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.
“The dreaded ‘doom loop’ is back on the agenda… The ‘doom loop’ refers to the symbiotic relationship between governments and their banks, which were major holders of their governments’ debt…
“The pandemic has revived interest in that loop because European governments, like their counterparts elsewhere, have been gorging on debt as they try to mitigate the economic and social effects of COVID-19.”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/the-dreaded-doom-loop-is-back-on-the-agenda-20210422-p57lh3.html
“Passenger traffic at Europe’s airports is set to fall by -64% compared to 2019 as the latest data underlines what Airports Council International (ACI) Europe calls “a deepening crisis in the sector, with air traffic in a continuing downward spiral”.”
https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/a-deepening-crisis-passenger-traffic-at-europes-airports-set-to-fall-by-64-in-2021-compared-to-pre-pandemic-levels/
The Doom Loop has to do with assuming that a country’s sovereign debt is risk free. Banks like to invest in sovereign debt because it is deemed by bank regulators to be risk-free and, if it is held in the home currency and within a bank’s “held-to-maturity” portfolio, unlike other assets doesn’t have to be supported by bank capital or marked to market.
If confidence is suddenly lost in the sovereign debt, as happened with Greece in the financial crisis of 2008, then the country’s borrowing costs (Greece’s in this case) would suddenly rise. Those rating the credit standing of Greece’s banks were not restricted by the optimistic assumptions of back regulators; they downgraded the banks credit ratings, making it difficult for the banks to borrow. So suddenly both the country and the banks had a problem borrowing.
This could happen elsewhere, in the future.
Does masks work?
https://youtu.be/3GndKYJ4uBI
Obviously..
This is a good video by the US CDC. It should that with different types of masks, there is a reduction in the virus particles that cause COVID at a close distance. Even with an N-95 mask, the risk doesn’t go away completely, however. It concludes that masks are helpful, but not the whole solution.
Right, as Taiwan continuously proves.
Relentless vigilance, contact tracing and self-quarantine.
Then again, President Tsai Ing-Wen doesn’t fuck around.
With apologies for being yet again off topic:
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INTERPRETING THE MESSAGES OF OFW
These hypotheses stem from and give my own twist to what I read here.
There’s a mutually reinforcing relationship between all these issues headlined below. A systems person could do the diagram for it that I can’t (or won’t learn to) do:
HEADINGS: roads-energy resources-political strategy-US national unity-pattern-nuclear waste-globalism vs national viability.
ROADS
– Roads can no longer be maintained for non essential purposes.
– Essential purposes include access to essential resources like oil and gas.
– Another essential use for roads is to access the most critical nuclear waste disposal sites (see below).
ENERGY RESOURCE
– the most accessible, manageable and affordable sites for mining oil, coal and gas (and it’s conceivable that nuclear waste can be added to the list of energy resources).
POLITICAL STRATEGY
– returning parkland to Native Americans could be balanced by burying nuclear waste in them first, and maintaining access to the most critical of those sites.
– The above will be under the management by a very strong military.
– How to develop, maintain or improve the US military is a major necessity for current planning.
– The US needs to be currently planning how to develop closer trading relations with neighbors in the Americas.
– The economic and political advantages of arrogating energy resources from neighboring hemispheric communities might diminish sharply.
US NATIONAL UNITY
– Locating nuclear waste in each state, even on a minimal basis for some, ought to mitigate the trend toward balkanization.
– Limiting military management to what keeps a modicum of civilization alive could also produce a modicum of national unity.
PATTERN
If national governance concerns itself only with what unifies the whole and keeps basic civilization alive, it might limit itself to a mutually reinforcing relationship between all these issues headlined above. That would provide the pattern which is lacking now.
NATIONS:
– Globalism’s inevitable destruction of national governance. The goals of UN Agenda 2030 and those of national independence are obviously mutually contradictory. (Gail’s limits? Globalism arrogated so much stuff and territory that TPTB want to to control it, and its dimmunition process.)
– National Parks: Giving back national parks to original inhabitants seems (as per Gails frequent assertion) that the nation lacks the energy resources to manage property/land on such scale.
NUCLEAR WASTE
– Nuclear waste could be buried a mile deep in thousands or millions of places far from residential hubs by deploying the national parks with the required geology.
– Given the lack of energy to deal with its waste, nuclear plants would be phased out.
GLOBALISM VS NATIONAL VIABILITY
– Globalism’s inevitable destruction of national governance. The goals of UN Agenda 2030 and those of national independence obviously are mutually contradictory.
I am afraid I don’t quite follow everything you are trying to do.
I don’t think that we really have good places to bury nuclear waste. This is part of our problem. I don’t think that this is really true:
“Nuclear waste could be buried a mile deep in thousands or millions of places far from residential hubs by deploying the national parks with the required geology.”
Anywhere the government tries to put nuclear waste tends to cause a problem, so a lot of it stays in cooling ponds adjacent to the nuclear power plant where the waste was created. Even turning the electricity off that allows these cooling plants to continue to stay cool is a problem.
We can hope that higher levels of nuclear radiation can sort of be tolerated by individuals, but it is not clear how true this is.
Thanks Gail. I’d be very surprised if these ideas would be accepted as a whole.
“Anywhere the government tries to put nuclear waste tends to cause a problem, so a lot of it stays in cooling ponds adjacent to the nuclear power plant where the waste was created.”
Not sure any government have thought of it, however.
Artleads lives in a fairy world hee hee…
We don’t know for sure. Can you give me any idea why what I suggest is not doable IN TERMS OF PHYSICS?
I am sure in the physics of fairyland whatever you stated is possible…
In simple terms: If there is enough people left after the ‘purge’:
1. Nuclear plants and spent fuel processing plants need to be unloaded and decommissioned
2. A “nuclear” plant not properly decommissioned will start to leak out radioactivity
3. Decommissioning a nuke plant takes at least a decade using specialized gear and skilled operators
4. Forget about decommissioning a nuke without having it first cool-down for about a decade
5. At least 20 years of properly decommissioning a nuke plant. Is there enough time?
6. The spent and “hot” fuel will need to be dumped, for example in the Mariana Trench. This can of course not be done today due to environmental concerns. Who will do this post collapse?
The Calhounian bunkers of “survivors” is nothing but a grand delusion, the same for the myopians of the ordinary deluded by thinking they’d be better off IC.
And once the poisonous ashes of collapse and ruin start to spread…
Once the plumes and poisons reach you…
Repeat after me:
HOPE IS FOR SUCKERS
☯️
I don’t agree. The complex life on Earth has survived for 4 billion years through a long series of what seem like amazing coincidences.. We humans are not in charge; the laws of physics and the self-organizing system is in charge. Even if there is a higher radiation level, this may turn out to be beneficial in some ways. Humans may be able to evolve in new ways, for example. There are a whole lot of things that we don’t understand.
I don’t think the human “survivors” would be much of a ‘fresh’ start. Badly deformed and sickly due to drudgery, disease, radiation and mutation.
Life would surely survive. As I have stated: Extinction isn’t optional for a species.
Either evolution continues on a voluntary basis or Mother Earth and planetary system shoves evolution down our self entitled IC princess cookie holes.
Hope is an absence of strategy and tactics. It is a sure loser.
The system has continued for 4 billion years. As long as there are energy supplies to dissipate, my bet is on something working out to make this dissipation happen.
Cockroaches, grass, bushes, viruses and bacteria is surely going to prevail. When things go tough, the tough gets going.
Tough isn’t the same as a bunch of rapacious primates trying to survive the apocalypse. On the contrary.
The more luxurious one’s lifestyle, the harder it is going to be to maintain it in the times ahead. The Andaman Islands and the New Guinea Highlanders would seem to have more sustainable lifestyles than most of us.
I have ideas, and nearly always they get superceded by more simple and sensible ones. I’m only suggesting to the self organizing system that it might try harder to find solutions. Maybe the best solution is to keep nuclear waste in ponds where they are, and just make sure (by any means necessary) that electricity to cool the ponds is there long term. But I wouldn’t have thought of that without having some alternate crazy idea first to start the idea ball turning. The surest way I know for something not to happen is not to try to make it happen.
Poor kids:(
VIDEO – Teens excited to get the COVID-19 vaccine
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) – Now that everyone aged 16 and older is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, teenagers are encouraged to get it too.
For the country to reach herd immunity, it will require as many people as possible being fully vaccinated, including young people, who usually have more mild symptoms if they catch the virus.
“People have it and are like well ‘it was no big deal’ and that’s true with a lot of youngsters and young adults but unfortunately it’s our elderly population that’s paid the price for that,” Pediatrician Terry Johnson said.
The good news is, in Wichita Falls teenagers are up to the task.
“I got the first dose of the covid vaccine,” Samantha Campbell, a high school junior who attended the Wichita Falls ISD vaccine clinic said.
The district partnered with Community Healthcare to schedule over 150 appointments Wednesday afternoon. The Pfizer vaccine was given out which is currently the only shot approved for 16 and 17 year olds.
Morgan Foster is 16-years-old. For her getting the vaccine means protecting her grandparents who are at high risk if they caught COVID-19
“I’m pretty excited because I get to go to school, and I get to start working again with kind of a security that I am a little more protected than I was,” Foster said.
https://www.newschannel6now.com/2021/04/21/teens-excited-get-covid-vaccine/
Poor Morgan was never at any risk in the first place! This is beyond weeping over.
Finally! There are now decent consequences for Stoooopidity.
WTF!!!
World’s ‘most mutated’ Covid strain with 34 genetic alterations is found in Angola in travellers from Tanzania
Experts in Angola find new Covid variant in travellers from Tanzania
A Covid variant thought to carry more mutations than any other strain has been found in Tanzania, according to researchers.
Virologists said it looked further removed from the original Wuhan virus than any other strain known to science, including variants found in Kent, South Africa and India.
It was first picked up in three travellers who got tested at an airport in Angola after flying there from Tanzania in mid-February.
Researchers examined samples in a laboratory and found the virus had 34 changes, 14 of which were on the ‘spike’ protein that it uses to latch onto human cells and cause illness.
For comparison, the Kent variant has 17 significant genetic changes with eight on the spike. The South African strain has even fewer.
Professor Tulio de Oliveira, who discovered the variant, said: ‘When compared with other variants of concern and variants of interest, this is the most divergent one.’
He described the strain, known as A.VOI.V2 as ‘the most diverse A lineage ever described’. An A lineage is a direct descendent of the original Wuhan strain of the virus.
This comparison doesn’t include the Kent and South African variants, however, which are B lineages – ones that trace back to a different strain that became dominant in Europe last summer.
Not enough is known about the Tanzanian variant for scientists to decide whether it is any more dangerous than existing ones.
And it’s impossible to know how widespread it is because not enough testing and genetic sampling is done in sub-Saharan Africa.
Professor Tulio de Oliveira said A.VOI.V2 was ‘potentially of interest’ simply because of how many mutations it has.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9496053/Coronavirus-Experts-variant-Tanzania-mutations-known-strain.html
We can conclude that there are already lots of variants in the world and will likely be many more.
I’ve just sent the good professor the following via linked in…
You should name this variant after Geert Vanden Bossche https://youtu.be/YtHfI00D_s4?t=2160
Hahahahaha…. hooo hoo… MORE DUCT TAPE!
https://youtu.be/CGv7jqc34YE
Faster jabs, surveillance can only tame triple-mutant Indian virus
Increasing efforts towards faster mass vaccination and virus surveillance is the key to ward off dangers posed by a triple-mutant coronavirus now present in the country, health experts said on Wednesday.
The B1617 variant, first detected in Maharashtra, contains mutations from two separate virus variants — E484Q and L452R. The third mutation evolved from the double mutation where three different Covid strains combined to form a new variant.
Two of these triple-mutant varieties have been found in samples collected from Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh.
The RNA virus has the potential to acquire mutations as it replicates and spreads. These mutations can, sometimes, result in virus variants with better adaptability to its environment.
“As the virus spreads, it gets more opportunities to acquire mutations and evolve at a faster rate. This is a natural aspect of virus life-cycle but it is very important that we track these changes (virus surveillance) and follow the important viral characteristics associated with these mutations,” Dr Veena P. Menon, Faculty-In-Charge, Clinical Virology Laboratory, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, told IANS.
While the SARS-CoV2, causing the Covid-19 infections, has evolved at a much slower rate compared to Influenza or HIV viruses but as the number of infections rises, we are observing a rapid emergence of numerous viral variants.
With the increase in the number of infections and spread, there are more opportunities for the virus to mutate.
“As the infections are increasing at an alarming rate, there is a very high likelihood that we will encounter more virus variants in our population. Some of these variants get selected for faster transmissibility (spread) or ‘increased severity’ (more pathogenic) and also “immune (vaccine) escape”, Menon explained.
https://www.canindia.com/faster-jabs-surveillance-can-only-tame-triple-mutant-indian-virus/
I thought “decreased severity” was more likely to be selected for than “increased severity.” If a disease is too severe, it will wipe out the population it is trying to infect.
Of course, the virus that causes COVID-19 isn’t very severe to begin with.
Normally no doubt yes…. but when you purposely release a leaky vaccine into a pandemic situation .. something that has never been done before (because it is madness)…. you get the Nightmare Scenario
The PR Team has provided a heads-up on what they expect to happen:
A COVID-19 variant discovered in California has been dubbed “the devil” by one of the scientists studying it.
And he fears if its spread isn’t stopped, it could one day meet the highly infectious UK variant and swap genes, creating a “nightmare scenario”.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/02/coronavirus-mutant-covid-19-virus-dubbed-the-devil-causing-concern-in-california.html
Let’s give a big round of applause to Duncnorm …. for participating in the vaccine program that is going to make the Nightmare Scenario happen.
It was really good of you guys to take the risk of being infected with herpes of the brain or a killer blood clot…. to help ensure the CEP goes off without a hitch.
Faster jabs, surveillance can only tame triple-mutant Indian virus
Throwing more petrol on the roaring inferno can only tame the roaring inferno.
Bahhahahahhahahahhaa… ouch… me thinks me has busted me gut laughing so hard this morning… ouch … that hurts… M Fast… can you pass me the duct tape?
New COVID-19 variant found in Texas appears to be resistant to antibodies
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KXAN) —Texas A&M University researchers have identified a new COVID-19 variant called BV-1, after Brazos Valley, where it originated.
