Tag: Covid-19

  • Was COVID response a…

    Was COVID response a…

    Was COVID response a coup by the intelligence community?

    David Strom for hot air.com

    Was COVID response a coup by the intelligence community?
    AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File

    Michael Senger wrote a piece this weekend arguing that the response to COVID-19 was devised by the intelligence community to perform what amounted to a coup.

    You can see his point. The IC has been deeply involved in both the censorship regime and the spread of sketchy information that was pushed out. It helped monitor the flow of information, the implementation of draconian policies that limited people’s liberties, and infiltrated social media companies and search engines to manipulate public perception and acceptance of hitherto unheard-of policies that fundamentally altered Western Culture.

    Senger’s thesis hinges on the notion that the Western response, after initially rejecting the absurd Chinese response to COVID that was only possible in a totalitarian society, reversed course in February/March 2020. The IC was deeply involved in the discussions regarding the response, and there clearly was a campaign to pretty up China’s involvement in and response to COVID. You can read his reasoning here.

    Despite the fact that I sometimes sound paranoid in my ranting about the World Economic Forum and the more totalitarian impulses and policies of the political/cultural/academic elite, I simply don’t buy Senger’s thesis.

    Sure, I agree that the IC was deeply involved in pushing these policies, but there was nothing unique about this in the context of the Western governments’ bizarre and destructive policies. Rather, my read is that the IC was simply one voice among many in what became a plot to use the COVID virus as an excuse to implement a “Great Reset.”

    The period of the Trump presidency was one long slow-motion coup attempt. Not even a particularly well-hidden one, as the New York Times and the rest of the MSM, spent a lot of time touting the #resistance buried within the US government. The idea of # resistance to legitimate authority is anathema to the proper function of a democratic government, and yet the entire elite embraced it openly. The Justice Department, the FBI, and vast swathes of the federal government spent years exceeding their authority and deceiving the American public, as is well documented to the point of undeniability.

    The goal was to deny the results of a legitimate presidential election and neuter the will of the people as expressed in a legitimate election. It was justified by repeated claims that the president was a foreign agent–with precisely zero influence–and the media actually celebrated its existence.

    The IC participated in this slow-motion coup, but there is no evidence that it led the charge.

    COVID mania was a whole of government effort and indeed was an international conspiracy to seize a unique opportunity to speed up the totalitarianization of Western society. The IC’s participation in this effort was hardly sub rosa. It was no more secret than Fauci’s, Birx’s, or the World Economic Forum’s. Hell, Klaus Schwab wrote a book laying out the plan. They truly believe that what they are doing is a good thing, and the media is working hand in glove to aid the effort.

    A Substack author who styles himself Eugyppius and writes a chronicle of the pandemic followed by thousands takes issue with Senger’s interpretation of events, and I am more inclined to agree with his analysis.

    Eugyppius agrees with Senger’s chronicle of events, which demonstrates how vital the IC’s participation in promoting and implementing the COVID response was. One reason I suggest reading Senger’s piece is that it ties together disparate facts and demonstrates how key the IC was in developing and implementing policies. Before you think it is paranoid to think that intelligence officials would have been given high-level consideration in devising policies, remember that after 9/11 they were given vast authority and credibility in such matters due to the threat of bioterrorism. Of course they had a seat at the table.

    On Thursday, friend-of-the-blog Michael P. Senger posted an important essay to Substack, in which he asks whether the “Response to COVID” was “effectively a coup by the Western intelligence community.” Everyone should read it, as it summarises in one place a range of evidence that Senger and others have collected pointing to the role of the defence and intelligence actors in promoting lockdowns, especially in America.

    It doesn’t follow, though, that they led the charge in developing the response for any reasons more nefarious than those of Fauci, Birx, or anybody else who sat at the table, or that Fauci would have taken his orders from spooks. Fauci doesn’t seem the type, for one thing. He is an arrogant man who was likely panicked by his unintentional responsibility for the escape of the virus from the Wuhan lab.

    One thing that most Americans don’t yet understand is that the response to the COVID pandemic was not only unique in Western history–its only analog is China’s even more draconian responses to COVID–but contrary to all planning that had been done in prior years and to standard medical ethics. Prior to 2020, nobody conceived that it was even possible to implement such policies, and it was similarly commonly believed that such draconian methods would not work with a pandemic (localized outbreaks being a different story).

