A $1.9 trillion stimulus package was recently signed into law in the United States. Can such a stimulus bill, plus packages passed in other countries, really pull the world economy out of the downturn it has been in since 2020? I don’t think so.
The economy runs on energy, far more than it operates on growing debt. Our energy problems don’t appear to be fixable in the near term, such as six months or a year. Instead, the economy seems to be headed for a collapse of its debt bubble. Eventually, we may see a reset of the world financial system leading to fewer interchangeable currencies, far less international trade and falling production of goods and services. Some governments may collapse.
[1] What Is Debt?
I understand debt to be an indirect promise for future goods and services. These future goods and services can only be created if there are adequate supplies of the right kinds of energy and other materials, in the right places, to make these future goods and services.
I think of debt as being a time-shifting device. Indirectly, it is a promise that the economy will be able to provide as many, or more, goods and services in the future compared to what it does at the time the loan is taken out.
Common sense suggests that it is much easier to repay debt with interest in a growing economy than in a shrinking economy. Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff unexpectedly ran across this phenomenon in their 2008 working paper, This Time Is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises. They reported (p. 15), “It is notable that the non-defaulters, by and large, are all hugely successful growth stories.” In other words, their analysis of 800 years of governmental debt showed that default was almost inevitable if a country stopped growing or started shrinking.
The IMF estimates that the world economy shrank by 3.5% in 2020. There are many areas with even worse indications: Euro Area, -7.2%; United Kingdom, -10.0%; India, -8.0%; Mexico, -8.5%; and South Africa, -7.5%. If these situations cannot be turned around quickly, we should expect to see collapsing debt bubbles. Even the US, which shrank by 3.4%, needs a rapid return to growth if it is to keep its debt bubble inflated.
[2] The Inter-Relationship Among (a) Growing Debt, (b) Growing Energy Consumption and a (c) Growing Economy
When we are far from energy limits, growing debt seems to pull the economy along. This is a graphic I put together in 2018, explaining the situation. A small amount of debt is helpful to the system. But, if there gets to be too much debt, both oil prices and interest rates rise, bringing the braking system into action. The bicycle/economy rapidly slows.
Just as a two-wheeled bicycle needs to be going fast enough to stay upright, the economy needs to be growing rapidly enough for debt to do what it is intended to do. It takes energy supply to create the goods and services that the economy depends on.
If oil and other energy products are cheap to produce, their benefit will be widely available. Employers will be able to add more efficient machines, such as bigger tractors. These more efficient machines will act to leverage the human labor of the workers. The economy can grow rapidly, without the use of much debt. Figure 2 shows that the world oil price was $20 per barrel in 2020$, or even less, prior to 1974.
Figure 3 below shows the historical relationship between the growth in US energy consumption (red line) and the dollar increase in US debt growth required to add a dollar increase in GDP (blue line). This chart calculates ratios for five-year periods because ratios for individual years are unstable.
Based on Figure 3, the US average annual growth in energy consumption (red line) generally fell between 1951 and 2020. The quantity of debt that needed to be added to create an additional $1 dollar of GDP (blue line) has generally been rising.
According to Investopedia, Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period. Notice that there is no mention of debt in this definition. If businesses or governments can find a way to make large amounts of credit available to borrowers who are not very credit worthy, it becomes easy to sell cars, motorcycles or homes to buyers who may never repay that debt. If the economy hits turbulence, these marginal buyers are likely to default, causing a collapse in a debt bubble.
[3] Analyzing Energy Consumption Growth, Debt Growth and Economic Growth for Broader Groupings of Years
To get a better idea what is happening with respect to energy growth, debt growth, and GDP growth, I created some broader groupings of years, based primarily on patterns in Figure 2, showing inflation-adjusted oil prices. The following groupings of years were chosen:
- 1950-1973
- 1974-1980
- 1981-2000
- 2001-2014
- 2015-2020
Using these groupings of years, I put together charts in which it is easier to see trends.
Figure 4 shows that for the US, there has been a general downward trend in the annual growth of energy consumption. At same time, real (that is, inflation-adjusted) GDP has been trending downward, but not quite as quickly.
We would expect that lower energy consumption would lead to lower growth in real GDP because it takes energy of the appropriate kinds to make goods and services. For example, it takes oil to ship most goods. It takes electricity to operate computers and keep the lights on. According to the World Coal Association, large quantities of coal are used in producing cement and steel. These are important for construction, such as is planned in stimulus projects around the world.
Also, on Figure 4, the period 1981 to 2000 shows an uptick in both energy consumption growth and real GDP growth. This period corresponds to a period of relatively low oil prices (Figure 2). With lower oil prices, businesses found it affordable to add new devices to leverage human labor, making workers more productive. The growing productivity of workers is at least part of what led to the increased growth in real GDP.
Figure 5, above, is disturbing. It strongly suggests that the US economy (and probably a lot of other economies) has needed to add an increasing amount of debt to add $1 of GDP in recent years. This pattern started long before President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package in 2021.
To make matters worse, GDP growth in Figure 5 has not been reduced to remove the impact of inflation. On average, removing the impact of inflation reduces the above GDP growth by about half. In the period 2015 to 2020, it took about $4.35 of additional debt to add one dollar of GDP growth, including inflation. It would take about double that amount, or $8.70 worth of debt, to create $1.00 worth of inflation-adjusted growth. With such a low return on added debt, it seems unlikely that the $1.9 trillion stimulus package will increase the growth of the economy very much.
[4] Falling interest rates (Figure 6) are a major part of what allowed the rapid growth in debt after 1981 shown in Figure 5.
Clearly, debt is more affordable if the interest rate is lower. For example, auto loans and home mortgages have lower monthly payments if the interest rate is lower. It is also clear that governments need to spend less of their tax revenue on interest rate payments if interest rates are lower. Changes made by US President Ronald Reagan when he took office 1981 also encouraged the use of more debt.
A major concern with respect to today’s debt bubble is the fact that interest rates are about as low as they can go without going negative. In fact, the interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds is now 1.72%, which is higher than the February 2021 average rate shown on the chart. As interest rates rise, it becomes more costly to add more debt. As interest rates rise, businesses will be less likely to take on debt in order to expand and hire more workers.
[5] Interest expense is a major expense of governments, businesses, and homeowners everywhere. Energy costs are another major expense of governments, businesses, and homeowners. It makes sense that falling interest rates can partly hide rising energy prices.
A trend toward lower interest rates was needed starting in 1981 because the US could no longer produce large amounts of crude oil that were profitable to sell at less than $20 per barrel, in inflation-adjusted prices. Lower interest rates made adding debt more feasible. This added debt could smooth the transition to an economy that was less dependent on oil, now that it was high-priced. The lower interest rates helped all segments of the economy adjust to the new higher cost of oil and other fuels.
[6] The US experience shows precisely how helpful having a rapidly growing supply of inexpensive to produce oil could be to an economy.
US oil production, excluding Alaska (blue “remainder” in Figure 7), rose rapidly after 1945 but began to decline not long after hitting a peak in 1970. This growing oil production had temporarily provided a huge boost to the US economy.
Up until almost 1970, US oil production was rising rapidly. Figure 8 shows that during this period, incomes of both the bottom 90% of workers and the top 10% of workers increased rapidly. Over a period of about 20 years, incomes for both groups grew by about 80%, after adjusting for inflation. On average, workers were about 4% better off each year, with the rapid growth in very inexpensive-to-produce oil, all of which stayed in the US (rather than being exported). US imports of inexpensive-to-produce oil also grew during this period.
Once oil prices were higher, income growth for both the lower 90% and the top 10% slowed. With the changes made starting in 1981, wage disparities quickly started to grow. There suddenly became a need for new, high-tech approaches that used less oil. But these changes were more helpful to the managers and highly educated workers than the bottom 90% of workers.
[7] Most of the world’s cheap-to-extract oil sources have now been exhausted. Our problem is that the world market cannot get prices to rise high enough for producers to cover all of their expenses, including taxes.
Based on my analysis, the world price of oil would need to be at least $120 per barrel to cover all of the costs it needs to cover. The costs that need to be covered include more items than an oil company would normally include in its costs estimates. The company needs to develop new fields to compensate for the ones that are being exhausted. It needs to pay interest on its debt. It also needs to pay dividends to its shareholders. In the case of shale producers, the price needs to be high enough that production outside of “sweet spots” can be carried on profitably.
For oil exporters, it is especially important that the sales price be high enough so that the government of the oil exporting country can collect adequate tax revenue. Otherwise, the exporting country will not be able to maintain food subsidy programs that the population depends on and public works programs that provide jobs.
[8] The world can add more debt, but it is difficult to see how the debt bubble that is created will really pull the world economy forward rapidly enough to keep the debt bubble from collapsing in the next year or two.
Many models are based on the assumption that the economy can easily go back to the growth rate it had, prior to COVID-19. There are several reasons why this seems unlikely:
- Many parts of the world economy weren’t really growing very rapidly prior to the pandemic. For example, shopping malls were doing poorly. Many airlines were in financial difficulty. Private passenger auto sales in China reached a peak in 2017 and have declined every year since.
- At the low oil prices prior to the pandemic, many oil producers (including the US) would need to reduce their production. The 2019 peak in shale production (shown in Figure 7) may prove to be the peak in US oil production because of low prices.
- Once people became accustomed to working from home, many of them really do not want to go back to a long commute.
- It is not clear that the pandemic is really going away, now that we have kept it around this long. New mutations keep appearing. Vaccines aren’t 100% effective.
- As I showed in Figure 5, adding more debt seems to be a very inefficient way of digging the economy out of a hole. What is really needed is a growing supply of oil that can be produced and sold profitably for less than $20 per barrel. Other types of energy need to be similarly inexpensive.
I should note that intermittent wind and solar energy is not an adequate substitute for oil. It is not even an adequate substitute for “dispatchable” electricity production. It is simply an energy product that has been sufficiently subsidized that it can often make money for its producers. It also sounds good, if it is referred to as “clean energy.” Unfortunately, its true value is lower than its cost of production.
[9] What’s Ahead?
I expect that oil prices will rise a bit, but not enough to raise prices to the level producers require. Interest rates will continue to rise as governments around the world attempt more stimulus. With these higher interest rates and higher oil prices, businesses will do less and less well. This will slow the economy enough that debt defaults become a major problem. Within a few months to a year, the worldwide debt bubble will start to collapse, bringing oil prices down by more than 50%. Stock market prices and prices of buildings of all kinds will fall in inflation-adjusted dollars. Many bonds will prove to be worthless. There will be problems with empty shelves in stores and gasoline stations with no products to sell.
People will start to see that while debt is a promise for the equivalent of future goods and services, it is not necessarily the case that those who make the promises will be able to stand behind these promises. Paper wealth generally can be expected to lose its value.
I can imagine a situation, not too many years from now, when countries everywhere will establish new currencies that are not as easily interchangeable with other currencies as today’s currencies are. International trade will dramatically fall. The standard of living of most people will fall precipitously.
I doubt that the new currencies will be electronic currencies. Keeping the electricity on is a difficult task in economies that increasingly need to rely solely on local resources. Electricity may be out for months at a time after an equipment failure or a storm. Having a currency that depends on electricity alone would be a poor idea.
‘Hope = vaccinations’ (a bit odd given the vaccines do not stop covid)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/health-experts-warn-new-us-covid-surge-dr-dara-kass-analysis-2021-03-30/
Fear Fear Fear!!!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/31/covid-surge-in-americas-could-be-even-larger-than-in-2020-paho
https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/03/scientists-covid-pandemic-out-of-control-ontario/
= The Supreme CovIDIOT https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/but_dr_fauci_says.html
Fast, can you smuggle me into NZ? It seems like the safest place no outside germs.
I heard Fast Eddy is kind of busy stockpiling ivermectin.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=sheep+and+ivermectin&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN
Doctor Marik and his group (Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance) were seeking low-cost solutions from all over the research literature throughout this nightmare. They had a protocol they acronymized MATH+ but it appears they’ve gone beyond that as of March 16, 2021.
https://dryburgh.com/ivermectin-pierre-kory/ (extensive transcripts here)
“March 16th, FLCCC Alliance Ivermectin manuscript Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19 had its expert peer-review accepted for publication in the American Journal of Therapeutics (Note the paper concludes that ivermectin should be immediately & globally deployed in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19)”
Here’s the pdf describing their assessment, linked at the page above.
https://dryburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf
We need others to be able to reproduce the Ivermectin results. Why couldn’t the folks in Slovakia make it work? Didn’t they understand the right combination?
think you missed what Front Line Critical Care Alliance is saying. Their team-based scrubbing of global peer-reviewed has surfaced many Random Controlled Trials on Ivermectin – the ‘gold-standard’ of research. This has occurred over the last few months. Evidence more than sufficient to have Ivermectin over-the-counter here immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8QV7lnFFo
Dr. Paul Marik goes through that evidence in this interview.
(over 400 peer-reviewed papers with his name on them)
in other words, this is no longer anecdotal, and has not been in many parts of the world for quite awhile. No time to drag our feet on a drug with very low toxicity and multiple benefits. I could ask 10 questions like the Slovakia one regarding Covid-19 vaccines, but they’re being used anyway.
