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“Reasons For Things” blog post is up, with a lot of links you have seen here, and hopeful perspective, but please don’t slack off now… https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/reasons-for-things.html
This looks like good news about (free Christmas vaccine) Omicron:
It does not bind to cells deep in the lung tissue as well as prior variants, but binds better to airways. Binding better to airways, and reproducing more there helps it to spread faster. Not binding as well to deeper lung tissue helps it to not kill lungs.
“Anti-vaxxer, vaccinated vaccine inventor”, Robert Malone MD has more about this research.
”This is why this new finding from a team at Hong Kong University is so significant. Because it indicates that what may be most important about Omicron may not be the ability to evade vaccine-induced immunity, but that it has shifted its preferred tissue target for infection and replication to the upper airway instead of deep lung. That could explain why it is more infectious, replicates to higher levels, and yet causes less severe disease.
Let’s hope that is our best gift this Christmas.”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/has-omicron-shifted-receptor-binding Another pro-choice vaccinated anti-vaxxer… Corbyn misses all of the memos about how to be a “good lefty”, like Tony Blair.
Led by Jeremy Corbyn, the British Left Opposes Vaccine Mandates as Anti-Worker and Repressive, Glen Greenwald
The term “anti-vax” has expanded so widely that even vaccine advocates, such as Corbyn and trade unions, are now included by virtue of defending bodily autonomy.
…exactly as we have seen with so many other political labels — terrorist, racist, fascist, white nationalist, anti-Semite — this once-descriptive, precise and useful phrase has metamorphized far beyond its original meaning into something barely recognizable or cogent. That transformation has been deliberate, with a clear motive: to weaponize the term into a potent political insult designed to compel submission to decrees from institutions of authority and stigmatize dissenters, threatening them with reputation destruction. The rapid expansion of the term “anti-vax” into a coercive political weapon has been years in the making, but the COVID pandemic was the steroid it needed to blossom into one of the most reputation-crippling labels one can affix to a political target.
Just as is true of accusing people of being terrorists, white nationalists, fascists or anti-Semites not because one espouses views traditionally designated by those terms but as punishment for any sort of dissent, the destructive power of the COVID iteration of “anti-vax” resides precisely in its vagueness, its lack of precise contours, its emptiness and meaninglessness...
The rapid expansion of the term “anti-vax” into a coercive political weapon has been years in the making, but the COVID pandemic was the steroid it needed to blossom into one of the most reputation-crippling labels one can affix to a political target. (like “conspiracy theory”?)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/led-by-jeremy-corbyn-the-british?PhoenixVoice said: “Fascinating story about baboons.
However, I disagree with the idea that all the aggressive young males should be eliminated…
It seems that the strong “mothering” did not take the aggression out of the males in the forest group…simply caused it to only surface when it was needed.
I’ve believed for a long time that our culture is strongly male dominated. I’ve supposed that bringing in more female influence might balance our culture out.
Quixotically, the women’s movement in many ways became about women out-competing the males at the males’ own game. (Which always seemed pointless to me.)There is value in the innate tendencies of both sexes. I understand full well how difficult it can be to raise children when I am only one person, pushed to shoulder the roles and responsibilities that two adults should carry.”
(It was not I who ever advocated the elimination of adult males or young males.)
I am in complete agreement with your statements. We ARE the animals that we are, and we can socialize somewhat differently, within a range, without becoming other-animals, as “Fourth-Industrial-Revolution” would make (most of) us.Reservation of ALL violence for threats to the group (and I assume food-animals) has merit, when violence, killing, is part of the animal nature. It makes the group happier and sweeter.
It did, in this case, arise from the death of all of the adult males, which changed the culture.Most of Western civilization has had a fall of violence since the end of WW-2, but urban-jungle zones of famine and drug-craving are having violence rise again, making separate pockets of violent culture.
(Getting lead out of gasoline really helped reduce violence, and it was not understood as a cause until after-the-fact.)
Queens were historically as violent as kings, the violence being abstracted at that level. [Which Clinton would you prefer as a master?]What should we best do with our culture without changing our nature?
I think we are working that answer out, to some degree, in this forum. It has been worked many times, already.
You may have noticed that “Deflationista” made an appearance this morning, with stories about how young pro athletes dying and leaving the game with acute chest pain in normal, nothing new.
Those arguments are no match for the graph of the timing of cardiac events in athletes this year.
317 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 178 Dead, After COVID Shot
We have recently seen 3 “voices” of “deflationista”:
The bot-voice, which posts articles in opposition to something presented here, with or without “attitude”. Attitude and snark settings were adjusted some in November or so, since getting mad and rude may seem more human.
The overworked-human-minder voice, which quite coming around a month or so ago, and was mainly rude and sarcastic, which was not working in this context.
“Captain Deflationista” is the intelligent, uncertainty-introducing voice, like a “Captain” of a company of “Internet Warriors”, coming in to determine the most effective propaganda tactics to use in this sophisticated comments section “community”. See 12/13/21 comments section, starting on page 2. “Captain D” worked a long shift that day.None of those voices is the voice of the original Deflationista, which Mr. House somehow discovered in that Deflationista’s blog from 2011:
https://deflationista.blogspot.com/
You can see for yourself. Different people have different voices, whatever name they might expropriate.@Mr. House: “Hillary Clinton” may be “The Democrat’s” best hope in 2024, as the link suggests.
Indeed, she is the female-John-McCain in such a scenario.I’m sure a lot will change by 2024, for instance, 2022 will have happened.
@Figmund Sreud:
David Kabu, the President of the Marshall Islands (US nuclear annihilation test site, deeply pitied by all other Pacific islanders) reads a sub 3 minute teleprompter statement as his hands tensely fidget, and his face is impassive.
“His people are preparing a statement and will coordinate in the interests of democracy. He agrees with “President Biden”.
“How To Fix Society, One Baboon Group At A Time”
CT Barnum sent this yesterday about a group of forest baboons who lost all of the adult males from (naturally) poisoned raw meat that humans had discarded in a pit. The males of this “troop” had been in contention with males of another troop for this prized garbage pit, so only adult males of both troops were killed.
The forest troop was left with females and younger juvenile males, who matured in a female-dominated setting. A few years later the troop was observed to be more feminine in it’s ways, with males grooming males, and little display of dominance behavior. This was watched. Something different happened when a young male baboon from elsewhere came and tried to assert dominance.
They all suddenly became violent and literally ripped his face off, tore his body asunder and returned to their peaceful ways.I think it’s not really possible to abstract this to central banking. It’s inherently different.
There are inherent checks and balances in small primate groups with group culture.
Phoenix Voice was addressing this difference in direct vs distant relationships in “socialism”, too.Thanks WES, I am working on details, details, details as constuction proceeds. The orogonal 1957 house is in good condition, never damaged, though a tornado twisted the top of one of the sycamore trees fairly impressively. Tying the roof rafters down to the attic floor joists is what we worked out today. I’ll be back and get more pictures on Saturday for a Sunday post.
