Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 236

[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; 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

Brownstone article on Ralph Baric & Coof

[(Anonymous)]

For those who may not regularly scan the Brownstone Institute webpage, today there’s an in-depth article about the origins of the Coof and the specific ties to Ralph Baric:
https://brownstone.org/articles/did-ralph-baric-at-unc-create-sars-cov-2/

I’m pretty much convinced.

BTW, I found it… interesting to do an image search on Mr. Baric to see his visage.

Ooof

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

BTW, that was me who posted the reference to the Brownstone article about Ralph Baric. It’s not always obvious that there’s options in the “From” field…

Geerts latest

[(Anonymous)]

Geert is back with more predictions of doom. At this point of course he has cried wolf so many times its hard to see what he says coming to pass. Still he was right about the massive increase in covid variants. Also the damage to his own reputation to stick to his guns is admirable and makes me keep an eye on his work.

He is saying that the latest variants seem to be on the cusp of an evolutionary but very dangerous jump that could lead to a true widespread pandemic among the vaxxed. Its a long tail risk and a massive black swan event if it occurs.

Anyone with informed views on this?

https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/why-the-current-calm-in-sars-cov?utm_source=substack&publication_id=555295&post_id=192011892&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=gqx95&triedRedirect=true

Re: Geerts latest

[(Anonymous)]

That is not exactly what he said.
He said that covid was under evolutionary pressure that may eventually lead to a much more virulent strain to overcome the protection from the vaccines. Additionally, I don't think it is clear that unvaxxed would be spared from the potential strain. He has another post from last summer also making this prediction for a hi vi cron variant.

Re: Geerts latest

[(Anonymous)]

I would suggest reading up on GVB's career history before deciding whether to take him seriously or not. Is his role to muddy the waters and distract attention from the vaccine injuries that have been caused by the mRNA technology?

GVB is a long way from being any kind of impartial authority - if there even is such a person in the virology and vaccinology fields.

https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/authors/geert-vanden-bossche

Worked on vaccine R&D:

"After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development."

Worked for Bill Gates and GAVI:

"Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager."

Worked on global pandemic preparedness:

"He also represented GAVI in fora with other partners, including WHO, to review progress on the fight against Ebola and to build plans for global pandemic preparedness."

The last one especially is not at all suspicious. I'm sure we can believe everything that GVB is saying.

Re: Geerts latest

[(Anonymous)]

My sister lives in a nursing home here in Ontario, Canada. They are in the midst of a COVID outbreak and are in lock-down. She called to give me an update. Apparently, they were told that what they are experiencing is a new variant that is much more severe than what they have experienced previously. So far, four people have died and, again, from what she has been told, the expectation is that they will lose more patients. Needless to say, everyone in the facility has received several COVID shots. Understandably, there is a lot of concern.

I'm not sure if this is what Geert is refering to but this what is happening in one facility here in Southern Ontario.

Liam in Toronto

[(Anonymous)]

The meme made me think of a Brownstone article from April 2023:

https://brownstone.org/articles/clean-vs-dirty-a-way-to-understand-everything/

I went back and re-read it. I think it stands up very well 3 years later.

The premise is, "It is possible to understand nearly everything going on today...as a grand effort by those people who perceive themselves to be clean to stay away from people they regard as dirty." I found myself nodding in agreement as I read the article, just as I must have when I bookmarked it 3 years ago. It tracks with the PMC set I know.

Figured I'd re-share this week in the spirit of the meme.

[scotlyn]

Obviously, grand efforts to explain EVERYTHING seldom live up to that promise. Still, I do think this concept of clean vs dirty explains some of the things we see.

Certainly a great deal of cultural and political capital has built up around the fearful concept of contagion and the sale of ways and means - esoteric and material - to avoid/prevent it.

Up to and including genocide (which is sometimes described as an exercise in exterminating contagious and dangerous human "vermin.")

[scotlyn]

PS - there is a great deal to be said for this perspective, though.

It is not for nothing that ordinary, low status, non-elite people, are lumped together as "the great unwashed." ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe anyone would do this to their child, but I guess this doctor is a true believer.

https://x.com/stopvaccinating/status/2036319675655790729

alldaychemist update

[charlieobert]

This is an update on buying ivermectin from alldaychemist, a company in India. Last week I posted that it was stalled in Dubai until the situation in the Mideast stabilized.

