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Raul–the Ivermectin in horse paste is the same medication. It is in concentration of a certain amount–mine is 1.87% and comes in a syringe with an amount that can treat a 1250 lb horse. Dividing my body weight into that, I can get about six doses. I paid less than $5 per package at Tractor Supply. A lot of the Ivermectin products are indeed under lock and key–these are bulk items that theorectically could be toxic to kids. But the various brands of paste were out on the shelf.
Careful, some have additional ingredients. Of course they have warnings, Not For Human Consuption, but aside from possible impurities in the paste itself, and maybe not as precise of a dose, I have not heard of problems. Mine is apple flavored. I bought them to tide me over while I waited for my shipment from India of pills designed for us humans. All set now.
From today’s NYT digital front page:
Science and Health
Heart Problems After Vaccination Are Very Rare, Federal Researchers SayMore than 1,200 cases have been reported, mostly mild and more often in young men and boys. The benefits of vaccination still far outweigh the risks, experts said.
And what exactly are the risks to “young men and boys” again? Oh, right. The sniffles. Yeah, give me some of that mostly mild heart problems, please. Thank you!
Ivermectin and the lack of a true reason to issue Emergency Use Authorization for mRNA vaccines: I just don’t see how they walk this back. Not without some serious scapegoats, maybe official bureaucrats, but will that be enough after jabbing over 50% of the ENTIRE POPULATION with a medical experiment? Or will someone go back to the lab to concoct a variant resistant to Ivermectin….?
This is way bigger than the drug company that got penalized for igniting the opioid crisis, I forget the details. On the other hand, people are so invested in the danger of Covid and the apparent success of the vaccines, they might just continue to black out, ride out the news cycle, ignore the evidence bubbling up until it goes away. This would explain the zeal to get every last man woman child vaccinated. No need to worry about a cover up when we’re all in it “together.” What’s to cover when we are all complicit in one way or another.
Even with the rising chatter, none of my friends knows about Ivermectin. “I can’t believe there would be a drug that works and its not being used” is the most typical reaction when I tell people about it. I’ve given some of my stash to a friend and his son, the only close by people I know that have not been jabbed and don’t plan to be. Also have some for my sister whose doctors have advised she cannot safely take the vaccine due to her immune system issues.
Quick question for the Jphn D or anyone with info: If you knock out Covid immediately with Iv, do you still develop a natural immunity, and how robust is it compared to someone who goes through the entire illness,or is put on the drug during a later stage of the disease? I suspect that aspect is probably not yet clear.Love this late Hopper. Hopper with a dash of surrealism and a nod to abstraction and color field painting. Works on all levels.
Dr D: Even the CHEEK to TRY to tell Texas what to do make you our specific, aggressive enemy. And the whole U.S., or at least 90% of counties that still have balls.
Not sure if you are being facetious here, but I’m assuming not–sometimes hard to follow your occasionally serpentine constructions;^). While I admire the States that are not blindly following stupid Fed directives where they can, I don’t equate carrying around guns with having “balls.” Any moron can shoot someone. The romantic idea of the wild west is B.S. Just read the sordid accounts of the real shootout at the O.K. Corral. Guns more often than not end up in the hands of bullies, many with official cover from the State. Bullies are ultimately scared or somehow damaged people, not people with true courage,or “balls.” Assange, Ghandi, King, Ali–all deeply flawed human beings like the rest of us, but all had balls. It’s not a common trait, and more and more we have “heroes” that have qualities that are antithetical to the idea of big kahones (in the sense of that term meaning courageous, not afraid to stick up for what they believe, no matter how unpopular.)
In any case, China is just giving what it gets. The U.S. is the most sanctimonious,blowhard, hypocritical, chastising. lying,cheating empire that ever existed. Our main export these days is telling other countries all the bad things they are doing,and “punishing” them for it.
Raul, the headline and the first sentence both declare that 60-70% of vaccinated people will die in the third wave. Maybe its due to unfamiliarity with English grammar. Nevertheless, the percentages are completely meaningless numbers, no matter how you look at it. It’s rubbish.Speculation upon speculation dependent upon a speculated third wave. Headline large numbers of vaccinated will die. (I believe the U.S. top modelling agency is Eileen Ford.)
According to projections by UK’s top modelling agency the third wave of COVID-19 spike will hospitalize and kill 60 to 70% of those people who took both the vaccine doses.Both articles have a strong anti-Ivermectin slant to them. Very scientific, no? From Raul’s link:
Ivermectin resulted in a reduction of virus replication in laboratory studies, the university said, adding that a small pilot showed giving the drug early could reduce viral load and the duration of symptoms in some patients with mild COVID-19.
And to add an edge of How safe is it?