@Susmarie108: You are a Voracious Reader.
@ Those Darned Kids: Thanks for thinking into and researching the trolls-in-uniform, helping keep the impression of freedom burning…
@WES: Thanks: I have been doing a lot of investigation, crawling under the house, measuring ghi ngs, thinking, negotiating politely with an eager, impatient builder who works quickly and habitually, and a very careful structural engineer friend, not on site, who is trying hard to protect me from catastrophe in 130 mph wind gusts, which are bound to come some day. Never those twain shall meet, so i am constantly assessing, reassessing, negotiating for what might be reasonably improved/remediated as work moves, without stopping/interrupting the flow, when the crew is there.
Nobody is a bad guy; all relatively good guys with different quirks and foibles, certainly including myself.
I am greatly beholden to my friend, Lester, who refuses any remuneration for his kind, expert and patient advice and revised advice, as we go along.Data Scientist Tells RFK, Jr.: ‘VAERS Is Telling a Very Frightening Story’
“VAERS is telling a very frightening story,” data scientist and immunology researcher Jessica Rose, Ph.D. told Kennedy.
VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) data show 618,548 adverse event reports (as of Oct. 29), but that number doesn’t account for under-reporting, explained Rose. (As of Nov. 19, the latest VAERS data show 664,745 adverse events, excluding foreign reports).
“If you consider the under-reporting factor, which I’ve based on the Pfizer phase 3 clinical data — which is probably questionable data anyway — the under-reporting factor is 31,” she said. So to get an accurate count of adverse events, “you need to multiply the VAERS numbers by at least 31,” Rose explained. “It’s really staggering. We’re in the millions.”Data Scientist Tells RFK, Jr.: ‘VAERS Is Telling a Very Frightening Story’
A couple of friends sent me this. Long list of successful ilumni, indeed. Hi Bill. Hi Angela. Hi Emanuel. Hi Pete. Hi Justin. (Hi Boris? Oh. my!)
Klaus Schwab’s School for Covid Dictators, a Plan for the ‘Great Reset’
…In 1992 Schwab established a parallel institution, the Global Leaders for Tomorrow school, which was re-established as Young Global Leaders in 2004. Attendees at the school must apply for admission and are then subjected to a rigorous selection process. Members of the school’s very first class in 1992 already included many who went on to become important liberal political figures, such as Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Tony Blair. There are currently about 1,300 graduates of this school…
https://www.extremelyamerican.com/post/klaus-schwab-s-school-for-covid-dictators-a-plan-for-the-great-resetKilling people to steal what they have that can be taken elsewhere (unless they prevent you) Thanks Eleni.
Afghanistan: Same, Same; Again, Again , Patrick Armstrong
The difference between the U.S. performances in Vietnam and Afghanistan is that in the first, the vehicles were painted green and in the second, sand.
Bill Ehrhart arrived in Vietnam in 1967 believing everything. His first indication that all was not as expected came when he wasn’t welcomed the way Allied soldiers had been in 1944. A couple of days later he was shocked to see “detainees”, bound hand and foot, casually tossed off a high vehicle by other Marines. This didn’t seem to be the way to treat people the Americans were there to help said he to his companion who told him to keep his mouth shut “until you know what’s going on around here”...
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/09/01/afghanistan-same-same-again-again/No U.S. Boots – But Plenty of Arms – on the Ground in Ukraine , Finian Cunningham Thanks Eleni
By sending massive shipments of offensive weapons to a rabidly Russophobic regime Washington is demonstrating its witting culpability.No U.S. Boots – But Plenty of Arms – on the Ground in Ukraine
All the stories say “The first person in the UK has died ‘WITH’ the Omicron variant”, AND what else, if I may ask? Gunshot to the liver? IV heroin and cocaine?
Appendicitis? I would really like to know because all the stories have this beguiling little snippet, the same exact words, and no details.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59639007Blog has photo of progress again: https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/proceeding-without-plans.html
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621003327 Did you read that? Did you read the title or the whole paper? (Thanks for the link, Susan)
I read the whole paper, and I think it’s ok to just read the title, because the authors did not have a plan.
Charles Hugh Smith, who has been a college-age construction contractor, guitarist, vegetable gardener, and lives/adapts on the corner of cheap and liveable, has a book out, which I plan to get, as I have some of his other books. (Susan is going to get it, too.)
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States https://www.oftwominds.com/GCNR.html
I know Charles has done a lifetime of homework, as have many of us, if we put our experiences into useful context.
I’m not going to say anybody has to read a book. I will posit that “Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits” is obviously true upon its face.
Let’s Go!I can’t necessarily adapt to a future without fossil fuels, but I am already adapting to a future of less fossil fuel, less transport of my food for thousands of miles, less reliable cooling and heating, an erratic economy, and schemes to get rid of me and take my stuff as resources decline. Concepts and plans are not enough.
Taking steps while you can to be less vulnerable to approaching changes, with an eye to a fairly rapid decline in fossil fuel availability everywhere in the next few years.
The rumor is “Oil-Crisis-in-2023”. It’s a reasonable rumor. The exploration binge ended in 2015, after spending a lot and coming up with a little for the 8-10 years before that. I remember Oil-Crisis in the 1970s, when we lived a lot closer to everything and had fewer cars, and I didn’t have a car at all. I did not even have a bicycle in the 1970s. It was normal to walk 5 miles to work and 5 miles back at numerous times while I was in college. I moved closer, though.. I borrowed a bike and a guy in a truck hit me, ruined the bike, cussed me out and drove off. I had to pay for the bike. I moved closer to campus and work. There are a lot of problems that come up that we can’t prepare for, but just have to deal with. Proximity to essentials and bike access are important. There is a lot more property theft in our Austin suburb lately. There are more desperate people.
It’s hard to live in Austin; expensive. Other people’s problems become your problems when times are hard. Cities have a lot of people. Cities with a lot of people living marginally become toxic to everybody.
We all have social capital where we are. Most of us have jobs. Building alternatives means extra work. Ride a bike for an hour a few times a week and think about stuff while you’re riding. Cook at home. Garden if you can. If you can’t, is there an option for you to garden somewhere that you can bike to, a community garden?
I know that’s not a plan for the looming oil-crisis-that-won’t-end, but the grand plan is to get rid of most of us. That’s what humans always do when there is not enough, get rid of a lot of other humans. That’s what kings and rulers and nobles specialize in.
The Great Reset, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Build Back Better (without me) are all about that. Having digital currency on your smart phone tied to your social credit score is being beta tested in China. Bad citizens eventually won’t buy food, clothing or shelter, nor ride the train.
