "long Covid"? Yow. I agree with your take; that versus placebo. My profession has long lost its rudder, to speak nothing of its cajones.
--Lunar Apprentice
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Date: 2026-03-04 03:19 am (UTC)--Lunar Apprentice
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Date: 2026-03-05 06:12 pm (UTC)Amen, and thank you for stating this so bluntly! In my teens and twenties people close to me at various times urged me (lovingly) to try antidepressants, and I resisted a long time because it just didn't make sense to me that the crises I was going through could just be magicked away with a special pill. I had to move myself into a better situation, find supportive friends, revise my dysfunctional mental attitudes, and grieve, and all these were normal life processes. Six months on an SSRI somewhere in that period seems to have done me no lasting harm, and I'm glad it was such a short period of time, looking back.
I am very curious to learn more about tricyclics as sleep aids, as I've never heard of this before. Poor sleep is an issue I've been dealing with in more recent years. (I wouldn't ask, except that you have outed yourself as a doctor, so as far as I understand you're allowed to answer as you see fit). I am working with a homeopath on this issue and seeing some progress, but any clues I can glean would be much appreciated.
Dylan
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Date: 2026-03-04 02:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-04 05:39 am (UTC)Also my parents, both in their late 70's diabetic and cancer survivors, they caught it as well and pulled up just fine. A few rough days like a flu but back to normal shortly afterwards. Life goes on.
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Date: 2026-03-04 06:43 pm (UTC)Yet I recall that pretty early on, like in 2020, Steve Kirsch was championing a generic SSRI, fluvoxamine, as very effective at preventing hospitalizations for covid cases. It has kind of faded from view since, eclipsed by ivermectin especially.
But alternative treatments for COVID and the vax-injured are often identical, so it's possible that there's some mechanism that helps mitigate spike damage in at least certain members of this class of drug.
Not that I am recommending SSRI's, mind you, but this idea has been around for many years now.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*
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Date: 2026-03-09 05:35 am (UTC)Yes, and it seems that Kirsch's frustrations in that direction alerted him to the fact that something strange was going on.
Here's a relevant transcript:
"3/4/22- Panel Discussion on COVID-19 and Medical Freedom"
https://vimeo.com/808441816/09316d41f0
via: https://senatormastriano.com/medicalfreedompanel/
Back up copy:
Sunfellow on COVID-19, posted March 8, 2022
Pennsylvania State Senate Discussion On COVID-19 And Medical Freedom
https://rumble.com/vwvfds-pennsylvania-state-senate-discussion-on-covid-19-and-medical-freedom.html
TRANSCRIPT - FIRST OF TWO EXCERPTS
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
- Doug Mastriano is Pennsylvania state Senator (Republican - 33rd District)
https://senatormastriano.com/
-Steve Kirsch is founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation https://www.vacsafety.org
His newsletter is https://kirschsubstack.com/
See also: https://www.skirsch.io/vaccine-resources/
and see: https://www.trialsitenews.com/p/stevekirsch
30:24
SENATOR DOUG MASTRIANO: Our next presentation is from Mr. Steve Kirsch. He's a former Silicon Valley tech executive. When the pandemic started he created the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund to fund researchers working on repurposed drugs including fluvoxamine,[1] which is shown to reduce death from covid by a factor of 12. That's amazing. That study was featured on "60 Minutes." Steve also writes a popular covid 19 newsletter on Substack, and has testified in front of the US Senate regarding the pandemic response. Steve, thank you for joining us. Over to you. Sorry the weather's not better than California.
31:01
STEVE KIRSCH: Oh, no problem. Thank you, senator. So I was minding my own business as a high tech executive in Silicon Valley, the pandemic hit, I was forced to quarantine at home and I looked around for what I could do to make a difference. I've been a philanthropist, medical philanthropist, for over 20 years. Talked to my doctor friends and they all said that early treatment was the fastest, safest, and cheapest way to end the pandemic. And they said that the government wasn't funding it and nobody else was in the world either.
So I put a million dollars of my money, and I raised another 5 million from some friends, and we started the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, and said we had funds available, and one of the people to apply was at Washington University and they wanted to study this drug called fluvoxamine. So we funded the study. It was extremely successful. 100% of the people who got the drug, none of them were hospitalized, compared to 8.3% of the people on the placebo.
When I received that result, because fluvoxamine is a safe drug, it's been around for close to 40 years with no, maybe, you know, one or two reported deaths in 40 years, it was pretty obvious to me that, when you have a drug with such a profound effect, that it should be used by everyone. But when it was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,[2] they said that doctors should not use it until it's studied more. This was when we had no treatment at all that was approved. And I thought this was insane.
