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Russians Kill Everybody
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/russians-kill-everybody.htmlHelen of DesTroy (Thanks Wiggs, RUSSIAN Alert!)
Faith in Big Brother’s willingness to toss out a last-minute lifesaver has bred a profound laziness into the American media establishment – a phenomenon some have dubbed ‘truth decay’ – that has wrecked not just its quality, but its believability. The media establishment, effectively dominated by just six companies – Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Comcast, Viacom and CBS – survives to fight another day, but at what cost? Even the most amateur-hour alt-media enterprise comes off more believable than an article from the Washington Post or the New York Times, which bear up each other’s falsehoods only to see themselves further discredited, driving their former audiences into what they insist on dubbing the ‘fringe’ – outlets populated by their own former employees who, no longer capable of looking themselves in the eye after a workday spent lying furiously to their public, are abandoning their former employers like rats deserting the proverbial sinking ships.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/518367-establishment-media-cartel-narrative-collapse/Glenn Greenwood, via the slanderous, pro-Russian, renegade Substack platform:
How Do Big Media Outlets So Often “Independently Confirm” Each Other’s Falsehoods?
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so-oftenRumored “Russian asset”, Paul Craig Roberts. Thanks Wiggs (Where are you from?)
Putin came to power as the American neoconservatives were girding up to establish US and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. As General Wesley Clark told us, seven countries were to be overthrown in 5 years. The American preoccupation with the Middle East permitted Putin to throw off American overlordship and reestablish Russian sovereignty. Once Washington realized this, the American establishment turned on Putin with a vengance.
Stephen Cohen, Jack Matlock (Reagan’s ambassador to the Soviet Union), myself and a few others warned that Washington’s refusal to accept Russian independence would reignite the Cold War, thus erasing the accomplishment of ending it and resurrecting the specter of nuclear war. But Washington didn’t listen. Instead, Cohen and I were put on a list of “Russian agents/dupes,” and the process of trying to destabalize Putin began. In other words, once an American colony always an American colony, and Putin became the most demonized person on earth.
Today (March 17) we had the extraordinary spectacle of President Biden saying on ABC News that President Putin is a killer, and “he will pay a price.” This is a new low point in diplomacy. It does not serve American interests or peace…
In the United States Russian Studies has degenerated into propaganda. Recently, two members of the Atlantic Council think tank, Emma Ashford and Matthew Burrows, suggested that American foreign policy could benefit from a less hostile approach to Russia. Instantly, 22 members of the think tank denounced the article by Ashford and Burrows.
This response is far outside the boundaries of the 20th century Cold War. It precludes any rational or intelligent approach to American foreign policy. Sooner or later the Kremlin will comprehend that it is confronted by a gangster outfit of the criminally insane. Then what happens?Washington Has Resurrected the Specter of Nuclear Armageddon
Are the Russians getting suspicious of America?
Russian ambassador to US summoned back to Moscow for consultations on future relations with Washington
https://www.rt.com/russia/518406-ambassador-antonov-us-biden/Them’s Fightin’ Words!
Putin Responds To Biden’s “Killer” Slur: “It Takes One To Know One”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-responds-biden-killer-slur-it-takes-one-know-one(Irish-Russian?) RFK, Jr. to President Biden: No. 1 Driver of Vaccine Hesitancy Is Mistrust of Regulators
Children’s Health Defense Chairman RFK, Jr. says transparency, robust science and a functional surveillance system are the only ways to build public trust for the COVID vaccine.RFK, Jr. to President Biden: No. 1 Driver of Vaccine Hesitancy Is Mistrust of Regulators
Rumored “Russian asset”, Paul Craig Roberts. Thanks Wiggs (Where are you from?)
Putin came to power as the American neoconservatives were girding up to establish US and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. As General Wesley Clark told us, seven countries were to be overthrown in 5 years. The American preoccupation with the Middle East permitted Putin to throw off American overlordship and reestablish Russian sovereignty. Once Washington realized this, the American establishment turned on Putin with a vengance.
Stephen Cohen, Jack Matlock (Reagan’s ambassador to the Soviet Union), myself and a few others warned that Washington’s refusal to accept Russian independence would reignite the Cold War, thus erasing the accomplishment of ending it and resurrecting the specter of nuclear war. But Washington didn’t listen. Instead, Cohen and I were put on a list of “Russian agents/dupes,” and the process of trying to destabalize Putin began. In other words, once an American colony always an American colony, and Putin became the most demonized person on earth.
Today (March 17) we had the extraordinary spectacle of President Biden saying on ABC News that President Putin is a killer, and “he will pay a price.” This is a new low point in diplomacy. It does not serve American interests or peace…
In the United States Russian Studies has degenerated into propaganda. Recently, two members of the Atlantic Council think tank, Emma Ashford and Matthew Burrows, suggested that American foreign policy could benefit from a less hostile approach to Russia. Instantly, 22 members of the think tank denounced the article by Ashford and Burrows.
This response is far outside the boundaries of the 20th century Cold War. It precludes any rational or intelligent approach to American foreign policy. Sooner or later the Kremlin will comprehend that it is confronted by a gangster outfit of the criminally insane. Then what happens?
