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Madamski and V. Arnold I am going to push you both a bit from yesterday regarding comments on collective activities (by unions or in street demonstrations). Collective actions in whatever form speak to power in the language that power understands. Yes, they are political and, being conducted by humans, are themselves subject to corruption in ALL its forms.
Did you have the same feeling when you read that 200 doctors signed a letter regarding vitamin D? They could have each individually sent a letter, but they understood that there was power in speaking with a collective voice. I bet my last dollar that, among that group of doctors, there were a few power plays and some ego at play. Even card-carrying anarchists like David Graeber participate in street demonstrations (famous of course for his involvement in Occupy Wall Street).
Collective action seems to me to be the cleanest dirty shirt…Big protest yesterday in Montreal against covid measures (lockdowns, curfew, masks).
Even got good media coverage.Quebec reports 3rd case of vaccine bloodclotting as thousands protest lockdowns
Article by Dr. henry Ealy explaining how counting of deaths was changed, contrary to normal procedures, from being a contributing cause if death to bring a primary cause of death, hugely inflating number of covid deaths.
Man the hits just keep coming…Phoenix voice thank you for speaking out about how the social welfare system has helped you and your family. Countries like the US with enough money to invade numerous other countries and transport people to explore the moon surely can put aside some money for basic needs of their country people’s families in their time of need. This is called charity and we will all need some at some point in our life.
Mister Roboto I understand where you are coming from. Bewildered is a good description. If there was legitimately more good news I’m sure Ilargi would post it. The art is there to inspire, as are the various other nuggets ofte gold throt
The beauty of the art is a good counter to all the ugliness that follows.
It is shaping up to be a good year in my orchard -nice dry Spring reduces disease pressures. First two holistic sprays done (been oil, fish, effective microbes, molasses, kelp), better half tilled along rows of fruiting plants and seeded with alfalfa to enhance mow and blow. Bird houses cleaned and leases already signed with new occupants :-). Bees already pretty much done pollinating haskaps -even worked around an untimely cold snap which the haskap bushes shrugged off. Beautiful.I’m not sure how to interpret the number of hospital beds per capita. It seems quite
a mixed bag of countries at the low end, with Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and New Zealand all at around 2-3.Near the end of this link from Dr. Mercola, it explains some covid therapies that are different from the ones we have seen usually. He explains that these can be used even to deal with side effects from the covid vaccines.
Now I want to wade in and join the game of amateur virologist.
I put $20 on variants being less virulent. Here’s the explanation: a successful microbe will want to maximize replicating itself. If it needs a host in which to replicate itself and it kills too many of its hosts too quickly, this does not maximize opportunity for replication -hence an unsuccessful variant. Successful variants will therefore be more infectious (enabling the microbe to have access to more hosts) and less lethal (again maximizing access to hosts needed for the microbe to replicate itself). Gotta learn to think like a bug!!I think there are alternative explanations for second waves being more severe. For example: did people isolate themselves, not exercising their immune systems during wave 1? This could weaken them when they came out of isolation .
Herrwerner I have no expertise to confirm whether or not variants become more severe. My point was that these two “experts” do not agree on this key point. Sorry Dr. john Day it is not enough to simply skip over this point. I think an import take away message for the average person is that perhaps even the smartest folks don’t have a full handle on this. What would be really good is if the experts were able to say they are not sure.
I want to go back to yesterday’s comments. A challenge, which I think should not be ignored, is when the non mainstream folks do not agree. This was the case yesterday. The Pfizer former VP clearly rejected the central point in Bosche’s explanation for the threat represented by covid variants. Bosche says they get more virulent and the Pfizer says they get weaker therefore less threatening. This is a major discrepancy. Who are you going to believe? Also Dr. D I disagree that the Pfizer guy is an expert in assigning corporate motives. At the very least he did a bad job of explaining his rationale.
Okay but here’s the problem: the former VP from Pfizer dies not agree with Bosche. Which expert are you gonna trust?
This Dr. Yeadon from Pfizer is a real disappointment to me.
He says that evil, rather than greed, is behind vaccinating everyone, because you could achieve the same financial gain by charging twice as much and vaccinating half as many people. So what? They chose to vaccinate everyone and will make lots of money. Dr. Yeadon is attributing one motive (evil) where it is quite possible that good old fashioned greed is at play. Dr. Yeadon then says he thinks depopulation is quite possibly the motive for unnecessary top-up vaccinations. Again, the simplest motivation I can think of for this would also be good old-fashioned greed – we are talking about a corporation don’t forget.
