Can the world achieve “herd immunity” with respect to COVID-19? Anthony Fauci has said that 80% of the population needs to be vaccinated in order to reach herd immunity. My view is that using vaccines is unlikely to achieve this result, something I discussed in my August 2020 post, We Need to Change Our COVID-19 Strategy. Now, the news arm of the prestigious journal Nature has published a similar view: Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible.
In this post, I explain why, in my view, COVID-19 seems likely to become endemic, like the flu. The vaccines won’t be enough to make it go away completely. I will also look at the issue of how we should respond to the cases of COVID-19 that we will almost certainly experience in the future.
To a significant extent, what we can and should do in the future is an energy issue. If we plan to transition to a green energy future, or if we simply plan to reduce usage of fossil fuels in future years, we probably need to scale back our plans for vaccines. In fact, any treatment that would be given in today’s emergency rooms is likely to become less and less possible as energy supplies deplete.
We will need to focus more on what our bodies can do for us, and what we can do to assist them in this effort. We also need to think about what simple changes to our environment (such as windows that open) can do for the prevention of both COVID-19 and the many other communicable diseases that we can expect to encounter in the future. The big issue will be changing expectations.
[1] Why herd immunity is unlikely
[1.1] Viruses don’t pay any attention to the geography of humans. As long as there are active cases anywhere, they will tend to spread to other countries.
Over the past year, we have seen how ineffective cutting off travel between countries is in stopping the path of the virus. Even New Zealand, far out in the Pacific Ocean, has been battling this issue. The country has found that occasional cases slip through, even with a required two-week stay in managed isolation after arrival.
Furthermore, there are hidden costs with staying this removed from the rest of the world; New Zealand’s only oil refinery has been losing money, given its low use of oil. This refinery has laid off about a quarter of its staff and is considering the option of quitting refining in 2022. New Zealand would then need to import a full range of refined products if it wants to continue having industry. Perhaps being too cut off from the rest of the world is a problem, rather than a solution.
[1.2] The cost of vaccines is high, especially for poor countries.
We can get a rough idea of the cost involved by looking at a news article about Israel’s dispute with Pfizer regarding its vaccine purchases. We can also see what goes wrong politically.
Israel recently made news for failing to pay Pfizer for the last 2.5 million vaccine doses that it purchased from the company. Pfizer retaliated by cutting off future vaccine shipments to Israel. The article linked above doesn’t tell us exactly how much Israel paid for Pfizer’s vaccine, but a calculation based on information in the article seems to indicate that future doses from a mixture of vendors would cost about $35 per dose, on average. We also know that US Medicare is paying $40 per dose for administering each dose of the vaccine. Putting these two amounts together, we can estimate that the purchase and administration of a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine costs about $75. Thus, a two-dose series costs about $150, with the high-tech vaccines Israel is now using (Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca).
We also know that Israel was planning to administer two doses per person, every six months, based on an early review of how well immunity was holding up for the vaccines. If it is really necessary to repeat the two-dose regimen every six months, then the annual per-person cost of the vaccine would be approximately 2 times $150, or $300 per person. Benjamin Netanyahu favors buying all of these doses, quite possibly because it might make him popular with voters. Netanyahu’s opposition does not, which seems to be why payment has not been forthcoming.
A cost of $300 per person would amount to 0.7% of Israel’s 2019 GDP, which is theoretically feasible. But for poorer countries, the relative cost would be much higher. For South Africa, it would amount to 5% of 2019 GDP. For Yemen, it would come to 40% of 2019 GDP. (These are my calculations, using World Bank GDP in current US$.) For countries with severe financial problems, any payment for vaccines would almost certainly be a problem.
There are less expensive vaccines being made, but their percentages of efficacy in fighting the virus that causes COVID-19 seem to be lower. Thus, it would be even more difficult to greatly reduce the number of cases down to the point where the disease would simply disappear for lack of an adequate number of victims to infect, using these vaccines.
[1.3] The fact that the disease can infect animals further adds to the problem of getting rid of the disease completely.
The disease supposedly jumped from an animal to humans to begin with. We know that the virus that causes COVID-19 can infect animals of many types, including ferrets and cats. While the disease jumping from animals to humans is supposedly unusual, we know that the disease spreads easily among humans with inadequate immunity. Having a reservoir of disease among animals raises the likelihood of this happening again. Having a reservoir of vulnerable people (not immune and in poor health) also increases such a risk.
[1.4] Microbes of all types mutate frequently. We are fighting a losing battle to stay even with them. This is especially a problem for narrowly targeted vaccines.
We know that whenever we try to reduce the population of microbes, scientists can find solutions that work for a while, but eventually we start losing the battle. Scientists can develop antibiotics against bacteria, but eventually some bacteria will evolve in a way that allows them to resist the effects of the antibiotic. In fact, antibiotic resistance is becoming a greater and greater problem. Similarly, scientists can develop weed killers, but weeds soon develop resistance to whatever we develop. The situation seems to be similar with vaccines, unfortunately.
In this case, scientists have developed vaccines that target the RNA of the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19. In some sense, this approach is very precise, leading to a high proportion of COVID-19 cases being stopped. The drawback is that it is very easy for small mutations in the spike protein to make the vaccine not work well. We end up needing to obtain booster shots of slightly revised versions of the vaccine quite often, perhaps every six months. If booster shots are not given, the vaccine is likely to become less effective against the new mutations that arise.
One danger is that manufacturers cannot keep up with all of changes needed to match the new mutations. Another is that the cost of trying to keep up with this whole process will become prohibitive. The medical care system may be forced to give the vaccine process up, leaving citizens worse off than they might have been if we hadn’t “flattened the curve” and kept the virus around for an extended period of time, allowing all of these mutations.
[1.5] There are very real reasons for people’s reluctance to accept the vaccine, when it is offered to them. Because of this, it is difficult to get very close to 100% acceptance (or even 80% acceptance) of the vaccines.
There seem to be any number of reasons why people are reluctant to get the new vaccine. Some are afraid of the pain involved with the shot. Others are afraid that they will be somewhat ill afterward, causing them to miss work. If employees are paid on an hourly basis and they barely have enough income as it is, this, by itself, could be a reason for avoiding the shot. Financial incentives might help with these issues.
Others who are reluctant have followed the situation more closely. They realize that important steps in the normal vaccine approval process have been skipped, making it difficult to identify adverse effects that occur fairly infrequently. Even worse, it becomes impossible to discover problems that take many months or years to become evident. Over 100 doctors and scientists from 25 countries have signed a letter saying that offering vaccines that are as radically different from what has been used in the past, without more testing, is unethical.
One concern is the likelihood of blood clots in the immediate period after the vaccine is received. Blood clots have also been observed with the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, and may be a concern with other vaccines, as well. There seem to be several related conditions, including sudden blindness, heart attacks, and sudden deaths of elderly people in nursing homes. These issues seem to be fairly rare, but people worry about them without adequate data on their frequency. If the issue is blood clots, it would seem as if simple adjustments such as taking low-dose aspirin for the time period of risk might be a partial solution.
We know that in some cases, vaccines can inadvertently make later exposure to somewhat different versions of the virus worse, rather than stopping these infections. The virus that causes the illness SARS is very similar to the virus that causes COVID-19. When an attempt was made at a vaccine for SARS in 2012, a study on mice showed that exposure at a later date to a slightly different virus led to blood clots forming in the lungs. We already know that blood clots can be an issue for COVID-19 vaccines. Will COVID-19 vaccine recipients who are later exposed to mutations have an adverse reaction such as blood clots in the lungs? We don’t know. There have been no animal studies with respect to the vaccines for COVID-19.
Another risk of COVID-19 vaccinations would seem to be auto-immune problems, especially in people who are already predisposed to such issues. Not much research has been done yet to clarify this issue.
A related issue is allergic reactions to vaccines, including anaphylaxis. The possibility of allergic reactions is one reason vaccine recipients are asked to stay for 15 minutes after receiving their immunizations. Even with precautions, some deaths are occurring because severe allergic reactions can take up to 150 minutes to become apparent. It is impractical to keep vaccine recipients this long.
The very long-term effects of both the COVID-19 illness and vaccines to prevent the COVID-19 illness are unknown. The Alzheimer’s Association recommends studies to see whether people who contract COVID-19 have a long-term increase in dementia-type illnesses. In theory, the vaccines could also lead to similar issues because of prion-like structures that are formed, both with the vaccine and the disease. Without long-term studies, we don’t know whether either of these concerns is valid. If dementia is an issue, will repeated vaccinations raise the long-term risk of dementia? We don’t know. If the disease itself and vaccines can both lead to dementia, is there an optimal strategy?
Without a better understanding of what the risks are, it is hard to convince young people, especially, to take the vaccine. Their chances of a severe outcome from the disease are low to begin with. What is the point of taking a vaccine that may raise their risk of serious injury or death? The vaccine may be appropriate for people aged 80 and over, but is the risk really necessary for young people? Without better data, it is hard to know for certain.
[2] Why a change away from dependence on vaccines is needed
The Nature article referred to earlier says in its concluding paragraph, “It’s time for realistic expectations. . . we need to think of how we can live with the virus.”
Also, as I mentioned in the introduction, we are reaching energy limits. Even if in theory we could vaccinate everyone on the planet twice a year for COVID-19, we do not have the resources to do this. In some ways, the problem looks like a cost problem (poor countries especially cannot afford to buy high-priced vaccines), but it is just as much a resource problem. We cannot devote enough resources to this project without taking them away from other necessary projects. The vaccines are very much a product of today’s fossil fuel economy. We can’t expect to make vaccines with intermittent electricity.
Because of limited resources, we may encounter something similar to the “empty shelf” problem in the grocery stores. We may find that only limited doses of vaccine are available because too many doses were accidentally ruined in production. Or, not enough of the right reagents were available. Or, more doses are needed in the country where the vaccine is manufactured, leaving less for use elsewhere. Or, there is a war in a country integral to vaccine supply lines, interfering with production.
In fact, obtaining promised supplies of vaccines is already a problem. Trying to scale up production at the same time that resources in general are squeezed is likely to make this type of problem increase.
[3] Learning to live with COVID-19 and diminishing resources per capita
If we can’t really fix the COVID-19 problem with endless vaccines for everyone, we need to look at other options.
[3.1] Strengthening our own immune systems
Our bodies come with built-in immune systems. It is the action of the immune system that tends to lead to a low incidence of and low severity of COVID-19 in some people, compared to others. Some of the things that seem to be helpful include the following:
- Being young
- Getting plenty of sleep at night
- Not being overweight. Proper exercise and diet are helpful in this regard.
- Maintaining a healthy microbiome. Our bodies need good microbes to help fight the “bad” microbes. Antibiotics, excessive antibacterial cleaners and a lack of exposure to “good” bacteria could be problems. Staying away from everyone and wearing masks, indefinitely, is not necessarily helpful.
- Getting adequate vitamin D through sun exposure, eating of foods that are high in vitamin D and/or supplementation. Dark skinned people living away from the equator are especially at risk for inadequate vitamin D.
- Getting adequate vitamin C from fruits and vegetables and perhaps supplementation.
Researchers need to be actively looking into optimal strategies to advise citizens. Schools might start teaching about these issues in health classes.
[3.2] Changing our customs and infrastructure to try to reduce the problem of communicable diseases in general, not just for COVID-19.
Customs for greetings among people vary greatly around the world. Some people use hugs and handshakes, others greet with bows. We may need to adopt more distant physical greetings, simply to help reduce the transmission of disease. Of course, hugging at home is still fine.
In the last 100 years, the emphasis increasingly has been on building tighter, more energy-efficient buildings. This is good from a point of saving energy, but it doesn’t work in a world with many communicable diseases. We need to move toward much more ventilation, often based on open windows. Because of energy constraints, we likely cannot expect to keep heating and cooling our buildings as much in the future. We will need to dress more for outdoor temperatures, indoors.
Some leaders have suggested rapid electric rail is the way of the future, but rail transport also needs to be well ventilated. It is also likely that we will be dealing with more intermittency of electricity supply in the future. We need to plan as if we are dealing with an electricity constrained future, as much as an oil and vaccine constrained future.
[3.3] Finding low energy ways to deal with the likely COVID-19 cases that do occur.
The approach in the “rich world” to date in looking for ways to deal with COVID-19 has been to look for new, high technology drugs and vaccines that might have a two-fold benefit (a) help sick people and (b) help the pharmaceutical industry. What we really need are technologies that are low cost and can be used at home. Repurposed old drugs, such as steroids, are ideal, especially if they can be made locally without dependence on international supply lines.
If COVID-19 doesn’t really disappear, we can expect recurring instances of having inadequate medical facilities to treat all of the patients in a given area. Countries need to plan strategies for dealing with this likely long-term problem. Should there be an upper age limit on patients using these facilities, for example, especially when demand is high? Or can the richest citizens have the ability to buy services, when others cannot? Should there be a lottery for beds? Ordering everyone to remain at home is sort of a temporary solution, but it is very damaging to the economy as a whole.
[3.4] Finding leadership that can think in a direction other than “more technology will save us.” Unfortunately, this is pretty much impossible.
Back in 1979, Jimmy Carter tried to change the direction of the US economy when he gave his famous Sweater Speech. In this speech, he told people that they needed to adjust their thermostats and drive their vehicles less because there was an energy crisis. We all know that Jimmy Carter was not reelected after this speech. Instead, Ronald Reagan was elected. He cut taxes and raised debt levels, temporarily delaying our need to deal with our energy problem.
