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From what I can find in the literature, the adenoviral vector vaccines also travel throughout the body. But they are designed to do so. In particular, the recombinant adenovirus type 5 is the type that is typically used for vaccines, and was in fact in the SARS-Cov2 vaccines (as well as many predecessor vaccines). But the adenoviral vector targets primarily liver cells, and may also target immune cells and cells in the lymphatic system. So, of course, to get to all of those target cells, it cannot stay in the deltoid muscle where it is injected. It needs to move.
So I wonder why anyone ever believed that the mRNA innoculations should stay in the deltoid muscle? Because they would be taken up immediately? Perhaps that was a hypothesis. But there is no reason to expect that to be the case.
As for the fibrous clots, I could not find anything suggesting that these come from the lipid nanoparticle. The only writeups I could find suggest that they are the result of spike protein — which means that they should be evenly represented in mRNA and adenoviral vector patients (assuming the innocuations produce similar amounts of spike protein and there is not another co-factor somehow related to the mRNA shots). Here are two sources that explain the mechanism (though they are both more than 6 months old):
https://www.sott.net/article/474668-What-is-causing-the-blood-clots-from-Died-Suddenly
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-spike-protein-causes-novel-infammatory-blood-clotting@ DBS and Kultsummer
Marx has been so badly twisted and misrepresented in the West that most criticisms are based on propaganda and strawman arguments. Half of what he wrote concerns diagnosis. The other half concerns his prescription. There were many who shared his view of the diagnosis but disagreed with his prescription. For a good, balanced, non-ideologically slanted, and historically accurate summary of who he was and what he wrote, I suggest Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast on the Russian Revolution (Season 10, Episodes 1-10). Good stuff.
@ Dr D, Germ & John Day
Thanks for the replies yesterday.
Dr D, your message suggested that the lipid nanoparticle is somehow responsible for the six inch fibrous rubbery clots. Does that mean that the strange clots have not been found in people who received the adenoviral vector innocuations? I would have expected the spike protein to be behind the clots. But maybe not?
Germ, I am aware of the problem of the mRNA traveling from the injection site. But I have heard little or nothing about the adeno-viral vector innoculations traveling from the injection site. Do they travel too? Or maybe it doesn’t matter as much of they target a particular type of cell (whereas the mRNA is more indiscriminate)?
Germ, your comment about quality control also raises questions. OK, I see that quality control was crap and that some batches caused more problems than others. But that suggests that at least part of this is an execution problem, and maybe not entirely a design problem. Does that make a difference at this point? Not for the people who got the injections. But expect that the QC will be blamed going forward to try to limit the loss of credibility.
A question for anyone who knows, but especially for Germ:
We see a lot of articles about the problems with the “mRNA” innoculations. We see others that focus on the spike protein. To my eyes there is a disconnect here. Is the problem with mRNA delivery platform? Or the spike protein? Is it both? If a combination of both, which is the primary factor? The platform or the payload? This seems to be a critical question. Is anyone looking at this? Do the studies differentiate?
Because most of the innoculations in the US were on the mRNA platform, the criticisms of innoculations in US literature tend to focus on the platform — perhaps misleadingly. If the really bad life expectancy data is the same in countries that used the mRNA platform and the adenoviral vector platform — if the “died suddenly” phenomenon is the same regardless of platform, then the problem seems to be a spike protein issue.
And what about the platforms that did not use spike protein at all, sich as Sinovac? Same issues?
I really want to know the truth, but I have lost my appetite for stories criticizing the “mRNA” vaccines without making these important distinctions.
@Germ Try Jarrow’s Zinc Balance: It combines 15mg zinc with 1 mg copper.
I take daily:
Dessicated Beef liver (capsule form)
Zinc Balance
D3 (5000 IU )
Omega 3
Coenzyme Q-10 (with B-6 added)
Nattokinase
Magnesium Citrate (200mg)Plus at least a liter of sugar free electrolyte mix, either:
Ultima (magnesium citrate)
Dr Berg’s (potassium citrate)And twice a week:
K2
NAC
Quercetin + Lecithin (for absorbtion)Edited to add to the daily mix: Seed probiotics
Those who seek the answer in material science are destined to wind up in the neighborhood of where we are now: materially capable of video-taping the nuking of a planet from space by AI robots, and spiritually unable to stop themselves from doing it or even understanding how they got into such an untenable spot in the first place.
