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Dr D wrote:
“Many saw a dramatic improvement within days of their jab. Their fatigue disappeared,”
This is the exact opposite of what everybody else said about the jab.Precisely. I was talking yesterday to one of my social circle who had the jab about a week ago. He told me that he’s been hit hard: great fatigue, inability to concentrate, has lost about half a week from his busy work schedule and doesn’t know if will be able to make it up, has been forced to cancel at least one social engagement. He said that things are improving slowly; OK in the morning but still runs out of steam about halfway through the day. Not happy.
“Catch up on your Greek alphabet, it’ll come in handy.”
I am morbidly curious to discover what the omega variant is like. Maybe someone could make a movie along those lines.
I’m going to dust off and re-read my copy of Laurie Garrett’s 1994 book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance. Blurb: “After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours.” And who knows what else.
Raúl: “Reaction? More lockdowns. Which have failed for 18 months now. And what are they trying to achieve? How long can you separate the entire country from the world? Until you reach zero, and then you can open and start all over again?”
It’s not all bad. The Australia Institute, an august non-neoliberal economic thinktank, is pointing out that the barriers to easy international travel into and out of Australia are having positive economic effects. Instead of neglecting our own people and importing cheap, already-trained
slavesworkers from overseas, we are being forced to train and hire locals — just as we did prior to the adoption of globalist policies. This is good.The vastly overheated housing market is calming down and becoming somewhat more affordable.
However, the flight of people from our overstuffed cities into small towns is not doing the locals there any good as they are being priced out of their own housing — purchase and rental — by the influx of urban sea-changers.
The Federal government recently announced plans to stop trying to extinguish the Plague and live with it, à la Singapore. So far it’s lomng on ideals and short on details, but it’s a start.
HOWEVER, when it comes to dealing with the Plague, the ONLY treatment one reads and hears about is Vaccines! Vaccines! Vaccines! The people know nothing else. It’s not their fault.
Re naturopaths in Australia:
Yes, naturopathic doctors can prescribe medications as they are no different to medical doctors. They attended a naturopathic medical school and studied the use and functions of pharmaceutical drugs. However, prescribing medications is not the primary goal of an ND. They are trained to treat and prevent diseases in a holistic manner, so they would consider all natural options to support the body’s innate healing mechanism.
SourceHTH.
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Eucalypts are in the myrtle family. Myrtle Rust not so long ago made its way into Australia from Brazil. Now we’re worried that this blight could cause immense harm to our eucalypt forests. Perhaps a northern hemisphere dominated by eucalypts would ensure the survival of the genus.
It’s so disappointing to see what ivermectin hesitancy, fuelled by ivermectin denialism, is doing to public health.
BTW, if the elites want to pursue their transhumanist program, seeking immortality via technology, then let them go for it. Let them waste their time and brief lives. It’s a totally futile endeavour. Not even the universe is immortal — the laws of thermodynamics demonstrate that.
And what would these elites DO with their “immortality” anyway? It won’t benefit me, that’s for sure, nor anyone else. Could these immortal elites bring my dead parents back to life? Of course not. Transhumanism is utterly selfish and, as I just said, futile.
There’s a very strong delusion among these people!
P.S. I intend to start using the terms “ivermectin hesitancy” and “ivermectin denialism”. No reason why we can’t borrow terminology from the other side of the debate!
In Australia the MSM endlessly repeat that all that stands between us and dire illness is the Federal government’s botched vaccine rollout program. And it has been botched. But to politicise it like this is of course missing the mark.
Naturally ivermectin is not mentioned anywhere in the MSM. However, I do notice in various blogs and comment streams an increasing awareness in at least some people that ivermectin works, and these people are saying so. The fact that the Indian government is suing that scientist in the WHO is very useful ammunition when making a case for ivermectin. It seems very hard to argue that the Indian gov’t has made a huge mistake and is wasting everyone’s time. Mind you, I haven’t seen any reports of this lawsuit in the MSM.
