My mother in law has this gaggle of idiot COVIDian friends. She’s the only one in the group who didn’t take the jab and they’re just now finally deigning to be around her not double masked.
Anyway the vaxxie biddies keep tEsTinG pOsiTivE after their meetups and they have this whole frantic messaging to sTay sAfe and quarantine. They freaking LOVE it. It’s never going away.
As George Carlin said in one of his "rants"... They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests. ~George Carlin. AND it is one of the main reasons Karl Marx put "Free education for all children in government schools" as the 10th plank of the communist manifesto PAIR FOR by the RENT you pay on your home every year. Errrr..."property taxes". See: https://courageouslion380.substack.com/p/communism-american-style
Heart failure caused by the same heart attack gun that killed Brietbart? I trust no one or nothing. The truth has been silenced at breakneck speed for decades.
Pip (this is a response to Pip's comment) I don't know. All rational attempts to dissuade them has little affect. If you get a chance (and maybe you already have) check out a couple things.
There is C.S. Lewis' and his words on the "Tyranny of Caring." and there is also Bonhoeffer who was a prisoner during WWII and his assertion that people have been "made stupid." I think stupidity is the wrong word for it as I think stupidity is not something that is made, but rather is an inherent condition.
Finally, check out Mattias Desmet and his thoughts on "mass formation."
It's not their rational faculty that isn't working. It's their lack of empathy that makes them less than human. Satanic ritual witchcraft is the process that Satanic priests use to kill their human empathy. Children raised in Satanic families never learn about love and caring for other people. This is the centerpiece of education, without which, a society like ours, where evil people thrive and have wealth and status and good people die or live in poverty, is possible.
I'd say it's a very large proportion of humans who love drama--otherwise they'd have no meaning, no reason d'etre, in their lives. By all appearances, most people lead passive lives, living vicariously off the experiences (drama) of others--whether by direct exposure to family, friends, and acquaintances, or via entertainment media.
Herding is a likely inherited survival instinct. Which is also why we in the modern world frown on mob behavior--because it is an "acting out," an emotive performance, and not a response to a survival threat.
Yup, and participating in drama (even with family members) is a choice. Just say no as Nancy Reagan used to say. Just because you share a bloodline with someone doesn't make you obligated to be part of their crisis de jour. In fact by doing so you enable them in their pathologic behavior and become part of the problem.
Blows my mind how many people are in the 4th, 5th, or 6th decade and still haven't figured this out.
There certainly is a constituency of people who absolutely love it.
A few weeks ago I was in conversation with an educated older lady at church who was super proud to mention how she and her friends all take lateral flow tests before they go round each other's houses for tea and cake.
one friend lost her house and is now living in a trailer. I am afraid to ask her to come over, because she might want me to test before she comes ! So no, I am not inviting her.
Might it not be kinder to invite her, then explain why you won't take a test if she does insist? You may be surprised: the covidian mindset is unfeasibly flexible. I've been invited to a couple of parties now where tests were required. Upon explaining thar I wouldn't test, and why, I was met in both cases with an "Ohhhh - come anyway! I don't mind; just don't tell anyone." ...
This reminds me of that time I went to a Cafeteria, saw there was a sign on the outside chalk board announcing that "Masks must be worn while in line for food." I walked in, went back to the meeting room where our critique group was meeting and announced "I guess I am not eating." One of the employees asked me why who was cleaning up back there and I said, "Because I don't have a mask." He offered me his to wear. That is the ridiculous nature of these people. They see the virtue in wearing a mask, but not really understanding the purpose of it.
I said, "you misunderstand, I don't have a mask because masks are ineffective." I explained my position, and eventually they left me alone. I figured a way around the idiocy though, I got in my car, ordered my food through the drive in...then parked my car and walked in to eat the food.
My experience has been that far more people are willing to put up a sign demanding you do something than are willing to confront noncompliance, or even have a desire to confront noncompliance. I usually just so what I want and if they say something about a mask just say 'oh yeah sure thing' and keep doing my own thing. If they escalate I escalate, of course if my wife is with me I have to be less confrontational. Gained this insight from years of testing the 'no shirt no shoes no service' rule. It's flexibility is situation dependant too. Practice noncompliance now, the next set of mandates will be even more intrusive
One other thing. I would not go to a party where being tested was a requirement of it even if I was given a pass. The last thing I would want people to assume was that I took a Covid test.
it will probably take a few generations of home schooled kids who do not follow govt narratives and are street wise and instilled with common sense... not in my lifetime, no.
LOL officially old in 3 weeks now, I hope my brain stays where it is supposed to be! The time that old people were the wise of the tribe is long gone. Mostly I see older friends run from one doctor's office to another. They spend their time in waiting rooms and then are surprised to get sick. Doc office is where the sick people are !
When my friends started taking cholesterol lower meds, we could see their mental decline begin. But then it was too late to reason with them.
If you look at the Weston Price site, they have local chapters of people focusing on sourcing healthy local farmed food. It's a nice social group, I like seeing these people and their kids for our holiday pot lucks.
Eat organ meat twice a week!! And welcome to the club in three weeks!
Yeah but this time it's the people harming children and livestock and poisoning crops doing the persecuting. The Misanthropes are ascendant, maybe making fun of former generations horror of such people didn't make us as advanced and savvy as we thought it did. Which isn't to excuse the horrors that were committed but just to recognize that society, and the human race, do have enemies and that dealing with them harshly is sort of a prosurvival behavior
how good of them. everyone i know who has been vaccinated has had covid post-shot several times. i've been exposed to covid since (our house guests had it) with no problem
I admire your mother for being patient and enduring their attitudes. It has to be tough for her and she should know that even though she might feel alone, she is not. How old are these friends? If they are in their 70's shouldn't they be testing for all different diseases...because Covid alone is not dangerous to them. Heck, even a cold house in the winter is deadly to people of a certain age.
Same here. My sisters too. They keep testing themselves at the slightest sniffle. One wanted to run right out and get another booster. (I have given up my efforts to dissuade on that score. When I begged husband not to get the "covalent" jab, he asked why, and I said "eight mice - and I don't want to be a widow." He probably got one without telling me.)
I was sick recently for about two weeks. I called it a nasty cold and stayed home. Had a prescheduled doctor appointment, and she wanted to test me. I said, What would be the point? She said she'd treat with Paxlovid. And I said no way. I said that years back I used to get nasty colds and this was just the same, Covid era or not; I just wanted to make sure I didn't have strep throat. (Answer: no.) Husband urged me to take a home test, and I said no, What would be the point? He said "they treat it now." And I said, "but not with ivermectin." Again, what would be the point.
So he felt sick the next day, took the home test and was positive for Covid. He did not seek treatment or do anything special. I treated with extra zinc, vitamin C and D, plus guaifenisin, plus twice a day quercetin. Could not add sunshine because it was raining the whole time. Got over it.
Now I have a question. Had the doctor tested me and got a positive result, would she have got extra money from Medicare?
Sorry for the rant. Eugyppius quote worth repeating: "Everything has to be extremely, unbearably stupid all the time now."
Can confirm… Sydney Morning Herald virtually never publishes my anti-narrative covid comments. I keep trying though, because it’s important we reach people inside the covid mania bubble.
And sometimes a comment does slip through, somehow. Maybe the moderator is a newbie, or tired and careless. I wonder also if the mods sometimes just quickly read the first sentence, and if it isn’t obviously anti-narrative, the comment can get waved through.
MSN comment sections are heavily moderated. If you see the unmoderated ones (before they’re closed and deleted) or catch comments before they’re deleted you’ll see we’re not all a bunch of idiots. Also, note the satirical ones that slip by the moderator. People are slowly waking up.
Most of we Aussie anti-pandemicists don't bother with mainstream news anymore. I don't think that is representative of the rest of us! Mind, we do have our brainwashed majority, but so does every other country.
As in every other country, the hysteria has died down quite a bit (while simultaneously the cases have gone up since we abandoned our covid zero policy) - but there are periodic attempts to flog it again. Right now, we are being warned about Wave 4 and the new variants, and there is talk about bringing back masks. But there doesn't seem to be widespread enthusiasm apparent. Not yet, anyway!
Agreed, I meant the Covidians - we have a lot of them … I only watch msm to be informed re what the ‘majority’ are being fed and to counter arguments. However, I live in an area 97+ jabbed and have experienced enough vitriol to last a lifetime. I know there are many Australians who have stood up and tried really hard but in no way a majority. My partner and I still unable to work after a year in our previous workplaces and apart from our children all our extended family and friends jabbed. Admittedly a few felt coerced. I don’t want to offend anyone so I will delete the comments but I think you would agree unless you have or had the privilege of working from home your choices in Australia were limited. I’m saddened our country has been portrayed this way but most people young and older followed the msm, most people I know have never read or even heard of substack and I think most Australians unaware of what’s going on but I agree interest is waning. Given the return of masks and ‘surging cases’ who knows what could happen? Again, apologies if it sounded like readers etc here, it obviously isn’t…. yet if you watch some msm you will see the ridiculous hysteria returning to usual fear porn and hyperbole, panicking citizens . I hope you are right and most take no notice.
TW, it wasn't so much your comment I was responding to - it was Gary's. I see you live across the pond from us in Oz, so you too have been affected similarly (if not worse). I live in Queensland, so things were not as bad here as in some of the other Australian states, but still pretty bad for huge swathes of workers who got mandated. I myself am retired, so it did not affect me too much personally. (The worst was a shopping trip to Bunnings & getting a sudden bout of cramping diarrhoea, and realising that half the public bathrooms I might have used could be barred to me - and in a situation where one didn't really want to stop and argue.)
Like you, most of my family fell under the fear spell & got jabbed & supported lockdowns, masks, and the rest - and it felt a bit brutal. But I got out & went to some protests (including the big weekend one in Canberra) which at least allowed me to find a tribe of like-minded others.
To this day, I'm still gob-smacked at how so many intelligent and educated and otherwise fair-minded people got so sucked in to it all...