People with severe liver conditions, who are on blood-thinning medication warfarin, or taking other treatments known to interact with ivermectin, will be excluded from the trial, the university added.From the BBC article:
Dr Aurora Baluja, an anaesthesiologist and critical care doctor, said Ivermectin was often being given in parts of the world where there are high incidences of parasitic infections.
Covid patients who are also fighting a parasitic disease at the same time would be likely to fare worse and that might explains some of its seemingly positive effect.
Though there have been some early “promising” results from small and observational studies, Principle joint chief investigator Prof Richard Hobbs said it would be “premature” to recommend Ivermectin for Covid.
Observational studies look at people already taking the drug, rather than giving it to a group representative of the population.
So they fail to account for differences in the types of people who might choose that treatment, and other factors that might have been influencing the spread of the virus at the time.
Not even damning with faint praise. They couldn’t include all the other studies, or a quote from a proponent like Dr. Kory? Nope.
Yes, Germ. But as Raul points out in his linking to the same info in today’s post, the study is being done by Oxford, the same people vested in the AZ vaccine. Conflict of interest. Still zero from the MSM on Ivermectin. They are probably trying to figure out how to rework the narrative, who to throw under the bus. Maybe the AP fact checker who helped squash the Senate testimony story will lose her job. Or be promoted out of the way to headliine writer.
brandnewguy beat me to it.
According to projections by UK’s top modelling agency the third wave of COVID-19 spike will hospitalize and kill 60 to 70% of those people who took both the vaccine doses. The paper suggests that the resurgence in both hospitalisations and deaths will dominated by those who have received two doses of the vaccine, comprising around 60% and 70% of the wave respectively.The underlined sentence states that a third wave (which they know is coming?) will hospitalize AND kill 60 to 70% of the entire vaccinated population. In other words, if 50% of the population is vaccinated, something like 30% of the Entire Population will be hospitalized AND die. It’s in the headline, too. It’s even more silly and outrageous than the claim that 2xast more people in Australia have died from the vaccine than have died from Covid. Only later in the article are we able to figure out that what it really means is, since most of the population is vaccinated, a good portion of deaths will be in potential breakthrough cases affecting those with high co-morbidity levels. In other words, the whole thing is utter nonsense that tells us nothing. We also know zero about this “modeling agency” responsible for generating these projections. It simply generates a fear headline.
Kind of what I was talking about yesterday regarding hyping the dangers of vaccination. Who knows, maybe, as has been speculated here, everyone who took the vaccine will spontaneously combust in 2-10 years. But lets see some credible basis for proposing that possibility please.
Re: Moscow eateries requiring vaccines or proof of natural immunity (at least they are acknowledging this) or negative test to be admitted. I kind of thought Russia was not on the official script, but I guess I was wrong. Putin doesn’t seem like the type to go along with a big pharma charade. I figured they would be all over Ivermectin, too. Just strikes me as a odd and not what I would expect.
” Thermostats in Texas Homes Are Being Accessed Remotely and Turned Up Due to an Energy Shortage”
Just another example of the technosphere being forced on us. I’ve been writing a weekly column for my local paper. Trying to subliminally bring these types of things to the paper’s readers. Here is an excerpt from last week’s column. It relates to the pressure being exerted to sign up for E-Zpass.
“Progress” Takes Its Toll
Driving home with my brand new used car last fall, I experienced a moment of panic approaching the Newburgh Beacon Bridge toll plaza, as I suddenly remembered that the electric windows didn’t work. Good for security when parked, bad for handing over cash to the toll collector.
Outside the box thinker that I am, as I rolled up it occurred to me that if I left a bit of room between my car and the toll booth, I could still open the door to hand over my fee for crossing the river.
Yes, I’m an anti-E-ZPasser. (E-ZPass denier?) No particular reason, other than the mildly satisfying if futile resistance to another tentacle reaching for me from the blind yet all-seeing, omnipresent technosphere. Plus, I like exchanging pleasantries with the men and women who collect the tolls.Occupational hazards
Can you imagine saying Hi, Thank you, Have a great day, eight hundred times a day? Talk about repetitive stress injuries. Yet not once over the years did I encounter anyone who felt it necessary to express a bad day vibe. Even the time I spent a couple of minutes frantically wedging my hand into the seats looking for change, the attitude was one of friendly patience. Ultimately I had to hand over my license and pull into the adjacent parking lot, then go into the administrative building to have the toll charged to my debit card.
A few times I’ve arrived at the booth only to have the attendant wave me through, with the explanation that the stranger in the car ahead of me has paid my way. The last time it happened, I paused, then asked the toll collector to take the money in my already outstretched hand for the car behind me. He said No man, it’s okay, you go ahead, and I understood that he was telling me the universe does not look favorably upon paying it forward so directly. You need to fully accept the gift first.