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/03/17/washington-has-resurrected-the-specter-of-nuclear-armageddon/Are the Russians getting suspicious of America?
Russian ambassador to US summoned back to Moscow for consultations on future relations with Washington
http://www.rt.com/russia/518406-ambassador-antonov-us-biden/Them’s Fightin’ Words!
Putin Responds To Biden’s “Killer” Slur: “It Takes One To Know One”
http://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-responds-biden-killer-slur-it-takes-one-know-one(Irish-Russian?) RFK, Jr. to President Biden: No. 1 Driver of Vaccine Hesitancy Is Mistrust of Regulators
Children’s Health Defense Chairman RFK, Jr. says transparency, robust science and a functional surveillance system are the only ways to build public trust for the COVID vaccine.
childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-president-biden-vaers/Helen of DesTroy (Thanks Wiggs, RUSSIAN Alert!)
Faith in Big Brother’s willingness to toss out a last-minute lifesaver has bred a profound laziness into the American media establishment – a phenomenon some have dubbed ‘truth decay’ – that has wrecked not just its quality, but its believability. The media establishment, effectively dominated by just six companies – Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Comcast, Viacom and CBS – survives to fight another day, but at what cost? Even the most amateur-hour alt-media enterprise comes off more believable than an article from the Washington Post or the New York Times, which bear up each other’s falsehoods only to see themselves further discredited, driving their former audiences into what they insist on dubbing the ‘fringe’ – outlets populated by their own former employees who, no longer capable of looking themselves in the eye after a workday spent lying furiously to their public, are abandoning their former employers like rats deserting the proverbial sinking ships.
http://www.rt.com/op-ed/518367-establishment-media-cartel-narrative-collapse/Russians Kill Everybody (Won’t post)
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/russians-kill-everybody.htmlThe Nymphs are very attractive and alluring!
Uh, what was the rest of that story?
@Madamski, what do you think?
(BTW, that was a very good commentary about the upcoming geopolitical worst of times in the USA bringing out the best in people (and teher other stuff, too). I am observing Texans opening up more since the Deep-Freeze last month, more smiles and eye contact and street conversations.http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/pandemic-is-passe.html
It is spring break in Texas and Jenny and I never saw the Bucky’s at Interstate-10 and Highway 183 nearly as crowded as it was last Sunday. Bucky’s huge parking lot and gas pumps were all jammed. Gasoline went from under $2 per gallon to over $2.50 a gallon this month, because people are burning it.
A couple of weeks ago (Republican) Governor Abbot declared that mandatory masking would end, because COVID infections, hospitalizations and deaths had dropped below a threshold. There was fear and derision in (Democratic) Austin, but it has been fading fast.
The two camps in Texas are both done with COVID. The fearful maskers have increasingly “had both shots” and are making up for a year of lost socialization. We looked at a house in San Antonio, with our daughter and her husband that same last Sunday. As we walked out, an elderly couple, Bill and Yolanda, introduced themselves, explained that their house had the same plan, and invited us to join them on their walk around the neighborhood, to their house and into it, without masks (We offered). “We’ve both had both of our shots”. Bill and Yolanda were very friendly and helpful.
Yesterday at Home Depot I heard an older, and apparently at-risk woman with a mask declaring things about “the whole year” of the pandemic, in the recent-past tense, to a Returns employee.
The vaccinated elderly are broadly engaging their social calendars, making up for that missed year.The Rural Patriots were already done with COVID, though the elderly have become used to wearing masks while shopping, the Yoakum newspaper gave up showing people wearing masks in official photographs by early February. Group photos with masks became group photos without masks again.
At the clinic, there are very few COVID tests each day now, like 5-6, not 35-36, and a positive result is a surprise again.
This looks like herd-immunity. After the Valentine’s Day Ice Storm, people have had enough, and are getting outside, and have been socially engaging each other on the streets , almost like we used to do in the 1970s.
It’s at least normal to engage openly and in a friendly way with strangers one encounters.
Eye contact and smiles are way up over last year.We will know by April Fool’s Day if the Governor’s gamble was right.
I suspect he may have won big, and half the state will credit him, while the other half credits the vaccines.
I credit our immune systems and getting out in the sunlight more since it came back a month ago.Texas traffic is up to pre-pandemic levels, and I suspect the whole economy will be there soon.
People are done with the COVID-Pandemic-Lockdown.
Everybody has a politically acceptable out.
Everybody opts out.Jenny and I are hosting a Spring Equinox Garden Party in Yoakum Saturday.
People seem enthusiastic about participating.Richard Urso MD also testified to the Texas Senate, even later than Dr McCullough. Dr Urso faced threat from the Board of Medical Examiners for advocating early outpatient treatment, and sweated some bullets through the long review process. Fortunately, he had all of the data to present, and was ultimately vindicated, but his crime was ethically practicing medicine.
Oh things are not being allowed to post again.
Texas Senate testimony of Peter McCullough MD yesterday, after I had to leave for clinic.