And I so happened to be on a Zoom call with another doctor, and it turned out that he was a doctor at Golden Gate Fields, a race track, and they had a covid outbreak the day after my talk, when I talked about fluvoxamine, so he decided to try it.
So what happened there? 12% were hospitalized in the group that didn't have fluvoxamine, zero percent were hospitalized in the group that did have fluvoxamine. And there was no long haul covid for anyone who took fluvoxamine, whereas 40% of the people who didn't take fluvoxamine had long haul covid.
So here it was replicated again in real life and people got to choose. And it was so effective that all the employees after the first 2 weeks when they said, nah, maybe I don't want to do this, all the employees who got covid went to the doctor and said, I want the drug. Even the track management said that they wanted the drug to hold in their, on their shelf in case they got covid because they were so convinced at the dramatic difference between a 12.5% hospitalization rate versus zero percent on the people on the drug. And there were no side effects of the drug. Nobody died. It was absolutely spectacular.
So what happened? So we applied for emergency use authorization at the FDA and it took them 6 weeks, 6 weeks to come back and say, well, we can't grant you an emergency use authorization, first, because we're not convinced you have enough data, that the benefits outweigh the risks. We don't think there's enough data on that. And the second thing is, that you need to come in with a drug company sponsoring you. And we couldn't find a drug company that would sponsor us at that time. And even after it was proven a 12 times reduction in mortality, that was later proven in a large Phase III trial, no drug company would come in with us for an EUA, so therefore it was not possible for the government to grant an EUA for this drug that would have saved lives.
Now I subsequently learned that there is a protocol by George Fareed and Brian Tyson[3] that had been started in March of 2020. This was about the same time I started funding this research. They have 100% success rate in keeping people out of the hospital. 100%. Nobody dies. And I think that they did have like a couple of hospitalizations, but those are the people who got early treatment late. So their early treatment protocol has been around since March, it's treated over 10,000 patients with no, with just a couple of hospitalizations and no deaths.
So what does the NIH [National Institutes of Health] do? They do nothing. They don't even call them back. They tried to call the NIH and say, hey, we have this remarkable treatment, it's proven, you can check the hospitals, that nobody's checking in, you know, with our protocol. And they were totally ignored by the NIH, despite repeated attempts. And they couldn't get any other doctors to believe them, either. But it's all there, it's all documented, over 10,000 cases, zero deaths.
Had the NIH listened to them, this, we would have never had any lockdowns, we would have never had any pandemic, we would have never had social distancing. But they didn't listen.
And I just racked it up to just incompetence at the time. And so I still believed that the FDA and the CDC were on the level, and so even though I knew about fluvoxamine, I said, well why don't I, you know, just get the extra edge by getting the vaccine? Because they said it's safe and effective. So I believed what the CDC said and I got doubly-vaccinated, and my family got doubly-vaccinated, and my kids got doubly-vaccinated.
A month later, we started, I started hearing stories.[4] I heard a story of one person who said that she had 3 relatives who died a week after they got the vaccine and they were all perfectly healthy before they got the shot. I said, that's impossible. That, statistically, you don't exist. And then a week after that, I heard that story, my carpet cleaner came in and he was wearing a mask, and I said, why are you wearing a mask? Haven't you been vaccinated? He said, yeah, but I only got one shot. I said, how come you didn't get the second shot? He said, I had a heart attack 2 minutes after I got the vaccine. And I said, OK, wait a minute. Two minutes after you got the vaccine, not 2 minutes before you got the vaccine. Yeah, 2 minutes after I got the vaccine and I almost died. And he's been in serious pain ever since that time. And he also mentioned that his wife had Parkinson's-like syndrome where she was holding a glass of water and her hand was shaking like she has Parkinson's, and that lasted for 3 months after she got the shot in that arm that had the Parkinson's.
So at this point, I knew someone was lying to me. And it wasn't my friends.
38:02
[END OF FIRST EXCERPT]
> SECOND EXCERPT
https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/191806.html
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
[1] "Fluvoxamine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Fluvoxamine is used to treat symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in adults and children at least 8 years old. Fluvoxamine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide."