Sadly, the toll ritual will be coming to an end sometime in July, as the New York Bridge Authority phases out cash tolls on all the Hudson River crossings. Now if you don’t have E-ZPass there will be cameras that take a photo of your license and the computer it’s hooked into generates a bill and mails it out.Can’t have one without the other
I asked a toll booth collector where she would be going. Unemployment, she answered. The toll collectors have a union, but it’s the Bridge Authority, and all the bridges are going toll-less. Some were being re-assigned temporarily to the Mid Hudson Bridge, but that won’t last long.
When people find out I don’t have E-ZPass the reaction is generally Why not? You do know it’s cheaper, right? Ah, but if there weren’t stubborn people like me, it wouldn’t be, now would it? As my 11-year-old is always saying, You’re welcome. (He says this despite nobody having said Thank you.)
Expensive complications
As it turns out, non-working windows are not so uncommon. This week it happened twice that the driver directly in front of me opened the door to pay. Maybe it’s because electric windows can be expensive to fix. I like my windows like I like my transmissions—manual. Don’t get me started on those side mirror button controls. I suppose they are necessary for when your electric windows won’t go down….and on and so forth. It’s actually a bit of a long form column, averaging almost 1800 words a week! I need to use more photos.
Raul quoted me:
the tendency to overhype the vaccine dangers without solid information is counterproductive
And responded:
How about the tendency to underhype them? Isn’t that a much bigger factor?Two lies don’t make a truth. Especially when you are in the minority, going up against a mass media that is essentially a marketing arm for governments and big pharma, you must be very careful of hyperbole. As an analogy, it is the reason minorities must be a cut above in their comportment to have any chance of advancing in many business situations. To even have a shot at breaking through and getting across potentially life-saving information, the counter info must be as airtight as possible. Just is what it is right now.
“your refusal to submit to this experiment is making the virus more deadly!”
VanDen Bossche argues the exact opposite of that.
Right. I was making up a quote expressing the illogical stance of your vaxxed individual.
From what I can tell wading partway into Bossche, the problem arises mostly when people who are only partially vaccinated and have not yet developed a full immune response, come down with Covid. Also those vaxxed who have asymptomatic cases and shed. This leads to mutations that adapt to the single spike protein focus of the mRNA vaccines. Though I admit I may have it wrong. He needs Gail Tverberg to summarize in a couple of paragraphs with a chart or two.
The machine age aesthetic that comes through his paintings, the unforgiving light, the slight awkwardness and total isolation of the figures,even when in groups–gotta love Hopper for capturing the underlying psychological spirit of an age.
I will say once more, the tendency to overhype the vaccine dangers without solid information is counterproductive. Yes, some of the reports are alarming. I certainly hope the vaccines are not ticking time bombs, since just about everyone I know and care about has gotten themselves jabbed.
One Covid death in Australia all year? Come on. If that is true, it certainly makes a good case for lockdowns.
If the variants are as harmless as the graphic info in that video, it would seem they are being used not only as further scare tactic, but to get the vaxxed even more angry toward the non-vaxxed–“your refusal to submit to this experiment is making the virus more deadly!”
I see potential evidence of this in world of energy, as well. This idea that big oil companies are being hijacked by green energy “activists” –give me a break. How about the oil companies are not making enough money to look for more oil (and they know the diminishing returns on that game at this point), they never made money on the shale oil. When oil prices shoot up, when there are lines at the pump, now they can point to the “activists.”
Foolishly, I keep cruising over to the NYT to see some acknowledgement of any of the information we talk about here. But even the Fauci stuff has gone away. That is the scariest thing, that so much, even if it sees the light, gets ignored and goes away. I wonder if the Chinese spy guy Jim K. writes about will get Epsteined?
Weird how “lumber” suddenly plummets 40%. That was just a natural correction in the free market that happened overnight, right? Leading to my favorite idiot, Paul Krugman, proclaiming “The Week Inflation Panic Died.” You go Paul. I’m more inclined to go with Chris Martenson’s forecast of an oil crunch whammy in the near future. (Can’t read the NYT Krugman piece, behind paywall. Saves me aggravation.)
Talking with a couple of guys while loading a piece of auction furniture into a truck yesterday, someone mentioned the Chinese had stockpiled copper and just released a bunch, affecting that price. Haven’t looked into that. Again, where does this info come from, and why?
