[John Day]

​ ​Experts Tell FDA Vaccines ‘Harm More People Than They Save,’ But NIH Director Believes Boosters Will Be Approved in Coming Weeks
​ ​During the Sept. 17 meeting of the FDA advisory panel to recommend whether to approve a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, physicians pointed to data they said confirm the ​benefits​ of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine don’t outweigh the ​risks​.​..​
​ ​Steve Kirsch, founder of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, said he was going to focus on the elephant in the room that “nobody wants to talk about” — that COVID vaccines kill more people than they save.“We were led to believe that vaccines are perfectly safe, but this is simply not true. For example, there were four times as many heart attacks in the treatment group in the Pfizer 6-month trial report. That wasn’t bad luck, the VAERS shows heart attacks happen 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine. In all, 20 people died who got the drug — 14 died who got the placebo.”​ …
​ Kirsch said four experts did analyses using completely different non-U.S. data sources, and all of them came up with approximately the same number of excess vaccine-related deaths — about 411 deaths per million doses. “That translates into 150,000 people who have died [from COVID vaccines],” he explained.
​ ​Kirsch ended his presentation by discussing Maddie de Garay’s case. De Garay participated in Pfizer’s clinical trial when she was 12 years old and became paralyzed following her first COVID vaccine dose. Kirsch asked the panel why Pfizer didn’t report her injury in their results and wanted to know “why this fraud was not investigated.”

Experts Tell FDA Vaccines ‘Harm More People Than They Save,’ But NIH Director Believes Boosters Will Be Approved in Coming Weeks

​ ​Results of Johns Hopkins Study Are All but Conclusive: People Pushing for Forced COVID Measures on Kids Are Fighting Against the Science
Johns Hopkins faculty member Marty Makary.​ In an Op-Ed last week for The Wall Street Journal, Makary wrote that he and a research team reviewed about 48,000 cases of children under 18 reported to have COVID between April and August of last year​. ​“Our report found a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia,”​ …
​ Overall, the CDC has reported that 335 children with a COVID diagnosis have died. “Yet the CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn’t researched each death to find out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition,” wrote Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School. “I’ve written hundreds of peer-reviewed medical studies,” he said, “and I can think of no journal editor who would accept the claim that 335 deaths resulted from a virus without data to indicate if the virus was incidental or causal, and without an analysis of relevant risk factors such as obesity.”

Results of Johns Hopkins Study Are All but Conclusive: People Pushing for Forced COVID Measures on Kids Are Fighting Against the Science

​Babylon Bee tries to keep up: ​Pfizer Assures That Vaccine Is Almost As Safe For Kids As COVID
Experts confirmed that even though there is a statistically 0% chance of kids dying from COVID, parents should still require kids to get the vaccine immediately, to make up for Pfizer’s financial loss from the FDA not approving booster shots right away.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fda-assures-vaccine-is-almost-as-safe-for-kids-as-covid

[John Day]

Same Old Ideas is posted, and with a picture of myself and Jenny at the homestead
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/same-old-ideas.html

​ ​The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon​ by Cynthia Chung​
​ ​The roots of the Great Reset agenda can very clearly be traced back to 80 years ago, when James Burnham, wrote a book on his vision for “The Managerial Revolution​.​”
​ ​Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum (f. 1971), a leading, if not the leading, influencer and funder for what will set the course for world economic policy outside of government, has been the cause of much concern and suspicion since his announcement of “The Great Reset” agenda at the 50th annual meeting of the WEF in June 2020…
​ ​In the late 1960s, Schwab attended Harvard and among his teachers was Sir Henry Kissinger, whom he has described as among the top figures who have most influenced his thinking over the course of his life.​..
​ To get a better idea of the kinds of influences Sir Henry Kissinger had on young Klaus Schwab, we should take a look at Kissinger’s infamous NSSM-200 report: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests, otherwise known as “The Kissinger Report,” published in 1974. This report, declassified in 1989, was instrumental in transforming US foreign policy from pro-development/pro-industry to the promotion of under-development through totalitarian methods in support of population control. Kissinger states in the report:
“… if future numbers are to be kept within reasonable bounds, it is urgent that measures to reduce fertility be started and made effective in the 1970s and 1980s …[Financial] assistance will be given to other countries, considering such factors as population growth … Food and agricultural assistance is vital for any population sensitive development strategy … Allocation of scarce resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control … There is an alternative view that mandatory programs may be needed ..”​ (It’s ​ok​ to starve people to death, Henry?)
​ ​For Kissinger, the US foreign policy orientation was mistaken on its emphasis of ending hunger by providing the means of industrial and scientific development to poor nations, according to Kissinger, such an initiative would only lead to further global disequilibrium as the new middle classes would consume more, and waste strategic resources​…
…the roots of the Great Reset agenda can very clearly be traced back to 80 years ago, when an American, former Trotskyist who later joined the OSS, followed by the CIA, and went on to become the founding father of neo-conservatism, James Burnham, wrote a book on his vision for “The Managerial Revolution.”
​ ​In fact, it was the ideologies of Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” that triggered Orwell to write his “1984”.

The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon

[John Day]

Yesterday I spent a total of about 3 hours getting a homebound patient on oxygen to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, in my wife’s car, which she needed dropped off at work after that.
This patient had her Texas ID stolen. She is nobody without it. She has pretty severe anxiety.
We got it done, and I rode my bike home from Jenny’s school with the sort of reserve necessary when it is 100F and sunny in Texas. The patient has her temporary ID and the real one should come in the mail and be good until 2029.
It was nobody’s job in the world to do that. bureaucracy/technocracy does not really meet human needs. The nice lady ehlped wheel the oxygen tank to the curb as I wheeled the wheelchair. She was very helpful, and saw the level of stress and anxiety. She’s a human. I can tell.
I’m reposting that link Mr. House found, yet again. Also: Watch Bolsonaro and the UN this week.

The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon

[John Day]

@Citizenx : Bide your time, brother. You see how terribly wrong this is. Wait for something like the Tet Offensive to wake people up.

@Chooch: You and everybody else are welcome.

@Doc Robinson: Thanks for the excellent research and the service of answering people’s questions as if you were getting paid very well to do so.

@Germ: POW, ZAP, OOF, ZOWIE! Go Boy Wonder!