Fear of death keeps people willing to give their life force to mysterious business products for profit and control.
Cheap and safe competitors threaten that business model.
It’s the business model of our owners/masters.
Censorship Kills: The Shunning of a COVID Therapeutic
Pierre Kory, MD, is president and chief medical officer of the Front-Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
Doctors fighting COVID-19 should be supported by their profession and their government, not suppressed. Yet today physicians are smothered under a wave of censorship. With coronavirus variants and vaccine hesitancy threatening a prolonged pandemic, the National Institutes of Health and the broader U.S. medical establishment should free doctors to treat this terrible disease with effective medicines.
For centuries, doctors have addressed emerging health threats by prescribing existing drugs for new uses, observing the results, and communicating to their peers and the public what seems to work. In a pandemic, precious time and lives can be lost by an insistence on excessive data and review. But in the current crisis, many in positions of authority have done just that, stubbornly refusing to allow any repurposed treatments. This departure from traditional medical practice risks catastrophe. When doctors on the front lines try to bring awareness of and use such medicines, they get silenced.
I’ve experienced such censorship firsthand. Early in the pandemic, my research led me to testify in the Senate that corticosteroids were life-saving against COVID-19, when all national and international health care agencies recommended against them. My recommendations were criticized, ignored and resisted such that I felt forced to resign my faculty position. Only later did a large study from Oxford University find they were indeed life-saving. Overnight, they became the standard of care worldwide. More recently, we identified through dozens of trials that the drug ivermectin leads to large reductions in transmission, mortality, and time to clinical recovery. After testifying to this fact in a second Senate appearance — the video of which was removed by YouTube after garnering over 8 million views — I was forced to leave another position. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/03/10/censorship_kills_the_shunning_of_a_covid_therapeutic_145376.amp.htmlThe blocking is quite bad right now. Maybe it’s the ivermectin stories.
We are fatigues from the long crisis of COVID. How long can a “pandemic” last?
When is the presence of the dread contagion “the new normal”?
I argue that our world has already passed from the spread of SARS-CoV-2 into a vulnerable and naive population, “Pandemic”, into the situation we have always had with colds and flu, “endemic”.
COVID is here to stay, no matter where you live.I live in Texas, so I like to follow the graphics which the Texas Tribune compiles. Texas has (usually) a mild enough climate that people can get sun on their skins, even in winter. Texas is close enough to the equator for the winter sunlight to cause vitamin-D production. To drug companies, vitamin-D is a competing product. To our bodies it is an essential hormone, with receptors on every cell in the body, that our species lost the ability to make a couple of hundred thousand years ago, when we lived in the tropics, with minimal clothing.
TexasTribune graphics show the “double wave” of the pandemic, with the first dip in September, peak natural vitamin-D month. The big second wave peaked in mid January, and is fading fast in “cases”, hospitalizations, deaths and the percent-positive rate of tests.
Few tests are coming back positive these days.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/Texas would be expected to have milder pandemics, since people can be outside more, don’t ride trains much, and get the sunshine vitamin.
When looking at public health mandates, like lockdowns and masking, people often ignore the differences in the regions and lifestyles. Most people have a political position they want to argue.
I’m just a public-health guy. I want to help people live healthy lives. I don’t have a product competing in the marketplace.Our main defense against the coronavirus family is the innate immune system in our nose and throat area, which aggressively attacks viruses, molds, bacteria and sometimes pollen that we inhale. It’s a mixed blessing for those with allergies. The innate immune system is always ready to go, but it has to keep in training with frequent exposure to non-self things we inhale. This vaccine scientist worries that the current vaccine strategies actually weaken the innate immune system, our main defense, while promoting viral escape from the vaccines. The vaccine targets a viral coat protein, so the virus changes it to look different. He worries that the current vaccination track (business-driven) is making the world more susceptible to future viral variants, and weakening our critical first-line defense systems.
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COVID Is Endemic Now
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/covid-is-endemic-now.htmlHere is more food for thought about the vaccine cartel, immune from liability… “Licensed to kill”, if one would be so indelicate.
Police Launch Investigation Into Death of Vaccine Safety Advocate Brandy Vaughn
OK, I did not address the political battlefield of masking last night.
It’s become a black vs white fight, when reality is shades of gray.
Masks are better at catching globs leaving the nose and mouth with virus than they are at catching little, dry viral particles in the air, so they are better at reducing transmission if the person emitting virus wears them.
Some masks, like tightly-fitted N95 can filter a moderate amount of the incoming little, dry viral particles.
They are uncomfortable and may wear your skin raw if worn a lot.
When looking at large populations and mask mandates, it’s not the mandate that does anything, and it’s not the people who wear their masks on their chins, so it is actually hard to judge effects.
Western countries mask differently from Japan, which has masked since 1918. It is just wrong to pretend that a mask mandate in Japan is the same thing at street level as a mask mandate in a western country.
Since people in the west did not grow up masking regularly, there will be differences in specific population groups. We saw a big spread of COVID last spring and summer in work crews who went from job to job in crowded truck cabs, closed, with AC on.
