[John Day]

Thoughts on Omicron for Christmas:

Safest vaccine yet?

Is this a plot to push another round of genetic engineering vaccines that obsoletes the entire COVID narrative by accident?

Is this some form of “friendly action”?

Can Omicron move fast enough to make the Davos lockdowns and fines a laughingstock of broad non-compliance? That would seem to be a point of regime change, a failure for the WEF BBB, NWO, 4th-transhuman-industrial-cyborg-slave-revolution, etc.

How far is Omicron already? Everywhere yet?

Got bicycle, vegetables and fuel?

[John Day]

Sorry, it’s just the Victoria PM, innit?

[John Day]

@Oxymoron: Thanks for the status update on your homestead sufficiency projects, as winter melts to spring down-under.
I hope this is not too disruptive to your work flow, but would you be able to identify whether this is the Prime Minister of Australia snorting a line of blow, just “before” getting on camera, or some clever forgery meant to defame the august Minister?

[John Day]

Russia is primed for a Persian Gulf security ‘makeover’​ , Pepe Escobar
Russia is the one state with the necessary clout, tools, sweeteners and relationships to nudge the Persian Gulf into a new security paradigm
​…Essentially, Moscow is reviving the Collective Security Concept for the Persian Gulf Region, an idea that has been simmering since the 1990s. Here is what the concept is all about.
​ ​So if the US administration’s reasoning is predictably short-term – we need Iranian oil back in the market – the Russian vision points to systemic change.
​ ​The Collective Security Concept calls for true multilateralism – not exactly Washington’s cup of tea – and “the adherence of all states to international law, the fundamental provisions of the UN Charter and the resolutions of the UN Security Council.”​ …
​ Geopolitically, Russia holds the definitive ace: it maintains good relationships with all actors in the Persian Gulf and beyond, talks to all of them frequently, and is widely respected as a mediator by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, and other GCC members.
​ ​Russia also offers the world’s most competitive and cutting edge military hardware to underpin the security needs of all the parties.​..
​ ​And that brings us to the essential Pipelineistan angle, which in the Russia–Iran case revolves around the new, multi-trillion dollar Chalous gas field in the Caspian Sea…
Chalous, in fact, will enable Iran – with Russian input – to become a major gas exporter to Europe, something that Brussels evidently relishes. The head of Iran’s KEPCO, Ali Osouli, expects a “new gas hub to be formed in the north to let the country supply 20 percent of Europe’s gas needs.”
​ ​According to Russia’s Transneft, Chalous alone could supply as much as 52 percent of natural gas needs of the whole EU for the next 20 years.
​ ​Chalous is quite something: a twin-field site, separated by roughly nine kilometers, the second-largest natural gas block in the Caspian Sea, just behind Alborz. It may hold gas reserves equivalent to one-fourth of the immense South Pars gas field, placing it as the 10th largest gas reserves in the world.
​ ​Chalous happens to be a graphic case of Russia-Iran-China (RIC) geoeconomic cooperation. Proverbial western speculative spin rushed to proclaim the 20-year gas deal as a setback for Iran. The final breakdown, not fully confirmed, is 40 percent for Gazprom and Transneft, 28 percent for China’s CNPC and CNOOC, and 25 percent for Iran’s KEPCO.
​ ​Moscow sources confirm Gazprom will manage the whole project. Transneft will be in charge of transportation, CNPC is involved in financing and banking facilities, and CNOOC will be in charge of infrastructure and engineering.
​ ​The whole Chalous site has been estimated to be worth a staggering $5.4 trillion.​..
​ Crucially, Moscow also reiterated its full support for Tehran’s position during the current JCPOA round in Vienna, as well as in other Iran-related issues reaching the UN Security Council.
​ ​The fine print on all key Chalous aspects may be revealed in time. It’s a de facto geopolitical/geoeconomic win-win-win for the Russia, Iran, China strategic partnership.
https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/4179

​Ray McGovern speculates about Biden-Putin talks tomorrow.
Nobody knows, and we won’t really know. We’ll have to watch for actions.
(China is invisibly sitting next to Russia. They do not have identical interests, but a lot of overlap, these days.)​

Biden-Putin Talk Tuesday With Xi in the Wings

[John Day]

China also has very real political and economic stresses and looming financial default. China will need a face-saving war of national unity behind Xi and the CCP when the financial house of cards collapses, or they will face a power transition.
Former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe warns China in a global forum that militarily attacking Taiwan would inevitably trigger war with Japan (territorial waters) and thence with the US, and be economically ruinous.
A CCP official replied to insult Abe personally, but the message was clear, and “unofficially official”. It is the case that no power alliance can allow Taiwanese chip manufacturing to fall exclusively into the hands of an adversary. It is completely critical to any advanced economy.​ This would be a major war. It would have to be. Thanks Kimo.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/12/02/commentary/japan-commentary/shinzo-abe-beijing-message/

There is a lot of complexity as NATO , Russian-Ukrainians, and Ukrainian power elites jockey for any kind of strategic advantage, which would make a move favorable. Russia much prefers that things calm down, prefers to prevent an attack on the Donbass by Ukraine/NATO, and must keep Ukraine/NATO from having a beguiling military advantage. Turkey’s Erdogan plays a very risky and fancy global power game.
​ ​In a Friday phone call Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that Ukraine is using Turkish-made drones against pro-Russia separatists in the war-torn Donbass region. Putin put the Turkish leader on notice over the “destabilizing” activity of the continued drone transfers from Turkey to Ukraine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/putin-denounces-ukraines-use-turkish-drones-erdogan-call

​These are Mach-9 hypersonic “Zircon” anti ship missiles with 600 mile range, in fixed positions on remote islands​. Russia does not announce plans, just facts-in-existence.
This gives Russia a moderating position between the US/Japan and China, not in the Taiwan Straits, but the oceans around northern Japan. It also affords some further protection to the Russian east coast. It would exclude hostile military ships within striking range.
Russia Deploys Anti-Ship Missiles Near Japan On Disputed Kuril Islands
​ ​The status of ownership of the islands, which Russia de facto currently controls and has small bases on, is still unresolved since the end of WWII as a treaty regarding their status is still being negotiated.
​ ​On Thursday the Russian Defense Ministry announced the military has stationed its Bastion coastal missile defense system on a remote part of the island chain near Japan, identified as the island of Matua. These are considered “shore-based anti-ship missile systems” – seen as also potentially threatening to Japan’s Western allies, given for example US warships have recently traversed nearby waters.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-deploys-anti-ship-missiles-near-japan-disputed-kuril-islands

[John Day]

‘Ideological Fanaticism’: The Folly of Seeing Human Systems as Hardware​
​It seems that the ‘politics of fear’ may be ‘crossing the aisle’. But, in this shift, Big Tech cannot ride so easily to the Establishment’s rescue. With the vaccine meme, it has been relatively routine for the Tech social media to censor and delete all contrarian opinion, whether credentialed or not; but when it comes to inflation, ‘fact-checking’ becomes not just redundant, but counter-productive, for the ‘facts’ are visible with every purchase made. And every consumer can attest that prices are rising well above 6.2%​ …
​ On the whole, the ‘meme-politics of lockdown and vaccine mandates’ may be fading, but the inflation meme and the economic aftermath meme has only just begun​.
….this dualistic way of ratiocination runs through all of western modernity. Tech vaccines are the solution to the Covid virus. And, forced (human) separation is good for placing the malware into quarantine. The real-economy is the hardware that Central Bank ‘software’ will protect against recessionary pathogens. The Davos’ Re-Set will upload new global software for a ‘fairer, greener future’. A fourth Industrial Revolution is the digital technological management that will clean out Climate malware. Etc, etc.
​ ​In reality, all these are highly complex network systems, not susceptible to dualistic intervention. They work – if they work – as organic wholes. At best, we face systemic instability, as a result of these naïve ‘software’ interventions. At worst, systemic collapse.

‘Ideological Fanaticism’: The Folly of Seeing Human Systems as Hardware

U.S. Supremacy by Any Other Name​ ​
​ ​Great Power competition it turns out, is nothing other than the globalist, U.S.-centred, rules based world order. The U.S. abstains from ‘transforming’ (i.e. colour revolutionising) the CCP, because it can’t; that tool still applies to lesser fish (i.e. Nicaragua)…​
​All energy is directed to keeping the creaking system aloft (whether the EU’s, or the American ‘rules of the road’), rather than finding real solutions. Cleavages open, that cannot be politically contained; resentments bubble away; crises are managed, not resolved; time is played for; reform is incremental and then, suddenly, unilateral; and, in the end, stasis reigns. It is called Merkelism in Europe (after the German Chancellor)…
​ ​On the other hand, bad as this is (given the economic crises facing us), its greater ‘sin’ (as articulated by Sullivan) is his demand for global ‘rules’, whose scaffold is simply “the interests and values of the U.S. and its allies and partners”. Sullivan says that the U.S. no longer seeks to transform China’s system (that is good), but insists that China operate within an ‘order’ built around U.S. interests and values – tout court. And, as Sullivan indicated, U.S. diplomatic effort is to be directed at coercing Chinese compliance to this system. Nowhere are the costs to allies mentioned, who would have to forego their relations with China or Russia, in order to please Biden.
​ ​The bigger ‘sin’, quite simply, is that the time for such haughty ambitions has passed. The world balance has changed qualitatively, and not just quantitatively. Both China and Russia – the other two components to General Milley’s tri-partite world – have said it plainly enough: They refuse lectures by the West.