@Ilargi: I noticed with interest the other day when you said your viewpoint has shifted in the last 6 years. I have also noticed that.
I will ask you if you find Eleni’s perspective more realistic now, than you did at that time.
You have become a Champion, Amigo.
Howzit feel?

[John Day]

Mr. House: Thanks for the Cynthia Chung article:

The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon

It is, indeed very reveling of the historical context of flows of elite thought narrative to the present.
“The Kissinger Report” was a milestone, but it was not the “fountainhead”.

[John Day]

Covid-19: An issue at UNGA in more ways than one​ (In the capital of “The Empire State”)
​ ​The General Assembly has not exactly gotten off to a unified start.
​ ​Despite a letter from the US encouraging member states to call in virtually and help avoid creating “a super spreader event,” the speaker schedule for the General Debate — which begins on Tuesday — shows more than 100 heads of state and government coming in person, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and US President Joe Biden…
​ ​New York City requires proof of Covid-19 vaccination for indoor gatherings — a rule local authorities have asked the UN to follow. To facilitate compliance, a one-shot vaccination station will even be set up on-site. But visiting dignitaries are not proving entirely cooperative.
(Brazil’s Bolsonaro ​already ​had COVID and has natural immunity. Russia’s Putin had Sputni​k​ vaccine, not on New York’s approved list.​ Who pokes whom?)​
​ ​Brazil and Russia are already giving their local hosts a poke in the eye, vocally rejecting the health requirement. “We strongly object that only people with a proof of vaccination should be admitted to the GA hall,” wrote Russia’s UN representative Vassily Nebenzia in a letter to the organization, according to state news agency TASS. Nebenzia also noted that not all countries use the vaccines approved in New York.
​ ​Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threw down the gauntlet on social media, declaring point-blank on Thursday that he would not get vaccinated before the General Debate. He is due to address the assembly in person on Tuesday morning, in Brazil’s traditional role as the first speaker.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/world/unga-what-to-know-intl/index.html

Brazil’s Main COVID Strategy Is A Cocktail Of Unproven Drugs
…In Brazil, where more than 488,000 people have already died due to COVID-19 — second only to the United States — pseudoscience has become government policy. Bolsonaro regularly promotes repurposing unproven and cheap drugs to his nearly 40 million social media followers as he continues to minimize the gravity of the pandemic and dismiss its victims. Meanwhile, his administration has spent millions of dollars to produce, purchase and promote pills such as the lice medication ivermectin, the antimalarial chloroquine and popular antibiotic azithromycin as well as anticoagulants, painkillers and a set of vitamins. The Ministry of Health and numerous doctors endorsed using a combination of these medications to treat COVID-19, even though there is no solid evidence that it works.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/06/15/1006198151/covid-pseudoscience-is-choking-brazil

​So Brasil’s Bolsonaro is opening for this classier act.
Biden to Convene Virtual COVID Summit at U.N.General Assembly
The meeting will center around four key themes:
Vaccinate the World: Leaders will discuss increasing equitable access to vaccines to up shots-in-arms around the world.
Save Lives Now: Leaders will discuss how to solve the oxygen crisis in struggling nations by making life-saving therapeutics more widely available.
Build Back Better: A reference to Biden’s domestic agenda, leaders will discuss partnerships to address emerging threats and the creation of a “sustainable health security financing mechanism,” per the White House.
Calling the World to Account: Leaders will align on targets and discuss benchmarks to meet common goals.
I’m sure Joe Biden will be a commanding presence on the world stage and get 70% of Africans vaccinated by the end of the year.​
Still, there’s always the chance, the off chance, that all these world leaders might take some other tack.
This would be the place and time to do it. The US just lost face pretty badly.
Non-US Heads of State might feel emboldened, especially Putin, Bolsonaro, Xi, Duterte, and some of those other guys.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/09/17/joe-biden-covid-united-nations-general-assembly

[John Day]

As time goes by, bad turns to worse for disappointed vaccine recipients.
Israeli Doctor Kobi Haviv: ‘Fully vaccinated account for 85-90% of hospitalizations’​ (Yeah, but it would be worse if they weren’t vaccinated!)
https://rumble.com/vlbddq-israeli-doctor-kobi-haviv-fully-vaccinated-account-for-85-90-of-hospitaliza.html

​ ​Two-thirds of the San Antonio Independent School District employees who tested positive for the coronavirus in August were fully vaccinated. Out of the 285 cases staff members reported to SAISD, 197 were breakthrough cases, according to district records…
​ ​“Fortunately, the vast majority of these individuals do not experience the extreme symptoms that those who are not fully vaccinated are experiencing when they are positive,” Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Toni Thompson told trustees.
​ ​“But it also shows you that for those who have been vaccinated for around six months, that they’re the ones that are most often showing up as positive again, which says something about the need to have access to boosters,” Thompson said.
District officials estimate 90% of employees are vaccinated. More than half of the employees with breakthrough cases were vaccinated in January, February or March.​ ​​ Thanks Steve
https://www.tpr.org/education/2021-09-14/197-vaccinated-san-antonio-isd-employees-got-covid-in-august​ ​

​If only there were some alternative early treatment to keep people out of hospitals, now that Republican Governors are getting punished for their impudence!​
Florida & Texas fume as Biden seizes and RATIONS supply of life-saving Covid treatments
​ ​“The manufacturer has confirmed supplies are ample but due to the Defense Production Act, the White House and it’s agencies are the only entities who can purchase and distribute this treatment,” Keough added.
​ ​“So, less than a week after the president tells us his patience is wearing thin and he is mandating vaccines to millions of Americans, his administration limits and all but removes a non-controversial and highly successful treatment from our war chest of combating this virus,” he said.
https://www.rt.com/usa/535052-biden-rations-monoclonal-treatments/

The Indian state of Kerala has 3% of India’s population, and 67% of its inhabitants have at least one vaccination. One would expect Kerala’s COVID cases to be so low as to be invisible in a chart of India’s very low overall cases. Yet this state of just 33 million people accounted for 65% of all of India’s cases on Thursday, and even more in recent weeks. It has essentially been the only state experiencing a surge in recent months. It also happens to be the Indian state that has rejected ivermectin.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-heavily-vaccinated-state-accounts-for-65-of-indias-covid-cases-after-rejecting-ivermectin