Who is at the top decides who gets cut out, like Obama deciding who gets droned in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Mistakes were made”, they may say…I’m advocating bike commuting, and being able to get groceries and get to work by bike in a pinch, growing a substantial vegetable garden, keeping beans, rice, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes, dried peppers, dried fruit, oil, salt, and spices around. Be a good neighbor. Spend locally. Use cash. Don’t shop where it’s not accepted. These are all little things. If you do them, you’ll meet other people doing them. We live in a big self-organized social economic system. When we make strategic changes away from convenience, towards autonomy and resilience, we reorganize the system a little. I don’t think we can do more than that. Big plans are like Fascism, Stalinism, and “You’ll Own Nothing And You’ll Be Happy With A Chip In Your Brain”. Big, top down plans always put all of the losses onto those not making the plans.
People with a lot of valuable, mobile, unprotected stuff get hit first. Nobody steals sweet potatoes from the ground, as a rule. We can get around Yoakum on bikes, and Jenny could get around Austin on a bike if she worked closer. It keeps being a consideration. I usually do bike to work, but wimp out when it rains. Adapting your body and situation to the next stress is better than dealing with it through wealth, because wealth will be stolen. Vegetable gardens, cooking oil, bags of beans and rice are not things that usually get stolen. Bikes get stolen. Sorry. Bikes do get stolen regularly. I use a big U-lock for the frame and front wheel, with a cable through the rear wheel into the U-lock. I still would not leave it outside overnight.After I die, I’ll leave behind a direction of endeavor in my life that may be helpful to those continuing the journey into the world of less fuel, transportation and manufacturing. I have worked out succession-rotation gardening schemes and use them. I am drip-watering with city water. This would be a lot different without it. I can’t go there now. Maybe another generation will have to. Dirt farming without diesel is really a hard life, and depends on undependable weather. The house I’ve designed, has windows to let the prevailing summer winds blow through to keep heat from building up, and will have a screen porch. It’s still a hard to live without electricity when it’s 90 degrees and 90% humidity at midnight. Maybe I can’t live that life very many days. Some people do, already.
People who can’t live in a place under prevailing circumstances will move or die. I would not start this journey from Phoenix, Arizona if I could help it.
I really expect a lot of migration in the next few decades. People from Chicago might move to Texas and dies in the summer when the electricity goes out. People from Honduras might move to Texas and feel ok about it. People from Chicago might move to farmland in the region. Most people can’t farm unless they grew up doing it.
Charles Hugh Smith recently put up an article about when to move, now, or when you have to? You probably can’t move when you need to, which is why there are refugee tent camps. Maybe you can’t move now, either. Maybe you have family that you would house or that would house you. Maybe.. “Become the change which you would see in the world.”
We are preparing a homestead where family can meet, maybe stay, if necessary. It has mostly tolerable weather except for those summer nights, and has a vegetable garden.
We might benefit from rain catchment. We may work on that. Everybody around here used to store rainwater in cisterns. There’s no groundwater shallow, and the deep stuff is still no good. Czech and German farming communities moved here in the 1830s to 1850s and farmed, farmed it themselves, no slaves, no cotton.
This area pumps natural gas. Texas has not been able to liquefy and ship much of that, due to expense. Economies break down when the fuel is too expensive.
I kind of hope we keep having natural gas in Texas while I live.
So I will keep working on the problems coming sooner, with an eye to general shape of the problems coming later. The biggest help is divine guidance. Boy do I pray daily for divine guidance, and really try to listen to that kind, calm and quiet voice.
That’s not like “Build Back Better”, but I’m not plotting to dispossess and kill you, either. Just be aware of those schemes and work against them at every step.Vandana Shiva: Great Reset Is ‘a Project of Extermination’
Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand dissect the Great Reset and the motives and psychology of the ruling elite
Destroying people’s life support systems “is an ecocidal and genocidal instinct,” she said.
Shiva told Brand:
“If you are creating conditions for most of humanity to not meet their basic needs, and creating a condition in which they can’t exercise their fundamental right to clean air, food, water, freedom, education or mobility … it’s an idea of dispensability equal to the idea of extermination.”
She said, “This is not just happening, it is being made to happen through deliberate action.”Oh, my, something jumped around and misplaced text:
@ Mr Roboto: Yes, people who do not want to kill other people will do so in the line of duty. Their personal feelings are usually very different, and are spoken to therapists later.
Manipulating public opinions in comment sections of blogs is a regular-military job now.
TAE conflict-zone has been assigned a competent commanding officer (Captain, though, not Colonel) , who sometimes engages the battle-for-hearts-and-minds directly and competently, as would a Captain commanding a company of battle tanks.
Occasionally the Commander’s tank will lead some critical action.
We rate!@Mistecommanding officer (Captain, though, not colonel)r Roboto: Yes, people who do not want to kill other people will do so in the line of duty. Their personal feelings are usually very different, and are spoken to therapists later.
Manipulating public opinions in comment sections of blogs is a regular-military job now.
TAE conflict-zone has been assigned a competent commanding officer, who sometimes engages the battle-for-hearts-and-minds directly and competently, as would a Captain commanding a comapany of battle tanks. Occasionally the Commander’s tank will lead some critical action.
We rate!I just caught up on yesterday’s comments, attended by the upper-level human intelligence version of “deflationista”, not the perfunctory bot version.
This voice is the highest human voice assigned to the “deflationista” Avatar, and should be treated as any intelligent human.
The situation with government internet warrior operations, of which the US and Israel reportedly have the largest, is that there are layers of competence mingling bots and human operators of the bots.
For the longest time, we had the “nuevo deflationista” bot, with a lower level human minder sometimes adding flavorful insults and pejoratives, but that was not working on this crowd.
This commentariat is not Zero Hedge.
Immediately yesterday the highly intelligent human manager of “deflationista” responded to individuals, explored gray edges of WW-2 guilt, taking the opposite position that “anti-vaxxers” are like those who persecuted and ignored the crimes against Jews and minorities. This was a subtle and intelligent and clearly human voice, responding repeatedly to other humans in this commentariat. Insults and disparagement focused on mockery and insulting intelligence of comenters.
This was enticement to name calling and rudeness, and that was pointed out as degrading this forum, which it does.
I think this forum is a training ground for the current governmental propaganda operations to hone their game. Where we have clarity on an issue, especially moral clarity, the opposite view does not work, but clouding the focus of the moral clarity, as clouding what is the current fascist position, paralleling the Nazis, is a more useful tack.
Sowing dissension among the regulars helps break a special place that this blog has, a place of kindly helping each other. It breaks the kindness when “we” call names.
Most readers do not comment, but are affected by the tenor of comments.
Encouraging name calling and attacks on intelligence and clouding the issues, especially moral issues, are the reasonable objectives here for psy-ops.
The bot version of “deflationista” can hammer away with more usual propaganda pieces, but has also taken a more subtle tack recently, choosing more intellectually explorative pieces, which are written intelligently, appealing to the intelligent readers. This is a level of discernment that AI can be set to use, if lists of articles are graded for what readership to target by central command. It’s list-picking.
This blog gets the intellectual list now, and has earned it.