When Anthony Fauci took on the COVID-19 issue, he led us in the direction of spending more money on vaccines and pharmaceuticals. His own financial interests and his work interests were in the direction of helping the vaccine and pharmaceutical interests. He certainly didn’t stop to think, “This is not a battle that we can win. There are too many instances of transmission of the virus by people who have no symptoms. Our track record at wiping out diseases with vaccines has been pretty dismal in the past. Stopping COVID-19 in one part of the world won’t stop the long-term problem.”
I expect that President Biden will continue on his current path until the economy “runs off the cliff.” I wrote in my recent post, Headed for a Collapsing Debt Bubble, that the economy was reaching a point where a major discontinuity would occur. Interest rates are about as low as they can go, and debt levels are reaching an upper bound.
Ronald Reagan’s administration started to decrease interest rates shortly after he took office in 1981. This drop in interest rates has hidden rapidly rising debt and energy problems for many years. We are now running out of room on both energy and debt. When the world’s debt bubble collapses, our ability to fight COVID-19 with vaccines will likely go downhill quickly. We will then need to find new strategies. Unfortunately, considering new strategies in advance is almost impossible.
[4] Conclusion
While it is possible to see what change in direction seems to be needed with respect to COVID-19 and infectious diseases in general, it is not something that those in leadership positions will be able to implement. Instead, we will likely “go off the cliff” at full speed. Changing expectations in advance is almost impossible.
At most, a few interested people can try to explain to their fellow citizens what is happening. Perhaps, in our own little spheres of influence, we can make some small changes in the right direction, starting with strengthening our own immune systems.
Toronto is out in droves demanding an end to lockdowns
https://twitter.com/canmericanized
Nothing: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/
Here’s a list of effective drugs that the international medical community has known about since March 2020.
https://c19early.com/
Yes — isn’t it fantastic!!!
I knew the Elders would not let us down… my preference was always a half a jar of Oxy… but I can see why The Peak Oil Team did not go with that option …
The psychologists determined that too few would be willing to off themselves — and that most would just go into the streets and rip each others’ faces off… (they reviewed documents like this when making their decision https://www.quora.com/What-would-the-world-be-like-if-society-collapsed)
And they went with the mass murder option of Covid + Lethal Injections.
There are so few who realize the injections are lethal .. and it appears it does not matter if we refuse the jab….
Ring around the Rosie we all fall down! (like Marek’s chickens!)
https://youtu.be/Zq2WWU5dzm0
Right. But I can’t imagine billionaires and big managers (in politics, business, etc.) accepting to take anything other than a placebo. Socio-psychopaths do not usually kill themselves. In fact, quite the opposite! 🙂
I firmly believe the owners intend to survive a managed collapse and then bequeath to their grandchildren a planet with 500 M of people.At least that’s their Plan. Don’t forget they are high-technocrats, that is, dreamy wankers, the kind of people who tend live on their own minds, like Musk, and don’t really bother with physics, limits, logic and the like. But do they have all the money of the world? Oh yes, and more and more. And when that happens, it’s only natural that moron-people feel they are like gods and everything is possible for them. After all, if you can buy anything in this f**ing world, why not a future for your descendants?!
Who will run the global economy? Who will make the replacement parts for oil wells and refineries and everything else? Who will organize and operate the banking system?
Who will manage the spent fuel ponds?
Trade Off: Financial system supply-chain cross contagion – a study in global systemic collapse
This new study by David Korowicz explores the implications of a major financial crisis for the supply-chains that feed us, keep production running and maintain our critical infrastructure. He uses a scenario involving the collapse of the Eurozone to show that increasing socio-economic complexity could rapidly spread irretrievable supply-chain failure across the world.
https://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse/
It’s easy to say things… but you need to back them up with facts and logic … otherwise what you are saying is meaningless.
One thing is for sure, it ain’t the “managers”, “bankers” and “givmints”. It is the goddamned wildcatters, supply chain workers, roughnecks, welders, carpenters, engineers, etc, i.e. the 21’st century artisanry that keeps the shebang operational (+energy). Believing anything else is pure and utter delusion.
The whole idea of these so called subsistence farms/doom bunkers is bonkers and hopium induced cringe.
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Just imagine for a moment the self entitled princesses of IC emerging from the Calhounian rat holes and/or face the grim realities of subsistence farming in a toxic and burning world.
The mind boggles. Nah, forget about it and carry on with the only thing you grasp, which conveniently is:
MOAR! YAY!
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I read Korowicz, and therefore i also don’t know how they could manage a global economy. But I believe THEY are convinced they can do it.
To me its obvious the elders intend to survive this. It is unimaginable that they have come to your conclusion that the only solution is to die. That’s not the way of thinking of the greedy sociopaths who aspire to a world government.
You may find the plan absurd, but they really believe in the great reset and that there is a future for their offspring. Despite all their money and power, they are only animals. And what do all animals always want? Eat, survive, reproduce.
if you know … and I know… the Elders definitely know… they are not re tar ded.
Which scenario do you think is more likely:
1. The Elders understand oil has peaked — and they decided to kill off most but not all people — and hope for the best (perhaps the spent fuel ponds will just disappear…)
2. The Elders understand oil has peaked — they understand BAU is all or nothing … and if they allowed it to collapse in an uncontrolled manner that would result in 8B people ripping faces off… and they would die along with everyone else (or some have decided they’ll go into permanent lockdown in bunkers…) so they decided to kill everyone to avoid a more horrifying end to humans.
Which option would you choose? Again .. the Elders are very intelligent men … they run the world…
People at the apex of the pyramid are not used to giving up, FE, you know that even better than me. They are used to winning, to crushing obstacles, to “solving problems”, etc, And to see any crisis as an opportunity, and even create these crisis when neccessary.
Besides, they are technocrats, i.e, dreamy utopians. they deeply believe in human ingenuity and salvation through AI, bio-tech and all that hopioid stuff.
And we only need to see and hear Herr Schwab, Prince Charles & all the gang in the Great Reset video. Do they seem scared, let alone like someone on the way to suicide? Of course not. But if their only hope was extinction of humanity, they would necessarily look shit-scared. Impossible to hide such intention, even to such great actors and professional liars. Too big even for them. Death is surely a seriooooous problem for human minds (elderlish or no elderlish).
The global managers are just as addicted to the dopamine of hope and winning as anyone. To live without illusions or hopes of any kind is only within the reach of rare inquiring logical minds and some downtrodden people whom life and man had repeatedly beaten.
So answering to your question, I believe they will chose 1. Because they’re smart? No, because they are only humans. And humans (at the top or at the bottom) hate logic and thrive on denial. As you perfectly know.
What would I choose? Well, pure logic dictates that only option 2 makes sense. And being I a graduate misanthrope …..
But if I had my hand on the money printing machine? Then I would certainly be tempted to try option 1, like any normal person (that is, like any denialist). Anyway, what would I have to lose?
But when you have exhausted every possible way to kick the can a little further… and you are facing a brick wall…..
So what is next? The only option that I think remains (physics are physics… there is no way around peak oil)…. is to scurry down the rat hole into the mega bunkers…
No doubt some will opt for that … but others will have concluded living in a luxury hole in the ground is not for them….
What other options are there?
A tradie just told me that Covid is BS and the end game is the rapture… I said I don’t rule that out.
Check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(American_TV_series) — odd that they have not renewed it….
I bet most humans would rather survive in a bunker for another year (or even another month) than die in the open air tomorrow morning. Denial of death is really hard to overcome. I’m sure that even at the entrance to auschwitz there was a feeling of contained optimism, and that most of those unfortunates believed they would leave the place someday by their own feet.
In short, hope springs eternal. and i believe even the most powerful banker could beg on his knees for another week of life if he deemed his prayer would have a chance of being answered.
The director of V for Vendetta has everything to attract my attention, thats for sure. Thanks.
……….. But seeing that the plot includes CIA, Israeli police and the like, hum, my interest disappears a little, don’t know why 🙂
No doubt they’d like to give it a go… I think they’d likely go out of their minds within a couple of months
Heck of an ending to that document. Thanks, hadn’t had the good fortune to run across the author.
LAST PARAGRAPHS:
For example, it has been acknowledged for many years that the credit backing of our monetary system is fundamentally dangerous for many reasons. Thus, it has been argued that debt free money is a ‘solution’. However, the real practical and intellectual challenge is not in the elegance of the solutions, but how it might be introduced in real-time and in a manner that would not unravel the global financial and monetary system that we depend upon for trade, food and medicines, also in real-time.
The form of the monetary system is not a merely a ‘thing’ controlled by ‘them’. It is not like replacing some components in a machine (a complex system), but like pulling out a key organ of the living fabric of the globalised economy (a complex adaptive system). But we know far less about the economy’s dispersed connectedness then we do of the body’s. However, we should be able to intuit that as our dependencies have become ever more complex, high speed and interdependent, our vulnerability to such potential tinkering has increased.
Likewise, we might acknowledge that our JIT, high complexity food systems are increasingly vulnerable. But changing that system at scale would increase food prices just as discretionary income is contracting, food poverty is increasing, and our ability to service debt is being undermined by debt deflation.
Collectively, it is like we are passengers travelling in an unimaginably complex plane locked onto a perilous course. Our understanding of the engine and guidance system is partial, nor do we know many of the connections between them. We may want to change course by retooling the guidance system, but there’s a meaningful risk it will stall the engine, and we’ll plummet to the ground. Good risk management might argue that before repairs are done, we ensure the passengers have parachutes, but time is running out, maybe it already has.
Well if they wanted to kill half of the population wouldn’t they choose half of the population that they actually enjoy being around? The PTB may manipulate the virus to kill the people without the vaccine and it may be them spreading the rumors via right wing websites that the virus can and will kill you…
Just saying might as well add a new conspiracy to the story…
I meant to say that they are spreading the rumours that the vaccine will kill you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo
Because they don’t want to kill half the population — they want to kill everyone…
As an act of kindness… now seriously … would you want to live the rest of your life like this .. but without the food petrol and electricity? https://www.quora.com/What-would-the-world-be-like-if-society-collapsed
It looks bad no — but imagine what would happen in a global collapse with no food…. those bad guys would without a doubt be hunting you and your children down … and roasting them …
That is Guaranteed. 100% Certain.
But that would not last… because they’d be gnawing on skin and bone because there would be nothing for the ‘livestock’ to fatten on … then they’d turn on each other…. then the radiation would arrive.
Much much better to go down in the Covid Culling…
No?
Of course nobody believes any of this can happen … What – Walmart would close???? Hahaha… Trust in FE — this is the future….
David
True, the world is going mad. Anjali is suffering from cancer and was close to death when the phenomenon started. This time the ET message was sane for once: “Humanity is a low life creep that needs a good killing.” And they are compassionate enough to do the killing.
it’s sad about her cancer.
perhaps her cancer is a part of the harder life which I was writing about, and that might somewhat explain her menttal breakdown.
I am not sure much of what is presented to us by media is correct. This fellow has quite a few videos of China, it seems remarkable to me. I recall wondering of the three Gorges Dam would hold during flooding, it did; engineering is good by real time experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4F959ZCvrQ
This is farming, very impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIXQoJU5aI
Renewable energy, again impressive, match with dams for storage. One solar installation is owned by the Three Gorges Corporation – bet they can coordinate and balance intermittent electricity issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cgf1lcSH44
How will they use electricity? Well, electric buses come to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSbriSRomfA
Maybe they cherry picked their days, but the air quality does not look that bad and certainly they are moving towards green power.
Dennis L
Employment in US:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/whatever-it-takes-tampa-mcdonalds-exposes-americas-systemic-labor-shortage-forced-pay
$50 to show for an interview. Partly demographics, partly older workers who before would have perhaps taken these jobs seeing other benefits. In Rochester, MN Menard’s has a $3/hour bonus for weekends.
Armed Forces have sometimes made note that many who apply to enlist can’t pass physical or intellectual tests.
Going to post a link to a YouTube channel on China – incredible. Our cities are a mess, China has really gone forward. At one time California could fill all of their premier colleges with Chinese students(US and mainland), they had to set a limit. Gail has been to China, I doubt they have poop on the streets as does San Francisco, very sad.
Whatever we are doing, it does not work; the world is moving on; today coming from the neighborhood I did my education would qualify me for nothing, the path upward has been closed.
Dennis L.
“Our cities are a mess, China has really gone forward.”
During the World Economic Forum’s first “Great Reset” panel discussion that was broadcasted last year, the consensus was that the world would be looking to China to lead the way through the scamdemic. The China strategy was also expected to be a “green” strategy.
Construction on Bill Gates’ home in Medina, WA started in December 1988. Gates fondly refers to his home as “Xanadu 2.0,” reportedly a reference to the fictional home of Charles Foster Kane in the film “Citizen Kane.”
However, there’s an older use for the word “Xanadu”:
“Shangdu (Chinese: 上都; lit. ‘Upper Capital’, Mandarin: [ʂɑ̂ŋ tú]), also known as Xanadu (/ˈzænəduː/; Mongolian: Šandu), was the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty of China before Kublai decided to move his throne to the former Jin dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (Chinese: 中都; lit. ‘Middle Capital’), which was renamed Khanbaliq, present-day Beijing. Shangdu then became his summer capital. It is located in the present-day Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia. In June 2012, Shangdu was made a World Heritage Site for its historical importance and for the unique blending of Mongolian and Chinese culture.
“Venetian traveller Marco Polo described Shangdu to Europeans after visiting it in 1275. It was conquered in 1369 by the Ming China army under Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1797 historical accounts of the city inspired the famous poem Kubla Khan by the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” – Wikipedia
The current shifting of geopolitical power toward China is something that was planned a long time ago. How long ago is anyone’s guess but I don’t doubt that Bill Gates and co have been aware of it. Perhaps the title “Xanadu 2.0” is more confirmation that Gates has seen the scripted future for the US.
