Don’t believe anything the government tells you

“I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”

– George Carlin

That’s the quote at the start of this article: “This War On COVID Will Never End”. Except that the war is not against Covid but against us. Read it all but let me highlight this:

This flu has a 99.7% survival rate and has a fatality rate less than the annual flu for those under 21. But universities are mandating vaccination to attend their $60,000 per year woke indoctrination centers to get a degree in gender fluidity studies. Meanwhile, with vaccination rates of 98% on campuses, “cases” from the worthless recalled (as of 12/31) PCR test are surging. The Big Pharma captured vaxx cheerleaders in the medical and media industry do not allow the facts to interfere with their scripted narrative. Their solution – vaxx harder and blame those who choose to let their immune systems do their job for the “surge” in cases. Why not go with the Big Lie – it has worked so well thus far….

The Joe Rogan saga has again shattered their plot line of the covidian cultists. He had infuriated them previously by telling his young audience they don’t need to be vaccinated. Their survival rate is 99.9975%. The cost/benefit analysis clearly comes down on the side of not getting vaxxed. The fifty-four-year-old un-vaxxed Rogan caught covid and treated himself with monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, an NAD drip, and a vitamin D drip. He fully recovered in three days….

The last I checked it was rare to die from covid, unless you are really old and already sick with some other fatal ailment. Only 6% of all the covid deaths were from covid alone. I would classify 40,000 deaths in a population of 330 million to be pretty rare, and by any reasonable assessment should not have invoked a planetary lockdown and mass vaccination of billions of people.

It finishes with this quotation from 1984.

The war is not meant to be won; it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. … The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” 

And suppose you know all that. You will still end up loving Big Brother (and Sister).

“Transitory” inflation is on its way


I don’t know what I would do without Paul Krugman and his unerring ability to get things wrong, but bless him, there he is again.

Krugman doesn’t get quite understand any of this, but he does come close. The issue between the classics and the Keynesians over why recessions occur was over whether they were due to structural imbalances or demand deficiency. We live in a world where lack of demand is now the accepted truth which Krugman does go on about, although of all things, by first noting the structural imbalances that now exist.

The pandemic really did produce an Austrian-style reallocation shock, with demand for some things surging while demand for other things slumped. You can see this even at a macro level: There was a huge increase in purchases of durable goods even as services struggled….

We’re finally having the kind of economic crisis that people like Hayek and Schumpeter wrongly believed we were having in the 1930s.

Of course, the reason we are in recession right now is because our governments have shut much of the private sector down as an act of policy. Entirely insane, and we will pay for this and in no uncertain terms, which Krugman even kind of notes in his very last line which is really the central point of this post.

And in case you’re wondering, the Fed, by accepting transitory inflation, is getting it right.

You’ve been warned. Inflation is on its way. What to do about it I have no idea. Our governments will eventually be coming after us for all the money they can put their hands on. Transitory of course means that this inflationary period will end, eventually, but when that might be is anyone’s guess. Saving us from the Chinese flu will not have come cheap.

First do no harm

First do no harm. 

That’s the principle behind medical practice, with the other half, presumably, do some good. So what are we to make of this: The Vaccines don’t work – Israel records highest rate of Covid-19 infections in the World despite 78% of population being fully vaccinated

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The issue is not whether one should get vaxxinated. The question is one of costs and benefits. If someone is vaxxinated, what good will it do? But also, what harm will it do? Vaccinations in the past had almost no known downsides, at least not by the time they reached the public. In this case, however, the upside appears to be non-existent.

Despite compounding vaccination, the nation still suffers, with the world’s worst seven-day rolling average number of covid cases per capita. Israel is on track to pass 11,000 daily covid cases — an infection rate that is magnitudes higher than a year before, when everyone in the country was unvaccinated.

Using a non-neutralizing vaccine against a novel, endemic virus only perpetuates the transmissibility of the virus among people. When the spike protein of that virus is forcibly replicated throughout the population, entirely new health problems occur.

By placing selective pressure on an amino acid sequence of the virus, and scaling up that attack across the population, these vaccine programs only cause mutations in the viral sequence, leading to new outbreaks and vaccine failure.

Virtually no one is dying from Covid any more, at least not amongst almost the entire population. Certainly more used to die during flu season. What follows in the years to come we will only know in the years to come. Meanwhile, why take a vaxxine with a massive and known failure rate with the possibility of massive but still unknown harm that we will only know at some time in the future.