“Evidence more than sufficient to have Ivermectin over-the-counter here immediately.”
That’s my opinion. I’m not aware of FLCCA’s position on how Ivermectin becomes available on a mass scale.
I’ll update as I research what’s going on in Slovakia.
Slovakia Becomes the First EU Nation to Formally Approve Ivermectin for Both Prophylaxis and Treatment for COVID-19 Patients
https://trialsitenews.com/slovakia-becomes-the-first-eu-nation-to-formally-approve-ivermectin-for-both-prophylaxis-and-treatment-for-covid-19-patients/#:~:text=Slovakia%20accepted%20treatment%20with%20ivermectin%20just%20for%206,pharmacies%20got%20nothing%20for%20profilaxy%20or%20early%20treatment.
The Slovakia Republic’s Minister of Health has formerly registered Ivermectin as an approved prophylaxis and treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. In breaking news, the authorization occurred yesterday as doctors received the news that they could proceed with formally authorized prescriptions both in hospitals and outpatient. On January 26, Health Minister Marek Krajci granted a permit for the unregistered drug as the drug has already been in use on a compassionate basis over the past half year. TrialSite interviewed Ondrej Halgas, a researcher from University of Toronto and originally from Slovakia. Halgas has been actively involved with a network organizing and lobbying for the drug’s approval during the pandemic. This landlocked Eastern European nation of 5.4 million people, a member of the European Union since 2004, just made history.
Dr. Pierre Kory – 4 minutes – check out the first comment thread underneath, lambasting the unqualified anesthesiologist they scrounged up to give her opinion on the matter. How many peer-reviewed papers does she have under her belt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gePn-xSDX50
Some of us in Michigan have been discussing for a year now how TPTB are ever going to “walk this back”.
Ivermectin may play the main role in that reversal..
Dr Tess Lawrie is fund raising in the UK to do an RCT you can donate at
http://www.e-bmc.co.uk I am sure this will be big trial
Why would I need that? I am in excellent health… currently training for the upcoming ice hockey season.
Healthy people are as likely to die from Covid as they are from the flu… I’ve probably had the flu but it presented as a cold… I am still alive.
Ed … next time Jacinda comes to town and begs Fast to come to her room … I’ll tell her on one condition … she’s gagging for it so she might go for this…. I’m not really on for it — she’s a bit too ‘donkey’ for my liking … but hey … you gotta take one for the team otherwise we’d have to be looking at the pouting donkey face constantly.
Howza! I’ll need to bring a paper bag along
https://www.bandt.com.au/information/uploads/2020/04/1668.jpg
Just don’t do any hardcore training when you feel a bit shit. I slapped down some power on the cranks while feeling a bit garbage coming back from Suzhou August 2019 – *boom* covid symptoms for two weeks. Now that was one rough ride followed by the next.
What would the world be without your obnoxious drama and comedy?
🤣👍
That picture is gross enough to provoke a gag reflex.
Satan doesn’t play much of a game these days: he might have made his minion Jacinda seductive and alluring…..
aww thanks Fast looking forward to seeing the beautiful parts of NZ the landscape.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?sort=date&term=Marik+P&cauthor_id=33721548
Dr. Marik participated in all of this peer-reviewed literature.
Belgium might be a better place than NZ to head to in 30 days time:
Freedom in sight? Judge orders Belgian government to scrap lockdown… and a barrage of Covid court cases is sure to follow
If this were dated today instead of yesterday I would have taken it for an April’s fool, though if I were Belgian I wouldn’t be counting my chickens just yet.
Netanyahu: “The vaccines we have, no one knows how long they last…We need to prepare for the worst scenario. The worst scenario is that we have to vaccinate every half year.”
https://twitter.com/factrealist2/status/1377204298740813826
Justin Trudeau: “You’ll need to immediately quarantine in designated government facilities. This is not optional.”
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/wtf-justin-trudeau-youll-need-to-immediately-quarantine-in-designated-government-facilities-this-is-not-optional/
Nice occasion to remember the bombastic canadian leak reported here and elsewhere in October:
“– Rush the acquisition of (or construction of) isolation facilities across every province and territory. Expected by December 2020.”
Trudeau is just on schedule. Good boy!
Ontario poised to enter month-long lockdown: sources
The latest report from the province’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table showed that variants of concern (VOC) have sent more Ontarians to the ICU, and that people infected with the variants were more likely to be hospitalized and die.
The advisory group also said in its report that as of March 28, variants comprised 67 per cent of all infections, and the B.1.1.7 variant that was first detected in the United Kingdom made up 90 per cent of variant cases.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/03/31/ontario-poised-to-enter-month-long-lockdown-sources/
Ontarians better hurry up and get their hair done…. cuz the salons are slamming shut yet again.
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https://media1.tenor.com/images/e88ab10de92b23d21e310805e8120048/tenor.gif
Coronavirus Live: After Pfizer Announcement, Israel Gears Up to Vaccinate Teens
Israel is primed to begin vaccinating teens as soon as the Pfizer vaccine receives FDA and EMA approval, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
The official statement from the ministry said it was awaiting regulatory approval to confirm that the inoculation is “effective and safe for children.”
“Pfizer’s announcement is amazing news for the citizens of Israel,” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said. “Nothing is more timely than the acquisition of additional vaccines, so we can immediately begin vaccinating teens upon FDA approval,” he added.
Sources in Israel’s health maintenance organizations said that they are prepared to immediately enact a mass vaccine drive in adolescents and would only need several days notice.
Following the announcement by Pfizer that their COVID-19 vaccine is both safe and extremely effective in children aged 12 to 15, the Israel Pediatric Association recommended vaccinating this age group as soon as FDA approval is finalized.
“The association prepared a list of underlying medical conditions in children two months ago,” the association said. “We urge all parents of children with underlying medical issues to call their pediatricians now and find out if their children can be vaccinated.”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/covid-live-israel-buying-36-million-vaccines-as-insurance-policy-official-says-1.9669436?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=35f10210e2
The Pfizer vaccine is 100% effective in preventing those who are already immune from catching covid-19? Amazing!
Exactly, now let’s talk about Refunds.
My Israeli neighbour (2 children) is struggling to accept that this is a faux-pandemic, although one can see that he has doubts. A sister-in-law is a GP there, and she is wide awake as to what is going on.
And a friend of his who is a (non-medical) science researcher here at Cambridge has also seen through the plot. It’s fascinating to see reasoning capacity fighting through the fear propaganda and conditioning which has been sown over the last year.
But he assured me that an attempt at vaccinating children is, for him and his family in Israel, the red line – it will be interesting to see what transpires.
Macron locks down France: Schools and shops close and national 7pm curfew introduced as COVID third wave surges across Europe
France will enter a third national lockdown for four weeks, French president Emmanuel Macron announced in an address to the nation on Wednesday night.
From Saturday, all of mainland France will be under a 7 p.m. curfew, working from home will be expected from those that can, gatherings will be limited, non-essential shops will be closed, and travel restrictions will be imposed.
This brings the whole country in line with 19 territories, and cities like Paris, which have had a limited lockdown imposed for the past two weeks.
The President also announced a three-week closure of nurseries, schools, colleges and high schools, that will have a staggered reopening from April 26.
The decision comes as a third wave of Covid-19 – blamed largely on the so-called ‘British variant’ of the virus – surges across Europe, and as countries face a race against time to vaccinate their populations.
‘The epidemic is accelerating, and we are likely to lose control, so we must find a new way of reacting. We must therefore set ourselves a new framework for the coming months,’ the head of state said during the dramatic address.
The 43-year-old blamed the ‘British variant’ for creating ‘a pandemic inside a pandemic’ that was more contagious and ‘more deadly.’
This meant the situation had changed from when he was resisting calls for another lockdown amid spiralling infections.
‘We are faced with a new situation,’ he said. ‘We are involved in a race. Propagation of a new variant that was identified by our British neighbours’ must be dealt with.’
Current efforts to limit the virus ‘were too limited at a time when the epidemic is accelerating’. The spread of the variant meant ‘we risk losing control’, he added.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9422425/Macron-address-France-tonight-amid-wave-coronavirus.html
Is it even possible to control the virus?
Probably not: but they can certainly control us!
Military to help vaccinate up to 23 northern Manitoba First Nations against COVID-19
Hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada is tapping the military to help get COVID-19 vaccines out on some northern Manitoba First Nations, officials announced the province’s first on-reserve case of a highly transmissible coronavirus variant.
The person who tested positive for the B117 strain first identified in the U.K. self-isolated effectively and has since recovered, Dr. Marcia Anderson, public health lead for the Manitoba First Nations Pandemic Response Co-ordination Team, said at a news conference Friday.
It’s believed the person got sick within Manitoba but outside of their community, which Anderson declined to name. She said there is no evidence of the variant spreading further on that First Nation.
Earlier Friday, Trudeau announced Canadian Armed Forces personnel are being sent to help with COVID-19 vaccinations on up to 23 northern Manitoba First Nations that are otherwise hard to reach.
“This is about working in partnership with First Nations on their efforts to get as many people vaccinated as soon as possible,” he said at a news conference.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-military-first-nations-vaccine-covid-19-1.5956526
Bill Gates explains ‘magic’ of mRNA vaccines for multitude of diseases
https://twitter.com/factrealist2/status/1377349463224639490
Orwellian London
https://twitter.com/mariusknulst/status/1376951222326943745
Coming Soon… shoot to kill orders for all CovIDIOTS not complying.
Attention Attention:
Anyone outside of their home is endangering the lives of everyone. If you are spotted outside of your home we are under orders to shoot to kill – no questions asked – no excuses accepted. Zero Tolerance.
Please remain in your homes and allow police in to inspect your vaccine passports. Anyone without a vaccine passport must identify themselves and step out of their house and be vaccinated. Attempts to hide unvaccinated individuals will result in all involved being shot on the spot.
Attention Attention:
Anyone outside of their home is endangering the lives of everyone. If you are spotted outside of your home we are under orders to shoot to kill – no questions asked – no excuses accepted. Zero Tolerance.
Please remain in your homes and allow police in to inspect your vaccine passports. Anyone without a vaccine passport must identify themselves and step out of their house and be vaccinated. Attempts to hide unvaccinated individuals will result in all involved being shot on the spot.
Attention Attention:
Anyone outside of their home is endangering the lives of everyone. If you are spotted outside of your home we are under orders to shoot to kill – no questions asked – no excuses accepted. Zero Tolerance.
Please remain in your homes and allow police in to inspect your vaccine passports. Anyone without a vaccine passport must identify themselves and step out of their house and be vaccinated. Attempts to hide unvaccinated individuals will result in all involved being shot on the spot.
Attention Attention:
Anyone outside of their home is endangering the lives of everyone. If you are spotted outside of your home we are under orders to shoot to kill – no questions asked – no excuses accepted. Zero Tolerance.
Please remain in your homes and allow police in to inspect your vaccine passports. Anyone without a vaccine passport must identify themselves and step out of their house and be vaccinated. Attempts to hide unvaccinated individuals will result in all involved being shot on the spot.
Message from the government of Oceania.
We are here to protect you and save lives.
If you don’t comply, you will be killed on the spot.
Stay home, save lives.
Long live the Big Brother!
‘Regretfully I had to give the order to shoot dead some folks this morning’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/jacinda-ardern-won-t-release-terms-of-reference-for-labour-review/_jcr_content/par/video/image.dynimg.1280.q75.jpg/v1568610844912/THEAMSHOW-jacinda-ardern-100919-1120.jpg
I have long wondered why countries – particularly Sweden — have not achieved herd immunity.
Wittkowski suggests that the reason for that is lockdowns and masks are forcing the virus to adapt — the virus wants to spread
Ok — so the virus goes back to Darwin and says — we need more virulence… What? you need more POWER? says Darwin…
Yes Mr Darwin — the stooopid humans are trying to ‘flatten’ us… and they are referring to us as a ‘curve’ we want to show them!
Ok .. Darwin puts on some techno… passes around some substances including white powder, Cialis and let’s things happen… every 8 hours each coupling (it’s a full on orgy now!!) produces a new faster strong better version of covid…
Darwin tosses them out into the world to see if they can beat these foolish humans… if not it’s back into the disco to breed .. over and over and over… till finally he comes up with something that is substantially different and better than Covid 19 (Covid 20.1) … unlike the members of the UK royal family who suffer terribly form inbreeding… Covid improves.
As Covid 20.1 enters the humans infections surge again … and they lockdown….and the process repeats….
Of course the Kings of the Humans understand that this is happening .. in fact they want it to happen … (see the CEP)
We need to touch base with Bossche… he suggests that leaky vaccines will exacerbate the problem because they do not stop the virus from spreading .. he uses the antibiotic misuse issue that causes bacteria to mutate and become resistant (it’s kinda like a viral orgy on steroids + all that other stuff)…
So you’ve got the lockdowns compounded by leaky vaccines … two things that have never been done before and certainly not during a vaccine orgy. This is like giving unlimited free beer to a stadium full of football hooligans… both Bossche and Wittkowski align in the understatement of the year when they mention being worried about what might happen… only worried? Terrified perhaps?