“In Shangdu did Hubilai Khagan
“A stately pleasure-dome decree…”
What’s Going On with Women’s Cycles?
Miscarriages, hemorrhaging, no periods at all – something is happening lately with women’s cycles from those that aren’t vaccinated as well. Tiffany sits down with Dr. Larry Palevsky and MAMM’s founder, Maureen McDonnell RN to discuss possible theories as this information is being discovered in real time.
These are the opinions and conclusions based on experience and understanding of those stating them and are not meant to be taken as medical advice.
Watch with discernment. Do your own research.
https://rumble.com/vftn8z-whats-going-on-with-womens-cycles.html
Hmmm. No references to MM waves that have a significant if undocumented effect on miscarriage rate in semiconductor fabs EMF environment?
womens cycles are our link to the cosmic ether
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/24/990150761/human-smugglers-bypass-border-patrol-bedeviling-sheriffs-and-ranchers-in-south-t
Population overshoot?
Something like 1,000 undocumented migrants are illegally crossing the Texas border every day now. There are quite a number of them (22 so far this year) who die from thirst or problems with foot travel. Biden’s policies have moved staff from the Texas border to other types of duties.
I used to care but now with the CCP in charge of the US government I want huge illegal immigration to show the true nature of Washington DC. So let it rip 100,000 a day.
The more diseased, pregnant, violent gang members, low IQ, insane the better.
Isn’t this what is says at the foot of the statue of liberty?
Double the population in ten years with the wretched refuse of the world yearning to breathe free.
They make good slaves for the Gates plantations.
Ed they arnt all bad any more than all whites are racist.
It is what it is.
Me im stepping up my espanol.
Best a token whitey can.
The latinas are not hard on the eyes at all.
When in rome…
A former high ranking DoD intelligence officer who used to brief the Whitehouse…is talking about her conscious contact with ET’s. Her identity has been verified.
The latest message from the ET’s: Humanity isn’t worthy life. We have come to separate the wheat from the chaff.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnjaliOnGaia/status/1384580358247649280
Strange!
“Añjali
@AnjaliOnGaia
welcome to the first moment of consciousness Seedling
Sharing ongoing contact with ET higher beings who have a message of compassion and encouragement for humanity.”
for many persons, the 2020s have quickly become a very difficult time to navigate life. We indeed are living through the early stages of the reversal of many centuries of Progress in IC. Society is devolving, and life is harder.
in this permanent situation, it can be expected that higher numbers of people will be experiencing varying degrees of menttal breakdowns.
it’s obvious that this is one such episode.
“Sharing ongoing contact with ET higher beings who have a message of compassion and encouragement for humanity.”
i think the existence of ET higher beings can be debunked on statistical grounds. in the cosmic distribution of ET higher beings, there is an equal probability of those who will not have “compassion and encouragement for humanity.” since those might as well disregard (see Derek C.) or even eliminate us, and we are still here, it follows that ETs probably don’t exist.
Perhaps the ETs are all content to show our TV news on their comedy channels. It could be a huge cosmic franchise, for all that we know.
😂 actually it’s very likely
‘The human, sorry, rapacious primate “experience”’
*Alien blue faces and raptor eyes grabs some popcorn*
The broadcast from planet earth starts in 3. 2. 1.
🍿👽🍿
*Look at ‘em scurry about in the myopia of ordinary*
*Terrified about the inevitable*
*Jacked to the tilt with attachemebts*
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Let ‘er rip.
🌍☄️
Life:
https://youtu.be/3CVAVAU5Tpg
Chicken goes bawk bawk.
🤘😎
Got your proof of alien contact right here!
Hard-hitting, accurate ET commentary from YouTube participant Alien Overlords Now!:
Quote: . . . The humans are an invasive, anti-natural, toxic and irredeemable species. The only thing that could have prevented humans from destroying their own habitat and from driving the entirety of the natural world into extinction would have been conquering alien overlords, who would have prevented human overpopulation, prevented human industrialization, prevented the use of toxic technologies, prevented deforestation and the construction of cities, and prevented the humans from wrecking their biosphere and from driving other species into extinction. No doubt, alien overlords decided that the humans were too dangerous to approach and that letting the humans go extinct would be the best outcome for the rest of the universe.
Peak Oil is ending humans. The Elders are strangling The Borg… and The Borg doesn’t even realize it..
Perhaps, just perhaps. Now, think about this:
As father – as son.
As a species we might suck for a reason…
I’m calling it.
🤣👍👍
Oh, the aliens also grow wheat, like the Sumerians and my village uncle. Interesting.
But I think I’m recognizing the medium lady.
Everybody thinks they are the wheat.
As for me?
I’M CHAFF.
It’s what we are, slightly genetically modded rapacious primates.
MAKE IT SWIFT AND MERCIFUL
🤣👍👍
LOL
You are always playing the humble Mr Holy Oats – but your spin on it is quite amusing.
Right, some comedy in the drama of the ordinary and rapacious primate shenanigans won’t (physically) hurt. For sure some sensitive egos will not like the sting of objective reality. I don’t like it either, but it is what it is. It works something like this:
1. Build up the wall of delusions
2. Tear it down using reason
However, within all the ruins of jest is iron clad grains of truth. Indeed, I got this moron thing going, as you already know, it’s called:
THINKING
I look myself in the mirror, then I have a look at mankind. Yup, pretty much the same deal, actually uncanny similarities. The same hallucinations of objective reality between the deaf ears, myopic eyes and delusions of uniqueness.
Thus the only logical conclusion then must be drawn.
MAKE IT SWIFT AND MERCIFUL
Can’t escape the trappings and conundrums of a primate brain fueled by oats and beans. It is what it is.
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The Preachers of Death
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the “life eternal”!
“The yellow ones”: so are called the preachers of death, or “the black ones.” But I will show them unto you in other colours besides.
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach desistance from life, and pass away themselves!
There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.
They would fain be dead, and we should approve of their wish! Let us beware of awakening those dead ones, and of damaging those living coffins!
They meet an invalid, or an old man, or a corpse—and immediately they say: “Life is refuted!”
But they only are refuted, and their eye, which seeth only one aspect of existence.
Shrouded in thick melancholy, and eager for the little casualties that bring death: thus do they wait, and clench their teeth.
Or else, they grasp at sweetmeats, and mock at their childishness thereby: they cling to their straw of life, and mock at their still clinging to it.
Their wisdom speaketh thus: “A fool, he who remaineth alive; but so far are we fools! And that is the foolishest thing in life!”
“Life is only suffering”: so say others, and lie not. Then see to it that ye cease! See to it that the life ceaseth which is only suffering!
And let this be the teaching of your virtue: “Thou shalt slay thyself! Thou shalt steal away from thyself!”—
“Lust is sin,”—so say some who preach death—”let us go apart and beget no children!”
“Giving birth is troublesome,”—say others—”why still give birth? One beareth only the unfortunate!” And they also are preachers of death.
“Pity is necessary,”—so saith a third party. “Take what I have! Take what I am! So much less doth life bind me!”
Were they consistently pitiful, then would they make their neighbours sick of life. To be wicked—that would be their true goodness.
But they want to be rid of life; what care they if they bind others still faster with their chains and gifts!—
And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not very tired of life? Are ye not very ripe for the sermon of death?
All ye to whom rough labour is dear, and the rapid, new, and strange—ye put up with yourselves badly; your diligence is flight, and the will to self-forgetfulness.
If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary. But for waiting, ye have not enough of capacity in you- nor even for idling!
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
Or “life eternal”; it is all the same to me—if only they pass away quickly!—
Thus spake Zarathustra.
“Preachers of death”
1. Death is inevitable. [Y/N]?
2. Extinction is inevitable. [Y/N]?
The reality is that of being trapped within the affairs and ordeals of an almost-conscious species running full bore into collapse and chaos blinded by the reptilian dictates between their deaf ears and myopic eyes. Specially:
1. Offspring induced delusions
2. Offspring induced hopium
3. Afterlife induced hopium
4. The perpetual narratives of all lies associated with 1., 2. and 3.
It is a failed evolutionary experiment, time and time again. The same outcome emerges. It’s what we are, slightly modded primates with an affection of ‘power’, while being petty and cruel. How could it possibly end any other way?
Not much of a choice here? But by all means, I’ll continue to play the devils advocate while deluding myself I’m wheat and not chaff.
You know I am right.
☯️
This is a big reason why we have religions. Everyone needs a future. We don’t know how things will work out.
Death is always inevitable for everyone. With the ability to use fossil fuels, we have greatly increased average lifespans. We have moved from a situation where death (especially of children) was a very frequent event to a situation where we think that the medical community save us from practically anything. Surely we all will live to 105, with the wonders of medicine!
We know that eventually every species goes extinct. We also know that dissipative structures tend to dissipate whatever energy is available to it. Perhaps we humans will do the remaining dissipation. Perhaps not.
Funny how I don’t need a future, it will inevitably emerge irrespective of my hopes and dreams.
From that whatever I once originated from, that which I inevitably will return to. Lapland, Sweden, Mother Earth. Solar System, The Milky Way, The Universe.
I cannot recall any suffering and ordeals of mine, say a billion years ago. So what is the problem one billion years from now? It’s all the same music.
But don’t get me wrong. I’m feeling perfectly fine. I guess I am just bent this way for some unfathomable reason. I just don’t respond very well to perpetual lies, hopiums and delusions.
If people crave this, well, they are in for a rude awakening. As for me; meh, if it turns atrocious… That’s all I’d write for this time around in the wheel of time.
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K, no I do not think that you are ‘right’ at all.
You have a moralistic ‘negative’ evaluation of life, and it seems that your only pleasure is to slander it. I actually think that is pretty sad. It is entirely your own take on your own existence – it tells us nothing about the ‘value’ of life itself.
It seems that you are vicious toward life as a last recourse of the will to power after a life of failure. You reassure yourself that it was worth no effort, anyway. ‘Only a fool’ would seek to get a job, get a home, get married and raise a family – all things that you did not do.
You convince yourself, by some convoluted assessment, that you have done ‘better’, that you are ‘better’ – through a hatred of life in general. Somehow that posture makes your own life bearable and allows it to continue.
I suppose that it saves you from having to hate your own life, and what you have done with it. Your narrative is entirely a sign language about your own life, your dissatisfaction with it, and the mental strategies that you resort to, to perpetuate it.
The simple fact is that you continue to live, and you find strategies to make your own existence bearable – however obnoxious they may be.
My own most basic maxim is – ‘love life’. And make it worth living – your own, that is, first and foremost. I would never like to think that I had fallen back on the hatred and slander of life as the only way to perpetuate it.
You need the courage to accept what you have made of life – and continue to make more of it. It may not be as bad as you think. And ultimately to be willing to relive the exact same life over and over again for all eternity. Now that really would be an affirmation of life.
All values are properly ordered to life, its continuance and its betterment – any other ‘values’ are simply wrong, the delusion of the ill disposed and sickly. Values are ordered to health of organic drive, and personal values express our health – or lack of it.
Traditional religion may have been your best bet. And there is nothing ‘wrong’ with that. A monastery might have been right up your street.
“Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof.”
Mirror, look.
First; I live my life the way I choose to. I see no compulsory program of getting all the jazz that cause finite world issues in the first place. But don’t get me wrong, in a world where a semblance of long-term strategy and tactics exist. Why not, I’d ‘slot into’ the evolutionary processes of life and technology.
Second; I have no desire to live a life based on another persons delusions and desires. If it doesn’t sound appealing – there’s the door. But don’t worry about me, the world is full of men that will conform to female hallucinations and I am just fine alone compared with bored in a relation.
Third; show me where I have a contempt for life? You are confusing my contempt for rapacious primate defiance of evolutionary processes as a contempt for life. I have the most reverence for Mother Earth and those processes which governs Her. Mankind is just a failure on her behalf. It is what evolution does, trial and error. Mostly error.
Forth; I think in evolutionary processes and it’s benefits and shortcomings, such as the perpetual cycles of the Yugas, the inevitability of disaster given slightly genetically modified rapacious primate behaviors.
Fifth; I’m not much for rickety intermittent process control, rather a smooth feedback loop balancing on a knife edge of what is possible. Disturbances gets handled with an urgency an not until all thresholds towards doom has passed in the rear view mirror.
Sixth; I have no need for any further dwellings in a monastery, my philosophy appears out of nothingness while I’m at ease in my home. The same for observations about humanoid shenanigans. I’m mostly waiting for evidence to appear and in all likelihood some of the hypothesis I fly is correct.
Seventh; You could state that I have a knack for seeing through the smoke and mirrors. A master of observation.
Eighth; You might disagree with me now, with time you’ll understand. There is no hurry. Haste makes waste.
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NZ was established as a farming colony and that character conditions its relations with China. NZ economy is mainly dairy and meat export and it relies on China for a lot of that. NZ would never have a mouth off against China, on USA orders, like AUS. NZ is in any case a politer breed that likes to give service with a smile. AUS are more the rough loud mouths.
> New Zealand’s trading relationship with China is worth $19b and experts say that leaves the country ‘significantly exposed’
…. Chris does pay mind to what would happen if China ever turned its back on New Zealand dairy. “It always sticks in the back of your head that we are at the mercy of another country like China,” he said. “We just respect they’re a major player and we just try and produce the best product for them to keep them interested.”
…. Early this month, New Zealand was absent from a joint statement that raised concerns over the World Health Organization report into the origins of COVID-19. And tensions flared this week when Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said New Zealand was “uncomfortable with expanding the remit” of the intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes. And as China warned Australia, trade relations are good so long as political relations are.