Scientists at the Texas A&M Global Health Research Complex (GHRC) identified the variant from a saliva sample taken from a student as a part of an ongoing testing program. Researchers believe it’s related to the United Kingdom variant.
The student with the confirmed case showed mild flu-like symptoms for nearly a month, suggesting this new variant may cause a longer than normal infection in young adults. Although only one mild case has been confirmed, researchers are worried that the variant shows resistance to antibodies.
“We do not at present know the full significance of this variant, but it has a combination of mutations similar to other internationally notifiable variants of concern,” GHRC Chief Virologist Ben Neuman said in a press release. “This variant combines genetic markers separately associated with rapid spread, severe disease and high resistance to neutralizing antibodies.”
There have been five COVID-19 variants confirmed by the Center for Disease Control, but researchers across the world have identified thousands.
https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/new-texas-covid-19-variant-resistant-to-antibodies-researchers-say/
“Resistant to antibodies” sounds like it is similar to “sticks around in a particular person for a very long time.”
If there is only one case like this, it seems like it would be hard to tell what its properties really are. Perhaps this person just has a weak immune system.
When it finally arrives… I reckon it should be named after Bossche.
Scientist who helped develop Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine agrees third shot is needed as immunity wanes
The chief medical officer of BioNTech told CNBC that people will likely need a third shot of its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine as immunity against the virus wanes.
Dr. Ozlem Tureci, co-founder and CMO of BioNTech, which developed a Covid vaccine with Pfizer, said she also expects people will need to get vaccinated against the coronavirus annually, like for the seasonal flu.
The chief medical officer of BioNTech told CNBC on Wednesday that people will likely need a third shot of its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine as immunity against the virus wanes, agreeing with previous comments made by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
Dr. Ozlem Tureci, co-founder and CMO of BioNTech, which developed a Covid vaccine with Pfizer, said she also expects people will need to get vaccinated against the coronavirus annually, like for the seasonal flu. That’s because, she said, scientists expect vaccine-induced immunity against the virus will decrease over time.
“We see indications for this also in the induced, but also the natural immune response against SARS-COV-2,” she said during an interview with CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange.” “We see this waning of immune responses also in people who were just infected and therefore [it’s] also expected with the vaccines.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/scientist-who-helped-develop-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-agrees-third-shot-is-needed-as-immunity-wanes.html
Not a surprise! We have been hearing that from others as well.
4/21/2021 Bombshell Info from Miles Guo: Antidotes are possessed and controlled by the CCP, but there is no vaccine! The CCP has made antidotes while it created the virus – bioweapon, which means the CCP has all human’s fate in its control – if you want to survive…
https://twitter.com/G_Translators6/status/1384933162363539459
Does anyone really believe this? It would be an easy story to make up.
This would make a lot of sense, BUT ONLY IF the CCP was being ruled by the dastardly Dr. Fu Manchu!
One question that I keep coming back to is: How has China managed to defeat COVID-19 so thoroughly? And the answer that keeps nagging me is: “Because COVID-19 is a made up malady, so national governments have a great deal of leeway in churning out numbers.”
I’ve long been a fan of the “no planes theory of nine-eleven” and so the “no virus theory of Covid-19” is an easy sell for me. Blame it on my youth. Listening to ELP in the dark of my room when I should have been doing homework convinced me that all the world really is a stage.
Come inside the show’s about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you’ll get your money’s worth
Greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth
Muppets playing Warcraft with the hordes busying themselves with ‘power’, competition, vanity and frippery.
But WTF do I know? I just know that if things go from mundane to atrocious, that’s all I’ll write in this absurdity.
I guess the muppetry will proceed even more smoothly absent one less frugal court jester of ICM (Industrialized Consumerism and Materialism).
Enjoy the pomp, regalia and parading of fools.
🤣👍👍
☯️
More side effects:
18 year told kid, 2 days post Moderna vaccine. Presents with excruciating chest pain. Ekg below.
https://twitter.com/AllaqabanSuhail/status/1383469000475090946
Dr Ihsan Rafie
We have 8 cases of MRI confirmed myopericarditis in our hospital post Pfizer/BNTX vaccine. I suspect pericarditis is an unrecognized side effects of MRNA vaccine
Would it help if I dressed as the Grim Reaper and stood in front of the clinic with a placard reading Vaccine = Lethal Injection.
I wonder what would happen?
Perhaps I will instead go down to the food bank and offer a foreigner trapped in NZ without work a box of lobster if they do this for me…
http://images.esellerpro.com/2448/I/857/71/FDCA00310.jpg
I really do laugh every time you post one of these… even more so given the fact that any fool could do a google search and find thousands of these stories… yet they still march down to the clinic like MOREONS.
Is this not a laughing matter? Of course it is!!!
It’s kinda like
https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg
Lemmings march to their DOOM…SMFH
https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/04/vaccine-pop-up-clinic-toronto-long-lines/
We need a grim reaper with a placard to remind them of the danger they are putting themselves in
Please suh… can we have some of that experimental vaccine … can you spare some for me children?
White House offers new tax credit to help spur vaccinations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is trying to overcome diminishing demand for COVID-19 shots by offering businesses a tax incentive to give employees paid leave to get vaccinated. The move comes as the United States is set to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of administering 200 million coronavirus doses in his first 100 days in office.
With more than 50% of adults at least partially vaccinated and roughly 28 million vaccine doses being delivered each week, demand has eclipsed supply as the constraining factor to vaccinations in much of the country.
Over the last week, the pace of inoculation in the U.S. has slowed slightly. That is partly a reflection of disruptions from the “pause” in administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for a safety review, but also of softening interest for vaccines in many places even as eligibility has been opened to all those older than 16.
As the vaccination program progresses, the administration believes it will only get more difficult to sustain the current pace of about 3 million shots per day. Roughly 130 million Americans have yet to receive one dose.
https://www.wearegreenbay.com/coronavirus/white-house-offers-new-tax-credit-to-help-spur-vaccinations/
I am holding out on the unlimited private jet use perk before committing….
Sarah Beuckmann’s Legs Erupted in Horrific Blisters ‘After Getting AstraZeneca’s Jab’ 21/04/2021
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eFthNctvUlx2/
The demonization of the unvaccinated is starting. They are gonna be labeled dangerous and shunned soon.
CDC: Vaccines Helped Curb Impact of Nursing Home COVID Outbreak Set Off by Unvaccinated Worker
Despite a 90.4% resident vaccination rate, a nursing home in Kentucky suffered a COVID-19 outbreak that resulted in 44 resident infections and three deaths after an unvaccinated worker contracted and spread the virus, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) determined in a new report released Wednesday.
Despite the fact that the outbreak was caused by a viral variant not yet seen in the region, vaccinated residents and staff were 87% less likely to experience symptoms than their unvaccinated peers. The incident emphasizes the need for all skilled nursing facility residents and health care professionals (HCP) to receive the shots, the authors of the CDC’s most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report concluded.
“Vaccination of SNF residents and HCP is essential to reduce the risk for symptomatic COVID-19, as is continued focus on infection prevention and control practices,” the authors wrote.
The unnamed Bluegrass State facility had completed the last of three on-site Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine clinics on February 21, with uptake rates of 90.4% for residents and 52.6% for staff. The outbreak, which was first detected on March 1, was traced back to a single unvaccinated worker who had become infected with an “R.1 lineage variant” of the novel coronavirus, according to the report authors.
Of the three resident deaths that resulted from the outbreak, two had not received the vaccines; two vaccinated residents were hospitalized as compared to four who had not received the shots. Of the 22 unvaccinated residents who contracted COVID-19, 20 had symptoms, compared to just eight of the 22 vaccinated residents who tested positive.
Among health care workers, 16 unvaccinated staffers were infected, 15 of whom experienced symptoms; four vaccinated workers tested positive, and two had symptoms.
https://skillednursingnews.com/2021/04/cdc-vaccines-helped-curb-impact-of-nursing-home-covid-outbreak-set-off-by-unvaccinated-worker/
OMG — stone that bastard!
The demonization has begun and “MAYBE” it’s good news because it means more people are starting to put two and two together and are now questioning the narrative. As i’ve said repeatedly, if someone like Duncan Idaho, wants the jab, go right ahead. He can also have mine just for double the protection but don’t force me to take something I have read about and educated myself enough to question the product.
Cases don’t just go away. So there were 44 residents plus 20 staff members who tested positive. There were 3 resident deaths, one of whom had been vaccinated, two of whom had not been vaccinated.
The article also says
“25.4% of vaccinated residents and 7.1% of vaccinated HCP were infected”
So it looks like the vaccine worked better on younger people, since I assume the Health Care Providers were younger. It did partially protect the older folks, though.
The situation on that cruise ship showed that most people didn’t get sick, even when trapped in close quarters with minority who were ill. This natural immunity seems to be entirely discounted nowadays… the only “real” immunity deemed to be through the vax?
‘So it looks like the vaccine worked better on younger people’
Yes I believe Gail is correct.
Younger folks are more likely to have a functional, antibody producing thymus, compared to older folks, whose thymus has shrunk and atrophied.
Just another finite resource in our finite 🌍
I suspect giving any vaccine to an older person may become pointless once this critical glands done it’s dash.
At some point as we get older our immune system transitions to relying more on memory B cells as our main immunological defence.
By 80 yrs old or so, the average human being should have faced 99.99% of the likely endemic disease in their location.
Its just biological logic.
The reproductive and family rearing stages of older adult life are over.
The Thymus withers and can no longer produce new antibodies.
Mother Natures turns a page, we crumble like autumn leaves and are gone. Hopefully if we’ve lived well, succeeding through our old age means leaving a legacy, most likely our genes, some knowledge and if lucky maybe a smiling grandchild’s face. Not so bad an outcome.
Well said Bobby. Common sense is more easily communicated in a poetic fashion to many of us, as your “crumble like autumn leaves” is so true. On the evidence side of it all, I didn’t know that about the B-cells. Thanks
Don’t laugh, but I just consulted the I Ching on this topic. The question: “what should be my attitude towards the vaccination programme?”. The response:
Lake above Heaven: removing corruption.
“A fight without quarter is necessary to remove corrupt and powerful bureaucrats. This requires more strength of character than of arms. The culprits’ guilt must be openly proclaimed. The leader’s own shortcomings must be corrected. He must eventually employ force, after he has convinced his adherents of his extreme reluctance to do so.”
Respectfully offered to the readers of OFW.
Thanks, Robert. Appreciated.
We are now rats on a sinking ship. We have to start drowning some rats. N@zi Germany is a minority. Minorities lose. Time to nuke Germany.
A sick German drummer…
https://youtu.be/Q344Zgh_btE
I am reminded of Taleb (I think in Black Swan) … he found himself in meetings with ‘very serious’ men in board rooms … and had to stop himself from busting out laughing ….
Such serious men… with such serious egos… negotiating such serious deals….
I’d give my right hand to be able to watch how these ‘serious men’ react when their world blows into a billion pieces … and little Johnny who was previously in the 50k per year primary school chews on his rat meat …
What a f789ing joke!
And there are those who believe in renewable energy, cli ma te ch ange, and the moon landings… all very serious men and women….. hahaha
I can not wait. The cure for MORE ONISM … is at hand… The Borg about to be Shuffle Off to Buffalo.
Tee hee!!!!
Just for fun I called Rebecca and Luke….
And asked for the long term studies as well as why they are recommending all NZers take the Covid vaccine when healthy people do not generally get very sick from Covid.
They refuse to answer. Eventually they both hung up on me.
Imagine that!
18-Year-Old Undergoes 3 Brain Surgeries From Blood Clots After J&J Vaccine
A Nevada teen was put in a coma, placed on a respirator and underwent three brain surgeries after developing blood clots about one week after getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
A Nevada teen who received Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) COVID vaccine on April 1 underwent three brain surgeries to repair blood clots she developed about a week after receiving the vaccine, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
According to family spokesperson Bret Johnson, after Emma Burkey, 18, suffered seizures, doctors placed her in an induced coma and on a respirator. The high school senior has improved and is now awake and off the respirator, but still requires a tracheostomy tube, which has impaired her ability to speak.
“She is improving slowly,” Johnson told Las Vegas Review-Journal. “The word we got from her parents last night was ‘slowly, slowly slowly.’ For a while there, her situation and condition was completely unknown. Very scary and very iffy, honestly.”
Although Burkey experienced a “massive brain injury,” her parents are “cautiously optimistic,” Johnson said.
Burkey was first treated at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson before being airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California for specialized care.
According to Fox 5 Las Vegas, Burkey was one of the six women whose case is under review by U.S. health agencies, which last week paused the vaccine citing concerns about blood clots.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/teen-surgeries-blood-clots-johnson-johnson-vaccine/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=862a4102-d542-4df5-883b-3574d22cd4b4
her parents are “cautiously optimistic,” Johnson said.
Oh? I would have thought that about know they’d be searching for a tree with a sturdy branch about 10ft off the ground…
That’s because her parents have accepted the lie and fabrication that Covid 19 is a killing monster. That it’s worse than the Spanish and Hong Kong flu’s.
It’s time to stop accepting Stoooopidity as an excuse… it needs to be punished… but it won’t be so it needs to be mocked…
And J&J and the other Covid drug pushers have been given total indemnity, too bad.
Yes Rodster….and lots and lots of….cash
Geert Vanden Bossche – Final Lecture
Is he planning to drop Oxycontin?
This can’t be true….
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy78/status/1384941256917360643
Large tent giving out vaccine shots, but without visitors.
He should get on top of a hospital and film the hordes of Covid-sufferers entering the ER….
This is not a problem… the scientists have already worked out the threshold required to kick off Devil Covid… without a doubt with nearly 1B injected… DevC… (or is it DC) …. is guaranteed.
Bossche said two months … about a week ago… so mid June? That aligns with The Leak.
Do I buy an early bird ski pass … or not…. oh right – it DOESN’T matter!!! hahahahaha
FE – I must have missed it. What is “The Leak”?
1:47 PM (7 hours ago) Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, October 10, 2020 1:38 PM, (REMOVED) wrote:
Dear (REMOVED),
I want to provide you some very important information. I’m a committee member within the Liberal Party of Canada. I sit within several committee groups but the information I am providing is originating from the Strategic Planning committee (which is steered by the PMO).
I need to start off by saying that I’m not happy doing this but I have to. As a Canadian and more importantly as a parent who wants a better future not only for my children but for other children as well.