I got a notification it had shipped, with tracking number, earlier this week. Yesterday the parcel arrived in my mailbox.

I have no information on what route they used, but they successfully got it to me.

I'm pleased to say I would consider buying from them again in the future.

Re: alldaychemist update

[revert2mean]

I found them absolutely fantastic until Australian customs started confiscating their parcels and demanding a prescripton.

[lukedodson]

Update on the 'meningitis outbreak' in Canterbury:

"Cases fall" as students are told they never had meningitis in the first place. https://x.com/davidkurten/status/2035819415384543712

The wording would imply that the best cure for a disease is never having had it in the first place. Retrocausality in medicine? I'm sure Fauci would be claiming it, were he to crawl out from under his dingy rock.

I wonder how many of the 'meningitis' cases were actually hungover students...

[(Anonymous)]

If it is the bacterial easy to treat with Metronidazole (Flagyl). Blueberry

[(Anonymous)]

Biden officials pushed COVID booster harder after surveillance found stroke increase: Sen. Johnson

Biden White House made edits to draft CDC and FDA "communications plan" to increase booster uptake, that "downplayed the significance of the safety signal" from "moderately" to "slightly" elevated, investigations chair says.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/biden-officials-pushed-covid-booster-harder-after-surveillance-found-stroke

..and in no way am i surprised.

[(Anonymous)]

Key Adviser Quits Federal Vaccine Panel

The New York Times reported:

Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the federal committee that recommends vaccines to Americans, angrily resigned his position on Tuesday. The panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, is currently in judicial limbo. A federal judge ruled last week that the advisers, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., did not have the expertise needed to make vaccine recommendations and prevented them from meeting as planned this month.

The judge also blocked all of the committee’s actions to date, including decisions to rescind recommendations for some childhood vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services has indicated that it will appeal the ruling but has not said when. Dr. Malone indicated that he would not rejoin the committee even if the ruling were to be overturned or if Mr. Kennedy announced a new slate of advisers.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gnw-key-adviser-quits-federal-vaccine-panel/

more at link

[weilong]

I'm no lawyer, but my understanding of the way this stuff is supposed to work is that the executive agency has discretionary authority in this matter, and the judiciary can't interfere unless some law has been violated. The judge in this case appears to be questioning the validity of subjective judgements, rather than any allegation of wrongdoing. I'm sure the judge knows that his injunction is BS that will be overturned by a higher court - the intent is purely a partisan tactic to interfere with legitimate exercise of executive authority.

As I see it, the real danger here is that these tactics will eventually lead to the end of judicial review when the president (whether it's Trump or the next guy) decides to ignore these injunctions. When the checks and balances are gone, we will have a dictatorship on our hands.

[(Anonymous)]

Woman featured in pro-euthanasia commercial wanted to live, say friends

'I feel like I'm falling through the cracks so if I'm not able to access health care am I then able to access death care?' Hatch said in a CTV interview

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/woman-euthanasia-commercial-wanted-to-live

this is just so wrong..
nothing that is happening feels real anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

oh, i apologize
that article was from 2022 but someone posted it and i thought it was recent.

but still. this did happen and is happening..

[(Anonymous)]

off topic but i believe relevant with all the craziness going on in healthcare nowadays.
this reminds me of all sorts of horrors they did to ppl..
and still do according to some in the comments.

Is This Really “Treatment?” Clinics Are Selling Brain Shock Gimmicks to Struggling Adolescents

https://joehoft.com/is-this-really-treatment-clinics-are-selling-brain/

[fredsmith11]

"all the craziness going on in healthcare nowadays" started in the early 1900s when the business model to remove ancient, herbal-naturopath style remedies from the menu and replace them with Pharma-poisons was initiated.

The usual suspects lead the charge.

It surely proved to be profitable . . . shame many people are sicker than ever though.

Special shout out to the vax industry, which is just a brilliant business model. Again shame about the autism and appalling childhood sickness metrics (nod to the 20M+ COVID jab deaths too), but 'tis great for shareholders.

