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Henry Bacon Étretat 1890

 

Florida Doctor Will Refuse To Treat Unvaccinated Patients (NYP)
Victoria, Australia Will ‘LOCK OUT’ Unvaccinated People From Its Economy (RT)
UK Government Already Preparing For Another Lockdown in October (SN)
Vietnam Man Jailed For Five Years For Spreading Coronavirus (G.)
From JAMA: Proof They’re AT BEST Worthless (Denninger)
The Government Is Disrupting the Distribution of Monoclonal Antibodies (PJM)
Third Person Dies In Japan After Taking Contaminated Moderna Vaccine (G.)
Ticket Sales “Flatlining” as Rebellion Against Vaccine Passports Grows (SN)
New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research At Chinese Lab (IC)
The Game in Review (Kunstler)

 

 

From last October FT piece with UK Govt Vaccine Task Force Chief, Kate Bingham

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/OutspokenlyNW/status/1434485789321162754

 

 

“The Hippocratic Oath is very science-based. I am following the science. I’m applying this to the benefit of the sick.”

Florida Doctor Will Refuse To Treat Unvaccinated Patients (NYP)

A South Florida doctor became the second physician to make the contentious decision to refuse treatment to unvaccinated patients in a COVID-ravaged state. Lina Marraccini, a primary care doctor in South Miami, chastised patients for a “lack of selflessness” in a letter that claimed the unvaxxed pose too great a risk to her staff. “This is a public health emergency — the health of the public takes priority over the rights of any given individual in this situation,” said Marraccini wrote in the letter, obtained by NBC 6. “It appears that there is a lack of selflessness and concern for the burden on the health and well-being of our society from our encounters.” The doctor said the ban on unvaccinated patients was due to the FDA’s approval of the Pfzier vaccine.

On Sept. 15, she will no longer see unvaccinated patients if they haven’t received their first shot. But exceptions can be made. “If any of our patients have a valid medical reason for not having the vaccine or have their first shot by September 15, please let us know,” she wrote. Patients will have one month to find another provider if they desire, during which she said her office will continue to provide virtual appointments for unvaccinated patients. Florida is experiencing a major surge in the infectious and more deadly Delta variant throughout the state, overburdening hospitals. According to the latest data released on Sept. 2, the Sunshine State saw 129,240 new cases and 433 new deaths.

Marraccini joins Dr. Jason Valentine of Alabama — the state with the lowest vaccination rate in the country — who announced in Aug. that he would no longer see unvaccinated patients beginning Oct. 1. “We do not yet have any great treatments for severe disease, but we do have great prevention with vaccines,” Valentine wrote in a letter to his patients. “Unfortunately, many have declined to take the vaccine, and some end up severely ill or dead. I cannot and will not force anyone to take the vaccine, but I also cannot continue to watch my patients suffer and die from an eminently preventable disease.” Marraccini contends that she is not breaking her Hippocratic Oath, an ancient ethics oath taken by physicians that compels doctors to treat all patients to the best of their ability, she told Newsweek.

She told the paper that she has to consider her other patients who are immunocompromised or have other medical conditions that can make the virus more deadly. “The Hippocratic Oath is very science-based. I am following the science. I’m applying this to the benefit of the sick.” Under the Civil Rights Act, doctors can’t deny treatment based on a patient’s age, sex, race, sexual orientation, religion, or national origin, but its unclear if a doctor can refuse to treat a patient over vaccination status.

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Seen the pics of the vaccination camps?

Victoria, Australia Will ‘LOCK OUT’ Unvaccinated People From Its Economy (RT)

The Australian state of Victoria will “lock out” unvaccinated people from participating in the economy, Premier Dan Andrews has announced. Victoria is currently under draconian lockdown restrictions, with residents of Melbourne – who make up the vast majority of the state’s population – living under a 9pm to 5am curfew, forbidden from leaving their homes except to work, buy groceries, or get a Covid-19 vaccination. When the lockdown is lifted, Premier Dan Andrews said on Sunday, future restrictions will apply only to those who are unvaccinated. “There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated,” Andrews stated. “We’re going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be.”