The other reason I am doing this is because roughly 30% of the committee members are not pleased with the direction this will take Canada, but our opinions have been ignored and they plan on moving forward toward their goals. They have also made it very clear that nothing will stop the planned outcomes.
The road map and aim was set out by the PMO and is as follows:
– Phase in secondary lock down restrictions on a rolling basis, starting with major metropolitan areas first and expanding outward. Expected by November 2020. Expected by December 2020.
– Daily new cases of COVID-19 will surge beyond capacity of testing, including increases in COVID related deaths following the same growth curves. Expected by end of November 2020.
– Complete and total secondary lock down (much stricter than the first and second rolling phase restrictions). Expected by end of December 2020 – early January 2021
– Reform and expansion of the unemployment program to be transitioned into the universal basic income program. Expected by Q1 2021.
– Projected COVID-19 mutation and/or co-infection with secondary virus (referred to as COVID-21) leading to a third wave with much higher mortality rate and higher rate of infection. Expected by February 2021.
– Daily new cases of COVID-21 hospitalizations and COVID-19 and COVID-21 related deaths will exceed medical care facilities capacity. Expected Q1 – Q2 2021.
– Enhanced lock down restrictions (referred to as Third Lock Down) will be implemented. Full travel restrictions will be imposed (including inter-province and inter-city). Expected Q2 2021.
– Transitioning of individuals into the universal basic income program. Expected mid Q2 2021.
– Projected supply chain break downs, inventory shortages, large economic instability. Expected late Q2 2021.
– Deployment of military personnel into major metropolitan areas as well as all major roadways to establish travel checkpoints. Restrict travel and movement. Provide logistical support to the area. Expected by Q3 2021. Along with that provided road map the Strategic Planning committee was asked to design an effective way of transitioning Canadians to meet a unprecedented economic endeavor.
One that would change the face of Canada and forever alter the lives of Canadians. What we were told was that in order to offset what was essentially an economic collapse on a international scale, that the federal government was going to offer Canadians a total debt relief.
This is how it works: the federal government will offer to eliminate all personal debts (mortgages, loans, credit cards, etc) which all funding will be provided to Canada by the IMF under what will become known as the World Debt Reset program. In exchange for acceptance of this total debt forgiveness the individual would forfeit ownership of any and all property and assets forever.
The individual would also have to agree to partake in the COVID-19 and COVID-21 vaccination schedule, which would provide the individual with unrestricted travel and unrestricted living even under a full lock down (through the use of photo identification referred to as Canada’s HealthPass).
Committee members asked who would become the owner of the forfeited property and assets in that scenario and what would happen to lenders or financial institutions, we were simply told “the World Debt Reset program will handle all of the details”. Several committee members also questioned what would happen to individuals if they refused to participate in the World Debt Reset program, or the HealthPass, or the vaccination schedule, and the answer we got was very troubling.
Essentially we were told it was our duty to make sure we came up with a plan to ensure that would never happen. We were told it was in the individuals best interest to participate. 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.
So as you can imagine after hearing all of this it turned into quite the heated discussion and escalated beyond anything I’ve ever witnessed before. In the end it was implied by the PMO that the whole agenda will move forward no matter who agrees with it or not. That it wont just be Canada but in fact all nations will have similar roadmaps and agendas.
That we need to take advantage of the situations before us to promote change on a grander scale for the betterment of everyone. The members who were opposed and ones who brought up key issues that would arise from such a thing were completely ignored. Our opinions and concerns were ignored. We were simply told to just do it.
All I know is that I don’t like it and I think its going to place Canadians into a dark future.
Vancouver, Canada· Posted October 14
We will see whether this will really take place this way. Maybe it was a lucky guess at the beginning.
As my boy at Great Barrington said when I shot this to him in December… ‘it’s very specific… the tell will be UBI’…
And here comes UBI… exactly in the time frame predicted.
There is no way anyone could have guessed a) that UBI was even under consideration and b) that it would launch in Q2.
Gail – perhaps you could apply your actuarial skills to determine the odds of anyone being able to guess at that. I think it is actually 0. Impossible. Even if you generated 5 billion guesses it is almost certain none would predict both of these outcomes.
https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/sante/covid-19-58-personnes-pour-5000-doses-a-nice-le-fiasco-de-la-vaccination-avec-astrazeneca-18-04-2021-VL32JBFZL5AHRB5ZM2PJJDSNXI.php
In Nice, French Riviera, the had to close earlier a vaccination center last weekend. They expected 4000 people and 58 showed up.
The main reason is it was the AstraZeneca product, which has a very bad reputation here.
Hong Kong is experiencing very low uptake on the lethal injection.
I put that down to the fact that they hate and do not trust the Junta
fascinating thread, thanks!
VIDEO – Vaccinating kids essential to reaching herd immunity, doctors say; Pfizer has begun testing their COVID vaccine in children as young as 6 months old
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy78/status/1384953986537693194
Watching those people getting the jab makes me recoil….
Companies Are Freaking Out About Soaring Costs, And Are Rushing To Pass Them On To Consumers
One doesn’t have to go too far – a trip to the local gas station, grocery store, or restaurant should suffice – to observe how soaring commodity prices and other costs are bleeding through to the consumer. And it’s only going to get worse: Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark and Coca-Cola have publicly discussed lifting prices, citing rising commodity costs and manufacturing expenses. P&G and Kimberly-Clark’s higher price tags for everyday items like toilet paper and tampons are the first in about two years, as the trade war unfolded, further adding pressure on raw materials.
Cost pressures are certainly appearing in company earnings commentaries: while it is still early on in earnings season (less than 10% of S&P 500 companies have reported), Morgan Stanley notes that cost pressures have emerged as a prominent topic of discussion. This development is corroborated by a number of macro data points which suggest that a range of expenses are on the rise.
Such surging cost pressures have been best captured by the record prices prints in PMI survey data. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Survey also indicates that companies intend to raise prices in response to these cost pressures. With a strong, demand-led growth environment, Morgan Stanley’s Micheal Wilson writes that many companies will ultimately look to pass along price, but on a more near-term basis the strategist is watching how stocks trade as cost pressures impact results relative to expectations.
The charts below that PPI growth is accelerating both for final demand and intermediate demand goods. This acceleration is particularly acute for unprocessed goods, which tends to be a volatile series, but is an important indication of early stage supply chain cost pressure. Additionally, transportation costs (particularly trucking costs) and energy costs are also on the rise.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/companies-are-freaking-out-about-soaring-costs-and-are-quietly-passing-them-consumers
This is interesting….
https://twitter.com/conspiracyguy78/status/1384929401792614401
Damn … I’ll have to get one of those for my magic show!
Where do I look?
I know – I’ll call Justin!
The Postal Service is running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.
“Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” says the March 16 government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive” and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security’s fusion centers. “Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.”
A number of groups were expected to gather in cities around the globe on March 20 as part of a World Wide Rally for Freedom and Democracy, to protest everything from lockdown measures to 5G. “Parler users have commented about their intent to use the rallies to engage in violence. Image 3 on the right is a screenshot from Parler indicating two users discussing the event as an opportunity to engage in a ‘fight’ and to ‘do serious damage,’” says the bulletin.
“No intelligence is available to suggest the legitimacy of these threats,” it adds.
The bulletin includes screenshots of posts about the protests from Facebook, Parler, Telegram and other social media sites. Individuals mentioned by name include one alleged Proud Boy and several others whose identifying details were included but whose posts did not appear to contain anything threatening.
“iCOP analysts are currently monitoring these social media channels for any potential threats stemming from the scheduled protests and will disseminate intelligence updates as needed,” the bulletin says.
https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
I can guarantee Fast Eddy’s every thought is getting closely monitored by https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/
Hey fellas…. you better get some extra hardware.
So desperate to exterminate us
Nation Faces ‘Hand-to-Hand Combat’ to Get Reluctant Americans Vaccinated
WASHINGTON — Now that President Joe Biden has met his goal to have the coronavirus vaccine available to all adults, health officials around the country are hitting what appears to be a soft ceiling: More than half the nation’s adults have gotten at least one dose, but it is going to take hard work — and some creative changes in strategy — to convince the rest.
State health officials, business leaders, policymakers and politicians are struggling to figure out how to tailor their messages, and their tactics, to persuade not only the vaccine hesitant but also the indifferent. The work will be labor intensive, much of it may fall on private employers and the risk is that it will take so long that the nation will not be able to reach herd immunity — the point at which the spread of the virus slows — in time to stop worrisome new variants from evading the vaccine.
“If you think of this as a war,” said Michael Carney, the senior vice president for emerging issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, “we’re about to enter the hand-to-hand combat phase of the war.”
In Louisiana, where 40% of the adult population has had one shot even though all adults have been eligible since March, officials are delivering doses to commercial fishermen near the docks and running pop-up clinics at a Buddhist temple, homeless shelters and truck stops. Civic groups are conducting door-to-door visits, akin to a get-out-the-vote effort, in neighborhoods with low vaccination rates.
In Alabama, fewer than 40% of adults have had at least one shot. Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, is trying to reach out to rural white residents, who demonstrate high rates of vaccine hesitancy. They are mistrustful of politicians and the news media, so Harris is asking doctors to record cellphone videos. “Please email them to your patients, saying, ‘This is why I think you ought to take the vaccine,’” he has pleaded.
Some companies are contemplating running their own vaccine clinics and trying to educate their workers about the benefits of getting protected against a virus that has already killed more than 560,000 Americans. But as the economy swings into gear, they are reluctant to mandate vaccination for their employees, fearing too many would seek work elsewhere.
White House officials say they take it as a good sign that nearly 51% of American adults have turned out for a first dose — “a major milestone,” said Dr. Bechara Choucair, the White House vaccinations coordinator, and an indication that “there are tens of millions of people who are still eager to get vaccinated.”
But he is well aware that there will come a time when Americans are no longer fighting for vaccine slots, and when supply will exceed demand.
In some parts of the country, that point may be here. In Mississippi, which opened vaccinations to all adults a month ago, 21% of the population is fully inoculated. In Alabama, the figure is just 19%. In Georgia, home of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 20% of the population is fully vaccinated.
“There are states where they feel they have hit the wall,” said Mike Fraser, the executive director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “The folks that wanted it have found it. The folks that don’t want it are not bothering to find it.”
https://news.yahoo.com/nation-faces-hand-hand-combat-121327766.html
“Please email them to your patients, saying, ‘This is why I think you ought to take the vaccine,’” he has pleaded.
Hahahahaha… maybe the PR Team should provide ‘death selfies’ of flu patients hooked up to tubes and stuff….
May be difficult to force a lot of folks to take the lethal injection by blocking them from working … all it takes are a few key people to resist and a business can be knee-capped…
As for schools….all the CovIDIOTS I know who have had the jab insist they will not jab their kids… so a no jab no school policy might generate some major blowback…. (this is MR DNA asserting himself… and he can be a rather unpleasant chap when he feels threatened)…
Alas… not everyone has to be injected to get us to where they want us to be…. this is one of the reasons why I lean towards the Bossche Camp…. the CEP does not work if only the injected people die….
Ideally everyone dies… in short order
That said … as long as lots of people are dying … the others will be cowering in their basements… starving….
Either way…. the outcome is a good outcome.
I wonder how Greta would feel about the CEP. Surely it is her dream come true?
I don’t see Melatonin on the chart below the text at the website, but I recall Dr. Kory saying it’s part of the “plus” in the MATH+ Protocol and is in use by doctors.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/math-plus-protocol/#:~:text=The%20MATH%2B%20protocol%20potentially%20offers%20a%20life-saving%20approach,physiologic%20rationale%20and%20an%20increasing%20clinical%20evidence%20base.
Update: On December 14, 2020, the FLCCC Alliance peer-reviewed paper Clinical and Scientific Rationale for the “MATH+” Hospital Treatment Protocol for COVID-19 has been published in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. The MATH+ protocol potentially offers a life-saving approach to the management of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. It offers an inexpensive combination of medicines with well-known safety profiles based on strong physiologic rationale and an increasing clinical evidence base.
The MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol for COVID-19 is designed for hospitalized patients, to be initiated as soon as possible after they develop respiratory difficulty and require oxygen supplementation. The three core pathophysiologic processes that have been identified are severe hypoxemia, hyperinflammation, and hypercoagulability. This combination medication protocol is designed to counteract these processes either through the use of single agents or in synergistic actions. A unique insight into this disease made by members of our group is that the majority of patients initially present with an inflammatory reaction in the lungs called “organizing pneumonia,” which is the body’s reaction to injury and is profoundly responsive to corticosteroid therapy. If the organizing pneumonia response is left untreated or presents as a rapidly progressive sub-type, a condition called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) follows.
The two main therapies that can reverse and/or mitigate the extreme inflammation causing ARDS are the combination of the corticosteroid Methylprednisolone and the antioxidant Ascorbic acid, which is given intravenously and in high doses. Both of these medicines have multiple synergistic physiologic effects and have been shown in multiple randomized controlled trials to improve survival in ARDS, particularly when given early in the disease. Thiamine is given to optimize cellular oxygen utilization and energy consumption, protecting the heart, brain, and immune system. Given the numerous clinical and scientific investigations that have demonstrated consistent, reproducible, and excessive levels of hyper-coagulation, particularly in the severely ill, the anticoagulant Heparin is used to both prevent and help in dissolving blood clots that appear with a very high frequency.
The “+” sign indicates several important co-interventions that have a combination of strong physiologic rationale with existing or emerging pre-clinical and clinical data to support their use in similar conditions or in COVID-19 itself, and all with a well-established safety profile. Such adjunctive therapies are continuously being evaluated and amended as the published medical evidence evolves. [edit: Melatonin is certainly one of these]
Timing is a critical factor in the efficacy of MATH+ and to achieving successful outcomes in patients ill with COVID-19. Patients must go to the hospital as soon as they experience difficulty breathing or have a low oxygen level. The MATH+ protocol should be administered soon after a patient meets criteria for oxygen supplementation (within the first hours after arrival in the hospital), in order to achieve maximal efficacy. Delayed therapy can lead to complications such as the need for mechanical ventilation. If administered early, the MATH+ formula of FDA-approved, safe, inexpensive, and readily available drugs may eliminate the need for ICU beds and mechanical ventilators and return patients to health.
I wonder if some of those things could be started on an outpatient basis earlier and keep people out of the hospital. It is hospital treatment and especially ICU treatment that drives total costs through the roof.
