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covid COVID C-0-V-I-D!!!!!!

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There are a lot of people being terrified by their own governments about one of the most seemingly benign diseases ever to strike a population. Covid is not cholera, typhoid, the bubonic plague. It kills old people with “comorbidities” who are probably dying from the comorbidities. American hospitals are given thousands of dollars for each Covid patient they deal with so their numbers are obviously inflated, and the tests to detect Covid are deeply flawed with many false positives. Which brings me to this: How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees.

If you were online during January 2020 you likely saw the barrage of video clips that were supposedly coming out of China depicting ghastly “Coronavirus” scenes.

Most of those videos have been quietly wiped off the internet, but back in January and February those grisly videos were a viral sensation and they scared the sense out of Americans.

The videos captured supposed Coronavirus victims in various stages of pandemic horror. Some showed people foaming at the mouth and collapsing in the streets, while others featured ominous government officials wearing Hazmat suits, hovering over lifeless bodies struck down from the virus.

It was a virtual buffet of fear-porn, and Americans couldn’t get enough of it.

Personally, I saw hundreds of those videos. The comments from people sharing the clips would range from sarcastic “Just the flu” type stuff — intended to mock and shame anyone who tried to downplay the seriousness of the virus — to wild conspiracy theories claiming Coronavirus caused brain swelling, spontaneous convulsions, and instant death.

I have put this video up before but how are we going to get people off this terror-path our governments have put before us if we don’t remind people of what is being done? Just click and then watch. You’ve seen it all before anyway.

In any case, go to the link above to read through the efforts made to terrify us. There is an agenda afoot and when it has played out in full, if we allow it, we will regret it.

So much wilderness, so little reason

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Below is my response to Peter Smith’s latest posts, one at The Pipeline and the other at Quadrant Online. First, however, these were the posts:

Vaccines: Blessing or Curse?
Covid, Data & Derangement

And this was my response.

As always, a complete bashing of covid histrionics. I continue to wish that logic would have some impact on what governments do, but we apparently trust governments to save us so much nowadays that we never think there is any individual responsibility involved. Fatal traffic accidents are the figures that I find the most interesting contrast with Covid – in the twelve months to July 2020, there were 1148, which turns out to be 102 per month. Way higher than covid, and these are people often, in fact mostly in the prime of life, many of them children. And I saw today that our health ministers are all but blocking the importing of inputs into vaping, which might have reduced deaths from lung cancer, but would have reduced revenues from tobacco taxes even more.
 
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Specially liked this:
 
Booster jabs and tinkering with the vaccines may well become the public-health objective. Slipping into the shadows will be the objective of preventing serious illness and deaths. It’s called “Solutioneering” after the philosopher Roger James. Means become ends.
 
I guess if you are going to find yourself in such highbrow company at The Pipeline, you have to be able to demonstrate you belong, which you anyway already did.
 
Well done. A voice of reason in the wilderness. And there is certainly a lot of wilderness out there without much evidence of reason.

COVID-19 recommendations and rules have been illogical, inconsistent and/or harmful

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From The Scientific Case against the Medical Establishment’s handling of COVID-19 – Part 1: Overview.

1 – Although our primary defense against almost any disease is our immune system, there has been almost no public education or emphasis about this by the Medical Establishment. Some claim that our immune system is ineffective until after it has been exposed to COVID-19 (Humoral immunity). However, children have proven to have a higher immunity against COVID-19 without having been exposed to it — which may say that their innate immune system (e.g., with T-cells) is stopping it. Additionally, children and adults can have some CrossReactive immunity, also rarely acknowledged or discussed. Most importantly, there is no down-side to adults getting in good health to maximize the power of their immune system.

2 – The general COVID-19 rules and recommendations from the Medical Establishment have been illogical, inconsistent and/or harmful.

Masks are a good example. To begin with, just requiring an unspecified standard “mask” is scientifically worthless  as most masks are ineffective. Studies have also concluded that masks can cause health issues. Also, one day the rules say masks are essential, and days later they are acknowledged as not being needed. Etc.

3 – COVID-19 data from (or supported by) the Medical Establishment, has been incomplete to purposefully deceptive. [This includes data about COVID-19 injections.] For example, the data on COVID-19 deaths fails to distinguish between dying from COVID-19 vs. dying with COVID-19. (Per the CDC: 95% of US COVID-19 deaths had an average of four (4) co-morbidi4es!) This results in highly inflated COVID-19 death figures, which allows government officials to justify enacting shutdowns, etc. Further, there is no accounting of deaths from the government regulations (e.g. suicides, drug overdoses, criminal acts, etc.).

