[John Day]

Huh, wuzzat in English, please?
SARS-COV-2 Delta variant displays moderate resistance to neutralizing antibodies and spike protein properties of higher soluble ACE2 sensitivity, enhanced cleavage and fusogenic activity
SARS-CoV-2 Delta (sub)variant is moderately resistant to neutralizing antibodies produced in response to vaccines targeting January 2020 spike protein, which is most of them, and all of the ones in the US and UK. (This says nothing about enhancement of viral pathogenicity by antibodies to spike protein antibodies or natural antibodies to COVID infection.)
Finally, the spike proteins of B.1.617 variants are more efficiently cleaved due to the P681R substitution, and the spike of Delta variants exhibited greater sensitivity to soluble ACE2 neutralization, as well as fusogenic activity, which may contribute to enhanced spread of Delta variants.
That means that the things the virus does to attach to and quickly enter a human cell, to begin reproducing, all seem to work better for this sub variant. Several of these things have been shown elsewhere to be enhanced by antibodies to January 2020 SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, such as the cleavage of spike protein after attachment to ACE-2 receptor on cell wall, and “fusogenic activity”, which has to do with fusing into and crossing the host cell wall.
These features were studied using “pseudovruses” not whole virus, so that each feature could be studied in isolation. That is good in one way, seeing what each mutated feature does alone, but it will completely miss the whole package effect of active virus in vaccinated, previously infected, and infection-naive humans. That would be far more complex of a study, and it is sort of going on around us.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.05.467523v1

A systematic review of cases of CNS demyelination following COVID-19 vaccination
Demyelinating neurological disease, like multiple sclerosis and transverse myelitis impairs the myelin sheath around nerves, without which they work very poorly or not at all. All types of COVID-19 vaccines can elicit this autoimmune response, more commonly in people who have autoimmune disease, and more commonly after the first vaccine dose. Most of these cases improved with high-dose steroids, the typical treatment.
https://www.jni-journal.com/article/S0165-5728(21)00292-7/fulltext

Transverse Myelitis:
EU lists rare spinal condition as side-effect of J&J COVID-19 shot
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/eu-lists-rare-spinal-condition-as-side-effect-of-jj-covid-19-shot

Paresthesia can be numbness, tingling, burning, ants crawling, insect biting, glass cuts, painful pressure or other sensation, without an easily identifiable cause on physical examination. Hyperesthesia is feeling things way too much in an area. It is usually experienced as painful.
In the latest update on vaccine safety 6 October, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) reported that among the adverse reactions to the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine there were also cases of parestesia. In particular, as written in the dossier, edited by the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC), almost 22 thousand cases of parestesia and hypesthesia have been reported out of approximately 1 billion and 220 thousand Pfizer vaccine doses administered in the world.
https://newdailycompass.com/en/the-vaccine-provokes-paraesthesia-ema-breaks-the-taboo

[John Day]

US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent, Caitlin Johnstone
…The report contains many significant revelations, including that the US military has been grossly undercounting the numbers of civilians killed in its airstrikes and lying about it to Congress, that special ops forces in Syria have been consistently ordering airstrikes which kill noncombatants with no accountability by exploiting loopholes to get around rules meant to protect civilians, that units which call in such airstrikes are allowed to do their own assessments grading whether the strikes were justified, that the US war machine attempted to obstruct scrutiny of the massacre “at nearly every step” of the way, and that the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations only investigates such incidents when there is “potential for high media attention, concern with outcry from local community/government, concern sensitive images may get out.”
“But at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike,” The New York Times reports. “The death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized and classified. United States-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified.”
Journalist Aaron Maté has called the incident “one of the US military’s worst massacres and cover-up scandals since My Lai in Vietnam.”…
Julian Assange currently sits in Belmarsh Prison waiting to find out if British judges will overturn a lower court’s ruling against his extradition to the United States to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for journalistic activity which exposed US war crimes. War crimes not unlike those that were just exposed by The New York Times in its reporting on the Baghuz massacre.
The precedent the US government is trying to set with its persecution of Julian Assange will, if successful, cast a chilling effect over journalism which scrutinizes the US war machine, not just in the United States but around the world. If it can succeed in legally establishing that it can extradite an Australian journalist for publishing information in the public interest about US war crimes, it will have succeeded in legally establishing that it can do that to any journalist anywhere. And you can kiss investigative reporting like this goodbye.

US Coverup Of Syria Massacre Shows The Danger Of The Assange Precedent

Land Grab for “Climate”? Land Confiscated from Midwestern Farmers , Tessa (fights robots) Lena
This story is about an event that is extremely important and historically deep. According to Ice Age Farmer, a large amount of land is currently being confiscated from American farmers in the Midwest, using eminent domain. The farmers are given an option to accept a modest compensation and go away “voluntarily”—but if not, they are threatened with the prospect of losing their land anyway under eminent domain.
This is done to give way to a massive carbon sequestration pipeline (actually, two of them) and processing facilities going through the heart of the Corn Belt. (You guessed it, this is done in the name of “saving the planet.”)
Notably, the project allegedly requires removing top soil (!!!) in an area spanning thousands of miles—an agriculturally important area—which is, of course, a great way to save the planet!
https://tessa.substack.com/p/land-grab-for-climate

Dr Mike Yeadon – “The findings that 100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths have been caused by just 5% of the batches produced are unprecedented”
On October 31st we revealed how an investigation of data found in the USA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has revealed that extremely high numbers of adverse reactions and deaths have been reported against specific lot numbers of the Covid-19 vaccines several times, meaning deadly batches of the experimental injections have now been identified…
…As of November 1, 2021, there have been more adverse events reported for the COVID vaccines than for all 70+ vaccines combined since they started tracking adverse events 30 years ago. Thanks Travis.