More satire from the new hotbed of satire, the New York Times:
Why Undocumented Immigrants Are Resorting to Unproven Covid Cures
Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants in the U.S. are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies or turning to the black market.Uh, what mainstream medicine would that be? Take veraflu until you turn blue, then we’ll pop you in icu? I can’t read the article because not a subscriber, but looks like it covers people in the country illegally (now known simply as immigrants), how off patent meds are rubbish, how not being here legally puts you at a disadvantage, and …vaccines. Just a guess, since these are a few of their favorite things…
Re: cities identified by bacteria. John McPhee did a series of stories for the New Yorker that used soil forensics to solve murders and other mysteries. When the Japanese sent balloons over to attack the U.S., they analyzed the sand in the ballasts that did not get jettisoned to pinpoint where in Japan the munitions factory was located, then sent in bombers to take it out.
Re: kid’s face masks. My son developed a mask rash. Knocked it out with tea tree oil. He complained that it stung, but next day it was 90% better.
Can’t wait till they come out with the new, “improved” ivermectin, at $199 a pill.
Ivan Illich posited that both socialism and capitalism get corrupted by too much energy input. I quoted the passage from Energy and Equity here a couple of days ago. The predicament is that we don’t seem to have the capacity to grasp this fact. And even if we did, we show no ability to voluntarily curtail our intake. In fact we have designed our economy in precisely the opposite direction, requiring more and more output, which requires ever vaster quantities of energy. As he pointed out in 1974, at the same time this not only degrades the environment but also social relations. And it gives rise to a powerful technocracy.
Growing inequity? Check
Increasing social upheaval? Check
Degrading environment? Check
Vast and powerful technocracy? Check.
Ivan would be sad.Re: Taibbi being a bit late to the game. Raul suggested he should apologize. A commenter yesterday (sorry, running out, hard to dig through for names) suggested he post the full article outside his paywall. That would be a nice start.
I get what he is saying about Ivermectin being lumped with “conspiracy theories”, but it’s a little too convenient. That’s one of the dangers of censorship of course.
The irony is that the MSM is the biggest source of disinformation we have. Also, to label the idea that someone does not want to use the term “insurrection” to describe the events of January 6 as “disinformation” is insane. That is a viewpoint, not disinformation.
Yesterday, I wrote:
> And anybody who thinks they have their hands on the controls is even more deluded and mixed up than the restivus.
Bill7 wrote:
I’ll disagree with that assertion. Sixteen months of bludgeoning us with fear-porn, lockdowns, [anti]social distancing, and “vaccines” seem to me to have served their instigators quite well. And they’re just getting started.I agree. What I was trying to say was that, in the end, their actions will not produce the results and scenarios they are envisioning. The system itself is too big for anyone to direct it at this point. Any human inputs made with the idea of creating precise outcomes for the future will not be effective.
zerosum brought up the economics of all this. This is one of the factors they are not taking into account. Just keeping all these vaccines at the right temp is quite a logistics hurdle. Gail Tverberg mentioned the inability to keep funding producing distributing vaccines will become an issue at some point going forward.
So will the task of keeping labs with gain of function research secure. We now have the not unlikely scenario of some variety of terrrorist or criminal ransoming the entire world over threat of releasing a killer disease (one that their scientists have a limited antidote for.) Other possibilities include sabotaging the vaccines in some way.. I meant to include GoF research as one of the most insane pursuits we’ve managed to come up with so far.
Yes. We are undergoing a Great Reset, no doubt. And anybody who thinks they have their hands on the controls is even more deluded and mixed up than the restivus. I don’t even care if they are billionaires, Klaus Schwab, Soros, Santa Claus, Joe Biden, or Bullwinkle,Boris, and Rocky.
“,,,had a jump starter put on his heart when he was in his mid-thirties” meaning he had a defibrillator put into his chest. It went off once. He sensed something was happening,got off his bike. Heard/experienced? a loud bang, blacked out for a few seconds.Was able to walk home with his bike.
I think there is a tendency here to treat the vaccines the way the mainstream treats the virus. That is to say, hyping up the fear, throwing in a lot of stuff that is unproven or just makes no sense, focusing on single events, etc.
As I said a while back, I know a few people personally who got covid, basically bad flu or milder. I know a couple of people (including one good friend who had covid) who had a bad day after the second jab.
Some things just do not make sense. If pilots are getting these symptoms, what about all the stewards. What about frequent flyers? Then the soccer player. Guess what?In a world with 8 billion people, all kinds of stuff happens. My good friend and bike racing buddy had a jump starter put on his heart when he was in his mid-thirties, highly trained athlete. Not that uncommon.
People die or have health complications 2 weeks after blowing out birthday candles, or eating a burrito from 7-11. That does not mean these actions were responsible.
I do not believe the spike sheds and infects the non-vaccinated.(thank you Mr. Roboto).
I do not believe some dark forces are culling us.
I do not believe everyone vaccinated is a ticking time bomb that will die in 2-10 years.