Then there’s mild-mannered Mike Yeadon who is watching this and not getting into the science… but instead asking why we need to vaccinate billions of people (with an untested vaccine) who are at almost zero risk of serious illness from covid … and concluding this is not kosher… (actually he thinks it’s all about extermination).
Then there is little old me connecting all the dots… we’ve peaked on oil… the financial system was about to implode because it could no longer hold together because of years of stimulus to offset the pernicious impacts of higher cost oil… exposing the CEP
There is very obviously a conspiracy at play here… if you were a King of the World and perhaps you start to think you have ‘f678ed’ up… would you not listen to these scientists… they offer a way out… they allow you to return to normal (champagne and caviar for breakfast)…
Do you – as a King of the World — want THIS? Of course you don’t – you want to travel on you private jets and enjoy your kingdom… this SUCKS.
But instead of listening to these men you block them — you delete them… did anyone notice that the Great Wittkowski was being interview by Tania the Herbalist? Hahaha … he should be on national MSM everywhere… but nope … he’s with Tania…
Of course there is a conspiracy… and it involves burning down the castle…. now why would the Kings burn down the castle?
The Great Wittkowski is obviously reading from a different script than yours, being that he has put a prospectus for investing in his company on the internet (I linked it yesterday). He’s got an eye to horn-in on the multi-billion dollar supplement industry. He’s probably an agent of the Queen, right? Helping out her homeopaths. Is that how he met Tania?
If you get bored with the rattle, you can take the shadenfreude to a whole new level.
I heard Ken in Dallas is hiring.
http://redefininggod.com/
And there is a problem with that?
Not at all, nothing wrong with making money. Who knows maybe they didn’t pay him enough at Rockefeller’s Institute or when he was coordinating the Ebola thing. He’s got 40 peer-reviewed with his name on them and we certainly can’t hold him responsible for that paper in 2002 lauding the effect of the drug Efalizumab on psoriasis, which was later associated with fatal brain infections and was withdrawn from the market in 2009. It’s just the way of the world that almost no one is looking for cures anyway, only interventionist drug-therapies and who’s got time or the funding to follow-up long-term when they’re cranking out multiple papers each year? Swing for the fences and let the insurance take care of the spectators, right?
BTW, already gave y’all the clue on auto-immune causation.
Wittkowski’s really sharp and I wish him well. Might even try his product some day if he manages to score, but as you so often report, ‘ya can’t really trust a jabber’ and he’s sure got that scent about him, having scanned those peer-reviewed and read some other stuff.
But, that said, I really did enjoy his take-down of Vanden Bossche in the interview below. I haven’t got to the Mike Yeadon part yet. Really critical thinking displayed there, even if it is all theatrically akin to an inside-baseball flame-war. Bob Seger told us Ya Can’t Have It All. You know, we’re just gonna have to create a mess of baseball cards to trade. What position is Yeadon going to play? Anyways, imho, if you’re trying to draw an inside-straight with these guys, to support whatever the CEP-thesis purports, you know the odds. What is “CEP” anyway?
https://dryburgh.com/vanden-bossche-theory-fact-or-fiction/
You have hit the JACKPOT!!!!
Dr. Byram Bridle is an Associate Professor of viral immunology at the University of Guelph. His research program focuses on the development and optimization of vaccines for the treatment of infectious diseases and cancers. In March of this year he and two of his colleagues were commissioned by the government of Ontario to engineer several potential vaccine candidates to provide protective immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is the causative agent of the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019 (COVID-19).
In collaboration with the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, one of the vaccine candidates proved effective in protecting hamsters from COVID-19. This resulted in a contract being established with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to develop a manufacturing process for the vaccine. A second contract has been established with the NRC to advance a second-generation CVODI-19 vaccine into the translational research pipeline. Dr. Bridle has also co-authored a series of lay articles in The Conversation to provide information to the lay public about the immunological aspects of COVID-19 and the development of vaccines.
His thought
EMAIL 1
Although Geert gets there by a slightly different route, we both end up at the same conclusion: that current design of the vaccines and the way they are being rolled out creates risk of the emergence of immunoevasive variants.
blah blah blah
Then — KA-F^&*ing BOOM!!!!!
In fact, Canada has unwisely chosen to be a ‘leader’ in extending the interval between the two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to four months! There is no precedent in the world and no empirical data to back-up the decision. It was based on epidemiological modeling that had to incorporate several ‘assumptions’. All they focused on was theoretical effects on the immune system. They failed to consider effects on the virus.
Canada’s rationale is that it is better to get twice as many people with sub-optimal immunity for an extended period of time rather than maximal immunity in half the people. This is akin to having an outbreak of a dangerous bacterium but not enough antibiotics to go around. If one were to choose to administer the antibiotics for half the recommended # of days but to twice as many people, most scientists would agree that this would be an ideal scenario to promote the emergence of dangerous antibiotic-resistant variants. Physicians tell their patients to complete their antibiotic regimen, even when they start feeling much better part way in. To cut the treatment short = potentiation of risk of driving antibiotic resistance.
So why are we doing this in the context of SARS-CoV-2?!? The vaccine rollouts are already being done in a way that will drive the emergence of what we call ‘antigenic variants’; these are versions of the virus that have incorporated sufficient mutations to allow the target antigen (in this case, the spike protein) to change enough in structure as to become unrecognizable by the highly specific antibodies and T cells that were induced by the vaccines.
Specifically, the vaccines are being rolled out very slowly and are being distributed here and there (i.e. in piecemeal fashion). This means that vaccinated people will be intermingling with unvaccinated individuals. The latter can serve as a reservoir in the which the virus will have lots of time to incorporate random mutations and ‘test’ its ability to infect vaccinated people. If the latter happens, it would be result of an immuno-evasive variant emerging.
https://dryburgh.com/vanden-bossche-theory-fact-or-fiction/
Jeez I was so excited reading Bridle that I had to get a paper bag to breath into to stop hyperventilating… I haven’t been that worked up since that back seat episode with Leanne in 1980…
This is the smoking gun!
And I missed your CEP question. CEP = Compassionate Extinction Plan…. and Bridle has just given us one of the key pieces to the puzzle…. the vaccination is being done in a haphazard way so as to ensure that the virus mutates into Devil Covid…. this is what Trudeau was speaking of here https://www.bitchute.com/video/uLStFKAw8Okm/
The CEP Team – and the Elders — have put their sinister (but well-intentioned) plan into action … right this very second those DNA in the virus are mutating and becoming more deadly by the day…
The Team is adding more CovIDIOTS to the mix jabbing them with this vaccine every day… and every additional jab brings them close to Devil Covid…
This is akin to giving people infected with Syphilis a small dose of antibiotic… which would only make the disease more virulent… you just keep on doing that till it becomes deadly… and highly virulent.
GENIUS!! Total f789ing GENIUS!
What has happened to Kunstler?
He is back. May have been a clogged queue on my part.
Emerging black swan event? https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/1617185858-antibody-levels-drop-sharply-after-3-months-of-second-vaccine-jab-israeli-study
This is a different report on the study in Israel about the dropping antibody levels.
From “Oman Drilling Project and the Deep Hot Biosphere,” by Louis Hissink
March 29, 2021
“I came across a new report about the scientific discovery of a massive deep hot biosphere existing in the Earth’s crust that more or less dwarfs the surface biosphere in terms of volume and mass. Part of the scientific study of this subterranean biosphere is/was reported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, icdp-online.org; the last report from that operation was during 2018. What piqued my interest was the lack of MSM reporting of the operation, and if the scientists did confirm the presence of a massive deep hot biosphere as reported, then the Climate Changers and the Davos crowd have a big, if not fatal, problem. A quote:
‘The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) estimates that 70 percent of Earth’s bacteria and archaea, single-celled microorganisms, live beneath our feet in a massive biosphere. And we aren’t talking just a few feet or even twenty feet.’
The presence of this massive carbon-based biosphere underfoot deep down not only confirms Tommy Gold’s idea of a deep hot biosphere, but renders the role of anthropogenic CO2 as an irrelevant trace gas compared to the massive production of Methane by the deep hot biosphere. The deep-hot biosphere also torpedoes the standard biogenic petroleum model in that the hydrocarbons emitted by this deep biosphere do not come from the surface from buried fossils, but from the emission of the H-C system of the earth’s mantle which the deep-biosphere consumes, thus releasing CH4 as an emission that reaches the Earth’s surface. The deep-biosphere seems to convert the mantle emissions into hydrocarbons, CH4, or natural gas, that then forms higher Dalton number hydrocarbons, oil etc., along the emission path to the Earth’s surface, forming coal deposits above the deeper petroleum deposits as the methane travels upwards along deep fractures. Oil might be then formed from the energy inputs of plasma discharges at the base of the crust, but this transformation has nothing to do with a recycled surface biomass.
Politically this discovery basically scuppers the anthropogenic CO2 theory, and the lack of wide MSM reporting of this discovery suggests that it’s an extremely unwelcome bit of news.”
https://geo-plasma.com/2021/03/29/oman-drilling-project-and-the-deep-hot-biosphere/
There might be some piece of what you quote this that is true, but I am very skeptical of this part:
” The deep-biosphere seems to convert the mantle emissions into hydrocarbons, CH4, or natural gas, that then forms higher Dalton number hydrocarbons, oil etc., along the emission path to the Earth’s surface, forming coal deposits above the deeper petroleum deposits as the methane travels upwards along deep fractures. Oil might be then formed from the energy inputs of plasma discharges at the base of the crust, but this transformation has nothing to do with a recycled surface biomass.”
This quote is from the blog of someone named “Louis A.G. Hissink M.Sc. MAIG(rtd), MIEEE.” He describes himself as “I am a retired diamond exploration and mining geologist who used to work for De Beers in Australia.” The rest of his background is equally irrelevant. This is his photo.
https://geoplasmacom.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/win_20210111_11_30_15_pro.jpg
Most of the story is copied from another site, https://humansarefree.com/2021/03/scientists-biosphere-miles-below-earth-surface.html
The title of that story is “Scientists Discover Massive Biosphere Miles Below Earth’s Surface — Far Outnumbers And Outlives Life On The Surface.”
There is nothing at all in the humansarefree.com story about CO2, or about how fossil fuels were formed from methane traveling upward. Maybe Mr. Hissink is copying something in from a different link, but I didn’t see it. I think he made the quoted paragraph up himself.
“The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is a global research program designed to transform understanding of carbon’s role in Earth. DCO is a community of scientists, including biologists, physicists, geoscientists and chemists, whose work crosses several traditional disciplinary lines to develop the new, integrative field of deep carbon science. To complement this research, the DCO’s infrastructure includes public engagement and education, online and offline community support, innovative data management, and novel instrumentation development.[2]
“In December 2018, researchers announced that considerable amounts of life forms, including 70% of bacteria and archea on Earth, comprising up to 23 billion tonnes of carbon, live up to at least 4.8 km (3.0 mi) deep underground, including 2.5 km (1.6 mi) below the seabed, according to a ten-year Deep Carbon Observatory project.[3][4][5]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Carbon_Observatory
I’m not sure where exactly Louis obtained his quote regarding the DCO, however, it is easy enough to find the 70 percent figure he mentions (see footnotes 3,4, 5 from the Wikipedia link above). As for the notion that the deep biosphere is responsible for the creation of hydrocarbons, methane, natural gas, etc., all the way up to petroleum and coal deposits, well, that may appear to be an unsupported conclusion in his brief post. Just how did he come to that conclusion? In any case, it does point to a valid line of inquiry when one considers the following:
“In a preview of results from an epic 10-year collaboration by over 1,000 scientists, Lloyd and fellow researchers with the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) estimate the deep biosphere – the zone of life under Earth’s surface – occupies a volume of between 2 to 2.3 billion cubic kilometres (0.48 to 0.55 billion cubic miles).
“That’s almost twice the volume of all the world’s oceans – another enormous natural environment that lies largely unexplored by humans.
“And just like the oceans, the deep biosphere is an abundant source of countless lifeforms – a population totaling some 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon mass (between 245 to 385 times greater than the equivalent mass of all humans on the surface).
“The findings, representing numerous studies conducted at hundreds of sites around the world, are based on analyses of microbes extracted from sediment samples sourced 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) under the seafloor, and drilled from surface mines and boreholes more than 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) deep.
“Hidden at these depths, two forms of microbes (bacteria and archaea) dominate the deep biosphere, and are estimated to make up 70 percent of all Earth’s bacteria and archaea.
“As for how many kinds of organisms we’re talking about, nobody knows.
“But the Deep Carbon Observatory scientists say millions of distinct types are waiting to be discovered and characterised with these techniques.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-lift-lid-on-massive-biosphere-of-life-hidden-under-earth-s-surface
So, we’ve been extracting our fossil fuels from this deep biosphere, where up to 70 percent of all Earth’s bacteria and archaea live. Are we to ignore the possibility of a correlation between the origin of fossil fuels and the countless lifeforms of the deep biosphere? Really?
Perhaps we’ll live long enough to see…
That the paradigms they are a-changin’
Azure said: “Are we to ignore the possibility of a correlation between the origin of fossil fuels and the countless lifeforms of the deep biosphere? Really?”
Yes.
