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Thanks for sorting out that COVID Vaccinated Die less story, Doc Robinson. It is from the golden-age of American COVID vaccination outcomes, before August. Israel and the UK were already going bad by late July.
Just cut the data off when it goes bad and declare past glory as a timeless absolute!The article about the complete fabrication of fake study data to justify mRNA vaccinating children at zero risk is also very good.
A Tale of Two Civilizations looks at long and short term Chinese strategy for markets, trade and currency.
If I may compress:
Taiwan makes 2/3 of the world’s computer chips and is contested between China, the Taiwanese, other Asian countries, other chip users, and the US/West. The first order of business for all, is to keep the chips coming. The second order of business is to deny them to one’s competitors. China may have another order of business, if it needs a war to hold the country together. Taiwan does not want to be taken over again. It is already too much of Taiwan’s history. Not mentioned is the interest of countries like Japan and Korea, which want Taiwan to be independent for reasons of economics, and also due to the threats they face if China overruns Taiwan.
China has seen the $US as doomed for 50 years, at least in some ruling circles. China has been building gold bullion stores since around 1980, and they are probably bigger than what is admitted, maybe several times bigger. This might be revealed when the $US appears weak, to support a global reserve currency, perhaps backed by gold, which would serve Chinese interests.
China sees the US as morally degenerate, which is more apparent in the western media, so China curtails Chinese media presentations that weaken family and traditional social structures.
China manages the Chinese economy as a command economy at the strategic level, but not at the day to day level, and is taking steps to gently deflate wealth bubbles that are making the poor get poorer.
The West is currently “defeating itself” to borrow from Sun Tzu’s “Art od War”. China is not interfering much. (Maybe fanning a flame, here and there.)
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/a-tale-of-two-civilisations Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol
(He seems pretty convincing, but people caught onto him and chanted “Fed, Fed, Fed…”, so he popped up in other spots, again and again, urging people to “go into the capital”.)
Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day. What’s more, Epps and his “breach team” did all their dirty work with 10 minutes still remaining in President Trump’s National Mall speech, and with the vast majority of Trump supporters still 30 minutes away from the Capitol.End of capitalism, transgender kids, NATO, reverse racism, WWII, censorship and more: What Putin spoke about at Valdai
https://www.rt.com/russia/538131-putin-capitalism-racism-censorship/Charles Hugh Smith:
Software Ate the World and Now Has Indigestion
The vision of software eating the world is part and parcel of the compelling fantasy that humans will soon be free from the drudgery of work and scarcity and bask in near-infinite abundance due to techno-magic. Those most taken by this vision are never the ones trying to keep the software and robotics from failing, because those laboring to keep the whole mess from collapsing know the limits are far more real than the magical-thinking enthusiasts understand...
Consider all those apps which are supposed to be the epitome of automated productivity: if software is so great, then why do the apps need thousands of ghost workers to keep the kludgy mess semi-functional? Hidden behind the shiny happy facade of automated software wonderland, thousands of poorly paid humans have to do the hard bits that software fails to do or fails to do properly.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct21/software-indigestion10-21.htmlWhere Stuff Comes From
“this dovetails in sinister fashion with the basic idea that any sufficiently advanced technology cannot be distinguished from magic. highly evolved capitalism becomes such a technology and the largess and plenty it produces gets mistaken for a property of the universe rather than a made thing, a thing that must be created rather than simply reaped.” …
Click some buttons, swipe a card, tap a phone – and presto! Stuff appears, like magic.…
As I type this, I’m sitting on a couch made predominantly from foamed polyurethane, my feet resting on a carpet made from synthetic nylon. I just sipped water from a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate, which I then placed on a coffee table made of wood.
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/where-stuff-comes-fromRequesting Pediatric Clemency is up
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/requesting-pediatric-clemency.html
Picture from yesterday after I pounded stakes into the ground at the corners of a small house I have been drawing on paper for the past year or two, which will extend the roofline of the current house in YoakumThanks Cat, for sending this contact information for those who will vote to decide upon injecting young children with COVID vaccines, which will clearly cause far more death and harm in their lives than will COVID, which they tolerate extremely well, and to which they will have lasting, natural immunity. I bccd all the emails into an addressee box and wrote a nice, polite and collegial email. There are also phone numbers.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will meet on Oct. 26 to discuss emergency use authorization of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Then the decision goes to the FDA Commissioner for her sign off.
Following the FDA decisions, Pfizer’s application will reviewed by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at their meeting on Nov. 2-3. And then the ACIP decision is reviewed by the CDC Director (the ever-anxious Rochelle Walensky).
The Biden Administration has already purchased 65 million doses of this vaccine for use in children. If we do nothing, these shots will start being injected into children within days of the ACIP decision.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/lets-go-call-to-action-part-1-fdaThose killed by COVID vaccines exceeds those saved for all ages above 20, by Steve Kirsch’s data:
Let’s not get data down to 5 years of age, please. The trend is clear.
https://www.skirsch.com/covid/All.pdf A 43-year-old mum who thought says she was doing ‘the right thing’ in getting her Covid vaccine – before suffering from a blood clot and stroke. Kerry Hurt, who in now in a wheelchair, had to have life saving treatment after a blood clot formed on her brain a week after having her AstraZeneca vaccine in April. As part of the operation she had a part of her skull removed and suffered a ‘massive stroke’ which resulted in the left side of her body being paralysed, YorkshireLive reported. A week later fluid built up on her brain which required another life saving operation to insert a drain in her skull, which required another three weeks in intensive care at the Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/healthy-mum-left-wheelchair-following-21951407Fauci predicts Covid shots for kids five to 11 will be available by early November
Government’s chief medical adviser makes prediction after FDA review panel finds that benefits for group outweighs risks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/24/fauci-covid-vaccines-children-5-11@Germ: Yes, i read that article a few days ago and thought well of it.