​The Plot Against Ivermectin: (Complete timeline)
​HOW THE MEDIA FULLY FAILED US IN REPORTING THE STORY OF IVERMECTIN, COLLECTIVELY LABELING A NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING, SAFE AND FDA-APPROVED HUMAN DRUG THAT’S BEEN SAVING COVID PATIENTS AS A TOXIC “HORSE DEWORMER” ​ ​ BY LINDA BONVIE

The Plot Against Ivermectin

[John Day]

The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
Abstract: mRNA-based vaccines provide effective protection against most common SARS-CoV-2 variants. However, identifying likely breakthrough variants is critical for future vaccine development. Here, we found that the Delta variant completely escaped from anti-N-terminal domain (NTD) neutralizing antibodies, while increasing responsiveness to anti-NTD infectivity-enhancing antibodies. Although Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2-immune sera neutralized the Delta variant, when four common mutations were introduced into the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the Delta variant (Delta 4+), some BNT162b2-immune sera lost neutralizing activity and enhanced the infectivity. Unique mutations in the Delta NTD were involved in the enhanced infectivity by the BNT162b2-immune sera …
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1.full.pdf

Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk for mass vaccination?
Abstract​:​
​ ​Antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) of infection is a safety concern for vaccine strategies. In a recent publication, Li et al. (Cell 184 :4203–4219, 2021) have reported that infection-enhancing antibodies directed against the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein facilitate virus infection in vitro, but not in vivo. However, this study was performed with the original Wuhan/D614G strain. Since the Covid-19 pandemic is now dominated with Delta variants, we analyzed the interaction of facilitating antibodies with the NTD of these variants. Using molecular modeling approaches, we show that enhancing antibodies have a higher affinity for Delta variants than for Wuhan/D614G NTDs. We show that enhancing antibodies reinforce the binding of the spike trimer to the host cell membrane by clamping the NTD to lipid raft microdomains. This stabilizing mechanism may facilitate the conformational change that induces the demasking of the receptor binding domain. As the NTD is also targeted by neutralizing antibodies, our data suggest that the balance between neutralizing and facilitating antibodies in vaccinated individuals is in favor of neutralization for the original Wuhan/D614G strain. However, in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity. Thus, ADE may be a concern for people receiving vaccines based on the original Wuhan strain spike sequence (either mRNA or viral vectors).
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext

​ ​An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended against approving a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to most Americans.
The scientific advisory committee voted 16-to-3 against recommending the additional shots, thwarting the Biden administration’s hopes that the FDA would approve the third shot in time to begin rolling out the extra dose for Pfizer recipients next week.
However, the panel voted 18-0 in favor of recommending a booster shot for anyone over 65 or anyone who is at high risk of severe disease from COVID-19…​ ​Jonathan Sterne, a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology in the U.K., said his analysis of 76 different studies on the vaccines’ real world effectiveness found that a number of factors can skew the results, including how many unvaccinated people in a study have natural immunity from earlier COVID-19 disease. He cautioned against drawing conclusions from short-term results from booster shots, such as data from Israel which shows that a booster can strengthen protection for a few weeks in older adults.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fda-advisory-panel-rejects-covid-booster-shot-for-most-americans/amp/

[John Day]

Worried Oh Well https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/worried-oh-well.html

Charles Hugh Smith:
Here is America in a nutshell: we no longer solve problems, we manipulate the narrative and then declare the problem has been solved.
Actually solving problems is difficult and generally requires sacrifices that are proportionate to one’s wealth and power. But since America’s elite are no longer willing to sacrifice any of their vast power for the common good, sacrifice is out in America unless it can be dumped on wage earners. But unfortunately for America’s elite, four decades of hidden-by-manipulation sacrifices have stripmined average wage earners, and so they no longer have anything left to sacrifice.
​ ​Enter the Ministry of Manipulation, which adjusts the visible bits to align with the narrative that the problem has been fixed and the status quo is godlike in its technocratic powers. All this manipulation doesn’t actually solve the problems, it simply hides the decay behind gamed statistics, financial trickery and glossy PR. The problems fester until they break through the manipulated gloss and the public witnesses the breakdown of all the systems that were presented as rock-solid and forever.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/ministry-of-manipulation-no-wonder.html

​ I have been noticing that what should be a smallish third wave of COVID cases and deaths in Texas, is anything but small. Cases are not dropping like a rock, to mimic their rise.The rapid spread of Delta should give a rapid rise AND a rapid fall of cases if the susceptible population is getting used up by developing natural immunity. Natural immunity is still the gold standard for this coronavirus, no matter what is being advertised.
It looks like something is feeding more susceptible people to the virus, so it can keep spreading, at a time when we should be reaching natural herd immunity. The actual number of infections is about 6 times the number of confirmed cases. It’s a pretty stable multiplier.
The only intervention that looks big enough to make that large of a population influence is the vaccination campaign, which has included somewhere over half of Americans. There are mechanisms of antibody enhancement of viral pathogenicity. This has been found with fully tested vaccines, in the US, like the rotavirus vaccine, like the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine, and globally with the Dengue vaccine that killed so many children in 2015. They died when they got Dengue, a lot more than unvaccinated children died when they got dengue.
This happened in all of the animal vaccine trials for SARS and MERS vaccines in the 2000s. All of the coronavirus vaccines caused more vaccinated animals to die than unvaccinated animals, when both groups were exposed to the virus.
That was a “good” reason to NOT do animal testing on the current vaccines, and to give the manufacturers complete freedom from liability, through Emergency Use Authorizations, which is still how they are administered in the US, despite the Comirnaty-Pfizer bait-and-switch dance being performed.

[John Day]

@Oxymoron: Yes, Mate! Agreed.

[John Day]

I’m interested in the UN happenings this Wednesday.
Maybe the script will change; maybe not…
Bolsonaro of Brazil gives opening remarks. Bolsonaro had COVID and advocates Ivermectin and HCQ.
He says he’s not vaccinated and won’t get vaccinated, and try to stop him from attending.
NYC is trying to get vaccinated (Sputnik et. al.) Russians to take a J&J shot for compliance before entering. That’s sort of embarrassing for New York, but deBlasio is unfazed and anti-Russian.
Biden will be physically there and will hold something like an emergency Event-201 adjustment, supported by Build Back Better and friends.
The intent is to get most of the unvaccinated poor people in the world vaccinated this year.
Somebody will pay for it. What could go wrong?
Will there be a revolt, or a redirection among the global elites?
There are numerous factions.
They must see that blaming the unvaccinated for the ADE backfire from the vaccines is failing, and they need to get another grip on a narrative that is not quite the opposite of reality.
I dunno….
Also, Thanks Doc Robinson for good research and presentation of some pivotal findings, and for looking up Texas stories Thursday night.