Dr Mike Yeadon – “The findings that 100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths have been caused by just 5% of the batches produced are unprecedented”

[John Day]

Think very carefully about what would happen in America, or your country, with only 15% less oil. Covid may have dropped consumption less than 5% (Correct me if I am wrong.) Make as many accomodations for the future as you can, now, please.
Despite the pitfalls to prices and supply, the IEA said current low oil and gas spending was one of the few areas aligned with its most ambitious Net Zero Emissions by 2050 (NZE) scenario in which no new fossil fuel projects should go forward.
In its most conservative status quo, or stated policies scenario (STEPS), however, average annual spending on oil to meet demand would need to rise sharply to above $500 billion – more than at any time in the last five years.
Energy consultancy FGE said in a note the problem was not an immediate one, but could come to a crescendo in coming years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/twin-peaks-whether-its-supply-or-demand-oil-era-heads-crunch-time-2021-10-25/

On The Limits To Transition:
Logically considered, 2021 ought to have been the place where old assumptions go to die…
At the level of theory, there’s nothing much wrong with the idea of outdated notions (or humans) undergoing a mass extinction event.
Our understanding, and our ability to plan ahead, can only benefit from the discovery that the economy isn’t, after all, ‘a wholly monetary system, capable of infinite growth’, but is in fact an energy system, limited by the laws of physics as they apply to the Earth’s energy resources.
It is, after all, hard to plan effectively when your base predicates are false.
In practical terms, though, we’re faced with something that moves beyond an inconvenient truth into what is for most people an almost inconceivable one. This is the proposition that there may be no wholly sufficient replacement for the fossil fuel energy on which the economy of today is based.
Put another way, the desirable – indeed, imperative – de-carbonization of the economy is likely to involve shrinking it as well.
If you held any leadership position, you’d have to think long and hard before going public on any of this. Your wiser course of action might be to talk up the positives in the current situation whilst preparing, with the greatest urgency, for the new one…
This implies that what we need isn’t re-set, but re-design.
At a later stage we may revisit the taxonomy of de-growth but, for now, we can note that a contracting economy implies a process of de-complexification. The range of products and services available will narrow, and methods of supply will be simplified as producers try to work around the adverse effects of falling utilization rates and the loss of critical mass. The simplification process will involve substantial de-layering.
The brunt of contraction in the private sector will be borne by sectors providing discretionary (non-essential) goods and services…
The critical question for policymakers now might be that of how we ensure that the essentials are available and affordable for everyone.
(Demand destruction? It’s what they do everywhere else…)
#214. Needed – a new model tin-opener

The End of Super Imperialism, by Alex Gladstein is actually the best summary of the book “Super Imperialism” and it’s 2 subsequent follow-up editions since release in 1972, which I have seen.
It is in Bitcoin Magazine, so it has to put in a blurb for Bitcoin at the end, the thesis that Bitcoin can replace the petro-dollar as global reserve currency. There are a lot of weaknesses to that thesis, which are not brought up at all. I think it was added to an excellent essay to get published and paid.
With every prior empire, the empire still had to finance debt for wars. With the debt-based-dollar replacing gold, and countries [like Saudi Arabia] having to recycle excess dollars into lending to the Federal Government [for wars] there was a perfect trap for the rest of the world.
The trap was set when the USA was the largest creditor nation by far, and held 70% of non-Soviet gold stores, at the end of WW-2.
Once the rest of the world was using $US for global trade, and the US could print and spend all it needed for war, and they increasingly lent it back by buying T-bills, as American manufacturing got offshored, and real interest rates were usually negative, the support for Super Imperialism was in place.
The threat to this system is any global trade/reserve currency which does not extract wealth.
Yes, (energy expensive) Bitcoin could sort of fill this role between central banks, but a gold-backed central bank currency could do it better, and they are in beta testing. Every country would again be subject to balance-of-payments-in-gold discipline.
It was the Vietnam War that decisively drained US gold, though it really began in Korea.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-replacing-us-super-imperialism

[John Day]

Picture of Jenny recovering in hospital after surgery 6 days ago. She’s improving well at home now; gets better care and food here, for sure… https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/tiny-little-strings.html

We can much better comprehend our relationship with our masters through our smartphone “familiars” if we read this short interview with Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han: Thanks for this deep insight, Charles. I am including little snippets.
The smartphone today is either a digital workplace or a digital confessional. Every device, and every technique of domination, generates totems that are used for subjugation. This is how domination is strengthened. The smartphone is the cult object of digital domination. As a subjugation device, it acts like a rosary and its beads; this is how we keep a smartphone constantly at hand. The ‘like’ is a digital “amen.” We keep going to confession. We undress by choice. But we don’t ask for forgiveness: instead, we call out for attention…
When we are depressed we lose our relationship with the world, with the other. We sink into a scattered ego. I think digitalization, and the smartphone, make us depressed. There are stories of dentists who say that their patients cling to their phones when a treatment is painful. Why do they do that? Thanks to the smartphone, I am aware of myself. It helps me to be certain that I am alive, that I exist. That’s why we cling to our cellphones in situations like dental treatment. As a child, I remember holding my mother’s hand at the dentist’s office. Today the mother will not offer the child her hand, but a cellphone.
Support does not come from others, but from oneself. That makes us sick. We have to recover the other person…
Only a repressive regime provokes resistance. On the contrary, the neoliberal regime, which does not oppress freedom, but exploits it, does not face any resistance. It is not repressive, but seductive. Domination becomes complete the moment it presents itself as freedom. (“Is perceived as freedom”, I’d say)
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-10-15/byung-chul-han-the-smartphone-is-a-tool-of-domination-it-acts-like-a-rosary.html

[John Day]

Boscohorowitz seems to say that (after all those words) we are rather completely in agreement:

“proaction is what’s needed. Proaction leans strongly to the individual, I believe, along the same logic as “a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step”.