@Dr.D: What is the $30 tool. I have several like that from the late 1970s.
Glad you told us more about your life. Whatever you call it, humans always have to keep adjusting economic arrangements, because everything in the economy, and every participant, keeps changing.TT4TW said last night: ” while it is an ugly truth, the modern US military was misused to attack countries without a BIS, Inc. central bank such that the OWNERS of the BIS, Inc. debt-based money system could seize control of their central bank and begin to subjugate the people in question. Freedom was just rhetoric.
This is literally the history of 20th and 21st Century warfare — BIS central bank financed countries defeating non-BIS central banking countries, and then installing a BIS central bank.”I have read that one major purpose of WW-1 was to crack all of the little cantons of Europe open to banking. I have seen nothing to dissuade me from accepting that assertion.
“A Rothschild” pontificating on what psychedelic drugs to use, declared that:
“Synthetics, such as LSD-25 and its derivatives are useless noise.
DMT is the real deal. Ayuasca is one route, but requires rigorous rituals prior which most ignore.
From February 1986 High Times: https://hightimes.com/culture/dmt/
DMT, ‘The Lunch-Hour Psychedelic’Anybody here drop 200 mics or more of LSD-25? Did you get wordless, unable to utter more than 3 words? Would you describe your experience as “useless noise”.
What A POSEUR! “A Rothschild” is not man enough to Trip-on-Acid. He (I presume) needed the safe little in-and-then-done “businessman’s high” of DMT. I’m not saying it’s “bad”. I don’t personally know. People say nice things about it.
DMT does not seem to directly threaten the Ego. LSD strips it naked and chases it through the streets.
Mushrooms are less edgy. Look for the cow patties in the right places. “The medicine” in Native American Church is treated with due reverence, but especially the spirits and bodies of the members of the Church, and any visitor (fully prepared and tested) are held in complete and loving-healing reverence, with patience…
I have had no inclination to use anything from pot or beer to “entheogens” since spring of 1994. The shaman (Paul) said he didn’t see that I would need another one. He discerned my prior LSD trips as “an edge” on my spirit, and specifically inquired if I had tripped on acid.
I’m human and soul and living this path , now.
Any drug is not a path.
It may be a “door of perception”, but you have to keep doing your work and seeking guidance.Thanks Bluebird 🙂
@Veracious Poet: Thanks. Let’s be “in the jungle, but not of the jungle” and see what the divine can bring about with our wholehearted participation. I grew up on military bases, so it keeps entering my mind, but I’m seriously not up for practicing killing people at this point in my life. I would be there at the shooting range, getting deafer, and there would be a list as long as my arm of more worthy things I should be doing with that time, money and intention.
Fauci says attacking puppy torture is “an attack on science”.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fauci-says-attacking-puppy-torture-is-an-attack-on-scienceThis article has a list of names and email addresses, phone numbers, too, of the people who will soon vote on the EUA for COVID vaccines for 5 year old children.
I wrote a nice, reserved, collegial letter, requesting that they not approve such EUA, which will allow more harm than good, even with what we know now.
I bcc’d it to them this morning. Thanks Cat!
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/lets-go-call-to-action-part-1-fda@Phoenix Voice: You have to be extremely reliable to raise chickens. That’s a Super-Power of sorts.
@TT4TW: What to call it? “Financial Cronyism”?
Right now the human apex-predators/aka “parasites” see that there are too many in the herd for the resource supply.
By their model, they need to work together to vastly thin all the human herds.What if Universal Mind has a new model ready?
The human apex-predators will be able to enjoy a much-deserved retirement.Visualize Whirled Peas!
🙂Thank You for the Perspective, Phoenix Voice.
It has been a long time since I tried out fasting for a week over spring break, because the college co-op I lived in was not serving meals, and I didn’t have money, and it seemed like the time to check it out.
It was nothing special; neither good nor bad. I read books, mostly.I am very impressed at what you are accomplishing.
What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection to produce antibodies against not just the spike protein but other pieces of the virus. Specifically, vaccinated people don’t seem to be producing antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, the shell of the virus, which are a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people.
This means vaccinated people will be far more vulnerable to mutations in the spike protein EVEN AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN INFECTED AND RECOVERED ONCE (or more than once, probably).
It also means the virus is likely to select for mutations that go in exactly that direction, because those will essentially give it an enormous vulnerable population to infect. And it probably is still more evidence the vaccines may interfere with the development of robust long-term immunity post-infection.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-covid-vaccines-will-keep-you/commentsThe titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West.
The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend.
Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her home.https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/longer-conversations.html
Picture of unimpressive gardener in unimpressive garden transitioning into fall and winter this weekI have long wondered how people might join life-forces outside of the top-down economic model, which now dominates.
Is there an app for that?This week I have had long talks, serious talks about our world, with good old friends of like mind, and others of like mind, more recently met. It’s been spontaneous.
Getting fired in the garden on Monday did open that door, and I did announce it in public on the blog. It was all quite satisfying, and we all had the same things on our mind.The current power elites in finance, government, media, and especially the spook-world need to stay in power through the coming economic transition out of the exponential-growth economy.
That is a transition out of the last 300 years of western economy, which is already way more than most people know. It is basically all that anybody knows, and it has all been an anomaly. The anomaly happened due to discovering a lot of free-energy and metal ores that worked well to exploit free energy and metal ores, which worked well…
That is in terminal decline now. The production of useful things with energy and mineral resources has been such a good production engine that it has been able to carry a whole lot of non-productive humans and even counterproductive and destructive humans.
What a marvelous mule! The mule has been fed worse and less, and is covered with leeches and ticks now. It is weakening.The leeches and ticks have a plan to lighten the mule’s load by getting rid of the guy with the cart and the feed bag. That guy might be us.
That’s my analogy, and I’m sticking to it. The plan the leeches have might work for the lifespan of a leech, or maybe not quite that long.What are the details of the leech’s plan?