First Biden, then Trump, then the whole world

[revert2mean]

I just thought of something. Both Biden and Trump had multi covid jabs. Remember A Midwestern Doctor pointing out that the last time Biden ever spoke coherently was just before his booster, his covid shot #3. After that he slid into that rapid dementia which meant he couldn't be put forward for re-election.
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Then Trump won. He's also multi-covid-jabbed. He seems to have also had a rapid slide into dementia since taking office. No doubt POTUS is also a very, very stressful job for people in their 70s and 80s. This dementia, along with Trump's lifelong personality disorder, seems to make it impossible for him to make sensible decisions or take advice.

That dementia contributed, no doubt, to the utterly deranged decision to launch war on Iran because a foreign power was going to attack Iran, so the US had to join in. Launching a war of aggression at the behest of a foreign power. No biggie apparently.

So it looks like the covid jabs will now destroy the world economy and possibly the whole world. I therefore conclude that the jabs were even worse than we all thought, just not in a way any of us predicted.

Re: First Biden, then Trump, then the whole world

[(Anonymous)]

Setting aside my up-bubbling comments on Biden and Trump (so as not to wander past the guidelines of this forum), I can say that I have observed that, indeed, soon after taking covid jabs, many people I know have slid into dementia. I will admit that it's entirely possible that some of these individuals might have fallen into dementia without the jabs. I mean, senility, it happens. But there do seem to be a lot more of them and all of a sudden since 2021.

Ditto relatives and friends with cardiac, neurological, and gastrointestinal issues.

But back to the question of dementia. What I find most disturbing are the numbers of people I know personally in their 50s and 60s who are complaining of brain fog and, specifically, having trouble remembering names and words. That can happen to anyone at any age, of course, but it has been a remarkable thing to me how often people comment on that in conversation. None connect their cognitive problems (nor any other problems) to the shots, however.

As far as the covid jabs affecting the economy, well, I note that many people were financially ruined from the lockdowns, more ruined when they lost their jobs over the mandates, and even more ruined who took the jabs and are now saddled with unending massive medical bills. Plus many are now saddled with having to care for others who cannot care for themselves.

Those who can keep their physical, mental, and spiritual health, keep their sense of humor, and manage to live within their means, the future is their oyster.

— Teal Anti-Vaxx-o-rama Armadillo

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

Regarding the present POTUS being in dementia: perhaps go to YewToob and watch a few instances of him speaking; the channel there to access is “The White House”. Look at his cabinet meeting today, for instance, or perhaps his recent swearing-in ceremony of the new DHS Secretary, or the press gaggle in Palm Beach from three days ago. All of those are uncut and lengthy. Watch carefully and at length.

I will observe that POTUS often is in “stump speech” mode and repeats things he’s uttered previously, but that’s true for… about any politician you care to examine.

The difficulty to overcome (or question) is: am I (are you/we) assessing the mental clarity of a person based on short clips of video from perhaps-biased or even manipulated sources, or assessing said clarity by listening to or reading from commentators, or from going to the original source? And the “Forbes Breaking News” on YT has many of the same events available, uncut, from alternate cameras to use for validation & cross-reference in order to detect any hanky-panky on the White House videos.

Respectfully yours.

[fredsmith11]

Ever wondered if he's just playing a role and it's all a pantomime?

Can Occam's Razor still work in the face of unrelenting delusion and incompetence exhibited by so many Western leaders?

[revert2mean]

It's the constant confabulation that worries me, the sitting up all night rage-tweeting, the loss of contact with reality, the physical symptoms, the fact that the people around him are all managing him. Apart from all that, sure, he doesn't have dementia.

[(Anonymous)]

dr malone:


The HighWire: in which I share truths about what is going on with the ACIP mess thehighwire.com/watch/

https://xcancel.com/RWMaloneMD/status/2037262236771623070#m

https://thehighwire.com/watch/

[tritumi]

As when we challenged jab true believers and their faith grew stronger, is it so also with those entering dementia and cognitive displacement. That is, does the need for certainty eclipse reason and becoming an inverted survival instinct?

[charlieobert]

I think something simpler and more dangerous is going on here.

One of the strong taboos in our culture is ever admitting that you were wrong, that you made a mistake, and that something you did caused harm. Instead, the response is to lash out and find someone to blame.

We are in a culture rooted in pride, status, appearance, that views humility as - well, humiliating.

If you'd rather die than be humiliated...