There’s an element of schizophrenia in reports. For instance, today the ABC has this article on its website: “The Delta coronavirus variant may be spreading, but high vaccination rates mean Israelis stay free“. In it we read this:
Days before he announced Australia’s pathway out of lockdowns, Mr Morrison used Israel — where 60 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated with the Pfizer jab — to warn Australians that vaccines are not the silver bullet in combating COVID-19. “Under this new Delta variant, [in Israel] we’re seeing potentially 50 per cent of new cases being people who have been vaccinated…”.
After blaming unvaccinated children for bringing the virus home, it goes on to say that the Delta coronavirus variant may be spreading, but high vaccination rates mean Israelis stay free.
The message is plain. TINA: There is No Alternative.
We must accept that most of the people in reports such as these have the best intentions. They really do believe that they are doing the right thing for the greater good.
The main question to ask is this: what would it take to change their minds?
The Delta lockdown in Canberra isn’t too bad at the moment. Went shopping yesterday and ate at a café. None of this hand sanitising business. Masks are required only indoors (shops, cinemas, malls, etc). Anyone with asthma or other problems with masking are automatically exempt. They may be removed when eating indoors. And so on. At the moment we’re getting off lightly. At the moment.
Oh, and TPTB are quite insistent on our registering our visits to ALL businesses, preferably by use of an app on the
mobilecell phone. Obedience training?It’s planned to last for only 2 weeks, having started on Monday. Curious to see how this latest spasm pans out.
It is clear to me from analysing the contents of mainstream website comment streams (e.g. The Conversation) that the prevalent attitude is, sure, we are seeing X number of injuries and even deaths from the vaccine, but in comparison to the total number of people jabbed, X is a VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE and anyway there’s always casualties from helath campaigns like this one and IT’S WELL WORTH THE COST to keep the rest of us & our children safe and END THE PLAGUE and FREE US FROM QUARANTINE.
It’s like talking to a brick wall.
But then, most people don’t follow sites like TAE or Peak Prosperity or the various others, and get all their news, ideas and opinions from the MSM. No wonder they think this way.
Brief Australia Report
The attitude here overwhelmingly is pro-vaccine. Endless propaganda. Doubters are ignored. The precautionary principle is ignored. Politicians, much of the medical community, academics, left- and right-wing media, and so on all suport jabbing. (Hmmm: new Star Wars character: Jabba the Nut ?)
Sydney and now Canberra are resuming mandatory mask-wearing, for 2 weeks initially while the NSW government attempts to trace a small number of people. Is the Delta variant really so incredibly infectious? I have no way of telling.
We’ve had the beta and delta variants, and maybe an epsilon is around the corner. Don’t know if a gamma was identified. At this rate we can make our way through the Greek alphabet and when we get to the omega variant we all drop dead. I’m getting to the stage where I would welcome that…
Then we get stories such as the one in the ABC yesterday about a super-spreader party somewhere in Sydney where 40-odd people got infected and 6 didn’t. The 6 were all vaccinated. Ta-da! True? Why not? This vaccine must be good to some extent, otherwise the public would notice (wouldn’t they?) and turn against it.
There is serious talk among TPTB in at least NSW to introduce vaccine passports, based of course on apps on the almost ubiquitous
mobilecell phone. Ownership and carriage of a cell phone isn’t mandatory yet, but I suspect it will become so. We so enjoy our fetters.Brief Australia Report
The attitude here overwhelmingly is pro-vaccine. Endless propaganda. Doubters are ignored. The precautionary principle is ignored. Politicians, much of the medical community, academics, left- and right-wing media, and so on all suport jabbing. (Hmmm: new Star Wars character: Jabba the Nut ?)
Sydney and now Canberra are resuming mandatory mask-wearing, for 2 weeks initially while the NSW government attempts to trace a small number of people. Is the Delta variant really so incredibly infectious? I have no way of telling.