4 – Inexplicably, to date the Medical Establishment has yet to support some well-documented effec4ve COVID-19 therapies (see this outstanding discussion by a renowned MD). The main “therapy” (for what the Medical Establishment calls a pandemic), has been for vic4ms to go home, drink fluids, etc. — then go to the hospital when they are in dire straits. This stunningly inadequate protocol is despite well-documented scientific studies that various therapies (when started early) will markedly improve a pa4ent’s outcome. Even OTCs like Zinc and Vitamin D have been scientifically shown to have measurable benefits. (Combining them would likely result in even beher outcomes.) Conversely, the Medical Establishment has endorsed a therapy (Remdesivir) that has scientifically been shown to be less effective than essen4ally all other op4ons, and no more effective than taking Vitamin C! This is what the FDA boasts is their understanding of: “The Science of Safety and Effectiveness.” Last, consider that emergency use vaccines are only allowed when there is not an approved therapy… No one knows for sure, but the lack of a sound and uniform COVID-19 therapy, has likely been the cause of over 100,000 American deaths.

5 – The Medical Establishment allowed the PCR test to be used to determine whether or not an individual (e.g., a deceased person) has COVID-19 — while the inventor said that this was a “useless” application.

6 – The Medical Establishment’s handling of COVID-19 injections, has been in conflict with Science and their obligation to act in the best interest of the public. See here for details. Some of this unscientific behavior may be attributed to the (unstated) COVID-19 end game. From appearances the Medical Establishment’s objective seems to be to eradicate COVID-19. Although that may sound desirable to citizens, the reality is that it is an impossibility. The Medical Establishment should instead acknowledge that the best we can do is to evolve the COVID-19 pandemic, to a manageable endemic (like the flu). A key part of this plan is to have an effective therapy protocol — which has been missing here.

A summary of all of the recent lies of the left

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The title is Why Don’t They Believe Us? and this is the subhead:

You’re struggling to understand where all this vaccine hesitancy comes from. Let me help you.

But it’s not about vaxxine hesitancy, not really. It’s about how the American left and the media in particular, always lie and never tell the truth if some concocted lie better suits their purpose. Nothing found in the media and stated by our political leaders can be believed. This summarises the entire article, which is focused on America but no matter where you live, you will recognise every last bit of it. I encourage you to read the article from end to end. Very depressing but also with a very light touch. This is where the article ends up, but it is a trip down memory lane, every moment of which you will recall.

The same people who told you Brexit would never happen, that Trump would never win, that when he did win it was because of Russian collusion but also because of racism, that you must follow lockdowns while they don’t, that masks don’t work, that masks do work, that social justice protests during pandemic lockdowns are a form of “health intervention,” that ransacking African American communities in the name of fighting racism is a “mostly peaceful” form of protest, that poor and underserved children locked out of shuttered schools are “still learning,” that Jussie Smollett was a victim of a hate crime, that men are toxic, that there is an infinite number of genders, that COVID couldn’t have come from a lab until maybe it did, that closing borders is racist until maybe it isn’t, that you shouldn’t take Trump’s vaccine, that you must take the vaccine developed during the Trump administration, that Andrew Cuomo is a great leader, that Andrew Cuomo is a granny killer, that the number of COVID deaths is one thing and then another … are the same people telling you now that the vaccine is safe, that you must take it, and that if you don’t, you will be a second-class citizen.

They lie relentlessly. There is an agenda on the left and only what supports that agenda will ever appear in the press, on the tele or be allowed to show up on Facebook or twitter. Half of America now see they have been relentlessly lied to, but the other half do not. Useful idiots is the phrase Lenin invented to describe them. They will believe whatever they are told and will repeat all of it without shame. What a bizarre world we live in. The truth is still available, but massive numbers prefer the lies and will believe nothing else.

Covid is just a pretext for doing things the left has had in mind for quite a long time

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Someone I am on a five-way chat with about Covid has just written:

Looks like vaccines won’t get us out of this mess.