U.S. Supremacy by Any Other Name

​Alastair Crooke points out that American politicians are in the very long established habit of taking cheap little actions (like the War in Grenada) for immediate political gain, while ignoring critical long term implications and erosion of political relationships and strategic advantages. Russia and China do not suffer such short-termism.​
Losing Militarily & Strategically, in Order to ‘Win’ Politically (but Ephemerally)
In the wake of the Kabul withdrawal débacle, the U.S. administration is in a tearing hurry to give Biden the semblance of foreign policy success.

Losing Militarily & Strategically, in Order to ‘Win’ Politically (but Ephemerally)

[John Day]

Now or Never, The Great Transition Must Be Imposed, Alastair Crooke Thanks Eleni in colonial Athens for this series of stories.
Were you following the news this last week? Vaccine mandates are everywhere: one country, after another, is doubling-down, to try to force, or legally compel, full population vaccination. The mandates are coming because of the massive uptick in Covid – most of all in the places where the experimental mRNA gene therapies were deployed en masse…
Of course, the Pharma-Establishment know that the vaccines are no panacea. There are ‘higher interests’ at play here. It is driven rather by fear that the window for implementing its series of ‘transitions’ in the U.S. and Europe is closing. Biden still struggles to move his ‘Go-Big’ social spending plan and green agenda transition through Congress by the midterm election in a year’s time…
​ Time is short. The midterm elections are but 12 months away, after which the legislative window shuts. The Green ‘transition’ is stuck too (by concerns that moving too fast to renewables is putting power grids at risk and elevating heating costs unduly​)​…
​ ​It’s a race for the U.S. and Europe, where the pandemic is back in full force across Europe, to push through their re-set agendas, before variants seize up matters with hospitals crowded with the vaccinated and non-vaccinated; with riots in the streets, and mask mandates at Christmas markets…
…Is the turn to authoritarianism in Europe a sign of desperation as fears grow that the various ‘transitions’ planned under the ‘re-set’ umbrella (financial, climate, vaccine and managerial expert technocracy) may never be implemented?
​ ​Cut short rather, as spending plans are hobbled by accelerating inflation; as the climate transition fails to find traction amongst poorer states (and at home, too); as technocracy is increasingly discredited by adverse pandemic outcomes; and Modern Monetary Theory hits a wall, because – well, inflation again…
​ ​There are powerful oligarchic interests behind the Re-Set. They do not want to see it go down, nor see the West eclipsed by its ‘competitors’. So it seems that rather than back off, they will go full throttle and try to impose compliance on their electorates: tolerate no dissidence.​..
As one high ‘lodge’ member, favouring a form of global governance notes, to make people accept such reforms, you must frighten them.
​Yes, the collective of ‘transitions’ must have their ‘Big, overarching Narrative’ – however hollow, it rings (i.e. the struggle to defend democracy against authoritarianism). But it is the nature of today’s cultural-meme war that ultimately its content becomes little more than a rhetorical shell, lacking all sincerity at its core.
It serves principally, as decoration to a ‘higher order’ project: The preservation of global ‘rules of the road’, framed to reflect U.S. and allied interests, as the base from which the clutch of ‘transitions’ can be raised up into a globally managed order which preserves the Élite’s influence and command of major assets…
Western foreign policy becomes less about geo-strategy, but rather is primordially focussed on the three ‘big iconic issues’ – China, Russia and Iran – that can be given an emotional ‘charge’ in order to profitably mobilise certain identified ‘constituencies’ in the U.S. domestic cultural war. All the various U.S. political strands play this game.
​ ​The aim is to ‘nudge’ domestic American psyches (and those of their allies) into mobilisation on some issue (such as more protectionism for business against Chinese competition), or alternatively, imagined darkly, in order to de-legitimise an opposition, or to justify failures. These mobilisations are geared to gaining relative domestic partisan advantage, rather than having strategic purpose.​..
​ Russia and China therefore face a reality in which European and U.S. élites are heading in the opposite direction to epistemological purity and well-founded argument. That is to suggest, the new ‘normal’ is about generating a lot of contradictory realities, not just contradictory ideologies, but actual mutually-exclusive ‘realities’, which could not possibly simultaneously exist…
​ ​This is a highly risky game, for it forces a resistance stance on those targeted states – whether they seek it, or not. It underlines that politics is no more about considered strategy: It is about being willing for the U.S. to lose strategically (even militarily), in order to win politically.​..
​These countries understand exactly the point of these value and rights-loaded ‘rules’. It is to force compliance on these states to acquiesce to the ‘transitions, or, to suffer isolation, boycott and sanction – in a similar way to the choices being forced on those in the West not wishing to vaccinate (i.e. no jab; no job).​..
​But do the U.S. practitioners of meme-politics, absorb and comprehend that the stance by Russia-China – in riposte – is not some same-ilk counter-mobilisation done to ‘make a point’? That their vision does stand at variance with ‘the rules’? Do they see that their ‘red lines’ may indeed be ‘red lines’ literally? Is the West now so meme-addicted, it cannot any longer recognise real national interests?

Now or Never: The Great ‘Transition’ Must Be Imposed

[John Day]

​Jim Kunstler picks up the narrative thread..
For instance, a new study and warning from the American Heart Association concluded that mRNA vaccines dramatically increase risk of developing heart disease between 11 and 25 percent. Twitter slapped an “unsafe” warning on anyone attempting to transmit this news on its sacred app. Unsafe to whom, or what? Why, to the sacred narrative, of course, which is that the USA must be kept in a never-ending paranoid uproar over Covid — certainly until at least past the 2022 elections, in order to maintain all the emergency mail-in ballot provisions that enable voting fraud…
Meanwhile, the emerging reality of Omicron is that it has a much lower transmission coefficient than its predecessor, the Delta variant, and produces only mild symptoms of illness…
Anyway, two federal judges rendered decisions striking down Acting President Fauci’s vaccine mandates. The second ruling, penned by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of Louisiana’s Western District, featured a particularly lusty and detailed diagnosis of the mandate’s constitutional impropriety, and extended the injunction against vax mandates to all fifty states.
This leaves the USA in a distinctly exceptional position among the other nations within the loose confederation of Western Civ. Thanks to manifestations of sanity on the federal bench, the vax mandates appear DOA here now, while Austria and Germany have rushed into full-blown psychotic fugues over Omicron, announcing harsh punishments for their unvaxxed…
The Covid psychosis is just a reassignment of the Trump derangement, which was provoked by the generalized anxiety about collapsing industrial societies. The reasons for the collapse are not hard to grok: a declining resource base, especially affordable, economically plausible oil, a financial system purposefully detached from on-the-ground material reality, and sets of grossly foolish over-investments in complexity…
​https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/fury-rising/

Do you know why there isn’t an EUA [emergency use authorization]​ for fluvoxamine?​ Steve Kirsch​
The drug works. Amazingly well. Better than anything else against COVID when given early. So why isn’t there an EUA?
​ ​The Pfizer 6-month trial showed no all-cause mortality benefit; in fact, if anything, it showed that the vaccine killed more people than it saved. Sure, one COVID life was saved per 22,000 fully vaxed, but the all-cause mortality strongly favored the placebo (21 died in vaccine group vs. 17 in placebo). Doctors rush to recommend it. Nobody is skeptical.
​ ​Fluvoxamine on the other hand actually demonstrated a 12 times reduction in all-cause mortality in the Phase 3 trial. It really saved lives and the difference was dramatic in the clinical trial: “There was one death in the fluvoxamine group and 12 in the placebo group for the per-protocol population (OR 0·09; 95% CI 0·01–0·47).” But the NIH ignored the drug and didn’t even mention this astonishing result on the NIH treatment guidelines. The study wasn’t even mentioned at all in the guidelines. It was like it never happened.​..
​ ​Why isn’t there an EUA for fluvoxamine? The reason is simple. We tried. And after 6 weeks of waiting, we were told that to get an EUA for a repurposed drug, you have to partner with a drug company in the EUA application. Because no drug company will partner with us, even if we pay all the filing costs, there won’t be an EUA. Ever.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/do-you-know-why-there-isnt-an-eua

[John Day]

The Ethical Skeptic presents a well developed, detailed, graphically supported and logical case that SARS-CoV-2 actually escaped from a Chinese lab in early 2018, spread and mutated more slowly than announced, was kept as a mystery, though Chinese (and other) people were hospitalized a lot in 2018 and 2019. Chinese SARS-CoV-2 cases were actually in a final third-wave peak when “discovered” in Wuhan in late 2019.
Due to natural immunity, China was able to have great success with lockdowns, as it would have had with doing nothing at all.
The rest of the world was misled, but found ways to make political lemonade out of the lockdown-lemon. Regions of Asia and Oceana, like India and Australia, actually had a lot more herd immunity by 2020, which was explained and dealt with in different ways.
The saga of the lost Omicron variant is also investigated in detail. This variant has a last common ancestor with other COVID strains a long time ago, which could (barely) have happened if it derived from an initial lab leak in March 2018, but it may well have been released later, even intentionally, due to its specific engineered characteristics. It is not more deadly, but quite different, and does evade the antibodies to January 2020 spike protein very effectively.
If this virus is actually spread more through (Gross!) aerosolized fecal particles, then a mode of spread to whitetail-deer is readily explained, and also some of the early patterns of mass epidemics in the US. Mapping graphs explain this.