We’ve had the beta and delta variants, and maybe an epsilon is around the corner. Don’t know if a gamma was identified. At this rate we can make our way through the Greek alphabet and when we get to the omega variant we all drop dead. I’m getting to the stage where I would welcome that…
Then we get stories such as the one in the ABC yesterday about a super-spreader party somewhere in Sydney where 40-odd people got infected and 6 didn’t. The 6 were all vaccinated.True? Why not? This vaccine must be good to some extent for something, otherwise the public would notice (if the media let them) and turn against it.
There is serious talk among TPTB in at least NSW to introduce vaccine passports, based of course on apps on the almost ubiquitous
mobilecell phone. Ownership and carriage of a cell phone isn’t mandatory yet, but I suspect it will become so.I’m fed up with The Conversation website, a site written by academics only aimed at spreading accurate information and dispelling myths. Much of it is good, but at the same time there are far too many academics who seem to see only one side of an issue. Impossible to argue with them. They’re only human after all.
Pharmacy is a combination of the Greek term * pharama form IE * bher- (to charm, enchant) and -(a)-ko- resulting in * pharmako- (magic, charm, cure, potion, medicine) and in Latin pharmacie.
— https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15146844/In the Bible the KJV translates pharmakeia as sorcery or magic arts. When I look at where at least part of the pharmaceutical industry is heading, I think that’s more than ever a relevant translation.
I’m an Australian aged over 60, and based on my curernt knowledge, there is no likelihood of my accepting a jab with ANY of the vaccines currently on offer. Maybe Novavax, maybe valneva, but certainly not Pfizer’s or AZ’s.
The propaganda campaign in the Land Down Under to get we the people to accept jabs of either the Pf or AZ vaccine is renarkably strong, but so far we are TOT being forced to submit to either.
I can only hope that The System self-destructs before it transmogrifies into full-blown totalitarianism. At the moment self-destruction seems not to be as far-fetched an idea as we may have thought only a few months ago.
Apologies for typos! Should proof-read more carefully before hitting the Submit button!
Come to think of it, that’s what TPTB want us ALL to do: hit the Submit button.
Yesterday I tried unsuccessfully to post a scan of a letter from the Oz Fed gov’t. Never mind, here are relevant excerpts:
Dear X,
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If you haven’t yet made your booking to be vaccinated, it’s never been easier with more clinics, Gps, and centres ready to take your appointment. You can do this by visiting australia.gov.au or call the vaccination helpline on 1800 020 080.
Our worldclass regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Aministration (TGA), has approved the vaccines as safe to use and continues to closely monitor their safety. Millions of Australians have already been vaccinated, including many of our population aged 70 and over.
If youhave any specific questions about the vaccines, always speak with your GP.
Attached is more information about accessing your immunisation certificate once you have received your vaccine.
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If we have further outbreaks of the virus in Australia, it is people aged 70 and over who are most at risk of serious illness and even fatality.
Australia has shwon the world that be working together and listening to the health experts, we can save lives, protect livelihoods and live as normal a life as possible during this pendemic, which is far from over and still presents challenges ahead.
…
(signed) Prime Minister, Minister for Health, Chief Medical OfficerRes ipsa loquitur.
This letter arrived yesterday. Not much comment needed, except to say that the part about “accessing your vaccination certificate” means being able to see that you are recorded as having been jabbed on a government database. Being on this database is optional and I never opted in.
How long before push comes to shove is anyone’s guess. But it has to come.
I just received a newsletter email from my Federal Member (of Parliament). It’s entitled “Vaccination is the Pathway to reopening Australia”. It contains a lot of noble thoughts and ambitions, but is completely informed by the TINA hypothesis. It has ominous overtones too. Here’s an excerpt:
Until we reopen Australia, sectors such as international tourism and higher education will continue to suffer. The hit to universities could be as much as $20 billion. We’re also denying Australian families the chance to connect with loved ones, young people the opportunity to see the world, and businesses to expand globally. In the coming months, millions of Americans will take summer holidays in Europe – something that’s unthinkable for Australians.
Oppositions should do more than criticise, which is why Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Shadow Health Minister Mark Butler have proposed a four-point plan: speed up vaccination, create purpose-build quarantine facilities, manufacture domestic mRNA vaccines, and run a national ad campaign to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Australia isn’t even in the world’s top 100 countries for speed of vaccination. This is a race, and the Morrison Government is losing it.