I am appealing to reason here with narrative. I personally judge that masks will help reduce viral transmission if worn properly. More important is not being in crowded places with lots of people singing or speaking loudly (bars, megachurches, meat packing plants) where viral load in the air is maximized and breathing is vigorous, moving that air in and out a lot.
Masks are like burqas to me. Not my battle.
Comply in context like medical offices, stores and nursing homes (not parks) and avoid danger to self and to others as much as you can out of prudence and decency.
Mainly support your immune system. Your primary defense is the innate immune system in the nose and throat area. Vitamin-D , and possibly vitamin K2 help that. Minimizing inhaled viral load is important, and zinc has modest efficacy against coronaviruses, but don’t take a lot daily, because it inhibits copper absorption.
“Pandemic” is now “Endemic”.
This novel coronavirus has permeated populations everywhere, and is going through mutations, and will not go away, and some of the mutations sidestep the targeted vaccines by just not presenting the target for the vaccine, changing the look of the target.
Here is a link to excess death data by country for recent years. It’s not all the same.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#excess-mortality
The countries that had light flu seasons for a couple of years before COVID had more excess deaths in the vulnerable populations of ill and elderly. The countries that had more flu season deaths for a couple of years had fewer excess COVID deaths.
If COVID is the new Flu, then early outpatient testing and treatment is appropriate. Masking and quarantines cannot “contain” it, because it is everywhere, and people generally spread it the most in the first couple of days, when they have mild symptoms, and can’t take off work (Christmas retail workers).
Natural immnity, or immunity to “killed virus” vaccines is more broad spectrumJust look at the wrong thing and find nothing there:
“vitamin D supplementation as a means of protecting against worsened Covid outcomes is not supported by genetic evidence,”
The researchers, who did not include data from people living in nursing homes, looked at how vitamin D deficiency rates varied across European nations and compared that data to infection rates.
They concluded that the “prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was not significantly associated with either the number of infections, recoveries or mortality rate of Covid-19” across Europe.
@Kultsommer: That’s a lot that you present, Amigo.
We have non medical people digging into the field that have no business in or hardly understand, just to uncover the truth, and are vocal on internet in clumsy amateurish way, while medically educated are silent, except for some voices from the other side of the globe. You (meaning entire med profession) DO UNDERSTAND that we have nobody else to ask?
– Are we in pandemic or “pandemic”?It all depends on the definition of “pandemic”. It does not seem to be as bad as we were led to believe a year ago, since about 85% of people with infections don’t bother to get a test.
(My thought is that PANDEMIC is more useful for the Great Reset than “pandemic”)“How pandemic can be declared if the PCR tests are not reliable?”
PCR tests run over 25 amplification cycles give more and more and more false positives. The big labs won’t say how many amplification cycles they are running before they do the test. It should be 25. It has been up to 40.
Who Benefits?
The rapid antigen tests are pretty reliable for detecting clinically significant viral loads, and are increasingly available.“– Vaccines are already referred to as an experiment and without known side effects are administered forcefully on
population and without guarantee of “anything” including maker’s responsibility.”That is the perfect business model. That’s why more and more and more money and power are concentrated in vaccine manufacture. You can cram all kinds of criminal activity into that business model. That is exactly the intention.
Follow RFK Jr, please. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/“why the facilities are overflowing
with Covid cases (which are questionable due to PCR testing) and others are not?”Some people get very sick and die of this virus when it gets into their bloodstreams, unlike the majority of people, who stop it in the nose, via their innate immune system. All other hospitalization events follow from that. Texas has had plummeting cases since the big peak in mid January. Your region may be different. You have to research that.
“lawyer is clear that even medical practitioners will be held responsible and “I just followed the orders” will be no defense. And, yet, no peek from the meds, except for the few brave ones assisting the lawyers, and mentioned above?”
You can’t sue an organized criminal syndicate this big. It’s a bluff. You and I are cattle, meat on the hoof. We are not players. We are product.
“During 911 I was a busy engineer, overworked by dealing with tight tolerances, responsibility for the field assessments and installation. Basically in the profession that does not go away after hours and over the week end. That did not prevent me to see through the narrative BS of that event and delighted (if that is the right word, given the gravity of the deceit) to see my skepticism confirmed by “Loose change” documentary and others to follow than cherry topped by A&E for the 911 truth movement”
So sue Dick Cheney, who ran the war room against America that day while Bush Jr read My Pet Goat on camera as his alibi.
This is the power structure. This is their game.
That’s all my non-medical opinion.Doctors are run by administrators these days. Independent thought and action were mostly squeezed out of medical training , in favor of COMPLIANCE.
It’s the same everywhere. Doctors are now almost all afraid to do anything non-compliant.
I was always a poor student in school because I thought for myself.
Somehow I got through the grind based upon being good at figuring things out.
That was not typical in my class. Most people had GREAT MEMORIES for facts and protocols.
The world you live in is not the world you were told you lived in.
That’s the main thing, Brother.