[John Day]

Thanks for that article, Doc Robinson. They mention escape from the vaccines, but they also describe the super-power of enhanced viral infectivity, and the virus is not about to miss it. I think it is already “enhanced” pretty well. The rapidly rising Dleta peak of cases, here in Texas, was supposed to drop just as fast. It’s not. It is sustaining, with a big fat area under the curve. The vaccines have opened up a whole new population to infection, somehow.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/

[John Day]

Picture of the banana plants growing in the squash patch https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/grains-of-sand.html

Alastair Crooke, A Pandemic of Authoritarianism, as the Red Grains Cascade
What we see is an attempt to impose an idealised technical managerialism onto a complex, rather than pursue real solutions to problems.
Change happens quickly and often unpredictably. Yet the unpredictable part seemingly is all about physics. Imagine, dropping one grain of sand after another onto a table. A pile soon develops. Eventually, just one grain starts an avalanche. Most of the time, it’s a small one. But sometimes the pile just slides and disintegrates entirely.
Well, in 1987, three physicists began to play the sand pile game in their lab, seeking an answer to what it is that triggers the typical avalanche? After a huge number of tests, they found there is no typical number of grains that does it.
To find out why such unpredictability should show up in their sand pile game, the physicists next coloured it according to its steepness. Where it was relatively flat and stable, they coloured it green; where steep and, in avalanche terms, ‘ready to go’, they coloured it red.
Afghanistan was intended to be a showcase for western technical managerialism – an empirical petri-dish in which to prove the historical inevitability of technocracy…
Existential political and social questions in this doctrine however, were to be nuanced through ‘Third Wayism’ (i.e. left unsolved – or fudged with easy answers, and easy money).
Or … ‘regulated’ into compliance. The answer to social problematics was Cloud Computing of mass data. With enough input on past human choices, it is believed that experts can precisely predict human behaviour, which then can be ‘nudged’ in the direction that our élites wish it to go. Nudge behavioural psychology, of course, is about control – not active thinking…
There are many subtleties and twists in the story, but the basic message is simple: The peculiar and exceptionally unstable organization of the critical state does indeed seem to explain why our highly complex world, at large, seems so susceptible to unpredictable upheavals. So much for AI and big data’s predictions – In the end, it was the landing of the Taliban ‘red grain’ that triggered an unpredicted, lightning cascade.
The question must be: Will this trigger any chain reaction? Maybe not, yet there are several other ‘fingers of instability’ in the western sand pile which should be coloured ‘grain red’, and – judged in avalanche terms – may be poised to cascade.
One such is the ‘vaccination’ (or gene therapy): The mRNA ‘vaccine’ doesn’t stop infection, nor does it stop the spread of the virus. A fully vaccinated person can catch the virus and spread it to others. There’s new evidence that double-vaxxed individuals build up huge viral loads in their noses and sinuses, causing them to become super-spreaders, and infect others. The unvaccinated therefore, have as much to fear in terms of catching the disease from the vaccinated as the other way around.
Israel is providing a useful case study in the effectiveness – or lack thereof – of vaccines. Israel is one of the most heavily vaxxed countries in the world, with nearly 80% of the population fully vaccinated and almost 100% of the elderly. But now Israel is experiencing a massive increase in infections (and of serious cases), mainly among the fully vaxxed…
The ramifications deriving from the paradigmatic blow given by the Taliban to the Western technocratic vision; to Europe at its sudden discovery that America does not have Europe’s back; to inflation felt everywhere; to the QE impasse (that interest rates above 2% would kill the western economy); to geopolitical rejection of the western liberal model – arguably all these run through what happens next with Covid, and the mass resort to the imposition of ‘virtuous’ authoritarianism.
There is, in the end, nothing more than one common single thread running through all these fingers of instability: It is the attempt to impose an idealised technical managerialism onto a complex, critical-state reality, rather than pursue real solutions to problems – and the resort to behavioural control psychology to conceal the rot beneath, and compel compliance.
So, we are now poised at a critical state of what Paul McCulley calls ‘stable disequilibrium’ – where all actors work to maximize their personal outcome, and reduce their exposure to fingers of instability. But the longer the game runs, says McCulley, the more likely it is to end in a violent avalanche, as the fingers of instability have more time to build, and, eventually, the state of stable disequilibrium goes critical.
Which finger goes first? Unpredictability again – any grain falling on a red spot can, by domino-like action, cause sliding at other nearby red spots.

A Pandemic of Authoritarianism, as the Red Grains Cascade

[John Day]

Thnks for the positive comments about “my okra”, folks. It really IS fabulous okra, and you can grow it, too. It’s Texas Hill Country Red okra https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Hill_Country_Red_Okra_14014.php#:~:text=Hill%20Country%20Red%20okra%20is%20a%20burgundy%2Dtinged%20variety%20of,agriculture%20with%20vineyards%20and%20farms.
For several years I tried growing multiple types of okra, but this was the most vigorous an best and best tasting every time so I just gave up on everything else. The pods get pretty big before they get woody. That pod was fine. Gotta’ go turn off the heat under it and the others. I test them with a serrated knife as I slice them up. You can tell what’s too fibrous.