I suspect the vaccine has more adverse reactions than the msm is reporting. If Covid were a real killer in the general population, this would be an acceptable risk. It is not when there are existing inexpensive drugs that apparently are highly successful at treating this virus.
I do believe Fauci and many others are, through their lies and coverups, responsible for vast amounts of suffering and death that did not need to happen.
I do believe the authorities are taking advantage of the situation, mostly created by misinformation and wrong action, to get desired changes via shock doctrine style protocols.
I think masks are generally a crock, except when my doctor or dentist is performing an intimate procedure on my person. Then, even if it is a crock, I like the mask look.
The last two times I was in my local supermarket, I was the only person not wearing a mask. Same at the big pharmacy on Main Street. Linus and his blanket. (If they only knew I was not vaxxed.)
I have not experienced a lockdown as such. If I did, I suspect I would get arrested if I were not allowed to ride my bike. They did close the local trails. I hiked anyway.
I think the worst of it is the cravenness and greed that has squashed alternatives to vaccines, especially Ivermectin.
I am certain this latest bump down the stair of decline is not finished, and more insanity and madness awaits in the near future before we hit the next landing.
And we carry on.
Oroboros wrote: I still have Ivan Illich’s books on my shelf from the early 1970’s when the first wave of alternative energy pioneers tried to get airborne, only to crash like Icarus with Reagan symbolically ripping Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House roof and flaunted Alaska’s North Slope oil discovery jackpot.
Remember though, Illich was not about alternative energy–he was about the quanta of energy per person, regardless of the energy source. And how big disparities in that created inequity and degraded the social sphere as well as the ecological sphere. He felt the only way out of the trap was to agree upon limits.
The dominant role energy plays in the economic realm is nicely laid out by Tim Morgan of Surplus Energy Economics, who was on a recent edition of James Kunstler’s Kunstlercast.
oxmoron wrote: My two cents on dealing with other people but particularly in the working environment (but also friends) is to just humbly say you are afraid. You need to stoop to conquer.
Except I am not afraid. Healthy concern? Sure. Looking at ways to protect myself? Yup.Vitamin D every day, Ivermectin in the cupboard. But afraid? No. And I’m not about to pretend I am (too late for that anyway.) There are times when it is best to shut up and go under the radar. For this one, I will be reasonable but I will tell anyone who asks directly, and has the right to ask (which I guess employers do) why I won’t be getting vaccinated. I’m not trying to conquer. I’m just trying to say to them,F*ck you.
At the company I work for, I was the only office worker not vaccinated. Until they hired a new, 30-year-old admin. I guess they forgot to ask her, but she apparently has no intention to get herself jabbed at the moment. I have not spoken to her directly, just found this out through a coworker last night. I asked about it because the executives of the company were making noises about going back to a full schedule, everybody in the office 8-5. Right now we come into the office in shifts, the rest of the time working from home. This was brought up in an informal discussion prompted by the fact that Cuomo just relaxed most restrictions on small businesses like ours (about 12 office workers, 30 on site factory workers.)
One of the execs is super pro mask, vaccine, follow the guidelines to a t. He said that they have the right to “discriminate”,ie, treat vaccinated and unvaccinated workers differently. He also said they have been told by the state to do everything they can to encourage workers to get vaccinated.This includes allowing companies to offer incentives for doing so, something that would have previously fallen outside the rules of employment.
While I do not see the company trying to entice me with any benefits, I suspect at minimum I will be forced to continue wearing a mask.
The same colleague who told me about the new hire not being vaxxed told me her son, who works for Homeland Security, has not only taken the double dose of Pfiser, but has received two “booster”shots of Moderna.
Although she told me it was required, I could not find any official vaccination policy online. There may also be different protocols for different jobs within Homeland Security. I know military personnel are currently not forced to receive a vaccine (this would almost certainly change once the vaccines get officially approved, which we must believe is being super fast tracked.)
When my company does directly approach me, I will object on philosophical, medical, legal, common sense, and logical grounds. Also, I will not take anything that offers a free burger and fries as an enticement I’m not vegan, but I’m not stupid, either.
Ivermectin ftw.
The energy policies adopted during the current decade will determine the range of social relationships a society will be able to enjoy by the year 2000. A low energy policy allows for a wide choice of life styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally distasteful whether labelled capitalist or socialist. —Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity, 1974 (llink downloads a pdf of E&E)
Illich understood that over consumption of energy leads to inequality, and concentrates power and wealth into a smaller and smaller group of people. Inevitably it leads to a technocracy.After watching the entire video with Dr. Kory, he recommends those over 40 andor with co-morbidities take a regimen of Ivermectin 1x per week. I had asked if A. this might reduce the drug’s effectiveness over time and B.if anyone here was taking Ivermectin prophylactically. It’s summertime here in NY, and I have been on Vit D supplements since December. Sorry if anyone answered, it gets hard to go over all the comments once we hit multiple pages (Raul, any chance there is a setting on your blog software that does not break up the comments into 40 per page?)
