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Rembrandt van Rijn Abraham and the angels 1646

 

 

A little thought experiment that should have been much more, but for which time now has passed: What would various governments and their science advisers have done if lockdowns would have been impossible, due to a legal decision or some other reason? Presumably, they would have had to think of other means to stop COVID from spreading.

They would have had to be creative, which feels like the opposite of lockdown. Seen in that way, a lockdown is simply an extremely lazy way to approach a problem such as COVID. And though lockdowns are not new or unique, they have never, or very rarely, been used to lock up/down entire populations of perfectly healthy people.

Whether these people will still be healthy once the lockdown is lifted remains to be seen. It’s also very lazy to just assume that everyone will be mentally tip-top after seeing their social lives ground to a halt for a year or more. Humans live in herds, they do not live alone; it’s one of the most defining characteristics of the species.

Why all that laziness? It would appear to be due to a combination of panic, incompetence and lack of knowledge. If and when politicians get their “expert” advice only from virologists and epidemiologists, it’s obvious that most science falls by the wayside. To assess the effects of a lockdown, before, during and after it is implemented, you would need a much broader level of expertise.

Still, how many psychologists and psychiatrists have you seen in all the government “expert” committees? I’ve said before, they’re not listening to “the science”, they’re at best listening to “a science”, and in reality to just a very little bit of science.

 

Of course, the blunt refusal to do any kind of research into the mental health threats posed by lockdowns does not stand alone. There’s also the evenly blunt refusal to look at substances that can serve as prophylaxis. A topic the Automatic Earth has covered to such an extent that it feels almost embarrassing to bring it up yet another time.

And we still don’t know why there is no large scale investigation of the potential of vitamin D, HCQ and ivermectin to counter COVID infections and mortality. Premeditated murder? That’s a big term, can you use it when deaths are the result of sheer incompetence?

But there’s certainly a serious possibility that the absence of prophylactics has caused thousands of deaths and millions of infections. We will probably never know for sure, because no-one will research it. It’s a vicious circle of blunt incompetence justifying its own mistakes and laziness.

And make no mistake: if these cheap prophylactics, proven harmless through decades of being provided to 10s or 100s of millions of people, would have been only half as successful as their advocates claim, not only would more lives have been saved than we can count, but the entire lockdown policies may well have been avoided. Health care systems might not have been under strain, entire industries, indeed the whole economy, might have been able to keep functioning.

 

Instead, we are told to get vaccinated -or else-, injecting substances into our veins that have never been properly tested. Can we offer 100% evidence that vitamin D, HCQ and ivermectin would have -mostly- prevented the pandemic? No, we can’t, but in the same way that we have no proof the vaccines are safe or successful: a refusal to do proper testing. It all hangs together from laziness and lack of knowledge.

Similarly, perhaps the experimental vaccines will solve part of the COVID problem. But so would the prophylactics have. We can discuss how big a part either would have solved, but not only is that in the future, we will also be told only half a story, because we never tested the prophylactics.

There are plenty negative stories about all of them, but those are mostly based on faulty experiments, on giving people large doses of HCQ and vit. D when they’re already gravely ill. These stories don’t prove anything other than bad intentions on the part of those who tell them.

One thing is for sure: the vaccines will be challenged by new strains of the virus at some point, and there’s no guarantee they can be adapted for those strains. The prophylactics have no such issue. Boosting your immune system provides you with overall protection. And you don’t need 100%: bring down infections by 50%, and everything changes.

 

To get back to lockdowns: the way I personally experience the one here in Athens is that life itself is standing still. And that feels weirder by the day. If you ask people how it affects them, they can’t really answer, because it’s the first time they’ve ever lived through one. How would they know how it will affect them long term? The best they can do is say that it sucks.

For the elderly it means having to spend their last years and days in near absolute solitude. If you would ask them, many would say: just give me the virus, as long as I can see my children and grandchildren and friends while I’m still alive. But nobody asks them. They spent their entire lives just to be silenced. In order to eradicate a virus, we eradicate the very people who built the world we inherited from them.

For the very young it means stunted development. There is a ton of literature about how the first 5 or 10 years shape a child for life. Well, we just took a full year and counting away from that shape. We have no way of knowing to what extent that will affect them, but it won’t be zero. People are adaptive, sure, but that can be a negative thing just as much as a positive one. Caged animals adapt too; with neurosis. Children need to interact with each other, and with adults, to find their place in the world. How are they going to find that place now? For all of the rest of us, we don’t know either. We can only guess.

Meanwhile, there’s not only the prophylactics that are ignored, we also have the exact same PCR tests used for a year, whose own inventor says they’re not fit for the purpose, we have facemasks on every weak immune system for which it’s doubtful that they have much effect, unless they’re N95, FFP2-3, and even then.

And we have an almost complete lack of attention for the fact that we now know the virus is airborne, and doesn’t stick to surfaces. From which follows the lack of scrutiny of air filtration systems, HVAC, HEPA, that might actually help, and perhaps allow schools, restaurants etc. to open up again. Lazy, shoddy, hardly science.

 

There can be no doubt that at some point in the future we will define something as the Lockdown Syndrome. What it will look like, we don’t know. It will be somethinng similar to what Long Covid is today. But it will be sold as inevitable, and that is a very doubtful take. Because it’s man made. We made the syndrome. We’re creating it as we speak. Day by empty, lazy and incompetent day.

We’ve basically accepted that a virus is superior to us, we threw the towel, even if just temporarily. And then we say we rely on science to beat it, but only if that science is brand new. Older science need not apply. We’re not a very confident species, then, are we? If we were, we’d have said: screw you, we’ll keep on doing what we did before.

