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“Will they just increase the protests and the violence in the streets?”
61% of republicans own guns, vs 16% of democrats. (Statista) This may have consequences if the riots start up and move to residential areas during the Long Interim between Election Day and whenever a “winner” is declared. (by WHOM????)John Day-
Let me ask an obvious question: do the same long-lasting things happen if the person has successful early intervention?That child syndrome? I’m still calling zebras on Covid here. Why isn’t it what it would have been called before “Covid”?
Alas. My post didn’t. I can’t even suggest a website- no post.
One more try: check out a Swedish doctor’s post at drmalcolmkendrick. Dot org.That is one pretty painting!
CSPAN has had the Unspeakables on all morning. I like to think we don’t much mention it in the US because of the shame of being the only nation to have used them in war. (And we are the “good guys”…)
Someone mentioned long ago (internet time) that it doesn’t matter if we had/have a nuclear war because 8 nations have already detonated over two thousand of these monstrosities in “tests” – many on their own soil. The Hawaiian one- Starfish Prime- was supposedly meant to disrupt the Van Allen radiation belt[s?]. (This is another icon of hubris, no?)
So we have all been exposed to radiation thanks to the idea that if we don’t do it, someone else will.
Homo sapiens? or Homo Hubris?
Where is Nemesis when you need her?With a good imagination you can see a jester in the photo of the Titanic.
The eye is the hole at top left with a propeller blade making his cheek; the other blade makes his nose, and the swoop of the crankshaft casing (?)of the rightmost propeller makes his hat, with the propeller as the dingle on it.
I wonder what he’s smirking about.
The Titanic is an icon of hubris. I suspect the species is currently working on a better one.“Tested positive” = “infected” = sick. Sure it does.
I was confused but then that remarkably informative graph explained everything.There’s a “psychohistory” guy (not Asimov) who says when media start implying that children are dangerous, war soon follows.
Cooties, cooties everywhere-
All people harbor dangers!
We used to be great friends but now
We may as well be strangers.“Tolerance” is a species of word that begets paradox- like “truth”.
“I am speaking the truth when I tell you everything I say is a lie.”
Saying “We will not tolerate intolerance” doesn’t fix anything, even when Karl Popper says so.
These are words best avoided if you want to understood.
See what I’ve done there?How do they notify the person who tests positive? Anyone know?
Thanks V. A. I’m glad to know they won’t survive the winter. I heard they attack honeybees. There are a number of folks with hives around here. True?
Handsome critter, nevertheless.zerosum: I expect the next big story to say that there’s a contaminated batch of HCQ out there….
They always double-down, don’t they?
But yes, good news.The Borg: I am species 8472. To us, resistance is not futile. We have not been assimilated. We live in fluid space.
The only thing that could really change the future is for humans to ditch their “smart” phones.
Nah. Gonna. Happen..
I declare a new religion: Neoluddite. We resist being forced to use any technology. We don’t shun it, but we will not rely on it. I’m thinking our emblem will be a postage stamp with a bicycle on it. One of our rituals will be the Night of Soft Connection: Smoke signals, Aldis Lamps, semaphore flags….whoever can get the message from here to there first, wins.
We are not pacifists, but we make rotten military recruits. We recognize no entity as deserving of worship, no matter the claim to superiority.On the pontoon today here in sunny, high summer Minnesota, an Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) flew over us. Maybe I’ll put it on the postage stamp instead of a bicycle.
Thank goodness it freezes hard here.
MAN, that thing was BIG! (2″ long with 3+” wingspan).Just free-associating. Except for the hornet. I suspect it was someone’s “pet” that escaped, cause that’s how we roll in the USA. My neighbor has honeybees, so I will mention it to him.
It was not a cicada killer. I know my local insects.
Raul- I had a teacher back in grade school who would point to someone in class and give a nasty look. “What? What’d I do?” the student would ask. “YOU know what you did,” she would say ominously. It gave everybody the burn: none of us knew what was done, either.
I’m sad goggle did that to you. It’s creepy and intimidating.Bourdain’s quote on Henry K might qualify. Anthony’s dead now. He was very young. HK is one of “Them”.
Good to see you back, sumac.carol.
Two “weeds” came up from our dirt delivery this spring- sweet artemisia and joe pye. They are competing with the tomatillos, but I don’t have the heart to yank them yet.This, from over at Off-G today:
“It has frequently been observed that terror can rule absolutely only over people who are isolated against each other and that therefore one of the primary concerns of tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is, as it were, pretotalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from people acting together, acting in concert; isolated people are powerless by definition.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of TotalitarianismGeppetto-
Mrs. Brown : “That’ll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown: whether it’s better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.” National Velvet. (not really science fiction)
I suspect this is not the quote you were looking for, but it’s similar.On HCQ+: this makes me so mad I could spit. And they’re still arguing against it. I surely am getting a comprehensive overview of US medicine, and the thought of “universal healthcare” (which I once favored, seemingly so long ago) now scares the pants off me. I get it now- all my good doctors retired early. I think they saw what was coming- they also hated entering data for the medical database, both because they believed in absolute medical privacy and because they didn’t get paid for such drudgework.