I don’t know, but the number of humans the earth can sustain long term keeps being quoted as half a billion to a billion.
That’s redundancy for nine out of ten of us. Time seems short. There is a sense of urgency all around.
Usually, big wars are used to kill off a lot of the population, but not 90% of the world.
That would destroy all of the stuff, too, and the leeches need the stuff to survive.Some kind of a controlled cull, fast, but not too fast, with some control elements, can be provided with pestilence and famine, without war. Wars need to avoid destroying critical infrastructure and resource access. Resources can be put into mothballs, as war did to oil under Iraq and Libya.
Global digital currency can cut any person out at any time, causing a one-person-famine. That is ideally targeted.
What is necessary is to maintain fealty to the owners. If the owners hold the key to life itself, which might be the treatment for the latest mortal threat, then they can eliminate those who do not comply. They can maintain control.Who lives compliantly under those conditions?
Maybe not pilots for Southwest, and nuclear physicists at Los Alamos. Maybe not Chicago and LA cops.
I won’t bend that knee. I won’t betray my patients.Can I live without complying with the imposed conditions? I can live today.
I am preparing for times of irregular food and irregular fuel and irregular utilities.
Mony looks like it is going to break again, and there are fights over what the fix will be.
Those money-fix fights go on for decades in history. Whoever makes the money at the end is the winner.
Sometimes money is gold and or silver. It could be oil or coal or gas or wheat.
It can only be Bitcoin if there is a “World Wide Web”.
A lot of partisan actors can take down the WWW these days.What is up with these excess deaths of healthy young people in the western world this year?
There are more heart disease and cancer deaths than there should be.
It’s not just COVID, and drugs and suicides and car accidents.Jim Kunstler wonders, too:
The public’s view of this panoramic debacle is apt to flip starkly in the days ahead as five years of mind-fuckery ends in this national drunken driving incident. China may postpone the Evergrande unwind a few weeks longer, but its economy is foundering on the more fundamental energy quandary — it doesn’t have enough fossil fuels to run the joint — and there’s no prospect the situation will improve, meaning that the world will get less of all of the stuff that China was making. In short, Globalism is winding down, and standards of living are sinking with that. The capital markets are gravid with terror over it.
Meanwhile, the West is seeing the first signs that the Covid-19 vaccines it went cuckoo for may be producing a strange phenomenon of “excess mortality” around the world. Suspiciously higher rates of heart attacks, vascular disorders, cancer, and other bad stuff. It’s downright spooky. In Scotland, for instance, the vaccination rate is 87 percent and weekly deaths are up 30 percent. Pandemic reporter Alex Berenson said on TV that non-Covid-19 deaths were significantly higher everywhere, and he mused out loud that there was some connection between this and the vaccines. Uh oh.
Social media, network media, and legacy print media do not want that story getting around. Some of the most deranged Wokesters across this land greeted the debut of the mRNA vaccines like a holy jubilee of salvation (and still do!). What happens in their psyches when the darn thing bites them in the ass? There’s a fair chance we’re going to find out, and soon.That camera must have been running on cables, which I think you can see overhead as it passes through the cigar factory out to the high vantage down the long street. The lack of jerking is pretty impressive, though there is a little after it finishes the first climb and tracks to the right along the balcony.
Thank You, Ilargi, Teri (I really mean it), Germ, Germ, Germ,…, Formerly T-bear, Doc Robinson, Veracious Poet, Phoenix Voice, Zerosum, Chooch, TT4TW, My Parents Said Know, Mr. House, Bogaloo, D.B.S. , Oh, I know I;m offending by on=mission ,and I don’t mean to. I am trying to ctch up on a lot of non-work things, and keep having really long conversations with frinds who come over to sit in the garden and talk to me.
I spent 6 hours on hold , today, trying to speak to a human , at the phone number to cash in my retirement policy. Actually, yes. It let me keep my place by giving my number, so the phone was only at my ear 3.5 hours. “Due to unusually high call-volume”…
I made use of email and the land line while flip phone was to my ear, and eventually the representative for “the clinic” got back to me to say that he had gotten through and they were mailing me the forms to complete and mail back.
I’m sure this is the only retirement company that has no telephone access to the people who cash-out the policies. It’s Mutual of America. If there were other companies going through this same thing, then it would mean that they were putting off a bank-run by having one teller with a weak bladder, a dull pencil and poor eyesight.
It’s an N-of-1, but it’s my life experience today, so I had to think about it, and you know what THAT can do…
🙂Thank You All. I have carefully and thoughtfully read each comment, wishing me well and presenting helpful information. Thank you.
I had a nice long meeting of minds and, it seems, souls, this morning. A good guy, who could fit right in here, who I have worked with before wanted me to meet the CEO/founder of a smallish specialty medical service provider company that has done well for almost 20 years by focusing on the care of medically ill mentally ill people, a population that is hospitalized a lot, but shrinks don’t treat medical problems, and medical docs don’t have time for schizophrenics. It was really nice. We gave hugs after a couple of hours of speaking each other’s thoughts. We may be able to do things together starting early next year. My friend and I then had lunch for another hour and a half.I’m processing a lot, and I am suddenly having time to have extended, serious conversations with friends of similar mind. That’s not slacking-off, I think.
Yesterday and today I have been attending to necessary and long-put-off things, I have such a backlog. It looks like I’ll be “networking” in person more, which will be welcome.The youngish HR guy ahs been helpful to me today. He was recently thrust into that spot when the previous lady retired. He wants to go back to doing more tech stuff. He’s a bit socially shy, reserved, careful. It’s mostly not doctors making these decisions but “the board” and “administration”. Anonymous power.
I learned in med school that iron supplementation led to the deaths of lots of poor anemic African children because the free iron in their bloodstreams allowed bacteria to grow in their bloodstreams, and they died of sepsis, from small would infections that did not do that when they were a little anemic.