[John Day]

Got a picture of the “asymmetric warrior” harvesting okra in Aloha shirt https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/bankrupt-narrative.html

On the 13th anniversary of the Lehman bankruptcy, Evergrande, China’s largest real-estate company, announces default, non-payment of interest.
(Our son, Jim turns 30 today, also.) China’s decision to put limited funds into finishing construction instead of servicing debt seems practical.
​ ​According to Bloomberg, Chinese authorities told major lenders to China Evergrande Group not to expect interest payments due next week on bank loans, which takes the cash-strapped developer a step closer the nation’s largest modern-day restructurings, and guarantees that China’s “Lehman Moment” is now just a matter of days, if not hours.​..instead most of Evergrande’s working capital in now being used to resume construction on existing projects, the housing ministry told bankers…​ With senior leaders in Beijing silent on whether they will allow Evergrande creditors to suffer major losses, bondholders have priced in slim odds of a rescue…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinas-lehman-moment-arrives-13th-anniversary-lehman-bankruptcy-beijing-tells-banks

None Dare Call It “Ivermectin”? What day is this?
​ ​President Trump has responded to claims that Milley had a back-channel with his Chinese counterparts and would warn them of any impending attacks.”If the story of “Dumbass” General Mark Milley…is true, then I assume he would be tried for TREASON in that he would have been dealing with his Chinese counterpart behind the President’s back and telling China that he would be giving them notification “of an attack.”” wrote Trump in a statement.​..
“For the record, I never even thought of attacking China – and China knows that,” Trump continued.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/book-reveals-gen-milley-secretly-sabotaged-trump-called-china-sparking-talk-treason

​John Ward has done thorough research here. His use of the English language is always exemplary:
Autoantibodies, Fauci the antimatter liar, Ivermectin the Saviour – & a way for those already vaccinated to avoid death
​ ​Collating eclectic data from around the world, The Slog takes another stab at waking people up….while showing that, even for the doubled vaxxed, there is a still huge advantage in saying NO from here on.
​ ​One can observe categorically that medical researchers in Australia, India, France, the US, Germany and Japan are showing why the mRNA Covid “vaccines” tested by Oxford Recovery on dogs killed all the vaccinated animals. The detailed nature of deadly Cytokinic overreaction is closely allied to the study of how ‘autoantibodies’ develop. These little mothers are not always good news.
A SLOG VAXICIDE SPECIAL

​ I have been waiting for the details on why these 2 distinguished career​ technocrats recently resigned. I knew it was about mRNA vaccines, but what?
​How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-meaning-of-the-fda-resignations/

[John Day]

@Veracious Poet: Very Good, Sir!

@Oxymoron: That’s very bad, sir!
Cops in clown-car: “see someone; say something”. They saw you.

[John Day]

John Ward has a very well researched and presented essay on The Slog today:
Autoantibodies, Fauci the antimatter liar, Ivermectin the Saviour – & a way for those already vaccinated to avoid death
A SLOG VAXICIDE SPECIAL

[John Day]

Counterfeit Capitalism: Why a Monopolized Economy Leads to Inflation and Shortages
From railroads to plastic bags to semiconductors to ice cream, Wall Street and monopolists are creating shortages and exploiting them. …​The scariest part of this whole saga is not that a bunch of malevolent monopolists run our economy, inducing shortages for profit. Indeed, these shortages are not intentional, any more than the financial crash of 2008 was intentional. Most of what is happening is unintended. Bad actors aren’t steering the ship. They are just making sure that no one else can, even when it’s headed for the rocks. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/counterfeit-capitalism-why-a-monopolized?

​Charles Hugh Smith:The Banality of (Financial) Evil
​ ​The financialized American economy and State are now totally dependent on a steady flow of lies and propaganda for their very survival. Were the truth told, the status quo would collapse in a putrid heap. Go ahead and be evil, because everyone else is evil, too, because being evil serves everyone’s interests far better than maintaining integrity, for integrity will cost you more than you can afford.
In other words, lying, fraud, embezzlement, misrepresentation of risk, material misrepresentation of facts, half-truths, the replacement of statements of fact with propaganda and spin: these are not the work of a scattered handful of sociopaths: they represent the very essence and heart of America’s economic status quo.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html

​Tom Luonge, in good form, much condensed​
COVID-9/11 is globalism’s last stand. It’s goal is explicitly to burn the world down to ‘build back better.’ I’m sure Davos asked both Xi and Putin many times to join the big club for the big win and they both said, “No.” This is where culture and history asserts itself…
So, the WEF is now accelerating its scorched earth strategy. It’s clearly using what leverage it has in U.S. institutions to expend the last of the U.S.’s political capital with diplomatic and geopolitical ‘gaffes’ that even an amateur wouldn’t make. When you see government policy an order of magnitude more incompetent than can be explained by internal squabbling and petty corruption, you are dealing with something willful…
The globalists need perpetual war in ‘shitholes’ around the world to keep laundering the easy Fed Funny Bucks to keep the entire Ponzi Scheme alive. With Afghanistan now off the table, where are we sending the military next to export inflation democracy?
But Powell, like the rest of them, know that globalism is failing and pushing any further for it will only accelerate the creation of what Vaclav Havel called “parallel systems.” Systems that exist outside of their control. So, I think he’s treading carefully here with monetary policy on purpose.
It’s Davos that is getting desperate. The more they grasp for total control the easier it becomes to see the Law of Unintended Consequences rearing its head as new solutions to age-old problems proliferate…
Because the final consequence of Cantillion’s observations about prices is that eventually you run out of ways to squeeze people through fear and inflation. When that happens they squeeze back.​ (Squeeze back better, heh, heh, heh…)

From the Notebook – The Unintended Consequences of COVID-9/11

[John Day]

A few excerpts: https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/oops-truth.html

Huh, that’s not what they said, is it? The comatose patient on the ventilator is looking much better and has rosy cheeks…
​ The European Central Bank announced a tapering of the repurchase program on September the 9th. One would imagine that this is a sensible idea given the recent rise in inflation in the eurozone to the highest level in a decade and the allegedly strong recovery of the economy. However, there is a big problem. The announcement is not really tapering, but simply adjusting to a lower net supply of bonds from sovereign issuers. In fact, considering the pace announced by the central bank, the ECB will continue to purchase 100% of all net issuance from sovereigns.//
​ ​The fourth challenge for the ECB is that it acknowledges being trapped by its own policy, it cannot stop it and normalize because governments and markets would suffer, and it cannot keep the current pace because inflation is putting even more pressure on growth.