— Source: https://www.drugs.com/mtm/fluvoxamine.html
[2] "Fluvoxamine vs Placebo and Clinical Deterioration in Outpatients With Symptomatic COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial"
Eric J. Lenze, MD1; Caline Mattar, MD2; Charles F. Zorumski, MD1; et al
Journal of the American Medical Association
November 12, 2020
[3] Dr. Bryan Tyson gives an overview of the protocol in his November 6, 2021 talk at the Florida COVID Summit. See: https://3speak.tv/watch?v=pandemichealth/ugbidctm
For an annotated transcript, see: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/157012.html
See also:
Overcoming the COVID Darkness: How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7000 Patients
by Brian Tyson, MD and George Fareed, MD, 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-COVID-19-Darkness-Successfully-Patients/dp/B09PVNF24K
[4] In his interview of Dr. James Thorp, Steve Kirsch recounts in more detail the story of how he realized that the covid jabs could not be safe and effective as claimed.
Source video:
"Dr. James Thorp on medical censorship"
by Steve Kirsch, January 3, 2022
https://rumble.com/vru732-dr.-james-thorp-on-medical-censorship.html
Transcript of excerpt [1:26:35 - 1:35:42]
https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/21308.html
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Date: 2026-03-09 05:02 pm (UTC)A thought occurs to me-- have you ever been invited to one of the Brownstone dinners to present a little talk about what you've documented? I understand completely if you're publicity shy, but it might be an excellent way to get the word out to an even larger audience. So would an article for the Brownstone website, and they allow pen names there, if you guard your privacy.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*
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Date: 2026-03-04 10:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-04 01:57 pm (UTC)Often the justification isn't to treat the primary ailment, but rather to "treat" the emotional difficulties that may stem from dealing with physical problems. So what they may be doing is just claiming that depression is a symptom/side effect of having had covid, and SSRIs are part of the "treatment" plan.
The obsession with SSRIs is almost on par with the obsession with vaccines. I can't tell you how many times I or someone I know has had SSRIs pushed on them over virtually nothing. College kid with a procrastination problem? SSRIs can help! Adult going through a rough divorce? SSRIs will help you get through! Chronic pain from a physical injury? SSRIs for your emotions! Old and frustrated with your increasing physical limitations? Have some SSRIs! Poor? Poverty can cause depression - SSRIs are the answer!
My assumption is that they are a very, very lucrative product.
NPR flip-floppery
Date: 2026-03-03 07:12 pm (UTC)https://www.npr.org/2026/03/02/nx-s1-5729102/ivermectin-politics-treatment-cancer-evidence
Rises in VIM poisonings? “Proven” treatments? Fresh rounds of disinformation? Blehh! The article is a MESS! Poor widdow ting, ish your funding in turmoil?
Re: NPR flip-floppery
Date: 2026-03-04 12:58 pm (UTC)My own pop-psychology assessment is that those folks have done well with the system previously (Alex Berenson was with the NYT), Moriarity made bank serving Uncle Sam in different tricky locales around the world, while Moran's cartoons were syndicated widely. So somehow they still hold a candle to the system? That's the only explanation I can come up with... as to why they would believe some of the lies that the system has been propagating. Again, just cheap pop psychology on my part, but something I've observed over the past few years.
On the other hand.... someone like Dr Makis was more open-minded when certain folks started to tell him VIM has a number of cancer curative effects, enough that he would try for himself. He is also reporting recently that a number of his patients who have been getting cured 'miraculously' using VIM had confided with their oncologists whom they trust that they were using VIM, and those oncologists encouraged them to continue doing so. Quite a sea change from just 2 years ago, when no one would dare to mention VIM to their assigned oncologists.
Re: NPR flip-floppery
Date: 2026-03-10 11:31 am (UTC)Aaron Siri
Date: 2026-03-04 07:58 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNkXIKijzcg
It took a while. Back in 2021 I might never have believed it would ever happen. But it's happened.
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Date: 2026-03-04 04:24 pm (UTC)https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/exclusive-arizona-state-house-makes-unprecedented-move-persons/
this is good to see...
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Date: 2026-03-04 04:26 pm (UTC)https://www.the-sun.com/money/16024683/pharmacy-closures-cvs-health-rite-aid-walgreens/
ive seen so many articles over the last couple years about this, its a wonder there are any pharmacies left.
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Date: 2026-03-04 04:30 pm (UTC)Declassified Documents Link U.S. Bioweapons Program to Lyme Disease Outbreak
Exclusive: Military released 282,800 radioactive ticks, suppressed co-infection research for 40 years
https://www.malone.news/p/declassified-documents-link-us-bioweapons
this is crazy!