I quite eating mammals in the 1970s and quite eating other critters in 2001.Get a CT coronary artery calcium score for about $75 if you are over 50. In Texas you don’t even need a doctor’s order. It is very good risk stratification for heart disease. If you have a good CT calcium score you don’t need to take statins for your cholesterol profile. Yep, LDL is the main thing, but the cholesterol hypothesis has always been weak. I knew that before I started med school in 1982, from a physiology prof, and it’s still the same.
The thing is that there are products to sell, statins.Phoenix Voice: I just saw your comment of post vaccination heart failure in your 38 year old cousin.
It’s too much.
Is he on the “conservative” side of the family?Thanks Brothers and Sisters. Thanks Wes, for your story. “This time is different”, because it is the beginning of the time that The Limits To Growth foresaw, and I learned about that in 10th grade in Yokohama, Japan. I’m prepared enough for that to not be the main concern.
I feel good about being guided to the garden to put “them” in the position to do in public what they wanted to do without me around.
I was not cowed, and I looked kindly at all the eyes I met.I et a lot of vegetables that I grow in good soil and a little compost. I don’t eat critters. I seek milk and cheese from grass-fed cows, but sheep that eat grass are fine, too. Grass-fed critters have omega-3 fats in their milk. Kerrygold Irish butter and cheese have that.
I think vitamin-D deficiency is very important, and I do not think there is a mechanism whereby being adequately replete with vitamin-D throws anything else out of whack, like copper.
I am interested in this thread. Nope, didn’t learn much about copper in med school, just that it’s in all these enzymatic pathways in the body and you get enough in food…Oh, the Ivermectin and other medicines from India came in from Germ’s friend. They arrived in Texas last week, but we just saw the delivery attempt notice yesterday, so I went to the post office and waited a really long time, but they couldn’t find them until I said “international”. Say “international”.
I have jst finished reading the kind comments from Thursday, October 14.
Thank you all.
To those who want me to fight within the legal system, I understand that, but I have limited resources, time and life force, and I think events are about to leapfrog our established systems. The other side is lawyered-up, and has been proceeding as advised. They are prepared for a counter-attack from me, which will not come. I wish them well in the times we have entered.
@TT4TW: I have been reading what you include. I have long considered the elite position. The lack of compassion in the ruling elites allows them to be apex-predator over the rest of the humans, except some of us who choose to be sheepdogs, not wolves. This is a critical juncture we have entered.
We need to devise a new and non-predatory living ecosystem for the world, where human are stewards of life on earth. Maybe we can. It will allow life to flourish as much as is possible, but we will have to cooperatively finesse the overgrowth problem. The divine provides guidance to those who sincerely seek it.
That’s “natural”, too…Go Down Gardening https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/go-down-gardening.html
Precariously Supported,
Yesterday was an odd day in several aspects. I had worked a long Friday at the clinic again, which did not go badly. I left nothing unfinished.
We drove to the Yoakum homestead Friday night and got a good night of sleep.Somehow, I felt very heavy and slow on Saturday and Sunday, so I trudged through three to four hours of pushing the little Honda mower, and did work in the garden, but ploddingly. I planted garlic for the winter/spring season, and tended the garden.
I continued to feel a weight of unease, and as we started the drive back to Austin, Sunday afternoon, I had a sense that I should really buy winter veggies to put in at the clinic garden, which I started in 2016, and tend for my coworkers. Putting things off until the end of the month, in my last two weeks of work there, seemed awkward.
We picked up a lot of winter greens and salad starts in little pots on our way into Austin, some for our Austin kitchen garden, but most for the clinic garden.
I did a last harvest of the blackeyed pea row, then cut down the vines, and took them to some chickens that a friend of Jenny’s raises.Yesterday (Monday) morning I worked in our kitchen garden again, preparing the beds for fall and winter, cleaning up the summer debris, and also planting an orange seedling in the bed in front of the house, where the February freeze had killed the one fruitful tree.
After eating, I went over to the clinic with an orange seedling, to replace the two that the February freeze had killed, and all of the winter salad and cooking-green seedlings to fill a couple of rows. I went through the entrance, put on a mask, and went through to the garden in the break area, with shovels and clippers, saying “hi” to a few people and smiling with my eyes. I went out through the garden gate, and brought in the orange tree, then the veggie starts.
The orange tree needed to go in the large bed, which has a Mexican avocado seedling tree, and a banana plant that actually survived February. Mainly it has a lot of sweet potatoes.It’s a fairly large bed, and this has been a very good year for sweet potatoes. I filled the three gallon bucket that the tree was in with sweet potatoes, from just a few square feet that I cleared and dug up, before planting it, maybe one percent of that bed.
While I was digging up the sweet potatoes and digging the hole to put the orange tree in, my flip phone rang. I figured it was Jenny. I brushed some of the dirt off my hands and answered it. It was the nice and very well-mannered youngish man, who is currently Director of Human Resources, telling me that my last day of work had been changed from the last Friday of October to the Friday just passed, which was different from what I had been told last week, when the reason for my firing was changed from vaccine-mandate non-compliance, to all of the wrongs I have committed in the period of time since that mandate was announced.
It was a lousy spot for him to be put in, and he seemed uncomfortable having to put it into polite words.He had been trying to call me while I was working on our home garden, but I had not been carrying the phone. I told him that I was at the clinic garden, putting in some things for winter, and that he could talk to me in person. My presence in the garden was unanticipated, though I have worked on my day off frequently in the past couple of months.
We talked as I planted the orange tree and put the big sweet potatoes in the pot, handing it over to a couple of nurses taking their lunch. They had helped dig sweet potatoes last year, and I knew they wanted some. He politely explained that I was not to re-enter the building, and that my desk would be cleared out and boxed for me. The explanation was so polite that I sought clarification.I did negotiate that I could pick up a few notes at my desk with his presence and supervision, which we then did. My badge didn’t let me in this time. He had to use his. As we walked through the clinic to my desk, most people had their eyes down. A few coworkers looked me in the eyes, and I smiled with my eyes. I was comfortable in myself, and emanated that (I think).