They look to be trying to whip it again, but it’s failing. Except for the cruise ship, nothing else is even making it to the “front page” of the MSN. Even The Coversation can’t whip up the “academics” anymore.
I wonder if perhaps Pfizer etc. are paying people (or for bots) to post such comments? Then again, my boss mentioned getting the booster recently despite having had covid just over a month ago! So perhaps there are still many insane people left.
What's interesting is the number of people infected is almost identical to the Diamond Princess from February of 2020. There was about 3700 people on that ship and 750 tested positive. Cruise ships are a worst case scenario floating incubator so it's quite interesting that even with all vaccinated passengers, this infection number hasn't changed at all.
I know there are people that think Covid is a hoax, but that too is an oversimplification. Covid was real, did happen, but our reaction to it was way overblown. See also: Talladega Nights where Ricky Bobby jumps out of a smoking car removed all of his clothes and cries in panic that he is on fire." The car...was smoking. Covid...was real. If you have evidence that it wasn't, I invite you to present it.
So there aren't coronaviruses at all? And the symptom of "not being able to smell" even after the respiratory aspect of the disease cleared up also is some form of mass hallucination?
I can't smell anything if I get a cold, so what? I can't taste anything either. So called coronaviruses have never actually been found or isolated and Australian labs do not have any, no nation does according to global FOI reports.
Yes, I continually look to the Diamond Princess in 2020. The stats showed that a very vulnerable population of the elderly cruise ship types still did not get wiped out. Similar with the homeless in SF. Most in 2020 died of ODs, not Covid at all.
The SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins are bioweapons even in mutated forms. They posess so many domains that cause damage to the human body, they should not be taken lightly. Intact spike proteins have been found inside human immune cells more than a year and a half after infection. They can still damage the immune system, initiate blood clots or bleeding, and inflame tissues including the heart muscle and brain. They can trigger autoimmune reactions in more than twenty types of human tissue.
Best tactic is to attack any suspected infection aggressively with an antiviral, including the use of nasal rinses or nebulizer treatments to reduce viral load, and take Ivermectin to neutralize the spikes before they can cause too much mischief.
I've been hearing references to a genetic sequence that was patented, but I think it was just a peptide, wasn't it? The Wuhan lab (and most likely the lab at Chapel Hill, too) cobbled together many more really nasty genes with it to give it its extraordinarily wide array of damaging effects: attaching to ACE2 receptors, destabilizing blood pressure, damaging the glycocaylex and vascular endothelium and causing blood clotting; polymerizing amyloid protein in the blood into enormous insoluble fibrous clot-like structures completely clogging blood vessels; acting like a Mad Cow disease prion in the brain; attacking platelets; using "molecular mimicry" to attack twenty-some types of human tissue to create autoimmunity that can't be turned off!; having a particularly strong affinity for the gonads, heart, and brain; damaging the immune system and causing VAIDS, etc!
This is one bad-ass virus, but obviously it is the spikes that cause virtually all of the damage, and so conning people into taking genetic modification drugs that turn their bodies into viral spike factories is particularly diabolical but brilliant for the purpose of the mass-extinction of humanity!
There is no such virus, the jabs are the disease. NOthing happened until the jabs. And SARS 2 is what was patented by the CDC as a chimeric (bits of this and bits of that) in silico (only on their computer') in the early 2000's, covid is a fake acronym. Stop believing the nonsense the MSM are peddling. The jabs are the things causing all those health problems.
You are either a troll or part of a psyop. Of course there is a virus! Many thousands of us got very sick with it months before the rollout of the fake "vaccines". And there is NO WAY that thing is just a flu! Yes it was planned ahead. And it IS a lab-engineered bioweapon, as are the COVID shots! You are faking this position or just a bot, or really, really oblivious of reality. Stop it!!!
Thanks for that. So you would argue that both the virus and the gene vaccine are damaging because they are vectors of the bioengineered spike protein that is designed to cause damage? If so, is one worse than the other? And does the immune system eventually adapt to provide reasonable protection against infection?
It would depend on the individual. In ALL cases, the vaccine doesn’t help. It may have in the beginning, for very old, etc. but now it’s just poison. The virus is getting weaker but damage has already been done to so many. And our government doesn’t see the need to question or hold anyone accountable. The new tv commercial last night from CDC says the “ new vaccine protects against the newest variants.” HOW can they say that? (I’ve actually turned the CDC into the FTC a few times this year. ). It “protects” BIG PHARMA from ever going broke. They are literally playing with lives with no concern of outcome. Maybe hoping for increase of autoimmune disease or cancers. More money for the pharmaceutical companies.
Technically the "vaccine" and viruses aren't "vectors", but they both trigger human cells to replicate the spike protein, either the slightly-modified (but just as pathogenic) "vaccine" version by itself, or as part of the complete "live" viral package. The viral version is undergoing continual adaptive modifications under selective "pressure" from immune systems of both the COVID-recovered and the Injected. This is a natural and unavoidable process as the most susceptible versions of the virus to antibodies or other immune system components get damaged or eliminated, leaving the better-adapted for escaping immune system attack to replicate, populate, and spread. Every time the virus is replicated, errors in the inherently unstable RNA can be introduced. Every time, in every body. So one individual with an active case of COVID can be the "breeding ground" for multiple new variants (the majority of which will be so minor as to be insignificant), but some may confer a survival advantage. Each replication is "a roll of the dice" genetically. SARS-CoV-2 does contain a repair mechanism for correcting genetic code errors, so is less unstable than many RNA viruses, but it still undergos the process of genetic drift. Because of these factors, NO "vaccine" will ever be manufactured that can keep "ahead" of the virus, even with the new technology that allows a genetic "upgrade" of the genetic code of the shots within just a couple of days.
It all comes down to how effectively a body's immune system can recognize, attack, and neutralize a viral invasion. The longer it takes, the more viruses get replicated, and the more viral mutations occur. And the greater the viral load, the more spike proteins circulate to attach to cells anywhere in the body, primarily those cells with ACE2 receptors that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered to bind to as the initial step in entering a human cell.
There is recent evudence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages the immune system, and does so increasingly with each bout of infection. Those who have been "vaccinated" do not have useful immunity to COVID and will continue getting infected with each exposure, each time suffering more damage to their immune systems. All the shots do is trigger antibody production to the spike proteins of the original Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2, and in the case of the latest Pfizer booster, allegedly also to Omicron BA.4 &5 spikes. The Wuhan virus has been extinct now for two years at least, and the shots provide essentially zero effect against it, and those variants of Omicron are already being supplanted by newer stains. Obviously they are worse than useless because they flood the body with genetic material that stimulates production of massive numbers of THE harmful part of SARS-CoV-2, the spikes. And the antibodies produced can't prevent infection, as made glaringly obvious by the recent case of COVID in the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, in spite of her being "vaccinated" and triple-boosted. She was treated with that useless drug combo, Paxlovid, then had a serious rebound second case of COVID. She is one of the government hacks who most vigorously pushed the dangerous shots as being "safe and effective", and all the time she knew from the trial data that they didn't work! Actually, no injected drug can prevent respiratory infections! Because antibodies are too big to migrate into nasopharingeal mucosa, when they circulate in the bloodstream as a result of an injection they cannot get into the nasal passages to prevent airborne infections. Only antibodies that developed there (from a natural infection or unless a nasal vaccine is produced) will be in the nasal cavity to neutralize viruses entering by that normal route.
"Natural immunity" (in the COVID-recovered) is another question. It is far better than anything a shot can give. It provides some protection in multiple ways because the body will respind to all the parts of a virus, including the much slower to mutate viral envelope, and not just the spikes. However, the newer SARS-CoV-2 variants are at least partially "escaping" the immune systems' control processes, so people are contracting COVID multiple times, but repeat infections in the Unvaxxed are generally quite mild because of partial immunity.
So yes, the effect on the body from the assault of spike proteins is far worse in the "vaccinated" because of the sheer numbers of spikes produced, and the damage they cause to the immune system that makes it difficult to remove them. And there is direct evidence now that the injected genetic material will "reverse transcribe" itself into the genetic code in the nuclei of cells, becoming permanent parts of the person's DNA. This means that the spikes may be produced on some level indefinitely. Whether they actually will or not has yet to be determined.
One other huge problem with the "vaccines" is the lipid nanoparticle delivery system than can put the foreign genetic material directly into people's brains. Not good! Plus, the lipids themselves are now known to be quite toxic and inflammatory, even if they didn't contain dangerous foreign genetic material. This makes the entire class of lipid nanoparticle drugs not fit for human use.
And if all that wasn't bad enough, the astronomical numbers of "vaccine"-produced spikes get distributed throughout the body and lodge in tissues and organs then attract attack by the immune system on the body’s cells themselves because of "molecular mimicry". This starts a cascade of autoimmune damage and organ destruction and failure.
Many of this huge numbers of spikes also attach to blood vessel walls, damaging the vessels and triggering blood clots. And now we know that the spikes all by themselves initiate blood clots and don't even require normal clotting cascade components. And in addition they also cause binding together of amyloid protein molecules from the blood that gradually form into huge vessel-blocking rubbery amyloid structures that can't dissolve again and must be surgically removed (if discovered before they kill the person). Many of these amyloid "casts" are being pulled out like giant worms from the blood vessels of corpses being prepared for embalming because the embalmers find that they can't pump in the embalming fluid past the blockages. Who knows how many COVID shot-injected people are walking around with their blood vessels getting clogged up with humongous undissolvable masses?
Also, a very recent study showed that 100% of injected people have elevated troponin levels indicating some damage to the heart muscle has been done, most probably by the spikes because these levels are almost exclusively seen in the vaxxed.
