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“We are still at zero confirmed deaths… From Omicron, that is. Not from the vaccines.”
At least one in Israel according to the article in today’s debt rattle. Plus at least two today in Korea according to today’s Korea Biomedical Review:
http://www.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12929Small numbers, yes, but still greater than zero, which is to be expected . . .
Today I went to my local hospital, a university hospital, to get my third and final dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine. The last visit was in August. During that visit the professor asked me if I wanted to get the Covid vaccine. I said “no thank you.” The professor did not ask me why, and did not try to change my mind, but just gave me what seemed, at the time, like a knowing glance.
This time, the professor did not even ask if I had received a Covid vaccine or if I wanted one. So I brought up the subject: “Tell me the truth. I want to know what you really think. What do you think about these Covid vaccines?”
Answer: “Well, I got it … [long pause] … because we had no choice. I received two shots, plus a booster, and we didn’t even have any choice as between the Astra Zeneca and the Pfizer … [another long pause] I wish I could have waited for the Novavax vaccine. It is a safer, superior technology. But I had no choice ….”
I explained that I will probably need one eventually because my work requires international travel, but that if I have to get one, I will wait for the Novovax.
The response: “That’s what I would do. I wish I had that choice.”
It was refreshing to hear a candid response that did not simply regurgitate the official propaganda.
The case fatality rate here is Korea is downright awful.
In Korea, a case is defined as a positive PCR test. Cumulatively there have been 667,390 positive PCR tests and 6,071 deaths attributed to Covid. Across all age groups that’s an overall case fatality rate of nearly 1%. That’s a hell of a lot worse than the flu. It’s atrocious. Almost criminal. But that’s what happens when you combine (i) no early treatment and (ii) more than 80% of the population severely deficient in Vitamin D. Korea has a much lower obesity rate than Western countries, so should be doing better — but it’s the opposite.
Even if Omicron is much less severe, Korea is going to have a tough time with this as long as the authorities continue to reject early treatment and do nothing about the Vitamin D situation.
“These rates indicate that the small risks of myocarditis from vaccination are still outweighed by the risks of Covid-19.”
Golly gee whiz. I guess if we really care about health, if we really care about myocarditis, then maybe we should start early treatment for Covid outpatients? Or should we instead keep telling them to stay home until the earlier of (i) chest pains, or (ii) their lips turn blue.
“Kimo wrote, “Ian Ricksecker was an interesting read, I kept thinking, if the virus does all of this, why would I want to inject it’s spike protein?”
I had exactly the same thought, followed the this:
I can get the shot three times, and then get Covid, meaning that I get four cumulative exposures to massive amounts of spike protein. Or I can wait until I get Covid, and only have one exposure. All things being equal, I choose one exposure rather than four.
Ah, but all things are not equal, our robot friend deflationista will say: Getting the shot reduces the risk of a serious case. Which may be true, but overlooks there are other proven measures one can also take to reduce the risk of a serious case. I can see how the over 65 and serious co-morbidities crowd might see the risk calculus and very rationally say “I’ll take the three shots.” But I can also see the younger, healthier, Vitamin D supplementing, exercising, ivermectin-taking, fluvoaxamine in the medicine cabinet crowd just as rationally saying “I only want exposure to the spike protein once, not four times.”
Just playing devil’s advocate, Chooch, but one might look at that chart and say “See what happened when they stopped the lockdowns?”
There needs to be some comeuppance once this is all over.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2022/01/501_321707.html
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh my god. It never ends. All the vaccinistas get covid despite taking their beloved gene therapy.
First it was, “we need to get to 70%”, the “we need to get to 85%”.
Now it is “we need booster doses”.
For fucks sake.
For those that have a difficult time listening to Robert Malone for 3 hours, I suggest to listen to the second half. And if 1.5 hours is still too long, I think the best content is in the first half of the second half.
It makes no sense to me to say that a PCR test cannot distinguish a coronavirus from an influenza virus. The test is all about gene sequences, and the gene sequence of a coronavirus does not look anything like a gene sequence of influenza. We are talking about gene sequences, not visual appearance. To the uninformed, the Japanese language might be mistaken for Korean. But to anyone with the slightest degree of familiarity, these are completely different. Even complete gibberish in Korean can never be mistaken for Japanese and vice versa. This idea that PCR sequencing cannot distinguish between these two virus makes no sense at all. It is an incomprehensible argument.
Good interview with Dr. Hakim Djaballah, who was formerly at Institut Pasteur in Korea. He always has interesting and provocative things to say, and he has a nuanced view on many issues.