Of all the scare-mongering anecdotal stories told about this “significantly less deadly than originally thought” virus, it’s the tales of how people catch it. 26, oh, wait- “nearly 30 feet”, feet, eh? Did they figure this out using one of their “models”? The poor schmuck they blamed it on must feel great. 1500 others! Who never had contact with anyone else! It couldn’t possibly be that they ran the PCR cycle 45 times, could it? Or maybe they used some of those early batches of tests that always come up positive.
Thanks goodness the solution is easy: all we have to do is “social distance” fifty feet apart.Three Gorges Dam is one of those insanely big things that can cause unimaginably enormous problems when things go wrong. I’ve read that weather manipulations can create highly localized precipitation, but never that they can make the sun shine. I sure hope it stops raining there for a while.
Ah! My first monarch has just hatched from its chrysalis! It’s a female with lots of time to go and lay eggs. I take them in not just because of the mind boggling magic of metamorphosis, but because the caterpillars are shameless cannibals. Giving them separate spaces makes ten butterflies where there would have been only one.
Life is waiting: take a chance.
Or stay at home and drink some tea.
I am off to join the dance-
The world belongs to those like me.Yup. The chart says die now so you won’t have to die later…
It’s high summer. Have a wonderful period of absolutely nothing but body fun. Don’t be scared. The sun protects you. The wind protects you. The outdoors. protects you. Swim. Walk. Run. Sun. Relax. Garden. Go blank. May the gods ignore you.“And I believe there’re lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires”Paul Simon
Well. Matt Taibbi’s post is excellent. I know I ditched the Democratic Party because of the DNC. With their latest shenanigans into the realms of the unreal, I find many of my friends and family viewing me suspiciously: they don’t necessarily like it either but “how could [I] become a Republican?!!” Alas. It is difficult to live in a world where “neither” is the right choice.
Thanks for picking up Webb’s piece, Ilargi. Listen to her on a podcast and be amazed: what a mind! She talks like Mark Lombardi charted, and look where that got him. I wish I could assign her my overworked guardian angel.The World Economic Forum is the Twilight Zone: “It’s a Good Life”.
If you didn’t feel like you had just been introduced to Anthony after you visited that site, you have more guts than I have.
They neatly outline our future. It’s GOOD of them to do that for us. It’s GOOD for all of us to be happy under their benevolent prognostications and handling of the facts.
They are so GOOD that I can hardly believe you have cited them to bolster your interest in masks.As a citizen of the US I can say that it may appear I am angry about trivial things. We are being surveilled and sorted and ranked.
I never think about these non-trivial things.
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Check out Statista:
Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) tests performed in the most impacted countries worldwide as of July 15, 2020.
The top five (China, US, Russia, India, UK) have used about 183 million tests. Someone’s making a lot of money on a “non-diagnostic” test.
How many masks per day worldwide? Gloves? Gowns? Sanitizing material?
How are they disposed of? (Disposal costs money, too).The thing about multi-billion dollar markets is they yearn to continue and use marketing to do so. Marketing doesn’t have to be honest or particularly true- it’s opinion, after all.
Does 3M ever whisper sweet nothings into the ears of governors to use the words “mandatory” or “required”?V. Arnold- I responded to your post yesterday.
“Covid-19 has actually proved good for [twitter] business”. No. Really?
Just how much does money drive the “Covid” brand?
Meanwhile, on CSPAN this morning…
Dr. Jake Deutsch of “Cure Urgent Care” disparaged the use of HCQ saying that older studies suggested it may be effective, but later studies showed it was not so effective.
To a caller who wondered if her son needed two consecutive negative tests after fourteen days to be safe the doctor said “the [PCR] test is very sensitive and just reproduces small pieces of virus and it may be an inactive piece of virus that was nicked up and at four weeks may still be tested positive.”
So, no, her son doesn’t need two tests.
Why is it said that the PCR test is useful at all, ever?One more thing: Deutsch took HCQ when he was sick because that was “what was recommended in the literature”. He seems fine, now.
I take it graciously, V. Arnold.
The public reaction to this virus has made me little crazy. At the lake, NO ONE wears a mask. Everything is normal. There is danger on the lake- every year there are a few drowning deaths, but it doesn’t keep people from the water. They learn to swim. The joys of water vastly outweigh the dangers.