…. As a small nation, and one of China’s smallest trading partners, he said New Zealand “would be easiest to dispense with”. “If China wanted to make a point, it could punish New Zealand and suffer very little. It could live without New Zealand milk powder,” Mr Hoadley said. “So there is this sense of vulnerability in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that’s why New Zealand is fairly courteous in its relationship with China.”
Mr Hoadley said you would never hear the New Zealand government publicly and directly engage with China. “There is quite a difference between the way New Zealand spokespeople present concerns to China compared to Australia.” For the dairy industry, livelihoods rest on the knife’s edge of the relationship. “The Australian situation is a kind of lesson to New Zealand of what to avoid.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-24/new-zealand-china-trade-difference-australia-/100090878
New Zealand sounds like it is following a very sensible policy. I suppose its “No Covid” policy isn an echo of China’s as well.
Australia doesn’t quite understand what its role in the world is. Up through 2019, Australia was doing pretty well.
When I look at “energy consumption per capita,” New Zealand’s amount is about 75% to 80% of Australia’s amount, with the ratio falling in recent years. I suppose this related to less industry in New Zealand. Also, Australia is more spread out, so it needs more fuel to get around.
I expect that the lower energy consumption in New Zealand and the lack of upward trend keeps New Zealand humble. New Zealand has more to gain than Australia in keeping COVID out, if China can keep COVID out.
New Zealand has many options to trade primarily products with different countries, more so if other parts of the world experience food insecurity, as long as the supply chains are open.
Oil/energy security may become a problem here though.
NZ kids are now 50% Maori, Asian and Pacific islands, and 50% European. If that demographic trend continues then NZ will be predominantly Asia-Pacific in the future with minor European admixture. The south island is less diverse than the north, though diversity is increasing there, too.
The kids tend to separate out, within regions, into ethnic clusters as diversity increases, while less diverse regions are often, but not always, more ‘mixed’. Increased diversity does not necessarily entail sustained ‘integration’.
Present ideological trends may suggest that it is likely NZ will come to see its historical European colonial ties in a ‘negative’ light, and distance itself from an ‘Anglosphere’ geopolitical perspective.
> Ethnic diversity in New Zealand state schools
…. The New Zealand school roll is becoming more diverse
Nationally, the share of New Zealand European students in our schools has declined from 55.9 percent in 2009 to 50.3 percent in 2017, while Māori and Asian students have increased their share of the school roll. Māori students made up 23.9 percent of the school roll in 2017, compared to 21.7 percent in 2009. The proportion of Asian students in the school roll has increased by a third between 2009 and 2017, from 9.1 percent to 11.8 percent.
Compared to the diversity of the population as a whole, the New Zealand school roll is more ethnically diverse. There are a greater proportion of Māori and Pacific students, compared with the overall population. In 2017, 24 percent of students were Māori and 10 percent identified as Pacific, compared with 15 percent and seven percent respectively of the overall population at the time of the 2013 Census.
…. In 2017, the Auckland school roll was the most ethnically diverse region in New Zealand, but its schools, on average, did not reflect this diversity as much as schools in other regions. In general, as a region’s ethnic diversity increases, schools become less diverse compared to the overall diversity of the region’s school population. This would seem to indicate that in these regions ethnic groups are more clustered and not as dispersed across communities, compared with less diverse regions. The Tasman region has the least ethnically diverse school roll overall, but individual schools are as ethnically diverse as the overall regional population.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181017220636/https://www.ero.govt.nz/footer-upper/news/ero-insights-term-1/ethnic-diversity-in-new-zealand-state-schools/
Well, “thanks” for some whitey Anglo Saxon genes. And, well, those sucked donkey b@115.
Now:
GTFO!
😠👉
Yes, they have gone a step further than you. They have not merely denounced their own existence on moralistic grounds, they have actually ended it, as a community. But simply for money, short term profit. A people makes its choice. Who am I to judge?
You misunderstand.
I have no desire to have offspring in the world as it is. I’m not going to subject myself to the inevitable five stages of grief for nothing.
But hey, provide a compelling narrative besides the requirements of raw evolution and survival of the fittest. The cake of existence gotta have some ‘sustainable’ comedy and drama mixed with the ordeals of reproduction.
Ain’t seeing much else than MOAR so far.
🤣👍👍
Life is all about the satisfaction of the instincts. You would enjoy paternal instincts in their exercise. Life and its enjoyment is its own ‘justification’.
You have not pursued your instincts and life has soured for you. Your instincts have become a focus of slander. ‘What is life worth, anyway?’
Maybe that is your ‘punishment’ for not breeding? The souring of life? And it is a warning to the rest of us – ‘you don’t want to end up like that bitter, sour old man.’
So, your ‘disdain’ of life is actually of evolutionary benefit to the species. ‘I have become an object lesson before all men.’
I can tell you are still confusing the oat eating Laplander with his message.
What I observe is process and a defiance of process by humanoid shenanigans, which inevitably will lead to disaster and five stages of grief.
I wish not partake in rigged processes and have little desire to engage in competitive aspects of getting ahead.
I’m just an puny ant scurrying about in the tragedy of it all. Trying to dodge the worst aspects of rapacious primate behaviors.
Putting children onto a world to satisfy my rather weak desire to reproduce seem rather irresponsible given the situation of overpopulation and diminishing finite resources.
I just can’t engage in acts of self defiance and ultimately cruelty against a yet to be born child in order to satisfy some instincts.
But you already know how I think. Let them who have hope and dreams of a better tomorrow blow through the resources I don’t waste.
It is your ‘message’, your perspective, the intellectual expression of your relationship with the species and its future evolution.
Your ‘will’ to join in or to opt out of the gene pool (if it really was a choice?) tells us nothing about the world or the human condition – so much as about your own condition.
Your attitude, your ‘will’ is subjective, it is who you are (your quantum of force, if you like). You tell us only how the world is ‘for you’, which is why your statements are so laden with emotions and value judgements – which are entirely subjective.
I think that you are fooling yourself by trying to externalise your own pacified (weak) condition as somehow objective in the world. Your ‘weakness’ is your own – and it is ‘weakness’ and nothing besides.
You are attempting to use finite world issues as a pivot for an inversion of values that ‘justifies’ your own opting out (if that is really what it was?) of life. Your narrative expresses who you are – or how you want to appear, to others or to yourself.
No doubt it is a coping mechanism – whether it is healthy, for you or for others, is another matter. Philosophically, it is ‘pessimism’, which has already been done to death in 19 c. Recent thought is rather a reaction against that.
I doubt instigating me to compete in rapacious primate shenanigans will yield much success.
Now, you have to decide: Either the game is rigged or it isn’t.
I say it is rigged.
Good luck with embracing the riggers while I stick to my engineering contraptions, oat meals and bicycles.
Let’s compare who’s most content once we close the books in our brief existence.
Because as you already know, (or do you?):
1. Death is inevitable
2. Extinction isn’t optional
3. A rigged game is equivalent to premature extinction
3. Is easily observable within the conundrum of rapacious primate shenanigans.
Now, do you agree on those 3 statements, yes or no?
☯
Can’t say as I know what is really happening in Brazil, epidemiologically or otherwise, any more than I can compass the clown-show in the states. Thus, follow the science is the motto.
Research on Ivermectin from China in September, 2020
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7536980/
“This study sought to identify ivermectin‐related virus infection pathway alterations in human cells. Quantitative proteomics revealed that ivermectin‐related proteins are involved in four statistically significant antiviral pathways, including human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV1), and COVID‐19 infection pathways. We identified 52 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)/COVID‐19‐related protein alterations when treated with and without ivermectin, and these proteins were involved in cytokines and growth factor family, MAP kinase and G‐protein family, and HLA class proteins. These findings demonstrate the broad‐spectrum antiviral property of ivermectin benefiting for COVID‐19 treatment in the context of predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine in virus‐related diseases.”
Sounds like it might be useful.
37 mark is the punchline
The third wave, which is fuelled by more transmissible and more deadly coronavirus variants, has put pressure on hospital capacity with record patients with COVID-19 in the ICU.
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-s-top-doctor-issues-directive-to-cease-all-non-emergency-surgeries-immediately-1.5397319
Hmm, 1.5h of describing that a virus put under evolutionary pressure will:
*DRUMROLL*
Evolve.
Doge much impress.
FE, so Jacinda is wise to isolate NZ from the world from the devil covid.
Lockdowns make no sense … this makes sense https://gbdeclaration.org/focused-protection/
‘Ah, NZ! They are fascinating. I am sure they will manage to stamp out the virus. And then they will have to have a 2-week quarantine for anyone who enters the country for the next 30 years or so. Will do wonders to tourism.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Giesecke responding to Fast Eddy by email.
If one was to support these lockdowns… one would need to support lockdowns every time we have a serious flu in play.
Isolation didn’t work out very well for Amerindians.
Interesting! Thanks to the pointer to listen to the 37 minute mark. We show the virus very clearly how to evolve so as to continue on its quest. We end up with more and more mutations, I expect, and everyone needing to be vaccinated.
Ultimately, we clearly have to lose this battle. We are running short of resources to fight this battle, if nothing else. It is parallel to a lot of other battles we are trying win to fight back bacteria, other viruses, fungi, weeds, and insects. We will ultimately lose all of them, I am afraid.
It is not win or lose more peaceful coexistence. We will move to smaller groups of humans, diverse crops not mono crops.
hahahahaha
https://youtu.be/v2ng4v-YAvI
Pretty humorous. The printed introduction says:
On one hand China says https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-says-china-will-phase-down-coal-consumption-over-2026-2030-2021-04-22/
and they do
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-new-coal-power-plant-capacity-2020-more-than-3-times-rest-worlds-study-2021-02-03/
The US says it will cut in half emissions by 2030… https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3130698/global-climate-summit-xi-jinping-and-joe-biden-united-drive
GW Groopies…. can you please explain what is happening here? We know this is impossible (well not without eviscerating BAU … which is about to happen — so the US could say they will be at 0 by 2030… might spook the cattle though right?)
We will be driving EVs in a few years too – because ICE is banned…
Meanwhile… https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/davos-2019-private-jets-climate-change-world-economic-forum-summit-attenborough-a8742681.html
And Al is relaxing at his ocean level mega mansion … and Leo is cutting the ribbon opening his new sea level hotel ….
https://youtu.be/H-kA3UtBj4M
Wazzzz…… up? Hang on … let me get the Heavy Duty Duct Tape ready….
Do you maybe… have a feeling… that you have been …. played??????
Haaaaahahahahahhahahaaahhhaaaaahahahahahahaha….
“17 child migrants disappear every day in Europe since 2018… Some 5,768 children disappeared in 13 European countries last year alone…
“The majority of the children who have gone missing since 2018 have travelled from the Middle East and North Africa, with significant numbers arriving from Morocco and Algeria.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1846576/middle-east
“130 migrants drown in Mediterranean after rubber boat heading to Europe capsizes off the coast of Libya…
“A Libyan coast guard official today said that they searched for the boat but could not find it with their limited resources.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9504381/Horror-sea-130-migrants-drown-Mediterranean-rubber-boat-capsizes-Libya.html
I have heard that the unaccompanied children migrating to the US from Mexico are mostly teenage boys.It sounds like the disappearing migrants workers are also mostly teenage boys.
it’s been reported that many of those self-declared teenage boys are actually in their 20s.
“Money Market Funds Melted in Pandemic Panic. Now They’re Under Scrutiny.
“In March 2020, the Federal Reserve had to step in to save the mutual funds, which seem safe until there’s a crisis… Now, the savings vehicles could be headed for a more serious overhaul.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/business/economy/money-market-funds-reform.html
The problem:
So, last time’s fix made this time’s problem worse.
“Saudi Arabia announced on Friday a ban on imports of fruits and vegetables from Lebanon, blaming an increase in drug smuggling, in a measure that will add to Lebanon’s economic woes.
“Lebanon is already in the throes of a deep financial crisis that is posing the biggest threat to its stability since the 1975-1990 civil war.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-lebanon-food/update-3-saudi-arabia-bans-lebanese-produce-over-drug-smuggling-idUSL1N2MG0ZR
“Panic in Lebanon as desert locust swarms hit farmland:
“Ersal Mayor Bassel Al-Hujairi recounted seeing “millions” of locusts flying and attacking cherry trees and crops… If these swarms multiply, they can cover the sun.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1847766/middle-east
If it is not one problem, it is another for Lebanon.
Sean O’Grady, the Associate Editor of the Independent, said that the vaccination of the young should be mandatory.
I would vaccinate every child old enough to receive it, as a condition of receiving a state education. …
Of course, in the end, we do not want to live in a country where gangs of officials grab unvaccinated children or adults, wrestle them to the ground and forcibly inject them. But we do want to live in a country where rights are balanced by responsibilities, and where mutual obligations need to be fulfilled.
Incentives and penalties, taxes and fines, court orders and conditions of employment – restrictions on liberty – are commonplace in our daily lives; for the protection of the community as a whole. If we want to drive the wrong way down a motorway, then there are legal consequences for doing so.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/vaccine-covid-pandemic-b1821183.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9502227/Coronavirus-UK-Children-young-12-Covid-vaccines-September.html
O’Grady says do this! O’Grady says do that!
I say, put O’Grady’s name on the list for if and when the accounts are settled. The man is a criminal and needs to be punished. For a start, these being experimental vaccines, he is clearly advocating the abrogation of the Nuremberg Code, which is there for a very good reason.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199711133372006
“Of course, in the end, we do not want to live in a country where gangs of officials grab unvaccinated children or adults, wrestle them to the ground and forcibly inject them. But we do want to live in a country where rights are balanced by responsibilities, and where mutual obligations need to be fulfilled.”