And even if there is no harm, which we will not know for some time, why take a vaxxine that does no good?

My thanks to Gold v Fiat in a previous comment for putting me onto this posting

Death rates with and without Ivermectin

The map is from Ivermectin Safety Profile by David Archibald. Here’s what the different colours mean.

In the graphic above, the blue area shows the countries of Africa that distribute ivermectin once or twice a year for the control of parasites. The brown area is the countries that don’t. The brown line is the daily deaths from Covid per one hundred thousand people in those countries. The blue line is the same for the blue area — which is enjoying a far, far lower Covid death rate. A lot of the poor and backward countries of South America, Africa and Asia have now approved ivermectin for Covid.

So the question is why haven’t the rest of us done the same? When we finally work it out, I suspect there won’t be enough lampposts to go around.

Protecting the health of children and adults

This is a website that examines the dangers of vaxxination for children: Safer to Wait – Protecting Children’s Health.

1. Children are at extremely low risk from Covid-19

2. They are not drivers of transmission

3. The vaccines use completely new technologies

4. Serious and fatal adverse reactions have been reported

5. There is no medium or long-term safety data

6. The vaccine manufacturers have zero liability

7. Natural immunity is safer and more effective

8. There are safe and effective treatments for Covid-19

9. Past emergency use vaccines have caused harm

10. It’s not needed for us to reach herd immunity

There is additional information on each of the above at the link.

“There is no scientific evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines improve the health of the individual”

While there is plenty of evidence that these vaxxines do harm. Articles such as this one are suppressed to the fullest extent possible: US COVID-19 Vaccines Proven to Cause More Harm than Good Based on Pivotal Clinical Trial Data Analyzed Using the Proper Scientific Endpoint, “All Cause Severe Morbidity”. Here are the final two paras of what is a quite long but very readable article.

There is an old saying, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. This saying can be applied to the COVID-19 mass immunization program. The US anthrax attack of 2001, which originated at US army is Fort Detrick, has demonstrated that there are people in the US government who desire to attack US citizens with bioweapons [10]. According to the chief FBI agent leading the investigation of the US anthrax attack, conspirators were likely not apprehended in part because the investigation was prematurely ended and prior to stopping the investigation, people at the top of the FBI deliberately tried to sabotage the investigation [11]. In the US anthrax attack of 2001, people high in the US government publicly anticipated the anthrax attack as early as 1999 [10].

Similarly with the COVID-19 attack, people high in government anticipated the COVID-19 attack [12,13] several years before the attack took place [10]. There is even data that an effort was made in 2018 to protect certain populations against COVID-19 by immunizing them with MMR vaccine [14]. In such a hostile government environment, the citizens need to individually evaluate the science of immunization with COVID-19 vaccines and not rely on philosophical arguments propagated by government officials. In this case there is no scientific evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines improve the health of the individual, much less of the population as a whole. Mass immunization with COVID-19 vaccines is certainly leading to a catastrophic public health event

While there is plenty of evidence that these vaxxines do harm. Articles such as this one are suppressed to the fullest extent possible: US COVID-19 Vaccines Proven to Cause More Harm than Good Based on Pivotal Clinical Trial Data Analyzed Using the Proper Scientific Endpoint, “All Cause Severe Morbidity”. Here are the final two paras of what is a quite long but very readable article.

There is an old saying, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. This saying can be applied to the COVID-19 mass immunization program. The US anthrax attack of 2001, which originated at US army is Fort Detrick, has demonstrated that there are people in the US government who desire to attack US citizens with bioweapons [10]. According to the chief FBI agent leading the investigation of the US anthrax attack, conspirators were likely not apprehended in part because the investigation was prematurely ended and prior to stopping the investigation, people at the top of the FBI deliberately tried to sabotage the investigation [11]. In the US anthrax attack of 2001, people high in the US government publicly anticipated the anthrax attack as early as 1999 [10].

Similarly with the COVID-19 attack, people high in government anticipated the COVID-19 attack [12,13] several years before the attack took place [10]. There is even data that an effort was made in 2018 to protect certain populations against COVID-19 by immunizing them with MMR vaccine [14]. In such a hostile government environment, the citizens need to individually evaluate the science of immunization with COVID-19 vaccines and not rely on philosophical arguments propagated by government officials. In this case there is no scientific evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines improve the health of the individual, much less of the population as a whole. Mass immunization with COVID-19 vaccines is certainly leading to a catastrophic public health event

AND LET ME ADD THIS: This is from John Roskam at the IPA. Quite fascinating, specially the date!