We are making over the human race in response to a pathogen that simply is not that severe. Humans were never meant to cover their faces- it has long been a sign of an untrustworthy person. Humans were never meant to keep their distance from each other- it is a sign of hostility. And now we are forcing children over 2 to wear masks and stay away from each other. This will damage them severely, and in their later years they will mistrust others and see hostility where there is none. That kind of early programming is difficult to undo. It affects adults as well- I cannot detach the current social tensions from the public health initiatives.
We are remaking humanity, and it is not a change that is for the better.No one will probably read this, but I just got back from the lake after a session on the pontoon to see comet Neowise. We had a very good view of it for being just outside the city. It was plainly visible to the naked eye and magnificent through the binoculars. After a bit of swimming to celebrate the event (along with two spectacular meteors), we got home around 11:45. Absolutely luscious!
I think what I hate most about masks is that they keep the fear and dread in our faces at all times. They aren’t going away, even if “Covid” does. Silly, doomed humans, embracing their fear and feeding on it like sugar. We sit on the sofa consuming the empty calories of specious safety making us fat, cowardly, and helpless.
Wearing a mask doesn’t need a “scientistic” study to say it inhibits breathing. Put one on. If you feel no airflow restriction, good for you. You are wearing a badge, not a prophylactic.
Surgical masks have NOTHING to do with viral exchanges.
As for the composition of O2 and CO2 behind “a” mask- why would that change? If you have a capacious space behind it, it would most certainly accumulate CO2, leading to feelings of anxiety and panic.I just saw that children over two need to wear masks in my area. This is child abuse. The early years are when a child learns if the face matches the words and attitude. It would be more effective to use the wretched thing as a blindfold if mangling the psychology of a child is what we’re after.
Lockdowns, “social distancing”, isolation, and masks, etc cause depression. Read ANYTHING about it. We’re making a future [that will be] filled with narcissistic, self-absorbed, neurotic “citizens”.It’s clear we love the virus so much we don’t want to see it go away. “Slow down the spread?” WHY?
The totalitarians can use any virus- it doesn’t have to be “Covid” brand. And they will.
We are no longer basing all this on compassion. It’s about control- the magic juice of bad actors everywhere.“Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the CDC’s COVID-19 response, said they do not recommend face coverings for children under the age of 2 “because of concerns about suffocation.”” Star Tribune May 26, 2020.
Hmmmm.Yeah. Ears, bottom lip, teeth… not the same guy, but, my goodness, they could have swapped out if needed. I wonder if they knew each other.
Oh, sure- masks work as they are supposed to work: they alienate, subjugate, depress, inhibit breathing, suppress being heard, and brand the wearer as a true believer in the masked medical totalitarian surveillance future that is being mapped out for all of us. It will be Hell, and it will be soon. (Check out “Covid 360”).
They just can’t block a virus. If they worked for viruses, people would have naturally gravitated to them during colds and flu seasons.
Japan gets the flu at similar rates to maskless societies.Just for the fun of it, google images of Dr. Redfield at the CDC, then google images of Wayne Carver, now deceased, who was the medical examiner at Sandy Hook.
My thanks to “Kia Kaha” over at Rappoport’s site, June 13th.Sure enough- I didn’t hit it twice, but like the warning said- slow down- you’ve posted twice, and sure enough there it is twice. Hunh.
My apologies, y’all.Write up for patent on new virus.
If the mind can be seen as a kind of computer, and a virus can infect a computer’s programming, then a computer-like virus can infect the mind. With a high enough threshold of infected minds, a “pandemic” can be declared and the “hive-mind” of a population will destroy itself.
A means of creating a virus which can be spread via the media creating a defect of function in infected minds.
Defects can be self-harming: masks to enhance alienation, self-isolation, separation and rejection of families and friends, postponement of key cultural rituals, removal from the deaths of loved ones, etc.; delusion: distortions of math and science, abnormal dread of risk, death-obsession, misalignment of priorities, etc.; and most importantly, cognitive dissonance: a state of believing many things that are exclusive of each other in time and in logic.
The latter gives rise to the name of the proposed virus: CogDis20.Write up for patent on new virus.
If the mind can be seen as a kind of computer, and a virus can infect a computer’s programming, then a computer-like virus can infect the mind. With a high enough threshold of infected minds, a “pandemic” can be declared and the “hive-mind” of a population will destroy itself.
A means of creating a virus which can be spread via the media creating a defect of function in infected minds.
Defects can be self-harming: masks to enhance alienation, self-isolation, separation and rejection of families and friends, postponement of key cultural rituals, removal from the deaths of loved ones, etc.; delusion: distortions of math and science, abnormal dread of risk, death-obsession, misalignment of priorities, etc.; and most importantly, cognitive dissonance: a state of believing many things that are exclusive of each other in time and in logic.