China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018

The Twilight of the Narrative​, ​​ Posted on the Seneca Effect blog
​… One of the main changes wrought by the internet is the shattering of “grand narratives”…
As the corona event drags on interminably, there are those in the dissenter camp who still think the “narrative is about to crack” any day now and the “truth” will be revealed.
This mindset from the old, pre-internet world is no longer valid in the world we live. There is no unifying narrative any more that is going to crack and be replaced by a better, more truthful narrative. Rather, there are now just a seemingly infinite number of sub-narratives with a dominant narrative imposed on top of them…
Narratives must evolve organically with a feedback loop between top-down and bottom-up. The increasing use of censorious tactics in the last couple of years reveals the underlying weakness of the dominant narrative. The powers that be have gone all out in attempting to hold together a narrative that itself doesn’t make sense as it is changed willy-nilly according to purely political considerations.
It’s tempting to think the politicians are doing it on purpose with some larger objective in mind. But what if there is no larger objective? What if these tactics are simply what is required now to create any type of dominant narrative at all? What if these tactics are now the price you pay to create a narrative? …
The price to create a dominant narrative has gone up for a number of reasons but one is that the internet opened the floodgates on the flow of information and allowed multiple alternative narratives to be created…
The public discourse which existed prior to the internet was facilitated through a system in which the media was known as the “fourth estate”. Its job was to hold government to account. Of course, this was not a perfect system but, as the saying goes, it seems it was better than all the others. It was certainly better than the system we have now where the media does not hold the government to account at all and is little more than a public relations branch of the government…
Whatever the ethical dimensions of these issues, what lies beneath is the fact that the media companies are no longer viable businesses capable of existing without government support. Because they are now reliant on government money, their function as the fourth estate that holds government to account has also all but disappeared. That’s a problem for them but it’s also a problem for the government. The “official narrative” is transmitted through the legacy media. If the legacy media goes away, so does the narrative… The government needs the media as much as the media needs the government.
I would argue that the public also needs the media. It needs the media to act as its representative. That was the whole point of the Fourth Estate arrangement. The public paid for the media and that meant the media had an incentive to represents the readership’s interests. But that is all gone now…
“The system” can no longer control the discourse the way it previously could. This is not a trivial matter. It leads us back to one of Plato’s most dangerous ideas which is the Noble Lie… We could soften it by calling them myths or ideals but the effect is the same. The myths and ideals are the glue that holds things together and, according to Plato, without them society will disintegrate.
Our post-internet public discourse provides some evidence for this assertion. It has become completely detached from reality or, to put it another way, it represents only one version of reality: the one that comes from the top-down. This process is especially advanced in the US. It hit a fever pitch with the Trump presidency and has not relaxed since. There are now at least two mutually incompatible narratives going on in the US meaning that agreement about the fundamentals which hold society together is called into question on an almost daily basis…
As a result, a large proportion of the population no longer has any faith whatsoever in the system. That holds true no matter who is in power. The dominant narrative is now nothing more than the story told by those in power.
In Australia and much of Europe and Canada, we are just now catching up with the US. Here in Melbourne, more than a hundred thousand people marched against the government last weekend. The Premier’s response was to write them off as “thugs” and “extremists”. It reminded me an awful lot of Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” moment. When politicians no longer feel like they need to accommodate the interests and opinions of a substantial proportion of the population you know the narrative is already fractured…
The same goes for the demonstrators in Europe who are simply ignored by the mainstream media. Because the public discourse no longer pretends to reflect reality, nobody really believes in it including the people who nominally go along with it. Deep down they also must know that it is fake…
We are entering a time when even the idea of a centralised narrative is no longer believed in. If Plato was right, this fact alone is an existential threat to the state and it is understandable that the state would strive to fix the problem. But it’s almost certainly too late…
Will that lead to the disintegration of the state? Plato would have said yes. We may be about to test that theory.
​https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-twilight-of-narrative-why-truth.html#comment-form

[John Day]

I spent a a lot of time editing and excerpting today, and there’s a picture “inside the box”
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/reality-flails-narratives.html

Gail Tverberg, Is it possible that the world is approaching end times? (This approach may recruit a new group of readers for this important perspective.)
I frequently write that the world economy is, in physics terms, a dissipative structure that is powered by energy. It can grow for a time, but eventually it reaches limits of many kinds. Ultimately, it can be expected to stop growing and collapse.
It seems to me that the world economy is showing signs that it has reached a turning point. Economic growth stopped in 2020 and is having trouble restarting in 2021. Fossil fuel energy of all types (oil, coal and natural gas) is in short supply, relative to the world’s huge population. Ultimately, this inadequate energy supply can be expected to pull the world economy toward collapse.

The world economy doesn’t behave the way most people would expect. Standard modeling approaches miss the point that economies require adequate supplies of energy products of the right kinds, provided at the right times of day and year, if they are to keep from collapsing. Shortages are not necessarily marked by high prices; prices that are too low for producers will bring down the energy supply quickly. A collapse may occur due to inadequate demand…
We are not used to living in a world where very little that is published by the Mainstream Media makes sense. But when we live in a time where no one wants to hear what is true, the system changes in a bizarre way, so that a great deal that is published is false.

Economists have chosen instead to make models that assume no limits are ahead. They seem to assume that all problems will be fixed by innovation, substitution and the pricing mechanism. They produce forecasts suggesting that the economy can grow endlessly in the future. Based on these forecasts, they provide input to models that reach the conclusion that amazingly large amounts of fossil fuels will be extracted in the future. Based on these nonsensical models, our problem is not the near-term limits that we are reaching; instead, our chief problem is climate change. Its impacts occur mostly in the future

.A corollary to this belief system is that it is we humans who are in charge and not the laws of physics. We can expect governments to protect us. We don’t need any outside help from a literal Higher Power who created the laws of physics. We need to listen to what the authorities on earth tell us. In fact, in troubled times, governments need more authority over their citizens. The many concerns regarding COVID-19 make it easy for governments to increase their control over citizens. We are told that it is only by following the mandates of governments that we will get through this strange time…

In fact, we are colliding with resource limits, right now. This seems to be what produced the bizarre situation experienced in 2020…

As time went on, it became very clear that the true nature of the COVID-19 epidemic was being hidden from citizens. It was, and is, not a terribly dangerous illness if it is treated properly with any number of inexpensive medications including aspirin, ivermectin, antihistamine and steroids. In fact, the severity of the disease could also be lessened by taking vitamin D in advance. There really was not a great deal of point to the vaccines, except to enrich the vaccine manufacturers and those who would benefit from the sale of the vaccines, including Anthony Fauci and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

It also became clear that the vaccines don’t really do what a person might expect a vaccine to do. They do tend to stop severe illness, but taking vitamin D in advance would provide pretty much the same benefit. They don’t stop COVID-19 from circulating because vaccinated people can still catch COVID-19. The vaccines seem to have any number of side effects, including raising the risk of heart attacks.

The historical period most similar to the current period, in terms of shortage of energy supply, is that between World War I and World War II. At that time, the Jews were persecuted. Now, there is an attempt to divide the world into Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, with the Unvaccinated persecuted. When the economy cannot produce enough goods and services for all members of the economy, the economy seems to divide into almost warring parts….

Europe is the part of the world where the push for vaccinations is now highest. It is also in terrible shape with respect to energy supply. By ostracizing the unvaccinated, European countries can attempt to cut back their economies to the size that their energy supply will support, without admitting the real problem…

It is disturbing to think that we may be living near the end of the world economy, but there is an upside to this situation. We have had the opportunity to live at a time with more conveniences than any other civilization. We can appreciate the many conveniences we have.

We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and our educational institutions. If we figure out that this really isn’t the path to follow, we can change course now. If we want to choose a more spiritual approach, this is a choice we can still make.

Is it possible that the world is approaching end times?

[John Day]

How’s that thing on your back, Boscohorowitz?

[John Day]

The “U” key won’t work unless I hammer it. “S” means “US” both times…

sigh

[John Day]

Kimo said:
“Shinzo Abe’s no-nonsense message to Beijing
Our local Japan cultural experts may wish to comment on this (John?).
By all appearances, this is an uncharacteristically blunt message from any Japanese speaking at a public event and connected to political power, Abe being no exception. Clarity of consequence is forming. Is there intel on the Chinese plans we are not privy to see?”

What is being discussed, and what is being said, by who, to whom?

“During a virtual keynote speech on Japan-Taiwan relations Wednesday, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Beijing that an attack on Taiwan would be “economic suicide.”

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson expressed China’s “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition,” denouncing Abe’s remarks as “openly nonsensical” and said: “If you challenge the bottom line of the Chinese people, your head will surely be smashed and start bleeding.”

My read is that Shinzo Abe spoke openly in a quasi-private (deniable by officials) capacity, and was speaking about economics, not something veiled. Taiwan makes the critical integrated circuits for the world. Taiwan is the goose that lays that golden egg, for Taiwan, for China, for Japan, for the S, and Germany, and Singapore and India, and France, and Britain, etc.