What you are missing is metabolic rate. 70% of bacteria might be deep underground but they reproduce once every 1000 years or so.
Bacteria up here can reproduce as fast as every 20 minutes. That is 10,000,000 faster.
I don’t understand the obsession people have with the source of oil? Is it a wish for nougat Earth filled with sweet crude or what?
Thanks for your thoughts, NomadicBeer. So, am I to understand you’re arguing for oil likely being derived from the earth’s surface rather than the deep biosphere due to the metabolic rate of bacteria?
Personally, my interest in uncovering the source of oil isn’t an obsession but rather a curiosity. Just looking to solve a mystery, if possible. Perhaps the mystery will be solved in my lifetime and with it will come greater understanding for all mankind. One can hope.
A “nougat Earth filled with sweet crude.” That’s funny. Some people may wish to unlock the secret of oil so that they can create it in abundance, I guess. A bit like the notion of turning lead into gold. Oil alchemists, eh?
Only one valid question exists:
1. Do we consume more than what is found?
If the answer is yes, and it seems highly likely. Then prepare for the quadruple whammy virus+vaxx/vaxxports/Star of David/CEP/40’s “spas”…
Otherwise we could continue BAU in perpetuity and the whole point of CEP becoming rather pointless. I recall some stones that estimated no more than 10B people. Because doge haz fusions powers by 2020’s.
Plan B? Nah, fsck that shit. Go Ronnie Raygun, gooooo!!! Print!!!!! Bomb!!!!!
😎👍
Are we going to see Godzilla and King Kong holding hands sometime on the outer crust ?😂
Everything you need to know about vaccine passports
As Covid-19 vaccine eligibility opens up across the country, the United States is now confronting the question of what to do about vaccine passports. These could be digital certificates or scannable documents that can be used to verify a person’s vaccination status so they can travel more freely or go to large events. Some think a coordinated, nationwide vaccine passport system could help us get back to a semblance of normal life and speed up economic recovery. But this seems unlikely.
On Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that “there will be no centralized universal federal vaccinations database, and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential.” Instead, the Biden administration has decided to leave it to the states and the private sector to figure this out, with the federal government setting some baseline guidance. As Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to the White House’s Covid-19 response, told CNBC earlier in March, “The public will be more reluctant to get vaccinated if they feel like the government, the federal government is playing too much of a role in that.” Meanwhile, at least one governor, Florida’s Ron DeSantis, has pledged to ban businesses and venues in his state from using any vaccine passport system.
A growing number of companies, health care providers, and state governments are launching their own efforts. New York released the first state-backed vaccine passport, called the Excelsior Pass, just last week. This digital health certificate, which IBM built using blockchain technology, allows people in the state who have been vaccinated or recently tested negative for Covid-19 to download their health records onto a smartphone app that displays a QR code, which can be scanned by participating venues to verify their status. That New York has spent months developing the Excelsior Pass shows some states didn’t expect the federal government to take the lead on key aspects of the country’s pandemic response.
Meanwhile, corporations including Walmart and the airport security company Clear are racing to build their own digital vaccinations databases. Some are already releasing vaccine passports, such as the CommonPass, an app from the World Economic Forum and the Commons Project that’s being trialed by a number of airlines. Carbon Health, which partnered with the city of Los Angeles for its vaccination rollout, is offering a HIPAA-compliant vaccine passport of its own, which it named Health Pass.
https://www.vox.com/recode/22349266/vaccine-passports-vaccination-record-commpass-walmart-walgreens
Russia registers ‘world’s first’ COVID-19 vaccine for dogs, cats and other animals
Russia has registered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine for animals, the country’s agricultural regulator said on Wednesday.
Clinical trials of the vaccine — called Carnivac-Cov — started last October and involved dogs, cats, Arctic foxes, minks, foxes and other animals, said Konstantin Savenkov, deputy head of Rosselkhoznadzor, according to a Reuters report.
“The results of the trials allow us to conclude that the vaccine is harmless and highly immunogenic as all the vaccinated animals developed antibodies to the coronavirus in 100% of cases,” Savenkov said. “It is the world’s first and only product for preventing COVID-19 in animals,” he added.
Mass production of the vaccine, which was developed by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, a unit of Rosselkhoznadzor, could start as early as April, the watchdog said.
It added that businesses in Greece, Poland, Austria, the U.S., Canada and Singapore had already expressed interest in buying the shot.
The watchdog said immunity lasts for six months after vaccination, but the shot’s developers are continuing to analyze this.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-registers-worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-for-animals-11617202893?mod=bnbh
The great Covid power grab: Why world leaders’ push for a post-WW2-style ‘Pandemic Treaty’ must be resisted
The letter uses words and phrases such as ‘solidarity,’ ‘global community,’ ’international cooperation’ and ‘protect’ repeatedly, to make us all feel that what is being proposed is for the good of us all. But is it?
If we read between the lines, we can see quite clearly that, while the plan is supposed to be about post-Covid pandemics, it is really about making sure that the draconian measures introduced since 2020 are maintained as long as possible. The ‘nobody is safe until everyone is safe’ mantra which appears at the end of the second paragraph in the letter, is saying to us – as Merkel and other globalists have strongly hinted – that restrictions cannot and will not be lifted until everyone in the world has been vaccinated.
If you have any doubts, just take a look at the very next sentence, which states: ‘We are therefore committed to ensuring universal and equitable access to safe, efficacious and affordable vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for this and future pandemics.’
Translation: ‘Africa, you’re going to take the vaccines we offer you whether you like it or not.’
The 24 leaders talk about building ‘a more robust international health architecture that will protect future generations’ but what if what is really being built – under the guise of ‘keeping us safe,’ is one big hi-tech global prison, where we will not even be able to go to the pub without a ‘Vaccine Passport’ or showing our ‘Covid certification‘ – or be able to board a flight because we haven’t had the latest vaccine ‘update’? Is this the digitally-controlled future we really want?
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather take my chances as a free citizen in ‘the next pandemic,’ whenever that will be, than live under the soul-destroying oppression of ‘protective’ tyranny.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/519731-johnson-macron-merkel-covid-treaty/
Chinese Man Jumps Into Superheated Blast Furnace After Losing Fortune on Stock Market
A 33-year-old Chinese worker at the Baotou Steel factory has committed suicide by jumping into a working blast furnace containing molten metals at temperatures as high as 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,700 degrees Fahrenheit), the company operating the plant reported. Baotou Steel said that Wang Long, who has been working at the factory for 10 years, went missing on 24 March during his night shift.
His mysterious disappearance was soon explained after the company reviewed surveillance footage from that night. The video, which eventually surfaced on Chinese social media causing shock, showed Wang Long taking off his helmet and gloves, and throwing them into the furnace only to follow them in a few moments.
Baotou Steel alleged in its statement that the worker’s brutal suicide was triggered by the loss of $9,100 on the stock market and the inability to “repay his heavy debts”. It is unclear if Wang Long left a suicide note.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/202103311082499318-chinese-man-jumps-into-superheated-blast-furnace-after-losing-fortune-on-stock-market/
How many that do the same that are never reported in the news….
Remember this kid on Robinhood not too long ago…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGVjtcVpu8
There will be a lot of 🤕 hurt…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a5d9BrLN5K4
Yes Sir..watch your milkshake being sucked down right before your eyes!
All, it is said we replace one of six barrels used, when do we get to zero barrel reserve?
If the price would go to $300 or $400 per barrel, probably never. We have a huge amount of already discovered heavy oil, very deep sea oil, and shale oil that could be extracted, with a high enough price.
The system hasn’t been working on new discoveries of conventional oil for a long time. It’s oil price that determines how much can be extracted.
How does EROI work if oil prices did go that high? Would more energy be expended to recover/process the oil than contained in the oil? Believe stranded natural gas and other lower value energy is already used to help power oil extraction today. Will extraction continue as long as money is available to throw at the problem or do we reach a point where eroi takes over and the whole energy extraction equation doesn’t pencil out anymore so it has to cease no matter how much money is made available?
“How does EROI work if oil prices did go that high?”
Demand destruction + the rise in interest rates needed to cool off the inflationary impulse caused by very high prices would bring down our debt bubbles well before we reached those kinds of figures.
In other words, we could see a crazy spike but sustained high prices are no longer possible.
The real underlying issue is that the return on human labor is too low. This is what leads to rising wage disparity and too many people not being a able to afford finished goods and services made with energy products.
The normal situation that the physics of the situation produces is wider wage disparity. Adding debt and raising taxes on the rich can attempts to “even out” spendable income. With this approach, a person would expect higher prices for commodities, including energy products, because low-wage people (if they have more income) tend to spend it disproportionately on commodity intensive purchases (food, transportation, clothing).
There are dangers to adding this debt. One is that the debt bubble will eventually collapse. Another is that if income is too “evened-out,” there is less motivation to work. A third is that depletion will continue to get worse and worse. When more of the system shuts down, it will cut back the population by an even larger amount than otherwise.
So adding debt can help raise commodity prices (including food and fossil fuels) for a while, but I don’t know how long. It tends to pump the economy up a bit higher before it collapses from the higher level.
I am not sure about EROEI. The calculation doesn’t count things very well. It makes renewables look much better than they really are. In any event, our concern should be about average EROEI, not the EROEI of any one product. The last time we could operate our economy without adding vastly more debt was when oil could be sold profitably for less than $20 per barrel. EROEI was probably up in the 50:1 range back then. The financial system seems to be designed to cover up lack of adequate EROEI over the long term.
Researchers have been looking into this issue without an adequate understanding what an “acceptable” EROEI might be. It is not 10:1, or 5:1 or 3:1.
This is it exactly! It’s not just “energy” we need. We need energy which is a value-add to human labor. This primarily includes heavy machinery, industrial processes and shipping – for which wind and worse than useless.
Gail, as you say the economy runs on energy not dollars. We ca print dollars but it does not solve the underlying issue of energy. So too with extracting oil, it runs on energy not dollars. When the effort to extract is more than the energy produced it is the end.
If Biden’s infrastructure plan passes will we get a glimpse of this. I believe the crisis in 2008 was because energy prices got to high not housing default. It makes for an easier story to tell the masses but…
The infrastructure plus reopened markets should make energy needs go way up therefore energy prices. 6 months???
LOL
Putting a positive spin on slavery? They gradually adopted a different culture and a few of their descendants became good, conformist citizens of the British state – so that is OK, then!
It is unbelievable that the British state government thinks that it can come out with that rhetoric in 2021.
‘Hey, slavery civilised them!’
> Shadow Equality Minister Accuses Race Report Of “Glorifying” Slave Trade And Demands “Urgent Explanation”
Ministers have been urged to give an “urgent” response after its landmark report called for a “new story” about slavery to be taught in schools. Labour’s Marsha De Cordova has called on ministers to “immediately disassociate” themselves from remarks made in the introduction to the government-ordered report which claimed slavery was “not just about profit and suffering”.
The foreword, written by race and ethnic disparities commission chair, Dr Tony Sewell claimed child should “reclaim their British heritage” as he dismissed “negative calls” to “decolonise” school curriculums.
“We want to create a teaching resource that looks at the influence of the UK, particularly during the Empire period. We want to see how Britishness influenced the Commonwealth and local communities, and how the Commonwealth and local communities influenced what we now know as modern Britain.” He added: “There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period not only being about profit and suffering but how culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain.”
But his comments sparked fury from the Labour shadow minister who said the report “glorifies” the slave trade. De Cordova said: “The government must urgently explain how they came to publish content which glorifies the slave trade and immediately disassociate themselves with these remarks.”
Dr Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust told PoliticsHome she was “flabbergasted” by the remarks. “I’m absolutely flabbergasted to see the Slave Trade apparently redefined as ‘the Caribbean Experience’; as though it’s something Thomas Cook should be selling – a one-way shackled cruise to purgatory,” she said. “The cultural deafness of this report is only going to become clearer in the coming days and weeks.”
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/shadow-equality-minister-demands-urgent-explanation-after-accusing-race-report-of-glorifying-slave-trade
Strange! I remember earlier we saw an analysis saying that the US slave trade was to a significant extent financed by investors from elsewhere, including Britain.
Overseas freight has continued to be an issue in regards to container shortage and port delays,” Costco chief financial officer Richard Galanti told analysts on a call in March. “This has caused timing delays on certain categories.”
Galanti said Costco also has had trouble keeping its giant stores stocked with furniture, sporting goods and lawn equipment, in addition to other imported food items like seafood and olive oils
And Toilet Paper Coffee….Oh My..
From Moneywise Yahoo
Of course, when citizens start getting concerned about shortages, they start hoarding the missing products, making the situation worse.
Study shows COVID antibody count down months after second jab
A Sheba Medical Center study published on Tuesday showed that the number of antibodies in people who received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine drop dramatically less than three months after the second dose was administered.
Researchers said they were still looking into whether immunity from the virus continues despite the drop in antibodies.
Professor Galia Rahav, head of the Infectious Disease Unit and Laboratories at Sheba, said that more testing was needed to determine whether the vaccine’s efficacy is compromised after only a few months.
A participant in the study said his antibodies dipped by one-third just one month after he received his second shot.