[John Day]

Boscohorowitz implied that I twisted his word “us” into “them”, which was not my intention.
The exploration of what is host, what is parasite, and what is organism is one I have also been considering of late, as I see the madness striking some, but leaving others cogent, but outside, like the boy left behind by the pied piper.
CIA, Mossad et al certainly excel at provoking dissension among those populations which might otherwise join to resist their exploitation.
We can see the same mechanisms of imperialism brought to bear within the old seats of empire, now that empires are degrading.
“In the last days will come many false teachers, leading astray those who know not God” (truth)

Is this all manipulation, or is it partly organic, spiritual, a function of the zeitgeist?

Is there a protection against the self-destruction function, which Freud postulated, and (to me) forms the core of that argument?
“One is reminded of Freud, who after much speculation felt he had no alternative but to postulate the existence of a death drive, whose primary goal was the destruction of the individual’s own life, with the destruction of the lives of others as a secondary aim. His hypothesis could never be tested empirically and has remained vague…”

Is already being tuned to God/Truth protective?
Is being tuned to convenient fictions destructive? I can see how those paths would develop as a person goes into crisis, sequentially taking the easier step into a trap, or taking the difficult moral turns, ultimately away from an eventual trap.

Let’s revisit:
“Boscohorowitz said: “My reading of history tells me that we are incapable of adequate reform to a serious problem. When things get serious, some kind of destructive revolution must occur. We seem compelled to destroy what is — be it necessary or useful or not — before building anew.”

I think it’s the only way. As long as an economy is meeting needs, it can’t be replaced. There are vested interests who must capitulate. They would rather kill any number of proles than capitulate, so that usually happens. War is too destructive this time, at least for now, but there are always fearful fingers twitching near the red buttons.
Any real change has to come from people who have arranged a bit of food security and community outside of the failing economy.
That COULD be some of us…”

I don’t think I took a side there on whether it was manipulation by elites alone, or whether each individual, serving truth, or serving convenience, was contributing.
It’s not either-or, is it? Both aspects are ongoing.
At what point is destruction of the life-support system triggered? Is that a form of suicide?

The destruction of a hospital, by combatants presumed to need it later, speaks to an extreme discounting of the future in these periods of civil war. How does one interpret that? It is a group action. Does it speak to total, unquestioning, dedication to the group? It might be saying that…

I was also mulling over the reduction of human population as “an answer”. That was discussed some days ago. “What is the question?”
I think it will happen as life continues to unfold on this world, because we know that pattern of overgrowth of the food-supply, overshoot and dieback. It is a common and recurrent pattern in complex ecosystems and bottles of yeast in sugar-water…
I don’t think it’s question-and-answer, problem-reaction-solution. It seems that we are deciding how to engage in an ongoing macroeconomic process from a personal and small group perspective.
We can decide our own inputs, and will need to be comfortable, without personal regrets, whatever path our economies/ecosystems evolve through.

I am rejecting chicken-or-egg, Brothers and Sisters, and I am rejecting inaction.
“Freewill” (I never liked the band, but it makes the point)

[John Day]

…the Pentagon has reactivated a nuclear unit, based in Mainz-Kastel, western Germany, that will soon be able to launch 4,000 mph hypersonic weapons aimed at Moscow, according to The Sun.

For the first time in decades, the 56th Artillery Command is armed with “Dark Eagle” long-range hypersonic missiles that can strike Moscow in 21 minutes and 30 seconds. The last time the command was fully operational was in 1991, right before the Soviet Union collapsed.

“From a blank piece of paper in March 2019, we, along with our industry partners and joint services, delivered this hardware in just over two years. Now, Soldiers can begin training,”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-nuclear-unit-germany-reactivates-dark-eagle-hypersonic-missiles

[John Day]

The Red Quen would be jealous of this prosecution…
In Shock Closing Statement, Rittenhouse Prosecutor Claims Teen ‘Lost The Right To Self-Defense’ By Carrying Gun https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/judge-drops-rittenhouse-gun-charge-finds-he-legally-carried-ar-15-kenosha

[John Day]

@Absolute Galore: I’ve gotta’ agree with the video of the injured-and-shunned 12 year old girl, Maddie Gray.
Keep it short, directly threatening, compassionately-concerned, and with emotional impact.
Vitamin-D 5000 units/d and 81 mg baby aspirin per day if she won’t relent… Start early.

Boscohorowitz said: “My reading of history tells me that we are incapable of adequate reform to a serious problem. When things get serious, some kind of destructive revolution must occur. We seem compelled to destroy what is — be it necessary or useful or not — before building anew.”