It’s ALL like 9/11.@All-Y’all: I spent almost 5 hours getting to the Texas Capital and waiting, to leave for clinic, and did not ever say anything there today. Dr McCullough did testify after I was at clinic seeing patients.
I did get to walk through the UT campus twice. It is much different than 1976-1982. I never would have thought they could cram in so many more buildings, but they closed streets to make room.@Wes, Texas universities are more open than not, and will be in-person this fall, I predict.
Gonna go to the Texas Capital, get a free COVID swab, and enter, to see if I am asked to say anything.
Aloha
Here is COVID in Texas, dail graphs from The Texas Tribune:
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/Look how the second wave is just fizzling out to below the September low mark. Especially look at the very low percent positive tests.
I think the Governor has made a shrewd bet to slightly front-run herd immunity. I also think it’s what the vaccine companies are trying to do, to take credit for what is well underway, already.@everybody: Obesity is an inflammatory condition. So is sleep deprivation. Inflammatory processes in the bloodstream allow SARS-CoV-2 to attack the blood vessel lining more aggressively, leading to clotting cascade and organ injury (think lungs from blood vessel side)
Vitamin-D is very stabilizing to the endothelium (vessel lining). K2 is rumored to be a good Robin, to Vitamin-D’s Batman, but I’m weak on details.@Boogaloo; Vitamin-D does not cause abnormal calcification of arteries or injured tissue. Vitamin-D does help the body absorb calcium and retain it. Vitamin-D and parathyroid hormone work in different ways to keep blood calcium levels about right. Vitamin-D allows calcium to be absorbed from the gut, and then used, and parathyroid hormone allows calcium to be extracted from the bones, to keep the blood level up. Vitamin-D receptors exist on every human cell. It’s a hormone we lost the ability to make, back when we lived in the sun. Vitamin K2 is good , somehow, and I have tested it in my body, for the claim that it is good for the heart, improving work efficiency. I tested it accidentally, and numerous times. I commute 11 miles each way on a fixed gear bike. The biggest uphill is on my way home. In the heat, there is added stress. Going up Steck on my fixie in the heat is better on days that I take the K2, and we had numerous days of running out in recent years. YMMV. Look at doses. Some pills have 100 times as much as others, for similar prices. Here is what we get: https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item02334/super-k
@Kultsummer: I don’t live here. I have not been able to look at the blog since early on Friday the 5th, when I posted something I had put together the night before. I have been so swamped with work lately that I have not been able to do more than work and sleep. I’m pretty oversubscribed right now, having had to work an extra 7 clinics since the ice storm ended, and having a whole lot of repair and replacement work to do in the 3 vegetable gardens I manage (Austin duplex, Austin clinic, Yoakum homestead).
What is the question for which you seek an honest opinion? I’m sorry something has been eating you.
I just spent an hour catching up on TAE posts and comments. It’s the first chance I have had.
I got asked to go down to the Capital building tomorrow morning, asked last night, after a long day, to accompany Peter McCullough MD, as he goes to address some legislators regarding early treatment of COVID. I will be most humble, but I’ll do my best to present what I know and see and explain my experiences, if I am called upon. I have to get over to the clinic to work the afternoon, and that will take me another hour. I can’t blog or research again tomorrow, but maybe I can do something useful before clinic, maybe. I’m not being pissy. I would like to answer a question, if it is within my power to do so.
John
Anyway, I keep trying to show up, but I’m running with the Red Queen these days.Russia has a new vaccine, a completely conventional “killed-virus” vaccine, with “no side effects”. Since it is a whole virus vaccine, it should be more effective against strains like the South African variant, which has differences in the spike protein, which most vaccines “target”. Thx Jeremy.
The third Covid-19 vaccine registered in Russia is based on a “perfectly conventional” platform, and those who have been injected experienced no side effects, the head of the Chumakov Scientific Center, which created it, told RT.
“Globally, almost 100% of vaccines contain either deactivated or live pathogens,” he said, adding that the one developed by his center contains an ‘inactivated’ (dead) coronavirus. This type of vaccine simulates a natural infection process, introducing the immune system to the virus and “teaching” the body to fight the pathogen without the risk of it spreading through the body and causing disease, he explained.
“Since we are talking about a whole-virion vaccine, the deviations in the genetic sequence – something one is calling different strains or different variants – are insignificant and amount to less than one percent. So… it would be weird to think that a whole-virion vaccine might fail to work against new strains, considering how small the differences are,” he said.
“The most important thing is that at this point we have a vaccine that definitely has no side effects,” he said, adding that, out of 300 volunteers, none reported any symptoms except for occasional soreness around the injection site.
https://www.rt.com/russia/517024-russia-third-vaccine-dead-virus/More, from last November, about that open source Finnish Nasal Spray Vaccine for COVID, that can’t seem to get to people, even though it was ready for human trials last May. It won’t make powerful persons in the machine richer and more powerful… so, IMPOSSIBLE.
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18270-finnish-covid-19-vaccine-yielding-promising-results-but-lacks-funding.htmlPosts not posting again… https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/change-something-yourself.html
Thanks Upstate NYer: On the path. Any perception counts as perception, not just “human” perception. Perhaps a cuttlefish was there awaiting a fresh shrimp when the tree fell.