“If you’re making the choice not to get vaccinated, then you’re making the wrong choice,” he added. Andrews did not say what kind of services and venues unvaccinated people would be locked out of, but he said that once Victoria reopens, “it’s not going to be safe for people who are not vaccinated to be roaming around the place spreading the virus.” Despite Andrews’ plan to beat Covid-19 by segregating the vaccinated and unvaccinated, current research holds that vaccinated people can still catch the virus and spread it to others, and case counts are rising while hospitalizations and deaths are still prevalent in even the most widely vaccinated countries worldwide. Though vaccines can reduce the risk of serious symptoms and death, their efficacy at that falls with time too.

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“89 per cent of Brits over the age of 16 have had at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, but even this exercise in mass compliance will not prevent them from being subjected to yet another lockdown – because the first three worked so well.”

UK Government Already Preparing For Another Lockdown in October (SN)

Despite the vaccine rollout now having covered almost all adults, the UK government is already preparing for another lockdown in October which will also see the reintroduction of mandatory mask rules. It truly never ends. “The member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the UK is about to enter “an extended peak” of infections and hospitalisations, which are in danger of pushing the NHS beyond breaking point and could force the Government to re-introduce restrictions over the school half term period at the end of next month,” reports inews. The same SAGE advisors whose dire predictions proved spectacularly wrong are once again hyping the threat of NHS hospitals “overflowing” due to increased COVID cases and the impact of the flu season.

“Boris Johnson is also believed to be prepared to re-introduce mask wearing and social distancing inside public spaces and on transport as early as this month in a move designed to stem hospital admissions and prevent the UK’s fourth lockdown,” states the report. In other words, the population is yet again going to be forced to muzzle up as part of a mass conformity social engineering scheme despite studies proving that face masks provide no statistically significant protection against COVID. [..] The report adds that all the measures imposed during the first lockdown, including the closure of all but ‘essential’ shops, travel restrictions, limits on guests in private homes, and a “full, but short term closing of the economy” are all being readied for rollout once again.

A government source told the news outlet, “If the current high levels of admissions for Covid continue the NHS will not be able to cope, so a firebreak lockdown is by no means out of the question.” In other words, the wonderful “envy of the world” socialized NHS healthcare system will once again prove it’s not fit for purpose, and million Brits will be placed under another debilitating, draconian lockdown. 89 per cent of Brits over the age of 16 have had at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, but even this exercise in mass compliance will not prevent them from being subjected to yet another lockdown – because the first three worked so well.

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How do they know it was him?

Vietnam Man Jailed For Five Years For Spreading Coronavirus (G.)

A court in Vietnam has jailed a man for five years for breaking strict Covid quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media reported. Le Van Tri, 28, was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious diseases” at a one-day trial on Monday at the people’s court of the southern province of Ca Mau, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported. Vietnam had been one of the world’s coronavirus success stories, thanks to targeted mass testing, aggressive contact tracing, tight border restrictions and strict quarantine. But new clusters of infections since late April have tarnished that record.


“Tung travelled back to Ca Mau from Ho Chi Minh City … and breached the 21-day quarantine regulations,” the news agency said. “Tung infected eight people, one of whom died due to the virus after one month of treatment,” it added. Reuters did not immediately reach the Ca Mau court for comment. Ca Mau, Vietnam’s southernmost province, has reported only 191 cases and two deaths since the pandemic began, much fewer than the nearly 260,000 cases and 10,685 deaths in the country’s coronavirus hotspot, Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam is battling a worsening Covid outbreak that has infected more than 536,000 people and killed 13,385, the vast majority in the past few months. The country has sentenced two other people to 18-month and two-year suspended jail terms on the same charges.

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“JAMA has proved that the jabs do exactly nothing to prevent the spread of disease.”