Gail, yes, and that’s what their updated IMASK+ Protocol is really targeting. “Test and Treat” like they’ve done in Mexico. Not the best video they’ve produced, but Dr. Kory presents some great info on Mexico starting at the 8:30 mark. I’d avoid the introduction.
Interesting video!
One thing that is strange is the fact that Mexico has an unusually high rate of deaths compared to reported cases, for the country as a whole, looking at the Johns Hopkins data. This rate has not come down recently.
Slovakia is another country with quite a bit of use of ivermectin. It also has a lot of deaths relative to cases. It also has an unusually high rate of deaths compared to the population level.
It would be helpful if country-level data could show the beneficial effect.
Deaths are meaningless when you count anyone who has recently tested + (often falsely) who dies — as a Covid death
Garbage in – Garbage out
Let’s examine Sweden:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/
In 2012 they had 92,000 total deaths. In 2020 they had 98,000 total deaths.
Factor in the roughly one million more people in Sweden over that time period… and you’ve got what – a few thousand extra deaths?
More here https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/death-rate
And yet more https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=sw&v=26
No lockdowns. No Masks. Covid is a Massive Lie. Top to Bottom. Bottom to Top.
Mexico is also a very obese nation:
“By 2010, seven out of ten Mexicans were overweight with a third clinically obese.[1][12] Mexico ranks the most obese country in the world in adult obesity (as of 2013), and first for childhood obesity with about 4.5 million children diagnosed as such. Mexico passed the United States as the most obese country in the world.[4] The prevalence of overweight and obesity is 16.7% in preschool children, 26.2% in school children, and 30.9% in adolescents. For adults, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is 39.7 and 29.9%, respectively.[13] Since the 1990s, fat has become the principal source of energy in the Mexican diet and it is assumed that the consumption of highly processed food will continue increasing.[8] As a consequence, Mexico has seen the same kind of health issues that have affected other countries with overweight populations. Standardized mortality rates (SMR) for diabetes, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and hypertension have increased dramatically.[14] As of 2012, diabetes – associated with obesity – was the largest single killer of Mexicans.[15] As of 2016, it was responsible for over 100,000 premature deaths in the country.[16]
Economically, the rising obesity rate in Mexico is also taking a toll on its health care system. According to a study published by Cambridge University Press, cost of treatment for obesity related diseases is projected to grow from an estimated $806 million in 2010 to $1.2 billion in 2030 and $1.7 billion in 2050.[17] Recent efforts have been made by the Mexican government to address the issue of obesity as a reduction of 1% in mean BMI would reduce the cost by $43 million in 2030 and $85 million in 2050 respectively. Through initiatives that focus on the narrative of a healthier lifestyle, the government aims to reduce the projected obesity prevalence. However, not much is known about the effectiveness of those programs.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico
Well, back to another of my major questions: Climate, the sun, and growing crops. Seems the Midwest of the US is experiencing record low temperatures. Other than using more natural gas for heating, the temperature of the soil influences seed germination, too cold delays it. Also, at the beginning of the season a guess is made as to amount of moisture expected which also influences planting depth and of course soil temperature.
Much of the US crop has been sold, it is probably gone from the US with a low carryover – this is a guess. One recalls the pharaoh, something like seven good years followed by seven bad years. Gates is now the largest farmland holder in MN and also a major holder of JD; he has a good history of business sense.
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/record-shattering-cold-hits-central-us
Farming takes great intelligence, hard work and luck. Let’s hope our luck holds, it is a solar minimum time, the little ice age lasted something like 100 years depending how one calls it. Were this to occur with parts of the population weakened by the virus, it could be a challenging time.
Dennis L.
This record breaking cold seems to be coming southward as well. The forecast for tomorrow morning that my phone gives is 34 degrees F. , which is barely above freezing. This is for a north Atlanta, Georgia suburb. I am sure it will be colder north of here. It is also too cold for some tender crops. I think of March 20 as the last frost date around here. This is a month later.
Too bad you all not here in South Florida…record HEAT..
https://wsvn.com/weather-blog/steamy-south-florida-on-records-watch-again/
Lovin’ it
A few days of extreme, record breaking cold is termed “weather,” though one consequence of global climate change could be a broadening of the bell curve at the same time the mean moves towards higher average temperature.
Trends in the average daily temperature over a period of decades is termed “global climate change.” Moreover, even with the extreme cold, I think the average temp for the US for March and April will be in the top 20.
A more worrisome aspect of global climate change from a crop perspective is the decrease in average soil moisture. In the South and Midwest, the trend is forecast to be towards drier soils.
With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened.
Weather service and agriculture officials warned of possible water use cutbacks in California and the Southwest, increased wildfires, low levels in key reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell and damage to wheat crops.
https://www.kxan.com/weather/spring-2021-nasty-drought-in-forecast-for-much-of-us/
A drought that lasts decades is climate change, not weather. Look up Hadley cells. These are masses of dry air from the lower latitudes that descend and carry no moisture. The desert belt is the result.
Hadley cells are moving northward in the northern hemisphere.
Wikipedia has a fascinating article on megadroughts, which contains the following.
The term megadrought is generally used to describe the length of a drought, and not its acute intensity. In scientific literature the term is used to describe decades-long droughts or multi-decadal droughts. Multiyear droughts of less than a decade, such as the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, are generally not described as megadroughts even though they are of a long duration. In popular literature multiyear or even single year droughts are occasionally described as megadroughts based upon their severity, the economic damage they inflict or other criteria, but this is the exception and not the rule.
There are several sources for establishing the past occurrence and frequency of megadroughts, including:
When megadroughts occur, lakes dry up and trees and other plants grow in the dry lake beds. When the drought ends the lakes refill; when this happens the trees are submerged and die. In some locations these trees have remained preserved and can be studied giving accurate radio-carbon dates, and the tree rings of the same long dead trees can be studied. Such trees have been found in Mono and Tenaya lakes in California, Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana; and various other lakes.
The tree-ring data indicate that the Western U.S. states have experienced droughts that lasted ten times longer than anything the modern U.S. has seen. Based on annual tree rings, NOAA has recorded patterns of drought covering most of the U.S. for every year since 1700. Certain species of trees have given evidence over a longer period, in particular Montezuma Cypress and Bristlecone pine trees. The University of Arkansas has produced a 1238-year tree-ring based chronology of weather condition in central Mexico by examining core samples taken from living Montezuma Cypress trees.
Sediment core samples taken at the volcanic caldera in Valles Caldera, New Mexico and other locations. The cores from Valles Caldera go back 550,000 years and show evidence of megadroughts that lasted as long as 1000 years during the mid-Pleistocene Epoch during which summer rains were almost non-existent. Plant and pollen remains found in core samples from the bottom of lakes have been also studied and added to the record.
Fossil corals on Palmyra Atoll. Using the relationship between tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures and the oxygen isotope ratio in living corals to convert fossil coral records into sea surface temperatures. This has been used to establish the occurrence and frequency of La Niña conditions.
During a 200-year mega drought in the Sierra Nevada that lasted
from the 9th to the 12th centuries, trees would grow on newly exposed shoreline at Fallen Leaf Lake, then as the lake grew once again, the trees were preserved under cold water.
However, a 2016–2017 expedition by the Undersea Voyager Project found evidence that the ancient trees did not grow there during an ancient drought, but rather slid into the lake during one of the many seismic events that have occurred in the Tahoe Basin since it was formed.
Careful Tim, your data on the history of massive droughts in our past is upsetting the carefully crafted message that man caused climate change is the root of our climate problems presented by “James Speaks”.
Interesting! We have always had droughts, including some very long ones.
It is my understanding that allocations of water from the Colorado River were determined by conditions during a fairly wet period of history. This is part of the reason that there is not enough for everyone.
This is the same petulant terrier snappping at your geels logic that Tim usually pulls out.
A (droughts) exist
A is therefore not evidence of B (c.limate c.hange)
Can you see the weakness of this effort?
Is there something wrong with you or do you always refuse to acknowledge logic?
What happened Al???? Hahahahaha… hahahaha… Duct … t…ape…. …haha… gasp… M Fast… Duct….. Tape…. hooo hooo heee heee…. get that dog away from my innards!!!
https://youtu.be/1KkrlhoFbBM
That’s why they change the term gl o b al w ar m ing… to cl i m at e ch an ge ..
People are pretty f789ing stoooopid … but it does make the PR sham job a lot harder to convince people that the planet is worming when the temperatures are staying the same or in some instances getting COLDER.
So they changed it then they spewed out some nonsense about how a worming Arctic would cause the res of the world to get COLDER…
And the fooools… believe it!
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaa….. DUMMMM as STUMPS!!!!
I still remember that time when FE’s most evidenced argument against climate change came from a paper endorsed by economists. I also remember when he used to repeat that logic was on his his side. it still makes me laugh to remember the good old times when his infantile protests revealed a complete lack of logc and to this day are the ultimate examples of strawman arguments.
If you cannot see that CC and Covid are both Epic Lies… then sorry to inform you but the key difference between you and my dog … is you can type.
Alas… you need not worry … unless one of endlessly wrong predictions comes true this year…you will be long gone before the crisis hits.
Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
Yoshua + Future – I have a question for you…
We KNOW for a fact that even if man is destroying the cl im ate…. and we KNOW that there is NO alternative to the fossil fuels that allow 8B people to remain alive…..
Then why would the MSM and their masters be pounding the drum on this?
If a massive asteroid was scheduled to demolish earth on Jan 10 2025… do you think the MSM would run headlines LIFE TO END ON EARTH 2025. Of course not — if there is nothing they can do about it they would remain silent… not create panic… and allow us to live out the remaining years…. to do otherwise would be to invite immediate collapse — panic is not good for business.
Likewise with GW … why bother to even mention it if it is true…. there is NOTHING we can do about it…
Oh hang on — we can drive EV’s and install solar panels!!!!! (except that will only make it WORSE!!!)
Again – this is all about taking minds off of the fact OIL is a finite resource.
Experiment – ask 10 people if they think we will some day run out of oil. I guarantee you all 10 will say yes to this.
Ask them if they are concerned… I guarantee you they will say not really. Because well before we run out of oil we will have transitioned off of oil to green, sustainable energy …and we will all be driving EVs.
I guarantee F789ing ty you. Because I have conducted this experiment dozens of times…
The PR Team has done a magnificent job… The CEP PR Team is also doing a great job… but not quite as good as the GW PR Team… but then the CEP Team has a more difficult task… they have been ordered to make people want to inject themselves and their kids with an experimental vaccine…. that’s a tougher sell.
If you cannot see the LOGIC here… then I can introduce you to my dog… i can organize a video call and you guys can do a virtual arse sniffing.
I still remember when FE’s strongest argument against c.limate c..hange was a paper written by a crackpot and endorsed by economists.
In those days he would often spout LOGIC was on his side. Too bad that these days strawman arguments using a non-existent THEY espousing non-existent claims show a complete lack of logic on his part
To those who are the most outspoken global warming sceptics (Fast and Tim), I would like to understand where you think the glowbal warming theory falls down. So, which of the following statements do you think is/are true:
1) The greenhouse gas theory that certain gases in the atmosphere are able to stop infra red radiation escaping into space, resulting in a warmer planet, is false;
2) Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are not increasing;
3) Increases in carbon dioxide levels are not due to human activity;
4) Carbon dioxide is a negligible greenhouse gas, i.e. there are other factors (e.g. variable sun output) that swamp the effects of the almost 50% increase in carbon dioxide.
?
There are other issues:
1. The models that forecast that future CO2 emissions will rise because the world economy will continue to expand and use more and more fossil fuels, especially coal, are very flawed. It is true that CO2 levels may continue to rise, because of the lag effect, but CO2 emissions are basically at a peak already, because oil and coal extraction both seem to be near/past limits. Natural gas production/consumption cannot rise much without oil and coal. Published reserves are nonsense numbers.
2. There is essentially nothing we humans can do to fix the situation. Intermittent wind and solar do essentially nothing to fix the situation.
3. The climate has always been changing. Because of the self-organizing nature of the ecosystem, it will fix itself. Part of fixing itself may (or may not) include throwing humans out of the world ecosystem.
4. We have focused far too much on the belief that the climate is something that we can “fix.” It is really far more variable in any given location than we would like for all of the long-lasting infrastructure that we are trying to build. We cannot face this issue. We would rather point endlessly to the need for human fixes that we really cannot do apart from collapsing the world economy.
5. The climate change story is mostly a story to hide the problems of “peak oil” and “peak fossil fuels.” In a sense, it is sort of true, but so are a huge number of ecological disaster stories. It is only because climate change modelers were able to put together nonsensical models with respect to future emissions and resulting temperatures that the issue has gotten as much attention as it has.
Gail, I agree with most of what you say. There is nothing we can do about the CO2 already in the atmosphere, and if the elite are trying to reduce the rate at which CO2 is being released, it is only because they don’t want the peasants to use their energy. But what I really want to understand is whether Fast and Tim (and you) believe that the climate has already changed significantly due to human activity releasing CO2 into the atmosphere and, if not, why not.
From a personal perspective, given that it looks like I won’t be able to leave the UK again, I won’t complain if whatever summers remain to me bring wall to wall sunshine and warm temperatures.
I think agricultural activity has kept the Earth from going back into another ice age as quickly as it otherwise might have.
No. Human activity has had a very limited impact on the global kkklimate.
thanks Gail, that’s a well-nuanced and succinct elaboration. Appreciate the distinctions. Archived for a reading around some future campfire.
Notice how the ‘chumps’ refuse to respond to my question asking why the MSM bombards us with the GW story – when there is NO solution?
Of course their solution is solar panels and EVs… but surely nobody here believes those are a solution?
Surely?????
Well then why is the MSM bombarding us?
It’s kinda like running big headlines ‘some day you will die’ but if you take this magic potion….
Oh, come on. You bloody well know this is for spinning hopium.
The ‘muppets’ bet the future on fusion power which didn’t age particularly well, actually went sour. It won’t work to beat that dead horse anymore.
🐴🪦😭👎👎
Behold the new hopium; solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and EV’s. YAY!
🦄🌈🥴👍👍
Waddaya think, is it possible to run with that narrative for another 50 years or so, until, well, finite world realities rams truth through the delusions of infinity?😉
MOAR!
Do you think the vax will take care of the most “hopeful” urges to return to “normal”?
You know it’s the truth.
☯️
1. If you read history – and I am a ravenous consumer of history particularly university courses https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/history you will find that throughout ancient history, civilizations were devastated by cli mat e change. There is extensive evidence in the middle east where entire regions were abandoned because the c changed in relatively short periods (a few decades)
They didn’t burn coal…..
