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Doc Robinson’s “the bomb” when it comes to drilling down and analyzing stats to paint the real picture. đ
@oxy, you are not alone in how you feel. Between most employers and all of healthcare being owned lock, stock and barrel by the covid narrative and vaccination strategies, it’s hard to know where to turn. And just when you think you’ve got the next turn figured out, some bizarre before-now-never-heard-of “roadblock” is thrown up. Look at the bright side, they didn’t shove a swab up your son’s nose.
My work is stop start, too. Going to go broke if I can’t figure out which direction might work, at least in the short-term. “Disabling” is a good word. If you figure out how to find your center, let me know.
Sometimes I turn my socks inside out before wearing them just for the heck of it. Today I turned THE GREAT RESET inside out for a glimpse of what the insides of it might look like. Pieces of lint fell out that resembled this:
– a bunch of geriatric people with obvious signs of dementia are brilliantly orchestrating The Great Reset. Many of these people are barely able to walk across a podium, much less speak intelligently, but they hold the power over all people that legends are made of.
– The Great Reset includes a component that implants devices in peopleâs brains to create the transhuman who can be controlled remotely.* Or at the very least, will implant a tracking device in each person that provides access to ALL information forever and ever about that person.
– people around the globe are anxiously waiting and watching in fear as The Great Reset is enacted. Every earth tremor or smoke signal is proof The Great Reset is here.
– so many people around the globe welcome and embrace The Great Reset that it will undoubtedly be fully installed in the near future.
OR âŚ.
– The Great Reset was actually implemented decades ago. Thatâs why the vast majority of the global population owns nothing.
– The Great Reset is now failing due to circumstances outside the control of the geriatric power people. This is causing them to go a bit haywire, which has created a bizarre and disjointed narrative about world events that only the most devout can follow.
– at this point, so many people canât follow The Great Reset’s narrative there are mass protests held regularly and quiet individual acts of protest daily.
– once The Great Reset has fully imploded it will totter off with the geriatric power people to its final resting place. At that point, only people wired-into The Great Reset narrative for their income or power will continue to focus on it.
– the majority of the worldâs population will go back to just trying to get by, until the next time The Great Reset rises from the dead to instill its special brand of crazy.
*Modern technology can barely control a self-driving car, much less the human brain.
Jim Kunstler over on his blog post today:
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, who answers to the title âThe Scienceâ in certain circles, said this week that there are going to be two Americas, the vaxed and the unvaxed. Earth to Dr. Fauci: we are already two Americas: the reality-onboard and the reality-optional.
One reality is that vaccines developed at âwarp speedâ appear to have gnarly side-effects that can outweigh the risk of the disease theyâre engineered to protect against. Another reality is that the Delta variant of SARS-Covid-19 is more contagious, but also weaker, less likely to result in hospitalization among the unvaxed. Yet another reality is that the Delta variant also infects the fully-vaccinated. Oh, what to do?
Consider not allowing yourself to be jerked around by US health officials who have trouble keeping their story straight …”
Now THAT is seriously funny. đ
@Dr D: “the increasingly small, powerless, shrill minority now has as their enemy … EVERYBODY.”
That’s what I see, too. Won’t last if we won’t pay attention to it, and I think the majority of people outside the facetwit mob and some pockets of mobs that are lodged in large cities stopped paying attention quite awhile ago, if they ever did to begin with.
” … that trust is definitely rather more compromised now than it was even before.”
Had my dog at the vet yesterday, where I got skinned for $150 for a blood panel that’s done in-house and only takes 10-15 minutes. On the drive home I found myself wondering …
@Mister: I was clued in by the fact people in refugee camps, homeless tent cities, and slums around the world weren’t dropping like flies despite the fact many don’t have access to adequate food or clean water. Add to those populations the inmate population here in the US, where I seriously doubt there was a great deal of adherence to masking, social distancing, hand sanitizing, etc., taking place.
In closing … one of the areas where the health industry has lost my trust is in testing. I had always believed that at the very least their testing methods were obtaining accurate results. I no longer believe that. How do we go from here to trusting anything they say or do anymore?