He can’t have it both ways. If he wants to the obligations and responsibilities he’s decided need to be fulfilled to actually be fulfilled, which he obviously does from the tone of this paragraph, then he is advocating that we should live in a country where gangs of officials grab unvaccinated children or adults, wrestle them to the ground and forcibly inject them. In short, he is advocating that officers of the state should engage in rape, injury and murder.
On the other hand, prohibiting unjabbed children from attending is an excellent idea. It would save a lot of the brighter and more sensitive kids the trouble of bunking off, and give them an opportunity to get a proper education instead of the absolute mental torture they are forced to endure now.
China has been keeping children of migrant workers out of schools for a long time. They need to stay in rural areas with relatives, generally grand parents. It is not an idea used much elsewhere.
I understand that children who were not in school last year because of the pandemic often got into mischief.
“Corn, wheat, soybeans, vegetable oils: A small handful of commodities form the backbone of much of the world’s diet and they’re dramatically more expensive, flashing alarm signals for global shopping budgets.
“This week, the Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index — which tracks key farm products — surged the most in almost nine years…
“With global food prices already at the highest since mid-2014, this latest jump is being closely watched because staple crops are a ubiquitous influence on grocery shelves — from bread and pizza dough to meat and even soda.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-24/the-grocery-food-price-bill-is-going-to-get-more-expensive
Higher food prices will be a problem for many poor people around the world!
Friend of mine got shingles after receiving the Astra vaccine jab; never had them before. Great!
The vaccinations are, it seems, a Pandora’s Box of delights….
Gail, https://ourfiniteworld.com/comments/feed/ presently shows the 10 latest comments – is it possible that could be expanded to 50 please?
I don’t think I know how to do that. Maybe I can check with tech support tomorrow about whether there is a way to do that.
Watch as Al Gore is asked about how he profits from the renewable energy lie… it’s in the second half of this …
Or watch the entire documentary to learn how renewable energy and EVs are bs….
Or find some sand and shove your head into it.
This is a common tactic of a DelusiSTANI… they refuse to look
https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/planet-of-the-humans/
Critically Thinking with Dr. T and Dr. P – Episode 44 with special guests Dr. Carrie Madej, Dr. Lee Merritt & Dr. Christiane Northrup
https://rumble.com/vfyvcn-critically-thinking-with-dr.-t-and-dr.-p-episode-44.html
The five people are trying to figure out how people around those who are vaccinated might inadvertently be adversely be affected by those who are vaccinated. For example, normally, it is whole viruses that are transmitted by sick people. Can the part of the virus involved in the nRNA vaccine actually be transmitted as well, is one question Dr. Lee Merritt raises.
The video is something like one hour and twenty minutes. I didn’t get a chance to listen to all of it.
David Beckham: Vaccines Bring Us Closer – UNICEF
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy77/status/1385669802224726023
She’s so excited to be jabbed.
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy77/status/1385686700261838848
Social Media Influencer Exposes COVID Vaccine Pay-To-Propagandize Scheme
https://needtoknow.news/2021/04/social-media-influencer-exposes-covid-vaccine-pay-to-propagandize-scheme/
You might squeal like that for $1300.. who knows?
My first thought was – she’s an actress paid to do that
But I also do not rule out Extreme CovIDIOCY
People watch such cringe?
🤢🤮
Hey Fast Eddy, you got time to decode this? Was 2020-2021 just a dry run? Do we still have 4 years to party or what? Inquiring minds want to know.
https://jhsphcenterforhealthsecurity.s3.amazonaws.com/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communicators
Didn’t Pompeo make a small oppose with regards to this as he quipped to the orange goblin with a hot mic?
This is a 2017 publication of a hypothetical scenario. They got a few things right, but they missed a lot.
The Pompeo ‘oopsie’ was during the initial stages of this pandemic. Trump quipped back to Pompeo:”
I’d wish you could have told me this beforehand.
Early manuscript drafts don’t exactly match final drafts.
I suspect it would take the public release of the SARS-CoV-2 script for the majority to begin to acknowledge that we’re living through a pre-planned, scripted event. That would be the smokiest of smoking guns and would remove all doubt, certainly. But that would also be far too obvious and incriminating for the scriptwriters.
I lean towards the likelihood that groups like the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security are in the business of inventing the future rather than predicting it. I’d include all other “think tanks” in that categorization as well.
“The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (abbreviated CHS; previously the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies) is an independent, nonprofit organization of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and part of the Environmental Health and Engineering department. It is concerned with the areas of health consequences from epidemics and disasters as well as averting biological weapons development, and implications of biosecurity for the bioeconomy. It is a think tank that does policy research and gives policy recommendations to the United States government as well as the World Health Organization and the UN Biological Weapons Convention.” – Wikipedia
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
My favorite find in the SPARS Pandemic 2025 – 2028? The reference to King County, Washington on page 53.
King County, Washington is Bill Gates’ backyard and playground.
Bill Gates’ think tank in King County:
BGC3, LLC (Bill Gates Catalyst 3), trademark of Gates Ventures LLC, located at 4110 Carillon Point Kirkland, WA 98033 United States
Bill Gates’ home:
Located in Medina, WA – King County
January 21, 2020 – first confirmed COVID-19 case in the United States was announced by the state of Washington.
February 29, 2020 – The first 8 identified COVID-19 fatalities in the United States were reported at EvergreenHealth Kirkland, WA – King County.
EvergreenHealth Kirkland, BGC3 LLC, and Bill Gates’ home are all within a 15 mile radius. This is where the scamdemic officially started in the United States.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
Nice work there on the puzzle
You may be right.
I had forgotten about
I didn’t know about
“EvergreenHealth Kirkland, BGC3 LLC, and Bill Gates’ home are all within a 15 mile radius. This is where the scamdemic officially started in the United States.”
Your quote by H. L. Mencken is from 1918. “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
The goal is to not give “them” the benefit of your fear. You avoid that pitfall by learning to see the hobgoblins that Gates and others present to you as they truly are: imaginary.
The burden of proof always rests on the people presenting their various hobgoblins in the media.
SARS-CoV-2 exists? Prove it.
COVID-19 exists? Prove it.
If “they” want to sell us their nightmare stories as real they need to prove them as real. It’s not our job to disprove them – we don’t have to. We simply choose not to invest our faith and fear in them. There’s no law that says we have to buy the horrific stories “they” try to sell us through the news.
The end to all the psychological operations will come when people take back their power to selectively focus their attention away from the latest hoaxes and decide to invest their faith in healthier, more constructive narratives.
“They” keep hitting us with frightening hoaxes because we keep investing our faith in them. Believe in something better, something that you choose for yourself, and don’t be afraid.
Well of course fear-mongering works because of vested interests and attachments. Haven’t I shown you that enough?
In any scenario, barring a major scientific and engineering breakthrough in energy production, ICM (Industrialized Consumerism and Materialism) is nonetheless going to end.
Killing off a major part of the population is a sure way of ending ICM, due to a severe impulse in the nonlinear chaotic system that is:
1. The biosphere
2. The economy
3. The myopia of ordinary
I guess we all are going to meet the five stages of grief in any scenario:
1. ICM to its logical conclusion (nukes fly)
2. Doomsday bunker myopianism
3. Subsistence survivalist myopianism
In all scenarios the “survivors” will expect a rather disturbing existence of unfathomable misery, illness, drudgery and depression.
I can imagine the camera panning up on the faces of self entitled princesses of IC emerging from the bunkers.
Wow, just wow.
The stink from a smoldering trash heap that once used to be a rather beautiful blue pebble crowned with higher complex and sentient life forms – all in ruins, rubble, ash, trash, clouds of poisons and radioactivity.
Yup, good luck with the survivalist strategies spun out of the delusions in the myopia of ordinary. Yes indeed.
GOOD LUCK!
I’m going down with starship earth.
☯️
Fortunately, we really don’t know what is ahead. There are no doubt outcomes we haven’t considered. A meteor hits the Earth. There is some sort of religious ending. China and Russia win the battle for resources and use those of us considered desirable as slaves.
A meteor has struck the earth … it’s called peak oil…
Eight police officers have been injured as they dispersed crowds during an anti-lockdown protest in central London on Saturday.
Five people were arrested for offences that included assault on police officers, the Metropolitan police said. They remain in custody on Saturday night.
The Met said demonstrators hurled missiles, including bottles, during the protest in Hyde Park, which were attended by an estimated 10,000 people.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/24/eight-officers-injured-policing-anti-lockdown-protest-in-london
I wonder if these are nervous moments for the Elders… they need this Devil Covid to emerge soon… these protests appear to be growing… and they endanger the CEP.
I can imagine Fauci in front of The Board who are asking him… You Said DC would emerge within 3 months of mass vaccinations, we are are approaching month 4. What’s the problem Anthony.
Well you see when we ran the trials the variants emerged after week 8 and by week 10 we had a mutation that was deadly … but that was in laboratory conditions… this is the real world… we have to wait and see.
But Anthony. You know what is at stake. You are putting huge pressure on the PR Team. At some point the goy will wake up to this no matter how many times the lies are repeated.
Yes I do understand. I’ll report back next week on our progress.
Why not release a more deadly virus in the first place, rather than releasing a virus less deadly than the flu and waiting for vaccines to cause it to mutate? Seems an overly complex method of culling the population.
Makes more sense to have the vaccines as a direct method of culling. The rather benign virus that is covid19 ensures the elite themselves do not then get infected and die, given they have top medical care available if needed.
Perhaps in order to get the truly deadly mutants you need a big reservoir …
Bossche would have more to say on that…
We now have a reservoir of over 1 billion… and counting…
There has to be a reason we are vaccinating children… and it ain’t a good one
Sadly, children will get vaccinated if their parents allow them to be. For holdouts, I am pinning my hopes on the 18 to 30 age bracket. These tend to not get their news from the MSM, hence they are less brainwashed by the propaganda than older people. They also are aware that covid19 poses no health threat to themselves.
They are encouraged to take ‘vaxxies’ and post them on social media — at least that is what my nephew in canada tells me… peer pressure is immense – and most people are stooopid
Concerns in South America regarding Ivermectin use and abuse
April 16, 2021
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8050401/
This is a very good article. Ivermectin use hasn’t really been helping in prevention. There have been a lot of bad effects from taking too high a dose, while it is impossible to see an impact in the curve of number of cases. The environment is being harmed by all of the ivermectin in the sewage system. There need to be controlled studies.
My dog and millions of other dogs in Japan and billions of people around the world take Ivermectin once a month or so during the parasite season. It works on parasites like a treat. Probably not very smart to swallow these pills like M&Ms, but I would take them in order to treat Covid-19 symptoms. My understanding is that this is like playing a get-out-of-hospital-free card, and that the only reason this drug is being attacked is that it destroys the rationale for jabbing everyone as part of the Great Put-Down.
I have also noticed the same issue with deaths being very high where ivermectin is used. I don’t know whether it is just that poor countries cannot afford adequate treatment for the vast majority of the population, and ivermectin is not used very widely. The benefits of ivermectin are not yet showing up in the data the way a person would expect them to appear. This is disturbing to me.
I spent a couple hours going through it. I think it’s an opinion piece more than anything. It’s interesting how he puts it together.
For background, I looked at all the titles of papers with his name at PubMed and they all deal with animals. He does work in a veterinary lab. Then I looked at the studies he referenced for this paper. Out of ten, two were his own and a couple others were just basic reference to Ivermectin, one from 1994. Then there was a legal paper. A couple others looked like they might actually refute one of his contentions.
TITLE: The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.
TITLE: Ivermectin docks to the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain attached to ACE2 in vivo
There was an odd appeal inserted in the middle of the paper, that repeated what he wrote earlier; quote: (please remember the 12-million IVM packages sold in a month). This doesn’t sound like a legitimate paper. It’s more like an op-ed or a magazine article making a case.
There was a veiled threat near the end which I haven’t ever seen in years of reading papers. He’s obviously very concerned about people overdosing on ten times recommended doses, as he should be.
The microbiome thing down the road and the environmental impact while potentially serious considerations at some point, seem like trivial things in the here and now during a pandemic. It’s like he’s grasping at straws to make his case against Ivermectin. Seemed out of context as well.
But the best part of all was this bit:
QUOTE: However, most of the listed references fail to provide adequate methodologies, making them difficult to be validated. Major limitations include, small sample sizes, doses and frequency of IVM use, open-label studies, in which neither the participants nor the investigators were blinded to the treatments, the use of concomitant medications in addition to IVM, assuming that the efficacy resulted from IVM. Although there is still no real evidence of IVM’s value in treating COVID-19, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has just released a new recommendation that is either for or against the use of IVM for the treatment of COVID-19 ENDQUOTE
Gotta love this one lone veterinary researcher, MB Molento, asserting “although there is still no real evidence…” (not normal language in papers I’ve seen) as a prelude to mentioning the NIH change, I found it funny, like he’s one-up on the NIH.
I think it’s pretty clear that Dr. Pierre Kory’s US Senate testimony was responsible for that change of recommendation of the NIH. And that change was NOT based on lack of evidence.
When he opines that “…most of the listed references fail to provide adequate methodologies…” I just have to shake my head.
Molento obviously didn’t read Satoshi Omura’s review of RCT’s. I’ll link it here for any interested. It’s 44 pages and posits that recent evidence shows Ivermectin versus SARS-CoV-2 (and other viruses) may prove to be as important as the discovery of Penicillin.
http://jja-contents.wdc-jp.com/pdf/JJA74/74-1-open/74-1_44-95.pdf
Satoshi’s team referenced 167 papers (including successful RCT’s) and the review is published in the Japanese Journal of Antibiotics. PubMed shows 20,196 papers published in the JJA.