2. We have been told that CO2 ‘acts like a blanket’ trapping heat. If so, then given we have burned astronomical amounts of fossil fuels by now, adding blankets exponentially (as its a cumulative effect… kinda like compounding interest…) then there is no way in hell we should not by now be boiled alive. There is NO way in hell we should ever see record cold temperatures – anywhere.
I do not buy the bs that we are wrapping the planet in a blanket — heat is not retained — How Earth sheds heat into space https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180924153430.htm
3. No doubt our activities have some effect (particularly our cutting down forests and paving over the planet), but these are minimal when compared to that big ball of heat we call the Sun. The Earth slight wobble brings us closer and further to the sun .. and that phenomenon is the key determinant of cl imate.
4. Al Gore is a f789ing liar https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/planet-of-the-humans/ If he is lying on renewable energy – and renewable energy is all about solving c change…. then I’ll assume the entire story is a Big Fat F789ing Lie.
5. The EV + renewable energy story is a total lie. These two + CC are a psyop aimed at convincing the cattle that their paddock of grass is nearly consumed … but that there are endless paddocks of grass over yonder. Otherwise the cattle become fearful of starving and their meat and milk is not tasty. The PR Team can NEVER mention oil — that is a no no — so CC is the proxy (inferring that oil — and coal — are the villains)….
6. Not sure what your position is on Covid — but it is so very obviously a Grand Lie. Yet many scientists, the entire MSM, and almost all politicians are propagating the Grand Lie. They do so because they are executing the CEP … (most are unaware of the details but like good little boys and girls they do what they are TOLD)… You go along to get along.
It’s the exact same dynamic at play with CC …. day after day after day after day … they pound this into the heads of the cattle… and as expect …because the cattle are basically stooopid beasts… they believe it… kinda like a new religion….
CC is a REAL But our activities have a very minimal effect on the C.
I agree that the climate seems to have changed a whole lot over the years.
We live in a very strange self-organizing system. People believe very strange things––basically things that might lead to happy endings if a person is quite gullible.
SEE – Gail 100% agrees…. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you for your reply.
Are not the hot temperatures on the surface Venus due to a having an atmosphere of CO2 proof of the blanketing effect of greenhouse gases?
The rapid klimate change in parts of the Middle East were, I think, due to deforestation. I used to notice when flying over Thailand how clouds were present above areas of trees whilst skies tended to be cloud free over areas where the forest was cleared. A Thai friend told me how much cooler Thailand was in his younger days before most of the trees were cut down.
My view on covid is it is an obvious hoax. I now find members of the cult annoyingly stoopid for still believing the lies. I remember asking you a year ago when you first stated it was a hoax (congrats on getting it so early) why would governments deliberately destroy their economies, but that was because I believed what Gail and you believed i.e. that any decline in economic activity would lead to financial collapse. It is obvious now the elite have far more control over the financial system than we thought possible. So covid is a ruse by the elite to cut down energy usage by the masses and save it for themselves. Also there is the control element to preempt disorder as standards of living decline. I have no doubt depopulation using the vaccines is also on the agenda.
Dr Merchant is analysing the UK Yellow Card (VAERS equivalent) data.
“It is plausible that the vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia may be an explanation for the recent incidences of heavy menstrual bleeding experienced by women in different countries after the CoViD-19 vaccination.”
Hamid Merchant
University of Huddersfield
https://t.co/4D6vdh0Wz5?amp=1
A person would think that this same type of reaction could lead to miscarriages in pregnant women.
This is one interesting point the author makes:
Once the medical establishment realizes that there is a new problem at hand, they should be watching the problem closely.
She mentions elsewhere in the article that infants and small children sometimes do get ITP that can kill them, following viral diseases. The problem is more parallel to this issue.
Edit This is intended to reply to a different comment of yours, in which you give this link.
https://t.co/duiFoqMPaO?amp=1
These are both on similar topics. Your original comment with this link seems to have landed in a strange place.
It did land in an unintended place. I hope people will follow the link though because it’s a brilliant article. One of the best I’ve read.
Thanks for your response.
I start to feel really sorry for the uninformed people.
Even when the vaccines were not yet ready I simply looked on the moderna webpage. Everybody with a smart phone can do this.
Them speaking of an injectable “operating system” really helped to silence any further questions.
I forwarded it to a friend he refused to look it up.
Not my problem any more.
Well, actually I do not really know if he did look it up. He rather said that he is not interested in any of my CT Links. Anyways.
Yes.
CovIDIOTS have this habit of refusing to look.
You can refuse to look at reality .. but you cannot avoid the consequences of of refusing to look at reality…
And there are those who suggest we have sympathy for CovIDIOTS who Pay the Price?
To that I say … f789 ’em…. They deserve it … and because they are often the first to mock the refusers as anti-vaxxers…. we need to ridicule them … to laugh at their misfortunate.
Because it feels…. GREAT!
Michael — please find MOAR…. Harry … come of the financial stuff (that stuff is irrelevant … they will hold that together till the CEP is done and dusted… get onto the Good Stuff… find us some MISERY!!!)
I very much like Harry’s financial stuff.
There is a lot we don’t know about the vaccine but there is also a lot we don’t know about the COVID-19. Different answers may be right for different people.
In Germany this goes like this:
The emergency permit for the vaccine was given without knowing the “common side effects”
I have seen german letters to state attorneys to ask for permit of autopsies.
The state attorneys replied: As there exists “no known common side effect of the vaccines, there is no need for autopsies”
The Lawyers replied “but, but, how should we find out about the common side effects”.
A German lawyer even forced a state attorney to allow autopsies only to find that the dead bodies have already been burned.
Asking these questions today in Germany, you risk being labeled a Nazi.
Not very funny…
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-triple-mutation-variant-in-india-emerges-as-fresh-worry-in-covid-battle-2418430. Triple mutation in India.!!!! This Is the end people Will undustand no way out
I wonder how long it will be until a four-way mutation.
SCIENTISTS have detected what is believed to be the world’s most mutated Covid strain as fears grow new super variants may prolong the pandemic.
The team of experts revealed their findings in a pre-print research paper which reports the coronavirus variant carries 34 mutations.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14667687/scientists-world-most-mutated-covid-strain/
PR Team prepping the CovIDIOTS….. the scientists surely have some idea of how long it will take for Devil-C to emerge… they have been testing this thoroughly for years….
Got an email from a friend in the US … thinks it’s nearly over… hoping to be able to visit us in NZ next year hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
Surprise Surprise!!!
Maybe in africa somewhere Just be four way
Triple beef + bacon + double cheese… hold the ketchup…. Mutant Burger… please!
‘After the double mutation, its now the triple mutation, meaning three different Covid strains combining to form a new variant, has been detected in parts of the country.’
I am sure Bossche is monitoring this with great interest….
Will existing vaccines work against the triple mutation?
Two of the three variants in the triple mutation have been seen to have immune escape responses, meaning they are more resistant to antibodies. Not much more is known yet on the effectiveness of vaccines. Scientists believe the new variant has some ability to escape the body’s naturally acquired immunity to Covid.
OMG!
Democratic revolutionaries are marching on the capital of Chad, after having killed the ‘president’ yesterday. France props up the regime and it has a large military base in the capital. France milks its old colonies. The military has told the ‘rebels’ to stand down and that there will be free elections in 18 months, but that is the same military that has enforced the regime for decades. So the ‘rebels’ are marching on the capital now for a show down. Will France have them slaughtered?
Rebels threaten to march on capital as Chad reels from president’s battlefield death
N’DJAMENA, April 21 (Reuters) – Rebel forces set their sights on Chad’s capital on Wednesday following the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby, a move that threatens to bring even more turmoil to a country vital to international efforts to combat Islamist militants in Africa.
A spokesman for the Libyan-based rebel group, known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), said their aim was to bring democracy to the country after years of authoritarian rule by Deby.
Rebel forces, who poured over the vast country’s northern border last weekend, were now in Kanem region about 200-300 km (125-190 miles) north of N’Djamena.
FACT claimed responsibility for the injuries that killed him on Monday. He was wounded by gunfire in the village of Mele near the town of Nokou, more than 300 km (190 miles) north of N’Djamena, and evacuated to the capital where he later died, said a FACT spokesman who requested anonymity.
Following his death, the transitional council’s vice-president, Djimadoum Tirayna, said the army wanted to return power to a civilian government and hold free and democratic elections in 18 months,
But FACT rejected the military’s plan and said they would press on with their offensive.
“Chad is not a monarchy. There can be no dynastic devolution of power in our country,” it said in a statement.
“For years, international players have propped up Déby’s government for its support for counterterrorism operations… while largely turning a blind eye to his legacy of repression and violations of social and economic rights at home,” HRW said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rebels-threaten-march-capital-chad-reels-presidents-battlefield-death-2021-04-21/
One of my favorite quotes from Winston Churchill who reportedly was a war monger:
“All you have to do is have a 5 minute conversation with the average voter to realize what a bad idea democracy really is.” (as opposed to a republic)
Or two wolves and sheep deciding what’s for dinner, or basically mob rule. A pure democracy already contains the seeds of its eventual self-destruction.
But the other great one was his supposed insult to FDR’s wife Eleanor: ” Yes ma’am, I’m very drunk, but you ma’am are very ugly. But unlike you, I’ll be sober in the morning.”
Awful man, a complete idiot. He probably would have got slapped and chucked out if not for his privilege. Sadly Britain has a moron as an icon of Britishness.
When I heard that last insult, I was told it was directed at Lady Astor, who seems to have acted as a foil for Winston’s wit in much the same way Margaret Dumont did for Groucho Marx’s.
By the way, the second part of this Duck Soup video comprises Rufus T. Firefly’s (Groucho’s) political manifesto set to music.
It is easy to imagine Joe or Justin or Boris singing these lyrics without a shred of irony.
If any form of pleasure is exhibited, report to me and it will be prohibited! I’ll put my foot down, so shall it be… this is the land of the free!
The last man nearly ruined this place he didn’t know what to do with it. If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait till I get through with it!
The country’s taxes must be fixed, and I know what to do with it. If you think you’re paying too much now, just wait till I get through with it!
That sounds just like Churchill. Britain went from global hegemon to a run down back water and a poodle of the USA. The most disastrous British leader since Edward the Confessor (died 1066). Many would say that it was a good thing. He retains ‘heroic’ status: who says that you can’t make a silk purse out of a pigs ear?
The preferable option being that we not go to war with Nazi Germany Mirror?
After all, if we hadn’t we wouldn’t have accrued massive debts to the States.
It was an inter-imperialist war. Britain had played the ‘balance of power’ for centuries, to keep the continent divided and weak, so that no unified, strong power could emerge as a competitor to the British Empire. That strategy ‘worked’ until it did not.
‘Preferences’ depend on objectives, but it certainly was not the intention of Churchill or of the British state to destroy British hegemony, bankrupt Britain, or to leave half of Europe under USSR – in their own terms, it was a disaster. The British state is interested only in its own power and money, nothing else.
History is what it is, Britain made its bed and now it can lie in it. That is how history works – there is no ‘rewind’ button, or ‘play level again’ option. Nor does it ‘mean’ anything beyond what people think that it ‘means’; it is just organic drives in motion.
The post-war globalist status quo has only hastened the drive toward unsustainability and civilisational collapse. History is what it is.
“The post-war globalist status quo has only hastened the drive toward unsustainability and civilisational collapse. History is what it is.”
Now that is about as concise and precise as it gets. The master of observation meets the master of description. A match made in ‘it is what it is’ predicament.
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Some might think it a bit much to have starved millions of Indians to death…. however he’s correct with respect the comment on democracy.
Look at how easy the MORONS are fooled by this Covid story…. and Gl o bal Wor ming… and EVs … and renewables… look at how easy they can be convinced to gulp big gulps… and eat GMO fried chicken and just about any other stop they see featured on the TEE VEE
Have I mentioned a friend who keeps referring me to Democracy Now … and I keep telling him if Amy was Potus and he was VP the US would be Somalia in a month…
People are simply not capable of operating a democracy… it would not work.
The best they can hope for is a dictatorship that lets them surf porn and throws them more crumbs than a totalitarian junta…. and rewards the smart ones with opportunities to make Big Money and pay Low Taxes.
I fully support The Elders.
And now that we’re on the downslope with oil — they are doing the right thing and murdering us.
Seriously — nothing is perfect but this is pretty darn close.
I didn’t realize that Chad is an oil producer. It produces something around 100,000 barrels per day and exports nearly all of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Chad
Back in 2005, Chad produced over 200,000 barrels per day. Its production has fallen since then. Production fell during the year 2020, perhaps because of the low prices.
https://tradingeconomics.com/chad/crude-oil-production
Oil is at the heart of the situation.
The corrupt ‘president’ (dictator) was propped up by the French state, which put down various rebellions over the past few decades. He pocketed the oil cash for his tribe and failed to develop the country. Chad is in a debt trap and France continues to exploit the land. Chad also hosts French troops that are important in enforcing the political status quo, and facilitating resource extraction, in the wider region. Chad is in a ‘post-imperialist’ African situation of continued exploitation that is typical for France.
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/042021-volatility-in-store-for-chads-oil-industry-after-presidents-death
“Déby’s inability to turn billions of dollars in oil revenue accumulated since Chad started exporting its production through a World Bank-financed oil pipeline has emerged as a particular sore point for any Chadian not a part of Déby’s Zaghawa tribe, who have benefited the most from the corrupt patronage system that oil wealth has created,” the Atlantic Council said in a report April 20.
Déby had been working with France and other Western allies in a battle against Islamic militants in the Sahel region of Africa, which was mainly centered in the north of the country. It shares borders with key oil producers such as Nigeria, Libya, Sudan and Cameroon, along with Niger and the Central African Republic.
The Atlantic Council had said that Déby’s fall would send shock waves from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, affecting the multinational G-5 Sahel initiative.
Despite its oil wealth, Chad has been facing an enormous debt burden. Global Commodity trading house Glencore is one of the largest creditors to Chad through an oil-for-cash loan. Last year, the Chadian government requested that Glencore suspend payments on its oil-for-cash loan. The oil producer now also relies on oil-for-cash loadings from Chinese creditors.
Chad holds around 1.5 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to BP’s Energy Outlook 2020, making it the 10th-largest oil reserve holder in Africa. Oil accounts for almost 90% of the country’s export revenues.