As more research is done and more data comes out, the shots are proving more and more to be extremely dangerous. Many people who think they are "fine" because they got the shots and don't notice anything wrong may be developing gradually-progressing long-term damage that just hasn't become obvious yet. The problem is nobody knows! Does someone have a cancer growing that they don't know about yet? Are blood clots forming that will result in a heart attack or stroke or limb amputation or blindness? Nobody knows! But what we do know is that there is a huge increase in "excess deaths" in every highly "vaccinated" country. Instead of COVID being about over, we actually have only barely seen the "tip of the iceberg" so far! And the shots are making the situation far worse!
P.S.—Wallensky has Tweeted out the following message (excerpted):
"It is time to get your flu vaccine as well as your updated #COVID-19 vaccine if you have not yet done so."
And this was shortly after the results of a flu vaccine trial was presented to the CDC's ACIP committee meeting considering approval of the new vaccines. The trial of the flu shots showed NEGATIVE efficacy in large parts of every age group they were tested on—meaning those who took the shots got MORE FLU! I hate to sound mean about it, but how does someone with Walensky's I.Q. even manage to get out of bed in the morning and dress herself!
That's a good summation of what I've been hearing too, though in fragments. Thanks for bringing it all together so well. You've really been doing your homework!
One advantage of being retired since the lockdowns began! I jumped basically full time into research. I have a background in nursing, but I have sure learned more about virology and immunology from all the expert doctors' and scientists' postings during COVID than I ever knew before. And the most cutting-edge stuff!
And it also works the other way around: not more were infected when there was no vaccine. Somewhere I read that there is a sort of threshold determining which percentage of people will be infected in any wave. Up to 30%, if I remember correctly.
Spike Protein is doing great damage undetected to the vaxxed (hence all those sudden deaths that cant be hidden). i suppose they got to keep covid scare going to blame whats coming this winter.
And how many people are walking around cognitively impaired by the spike protein? People can barely drive, as it is and it's going to get much worse, as these people deteriorate and can't take care of their own basic needs. Many of them will be continually sick until death as their immune systems have been destroyed. We are just starting to notice the damage from the vaxx. The ones who die quickly from heart failure or even from fast acting cancer are the lucky ones. I'm afraid the other ones will become zombie like from prion brain disease over the next 2-3 years.
“because everything has to be extremely, unbearably stupid all the time now.” I got coffee in my nose chortling when I read this. I will forever love you for the hilarious ways in which you give voice to our collective frustrations. The next time I am in a conversation with normies about covid (or politics) I believe I will borrow this phrase and allow it to become a stock answer. It’s so beautiful.
Can I give you some hope? My brother in-law is what I would call a hyper-covidian (we all know the type). Compulsive mask wearing (which of course required the highest quality N95 type masks). He forced his wife to wear a face shield and a mask on an airplane. 5X boosted, no social gatherings until recently, etc. My wife and I are what you might say are anti-covidians -mask wearing only when forced to, extensive travel starting in May 2020 including 20+ airline trips, large holiday gatherings including several parties we hosted at our house, vax, but no boosters. Many live music events, weddings, etc. So, recently the BIL and his wife both got Covid and my wife and I have never had it (that we know of). I believe the humiliation of doing all the right things and getting covid, while his neighbor and in-laws never got it while "doing all the wrong things" has flipped his attitude about Covid. He told me recently, "it's not as bad as the flu now, so it doesn't makes sense to worry about it".
Last week in Munich I went to a place where I found about 60 people, from their 20ies to their 40es, singing their hearts out in a tiny, cramped bar. Not a mask in sight.
I would like to ruin your hope :) yesterday in Munich I saw a couple probably in their 20s riding bikes in Ostpark in the middle of the afternoon wearing fucking N95s and peddling pretty fast.
Acutally that doesn't ruin my hope because fanatical mask wearers are clearly crazy and beyond saving anyway . It's the normal average people I'm interested in. And they are so over it. Yessss! 😀
And even more hope: in the S-Bahn, we didn't put on masks. Most people wore one, but nobody asked us to mask up. And at the theatre, maybe 3% mask wearers (again, these are the believers, they wear FFP2 masks, not surgical masks.
A friend 4x jabbed had covid last month. Called me in tears and asked if she told me something would I promise not to tell anyone. I agreed. It was that she had covid. I said WHY do you want to hide this from everyone? She didn't answer except to say “I tried so hard” to not get it. Yes. She was obsessed about it even wearing a mask outside all the time and admonished me bc I didn’t. That ended our relationship for about a year. Despite just having covid, SHE IS AGAIN already going back to fear mode, talking fear about getting covid again!!! I told her you prob don’t have to worry for 6 months since you just had and have immunity against this variant!!! She still doesn’t believe any of the so called “conspiracy theories”. Even though a month ago she was saying she had trouble sleeping and vague symptoms which made her wonder if the jabs were related? No, she is saying now, “I am the same as before the jabs.” Hopeless, some of these ppl to change their mind!! Or to get them to see so many of the aspects we non-jabbed know and understand!🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🙅♀️
My brother told me that he got Covid a few months ago and my response was that everyone is either going to get it or be exposed to it. In fact, they may already have. I told him my two experiences with it, the first being in February of 2020 and then again in December of 2020. I may have touched on how ineffective masks and vaccines are, but didn't push it as he didn't want to talk about it, no doubt thinking me insane.
I knew another friend who took the vaccine and her blood pressure went through the roof a couple weeks later, but of course, never thought that the vaccine might be the reason.
That's a very interesting response. It would seem that some of us are ASHAMED of getting covid, because it means what we trusted in politically as our means of protection has failed us, and so we are socially humbled as well. We should be careful of ridiculing her on this, because that reaction could be true of people on either (politically polarized) side.
I agree. For myself, In a strange way I was actually relieved when I got it and it turned out to be like a bout of flu. My (jabbed) son who was living with us at the time was the one who was anxious so I advised him to go and stay with friends. Turned out well as it gave him the push to get his own place!
I had my first covid in Jul 2021. While it wasn't pleasant (and I've still lost some of my sense of smell), it was sort of a relief too. This is the big, bad monster? No problem! Second time around July 2022, I had omicron. Basically a cold. There's so much fear out there that was overblown with the original strain. Now? It's ridiculous to be especially afraid of covid. I wish folks could get over this and get on with their lives.
Not sure that shows hope for me. I am very sad when I hear of anyone getting the vaccine unless they are very old. We all have our sea of rationalizations. I am disappointed that I wore masks to take Uber Rides and to be in doctor's offices. Because I am a freelancer I was able to draw the line at the vaccine. I think as time goes on, we will see the decision to take the vaccine in order to keep a job, travel, or even see loved ones was a foolish decision. It's not going to age well.It already isn't.
Sometimes small incidents are huge teaching moments. I remember in the spring of 2020, reading about the Diamond Princess cruise ship "disaster," which consisted of about 700 infections and 7 deaths out of 3700 passengers. I could not believe the numbers at first. 7 people out of 3700 means the probability of dying was less than .002, or two tenths of one percent. And this was on a floating petrie dish where the mostly old and obese cruisers were prohibited from leaving the ship. That's when I first thought that something was very wrong with the panic sweeping the world. Yet the media went on as if the numbers were irrelevant. Most of my very intelligent friends bought into the narrative. In retrospect, my mental state has progressed from cognitive dissonance, to mental isolation, to a priori suspicion of practically every authority. Wonder what's next.
Well said. I’m also at the same stage of wondering what’s next.
I can’t watch the news any more as the lying is too infuriating. Most of the history I’d learnt at school turns out to be have been only semi true at best.
In one sense I’m grateful for this as it has woken me up, but on the other hand I feel deeply isolated and at odds with much of society now. It’s all a little unsettling, which is why when you say “what’s next” i’m not very optimistic it’ll be good news but I’m hoping that whatever comes next will help many of us in this same position to reach some kind of solid ground mentally again.
So true. I went through that same analysis. Those early reports from the DP did not indicate any dire risk to a healthy fit sixty year old. I lived out in the world as much as possible given the restrictions. I started attending events and traveling in mid 2020. I was dating online at the time, I continued to get out to meet dates with few weeks lag due to everything being completely shut down. Never tested, never took a shot, not been ill. I am also lucky to be self-employed so no pressure to vaccinate.
I am a skeptic by nature. As Jim states too, I have developed a suspician of most authority at this point.
I have a very MAGA cousin who stopped cruising while the jabs were required, but now that they aren't, she has one planned with her mom and her son next spring. I love her to death, but even MAGA people can't seem to see that supporting businesses that "test" for this stupidity is feeding the enemy. Ugh.
People are desperate for entertainment. Most of the Viking River Cruises for 2023 are already fully booked. Tickets to see George Strait in Nashville are selling for over $1,000 a pop.
Yeah, but in Nashville you’ll just pay to enter the arena and watch a great show. For a cruise your paying to be a patient in some weird medical tyranny experiment.
Desperate indeed. Prison on water. But I guess the cells have a TV and you can meet in the rectangle to exercise and the mess hall to eat with all the other prissiongers. Don’t forget your mask, especially if you are healthy.
Well, at the very least, she waited until they no longer tested. Also, the divide is not political, it is ideological. Trump promoted the vaccine as well, and both my brother (conservative) and sister (liberal) visited me wearing masks. The common thread is they are both government workers.
got a former friend very Rep, one of the first to run for every jab. Most rep friends did not take it though. And most dem friends did. Used to support dem but this time dropped them.
It’s not just MAGA. I’d say it’s mostly NOT MAGA in Wa. state. This insanity runs the entire political spectrum of ignorance. Trump actually ordered tons of Ivermectin to be distributed as he left office. Unfortunately, the new administration intercepted the meds. They knew this med would prevent the vaccine E.U. approval process. Ivermectin is a brilliant anti-viral. Corruption everywhere you look, if you look. 👀
For most of the country, intervention at all was not required. I am 56, diabetic, with a-fib, I've had Covid twice, I didn't take treatments/interventions. I got sleep, and the second time I took some Nyquil for sleep.