Vaccination is freedom.
Many thanks to sumac.carol for bringing ivermectin resistance to our attention. Essential knowledge.
To hold our own in any debate — regardless of whether we prevail or not — it is important that we be aware of, acknowledge, and deal with arguments against our position, otherwise we appear just as one-eyed as anyone else.
I read The Conversation, a blog / newlstter written by academics only but addressed to the general public. Among its purposes are to educate the public and dispel confusion. When it comes to the plague and its treatments, The Conversation’s consensus is clearly that any treatment not a vaccine is ineffective. (In the Australian vernacular, Ineffective = NBG, or No Bloody Good.) Every now and then I try to raise doubts in the comment stream, but it’s so easy for someone, an academic or another commentator, to throw up some study or other which confirms the status quo and leaves me voiceless.
We have to be careful when arguing outside our specialties. Mine is not medical at all (town planning, history & philosophy of science), so anything I say must be rigorously backed up by counter-arguments from reputable sources. The TAE has been just great in this respect. Also, it is worth a lot to have an actual medical practitioner on board whose practical experience is that IVM is effective. Hard to argue with success, but of course the opposition will simply argue back that this experience is anecdotal, or not enough people in the case study, and the methodology is flawed, and so on.
Take a lesson from Paul Hellyer, who was Deputy PM of Canada under the first Trudeau. Decades ago he was most concerned about globalisation and its dangers, wrote at least two books about it (e.g. “Stop Think”), and came to Australia on a lecture tour. He told us that the hardest thing he had to do was to stand in front of a roomful of experts and tell them all, “You are wrong.” They didn’t listen of course, and the globalism project has proceeded until the dangers are now very real indeed.
We are all in Hellyer’s position.
Another part of the great reset?
A cyber attack is grinding Australia’s biggest meat processor to a halt and the fallout is causing disarray for farmers and the livestock trade around the country.
This is JBS, the same company that is under cyber attack in the US. Brilliant strategy, isn’t it: allow far too many abattoirs to be owned and controlled by the one organisation, and then connect them all to the Internet so that they’re readily compromised.
In some ways, the Internet is as much a vector of infection as anything or anyone else. Sending the entire Internet into quarantine might be a good strategy.
This morning ANOTHER article in The Conversation, telling us we must get vaccinated now now now, with the comments TURNED OFF.
I had thought the academic world was better than this. Sigh.
Re demonising the unvaccinated, conditions in Australia in general are still satisfactory. While there’s constant urging from governments for us to get our jabs, they haven’t YET started to become nasty about non-compliance.
Today The Conversation ran an article entitled I’m over 50 and hesitant about the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. Should I wait for Pfizer? Normally readers can make comments on Conversation articles, but not this one.
There’s ZERO long-term data or results available on any of these rush-job vaccines, so I intend to wait as long as possible before making up my mind. But because the CDC recently shifted the goalposts regarding vaccine effectiveness and safety, I have no confidence that adverse events will be officially detected, much less officially analysed and reported.
phoenix voice wrote,
an experimental product that has not been fully approved by the FDA
Recall that in June (or is it July, forget) Pfizer will file for formal approval from the FDA, and I have read somewhere or other that approval will be granted in October. Whether that be true or not, when approval is granted then suddenly it’s not experimental any more and hence all objections on that ground are nullified.
If you’re looking for a population to test how flu vaccines and covid interact, Australia might suit. Winter starts on 1 June and we’ve been encouraged to get our annual flu jabs now. I have never had a flu jab and have never had the flu, so I am content to maintain a watching brief.
I do hope that nothing bad emerges. The general public don’t deserve it. It’s not their fault. But it has been made their burden.
Just in case you’re not sure, The Chaser (Lazy Entitled Boomers Told To Get A Jab) is a well-known satirical site. Comparable to The Onion.
I just made a rather long post which disappeared. Let’s try a much shorter one.