Thanks! This does sound like a believable scenario.
I am certain that the amount of oil that Chad really has available depends on the price of oil and the relativity of Chad’s currency to the dollar. The 1.5 billion barrels of proven reserves is likely wishful thinking.
I am not sure that the oil revenue would have gone very far, if spread over Chad’s entire population. It goes farther over about 1/8 of the population. According to Wikipedia, there are about 2.1 million people in the Zaghawa tribe in Chad. They are nomadic and obtain much of their livelihood through herding cattle, camels and sheep and harvesting wild grains.
A ‘rebel’ column preparing to march on the capital N’Djamena.
https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1384798933298339841
I just love Twitter.
The ‘rebels’ are chilling until midnight. Presumably they are using the time to make appeals to other insurgent military groups to join in. France has air power there that it will typically use to give government troops on the ground an advantage.
> Chad in turmoil after Deby death as rebels, opposition challenge military
The FACT rebels rejected the military’s plan and said on Wednesday that a pause in hostilities they are observing to give time for Deby to be buried would end at midnight. “The forces of national resistance are more than ever determined to deliver the Chadian people from this abominable dictatorship,” they said in a statement.
The statement also warned foreign heads of state against going to Deby’s funeral on Friday “for imperatives of security”. French President Emmanuel Macron plans to attend, a spokesman said.
A spokesman for FACT, which is not linked to jihadists, said its forces were now in Kanem region about 200-300 km (125-190 miles) north of N’Djamena and their aim was to bring democracy to Chad after years of authoritarian rule by Deby. The fighters swept across the vast country’s northern border last weekend.
…. In a joint statement, about a dozen opposition party leaders, many of whom boycotted the election, condemned what they called “the institutional coup d’etat conducted by the generals”. Civil society organisations also called for a return to civilian rule, and a coalition of armed groups demanded an inclusive national dialogue.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/1544259-chad-in-turmoil-after-deby-death-as-rebels-opposition-challenge-military
@ Tim Groves – missed your April 13 comment asking about my long-haul symptoms. They have diminished considerably, most gone almost completely. An FLCCC Alliance affiliated doctor told me the long-haul aspect is not a condition of being infected but of dealing with viral fragments left behind in the original battle. For me, that was very intense – chest pains, shin-bone pains, liver and kidney pains, headaches, visual disturbances, brain-fog, and a few others. I had heel-bone pain for a few years prior to doing a zero-vitamin a diet. It went almost completely away, so I associate at least the bone-pain aspect of my Covid infection with the Retinoids.
Yes, I’m also a big fan of Grant Genereux and the molecule in question is definitely Retinoic Acid.
I just figured out a way to more efficiently backtrack posts by just copying the comment section to a Word doc and then just doing a quick search on my handle, instead of scrolling through multiple pages online. Maybe that’s what others do? It’s kind of a ‘duh’ for me. Like the time I finally put a wheel on one end of a long driveway gate. Only took me a few years to think of it.
Thanks for your positive response.
Thank you, hillcountry!
Yes, searching multiple pages of comments can be a major task. Copying everything into a single Word document for searching is one way of overcoming that. Usually I combine a Google search (for example, “retinolic acid” + “Our Finite World” with a page search (“Command” key + “F” key)
I’m glad to read that your recovery appears to be proceeding well and I hope that the remaining issues will clear up over time. I also find it to be incredible that a mere coronavirus could produce this many symptoms. So I’m leaning towards the hypothesis that this one has been bioengineered, or drifted down from the heavens with the rest of the comet dust, or at the very least has been going very heavy on the spinach like Popeye.
Prior to the appearance of Grant Genereux, I think just about everyone was convinced that vitamin A was essential and good for us in moderate amounts. Even today, Monsanto is pushing its GMO “Golden Rice” on the Third World in order to help get their consumption of vitamin A up to First World levels. In fact, rice is one of the few staples that is essentially vitamin A free. And the fact that rice is also the most important staple for half the world’s population may be one of the things that helps keep them healthy. Anyway, Genereax’s ideas need to be fully investigated, because if he’s right, it goes a long way to solving a number of medical mysteries and gives a lot of people a a way to avoid or ameliorate a slew of miserable diseases.
For those who haven’t heard of him, here’s his blog:
https://ggenereux.blog
Hey Tim, you’re welcome and allow me to add a bit of stuff here.
If one believes Avogadro and his number, (pretty spooky looking guy at Wiki) and molar-mass equivalents of molecules (compared to carbon), Grant will never get close to real zero, though he must have the lowest serum-a number in Canada by now.
Even still, his health-recovery story is over-the-top amazing. I don’t doubt a word of it. He’s got a kind of integrity that you just sense right away.
I did some napkin-numbers on what his posted serum-level was, in visible number-of-molecules remaining, after his 5-year mark on the diet, and compared to a ball-park number of mitochondria in his body. There’s still plenty retinol-per-mitochondria left. He can sort of be right and wrong at the same time I guess. I did 2000 hours on PubMed looking into the question. Grant raised a real stink when he hypothesized that the Retinol Binding Proteins are like antibodies. He may be correct in that analogy, but I wonder how anyone could design a study to prove it.
That said, I regard him as a bona-fide scientist (doing a fascinating N=1) and respect the fact that he’s also devoted to exploring the wider-issues of metabolism, beyond the quantitative. His cohort has had many difficulties that indicate detoxification is much more complex than simply eliminating VA from the diet, to whatever extent a person can manage. All of us were/are looking for ‘magic bullets’ from Taurine to Photobiomodulation. I tend to spend more time these days puzzling-out the involvement of Retinoids in the Covid paradigm, not that I’ll find much other than hints and clues. Those are all over the place, but a Unified Retinoid Theory is beyond me.
I have looked over a lot of traditional papers on VA while ferreting-out the ones that point directly to sub-clinical and other levels of toxicity. Occasionally I see one that is really different, like the paper I recently posted about Retinoic Acid Deficiency. I think Anthony Mawson’s work is truly outstanding. His work demonstrates clear metabolic requirements for retinoids, but he nevertheless delves into their toxicity, both individual and epidemiologically. He’s been at it since the 1980’s and is well-aware of Grant’s work.
I simplify it for people by mentioning that Retinoic Acid is not up there with Thalidomide on the teratogenic list for no reason.
Chapters 3 and 5 of Grant’s ‘Poisoning for Profits’ (free download) are very instructive per the potential effects of Retinoic Acid. There is still a bit of contention regarding Grant’s thoughts on casein and lard. I agree that his work need full investigation. It’s hard to imagine turning the ship around at this point though, other than as individuals protecting themselves. I get very little traction popularizing his work via handouts and e-mails. Time will tell if the Hypervitaminosis-A being created via overlapping VA-interventions globally will ever be a head-line thing. Not dissimilar to negative vaccine effects. I’ve seen a couple of universities discussing it; one’s that have been intimately involved in those programs, including in the USA.
I think there’s some middle-ground that might make Grant’s essential message more palatable to more people. I advise folks to just get as much VA out of their diet as possible for a few months and see what happens. My results were fairly dramatic, then they tapered-off.
In a snippet from the e-mail response I sent to my brother yesterday, I discussed this long haul issue:
“The “long haul” sequela from having caught COVID after apparently having recovered are concerning, but only time will tell. There was a single study, a meta analysis, meaning they looked retrospectively at heart echocardiograms / MRI scans of those who had been afflicted with COVID which reportedly revealed permanent damage, essentially in the form of scarring. This was not a “gold standard” study though which requires a controlled, randomized, prospective double blind analysis. What is very intriguing is why the government VAXXERS have not expanded on this “study” to “promote” it as an effective tool in their relentless campaign to vaccinate everything that moves and thereby requiring a vaccination passport.
It would seem that a surefire way to promote this vaccination agenda/obsession would be to promote these “long haul” permanent sequelae statistics on the population. Where did the follow-up studies go? I wonder if further study might reveal that these long haul symptoms too are overplayed, just as the plethora of scientific announcements about the benefits of masking (NOT), yet while treatment with Ivermectin, Vit D, HCQ and optimization of health through weight loss, and exercise are being censored.
Combined with a 99%+ “cure” rate in healthy people under the age of 80 etc., the only really scare tactic left would be the long haul argument of COVID slowly killing you after you think you had recovered. “
That makes sense. Good questions you ask about if Long Haul is being over-played and/or why it’s not being used to drive the vaccine-stampede. There’s a ton of videos on it, so maybe it’s a numbers game, and it requires some critical-mass to bring it wide out in the open as a cattle-prod.
Like this cohort was only 200 people.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/3/e048391.long
I’m watching a DW (youtube channel) documentary on LH Covid from 3 months ago. They’re a pretty robust outfit. I’m almost sure this awareness goes back to maybe May-June 2020. We’ll see how they play it. I’d think with the level of concern most have about heart-health, it only makes sense LH and related heart-damage would be popularized in a bigger way. I don’t read much MSM so not sure what they’re saying.
If the vaccines turn a lot of people into long-haulers, they’re gonna be really ticked-off. I anticipate a lot more autoimmune expression, which is so closely related to some of what is being experienced with both the virus and the vaccines.
One major problem with research supporting vaccines is that it is almost impossible for it to discount the things it does not understand. The vitamin A status of the liver is one of those non-discounted things. Virologists don’t understand this area of science. Why would they?
Here’s a bit from an Anthony Mawson paper.
“A growing number of vaccines are administered at the same time or in close succession, increasing the complexity of assessing vaccine safety. Individual vaccines are assumed to have no other effect than protection against the targeted pathogen, but vaccines also have nonspecific and interactive effects, the outcomes of which can be beneficial or harmful. To date, no controlled trials and very few observational studies have determined the impact of vaccination schedules on overall health. The balance of the risks and benefits from mass vaccination therefore remains uncertain.”
“Recent studies worryingly suggest links between multiple vaccinations and increased risks of diverse multisystem health problems, including allergies, infections, and neuropsychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders.”
Here, we propose that, in susceptible persons, multiple vaccinations activate the retinoid cascade and trigger apoptotic hepatitis, leading to cholestatic liver dysfunction, in which stored vitamin A compounds (retinyl esters and retinoic acid) enter the circulation in toxic concentrations; this induces endogenous forms of hypervitaminosis A, with the severity of adverse outcomes being directly proportional to the concentration of circulating retinoids.”
“In very low concentrations, vitamin A and its major metabolite retinoic acid contribute to immune function and to the process of immunization, whereas excess vitamin A increases the risk of adverse events, including common “side-effects” as well as chronic adverse outcomes. The increasing rates of allergy, ear infections, and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in countries with high rates of vaccination could be related to mass vaccination and to its impact on liver function and vitamin A metabolism, collectively representing endogenous manifestations of hypervitaminosis A. Further studies of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated groups are urgently needed, to increase understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of vaccine injury, to identify the risk factors and screen for vaccine injury, to inform public health policy on potential hazards related to vaccination schedules, and to optimize the safety and benefits of vaccines.”
One of the concerns of the US autism association at the time I was attending was the high number of immunizations being given to relatively small babies. How vitamin A stores were depleted would be a way that people would not think of.
In a way, the situation isn’t too much different from the situation that lead to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The engineers looked at their models and said, “This design looks very safe. All of the known risks have been taken care of.” But no one thought of the entire list of risks. One was that the electricity coming into the Fukushima plant would be cut off and the backup batteries would fail (because they were flooded by salt water??).
Engineers and vaccine developers cannot think of the entire list of risks that might occur.
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake was a Black Swan event with a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter scale. Geologists had thought that 8.5 was the highest ever possible due to the zig-zag nature of the coastline.
The ground sunk 2 feet and the ocean rose 10 feet, creating a (temporary) 12 ft differential. The 45 ft tsunami overtopped the 33 ft ground level at the reactor.
Some design aspects of the Fukushima plant were, in hindsight, questionable. The previously-thought impossible size of the tsunami exacerbated the situation.
Maybe Fukushima spent fuel ponds are going to let go and cause a Trade Off scenario … so they decided to Covid Vax us to Death before that happens…
Rule Nothing Out.
Gail, there are risk assessment techniques that use formal logic to analyse systems rather more thoroughly. I taught some of them. But this does not help if the engineers are as stupid as the ones at Fukushima.
Another example (one of my case studies): a university building with several floors and a too small elevator. Because university classes all end at the same time, leading to a lot of congestion and an overcrowded elevator. One engineering team decided to make the elevator cable twice as strong as spec, just in case. A second team added an emergency brake, which they made 50% stronger. Of course, when the main cable broke, the emergency brake also broke about two seconds later.
Yes, two teams of engineers could not work out that a 150% cable is weaker than a 200% cable. Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller:”Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens”.)
Fukushima, by the way, could have been secured through “back chaining”: This absolutely must work. Now what also must work if this is to work? Next, what must work if *that* is to work? Continue until you reach something utterly reliable, such as a Law of Nature.
I remember hearing that there is a very old stone near Fukushima that says something like, “Build nothing below this stone,” presumably because of prior tsunami problems. This advice seems to have been ignored.
HERE’S THE P.E. MARIK PAPER ABOUT MELATONIN FROM MAY 2020 – BEFORE HE WAS AWARE OF IVERMECTIN
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7242729/
Autophagy plays an important role both in the antiviral defense responses and in the promotion of the different stages of the viral life cycle. The fact that melatonin is a regulator of autophagy due to its properties as a potent antioxidant and suppressor of endoplasmic reticulum stress suggests a potential beneficial role for this molecule in the management of some viral infections (17).
Viruses, including Ebola, dengue, encephalomyocarditis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, rabbit hemorrhagic disease, human papilloma, and inter alia, have demonstrated the success of melatonin in protecting against viral infections.
There is no evidence that melatonin is viricidal but rather it reduces the severity of these infections (18–21). Melatonin’s beneficial effects derive from its anti-inflammatory properties, free radical scavenging activity, and immunomodulatory functions.
There seems to be a need for a blend of antioxidants, according to a paper posted in a comment recently.
Melatonin is something that is readily available that might help add to the mix of compounds that reduce the symptoms of COVID-19.
Brisbane man hospitalised for clots days after receiving Pfizer vaccine
The Queensland government has confirmed health authorities will investigate any potential link between the Pfizer vaccine and a man who presented at a private hospital with blood clots just days after receiving the jab.