We grabbed a few boxes and made short work of the packing-up. I got everything, and we carried the three boxes to my little twenty four year old Ford Ranger pickup truck together. We went back to the garden and break-area through the gate, He thought it best that I just leave without planting the vegetables, but I prevailed upon him to keep his agreement to let me clean out the rows and do the planting.
He actually had a fair number of gardening questions, which I answered as I cleared the rows and planted for winter.
I worked expeditiously, taking about twenty to thirty minutes, as I explained the quality of the soil, and how building soil is one of the main objectives in successful gardening. If you don’t have enough garden to out produce what the squirrels, birds and other critters can eat, they will eat it all.
You need a big enough garden patch.We walked back to the truck with shovels and clippers, talking about what’s next. The clinic will still pay me for these last two weeks of October, but my patients who are scheduled will not get to see me for a last visit. I have been doing everything possible to avoid leaving loose ends, and to write thorough chart notes, so it will be easy for the next doctor. I have tried to make suggestions for which doctor or practitioner might best match the needs and personality of each patient. I passed my list to give to the Director of Adult Medicine, who has been working hard and well on this transition. It’s not a complete list…
I am left to wonder why the clinic took surprise action to remove me from patient-care, while still paying my salary for two weeks. I suspect there was free-floating anxiety about what I might say or do. I had been informing people of the actual circumstances of my leaving, being fired for non-compliance with mandatory vaccination. The management has been consulting with attorneys the whole time, and somebody else is contesting her firing for non-compliance with that mandate, I am told. Governor Abbott did say that vaccine mandates are not tolerable in Texas, Monday of last week. I suspect that my being fired-for-cause, other than non-compliance with COVID vaccination might be more plausible when the date of my firing is moved forward from the prior date of my termination for non-compliance
I do not intend to contest my firing through recourse to the law. The only law I am really, currently concerned with is the Law of Karma, and I am very concerned with that law. I am constantly aware of the implications of Karma as we wade further into this rip-tide of history.
Human Horticulturist
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered United Airlines not to place workers seeking an exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on unpaid leave.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/judge-orders-united-airlines-not-put-workers-seeking-vaccine-mandate-exception-leaveTexas House bill 155 Would make individual choice of whether or not to accept vaccination the law, and would override any employer mandates.
Texas lawmakers consider ban on vaccine mandates for private employers
The House State Affairs Committee heard more than four hours of public testimony on House Bill 155 on Wednesday, which creates a de facto ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates by allowing individuals to claim an exemption to a vaccination requirement based on numerous factors, including “reasons of conscience.”
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/10/14/texas-vaccine-mandate-ban-private-companies-covid-19/8445028002/
https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB155/2021/X3Everything Solid Melts Into Air, Charles Hugh Smith
We know we’re close to the moment when Everything Solid Melts into Air when extraordinary breakdowns are treated as ordinary and the “news” quickly reverts to gossip. So over 4 million American workers up and quit every month, month after month after month, and the reaction is ho-hum, labor shortage, blah, blah, blah, toy shortage for Christmas, oh, the horror, blah, blah, blah.
These are large numbers. Over 10 million job openings and 6 million hires and 6 million “separations,” i.e. layoffs and the 4.3 million voluntary quits.
The happy story promoted by the corporate media is that this enormous churn is the result of shiny, happy people moving up the work food chain to better paying jobs. We know we’re close to the moment when Everything Solid Melts into Air when every breakdown is instantly reworked into a happy story in which everything is getting better every day, in every way.
The reality nobody in power wants to acknowledge, much less address, is that millions of workers are opting out or burning out and they’re not coming back.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct21/solid-air10-21.html The top Catholic official in the US military has declared that soldiers have the right to opt out of Covid vaccine mandates on the basis of “conscience,” after some branches were accused of trying to discourage such exemptions.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Timothy Broglio – Archbishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for Military Services in the US – argued that while the Vatican has determined that none of the Covid-19 vaccines in use are inherently wrong due to a tangential link to aborted fetal cells, soldiers still have the right to decline the vaccine if they believe it would “violate [their] conscience” for whatever reason.
“Notwithstanding the moral permissibility of these vaccines, the Church treasures her teaching on the sanctity of conscience,” Broglio wrote. “Accordingly, no one should be forced to receive a Covid-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/537308-pentagon-archbishop-vaccine-mandate/Chicago Police Union Head Urges Members to Defy Vaccine Mandate, Warns Force to shrink 50% This Weekend
“Do not fill out the portal information,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in a video to officers posted on YouTube.
“I’ve made my status very clear as far as the vaccine, but I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody—let alone that information about your medical history.”
According to Catanzara, the police union is preparing a lawsuit against the city if Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration attempts to enforce the mandate, which requires city workers to report their vaccine status by Friday or be placed on a “no-pay” status.
“It’s safe to say that the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 percent or less for this weekend coming up,” Catanzara said
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chicago-police-union-head-calls-members-defy-vaccine-mandate-warns-chicago-police-forceThe Spirit Moves https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/the-spirit-moves.html
Yesterday at clinic, while I was finishing work at my desk, the Medical Director, a good guy, who I have known for 15 years, came by with an envelope.
I anticipated that the clinic would need to side with federal payments over a state order against vaccine mandates. That’s the case. Some uncertainty has been inserted into the system by Governor Abbot’s order. There is a bill in the legislature to bolster that. We will see how it fares.I was dismayed that the position of the clinic administration is that I am being fired for cause, other than refusing to accept mandatory experimental vaccination.
The last 7 weeks, since the clinic announced the mandate, and I made my position clear, that I must stand with the under-class of un-vaccinated, has had more discord.