I do not underestimate the ability of TPTB to do really bad things intentionally to enrich or empower themselves or accidentally due to incompetence. However, throwing the depopulation argument out here on the basis of so little evidence makes me question everything else he says.
Between this “expert” and that Vandenbosche guy, I am getting a bit weary of these experts who are trying to save us from the mainstream. If you really want to try to save us, do us a favour and make darn sure your arguments are water-tight. Otherwise all you are doing is fanning the flames of conspiracy theories or creating anxiety among others who sense that there is something untoward in the mainstream, but do not have the expertise to properly kick the tires on what these alternative folks propose.If we are going to hail big pharma for antibiotics, then we should not forget that these products are one-trick ponies, well on their way to being ineffective due to the fact that they typically have one mode of action, allowing microbes to easily find a workaround. The overuse of these antibiotics (especially in the raising of conventional non-organic meat) provides ample opportunities for microbes to evolve around the antibiotics.
Natural pattern destroyers, like garlic and oil of wild mountain oregano, have multiple mechanisms of action, such that it is just about impossible for microbes to evolve around them.
Bid pharma is no match for mother nature.Absolut galore how do you feel about the info on ivermectin? Dr. John Day kindly provided a link earlier for how to get this very cheap and effective therapy. I used it and now have added it to my covid arsenal.
Yippee for letting us know about the archive of traditional healing!!! This traditional knowledge, while not backed by controlled studies, is not curbed by vested interests, as is a good chunk of research on modern medicine (ie if it won’t make someone a millionaire it won’t get studied). This database will fill an important gap in our knowledge and will hopefully encourage and empower people to take back control of their own health.
Michael Reid and V. Arnold -Way to Go on your language learning efforts. I totally agree it is easier to learn when the option of switching to English is not there. I too find that language capacity can be limited depending on context – I speak a third language, but learned it living with a family. We only had everyday type of conversations — nothing political. So, I’m fine talking about cooking, cleaning, who took out the garbage, hand tools, but no good at all on politics. Maybe that was a good thing 😉
The Quebec exodus. I don’t really get it. In Europe learning and being exposed to multiple languages is a given. In Canada, having to learn a second language means pulling up stakes and moving to another place. Intelligent people can master all manner of skills, techno-lingo, but not French. (Note that the converse is rarely true and the French readily pick up English.)This looks very much to me like a psychological barrier, born of tribal tendencies.
I too liked Dr. D’s honesty in admitting he was disappointed about the ship being released. Because I feel that we are on an unstoppable course of destruction I secretly wish for a catastrophe that would render BAU impossible. My rational mind tells me that there will be many innocents hurt in that event, but I have to wonder how that number compares to the number of innocents victimized by the current system.
In the meantime, I prune my haskap bushes by the hour. These tough, long-lived plants need no vaccines (are incredibly disease resistant), give a bounty of incredibly tasty berries adored by humans and birds alike.
I add one more study to the compilation of alternative therapies. This one involves the use of garlic for corona viruses.
If you google “garlic treatment for covid” you will get pages and pages of articles about how garlic absolutely is not a treatment for covid.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.0c00772To vaccinate or not: what a loaded issue with so many potential health and social repercussions. I am still on the fence, not because I think the vaccination is good, but for social reasons. My health guru of many years (Jon Barron) has been all for vaccinations, but this leaves me unmoored because it is pretty evident that the vaccines available seem to have so many unknown aspects.
So many existential questions confront us at this juncture.Riddle me this -maybe I’m missing something: Why is it a transgression for doctors to use Ivermectin for covid when evidently doctors have been throwing this, that and the other thing (aspirin etc) at it all this time. I don’t understand.
I want to share another miracle cure I have been working with: silver. Colloidal is good, nanoparticles silver is even better. I used it to cure my dog of lyme disease ( after 2 unsuccessful 30 day rounds of doxycycline) and I am using it to great effect on my cat that has the feline equivalent of HIV. The vet told me that my cat was a poor candidate for full mouth tooth extraction (needed to control his HIV). I irrigated the cat’s mouth several times daily with silver (added cbd for pain relief) and he is eating like a champ – and his mouth no longer stinks.