Biking to the office myself right now, looking forward to reading today’s posts and comments!
“If there is to be a culling the preferred plan would be to release a virus that quickly kills anyone not vaccinated at least 6 months ago. If this happens the vaxx cult will be dancing in the street.”
Question: Can it really be a cult if 80% of the population are members? That’s the amount of people reported to be vaccinated in the state of Vermont. New York is claiming 70% and is now lifting most of the remaining restrictions.
Here at TAE, we are waiting for the other shoe to drop in terms of Ivermectin being finally recognized as the miracle drug it would appear to be.
As far as the vaccines killing people in2-10 years, not sure where that is coming from but it would seem highly unlikely and it gives the 80% a giant nuclear warhead to blow up the rest of the case for resisting the vaccines.
I watched most of that 2.5 hour chat with Dr.Kory. Amazing story. If it is all true, the people at Youtube, etc. should be just as accountable for murder as those actively trying to keep the lid on this. Whatever happens, I am 99.87% certain nobody will be responsible. Everybody was just “following the science.”
Another question:These figures of the percent vaccinated–they are for the population over 18 I assume? So why still the big push for kids?
Final question: Dr. Kory mentioned that he is taking Ivermectin once a week, prophylactically. He recommended anyone over 40 and/or with comorbidity (overweight, diabetes, etc.) do the same. Is anyone here doing that? I know a lot of us are in our 50s, 60s, 70s. Will it eventually reduce the effectiveness of the drug if it is taken every week? Should I wait until after the summer to start that? Healthy and 61.
I will say the cognitive dissonance of all this is extreme. While I do not think it was finely planned, the important actors knew something like this was highly likely if not inevitable, and they were ready to go full shock doctrine for their various ends, including making a lot of money.
I see a very few heroes in all of this. But I don’t blame the average American for being stupid. It is very hard for any civilization to see itself as it really is, and it is easier to go along with all the cultural myths. It is mostly craven psychopaths in positions of power that have created this global travesty of a pandemic. I hope light is allowed in and some of this madness can stop.
The scary thing is, more suffering is coming in the way of the economy, which as we know has been sick since way before Covid. How many more body blows can we take.
“If you’re fully vaxxed, I wouldn’t be too worried, especially if you’re in a highly vaxxed region,” Wachter wrote. “If you’re not vaccinated: I’d be afraid. Maybe even very afraid.” a doctor, talking about the spread of the Delta variant in the U.S.
Any doctors care to comment? Is Ivermectin still as effective with Delta, which they are saying is not only more contagious, but also comes with more serious symptoms.
From my morning NYT email newsletter:
Good morning. We have an update on Covid and the Delta variant.
‘If you’re not vaccinated …’
It’s time for one of this newsletter’s occasional updates on the state of the pandemic. The brief version: The situation continues to look reassuring for anybody who is vaccinated — but has become more worrisome for anybody who is not, largely because of the Delta variant.
Here are three more detailed points:
1. Cases are no longer fallingThe news about Covid-19 has been mostly positive in the U.S. over recent months. The vaccines continue to work well against every variant, and the number of Americans who have gotten a shot continues to rise.
But the U.S. still faces two problems. First, the pace of vaccinations has slowed, and a substantial share of Americans — close to one third — remains hesitant about getting a shot. These unvaccinated Americans will remain vulnerable to Covid outbreaks and to serious symptoms, or even death.
Second, the Delta variant — which appears to be both more contagious and more severe than earlier versions of the virus — is spreading rapidly within the U.S., after having first been identified in India. It now accounts for about 10 percent of cases, according to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former F.D.A. commissioner.
Together, these two forces help explain why new cases have stopped falling:
Source: The New York TimesMany experts are concerned that cases will eventually start to rise as Delta becomes the dominant form of the virus. “We are vulnerable,” Dr. Kavita Patel of the Brookings Institution told Yahoo News. On Twitter yesterday, Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, wrote: “I’ll now bet we’ll see significant (incl. many hospitalizations/deaths) surges this fall in low-vaccine populations due to combo of seasonality, Delta’s nastiness, & ‘back to normal’ behavior.”
2. But the vaccines workIn addition to being more contagious, Delta also appears to be more severe. As my colleague Keith Bradsher reports about southeastern China, where the variant has been spreading: “Patients are becoming sicker and their conditions are worsening much more quickly.” (China has more detailed data than many other countries, because it conducts rapid, widespread testing.)