The 40-year-old man, believed to be a police officer and frontline worker responsible for patrolling Queensland quarantine hotels, received the Pfizer shot on Sunday, 9 News reported.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said Health officials would urgently look into the matter.
“It’s too early to say if this incident is linked to the Pfizer vaccine,” Mr Miles said on Wednesday.
“Clearly, our authorities will be looking into whether there is a link; looking to see whether it can help inform that vaccine rollout.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/brisbane-man-hospitalised-for-clots-days-after-receiving-pfizer-vaccine/news-story/a64a53c8351d36a180033acf3dbe1296
Hundreds of NHS staff form anti-vax group and label new Covid jabs ‘poison’
NHS and care home staff in their hundreds have formed a group opposed to vaccinations, wearing masks and testing in hospitals.
The 250 plus-member strong group, NHS Workers for Choice, No Restrictions for Declining a Vaccine, includes a GP, several A&E nurses, healthcare assistants, lab workers, and care home staff.
The group insists it is not an anti-vaccine group and exists to support healthcare workers, but The Times found posts comparing the Pfizer-BionTech coronavirus vaccine to “poison”.
According to the Facebook group, the particular vaccine was a new frozen virus, similar to smallpox, to be “unleashed” on the world.
One member who works in a GP’s surgery, said that she would rather quit than help with a vaccination programme which will be first rolled out to the elderly and healthcare workers.
She wrote: “NHS staff gone — all sick and old will be gone. NHS gone. Population under reconstruction. Welcome to the new world order.”
Researchers have found that the more people read misinformation about vaccines online, the fewer people are likely to get vaccinated.
Health secretary Matt Hancock announced last weekend, new measures to tackle disinformation, saying: “We want users to have greater access to reliable and scientifically accurate information on vaccines from trusted sources like the NHS so they can make informed decisions to protect themselves and their loved ones.”
Kate Shemirani was suspended from the register by the Royal College of Nursing in July for claiming that the pandemic is a deliberate cull.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/hundreds-nhs-staff-form-anti-23018562
Matt Hancock announced last weekend, new measures to tackle disinformation, implying: “Putting out disinformation is the establishment’s job; not the general public’s. And I’m sure that if Captain Tom and the Duke of Edinburgh were still with us, they would bear me out on this.”
Should I spend the $60 to make an appointment with a doctor at the clinic to discuss the long term studies of the covid vaccine they are offering?
Should I print out some of the comments from Bossche and Yeadon and present them as discussion topics?
Would this end up with the police being called to evict me?
Yes, and you should film it covertly. Then set up a video channel and ask for donations to cover costs.
Wonder how he’d react to a print out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials#Nuremberg_principles
Problem is … once a CovIDIOT… always a CovIDIOT… same with a GWidiot….
Logic does not register… they worship the MSM … and they believe their leaders would never lie to them…
Those are the prime causes/symptoms of IDIOCY.
they’ll likely bribe you with a lucrative grant offering to study the problem for a few years.
And a prime health-pass of course. A health free pass will be as valuable and coveted as a wartime safe-conduct or a Chinese PC card in the era of Mao (or Jiping, fort that matter). It could easily be worth half a million.
A quick look reveals the number of NHS staff in December 2020 to be 1,319,010. To have only 250 willing to stand up against the vaccination program is pathetic. The overwhelming majority either lack ethics, are dumb or are cowards.
I suspect there are a lot more … but they are fearful of losing their careers. Silent majority?
This guys Dad in hospital, COVID positive on his paperwork but he refused to have a test so does not have COVID. Watch staff squirm
Part 1-4
https://twitter.com/Chrissy_2697/status/1384602365899194373
Oh did I mention when I spoke to Hipkin’s office … that I referenced the Nuremberg Trials and international laws against using experimental procedures on people???
That’s when she hung up haha (that word Nazi triggers em)
Moderna COVID vaccine could receive emergency authorization for children ages 12 to 15 within ‘weeks’
After months of clinical trials examining how Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine affects children 12 to 15 years old, Dr. Robert Finberg of UMass Medical School in Worcester anticipates emergency authorization for the population within weeks.
UMass Medical School researchers began enrolling adolescents ages 12 through 17 in February. The trials were expected to enroll 3,000 adolescents at up to 15 sites nationwide.
They are now fully enrolled and researchers are waiting for the data to return.
“So far the clinical trials have been very successful,” Finberg said. “I think we’re confident that they will continue to be. These vaccines look like they are very safe and very efficacious.”
Last November, Moderna announced its vaccine offered a 95% efficacy rate during its phase three clinical trials, with 100% effectiveness at preventing hospitalizations as a result of the virus.
Preliminary data from the trials at UMass Medical School suggest that the vaccine could be even more effective with fewer side effects for children 12 to 15 years old. Emergency authorization by the United States’ Food and Drug Administration could be just weeks away, Finberg said.
“So far, at least, both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine, appear to be equally effective in young people,” Finberg said. “If anything, they have fewer adverse events. There have been no big differences. We don’t expect that there will be problems with young people. If anything, they’ll do better.”
https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2021/04/moderna-covid-vaccine-could-receive-emergency-authorization-for-children-ages-12-to-15-within-weeks.html
How amazing given Fauci and others indicated they had just started the trials on children!
And there are those who suggest Fast Eddy goes to far in hoping for vaccine misery…
‘We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t allow them to write “fuck” on their airplanes — because it’s obscene!’
COVID-19: Tony Blair says vaccine hesitancy is ‘completely wrong and unjustified’
Tony Blair is calling on Boris Johnson to launch a major publicity blitz to boost COVID vaccine take-up rates and allay fears about side-effects.
The former prime minister claims the government should do more to sell the benefits of vaccines and publish data on how effective and safe they are.
Mr Blair’s call comes in a new report – Restoring Confidence in the Workhorse Covid-19 Vaccines, published by his Institute for Global Change – which examines reasons for rising vaccine hesitancy, particularly relating to AstraZeneca.
Side effects reported by patients receiving the AstraZeneca jab have included blood clots, pain around the injection, fatigue, headache, nausea, joint pain and muscle ache.
But Mr Blair’s report concludes that concerns must addressed by clearer data on the benefits of the vaccine and the UK is in a unique position to provide it, as the only country rolling out different vaccines in big numbers.
“In this paper, we set out why the reluctance – particularly around the AstraZeneca vaccine – is completely wrong and unjustified,” Mr Blair writes in the foreword to the report.
“Why regulators in different countries are taking decisions based on a narrow and unbalanced view of risk, and why the policymakers in government need to grip this situation urgently and bring some coherence and logic to the issue of vaccine assessment.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-tony-blair-says-vaccine-hesitancy-is-completely-wrong-and-unjustified-12282181?fbclid=IwAR0N09VdcjrS111FsHSrB2BhPX89sjR3QzNJLqm9Wma22Hvk5mDQL9ZbpcQ
Mr. Blair still thinks he did the right thing in removing Saddam Hussein. He certainly brought some coherence and logic to the issue of WMD assessment.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F350b3af0-4413-11e6-a45d-8299bb50a973.jpg?crop=1333%2C1333%2C333%2C0
A rather harsh critique of the current era big data algos.
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/04/artificial-intelligence-unseating-the-inevitability-narrative/
“…The problem with such hypothetical or conjectural reasoning is that that range of hypotheses is virtually infinite. Human intelligence can, somehow, sift through these hypotheses and identify those that are relevant. Larson’s point, and one he convincingly establishes, is that we don’t have a clue how to do this computationally.”
Yes Larson, the human mind can do that because it is situated in objective reality where evolutionary pressures makes the price of going along with a bad hypothesis rather definitive. In primate terms; don’t jump onto a too flimsy branch. It might break and the monkey branching plunges to oblivion. And if you are hungry, by all means do eat. Running out of energy is inherently bad for any living organism.
The survival instinct and memories of undesirable/desirable outcomes is whereupon abductive reasoning originate. Thus we simulate the outcome “tree” of possibilities. Throw in a few random branches and discover those. But trees doesn’t grow willy nilly, they rather got a definitive structure of (discovery) that is crafted out of evolutionary pressure, where survival instinct is the basis.
Now, how to form a sensible hypothesis out of nothing? That requires some polymath associative skills. For example equating inductance in a coil with inertia of an object. In that sense there is a peculiarity of resistance to movement. Simple association: low energy states are always preferred, generating fields of movement and magnetism carry an energetic cost. With other words; be as lazy as possible (save energy) without impinging on your survival prospects. If you set out to explore unknown unknowns, bring a rope with you, you might fall or simply find an astonishing view of new insights and habitats to explore.
And of course, if survival is ruled out by the situation that we find ourselves. Then the only sensible hypothesis is to reject reproduction, it clearly carry no meaning in the grand scheme of things.
Excellent points! Thanks for mentioning this article.
AI is not all that different from using the approach of writing academic papers based on what is written in previous academic papers in the same field. This approach is consistent, but it will never bring in discoveries from another field. For example, economic theories will never be informed by discoveries from physics. They will simply be based on what happened in the fairly recent past.
For many people who have lost their significant others, sex dolls have provided one way to ease the pain of grief and loneliness.
With demand for sex dolls booming amid the ongoing pandemic and lockdowns across the world, Lux Botics is offering “ultra-realistic humanoids” to satisfy the carnal needs of the singles without any other recourse.
The company has hired renowned taxidermist Jake Mercer and he will attach the preserved heads of dead spouses to the sex dolls for an additional fee of $3000.
https://themindunleashed.com/2021/04/company-sells-robot-clones-of-dead-partners-using-3d-modeling-technology.html
Yuck!
I added the part about the taxidermist … 🙂
But it’s not a bad idea!!!
Can they make replica heads from pictures? I want a Justin Trudeau.
If you build it they will come
My wife doesn’t share my disdain of humanity as much as I do, so I’m getting one of these:
A synthetic, buxom brunette made by sex toy company RealDoll’s has been programmed to villainously ramble about the end of humanity — and why people deserve it.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/20/this-sex-doll-rants-about-how-despicable-the-human-race-is/
Strange!
Is this the S&M model?
OMG – I never thought of that!
My dream is a night with Jessica A…. Yes I know Justin is supposed to be Dreamy … but that’s not my thang….
I would have thought she’d be on for that when she found out that Clark had knocked up the nanny … but she isn’t on Tinder and she doesn’t respond to my suggestive emails inviting her for a drink at the Eichardt Hotel bar when next in town… I am sure she wants to but it’s a bit difficult with the entourage…
I’ll place my order now… and get the Next Best Thing (maybe better – who knows!)
Alberta seniors Paddie Walmsley and her husband got their first shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month soon after the province started offering the limited doses to Albertans in the age group of 60 to 64 years old.
While the couple is feeling relieved and lucky, they are also anxious about the long wait until July before they can get their second dose.
On March 3, Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) updated its guidelines, recommending provinces and territories extend the time between first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses to four months
NACI said extending the dosing interval will help “opportunities for protection of the entire adult population within a short timeframe.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7716498/covid-vaccine-second-dose-delay-risk/
OR…. does this encourage breeding of Devil Covid?
Bit odd that NACI wakes up one morning and says … fellas… let’s just change to a 4 month period… that’s great science – just arbitrarily change
Hahahahaha….
The province is already in an extreme lockdown (funny how they keep getting waves — thought the lockdowns stopped covid -ahhhh… there would be even more cases if they didn’t lockdown hahaha)…
So what more can be done — leak says by Q3 it’s total lockdown… curfew … martial law.
‘Hospitals are buckling’: Ontario’s science table makes urgent push for stronger COVID-19 measures
The Ontario government’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is calling for urgent and stronger action to reign in the spread of cases, noting the province’s hospitals are “buckling.”
“Ontario is now facing the most challenging health crisis of our time. Our case counts are at an all-time high. Our hospitals are buckling. Younger people are getting sicker. The disease is ripping through whole families,” a letter issued Tuesday afternoon on behalf of group’s 40 doctors, medical professionals and scientists said.
“The variants of concern that now dominate COVID-19 in Ontario are, in many ways, a new pandemic, and Ontario needs stronger measures to control the pandemic.”
Topping the list of recommendations was reviewing the list of workplaces deemed essential by the Ontario government.
“This means permitting only truly essential indoor workplaces to stay open and strictly enforcing COVID-19 safety measures in those places,” the statement said.
“Essential workers must wear masks at all times while working indoors, or when close to others outdoors, and must be supported in doing so.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7774249/covid-ontario-science-advisory-table-letter-measures-restrictions/
Build Back Better…. Great Reset…. we hear how Covid will be the catalyst to create a utopia … eliminate poverty etc….
Hmmmm…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) currently puts the number of people at risk of starvation at more than 270 million. This is double the pre-pandemic figure. The COVID crisis has greatly exacerbated the situation for those already suffering from poverty, armed conflict and the climate crisis.
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/covid-19-pandemic-exacerbating-hunger-worldwide
34 Million People Are Just ‘One Step Away From Starvation
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/hunger-starvation-crisis-levels-united-nations/
Oh … so this is just a bump in the road… you gotta starve a hundred of million or so to get to this magical land of equality…
Yes… of course… makes total sense. Not sure why I even posted those links. Of course that’s what the plan is.
The problems that we have been encountering recently go completely the opposite of the direction of what the UN has been hoping for.
Yep – how do you build back better when your supply of most resources .. is peaking … particularly the key one – OIL … the pie is shrinking….
But it has a nice ring to it… wonder if we get ball caps …
I might get some CEP caps made … what a great talking point when someone says ‘what’s CEP’ …. (oh it’s a little start up I’m involved in … very technical stuff)
https://i.etsystatic.com/10987458/r/il/672317/1930205424/il_fullxfull.1930205424_qwb6.jpg
We need a OFW party day. Pick a day and time. We can all celebrate locally at the selected time.
Michael – can you make a video montage of parents gravely concerned as their children lie in ERs with tubes hooked up to them after taking the Vax…
I’ll make the popcorn!!!
WOW that was fast! Amazing the speed with which you make things happen! 🙂
https://www.runkd.co.uk/content/products/15054/zm_20200917-055239.jpg
Hilarious .. no?
South African strain found in Hong Kong Covid-19 case, hotel door hooks blamed
Transmission of virus likely to have taken place at quarantine hotel via door hooks used by staff to deliver meal boxes to guests, probe finds
Hong Kong’s first community infection of a mutant Covid-19 strain involved the South African variant, officials revealed on Tuesday, with transmission likely to have taken place at a quarantine hotel via door hooks used by staff to deliver meal boxes to guests.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3130232/coronavirus-hong-kongs-first-locally-detected
Time for some PCR tests to create fake infections?