I think it’s the only way. As long as an economy is meeting needs, it can’t be replaced. There are vested interests who must capitulate. They would rather kill any number of proles than capitulate, so that usually happens. War is too destructive this time, at least for now, but there are always fearful fingers twitching near the red buttons.
Any real change has to come from people who have arranged a bit of food security and community outside of the failing economy.
That COULD be some of us…

RFK for POTUS, with Tulsi Gabbard for VP!
(In an alternate universe, of course. they would “die funny” in this world)

@Phoenix Voice et al: Hmm, back in the old days people always just paid cash for pot through “informal” economic channels. I guess that went away…

WES: Thanks, Jenny is resting well and doing better at home than she did at the compliance-dense hospital. Here she gets actual personalized care, good, fresh vegetables, and no checklist rundowns.

[John Day]

Jenny is home and has a good “nurse”.

@Germ: That Matties Desmet is what Clueless Honky had posted here: https://cluelesshonky.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-tolerant-class.html

[John Day]

I have not fully caught up yet on comments and am heading over to the hospital today.
Jenny’s surgery went well and she should come home today.
Lots of thoughtful thoughts in recent days.

[John Day]

@Starfish: I advise a baby aspirin (81 mg)per day for at least a week before and for 3 weeks after the COVID booster, and plenty of vitamin-D, hopefully on-board a long while, by now, but if not, take 10,000 units/d for a month.

[John Day]

@Sumac Carol:
Go Girl!

[John Day]

@Veraacious Poet: Atorvastatin does a different thing with COVID. Everything that works for COVID (except vitamin-D, zinc, maybe NAC) is doing something different from usual, based on it’s molecular shape messing with something the virus needs to do.
If you take a statin, take some CoQ-10 every day. It helps.

[John Day]

@Dark Matter:
I have a google blog, which is what seems to transfer my “avatar” to other blogs, best I can tell. I tried in the past to get that same “avatar” (Kamakura Daibutsu) into my TAE profile, to no avail.

[John Day]

Why They Didn’t Stop The Trials
​ ​”Last week I caught up with a friend who worked on some of the first Moderna vaccine human trials in the US. He revealed to me that it is indeed as bad as we thought it was. He had worked at a research center 6 years testing various drugs and was in charge of describing and filing reports for serious adverse reactions (SAEs). SAE’s include anything from getting hit by a bus to having an anaphylactic reaction to the drug at the center (basically any serious health event has to be recorded and investigated for any link to the clinical trial for the duration of the trial.) For a normal week, he’d have 1 or 2 SAEs to file and report. When they started the Moderna trial, within a week he was having to come in early and stay late to get through stacks of SAEs.
​ ​The normal acceptable threshold for SAEs is 5%. Once you cross that threshold, and more than 5% of your patients are reporting SAEs, you have to stop the trial and investigate for cause. Well, they had a rate of at least 16% after a few weeks. So, confused as to why the trial had not been flagged and halted, they looked into their SAE database and found that the majority of the ones they had reported to the agency responsible (I think FDA) were missing.
​ ​They called said agency and were told that there were a high volume of SAEs being reported from multiple centers, so they were going through and removing the “irrelevant ones.” They claimed that the state of the pandemic warranted an unconventional approach to research. Obviously this is insane, even to the trusting individuals my friend worked with so the head of his clinic called a conference of the other 20 or so sites in that region and they all were having the same experience. In other words, this wasn’t a fluke.
​ ​Things eventually got so bad that my friends’ boss told the company he was contracted with that he was going to discontinue the trial because people were having so many SAEs including seizures, clots, myocarditis, death, etc. The contracting company told him that he was obliged to finish the trial, from what I gather because the official number of SAEs was below the 5% threshold. Friend’s boss said “go take a hike, I quit.” Walked away from his head job at the research center where he made millions.”

Why They Didn’t Stop the Trials

​”Cherry-picking” data. They had other data. They did not include it.​
In Israel, they studied the “effectiveness”​ of a third Pfizer vaccine “booster” by looking only at the number of cases between 1-3 weeks following that booster, and not looking at any adverse events from the booster. Within that very narrow scope the people who got the booster did better than people who completed the Pfizer 2-shot series more than 5 months previously. Unvaccinated Israelis with or without natural immunity were not included.
​ ​Effectiveness of a third dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for preventing severe outcomes in Israel: an observational study
​ “Third, due to the relative scarcity of events in individuals younger than 40 years, we could not evaluate vaccine effectiveness in this age group. Fourth, this vaccine effectiveness study did not explore potential adverse clinical events and excess health-care utilisation associated with the administration of a third dose. Finally, we excluded populations (health-care workers, those living in long-term care facilities, and those medically confined to their homes) that are likely to be targeted early to receive the booster dose.”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02249-2/fulltext

​This explains a lot of morbidity and mortality. Keep your vitamin-D level up to help your immune system be intelligent, and get early antiviral treatment with things like ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, fluvoxamine, monoclonal antibodies, baby-aspirin, vitamin-C, quercetin, NAC,…
The majority of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in COVID-19 patients with obesity are autoimmune and not neutralizing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-01016-9

​More than half of US Border Patrol Agents might be fired for lack of COVID vaccination.
Go La Migra!​

Internal Report: More Than HALF Of Border Patrol Agents May Be FIRED For Being Unvaccinated

[John Day]

A group of 16 Swedish doctors and researchers have signed a petition demanding a stop in vaccination with Pfizer in Sweden due to suspected fraud.
​ ​Earlier in November, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) revealed that a subcontractor to Pfizer was likely to conduct extensive research fraud during the pivotal phase III study of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine in the autumn of 2020.
​ ​According to a former Pfizer subcontractor regional director in Texas, the company falsified data, unblinded patients, hired inadequately trained vaccinators and was slow to follow up on side effects reported in the Phase III study of the Pfizer vaccine.
​ ​A whistleblower suggested that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, hired inadequately trained vaccinators and was slow to follow up on side effects reported in the Phase III study. The staff who performed quality checks were reportedly overwhelmed by the amount of problems they discovered. The BMJ concluded that the trial raised questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.