The extended visit (“all day and all of the night” , Kinks) by the upper level supervisor, someone I would rank as “Captain” in the military, and a good Captain, getting regular promotions, is a compliment to this blog, should be taken as such, and we should engage this intelligent human, who is doing a good job, of his (masculine voice) “job”.
People who are intelligent, engage other humans intelligently (including insults and name calling, when used to specific ends) should be engaged as intelligent humans. We should hone our skills of public-discourse, just as those in the internet-propaganda battalions do when they engage us.
Human-Captain “deflationista” cannot visit us very often, but yesterday was a high-comment day, maybe a high traffic day. A military operation would commit a mid-level officer when he (or she) would have the most effect on public perceptions, on a high traffic day. This can be monitored in real time, and they can probably predict it to some degree if they are monitoring traffic patterns at a site like this.Again, we, R.I.M. and all of us in the regular commentariat, are being paid a compliment whenever the intelligent human voice of “deflationista” visits, especially yesterday, the most extended visit yet for this competent internet-propaganda officer, not just a “soldier”.
I welcome these visits from “Captain Deflationista”, if I may coin that term. “Captain Deflationista’s” personal views are not identical to sparring information displayed in the line of duty.
“Captain Deflationista” will keep a personal oker face, but I will address that dutiful human as such, myself.
Again, welcome to our conversation, “Captain Deflationista”. I respect your intelligence and ability.@My parents Said Know: I’m praying for divine guidance again. I keep getting reminders.
Divine is bigger and wiser than sociopathic networks, but they have a lot of physical means and methods and experience using them on (us) the human livestock.The US and UK daily vaccination graphs at Doc Robinson’s link are bimodal, with a big spring uptake, little in the summer, and creeping up into fall/winter, though the US fall uptake has been very up and down, currently down. Will the US uptake keep falling?
Japanese people got lot of vaccinations in June through September, in one big symmetrical wave.
It appears to be trailing to nothing now.The vaccination acceptance in the US military seems to be a loyalty test, at least it seems like that to me.
Are the troops and officers loyal to the chain of command when they have reason, or at least the ability to know better?The anthrax vaccines for the Iraq war were not homogenous. There was some experimental “Vac-A”, which purportedly used a squalene adjuvant, which works fast to stimulate immunity, but also causes autoimmune disease, like Lupus, because a little of it naturally exists in our cell membranes.
Gary MAtsumoto had the original article in Vanity Fair Magazine, and it is mentioned in this Salon article, but I don’t find it. I read it at the time.https://www.salon.com/1999/05/13/anthrax/
This research paper confirmed it, but most of the current links Google provides “debunk” the squalene-adjuvant-caused-gulf-war-syndrome hypothesis.
Antibodies to squalene in recipients of anthrax vaccine
Abstract
We previously reported that antibodies to squalene, an experimental vaccine adjuvant, are present in persons with symptoms consistent with Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) (P. B. Asa et al., Exp. Mol. Pathol 68, 196-197, 2000). The United States Department of Defense initiated the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) in 1997 to immunize 2.4 million military personnel. Because adverse reactions in vaccinated personnel were similar to symptoms of GWS, we tested AVIP participants for anti-squalene antibodies (ASA). In a pilot study, 6 of 6 vaccine recipients with GWS-like symptoms were positive for ASA. In a larger blinded study, only 32% (8/25) of AVIP personnel compared to 15.7% (3/19) of controls were positive (P > 0.05). Further analysis revealed that ASA were associated with specific lots of vaccine. The incidence of ASA in personnel in the blinded study receiving these lots was 47% (8/17) compared to an incidence of 0% (0/8; P < 0.025) of the AVIP participants receiving other lots of vaccine. Analysis of additional personnel revealed that in all but one case (19/20; 95%), ASA were restricted to personnel immunized with lots of vaccine known to contain squalene. Except for one symptomatic individual, positive clinical findings in 17 ASA-negative personnel were restricted to 4 individuals receiving vaccine from lots containing squalene. ASA were not present prior to vaccination in preimmunization sera available from 4 AVIP personnel. Three of these individuals became ASA positive after vaccination. These results suggest that the production of ASA in GWS patients is linked to the presence of squalene in certain lots of anthrax vaccine.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12127050/This article is from 2015, a kinder, gentler conceptual period for many Americans, the Obama years, “after the global financial crisis”.
The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed. By Graham Allison
(The British Empire deciding to not go to war with the ascendant Americans around 1900 is instructive for our current global situation. Can some of y’all countries out there help this war not happen?)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/united-states-china-war-thucydides-trap/406756/Eleni sent this article about global war/crisis vs. de-escalation and renegotiation leading to a multipolar world order.
Pushing Ukraine into war with Russia is just so appealing. It’s such a low cost option to the empire to bleed a rival.
What could go wrong? OK … Well, what ELSE could go wrong?
Ukrainian Crisis: Are We On The Verge Of WWIII Or Pax Multipolarity?Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity?
COVID infection of fat cells is bad, if you have a lot of them. It leads to a whole lot of inflammation, and can last a lot longer, with the virus dug-in deeply.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the viral pathogen SARS-CoV-2, has taken the lives of millions of individuals around the world. Obesity is associated with adverse COVID-19 outcomes, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. In this report, we demonstrate that human adipose tissue from multiple depots is permissive to SARS-CoV-2 infection and that infection elicits an inflammatory response, including the secretion of known inflammatory mediators of severe COVID-19. We identify two cellular targets of SARS-CoV-2 infection in adipose tissue: mature adipocytes and adipose tissue macrophages. Adipose tissue macrophage infection is largely restricted to a highly inflammatory subpopulation of macrophages, present at baseline, that is further activated in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Preadipocytes, while not infected, adopt a proinflammatory phenotype. We further demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 RNA is detectable in adipocytes in COVID-19 autopsy cases and is associated with an inflammatory infiltrate. Collectively, our findings indicate that adipose tissue supports SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenic inflammation and may explain the link between obesity and severe COVID-19.
One sentence summary Our work provides the first in vivo evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human adipose tissue and describes the associated inflammation.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.24.465626v1.fullA cruder reporting for our less-couth friends… Scientists May Have Discovered Why COVID Hits Fat People Harder
As part of the study, Dr. McLaughlin, Blish and other colleagues experimented on fat obtained from bariatric surgery to see if the tissue would become infected with Covid. They found that yes, they could – but certain immune cells known as macrophages were also susceptible, and produced a ‘robust’ inflammatory response. The team also analyzed fat cells from Europeans who had died of Covid, and found the disease contained within fat near various organs.
According to Johns Hopkins professor of cardiology, Dr. David Kass, a man whose ideal weight is 170 lbs, yet who weighs 250 lbs, is carrying a substantial amount of fat in which the virus can ‘hang out’ – where it can then replicate and trigger a ‘destructive immune system response.’
”If you really are very obese, fat is the biggest single organ in your body,” said Kass, who added that Covid “can infect that tissue and actually reside there.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/scientists-may-have-discovered-why-covid-hits-fat-people-harderI have long wondered how these “units” of vitamin-D were derived.