The Eurozone Is Going Down The Japan Way

Michael Hudson, on George Soros maybe getting thwarted by China
​ ​In a Financial Times op-ed, “Investors in Xi’s China face a rude awakening” (August 30, 2021), George Soros writes that Xi’s “crackdown on private enterprise shows he does not understand the market economy. … Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has collided with economic reality. His crackdown on private enterprise has been a significant drag on the economy.”
Translated out of Orwellian Doublethink, the “crackdown on private enterprise” means cutting back on what the classical economists called rent-seeking and unearned income. As for its supposed “drag on the economy,” Mr. Soros means the economy’s polarization concentrating wealth and income in the hands of the richest One Percent.
Soros lays out his plan for how U.S. retaliation may punish China by withholding U.S. funding of its companies (as if China cannot create its own credit) until China capitulates and imposes the kind of deregulation and de-taxation that Russia did after 1991. He warns that China will suffer depression by saving its economy along socialist lines and resisting U.S.-style privatization and its associated debt deflation.
Mr. Soros does recognize that China’s “most vulnerable sector is real estate, particularly housing. China has enjoyed an extended property boom over the past two decades, but that is now coming to an end. Evergrande, the largest real estate company, is over-indebted and in danger of default. This could cause a crash.” By that, he means a reduction of housing prices. That’s just what is needed in order to deter land becoming a speculative vehicle…
Soros gives his game away by stating that “Xi does not understand how markets operate.” What he means is that President Xi rejects rapacious rent-seeking, exploitative free-for-all, and shapes markets to serve overall prosperity for China’s 99 Percent. “As a consequence, the sell-off was allowed to go too far,” Soros continues. What he means is, too far to maintain the dominance of the One Percent. China is seeking to reverse economic polarization, not intensify it…
George Soros is obviously upset that President Xi is not Boris Yeltsin, and that China is not following the kleptocracy dependency that warped Russia’s economy. Soros thought the ending of the Cold War would simply let him buy up the most lucrative rent-yielding assets, as he has aimed to do in the Baltics and Ukraine. China said “No,” so it is not deemed to be a “market economy,” Soros-style. It has not made its social organization marketable, and has avoided the financial dependency that makes “markets” a vehicle for U.S. control via sanctions and foreign buyouts.

Soros’ Dream: To Turn China Into a Neoliberal Grabitization Opportunity

[John Day]

Very good line-up today, Ilargi!

[John Day]

@Oxymoron: They might have to confiscate the bank funds of the unvaccinated for the greater good, to protect the health of the vaccinated.

[John Day]

Thanks Veracious Poet, for your personal insights and knowledge of 9/11, particularly the longstanding placement of controlled demolition ordnance. Lots of stories could have been created around that fact, to mollify those who would inevitably know…
“Lucky Larry Silverstein”… what a guy, “we decided to pull it”.
WTC-7 collapsed in freefall time, into it’s own footprint at 5:20PM after BBC had already announced it’s collapse, while it still stood in the window behind the BBC announcer.
The US news cycle missed the event, until it was prevented the next morning as an afterthought. “Another building collapsed later, as a result of the damage.”

This justified The Global War On Terror, “WW-3” to Thierry Meyssan, who happened to be in NYC with a film crew on 9/11/2001, and ended up writing 9/11: The Big Lie. He says the empire just lost WW-3. What now? Can this all be negotiated? Is Tom Luongo right that Davos is trying to destroy the US by inducing it to implement self-destructive and dollar-destructive policies? Who might benefit?

[John Day]

Hi, this is funny. I just got off leaving a comment at Holmgren’s site on this very essay, when I come here to check in after a weekend of busy human life.
David does his very best to be inclusive and to finally state his own personal synthesis, which is remarkably similar to my own.
I am off to the bank to wire $188 to Anil at Kachhela Medex in India and see what happens.
Anil is “Germ’s Guy”
My plan, if the medicines get to me is to give them away, and ask people to spend $60 gambling to get more sent to them, which they should give away in the same pay-it-forward anti-imperialist scheme.

“We shall see”, as the wise old Chinese man said in the proverb.

[John Day]

Almost a day late, but we had to attend a family funeral in San Antonio 20 Years of This
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/20-years-of-this-world.html

Like JFK’s assassination, those of us who were aware on 9/11/01 remember a lot of it fairly clearly. We had our own perceptions, and days at work, and some of us saw TVs more that day than others. I was working with patients all day, and did not.
Thierry Meyssan, a French journalist, was in New York City filming a documentary for something-completely-different, got some footage of planes flying towards the twin towers, and became one of the early investigators of those events. The conspiracy theory is what we got on TV and the news, and it justified the Global War On Terror, which meant the global war of empire against brown people in oil-places, especially if they try to sell the oil for anything but $US.
The objective of it was hard to suss out for most of us, but the Rumsfeld Cebrowski Doctrine was fundamentally about destroying the economies of countries that had resources “we” needed, so that they would not use them up.
Travis sends this Corbett Report 5 minute takedown of the official conspiracy theory of the ragheads with boxcutters, run by Osama Bin Laden from a cave in Afghanistan, who dropped 3 buildings into their own footprints with 2 airplanes, and in freefall time, which could only be done by controlled demolition on any other day.
https://www.corbettreport.com/?powerpress_pinw=2594-podcast

Thierry Meyssan has some tidbits in here, that “even” I hadn’t been aware of. I’ll try to pick them out, but his main point is that the “continuity government” that Cheney and Rumsfeld had been working on since Jerry Ford was in the white house took control away from all elected office-holders that day and ran the show. You could see it as a coup d’etat, but they let the headless horseman George Bush go back to work when it was over, because he was cool with it, anyway.
On the very day of the attacks, on New York’s Channel 9, real estate developer Donald Trump called the official version of the collapse of the towers a “lie”.

​ ​Meyssan about his 9/11 book​ 9/11: The Big Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11:_The_Big_Lie
​ ​It is a work of political science aimed at denouncing what these false-flag attacks would make possible: the surveillance of Western populations and the endless war in the wider Middle East. ​

​ We have forgotten many other things, such as the insider trading in the shares of the affected airlines, the fire in the Old Eisenhower Building, or the collapse of a third tower in the World Trade Center. ​

​What is most astonishing is that almost no one remembers that at 10am, Richard Clarke triggered the ’Continuity of Government Plan’ [5]. At that very moment, President Bush and Congress were suspended from office and placed under military protection. President Bush was taken to an air base in Nebraska where the CEOs of the upper floors of the Twin Towers had been since the previous evening [6]; and Congress to the Greenbrier megabunker. Power fell into the hands of the “Continuity Government”. It was in the Raven Rock Mountain megabunker (’Site R’) [7]. Power was not returned to the civilians until the end of the day.

​ Informed by his staff that a Russian satellite had just observed a missile being fired from a Navy ship off the coast of Washington at the Pentagon, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, tried to contact his US counterpart. He was unable to do so. Not because the telephone networks had broken down, but because George W. Bush was temporarily no longer president.