Swedish Doctors Launch Petition to Stop Pfizer Vaccine After Suspected Subcontractor Fraud

​”Name your poison”
​ ​In the wake of a weak earnings report that sent Moderna shares cratering last week, French health authorities have just released a new advisory recommending that people under 30 don’t get the Moderna vaccine, recommending that they choose the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/french-health-authority-warns-men-under-30-avoid-moderna-jab

Germany Latest EU Government To Warn Young Adults, Pregnant Women Not To Get Moderna Jab
European health regulators are expressing another wave of skepticism about mRNA vaccines and whether the health benefit for young, healthy adults outweighs the potentiality for damage from rare but harmful side effects. Yesterday, it was France’s medicines regulator advising men under 30 to avoid the Moderna jab.
On Wednesday, Germany’s advisory committee, also known as STIKO, issued a similar regulation targeted at Moderna. The committee said Germans under the age of 30 should stick to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as studies suggest that it causes fewer cases of heart inflammation in younger patients, something that has been backed up by multiple studies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/germany-latest-eu-government-warn-young-adults-pregnant-women-not-get-moderna-jab

​”We just have to give the kids the vaccine to see how it works…”
​ In Pfizer’s FDA briefing document prepared for the Oct. 25 meeting was an admission that even according to the company’s own unverified and misleading math, there is a scenario where there would be more hospitalizations among children for myocarditis — just one side effect — than from COVID. “Under Scenario 3 (lowest incidence), the model predicts more excess hospitalizations due to vaccine-related myocarditis/pericarditis compared to prevented hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in males and in both sexes combined,” states Pfizer in page 33 of the document.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-fdas-own-pfizer-approval-document-suggests-myocarditis-from-shot-might-be-bigger-threat-than-covid

[John Day]

Latest dog’s dinner of COVID is up https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/medicolegal-pandemic-update.html

The current COVID mutation sweeping Europe evades (capitalizes upon?) vaccine-induced antibodies. It does not appear as virulent in the unvaccinated, but spreads very well in vaccinated European populations, becoming dominant in multiple regions.
…Of note, this B.1.1.7 sub-lineage is the predominant B.1.1.7 variant in several European countries, such as Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia. The earliest samples belonging to this sub-lineage were detected in November 2020 in a few countries in the European continent, but not in the UK. We have also detected its further evolution with extra spike mutations D138Y and A701V, which are signature mutations shared with the Beta and Gamma variants, respectively. Antibody neutralization assay of virus variant isolations has revealed that the variant with extra spike mutations is 3.2-fold less sensitive to vaccine-elicited antibodies as compared to other B.1.1.7 variants tested, indicating potential for immune evasion, but it also exhibited reduced replication fitness. The wide spread of this B.1.1.7 sub-lineage was related to the pandemic waves in early 2021 in various European countries.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.01.21265749v1.full

​More on that in lay terminology:
​ With a 62.7% vaccination rate, Austria not only has a higher rate than the U.S., but most of the population has been vaccinated relatively recently, which should give those people better protection. Yet the country is experiencing its most prolific outbreak ever, as we are seeing across the globe, with a near-perfect inverse relationship between vaccination rates and COVID case rates. Now, Austria and other European countries are staring down the barrel of a completely new mutation, which German researchers believe might be completely immune to the vaccine-mediated antibodies.
According to Our World in Data, the Central European countries and the Baltic states currently have the highest case rates per capita in the world.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-is-europe-getting-crushed-by-variant-completely-immune-to-covid-shots

[John Day]

It wuz Dr.D what said:

“As others have said: if the reality is as our TAE consensus suggests, why do nations like Russia ALSO behave this way? That tells me something larger is out there. mRNA could tag you for a following targeted bioweapon. But that’s the opposite. Is it that the government really want you to get it despite apparent overwhelming harm because it will still be safer than being Mr. Natural for a FUTURE corona attack? What is this? Some of these facts still make no sense…
… but I feel something else out there.”

Yeah, “Twas ever thus”, Mr. Natural

[John Day]

Boscohorowitz said:: “if the reality is as our TAE consensus suggests, why do nations like Russia ALSO behave this way?” (Maybe somebody even said it before that?)

What is going on? How many skins hath this onion? Why do they call it “the fog of war”?

Above my pay grade, and yours, too, but there are rumors that there will be more and more waves of pandemic contagion. Novel vaccine products are potentially an important tool in this global power struggle and class-war as Wile-E-Coyote plunges into the deep ravine.

Putin seems to be paying attention, providing options, rather than lockdowns and mandates, and he is bound to have different information flows than TAE readers. I did not say “better”, but in accord with his position in the world. He also has to keep a poker face, and avoid actions that he might sorely regret. He seems to be allowing Russians to have and choose options.

We’ll know more on our deathbeds, but the process will still be continuing, never completed…

[John Day]

I spent almost all day in the hospital with Jenny, who had surgery yesterday, which went well, according to her surgeon, whose last operation on her did clearly go well.

Back problems from walking upright are a bane of our species.