@my parents said: “STAY INDOORS! fear. FEAR. FEAR!!!! So I get it that it was BritishAirwaysâs pilots, but was the âDeltaâ variant a little clue?”
Thank you for the chuckle. Needed that today.
@TAE Summary, “”The Purse-Seine”. I have that saved to my laptop and read it fairly often. Powerful.
@Mr House. (aids/public view) Interesting question. One can only hope, considering that seems the best available option at this point.
@Dave Note: “There are several blogging platforms now being developed based on the Block Chain that will be the only venue for free discussions going forward.”
I had to think about this for a while before responding. So … there won’t be any downsides in the future to this new “venue for free discussions”?
A brief run down on how “free” begins and subsequently “evolves”. (The stages of evolution are numerous. Everyone here will work that out for themselves):
Radio
TV
InternetFree discussions = face-to-face conversation, sans camera and microphone. We’ll get there again at some point.
@zerosum: likely
@phoenix: “I find myself frustrated by … the cryptocurrency discussions. Bitcoin is âcreatedâ by supercomputers that only those who are already generously endowed by the current system will ever be able to possess. How is this dramatically different from any other financial instrument that I am priced out of?”
Profound.
@Dr. D: just now found your post responding to the late 6/27 comments. About this: “Sorry, there canât be a divorce. Red wouldnât die: Blue would, colonized and treated as an African colony as planned. Red would be laid low though, and pressed to penury from all sides. âŚI mean more than now, if thatâs possible. For both our sakes, please come back to a standard of logic and human rights.”
Agreed. I thought about “the ports” last night after commenting and reached the conclusion … who can do what without ports? I then hoped no one would notice the error in my comment. đ
You concluded: “I guess cutting off the bloodsucking cities from their state hosts would be an important first step in bringing them to heel. What was that about ârepresentationâ?”
I’ll have to think about how that would play out. Complicated. Thank you for the input.
I also recently commented on the Russian/Putin actions with regard to vaccines. It was something along the lines of Putin playing 14 dimensional chess. đ I don’t find it all that plausible that Putin is falling in line with the idiotic omg how can anyone be this stupid blood sucking give me all the money parasitic elites who are purportedly “leading” the western nations in the pandemic response.
Sorry. In an angry mood today.
@absolute, thank you for providing the technical term, although “flouncing out” sounds a bit, um, er, kinda like some type of … oh, forget it. đ
Lots of people seem to be in an especially frustrated mood today – Dr D. with several posts, democritus having a bad morning, and Karl Denniger … who posted a seriously angry rant, “More Crazy” on his Nad site.
Frustration, anger, fear, anxiety roiling to the surface. This is a tough situation. Globally. Stocking up on popcorn and watching the show sounded funny, right? Until it wasn’t.
Echo chamber here? Of sorts, yes. That’s human nature. Maybe it’s nature, period. Birds of a feather and all …
TAE Summary is going to have a field day with this.
For the record, I’m a card carrying member of the AVI (Anti Vaxxers International) and have been for a long time. I prefer to think of myself as a “thoughtful” vaxxer, but having thoughts about vaccinations is strictly forbidden. Questioning why the CDC wants children in the US to get over 30 vaccinations by the time they’re 6 years old is nothing but anti-vaxxer lunacy.
The CDC has not been “captured” by big pharma. It’s been sleeping with big pharma for decades. People talk openly about the evils of big pharma – it’s headline news on a continual basis – but few people transfer their distrust in big pharma to vaccines. Baffling.
Raul, I’m beginning to think what’s “perfectly normal 2021” has been perfectly normal for a long, long time but I slept through it. Then I woke up with a really bad hangover. Painful.
Why is it when a person decides to stop visiting a website they feel the need to make a public statement and leave in a huff, slamming the door on their way out? Just curious …
@Kimo: Your earlier comment was thought provoking, and I appreciated that, but I think trump was simply an interesting blow back to the obama presidency, which failed spectacularly on nearly every level. I do think trump’s presidency was a catalyst that, like covid, pushed energy out of its inertia. Do I think he is the future? No.
Coincidentally, this morning I reread Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard University commencement address. Well worth a read and contemplation, which is why I reread it this morning.