Dr. D your comment on socialized medicin based on the UK example is a huge leap not supported by data. Requiring profit to be made in health care diverts money away from direct care. Numerous international studies confirm in the area of elder care that for profit institutions have poorer health outcomes. Money diverted to shareholders does not help health outcomes. Health care corporations whose primary objective is making money do not provide the best health care outcomes — instead they maximize shareholder value. It is not a question of running out of other people’s money — in fact it is a redistribution of resources. We take some of the money from the rich and spread it around. I guess if you don’t live with public health care it is hard to imagine how it would work. It is not perfect for sure, but in Canada, unlike the US, a primary cause of bankruptcy is not health care costs. If you would argue that we need minute taxation if the rich to incentivize ingenuity, I wonder how it happened that we have had significant innovations and technological advances when corporate taxes were much higher than they are now.
Dr. D the US has not been trying too hard to tax the rich in the past few years. Do you think that might have something to do with rising inequality?
Dogs and tear gas only used in serious cases of rioting? That has not been my experience. I have participated in many demonstrations in Canada, mostly related to meetings of G20, G8, activities of the IMF. I was never near any rioting and have been pepper-sprayed. I also had to march past a line of police in riot gear holding back their barking German Shepherds. In my experience the level of force shown in the police response to demonstrations has been excessive most of the time. I don’t see why covid should be any different. Maybe this is an education for people who don’t usually participate in demonstrations -they will experience the inner workings of power first hand.
Hirschorn’s kick at leftist media shows where his blinders are.
Connecting the green washing article to the article in the comments section re Pfizer talking about upping the price of vaccines: I guess this is a good reminder that corporations have their primary fiduciary duty to make money, not save lives. Who knew that they were not doing god’s work.V. Arnold,
If there is any consolation, I have read in the local farming newspaper that some farmers are pulling away from the use of glyphosate as a desicant because of customer resistance in their international markets.Ah Facebook – saving us from bad words. They just unpublished our farm facebook page because we live in a place called Bastard and that nasty word is in our farm name. Oh, and they said that due to covid they may not have time to review their decision.
Remember there are natural anti-microbials (garlic, oil of wild oregano, horse radish)each of which have so many mechanisms of action that antimicrobial action that microbes cannot develop resistance. This is unlike the one-or two-trick ponies made by big pharma
Fire cider – look it up, lots of recipes on the interweb.Farmers in India -doing what we all should be doing. Interesting doc on women’s suffrage in the U.S. — those women took actions in the streets not different from what our street protesters do today. Men spit on the demonstrators. Nothing changes by writing nice letters to politicians.
Paleo and all that jazz – not taking into account methods of animal treatment and treatment of the earth (ie feeding these meat animals “conventionally” is missing a key point. Conventionally-raised beef comes from cows fed GMO corn in massive filthy, inhumane feedlots. That GMO corn renders the meat a heath hazard for converting healthy animal fat into omega 6 unhealthy fat.
In Canada, dairy cows are being fed palm oil to improve the texture of butter-yes you read that correctly.
Conventionally-raised chickens (during their incredibly short lives of about 8 weeks before slaughter) are fed GMO, glyphosate-coated grains, you know, those grains you would not want to eat.
There’s much more to eating healthy than simply switching from conventional grains to conventional meat.Taking it up a notch, I’ll use my experience navigating the body of research/practice in the realm of organic orcharding. In the sphere there is very little politicization of knowledge. However, there is still a huge range of perspectives as to what one needs to do to grow a healthy orchard. This lack of certainty requires that I, like others, have to parse thru available info and exercise my own judgement – not easy, requires mental effort to study and deal with uncertainty. The connection to covid – for sure information about the pandemic is highly politicized. However, I would argue that in this realm too, I suspect that even reasonable knowledgeable experts may hold differing opinions, or opinions that evolve with the knowledge development. What’s the average person to do? I guess navigate the pandemic like we navigate so many other aspects of our lives- consider the available information, make our best guess/judgment as to what is the best info, cross our fingers and get on with living. No one can be expected to give us all the answers. What fun would that be anyway!!!!
So much anguish, anger, distrust, fear and alienation being expressed. I share some of that. Not sure what to do with it.
On the wood stove issue, as much as a quality stove can provide heating independence, the data suggest that even the best stoves are a very significant source of pollution. I’ve seen recent studies showing that such stoves are also a significant source of indoor pollution, allowing pollutants to enter the house during refilling. I live out in the country and heat exclusively with wood (very little needed due to the type of house construction) but it seems to me that allowing such appliances in urbanized areas would be very detrimental to many people. When I lived in town, there were several homes with very old fireplaces. When people put fires in these fireplaces, they would literally fill the neighbourhood with choking smoke.
It seems there is not an easy answer, like with so many of the energy issues.