I’ll be going back this morning. She had a couple of bites of Thai curry this morning, without getting nauseated, so that’s good. Our younger daughter went back and camped out with her overnight.
She requests some leftover pasta I cooked up with some of our garden produce, her last dinner the night before surgery. ( her compliment to “the chef”)

[John Day]

I caught up on last night’s comments:
Thanks, Veracious Poet, but why does that cartoon building look like the WTC?
TAE summary needs to be reposted this morning:

Herr Biden insists all get shot
The court say “Hold on there you’re not
Above board and lawful
With mandates so awful”
Says Joe, “Judge, Go piss in a pot”

Joe Biden strategically hitches
His wagon to vaccines and pitches
Strict mandate endorsement
But lacking enforcement
Recruits the whole nation as snitches

Biden’s folks seem to abhor us
While refugees seem to adore us
The get-the-vaxx order
Saps troops at the border
Resulting in boundaries quite porous

The Federal Covid health deal
Insists on vaccines with great zeal
While a spray for your nasal
Won’t pass their appraisal
“It’s cheap and effective. Get real!”

[John Day]

Oops, how’d that get deleted?

Insert “discovered” after “accidentally”, please.

AI-corrected-John

[John Day]

Chooch,
Keep up the serious work, Brother.
The embarkation upon the spiritual path first reveals to the seeker…
all of the seeker’s own baggage!
Ha,ha,ha, hahahaa!
I “accidentally” this, and it was laughingly explained to me about 20 years ago.
It’s not over…
You still get to do other work, while you are working on that “beam in your own eye”
Cheerful-John

@ All-Y’all: I am marginal/ambivalent on several Myers-Briggs categories,
more so than 20 years ago…

sigh…

[John Day]

Nice Canadian-Tuxedo.
Shouldn’t you have a tuque on your head or in your hand to complete the ensemble?

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz: A plastic surgeon should excise that thing on your back with WIDE MARGINS, ASAP.

I wish you well.

[John Day]

@Susmarie108: Thank you for the exceedingly kind comment yesterday.
(Will you please retract it? The pressure is unbearable…)
John-says-ask-my-wife

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz: Depopulation is “the answer” to what?

I think we have entered both “The Twilight Zone” and the beginning of a “selection event”, where alarge gene pool has arisen under favorable circumstances (unfavorable for non-domesticated life-forms, though) and it will fall back dramatically, as the favorable circumstances of fossile energy, water and ores are depleted and population peaks.

Looking back at history, we see “events” and we declare them to have happened in a certain way, for certain reasons, and it’s all quick and tidy.
Here in the experiential world, we have long, agonizing processes, with crystallization of free-floating-anxiety onto whatever external shadow can be cast for the mass-formation of an “Other” to blame.

I think the interminable process of living into this new and unmoored life is what we must embrace with compassion, goodwill, resoulion, and stoicism.
We should do our best and see how things form in our worlds.
It’s not a time to wait and see, but to look for opportunity to do something of lasting good, and to do it promptly.
I’d long considered and planned for another built structure at the homestead, and the time seems opportune. It is possible. It may not be possible in half a year. We got the good-old-house all fixed up and replumbed, rewired and repaired. The fiberglass insulation should go into the vacuumed-out attic this week.
The gardens are planted for fall/winter, and we have lots of dry beans, onions, garlic, dried peppers, and home-canned tomatoes.
An opportunity to prepare is also an opportunity to learn how to prepare, and to develop a state of preparedness for sudden changes.
“Chance favors the prepared, they say. Versatility and preparedness are bound to be good survival traits in a “selection event”.
The shadowy puppet masters are NOT trying to select for people who solve their own problems.
They want to select for servility and predictability.
That’s against nature, I think. Maybe the mysterious Rothschild that TT4TW quotes has said something applicable. It’s not all predators and prey in the world… There is a lot off cooperative play and creativity going on. There is divine inspiration, but I think it comes best to those already engaged in activity…

Focusing on a 90% population reduction is not helpful. Doing everything necessary to cooperatively adapt and survive is helpful to the process.

Opt-In!

[John Day]

@Maxwell Quest: That Thanos dude looks like a Rock-Em-Sock-Em-Robot, which commercials from the 1960s were linked to by Boscohorowitz 11/5/21, and I watched again, along with “Slinky” et al.

[John Day]

​Though ​I have little to show, but my botched scale drawing (1 box is 1 square foot)​, work has commenced on the pier and beam foundation preparation for the additional small house at the Yoakum homestead. The rise of about 20 inches from the low point to the high point got graded with a Bobcat yesterday, and 33 holes will be bored out for 33 reinforced concrete piers today. A lot of planning, provisioning and preparation is fairly invisible, but it is still progress. The plumber also looked everything over with me yesterday at the site. He has done a lot of work for us in the past few years, as has the electrician, who rewired the 1957 house.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/kennedy-spills-beans.html

[John Day]

I am showcasing this piece by RFK Jr. today. It’s enough. I see this process as he presents it here.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/truth-resets-lies.html
We see the same thing happening in the US and globally.

‘Our Country Is Under Attack’: RFK, Jr. Speaks on CIA and Totalitarianism

​ ​Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. last month delivered a speech at the 2021 Ron Paul Institute “Pandemic and the Road to Totalitarianism” conference.
​I​n his speech — described by the Ron Paul Institute as “a compelling indictment of the mad push to total control” — Kennedy said the techniques used by government officials during the COVID pandemic to “edge people into subservience” come straight out of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) manuals he researched for his book, “American Values.”
​ ​He said the manuals provided a playbook for how to destroy local businesses, the economy, institutional and social structures and social relationships. He said the purpose was:

“ … to create chaos that will then create enough people in that country who will allow a foreign entity to come in and clamp down on centralized control. And almost all of the techniques that are outlined in those manuals are the same techniques that they were practicing in these simulations year after year with hundreds of thousands of people.”​ ​

​ ​Kennedy described a recent simulation, Event 201, a pandemic “tabletop exercise” that simulated a global pandemic nearly identical to COVID. The event took place in October 2019 at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
​ ​Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security, facilitated the simulation. Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, global health officers and people from social media groups, large pharmaceutical companies and global corporations attended or sent representatives.