 

 

 

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    Rembrandt van Rijn Abraham and the angels 1646     A little thought experiment that should have been much more, but for which time now has p
    [See the full post at: Lockdown Syndrome]

    #70064
    Maxwell Quest
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    “Premeditated murder? That’s a big term, can you use it when deaths are the result of sheer incompetence?”

    No, but if it were really due to incompetence, we could call it “negligent homicide”, which is still a crime, assuming one doesn’t have a government agency or corporation to hide behind.

    It became clear as early as last spring that the pandemic had ceased to be a medical issue and was taken over by powerful political and financial forces. And about the same time, false or intentionally sabotaged medical studies started showing up in the top journals attacking the safety and effectiveness of HCQ therapy. Entire nations were ordered to cease and desist, going so far as to threaten the careers of medical personnel if they dared color outside the lines of the WHO authorities.

    At the time it didn’t make any sense at all. Was everyone taking “crazy pills”? Was it a form of collective insanity? People were dying by the thousands, yet cheap, safe, and promising therapies were suddenly verboten.

    When put into context, however, this behavior in not far-fetched. When a system has become thoroughly corrupted, has no checks on its abuse of power, no accountability, it can do as it pleases. Human beings then become expendable resources, objects of predation, or obstacles to be eliminated. They can be sent into the mines to die of black lung, killed by death squads in order to crush socialism, or mowed down in wars over resource control. Whatever it takes to increase wealth, power, and dominance.

    Someone once said that those who seek power are exactly those who should be prevented from acquiring it. They are typically psychopaths, like Madeiline Albright, where the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was “worth it”. Or Jamie Dimon, doing “God’s work” by sucking up vast amounts of ill-gotten wealth. What is the saying, “Give a man a gun and he’ll rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.”?

    I see it all the time. People tend to believe that everyone is just like them: that they have the same priorities, principles, needs, and feelings. But they don’t! There are predatory psychopaths that crave power, that are never satisfied, that would kill an entire nation or a planet if it furthered their ambitions. These are those who currently rule over us.

    #70072
    a kullervo
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    “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

    Q. Where are the “serious” scientists?

    A. “Serious” scientists are, like all the rest, human beings: they have human needs and human whims to fulfill. When choices boil down to seriousness vs. salary the former goes MIA.

    A humble suggestion to all scientists out there, “serious” or callous: grab a copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz and ponder about the future.

    #70073
    WES
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    The evidence is there for all to see, if only everyone would open their eyes and look!
    This crisis was used to drive an agenda of crushing the freedom of the little people.
    Little businesses all closed. Big businesses all open. Crushing competition.
    Governments increasing their control over their people with lockdowns.
    Increasing police powers without oversight nor requiring warrants.
    Big tech increasing censorship of information.
    Vacinnation passports indicating who is state compliant and who are enemies of the state.

    #70075
    Kimo
    Participant

    What, no speculation on Roberts’ “Undeclared Agenda”? I guess, whatever it is, it’s working.
    Next week: bend over.

    #70078

    If “data is the new oil”, then we are the oil wells. Part of the agenda of lockdown was to get as much of what we do, think, want, and say to go first through the tubes of the internet.
    Mental health “experts” have behaved very badly throughout all this. I include the clergy in that condemnation.

    I hate zoom.

    #70079
    Germ
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    @ Anticlimactic – I don’t think you’re correct that Sputnik V is the safest vaccine.

    Like the AstraZeneca vaccine, Sputnik V (developed by Gamaleya) is an Adenovirus-based Viral vector vaccine:
    https://tinyurl.com/43xp3hk8

    Probably the safest is the more traditional inactivated virus vaccine by Sinovac or Sinopharm:
    https://tinyurl.com/11095f69

    Here are all the types:
    https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-public-engagement-resources/types-vaccines-for-covid-19

    #70085
    V. Arnold
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    Germ
    Probably the safest is the more traditional inactivated virus vaccine by Sinovac or Sinopharm:
    https://tinyurl.com/11095f69

    And who, may I ask, are you? To recommend which vaccine is best? For the readers of this blog?
    Hmmm???….

    #70091
    cloudhidden
    Participant

    Also posted on today’s Debt Rattle………

    Cat gets out of the bag…..
    From CBC News

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccination-scotland-hospitalization-1.5922714

    “vaccines were found to reduce the risk of hospitalization”

    Apparently they are admitting that, though vaccinated, one can still get the virus, but symptoms are not as bad. So the vaccines offer no better protection than the rejected (non profit making) alternatives that are very effective, inexpensive, readily available, and are known to have very few side effects.
    . Editors apparently approved this for publication prior to having their morning coffee. Wonder how quickly this story gets pulled?

    #70164
    madamski cafone
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    @ V. Arnold

    “And who, may I ask, are you? To recommend which vaccine is best? For the readers of this blog?
    Hmmm???….”

    Just another shmuck like you or I, V. However, a moniker like Germ is kind of special.

    #71310
    HerrWerner
    Participant

    @maxwell-quest I’m catching up as it were on some back-issues of TAE that I missed, lol. Wanted to give you props for the reply above, thanks. *Somehow* that tied together some (seemingly disparate) topics I’ve had difficulty trying to get across to my parents re: the events of the last year and what ties them together.
    I think perhaps this is the core misunderstanding between me and my ppl. They seem to have unshakeable faith in “experts” and institutions that have not earned it. “People tend to believe that everyone is just like them: that they have the same priorities, principles, needs, and feelings…” And I can come up with many examples. Now that it’s a bit clearer in my own mind, maybe just maybe I can convey that.

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