“A month later, my antibody count was only one-third of the amount measured after right the second vaccine and I know other participants in the study showed similar results,” he said.
“I still have the minimum amount of antibodies needed to give me immunity from the virus but I am worried that will not be the case one month down the road,” he said.
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/r1ovgo11Sd
I see that this is a study done in Israel, where a lot of vaccinations with Pfizer vaccine has been occurring.
I suppose from the vaccine manufacturers’ perspective, this could (in theory) be viewed as good news. Keep getting new vaccines, every few months!
Of course, this would be ridiculous in practice. It makes a person wonder about the vaccine passports.
Antibodies are the body’s short term defence – the long haul is carried by thr T-Cells, which lasts decades. (this is basic high school biology). A study by epidemiologists cited in a recent New Yorker article found 40% of blood samples takem pre-covid showed immunity to this bug.
…And perhaps exhaust our natural ability and resources to build immunity in the process.
If we become Vac junkies we’ll perhaps create a world of shrinking thymus glands.
Maybe Pfizer can start printing lymph nodes and CBs can print oil drums
Sarcastic undertones from me sorry, just been offered the Pfizer Jab at work.
..It’s already April’s Fools Day in New Zealand
Yippeeeer…Just wash it down the drain…We don’t need no EdUcAtiN
Doug Whiteman
Tue, March 30, 2021, 6:36 PM
Biden is canceling another $1.3B in student loan debt. Who qualifies?
Biden is canceling another $1.3B in student loan debt. Who qualifies?
The Biden administration has announced plans for another wave of student debt forgiveness, this time involving more than $1.3 billion in federal student loan debt held by more than 230,000 people.
In many cases, their loan balances were previously wiped out by the government, but then came back — like zombies — because the borrowers had failed to keep officials updated about their incomes.
The administration says it’s another step to make sure student loan debtors “receive support and protection during the COVID-19 emergency,” similar to the pause in student loan payments and interest that’s now in place through Sept. 30.
That’s giving millions of Americans some breathing room to save, invest or get a handle on their other debts.
Seems like a Debt Holiday is coming for us all…. translation…fiat money is going down the drain
I can understand Biden’s thinking. These young people often have no chance of paying back the debt. Pretending that they do just depresses demand for other goods and services that these young people might buy.
Sure…Debt Holiday for us all unable to pay back..i.e. Uncle Sam #1Debtor unable ever to pay back should just be wipe slate clean. No problem…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmLq6X_bPfU
Jim Rogers, seasoned investor that has seen many rodeos in his day ..spells it out plainly
“Guatemala issues emergency decree as new migrant caravan reported:
“The ‘state of prevention’ restricts open-air gatherings and demonstrations without permits along the Honduras border.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/guatemala-issues-emergency-decree-as-new-migrant-caravan-rumored
“EU tells Turkey to take back migrants from Greece …EU officials are set to travel to Turkey for talks next week.”
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-tells-turkey-to-take-back-migrants-from-greece/a-57043879
A major part of the problem is not enough jobs that pay well in Guatemala. COVID-19 presents another theoretical reason.
I notice that the number of reported COVID-19 cases (relative to population) is very low for Guatemala. Deaths are as well.
“Protest movements are on the rise worldwide amid deepening inequalities and job crises worsened by the continuing coronavirus pandemic…
“…worsening economic conditions and government inaction to address the issues facing people will likely trigger more protests.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/mapping-major-protests-around-the-world
“Anti-lockdown protesters in Ireland are planning so-called Easter Rising demonstrations across the country on April 4 to mark the anniversary of the 1916 armed struggle against British rule.”
https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/ireland-easter-coronavirus-protest/
“A new set of ‘Kill the Bill’ protests are scheduled for Saturday (April 3), coinciding with the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, in London and other cities in the UK.”
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/kill-bill-protests-due-take-20276304
“More than 1,000 people protested on March 29 in Bucharest against restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19.
“Anti-lockdown demonstrations also took place in Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Constanta, and several other cities across the Romania.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-protests-coronavirus-covid-19-lockdown/31177821.html
“Lebanon’s military intelligence has “forcibly disappeared and allegedly tortured” people who protested against lockdown conditions and the deteriorating economy in the northern city of Tripoli…”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/lebanon-detainees-allege-torture-forced-disappearance-report
“Myanmar protester death toll tops 500 as ‘garbage’ protests launched.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/myanmar-garbage-strike-protests-b1824299.html
“Mass Trial Set To Begin For Thai Protestors On Charges of Seditions, Royal Insults… requests for bail have been declined by the court to prevent further protests.”
https://theowp.org/reports/mass-trial-set-to-begin-for-thai-protestors-on-charges-of-seditions-royal-insults/
“The journalist who livestreamed the Hong Kong protests’ darkest moment is now a dissident behind bars… faces life in jail.”
https://qz.com/1987247/a-journalist-who-covered-hong-kong-protests-now-faces-life-in-jail/
Good for them… we can’t allow anything to derail the CEP.
Out of control protests are a serious threat. Hopefully nobody gets the bright idea of burning entire cities to the ground when they descend into utter despair.
CEP calls for martial law with shoot to kill orders as a contingency.
Ending humans in a compassionate manner… is serious business… and it cannot be interfered with.
Flea on an elephant… most people would be happy if the govt Myanamarred those folks
Of all the people I know I can think of only one or two who are not CovIDIOTS…
It sounds like there are protests worldwide against something or other –deepening inequalities, job crises of COVID-19 shutdowns.
More importantly, the govts reactions have become harsher, with people being killed, disappeared or jailed for life.
Any bets on when will this happen in Europe and US? My money is on 2023 but I am an optimist.
2022 & 2023 should be peak-polarization years as can be understood from the metaphysical energy that governs events (according to Maya prophecy). That should continue until around 2026 after which polarisation should decline. In other words we are in for High Turbulance globally for the next 5 years:
http://energyshifts.net/rise-and-fall-of-polarization-2012-to-2032/
That is an interesting looking “Energy Pyramid” peak at 2022-2023!
Hi Gail, these protests are happening bang on time as predicted by Maya prophecy in their ancient Katuns cycle. The prophecy predicted famine post-2022. It’s worth keeping in mind that protests were already building up to a crescendo in 2019. Covid is just exacerbating it, but it’s not the first cause:
http://energyshifts.net/maya-katun-prophecy-is-unfolding-in-real-time/
It’s not the cause… but it was foisted on us to give cover for the CEP (compassionate extinction plan)
Thanks! I didn’t know that this much had been written about our time now.
“Prepare for emerging markets debt crisis, warns IMF head – Georgieva says global recovery and rising rates will draw capital from vulnerable countries…
“Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday that a tightening of financial conditions could trigger “significant” capital outflows.”
https://www.ft.com/content/487c30f4-7f21-4787-b519-dde52264d141
“Argentina’s Buenos Aires province said on Monday it would extend the deadline for its $7 billion foreign debt restructuring until April 23, amid rising tensions with creditors after a year of negotiations that have failed to reach an agreement…”
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/argentinas-biggest-province-extends-%247-bln-debt-deadline-again-amid-creditor-tensions-2021
“…markets are jittery about Brazil’s debt, which, at over 90 percent of GDP, is the largest in the emerging world (excluding small island states) after Egypt and Angola, surpassing even neighboring Argentina.”
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-30/Brazilian-debt-jitters-Z37nwFYqru/index.html
“Turkish central bank deputy governor Murat Cetinkaya was removed by presidential decree early Tuesday, March 30, sparking a fresh bout of volatility in the Turkish lira after it slid 13% following the surprise replacement of the bank’s chief 10 days earlier.”
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/03/turkish-lira-volatile-after-central-bank-deputy-head-removed
We seem to have a choice of places around the world where the debt default crisis could start from.
Eureka????
https://youtu.be/J4wIsshE4Q4?t=2051
‘my fear is that these lockdowns will create a situation where our immune system will no longer be able to fight the variants that are created by the lockdowns’
Is this Devil Covid??? The ‘Nightmare Scenario’ …. The ‘impending doom?’
This fellow’s fear is that either the virus will evolve in a way that our body cannot recognize it as being different from our body, or the antibodies that are created will create autoimmune issues as well.
I think that there is also a third possibility, based on the recent study in Israel mentioned in another comment. That is that the antibodies from the vaccine don’t stick around long enough to make much of a difference. If that is the result, the continuing epidemic could be the cause of continuing lockdowns. This would be convenient for governments, looking for a way to prevent riots. It would also reduce the use of fossil fuels.
Of the three outcomes, I would think the third one is most likely, given the energy problems we are facing. This would allow the vaccination program to be phased out, especially in poor countries.
https://youtu.be/J4wIsshE4Q4?t=1914
Knut has no idea why they are doing this…. he needs to ring me
New lockdowns will breed more viruses. Immunity won’t last very long (just as seems to be the case in Israel). He likens wearing masks and using vaccines simultaneously as being similar to stepping on the accelerator and brakes, simultaneously.
You wanna go nuclear you throw leaky vaccines into the mix… if you want to ‘develop’ Devil Covid:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uLStFKAw8Okm/
Perspectives on the Pandemic | Catching up with Knut Wittkowski, PhD
https://youtu.be/J4wIsshE4Q4
“China’s Military Could Turn Small Clashes Into Major Conflicts – It’s not clear who’s in command when things go wrong…
“Relations between the United States and China are fraught, with escalating rhetoric and risk of miscalculation on both sides. Military affairs aren’t the only aspect of the bilateral relationship—but they’re the most dangerous one.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/29/china-military-escalation-small-clashes-major-conflicts/
“Report: Chinese loan terms hamper post-virus debt talks:
“A new report says China’s loans to poor countries in Africa and Asia impose unusual secrecy and repayment terms that are hurting their ability to renegotiate debts after the coronavirus pandemic.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/report-chinese-loan-terms-hamper-postvirus-debt-talks-chinese-belt-and-road-initiative-africa-beijing-asia-b1824762.html
The article says,
“Chinese banks insist on being repaid ahead of other creditors, which can disrupt debt talks with groups of lenders, their report said. It said borrowers are required to put oil or other revenue into foreign accounts that can be seized in the event of default.”
I know that another article we saw recently indicated that many of these investments were not really profitable for the counties taking on this debt. This is a way of China trying to “drain” these countries of their resources, without paying the full cost. The debt really cannot be repaid from the values of the investments that China made available to these countries.
Of course, the US military could also turn small clashes into major conflicts, as well. I am doubtful that knowing who is in charge is a huge part of the problem. If there is a lot of anti-American sentiment, anything could escalate.
“China’s housing crash exposes a growing regional economic divide:
“…The contrasting experience of the country’s thriving coastal cities and struggling inland centres provides a glimpse into China’s growing regional divide, which threatens to undermine the post-coronavirus recovery of the world’s second-largest economy.”
https://www.ft.com/content/bbc5c5c0-f7d1-4032-968a-bac10c07707e
“China, Long a Source of Deflation, Starts Raising Prices for the World:
“Pressured by supply-chain woes and commodities costs, Chinese manufacturers are increasing prices, adding to inflation fears.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-long-a-source-of-deflation-starts-raising-prices-for-the-world-11617015600
If correct and noticeable trend enough this will be the top story..
And likely pin destroying the overall bubble..
Perhaps it’s just stage #1 (allowing for small inflation rise) and followed by stage #2 abandoning the USD..
I saw this story. Part of the problem is the yuan is down, so the cost of imported materials is up. Also, all of the stimulus from around the world (going into building projects among other things) is sending many commodity prices higher.
This is the center / periphery issue. It takes a lot more fuel and worker-hours to ship goods to the inland areas. Wages tend to be lower also. No one wants to move there.
Adding highways doesn’t fix the problem.
Variants, variants, popariants as german artist Helge Schneider would say.
We currently have flattened the curve (remember that “spin”?) to 128 Mio infections counted. Let us assume, that we in fact had 10 fold the infections. That would end up at a total time for the “burn through” of about 6 years. so we still have 5 more years to go.
I bet we will soon need a singularity Ai to create better “vaccines” quickly.
A guy picking up Vanden Bossche’s view from the other end is here:
https://odysee.com/@Dryburgh:7/knut-wittkowski-lockdowns-are-creating-a-new-virus:7
well, sigh. Predicament really is a hard word to digest…
Nice find … last I heard from him was long ago https://www.thecollegefix.com/epidemiologist-coronavirus-could-be-exterminated-if-lockdowns-were-lifted/
Looks like you might want to provide a protection-detail for Wittkowski?
He’s looking for ‘private placements’ – maybe suggest the South Island for a home-office? Surround it with a moat and pythons.
https://app.box.com/s/echp829sljw57wpcnh2le0q5qcuc47bp
ASD-CoV Summary and Regulatory Strategy by Formulation•
As a nutraceutical supplement, ASD-CoV will have two groups of function claims:
1.Improve cardiovascular and metabolic function(to be clarified with legal team) – assist with weight loss diet – improve postprandial glucose response – reduce endocytosis of LDL-C into macrophages (formation of atherosclerotic placques)
2.Improve immunological resistance(to be clarified with legal team) – improve resistance against virus entry – improve resistance against virus assembly•
The notification requirements (US) depend on the formulation:
As a supplement, ASD-CoV will be notified to the FDA as a NDI No Claims will be submitted to the FDA for formal approval as part of an NDIN.