Well said!
As for me, the greatest modern teacher on spirituality was not Gandhi, but Dostoevsky, and particularly in that great masterpiece of a novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
It starts with the atheist Ivan’s takedown of Christianity in the chapter The Grand Inquisitor, where Ivan presents an unanswerable argument to his younger brother, the devout Alyosha. At the end of Ivan’s monologue (or poem), Alyosha has no rebuttal. All he can do is kiss his brother on the forehead. Ivan gives the best argument for the atheist position that I have ever heard.
But then Dostoevsky presents another view in The Russian Monk, the “book within the book” where Alyosha’s spiritual teacher, Zosima, tells his life story while he is on his death bed. And this is not an argument, but it is Dostoevsky’s counter to Ivan’s position. And speaking through Zosima, I think Dostoevsky gives the best argument against the atheist position that I have ever heard. It is authentic spirituality.
I haven’t read the book in 25 years, but I feel like I read it yesterday.
My credit union (non-profit), sent out an e-mailing assuring us members they are safe and sound. I quit using banks more than 30 years ago… Banks are a rigged game…
Colleagues were knocking on my door and sending me text messages yesterday to ask how I was betting on how the Fed would deal with the new crisis, and what I expected might happen. They know I am a Bitcoiner. I could only shrug my shoulders and say: “I dunno. Maybe nothing will happen.” I did not share their curious fervor. Fifteen years ago I was in their shoes. I had no gold, and Bitcoin had not been invented yet. It seemed like the whole financial system could fall apart back then. But it never did. I got some gold back then (which I still have), and I was hoping that the old system would collapse, and that everything would be revalued against gold when the system recapitalized.
Now I just don’t care about timing. You have to live you life. I keep most of my wealth outside of the banking system. I sleep well at night, and I feel that everything will be fine if the financial system collapses. The system will recapitalize, there will be winners and losers, and life will go on. Gold, or Bitcoin, or both, will do well in the new system. And they will probably do just fine even before we get to the new system.
₿est wishes to all.
when will xenophobic criticism of China/Chinese be declared off limits
It’s pretty clear that there will be a tidal wave of anti-Asian racism in coming years as the US continues to demonize China. As the US continues to sink, the elites will use this to get people to turn on each other.
It is a bad idea for any ethnic group to have extreme over-representation or under-representation in government. It is downright dangerous in times when the SHTF. In Southeast Asia there are substantial ethnic Chinese populations in many countries. In these countries the Chinese dominate the economy, but they are not as dominant in government. This seems to work well in Indonesia and Malaysia. In Singapore, the Chinese are the majority, but they make sure to make room in government for the sizable Indian and Malay populations. The point is to make sure that everyone is represented, and that no group is dramatically over-represented.
Germ (and others who have been following this):
Most of what we are hearing about all these sudden deaths seems to be linked to the mRNA vaccines. Not so much attention paid to the adenoviral vector vaccines or the protein subunit vaccine (Novovax). Is that because most of the attention about sudden death has come in the US, and the mRNA vaccines were predominant?
Do you think the issue is the mRNA platform? Or spike protein? Or the fact that it is hard to know from the mRNA and adenoviral vector how much spike protein is produced? I wonder how many sudden deaths occur for those who received the adenoviral vector vaccines . . .
Russia has its hands full fighting backward, second-world at best, corrupt Ukraine, and it is supposed to be able to take on all NATO member states, disabling all their defenses, economic infrastructure and military installations in the blink of an eye, when it never managed to take Kiev located 200 miles from its border?
Not sure about that. When the war started, most pundits in the West thought it would be over in 30 days and Putin would be gone. The Ruble would be reduced to rubble they said. The Russian economy would be crushed. Well that did not play out as expected.
The other story that came out from the West was that the real aim was regime change, and the strategy was to pull Russia into a long drawn out quagmire. It seems that Russia’s countermeasure was to minimize casualties, even at the expense of giving up territory. Russia may be willing to play a long game — as long as Ukraine is bleeding more than Russia.
