Mister Roboto
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For those who didn’t want to RTFA about the Evergiven: It would appear they have “refloated” it (meaning it’s no longer firmly wedged in the sand), but it might be another week before they actually get it sailing again, and that’s the extremely optimistic estimate.
About the Swiss Policy Research Institute according to MediaBiasFactCheck.com:
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Pretty much what I expected.
Doctors who prescribe (hydroxy) chloroquine or ivermectin against covid-19 will now receive a fine of up to 150,000 euros imposed by the inspection. This may also include other medications that are prescribed outside the guidelines.
Wow, things certainly aren’t getting any better, are they?
The big giveaway is how the top medical establishment has ignored, shoved aside, fraudulently sabotaged, and outright lied about effective treatments.
It really is. When you see a situation like that, you really have to ask, “Cui bono?” (“Who benefits?”) And the answer is almost always, “Wealthy and powerful people who certainly don’t have our best interests at heart.”
Chris Martenson over at Peakprosperity.com remains my “go-to” for coronavirus information. And I’m at least willing to give Dr. Malcom Kendrick a listen when it comes to skepticism about the conventional wisdom around the pandemic (because I agree with Adlertag that much of this skepticism on the Internet is just pure ideological trash being churned out by the authoritarian-nationalist faction of the Deep State [that would be the one that supported instead of opposing Trump] and, yes, the Russians to at least some extent).
I really hope the Covid situation doesn’t have to become as bad everywhere as it is in Brazil before the “first world” medical establishment stops turning up its nose at Ivermectin.
A link to the Detroit Free Press article from which I obtained the statistic on Michigan Covid hospitalizations. I think it’s at least possible that the emergence of more infectious Covid variants might have something to do with this.
I think this LSD group are pretty much just a bunch of professional (and probably well funded by far-right think-tanks) denialists. I read on Twitter yesterday that hospital admissions in Michigan for Covid are up 600% for people in their thirties and up 800% for people in their forties.
And the sad thing is, if I were to ask my Democratic-Party-supporting mother about what she thought about the Prez’s first presser, I’m sure she would all but rave about what an all-time great performance it was. :-/
While watching Biden’s press-conference, some rakes on my Twitter feed were saying “Uh-oh, the adderall is wearing off!”
WRT India daily death-rate Covid graph: One gets the impression that the medical establishment in India is actually serious about treating Covid. Kudos.
The article about the UK shows us why it’s not a surprise that Covid hit so hard there. Covid seems to hit the hardest populous countries that have a large gap between the rich and the poor. Contrary to what Dr. D seems to think (and his comment makes me wonder if he even RTFA), if it weren’t for the NHS, the UK would probably have a per-million death-rate from Covid that would equal or surpass the USA.
So Ivermectin works for long Covid (which is the main thing that demonstrates that this is seriously not “just the flu, bro”), too? That’s certainly nothing to sneeze at. Nonetheless, I’m sure the mainstream media paid lapdogs are getting their boxes of kleenex ready as we speak.
What a fall from grace.
When was Sydney Powell ever in any sort of grace outside of Trumpster-dumpster fantasyland?
@V Arnold: I suspect that Covid’s real damage will lie in the micro-shocks it delivered to an already very fragile and brittle global system. The powers that be chose to make this effect worse by employing the lockdown strategy thinking they could use it to their advantage.
The White House is punishing staffers who have admitted to past cannabis use, according to The Daily Beast.
It’s as if the new administration is systematically trying to alienate anybody who voted for them for any reason.
A little while back I saw one of the local marginal evangelical Xtians holding a sign at bus-stop that proclaimed “LESBIANS RUN AMERICA! I wasn’t able to bring myself to believe that, because if the lesbians were actually in charge, I really have to think we wouldn’t be in the royal mess we’re in right now.
The most heretical book recommendation I could possibly make around here: The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton.
MWAHAHAHAHA!
That the virus seems so highly predisposed to evolve into more virulent variants is another thing that makes me strongly suspect that it was created in some sort of biological laboratory facility.
A tweet from Caitlin Johnstone yesterday: It’s crazy how the US was all ‘Yeah we’re shutting down all the jobs cuz of Covid so you won’t have any money. Uhhh… good luck I guess.’
I have only read the introduction to the “vaccination monster” article so far because it looks like a long and thinky piece and I’m going to have to start getting ready for work here pretty soon. But while I am mostly pro-vaccine, I also like to think that I have a certain if very limited amount of psychic intuition or “sixth sense”. There’s just…something about the idea of vaccinating our way out of Covid the way it is being planned that just makes that sixth sense scream “NO!” Perhaps this article will provide a more rational and conventional explanation for these intuitive misgivings of mine.
Boogaloo: Ever since the Trumpsters decided to make masks into a cultural signifier, that pretty much guaranteed that the science would go right out the window. Here’s how that science works: When we respirate, we exhale a significant amount of moisture. That is why you “see” your breath when it’s very cold outside. In the case of an airborne respiratory virus such as Covid, there are bound to be a lot of the virus in the moisture we exhale. When everyone is wearing masks, the extent to which this moisture is sprayed into the air is dramatically curtailed. Not only that, but the mask does afford something of a barrier between one’s own nose and mouth and whatever breathed-out moisture particles are floating around in the air (though not enough to make a difference if you are indoors and the only person wearing a mask, the mask is more about protecting other people with an enhanced vulnerability to becoming infected and very sick).
That way, the amount of virus you breathe in will be rather reduced so that it’s a lower innoculum. Because the amount of virus you are taking in is a lot less likely to overwhelm your immunological response when everyone is wearing a mask, your immune system is a lot more likely to be able to build up a defense against coronavirus. If your immune system is successful, hopefully that means if you do breathe in an excessive innoculum at some point down the road, you’ll be able to handle it without getting terribly sick.