I was told that I must stop prescribing ivermectin-based treatment for COVID, with any link to the clinic, after over a year of doing so, and to good effect.
I was written up for prescribing ivermectin based treatment to the 17 year old son of a coworker, without an office visit, or writing it up in documentation.
That was true. I have prescribed for staff and some family members since spring 2020, and have maintained my open offer to do so.I have continued to advise patients who have recovered from COVID against receiving vaccination, on the grounds of all-risk-and-no-benefit. I have discussed the shifting risk profiles where the vaccinated become more prone to catch COVID than the unvaccinated (Public Health England data is especially clear.)
This comes as the clinic is ramping up vaccine events, and is vaccinating children whenever parents will consent.My approach to treatment of each patient, using my best judgment and giving my best medical advice, has become directly at odds with the policies of the clinic, lately a Federally Qualified Health Center. The clinic follows recommendations, policies, and incentives (for vaccinations), which come from the federal government.
It is appropriate that the clinic and I part ways, if we cannot share the same approach to patient care.
It is apparent that we cannot.Of course I feel personally wronged in this, but there is not much to be done for this progression of the organization.
I was once mainstream. I’m about the same as I was then.
It has been awhile, and the change has been gradual, and not brought to a crisis until now. I am not the only one departing soon. Yesterday three competent people told me they had handed in their resignations for November and December. I already knew of another. These are people who accomplish critical tasks.
I know there are others who are now keeping their eyes out for jobs elsewhere. The first four are leaving with no new job, “taking some time off”.This is my small world experience. There are a few in the hallway who glare and will not meet my eyes since I sent out the email last month likening the unvaccinated now to the Jews in WW-2 Germany. I sought to explain my sincere position of standing with the underclass, but it was not something that some people could consider.
I was reprimanded, and twice disparaged in administrative emails for my communication.
I was asked not to respond to those reprimands, and I had no intention to do so. I only wanted to explain my position once.
I had explained.Today I have a few stories about how this is playing across America, as people of conscience say “No” and stand their ground.
I have no predictions how this will play out, or how long it will be in play, but the people who are firm in their convictions are an important sampling of society.
These people are able to make decisions and take action upon them. That’s not universal these days. That’s actually a talent-pool.“Artificial Tyranny” was the title of yesterday’s news blog, which added some story links to the essay you saw here.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/artificial-tyranny-project.htmlI got a visit and a letter after work yesterday that I am still being fired at the end of the month, but not for failure to accept COVID vaccination, but rather for my bad behavior since the mandate was announced at the clinic. In July, I had been much better, and was given the maximum 5% merit raise.
Yes, I’m being kind of snarky. Positions are clear. I will be paid my PTO as discharge, and my modest retirement is mine.
This is actualy all for the best. It seems to be particularly grating that I have been telling people who recovered from COVID to avoid vaccination, all risk and no benefit. I tried to talk about the “negative efficacy” in England as time from vaccination progresses, and the efficacy of ivermectin, but that could not be heard.
What began in 1970 as “The People’s Free Clinic”, and I will part ways for the last time, at the end of this month.
I discovered yesterday that 3 of the nurses I work closely with, who get a lot done, and have real expertise in the healthcare system, will be leaving in December, handed in their resignations.
It’s not just me feeling the death of the old spirit.Thanks for putting this up with the leaning tower of Pisa, Ilargi Thanks for the news finds, Germa and friends.
I was handed a letter from the clinic today, explaining that I’m still being fired at the end of the month, but not for failure to accept a COVID vaccination. In the 7 weeks since the mandate was announced, and I explained my reasons for standing with the untermenschen,
I have committed a lot of wrongs in that time period, which are detailed in the letter. I have also advised patients who already had COVID to avoid the vaccines, since they provide only risk and no benefit. I even put that in writing on their charts. That is not explained in the letter, but was brought up to me by the Chief Medical Officer, who is a good and caring guy, and forbade me to prescribe ivermectin using the clinic’s address or software last month, after I had done so for over a year, already.In all fairness, I was a much better person and a much better physician as recently as July, when I was awarded the maximum 5% merit pay increase.
I’ve really let myself go since then…
Monday night I was heartened to hear that Texas Governor, Greg Abbott had issued an executive order forbidding any entity within Texas from having a COVID-vaccine mandate. I did not see this as being against private businesses deciding things, but as being supporting of individual humans having the right to make their own, personal medical decisions, with somewhat less coercion.
This does go against existing federal policies to withhold payment from Nursing homes and medical facilities that do not enforce COVID-vaccine mandates. It seems that the federal government can choose to withhold such payments, which will kill those businesses if they don’t comply.
That category includes the public health clinic, for which I work until the end of the month. The board decided to declare a vaccine mandate around the time that the nursing home vaccine mandate was announced by the feds. The writing was on the wall, but the official position is that it was to protect people. It elicits less cognitive dissonance to tell oneself that one is acting virtuously, rather than being coerced. That comfortable position is now superficially challenged by Governor Abbott. His executive order is now a thing, not an expected-soon thing. It is ahead of the proposed OSHA recommendations in time.
One of the fundamental assumptions in the OSHA draft is that mass vaccination is the best protection against COVID. What if it increasingly appears to be worse-than-nothing after about 6 months, and offsetting-penalties before that? People are clearly more susceptible to catching COVID in the 13 days immediately following vaccination, and the Public Health England data shows that the vaccinated are more prone to catching COVID (negative protection rate) after about 6 months, now in all ages above 30.
I am heartened by Governor Abbott’s order because it is an action against tyranny, an action in support of individual freedom and personal bodily autonomy, medical autonomy. It comes at a time when the primacy of vaccination-only policy is openly decaying, because everybody can see that they don’t work very well. Not everybody does see that, but it’s apparent to many people who are not even really scrutinizing things.