From JAMA: Proof They’re AT BEST Worthless (Denninger)

I hate being right, and it’s even nastier when a peer-reviewed medical journal publishes proof without realizing what they’re doing, and thus doesn’t make a recommendation based on the data they present. “Findings In this repeated cross-sectional study that included 1 443 519 blood donation specimens from a catchment area representing 74% of the US population, estimated SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence weighted for differences between the study sample and general population increased from 3.5% in July 2020 to 20.2% for infection-induced antibodies and 83.3% for combined infection- and vaccine-induced antibodies in May 2021.”

Remember the basic rule of epidemics: Herd suppression begins to bend the curve of infection at about 1/2 of the actual suppression number and widespread epidemic spread is mathematically impossible when you reach that number. That doesn’t mean a light switch is thrown and nobody gets sick. It means the outbreaks are spotty and of no major consequence because they don’t go beyond the concentrated places where immunity does not exist. The basic formula for herd suppression is 1 – 1/R0. Therefore at 83.3% total immunity as of May 2021 a virus with a given R0 can be computed. .83 = 1 – (1/R0) In other words a virus with an R0 of 5.88 or less is suppressed. That’s well beyond the necessary level to suppress Covid-19.

But it didn’t, did it? Since May we’ve seen a serious outbreak and screaming from everyone. We know natural immunity works because every study of persons previously infected, where said previous infection was documented by more than PCR test, that is, medical certainty and not a BS, flawed test has shown that an effective zero persons get re-infected and, there is no evidence said persons can spread the disease either. Non-sterilizing vaccines do not suppress anything; if you can still get and spread the virus, and we now know that is true despite the claims of the lying media, the CDC, NIH, Fauci and everyone else originally back to December and January when those false claims were used to CON people into taking jabs then until and unless you actually acquire an infection and build natural protection spread does not stop because you are not part of the herd that suppresses spread.

The JAMA study now proves that:

The jabs are worthless to inhibit the spread of Covid-19. The legal, ethical and moral arguments for “forced vaccination” are now dust. The anecdotal evidence from places like Cornell, which is taking a case rate five times that of last year despite near 100% vaccination rates, are now converted into hard, irrefutable science. The debate on “passports”, “digital certificates” and demands by employers and others to get jabbed is over. JAMA has proved that the jabs do exactly nothing to prevent the spread of disease.

If you are jabbed you are just as likely, if not more-likely, to give the virus to others. This is particularly important if the “others” are seriously medically-compromised (e.g. elderly and morbid, immune-suppressed, etc.) and take no precautions because they believe they’re safe around you. The reason you may be more-likely to spread the virus to others is that if the jab suppresses your symptoms you will not know you’re sick, and thus you will have no reason to limit contact with others. This makes the jabbed literal Typhoid Marys; an un-jabbed person who feels ill will (unless they’re psychotic) self-isolate to the extent it is practical, even without a quarantine order.

The insistence of jabs in medical settings is now, on the science, converted from “will protect patients” to will, with scientific certainty, screw unvaccinated patients, some of whom cannot be vaccinated and thus now constitutes gross negligence and depraved indifference to human life. Since we know that prior infection in fact confers sterilizing immunity the only rational act for health care providers dealing with high-risk patients who either cannot be vaccinated or show no sufficient immune response is to only allow convalescent, recovered health-care workers to care for them because they are the only sterile immune individuals. To do anything else, when there is a sizeable reservoir of said persons in the community (one in five, and almost-certainly much higher as medical personnel were exposed preferentially for the last 18 months) is voluntary manslaughter or even Murder 2.

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Control.

The Government Is Disrupting the Distribution of Monoclonal Antibodies (PJM)

After demonizing nearly every medication with the potential to reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finally recommended monoclonal antibodies earlier this summer. Before the official recommendation, some providers used them under an emergency use authorization (EUA) granted by the FDA in November 2020. The FDA just granted an EUA to allow their use for SARS-CoV-2 post-exposure and ongoing prophylaxis. This approval will increase demand. Recently, the treatment has gotten quite a bit of media coverage. While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been promoting the treatment on the Combat Covid website since early summer, one man ensured a nationwide media campaign.