I'm in Mexico City. The country has a population of, oh, 110 million people. According to "Our World in Data," there's literally a handful of weekly deaths now, somewhere between 4 and 8. The friggin' cartels are killing more people than covid. As everywhere, this place is filled with old, sick people, and many diabetes sufferers. Daily cases are as low as they've ever been during the entire pandemic. The government (FINALLY!) lifted mask requirements. You don't even have to wear them in Übers any more.
Still, a least half the people are walking around the streets wearing masks. Not only that, but they're the least effective variety.
Scaring the bejeezus out of people sure worked. But how do we un-scare them? It's just insane that people are still stuck in this groove of ridiculous fear over something that's barely worth mentioning.
Isn't Mexico either hot&dry or hot&humid? Wearing a mask is a flippin' pain even when actually needed, like when you paint using certain paints orwhen running a belt sander of old wooden floors for example.
And I live north of 60, it's a balmy +6 here right now, +16 indoors (thanks to our unholy union of monopoly capitalist-globalists and socialist for a governement).
Mexico City has the most amazing climate. As I write here in mid-November, it's a balmy 25° C here, low humidity with a light breeze. I'm from Boston, MA, probably a similar climate to Sweden, and I don't miss the weather at all. Here the temperatures range mostly between ~11°C (night time in winter) and 29°. But due to the altitude (2,200 M ASL) it always cools off at night. Summer, the rainy season, can be a bit grey and dreary. But the rest of the year is spectacular.
That said, the coasts are insufferably hot and humid. I can't imagine living in a Mexican beach town, save for a few months in the winter.
The people in the uk have moved on, very few masks and booster take up drops off markedly with each new dose. There is still a constant background fearmongering from public health types, doctors , scientists but these ‘experts’ are being largely ignored. I would still say that 80pct of the population are morons but we seem to have a pretty sophisticated moron in comparison to many other countries.
I don't talk to people who wear face diapers. I'm being respectful and keeping my virus ridden breath away from them. Plus their stupidity stays away from me.
Sometimes I really can’t understand them, but I love doing it even if I can understand them perfectly, especially if they’re asking me to put on a mask. 😀
Before they lifted the mask ban here, I was also doing the on-the-chin thing. Noone batted an eye. But if I managed to sneak into a store maskless, eventually a security guard would catch up with me and insist I put one on.
Australian media has been ramping up messaging about a summer COVID variant wave. One of the northern states on the east coast is already flagging a return to mask wearing indoors. I’m not surprised this is in the media. Those of us who can see this for what it is don’t react. But I can promise you there will be more people wandering around shopping centres and doctors surgeries wearing their medical masks with fear in their eyes.
My biggest concern with this current state of play is the potential for the federal government to close the borders to international travel again. Nothing would surprise me.
Yeah I know. It’s very at odds with my experience as an expat in a European country that insists you wear masks because “winter is around the corner”. Watching what’s happening in Australia seems surreal albeit unsurprisingly predictable. I should also add there will likely be a push for a fifth shot soon. They are already talking about it.
"Among the amusements provided them..." LOL!! I just love your sense of humor.
Here is how I understand it. The superstitious natives aboard the ship are frightened of an invisible evil spirit that the priests have told them could possess them at any time. To determine whether they have been possessed, a magic wand is moistened with their body fluids and subjected to a divination ritual. If it says they are possessed, they must isolate lest the spirit jump to someone else. But you can protect yourself by wearing ceremonial headgear and performing frequent ritual ablutions.
Yes. I just looked on princess.com and it's says "Guests must have received their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days before the beginning of the cruise ..".
Oh I know. I am here and am losing my mind because of the masks everywhere, and those that are demanding the government brings back mandates. Kill me now.
Exactly the same here in NZ. We have the Rugby World Cup final tonight which will have a very large crowd. Once that is over my bet is on masking returning. Fear porn ramping up in media. My cousin is a jabaholic. On his 2nd round of Covid. He told me " it could have been a lot worse"
I laugh out loud when people say this and without fail they say “He doesn’t believe in vaccines”. They rarely know that I actually work in vaccine biotech
The "it could have been worse" people always make me laugh.
I'm totally unjabbed and never caught it once, at least if symptoms are anything to go by. No telling what OCD testing would turn up, but who cares about that? People are retarded.
This is in response to an earlier comment about it being the rugby world cup tonight in NZ and people wondering how this is true as the men's world cup is next year. The women's tournament is being held right now in NZ and it's the final tonight.
Has anyone considered how many germs are carried into the store within the air spaces of fabric clothing? I think customers should be required to undress and pass through a wind tunnel at the door, and do their shopping while wearing nothing but a face mask and goggles, for everybody's protection.
There was a while in the early days of covid where Trader Joe's in Cambridge, MA wouldn't let you bring in your own grocery bags. And no one could answer my question: "What are the odds that the bag is carrying covid, but I'm not?"
The lunacy required for such a policy is a true "eleven."
Trader Joe's has certainly never been the same since it got bought out. That's the problem with big, stupid, impersonal corporations swallowing up good companies, who have zero interest in the company or the customers, only profits. I personally think that the "invention" of corporations was one of the biggest mistakes ever made by humans.
Lol! Except that spikes are shed through the skin/sweat, and all masks are useless at stopping the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so the air will still be contaminated now that there are so many of the "unclean" vaxxed around who's immune systems are incapable of clearing the virus when they get infected and are now actually being asymptomatic spreaders (when there were none before the shots!).
All that is probably true (I am still not completely convinced about shedding). Nevertheless, the recovery rate is high enough that I’d be willing to risk it, LOL!🤣
"Obviously we should add that transgressors are to be shot by the security guards."
Yes, it's like freedom of speech and social media. If you enter our store you are voluntarily agreeing to the Terms and Conditions of being inside. If you can't find somebody else to sell you food without these kinds of terms, that's not our problem. 😁 🙄
Hazmat suits are too expensive and may still be in short supply due to continuing and worsening supply line issues. Or leave it to Trudeau, Gruesome Newsom, the Commuaussie regime, and their ilk to do it!
Wild guess: IFR will be 0.00%. We all can agree we just want things to stop being so stupid. But I recall some years before this debacle, I finally realized that Barnum was right - no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public (see Tik Tok). I adopted the credo that >>50% of folks are simply dumb, too distracted to think, too lazy to think, or too enslaved by biases to think rationally. I then realized by Summer 2020 that I was way underestimating the % of the pop in that category, and the degree to which they were mentally disabled. Let me know if you find that island.
My mother in law has this gaggle of idiot COVIDian friends. She’s the only one in the group who didn’t take the jab and they’re just now finally deigning to be around her not double masked.
Anyway the vaxxie biddies keep tEsTinG pOsiTivE after their meetups and they have this whole frantic messaging to sTay sAfe and quarantine. They freaking LOVE it. It’s never going away.
We are short critical thinking and long narcissism. Makes us hugely easy as a population to manipulate.
As George Carlin said in one of his "rants"... They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests. ~George Carlin. AND it is one of the main reasons Karl Marx put "Free education for all children in government schools" as the 10th plank of the communist manifesto PAIR FOR by the RENT you pay on your home every year. Errrr..."property taxes". See: https://courageouslion380.substack.com/p/communism-american-style
I hope you also saw the Carlin rant about GERMS and VIRUSES, it's golden!
Carlin❤️
Oh yes I did. They killed him.
Actually Heart failure killed him. But for those who haven't see it...here it is...funny how there is a preamble before it on liberty.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=george+carlin+germs&atb=v314-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DX29lF43mUlo
Gold.
Heart failure caused by the same heart attack gun that killed Brietbart? I trust no one or nothing. The truth has been silenced at breakneck speed for decades.
Do you actually think 'they' are capable of critical thinking?!
Pip (this is a response to Pip's comment) I don't know. All rational attempts to dissuade them has little affect. If you get a chance (and maybe you already have) check out a couple things.
There is C.S. Lewis' and his words on the "Tyranny of Caring." and there is also Bonhoeffer who was a prisoner during WWII and his assertion that people have been "made stupid." I think stupidity is the wrong word for it as I think stupidity is not something that is made, but rather is an inherent condition.
Finally, check out Mattias Desmet and his thoughts on "mass formation."
It's not their rational faculty that isn't working. It's their lack of empathy that makes them less than human. Satanic ritual witchcraft is the process that Satanic priests use to kill their human empathy. Children raised in Satanic families never learn about love and caring for other people. This is the centerpiece of education, without which, a society like ours, where evil people thrive and have wealth and status and good people die or live in poverty, is possible.
He was all time. I'm still convinced they killed him too. To much truth.
sounds like mao
Wow. Never heard it put that way. Love it.
A certain faction of humans just love, and live for, DRAMA.
Being hysterical about Covid makes them feel like heroes fighting against a terrible enemy.
I'd say it's a very large proportion of humans who love drama--otherwise they'd have no meaning, no reason d'etre, in their lives. By all appearances, most people lead passive lives, living vicariously off the experiences (drama) of others--whether by direct exposure to family, friends, and acquaintances, or via entertainment media.
Ayn Rand would call them Second-handers. No reasoning ability, just accepting the beliefs of the herd. Safer there, doncha know.
Herding is a likely inherited survival instinct. Which is also why we in the modern world frown on mob behavior--because it is an "acting out," an emotive performance, and not a response to a survival threat.
Yup, and participating in drama (even with family members) is a choice. Just say no as Nancy Reagan used to say. Just because you share a bloodline with someone doesn't make you obligated to be part of their crisis de jour. In fact by doing so you enable them in their pathologic behavior and become part of the problem.
Blows my mind how many people are in the 4th, 5th, or 6th decade and still haven't figured this out.
Well said.
There certainly is a constituency of people who absolutely love it.
A few weeks ago I was in conversation with an educated older lady at church who was super proud to mention how she and her friends all take lateral flow tests before they go round each other's houses for tea and cake.
one friend lost her house and is now living in a trailer. I am afraid to ask her to come over, because she might want me to test before she comes ! So no, I am not inviting her.