The FDA will have 75 days to comment, but can respond (affirm) earlier.
As a beverage, ASD-CoV is “GRAS under the condition for the intended use” and, thus “not subject to premarket review under section 409 of the FD&C Act” [FDA 2017]
The beverage can be marketed immediately after submission of the notification.• The label will carry the usual disclaimer required by law
(DSEHA) [sic] [should be DSHEA]
“These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”
The title of this is, “Lockdowns are creating a new epidemic.”
Damn right, the digital ark is being built by the owners, MIC and artisanry:
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-tsmc-part-of-ark-invests-space-exploration-arkx-fund/amp/
“NVIDIA, TSMC Join Amazon and Google’s Parent Company Alphabet Inc In Ark’s Space ETF”
I surely hope they won’t try to stuff in too much rapacious primate coding sequences and dullard BS in that program.
I wanna see aplenty of sleek predator mammal coding sequences. The real deal. Lots of flubber, hydrodynamic optimal geometries, grins, shits and giggles. The humanoids should take a back seat in this endeavor as other earthlings take command. They are sort of used to thrive in pitch blackness in the ice cold abysses of the salty grave without feeling despair.
Thanks for all the fish. 🐟🐬🚀
This seems to be an attempt at “How you can make money in space exploration and related technologies.” We can all get rich quick.
We can all get “rich” quick. And god said: let there be print.
🖨💵💵💵💵💵🤑
When that inevitably fails, build a goddamned ark.
Peak oil
Peak money
Peak delusion
Peak muppets
Oh Holy Old Testament, the tragicomedy cringe…
🤣👍👍
Ah ha…. the CDC warning of Impending Doom…. has basis it would seem….
While the outbreak in Latin America’s largest economy continues to spin out of control, the US on Tuesday reported just under 70K new cases, the highest number in a month, as infections rise in half of US states, with some of the biggest accelerations seen in New York, New Jersey and Michigan. Over the past week, the average number of new cases has risen by 24%, according to Johns Hopkins data. 25 states and Washington DC are reporting more cases.
https://youtu.be/UPw-3e_pzqU
This is a link to the CDC COVID data tracker:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
You can find a county by county forecast of future cases, among many other things.
OMG! Now BC has got the … VARIANTS!!!!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-new-covid-19-restrictions-announced-in-bc-amid-rising-cases/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-british-columbia-waited-too-long-to-respond-to-the-rising-third-wave/
Run for the hills!!!! Oh – the hills are closed…. well just run … and run… but make sure you run with your mask on!!!
https://globalnews.ca/video/7730036/b-c-s-circuit-breaker-lockdown-surprises-whistler
One might think that these imbeciles would wake up from their nightmare and realize they are being played… but nope…. they take the hook over and over and over… hahaha
I am ENTERTAINED!!!! I do enjoy mocking the CovIDIOTS… they get so angry…. and they think I am the IDIOT … which is even funnier….
Health Care Workers Bragging About Forged Vax Cards As Fake “Passports” Hit The Street
It was inevitable.
Healthcare workers across the country are taking to social media to brag about stealing COVID-19 vaccination cards from their jobs in order to falsify their vaccination status – allowing them to falsify their vaccine status.
“I work at a pharmacy and grabbed blank ones for me and my hubby,” said one TikTok user, who was identified by other users as a pharmacy tech in Illinois – and promptly reported to state healthcare authorities, according to the Daily Beast.
“Can I pay you to ship a couple to me,” another TikTok user identified as a Texas nurse wrote under the original video bragging about the theft – and was also promptly reported to Texas healthcare authorities.
“I got a template if u want it,” posted one TikTok user under a viral video about faking vaccination cards.
Becca Walker, one of the two users sounding the alarm, posted: “I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to steal from your job. And I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to steal blank vaccination papers for COVID-19 to falsify information and claim that you and your husband were vaccinated when in actuality you were not.”
“Stop hating on me! I don’t care what any of you think. I did what is best for my husband and I,” posted the Illinois pharmacy tech right before she wiped her TikTok account history – only to try and cover her tracks by posting a fake TikTok claiming to be a 16-year-old British girl doing a social media experiment for her filmmaker father.
Walker, along with user Savannah Sparks, have since posted several more TikTok videos calling out healthcare workers for allegedly forging or attempting to forge vaccine cards. They claim dozens of tips have been sent to them by other users on the platform, but which they haven’t been able to verify.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/health-care-workers-bragging-about-forged-vax-cards-fake-passports-hit-street
This is serious stuff. It warrants a long stint in a prison … to send the message that this will not be tolerated. Perhaps even the death penalty.
For every stoopid person who boasts of their crimes on TikTok, there will surely be a dozen smarter people who will steal stuff surreptitiously and fuel a black market in forged vaccine cards. It will be a nice little earner for some people, and it will make a mockery of the certification system.
The authorities who want to exercise their authority here are going to have to throw even more time, money, labor and effort at the problem of keeping the sheeple tagged.
WARNING Live Social Engineering ‘STORY’ In Progress
Warning ⚠️ you are now undergoing classic conditioning treatment.
Warning ⚠️ Don’t Think: Don’t Think: Don’t Think ⚠️
(Problem) People taking vaccination passports and bragging about it (Reaction) Social outrage and punishment of offenders (Solution) Vaccinated individuals will now be chipped.
Results =Social Thought Process Manipulation.
Reality Audit.
Consider a health care worker truly afraid of taking a questionable vaccination. In reality they would be unlikely to tell anyone, especially their colleagues. They would be putting too much at stake
The intended effect of this story may be to degrade and stigmatise the anti vac position.
We need to Think about it and not react to such stories, including the ‘narrator’
When is a doctor no longer a healer? When they get off on the power of life and death. Such men are not trustworthy. Arrogance and love of power are more important than the means to such men. They only pretend that issues they demand have importance. Like a CEO throwing a hissy fit whats really important that their vain ego is worshiped. The fine for failing to kneel at the alter? Death.
Are you referring to an article? If so, please provide a link.
What I am referring to is pretty common sense. People who have genuinely chosen to heal others have a trait we might define as empathy. When others suffer they feel it and want to help them. Along with that empathy comes respect for who they are as a person. Then there is some middle ground. Nothing wrong with respecting your own body of knowledge as a doctor and hard work. THis is known as ego and theres nothing wrong with it as long as its combined with respect and love for the patient. THen there is somthing else. I heard one doctor brag about it with rare candor. ” in the end everyone comes to me begging me to save their life”. Doubtful if someone like that was ever a healer just a ego that has passed into self worship as a god. Even worse the energy is one of enjoying the patents dilema and the feeling of power the situation creates. The exact opposite of empathy and a healer! I honestly dont think somone like that can heal no matter how skilled or knowledgeable. The crux of the matter is intent… What is the intent when someone says do this or die I dont care? WE can thank them for their honesty for they have revealed they are not a healer and not to be trusted.
In fact you are wrong. Medicine attracts mostly people from the sociopath-psychopath kind. The number of psychopaths in medicine is only second to law/legislature. I can attest to that. Several years ago we run small trial among colleagues (I am a physician) and the result were stunning. Out of 23 people, 17 (including me) were acing the psychopath battery tests. For the other 16 it was tough to accept it but not for me (I knew pretty well I am from the psychopath crop of humans even before assessing myself).
Apparently engineers aren’t really enthralled by power hierarchies and climbing ladders of dominance. Why am I not surprised?
https://www.cnet.com/news/great-news-engineers-arent-psychopaths-but-ceos-are/
“Perhaps engineers, while bathing in rational action, still aren’t moved by power itself.”
Humanoid shenanigans are just a bit too predictable, dullard motivations driven by the dictates of the reptilian brain. The touchy-feely fluff is just a bit wank.
But I could of course be wrong. Nah, of course I am not. I base my conclusions on rock solid observation, intuition and introspection.
Lawyers and Physicians have to filter human emotions and humans behaviour in order to do their job hence through the educational process and initial job residency mechanism the ones that are not exhibiting psychopathic traits are being filtered out (they don’t make good practical doctors or lawyers) as their only asset is theoretical knowledge which is not sufficient to do your job properly. Psychopath traits are evolunary mechanism which allows for people to interact with other people in terms of non-tangible reality with an edge and thus obtain advantage. Psychopaths are essential for progress.
My impression is that in the United States, medical care is a way of making money for physicians. Given a choice between two treatments for an illness, physicians will tend to choose the one that makes more income for himself/herself. If there is a surgical treatment for a disorder, and a more conservative treatment for the disorder, the surgical treatment will be recommended.
The use of insurance has tended to add to this problem. A patient does not experience the actual (absurdly high) cost of each of these procedures. The patient gets the impression that the higher cost treatment is better. This is even true for chemotherapy and radiation treatments of people over 80 years old who are clearly going to die, regardless of the treatment given. The therapy might extend the person’s life for a month or two, but the quality of life will be terrible.
Current “standards of care” seem to encourage endless treatment, even when death seems to be imminent. I know that when my mother in law was near death, the doctors came to us and said, “All of her systems are shutting down. Should we put her in intensive care and try to extend her life a little?” [or something like that]. I said “No,” but my husband wavered. Ultimately, we said, “No.”
Your observations are spot on. From personal experience I can say that usa doctors are really the best psychopaths amongst us. I think this is mainly due to the peculiarities of usa healthcare system superimposed on the framework of turbo charged Capitalism on the background of fierce competition in University and later on during residency. The middlemen from the insurance companies are the best perfect justification for fleecing the patients as they act as moral shields for the medics. Truth is that the paradigm of healthcare was transformed in the 90s and we are now left with ‘standards of care and treatment’ which are just scams for more and more money. The very idea that healthcare should be operated on profit and should be treated just as another service based economic activity is the most absurd thing ever. The only way for healthcare to operate with a ‘profit’ is to maximise profilactic medical care and educate patients (similar to the way commies did it in Europe) which generate profit by secondary effects (less days spent in hospital, faster recovery, less frequent illnesses, less flare ups of chronic diseases etc.)
Here in Europe we have clear path of medical careers. The bestest of Eastern European physicians end up in Germany/UK or in big pharma, the bestest Western European physicians end up in USA/Canada. As you can see everyone chases higher returns for his/her work (greed is good, right).
We get our health care from Kaiser Permanente. At least it is a “pay for a year of treatment and let us keep the costs down” approach, rather than an approach based on “we will sell you as much treatment as we can get away with.” But even Kaiser is bound by community standards of care, which often seem absurdly high.
I refer to my dear colleagues in the healthcare as snake oil salesmen 😉
My father (who is no longer alive) was a doctor and my brother is one, as well. In the insurance field, much of my work was in medical malpractice. My father used to complain endlessly about the other doctors in town (particularly lack of keeping up with new techniques, tendency to do unneeded surgery).
In the malpractice field, I saw the studies that showed medical malpractice was one of the leading causes of death. At the same time, the fear of lawsuits led physicians to do an unreasonable amount of tests. These test would (by chance alone) come back with a few positive indications. By chasing these indications down, it was possible for doctors to greatly run up the number of procedures for each patient, without any real benefit to the patient.
The level of medical malpractice in USA is mind-boggling. I have wondered many times what is the main reason for that given that the usa medical education is really good and that all kinds of new technics and medical tech are constantly implemented. Other interesting thing in the area of healthcare I stumbled upon some years ago is that the number of new cases of tuberculosis in the developed countries is highest in UK. Idiosyncrasies everywhere
Part of the problem is that there is a great deal of wage loss associated with many of these adverse events. For example, if a child is disabled, a mother may have to stay out of the workforce, at home, to take care of the child. Long term, the child may never be able to be gainfully employed. The idea behind these law suits is to try to pay for all of these costs, including the excess medical besides the wage loss. If there were more of a ‘safety net’ for all of the people that the system seems to ‘save,” there would be a lot fewer malpractice suits.
In a way it is like a case of poetic justice. At least some patients get the chance to stuff it back to the doctors and the hospitals.
I would say no, the pursue this because of bent minds. The carrot at the end of the stick to satisfy some weird shit. “Normal” people just throw in the towel when the crazy gets obvious. Got better things to do than compete with, and being graded/judged by other nut jobs.
Of course you can gain advantage if you trash people on your way to full blown bonkers.
Until you meet someone smarter than you, and then that’s all she wrote. Isn’t it great with alcoholism and substance abuse among lawyers, doctors and finance muppets desperately climbing the dominance ladder and failing at it? Ah, the disillusionment.
🤣👍👍
The coolness under pressure that comes with psychopathy I can imagine being quite handy for, say, a surgeon or anaesthesiologist but a GP is really going to need a bit of empathy to do their job effectively.
Yup, I have observed that with my own eyes. The nurses were getting off on a patient in distress while the doc seriously looked concerned (out of place) and came rushing in with some advice and gear to patch up the patient. The palliative care surely must be _the_ cesspool of bent minds.
Clear as night and day. Cant hide dirt from a master of observation. 🤣👍
Want to have the best possible medicine? Slap engineers on the problem and watch it go away in no time.