    With the example of China, it was unsurprising that Public Health officials and spooks would fall in love with China’s totalitarian methods. Anybody who has followed the evolution of public health from its origins would instantly recognize that it has followed the typical pattern of any bureaucracy–accumulating new powers and ever wider ranges of authority to impose top-down solutions.

    Almost all reporting and government statements on pandemic policy since March 2020 have worked to cover up the fact that lockdowns were not supposed to happen. The Western public health establishment never planned for them; everybody was supposed to do what Sweden did. To obfuscate the significance of the cataclysmic policy reversal that occurred in March 2020, pandemicists now pretend that lockdowns were merely the “social distancing” and school closures and work-at-home advisories that they had always fantasised about.

    These blurred distinctions have necessarily coloured alt-Covid discourse too, but if we want to understand the events of early 2020 in particular, we must maintain firm distinctions among three different hygiene regimes.

    These are 1) outbreak containment, 2) pandemic mitigation and 3) mass containment.

    Plans for 1) outbreak containment had been current since SARS at least. The idea is that limited, confined outbreaks can be contained by harsh quarantines like those which Japanese authorities imposed on the Diamond Princess in February 2020. Should outbreak containment fail, then in the pre-2020 programme only 2) pandemic mitigation remained an option. Mitigation is a fuzzy set of measures that can be everything or nothing. Work-at-home advisories, school closures and “social distancing” had all occurred in mitigationist plans at one time or another.

    Work-at-home advisories, school closures and “social distancing” had all occurred in mitigationist plans at one time or another. “Social distancing,” which has become a synonym for “lockdowns” in the Anglosphere especially, is an old concept that achieved particular currency with the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic. Before 2020 “social distancing” was never about locking down. In 2009, the WHO recommended “social distancing” as a “mitigation” measure for “low resource communities.” They described it as “keeping at least an arm’s length distance from others” and “minimizing gatherings.”

    What never clearly existed and nobody in the Western public health establishment had ever explicitly planned before 2020 was 3) mass containment, which is the attempt to make 1) outbreak containment operate on the scale of entire populations, where it was previously thought only mitigation would work.

    Mass containment is a profoundly stupid idea, especially with a fast-spreading respiratory virus. It would accomplish nothing but break society. And, as you can see, it accomplished nothing (COVID spread as it inevitably would, and the trajectory wasn’t even altered much) and society was indeed broken.

    The difference this time was that there was a generalized consensus in the various bureaucracies that this was a good thing, and as Deborah Birx laid out in her book there was a successful effort to deceive the Administration regarding the policies they intended to implement. They chose to “boil the frog,” and Trump was well and truly boiled. Birx has proudly declared that the “14 Days to Slow the Spread” was never intended to stop at 14 days–it was just a way to get buy-in from Trump. And it worked.

    As Eugyppius points out, the IC didn’t need to persuade anybody to get radical in COVID responses–in fact, China and Italy went quite radical in their responses early on, and the pandemic analysts were shouting from the rooftops that doom was upon us unless we act NOW!

    In this context bureaucrats did what bureaucrats do: seize an opportunity and use it. “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

    It doesn’t require a conspiracy by the IC to have this chain of events happen, and it gives them too much credit. What we saw was a transnational elite seizing an opportunity to grab more power, and everybody involved agreed it was a great idea. They all wanted the power, and they took it.

    I am pretty sure that if the IC representatives were left out of decisionmaking the policies would have remained the same, although the placement of so many FBI and CIA employees at social media companies was crucial to its success.

    In short (and I know this is anything but short), Senger here is focusing too much on the arrogance and role of the IC while ignoring the fact that they were all in this together.

    Since 2016 there was a coup attempt–Crossfire Hurricane, the steady diet of propaganda that Trump calls “Russia, Russia, Russia,” the #resistance, and the media campaign against Trump. COVID hysteria was simply an extension of a longstanding effort given a powerful boost by the fear that all biological threats create.

    The IC does a lot of nefarious things, both for the good of the country and in service of bad ends. Perpetrating a coup using COVID is, I am afraid, not one of them. They were simply co-conspirators, not evil genius leaders working behind the scenes.

  • Around the World in 80 Sentences

    Around the World in 80 Sentences

    Ok, this piece will likely be more than 80 sentences, Y’all know how verbose this Editor can get, but you have to admit it is a catchy headline.

    Let’s start in Europe. Heating gas prices in Europe are soaring, up over 400% over the same period last year. That said, it is starting to look like the cost per megawatt hour equivalent is dropping. The current benchmark is at 98.59 euro, down from a high of 185 euro. Part of the reason for this is delivery of US LNG, with at least 15 ships heading for Europe as of this writing.