@John Day: I can relate to what you’re saying about Austin. I went to school at the UW in Madison in the late eighties, and I have since visited Madison in person and through Google Streetview. The downtown/ campus area is so hyperdeveloped that it hardly seems like the Madison of my fond old memories anymore. And it isn’t just university buildings, it’s also expensive high-rise student housing. You can always pick out the new residential structures by this weird, puzzle-boxy look they have.
About lockdowns: I was kind of on the fence about lockdowns when the pandemic started, because I had no living memory of living through any sort of pandemic either major or minor. But the longer it goes on, the more apparent it is that this approach is just too antithetical to normal human life. Not to mention the fact that we have very readily available means for treating this virus that for some reason we’re not using, and the establishment press can be counted on to do hacky hit-pieces on those means. A whole year of this, and you really have to start wondering if something else is going on here.
My dubiousness about lockdowns probably began when the effect of them made the financial economy go into the toilet so dramatically that the Fed had to essentially “socialize” the financial markets, and all those unemployment numbers just went right through the freaking roof. And it’s not that I care more about money than about people’s well-being, it’s just that people’s well-being is to a very large measure maintained by the economy being able to function in a certain way.
I think Gail Tverberg might have been on to something in positing that the real idea behind the lockdowns was to apply the breaks to a complexity-fragile and overheated economy that was in danger of demanding more fuel than could be reliably supplied indefinitely. Only when they did this did it become apparent that the at least some broken pieces of the pre-Covid economy might not be so easily glued back into place, on account being too broken.
All these stories I see about “Russian disinformation” always crack me up. As though the US and the UK haven’t been doing the same thing all over the world ever since before I was even born?
And probably a fairly significant percentage of those Covid-hospitalized overweight Americans are diabetic or at least pre-diabetic, I would be so bold as to venture.
I’m pretty sure I would believe Pravda before I would believe anything I read or heard from “One America News”.
That NYT hit-piece on Ivermectin was disturbing, because what it told me was that the globalist powers that be don’t really care about helping all those people who are sick and dying. They care about whatever other agenda they have that doesn’t have helping all those people who are sick and dying as one of its priorities. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised, but I’m still quite disgusted. We do have an awful lot of poor people with health problems in the USA. Maybe somebody wants there to be less of them around. I’m no fan of conspiracy theories, but it’s starting to become difficult to arrive at any other conclusion, at this point.
I think the reason no firearms were confiscated during the Capitol Riot was because representatives of law enforcement went into the Capitol and politely told the rioters it was time to leave, which the rioters did upon realizing that Congress had pretty much locked itself up in the basement.
The massive disinformation campaign waged against effective prevention and treatment does not come from ignorance and incompetence of public authorities. It comes from the agendas that Covid is being used to advance, agendas whose toll in human life and suffering is unimportant to those whose agendas are being served.
I’m not a fan of PCR’s bargain-basement neo-Confederate white nationalism, but about this one issue, he’s right on the money.
While Greenwald makes many salient points, I can’t be quite as dismissive about the fact that a pretty fair number of rioters at the Capitol were carrying fire-arms. Besides, if, let’s just say, a bunch of very militant Bernie Bros did something like that at the Capitol and a number of them were armed, the ones who weren’t simultaneously beaten, tazed, and shot to death would undoubtedly be facing very long prison sentences for domestic terrorism at this point!
Yes, the old USSR was a terrible place to live, but I wouldn’t want to live in a “libertarian paradise” any more than I would have wanted to live in Lenin’s “worker’s paradise”.
Yes, the old USSR was a terrible place to live, but I wouldn’t want to live in a “libertarian paradise” any more than I would have wanted to live in Lenin’s “worker’s paradise”.
Well, I think Trump was just a symptom of a huge spiritual problem (namely a lack of any sort of real spirituality) that this country has, and I’m under no illusions that getting rid of Trump got rid of the problem. If anything, the ascendancy of Q-Anon mass hysteria clearly demonstrates that it’s worse than ever and will likely only continue getting worse. And that very mainstream media will be very much a part of that problem.
My best friend from the good old daze got the Covid back in December and had to go in the hospital for a few days. They treated him with remdesivir, which kept him off a ventilator. That was a good job, too, because once you have to go on the ventilator with Covid, you have something like a fifty percent chance of dying! However, I can’t help but wonder how much better it would have gone for him if they had started treated him ivermectin, azithromycin, vitamin D, and zinc as soon as he checked in. But, he had decent insurance from his employer, so we can’t stand in the way of Big Pharma raking in those mega-profits, can we?
I imagine Trump’s lawyers really would experience some backlash from their part in Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate….for being extremely lousy excuses for lawyers.
Haven’t read the “financial bubble” article yet, but here’s an interested fact in support of the contention in the headline that I read at Chris Martenson’s website: 20% of all dollars ever created were put into existence in 2020 with the Fed’s “QE on mega-steroids” response to the effects of the pandemic/ lockdowns on the financial markets. How could that not turn the already existing bubble into a hyper-bubble?
Well, this EXO-CD24 had better be nice and expensive, otherwise its success will mean you’re not allowed to discuss it on social media!
Another thing I would like to add: All the other countries that are doing lockdowns are at least providing relief-money for their locked-down citizens. Here in the USA where the most that economically lockdown-displaced people can count on is sporadic and begrudgingly delivered relief-checks from a government culture that despises the notion of transfer-payments to the disadvantaged, lockdowns really are a recipe for disaster.