Yes, the Israeli study shows the cutt-off for risk of COVID death is pretty marked at deficient vitamin-D level of 20 ng/mL, and essentially nobody dies with a level over 40 mg/mL. I think 60-100 ng/mL is the ideal level, myself. David Grimes MD:
I have indicated previously that by definition and before the days of physical measurement, one unit of Vitamin D was defined as the daily requirement of a 10 gram immature mouse. We can scale up from that so that the daily requirement of a 60kg human would be 6,000 units, and for a 120kg obese human 12,000 units each day. To be cautious, perhaps half of these doses would be a reasonable starting point for determining the dose that would be appropriate in achieving the blood levels of 40ng/ml, 100nmol/L. This must be the target level, as the study from Israel indicates.
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/None dare call it, er… this word, here:
If vaccines cause net harms, are being deployed worldwide, and every vaccine failure just leads to more vaccination, then this situation is best understood as a genocide.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-geographies-of-the-pharma-genocide303 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 175 Dead, After COVID Shot
Aww, this always happened before, forever. It’s just that the cameras were never on the athletes when they died on the field of heart attacks until this year.
No, everybody wants to blame vaccines, but these guys are dying from not seeing their doctors for a year and eating junk food, like everybody else. (Thanks Noirette)305 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 176 Dead, After COVID Shot
…On November 26, WHO designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern (3), as did the U.S. SARS-CoV-2 Interagency Group (SIG)* on November 30. On December 1, the first case of COVID-19 attributed to the Omicron variant was reported in the United States. As of December 8, a total of 22 states had identified at least one Omicron variant case, including some that indicate community transmission. Among 43 cases with initial follow-up, one hospitalization and no deaths were reported.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7050e1.htm?s_cid=mm7050e1_wEleni sent this on “Joe Biden’s” Summit For Democracy”:
On the second day of this video conference hosted by Biden, news emerged of the British High Court ruling in favor of the U.S. government that Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States to face trumped-up charges of espionage which could result in a death sentence (on International Human Rights Day, no less}.
Assange is being persecuted for exposing massive U.S. war crimes, crimes against humanity, global espionage felonies and corruption. His case is a hideous warning that free speech and independent journalism are under ruthless attack by the U.S. authorities. In other words, the biggest enemy of the most basic of democratic rights is the United States government…
There is not a scintilla of substance in what the Biden administration is attempting. The meaning and purpose of the “summit for democracy” is the opposite. It is about creating tensions, conflict, undermining democracy and fomenting war…
The self-(or somebody)appointed leader of the free world warned about the “backsliding of democracy” caused by “autocrats” (meaning China and Russia). Biden called for the protection of voting rights and free speech. This while his administration is seeking to incarcerate Julian Assange for the rest of his life because he dared to exercise his inalienable right of free speech.Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ Is a Vile Circus for New Cold War
”HANDY” Model: Thanks Charles. (Human elites are apex predators and productive humans are middling “predators” Apex predators can collapse an economy by depleting nature and/or middling, productive “predators”. Regular working humans have to overgrow and consume too much of nature as a means of dying back or dying off. This is something that seems to happen to human civilizations again and again; we just were not very aware that this has always happened before.)
Collapses of even advanced civilizations have occurred many times in the past five thousand years, and they were frequently followed by centuries of population and cultural decline and economic regression. Although many different causes have been offered to explain individual collapses, it is still necessary to develop a more general explanation. In this paper we attempt to build a simple mathematical model to explore the essential dynamics of interaction between population and natural resources. It allows for the two features that seem to appear across societies that have collapsed: the stretching of resources due to strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity, and the division of society into Elites (rich) and Commoners (poor).
The Human And Nature DYnamical model (HANDY) was inspired by the predator and prey model, with the human population acting as the predator and nature being the prey...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615(The rumor is that this liquid fuels shortage and economic suffocation will become a crisis in 2023.)
Halliburton CEO and president Jeff Miller made waves this week by predicting that the world is due for a period of oil scarcity in comments at the World Petroleum Congress in Houston, Texas.
“I think that for the first time in a long time, we will see a buyer looking for a barrel of oil, as opposed to a barrel of oil looking for a buyer,” Miller said.
Since 2014, the oil industry has generally deemphasized building new infrastructure in the face of low prices. However, that trend may now catch up with the industry, which now finds demand for oil exceeding the available supply given current infrastructure.
Some analysts have speculated that it is increasingly likely that oil prices will soon climb to $100 per barrel, a price unseen in the past seven years and which has serious potential to disrupt the economy...
This combination of infrastructural underinvestment and labor shortages is likely to result in an oil supply stretched thin to meet demand, resulting in higher prices and possible shortages.
With oil extraction occurring at a significant time lag from industry investment and the skill shortage in the labor industry showing no signs of abating, there are major reasons to believe that any scarcity in oil supplies could last long into the future.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/world-economy-entering-period-oil-scarcity-halliburton-ceo-says“Proactive Not Fearful” is up, with a couple of pictures of construction progress included.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/proactive-not-fearful.htmlThe COVID-19 pandemic has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch…
“Overall, I’d say that we’ve had a pandemic of fear. And fear has affected almost everybody, whereas the infection has affected relatively few,” said Risch.
“By and large, it’s been a very selected pandemic, and predictable. It was very distinguished between young versus old, healthy versus chronic disease people. So we quickly learned who was at risk for the pandemic and who wasn’t.
“However, the fear was manufactured for everybody. And that’s what’s characterized the whole pandemic is that degree of fear and people’s response to the fear.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/covid-19-pandemic-fear-manufactured-authorities-yale-epidemiologistActually, no death from Omicron has been reported anywhere in the world, unlike all of the “vaccines”.
The new omicron variant has the potential to fuel almost 75,000 deaths in England this winter, according to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Yet out of more than 700 omicron cases detected in Europe, no deaths or serious illnesses have been reported so far, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-11/u-s-outbreak-worsens-no-omicron-deaths-in-eu-virus-update@My Parents Said Know: Inflammatory breast cancer is a cause of strange blood clot propensity, so an aspirin, or at least a baby aspirin per day is a good idea.
Vitamin-D allows immune system function, which is the bane of ll cancers, so level should be pushed up to 60-100 optimum range. There are a lot of specifics to cancer treatment, based on cell typing and staging. Prognosis varies a lot. The oncologist and surgeon would give specific quotes on survival statistics.
I’m sorry not to have better or more helpful advice…I have been catching up today, and I’m not all caught up, but I realize that my entry disappeared earlier, and it was “Important”, because it was about that “song-of-our-hearts”, which Susmrie108 (Susan 🙂 and VP Gary share with me, and which I sang out loud again today.