Perhaps Russia could have taken Kiev if it had made a more determined effort. Or perhaps they saw that as a trap — one that would be quite costly, and which might cause public support to dry up. Or perhaps once the Ruble and the economy stabilized, they did not believe that they were under pressure to take Kiev anytime soon.
If Russia is expanding trade, and the Ruble is holding strong, and Russia can expand its weapons production, and Russia is not losing men . . . then maybe this situation can last a lot longer than either side expected last March. Which side does it favor?
₿est wishes to all in 2023. May the light penetrate the darkness. May the corrupt, sanctimonious, arrogant Hegemon be humbled (but without destroying all life on the planet).
₿etter days are coming — we have to remain hopeful.
Well, … if wish to talk to someone in the U.S. about sea level raise,
Best policy in the US would be to say no post-disaster FEMA rebuilding in any coastal flood zones. Next storm to destroy it, it’s gone. No more federal help to rebuild. Private flood insurance only. All public funds to be dedicated to building infrastructure on higher ground.
A good essay today, Ilargi, but so difficult navigating in a sea of bad actors.
We saw a history of scientific research purporting to show that there was no link between cigarette smoke and cancer. That research led to a paralysis of policy because it purported to show that the data was inconclusive.
We now see industry-funded scientific research showing the glyphosate is perfectly safe. Do you believe it for a minute?
We see industry funded research showing that pesticides are safe. Meanwhile, the bugs are dying (except those earmarked for human consumption). Do you believe it?
On the climate science, I see bad actors on both sides. It is obviously unhealthy to be in an environment where honest inquiry is shackled by the bonds of Groupthink. But sometimes I wonder whether the objections are just a pretext to rerun the “inconclusive evidence” playbook all over again — we are going to keep doing what we are doing until the evidence is conclusive, and we are going to make sure the evidence is never conclusive. I have seen that happen over and over again.
I am powerless , Dr.D is powerless Raul is powerless , none of us as individuals or as groups can change a fuckin thing. All the words written here are just dust in the wind!
Nonsense. As Chris Hedges says, hope must be invested in acts of resistance and civil disobedience. Even the smallest acts are of immense significance. Once we adopt the mindset that we are defeated, only then are we defeated.
People easily forget that they are being bombarded with one-dimensional echo chamber “news” 25 hours a day, and when someone says something that differs from this, they think they must parrot the 25 hour-a-day stuff to provide “balance”.
Reminds me of the saying “What’s mine is mine, and half of what’s yours is mine.”
I am happy to see Liz Truss gone. But I feel like she is getting off too easy. I was expecting her failure to be far more dramatic, far more spectacular — but she didn’t last long enough for that.
@Mr House
@Bill7I got kicked off of NC because of a comment I made that Bitcoin is the future and CBDCs are inevitable. I do not think they are opposed to each other. Once people learn how to use CBDCs, I think it will accelerate Bitcoin adoption. Nobody will want to hold the CBDCs — instead they will exchange them for Bitcoin. But I think that CBDCs will displace the existing stable coins, where there is always a concern whether the stable coins are sufficiently backed by actual dollars.
VietnamVet, I don’t comment much these days, and I do not comment often on your posts, but you often say what I have been thinking, or what I have been on the verge of thinking. Much appreciated. Keep up the good work.
Pelosi scheduled to land in Taiwan less than two hours. They just unplugged the live flight tracking as the plane came around the Philippines.
If I am a general/admiral in the PLA, I use this as an excuse to cross the line and move warships into Taiwanese waters – and keep them there permenently. What will the US/Taiwan do about it? It’s the perfect excuse to make the next advance.
Brother Alasdair has hit another one out of the park:
War – even a war of choice – always reveals the fragility of complex systems. An article in the Atlantic recently noted that if “you, as a typical urban professional Millennial, woke up on a Casper mattress, worked out with a Peloton, Ubered to a WeWork, ordered on DoorDash for lunch, took a Lyft home, and ordered dinner through Postmates only to realize your partner had already started on a Blue Apron meal, your household had, in one day, interacted with eight unprofitable companies that collectively lost about $15 billion in one year”.It has been a Millennial lifestyle subsidy that may vanish in the twinkling of an eye (or in one hike of an interest rate). It is a mirage. One that reflects the absurdities of the ‘cult of tech’ in a zero-interest rate era. It will soon be gone.