If China tries to invade Taiwan, the goose that lays the golden chips will stop laying.
That will hurt China’s economy, but it would mainly be an action the CCP & Xi would take to maintain political power if (when) the financial sector collapses. CCP lost face when they could not actually let Evergrande go bankrupt last month.
“China” had to support Evergrande, because it was too-big-to-fail, and would bring down the Chinese financial sector. This stings for them. They are seething in this trapped, blackmailed and inevitably tragic position.
Everybody knows that when the economy fails China has to have a nationalistic, face-saving war, or their “leadership” will be ousted.
Which war? They don’t have many options, do they? They already retook Hong Kong. They can’t really attack the S. Vietnam and North Korea are without good attack narratives lately.
The traditional favorite for Chinese patriots is JAPAN, but that’s nuclear suicide. Australia just nucleared-up with the US nuclear subs/bases as a trigger. China could attack India through Burma and Cambodia on some pretext, but India is a nuclear power and would sure nuke China if it had to. They are ancient rivals with lots of bones to pick and nobody would come out without massive bleeding, and no possible prize to win. Attacking India would also be divisive “within China”, as Tibet is “China”.

Still, Abe was the messenger to China, in an international forum, that China would regret trying to take Taiwan by force. The rest of the economic-military powers would have to prevent China actually getting those chip factories. The US, Japan, et al would have to at least keep China from having the chip factories, and that would mean destroying Chinese expeditionary forces in the Taiwan straits, and on the beaches, and bombing them on the Chinese side, which could be nuclear.

Taiwan is too big of a prize for any power to let any other power completely control.

The Chinese reply to Abe was for the Chinese people to read. It was really a reply to them. It did address Abe the man, not Japan. “We’ll bash your head in if you hurt our business”

It’s an open conversation for the global public, people of Japan, Taiwan and China, and for US power-elites. This is officially an unofficial message, but “it’s-official”.

[John Day]

@Doc Robinson: That link is funny. Though it looks right, it goes somewhere else.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/28x-increase-in-stillbirths-in-multiple

[John Day]

Kimo found this. It posits that COVID is transmitted through fecal aerosols, and got out of a Chinese lab in early 2018, spreading within Asia without comment, except “untyped flu deaths”.
It is elegant and worthy of serious consideration. This towards the end:

China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018

7b. Omicron Variant – genetics are older than and lineage does not connect back to Dec 2019 ‘wild’ type

Finally, emergence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Botswana in November of 2021 presents another post October 2019 falsification-level event. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has alarmed many scientists due to the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries — 93 in all, including 32 in the spike protein alone, 16 silent, 27 nucleotide deletions, 1 nucleotide insertion, and at least 43 mutations that are unique to Omicron (see both left and right hand panels in Exhibit 7.6 below).16 17 In all, Omicron’s mutation set bears 29% nucleotide deletions, which is highly divergent as compared to the known SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny shown on the left side of Exhibit 7.6 below. This percentage of deletions (27 of 93) and amino acid mutations (50 of 93) both far exceed the number of much more likely silent-synonymous mutations (16 of 93). This suggests that the ‘deletions’ are rather actually ‘insertions’ which occurred in the lineage to the 2 Feb 2020 Alpha Variant Clade 20B. The terminology inversion stemming from an effort to stuff a 10 pound virus divergence into a 2 pound bag of posterity. We will treat these generically (conservatively) as INDELs (insertion-deletions) therefore in the genetic clock analysis later in this segment of Question #7.

Under this paradigm, if Omicron turns out to be highly transmissible but mild in terms of symptomatic severity – then it has a great likelihood of being the direct descendant of the pre-Wuhan 2018/19, 173 nation (Zone I and II in Exhibit 4.5 above) immunity-conferring strain of Covid conjectured within this article.

[John Day]

Go Gail (Tverberg)! https://ourfiniteworld.com/

The need for vaccine passports in some countries reminds a person of Revelation 13:17, “they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” In fact, people in Sweden are getting microchip implants after its latest COVID passport mandate.

Some people believe that Revelation 12 describes the Antichrist; that is, the polar opposite of Christ. Before the world comes to an end, Revelation 12 seems to predict a great fight against this Antichrist, which Christ wins. I could imagine Anthony Fauci being the Antichrist.

We are not used to living in a world where very little that is published by the Mainstream Media makes sense. But when we live in a time where no one wants to hear what is true, the system changes in a bizarre way, so that a great deal that is published is false.

It is disturbing to think that we may be living near the end of the world economy, but there is an upside to this situation. We have had the opportunity to live at a time with more conveniences than any other civilization. We can appreciate the many conveniences we have.

We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and our educational institutions. If we figure out that this really isn’t the path to follow, we can change course now. If we want to choose a more spiritual approach, this is a choice we can still make.

[John Day]

Image of gardener sweeping the pavers in the garden, with some new structure rising in the background
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/bad-covid-vaccine-batch-numbers.html

There is a lot you have already seen here, but “worth repeating”, and also:

​I have been introduced to the Medical Vitamin-D research of David Grimes MD. Here he explores a Calcitriol study from a September post. Deaths went from 12% without this active vitamin-D supplement to 0 in the supplemented group, and ICU admissions were also reduced. He points out that Safety-Rules in management of data like this, especially in the context of so many other studies showing benefits of vitamin-D. It is much safer than the current “vaccines”, and appears reliably beneficial, in any form.
​http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2021/09/covid-19-vitamin-d-rct-of-calcitriol.html

Here are the summaries of many studies using single or occasionally-recurrent high doses of vitamin D3 or vitamin D2. It appears that doses of 200,000 to 300,000 units of either of these forms (D3 is OTC. D2 is Rx) provides a normalization, or even optimization of blood level of this “hormone”, which allows the immune system to function normally. [That is 40-60 pills of 5000 unit D3, or 4-6 pills of (Rx) 50,000 unit D2.]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4128480/

History trying to rhyme? Thanks Noirette (in Neutral Switzerland). [Ursula is an MD, as is her husband, deeply involved in novel biological treatment companies.]
SHOCKING: In the wake of Austria’s drastic lockdown of unvaccinated people, EU chief calls for throwing out Nuremberg Code
Ursula Van Der Leyen, the head of the EU commission, told the press on Wednesday that she is in favour of scrapping the long-standing Nuremburg Code and forcing people to get vaccinated against COVID.
https://thepostmillennial.com/eu-chief-nuremberg-code

[John Day]

Finished yesterday. Meditation-group time, now.
I promise photos of the house-project progressing.
Carefully planted 450 onion starts yesterday, and worked out some details of load bearing wall pillar placement, marking “X”s on the plywood floor.

The Seneca Effect, Ugo Bardi’s blog (“Cassandra’s Legacy was his prior blog) is very good. Read closer, Dr. D. He’s on the same team. He did that series of articles on how to reduce population groups.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/targeted-exterminations.html
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/the-age-of-extermination.html

[John Day]

I’m still catching up. I’m starting in on yesterday, now…

[John Day]

@VP Gary, from 2 days ago. I voted for Ross Perot. I have not picked a winner yet. His company, Electronic Data Systems did good, efficient work with Texas Medicaid. Governor Bush reassigned that contract. Ross made Clinton win. Ross saw things not making sense in stocks in March 1987 and got out of the markets months before the fall crash. I remember an interview with him that day. When “things did not make sense” he just got out.
There are a lot of other reports about Perot, including some beneficial role in “the hostage crisis”, which Bush Sr. made sure to prolong by illegal negotiations with Iran, sinking Carter, who was also secretly (legally) negotiating with Iran.
That led to guns, for drugs for hostages Iran-Contra. Ollie North took one for the team, but Bush/Reagan were “Teflon”.

[John Day]

​People are leaving the formal economy. It is not working for them. Wages were barely enough before, and now are not enough to get back in the yoke.
“A Secular Shift”: What The Black Death Tells Us About The Labor Market
​ ​As Deutsche Bank strategist Robin Winkler writes, there are many reasons as to why people might be unable to respond to rising wages, such as obstacles to returning to work. Another possible explanation is that people are looking through the ‘money illusion’: they understand that wages are barely rising in real terms.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/secular-shift-what-black-death-tells-us-about-labor-market

​”Smart Cities” will further constrain and control people, like smartphone data. ​They are antithetical to complex life.
…The idea of smart cities is born of what Watson describes as “the same human superiority-complex that thinks nature should be controlled”. What’s missing is symbiosis. “Life on Earth is based upon symbiosis,” Watson says. She suggests we replace the saying “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the most symbiotic”. Not as catchy, perhaps. But smarter.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/15/the-case-for-making-low-tech-dumb-cities-instead-of-smart-ones

​We’ve already heard that there is nowhere near enough lithium on planet earth, and that rare-earth elements are also way too rare to supply what is planned.
​ Woodmac gets straight to the point: “delivering the base metals to meet [net zero 2050] pathways strains project delivery beyond breaking point from people and plant to financing and permitting.”
Copper, which Woodmac emphasizes “sits at the nexus of the energy transition” stands out particularly.
The 19 million tonnes of additional copper that need to be delivered for net-zero 2050 implies a new La Escondida must be discovered and enter production every year for the next 20 years.
Even if you focus on just one of the obstacles bringing new copper supply online – the time it takes to build a new mine – and leave aside all other factors, net-zero 2050 has zero chance.