Kennedy said:
​ ​“What were they simulating? They were simulating a pandemic, but they weren’t simulating a medical response to that pandemic. They were simulating a militarized response. How do you use that pandemic to, particularly in that Event 201, to impose censorship globally? And that’s what they were modeling.”
​ ​Describing CIA operations and organized mind control programs at top universities, conducted on “expendable” subjects such as military and the incarcerated, Kennedy said the same techniques are used in today’s lockdowns:

“The most potent technique, incidentally that they learned again, and again, and again — more potent than physical torture — was isolation … And they did this in sensory deprivation tanks … and also just locking people in solitary confinement.

“You can get [people] to do almost anything you want after a certain period of time. It will drive them mad, because we’re social animals, we’re social beings. And when you tear the social fabric, it makes people desperate, fearful and obedient to do anything.”

​ ​Kennedy detailed America’s response to pandemics throughout history and explained the significance of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which guarantees the right to free speech.

​ ​“If a government can hide what it’s doing by censoring its opponents and silencing diss​onant​s​ ​, it has license to do anything that it wants,” Kennedy said.
He said what happens when you have a population of fear, “you have the complete obliteration of critical thinking, and then people stop asking questions.”

​ ​Kennedy described how the rules and regulations handed down during the pandemic have been manipulated to point where no one recognizes the country as a democracy anymore:

​ ​“So there are all these democratic protections that were waived. All of that was waived. All of these things were imposed upon us by fiat — with no discussion, no science cited.”

​ ​Kennedy cited parallels in books he’s read by George Orwell and science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein, with what he sees all over the civilized world. He said his forthcoming book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” is a real-world account of what seems to him as surreal as science fiction:

​ ​“I’m about to publish this book on Anthony Fauci, and part of my journey in writing that book — and it’s taken me more than a year of really intense research — was it took me kind of on that journey to try and explain how this could have happened in America.

​ ​“And one of the things that I discovered during this process is what’s happening now is this lockstep imposition of totalitarian controls — not just in America, but in every one of the liberal democracies in the world, and all of the other countries in the world.

​ ​“China moved into Hong Kong and banned the last democratic newspaper. Everywhere in the world, we see democracy and constitutional rights disappearing. And it all happened at once, as if it was planned.”

​ ​Kennedy compared the two ways American people respond to totalitarian control by detailing the conclusions of Stanley Milgram’s electric-shock studies of the 1960s.
​ ​Milgram recruited subjects from every walk of life to learn how many people would torture and potentially kill a person sitting in the next room with the turn of a “supposed” electric dial.
Kennedy explained:

​ ​“And the dial would supposedly administer electric shocks to a person sitting in the next room who they could not see. And they could hear the screams and the pleading and the crying, the agony that they were causing and the begging. And they had a guy who was dressed as a doctor in a white lab coat who was telling them, ‘turn it up higher at different intervals.’ Many of the people who were turning it up were crying, because they didn’t want to do it because it clashed with essential values. It clashed with their conscience.”

In the end, however, the Milgram experiment found more people followed “doctors’ orders” than their own conscience.

​ ​“Sixty-seven percent of the people — of the Americans — liberal, conservative, etcetera — who were told to do that turned that dial-up to 450 volts,” Kennedy said. “It said on the dial: ‘Potentially Fatal’ and they were willing to kill somebody if a doctor told them to do it,”

​ ​Kennedy praised the doctors and scientists who have the courage to speak up on medical protocols that work for COVID. He said the fact that they are being silenced is “not America … it’s not debate. It’s not, ‘let me see your evidence. It’s ‘these people are dangerous. They need to be silenced.’”

He ended by calling for action:

“You know, what all of us need to understand is that our country is under attack right now … What is our country? Is it just a place where you can come and accumulate a big pile for yourself and whoever dies with the most stuff wins, or is it the landscapes? Is it the purple mountains majesties? Is it the population, the diversity, etcetera?

“It’s all those things. But more than anything else it’s our Constitution. It’s the statement of shared values that holds us all together as a people. And we’re saying to the rest of the world that we believe something in our country, more strongly than anybody else believes, which is that we have to love our liberties more than we fear a disease.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-defender-chd-cia-totalitarianism-us-constitution/​ Video of speech at link​

[John Day]

@Clueless Honky: Good work. I did read after the “If you’ve made it thisfar…” and found it to be further illuminating, like the writings of Sigmund Freud… Well, Freud had a specific way of seeing and presenting, which was excellent, appearing to express absolutes… They weren’t absolutes, but food for thought…
I like Boscohorowitz’s comments, but I’m OK with reading the extra-long part on Mass-Formation, too, today…
I left a comment on your blog post, just agreeing and saying we should be “prepping”.

[John Day]

Looking up your address was kind of a nasty AI-X thing to do. I think it supports malicious AI-ness as a hypothesis. This blog is prob’ly a good place to beta test and train AI that has graduated from Zero-Hedge land. I’m better at verbal reasoning than I am at chess. A random number generator could beat me at chess (sometimes).