@Neal The good thing about collapse is that it will put an end to Triffin’s Dilemma. At least then then we can start to rebuild. But yes, we risk deepening overty, civil unrest and nuclear annihilation on the way from here to there.
By the way, I forgot to comment on today’s provocative art piece. What a great title!
Loss of reserve currency status is the only chance America has to de-fang the military industrial complex.
How I would love to see a candidate come out promising:
1. To dissolve NATO
2. To abolish the Espionage Act
3. To abolish the Patriot Act
4. To conduct target practice on the NSA facility in Utah that stores all of our data
5. To close 90% of the US bases overseas
6. To give amnesty to Assange and Snowden
7. To collapse our two dozen intelligence agencies into a single agency, and to cut the budget 90%But as that’s never going to happen unless and until the loss of reserve status, I will instead pray for loss of reserve status first. Which will be a great thing for the average person in the US, and for the average person in any other country, but a terrible nightmare for the 1% elite.
Another great article from Alastair Crooke. I think we should make him an honorary member of TAE because he thinks just like we do:
@TAESummary:
The only thing that feels ominously similar to me is that every single contrived enemy leader is compared to Hitler, and Nazi ambitions from 80 years ago are trotted out as the excuse to never, ever, ever engage in diplomacy. There are plenty of examples from history of conflicts settled by truce without fighting to total capitulation.
Raul, thanks again for all you do. I have not felt like commenting much lately, and sometimes it is hard to even read through all of the Rattles, but I always appreciate that TAE is always there.
Ilargi, I finally started using the Bitcoin Lightning network. It is faster, cheaper and more anonymous than sending funds on the Bitcoin base chain. Do you have a Lightning wallet yet? One of the easiest to set up and use is Wallet of Satoshi. If you set that up, you can get an easy to remember address to receive funds that looks just like an email address (alongside the option of a long string of letters and numbers or a QR code). If you add a Lightning address, great. If not, I will continue to send to your base chain Bitcoin address.
I know that there are a lot of Bitcoin skeptics here. But after all that has happened in Canada and now Ukraine that the brains trust at TAE is at least taking a Bitcoin test drive? You might ultimately conclude that it us all BS. But you owe it to yourself to at least open an account to see how it works.
Sorry to hear about the disc. Been there, done that … too many times. The worst part for me was when everything tightens up at night. It’s hard to move, hard to sleep, and impossible to get socks on in the morning.
My life got better when I bought a Herman Miller Aeron chair for the office. Now my disc problems are not as frequent. But still utterly terrible when it happens.
I considered the root canal but at $1,600 decided I not could afford it.
Highway robbery. I had my first root canal in Korea last year. It took about an hour. They charged me $30. I took a picture of the after xray with the roots filled — pretty cool xray.
The mass formation spell remains intact. Now mediocre Western politicians want to push us to the brink of extinction. Nobody in authority is asking how to deescalate this. Nobody in authority is thinking about compromise. Nobody is discussing history. Of course there is no knowledge of history or sense of introspection in the USA. The country cares nothing for history (even its own) and is incapable of critical introspection. And even though the West utterly failed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya — this was the result only after destroying everything. And destroying everything gave the USA enough satisfaction to never learn any lesson. So now as long as Putin lives, they will see it as “there’s still something left to destroy.”
It makes so little logic sense, I wonder if it is demonic. And I deliberately choose that word, not in the metaphorical sense, but in the literal sense.
I actually like today’s Picasso. My first thought was “it’s a Klee” but on closer inspection, no, definitely not Klee. I always liked Picasso’s shapes, but felt that he did not have the eye for color that Klee had.
I’ve lived here through 2 military coups and wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t read the news…
That might be the antidote to all the madness. My Korean is good enough to get by, but not good enough to follow Korean politics. As Cypher says in The Matrix: “Ignorance is bliss.”
I follow all that is happening in the US and overseas, but the only reason I can cope is that it is happening thousands of miles away.
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@TimGroves
I agree that co-morbidities are certainly relevant to disease outcomes. But I have not seen any data suggesting that co-morbidities have any effect on infection rates.