    Source: Bloomberg

    Elsewhere in Europe, it looks like the threat to Ukraine from Russia has abated somewhat . While there are still tens of thousands of russian troops within 50km of the disputed Donbass region, a large chunk of Russian troops have headed back to their home bases. There is an exercise that was sheduled to start the 24th, involving around 1400 Russian Airborne troops and some specialized mine removal and bridging troops. That exercise is to be held in Crimea, which Russia siezed from Ukraine in 2014, and the Krasnodar region, which borders Luhansk and Donestk oblasts in Ukraine.

    Russian VDV troopers

    As of today, the Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, ordered all troops back to their home bases. However, the withdrawal will take until May and all heavy equipment will be left at a depot about 160km from the border with Ukraine. “I consider the goals of the snap check of readiness fulfilled,” Shoigu said. “The troops have shown their defense capability and I decided to complete the drills in the South and Western military districts.”

    Closer to home, the USS Milwaukee is stuck in port at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. No, it’s not a powerplant issue for the Freedom class Little Crappy Ship. There’s a covid outbreak among the entirely vaxxed crew. The Navy isn’t saying how many of the 105 sailors aboard have tested positive, nor are they saying how many have been boosted. That leads me to believe the answer is all of them to both questions.

    The Milwaukee was just a week into her deployment in support of drug interdictions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific when the outbreak started.


    Also covid related, hosptals in New Hampshire and Vermont are struggling with capacity due to covid. But, not for the reasons you might think (or not, most of you have been reading what this Editor has written about covid). No, they aren’t full of seriously ill covid patients, their ERs are being overrun with asymptomatic individuals who have tested at home. Yup, the emergency rooms are being filled with people who are convinced they’re gonna die because they caught the ‘ro. As was mentioned above, the vast majority are completely asymptomatic, yet because of covid related psychosis they think they’re about to die. This Editor blames the media. . .


    While we’re on the subject of media coverage of covid, this Editor would like call something to your attention. The media has all but stopped noting hospitalizations and deaths from covid. There is a reason for that, deaths and hospitalizations have decoupled from case counts. That is good news, very good news. That said, the media wants to keep you scared, so they present soaring case counts without the context of steady or falling hospitalizations and deaths.

    In a rational society, at this point we would put aside all of the mitigation attempts and get on with our lives. However, there are people in the media and in government who very much enjoy the powers they wield.


    How many of you saw the story about the dad who got the Hologram to say Let’s go Brandon on a televised call with kids on Christmas Eve?

    https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1474447807524319235?s=20

    This Editor has to say he’s of two minds about it. First, the loss of decorum in general is a travesty. Even though this editor is guilty of it from time to time (see above), the fact is, it is bothersome. It should be understood that while this Editor realizes it was the left that started the trend, he still laments the fact it is happening.

    On the other hand, this editor finds the whole episode f*cking hilarious. The fact that the Hologram repeated the phrase only makes it funnier.

    All that aside, the left wing media ahs already started the process of destroying this man. The hypocrisy is stunning. Many of the same people who held up those who did similar things while Trump was President are condemning this man. It’s worse than that, the ones they defended were actually vulgar, this man just said Let’s go Brandon.

  • COVID Cooties Rant

    COVID Cooties Rant

    Vaccinated and Hospitalised Edition

    No matter how insistently pushed, truth almost always prevails over hogwash. Seeing as how the poorly constructed COVID Cooties Communism 101 Carnival tent was pitched on a foundation of miasma, it is not surprising to see such breathless illusion begin to seriously sag under reality’s inexorable force. There have been too many contradictions, there is too much anecdotal and medical evidence . . . Fauci et al do not have poles and stakes strong enough to prop the thing back upright. Since it seems like the ability to say, “I was wrong,” disappears from people’s language skillsets after a certain number of years in Washington, DC, looks like it is on We, the People, to huff and puff and blow this shyster show the rest of the way down.