[John Day]

Thanks all for the kind words. I can call-in and speak to a pharmacist and give my fli-phone number as a call-back number, but only for friends and family, when it comes to ivermectin. Ivermectin is not bad for your liver, by the way. Tylenol is, if you take too much.
Anyway, it has been a long 2 days, and I think something collapsy is coming soon, but the date is not yet announced.
Deteriorata” is from Radio Dinner (Not TV dinner) by National Lampoon, which my cousins in Colorado played for me when I was 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVBgN9zbTk

[John Day]

A garden picture this time,.. “Difficult Navigation”
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/difficult-navigation.html

I’ve been expressly forbidden to prescribe ivermectin for COVID, using the address and phone number of my clinic.
This lies within the context of my seeking to care for my established patients and those who present ill with COVID through October.
The assumption is that I will not work after the end of October, due to being fired for refusal to accept SARS-CoV-2 mandatory vaccination..

I don’t have a workable alternative to provide this specific service. I can advise the OTC supplements I posted 2 days ago in “OTC COVID Rxs”.
I can prescribe doxycycline or azithromycin as part of a balanced treatment approach, with vitamin-D, Quercetin (& lecithin) and zinc.
I can prescribe azelastin nasal spray, which is OTC-approved, but not OTC-available yet.
Aspirin and inhaled steroids can be added for some higher risk patients with inflammatory conditions like diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Monoclonal antibody infusions are available locally, and may well be of benefit in the first 5 days of symptoms. (They are approved to 10 days.)

There is a fundamental objection that I am presenting to patients that these things have been shown to help on-average, with COVID.
I have seen that to be the case for over a year with the ivermectin-based treatment protocol, having only one patient progress to need hospitalization on treatment, the day after he started, last weekend, early in his second week of illness. To another, that experience is “anecdotal”, but while following patients closely over time for a year, it is confirmatory of the hypothesis that this treatment is beneficial. https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
Studies, many studies support that hypothesis, as does the experience of nations which have employed this treatment as a public health measure. Peruvian and African experiences of benefit are dramatic in graphic form.

Peruvian national data with, without, with, then again without ivermectin treatment policy after 2020 presidential election:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8383101/pdf/main.pdf

Why COVID-19 is not so spread in Africa: How does Ivermectin affect it? ​ This is the source of the graphic posted yesterday, showing peaks of total deaths per 100,000, corresponding to waves of COVID infections, in African countries that do not routinely use ivermectin to suppress parasitic worms, but no death peaks in countries that do use ivermectin as a routine public health measure. There is also more obesity in the countries not using ivermectin. A risk for worse outcomes.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.26.21254377v1.full.pdf

I don’t have more to say or present. I seek to help my patients in their transition to care with other doctors, nurse practitioners and Physician Assistants, while standing morally with Vaccine Conscientious Objectors, and treating patients who have COVID to the best of my remaining ability.

[John Day]

“Continental Prison State” is up. No picture this time, just a word picture.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/continental-prison-state.html

I’m not the only one who thinks that sociopathic “royalty” arose to meet an ecological niche, created by farming, when stable food sources allowed for groups of way more than 150 people to form, and those groups floundered without a strongman “boss”.
The groups organized under a compassionless “boss” could also overrun and slaughter other groups for their farms, when drought and famine hit.
This mode of societal organization has subsequently flourished until today.

The rule of compassion-free elites is reaching a crisis again, it’s biggest crisis yet, and it is flummoxed as to a solution, since the best solutions involve the dissolution of the system of rule by the unfeeling. The “owners” (Carlin) are boxed-in, unusually constrained this time.
WW-3 is out, though they tried a version of it, The Global War On Terror, after 9/11/01.
The GWOT failed, but in a way, it was not meant to succeed. President Cheney designed perpetual war in countries with “easy oil” to prevent them from burning it, so it would still be there later for the globalists. Here we are. Growth is over, so with the rest of the crash of 2008, it will be officially-over-forever.
The current elites are supported by the zombie of industrial capitalism, drawing blood while it still walks and breathes. They have thrown together an enforced austerity gambit, involving global central-bank digital currency, into which any human can be included with some facial recognition software and a smartphone.
Any human can be excluded from that, too, by a poor social-credit rating, lack of the most recent genetic-engineering “vaccination” or voicing of dangerous racist and divisive political opinions.
This new system needs enough buy-in to be adequately cohesive, and a large enough fraction of any population, that those excluded really are isolated. It also needs a working internet and high-data cell phone networks. It needs these things continuously, and their continuation requires the continuation of a high complexity infrastructure, which is more vulnerable than most people realize. It may be impossible to extend it to rural areas.

Cash transactions must become an impossibility. Cash must be outlawed, somehow, or this albatross will not be able to get airborne.
That makes me want to use cash more and more, today, to make the elimination of cash economy less feasible.
Supporting cash economy is a little “Blow-against-the-Empire”, of which we are capable.
Amazon doesn’t take cash. “Oh, Bother!”

The alternative is something we humans have not yet done at scale, a large scale cooperative economy, based on local cooperative and civic economies.
It has been described, and it is technically feasible, but it is also vulnerable to a big, militarized, sociopathic-boss economy bombing it into oblivion.
Libertarian Municipalism, Murray Bookchin: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-libertarian-municipalism-an-overview

My friend, Larry and his wife and son live in Australia. Larry’s Mom, Naomi, just died in Medina, Texas.
Larry can’t leave Australia to come to his mom’s funeral.

[John Day]

@nuevo-Deflationista: This song’s for “you”…

[John Day]

@WES: The quercetin phytosome product is more expensive and not in stores. Any quercetin and some cheap lecithin granules will do.

@V.Arnold and bpeptide: Thank Y’all. This is only the beginning of a long war, a class-war.
If the current owners/masters collapse, don’t crow too early. The second phase after that is really dangerous. If they hold, how long…? Then what…?

[John Day]

@My parents said know: Thanks for the humanitarian-award nomination, Sister!

@Trapped Australians:
I’m learning from you. Thank You. Don’t do it. Achieving vaccination-critical-mass looks time-sensitive.
I think thy need everybody on board already when it becomes clear how bad the shots are ( Israel’s cases and deaths are going up, while Egypt is doing fine).