COP26 will be a colossal mining cop-out

Multipolar World items: (These could both be portrayed as “defensive weapons-systems”. There are also new nuclear weapon delivery systems.)
​ ​Speaking to gathered experts, Putin called the development of high-speed missiles as a “necessary” response to “Western actions.”
“We have already successfully conducted tests, and from the beginning of the year we will have in service a sea-based hypersonic missile of Mach 9,” Putin said.
​ ​Although he didn’t name the weapon, the president is most likely talking about Zircon, the world’s first hypersonic cruise missile capable of continuous aerodynamic flight while maneuvering in the atmosphere using the thrust of its own engine.
​ ​Earlier this month, Putin revealed, following successful testing, the missiles would be supplied to the Navy from 2022.
https://www.rt.com/russia/541743-moscow-unveil-new-supersonic-weapon/

​It should be named “Near Earth Orbit Warrior”​
RUSSIA’S new weapon dubbed “Star Warrior” has the West worried as it can blast satellites out of orbit at heights of up to 500 miles above Earth.
Vladimir Putin’s state owned TV issued a chilling threat that Russia may deploy the system to destroy some 32 Western satellites to render Nato missiles useless.
…the satellite strike was a deliberate warning to the West not to cross the Kremlin’s red lines on Ukraine.​..in the event of worsening relations, Russia could wipe out 32 GPS satellites crucial for Nato’s military operations, including the pinpointing of missile strikes.
​https://www.the-sun.com/news/4126730/putin-star-warrior-missile-russia-nato/

[John Day]

Blog is up, with first picture of framing start (despite mud in the middle from recent rains)
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/helpful-p.html

Pepe Escobar reviews some highlights of RFK Jr’s book about Tony Fauci, Bill Gates, and co-conspirator “friends”. There are a lot of high points.
​ ​Enter the MARS (Mountain Associated Respiratory Virus) simulation during the G20 in Germany in 2017. MARS was about a novel respiratory virus that spread out of busy markets in a mountainous border of an unnamed nation that looked very much like China.
​ ​It gets curiouser and curiouser when one learns that MARS’s two moderators were very close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and one of them, David Heymann, sat with the Moderna CEO on the Merieux Foundation USA Board. BioMerieux happens to be the French company that built the Wuhan lab.
​ ​Afterward came SPARS 2017 at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation happen to be major funders of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. SPARS 2017 gamed a coronavirus pandemic running from 2025 to 2028. As RFK Jr. notes, “the exercise turned out to be an eerily precise predictor of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
​ ​By 2018 bioweapons expert Peter Daszak was enthroned as the key connector through whom Fauci, Kadlec, DARPA and USAID – which used to be a CIA cover and now reports to the National Security Council – moved grants to fund gain-of-function research, including at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Biosafety Lab.
​ ​Crimson Contagion, overseen by Kadlec after eight months of planning, came in August 2019. Fauci was on board the self-described “functional exercise,” representing the NIH, alongside the CDC’s Robert Redfield and several members of the National Security Council. The war game was held in secret, nationwide. The After-Action Crimson Contagion Report only came out via a FOIA request.
​ ​The star of the Gates pandemic show was undoubtedly Event 201 in October 2019, held only 3 weeks before US intel may – or may not – have suspected that Covid-19 was circulating in Wuhan. Event 201 was about a global coronavirus pandemic. RFK Jr. persuasively argues that Event 201 was as close as possible to a “real-time” simulation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/escobar-fauci-darth-vader-covid-wars

​Professor Anthony Hall has a detailed article, looking at many of the same facts and trends, and referencing RFK Jr’s book extensively.
The Real Anthony: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
​ ​In August of 2019 BlackRock organized a meeting of central bankers and their advisers in Jackson Hole in Wyoming. This meeting was planned and implemented well before the Covid crisis reared its head. In retrospect, the timing and content of the meeting signifies the current crisis began with a plan to reorganize global banking and finance, not attend to a public health problem…
The plan called for a further merger of monetary policy and fiscal policy, in other words a further merger of private central banks and governments. Monetary policy determines the size of the money supply and debt rates. These powers are exercised by private central bankers who were well represented at the Jackson Hole event. Fiscal policy involves spending decisions and such. This area of jurisdiction is usually retained as the formal domain of government authority. Reflecting on the animosity generated in 2007-2010 by the $16 trillions of so-called “bailout” money that went to “too-big-to-fail” financial institutions, the bankers proposed “going direct” with government payouts of “helicopter money” to small businesses and to members of the general public.
BlackRock Investment Institute distributed copies of Dealing With the Next Downturn to the VIPs assembled at Jackson Hole. The subtext of the document’s title called for a transition From Unconventional Monetary Policy to Unprecedented Policy Coordination…
Once the anticipated economic downturn came in 2020 BlackRock was hired by the Federal Reserve in the US as well as by the Bank of Canada and the Swedish Riksbank. The financial devastation was caused primarily by the ruination of many small businesses and supply chains through the forced subversion of “lockdowns.”
BlackRock took on government-like powers as a powerful participant in several financial resets…
The engineered stock market plunge on Black Friday was part of a long saga that is coming to constitute the most elaborate instance of psychological warfare ever mounted. This psychological warfare is inflicting enormous damage on the mental health of large swaths of the population, but especially on children…
This hybrid war on humanity is at once psychological, biological and financial. One aim is to depopulate the planet and plunge the survivors of this atrocity into new forms of transhuman enslavement. The opening stages of this new form of enslavement involve inserting bio-digital nanotechnology into our persons so we can be better monitored and controlled. Looking to the future of society where much more of the work will be done by robots, some are trying to bring humans into conformity with the rhythms and demands of far-reaching robotization…
The creation of so-called vaccine passports should be seen for what it portends in terms of integrating humans more deeply into expanding networks of increasingly powerful Artificial Intelligence…
Even from the distance of their remote locations, the future masters of the world’s primary data cache would be in a powerful position to reward us, penalize us, torture us, impoverish us, or even shut down our lives altogether. One way of picturing their power is to imagine the implementation of a cashless money transfer system, an outcome already being associated with the elaboration of vaccine passports. This kind of system could be deployed to deny to individuals displaying attributes of disobedience and non-compliance, the capacity to, for instance, purchase food. Humans would become subject to determinations made on the basis of digitalized social credit scores…
It seems that those who have emerged victorious from this banking history have seized on the exploitation of so-called public health as a new means of making themselves even richer and more omnipotent. They are engaged in removing the few remaining checks and balances on which the fragile viability of our imperfect democracies and recognitions of human rights have depended. By bringing human survivors of depopulation under the authority of private and central systems of “public health,” the process continues of privatizing and centralizing power. The greatest mass of humanity would be placed under the iron grip of a tiny minority…
New forms of oppression are coming into existence by treating immunity to disease into a commodity. Our oppressors are implicitly telling us that this commercialized immunity is henceforth to derive exclusively from the spout of injected needles. The cost of industrially narrowing the spectrum and vitality of natural immunity comes at a very high human price. Natural immunity would be destroyed from endless rounds of required vaccines as administered through the control device of so-called vaccine passports.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/boost-omicron-booster-shots/5763185

[John Day]

Alex Jones says Pfizer data showed thousands died from “vaccine” in first month. There should be some follow-up on this one…
https://www.infowars.com/posts/maximum-global-bombshell-judge-orders-pfizer-fda-to-release-documents-first-doc-dump-says-thousands-killed-by-shot-in-first-month/

[John Day]

“30,000 mutations in the spike protein alone” caught my eye:

Altshtein said that “we already see Omicron has many mutations, more than Delta. More than thirty-thousand in a single gene of its spike protein. This is too many, and it means the virus has an unstable genome. As a rule, this sort of infectious agent becomes less dangerous, because evolutionarily, an overwhelming number of mutations leads to a weakening of the virus’s ability to cause disease.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/541735-omicron-variant-covid19-pandemic/

I thought this virus mutated once every 2 weeks. That’s 60,000 weeks of mutation, … OR it could be done in a lab… This article revises the rate of mutation to once per week. 30,000 weeks. Same issue…

The virus that causes COVID-19 mutates almost once a week—significantly higher than the rate estimated previously—according to a new study by scientists from the Universities of Bath and Edinburgh. Their findings indicate that new variants could emerge more quickly than thought previously.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was previously thought to mutate about once every two weeks.
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-mutation-covid-virus-percent-higher.html

[John Day]

The log in requirement ejected me and threw away the comment I had typed. Oh, well…

@VP Gary: We have met different illegal-aliens. When I worked summers in college in the 1970s, I could get labor work right away. Now it is almost completely Spanish speakers on all work crews, except a few older white and black guys, supervising or operating heavy equipment, like a back-hoe.
It has been a huge demographic shift. These laborers, many skilled, or at least hard-working, and their families, comprise a lot of the patients at the clinic I recently served.
It was not like that at all in the 1990s. None of the patients spoke only Spanish back then.

Who you meet is pretty specific to who and where you are and what you do, I think.

[John Day]

@Zerosum: I do not foresee being rehired, since I was scheduled for termination November 1, under vaccine-mandate-non-compliance, but when the Governor of Texas said “no vaccine mandates” in October, that was hastily changed to “fired for cause”, on the same date, of which I was promptly notified.
That date was then move forward 2 weeks, without telling me of the change until the Monday after my last (long, as usual) Friday, when I was doing winter planting in the vegetable garden I grew at the clinic.
The ambush of the gardener occurred in plain view, when it was intended to be off-stage.
I had been given the maximum merit-raise in late July, but much fault was found in me and written up in September, making a fallback case for my firing for cause.
I understand that this is routine procedure, when somebody has been marked for termination.
The clinic is big enough to have lawyers these days, and I think they consulted a lot about the vaccine mandate and likely scenarios arising from it.

[John Day]

@CTBarnum:
ElGato Malo has the BEST rundown and scoops on the worse-than-shady state for the Omicron variant. As John Ward (The Slog) would say IABATO (it’s all bollocks and that’s official).
(Harvey Risch just sent this one.) https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-omicron-absurdities-continue

FOX News Flash. Healthcare Worker Vaccine Mandate blocked NATIONALLY
https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-judge-blocks-biden-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers-nationwide
A federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction Tuesday against President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.