The latter gives rise to the name of the proposed virus: CogDis20.They say there’s no immunity.
There can be no vaccine.
I hereby rename this scourge “CogDis2020 virus”.
I wonder if they have tried Kaspersky?The hotel (the building on the right) was built in 1884. The architect was Stephen Decatur Hatch. It was razed in 1947. Shame.
A coronavirus cannot have nearly every symptom (and no symptoms at all!). If the one-solution “Covid19” hadn’t gotten in the way, they might have been on the road to figuring out what’s going on in the blood of people “diagnosed” (or not) with “Covid19 Brand”.
The banks get all the foreclosures- including the remaining smallish farmlands. Real estate prices in most areas will plummet. Gated enclaves will be protected by private security. Hangers-on outside of them will fall prey to chaos, and then they, too will be bought out.
Then they will call “scrip!” (As currencies turn to ashes). You turn in what you have and they give you a chip. If you had some savings, you will be better off than those who didn’t, but most folks will get their UBI if they work in those fields or factories or at those desks and counters.
Feudalism- with its constant petty chessboard wars: That’s what I see coming. And lots and lots of death.
Until Arthur shows up and pulls a sword from a stone.
Or aliens could land again ; ) -preferably before we finally decide to play with our nuclear/biological/chemical toys.The happiest one is that all the rich bastards get on a luxury space yacht and land on Mars where they will find out the concierge has gone on to better things.
Cyrus Vance, I thought, would be 103! But of course it is his son. American aristocracy!
Trump’s classic narcissism (everything HIM is superlative) is most protective when it comes to his monetary worth. I suspect he is not a billionaire. It seems to be the one bit of BS he cares about.People die- even when they are young. I knew a 30 year old who dropped dead at work. (heart aneurysm). I knew a 50 year old who went to the hospital for one thing and died of sepsis. (Nosocomial- big settlement). Now those deaths are called “Covid”. (It affects the heart! It causes runaway infections!). Not allowing third parties at bedside hides a lot of truth.
Coronaviruses are respiratory diseases. If this one isn’t, someone has some explaining to do.
Calling everything “Covid” is preventing research into what is emerging as a serious syndrome (sticky, deoxygenated blood) in a small number of people.Of course China reports a new atypical pneumonia. With SC2, the west only shot itself in one foot. There’s a whole ‘nother foot to go to lay us flat.
Pinker? Wow. Chomsky’s protege. We aren’t slaughtering intellectuals in the streets yet, but it sure is starting to smell like a cultural revolution.
In response to yesterday’s late comments:
Yes, they peel it off to hear me- an empathetic response because they know THEY are difficult to hear when a mask is on: it’s a signal to say “I can’t hear you”. It happened at the store the other day- I was speaking through a mask behind the plastic barrier -muffled speaking the clerk was having a hard time hearing- he took his mask off, and I removed mine. Now we could hear each other. It’s kind of like when I itch my nose, so does the person I’m talking to.
And I say again it is an adorable human empathetic response.Cop-on-the-scene: “Can you give me description of the attacker?”
Victim: “No, he was wearing a mask.”
One more thing: Beards. Does hair sanitize incoming air? A mask on a bearded face is hilarious.Zerosum- you are a brick.
Doc Robinson- I knew I had seen it somewhere. Thanks for the review. The sheet I saw said “chloroquine and derivatives”. I’m glad to see HCQ is okay.Masks are wrong.
Faces matter. Expressions matter. Masks AND social distancing? Why? Why ever outdoors?
Indoors: you must change it out. It must fit well. The gingham and sports cloth ones are ridiculous- but even N95s don’t stop viral particles. (have you SMELLED one of those things?). So what is the point? The WHO admitted it is RARELY spread asymptomatically.
Masks are a badge of solidarity. I don’t think I have yet heard a mask-wearer say “I hate this thing!”
People peel their masks off to hear (an adorable empathetic response), to smile (a natural response), to itch their face, to sneeze, to cough, to breathe. I see it again and again.
There’s a reason bandits wear masks. There’s a reason we react to a masked face with suspicion. (Convenient as we contemplate civil war).
Here in the land of scandihuns and germanavians the “social distancing” is business as usual. But the masks are inhuman. Putting one on a child is abuse. Wearing one when playing with a child is creepy. Really, really creepy. Joe Biden creepy. Stop it. It isn’t helping.zerosum
From yesterday on HCQ: People with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) are discouraged from taking HCQ (and a slew of other common drugs like aspirin and acetaminophen; also fava beans).
“An estimated 400 million people worldwide have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. This condition occurs most frequently in certain parts of Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. It affects about 1 in 10 African American males in the United States”. (NIH website)