To which I have replied:

And exactly what mess is it that we are in? Covid is just a pretext for doing all kinds of things that the left has had in mind for quite a long time. Every politician who has had a conservative bent has tried to walk away from this entire episode, no masks, no vaccines, no lockdowns, but between the pressures from the left – which include every major media organisation in the world with no exception – and the terror stricken populations everywhere, who in spite of all the evidence believe they will die within the week unless the most stringent approach is taken to dealing with this covid – we are being pushed farther and farther towards a series of stricter measures that will, if their plans work out, leave our Western civilisation looking like it’s being managed by the CCP. Only a handful in public places have seen through the political manoeuvering but everywhere, even on “the right” we take the Chinese Flu seriously without any real evidence that it is all that lethal. I find Gerard’s posts interesting because virtually every one of them underscores and emphasises that we are no more in danger from Covid than the people of Salem were in danger of witchcraft.
 
Not that you cannot die from Covid; but you are very very unlikely to. It is now no more than a bad cold, specially if you keep Ivermectin in the house with a plentiful supply of zinc.
 
Hope to see you all eventually.
 
As for why he wrote what he wrote, he attached this: Effectiveness of Some COVID-19 Vaccines Has Dropped Significantly: Study. As if any of that will matter.
 
Anyone waiting for the Covid to disappear is going to be waiting a very very long time if it’s up to those who have locked us down. Two stories about Australia. First this: Coronavirus: Australia Locks Down 431,000+ People in Capital over 4 Cases.
 
Canberra ordered the entire Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to over 431,000 people, into total lockdown Thursday for seven days to contain four new cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
 
And then there’s this: Australia is paralysed by fear with the sub-head: “The land of Crocodile Dundee wants to hide under the blanket forever.”
 

Inserting a word like ‘only’ before the number of coronavirus deaths has become a mark of callousness in this sentimental age. Yet the coronavirus death toll in Australia demands to be put into perspective given the draconian restrictions to economic and social life now in force.

There have been around 30 deaths in Australia since cases began to rise at the start of July. In Britain, around 2,000 people died of Covid-19 in that same period, but Britons have not been incarcerated in their own homes and the army is not manning border checkpoints between Surrey and Kent.

The meek acceptance of some of the harshest lockdowns in the world in the land of Crocodile Dundee cries out for an explanation. Why do the Brits have the courage to wander around freely after recording 188,000 positive tests in a week? Why aren’t they being kept at home for their own safety? Why aren’t their movements controlled by a list of regulations 27 pages long, as they are in Melbourne after a mere 50 locally acquired cases were discovered in the same period? Why is it okay for Brits to stand maskless to order two pints of lager and a packet of crisps when the picnic police are fining people in Sydney a thousand bucks for the crime of eating a sandwich in the park?

Since the odds of having caught the virus in Australia so far is tiny, as are the chances of it killing healthy people under the age of 70, one would have thought Australians would have collectively told the public-health nags to pull their bloody heads in. Not so. Many people want them to go harder. The premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, for instance, is constantly badgered at her press conferences for being too soft, for not locking down harder and sooner, and for not extending the indoor mask rule to everywhere outside the home.

The simple explanation is that Australians are behaving this way because most are scared witless. The July edition of Ipsos’s regular report, What Worries the World, found that Australians fret about Covid more than people in 25 of the 28 countries surveyed.

Australia’s good fortune in controlling the spread of earlier Covid-19 variants is rapidly becoming a curse with the arrival of the far more infectious Delta variant. One reason for its early success was the prompt closure of external borders and a dogged commitment to keep them that way. The number of passengers on inbound international flights has been restricted for 16 months, making it devilishly difficult for Australian citizens to come home, let alone for others to visit. The compulsory-detention rule used to apply only to those arriving without a visa. In a grim irony, today everyone is arrested the moment they step off the plane, frog-marched on to a bus by armed police, driven to a quarantine hotel with a police motorcycle escort and forbidden from stepping out of their room for a fortnight. In the spirit of the Magna Carta, no one is exempt. As I write, our 28th prime minister is incarcerated in a 4.5 star tourist hotel that has seen better days following his return from official duties in London and India.

In addition to lockable borders and first-class universal healthcare, Australia possesses a greater strength that has, regretfully, been largely untapped: a tolerant, liberal democracy where the rules are willingly obeyed by consent, not coercion. Australia’s strong social fabric and spirit of volunteerism – usually manifested in networks of community institutions like surf life-saving clubs, ‘flying doctors’ and rural fire brigades – has not been called on to help.