Might it not be kinder to invite her, then explain why you won't take a test if she does insist? You may be surprised: the covidian mindset is unfeasibly flexible. I've been invited to a couple of parties now where tests were required. Upon explaining thar I wouldn't test, and why, I was met in both cases with an "Ohhhh - come anyway! I don't mind; just don't tell anyone." ...
This reminds me of that time I went to a Cafeteria, saw there was a sign on the outside chalk board announcing that "Masks must be worn while in line for food." I walked in, went back to the meeting room where our critique group was meeting and announced "I guess I am not eating." One of the employees asked me why who was cleaning up back there and I said, "Because I don't have a mask." He offered me his to wear. That is the ridiculous nature of these people. They see the virtue in wearing a mask, but not really understanding the purpose of it.
I said, "you misunderstand, I don't have a mask because masks are ineffective." I explained my position, and eventually they left me alone. I figured a way around the idiocy though, I got in my car, ordered my food through the drive in...then parked my car and walked in to eat the food.
My experience has been that far more people are willing to put up a sign demanding you do something than are willing to confront noncompliance, or even have a desire to confront noncompliance. I usually just so what I want and if they say something about a mask just say 'oh yeah sure thing' and keep doing my own thing. If they escalate I escalate, of course if my wife is with me I have to be less confrontational. Gained this insight from years of testing the 'no shirt no shoes no service' rule. It's flexibility is situation dependant too. Practice noncompliance now, the next set of mandates will be even more intrusive
that is one of the best I read so far ! what a clownery !
One other thing. I would not go to a party where being tested was a requirement of it even if I was given a pass. The last thing I would want people to assume was that I took a Covid test.
hm. I am NOT wearing a mask though LOL. I know a few former regulars terribly miss my food !
Just casually mention it to everyone. Every time.
Agree!
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it will probably take a few generations of home schooled kids who do not follow govt narratives and are street wise and instilled with common sense... not in my lifetime, no.
Well the people who are too stupid to live will die. It will be one or two generations at most.
😳 so much for older and wiser
LOL officially old in 3 weeks now, I hope my brain stays where it is supposed to be! The time that old people were the wise of the tribe is long gone. Mostly I see older friends run from one doctor's office to another. They spend their time in waiting rooms and then are surprised to get sick. Doc office is where the sick people are !
Yes. Sadly we have very few elders and a lot of old people
When my friends started taking cholesterol lower meds, we could see their mental decline begin. But then it was too late to reason with them.
If you look at the Weston Price site, they have local chapters of people focusing on sourcing healthy local farmed food. It's a nice social group, I like seeing these people and their kids for our holiday pot lucks.
Eat organ meat twice a week!! And welcome to the club in three weeks!
And people wonder how the witch-frenzies in Europe and the US came about...
Yeah but this time it's the people harming children and livestock and poisoning crops doing the persecuting. The Misanthropes are ascendant, maybe making fun of former generations horror of such people didn't make us as advanced and savvy as we thought it did. Which isn't to excuse the horrors that were committed but just to recognize that society, and the human race, do have enemies and that dealing with them harshly is sort of a prosurvival behavior
Not any more.
Nor the rise of "the good German".
Your mom's friends are shit friends.
how good of them. everyone i know who has been vaccinated has had covid post-shot several times. i've been exposed to covid since (our house guests had it) with no problem
Religious rituals serve as a means of increasing bonding and group cohesion.
Like Roller Derby.
I admire your mother for being patient and enduring their attitudes. It has to be tough for her and she should know that even though she might feel alone, she is not. How old are these friends? If they are in their 70's shouldn't they be testing for all different diseases...because Covid alone is not dangerous to them. Heck, even a cold house in the winter is deadly to people of a certain age.
That's me screwed then.
My wife hates having the heating on.
I'm with your wife, for the most part I believe in putting on layers etc.
I prefer keeping things cool, as you can always put on more layers, but you can only take off so many clothes.
I wondered who else was in there.
Keep the noise down would you.
That's not me, oh wait it is me, it's my hour singing on my karaoke app.
Mental illness TexBat
News from the trenches. Thank you.
Same here. My sisters too. They keep testing themselves at the slightest sniffle. One wanted to run right out and get another booster. (I have given up my efforts to dissuade on that score. When I begged husband not to get the "covalent" jab, he asked why, and I said "eight mice - and I don't want to be a widow." He probably got one without telling me.)
I was sick recently for about two weeks. I called it a nasty cold and stayed home. Had a prescheduled doctor appointment, and she wanted to test me. I said, What would be the point? She said she'd treat with Paxlovid. And I said no way. I said that years back I used to get nasty colds and this was just the same, Covid era or not; I just wanted to make sure I didn't have strep throat. (Answer: no.) Husband urged me to take a home test, and I said no, What would be the point? He said "they treat it now." And I said, "but not with ivermectin." Again, what would be the point.
So he felt sick the next day, took the home test and was positive for Covid. He did not seek treatment or do anything special. I treated with extra zinc, vitamin C and D, plus guaifenisin, plus twice a day quercetin. Could not add sunshine because it was raining the whole time. Got over it.
Now I have a question. Had the doctor tested me and got a positive result, would she have got extra money from Medicare?
Sorry for the rant. Eugyppius quote worth repeating: "Everything has to be extremely, unbearably stupid all the time now."
If they are anything like the comments sections in online newspapers in New Zealand, they just censor wrongthink comments out.
Can confirm… Sydney Morning Herald virtually never publishes my anti-narrative covid comments. I keep trying though, because it’s important we reach people inside the covid mania bubble.
And sometimes a comment does slip through, somehow. Maybe the moderator is a newbie, or tired and careless. I wonder also if the mods sometimes just quickly read the first sentence, and if it isn’t obviously anti-narrative, the comment can get waved through.
may be we need to export all the jabbiedabbies to Aussieland ?
Please don’t. The place is already overrun by them.
That sort of infantile language will fit right in.
"Infantile" well describes the irrational behavior of the Covid-fearful, so the label seems entirely fitting.
MSN comment sections are heavily moderated. If you see the unmoderated ones (before they’re closed and deleted) or catch comments before they’re deleted you’ll see we’re not all a bunch of idiots. Also, note the satirical ones that slip by the moderator. People are slowly waking up.
Most of we Aussie anti-pandemicists don't bother with mainstream news anymore. I don't think that is representative of the rest of us! Mind, we do have our brainwashed majority, but so does every other country.
As in every other country, the hysteria has died down quite a bit (while simultaneously the cases have gone up since we abandoned our covid zero policy) - but there are periodic attempts to flog it again. Right now, we are being warned about Wave 4 and the new variants, and there is talk about bringing back masks. But there doesn't seem to be widespread enthusiasm apparent. Not yet, anyway!
Agreed, I meant the Covidians - we have a lot of them … I only watch msm to be informed re what the ‘majority’ are being fed and to counter arguments. However, I live in an area 97+ jabbed and have experienced enough vitriol to last a lifetime. I know there are many Australians who have stood up and tried really hard but in no way a majority. My partner and I still unable to work after a year in our previous workplaces and apart from our children all our extended family and friends jabbed. Admittedly a few felt coerced. I don’t want to offend anyone so I will delete the comments but I think you would agree unless you have or had the privilege of working from home your choices in Australia were limited. I’m saddened our country has been portrayed this way but most people young and older followed the msm, most people I know have never read or even heard of substack and I think most Australians unaware of what’s going on but I agree interest is waning. Given the return of masks and ‘surging cases’ who knows what could happen? Again, apologies if it sounded like readers etc here, it obviously isn’t…. yet if you watch some msm you will see the ridiculous hysteria returning to usual fear porn and hyperbole, panicking citizens . I hope you are right and most take no notice.
TW, it wasn't so much your comment I was responding to - it was Gary's. I see you live across the pond from us in Oz, so you too have been affected similarly (if not worse). I live in Queensland, so things were not as bad here as in some of the other Australian states, but still pretty bad for huge swathes of workers who got mandated. I myself am retired, so it did not affect me too much personally. (The worst was a shopping trip to Bunnings & getting a sudden bout of cramping diarrhoea, and realising that half the public bathrooms I might have used could be barred to me - and in a situation where one didn't really want to stop and argue.)
Like you, most of my family fell under the fear spell & got jabbed & supported lockdowns, masks, and the rest - and it felt a bit brutal. But I got out & went to some protests (including the big weekend one in Canberra) which at least allowed me to find a tribe of like-minded others.
To this day, I'm still gob-smacked at how so many intelligent and educated and otherwise fair-minded people got so sucked in to it all...
Point taken & thanks for the clarification. You won't be getting any argument from me about the prevalence of this idiocy!
They look to be trying to whip it again, but it’s failing. Except for the cruise ship, nothing else is even making it to the “front page” of the MSN. Even The Coversation can’t whip up the “academics” anymore.
I wonder if perhaps Pfizer etc. are paying people (or for bots) to post such comments? Then again, my boss mentioned getting the booster recently despite having had covid just over a month ago! So perhaps there are still many insane people left.
The last paragraph.... I could have written that one! So maybe this island will not be that lonely after all!
buy some land with your own close community. no reason to let bill gates hog it all up
What for?
WEF directives state that "You will own nothing and be happy".
The IRS gestapo will take care of "the own nothing" part, and Big Pharma will take care of the "be happy" part.
What's interesting is the number of people infected is almost identical to the Diamond Princess from February of 2020. There was about 3700 people on that ship and 750 tested positive. Cruise ships are a worst case scenario floating incubator so it's quite interesting that even with all vaccinated passengers, this infection number hasn't changed at all.
What's also interesting is how the "pandemic" is now "behind us", despite having as much covid as before.
Well, the US CDC did change the definition of "pandemic," so that might have something to do with the definitional quandary...
And that was after they changed the definition of “ vaccine.” Even nicer of them.
That too. Good reminder of the govt's pernicious conduct.