Guess how many PubMed shows for the One Health Journal that published MB Molento? Only 238. I’m not even going to dig into their history, with only 238 at PubMed. There’s a lot of “pay to play” in the world of medical research journals. And this particular paper looks very amateurish, even if there is some discrepancy occurring in Brazil.
I’d rather go with the heavy-hitters on the Ivermectin story. Ivermectin is not a stand-alone, it is a part of a therapy protocol; a protocol that most people don’t have a clue about how it all developed, or the struggle of front-line docs who use it to save lives to get the word out. Dr. Kory’s update on Wednesday gives the blow-by-blow since April 2020, on a lot more than just Ivermectin. It’s a surprise in a way since it’s been such an event filled year and it’s difficult to keep close track of what the heck is has been going on. Check it out. I’d go right to the 4:00 mark.
I got a fever last week that got progressively worse. (up to 104 f on day 3) I followed the protocol and was better 3 days later. Just sayin.
Good to hear!
Thanks for researching this, hillcountry.
I hardly need to say that if Ivermectin is really an easy cure for Covid-19 not to mention the flu, a lot of people in Big Pharma, Big Government, Big Tech and Big Banking will be working overtime to muddy the waters.
Doubtless it would break that scribbler O’Grady’s heart to have his four-tissue fantasy of militarized medical goons wrestling children to the ground, ripping their pants down and jabbing them in the butt crevice rendered unnecessary. If Hancock, Johnson and Johnson & Johnson manage to implement the forced injection policy, I expect the PR boys will come up with a catchy title such as, “No Child’s Left Behind”
Thanks for the additional information. It is amazing what is picked up as apparently peer reviewed literature.
There have been issues in this space for a while:
https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
Amazing Polly talks about “Potemkin Science”:
https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970
Someone commented elsewhere that government (being an institution that is not trusted) has necessarily hi-jacked the more trusted institution of medicine in order to do its dirty work.
Oops. Here is the link to Polly:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qDyh0IYpUeuv
Interesting stuff about Robert Maxwell and the control of scientific literature:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science
There is no real treatment for the flu either …. rest – fluids … some Tylenol… not sure why people believe Covid would be any different…
Symptoms are pretty much exactly the same…
For some, others it’s way worse, and now different strains. Dr Kory says it’s an organizing pneumonia. Following the protocol worked for me, but you have to have everything on hand before you get sick. Seems prudent since this will be with us now.
Global pneumonia would be the best outcome we can hope for …
Doctors once had little choice but to be fatalistic about deaths from pneumonia. Sir William Osler, sometimes called the father of modern medicine, famously called it “friend of the aged” (often rendered as “the old man’s friend”) because it was seen as a swift, relatively painless way to die.
I also understand falling asleep in a snow bank is rather pleasant… if we can make it till June … I can drive the ute up the mountain and we take a nap…
Oxy is surely the best though .. Oxy and red wine…
Elon knows… I betcha Elon was just doing a dry run on his Personal Extermination Plan….
‘A little red wine, vintage record, some Ambien … and magic!’ Elon Musk June 7, 2017
New Zealand Defence Forces makes c19 vaccinations mandatory. Decent = Dismissal
The best of the best of NZDF are being lined up like covid19 vaccine guinea pigs
MAYbe the NZDF personal need to be exposed to that former Pfizer Vice presidents vacation advice?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/441066/defence-force-service-members-told-to-get-vaccinated-or-face-being-fired
At least they will be taken care of if they are paralyzed.
Unreal…. too bad it’s only a few… if it was the majority we might get a military coup!
Lawyer David Pawson was a member of the New Zealand Military Police special investigation branch.
The Defence Force was well within its right to discharge service members for refusing the vaccine, he said.
“They are subject to the Armed Forces Discipline Act as well as the Defence Act. The Defence Force is not subject to the Employee Relations Act, therefore, they are not employees.
In other words, a soldier is no more than a slave, at the mercy of his generals.
Well, technically they aren’t conscripts and they don’t have to obey illegal orders either. In practice, you may be correct, but I don’t think it would take a lot of refuseniks to halt that policy.
I wonder, could the NZ Military take a 20% cut in their numbers and still keep the Maoris under control? And could severe treatment of refuseniks result in more people abandoning the military in solidarity with these brave lads and lassies? These are experimental vaccines, remember.
No one stands up and fights for the rights of those who defend a country? It’s just amazingly ironic and shamefully gutless.
Those willing to put their lives on the line for their Nation are entitled to have the right to choose, not be treated like minors. It’s a disgrace!
Here’s a snip I ran across today:
“The last report from the American Society of Civil Engineers concluded that America desperately needs to spend $4.5 trillion just to bring its decayed infrastructure up to safety levels. Roads, bridges, rail, dams, airports, schools all received near failing grades with the average age of Dams clocking in at 56 years, and many water pipes over 100 years old, and transmission/distribution lines are well over 60 years. The factories which once supplied those infrastructure needs are long outsourced, and much of the productive workforce that had that living knowledge to build a nation are retired or dead leaving a deadly generation knowledge gap in its place filled with millennials who never knew what a productive economy looked like.”
“The factories which once supplied those infrastructure needs are long outsourced, and much of the productive workforce that had that living knowledge to build a nation are retired or dead leaving a deadly generation knowledge gap in its place filled with millennials who never knew what a productive economy looked like.”
Decaying infrastructure? Isn’t there a smartphone app for that?
To spend on infrastructure requires taking money away from others who are used to receiving it. Yes we are on the contraction side of the curve.
This has been a problem for a long time. Fixing the failing system is expensive. The high cost of these fixes doesn’t really “add productivity.” It simply prevents failure of an existing system.
Canada secures millions of vaccine booster shots from Pfizer for future: Trudeau
Canada has secured 35 million booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for next year, and another 30 million in the year after.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the deal with Pfizer includes options to add 30 million doses in both 2022 and 2023, and an option for 60 million doses in 2024.
Trudeau says the country must be prepared in case they are needed.
Booster shots are expected to be important as the virus continues to mutate, similar to how the flu shot is altered every year to be effective against the most dominant strain.
The announcement came as Canada’s top public health doctor said there are signs the epidemic is easing, although average COVID-19 case counts have more than doubled over the past month.
Dr. Theresa Tam said the success of the vaccine rollout will likely determine whether restrictive COVID-19 measures can be lifted this summer.
She presented new modelling Friday that suggests strict measures in several provinces meant to contain more contagious variants have curbed the recent surge.
Tam said these hot-spot regions may be able to emerge from lockdown in time for people to take full advantage of the warm weather.
But for that to happen without overwhelming hospital capacity, at least 75 per cent of Canadian adults will have to receive their first shot, including 20 per cent who would be fully vaccinated, according to the federal forecasts.
“These models give us hope, illustrating that there is a safe way to lift most restrictive public health measures,” Tam told reporters. “This is why it is so important to roll up our sleeves and get vaccinated.”
Tam estimated that Canada could reach this goal around mid-July to August but said that depends on whether vaccine shipments arrive on schedule.
The latest numbers indicate that nearly 30 per cent of Canadian adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/news/canada-secures-millions-of-vaccine-booster-shots-from-pfizer-for-future-trudeau-1.24310845
Flu shots? I have never had a flu shot. I have also never had the flu. I suspect these two facts are connected.
Isn’t the flu what sick old feeble people die of?
Don’t recall ever having it either….
I watched my peers march in lockstep, without any apparent capability of independent thinking, to follow the social regimen of college, career, marriage, children, house, cars, vacations, etc. I was lucky to have balked at this somnambulance. I took a few years off the treadmill after college, read, looked around, found the right girl in 1980 (she wouldn’t dream of bringing a child to an overpopulated, polluted planet), got a vasectomy, worked a low-stress job, lived comfortably but simply, retired early. My wife and I are outliers. The others are yeast, the mainstream. After all, it is so much easier to just not think.
My wife presented this certificate to me, and I offer it to other prescient folks here:
http://vhemt.org/msa.pdf
You sound like “loners”. The type of people refusing to wrangle in the quagmires of inevitable grief; in order to ‘fit in’.
I hereby grant you the Lapland unofficial medal of blissful solitude. A rather unique prize, delivered as a heart warming and rapidly melting boreal snow crystal of lucidity, only given once and never to be seen again.
🎖❄️
Now chuck it in the cubbard of irrelevant memories before your ego gets the best of you.
Meanwhile, the Third World increased by more than 3 billion.
Kudos on a life well lived together!!!
My husband and I will gladly accept your certificate, John R., and congratulations on your wise choices. A comment from Undenial’s Rob M. illustrates how those humans supposedly in the know have been utterly paralyzed by their own hubris:
Quote: Yesterday I tried population reduction on my neighbor, who is a retired left-wing environmental activist. Couldn’t budge him. Couldn’t even get him to consider the facts about our predicament. I watched the curtain come down over his eyes.
Best response he could come up with was “We’re going to level off at 11 billion”.
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Not many have allowed themselves to understand Albert Bartlett’s analysis from decades ago: “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function . . . You cannot sustain population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources.”
Thank you, hillcountry and Bella888, for your supportive comments . . . very rare, indeed, even in the doomer-type communities.
kulmthestatusquo, and your point is?
That certificate has to be the most self-absorbed, cringey document I’ve ever seen.
T anti-natal thing is similarly cringey, as if if makes sense to take people who actually think about conserving resources out of the gene pool..?
Very Far Frank, the certificate is an aspect of Les U. Knight’s subtly dry humor, for which he is known. One would have to retain a certain amount of that quality in order to continue a losing cause.
Why do you think the offspring of any environmentalist would automatically concern themselves with conserving resources? Utter nonsense . . .
For example, Paul Ehrlich’s only daughter, born in 1955, who accompanied him to witness the misery of India at the age of 11, went on to produce three daughters of her own with numerous grandchildren subsequently ensuing. She has enjoyed mentioning it publicly through the years, which I suppose entails some interesting family dynamics.
Well, Paul Ehrlich had a daughter. That is a rather rough spot to be in and argue for population restrictions. Here is a compelling checklist of people feeling entitled for some depopulation eugenics programs.
1. Do you have children? [Y/N]
2. If Yes, STFU sanctimonious hypocrite
3. If No, I don’t see a problem with overpopulation
Now, choose yes or no on 1.
LET IT BURN! 🔥
🤣👍👍
Nice response, Bella888! The ol’ “but my kid may discover the cure for cancer!” angle is ridiculously boring, but it’s better than the ol’ “so why don’t you kill yourself?” message, ha ha!
By the way, Les has been married for over 50 years to a nice, pretty lady who fully supports his cause, and, as a result, he’s reached many, many thousands, especially young people in his classes, concerning ecology, environmental destruction, and the ever-important overpopulation. He’s a good man on the side of the angels.
Right, “why don’t you kill yourself” and the dullard “oh my kid is so special”
What kind of minds fly such delusions you might wonder? Luckily for you I know exactly who they are:
SELF ENTITLED PRINCESSES OF IC
RAPACIOUS PRIMATE SHIT BREEDS
THE WORST OF THE WORST
Yes, it is the filth that crawls down in the bunkers of doom once they have projected enough misery and crazy onto the world. But yes indeed, they can have it all; a smoldering, oozing stinker of a wasteland.
ENJOY DYSTOPIA!
CONGRATULATIONS!
As for me; I’ve seen through all the smoke and mirrors with my puny 20W of computational prowess. Jack that sucker up to 20kW and you’d see some lightning bolts of clarity and brilliance emerge out of nothing while slapping around the primate and reptilian within me, and others too, with severe impunity.
And how fun wouldn’t that be?
🤣👍👍
The Vaccine Holdouts: Who They Are and What’s Fueling Their Opposition
https://morningconsult.com/2021/04/22/covid-vaccine-holdouts-access-data/
There are more “structural problems” in getting the vaccine out than researchers had expected.
Mothers, adults under 45 years old who earn less than $50,000 annually and Republicans and Black adults without college degrees are some of the groups most likely to say they’re unsure or unwilling to get vaccinated.
There seems to be a strong correlation between high income/education and CovIDIOCY.
I suppose they are the ones who buy into the system …
They are the ones most sensitive to peer pressure, I reckon.
For sure. They want to fit perfectly into ‘club cozy’ of the bourgeoisie sanctimonious hypocrisy and unfounded turd flinging primate pretenses.
They are for sure capable of observing the world and rationally reasoning about it, yet they only observe each other because the rapacious primate craves prestige and status in the herd. Worldly attachments with other words, their shitty ass Potemkin facades of futility.
Indeed they are tacky copycats of mundanities. The soulless cackle from the poultry factory. Chicken goes bawk bawk, vax, vax.
Let ‘em have the jabs.
Better even; let ‘em line up voluntarily for the jabs. I’m all in for media blitzing them.
If that doesn’t work, lie to them about the return of “normality” (to their world of dullard) after the jab.
🤣👍👍
I’ve spoken to a few: they are proud of ‘following the science’, unlike the common herd and the uneducated CT nutters……
Also, they will belong to institutions, companies and professional bodies which are enforcing this policy.
Only uneducated, semi-unemployed bums like me can say no to vaccines without peer pressure or fear of getting the sack.
I love it when somebody says they like to “follow the science”, because I can then reel off a list of scientists I follow. I then ask which particular scientists they follow, and of course they can’t name any.
Is it any wonder I don’t get many tips anymore?
yeah uneducated Cambridge University grads and such hehehehe
VAERS reports a breastfeeding five-month old infant has died of TTP – a rare clotting disorder linked to, yes, low platelets. He became ill one day after his mother received her second
Pfizer shot.
This is an authentic and highly detailed report.