Druids know the great trees, right.@UpstateNYer: Now you’re talkin’!
If a tree falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it, does the tree or the forest “exist”?
What is “existence”, do you think?@Ilargi and Susmarie108
“I don’t know what that word means, but I don’t think it means what you think it means”
Cult
Caitlin’s fine and she gets out every day and tries, and throws her own self at the sit, and some days are a ot different from others, but she gets out and throws it down for us to pick and choose.
Jim Jones in Guyana; that was a “cult”.@Madamski:
Another “If”, which I presume you have also heard
Another, related thought: (Hi Susmarie108)
Caitlin Johnstone:
We are here to participate in the expansion of consciousness.
Our world appears disordered at the moment because much of it is deeply unconscious. Humanity is mostly unconscious of its inner dynamics and sleepwalks through life in a very destructive way. People loaded with unconscious trauma ascend to positions of power and spread their trauma around without consciousness. Government secrecy and corporate secrecy keep most power dynamics which affect the world unconscious. Propaganda distorts humanity’s collective efforts to consciously perceive the reality of our situation.
Wherever there is a lack of clear seeing, there is disharmony. Wherever anything moves into consciousness, harmony is increased. Becoming individually conscious of unconscious mental habits created in response to early childhood trauma allows us to change or eliminate those habits and begin functioning more harmoniously. Becoming collectively conscious of racial inequality allows us to collectively begin moving toward racial harmony. Becoming collectively conscious of the abuses of tyranny allows us to collectively begin moving toward political harmony. Wherever there is more seeing, there is more harmony.
This is why we are here. To make the unseen seen and to dispel illusions which distort our perception. The more visible the universe and humanity’s dance in it becomes to us, the more harmony there will be.Piece by piece:
Tessa Fights Robots, on Broken People
I have been thinking a lot about brokenness.
If we look at history, at one point, one of the two things happened in most known cultures of today. Either a local ruler, who was seeking personal prestige and approval by more influential leaders of the time—much like the leaders of today are going for the “Great Reset” to elevate or at least to preserve themselves—forced the people to abandon their traditional way of life and to become “civilized”—again, much like the leaders of today are pushing us toward transhumanism—or foreign invaders came along and did the same.
So what we are dealing with today is not particularly new, it’s just strange to belong to a generation on the receiving end of a religious reform. I am thinking every day, wow, I have never thought I would be living through a thing like this! …
It seems like today, history is repeating itself.
For example, the victory march of “science as religion” that is happening today—very much in the name billionaire profits and asset management (i.e. capitalism)—is nearly identical to the march that was happening in the Soviet Union in the name of “socialism” when my grandparents were young. Just like the proverbial “scientists” of today are denouncing peasants’ self-preservation instincts (so that certain pharmaceutical companies can make a fortune on certain therapies, which are wrongfully labeled as certain must-worship medical products), back then, city-educated folks would come to the village and yell at peasants for their backward ways, force them to use toxic fertilizers, and teach them to not breastfeed their babies (see an ironic throwback from 2016).
https://tessa.substack.com/p/ismsStill struggling to post: https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/as-agreed.html
“Wait for it…” One marshmallow now, or 2 in a few minutes?
Cuttlefish passed a version of the marshmallow test, a cognitive study for humans designed to test self-control
https://www.businessinsider.com/cuttlefish-pass-self-control-test-meant-for-people-2021-3#:~:text=Cuttlefish%20passed%20a%20version%20of,designed%20to%20test%20self%2Dcontrol&text=Cuttlefish%20can%20show%20the%20same,get%20a%20better%20reward%20later.All marketing oversells benefits and undersells risks. Vaccine makers really, really want to give the impression that their vaccines have led to herd immunity, as it rapidly emerges anyway. Take 5000 units per day of vitamin-D to support your immune system, with or without vaccine!
Number of Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climbs by Nearly 4,000 in One WeekNumber of Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climbs by Nearly 4,000 in One Week
Texas Governor, Greg Abbot has rescinded the Texas mask mandate for public places like grocery stores, leaving it up to business owners to decide whether to request customers to wear masks or not. This is a complex political decision, and it is something of a gamble.
Some business owners want to be off the hook for not requiring masks, like bars and strip clubs. Other businesses, in anti-mask territory, feel that they are being put on the firing line between customers who don’t want masks, and vulnerable employees, as well as vulnerable customers. The grocery store chain HEB is the largest employer in Texas, and has shown real appreciation of it’s workers and the risks, morbidity and mortality they faced by serving the public every day.
Austin was masking well before the mandate. Austin has been ahead of the precautions curve for a year, since South By Southwest music festival cancellation was announced just about a year ago. That was SERIOUS. When school was cancelled the day before spring break was to begin, the traffic reduced to a small percentage of its usual crush, having already halved before that (in the estimation of a daily bike commuter).
Rural Yoakum seems to have largely quit masking in stores in the last 6 weeks, including employees. HEB employees mask, though.