It was written by Dino Valenti, of Quicksilver Messenger Service (another lovely band), who was born “Chet Powers”, but I did not know that until I looked up more of the history of the song last year, trying to recall all the lyrics. Listen, knowing it well, to the Original “Let’s Get Together” from Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, please, … “Listen” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIluFDkw0g
The two versions meld in my mind, but there is a firmness and certainty to the moral imperative in the Airplane’s version, while the Youngbloods’ version is more plaintive.
The Byrds “Eight Miles High” has always been their apogee (so to speak) to my senses:
@Boogaloo: Not sure about Bitcoin, and it can be a disruptor, but I don’t think it can really disrupt at the top levels, like central banks, myself, since it can be unplugged… I suspect gold is still the default plan.
I am glad to hear of your further investigations with augmenting quercetin uptake, by use of lecithin, and getting a marked improvement in blood pressure. You might see if it works better taking it morning or evening, and how long after a dose it takes for the benefit to wane. I was unaware of this use of quercetin until now (Hawthorne is documented to help control BP, as is increased potassium. Nothing works for everybody.)@Herr Werner: “Winning by not losing” is me. Yes, sir.
I just read about the 1939-1940 “Winter War”, when the USSR invaded Finland, with forces 3:1, air superiority, tanks and supplies, had something like 2-3 times the casualties, and had to regroup and reform the Red Army in the midst of “not winning”.
Germany effectively blockaded Finland, too. World opinion greatly sided with the Finns, and though they did have to give the USSR everything it demanded, that reversed a little over a year later, too. The USSR effectively lost-by-not-winning-right-away. I think the COVID narrative, at least in the US, may be going that route.
Personally, I always seem to have multiple irons-in-the-fire, and have previously made some change look planned-all-along, by taking it right away when a rug was pulled out from under me. It’s an ongoing expenditure of time and effort, but it seems to be the way I am, anyway, which makes it more convenient. I’ll get pictures of the house project on the next blog post, hopefully in the morning.
It looks like a house, and the upstairs is actually more than “a finished-out attic”. (Where did that extra 2 feet of headroom come from?)
A door that cracked open just as I was fired-while-planting-winter-veggies https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/go-down-gardening.html is now clearly opening to create a new opportunity for me to care medically for my brothers and sisters in the new year. All of the details need to be worked out, but it seems to be arising naturally and organically from shared purpose and views of what service to patients means, which arises from life-experiences, not concepts. Somebody I have worked with has brought me to those he works with, and we are like family. “Serendipity” was the word-of-the-day Wednesday… 🙂@Phoenix Voice: Mesquite is good food for cattle, nitrogen-fixing, proteinaceous. It is related to Moringa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa_oleifera
1/3 of Senators and all Congress-critters will answer for votes on this next year, if the House deigns to consider it for a vote, which they have reason not to do.
Senate Dems Defect To Help GOP Pass Bill Blocking Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-dems-defect-help-gop-pass-bill-blocking-bidens-vaccine-mandateElon Musk: “Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence… and where you have no recourse…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/elon-musk-explains-government-43-secondsThis video has been out for 3 days without official confirmation or denial. I don’t know this guy, and I have no way to tell if this 10 second video was altered..
The prime minister of the Australian state of Victoria, Dan Andrews, caught snorting cocaine
The US Dollar is the dominant global reserve currency for international trade and finance.
Nothing lasts forever, certainly not global reserve currencies.
There is not much trust in global finance, and though there is much talk of Bitcoin, or something like it, becoming a global financial currency, it depends completely on a universally functioning internet to acknowledge each and every transaction. No internet, no deal. No internet, no Bitcoin-existence.
Gold has always worked in the past. These are not trusting times in the world.
If the $US is demoted to another-fiat-currency, or if all currencies must suddenly be backed by gold, much discipline will be imposed upon all governments, especially the US. It is not really clear how much gold the US Treasury actually holds. Most of it is in melted coinage, not pure gold fair-trade bars.
“Gold” is about to become GOLD on New Year’s Day. Thanks Eleni.
Tom Luongo (much edited for brevity)
In short my conclusion was similar to that of Alistair MacLeod’s and others, that Basel III should collapse the egregious manipulation of the gold market through the use of using futures and unallocated gold as bank reserves…
So, Basel III is coming to destroy the paper gold markets and destroy the money center banks in New York and London while setting the stage to bail out the euro-zone. Higher gold prices are the answer to all of these things. Think of it this way, in a world where debt assets are failing and new private forms of custodial assets are rising in mindshare [bitcoin and crypto], what’s the only real weapon the central banks have to maintain credibility?
Their gold reserves…
Remember the entire Great Reset rests on Davos destroying the current banking system and rolling it up to the central banks, cutting out the classic two-track monetary system with the commercial bankers being the transmission mechanism...
Davos’ agenda has failed on Capitol Hill, despite winning battles all across Europe and in the English Commonwealth. Those countries are now dead letters until their current governments are overthrown or the people throw off their shackles… not likely.
Despite the market jitters because of the necessary reallocation to global capital, Powell and the Fed now have to pursue tight monetary policy to force the ECB into openly inflationary policy. This will further trash the euro and finally overwhelm the ECB’s bond buying to the point where rates there start rising...
Europe is Davos’ power base. That power looks tenuous at best in a geopolitical sense. The best way for it to reassert what power it has left over the U.S. is forcing a massive revaluation in the price of gold while preparing Europe for further federalization, debt default and population reduction…
So far in 2021, through September, according to the World Gold Council, central banks have purchased 385.4 tonnes of gold, after adding Singapore’s numbers but not Ireland’s…
But, as I said throughout this piece, it is the players who are doing this now that matters. Earlier Japan made headlines, adding 80.8 tonnes in March. Then Poland began a very Russian monthly buying program in May. Now Singapore is on board trying to offset US dollar strength with gold in an inflationary environment.When does testing-the-limits become upsetting-the-apple-cart?
How Many People in NYC Are At Risk of Losing Their Job Over the Mayor’s Vaccine Mandate?
…between 150,000 and 450,000 people will lose their job over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccination requirement for all NYC workers
According to Joe Borelli, NYC Council Minority Leader, 45% of blacks, 40% of whites, and 30% of Hispanics will be ineligible and legally barred from working in New York City in 20 days.
Borelli is talking about Mayor Bill de Blasio ‘first in the nation’ vaccination mandate for all workers in New York City starting December 27.
[Borelli’s numbers? At most, about 9% of the city and 18% of the workers are impacted. The count is less because only 10.8% are not vaccinated at all. That’s still a lot of people though.]
https://mishtalk.com/economics/how-many-people-in-nyc-are-at-risk-of-losing-their-job-over-the-mayors-vaccine-mandate Here is the underlying physical reality, again: This reality informs elite policies of rigidly controlling people, which we currently see being imposed more and more harshly.
Whilst prosperity is, of necessity, a material concept, money is a human artefact, validated by its use as a medium of exchange. It has value only in terms of the things for which it can be traded. This means that money has no intrinsic worth, but commands value only as a ‘claim’ on those material goods and services for which it can be exchanged.