Once Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to promote outpatient treatment using the antibodies and establish infusion centers, the media reacted because he is a very dangerous Republican. During the week leading into the Labor Day holiday, DeSantis was on the road again, touting the success of Florida’s program in disconnecting COVID-19 infection from hospitalization in the state. Patients gave personal testimony about their experience with the treatment. Hospitalizations in the state declined 20% during the first few weeks the infusion centers were up and running. Then something interesting happened. On Friday, someone who claimed to be an urgent care specialist tweeted that HHS had informed him that the government would now decide which facilities would receive doses of monoclonal antibodies.

Jim Jackson wrote: “So now the government is getting involved in [read: restricting] monoclonal antibody distribution. Before, I could just order as much as we needed, and they shipped it next day air. Now a govt. commission will decide when, if, and how much I will be able to get for my pts [patients]. ‘Should you have any questions regarding this update in ordering and distribution procedures, please email the Federal COVID-19 Response Team.’ Wonderful.” He added the alert from HHS that confirmed his assertion. Now, only facilities participating in the HHS Protect program can order the treatment, and the agency will review all orders.

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Not one word about other vaccine deaths. It’s statistically impossible that there are none.

Third Person Dies In Japan After Taking Contaminated Moderna Vaccine (G.)

A third man has died in Japan after being receiving an injection from one of three batches of Moderna vaccines since identified as contaminated, though authorities say no causal link has yet been found. The 49-year-old man had his second shot on 11 August and died the following day. His only known health issue was an allergy to buckwheat, the health ministry said on Monday. As with the previous two deaths, the ministry said it had yet to establish if the latest fatality was linked to the vaccine. The shot came from the same batches that were found to have fragments of stainless steel in them, leading to a recall of 1.63m doses of the Moderna vaccine on 26 August. The three batches were manufactured in Spain under contract by Moderna.

The company has yet to comment on the most recent fatality, but last week issued a joint statement with local distributor Takeda Pharmaceutical, saying: “The rare presence of stainless steel particles in the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine does not pose an undue risk to patient safety and it does not adversely affect the benefit/risk profile of the product.” Early last month, two men in their 30s with no underlying health conditions died within days of getting their second dose of the Moderna vaccine. Contaminants believed to be pieces of rubber fragments from vial stoppers that entered the vaccine liquid due to incorrectly inserted needles were found in Okinawa, Gunma and Kanagawa in late August and early September.

No problems were reported among those injected with the contaminated vaccines, which came from different batches to the previously recalled ones. More than 500,000 people have been injected with vaccines from the three faulty batches, according to the minister in charge of the vaccine programme, Taro Kono. Most of the vaccines used in Japan are made by Pfizer, though at least 12.2m doses of Moderna have been administered. Nearly 136m coronavirus doses in total have been given in Japan, where 48% of the population is full vaccinated and more than 59% have received at least one shot.

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Not funny anymore.

Ticket Sales “Flatlining” as Rebellion Against Vaccine Passports Grows (SN)

Ticket sales for events in the UK that could require vaccine passports are “flatlining” according to industry insiders, as the rebellion against the onerous system grows. The government has asserted that it will continue to pursue the policy despite multiple warnings that it will create a two tier society and put countless venues out of business. From the end of the month, people seeking to enter a nightclub in the UK will have to prove that they have been double jabbed. Proof of a negative test will no longer be accepted despite the fact that vaccinated people can still carry and pass on the virus.