“I strongly believe that your population is your best partner in managing the pandemic and getting out of it. The more you antagonize them, the more problem you’re going to be faced with.”
“South Korea continues to see record high case numbers, despite 99% mask compliance and 85% of their entire population being vaccinated, which is odd because I’ve been told by CNN experts that masks prevent infections and that an 85% vaccination rate would get us past COVID”
Yes, record high cases here, but in the range of about 7000 cases per day. That’s still pretty low considering that the population is 53 million and the population density is high — much higher than the USA, which had 234,000 cases yesterday, with a population of 330 million. South Korea has made plenty of mistakes, especially (i) too much emphasis on vaccines, (ii) ignoring widespread Vitamin D deficiency, and (iii) completely ignoring early treatments like fluvoxamine, ivermectin, chloroquine, and nitazoxanide. But South Korea’s social distancing and high masking compliance has kept case counts much much lower per capita than the “masks don’t work” USA!
Dying WITH Omicron is not the same as dying FROM Omicron, and being in hospital with it says nothing either, if you don’t know a patient’s age, history, comorbidities etc.
All very true, but where does the with/from distinction leave us? It’s a tricky question. What happens when a person’s death is caused by a combination of things? Suppose a person has diabetes, Covid, and hypertension and all of these are working together to make someone sick enough to die — but the person would have gone on living with two of those three conditions. How do you count that death? Do you just pick one of the three? Do you say “cause unknown”? Do you list all three contributing causes? If you do that, how should the statistic be counted? As 1 Covid death? 0 Covid deaths? Or 1/3 of a Covid death? Or do you just leave it up to the doctor’s judgment?
I am not sure what the answer ought to be.
@phoenixvoice
I do not think that cross immunity can be the reason. SARS and MERS never really got a foothold here. Both were major scares, but they were snuffed out pretty quickly, and they never circulated widely.I recall in the early days of the pandemic Chris Martenson did a video on masks. Someone found a way to photograph (and video) all of the droplets that come out of our mouths when we talk. Somehow that was all colored in the video so it could be easily visualized on the film. Without masks people were spewing stuff everywhere, but with masks, all of that was held in. I remember watching that video and thinking: “Yes, seeing is believing. With this camera/filming trick, I can now see this with my own eyes.” That was around the time when there were a series of super-spreader events involving choirs and singing. Some of the early super-spreader events in Korea involved call centers where people were sitting right next to each other blathering into the phone all day long. So it was really no surprise after seeing that video how these became super-spreader events.
After that it became known that the virus is spread not only by droplets, but by airborne transmission. So yes, you can spread this and pass it even if you are wearing a mask, but in my head I still visualize that video and thinking that we’d all be better off keeping all of those droplets to ourselves, even if some people will pick it up by airborne transfer.
All of this reminds me of the old debate about passing out condoms in schools. Some people raise an objection that condoms are not 100%. They are right. They object that condoms might give a false sense of security. Right again. But in spite of those objections, the risk is lower when people use condoms. The mindset in Asia is that the risk of catching this virus is lower if everyone wears a mask. How much lower may be a subject of debate, but the consensus here is that it is lower.
And conceding your point that correlation isn’t causation, the correlation is pretty striking and otherwise hard to explain . . .
@VeraciousPoet
I suppose their are two different kinds of sheep. Silent sheep led to the slaughter in one category. Loud, annoying, bleating sheep in one category. The former probably scored high marks in math class.
yet, yet pretty well all already went and got their jabs! You know, … explanation goers: … cant go to the hockey game without an official QR code
Up until today, the rule in Korea has been that not everyone needs to be vaccinated to eat at a restaurant. Originally the maximum group was four, and at least two needed the pass. Then at least three needed the pass. Then it was a group of only two, and at least one needed the pass.
Under the new rule, effective tomorrow, unvaccinated people can go to a restaurant, but they must eat alone. No exceptions for families. My wife got the vaccine, and she has the pass. So we can eat together at the dinner table at home, but now if we go to a restaurant, we would need to sit at separate tables. Does that make any sense? The purpose is to cajole the remaining holdouts to get the clot shot.
I ask myself: “Will there be pushback now that they are moving to a ‘booster every three months’ program”? Surely people will see the madness for what it is? Especially since the vaccine does not stop Omicron? Alas, the madness has already gone on longer than I expected, and Korea is just finally getting to the “hit the panic button” stage.