Conventional economics tries to circumvent this hard reality with the notion that [financial] demand creates [physical] supply. The fallacious logic here is that, so long as there’s enough financial demand for something, the availability of material supply will somehow follow automatically.
Where finite resources – such as low-cost energy – are concerned, this simply doesn’t work.
We can’t create something that doesn’t exist in nature, simply by putting up its price.
This is why we can’t spend (“stimulate”) our way to material prosperity, any more than we can borrow our way to solvency, or “invest” (meaning monetize) our way to environmental sustainability.
What we’re seeing here is a widening gap between the economy as it is and the economy as we choose to see and present it.
In essence, we’ve been creating apparent increases in economic activity (using expansions in credit and other liabilities) without creating much material economic value.
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/Charles Hugh Smith:
Long cycles operate at such a glacial pace they’re easily dismissed as either figments of fevered imagination or this time it’s different.
But since Nature and human nature remain stubbornly grounded by the same old dynamics, cycles eventually turn and the world changes dramatically. Nobody thinks the cyclical turn is possible until it’s already well underway.
Multiple long cycles are turning in unison:
1. The cycle of interest rates: down for 40+ years (last turn, 1981), now up for an unknown but consequential period of time.
2. The cycle of inflation / deflation: the 40-year period of low real-world inflation and rip-roaring speculative debt-asset inflation has ended and now an era of scarcity, real-world inflation and speculative debt-asset deflation begins.
3. The cycle of capital-labor balance: capital has dominated labor for 40+ years, siphoning $50 trillion from labor. This cycle has now turned and the rebalancing is underway: it’s capital’s turn to surrender gains and power.
4. The cycle of social order-disorder: as documented by historian Peter Turchin and others, social order (in Turchin’s phrase, the integrative phase) holds sway for about 50 years and then it gives way to an era of social disorder (the disintegrative phase). This phase doesn’t end with mild reforms nobody even notices, it ends with a rebalancing of social, political and economic power.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec21/cycles-turn12-21.htmlCharles has a new book out, looking at this.
Can Any Nation-State Survive the Era of Inequality and Scarcity?
We have an extraordinary opportunity to transform our unsustainable “waste is growth” economy and toxic inequality to sustainable systems that optimize well-being rather than collapse.
The possibility that the United States could fragment is no longer a marginalized topic. Maps displaying various post-U.S. regional configurations accompany essays exploring how and why a break-up of the U.S. would be a solution to regional and ideological polarization, for example, Max Borders’ recent article, Dear America: It’s Time to Break Up.
But two forces larger than political polarization may fragment nation-states across the globe, including the U.S.: inequality and scarcity.
Inequality and corruption go hand in hand, of course, as the wealthiest few influence the state to protect their monopolies and backstop their speculative gains…
Nations which want to not just survive but emerge stronger have one path: a revolutionary transformation from “waste is growth” to degrowth, from an economy and state dominated by a parasitic elite to a strictly limited parasitic elite and from abject dependence on fragile supply chains originating in other nations to decentralized, localized independence for essentials.
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/12/can-any-nation-state-survive-era-of.html Yes, this says that viral adaptation to a population with antibodies from “vaccines” will lead to viral escape from those antibodies, which allows the escape-variants to spread in that population.
By tracking the evolutionary trajectories of vaccine-resistant mutations in more than 2.2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we reveal that the occurrence and frequency of vaccine-resistant mutations correlate strongly with the vaccination rates in Europe and America. We anticipate that as a complementary transmission pathway, vaccine-breakthrough or antibody-resistant mutations, like those in Omicron, will become a dominating mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 evolution when most of the world’s population is either vaccinated or infected.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34873910/ “Breakthrough” cases among the “fully vaccinated” keep rising over time in Germany, with high viral loads and household transmission rates, but no posting of whether the vaccinated are more or less likely to catch “symptomatic COVID” than the unvaccinated.
The UK does provide that data….
In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older [[2]]. This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9% on 27. October 2021 (Figure 1) providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission.
A similar situation was described for the UK. Between week 39 and 42, a total of 100.160 COVID-19 cases were reported among citizens of 60 years or older. 89.821 occurred among the fully vaccinated (89.7%), 3.395 among the unvaccinated (3.4%) [[3]]. One week before, the COVID-19 case rate per 100.000 was higher among the subgroup of the vaccinated compared to the subgroup of the unvaccinated in all age groups of 30 years or more. (and it still is)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00258-1/fulltextThis unprecedented partnership between global pharmaceutical corporations and your appointed public servants will get a new Omicron-specific, untested, experimental vaccine to you before you can say “Jack Robinson”, before you can even think about it.
Don’t Wait! Act Now!
(Don’t ask how they can have billions of doses ready so fast…)
CDC director: FDA in talks to streamline approval of omicron-specific vaccine
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the “FDA will move swiftly, and CDC will move swiftly right thereafter.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/cdc-director-fda-talks-streamline-approval-omicron-specific-vaccineThis is supposed to be scary, because you can’t see a thing coming that will make you somewhat tired and achy for 3 days, like a regular-cold.
It’s the new regular-cold. You might not see it coming. If you catch it, you’ll develop “natural immunity”.
Scientists find ‘stealth’ version of Omicron that may be harder to track
Variant lacks feature that allows probable cases to be distinguished among positive PCR tests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/scientists-find-stealth-version-of-omicron-not-identifiable-with-pcr-test-covid-variantSo it could actually have done some good, after all?
Professor Says Cop26 Climate Change Summit Could Have Been Omicron Super Spreader EventProfessor Says Cop26 Climate Change Summit Could Have Been Omicron Super Spreader Event
This paints Pfizer “vaccination” in the most-favorable-light possible, and looks at mostly Delta variant cases. Another booster slightly reduced the odds of catching Delta among “previously fully vaccinated” Israelis for a couple of months, after being “negative-protection” for the first month..
(Those who died from “vaccination” did not enter the airport, or the data set.)
Israel national airport is a unique setting, where the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated individuals all have to test, which allows a more objective assessment of both the booster and Green Pass efficacy in preventing infections. The analysis suggests that the positivity rate (number of cases divided by number of tests) among the Vaccinated cohort throughout August-October is only 1.54-fold smaller than the one among the Unvaccinated cohort (about 35% relative protection). More specifically, compared to the Unvaccinated group, the Vaccinated group has a significantly higher positivity rate during the month of August, then in September it shows a 3.45-fold smaller positivity rate (71% relative protection), and this protection decreases to 2.66-fold (62% protection) during October. The analysis suggests that the relative protection of the booster shot against infection is likely to be significantly smaller than the initial estimates of 10-11-fold (over 90%) reported by the MOH, probably around 60% at best.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3963606I forgot to post this here earlier today, and there’s another picture of the structure-under-construction, with a human for scale https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/omicron-christmas-present.html
Salient features of the Omicron variant include it’s mildness, with no deaths yet attributed, unlike “vaccines”, which are slaughtering trusting souls worldwide.