Judge Terry A. Doughty in the U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana ruled in favor of a request from Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to block an emergency regulation issued Nov. 4 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that required vaccines for nearly every full-time employee, part-time employee, volunteer, and contractor working at a wide range of healthcare facilities receiving Medicaid or Medicaid funding.

[John Day]

“SCIENCE” becomes momma’s apron for Toddler Fauci, who cannot mount any rational arguments.
He has “bad facts” like lying to congress about not funding gain-of-function research, and natural immunity being much better than vaccine-immunity..
He calls names. Senators Ron Paul and Ted Cruz (ugh!) are being mean and anti-science, which is very dangerous. Fauci is THE SCIENCE.
Nothing factual does he present.
https://www.rt.com/usa/541668-fauci-represent-science-rand-paul/

Twitter was initially sold as peer-to-peer free-speech. Now bad ideas will be banned, and pictures of riots, and people committing crimes against other people and/or property. Tony “the science” Fauci is still a public figure, but there is bound to be room to explore the evolution of this not-first-amendment-bound “private platform” under the new manager.
New Twitter CEO’s First Decision: Ban Mean Memes
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-twitter-ceos-first-decision-ban-mean-memes

This is the page comparison I mentioned in the last blog post. Ilargi, the blogger at The Automatic Earth first accessed the version that included the B.1.1.529 mention, dated 7/12/21, and when he returned to the site, that had been deleted. The official story is that it was just “updated”, which he caught, then un-updated.
(There are more and more hints that this viral strain may have been in circulation globally for months, already.
There is such a range of presentation of COVID from minimal symptoms to severe illness and death.)

Debt Rattle November 27 2021

https://theautomaticearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/WEBChanges.jpg

A South African COVID variant was described last March, which did not get as much global traction as expected, but was different enough that it evaded antibodies in the serum of people who had recovered from a prior strain.
SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01285-x

[John Day]

There were 2 variables at play here, which is not good study design. The vitamin-D treatment group also had comorbidities, things like diabetes and heart disease. They still did twice as well as the low vitamin-D group without comorbidities, in terms of hospitalizations and deaths.
The level of treatment was not to “optimal” but to “barely normal”.
This looks like a study designed to fail or be unimpressive, which turned out to be impressive , anyway.
Rapid and Effective Vitamin D Supplementation May Present Better Clinical Outcomes in COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Patients…​
​Results: Our treatment protocol increased the serum 25OHD levels significantly to above 30 ng/mL within two weeks. COVID-19 cases (no comorbidities, no vitamin D treatment, 25OHD <30 ng/mL) had 1.9-fold increased risk of having hospitalization longer than 8 days compared with the cases with comorbidities and vitamin D treatment. Having vitamin D treatment decreased the mortality rate by 2.14 times.
Conclusions: Vitamin D treatment shortened hospital stay and decreased mortality in COVID-19 cases, even in the existence of comorbidities.
Vitamin D supplementation is effective on various target parameters; therefore, it is essential for COVID-19 treatment.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34836309/

Omicron Is “Extremely Mild” Says Doctor Who First Discovered Strain
​https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/omicron-extremely-mild-says-doctor-who-first-discovered-strain-numerous-mutations

There is also no evidence that absence of vaccination will prevent severe disease from Omicron.
There is no apparent evidence that Omicron causes severe disease. Quite the contrary.
COVID vaccination also protects very well from severe disease caused by thinking about baseball.
(At least there’s no “evidence” to the contrary.)
Oxford University Says “No Evidence” Vaccines Won’t Protect Against Severe Disease Caused By Omicron
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/oxford-university-says-no-evidence-vaccines-wont-protect-against-severe-disease-caused

Dr Alexander is a good medical analyst and writer.
Are We Overreacting to Omicron?​ Paul E. Alexander Ph.D.​

Are We Overreacting to Omicron?

[John Day]

Thanks for this, Dennis:
And another federal court rules against another Biden vaccine mandate – this time for health-care workers​
​“Plaintiffs are likely to succeed in establishing that the CMS vaccine mandate is arbitrary and capricious.”
​https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/and-another-federal-court-rules-against/comments

​We are prone to think of any word as a “thing”. Our minds find that convenient. Some “things” are actually complex and changing internally. We should think of them differently than a brick. The Pfizer mRNA vaccines are like that. Look at the graph and analysis of Pfizer vaccine batches.
Pfizer Systematic Deployment in the USA, Craig Paardekooper
If the separate companies were deploying high toxicity batches systematically, then the patterns of deployment could be confused and clouded by mixing data for all of the companies. – So, instead of combining all of the VAERS data for Moderna, and for Pfizer, I decided to separate them out. – ​​Here is the complete output for Pfizer only – showing adverse reactions for each sequential batch. – Pfizer deployed about 9500 batches to the USA…
​ ​If the production of toxic batches was an accident, we would expect their temporal appearance to be random and more scattered. The production of large numbers of toxic batches in close temporal proximity to one another shows that such “accidents” are repeated dozens of times, sequentially ! –
​ ​In addition to this, these clusters of toxic batches are separated by clear periods of harmless batches – then the sudden appearance of another cluster. –
​ ​The toxic batches are also clustered into a narrow range of toxicity, rather than having a random spread of toxicity – which is odd if these batches were accidents. – ​ ​Finally, the toxicity of these clusters decreases in steps, linearly over time – again, not what we would expect from the accidental production of toxic batches. – These batches may be Hot Lots by design.
https://rense.com/general96/toxic-01.pdf

​Steve Kirsch:
​45% of deaths after COVID vaccination happen in the first 2 weeks
It’s 59% at 4 weeks and 63% at 5 weeks.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/45-of-deaths-after-covid-vaccination

​Austria, not Australia: ​
People repeatedly snubbing Covid-19 vaccination summons in Austria after immunization becomes compulsory there might face fines of up to $8,100 or several weeks behind bars, according to a draft that was leaked to the media.
https://www.rt.com/news/541687-austria-vaccination-resist-fine-bill/

The UK is suddenly moving to every 3 month COVID booster shots. Use what doesn’t work more and more often!
UK’s minimum gap for Covid booster jabs to be halved to three months
Vaccines watchdog advises speeding up of vaccination scheme to tackle new coronavirus variant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/covid-booster-jabs-to-be-offered-to-all-uk-adults-after-three-month-gap

[John Day]

Picture of blogger cleaning up under pruned oak tree on Thanksgiving , and more… https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/helpful-p.html

Does a failed-narrative fail without a helpful push? Just askin’…

The control-narrative promulgated in our world is something like “COVID will kill worthy-vaccinated and unworthy-doubters unless everybody gets vaccinated frequently forever and locks down whenever we say it’s necessary”. This is different from the original advertising “Vaccines Save!”, of course.
This narrative has no limit to how harsh it can become, when a critical mass of people comply with it, no limit at all. See “HISTORY”, please.

We have some interesting tribal characteristics, which don’t always get studied, and which are different in nature from our individual characteristics, which get studied a lot, all the time. Carl Jung and Hannah arendt did have the full-immersion opportunity to study Mass-Psychosis, which is also called “Mass Formation” in the case of a scared and anxious group of people being made to focus all of their fears and anxieties upon one specified threat, and one way to fight that threat, in order to prevail and survive.
Mass Psychosis is well explained in this 20 minute illustrated video, which I have posted before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

Survival of a human group primarily depends upon the group working together in concert, which is a thing we do well. It seems that we do even better when we correctly understand the problem, and work together with a rational plan to overcome the adversity, but that seems to be optional for group cohesion. The predominant form of “reality testing” employed by humans is to ask those around you what they think. That seems to illustrate that group cohesion is more important of a trait than brilliant factual analysis. Brilliant factual analysis, or even a pretty good assessment of facts and mechanisms at play, give a tremendous advantage to a cohesive group, working from that template, over a cohesive group working with “bad facts”.

Our “owners” usually have “better facts”, information-asymmetry, because they can hire good analysts. When the interests of the owners and the common people diverge greatly, the condition of “Class War” arises. Class War recurs in our history, but the winners write history, so it is often presented in a way which just makes it look weird and mysterious. “Why did people do that back then? They were crazy back then.”
The difficulty for the “owners”, the ruling elites,is that they have to get “half of the people to kill the other half of the people” in order to maintain their position of control. This is always horribly bad for both halves of the people, but it is repeatedly accomplished through “Mass Formation”.
It goes bad for the elites a lot of the time, too. They are quite happy to stab each other in the backs, whenever they can safely do so, and many times, when there is “blood in the streets”, a group of elites will lose command of the dominant narrative.

The current dominant narrative is really weak, and has faded from being merely incorrect, to clearly the opposite, in terms of facts. mRNA vaccines, in particular, had a lot of deaths and side effects, which were glossed over, because they “saved lives” (more often than not, for 2-3 months or so), but it appears that they actually drive coronavirus infections and hospitalizations higher after 6 months, and they seem to about double the “excess deaths” in a cohort which receives them. I have been covering those trends, and they are well covered here at The Automatic Earth, “It’s Time To Dump Pfizer”. https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/11/its-time-to-dump-pfizer/

Dominant narratives are easier to break at some times than at others. I keep coming back to “We Are Winning The War In Vietnam”, which was the instructive narrative failure of my childhood and teen years. Dad was over there for a year, a US Marine, and we lived on bases and in military towns, for the most part. I was a kid who paid attention and thought for himself (“problem child”). The Tet Offensive of early 1968 really rubbed people’s faces in the not-winning ugliness.
Walter Cronkite broke ranks and began gently considering that body count “winning” might never lead to “victory” as we had thought of it in WW-1 and WW-2. The TV news anchors cannot do that again, but the internet has not yet been fully brought under control at the small-blog and email level.