There are no vaccine mandates here. It’s a softer form of pressure. My company has no vaccine mandate, but now I cannot go out to lunch or dinner with any members of my team, even one on one, because I would have to sit alone. This is a problem because I am the team head. How long can this go on? Maybe I get lucky, we go into lockdown, and everyone works from home. Is that what I should be hoping for?
So anyway, I understand the logic of ultimately biting the bullet and getting the shot. But I am hoping to put that off as long as possible.
Maybe I have been in Asia too long, but I just don’t get the opposition to masks.
The opposition to “vaccine only” strategies – I get it
The opposition to vaccine mandates — I get it.
The opposition to vaccinating children — I get it.
The opposition to spike protein vaccines — I get it.
The opposition to boosters every three months – I get it.
The opposition to media scaremongering — I get it.
The opposition to lockdowns — I get it.
The opposition to the corrupt Fauci — I get it.
The opposition to the corrupt FDA, WHO, NIH — I get it
The need to embrace early treatment with repurposed drugs — I get it.But on masks, I just don’t understand the opposition. This strikes me as common sense. Don’t tell me they don’t work. Look at the overall experience in Asia, where widespread mask use has been common from the beginning, and compare that to the overall experience in mask-averse countries. There’s no comparison. It’s like night and day. But as I said, maybe my experience of being here so long colors my idea of what I think of as common sense.
Korea did some things right, like contact tracing and testing, but they have been abysmal at other things, like treating people who actually come down with the disease. The current overall case fatality rate here is 0.83% across all age groups — and that counts every single positive PCR test. Basically, if you get the virus your odds here are much worse than just about anywhere else. Why is that? I think a big part of it is that more than 80% of the population is seriously deficient in Vitamin D, and they have been for years.
Current daily cases are in the 7000 range, in a country to 53 million people, and the healthcare system is stretched to capacity with ICU beds full. So they are tightening the social distancing measures again because 7000 cases per day is all the system can handle. At that rate the country will not be able to reopen for another 20 years — by that time, at 7000 cases per day, all 53 million people will have had the virus once. Yet they apparently can’t do the math. And they won’t experiment with early treatment. No discussion of trying fluvoxamine, ivermectine, nitazoxanide, dutasteride, chloroquine. Nope, they are instead adopting a “vaccine only” and then “wait at home until your lips turn blue” approach. They have 92% of the adult population “fully vaccinated” and have said they will move to boosters every three months. As if that it going to work.
The whole point of shutting down the economy was to buy time to learn about thsi disease and how to treat it. The authorities here have learned nothing. There is no Plan B.
The only thing that has saved us is that at least the people have the common sense to wear masks. Haha!
“Which donation system, leave the most in your pocket, cost less. (conversion/exchange fee, pay pal, patreon, checks, cash)”
That’s an easy one: ₿itcoin!
“What I want to know is if anyone can remind me of the pre-shot protocols, or if vitamin I would help even now.”
@mpsk
Sorry to hear the bad news. Vitamin D, baby aspirin, nattokinase — the latter two to limit clotting.“Does anyone know the name and/or the website of the former TAE moderator who went off to start a Christian website? He was in law school at the time.”
Ashvin Pandurangi
https://vpbklaw.com/about/P.S. I find it a bit odd that no one replied concerning my comment on the fragility of Bitcoin/Crypto yesterday
@VeraciousPoet
It is possible that in a dystopian world internet access might be blocked, mining farms in various countries could be bombed, and crypto might be declared to be the enemy of the people and the financing of terrorists.I think that becomes more unlikely the more time passes. At some point it gets too difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. With the SEC having approved the Coinbase IPO and a bitcoin futures ETF, it is now more difficult for the US government to outlaw the asset class. There are bitcoin mining farms in Russia. Is the US going to bomb those? Even if they somehow take a lot of the mining offline, the network is decentralized, and that will increase the incentives to set up mining in places that have not been bombed. China shut down mining over a short time period, and the mining simply moved elsewhere. The regulators have already started saying that crypto is the means of terrorist and other criminal financing, but the response has been to impose KYC requirements to better control and monitor the onramps and offramps. But that won’t stop the price appreciation as more and more lose faith in the dollar and look for a digital exit.
That is a wonderful photo of Julian. Can we make a TAE T-shirt out of that? I would pony up $1000 (in bitcoin). Lord have mercy on that man’s soul. He is a true hero.
@johnday
Back in September you wrote the A to Z piece, and there you mentioned that lecithin improves quercetin absorption by up to 20x. So I ordered some lecithin. I planned to keep it on hand with my quercetin, so that I could take both together at the first sign of any Covid symptoms.