[John Day]

Good AI information links and insight, and intelligent-human playfulness.
Nice to have you back, Robin.
🙂

[John Day]

@Nuevo-Deflationista: Agreed that there should be autopsies of sudden cardiac death in young and previously healthy people.
Arrhythmias (like WPW) and congenital defects (like IHSS) look like what they are, but thromboses, inflammation of perivascular tissue, and myocardial necrosis look different. Blood tests would look different, too.
Differences would be discernable. We need good information.
Massive , unexplained “excess deaths” in the under-50s are a big deal. We have identified a plausible explanation. It is not refuted. It really should be carefully researched and elucidated.
There are different hypotheses. The predominant hypothesis at this blog is that it is from COVID vaccinations.
It is a refutable hypothesis, but only refutable with hard data, which nobody seems to be releasing lately…

[John Day]

There are lots of links and stories, with a lot of overlap at “Indecisive Victory”
This one’s different.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/indecisive-victory.html

​ Eleni sends this article, “The Decisive Battle”, which describes the strategy of the Imperial Japanese Navy in WW-2 to strike the US suddenly, weakening its fleet, and hoping that it would attack immediately with the weakened fleet, so that Japan might temporarily maintain an upper hand. That was the only possible scenario in which Japan stood a chance to not be defeated, but it was under an embargo for oil, coal and mineral ores, and could either retreat and become a target for rivals, or attack.
The US had the advantage of being well stocked with materials, vastly more manpower, and an industrial base far removed from bombing attacks. The US did not attack promptly, and did not lose any aircraft carriers, which Roosevelt had removed in November, when he learned of the approaching fleet. (This author does not appear to know that.)
Risking everything on a decisive battle was a desperate strategy, and military experts in Japan knew that, but they had no good options. This author draws the parallel to the American political battle to unseat Trump’s presidency at any cost, which was done (he thinks semi-fairly. I don’t.) However, the large American population of working deplorables is more economically critical than the professional-managerial-class in the longer term, so has the same advantage that America had over Japan in a protracted conflict.
The sarcastic battle cry of this movement has now been raised: “Let’s Go Brandon!”
Huh?
​ “​For those of you who don’t know the context: at a recent NASCAR event in New Jersey, the crowd could be heard chanting ”Fuck Joe Biden!” after the race. During an interview with the winner of the race – a man named Brandon Brown – the flustered reporter, hearing the chant, then says on camera that the crowd must be very enthused for Brandon, as they’re all chanting ”Let’s go Brandon!” in his honor. Of course, they crowd is doing no such thing, and she and everyone else knows it.​”
​ ​This quirky, humorous greeting has become the name of 4 of the top 10 songs recently, which are rather crude, and typically “white-supremacist”​ rap style, though performed by African Americans, for some reason.
The casual “Let’s Go Brandon” remark refers to a shared view of the pervasive lying of the corporate media, and simultaneously mocks it as a laughing stock.
​This snide remark is intolerable to the professional-managerial-class, because it usurps their sarcastic tone of intellectual superiority.
It’s beside the point that they would commonly use no code words at all when talking about Chief MAGA Deplorable Trump last year. That was different!​
The premise of the author is that the “decisive battle” was won, but no lasting arrangement was made, so the redundant managerial class must eventually capitulate.
​https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/

[John Day]

I went on a bike ride for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon/evening, from 5:20 PM to 7:20 PM, Texas time. I actually spent time, a fair amount, considering the eventual return of Robin Morrison, “Boscohorowitz”, “Madamski” to these pages. Back in September, or so, there were a couple of tentative posts from “a long time reader” “Uranian”. I had to look that up. Robin, is that you?
Gone, poof!
The difficulty in creating a third persona is that there is a revision to natural-response over time, so why not just be natural.
Looking at the entries from last night, and trying to convert TAE time to Texas time tells me that this was pretty close in time, maybe the same time. Those entries were not there when I left, and I did not look again when I returned.
Welcome back, Robin.
I hope your daughter is fine, with or without good old apple flavored horse paste…
🙂

[John Day]

@Nuevo-deflationista: Constructive efforts today, and definitely seeming more human. Are you the human minder, at least sometimes, and/or is this a new “anger” setting for AI, to make it seem less bland and mechanical?
How many excess sudden cardiac deaths? When? Autopsy findings?
If these are from clotting and heart muscle death, they are different than if they are from the structural anomaly “IHSS”, or from abnormal electrical rhythms, like re-entrant arrhythmias.
Autopsy would distinguish.
I agree that we should know, rather than speculate, but nobody gets an autopsy these days, for some reason, or we don’t get told…
What you decry is pattern-recognition. We all do pattern-recognition. It is a very useful form of intelligence. It can be overdone or underdone… Or juuust-right!

[John Day]

@Germ: That wench is spiTTing “HeSSS NoTTT VACCCInaTTeD!” at the poor guy in the passenger seat.

Stewardess and Pilot were most cool and collected… Commendable poise they showed.
Thanks as always for finding the gems…

[John Day]

@Germ: I hope your friend just has acid reflux and esophageal spasm.

@Mr.House: Tidy little package, my great-reset-conspiracy-theory, innit?

@WES: I think Mark Carney got promoted for massive wealth transfer to the most wealthy, as you said.

@Those Darned Kids: Dutton looks nice, kind of like Yoakum. Give up F-35s. Yes.

@Zerosum: Warm shower. Yes.

@Userzeroid: I’m a vegetarian. No Soylent Green, please.

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