There are now many cases verified of Omicron worldwide, two (2) of them in unvaccinated persons, though that number might eventually grow to 3 or 4 in time.
The media and drug companies will not say that this is a virus which only infects the “vaccinated”.
They will not say that.
They say, “We’ll have specialized Omicron vaccines for you faster than ever, but get a booster right away, a fourth booster for some of you”.
You need to get another “experimental vaccine” shot now, that makes you more vulnerable to infection for the month after you get it, and a little less vulnerable for the next 2 months, and might kill you, to protect you from this new variant, which infects just the “vaccinated”, and is apparently much safer than any of the vaccines being sold or proposed for accelerated emergency rollout.Friends, the safest vaccine ever is coming to your town completely free of charge this Christmas season.
You will only “need” it if your immune system has been weakened by the first 2-3 injections, and primed for “Antibody Dependent Enhancement” (of viral pathogenicity) by those shots.
Don’t worry if you’re not sure whether you need it or not.
If you don’t need it, you can’t get it.Am I overstating the case for Omicron variant being the best and final vaccine to COVID, the end of the “pandemic”?
Compare me to Pfizer and Moderna executives and Tony Fauci, please.
Watch this unfold…Healthcare Chief Says Omicron “May Signal the End of COVID-19”
Slams “panic” generated by exaggerated fears over severity of variant.
The CEO of South Africa’s largest private healthcare network says that the Omicron variant is “so mild” that it “may signal the end of COVID-19.”
According to Richard Friedland, chief executive officer of Netcare Ltd., the early days of the variant suggest there is absolutely no need to panic and that it might actually be a good thing.Healthcare Chief Says Omicron “May Signal the End of COVID-19”
Norwegian COVID Experts Says Omicron Could Provide “Best Scenario” of “Natural Immunity”
Variant is likely to be “both very mild and very transmissible.”
The country’s state epidemiologist Frode Forland was responding to news of the biggest Omicron outbreak outside of South Africa, which occurred at an Oslo Christmas party.Norwegian COVID Experts Says Omicron Could Provide “Best Scenario” of “Natural Immunity”
Excluding Russia from SWIFT only hastens the U$US fall from global status. That card should never be played if US interests are actually being served.
What if they are not? Whose interests might be served?
I’m puzzling. I don’t really know whose interests WOULD be served.
Things would get weird fast.
Russia would come out ahead. That’s one thing of which I am certain.
Iran would ROTFLOL.Russia has oil and resources and physical gold. China has economy and physical gold. Everybody but Turkey has been holding or increasing physical gold. Gold is always trusted, always accepted in international payments.
Basel III kicks in 1/1/22, redefining “gold” as GOLD-in-hand-and-unencumbered.TAE Summary revealed at midnight…
And after these things I saw another variant come down from heaven, having benign symptoms; and the earth was lightened with its glory.
And one cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Covid the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the disease of administrations, and the contagion of every foul agency, and a malady of every unclean and hateful bureaucrat.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of their lockdowns and distancings and mandates, and the kings of the earth have become dictators through her, and the pharma corporations of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of their therapies.
And I heard another voice saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her jabs, and that ye receive not of their side effects.
For the adverse reactions have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered their lack of testing.
And the kings of the earth, who enjoyed emergency powers and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the lack of symptoms,
Standing afar off for the fear of her harmlessness, saying, Alas, alas, that great disease Covid, that mighty virus! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
And the pharma companies of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their medicines any more:
Their merchandise of vaccines, and of gene therapies, and patented medicines, and all manner of opioids, and all manner of PCR tests,
And painkillers, and anti-depressants, and anti-histamines, and monitors, and sensors, and ventilators.
The sellers of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her demise, weeping and wailing,
And saying, Alas, alas, that great virus, that was clothed in masks and gowns, and face shields and gloves and personal protective equipment!
For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every wholesaler, and all the distributors and pharmacists stood afar off,
And cried when they saw the end of her virulence, saying, What virus is like unto this great virus!
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great virus, wherein were made rich all that sold vaccines by reason of their costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.@VP Gary: I think there is more than you see, but if you make yourself as visible as you can in your actions, then you will see more doing the same.
Maybe I’m wrong, though…
🙂@Upstate NYer: I’m sorry to hear about your guts, sister. Have you had stool assessment for parasites and “sometimes parasites” like Blastocystis hominis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocystis
@TT4TW: I read what you write. Not ignoring, but each of us has a path to which we should “cleave”. As you know, I am living homegrown vegetables and low iron, spirituality, and have been careful in the teaching and upbringing of my adult children, my “bloodline”. I’m not sure how to respond to the bombast of the quotes you post, which are inflammatory and demeaning. They seem written by somebody to be provocations.
My boyhood doctor until the age of 6.5 years was Francis Pottinger MD, my Grandmother Day’s choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Pottenger_Jr.
My maternal grandfather, Robert H. Williams was the author of a book about “knowing your enemy”, which is somehow available online as a download these days…@VP Gary: It might be less worser than it looks to your eyes, Brother.
“Ask not what the universe can do for you, but rather ask what You can do for The Universe”, to paraphrase a guy who died trying… It might be less frustrating.
Bike rides help me , too, when gardening alone won’t do it.I had another meeting which seems to show that I am finding some more karass, which is good. I showed up at the same time as some serendipity and synchronicity today. This will take time. The house will go faster.
@Figmund Sreud: This is the part of that article that is interesting. the rest is mostly blather, I’m sorry to say, a lot of unconnected details and opinions…
“If you dig a little deeper, you’ll notice that the heart rate pattern isn’t quite normal,” she says. Although it’s expected for a person’s heart rate to rise while walking, it’s not normal for the heart rates of younger and athletic patients to jump from 60 to 120 just from walking across a room or while they’re asleep—which is what was happening to Huff.
@Figmund Sreud: National Geographic wants me to sign up to read that story about COVID and the heart. I won’t.
COVID is bad for the heart, sometimes vey bad. Most times it does not get past the nose. That’s ideal. COVID seems to infect heart muscle cells and the support cells around them sometimes. Spike protein hits the support cells. mRNA vaccines, if blood born (oops IV vaccination), can pseudo-infect heart muscle cells, which then produce spike protein, which is very bad in multiple ways.
Both COVID and spike protein inflame the arterioles that feed the heart muscle cells, and cause micro clots to shut that blood & oxygen supply to the heart muscle cells, which is what heart attacks do, so heart attacks happen, too.@Saul Goodman, from yesterday: Your sister in law might consider Novavax, which would be the safest if she chooses vaccination. Her immune system and vasculature are weakened and inflamed from type-1 diabetes.
She should ideally have an upper-normal vitamin-D level of 60-100, and tke a baby aspirin 81 mg, each day, in any case.
She is a good candidate for ivermectin prophylaxis, weekly or twice weekly, if she can find a prescribing physician, and would prefer to avoid “vaccine” adverse reactions (Avoid 20A and 21A batches, of course)