What is organically coalescing is a more factual narrative among those who reject the dominant narrative. there are 2 levels. The more accessible level is that crony-capitalist corruption has led to the situation where Pfizer got a lead, kept the lead by getting captured government regulators to suppress any solution other than “vaccines”, and that this ha continued, even as “vaccines” are now seen to become counterproductive to survival after 6 months of time. The second level, which is not very inconsistent, posits that this is at least partially intentional, if not originally, then as an adaptation to the lab leak spreading a weaponized viral pathogen uncontrollably in our highly connected world.

We are not starving. We are not in as bad an economy as we were in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I think that’s about to happen, and for some similar reasons. Faith-based-money ahs been debauched, and the default is under way, as Nixon had to default on the gold standard when the Vietnam War drained America’s vast treasure chest. America reached peak oil that same year of 1971. Consequences were felt for a dozen years after that. Now, the global finance markets and all national currencies are debauched, and the whole world has been wringing out more oil from expensive reserves, paid for with faith-based “investment” money.
We can again expect a failure of currency and a big increase in the price of oil, but globally, not just nationally. Global elites see this, appear to have gotten sold a narrative plot at Event 201 in October 2019, and are trying to stick with it.
I think the “Vaccines Save, Do As We Say” narrative is already failing in some places. It’s a Swiss Cheese. It’s hard for me to judge, because I don’t get all of the actual facts about things.
The elites really don’t have clear information either, not right now. They are sheltered from bad news from the information battlefields. We who are firm and resolute with the more factual narrative are not losing ground. They are also widely separated in the world, and need to look to their personal and regional and national survival first. They know not to trust each other, but not to open themselves to attack by an intact alliance of other elites. That can collapse fast.

We can’t see how many of us there are, but we can see the “better facts” and firmness of resolution within our smaller groups of socialization. We need to prevail in this narrative contest. This is our historical window of opportunity. Yes, for winning we will get a period like the decade from 1973 to 1n83, likely worse, since energy-based industrial economy will be in terminal decline. We will have to reconsider every single aspect of how we spend our time and energy. We will need to do this cooperatively and adaptively. When we get together on this realistic narrative track, we should be able to start solving the real problems in our real lives, and not killing each other for the failing paradigm of the parasitic and wasteful elite owners.
They should learn to ride bikes and grow vegetables, too. It will be good for them.

Look for every opportunity to demonstrate the truth and to demonstrate the ridiculousness of narrative falsehoods, Brothers and Sisters!

“Joe Biden”:
“I expect the new normal to be, everyone ends up getting vaccinated and the booster shot, so we reduce the number of people who aren’t protected to such a low degree that we’re not seeing the spread of these viruses,” he told reporters.​ [Not how these “vaccines” work, is it?]
People who are fully vaccinated “can celebrate the holidays much more safely than where we were last year,” Biden said, adding
“That’s a blessing none of us should take for granted.”
He also urged Americans to “wear your masks when you’re indoors in public settings around other people to protect you, to protect those around you.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/541674-biden-covid-new-normal-omicron/

[John Day]

@WES, V. Arnold and VP Gary, from late night comments.
Thanks for the encouraging words. The clay is still sucking-mud this morning before dawn, so not full work on the framing will require wading boots. We’ll see if it starts. I think tomorrow will be a better day to start framing. Avoiding mistakes is important, and screws are good in a lot of places, but people also use nail-guns a lot these days, another thing to be careful in the presence of…

[John Day]

I’ve just finished catching up on comments, brothers and sisters. The rural Texas opinions on COVID and vaccine mandates, compared to those of compliant blue-city, Austin seem similar to those Noirette presented for Switzerland. Rural Yoakum is basically over COVID, though a few people still wear masks into stores.

The burning question is whether we are in a class-war to seriously cull the human herd.
I personally think we are. I think all of us here are herd-tagged-for-culling.
(“Deflationista” is not in evidence today, and probably has a lot of other sites assigned. I think the low-level, mostly AI “Deflationista” got replaced by a higher-level operative most recently, much more intelligen, and more sophisticated approach to the same assigned-task.)
I did a lot of meeting, negotiating, running around to hardware stores (100 miles apart, though) and some weeding and harvesting in the vegetable garden today. The framing of our modest co-house should commence tomorrow. There is a pile of treated lumber in the carport, nice, big heavy stuff.
I’m sort of my own general contractor, as it turns out, which is probably good. Nobody else seems to have applied for the job.
I’ll keep us all up on progress.
Earnest prayers are always appreciated.
🙂

[John Day]

@Saul Goodman: I read both links. It is hard to believe that they mean to advocate giving 25-75 grams of vitamin-C IV to somebody, but the orthomolecular medicine article is generally interesting, a different view.
Dr. Chetty has paid a lot of attention to what is going on, and dares to think of a possible rationale for it, assuming that it is not misguided, but intentional. His hypothesis remains consistent with the facts and trends we are observing. I think it would be foolhardy to dismiss it out of hand, and prudent to cinsider it plausible and personally threatening.

@Phoenix Voice: “Intentional Community”
My wife and I met in a student housing co-op in college. Our family is an intentional community.
I have that thick book about starting intentional communities. I have also read a lot about how reality killed most of them.
Having lived in co-ops for about 4.5 years in college, I well-understand how critical it is that community members be competent, contributing and sincere, which makes it a proposition that can only remain healthy if it starts small and grows slowly (IMHO).

[John Day]

Smallpox is the opening story, lab-leak smallpox, the last known case.

A pandemic of the vaccinated or Ivermectin ignored?​ ​by Justus R. Hope, MD
​ ​Gibraltar is the most vaccinated place on the planet with more than 99% of its population fully vaccinated, and with many also having received a booster. A total of 94,019 vaccine doses have been administered to Gibraltarians.
​ ​Considering Gibraltar has a population of some 30,000, that works out to an average of three shots per person…
​ ​Gibraltar is not alone among highly vaccinated populations exhibiting massive virus surges.
According to the CDC, Vermont has a higher vaccination rate – at 72% – than any other state, yet it also has one of the highest rates of new COVID cases…
​ ​Where do we find low or no rates of COVID-19 cases, you might ask?
​​Perhaps we could observe those countries or areas and note what they are doing differently to account for their success.
​ ​For example, we know that India has eliminated its COVID-19 Pandemic after implementing a national Ivermectin policy in the protocol. As a result, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi have no more problems with pandemic surges.
​ ​Over the last 75 days, Delhi has recorded less than 10 COVID-19 deaths. Likewise, Uttar Pradesh, with more than 230 million people, has recorded fewer than 20 COVID deaths in the past 60 days, while the United States, with a roughly similar population, has recorded some 87,300 deaths – more than 4,000 times as many.
​ ​India’s only remaining hotspot remains the highly vaccinated state of Kerala, which continues to pay the price. Over the last 30 days alone, Kerala has logged over 10,000 deaths. The main difference between Kerala and the rest of India was its lower use of Ivermectin…
​(​This article opens with the story of the last case of smallpox in our world, in England, in 1977, due to a lab leak in a condemned ​research ​lab, shortly before it was​ ​ closed,. The lady ​photographer ​died of it, and the lab director killed himself that same day, 9/11/1978.​)​
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/a-pandemic-of-the-vaccinated-or-ivermectin-ignored/article_2fb8e67c-4c89-11ec-8a97-a7954a7ae6dd.html

[John Day]

There is suddenly a lot of buzz (maybe foreshadowing) about smallpox.
In Vitro Characterization of a Nineteenth-Century Therapy for Smallpox
Abstract
​ ​In the nineteenth century, smallpox ravaged through the United States and Canada. At this time, a botanical preparation, derived from the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea, was proclaimed as being a successful therapy for smallpox infections. The work described characterizes the antipoxvirus activity associated with this botanical extract against vaccinia virus, monkeypox virus and variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox. Our work demonstrates the in vitro characterization of Sarracenia purpurea as the first effective inhibitor of poxvirus replication at the level of early viral transcription. With the renewed threat of poxvirus-related infections, our results indicate Sarracenia purpurea may act as another defensive measure against Orthopoxvirus infections.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0032610

Late Stage Globalism’s ‘Hail Mary’
How do they get our souls?
Soul traps. The lures are the lusts and hungers of this life.​..
​That isn’t what’s happening here.
​ ​What’s happening is we’re being herded into The Matrix. As I’ve written previously, in The Crypto Capitalist Manifesto, and here, that the core rationalization of the “You’ll Own Nothing And Be Happy” Great Narrative (as it is now being called) is that the rabble has to ratchet down its standard of living. The reason why isn’t about climate change or COVID.
It’s because we’re in late stage Globalism and the world’s financial and economic system is on the verge of imploding.
​ ​The people in charge, the people who’ve been doubling down on failed policies for decades, the people who brought us here with Quantitative Easing, ZIRP/NIRP, debt, Big Government and The Forever Wars, they want to stay in charge.
​ ​So they’re going to use COVID, Climate, Collectivism and Wokeness to herd the knuckle-dragging plebians into The Metaverse. That way they’ll be easier to control, they’ll be placated, and they won’t take up so much space in the real world.
In the real world, the insular, inbred elites will be zipping around in their private jets. They’ll be reimagining everybody else’s lives. Deciding how much “real world time” and resources to apportion to the rabble. Uploading intellectual Muzak directly into their brains telling them that it’s all for their own good…
​ ​There’s only one problem.​..​
​Mind, consciousness and intelligence will never emerge from material reality because it’s the other way around.​..
​ ​In the meantime, if you’re a plebeian, the work of the day is The Great Opt-Out, a Great Reject. Decentralize your affairs. Take sovereignty over your own life and your own economics. Link up with others doing the same. The counter-revolutionary impulse against late stage Globalism is, in addition to spirituality, meditation and contemplative practices, embracing decentralization and public key cryptography.