Tyranny craves absolute control of each person, each action, and increasingly, of each thought and perception, which might lead to actions. Tyranny must control all circumstances, so that no actor can choose non-compliance. Using artificial intelligence to shape “consensus” on social media, through advancing posts that fit the narrative, retarding or deleting posts that do not support, or contest the narrative, and salting in some snide “bot” attacks to publicly demean any new post that challenges the narrative. 2-3 of those makes people afraid to comment in favor, but the negatives have to be there right away. That’s do-able…
Freedom of choice requires groceries, water, shelter, food, fuel and companions. Tyrant-types need to own all of that. They need to be able to keep the essentials of life away from dissidents. People need to remain completely focused upon compliance, in order to avoid insecurity. The specter of insecurity must be always present to remind people to not miss a payment, or a paycheck.
I have long wondered how there might ever be a societal shift away from the micro-control which has come to be so pervasive in my world these days. We seem to be seeing it in the squeezing-too-hard-too-fast edicts coming from the tyrants and petit-tyrants as they experience insecurity themselves.
What is happening, as a result of this fast and tight squeeze is a separation out of people who are more independent of thought and action, who have also kept open some options for themselves, and who are at least suspicious of this power grab over their bodies. Many people who solve difficult problems in human society might be in this class. Many who already got COVID vaccines, especially early-adopters, can still have deep misgivings about what they now see happening, the totalitarianism of vaccination in places like Australia.
Why? It does not make sense as presented. It seemed to make sense that way up through May or so…
I think we can see the position of big pharma, wanting to control the narrative that pumps money to it.
The answer to a vaccine that makes you catch COVID after 6 months is boosters every 3 months, each at full price. Just don’t look at the 2 weeks after the shot. It’s not fair to count that. Don’t look at heart attacks after COVID vaccination. Don’t. No! Don’t look at all-cause-deaths. No!
Another good thing about mandatory vaccination is that it allows for the removal, the shunning of the non-compliant from all of the things which support their lives, “the economy”. This dovetails into electronic transactions through smartphones. Each transaction can be approved or denied. Accounts can be deleted. China is leading the way with this technology.
From my personal point of view, I want to turn my brothers and sisters in a direction away from that. I have to start walking away from it myself, and I have been wandering, trying other little trails, like buying things with cash more. Credit-shopping online is so easy… Getting home improvements done in Yoakum works better with cash, except it is easy to leave a credit card with the hardware store…
This is really a complex life-support system and it is owned by the control-freaks who control the rest of us through controlling our access to the necessities of life, and to our communications with each other. They control us while we comply. They threaten our existence, but they also feel their existence threatened. They grasp us so tightly that they squeeze some of us out between their fingers.
Those most capable of doing something new, making parallel economic support structures, are being squeezed out of the current structure by the insecure, control-freak “owners”, who are the “owners” as long as the rest of society sees them to be the owners, and the economy holds them in that rank.
The first steps for those of us who would build an alternate economic support system are parallel steps. We can’t just leave. Getting out of debt, riding bikes, growing vegetables, storing food, water and fuel, having reliable vehicles, and being helpful to other human friends, family and neighbors are things we should all be doing already.
Each day brings me new questions. I meditate, then do my best to contribute to the good of all.
The insecurity of the current “owners” drives them to act against the interests of the humans who are members of the societies, upon which they rely for their own support. Let’s help them out by gently relieving them of duty. Nope, I’m not sure how that works, but not by becoming like them…@Veracious Poet: I’ve been thinking about you, Brother. I’ve been thinking about you favorably and constructively. There, that’s better, on my bike ride to work and my bike ride back, today.
Sure there are “Us” and “Them” in a game -theory kind of way. It’s clearly the case in that context.
What is “reality”, though? None of us has the information access or the processing capability to know that, though we all generate working hypotheses and adjust them sometimes.“Reality” is different for a squid, a hawk and a monkey.
“Objectivity” is not possible, but it’s a special kind of cold-blooded “reality” model.
The reality-models employed by our sociopathic owner class are not the best in every situation, though the models work fine for them most of the time that they just need to maintain an overwhelming power-and-information advantage over the proles.Newton, the originator of mechanics, and of calculus (shared with Leibnitz) was an alchemist. He was really good at modeling, but did not seem to absolutely believe a given model, merely to assess it’s situational utility. I think our sociopathic elite owners have a really big blind side when it comes to non-Newtonian models of “reality”. I think that puts them at a big disadvantage when theinherent level of chaos is high, and they don’t have good “objective” data, and don’t have an overwhelming power advantage. They lack an inherent guidance system, like “Principle” or “conviction”.
I think it goes farther than that. I think there is Karma. If there is Karma, then the world cannot be fundamentally mechanical. I experience the mechanistic world every day. I experience Karma about as often, but Karma has a big WHOOSH to it that can suck your breath out when you see it at work.
Maybe I’m just wired to experience this. Maybe it’s not.
I used to test Karma. I quite a long time ago.I have been working on compassion-meditation. It makes me empathetic, empathetic at a distance. I get premonitions, too. I’ll be up doing spirit-work with feelings and deep rumblings the night before some big thing happens that I “didn’t know about”.
What I’m writing about is my experience of non-Newtonian “reality”. I am pointing a finger in that direction. The finger ain’t the thing. Wishing my enemies “well”, but not the “well” that they wish themselves may be a better tool than seeing them as they see me, or as they see other, or as they see anything, because their vision is so limited by their lack of empathy, lack of transpersonal-awareness.
That’s enough words from me. I’m pretty good in a fist fight, but I don’t need to hate at all.
It’s just such an awkward and squirmy position for the politically-correct administration to suddenly be stuck in. They have been rather PC-high-and-mighty with me on my way out.
How can they possibly live with having to keep me, after what they have said about me at this point?
I’m just gonna’ be a worker be, a dedicated physician serving my patients.
I’ll keep a straight face. I have nothing to retract.🙂
I should now meditate on not taking pleasure in the suffering of others.