Yes. Nice for them, isn't it, how changing definitions midstream makes comparative analysis impossible?
if you need another proof the jabs don't work there it is
But if you tell people the jabs don't work, they simply say "well, I didn't die of C0VID."
Right.
My answer is "neither did I, I didn't get vaccine, and I've had Covid twice.
The funny thing is...they will believe that you are lying.
Sorry but covid is not a thing, it's never been a thing
I know there are people that think Covid is a hoax, but that too is an oversimplification. Covid was real, did happen, but our reaction to it was way overblown. See also: Talladega Nights where Ricky Bobby jumps out of a smoking car removed all of his clothes and cries in panic that he is on fire." The car...was smoking. Covid...was real. If you have evidence that it wasn't, I invite you to present it.
So there aren't coronaviruses at all? And the symptom of "not being able to smell" even after the respiratory aspect of the disease cleared up also is some form of mass hallucination?
I can't smell anything if I get a cold, so what? I can't taste anything either. So called coronaviruses have never actually been found or isolated and Australian labs do not have any, no nation does according to global FOI reports.
As more people's immune systems crash, the percentage of infected will inrease.
Also kids didn’t play with kids and their immune systems have not been challenged...just wait and see peds wards and peds ICU fill up immediately.
They’re already saying they are. 🙈 Probably working in another vax just for that. “Miracles of medicine” have turned into the “Marvel of money.”
Yes, I continually look to the Diamond Princess in 2020. The stats showed that a very vulnerable population of the elderly cruise ship types still did not get wiped out. Similar with the homeless in SF. Most in 2020 died of ODs, not Covid at all.
The DP was an almost perfect experiment, yet the results and consequences were uniformly ignored by govts and public health authorities.
It's just the flu as usual, after all.
The flu is the flu.
COVID is NOT the flu, even mild cases.
The SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins are bioweapons even in mutated forms. They posess so many domains that cause damage to the human body, they should not be taken lightly. Intact spike proteins have been found inside human immune cells more than a year and a half after infection. They can still damage the immune system, initiate blood clots or bleeding, and inflame tissues including the heart muscle and brain. They can trigger autoimmune reactions in more than twenty types of human tissue.
Best tactic is to attack any suspected infection aggressively with an antiviral, including the use of nasal rinses or nebulizer treatments to reduce viral load, and take Ivermectin to neutralize the spikes before they can cause too much mischief.
SARS2 is a chimeric in silico patent sitting in the CDC patents office since at early as 2005, it has never actually existed.
I've been hearing references to a genetic sequence that was patented, but I think it was just a peptide, wasn't it? The Wuhan lab (and most likely the lab at Chapel Hill, too) cobbled together many more really nasty genes with it to give it its extraordinarily wide array of damaging effects: attaching to ACE2 receptors, destabilizing blood pressure, damaging the glycocaylex and vascular endothelium and causing blood clotting; polymerizing amyloid protein in the blood into enormous insoluble fibrous clot-like structures completely clogging blood vessels; acting like a Mad Cow disease prion in the brain; attacking platelets; using "molecular mimicry" to attack twenty-some types of human tissue to create autoimmunity that can't be turned off!; having a particularly strong affinity for the gonads, heart, and brain; damaging the immune system and causing VAIDS, etc!
This is one bad-ass virus, but obviously it is the spikes that cause virtually all of the damage, and so conning people into taking genetic modification drugs that turn their bodies into viral spike factories is particularly diabolical but brilliant for the purpose of the mass-extinction of humanity!
There is no such virus, the jabs are the disease. NOthing happened until the jabs. And SARS 2 is what was patented by the CDC as a chimeric (bits of this and bits of that) in silico (only on their computer') in the early 2000's, covid is a fake acronym. Stop believing the nonsense the MSM are peddling. The jabs are the things causing all those health problems.
You are either a troll or part of a psyop. Of course there is a virus! Many thousands of us got very sick with it months before the rollout of the fake "vaccines". And there is NO WAY that thing is just a flu! Yes it was planned ahead. And it IS a lab-engineered bioweapon, as are the COVID shots! You are faking this position or just a bot, or really, really oblivious of reality. Stop it!!!
Thanks for that. So you would argue that both the virus and the gene vaccine are damaging because they are vectors of the bioengineered spike protein that is designed to cause damage? If so, is one worse than the other? And does the immune system eventually adapt to provide reasonable protection against infection?
It would depend on the individual. In ALL cases, the vaccine doesn’t help. It may have in the beginning, for very old, etc. but now it’s just poison. The virus is getting weaker but damage has already been done to so many. And our government doesn’t see the need to question or hold anyone accountable. The new tv commercial last night from CDC says the “ new vaccine protects against the newest variants.” HOW can they say that? (I’ve actually turned the CDC into the FTC a few times this year. ). It “protects” BIG PHARMA from ever going broke. They are literally playing with lives with no concern of outcome. Maybe hoping for increase of autoimmune disease or cancers. More money for the pharmaceutical companies.
Technically the "vaccine" and viruses aren't "vectors", but they both trigger human cells to replicate the spike protein, either the slightly-modified (but just as pathogenic) "vaccine" version by itself, or as part of the complete "live" viral package. The viral version is undergoing continual adaptive modifications under selective "pressure" from immune systems of both the COVID-recovered and the Injected. This is a natural and unavoidable process as the most susceptible versions of the virus to antibodies or other immune system components get damaged or eliminated, leaving the better-adapted for escaping immune system attack to replicate, populate, and spread. Every time the virus is replicated, errors in the inherently unstable RNA can be introduced. Every time, in every body. So one individual with an active case of COVID can be the "breeding ground" for multiple new variants (the majority of which will be so minor as to be insignificant), but some may confer a survival advantage. Each replication is "a roll of the dice" genetically. SARS-CoV-2 does contain a repair mechanism for correcting genetic code errors, so is less unstable than many RNA viruses, but it still undergos the process of genetic drift. Because of these factors, NO "vaccine" will ever be manufactured that can keep "ahead" of the virus, even with the new technology that allows a genetic "upgrade" of the genetic code of the shots within just a couple of days.
It all comes down to how effectively a body's immune system can recognize, attack, and neutralize a viral invasion. The longer it takes, the more viruses get replicated, and the more viral mutations occur. And the greater the viral load, the more spike proteins circulate to attach to cells anywhere in the body, primarily those cells with ACE2 receptors that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered to bind to as the initial step in entering a human cell.
There is recent evudence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages the immune system, and does so increasingly with each bout of infection. Those who have been "vaccinated" do not have useful immunity to COVID and will continue getting infected with each exposure, each time suffering more damage to their immune systems. All the shots do is trigger antibody production to the spike proteins of the original Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2, and in the case of the latest Pfizer booster, allegedly also to Omicron BA.4 &5 spikes. The Wuhan virus has been extinct now for two years at least, and the shots provide essentially zero effect against it, and those variants of Omicron are already being supplanted by newer stains. Obviously they are worse than useless because they flood the body with genetic material that stimulates production of massive numbers of THE harmful part of SARS-CoV-2, the spikes. And the antibodies produced can't prevent infection, as made glaringly obvious by the recent case of COVID in the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, in spite of her being "vaccinated" and triple-boosted. She was treated with that useless drug combo, Paxlovid, then had a serious rebound second case of COVID. She is one of the government hacks who most vigorously pushed the dangerous shots as being "safe and effective", and all the time she knew from the trial data that they didn't work! Actually, no injected drug can prevent respiratory infections! Because antibodies are too big to migrate into nasopharingeal mucosa, when they circulate in the bloodstream as a result of an injection they cannot get into the nasal passages to prevent airborne infections. Only antibodies that developed there (from a natural infection or unless a nasal vaccine is produced) will be in the nasal cavity to neutralize viruses entering by that normal route.
"Natural immunity" (in the COVID-recovered) is another question. It is far better than anything a shot can give. It provides some protection in multiple ways because the body will respind to all the parts of a virus, including the much slower to mutate viral envelope, and not just the spikes. However, the newer SARS-CoV-2 variants are at least partially "escaping" the immune systems' control processes, so people are contracting COVID multiple times, but repeat infections in the Unvaxxed are generally quite mild because of partial immunity.
So yes, the effect on the body from the assault of spike proteins is far worse in the "vaccinated" because of the sheer numbers of spikes produced, and the damage they cause to the immune system that makes it difficult to remove them. And there is direct evidence now that the injected genetic material will "reverse transcribe" itself into the genetic code in the nuclei of cells, becoming permanent parts of the person's DNA. This means that the spikes may be produced on some level indefinitely. Whether they actually will or not has yet to be determined.
One other huge problem with the "vaccines" is the lipid nanoparticle delivery system than can put the foreign genetic material directly into people's brains. Not good! Plus, the lipids themselves are now known to be quite toxic and inflammatory, even if they didn't contain dangerous foreign genetic material. This makes the entire class of lipid nanoparticle drugs not fit for human use.
And if all that wasn't bad enough, the astronomical numbers of "vaccine"-produced spikes get distributed throughout the body and lodge in tissues and organs then attract attack by the immune system on the body’s cells themselves because of "molecular mimicry". This starts a cascade of autoimmune damage and organ destruction and failure.
Many of this huge numbers of spikes also attach to blood vessel walls, damaging the vessels and triggering blood clots. And now we know that the spikes all by themselves initiate blood clots and don't even require normal clotting cascade components. And in addition they also cause binding together of amyloid protein molecules from the blood that gradually form into huge vessel-blocking rubbery amyloid structures that can't dissolve again and must be surgically removed (if discovered before they kill the person). Many of these amyloid "casts" are being pulled out like giant worms from the blood vessels of corpses being prepared for embalming because the embalmers find that they can't pump in the embalming fluid past the blockages. Who knows how many COVID shot-injected people are walking around with their blood vessels getting clogged up with humongous undissolvable masses?
Also, a very recent study showed that 100% of injected people have elevated troponin levels indicating some damage to the heart muscle has been done, most probably by the spikes because these levels are almost exclusively seen in the vaxxed.