Thsi morning I made a comment to an article in The Conversation talking about how alarmist reporting on covid will only heighten anxieties and drive vaccine hesitancy. I cited McCullough and wondered how someone like me can know what is credible and what isn’t. I got a reply from another commentator, not the author of the article.
It cited Reuters Factcheck citing the CDC which says there is no evidence that vaccination contributed to patient deaths. (https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaers-deaths-idUSL1N2LV0NY)
Also cited the Wikipedia entry demonising Robert F. Kennedy.
Also cited a Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/22/melbourne-doctors-under-review-for-promoting-discredited-covid-treatment) saying that McCullough peer reviewed his own article, and his views don’t reflect those of Baylor Scott and White Health.After 12 months of reading and trying to analyse what is going on, my suspicious little mind has become very wary of the CDC and the Guardian and Wikipedia (and all the rest of them). No wonder the general public go along with the authorised and official opinions. They may not have the time or the interest in investigating, and neither would I if it weren’t for sites like TAE.
So, India is deploying the Sputnik vaccine. Here’s what the ABC, the Australian public broadcaster (but very much MSM) has to say about Sputnik:
“For example, numerous unverified accounts presenting themselves as news sources or health specialists reported the unveiling of the Russian vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ in an uncritically positive and largely decontextualized manner,” First Draft found.
“These reports failed to highlight the fact that the vaccine was approved before it had gone through large-scale Phase 3 trials, which provoked widespread concern and objections from the scientific community.”
SourceI see. Sputnik is no good because it hasn’t gone through the Phase 3 trials.
But Pfizer and AZ et al. are safe because they haven’t gone through the Phase 3 trials.At last I understand.
Re the safety or otherwise of the various vaccines, the message in Oz is that the people jabbed number in the millions while the casualties number in the few hundreds at most and we can’t be sure that any vaccine is causally related to the injuries anyway, hence the odds of someone suffering adverse effects are 99.999% against. So stop worrying and learn to love the gift of health and safety.
Only time will tell — provided the results are reported fairly.
Pearce’s painting is atmospheric all right, but I do wonder at the complexions of the two models: oh so pale and pasty, tragedy or no. Or did ancient Egyptian nobility have the same attitude towards darker skin that have been around for millennia, i.e. darker skin = outdoor work = lower social status?
A quick comment on an article from yesterday about Australia’s borders possibly being shut until late next year. Raúl asked, “How is that not a prison?”
It is and it isn’t.
There is more than a little unhappiness and anger here about the sudden banning of travellers returning from India, backed up with threats of fines and imprisonment. To abandon our own citizens like this is appalling, cynical, heartless treatment. Australian citizenship evidently means little to those who exercise the dominion over us.
Our foremost citizenship law expert thinks that the measures go beyond the law and are unconstitutional. The Feds are now rapidly backtracking, saying that they will not levy fines nor imprison anybody. At the same time they excuse themselves by insisting that our protection and safety is paramount and aren’t we so kind and loving? Part of the problems arises from the fact that the Feds have had an entire year to set up adequate quarantine facilities and have failed to do so. The why is anyone’s guess. Money? Neoliberal-inspired shrinkage of government? Just plain stupidity?
At the same time, the closed borders have had good effects. They have kept away the worst of the Plague. They have slowed down our ravenous resource extraction economy and brought to a halt the bulk importation of people needed to keep the growthist Ponzi scheme alive. We are starting to discover that our economy is based on wrong ideas and unrealistic expectations. Another possible benefit is that the Feds are starting to move away from neoliberalism: they’re actually preparing to spend big in next Tuesday’s budget, up-ending 40 years of ideology.
It doesn’t feel like a prison — yet! Internally we can move around with increasing freedom. Theatres, cinemas and shops are re-opening. A popular criticism of the Feds is that they have botched the vaccine rollout and should be doing more. Oh dear, how long until they copy everyone else and set up our very own Vaccine Apartheid system? Then maybe life in Oz could feel like a prison, except that to leave these shores will not easily take one to a less oppressive place.