With nightclubs operating at a net profit margin of 15 per cent, and with around 25 per cent of young adults in the UK remaining unvaccinated, the industry faces potential financial ruin. The scheme is also expected to cover all venues where crowds of over 500 people gather, which includes some of London’s larger west end theatres. “There is a significant proportion of people who don’t want to use passports or are not vaccinated. It has settled at 20 per cent in France. We expect something similar here,” said Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of Hospitality UK. Nicholls noted that with the industry already struggling desperately as a result of lockdowns, the administrative costs combined with the loss of income as a result of people staying away will deliver “a further nail in the coffin of returning for many venues.”

According to Michael Kill, of the Night Time Industries Association, ticket sales for events at the end of September and beyond are already “flatlining.” “We are seeing a lot of pushback from people who don’t want to come and have to show their health status on entry,” he told the Telegraph.

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“..humanized mice..”

New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research At Chinese Lab (IC)

The bat coronavirus grant provided the EcoHealth Alliance with a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments. The grant proposal acknowledges some of those dangers: “Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.”

Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute, said the documents show that the EcoHealth Alliance has reason to take the lab leak theory seriously. “In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is. They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten — and they kept records of everyone who got bitten,” Chan said. “Does EcoHealth have those records? And if not, how can they possibly rule out a research-related accident?” According to Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, the documents contain critical information about the research done in Wuhan, including about the creation of novel viruses. “The viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human type receptors on their cell,” Ebright wrote to The Intercept after reviewing the documents.

Ebright also said that the documents make it clear that two different types of novel coronaviruses were able to infect humanized mice. “While they were working on SARS-related coronavirus, they were carrying out a parallel project at the same time on MERS-related coronavirus,” Ebright said, referring to the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Asked about the grant materials, Robert Kessler, communications manager at EcoHealth Alliance, said, “We applied for grants to conduct research. The relevant agencies deemed that to be important research, and thus funded it. So I don’t know that there’s a whole lot to say.” The grant was initially awarded for a five-year period — from 2014 to 2019. Funding was renewed in 2019 but suspended by the Trump administration in April 2020.

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“In that world, it is you who survive and the governments, the banks, and the power elites who do not. You can already begin to see it happen. Move toward it.”

The Game in Review (Kunstler)

[..] in 2019 interest rates in the re-po market shot up suddenly from 2 percent to 10.5 percent, which would have left a smoldering crater there and turned the global banking system into the biggest ashtray in human history. The Federal Reserve stuffed “money” into its patron banks like straw into so many scarecrows. But, really, the re-po event was just a manifestation of the unresolved perversions that ignited the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008. The whole banking system had a) disconnected from the gruesome climacteric of industrial activity, and b) was drowning in debt created to animate the appearance of financial life in the system.

Apparently, the “solution” arrived at by those obscure power elites was to lock down the retail economy of common everyman money transactions in small businesses and direct the remaining “money” to save the phony economy of elite banking hokey-pokey. The lockdowns thus kept “money” flowing into the phony-baloney stock and bond markets, and kept the tremendously profitable games going in the shadowland of derivatives and other transactional dreck. But the main stack of the building — remember, we started with the buildings — was crumbling in slow-motion.

And here we are… in the season of collapse… when things traditionally fall apart… when zombies, ghouls, and monsters stalk the earth. The catch is: we-the-people are cast in the role of those zombies, et cetera. Yes, Oscar Wilde was right when he quipped that “life imitates art.” Twenty years of zombie movies have left us perfectly positioned to enter the new economy of the walking dead. That’s us. No more middle class for you, America! No more paychecks. No more blue light specials. No more auto loans. No more McHouses. And pretty soon, maybe, no more food even. What then? How about: Oh, just go die….

That seems to be the next chapter, if you let it be, for instance, if you let them vax you up. But you can actually choose to scramble and adapt to what’s coming: which is human life at a lower pitch… what I like to call a World Made by Hand. In that world, it is you who survive and the governments, the banks, and the power elites who do not. You can already begin to see it happen. Move toward it.