Quite the contrary, from my understanding, we are all going to catch this sooner or later: young and old, rich and poor, fat and thin, healthy and unhealthy, vaccinated and unvaccinated. The co-morbidities become a factor in whether a person is likely to have a severe case.
I agree that obesity is one of the most important co-morbidities, and obesity is more prevalent in Western countries. Diet may be generally better in Asia, but Asia has its own co-morbidities, particularly Vitamin D deficiency, which is also closely linked to bad Covid outcomes. Another issue in Asia is air pollution, and which is terrible in Seoul — maybe not so bad in Tokyo.
@TDK Now we are starting to find common ground. I agree that this has gone on too long. From the beginning, the priority should have been to study repurposed drugs that might be used for early treatment. China was doing small chloroquine phosphate trials in January 2020! Favorable ivermectin studies were coming out in mid-2020. Once we had reasonable treatment protocols, economies should have started reopening. Instead, Western governments insisted on waiting for a vaccine and novel/expensive new treatments (and Korea being a US vassal state went along with it). The refusal to consider early treatments, and the persecution of physicians who spoke out in favor of early treatments: This was the crime against humanity. This is why Fauci and friends should be in jail.
Yes, it has gone on too long. It was not only mismanaged, but the response has been a criminal enterprise. But my point is that masks were never the problem, and it was always wrong to say “masks don’t work.” They were always part of the solution, especially in the beginning when we needed to slow the spread for the first six months, which was the time required to identify early treatment protocols.
Okay. My last post about masks because everyone’s mind is probably already made up:
@EoinW
You may recall that in the early days of the pandemic, the superspreader events were events with a lot of vocalization. Churches and choir practice, for example. In Korea it was often call centers with many people sitting in close quarters and talking all day long. It was never buses and subways where people sit in close quarters but usually do NOT talk . Here is the visual evidence of what happens when you speak without a mask, but for some people, I know, seeing is NOT believing:
Yes, we learned later that the virus also passes by aerosolized transmission, but that is in addition to droplet transmission, not instead of droplet transmission. Besides, areosolized transmission requires a longer exposure in a confined space with poor ventilation.@Absolute Galore
Japan never used Ivermectin on a wide scale, though the head of the Tokyo Medical Association made favorable comments about it in August 2021. And to the extent it was used, it was used primarily for treatment, not prophylaxis. Korea has its own co-morbidities. Obesity is not as big a problem, but Vitamin-D deficiency is more severe. That is why as recently as December, Korea had to go back to strict social distancing because the hospitals were full with only 7000 new infections per day — a drop in the bucket compared to the US. Finally, I don’t think there were a lot of unreported cases here. Track and trace remained in effect, so many people were sent for testing even if they had no symptoms. Several times my employer sent me for testing because someone in the office was a positive case.@TDK
Understood with the comment about the kids, but that speaks to a different issue. Speaking from personal experience, the kids here would rather be in school wearing masks than sitting at home without a mask and connecting by Zoom. The kids have plenty of time to play at home after school with other kids in a maskless environment. If the message from the parents is that it is normal and common sense to wear a mask in schools, the kids adjust just fine. If the message from the parents is that this is scarring you for life, then I fear it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
@jpbrichta
Again, there was some use of Ivermectin in Japan, but this was never widespread, and it was never used as a prophylaxis strategy.Bottom line: This is the real life clinical trial. There are 25 million people in greater Seoul, and almost all have complied with widespread masking. We never had a lockdown. People always went along with their normal routines, except that the size of gatherings in restaurants was limited. I am convinced that widespread masking is a big factor, and I have not heard a better explanation. I look at the other major cities in Asia, and compare those to the major cities in the West, and there is an obvious difference in behaviors and outcomes. I think that is undeniable, but I also recognize that nobody in the West wants to see what I see.
Are you based in Thailand now? As repressive as it may be, does it still seem repressive if you do not read the news?
Get out while you can; but, where to go is not clear…
I think the best bet is a non-Western country, where you don’t speak the language, and where most human interaction is with people you know personally. V. Arnold, I might join you down in Thailand. The Korean countryside would be OK, but city living here in Seoul is becoming too expensive, and living with 25 million neighbors is not good for the nerves. My first choice would be Nong Khai on the Laos border. Great memories of that hamlet . . .