I think we all have to settle down for the long run.
Interesting watching the debate in today’s comment stream about referring people to TAE website or not.
I want to thank Raúl for his extraordinary and enduring work in running TAE and in providing a wonderful and most useful range of articles for our consideration. I for one have benefited immensely from this, and feel that I have received quite an education over the many years that I’ve been a reader.
naturally, I don’t latch on to every and anything without doing some due diligence. My strategy with any news or information source is to go right back to the primary source if possible, and refer people to that. Sometimes I reckon the primary source is sensationalised or lurid, lacking a foundation of sober science or clear reporting. In this case it can often be possible to continue searching based on the contents of the lurid article and find a reputable data and information source, not necessarily directly related to the contents of the lurid article. Then I refer people to that.
This procedure is all a bit academic, but in this era of fake this and fake that and fake the other thing, I have to tread carefully. If ever I have to present a case in some tribunal or similar arena, one of my best allies will be a sound, sober basis of facts and reporting.
One of my other news & info sources is The Conversation. I don’t know how many of you subscribe to this. In their own words, “We launched The Conversation in 2011 as an antidote to a news ecosystem that gives too much oxygen to misinformation and leans toward the shrill over the sober. We do this by working with academics to produce news and analysis based on the latest facts, figures and research.”
Yes, but I find that these academics are of course just as subject to error and bias as anyone else. It’s interesting to note the almost 100% pro-vaccine stance of published articles. Criticisms and caveats are few. As we all know, academics and medical professionals are not gods, just flawed and fallible human beings like everyone else.
Raúl wrote, ” They all say the same thing: people can not be coerced, let alone mandated, into being part of a medical experiment. It’s highly illegal.”
Maybe so, but TPTB would surely claim that even if an experiment is taking place, it has been made necessary by the grave emergency and the damage to the world economy and the risks to public health, etc etc. Everything seems just fine at the moment: millions have been jabbed and the collateral damage is small. QED.
Any claim I might make to immunity from vaccination — THIS vaccination, I have safely had others — would turn on the argument whether or not an experiment is taking place. It seems clear that TPTB will simply say that they know better and we the people know nothing. They will remain deaf and blind to contrary arguments and overrule objections. They’re surfing a dictatorial wave now and will not be deflected. Too much at stake.
And what happens IF these vaccines turn out to be another thalidomide? I expect the deafness and blindness to continue. Sorry to be gloomy, but these are gloomy times.
Dexamethasone again? Hmmm. I’m on dexamethasone eyedrops right now, following an eye operation. Be nice to think that I may be unCovidable.
If Shanna Swan’s findings are correct (and I do find them a bit hard to accept) then sperm counts drop to zero by 2045 give or take a few years. We’ve had a 60% drop since 1973 so far. Posited causes include plastic pollution, such as phthalates and bisphenol-A which do not break down in the environment and which are to be found everywhere on the planet now.
So where are all these babies to come from? Or is China not greatly affectedl?
The GM takeover has already happened in Australia. A year or two ago the (Federal) Senate voted against opposing deregulation, even after a campaign mounted by several NGOs, mine included. Indeed, most of the senators didn’t even bother turning up to vote on the day. Now GM stuff can be freely sold and not identified as such.
More than ever I and mine source our food as carefully and organically, or at least non-GMO, as possible. We are blessed not to live in a food desert.
John Day wrote, “I would not take more than about 25 mg of zinc once per day long term, since it interferes with absorption of copper, which is a thing we need a little of.”
Thanks for that information. I use zinc supplement tabs whose contents are shown as “Zinc Gluconate 105mg (15 mg Zinc) per tablet.” To limit my daily intake to 25mg, I take 15/25 or 0.6 of a tablet daily. In the past I’ve had up to 75mg as a bolus dose with no apparent effects on my stomach. But I won’t push the boundaries.
Regarding copper intake, I’m a bit surprised that it’s hard to find recommendations for a daily Cu intake. However, it appears that the amount needed is small and best obtained in my diet. So I eat my way to health!