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  • #86534
    Veracious Poet
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    Regarding “global warming” — that narrative serves the elites. Why? They know that energy is one of the keys to wealth. A push to new forms of energy is a way they can make money. By focusing on energy, rather than on industrial pollution or planned obsolescence, they ensure that they remain dominant, and distract the masses.

    Plenty of AGW true believers on TAE.

    The presence of propaganda deluded posters here, and other other similar sites, is one of the bellwethers that confirms to me that future of humanity is in peril…

    So many lies from the corrupt oligarchy, their toadies & lackeys that it is has overwhelmed even normal IQ citizens, it is now beyond apparent that many (most) have swallowed the paltered pablum hook, line & sinker.

    Right now the CCP is engaging in mass populace war conditioning, while the West is drowning in cesspools of incompetence, propaganda, corruption & criminality, unable to even repel low IQ subhuman boarders or win a war against cave dwelling jihadists…

    FWFS

    #86536
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Looks like a new crop of recap/review/overview articles/posts are arriving.

    Here is Jim Quinn’s take:
    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/09/07/they-will-reap-what-they-sowed/

    #86537
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    I am not advocating for Jim Quinn or his POV with the link above. He provides additional perspective and framing for pondering.

    #86538
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Aussies who protested, you have my sympathy. Aussies who had excuses for not protesting, enjoy your lives as zoo chimps and say hi to your chief zookeeper Dan Andrews, you deserve everything you are upset about.

    #86542
    zerosum
    Participant

    Without the web, you would feel alone.
    Not enough people are willing to listen.
    A few quotes

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/09/07/they-will-reap-what-they-sowed/

    ” …. Despite an all out authoritarian fear campaign, to mandate these unproven dangerous gene therapies disguised as vaccines

    This flu has a 99.7% survival rate and has a fatality rate less than the annual flu for those under 21.

    Meanwhile, with vaccination rates of 98% on campuses, “cases” from the worthless recalled (as of 12/31) PCR test are surging.

    It seems Israel has become ground zero in destroying the globalist narrative. As the first country to mass vaccinate, with over 84% fully vaccinated, how could 86% of all the cases in July be among the vaxxed if the vaccinations work?

    The fifty-four-year-old un-vaxxed Rogan caught covid and treated himself with monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, an NAD drip, and a vitamin D drip. He fully recovered in three days.

    The vaccines do not keep you from contracting covid. They do not keep you from spreading covid. They do not reduce the viral load if you get covid. They don’t keep you from being hospitalized from covid. They don’t even ensure you will not die from covid.

    Of course, there have been more deaths and adverse reactions to these vaccines in eight months than all vaccines combined in the last forty years. So there is that.”

    #86544
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    To the Australians:

    Even before this pandemic began, your rulers had an authoritarian bent. I recall visting Sydney three years ago — my first trip to Australia. When I went to the airport for my return flight home, while going through airport security, I asked whether it was possible to opt for a “pat down” search in lieu of the airport body scanner. Everywhere I have ever been, this has always been an option upon request. When I asked this question (all I did was ask the question), I was asked to take a seat and wait. A minute later a supervisor came over and told me that pat down was not an option in Australia, and that if I asked the question one more time, I would be denied access to the airport and would have to come back the next day. Fine. I went through the body scanner, seeing that I had no choice. But that left an impression on me, and I thought as I left Australia that this was probably a place I did not want to return to. After that limited experience, the stories about the Covid response do not surprise me at all. Wonderful country except for the authoritarian rulers.

    #86546
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks for the Computing Forever video, Mr Roboto.
    I commented recently that Australia appeared to be synchronizing for a Chinese takeover.

    #86547
    John Day
    Participant

    @My parents said know: Thanks for the humanitarian-award nomination, Sister!

    @Trapped Australians:
    I’m learning from you. Thank You. Don’t do it. Achieving vaccination-critical-mass looks time-sensitive.
    I think thy need everybody on board already when it becomes clear how bad the shots are ( Israel’s cases and deaths are going up, while Egypt is doing fine).