If you look at the graphs in the link below, you will see that Texas has had a first wave of viral infections and deaths in spring and early summer, with a lull in the fall (as vitamin-D levels rose while the virus spread in summer and stabilized in September, before falling in October). The big surge came with Halloween, as there were so many parties, then Thanksgiving, as families joined together for food, drink and fellowship, then Christmas and New Year festivities. All of this human social engagement was somewhat muted, but it was present, and more for some people and towns than others.
“Herd Immunity” is a condition when there are few enough members of a group that are susceptible to a contagious pathogen, that the pathogen has a hard time finding a new host to infect before being eradicated by its host, or killing its host. There are some members of any herd who are just not very susceptible to any contagious virus, and that percentage is hard to determine prospectively. Most defense against coronavirus infection happens in the nose and throat area, as a general defense, not requiring specific antibodies. That is what children do so well. That is why most people do not get very sick with the current novel coronavirus, because they stop it before it does it’s special thing of attacking the blood vessel linings. Most people with mild coronavirus infection in the nose and throat area do not get a test at all. The current best estimate is that the actual number of infections is running about 6 times the number of reported “confirmed cases”, which means positive tests.
Somewhere between 50 to 60% of Americans have had COVID, mostly mild, and mostly over the fall and winter holidays, so immunity has not likely faded away. Coronavirus specific-immunity mostly fades between 6 and 12 months from infection, unless stimulated again by a little re-exposure. Some people get re-exposed to cornaviruses fairly frequently. As a doctor, treating a general medical population, I get exposed to this and that regularly. Jenny, my wife, who is a Birthday Girl today, is a school librarian. She sees every kid in the school and gives and receives and helps them pick books off the shelves.
Jenny and I MIGHT be in the group that is not very likely to get sick with a coronavirus, whether we catch a little in our noses or not. We don’t really know. We take vitamin-D and a little zinc, as we have for years.
Vaccinations in Texas are up to about 6.8% ofTexans fully vaccinated, and many of them have had the virus already, so they are getting an immunity boost. Vaccine immunity is not as broad as natural immunity, especially since these current vaccines just target a few protein sequences on the viral spike protein, not every little part of the virus, as natural immunity does. There is some argument about how good the vaccine protection is against the South African variant, which has a lot of difference in it’s mutated spike protein. They are clearly less effective against it. How that will play out for cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the broad world is uncertain, so there is argument.
Spring Break is the week after next in Texas, and the mask mandate has been lifted. Young adult Texans and high school students and families are likely to vacation and congregate a lot, though not at South By Southwest. There was a surge in cases among Texas college students last year, and they were much disparaged for acting like young animals again, as they do every spring break. They spread COVID. In the fall at UT, Austin there was a lot of rapid testing for COVID at ground level, including football games, which required a negative test for students wanting a ticket. There was something like a 9% background positivity rate on those tests, on people with little to no symptoms. That meant that the virus was spreading quickly through the university population. We can presume that it pervaded that population pretty well over fall and winter.
So Governor Abbott has more specific information about testing in special populations, like college students and school kids, than the rest of us do. He is under a variety of political pressures to move and stand still, and I’m sure he is tired of it. Texas just got whacked with the deep freeze ice week around Valentine’s Day, and the biggest electric utility in Texas has filed for bankruptcy. There will be more.
This guy, who I have never particularly liked, but who is not stupid, really craves some kind of decisive victory, which will allow him to move the Texas economy forward, which is what his job and popularity depend upon.
My guess is that Governor Greg Abbot is making the sprint to the finish, desiring to declare “herd immunity” or to declare that it is emerging as such, almost all the way there. A lot of people are afraid that we are going to get another spike of morbidity and mortality, like we did in December and January, but I really think that wood is mostly burned, already.
Will there be some spike in cases from spring break, or will cases continue to decline on the same trajectory?
A small spike in positive tests in a population of young people, without a subsequent rise in hospitalizations and deaths would lead to a declaration of victory by the Governor of Texas. “Texas is Open For Business” would be declared.
That would be a big advantage for the Texas economy, and it needs it, as the economic damage from the big freeze is still being assessed. Texas needs a big infrastructure rebuild over this decade, and it needs an economy to do that.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/?_ga=2.141593010.1485168098.1614777733-1037324414.1591643250What I tried to post yesterday morning before biking to work failed to load. I struggled to put it up last night, but it’s relevant to this topic, so I’ll try again this morning, bit by bit…
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/unmasking-texans.htmlThat worked, let’s try again. This is my essay from johndayblog without the link
Texas Governor, Greg Abbot has rescinded the Texas mask mandate for public places like grocery stores, leaving it up to business owners to decide whether to request customers to wear masks or not. This is a complex political decision, and it is something of a gamble.
Some business owners want to be off the hook for not requiring masks, like bars and strip clubs. Other businesses, in anti-mask territory, feel that they are being put on the firing line between customers who don’t want masks, and vulnerable employees, as well as vulnerable customers. The grocery store chain HEB is the largest employer in Texas, and has shown real appreciation of it’s workers and the risks, morbidity and mortality they faced by serving the public every day.