Trudeau says he wants an AstraZeneca shot, but a supply crunch could be coming
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today his office was busy working the phones to secure him an appointment to get the AstraZeneca shot at a pharmacy, now that age restrictions for the vaccine have been adjusted in Ontario.
Speaking in French, Trudeau said he was eager to get the AstraZeneca shot in particular “to convey the message to all Canadians that they should be vaccinated with the first one that is offered to them as quickly as possible.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-astra-zeneca-explainer-tasker-1.5995061
You can’t make this sort of stuff up…. I cannot emphasize strongly enough how STOOOOPID even the highest achieving humans are…
Trudeau will receive a sodium water injection.
I am sure his minions are working the phones calling pharmacies to see if they might spare a vial for the poor fellow…
Skip past the first scenes of protest and start at the 5:30sih point:
https://odysee.com/@OracleFilms:1/The-Push-back-Oracle-Films-2021-World-Wide-Rally-WWD-Global-protest-UK:7?r=EPrs4aBK5AuJKJCNxG9kGHS96ytPAvbb
If you want to break this, global demonstrations have to take place every day.
I do not rule out that this will not happen, but unless that and while everyone goes back to homeoffice prison cell the next day, nothing will ever happen.
Also the efforts of PANDA, I admire them but unless we do not understand that we will have to reshape our civ completely (cough) we will fight for the wrong solution to the wrong problem. I mean, I do not at all know what the world should look like. I am in no way in for amy sort of *ism.
The question is through how many “layers” humanity has to wake up.
5 Stages of grief.
I can say, that it maybe took me some 5 years to completely digest the OFW and oildrum topic “completely” and I did a lot of hard research on the topic.
I have come to the unpleasant realisation that a collective “response” to our prdicament is doomed to fail right from the beginning. I put my bets more in the area of local organisatiion. That is what I am doing and it is quite successful. I am no longer involved in “poilitcal” bipartisanism. If I help my “group”, my “group” will help me. We do not ask for the government to help us. That is a good first step. Everything else follows.
On the other hand the top has all the authoritative powers. We see that they are making LBRY illegal as well as selling raw milk etc.
I also do not yet see how computers or any other high tech item should be created in a very local structure. This is the “hard problerm” of civilization…
Currently we will have a lot to scrap from for a very long time until we have “organised” for more complex stuff. But this will certainly an issue that prevents convincing more people to join (give up calling a Pizza Service when hungry).
Well, I can not lean to far to Fast Eddy but I must admit that maybe this path will not work for 8Bn people on this planet…Yes. We have to face hard realities.
Then we must digest. And then we must act accordingly. If that works out for everybody, I do not know and I must admit that the word “solidarity” has a complete different meaning in a world of scarcity.
An approach could be “Participatory Economy” that is available in google for a first guess.
Anyway. the future is open and the fight/race about it is is open (It has been declared to us by them right in the open at least for one year)
Like it or not:
The question in the broadest sense really is: Who can transform faster?
“Do not consent” by the way is quite a good first step…
Linda Moulton Howe & Jerry Wills – Are we living in a computer simulation?
If that is so, I want them to list the spec of that ‘computer’. If it doesn’t make much sense compared with what I think is a computer, I rather just call it the universe.
Is the brain a computer, perhaps. Let’s just call it the “brain” to make stuff simple. Could a computer archive the same cognitive abilities as a human? If yes, call it a person.
Just 32 vaccinated people were hospitalised with COVID-19 in recent months, according to “extraordinary” real world data showing the effectiveness of Britain’s immunisation programme. Scientists are preparing to hand findings to the Government’s advisers on Thursday, showing the dramatic impact of first doses on hospitalisations and deaths.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/20/exclusive-just-32-people-hospital-covid-vaccination/
Recall the NHS nurse who resigned stating there were never many covids in the hospital….
PR Strategies — see — the vaccines work — if you were on the fence — hurry in and get a vaccine
These buggers are very clever… aren’t they!
Australia intensifies military preparations for US-China conflict over Taiwan
At the urging of the Biden administration, the Australian government and the country’s military are working intensely with the US to ramp up their preparations for what could be a catastrophic war against China for control over Taiwan.
The plans would place Australian forces on the front line of a US drive to reassert Washington’s global hegemony that is increasingly focused on the strategically and economically crucial island, just 160 kilometres from the Chinese mainland.
The Australian Financial Review (AFR) informed its corporate readership last Friday: “The Australian government has sharply escalated its internal preparations for potential military action in the Taiwan Strait.”
The AFR said unnamed “sources” had told it that “the Australian Defence Force was planning for a potential worst-case scenario if the United States and China clashed over Taiwan, prompting debate over the scope and scale of Canberra’s contribution to what would be an unprecedented conflict in the region.”
Despite the details being hidden from public view, the plans are evidently detailed. “Options include contributing to an allied effort with submarines, as well as maritime surveillance aircraft, air-to-air refuellers and potentially Super Hornet fighters operating from US bases in Guam or the Philippines, and even Japan,” the newspaper reported. Another “option”—said to be riskier—was to incorporate Air Warfare Destroyers into US aircraft carrier groups.
“There is no doubt Australia would be called on to support the United States if there was a conflict with China,” the AFR report insisted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/19/usau-a19.html
Maybe this is a jobs program for Australia.
If you haven’t seen it already, this is a brilliant article about the blood clots.
https://t.co/duiFoqMPaO?amp=1
Thanks Mrs S, that’s a very interesting analysis. The critique of the VAERS system was revealing. I had just written a response to Tim including the word “Thalidomide” in reference to Retinoic Acid toxicity. Hopped over to PubMed after reading this article, wondering if we might be seeing birth-defects next on the list of vaccine troubles.
This one is from the Journal of Toxicological Science sometime in 2020.
Title: A novel screening test to predict the developmental toxicity of drugs using human induced pluripotent stem cells
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32238694/
If there’s anything that Retinoic Acid is intimately involved in deranging, it is stem-cells and their differentiation.
I’ll go poke around and see if there is any evidence that Retinoic Acid is involved in Thrombocytopenia.
Well, there’s a clue. Note the part that states:
“Retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) is the chief regulator of Th17 development.”
This study came up on a query at PubMed of:
“Thrombocytopenia and Retinoic Acid”.
One might wonder if this particular retinoic acid receptor is affected by the vaccine mRNA (or some vaccine adjuvant) in a way that causes “overexpression”. Or the transcription factor that mediates its effects through that receptor. We are talking genetic therapy here. It’s probably the “unknown unknowns” stalking the unwary.
There’s 117 papers listed under that search criteria, so there might be something else of interest.
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol
2021 Apr 1.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33633027/
Title: Increased Expression of IL-17A and IL-17F Is Correlated With RUNX1 and RORγT in Pediatric Patients With Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia
“Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is characterized by dysregulated cellular immunity. Interleukin 17 (IL-17) and its secreting cells (Th17) are involved in the pathogenesis of ITP. Retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) is the chief regulator of Th17 development.”
“The interaction among Runt-related transcription factor 1 (RUNX1) and IL-17-related genes in ITP remains questionable. The study aimed to evaluate the expression of RUNX1 and RORγt together with IL-17A and IL-17F genes in childhood ITP to investigate their contribution to disease pathogenesis and clinical presentation. Ninety children were included, 30 primary active ITP patients, 30 ITP patients in remission after treatment, and 30 healthy controls.”
“The expression levels of RUNX1, RORγt, IL-17A, and IL-17F genes were measured. Significant overexpression of RUNX1, RORγt, IL-17A, and IL-17F genes was observed in active ITP patients, which was restored to normal levels in both ITP patients in remission and controls (P<0.001 for the 4 genes)."
"Positive correlations between RUNX1, RORγt, IL-17A, and IL-17F expression levels were observed in active ITP patients (P=0.001 for RUNX1 with RORγt, P<0.001 for RUNX1 with both IL-17A and IL-17F, regarding RORγtP<0.001 with IL-17A and P=0.002 with IL-17F, P=0.001 for IL-17A with IL-17F)."
"In conclusion, RUNX1 is possibly involved in the molecular pathogenesis of ITP upregulating the expression of Th17-secreted cytokines, IL-17A and IL-17F, through RORγt at the transcriptional level. Thus, targeting RUNX1 or RORγt may be new alternative therapeutic strategies."
Here’s one that concludes:
“All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) protects MSCs [mesenchymal stem cells] from apoptosis by downregulating miR-98-5p, thus providing a potential therapeutic approach for ITP [immune thrombocytopenia]. Our findings demonstrate that miR-98-5p is a critical regulator of ITP-MSCs, which will help us thoroughly understand the pathogenesis of ITP.”
Vitamin A metabolism at some level is involved in ITP.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32428701/
I am having trouble making that link work.
If the NZ govt gets us involved I am more than happy to lead the Phoenix Project 2.0 and use my many years in Asia to help differentiate between a mainland Chinese target and the various other Asians (who all look the same and speak the same language according to most NZers)…
Hate to see a HKer or a Thai or one of the many Filippinos living in NZ be mistakenly targeted by one of the squads.
I’ve even got a big hunk of empty paddock out back that would be Perfectly suited as a concentration camp.
This is one of Bossche’s predictions coming true.
What’s happening here is that EUA injections have weakened the innate immune so much, the immune system no longer recognizes the chicken pox these ppl built up immunity to when they were kids, & it’s resurfacing as shingles.
New vaccine side effect? In Israel, six people develop herpes zoster
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/new-vaccine-side-effect-in-israel-six-people-develop-herpes-zoster-665632
Wonder if anyone who experiences side-effects (or dies) or whose family member does… will take the shotgun down to the clinic?
Wouldn’t it be COOL … if some of the vaxx protesters gathered in a public place … poured petrol on each other and struck a match? The Ultimate Form of Protest.
That would amp things up!!!!
China and Russia Turn Deeper Ties into a Military Challenge for Biden
“You face a two-front war where we don’t have a two front military,” said one former Trump official.
Deepening military and diplomatic cooperation between Russia and China is worrying U.S. defense planners, who fear the two frenemies that share military technology and many foreign-policy goals will complicate the Biden administration’s plan to reassert U.S. leadership.
China is carefully monitoring Russia’s military buildup near the border with Ukraine, which the U.S. Defense Department said this week is larger than the 2014 deployment, with an eye to its own pressure campaign on Taiwan and the South China Sea. Last week, China dispatched a record number of bombers and fighters into Taiwan’s air defense zone in a display of dominance; top U.S. military officials warn Beijing could try to seize the island by force in the next six years.
“Our sense is that [China] is paying very close attention to what’s going on as they did initially with things in the Ukraine,” the senior defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I think it’s fair to say that they are looking closely to determine how they might leverage lessons learned into their own national interests.”
There’s no evidence so far to suggest Beijing and Moscow are actually coordinating their parallel pressure campaigns, according to 11 current and former officials and experts who spoke to Foreign Policy. But the buildups are stretching the U.S. President Joe Biden’s attention at a particularly bad time. As the Pentagon has broken with the 1990s-era concept of planning for two major wars at the same time, the split screen of Chinese fighter jets over Taiwan and Russian troops massing near Ukraine is giving the Pentagon’s strategic planners a particularly uncomfortable preview of what the future could hold.
“You face a two-front war where we don’t have a two-front military,” said Elbridge Colby, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the Trump administration. “If NATO is expecting U.S. forces to bail it out simultaneously with a fight over Taiwan, we can’t do them both. We don’t have the assets. That can create huge problems for us.”
The Biden administration is busy trying to make good on the long-delayed pivot to Asia by putting more military assets in the Western Pacific, but it is still trying to figure out how to manage Beijing’s growing axis with Moscow, which a 2019 U.S. intelligence assessment described as more aligned than at any point in the past 60 years. Chinese President Xi Jinping once described Russian President Vladimir Putin as his “best friend and colleague.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/20/china-russia-military-attention-us-policy-xi-putin-biden-taiwan-ukraine/
“You face a two-front war where we don’t have a two-front military,”
Germany faced exactly that problem in the runup to 1914. We all know how she solved it.
And NATOs puppet Secretary General just gave the Ukraine the same blank cheque Germany gave to Austria. So perhaps the warmongers have decided to take out the “easier” front first? If so, it will not go well.
What are the goals of war now?
What were the goals of war in WWII?
WWII the goals would seem to be bring the defeated into a the flock albeit with a smaller more controlled military.
That model certainly does not apply to Iraq Libya and afganistan.
The USA having lost the war in afganistan and withdrawing. Heroin production restored from the talibans devestating ban on opium production. They will not be joining the flock. They like their ways.
Not a peep in the press about pakistans defacto participation in the war as a taliban ally.
So what is “taking out” the “easier” target?
Why is russia “easier”?
Russia is esier becauseThe USA is totally dependent on china for all of its manufactured goods. industry machinery, and spare parts.
War with china is not possible without inflicting grave damage on the USAs bizaare operating principle of some three decades now. Move all manufacturing and productivity to another nation state and bully for your standard of living.
A war with russia over the 2014 cou assuming it would stay non nuclear goals would be to radically intensify the divide between EU and russia and to threaten china back into secondary status. China knows the long game.
China can not be isolated so its USA lap dog status must be reinforced by a destruction of russian infrastructure.
Its a tricky business. Destroy too much russian infrastructure and it goes nuclear.
USA MIC desperately wants another isolated soviet union. Its essential to their protection racket.
Dollar hegemony must be protected. It can only be sustained through intensifying the protection racket now. Some pain is called for but not too much. It also brings the USA under martial law to counter the partial failure of the citizen control by eugenics program. Whos the boss? Russia and china need to be taught. The citizens need to be taught,
It is a desperate gamble indeed. What are the alternatives for the USA having outsourced all of its means of production? To hope dollar hegemony remains in place based on the generosity of russia and china in a world rapidly approaching resource depletion or to accept a standard of living far far far below current standard.
This is the inevitable outcome of outsourcing all productivity and spending 14 times the rest of the world combined on “defense”. Did you really think they would order a cake, buy out the liquor store, and there wouldnt be a party?
Thank you, jj: a good analysis with which I can find no fault or even quibble.
By the way,m y reference to the “easier” front was not serious, but in 1914 France was indeed the easier front, and if Helmuth von Moltke had had the sense to execute the Schlieffen Plan as its author intended, Germany might well have prevailed.