As more research is done and more data comes out, the shots are proving more and more to be extremely dangerous. Many people who think they are "fine" because they got the shots and don't notice anything wrong may be developing gradually-progressing long-term damage that just hasn't become obvious yet. The problem is nobody knows! Does someone have a cancer growing that they don't know about yet? Are blood clots forming that will result in a heart attack or stroke or limb amputation or blindness? Nobody knows! But what we do know is that there is a huge increase in "excess deaths" in every highly "vaccinated" country. Instead of COVID being about over, we actually have only barely seen the "tip of the iceberg" so far! And the shots are making the situation far worse!
P.S.—Wallensky has Tweeted out the following message (excerpted):
"It is time to get your flu vaccine as well as your updated #COVID-19 vaccine if you have not yet done so."
And this was shortly after the results of a flu vaccine trial was presented to the CDC's ACIP committee meeting considering approval of the new vaccines. The trial of the flu shots showed NEGATIVE efficacy in large parts of every age group they were tested on—meaning those who took the shots got MORE FLU! I hate to sound mean about it, but how does someone with Walensky's I.Q. even manage to get out of bed in the morning and dress herself!
That's a good summation of what I've been hearing too, though in fragments. Thanks for bringing it all together so well. You've really been doing your homework!
One advantage of being retired since the lockdowns began! I jumped basically full time into research. I have a background in nursing, but I have sure learned more about virology and immunology from all the expert doctors' and scientists' postings during COVID than I ever knew before. And the most cutting-edge stuff!
And it also works the other way around: not more were infected when there was no vaccine. Somewhere I read that there is a sort of threshold determining which percentage of people will be infected in any wave. Up to 30%, if I remember correctly.
'not more were infected when there was no vaccine'
Ah, but that's because lockdowns, masks, and social distancing worked. /s
Suuuuuuure they did .... ;-)
it aint over, until it is over ...
Spike Protein is doing great damage undetected to the vaxxed (hence all those sudden deaths that cant be hidden). i suppose they got to keep covid scare going to blame whats coming this winter.
And how many people are walking around cognitively impaired by the spike protein? People can barely drive, as it is and it's going to get much worse, as these people deteriorate and can't take care of their own basic needs. Many of them will be continually sick until death as their immune systems have been destroyed. We are just starting to notice the damage from the vaxx. The ones who die quickly from heart failure or even from fast acting cancer are the lucky ones. I'm afraid the other ones will become zombie like from prion brain disease over the next 2-3 years.
“because everything has to be extremely, unbearably stupid all the time now.” I got coffee in my nose chortling when I read this. I will forever love you for the hilarious ways in which you give voice to our collective frustrations. The next time I am in a conversation with normies about covid (or politics) I believe I will borrow this phrase and allow it to become a stock answer. It’s so beautiful.
Can I give you some hope? My brother in-law is what I would call a hyper-covidian (we all know the type). Compulsive mask wearing (which of course required the highest quality N95 type masks). He forced his wife to wear a face shield and a mask on an airplane. 5X boosted, no social gatherings until recently, etc. My wife and I are what you might say are anti-covidians -mask wearing only when forced to, extensive travel starting in May 2020 including 20+ airline trips, large holiday gatherings including several parties we hosted at our house, vax, but no boosters. Many live music events, weddings, etc. So, recently the BIL and his wife both got Covid and my wife and I have never had it (that we know of). I believe the humiliation of doing all the right things and getting covid, while his neighbor and in-laws never got it while "doing all the wrong things" has flipped his attitude about Covid. He told me recently, "it's not as bad as the flu now, so it doesn't makes sense to worry about it".
I'd like to add some hope. :-)
Last week in Munich I went to a place where I found about 60 people, from their 20ies to their 40es, singing their hearts out in a tiny, cramped bar. Not a mask in sight.
I would like to ruin your hope :) yesterday in Munich I saw a couple probably in their 20s riding bikes in Ostpark in the middle of the afternoon wearing fucking N95s and peddling pretty fast.
Absolutely retarded
Acutally that doesn't ruin my hope because fanatical mask wearers are clearly crazy and beyond saving anyway . It's the normal average people I'm interested in. And they are so over it. Yessss! 😀
And even more hope: in the S-Bahn, we didn't put on masks. Most people wore one, but nobody asked us to mask up. And at the theatre, maybe 3% mask wearers (again, these are the believers, they wear FFP2 masks, not surgical masks.
I'm in Bangkok and am finally starting to see people without masks. It's still 98% masked, but there are signs of people starting to reject them.
A friend 4x jabbed had covid last month. Called me in tears and asked if she told me something would I promise not to tell anyone. I agreed. It was that she had covid. I said WHY do you want to hide this from everyone? She didn't answer except to say “I tried so hard” to not get it. Yes. She was obsessed about it even wearing a mask outside all the time and admonished me bc I didn’t. That ended our relationship for about a year. Despite just having covid, SHE IS AGAIN already going back to fear mode, talking fear about getting covid again!!! I told her you prob don’t have to worry for 6 months since you just had and have immunity against this variant!!! She still doesn’t believe any of the so called “conspiracy theories”. Even though a month ago she was saying she had trouble sleeping and vague symptoms which made her wonder if the jabs were related? No, she is saying now, “I am the same as before the jabs.” Hopeless, some of these ppl to change their mind!! Or to get them to see so many of the aspects we non-jabbed know and understand!🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🙅♀️
My brother told me that he got Covid a few months ago and my response was that everyone is either going to get it or be exposed to it. In fact, they may already have. I told him my two experiences with it, the first being in February of 2020 and then again in December of 2020. I may have touched on how ineffective masks and vaccines are, but didn't push it as he didn't want to talk about it, no doubt thinking me insane.
I knew another friend who took the vaccine and her blood pressure went through the roof a couple weeks later, but of course, never thought that the vaccine might be the reason.
That's a very interesting response. It would seem that some of us are ASHAMED of getting covid, because it means what we trusted in politically as our means of protection has failed us, and so we are socially humbled as well. We should be careful of ridiculing her on this, because that reaction could be true of people on either (politically polarized) side.
Using shame to encourage compliance is a propaganda technique.
'fear inflation, shaming, peer pressure' https://brownstone.org/articles/the-nudge-ethically-dubious-and-ineffective/
I agree. For myself, In a strange way I was actually relieved when I got it and it turned out to be like a bout of flu. My (jabbed) son who was living with us at the time was the one who was anxious so I advised him to go and stay with friends. Turned out well as it gave him the push to get his own place!
I had my first covid in Jul 2021. While it wasn't pleasant (and I've still lost some of my sense of smell), it was sort of a relief too. This is the big, bad monster? No problem! Second time around July 2022, I had omicron. Basically a cold. There's so much fear out there that was overblown with the original strain. Now? It's ridiculous to be especially afraid of covid. I wish folks could get over this and get on with their lives.
Cheers!
Nope. She needs to be ridiculed. Be honest with her.
No one ever had covid, it's a con, the tests are 100% fakes.
So he wasted 2 years of his life in FEAR.
But the fear makes certain people feel alive.
I'd say fear makes the brave ones feel alive, and grants existential self-justification to histrionics.
BIL and his wife couldn't have gotten something that doesn't exist.
Not sure that shows hope for me. I am very sad when I hear of anyone getting the vaccine unless they are very old. We all have our sea of rationalizations. I am disappointed that I wore masks to take Uber Rides and to be in doctor's offices. Because I am a freelancer I was able to draw the line at the vaccine. I think as time goes on, we will see the decision to take the vaccine in order to keep a job, travel, or even see loved ones was a foolish decision. It's not going to age well.It already isn't.
It's nice to see that such people aren't completely impervious to reality. Best regards!
Sometimes small incidents are huge teaching moments. I remember in the spring of 2020, reading about the Diamond Princess cruise ship "disaster," which consisted of about 700 infections and 7 deaths out of 3700 passengers. I could not believe the numbers at first. 7 people out of 3700 means the probability of dying was less than .002, or two tenths of one percent. And this was on a floating petrie dish where the mostly old and obese cruisers were prohibited from leaving the ship. That's when I first thought that something was very wrong with the panic sweeping the world. Yet the media went on as if the numbers were irrelevant. Most of my very intelligent friends bought into the narrative. In retrospect, my mental state has progressed from cognitive dissonance, to mental isolation, to a priori suspicion of practically every authority. Wonder what's next.
Well said. I’m also at the same stage of wondering what’s next.
I can’t watch the news any more as the lying is too infuriating. Most of the history I’d learnt at school turns out to be have been only semi true at best.
In one sense I’m grateful for this as it has woken me up, but on the other hand I feel deeply isolated and at odds with much of society now. It’s all a little unsettling, which is why when you say “what’s next” i’m not very optimistic it’ll be good news but I’m hoping that whatever comes next will help many of us in this same position to reach some kind of solid ground mentally again.
Exactly.
I am Spartacus, too.
So true. I went through that same analysis. Those early reports from the DP did not indicate any dire risk to a healthy fit sixty year old. I lived out in the world as much as possible given the restrictions. I started attending events and traveling in mid 2020. I was dating online at the time, I continued to get out to meet dates with few weeks lag due to everything being completely shut down. Never tested, never took a shot, not been ill. I am also lucky to be self-employed so no pressure to vaccinate.
I am a skeptic by nature. As Jim states too, I have developed a suspician of most authority at this point.
I have a very MAGA cousin who stopped cruising while the jabs were required, but now that they aren't, she has one planned with her mom and her son next spring. I love her to death, but even MAGA people can't seem to see that supporting businesses that "test" for this stupidity is feeding the enemy. Ugh.
People are desperate for entertainment. Most of the Viking River Cruises for 2023 are already fully booked. Tickets to see George Strait in Nashville are selling for over $1,000 a pop.
$1000.00 ain't what it used to be.
That's for sure! https://courageouslion380.substack.com/p/blood-running-in-the-streets-mobs
That's a valuable piece.