Canterbury meningitis follow-up / reflections

[stubborn_ass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53y6LRkSmCg

Video by Nigel Watson in UK... he has a small following... I watch his stuff once in a while to get a sense of what he's seeing on the ground in his neck of the woods etc.

In the 2nd half half of this video, he said that the system in UK basically threw the kitchen sink in pushing the meningitis fear mongering. All the media was involved in pushing the messaging. Much worse and much harder than the monkey pox... and it was pretty much a damp squib - as during the coof era, such messaging would get 90% of folks to agree with a lockdown, but even in normey central Surrey (his words), the online comments were 90% against the govt's messaging, and that it was a load of bollocks.

My sense from reading the comments here regarding the situation is that most were rightly quite skeptical about the real causes and also whether the offered treatment (jabs and a certain antibiotics) were worth it. What struck me is that we had the requisite responses defending antibiotics... I don't believe they were trolls, (or maybe our host let the comments pass to gauge the level of our BS detectors)...

Point 1 - they created yet another imaginary crisis. Some people here actually worried about another lockdown.. I didn't understand the fear, as I myself was not going to obey them on that count ever again. If someone else was silly enough to do so because they still haven't figured that the government never had their best interests at heart to begin with.. well, they chose to follow stupid orders. The timeless quote - play stupid games, win stupid prizes - applies in spades.

Point 2 - Concentrated media focus, and stories about folks wanting jabs for protection.. and how great jabs are. The utter predictability of the coverage just shows the absolute laziness of those folks pushing the agenda... or maybe they're too brain-dead from the coof jabs to adapt their previous playbook even a little. What I found interesting was that I was tracking the coverage of said 'epidemic' across the western-influenced world... and in the previous monkey pox, all the vassal states duly used their MSM to push the same fear stories, and showcase one or two 'cases' with quarantines or serious hospital treatment needed... even Singapore was pushing the monkey pox thing for a while that it made it into the consciousness of the elderly (who were definitely not at risk given the main modes of transmission). This time round, you get a few short mentions and it quietly died within a week worldwide... that's how weak the coordination was. That's a fantastic sign in my humble opinion... that the local elites around the world are no longer moving in lockstep, that their implied ties to each other have been frayed and quite a few broken beyond repair.

Point 3 - Antibiotics. As part of the systemic indoctrination, too many still hold the belief that antibiotics is a necessary lifesaver. But when people start taking a 1st line antibiotic like cipro as a prophylatic for meningitis, that is just insane/crazy/against-all-medical-logic IMHO. Meningitis doesn't spread upon contact (6 ft apart anyone?)... and they eventually admitted to too high of a case count due to false positives (same playbook again). Basic fact - our gut biology determines the strength of our immune system. Any strong antibiotics taken messes with that, and any short-term positives has to be weighed against the longer-term effects. My own thinking and understanding on antibiotics has evolve quite a bit since 5 years ago.... at the very start, I'd stocked up on all the mainline antibiotics... but when I look at my stash now, they're pretty much untouched, except for doxycycline - a very old antibiotics that's been around for multi-decades.. and something that people have used daily for extended periods of time without messing up the gut. It's pretty much dirt cheap in most of the world... but some private equity guy bought the US manufacturing rights to doxycycline and hiked the price 1000x and it created a huge outcry. I can't recall his name now, but he had used the same playbook on other old drugs that were off-patent and made a huge bundle... but turns out a lot of US folks were relying on doxy and that created a serious backlash that landed him in jail. A lot of the foods we eat have naturally strong anti-bacterial properties... and there's usually herbal 'antibiotic' like remedies which solves people's issues without messing up the gut biome.

Coughing in Public

[artisanity]

Before 2020 folks occasionally coughed in public. In my public outings, I see no more coughers. Somehow they have learned how to repress the urge. Anyone who coughs now is a pariah, even if they cover their mouth and distance themselves.

Re: Coughing in Public

[fredsmith11]

Me cough in public, sneeze too. Me not been told pariah yet . . .

Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

Week 236

Dear JMG and dear forumistas, thank you.

A glimmer of light in the recent ruling about censorship in the US— Missouri v. Biden.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/judge-landmark-censorship-case-win-free-speech-missouri-v-biden/

Taking it one day at a time.

Cetiosaurus