Instead, the instruments of public-health compliance are the police, supplemented by the army, and so-called ‘authorised officers’ – petty officials with extraordinary powers who can order you to stand in line, or board a bus, and can even compel you to enter a hotel room where your alcohol consumption will be monitored and restricted for the next 14 days.

There must have been a saner, more reasonable approach we could have adopted – one that wasn’t built on the nutty idea that Australia and New Zealand could eliminate the coronavirus altogether, and then use magical powers to keep it out. Reason, however, has been an ineffective weapon in responding to the many public-policy absurdities that have perplexed us since coronavirus entered our lives. Policy is largely being driven by the heart, not the head. Our response to the pandemic is sentimental, and the predominant emotion is fear. Combine that with the modern culture of safetyism and you end up with a real conundrum. How can we come out from under the blanket knowing there is a risk that someone might get sick and die? How can we ensure we’re safe against every known danger, let alone those we might not even know about? Every granny’s life is sacred after all.

Australia’s Zero Covid dystopia

 

The deification of chief government health officers, who have risen from obscurity to become minor celebrities, has been one of the biggest mistakes so far. It has allowed politicians to outsource responsibility and avoid doing a key part of their job, which is to decide the proper balance between competing policy imperatives and to test their judgement in parliament. Instead, the authority of parliament and a thousand years of history that lies behind it has been usurped by ‘The Science’. It is an odd kind of ‘science’ that denies us the right to dispute its findings, that ignores discordant evidence, that remains rigid in the face of new facts, that keeps its data close to its chest and that cancels dissenting voices. In other words, it is not science at all. It is a form of superstition.

It is as if the world has been gripped by a kind of trembling disease, an epidemic of twitching like the one that swept through European schools in the late 19th century. We are fighting not one, but two pandemics, as Niall Ferguson observes in Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. There is a contagion of the body and a contagion of the mind, spreading with equal rapidity on two social networks, one physical and one virtual. Coronavirus is an unwelcome visitor to be sure, but the severity of the measures and the costs incurred – both financial and human – can hardly be said to be proportionate to the risk anymore.

With hindsight, the die was cast early last year by the extravagant modelling that wildly overstated the deadliness of what we then called the novel coronavirus. The fear that escaped from the Imperial College laboratory back then has proved resistant to new evidence. The political class was infected all at once by the early, extravagant assumptions, and the media were using their licence to exaggerate still further – because that’s what the media do.

Fear has been amplified in a feedback loop, circling back to the public where it has become entrenched, altering judgements of reality. In early June, when this year’s death toll in Australia was precisely one, a survey asked people to mark on a sliding scale the number of people who they thought had died. The average response was 256.

It’s by Nick Cater – that’s his picture – one of the very few sane commentators left in the country. And everything he has written is exactly as he has described it. 

Donkeys led by donkeys

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How Effective are the Vaccines? is the question asked by David Solway. His full answer is at the link, but here is how he beings.

Despite the steady drumbeat from the media, government agencies, Big Pharma and the established medical bureaucracies attesting to the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines, those who remain skeptical of their trustworthiness advance a range of countervailing arguments.

  1. The vaccines are really panaceas, essentially unreliable, innocuous or even useless.
  2. Favorable trial results are statistically manipulated. The Pfizer math is shifty and the “per protocol” method is frankly disingenuous, constituting a violation of bioethics laws.
  3. The vaccines are potentially harmful, yielding dangerous side-effects, aka “adverse reactions,” that are routinely underreported in passive, voluntary sites like VAERS in the U.S. and Yellow Card in the U.K.
  4. Liability immunity: the PREP Act and the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization)) ensure that neither Big Pharma nor the FDA can be sued in the event that the vaccines cause harm, thus creating reasonable suspicion.
  5. The pharmaceutical giants are profiting enormously from the marketing of their product—Pfizer alone projects earnings of $33.5 billion—and rank high in lobbying and advertising budgeting, giving them decisive leverage over politicians and media outlets to enforce the party line.
  6. Major criminal settlement payments totaling in the billions levied against Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson for withholding risks and for dodgy marketing practices are a deeply troubling circumstance.
  7. Since the vaccines are experimental substances still lacking FDA approval, have not been tested for the appropriate minimum of five years or more, and are in reality a form of gene therapy, their long-term effects are unknown.

Each of the seven are massive concerns but I have highlighted the final one because it really is the most problematic. We may be in the midst of a major effort to re-educate the public about how little anyone can trust our governments. The communal outcomes from inoculating these vaxxines may come far too late in the story, but may yet be the greatest catastrophe of all. As noted in the article.