Origin of Lyme disease
Date: 2026-03-05 08:00 pm (UTC)Re: Origin of Lyme disease
Date: 2026-03-06 04:46 am (UTC)I did find the discussions extremely useful, as it confirmed my gut instinct that there was serious nefarious intent behind many of the coof actions - that the system has form in doing such stuff again and again, with the coof being the largest scale one yet. Some folks wanted to remain credulous about govt/system intent, but the discussions laid out the facts and many personal experiences. Personally I just accept that the system often doesn't have me or my family's best interests at heart, and can thus plan our responses accordingly. Try to imagine the pressure of living in a society where the govt claimed that only 1.5% were totally unvexed. Knowing the typical playbook that would be utilized meant that one could predict how they would keep racheting up the pressure in different ways, week by week.. thus that pressure became no pressure, just a timeline to get our own counter-measures in place first. For example, one of the very last measures enacted here in Jan 2022 was the barring of the unvexed from public libraries. So a couple months before that, we made sure to set up our e-borrowing privileges properly. Yes, the govt got that petty here...
Yet years later, we find out that actually more folks had chosen not to take the jabs than the official 1.5% Folks had to stay on the downlow and not make themselves a target for obvious reasons... yet every couple weeks, I hear from within my circle that they've met yet another friend who didn't take the jabs, and the subject was cautiously broached, when they find that they had similar thinking - contrary to conventional wisdom on certain stuff... Maybe it's up to 3%... or even 5%, which might seem like a forlorn percentage, but not as lonely as 1.5% would be.
As an aside.. I haven't seen much talk of trying VIM for Lyme disease....for folks who might be suffering from Lyme, I believe HCQ + VIM won't hurt, and could help... if anyone has personal experiences to share, that would be nice data points to collect.
Re: Origin of Lyme disease
Date: 2026-03-08 06:52 pm (UTC)I always apprecaite your posts and updates from Singapore.
I'm feeling, hmmmm... a tiny bit encouraged.
I'm in the US, big blue metropolitan area, mainly PMC circles. I'm one of those who was marooned among the Kool-Aid drinkers and so quickly learned to go to ground. I did whatever it took to avoid the jabs, and to get through that intense period 2021-2023 (more or less) not only unjabbed but emotionally strong and steady. The latter was as big a battle as the former, maybe bigger.
I can still count on my fingers the number of people I know personally who have told me that they did not take the jabs. I got past counting on only one hand only a little while ago. Some of my friends and family are still getting themsleves injected wth boosters.
I also now know a few people who have been outspoken about medical freedom, but they didn't figure out that something nepharious was going on until after they'd taken 1- 3 injections.
Another colleague has started to show constant Parkinson's or Parkinson's-like tremoring.
Well, for my area, 1-3% refusing the jabs strikes me as realistic. I'd incline towards believing 1%. Of those who refused the jabs, I would guess that the majority would be self-employed or retired. The others? Tougher than nails.
health insurance inflation
Date: 2026-03-05 04:51 pm (UTC)https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/companies-report-raging-inflation-except-in-wages-rents.html
The subject is inflation, but note that the biggest area showing large increases is health insurance. Quote here:
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Wolf Richter’s recap of where business are facing cost pain prominently features health insurance cost, a big sticker shock item for households too. But even worse, Wolf contends that the health premium increases pushed corporations to tamp down on wage increase, leaving workers worse off in real income terms
Manufacturers reported that the costs of health insurance for employees shot up by 14.2% on average; service firms reported an average increase of 12.9%, according to a report by the New York Fed based on a survey of companies in the New York-Northern New Jersey region.
These are averages, but “some firms reported increases of between 25% and 50% when they renewed their coverage,” the report said.
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No mention is made of why specifically health insurance is the standout area.
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Date: 2026-03-06 12:01 am (UTC)https://elizabethhart.substack.com/p/to-mandate-someone-to-get-a-vaccine
Hmmm, what's next? I'm still blinking at the news that Aaron Siri was on Joe Rogan. Yay.
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Date: 2026-03-06 08:22 am (UTC)The network that the TV presenter mentioned in the article worked for was the Nine network. From the clips I saw online, I think they were the worst of all the TV networks in Australia in how they covered covid. In particular, their coverage of the anti lockdown protests was extremely hostile.
The nine network also owns two newspapers - The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Again, I think these two papers were among the worst in how they covered covid - it was basically fanatical support for covid totalitarianism with no attempt to provide any kind of balance. They published some really extreme and unhinged articles in support of the lockdowns, masks, and vaccine mandates.