PS … this is Raul’s house and out of respect to him, I’m not going to discuss political figures from this point forward. đ
@ poet: are you responding to @TAE Summary with your “misquoted me” comment? I don’t think TAE Summary directly quotes anyone. It’s merely a clever encapsulation of what’s been posted here over a period of time. At least that’s my take on it.
@my parents said: interesting concept, isn’t it? A couple months ago, in response to something DeSantis did, Madamski commented that it was the “first shot across the bow” in the Balkanization of the US. I won’t argue with that premise.
How “far down” can/will Balkanization go? Will states themselves Balkanize at some point in the future? (here’s looking at you, Chicago/IL … Boston/MA … New York City/NY … Portland/OR … Seattle/WA …etc.)
My initial thought was, no, states can’t Balkanize because how would that look from a “governing” standpoint? But then I started thinking … what governing? From where? Who is governing which people? How are they doing that? Who is complying? Can “they” make people comply? How? (Americans have guns)
Covid is proving to be one of the key pieces in a puzzle that opened pandora’s box (talk about mixed metaphors) because it has impacted nearly everyone on this planet. Hard to stop the energy flow of *that* once you’ve pushed it out of inertia. I’ve thought for awhile the elite parasites got a bit over their skis on this one.
What would representation look like in smaller localized areas? Similar to what it is now … but the big thumb of big state wouldn’t be squashing local people to keep them from looking out for their own area’s best interests.So local infighting? Yes. Big gov’t? Hopefully not.
@oxy: Good morning!! đ (I think? You’re in Australia, ay?) Glad you took that positively. Worried I was too blunt.
@absolute: Hello! đ The Hudson Valley is lovely. Sorry about the mask thing going on there. Y’all live a bit too close to the levers of power in Albany and NYC. Keep leaving your mask off, maybe you’ll convince others. Maybe my early-on, maskless shopping helped convince others? I’d literally be the only one in the store maskless. Keep trying!
Like you, I was going to comment on that little tidbit: “In a future sane world, people will view the orchestrated panic of the COVID era with the same bemused condescension we might view the supposed War of the Worlds radio invasion scare of 1938, or the bygone use of leeches for seemingly every ailment.”
There is nothing bemusing about what is going on now. People’s lives have been destroyed via extended lockdowns, lack of medical assistance, experimental vaccines and totalitarian policies. Sorry, but there is no comparison here to a 1938 radio show. And, you’ve done well describing the reasons you fail to spot a “sane future” in your crystal ball … enough said.
Stats? None of the numbers make sense anymore. We’ve been failing for decades but kept it under wraps with a girdle. It’s all hanging out now.
@TAE Summary: I don’t know how the heck you do it but … good golly … got no words … multiple hat tips! Thank you.
@ct: Thank you. GO LONDON!!!!
Oracle films has a lovely video of an earlier London protest. You can still view it on youtube: “Humanity on its Feet | Oracle Films | London 24.04.2021”
I watch it each time I start losing hope. So, a few times a day ….
@Kimo: “USA Socialism: The debate is over.”
Excellent.
But … how to flush “A generation of progressive leaders, and those farther left” from the system …
Btw, New York State wouldn’t be quite so blue if New York City would simply secede, like most of the rest of the state has been hoping for for decades. NYC can form its own district, or whatever, and purchase the resources it needs … how would Dr D state this? … oh, right, NYC can purchase the things the people in NYC actually need to survive … food, water, power, a place to put their trash … they can purchase it from the rest of NY state. As for us poor, ignorant “upstaters”? We’ll live quite fine on the income we earn by providing said resources to said NYC district. And, bonus!, in return NYC can keep ALL those tax dollars it generates AND all the revenue it generates from, idk, I guess it’s tourism, the financial industry, and other schemes like that.
@Topcat: ” … but will fail because the red ink is piling up in Blue States at a shocking rate.”
I’m still laughing so hard I can barely breathe.
With love from,
NY@Boris: can’t read the cfchronicle article without a subscription? Not knowing what it says, some points to ponder:
What prompts the “testing” of individuals at this point? Symptoms? Track/trace exposure? Exposure to whom? (Apparently non-vaccinated individuals since “virtually” no vaccinated individual is testing positive for covid.)