The Metaverse Is A Scam

[John Day]

Why Aren’t Healthcare Workers Speaking Out About the Catastrophe Caused by the Vaccines?
1) Groupthink (Nobody else is. We all say the same thing and do the same thing. We’re following CDC recommendations.)
2) I really need to keep my job…
[Steve Kirsch has compiled another long and impressive list of a whole lot of very bad things happening to COVID- vaccinated experimental-subjects.]
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-arent-healthcare-workers-speaking-out-about-catastrophe-caused-vaccines/5762819

Trials for Israeli COVID-19 vaccine pill set to kick off in South Africa​ (Can they modify it for Omicron real quick?)
Oral inoculation intended to be effective after just one dose, and could also provide easy-to-distribute solution to growing need for boosters, inventors say
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-pill-vaccine-against-covid-starting-trials-in-south-africa/

​Here is the information from the Oravax company. The oral vaccine targets 3 (not one) viral proteins.
(Look, the pretty, racially ambiguous girl is swallowing the pill and smiling like it’s really good!)
​https://ora-vax.com/

[John Day]

Why the retail industry is fighting vaccine mandates​ (How long can the narrative hold on against all reality?)
​ ​The industry showed how strongly it feels about the issue this month when the Biden administration directed companies with 100 or more workers to mandate vaccines or weekly tests by Jan. 4. Five days after that announcement, the National Retail Federation sued to stop the effort.
​ ​“We all agree with the premise that vaccines are good and vaccines save lives,” Stephanie Martz, chief administrative officer of the NRF, said in an interview Monday.
​ ​“But by the same token, you can’t just say, ‘OK, make it so.’”
The order is now held up in litigation, challenged by a number of lawsuits from a broad coalition of opponents, and could make its way to the Supreme Court.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1172632/why-the-retail-industry-is-fighting-vaccine-mandates/

Yes, I know, you’ve just seen this…

Jim Kunstler ​
I am sorry to tell you that the mRNA “vaccines” are just not working that well. The already-vaccinated millions, marinated in the goodness of their obedience to authority, live in terror of the unvaccinated, who so knavishly spread disease to those vaccinated against it…
The relentless mindfuckery abroad in this land courtesy of your politicized news media, the despotic social networks, the bottomless greed of the pharmaceutical-makers and their errand boys in the CDC, plus the malevolent generosity of sponsors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and George Soros. Thus, the blue mommies of America follow Pied Pipers like NPR and Sanjay Gupta holding hands with Big Bird to vax-up the kids.
It’s just a cult initiation ceremony, you understand. Vaxing the kids reinforces the psychotic mass formation intoxication of the blue mommies. It does absolutely nothing good for the kids, who realistically have a near-zero chance of being harmed by Covid-19 — but have a fair chance of being harmed by the mRNA “vaccines,” which will mess with their still-developing immune systems and their various organs. All the authority of Anthony Fauci’s officialdom presses remorselessly toward the ever-receding horizon of max vax. It begins to look like enough parents are onto the game and will refuse to go along with it.
Dr. Fauci and his evil network are in the process of being smashed at long last. First, there is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book just out, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. I was up reading it at two-thirty in the morning. The Kindle version is $,2.95 cheap. Get it.
​https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/decolonize-this/

Kids hardly transmit COVID to anybody in a household. Adults do most of it.
Lower Household Transmission Rates of SARS-CoV-2 from Children Compared to Adults
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00209-7/fulltext

[John Day]

First Cases Of Omicron COVID Variant Detected In UK
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/first-cases-omicron-covid-variant-detected-uk

botaswana (b.1.1.529) variant histrionics​
​t​​his is not history rhyming.
this is maybe even past history just repeating.
i’m starting to worry that we’re caught in some kind of groundhog day time loop.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/botaswana-b11529-variant-histrionics

Big Pharma unveils its plans for Omicron strain
https://www.rt.com/news/541485-big-pharma-omicron-variant/

​(​”​Israel​”​) ​FDA report finds all-cause mortality higher among vaccinated
FDA report shows Pfizer’s clinical trials found 24% higher all-cause mortality rate among the vaccinated compared to placebo group. Report emphasizes that “None of the deaths were considered related to vaccination.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/317091

[John Day]

Thanksgiving picture after tree pruning and before dinner @ https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/omicron-is-not-nu.html

It’s awkward that I don’t have a link for this news factoid, but the link just got revised away.
The World Economic Forum had a story with the detail that what is now designated B(otswna).1.1.529 was sequenced already somewhere in July, just not designated yet. The link was rapidly changed while today’s post at The Automatic Earth blog was being composed.
It was apparently revised away, to avoid contaminating the narrative that B.1.1.529 is “Brand New and Aggressive!”

Over the course of this year a lot of computer biomolecular modeling of viral proteins and human cellular receptors and enzymes has been done. It is fairly predictive, if not completely perfect. Pharmacology magnates like Pfizer have done and paid for a lot of this modeling. They are able to “predict” what mutations will escape the antibodies created by January 2020 (S)pike-protein vaccines (and also what mutations facilitate the “enhancing” antibodies, which help the virus infect cells better, Sshhh…)
It’s hardly a secret that what leaked out of military labs (Ft. Detrick? Wuhan?) was a red-team/blue-team bioweapons project, with offensive and defensive aspects. That’s how these weapons are worked out. Pfizer is doing the same thing.
The “new” “Omicron” (not Nu, and certainly not “Xi”) variant has a lot of these escape-features, and the first 4 cases were purportedly identified in fully-vaccinated people. It’s (S)pike protein is not recognized by the existing PCR tests, but 2 other proteins are, so it can be somewhat discerned by existing PCR tests, due to this feature.
That spike protein has a lot of mutations, all by itself. That’s what you would expect if viral evolution were being directed to avoiding antibodies to spike protein, created by vaccines to spike protein. (It COULD be engineered this way, and exactly what WOULD work was described in a paper from May 2021, as I recall.).
Unsurprisingly, Pfizer/Bio-NTech and Moderna are suddenly announcing timelines to bring fresh vaccine-products to market against this strain. (Pity Australia, which has purchased 14 doses of Pfizer vaccine for each Australian, enough for a dose twice per year, for 7 years. Who signs these contracts?)

What we appear to be seeing is the sudden “discovery” of this strain in other countries, like the UK, Germany and Netherlands, giving the impression of very rapid spread, but which might be half a year of spreading under the radar, with a rapid and dramatic discovery everywhere.
What the computer modeling I read, and posted in August, Vaccines Help Delta https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/08/vaccines-help-delta.html , https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext , showed was the mechanisms by which viral mutation avoids “neutralizing antibodies” and exploits “enhancing antibodies”.

Let’s assume that this “new” (not “Nu”) strain is close enough to that modeled-ideal to be marketed as such, and to fit the new “vaccines” which are bound to have already been brought to the pre-production stage (“100 days” to release, per Pfizer).
Let’s also assume that this strain preferentially infects those already vaccinated against January 2020 (S)pike protein.
Those are the people who already chose once (or twice) to accept experimental “vaccines”, and are invested in this “solution”.
They are the prime market for new “vaccines”, are they not?
(I am not a prime market for new COVID vaccines, because I have declined to accept one of the old COVID vaccines.)

It is acceptable in this scenario for fears of the vaccinated to rise, specifically due to their vaccinated status. It is already apparent to many of us that the vaccinated are more susceptible to COVID Delta after 6 months than are the unvaccinated. (It is just not spoken in polite company.)
This new, aggressive, rapidly spreading, “unforeseeable” variant bursting upon the scene will make that awkward fact acceptable, within the modified context of the “Vaccines Good” Narrative.

This is a HUUUGE Stretch to maintain that dominant narrative.
Remember how the body counts were given on the five oclock news every day during the Vietnam War?
I do. My Dad , the Marine, was over there. I remember waking up about 4:30 AM and hearing the radio in Mom’s room. It sounded like the US Embassy in Saigon was under rocket and mortar attack, and that there were gun-battles going on inside the embassy compound.
I eventually ventured into Mom’s room.
“Mom, isn’t Saigon the main city in Vietnam?” , I asked. “Yes, it is.”
“Mom, I thought we were winning the war.”
“That’s what we all thought.”
That morning was in late 1967. Dad got home at the end of the year, shortly before the Tet Offensive 1968. Everybody figured out that we-weren’t-winning after Tet. Some military experts explained that Tet destroyed the Vietcong, that most of them died fighting in the streets, getting shot up by Americans, and that was technically true, but they died winning their war for their country against foreign armies…

This is our opportunity to contribute to the widespread societal recognition of the painfully-obvious, to achieve Paradigm-Shift, which is, again, way overdue.

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