Why? We just don’t give a shit. Life, death, it’s all part of the process. What’s so goddamn sexy about beginnings and endings anyway? X is born, Y kicked the bucket. So?
Just imagine showing up on those secret society “rituals”. What a cringe fest of subhuman reptilians running wild with some sorry schmucks rear end. 🤢🤮
Canadian Parliament Erupt Over Cover Up Of Chinese Spies Stealing Coronavirus From Winnipeg Lab To Wuhan
Recently, the Canadian parliament erupted over a heated debate regarding the cover-up of Chinese spies stealing coronavirus from the Winnipeg based BSL-4 lab to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Chinese espionage story was first reported by GreatGameIndia in Jan, 2020, for which we are being actively targeted by the NATO’s war propaganda arm – the Atlantic Council. The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has been given until the end of the week to explain why two Canadian government scientists were let go 18 months after being escorted from Canada’s only Level 4 laboratory.
Iain Stewart, the President of PHAC came under fire from parliamentarians after he repeatedly refused to explain why PHAC terminated the employment of the Chinese spy Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, in January.
Stewart told the Special Committee on Canada-China relations (watch below) that he could not provide details due to privacy issues and “security with respect to the investigation” still being conducted by the RCMP.
He would say only that PHAC conducted its own investigation, that it is now completed and the pair are no longer employed by the agency.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss it further,” Stewart said repeatedly.
https://greatgameindia.com/canadian-parliament-coronavirus-cover-up/
The US is also protesting the bland WHO report on the original of COVID. Maybe we will finally see someone look into the real story.
protest in France: dumping a truckload of manure on government building steps.
https://twitter.com/wemustrisenow/status/1376408332240478208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1376579190972092417%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fpopulism-isnt-dead-its-stunned
power to the people! 😉
T cells induced by COVID-19 infection respond to new virus variants: U.S. study
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-variants-idUSKBN2BM3BZ
Still good, but the science challenged may change this.
Fun and games fun and games … everybody should play!
Setup an email that does not identify you … I have one that I use for OFW…
Then gather a list of MSM email addresses… NZ Herald and RNZ sites presstitutes usually include their email addresses on their stories….
First send them the yeadon article where he suggests Covid vaccines are part of an extermination plan…
Wait a few days…
Then send the details of the CEP supported by these using the subject line : Do you want to know WHY?
They likely won’t get it – or cognitive dissonance will kick in to protect their feeble minds — but none the less… it is fun to taunt MORE ons.
WE BURN 6 BARRELS OF OIL FOR EVERY 1 WE DISCOVER
What’s most striking is that new discoveries aren’t even close to keeping pace with the loss of conventional resources.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. In other words, only one barrel out of every six consumed is being replaced with new resources.
So not only has our pace of discovery declined, but discoveries are also in much more challenging geological venues and typically offshore, which means it could take many years just to bring new resources online.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
THE PERFECT STORM
The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel
https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
Carck up boom 2022 – Seneca-Cliff 2024 – 2028
If you tell them the covid narrative is all part of a plan to depopulate the world using vaccines, for the reason we are running out of the fossil fuels necessary to maintain IC, you’ll inevitably get an email back asking “What about renewable energy?”. They will genuinely believe they have found a fatal flaw in your logic. At that point you’ll realise you are wasting your time and give up in exasperation. I know this because I’ve had this conversation so many times and it always ends the same way.
I just like them to be informed… so that when they are dying … and there is no renewable energy revolution to save them… they might… (very tiny chance)… remember what that guy told them in that email….
I wouldn’t worry too much about the anonymity. Mark Steele is Geordieland’s answer to Fast Eddy and he hasn’t been disappeared yet:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sZFP4IWqavAV/
Hilarious! The police think he’s crazy when, in reality, what he says is probably close to the truth.
It’s great seeing young people addressing this The film is following 22 April
https://greenflame.libsyn.com/bright-green-lies-how-the-environmental-movement-lost-its-way-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
This episode features a launch party for the new book Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. The book tackles the greenwashing surrounding so much so-called “green” technology and other false solutions. The authors read excerpts from the book, discuss it’s themes, and answer audience questions.
The book is excellent and the part of the audio tape I listened to is very good, also.
These authors say that to save the earth, we need to leave industrial civilization and the monocultures of agriculture. We need to work on restoring forests, rivers, peat bogs, and the many other features of the earth that we had before we started to destroy it with civilization.
The authors say that they started out with the idea of doing the math on how much emissions reductions you get by switching from coal, oil, and gas to “renewable” energy, and then compare this to other ways the money might be spent, such as saving forests. But they found out that there really was no savings at all, using this approach. They quote research by Richard York of the University of Oregon saying that solar, wind and other non-fossil fuels don’t really displace very much coal, oil and gas. In fact, York’s calculations indicate that emissions actually seem to increase, as generation by non-fossil fuels is added.
They say, “Mainstream solutions are really about getting subsides for new forms of industrial energy. None of them help the earth.”
Thus they advocate removing hydroelectric dams at the rate of 5 per day, over the next 40 years. They advocate an immediate end to the manufacture solar PV manufacture and wind turbine installations. All forms of reproductive control must be made freely available to all. Military bases on foreign soil need to be closed, and military spending scaled back. There is a long other wish list of changes as well.
I doubt that the world can support a very big population with their suggestions. Other than that, the theory is good.
This has been my way of thinking pretty much, although I waffle at (complete) removing dams or other infrastructure. I don’t believe the earth can be saved for humans, but I believe in trying to do it anyway. I agree re the availability of contraception, although there being too many people (problem albeit) is the least of our problems. The biggest problem, perhaps, is the human brain, its misuse, and the human systems it effects.
Well, not so fast, in several countries already developed coal deposit sites had been flooded and re-cultivated, it’s not easy to open it again for mining, often impossible. In that light renewables are the only short / mid term game in town..(e.g. when society is not up the game with NPPs or natgas not available etc) .. well unfortunately and more importantly at this point renewables used to fit that role but China will now increase prices and or ban exports of rare metals.. oops what a pickle..
Renewables installations were strangely very cheap as of lately (even before grants-subsidies) that’s about to end shortly.
4 stages of quarantine
https://www.quarantino.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/monalisa-4stagesofquarantine.jpg
Cute!
Joe Scarborough Slams “Idiots” Who Oppose Vaccine Passports: “They’re Living In Ignorance And Stupidity”
As the Biden Administration works with the private sector to develop a standardized way for Americans to prove their status (an effort that’s being led by airlines and their consultants), MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, a frequent and early GOP critic of President Trump, wants Americans to know that if they don’t support vaccine passports, then they’re “an idiot” and a “moron” who should probably “crawl back to your cave.”
We imagine Scarborough’s corporate sponsors, who are depending on the scheme to entice people to get out and consume,
But that apparently didn’t occur to Scarborough as he chided Americans for “following conspiracy theories” and for living in “ignorance and stupidity.”
“They’re being stupid, they’re following conspiracy theories…they don’t understand because maybe they’re such morons,” he thundered. “If they don’t want to take the vaccine and they want to die, that’s their right as Americans. They can live in ignorance and stupidity.”
“Our government, our sports teams, our concert promoters damned well better put together something where you can show your vaccine receipt,” he said.
“This anti-science idiocy, you know, let them do that under a rock or in their caves,” he added, concluding that “the time to try to reason with these people has long passed.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/joe-scarborough-slams-idiots-who-oppose-vaccine-passports-theyre-living-ignorance-and
Whats amazing to me is that people dont recognize a apparent propaganda machine. It has always been there but it became s very apparent upon op warp speed donny’s election. The hit pieces started on day one. Silly people thinking they get to pick their leader. The “journalists” tell you what to think. Anyone that got a C in high school debate understands the bitter taste of viewpoints that are demanded and enforced by endless repetition.
I omost wonder if donny was purpousful. Emanial goldstein.
I first felt the feeling of revulsion when being exposed to the talking heads of the financial press. Various versions of cramer. Then the revulsion spread to those supposedly telling us what the world is.
Critical thinking is what makes projects work. Bad ideas get tossed. You question things so you get to what is real and what is not.
Nowadays critical thinking when applied outside certain areas becomes “conspiracy theorists”. The huge advantages of questioning are just tossed away.
This goes beyond that. Its one bold face lie after another with the liar daring you to call him on it.
The trouble is just because the MSM are a bunch of propagandist doesnt make the alternative media the truth by default. Those same critical thinking skills need to be applied there. I wouldnt let them inject some strange DNA changing substance into me because it would protect me from shape shifters eithor.
Of course they are not demanding that are they?
Ill never let anyone inject me ever again with any substance. ill never see a doctor again unless i suffer a broken bone or laceration. Ill never get a prescription or have blood sample took or whatever. Ill tough it out look after myself with exercise diet vitamins and herbal remedies. I actually like most medical personal. The woman are damn cute in those blue scrubs. Their presence is very clean and attractive. I wish them the best and hope they feel the same about me.
Its not that i dont believe in western medicine. Yes there is a pandemic. Its a propaganda pandemic. The stench of it has entered the medicaI domain and i will no longer enter it. The medical profession has become associated with a lie of unbelievable proportions. If they were to reject it openly and to follow there true instincts for healing i would gladly return to their services. Not holding my breath. If i end up needing narcotics seems way better stuff is available on the black. Hope it doesnt go down like that but oh well. Its not somthing to be done casually that stuff is beyond evil but not fond of extreme pain. Consider me off the radar as far as medical goes. I dont enter liquor stores or bingo parlors eithor. No offense to liquor stores or bingo parlors. I wouldnt expect to be persecuted for not xing out bingo cards but i do expected to be persecuted for my medical services boycott. That to me proves the essence of whats happening.
And the thing is… the vast majority of people will agree with every word he says
Scarborough reminds me of the Nazi judges who used to scream abuse at the accused, and send them off to be guillotined.
When someone says that the time for reasoning has passed, one should be alarmed.
@Xabier, I know I have become almost obsessed with the way the humans get perverted in murdering regimes.
You know the history professors that would ask their students if they would support the nazis if they grew up in Germany at the time? Of course everybody would say no.
In reality how many college students are fighting the authoritarians today?
Most students are full on nazi members with their woke rhetoric, squashing of free speech and supporting or actively participating in the destruction of the small business.
Who are part of the resistance today? Some rednecks that have learned that the gov is not their friend, some middle class idealists that will break at the first sign of losing their privileges and a bunch of retirees online (I don’t know their motivations since I have not met any in real life).
I saw in the thread above how people in other countries (Lebanon, Hong Kong, Thailand) are already “disappeared” or jailed for many years for protesting. Same thing will happen in Europe and US in the next couple of years.
So what is there to do?
The old patterns which we only knew from the history books are reasserting themselves, as I suppose they must: so many echoes of the 1930’s.
The best-prepared people now are perhaps those Christians who are steeling themselves for persecution under ‘the rule of the Beast’; if you expect little of a sinful mankind, and trust in deliverance by God, then times like these are not so absolutely terrifying.
But humanists and believers in Progress, and basic human goodness, will have little to encourage or sustain them as the irrationality, lies and oppression worsen.
Xabier said: “But humanists and believers in Progress, and basic human goodness, will have little to encourage or sustain them as the irrationality, lies and oppression worsen.”
This is probably the most helpful thing I read in the last year. I know I am quite naive and had a relatively easy life. I changed from being proud of my atheism to recognize it is a weakness.
I don’t know if you write somewhere else but I would like to hear more.
I think we are long past the debates about why and how things happen. I am trying to find a way to adapt – it’s a thin line to thread between being excluded from society or becoming complicit.
Any suggestions? I know the christion saying “be in the world but not of the world” I just don’t know how to do that.
Check out Rod Dreher on The American Conservative.
His book about totalitarianism in the USSR and signs of its emergence in the West “Live Not By Lies” is very useful.
Also, although not a Christian, Jordan Peterson is very good. He makes the point that in tough times it’s essential to find some higher meaning to hang on to.
I grew up atheist. I’m so glad not to be nowadays.
“I changed from being proud of my atheism to recognize it is a weakness”
You get it, I have had the same feeling too!
My parents who are Christians struggle against the stupids laws we have in France, but they are much isolated. Their faith gives them strength and judgement.
For myself I have found Taoism that helps me much right now, that makes me capable of watching the events not feeling involved. It doesn’t mean I’m indifferent, but serene and quiet.
Thanks @Mr. S and Thierry!
I read Rod Dreher’s articles and I appreciate his point of view but it never clicked for me.
Same with Jordan Peterson. They both come from a conservative background. I don’t want to sound harsh but both conservative and liberal, as understood in twentieth century are meaningless now.
I cannot understand talk about human dignity or individualism on a planet with 8+ billion soon-to-be-starving people.
About tao-ism, I do find that older philosophies, born in previous ages of collapse have a lot to offer. I started closer to home though, with the stoics but I will definitely read more on buddhism and taoism.
“I said before that people are basically driven by greed, laziness, and fear. And when the latter begins to take over, even as a subconscious factor, whatever sapience a person might possess is submerged. Judgment is impaired. Paranoia takes hold. And QAnnon emerges.”
step right up folks.
here we have D.I. hinting that he is basically driven by greed, laziness, and fear.
okay, at least you are alive and well.
your presence seems to be a continual bother to those whose C theeeories conclude that the vaccines will terminate everyone who gets the jabs.
perhaps it’s all just entertainment.