Yeah, but in Nashville you’ll just pay to enter the arena and watch a great show. For a cruise your paying to be a patient in some weird medical tyranny experiment.
There's no doubt that George Strait will put on some good shows; but will he offer a buffet?
A buffet of country hits
All my ex'es live in Texas. That might be worth the price of admission all by itself. It's not like you can buy anything good with $1,000 in 2022.
Desperate indeed. Prison on water. But I guess the cells have a TV and you can meet in the rectangle to exercise and the mess hall to eat with all the other prissiongers. Don’t forget your mask, especially if you are healthy.
I must be slightly twisted because I read “cruising” the wrong way which made for a pretty exciting comment.
Well, at the very least, she waited until they no longer tested. Also, the divide is not political, it is ideological. Trump promoted the vaccine as well, and both my brother (conservative) and sister (liberal) visited me wearing masks. The common thread is they are both government workers.
got a former friend very Rep, one of the first to run for every jab. Most rep friends did not take it though. And most dem friends did. Used to support dem but this time dropped them.
It’s not just MAGA. I’d say it’s mostly NOT MAGA in Wa. state. This insanity runs the entire political spectrum of ignorance. Trump actually ordered tons of Ivermectin to be distributed as he left office. Unfortunately, the new administration intercepted the meds. They knew this med would prevent the vaccine E.U. approval process. Ivermectin is a brilliant anti-viral. Corruption everywhere you look, if you look. 👀
For most of the country, intervention at all was not required. I am 56, diabetic, with a-fib, I've had Covid twice, I didn't take treatments/interventions. I got sleep, and the second time I took some Nyquil for sleep.
I'm in Mexico City. The country has a population of, oh, 110 million people. According to "Our World in Data," there's literally a handful of weekly deaths now, somewhere between 4 and 8. The friggin' cartels are killing more people than covid. As everywhere, this place is filled with old, sick people, and many diabetes sufferers. Daily cases are as low as they've ever been during the entire pandemic. The government (FINALLY!) lifted mask requirements. You don't even have to wear them in Übers any more.
Still, a least half the people are walking around the streets wearing masks. Not only that, but they're the least effective variety.
Scaring the bejeezus out of people sure worked. But how do we un-scare them? It's just insane that people are still stuck in this groove of ridiculous fear over something that's barely worth mentioning.
Sad!
Kim G
Roma Sur, CDMX
Isn't Mexico either hot&dry or hot&humid? Wearing a mask is a flippin' pain even when actually needed, like when you paint using certain paints orwhen running a belt sander of old wooden floors for example.
And I live north of 60, it's a balmy +6 here right now, +16 indoors (thanks to our unholy union of monopoly capitalist-globalists and socialist for a governement).
110 000 000... wow. We're barely 8 000 000 swedes, plus 2 500 000 migrants.
Stay safe!
Mexico City has the most amazing climate. As I write here in mid-November, it's a balmy 25° C here, low humidity with a light breeze. I'm from Boston, MA, probably a similar climate to Sweden, and I don't miss the weather at all. Here the temperatures range mostly between ~11°C (night time in winter) and 29°. But due to the altitude (2,200 M ASL) it always cools off at night. Summer, the rainy season, can be a bit grey and dreary. But the rest of the year is spectacular.
That said, the coasts are insufferably hot and humid. I can't imagine living in a Mexican beach town, save for a few months in the winter.
Cheers!
The people in the uk have moved on, very few masks and booster take up drops off markedly with each new dose. There is still a constant background fearmongering from public health types, doctors , scientists but these ‘experts’ are being largely ignored. I would still say that 80pct of the population are morons but we seem to have a pretty sophisticated moron in comparison to many other countries.
I don't talk to people who wear face diapers. I'm being respectful and keeping my virus ridden breath away from them. Plus their stupidity stays away from me.
I pretend I can’t understand them and politely ask that they speak more clearly. Eventually they take off their mask and repeat themselves.
I don't have to pretend.
Sometimes I really can’t understand them, but I love doing it even if I can understand them perfectly, especially if they’re asking me to put on a mask. 😀
Before they lifted the mask ban here, I was also doing the on-the-chin thing. Noone batted an eye. But if I managed to sneak into a store maskless, eventually a security guard would catch up with me and insist I put one on.
Where are you?
Cheers!
Australian media has been ramping up messaging about a summer COVID variant wave. One of the northern states on the east coast is already flagging a return to mask wearing indoors. I’m not surprised this is in the media. Those of us who can see this for what it is don’t react. But I can promise you there will be more people wandering around shopping centres and doctors surgeries wearing their medical masks with fear in their eyes.
My biggest concern with this current state of play is the potential for the federal government to close the borders to international travel again. Nothing would surprise me.
Happening in NZ as well.
Michael Baker can get fucked. That's as nice as I can be about it.
Is there talk of a third booster as well?
Yes...
In summer too? Insanity.
Yeah I know. It’s very at odds with my experience as an expat in a European country that insists you wear masks because “winter is around the corner”. Watching what’s happening in Australia seems surreal albeit unsurprisingly predictable. I should also add there will likely be a push for a fifth shot soon. They are already talking about it.
Australia can’t wait to lockdown there subjects.
"Among the amusements provided them..." LOL!! I just love your sense of humor.
Here is how I understand it. The superstitious natives aboard the ship are frightened of an invisible evil spirit that the priests have told them could possess them at any time. To determine whether they have been possessed, a magic wand is moistened with their body fluids and subjected to a divination ritual. If it says they are possessed, they must isolate lest the spirit jump to someone else. But you can protect yourself by wearing ceremonial headgear and performing frequent ritual ablutions.
(I drew this out a couple years ago in the essay "Fasciism and the Antifestival". ) https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/girard-series-part-2-fascism-and-the-antifestival/
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing it
From the Diamond Princess to the Majestic Princess. We’ve gone full circle and learned nothing.
Just that there are a lot of princesses floating about.
100% of them ( or close enough ) will be Vaccinated!!
Yes. I just looked on princess.com and it's says "Guests must have received their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days before the beginning of the cruise ..".
That's weird wording "final dose"
Just beggars belief!!& they will Still believe had they not been vaccinated, they could have been worse! . It's just s tragedy how fooled they were
Colleagues in Canada were on a call yesterday clamoring for the return of masks. “The supermarkets are asking the government to reinstate them!”
Oh I know. I am here and am losing my mind because of the masks everywhere, and those that are demanding the government brings back mandates. Kill me now.
Wasn’t that the intention?
Exactly the same here in NZ. We have the Rugby World Cup final tonight which will have a very large crowd. Once that is over my bet is on masking returning. Fear porn ramping up in media. My cousin is a jabaholic. On his 2nd round of Covid. He told me " it could have been a lot worse"
I laugh out loud when people say this and without fail they say “He doesn’t believe in vaccines”. They rarely know that I actually work in vaccine biotech
The "it could have been worse" people always make me laugh.
I'm totally unjabbed and never caught it once, at least if symptoms are anything to go by. No telling what OCD testing would turn up, but who cares about that? People are retarded.
Rugby world cup final??? the Rwc is next yr in france. rugby league semi final is tonight EU time.....
it's the womens one
the what?
This is in response to an earlier comment about it being the rugby world cup tonight in NZ and people wondering how this is true as the men's world cup is next year. The women's tournament is being held right now in NZ and it's the final tonight.
🤮😞
Has anyone considered how many germs are carried into the store within the air spaces of fabric clothing? I think customers should be required to undress and pass through a wind tunnel at the door, and do their shopping while wearing nothing but a face mask and goggles, for everybody's protection.
It sure would make shopping more entertaining!🤣
There was a while in the early days of covid where Trader Joe's in Cambridge, MA wouldn't let you bring in your own grocery bags. And no one could answer my question: "What are the odds that the bag is carrying covid, but I'm not?"
The lunacy required for such a policy is a true "eleven."
Trader Joe's has certainly never been the same since it got bought out. That's the problem with big, stupid, impersonal corporations swallowing up good companies, who have zero interest in the company or the customers, only profits. I personally think that the "invention" of corporations was one of the biggest mistakes ever made by humans.
I think this policy was dictated by the city, not TJs. Others in other Boston suburbs didn't have this policy.
By the way, corporations probably bring more good than harm. Cheers!
". . . corporations probably bring more good than harm."
May I suggest that you study more about history?
Lol! Except that spikes are shed through the skin/sweat, and all masks are useless at stopping the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so the air will still be contaminated now that there are so many of the "unclean" vaxxed around who's immune systems are incapable of clearing the virus when they get infected and are now actually being asymptomatic spreaders (when there were none before the shots!).
All that is probably true (I am still not completely convinced about shedding). Nevertheless, the recovery rate is high enough that I’d be willing to risk it, LOL!🤣
Unfortunately, the sheeple will just go along with it, and the absurdity will "go right over their heads".
"Obviously we should add that transgressors are to be shot by the security guards."
Yes, it's like freedom of speech and social media. If you enter our store you are voluntarily agreeing to the Terms and Conditions of being inside. If you can't find somebody else to sell you food without these kinds of terms, that's not our problem. 😁 🙄
Honestly, I predicted hazmat suits about a year and a half ago. Really surprised it hasn't come to that, especially in places like AU and CA.
Hazmat suits are too expensive and may still be in short supply due to continuing and worsening supply line issues. Or leave it to Trudeau, Gruesome Newsom, the Commuaussie regime, and their ilk to do it!
Haven’t tried this yet. Thanks for the tip.
You can't fix stupid
Wild guess: IFR will be 0.00%. We all can agree we just want things to stop being so stupid. But I recall some years before this debacle, I finally realized that Barnum was right - no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public (see Tik Tok). I adopted the credo that >>50% of folks are simply dumb, too distracted to think, too lazy to think, or too enslaved by biases to think rationally. I then realized by Summer 2020 that I was way underestimating the % of the pop in that category, and the degree to which they were mentally disabled. Let me know if you find that island.