Since then I have reading up on other benefits of quercetin, and there has been some research into whether quercetin might lower blood pressure, but it seems that research has been inconclusive. I thought to myself: I bet they didn’t try taking it with lecithin.
Two weeks ago, I decided to experiment by taking quercetin and lecithin on a daily basis. Almost immediately my daily blood pressure numbers dropped significantly. Like somebody flipped a switch. Over the two weeks,my average morning systolic numbers dropped by 10, on average, and diastolic dropped by 7, on average, compared to the two weeks before.
My doctor told me last year to start thinking about taking tablets, but I have resisted that, looking to make lifestyle changes first, and perhaps try a natural solution instead of a purely pharmaceutical solution. Some other things have helped, but not as dramatically as what I have seen in two weeks.
Anyway, thanks for the lecithin tip.
@johnday
Yes, Bitcoin. Bitcoin will be the catalyst that accelerates the demise of the USD because it easily crosses borders and cannot be confiscated. Even if Russia had not already developed a SWIFT alternative, Bitcoin is a secure SWIFT alternative.
Gold will eventually have its day in the sun, but only when it gets out from under the thumb of the USD banking system. When that day comes, it will go up at least 50x overnight. Until then, it will languish close to production value.
Bitcoin maximalists claim that Bitcoin will replace the USD as the world’s reserve asset. That might happen, but gold has a huge advantage: Central banks hold gold, but not bitcoin. And they hold it in a manner that is relatively evenly distributed according to the size of their economies. That means if there is a reset and gold replaces the dollar as the premier reserve asset, the transition to the next system is relatively smooth and stable, because everyone comes out on the other side in the same position relative to one another.
The transition is inevitable, like a long overdue earthquake. It needs a catalyst. Bitcoin can be that catalyst. The banking system cannot control the Bitcoin price like they can for gold. If more countries like El Salvador move into Bitcoin, then game theory teaches that everyone has to follow. Otherwise you end up unbalanced when the day of reckoning arrives.
People talk about the hyperinflation of the USD. But the key feature of hyperinflation is not just the sudden lack of confidence in a currency. It’s the sudden lack of confidence combined with the availability of an obvious better alternative. In Argentina, that means pesos for dollars. In Venezuela, that means bolivars for dollars. In Weimar, it meant any hard currency instead of the mark. Before Bitcoin, there was no obvious better alternative to the USD for most people (and, more importantly, for large institutions like pension funds and life insurance companies). Most people have never bought a gold coin, and would not know how to recognize a genuine coin from a counterfeit. They would be worried: “Is this real or fake? Too much risk, I’ll just keep my dollars.” There has not been a better alternative. Pension funds might like the idea of gold, but nobody wants to store it. And why bother if the banks keep the thumb on the price? So the problem if that even though everyone can see the USD’s days are numbered, there’s nowhere to go.
Bitcoin changes that. Now there is somewhere to go, and it does not require investing in a huge vault. Pension funds that do not want to hold negative yielding sovereign debt? Now there is an alternative, a digital alternative, right at your fingertips. Bitcoin is the escape from the system. The only escape. It is the catalyst that can bring the system down.
If it succeeds, I do not think that necessarily means that Bitcoin becomes the new reserve asset. I think gold might step into that role. The central banks would rather see gold step into that role than Bitcoin because they are already invested in gold. The US would rather see gold step into that role than Bitcoin because so much of the world’s gold is held in New York, meaning that it is de facto controlled by the US, even if it is owned by other countries.
So yes, I am a Bitcoin proponent, because I think it has an important role to play as a catalyst to whatever comes next, and I am eager to get to a more honest, less corrupt world.
“ If Russia wants to acquire bitcoin, why would it announce that? What’s the upside?”
To encourage the rest of the world to follow and promote network effects. But you are correct, it makes sense to buy first and announce after the fact, just as central banks do will gold purchases.
“Washington could target major Russian banks and could even disconnect Moscow from the SWIFT banking network.“
The world needs Bitcoin. The counter-move is for Russia to announce that it will move 1% of its reserves into Bitcoin.
Veracious Poet,
It sounds like you are suffering greatly from the burden of the red pill. But do you really want to go back?
You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist.
I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious.
After nine years, you know what I realize?
Ignorance is bliss.
-Cypher
@sumac.carol
What you describe is a world-wide phenomenon. This rising inequality is what we get from near zero interest rates and soaring asset prices. Some striking quotes from an article in today’s Korea Times titled More Koreans frustrated by ‘broken social ladder’:
“My friends and I feel that monthly income cannot even guarantee our near future. There is no chance of a rags to riches story anymore… Without hitting the jackpot in cryptocurrency, the stock market, or on YouTube, turning my life around seems impossible.”