Anyone who questions the wisdom of genetic modification is a Q follower. This is the mother of all othodoxy demands. Everthing else was just a appetizer. Just get the VAX. Everything else will be forgiven. You can even believe in Q if you want if you get the VAX! Carrots and sticks getting larger. They are scared.
Duncan, Q was a part of the deep state psyop. No one will rescue the working class.
Fast Eddy – look out – they’ll be sending the Sergei Skripal team your way with a double-gene deletion umbrella-tip – stay out of the rain mate
A Novel Effective and Safe Vaccine for Prevention of Marek’s Disease Caused by Infection with a Very Virulent Plus (vv+) Marek’s Disease Virus
Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Feb; 9(2): 159.
Published online 2021 Feb 16.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920416/
It was also been [sic] shown that highly protective vaccines replicate to higher levels than low protective vaccines in lymphoid organs of vaccinated chickens [50]. These data suggest that the protection efficacy of MD vaccines is highly associated with its replication.
One of the most promising candidates was an MDV mutant virus lacking both copies of the meq oncogene (MDV-ΔMeq) [21]. Deletion of meq rendered the virus non-oncogenic, while maintaining a normal early cytolytic infection, and proved to be an effective vaccine candidate in laboratory and/or field conditions [29,30]. However, like the parental vv MDV, MDV-ΔMeq causes lymphoid organ (bursa and thymus) atrophy in highly susceptible MDV Ab– chickens [31,32], an important safety concern that has interfered with its commercialization.
Conclusions
In summary, in this report, we show that the double deletion of meq and vIL8 did not affect virus growth in cell culture and FFE but significantly impaired virus replication in lymphoid organs. In addition, we demonstrate that the 686BAC-ΔMeqΔvIL8 virus overcame the disadvantage of 686BAC-ΔMeq virus-induced lymphoid organ atrophy while providing good protection against vv+ MDV challenge. Our study supports double gene deletion/mutation as a new strategy that can be exploited to generate the next generation of MD vaccines.
125 Covid deaths per HOUR???
A Collapse Foretold: How Brazil’s Covid-19 Outbreak Overwhelmed Hospitals
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — The patients began arriving at hospitals in Porto Alegre far sicker and younger than before. Funeral homes were experiencing a steady uptick in business, while exhausted doctors and nurses pleaded in February for a lockdown to save lives.
But Sebastião Melo, Porto Alegre’s mayor, argued there was a greater imperative.
“Put your life on the line so that we can save the economy,” Mr. Melo appealed to his constituents in late February.
Now Porto Alegre, a prosperous city in southern Brazil, is at the heart of a stunning breakdown of the country’s health care system — a crisis foretold.
More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are at their peak and highly contagious variants of the coronavirus are sweeping the nation, enabled by political dysfunction, widespread complacency and conspiracy theories. The country, whose leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, has played down the threat of the virus, is now reporting more new cases and deaths per day than any other country in the world.
“We have never seen a failure of the health system of this magnitude,” said Ana de Lemos, the executive director of Doctors Without Borders in Brazil. “And we don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.”
On Wednesday, the country surpassed 300,000 Covid-19 deaths, with roughly 125 Brazilians succumbing to the disease every hour. Health officials in public and private hospitals were scrambling to expand critical care units, stock up on dwindling supplies of oxygen and procure scarce intubation sedatives that are being sold at an exponential markup.
Intensive care units in Brasília, the capital, and 16 of Brazil’s 26 states report dire shortages of available beds, with capacity below 10 percent, and many are experiencing rising contagion (when 90 percent of such beds are full the situation is considered dire).
In Rio Grande do Sul, the state that includes Porto Alegre, the waiting list for intensive care unit beds doubled over the past two weeks, to 240 critically ill patients.
At Hospital Restinga e Extremo Sul, one of the main medical facilities in Porto Alegre, the emergency room has become a crammed Covid ward where many patients received care in chairs, for lack of a free bed. Last week, the military built a tent field hospital outside the main entrance, but hospital officials said the additional bed space is of little use for a medical staff stretched beyond its limit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/americas/virus-brazil-bolsonaro.html
Where have we heard this before … and it turned out to be a lie (the Javits centre…)
At Hospital Restinga e Extremo Sul, one of the main medical facilities in Porto Alegre, the emergency room has become a crammed Covid ward where many patients received care in chairs, for lack of a free bed. Last week, the military built a tent field hospital outside the main entrance, but hospital officials said the additional bed space is of little use for a medical staff stretched beyond its limit.
But it wasn’t a lie – in 2018… https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/
Honestly, I don’t get why do you post this kind of MSM fakery here. New York Pravda? What’s the point?
I think that both MSM articles and people like Duncan Idaho have their place here.
I stopped reading MSM long time ago and I don’t watch TV – which is probably why I don’t buy their scaremongering.
BUT… I want to see what my family and friends see. This propaganda is hard to resist so consider this a vaccination to prepare me for when I talk to them. When I talk to them I feel like they are zombies – they have a set of canned replies (the russians! you are paranoid! qanon!) and they ignore every link I send, especially from the govts and official studies.
MSM can be useful when mentioning numbers or official data, But MSM opinion pieces, I find absurd to post them here. If we want to see what the propagandists are saying, we know where to find them. (Everywhere!)
I don’t see a whole lot of value in being exposed to the inner workings of a DelusiSTANI/CovIDIOT’S ‘mind’…
https://www.neilstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/big-bag-of-shit.jpg
Its not just canned responses IMO. The Virus called into question peoples ideas about the world for the first time, Most didnt like that at all. Some will discuss with you for a while. But then they realize you make sense and boom cognitive dissonance. That feeling must go away at all cost so they start putting things into the boxes they have been givin, Your a Q… nut…
I never like to dismiss people’s intelligence (maybe I am naive here). On the contrary, I think even people that react emotionally to any info I provide have a valid reason for it.
For example, the reason most middle class people buy the official story is because they are doing well financially and the story allows them to justify their privileges – see it’s the virus that is starving the poor, not the wealth transfer to the rich.
I on the other hand struggle to find intelligence… and I engage it rather than dismiss it… it doesn’t happen often though
The only sign of a sane country is the steep rise in price for Vitamin D supplements due to increased demand. If that does not happen?
Want a cynic reply?
“We should niot bother about some deaths in Brasil. Bolo is our friend. It will help us to stage more fear in the rest of the world.”
caused by poverty, malnutrition, ignorance
A new variant has been found near Paris, it is called the Henri-Mondor strain.
A new variant of the coronavirus, the “Henri-Mondor variant” named after the hospital where it was identified, carrying mutations that could make it more transmissible or reduce its sensitivity to vaccination, is under surveillance in France.
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 “is currently actively circulating in France”. This is the variant “Henri-Mondor”, so baptized after being discovered in the hospital of the same name, located in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), alerted this Tuesday the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) in a press release.
He was identified at the end of January by the doctors of the hospital, specifies 20 Minutes . He was present within “a cluster made up of three hospital professionals and the spouse of one of them,” explained the AP-HP. In the four weeks which followed its discovery, it was then found “in 29 patients of various geographical origins”, in Ile-de-France, in the South-East and the South-West.
According to the AP-HP, which is based on data from a Flash survey of March 2, the “Henri-Mondor” variant represents 1.8% of the strains sequenced on the national territory.
18 mutations including 7 or 8 on the spike protein
This AP-HP hospital, which manages one of the four national SARS CoV-2 sequencing platforms in Créteil, observed, thanks to whole genome sequencing, 18 mutations, including 7 or 8 on the S protein (spike ) of the virus. This spike or spike on the surface of the virus allows it to attach to the ACE2 receptor in human cells to penetrate them and thus plays a key role in viral infection.
Among these mutations, the authors note in particular the mutations at position 501 (N501Y) and 452 (L452R) which improve the interaction of the Spike protein with the ACE-2 receptor, which could allow better transmissibility of this variant.
Mutations 452 and 655 (H655Y) would be likely to reduce the sensitivity of the virus to the effect of the anti-Covid vaccination. Work is underway at Henri-Mondor Hospital on the possible vaccine resistance of this variant, and to determine whether higher concentrations of antibodies are really needed to neutralize it.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/covid-19-l-ap-hp-alerte-sur-la-decouverte-d-un-nouveau-variant-a-l-hopital-henri-mondor_AN-202103300473.html
Do we really need yet more studies proving that vaccines are not an effective substitute for natural immunity? And that over vaccination destroys natural immunity? And that the modern medical profession will never learn that they are supposed to treat the patient, not the disease?
Heartbreaking.
How about the ‘Henri-Mordor’ variant – more doom-laden!
Of course, all these reams of tripe about each new ‘potentially menacing’ variant serve only to keep out eyes of the real ball – the reshaping of the economy and abolition of human rights.
“reshaping of the economy and abolition of human rights”
it is good to keep reminding ourselves what is really going on
Maybe we can do zoom drinking together.
CNN analyst Asha Rangappa
Don’t want a vaccine passport? Fine. How about a TAX for those who refuse to get vaccinated, proportional to the additional costs and burdens they impose on society as a result of needing to have the ‘freedom” to spread their potentially COVID variant-infected aerosol everywhere?
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1376899233903611907
That PR Team is shifting from carrot to stick tactics… when do we get the stories that encourage people to beat the shit out of the unvaccinated?
Well they deserved it!!! Didnt they???? They are putting my children in danger
And the judge says — he was just defending his family … so please release the CovIDIOT
(said the clown who pushed to the front of the line to get his kid the experimental vaccine that he doesnt need hahaha)
responses to that tweet suggest a tax on obese persons for every pound overweight.
you know, because it’s just “proportional to the additional costs and burdens they impose on society”.
How about all the vax people get taxed to pay for all the costs of the lockdowns?
Actually, I’d rather save my tax dollars for when the following headline scenario develops:
“COVID-19 vaccine recipients experience sudden increases in chronic illnesses while insurance companies refuse to cover costs citing COVID-19 vaccines as ‘experimental in nature.'”
this I like let them die
My private health insurer has confirmed they will cover costs should I take the lethal injection and end up with some nasty side effect….
Of course that might be because the Ministry of Truth CEP division has instructed them to provide cover because otherwise people may refuse the lethal injection … and of course they know that they won’t have to cover costs for very long.
The Ministry has thought this through.
that is corollary to the fact that the great die off we all discuss and fear will actually be a short-lived affair, a few weeks to months, tops.
A Prothrombotic Thrombocytopenic Disorder Resembling Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Following Coronavirus-19 Vaccination
https://www.scribd.com/document/500915053/ebd0055b-50ad-4a8e-9d42-b967d0d8b132#from_embed
Andreas Greinacher (andreas.greinacher@med.uni-greifswald.de )
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
Thomas Thiele Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
Theodore E. Warkentin McMaster University
Karin Weisser Paul Ehrlich Institut
Paul Kyrle Medical University of Vienna
Sabine Eichinger Medical University of Vienna
Research ArticleKeywords: SARS-CoV-2; vaccine, thrombosis, cerebral vein thrombosis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-362354/v1
‘No one recovers until everyone recovers’: World needs a post-Covid treaty to put nationalism aside and ensure virus stays defeated, 23 heads of state including Johnson, Merkel and Macron declare in open letter
Boris Johnson and other world leaders have called for a global treaty in response to Covid – similar to that agreed after the Second World War.
In the face of vaccine nationalism and clashes between countries, the Prime Minister, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel – among others – warned against isolationism.
They described the pandemic as a ‘stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe’.
Writing for newspapers across the world – including The Daily Telegraph – the leaders also urged a new era of solidarity in the face of ‘the biggest challenge to the global community since the 1940s’.
The group of 24 world leaders – and the head of the World Health Organisation Dr Tedros Adhanom – called for a new international accord similar to those agreed after the war which saw countries work together for the common good.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9416347/Johnson-Merkel-Macron-declare-world-needs-post-Covid-treaty.html
This is a link to an NPR article on the same subject:
Many World Leaders Call For Treaty On Future Pandemics
This article makes it clear that this is about future pandemics:
Who signed the letter? We know a few things:
But there were significant countries that did not sign:
Or better put, a stark reminder that these people will always come up with fatuous slogans such as ‘Nobody is safe until everyone is safe.’
Our civilisation is ending as viable energy ebbs away, and lies simply flood in – a new one every week,at least…..
No surprise, then, that those in the lie business – PR, MSM – are doing very nicely indeed out of it all, and classed as ‘essential workers’. Money is simply pouring in.
While those in ‘inessential’, energy-consuming businesses, serving basic human needs as well as luxuries, are being crushed and obliterated.
The Father of Lies is well pleased and contented.
The Vaccine Passport Propaganda Template
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you can expect to see in the propaganda push was provided several weeks ago in a CNN interview.
In the first week of March, host Fareed Zakaria and his guest Arthur Caplan provided at CNN a textbook example of how to present vaccine passport propaganda to the American people. Let’s look at some of the major elements of the propaganda template as demonstrated by Zakaria and Caplan.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/vaccine-passport-propaganda-template/5741506