To this day, these papers have not published any stories about all the people who were maimed and killed by the vaccines, like some other outlets have. They have actually gone very quiet on covid in the past year, and didn't even have anything to say about the fifth anniversary of the start of the lockdowns (early last year), which was interesting. But just before then, they were still pushing the usual fear mongering about the next "pandemic" and saying that lockdowns were still on the table.
Week 233 - thank you
Date: 2026-03-07 12:42 am (UTC)Dear JMG and dear forumistas, another heartfelt thank you.
One thing I've been wondering about is why I have heard so little (basically nothing) about pine needle tea for over a year now. Maybe 2 years. Supposedly pine needle tea is good for detoxing from spike.
Does anyone have any news or comment to offer on pine needle tea?
On another note— I've encountered a severe deterioration in the informationscape in recent weeks— on so many topics, searches everywhere just turn up mountains of AI-generated spew. Amazon is now full up with what appear to be AI- generated books. For a simple landscaping issue I could not find anything that appeared genuinely authoritative— I mean, by a person with a name and a biographical note including related experience. But spew— oh, endless LLM blah blah blah.
I recall some discussion we had here about the necessity of assembling a health reference library of paper books. I always thought that was a keen idea but I did not imagine the moment of urgency would be upon us already.
Cetiosaurus
Re: Week 233 - thank you
Date: 2026-03-08 02:11 pm (UTC)The thing is, that's a sample size of one, and I am well aware that the timing could just have been a coincidence, and I started drinking the tea around the time I would have gotten better anyway. But, I shared the experience, in case others wanted to give it a try and see if it helped.
My understanding is that PNT is traditionally used as an anti-parasitic. Which is interesting, considering that ivermectin is also used that way. There has been some speculation on whether or not anti-parasitics in general are helpful for some poorly-understood reason.
I've tried PNT for regular colds, but it didn't seem to have any effect. But again, sample size of one.
Re: Week 233 - thank you
Date: 2026-03-08 09:40 pm (UTC)Re: Week 233 - thank you
Date: 2026-03-09 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Week 233 - thank you
Date: 2026-03-09 06:16 am (UTC)Re: Week 233 - thank you
Date: 2026-03-08 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-08 02:27 am (UTC)AG Bondi Puts ANOTHER Hero Doctor on Trial, Faces 50 years in Prison
"...Dr. Elfenbein maintained his innocence and went to trial."
https://diedsuddenlynews.substack.com/p/ag-bondi-puts-another-hero-doctor
Terrible injustice. The attacks on a good doctor continues in Maryland…
“I’m facing 50 years in prison for treating Covid Patients with monoclonal antibodies…we need to get this to the attention of the Trump Administration and hope that they intervene…”
-Dr. Ron Elfenbein
https://xcancel.com/liz_churchill10/status/2030323143919767717#m
there is a clip at this link
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Date: 2026-03-08 01:27 pm (UTC)COVID vaccine liability lawsuit dismissed by rubber-stamp judicial panel that botched law: lawyer
Neither trial nor appeals court seems to understand the procedure for "willful misconduct" claims under the PREP Act, says lawyer for estate of college student who died from COVID vaccine.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-vaccine-liability-lawsuit-dismissed-rubber-stamp-judicial-panel
wow what a mess.
One-minute's silence at midday on Sunday after 248,000 deaths
Date: 2026-03-09 12:39 pm (UTC)https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/one-minutes-silence-midday-sunday-33551892
This was posted to FB and here are the main comments on it.
will there be a dance video!?
pharma-terrorist collaborators.
I’ll never forget how the TikTok dancing nurses were out in force during the plandemic
You mean the Big Cold of 2020?
Every day is a day of reflection. I've a pacemaker as a memento from the second dose of my Pfizer vaccine. I'm so glad the dancing nurses had fun.
Flu cases went to almost zero
I'll run up to Tesco & paint some arrows on the floor to remind people
I kept my old face nappy to commemorate the Covid shaleshow. Gonna put it on today in remembrance
Thank God my tin foil hat prevented me from taking the bait
Bless their hearts, they danced like nobody was watching…
How about a day of remembrance for those that took the snake juice and died suddenly and unexpectedly... Like my dear ex husband
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Date: 2026-03-09 10:46 pm (UTC)In the immediate crisis days of 2020 I bought two packages of chaga from a reliable Canadian firm. Throughout that summer I made chaga sun tea as a regular drink. More or less moved on to supplements and Vit I and still have about two thirds of my chaga supply.
Did anyone else employ chaga in your health regimen?