“I feel like it’s getting more and more difficult to achieve a better living standard out of individual effort, compared to the past when I was in my 20s. The inequality seems to get stronger especially as financial income from investments far surpass earned income in all classes.”
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/12/281_319782.html
The central bankers need to go. Bitcoin is the future.
“30,000 mutations in the spike protein alone”
That caught my eye too, and it must be an error.
I understand that the entire genetic sequence for the virus contains only 30,000 “letters in the code” and the number of known mutations is approximately 50, with more than 30 of those on the spike protein.
I agree that Germ’s Japan video by Dr John Campbell was quite informative.
I have been watching Dr. Campbell’s channel for a few months now. The first video I watched really turned me off because it was strongly pro-vaccine. But then I see him talking favorably about Vitamin D, and then talking favorably about Ivermectin, and then talking favorably about other points that are not officially approved talking points, which boosted his credibility.
Personally (I am no doctor), if Covid infection moved from respiratory to circulatory (things aren’t improving after 8 to 10 days) I would want IVM, HCQ, and some kind of corticosteroids on hand. As far as an antibiotic like AZ, I am pretty anti antibiotic, not opposed, just very conservative.
Chooch, you would be waiting too long if you wait until days 8-10. Even in severe Covid patients, the body has typically cleared most of the virus by day 9, and what is left is the aftermath of the immune system’s overreaction. For antivirals, early treatment is key. You should start the IVM at the first sign of symptoms. If you bother with HCL at all, that also needs to be early, and it needs to be accompanied by zinc, which is the key anti-viral agent (HCL is a zinc ionophore, helping the zinc to get into the cells where it can interfere with viral replication).
You need to fill your medicine cabinet before you get sick. Now is the time to prepare. I have ordered ivermectin, fluvoxamine, nitazoxanide and dutasteride from India, and if I use them, it will be in accordance with the FLCCC protocols.
@Henry
Here is how to get the tablets made for humans:My previous message was perhaps a little too bleak.
Rather than try to stop the decision that already seems to have been made, there still may be hope to try to mitigate the effects. You might suggest at least checking Vitamin D levels in advance to confirm that this is in the normal range, and if it is low to bring it up to normal first. You might suggest taking nattokinase before and after to reduce the risks of clotting. There are other suggestions that have been made on this board for people who believe that they have no choice but to get the clot shot. That might be the best chance . . .
I’ve consulted with his pediatrician and guidance from the CDC and AHA in formulating my proposed determination on this medical issue. You are welcome to respond in writing (only) to communicate your concerns and alternate proposals, including any supplemental material for my consideration.
absolute galore, I read those words and I conclude that the decision is already made. It’s really an appeal to authority, evidencing trust in the CDC and AHA. For the vast majority of people with no independent critical reasoning ability or curiosity to keep digging to get to the truth, it won’t go further than that. It cannot. You waste your time, like spitting into the wind.
The answer is that the spike protein vaccines are fundamentally problematic because of the spike protein. Even if the spike protein does not cause myocarditis, it is still an active agent that binds to cells and affects the body’s organs on a sub-clinical level. You don’t know how much spike protein is being produced, and you do not know how long it will take for the body to clear it. You do not know how many boosters will be required in the future. The boosters are not at all like an annual flu vaccines. The body does not replicate the antigen in the flu vaccines. The antigen in the flu vaccines does not bind to the ACE2 receptors throughout the body — it is inert and can be easily cleared. That is not the case with these spike protein vaccines. The problem is not the delivery platform (mRNA or adenovirus) — the problem is the payload they deliver. The problem is the antigen itself. The problem is the unknown long term effect of repeatedly priming the body to produce a substance that interferes with normal functions. The body many be able to clear it once, twice, three times, four times . . . but what is happening at a sub-clinical level in the meantime? Single exposure to lead isn’t what causes harm most of the time. It’s repeated long term exposure. Long term effects of repeatedly priming the body to produce and them clear spike protein is not on the CDC’s or AHA’s radar. They are myopically only focused on the short term, and having ruling out any other options such as early treatment, I suppose that is not very surprising.
I remember when Hank Gathers collapsed and died. I remember that being exceptional and shocking, not something routine.
Sometimes you have to stand back and let the idiots takes each other out
That line made me think of this piece by Alasdair Crooke I read last week. Recommended.