But there is still one very big piece of encouraging news: The vaccines continue to work extremely well against the variants, based on the evidence so far. The best performing vaccines vastly reduce the number of Covid cases of any kind and virtually eliminate death.
“The Delta variant is by far the most contagious variant of this virus we have seen in the entire pandemic,” Dr. Ashish Jha said yesterday. “The good news is the data suggests that, if you’ve been fully vaccinated, you remain protected, that the vaccines hold up.”
The clearest place to see this pattern is Britain, where the Delta variant has spread widely and where the vaccination rate is high. In Britain, there is “still no sign of increase in deaths, well after the strain has become dominant,” as Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute noted.
Source: The New York Times
3. The lesson is clearNothing is more important than vaccination.
Persuading more Americans to get vaccinated will save some of their lives. And a more rapid global vaccination program can save millions of lives around the world. Delta already appears to be at least partly responsible for rising case counts in several African countries, Russia, Ontario and elsewhere.
“If you’re fully vaxxed, I wouldn’t be too worried, especially if you’re in a highly vaxxed region,” Wachter wrote. “If you’re not vaccinated: I’d be afraid. Maybe even very afraid.”
More on the virus: Novavax announced today that a clinical trial of its vaccine in the U.S. and Mexico found an efficacy rate of about 90 percent.
I’m a huge fan of Illich as well. In fact, I posted that same link to David Caley a month ago. Now I am starting to develop a conspiracy theory. Does anybody read my comments?:^ (Granted, the link was at the end of a long, screed-like post.)
I’m still against the theories that this was all orchestrated by “the elite.” It’s mostly just the behavior of people in a system called “Dying Empire.” As I have mentioned, I think it is basically an advanced case of Shock Doctrine, with a good dash of Crackpot Realism.
Energy and Equity by Illich is a good one for these times. This link is a pdf Download of Energy and Equituy.
@John Day wrote: “mRNA “vaccines” are your-entire-future, not just in-your-future. (Thanks Dr.D)”
What am i, chopped liver?;^) See first comment of today’s thread.
NYT is worried about the Alpha. But NPR and Fauci are touting the dangers of Delta. What happens when we run out of Greek letters?
The Highly Contagious Delta Variant Is On The Rise In the U.S.Re my NYT post above: A cynic would say they are manipulating the numbers and using the variants to re-ignite fear and get more people to get vaccinated.
From NYT: Covid Live Updates: Hospitalizations Rise in Less Vaccinated U.S. Areas
Something seems weird with the figures, though. If 8% of covid cases were hospitalized, wouldn’t that overwhelm the system? And if you are doing the division based on early PCR test cycles, you would have many more “cases” , so the numbers would be diluted in the earlier figure and not comparable. Any doctors in the housecare to weigh in on this one? As long as Ivermectin remains effective, I will sit tight.
“People who become ill with Covid-19 now are, “in most age groups, twice as likely to end up hospitalized as people who got the virus earlier in the course of the pandemic,” Dr. Delbridge said.
In Maryland, of those between the ages of 50 and 59 who contracted Covid-19 over the winter, about 8 percent were hospitalized, he said. From the end of April through the beginning of June, the hospitalization rate in that group was 19 percent.
Dangerous virus variants are likely to be to blame, Dr. Delbridge said. The variant first found in Britain, now known as Alpha, is deadlier and more contagious than most others and is now dominant in the United States. Last month, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the variant, also known as B.1.1.7, made up 72 percent of U.S. cases at the time.
But vaccines have proven to be effective against the Alpha variant. A spring surge that scientists had warned of largely failed to materialize in the United States.
“I think we got lucky, to be honest,” Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at Yale University, told The New York Times last month. “We’re being rescued by the vaccine.”
GMHB Genetically Modified Human Beings. From Wired uk:
“While the world remains focused on the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, the race for the next generation of mRNA vaccines – targeted at a variety of other diseases – is already exploding. Moderna and BioNTech each have nine candidates in development or early clinical trials. There are at least six mRNA vaccines against flu in the pipeline, and a similar number against HIV. Nipah, Zika, herpes, dengue, hepatitis and malaria have all been announced. The field sometimes resembles the early stage of a gold rush, as pharma giants snap up promising researchers for huge contracts – Sanofi recently paid $425 million (£307m) to partner with a small American mRNA biotech called Translate Bio, while GSK paid $294 million (£212m) to work with Germany’s CureVac.”
From the opinion page of the SeattleTimes:
“Some people fear the side effects of the shot more than they fear getting the virus. Others just can’t be bothered with getting it done or they worry – wrongly – that it will cost too much (it’s free) or they don’t like needles or doctors or smarty pants experts or big government.
Or they watch too much Fox News and listen to too much right-wing radio or believe the wild things they read on social media and have become convinced that the vaccine is some kind of nefarious plot to put tracking devices into their brains or make them vote for a Democrat or give up their guns.