Indeed, this is just their work, which they have laid out for themselves, and I will not make it harder for them to do.Greg Abbott makes executive order outlawing vaccine mandates in Texas (no jail time)
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/11/texas-greg-abbott-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/So my clinic has to break this executive-order “law” or give up federal funding.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/11/texas-greg-abbott-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/
I’m smiling.
I have nothing to do with this particular battle.
I went and tended the garden at the clinic for an hour before lunch today.
How can the clinic administration possibly back out of my announced firing at this point?
What a squirmy-spot!
I’m sayin’ nuttin to nobody…
🙂Greg Abbott makes executive order outlawing vaccine mandates in Texas (no jail time)
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/11/texas-greg-abbott-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/So my clinic has to break this executive-order “law” or give up federal funding.
I’m smiling.
I have nothing to do with this particular battle.
I went and tended the garden at the clinic for an hour before lunch today.
How can the clinic administration possibly back out of my announced firing at this point?
What a squirmy-spot!
I’m sayin’ nuttin to nobody…
🙂@PhoenixVoice: You seem to be ready to write a featured essay, girl!
@Doc Robinson: Thanks, Man. Points are taken for ongoing consideration, but the Governor of Texas just launched a flank-assault on every vaccine mandate in Texas, so I’m going to enjoy watching this until Halloween.
@Veracious Poet: Context. PhoenixVoice and you both have correct and valid MODELS of the Tao, which cannot be the Tao. 🙂
@Zerosum: I can’t work as a doctor without a vast, ongoing compliance overhead and employees to run it, and software rentals, andhardware, so I cannot practice medicine at all without being “intermediated”.
Bill Gates is a Wanker Song (“Protected political speech”, as I understand it.) Thanks P.D.
I can’t keep from smiling when this video plays. 🙂
Little Guy pictured with growing banana plants
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/again-why-shortages-are-permanent.htmlThe filter just won’t let the J.Post link in, the one showing that 81 mg per day aspirin saves lives, when people taking it catch COVID, and it even helps them not catch it as much.
Second to the last item…
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/again-why-shortages-are-permanent.htmlThe pop-up comment says I already submitted it, but it never took it…
Piecing it out…
Merck Asks FDA For Emergency Approval Of New COVID Drug Despite Safety Concerns
The $700 course of the pill is meant to be taken at home as four capsules twice a day for five days, constituting a total of 40 pills. (It costs 13 cents in India.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/merck-asks-fda-emergency-approval-new-covid-drug-despite-safety-concernsAny doctor in New Delhi would take ivermectin based treatment these days. They are completely familiar with it.
NEW DELHI, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) experimental antiviral drug molnupiravir has not shown “significant efficacy” against moderate COVID-19, a source with the Drug Controller General of India said...
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd wants to discontinue a late-stage trial of molnupiravir in moderate COVID-19 patients, the regulator’s expert committee said on Friday.
“There is no significant efficacy against moderate COVID and the effective efficacy is towards mild cases,” the source said on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the discussions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/merck-drug-less-effective-against-moderate-covid-india-regulatory-source-2021-10-08/Ivermectin is so much safer than Tylenol.
As it turns out, all the scientists and doctors who insisted that Merck’s “revolutionary” COVID drug molnupiravir is extremely safe weren’t faithfully adhering to “the science” after all. Because according to a report published Thursday by Barron’s, some scientists are worried that the drug – which purportedly cut hospitalizations in half during a study that was cut short – could cause cancer or birth defects.
Dr. Shuntai Zhou, a scientist at the Swanstrom Lab at UNC, said “there is a concern that this will cause long-term mutation effects, even cancer.”
Zhou says that he is certain that the drug will integrate itself into the DNA of mammalian hosts. “Biochemistry won’t lie,” he says. “This drug will be incorporated in the DNA.”
Merck hasn’t yet released any data from its animal studies, but the scientists believe that it would take long-term studies to show that the drug is truly totally safe.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/proceed-caution-your-own-peril-mercks-covid-super-drug-poses-serious-health-risksYou’ll own nothing, have no privacy and be happy…
“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?The war on cash’s endgame is here: money replaced by vouchers subject to complete state control.
Building on the bitcoin model, central banks are planning to produce their own “digital currencies”. Removing any and all remaining privacy, granting total control over every transaction, even limiting what ordinary people are allowed to spend their money on.“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?
How is the Davos World Economic Forum involved in the coronavirus pandemic? …
First, the WEF was, together with the Gates Foundation, a sponsor of the prescient “Event 201” coronavirus pandemic simulation exercise, held in New York City on October 18, 2019 – the same day as the opening of the Wuhan Military World Games, seen by some as “ground zero” of the global pandemic. China itself has argued that US military athletes may have brought the virus to Wuhan.
Second, the WEF has been a leading proponent of digital biometric identity systems, arguing that they will make societies and industries more efficient, more productive and more secure. In July 2019, the WEF started a project to “shape the future of travel with biometric-enabled digital traveler identity management”. In addition, the WEF collaborates with the ID2020 alliance, which is funded by the Gates and Rockefeller foundations and runs a program to “provide digital ID with vaccines”. In particular, ID2020 sees the vaccination of children as “an entry point for digital identity.”
Third, WEF founder Klaus Schwab is the author of the book COVID-19: The Great Reset, published in July 2020, which argues that the coronavirus pandemic can and should be used for an “economic, societal, geopolitical, environmental and technological reset”, including, in particular, advancing global governance, accelerating digital transformation, and tackling climate change.
Finally, the WEF has been running, since 1993, a program called “Global Leaders for Tomorrow”, rebranded, in 2004, as “Young Global Leaders”. This program aims at identifying, selecting and promoting future global leaders in both business and politics. Indeed, quite a few “Young Global Leaders” have later managed to become Presidents, Prime Ministers, or CEOs (Hey, there are lots of neoliberal prime ministers on that list, names we know, and Bill Gates, too).