Austin was masking well before the mandate. Austin has been ahead of the precautions curve for a year, since South By Southwest music festival cancellation was announced just about a year ago. That was SERIOUS. When school was cancelled the day before spring break was to begin, the traffic reduced to a small percentage of its usual crush, having already halved before that (in the estimation of a daily bike commuter).
Rural Yoakum seems to have largely quit masking in stores in the last 6 weeks, including employees. HEB employees mask, though.
If you look at the graphs in the link below, you will see that Texas has had a first wave of viral infections and deaths in spring and early summer, with a lull in the fall (as vitamin-D levels rose while the virus spread in summer and stabilized in September, before falling in October). The big surge came with Halloween, as there were so many parties, then Thanksgiving, as families joined together for food, drink and fellowship, then Christmas and New Year festivities. All of this human social engagement was somewhat muted, but it was present, and more for some people and towns than others.
“Herd Immunity” is a condition when there are few enough members of a group that are susceptible to a contagious pathogen, that the pathogen has a hard time finding a new host to infect before being eradicated by its host, or killing its host. There are some members of any herd who are just not very susceptible to any contagious virus, and that percentage is hard to determine prospectively. Most defense against coronavirus infection happens in the nose and throat area, as a general defense, not requiring specific antibodies. That is what children do so well. That is why most people do not get very sick with the current novel coronavirus, because they stop it before it does it’s special thing of attacking the blood vessel linings. Most people with mild coronavirus infection in the nose and throat area do not get a test at all. The current best estimate is that the actual number of infections is running about 6 times the number of reported “confirmed cases”, which means positive tests.
Somewhere between 50 to 60% of Americans have had COVID, mostly mild, and mostly over the fall and winter holidays, so immunity has not likely faded away. Coronavirus specific-immunity mostly fades between 6 and 12 months from infection, unless stimulated again by a little re-exposure. Some people get re-exposed to cornaviruses fairly frequently. As a doctor, treating a general medical population, I get exposed to this and that regularly. Jenny, my wife, who is a Birthday Girl today, is a school librarian. She sees every kid in the school and gives and receives and helps them pick books off the shelves.
Jenny and I MIGHT be in the group that is not very likely to get sick with a coronavirus, whether we catch a little in our noses or not. We don’t really know. We take vitamin-D and a little zinc, as we have for years.
Vaccinations in Texas are up to about 6.8% ofTexans fully vaccinated, and many of them have had the virus already, so they are getting an immunity boost. Vaccine immunity is not as broad as natural immunity, especially since these current vaccines just target a few protein sequences on the viral spike protein, not every little part of the virus, as natural immunity does. There is some argument about how good the vaccine protection is against the South African variant, which has a lot of difference in it’s mutated spike protein. They are clearly less effective against it. How that will play out for cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the broad world is uncertain, so there is argument.
Spring Break is the week after next in Texas, and the mask mandate has been lifted. Young adult Texans and high school students and families are likely to vacation and congregate a lot, though not at South By Southwest. There was a surge in cases among Texas college students last year, and they were much disparaged for acting like young animals again, as they do every spring break. They spread COVID. In the fall at UT, Austin there was a lot of rapid testing for COVID at ground level, including football games, which required a negative test for students wanting a ticket. There was something like a 9% background positivity rate on those tests, on people with little to no symptoms. That meant that the virus was spreading quickly through the university population. We can presume that it pervaded that population pretty well over fall and winter.
So Governor Abbott has more specific information about testing in special populations, like college students and school kids, than the rest of us do. He is under a variety of political pressures to move and stand still, and I’m sure he is tired of it. Texas just got whacked with the deep freeze ice week around Valentine’s Day, and the biggest electric utility in Texas has filed for bankruptcy. There will be more.
This guy, who I have never particularly liked, but who is not stupid, really craves some kind of decisive victory, which will allow him to move the Texas economy forward, which is what his job and popularity depend upon.
My guess is that Governor Greg Abbot is making the sprint to the finish, desiring to declare “herd immunity” or to declare that it is emerging as such, almost all the way there. A lot of people are afraid that we are going to get another spike of morbidity and mortality, like we did in December and January, but I really think that wood is mostly burned, already.
Will there be some spike in cases from spring break, or will cases continue to decline on the same trajectory?
A small spike in positive tests in a population of young people, without a subsequent rise in hospitalizations and deaths would lead to a declaration of victory by the Governor of Texas. “Texas is Open For Business” would be declared.
That would be a big advantage for the Texas economy, and it needs it, as the economic damage from the big freeze is still being assessed. Texas needs a big infrastructure rebuild over this decade, and it needs an economy to do that.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/?_ga=2.141593010.1485168098.1614777733-1037324414.1591643250Still not going…
All marketing oversells benefits and undersells risks. Vaccine makers really, really want to give the impression that their vaccines have led to herd immunity, as it rapidly emerges anyway. Take 5000 units per day of vitamin-D to support your immune system, with or without vaccine!
Number of Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climbs by Nearly 4,000 in One WeekNumber of Injuries Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Climbs by Nearly 4,000 in One Week