(As it happens on just this point a few days ago an IPA member emailed a link to a news story on the SBS from August 2017 – this is what the story said:

A NSW Health report confirms 35,727 cases of the flu have been detected in NSW residents so far in 2017, compared to last year’s 12 months record of 35,538… The highest number of cases in a year so far was in 2015, with more than 100,000 recorded. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Dr Bastian Seidel says the lab-confirmed cases are just a small part of the story. ‘Every year, we are seeing 300,000 Australians who do contract the flu. 180,000 of them are going to be admitted to hospital because of complications and unfortunately 3,000 Australians will die from complications of influenza.’

Professor Rawlinson, the virologist says, while no-one is immune from contracting the flu, some people are more likely to have a serious reaction. ‘People with diabetes, people with chronic heart or lung disease, people who’ve received transplants, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are particularly over the age of 50, as well as elderly people – and they’re defined as over 65 – those are at the risk of more severe illness.)

(As it happens on just this point a few days ago an IPA member emailed a link to a news story on the SBS from August 2017 – this is what the story said:

A NSW Health report confirms 35,727 cases of the flu have been detected in NSW residents so far in 2017, compared to last year’s 12 months record of 35,538… The highest number of cases in a year so far was in 2015, with more than 100,000 recorded. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Dr Bastian Seidel says the lab-confirmed cases are just a small part of the story. ‘Every year, we are seeing 300,000 Australians who do contract the flu. 180,000 of them are going to be admitted to hospital because of complications and unfortunately 3,000 Australians will die from complications of influenza.’

Professor Rawlinson, the virologist says, while no-one is immune from contracting the flu, some people are more likely to have a serious reaction. ‘People with diabetes, people with chronic heart or lung disease, people who’ve received transplants, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are particularly over the age of 50, as well as elderly people – and they’re defined as over 65 – those are at the risk of more severe illness.)

What he means is that the media are filled with political fools from one end to the other

He doesn’t even add that there is a strong possibility that the election was stolen. He is focusing on the absolute stupidity of those who wished to see Donald Trump lose and Joe Biden win. And this was with virtual unanimity the media, not just in America but across the world.

Getting our priorities right

Political leaders in democracies seldom lead but almost invariably follow. This is from Instapundit, which is following an international trend to laugh at Australia and Australians, but I wish we were not so clearly following a lead set elsewhere.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: This news clip from Australia is unbelievably dystopian (video).

1984: A warning for the rest of us, a how-to guide for the left. And a whole lot of people in Australian government need to be asking themselves: Are we the baddies?

There is also this: Australia’s Federal Treasurer Admits He Wants a Net Zero by 2050 Commitment. Does he know better? Why would he care even if he did? Here is the lead statement at the link:

Just in case you thought the politician in charge of Australia’s financial stability has a clue, the following interview with the Guardian should settle any doubts.

Ok, Covid is a scam just like global warming. But we didn’t start it, we are just going along with the rest of you. It’s not us who are the idiots, if you ask me, but the rest of the world. You want to know our priorities, see below:

I’d rather be in Melbourne than New York.

“This Has Gotta Stop”

From The Toronto Star — ‘Let the Unvaccinated Die’. And that’s not a letter to the editor but the actual front page. This was the message the paper wanted its readers to read. They believe they are being virtuous and on the side of the angels, but they are as evil as it is possible to be. 

For another and very different perspective there is this: Eric Clapton Appears Frustrated With Covid-19 Vaccine on New Song ‘This Has Gotta Stop’.

In what appears to be his latest salvo against Covid-19 vaccinations and the lockdownEric Clapton has surprise-released a new single, “This Has Gotta Stop,” with an accompanying animated video that also addresses climate change disaster. 

A bluesy shuffle, “This Has Gotta Stop” appears to reference some of the medical issues that Clapton said he experienced after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination earlier this year with what he claimed were “disastrous” results: “My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning,” he wrote at the time. As he sings in “This Has Gotta Stop,” “I knew that something was going on wrong/When you started laying down the law/I can’t move my hands, I break out in sweat/I wanna cry, I can’t take it anymore.” In the chorus he sings, “This has gotta stop/Enough is enough/I can’t take this BS any longer.” 

People are dying from taking these vaxxines. It is hardly the obvious choice since the vaxxines are not actually vaccines and hardly anyone is dying from Covid anyway.