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1385634620587315202
And still… the CovIDIOTS play Russian Roulette.
Belgium Puts 43 Indian Students with B.1.617 Variant in Quarantine
Variant B.1.617
In India, 332,000 (update) new infections have been identified in the last 24 hours, a world record. In the past week, an average of 1,300 people per day died from the corona virus in India. Several hospitals in the capital New Delhi have raised the alarm over oxygen shortages to treat Covid patients.
The new, so-called “Indian” variant has a hand in it, many Indian doctors suspect. Just like in some other countries, a slightly different version of the virus is emerging in India, to be referred to as B.1.617. It has three subtle changes to its projections that virologists already know from other, rapidly advancing virus variants from California, the United Kingdom and Brazil. Scientists have also recently found a “double mutation”.
Tested negative twice, still symptoms
Belgium: The schools have now also responded. “More than a week ago, 43 Indian students traveled from India to Belgium to start a graduate nursing course at the Saint Augustine Institute in Aalst and Stfran. in Leuven. They were tested for the corona virus both when they left their home country and on the way, both tests were negative for all students. Upon arrival in Leuven and Aalst, the students went into preventive quarantine, as determined by the government, ”say Jan De Bruyn, director of the Sint-Augustinus Institute Aalst, and Katrien Staessens, director of Stfran. in Leuven.
“Despite the negative tests, some students showed slight symptoms a few days later that could indicate a possible infection. As a precaution, all students were tested again, 11 of the 21 students in Aalst and 9 of the 22 students in Leuven were positive. Further analysis showed that this is the new Indian variant ”, according to the management.
“Immediately, both schools made every effort to avoid a further outbreak. In consultation with the students and the experts, they decided to extend the strict quarantine for all 43 students. The students can count on the necessary support from the schools. In addition, both high and low risk contacts were identified. All these contacts were then informed about the contamination and the necessary precautions and tested themselves. All high-risk contacts are within the group of Indian students, which means that there are no known links to the wider student community or the population of Aalst and Leuven, thanks to the quarantine rules that the students still strictly observe. Later this week, the students who have tested negative so far will also be tested again, ”say the management.
The schools hope to prevent further spread of the variant by intervening quickly and firmly. “In consultation with the health inspection, we do everything we can to prevent further infections and to receive the students as well as possible. Fortunately, we can also count on a very good cooperation with the students, who themselves are very concerned and shocked, but are cooperating fully. ”
Source: Dutch Belgian paper HLN
https://www.hln.be/aalst/twintig-buitenlandse-studenten-besmet-met-indiase-variant-marc-van-ranst-reageert-deze-variant-wil-je-liever-buitenhouden~aceb2113/
Found more in Belgian paper
Translation :
Already vaccinated
“The students arrived on April 12 at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris and then traveled by bus to Belgium “On the bus there was a super spreader who infected them, because five days later, on April 17, the first students fell ill ”Says virologist Marc Van Ranst. “They were tested, the sequencing was done and then we determined that it was the Indian variant.” In addition,
Several infected students had already been vaccinated. ”
“We know that a number of students had already been vaccinated, partly with their own Indian vaccine and partly also – probably – with AstraZeneca.
But that still needs to be clarified ”, Van Ranst confirms to VTM NEWS. According to the virologist, it is possible that the vaccines against this variant work less well. “We also know that some vaccines are less effective against the Brazilian variant, or at least less against infection.”
It wouldn’t be too surprising if the vaccines worked less well against the variant. This is not surprising. It is part of the reason that new vaccines will be needed frequently.
It doesn’t sound like the students were too sick. Often, viruses change in the direction of becoming more transmissible with milder symptoms. Of course, these were young people, so a person expects mild symptoms.
If the 43 students rode together in a bus with the windows closed, it wouldn’t take a super spreader to infect a large number of people in the bus. Even if the windows were a little open, having that many people in a small space for a period of time could lead to many infections.
Reports Come Flooding In… It Could Be Dangerous To Be Around Vaccinated People!!
https://www.indianinthemachine.com/2021/04/22/reports-come-flooding-in-it-could-be-dangerous-to-be-around-or-have-sex-with-vaccinated-people/
This seems to be about possible second hand adverse effects from the immunization. I am afraid I am skeptical.
THE CANADA LEAK IS NOT REAL
THE CANADA LEAK IS NOT REAL
THE CANADA LEAK IS NOT REAL
https://twitter.com/baracudabarbie/status/1385431534904045568
*When several committee members pushed relentlessly to get an answer we were told that those who refused would first live under the lock down restrictions indefinitely.
And that over a short period of time as more Canadians transitioned into the debt forgiveness program, the ones who refused to participate would be deemed a public safety risk and would be relocated into isolation facilities. Once in those facilities they would be given two options, participate in the debt forgiveness program and be released, or stay indefinitely in the isolation facility under the classification of a serious public health risk and have all their assets seized.*
This conspiracy theorist refuses to take the vaccine…
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy78/status/1385589893695524865
She’s cute and smart and a nurse and she’s seen the fallout from the Covid-19 vaccines from the frontlines.
Most people can’t see around the corner let alone over the horizon, but this gene-o-cide is going to go all the way. They are going to have to wipe most of us out and wipe out the liberties and the autonomy of those who survive. It’s the only way to prevent the survivors from holding worldwide Nuremburg-style trials and hanging the perps from trees, lampposts, telegraph poles and cellphone towers, although not necessarily in that order.
The Government is signalling children must be vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy78/status/1385591163311230976
BBC, so UK view.
Coming soon to everywhere…
Everyone who has the vaccine can still spread the virus… so????
Jeez… I can’t get over how stoooopid people are.
Canada’s Health Minister Patty Hajdu negligently calls peer-reviewed science “fake news”
https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1385338290136551426
“Credit Suisse has been forced to go cap in hand to its shareholders for £1.3billion of emergency funding after suffering a double blow from the implosion of hedge fund Archegos and the collapse of Greensill Capital.
“On a bleak day for the Swiss banking giant, it confessed to racking up losses of £594million in the first three months of the year.”
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9501097/Credit-Suisse-forced-seek-1-3bn-lifeline.html
“ECB dismisses tapering talk as recovery ‘has a long way to go’:
“Policymakers leave rates on hold and wait for Covid vaccines to aid reopening of economy.”
https://www.ft.com/content/3768f00c-3c51-49f9-b49c-19cb1480b72a
I expect that low energy economies like the EU will have an especially serious difficulty with obtaining true recovery.
Their official mantra that ‘ GDP growth can be de-coupled from energy growth’ may prove to be out of line with reality.
The tourism economies – Italy, Spain, etc, will be in for lots of trouble.
“Banks in the eurozone and in Greece should be ready to face a significant increase in nonperforming loans in view of the pandemic crisis and prepare for active management of those loans…
“We expect a further worsening of asset quality, particularly with the gradual phaseout of support measures.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/interviews/1159892/eba-official-we-expect-an-increase-in-bad-loans/
“Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 5% on Friday, a bigger than expected jump against the background of a weak rouble, high inflation and geopolitical risks, signalling that more rate hikes would follow.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-economy-rates/update-1-russia-raises-key-rate-to-5-in-face-of-inflationary-and-geopolitical-risks-idUSL8N2MG32Q
“Russian wheat exporters are bidding aggressively for new business, even though they don’t know how much tax they will need to pay to ship the grain as Moscow steps up its fight to curb domestic food inflation.
“Russia, one of the world’s leading wheat exporters, will launch a formula-based wheat export tax from June 2 aimed at cooling domestic grain prices.”
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/russian-exporters-bet-on-new-crop-wheat-sales-despite-tax-risks/
There would seem to be a question of how adequate world grain supplies will be this year. Fertilizer use may be down because of supply interruptions and higher prices. The World Bank has a fertilizer cost index. Its summary of the current situation is
There is also an issue of supply of grain. Farmers may switch away from crops needing a high quantity of fertilizer if prices are high. And there is always a weather issue.
“Shortage of semiconductors, dubbed the ‘new oil,’ could dent GDP growth, boost inflation.
“Soaring demand coupled with supply bottlenecks have led to a situation in which orders for everything from cars to televisions to touch-screen computers and more are on backup for six months or more.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/semiconductor-shortage-could-dent-gdp-growth-boost-inflation.html
“Global supply chains are struggling to keep pace with spiking orders volumes.. The strain on supply chains is particularly acute among manufacturers. Order volumes across the sector were up by 80% year on year in March, but invoice volumes grew by just 20% over the same period.
“The emerging delta between orders and invoices suggests that working capital is failing to flow through to suppliers to support the sudden ramp-up in customer demand.”
https://www.supplychainquarterly.com/articles/4641-global-supply-chains-are-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-spiking-orders-volumes-tradeshift-data-reveal
Article says:
“A lot of suppliers have been left beaten up by events of the past year. Now they’re being asked to run a marathon without any fuel in the tank.”
Lack of semiconductors create a big problem for many kinds of goods. They use rare earth minerals, so it is virtually impossible to put together a complete production chain without China’s help.
The states have tied in the economy, and even mass survival, to that of everyone else, which is a pros and cons situation – which may lead to us all going down together.
We made the mistake of driving through a nearby town today, on route for a nice drive through the countryside over that way. Normally it would take 5 mins to get through and back out into the countryside – it took 45 mins todays, floods of traffic through the town and us sat at a standstill much of the time. Goodness knows where they all think that they are coming from and going.
One’s existence is subsumed in the masses, which is a bit undignified really.
Needless to say, we won’t be headed that way on a Friday afternoon again. Normally we could have done a thirty mile round trip along country roads in 45 mins, hardly a car in sight and lovely scenery.
IC is just so… common, even demeaning! One is reduced to… everyone! I know, how awful! Even our own survival is tied to the global masses!
That is one strategy, but its cons are big if/ when it goes awry.
Goodness, I detest the British state.
“Goodness, I detest the British state.”
The keepers of status quo – destroyers of worlds. The British state is just another clique in the herd of herds.
Chin up, Mirror. I’m sure there’ll be no traffic jams in an independent Scotland.
The break up of the British state is mainly payback for… well, just about everything really!
Speaking of which, two weeks to go.
> Brexit ‘pushing voters towards Scottish independence’, poll shows
The research by Savanta ComRes, commissioned the Scotsman, showed a total of 41% of Scots said they thought Brexit has “gone badly”, while just 16% of Scots believe it has gone well. Results show that a third of voters state that Brexit has made them “more likely” to vote Yes in a second independence referendum, while 21% said it would push them to vote No.
Meanwhile, a total of 41% of voters who did not vote in the 2014 independence referendum said they were now more likely to vote Yes if another referendum was held, with 14% stating Brexit had made them more likely to vote No. A total of 51% of Scots said they would support the SNP’s proposal for an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU, with 30% stating they would oppose rejoining the EU.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19253778.brexit-pushing-voters-towards-scottish-independence-poll-shows/
> Top EU official signals quick return for independent Scotland
A top European Union official has signalled that Brussels would look favourably on an independent Scotland joining the bloc.
Michael Mann, the EU’s envoy to the Arctic, also said that the new state could benefit from speedier membership process than other countries which had joined in recent years.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19253187.independent-scotland-can-expect-quick-return-bloc-top-eu-official-signals/
Yes Mirror, you may need to adopt the old tried and true practice of being boarders. When it’s good in England you’re British and when it’s good in Scotland Scottish!
Apparently, Some of my ancestors did exactly that to survive in the past
Not sure what to do if it gets bad in both realms, maybe stat a new family business. UK Catastrophe Tourism. It might be a thing. Might need to do it here in NZ soon too.
Maybe FE will be a good choice of tour guide ( said in playful jest of course Eddy:-)
Chin up, Mirror. I’m sure there’ll be no traffic jams in an independent Scotland.
My sediments exactly! 🙂
Except for the huge tailbacks on the roads heading south as literally hundreds of thousands of dissidents and refugees attempt to get over the English border before it becomes the Tartan Curtain.
Well, the population of Scotland will have to be reduced at some point, so now might be as good a time as any.
If so then, yet again, UK is ‘ahead of the curve’, not only in the collapse of energy consumption per capita, the devolution to simpler, more localised dissipative structures, but also in population reduction.
We are really blazing a trail here, and showing the world how it is done. The world owes us a debt, not only for the model of industrialisation, but for that of the decomposition of industrial society too.
Britain takes the lead, yet again! And Scotland is at the fore, just as it was during the Industrial Revolution. The parallel is quite spooky! Woooo.
Woooo, indeed. We can lead the pack and transform from fading world power to minnow in an increasingly cut-throat world. Happy days.
Carp on!
I have been trying to buy an electronic keyboard/piano. It is out of stock across the continent! Chip storage I think. Yes, slowing down GDP.
America’s New Challenge: Confronting the Crisis in Food Security… The global dimensions of food instability are staggering…”
https://www.cfr.org/blog/americas-new-challenge-confronting-crisis-food-security
“USDA wants farmers’ ideas on how food supply chains can be strengthened:
“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking comments on a Department-wide effort to improve and reimagine the supply chains for the production.”
https://www.thepigsite.com/news/2021/04/usda-wants-farmers-ideas-on-how-food-supply-chains-can-be-strengthened
“Why ‘Clean Plate’ must only be part of China’s war on food waste:
“Although the Asian powerhouse has recently seen a decline in population growth, food security remains a key issue.”
https://www.just-food.com/analysis/why-clean-plate-must-only-be-part-of-chinas-war-on-food-waste_id145593.aspx
“Deadly Banana Fungus Puts World’s Top Exporter [Ecuador] on High Alert…
“The banana woes are just the latest example of a supply threat to crops as a cold snap slows U.S. grain planting and dry conditions plague corn in Brazil. That could all mean even higher food prices at a time when global grocery costs are spiking.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-04-23/supply-chains-latest-deadly-banana-fungus-puts-top-exporter-on-alert
“The Next Middle East Crisis Will be Rising Food Prices:
“Prices have already soared 25% in the past year and are set to rise further. Could another Arab Spring follow?”