    #86548
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Probably my earliest exposure to Australian popular culture (even before AC/DC) was the television soap-opera “Prisoner: Cell-Block H”. Ironic, considering the authorities there are now turning the entire country into a prison cell-block!

    #86549
    TAE Summary
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    I have watched for years as people responded to case after case of overstepping of some “red line” that was thought untouchable with some version of “the silent majority will only stay silent for so long!”
    Just now, I realized something. The silent majority will never say or do anything. Almost all of them will assimilate into the cause they claim to oppose. It always happens this way. It always will happen this way.
    Those who have not said or done anything yet will not say or do anything unless they have a massive change of heart. They think that the change of heart will come when some future red line is crossed. But when that red line is crossed–and it always is–they do nothing.
    Just today I came across this quote, written by a German who experienced the rise of the Nazis as an adult:
    “But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
    “And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed.” (Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45)
    There will be a great separation as the wedge of truth drives into the heart of each person. It will manifest at the societal level, across the globe, but it will happen within the individual.
    If the silent majority were going to do something, they would have already done so.
    I have seen countless examples of this: from workplace harassment, where the loudest complainers became party to exactly what they had complained against when their convenience required it, to churches (where red line after red line has been and is and will be crossed), and on and on.
    The silent majority of today is the oppressive majority of tomorrow. They just don’t know it yet.

    From UpwardThought

    #86550

    Check out any drug you might consider on this website. I’ve been using it for years. It’s for those of you who go first to the one star ratings on a product you might buy.

    #86551
    Bill7
    Participant

    When Ms. Ardern in NZ said they’d be the “single source of truth” I think the Rubicon was again crossed.
    Check out that person’s physiognomy, and C. Freeland’s (who wear the pants in the Trudeau admin, I think).

    #86553
    V. Arnold
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    TAE Summary
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    I have watched for years as people responded to case after case of overstepping of some “red line” that was thought untouchable with some version of “the silent majority will only stay silent for so long!”
    Just now, I realized something. The silent majority will never say or do anything. Almost all of them will assimilate into the cause they claim to oppose. It always happens this way. It always will happen this way.

    Thanks for that spot on comment.
    “”It always happens this way.””
    As a self exiled individual, I’ve watched the talkers for decades; no longer expecting anything from the majority…impotent best discribes them…
    Sad……..

    #86556
    zerosum
    Participant

    True
    “The silent majority will never say or do anything”

    In a democracy the majority rule, but it does not mean that the majority will do the right thing.

    #86572
    ctbarnum
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    #86659
    VietnamVet
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    The hysteria lurking around the edges of these comments is the fact that the US government and by extension the Western Empire has failed. You are on your own. All of the pandemic proclamations, mandates, and passports are pointless. mRNA vaccines are non-sterilizing. Being vaccinated may or may not save your life and lessen the severity of COVID-19 but being jabbed itself carries risks and repeated booster shots will be required. The basic problem is that the actual risks are a known unknown. Corporate news is pure propaganda.

    In the West everything comes down to, if it makes money it has value, if it does not it is valueless. Therefore the public health system in the USA has collapsed. The privatized healthcare system is collapsing. Today’s doctors, nurses and hospitals cannot fight the pandemic because that requires big bucks to build new hospital beds, keeping unvaccinated workers and children safe, contact tracing, quarantines and treating the riff-raff that can’t breathe. Keeping the public alive and healthy will never be profitable like elective surgery.

    “13 Miami-Dade School Staffers Have Died Of COVID-19 Since Mid-August.” “7 die in ‘inhumane’ warehouse conditions after Hurricane Ida.” These are combat level of deaths. 13 died in the withdrawal from Kabul. The USA remains #1 in the world in COVID-19 Total Deaths and New Deaths intentionally. Profits are way more important to the global corporate/state than American lives. The US government is too corrupt and incompetent to eradicate coronavirus like China, Taiwan and New Zealand are doing.

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