[John Day]

Thanks for the Computing Forever video, Mr Roboto.
I commented recently that Australia appeared to be synchronizing for a Chinese takeover.

[John Day]

@Susmarie108: You mean 0.4 mg/kg as an ivermectin dose, not 4 mg.kg, though you would suffer no real harm at the horse dose.
You would waste precious ivermectin…
It’s harder and harder to get ahold of.

[John Day]

@Dimitri: You are welcome. I hope she’s better.

[John Day]

@Zerosum: having a good vitamin-D level should reduce a person’s risk of vaccine adverse events. I have seen a lot of other different advice, but I don’t know the basis of it, so I can’t judge it. An aspirin per day for vaccine day, for about 2 weeks, 81 mg or 325 mg, should reduce clotting risks. One would repeat that twice for a 2 shot vaccine. I don’t believe it has been studied.

@Hexadec: Yes, aspirin is an NSAID, but it is used daily at relatively low doses as a blood thinner, reducing platelet aggregation. This is a routine medical distinction, setting the first NSAID apart from the others, when used to reduce clotting risks.

[John Day]

@Phoenix Voice: Nice assessment of “workers owning the means of production”, and what that may actually mean in egalitarian/libertarian terms, not totalitarian misappropriation of a concept.

[John Day]

Picture of me and Jenny and the banana plants. Hi V. Arnold, if you are peeking. Namwah in farther back.
You have seen most of what I used today, though I did a good job editing. I agree with C.J. Hopkins.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/what-road-is-this.html

​I think the AMA declaration of treason charges for doctors prescribing safe-and-effective ivermectin is a wartime action.​
​ ​During times of war, political leaders have serially restricted the media from simply telling the truth. During the American civil war, President Lincoln shut down some 300 newspapers and arrested some 14,000 journalists who had the audacity to contradict his statements to the public.
​ ​As extreme as that may sound, this practice has been more the rule in history than the exception.
In most countries, in most eras, some publications go against the official story line and may very well pay a price for doing so. But, other publications go along with the official story line to a greater or lesser degree and are often rewarded for doing so.​ ​https://internationalman.com/articles/quantitative-brainwashing/

People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read …
“THIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM.”…​ ​Yes, that’s harsh, but this is not a game. It isn’t a difference of opinion. The global-capitalist ruling establishment is implementing a new, more openly totalitarian structure of society and method of rule. They are revoking our constitutional and human rights, transferring power out of sovereign governments and democratic institutions into unaccountable global entities that have no allegiance to any nation or its people. That is what is happening … right now. It isn’t a TV show. It’s actually happening. The time for people to “wake up” is over. At this point, you either join the fight to preserve what is left of those rights, and that sovereignty, or you surrender to the “New Normal,” to global-capitalist totalitarianism. I couldn’t care less what you believe about the virus, or its mutant variants, or the experimental “vaccines.” This isn’t an abstract argument over “the science.” It is a fight … a political, ideological fight. On one side is democracy, on the other is totalitarianism https://consentfactory.org/2021/07/31/the-road-to-totalitarianism/

Not every ultimatum work out​ as planned​:UK care workers leave industry en masse after being told to get vax or quit, with unions begging govt to reconsider policy​ ​ ​According to the Guardian, which spoke to several care home industry officials, “three-quarters of care home operators are reporting an increase in staff quitting since April,” with the reasons being “a desire for less stress and for higher pay” and “to avoid mandatory vaccination, which comes into effect on 11 November.”​… The vacancies for care workers could total more than 170,000 people – with 70,000 being those who refuse the jab – after mandatory vaccination is implemented later this year, according to government estimates cited in the media.​ ​https://www.rt.com/uk/533968-uk-care-worker-exodus-vaccine/

[John Day]

I posit that Nuevo-Deflationista is AI, or at least mostly-AI.

@Kimo: No link for that Peru data and Google says it’s not on the internet.
I saw it when it was fresh last year. It’s good. Can you post a link?

[John Day]

@Phoenix Voice: Good job unpacking that San Francisco Jan through June 2021 study on viral variants in vaccinated and unvaccinated hosts. It was almost completely pre-delta. I see no reason why the vaccinated carrier would not be effective at infecting the unvaccinated host, as well as the vacinated host. These cohorts may have had a lot of time shifting in the groups. The really big surge in January/February was almost all unvaccinated, since very few had gotten them yet.
The unvacinated dominated the first half of the time series, and vaccinated were mostly present in the second half of the time series. I bet that has significance as to the evolution of variants.

The similar transmissibility, but specializing for type of host, is the kind of thing that looks for a breakout opportunity. If there really is the potential for the degree of antibody dependent enhancement of viral pathogenicity that was suggested in what I posted August 23:

“Here is a specific mechanism of vaccine-antibodies to alpha-COVID spike protein enhancing the ability of delta-COVID to enter human cells, once the spike protein anchors to the cell.​ This is demonstrated to predominate in effet over the blocking antibodies, since delta mutated and they lost effectiveness against it.”
Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk for mass vaccination?
​ ​Using molecular modeling approaches, we show that enhancing antibodies have a higher affinity for Delta variants than for Wuhan/D614G NTDs. We show that enhancing antibodies reinforce the binding of the spike trimer to the host cell membrane by clamping the NTD to lipid raft microdomains. This stabilizing mechanism may facilitate the conformational change that induces the demasking of the receptor binding domain. As the NTD is also targeted by neutralizing antibodies, our data suggest that the balance between neutralizing and facilitating antibodies in vaccinated individuals is in favor of neutralization for the original Wuhan/D614G strain. However, in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity.
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext

[John Day]

@Kimo:
What to do for a vitamin-D level of 101, when lab normal range is 30-100 and toxicity is generally considered >150?
I’m pretty sure there is no clear answer to your question. Data I have seen is sparse but looks like 60-80 might be ideal.
Try skipping weekends, or take 4000 units/d.
You have an unusual conundrum 🙂

[John Day]

@Zerosum: I’m glad your doc would prescribe ivermectin. The pharmacy knows.

@Expatkiwi: I would not add cinchona. Cinchonism is toxicity from that family of compounds. Hydroxychloroquin acts at least partly to help zinc get into cells. So does quercetin , available as a supplement. 250-500 mg/d with 25-50 mg/d zinc is good as part of preventive cocktail.

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