CDC changed guidelines for PCR testing in vaccinated to 28 cycles or less. How many cycles are being used in PCR testing for non-vaccinated?
Considering the unreliability of PRC testing at higher than 28 cycles, how is contra costa defining a “case” in non-vaccinated? Test results only? Symptoms?
How many of these “cases” in non-vaccinated individuals resulted in hospitalization or death?
It has gotten so easy to poke holes in health official narratives it’s almost not worth the effort anymore.
@oxy: You have two thoughtful posts today that, I think, are two sides of the same coin. First you contemplate whether TAE is an echo chamber. Iâve been thinking about this lately but wasnât astute enough to identify the calibrations here as âbiologicâ and âco-evolvedâ (well done). I look at TAE like a favorite neighborhood pub where you stop in for a beer with people who are *relatively* like minded. At any given time someone at the pub may veer off in a new direction or toss out a new theory. These events initiate a [fairly] respectful debate, much as they would at your pub. No one is summarily shut down or censored for their viewpoint.
You also posted about how awkward it is to discuss current changes to the way the world works with most people because they arenât open to even seeing alternatives. You find the need to âread the roomâ and censor what you are saying âsocially disablingâ (another excellent descriptor).
This fissure started well in advance of the pandemic. Example: over the past five years, TDS meant you could not have a reasonable conversation about politics with anyone unless they were âon the same team.â I donât watch news (local or otherwise) and donât do social media so wasn’t impacted by the TDS hoopla, but several years ago I asked a close friend, when he was complaining about a Trump tweet, just when it was a tweet became headline news? Response: âI donât know, it just is.â There is absolutely no way to have an open discussion with a mind that is that closed.
TDS has now been replaced by CDS (covid derangement syndrome), which means you literally cannot have a reasonable conversation with anyone about the pandemic unless they are âon the same teamâ. It does not matter how many facts you offer, nor the credentials of the people who provided those facts.
Bottom line, either avoid the landmine or find a new âreal lifeâ local pub to hang out in. đ
And now for today’s latest news: stay tuned for revisions to the narrative …
@zerosum: I noticed. That’s why Colbert knew exactly what Stewart was going to say. It was an act.
@ absolute: aren’t you somewhere in NYS? I’m in CNY. Initially I would be one of the only (and at times only) person in a store without a mask. But at this point the majority of people are maskless (75% maybe?) and the plexiglass is finally starting to come down!!! (didn’t realize how much I hated that plexiglass until it was taken down).
IRunInTheSand: (from 6/26 TAE) Nice job!! You went straight to the horse’s mouth for blood donation info. đ Gotta love how easy it is to follow the science these days …
” … no way to know whether …”
” … it is possible that …”
” … it is thought that …”
” … I am not aware of …”
” … no known risks …”Mark Edmunds, M.D. Chief Medical Officer of the Red Cross
@John Day, interesting blog post. Thank you.
@ I run in the sand, “If a vaccinated person gives blood, will spike proteins be present in the blood they donate?”
Good question. Far more qualified commenters here can perhaps add their thoughts on your question. Personally? I believe we’ve contaminated our blood supply and anyone receiving transfusions right now is taking their chances (we’ve been through this before with blood supply). A copy/paste of current Red Cross guidelines follows. (Note the “provide manufacturer’s name” … not provide *proof* of manufacturer’s name.)
“The Red Cross is following FDA blood donation eligibility guidance for those who receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Deferral times for donations may vary depending on which brand of vaccine you received.
If youâve received a COVID-19 vaccine, youâll need to provide the manufacturer name when you come to donate. In most cases, there is no deferral time for individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine as long as they are symptom-free and feeling well at the time of donation.
— The following eligibility guidelines apply to each COVID-19 vaccine received, including boosters: There is no deferral time for eligible blood donors who are vaccinated with a non-replicating inactivated or RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca, Janssen/J&J, Moderna, Novavax, or Pfizer.
— Eligible blood donors who received a live attenuated COVID-19 vaccine or do not know what type of COVID-19 vaccine they received must wait two weeks before giving blood.”