Because of these millions of holdouts, this country may never reach effective herd immunity. It will be an inexact, harsh justice if COVID-19 and its more virulent mutations are stalking the unvaccinated among us for years to come.
The challenge of lassoing bullheaded vaccine resisters/i don’t subscribe to the NYT but I get a couple of its newsletters, including one called The Morning. Today’s subject line: The Dangerous Delta Variant. From the summary:
But the Delta variant does call for some changes in Britain, many scientists say. The country is accelerating second shots for vulnerable people. And people who have received only one shot
should not behave as if they are vaccinated, (my emphasis)said Devi Sridhar of the University of Edinburgh.
Three U.K. lessonsI see three main lessons from Britain’s recent rise in cases:
One, vaccines are still the most effective way, by far, to defeat this terrible pandemic. Nothing matters more than the speed at which shots go into arms — in Britain, in the U.S. and especially in poorer countries, where vaccination rates are still low.Two, behavior restrictions can still play a role in the interim. If hospitalizations or deaths in Britain rise over the next two weeks, there will be a strong argument for pushing back the full reopening of activities. And that has obvious implications for the U.S., too. Restricting indoor activities for unvaccinated people is particularly important.
Three, caseloads are no longer as important a measure as they used to be. Before the vaccines were available, more cases inevitably meant more hospitalizations and deaths. Now, the connection is more uncertain. As a recent Times story put it, paraphrasing British scientists, “upticks in new infections are tolerable so long as the vast majority do not lead to serious illness or death.”
Over the next couple of weeks, I promise to to keep you updated on Britain and the Delta variant.
Help our journalists uncover the facts.Ha ha. Facts.
James Kunstler has a phrase he uses to describe our times: “Anything goes, nothing matters.”It doesn’t matter that the official narrative is being exposed as a big lie.
They will just ignore everything and keep on keeping on.
Whatever they have to acknowledge will be attributed to something other.
There is nobody left to be responsible.
There is nobody home that will tell the truth.
Nobody in all of my various circles is aware of Ivermectin. Nobody.
Nobody can believe there would be a drug that can help but has been suppressed. Nobody.
Almost everyone I know has bought the official line. Even people that I know that think about these things. They think they are still thinking. But they are mistaken.My ex will have my 11-year old vaccinated as soon as they drop the age requirement further or on his 12th birthday. I pray I can steer things her way to create enough doubt to at least postpone until more feedback is available. She works for a national magazine and has no clue about any of the stuff discussed here. The Vanity Fair article is too long for most people to read.
I am torn between going underground and doing the best I can to “pass” as vaccinated, or with antibodies, and shouting from the rooftops and printing t-shirts “F**K the VACCINES! WAKE UP!
Given the presence of the Gamma variant in the United States — about 7 percent of Covid-19 cases in the United States can be attributed to this variant — it’s possible that pediatric and newborn Covid-19 cases could soon become more prevalent. This is cause for serious concern.
Why Are So Many Children in Brazil Dying From Covid-19?Probably coincidence, but no doubt good timing since the vaccine companies are winding up the “trilals” on 2-11 year olds…
From the nymag article about young males and myocardia:
“The good news is the data show that the absolute risk from COVID-19 to children is extremely small. Pediatric mortality is on par with or less than that from influenza in recent seasons, and the already very low hospitalization numbers, as noted, were found to be significantly over-counted. Conversely, a number of experts Intelligencer spoke with believe, and at least preliminarily the data suggest, that the absolute risks from the vaccine to children are likely extremely small as well.”
What kind of Alice in Wonderland world are we living in? COVID-19 does nothing to children. But we’re pretty sure for the most part although there have been problems and we have no long term data but sure, the vaccines are safe. So lets vaccinate all these kids from something that is harmless. Sheesh. What a bunch of maroons we are.
Reason 19 I won’t get vaccinated: Because all the public figures exhorting me to “get a jab”are lying scum dirt balls with less brain power than a circus bear with a learning disorder. That clip from Peak Prosperity of DeBlasio shilling for Big Pharma and Big Macs at the same time was priceless. I think somebody said it was like a Saturday Night Live skit. If only.
John Day wrote: ” A massive cyberattack, such as that simulated at Cyber Polygon 2020, would allow faceless hackers to be blamed for economic collapse, thus absolving the real financial criminals of responsibility.”
Yes, depressing that these people always escape blame.
If these scenarios are true, it just seems like the next level in the Shock Doctrine playbook. Rather than wait for natural disasters like hurricanes, or terrorist attacks, or bursting bubbles, to implement new “policies,” TPTB now actually create the disasters in order to implement the behavioral changes desired by the enforced responses.