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-the-next-middle-east-crisis-will-be-rising-food-prices-1.9737325
Today, we are using huge machines that will stop running if even a single necessary part needs to be replaced, but cannot, because of supply chain issues. I am afraid supply chains will have a problem for a long time.
Agreed. Heavily impacting electric car battery factories under construction as we speak.
“The global dimensions of food instability are staggering…”
They wouldn’t have staggered Thomas Robert Malthus. Will we never learn?
“The next era of food sustainability will be influenced by breakthroughs in global technology such as fifth generation telecommunications, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology.“
This is a globalist, high tech wish list. They did not mention the forced transition to bug food.
When I took my bag of Farmer Bill’s Soylent Green Gunk back to Walmart and complained that there was a cockroach in it, the man collecting the shopping carts had the nerve to tell me, “That ain’t a bug; it’s a feature!”
Crack me up!! A dear friend in Texas, Marjorie Wildcraft, started a Bug Eating thing on her property and it outgrew her space, so they started holding it in Zilker Park in Austin. I took some Black Soldier Fly larvae in a baggie one year and thought they were going to cook ’em first, but some folks just popped ’em into their mouths and chewed away. Closest I got was a cookie with meal-worm flour. When a guy ate a fried walking-stick the old boy I took along said with a Texas drawl: “That just ain’t right”. They had a magazine from Asia with a giant black spider on the cover, and an eager looking girl ready to do something with it. They were cooking-up everything under the sun (and rocks).
http://www.littleherds.org/sample-page/events/10th-annual-austin-bug-eating-festival
I’d attend, if I could bring some Maine lobsters.
And how will all the above grow one ear of corn or one potato? Of course, it will grow a lot of bank accounts.
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou labour and eat bread, till thou return unto the ground” (Genesis iii:9)
Good points!
I think that the writers of this article live in a different world than the rest of us:
We have a lot of here and now problems to worry about. These forecasts come from fantasy land.
America’s challenge global food? No No No. It is not our problem. The two oceans and the nuclear weapons decouple us from the worlds problems.
Candice Owen on the Mass Media’s hagiographic treatment of George Ford.
She reads the man’s rap sheet, which is long and miserable.She states that he leaves behind a wake of victims whose existence and suffering have been completely overlooked. And she covers his addiction to controlled substances, which got him into trouble on numerous occasions. But she also makes this important take away point:
“Let me tell you what is actually happening in America at this time. If you’re a black American, you’d better pay attention. Right now the goal in America is to make sure that black people love and support criminality. That is the goal. The express goal now is to make black people believe that we should be in the streets looting, righting and demanding “justice” for criminals.”
“What’s all this got to do with finite world issues?” I can hear some people whispering. That’s a difficult question, but a fair one. My answer would be that the world has grown so finite that mass media everywhere is parroting the exact same narrative about the Floyd case and the Chauvin trial with the same talking points in 250 languages. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, no less, has seen fit to give his public approval to the verdict, although what the *#%! this case has to do with him in his official capacity eludes me.
From a report last June:
https://medium.com/@gavrilodavid/why-derek-chauvin-may-get-off-his-murder-charge-2e2ad8d0911
There are six crucial pieces of information — six facts — that have been largely omitted
from discussion on the Chauvin’s conduct. Taken together, they likely exonerate the
officer of a murder charge. Rather than indicating illegal and excessive force, they
instead show an officer who rigidly followed the procedures deemed appropriate by the
Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The evidence points to the MPD and the local
political establishment, rather than the individual officer, as ultimately responsible for
George Floyd’s death.
These six facts are as follows:
1. George Floyd was experiencing cardiopulmonary and psychological distress minutes
before he was placed on the ground, let alone had a knee to his neck.
2. The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) allows the use of neck restraint on
suspects who actively resist arrest, and George Floyd actively resisted arrest on two
occasions, including immediately prior to neck restraint being used.
3. The officers were recorded on their body cams assessing George Floyd as suffering
from “excited delirium syndrome” (ExDS), a condition which the MPD considers an
extreme threat to both the officers and the suspect. A white paper used by the MPD
acknowledges that ExDS suspects may die irrespective of force involved. The officers’
response to this situation was in line with MPD guidelines for ExDS.
4. Restraining the suspect on his or her abdomen (prone restraint) is a common tactic
in ExDS situations, and the white paper used by the MPD instructs the officers to
control the suspect until paramedics arrive.
5. Floyd’s autopsy revealed a potentially lethal concoction of drugs — not just a
potentially lethal dose of fentanyl, but also methamphetamine. Together with his
history of drug abuse and two serious heart conditions, Floyd’s condition was
exceptionally and unusually fragile.
6. Chauvin’s neck restraint is unlikely to have exerted a dangerous amount of force to
Floyd’s neck. Floyd is shown on video able to lift his head and neck, and a robust
study on double-knee restraints showed a median force exertion of approximately
approximately 105lbs.
“EM issuers raise record $191bn on foreign debt markets in early 2021…
“Governments and companies in developing nations borrowed on foreign markets at a record pace in early 2021, but investors say the risks are mounting as some countries endure a resurgence of coronavirus.”
https://www.ft.com/content/47605463-78b8-43f9-b109-c72adad6ed6d
“Hundreds of Chileans, mostly women, headed to capital Santiago Thursday to access their pension funds in the face of an economic crisis.
“Protesters banged pots and pans and disrupted traffic by setting a barricade on fire.”
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/chileans-rally-for-access-to-pension-funds-amid-economic-crisis
“Argentina’s economy shrank in February from January, snapping a nine-month growth streak following a historic plunge triggered by the pandemic.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/argentina-s-economy-snaps-growth-streak-contracting-in-february
“Now hunger stalks India as country’s Covid crisis deepens.
“A wider disaster is building, one that – if left unchecked – could start to engulf large parts of the country.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/indians-starve-as-covid-crisis-deepens/
Situation in India is grim, with so many people without work and without enough food. Also, the health care system has nothing it can do for those with COVID-19.
We need D-Covid and the Nightmare Scenario soon…. has to happen before a major country implodes into https://www.quora.com/What-would-the-world-be-like-if-society-collapsed
I am thinking … any day now…
OH and BTW….
hahahahahahahaha….. less than a week into the bubble…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-perth-lockdown-new-zealand-western-australia-travel-suspended-air-nz-flight-cancelled/G7E7L6HDMSFLNCN6Q7EMBWVNUM/
There is an article up on the WSJ today called Covid-19 Case Cluster Linked to One Flight Stirs Debate Among Health Experts
A third of the passengers on plane from New Delhi to Hong Kong tested positive, highlighting the risks of pandemic travel
A total of 52 passengers have tested positive, so far, on a “red eye” plane that was 85% full, flying from New Delhi to Hong Kong. All of the passengers had tested negative before leaving. Six would-be passengers had been turned away because they tested positive. By the time they arrived, four tested positive. Some were coughing on the flight. On such a long flight, people were walking crying babies up and down the aisles, eating meals and using the rest rooms. The whole planeload is being quarantined for 21 days in Hong Kong. Most of the cases were not discovered for days after the plane landed.
Also,
“Hong Kong suspended flights from India for two weeks on Tuesday and upgraded India to the list of extremely high-risk countries for arrivals. ”
Two options:
1. They are rolling up the cycles on PCR tests to generate big +’s to try to scare the world into taking the lethal injection
2. Bossche’s theory that Covid is mutating into the Nightmare Scenario (more virulent … leading to a much more deadly disease) is coming true…
Something bad has to happen soon … there are a lot of people in the US who are seeing that the Lockdowns are useless….the natives will get restless if they try to reinstate …. they will not buy into the variant story … unless the variants are actually The Real Deal….
Pouring rain this morning… I looked out into the vineyards… and through the mist I saw Him… He looked up at me… those hard black eyes locked with mine for a very brief moment…. was that a momentary smile… then he returned to rhythmically running the stone over the blade of his axe…
Can you feel him now? His breath comes heavy and fetid… Most are unaware that He is so close… they are too busy queueing for the lethal injections… they are reaming if summer in Paris… or Tuscany…
All is as it should be … the trap will not be sprung … until all 8B are in it.
And then… the Reaper shall Feast… as he has not Feasted ever before…
I tottaly agree. The “covid death count” will go up up up. In the northern hemisphere the cull will probably begin after summer.
I expect the next summer will be the last quasi-normal one of my life.
More pandemic restrictions hurt the economy of Argentina.
“87% of Americans are worried about inflation.
“Americans are growing more concerned about rising costs and are consistently boosting their inflation expectations, new data show.”
https://www.axios.com/inflation-household-spending-fed-31dc35f8-3548-48c8-8f40-b06cec19a126.html
“Investors plough money into US inflation-protected bond funds…
“Funds that hold inflation-protected bonds are enjoying their longest streak of inflows in more than a decade, as investors gird themselves for an increase in consumer prices as the US economy recovers.”
https://www.ft.com/content/951002b3-5938-41e3-9294-d7b7db38156f
“The U.S.’s mounting debt load may warrant investors rethinking their expectations for a liftoff from the Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy…
“Kit Juckes, a London-based strategist at Société Générale warns the U.S.’s indebtedness may mean tighter monetary policy could prove more punishing to the economy, creating a ceiling on how high interest rates can rise.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-mounting-debt-load-caps-room-for-fed-interest-rate-rises-says-analyst-11619110447
Harry do you know if the FED can keep interest rates down indefinitely by purchasing bonds? I have heard that the FED is only bluffing about there ability to keep rates low forever…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense/id1506469669?i=1000518208822
It seems as though at some point, something “breaks.” For example, derivatives have a problem. Or countries stop trusting each other.
If they can’t, the whole thing will explode in their faces. If the can, they will destroy the dollar.
Sam, this financial plumbing stuff makes my head hurt – we need someone like The Blond Beast to chime in.
One thought is that what the Fed interprets as too much inflationary pressure (if that comes to pass) could potentially force their hand in putting up rates.
But Harry, who protects the bond issuers from inflation? As the Romans said: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
“The CivicScience survey found that, among households earning $50,000 a year or under, 33% say they are buying less because of rising prices.”
But the handouts are keeping people buying something.
“Despite falling jobless claims, America’s poverty rate just reached the highest level since the pandemic began…
“Those who experienced the sharpest rise in poverty included children, white people, women, those with low education, and those in nearly half of U.S. states that have more restrictive unemployment-insurance payment policies.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/despite-falling-unemployment-americas-poverty-rate-just-reached-the-highest-level-since-the-pandemic-began-2021-04-20
“Medical debt is engulfing more people [in the US] as pandemic takes its toll.
“”I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. I just can’t believe it’s come to this,” said one woman with long-term Covid symptoms.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/medical-debt-engulfing-more-people-pandemic-takes-its-toll-n1265002
Medical debt is a huge problem in the US, even with insurance. The insurance often has big deductibles or doesn’t cover some things. Lost wages, in particular, are a problem.
“HMRC released UK tax collection statistics for March and for the 2020/21 tax year today, revealing the first fall since the financial crisis of 2008-2010.
“In 2020/21 tax receipts were down 7.8%, or £49.1bn from a year earlier, totalling £584.3bn. Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said “COVID has picked the pockets of the taxman.”
https://ifamagazine.com/article/tax-revenue-down-for-the-first-time-since-2008-financial-crash/
“The UK Government borrowed £303.1bn in the last year, an increase of £246bn on the previous year, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
“As a ratio of GDP, borrowing was up 14.5 per cent, the highest ratio since the end of World War Two when it was 15.2 per cent.”
https://www.cityam.com/public-sector-borrowing-surges-to-record-high/
“The number of troubled real-estate loans in the UK has surged to the highest since the global financial crisis of 2008 after the past year’s series of lockdowns pummelled borrowers that own business properties…
“The pandemic also caused a 23 per cent drop in the volume of new lending from a year earlier as banks shied away from new business in the face of deep uncertainty over property values. And those loans that were written were more expensive, with borrowing costs rising for everything but warehouses.
“Loan margins for even the best stores are now at record highs.”
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/real-estate/uk-commercial-property-loan-defaults-surge-44
“Guernsey States facing ‘hard decisions’ as public finances in the red…
“…the long term financial impact of the pandemic, coupled with the need to provide for the island’s ageing population, means the States has some ‘big decisions’ to make to avert a potential financial crisis in the future.”
https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2021-04-23/guernsey-states-facing-hard-decisions-as-public-finances-in-the-red
Harry, you have to remember that £750Billion of UK debt is owned by the government having been printed by the bank of England, so not actually part of any national debt.
The UK is doing very poorly, tax-wise!
Not as bad as predicted by the ONS a year ago. Was to be -£400B and was actually -£300B. Given the BoE printed up the difference at zero interest there is actually no difference in government debt.
President Lagarde responds to criticism about negative interest rates and describes how they support companies and people in the eurozone
https://twitter.com/ecb/status/1385554398697463810
If businesses aren’t profitable, negative interest rates fit in with everything else.
And so it begins – California Public Universities to require COVID-19 vaccination
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy78/status/1385507919408603138
Remember Maddie? I shared her story last week. She is the little girl in the covid vaccine trial. Another family member originally shared her story on Instagram. Here is the most recent update and a link to her mother’s Facebook page with all updates:
https://twitter.com/sallyKP/status/1385315825851187200
Sad!
But when will the parents commit Seppuku?