According to reports, COVID cases among the vaccinated are skyrocketing in various countries around the world. Iceland, for example, is 90 per cent fully vaccinated, yet it continues to set new daily case records. The vast majority of Gibraltar’s population is fully vaccinated; notwithstanding, cases are soaring and continue to rise. Sourcing The Washington Post, Deseret News writes that Israel, the poster child for a national vaccination program, has seen a significant rise in cases, again among the vaccinated. “Among adults, about 85 percent have been vaccinated which means that Israel’s vaccinated is five times larger than its unvaccinated community.” The jab seems to be dysfunctional.

It is more than possible that at this stage your life is threatened much more by the vaxxines that it is by Covid, but this you may not find out until 3-5 years have passed. We are donkeys led by donkeys.

We are in the hands of monsters

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These pharmaceutical companies are the scum of the earth: Israeli scientist says COVID-19 could be treated for under $1/day. And the sub-head:

Double-blind study shows ivermectin reduces disease’s duration and infectiousness • FDA and WHO caution against its use.

They would prefer to earn mega-amounts of money rather than save lives. The experimental vaxxines can only be used if there are no alternatives. There are alternaitves:

The study appeared on the MedRxiv health-research sharing site. It has not yet been peer reviewed.
Schwartz said other similar studies – though not all of them conducted to the same double-blind and placebo standards as his – also showed a favorable impact of ivermectin treatment.
His study did not prove ivermectin was effective as a prophylactic, meaning that it could prevent disease, he cautioned, nor did it show that it reduces the chances of hospitalization. However, other studies have shown such evidence, he added.
For example, the study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Therapeutics highlighted that “a review by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance summarized findings from 27 studies on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection, concluding that ivermectin ‘demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy’ against COVID-19.”
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It is safe, it has been shown to save lives in lots of situations, there has now been a clinical study to show the same, but it has not been “peer reviewed”. We are in the hands of monsters.
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Fear, public opinion and the corona virus

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The video, if you click to view, is just as this says: How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees. 

Imagine being a soccer mom and logging onto Facebook and seeing your sister-in-law’s post of a Chinese man foaming at the mouth and dropping dead, with the caption “Just the flu 🙄” You keep scrolling down your timeline and see the same clip over and over, and other similar shock videos shared by neighbors, friends, and people you work with.

You’d lose your mind, and rightfully so. That’s powerful messaging and it had a major impact on the American psyche, day in and day out for two months straight.

Of course, no one is dropping on the streets now or anywhere. But the fear has not gone away, and is being stoked further along every day. 

And a bit of deeper understanding from Robert Higgs who saw all of this happening before it happened: The Political Economy of Fear. The article was originally published May 16, 2005. The article begins:

All animals experience fear—human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of its size, speed, or other attributes. Fear alerts us to dangers that threaten our well-being and sometimes our very lives. Sensing fear, we respond by running away, by hiding, or by preparing to ward off the danger.

To disregard fear is to place ourselves in possibly mortal jeopardy. Even the man who acts heroically on the battlefield, if he is honest, admits that he is scared. To tell people not to be afraid is to give them advice that they cannot take. Our evolved physiological makeup disposes us to fear all sorts of actual and potential threats, even those that exist only in our imagination.

The people who have the effrontery to rule us, who call themselves our government, understand this basic fact of human nature. They exploit it, and they cultivate it. Whether they compose a warfare state or a welfare state, they depend on it to secure popular submission, compliance with official dictates, and, on some occasions, affirmative cooperation with the state’s enterprises and adventures. Without popular fear, no government could endure more than twenty-four hours. David Hume taught that all government rests on public opinion, but that opinion, I maintain, is not the bedrock of government. Public opinion itself rests on something deeper: fear.

Those who push these scenarios must have been amazed at how well the global warming scam worked, and the consequences were not even to occur until decades had passed. So now we have the story of virtually instant viral death. It sells papers, keeps politicians on the left in government and will make slaves of us all unless it is stopped NOW.

Real wage death in the US plus inflation

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The clearest imaginable presentation between the present and the recent past: The Biden Inflation Tax, Made Clear in One Chart. And with the passage of the multi-trillion fiscal deficit it will only get much much worse. The question may also be asked why this chart is not everywhere to be found.

And to add a little detail to the story there is this. The shift down occurs just after Biden became President.