    SIDE RAMBLE – Assigning whole mindsets to people with whom one disagrees, even a tiny bit, has become too commonplace when it was once the favorite utility of intolerant extremists. Though I view much of what has been going on for the past year and a half or so as an unscientific exercise in fear manipulation, I am neither a COVID denier nor anti-vaccines. Yes, COVID-19 is a real disease that can sometimes be very severe and/or fatal for people with now known risk factors. (Perhaps the extremity in illness is due to improper treatment and withheld therapeutics, time will tell.) Yes, the ability to inoculate ourselves against serious disease is an amazing tool in our healthcare arsenal, after a vaccine has been proven safe and effective. Differing opinions on those two topics is decidedly expected, that’s a good thing. Our freedom of speech is an indulgent luxury being exploited rather than respected of late; a blessing no longer recognised as such by some seeking to destroy the system that provided them both bully pulpit and microphone. Using our rights to explore differences rather than destroy has an intriguing side effect, it is how we learn. While self-segregation is a natural happenstance – we are comfortable with our own, however a person chooses to define their own – it can evolve into something deadly to growth and understanding if one never leaves the Sameness. Defining others, dismissing ideas and values not ours with a pre-glued label reading TRASH, those are excellent traits to indulge if one enjoys staying perfectly still, existing in a state of pure ignorance. (In this ‘Merican’s often other than humble opinion, of course.) – END RAMBLE

    Vaccination
    Of all the words and phrases being twisted and bastardised from their original definitions into Idiocy-ese, vaccination sobs alongside marriage as their defining characteristics are raped and reutilised to fit Party Messaging. A quick re-introduction to the original vaccine seems respectable. The New Lexicon Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language (1972 edition, 1987 printing) defines vaccine as:

    n. a preparation consisting of the living viruses of cowpox, used in vaccination || a preparation of microorganisms, either dead, or virulent and living, or attenuated and living, that are administered so as to produce (or increase) immunity to a particular disease.
    adj. of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

    The first formal vaccine against human disease was formulated to wipe out smallpox, a devastating global disease that had been killing off mankind for thousands of years. New vaccination against disease technology was developed using cowpox, a disease found in cattle that can be transmitted to human caretakers. British physician Edward Jenner determined there were enough similarities between cowpox and smallpox infections to suggest a person who’d recovered from a mild case of cowpox would be protected from the far more deadly disease caused by Variola virus, smallpox. He was correct. On May 14, 1796, Jenner injected a serum containing fluids the doctor had collected from a cowpox-infected woman’s skin lesion into an eight-year-old boy. After recovering from a few days of light illness with cowpox, James Phipps was successfully inoculated against potentially dying from, “the scourge of mankind.”

    While vaccine research has evolved beyond sickening a person with one disease to combat it’s cousin, we still use inoculations containing live, attenuated (which basically means greatly weakened) viruses that are designed to spark our immune systems into a protective stance without causing grave illness. Vaccines for measles, mumps, chicken pox and rubella are examples of live, attenuated virus vaccines. Yet, times and definitions, they are a-changing.

    Merriam-Webster.com (today, 13 September 2021) defines vaccine:

    noun
    1: a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease: such as
    a: an antigenic preparation of a typically inactivated or attenuated (see ATTENUATED sense 2) pathogenic agent (such as a bacterium or virus) or one of its components or products (such as a protein or toxin)
    b: a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)
    2: a preparation or immunotherapy that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against noninfectious substances, agents, or diseases

    Huh? Certainly, the New Lexicon Webster’s Dictionary definition is a bit dated since we’ve learned how to use other live viruses as immune system stimulants, still, it’s interesting to see how a simple, clear definition has evolved into hyper technical speak, suggesting the concept of vaccination is not to be entertained by uneducated minds. Merriam-Webster.com doesn’t even offer the second definition for vaccine that has popped up in this ever changing world of ours: “a software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user.” Thank you, Dictionary.com, for offering up another reasonable definition for an easily grasped concept, in plain English.

    The two-dose vaccinations for COVID-19 are not akin to Dr. Jenner’s concoction that ultimately ended smallpox. Rather than using the whole virus, mRNA vaccination formulas utilise messenger RNA to introduce our immune system to the spike proteins on the SARS-CoV-2 molecule so our body will recognise same as hostile and go into protective/kill mode. Like with attenuated virus vaccines, the mRNA formula sparks our immune system, using a sightline different from the usual angle. Some professionals say mRNA vaccines are not true vaccines as they do not stop the spread of illness. At all.

    A bug or two have shown up seven months or so into the COVID-19 vaccination push, as is often the way with new, unproven technology. (Downsides, a common “uh oh” issue readily avoided when products are properly tested before finding a shelf in the retail marketplace.) One bug – it stops working. Six or seven months post-injection, some vaccines lose 60% of their original efficacy.

    Another bug – there is good reason to believe the irresponsible vaccination rush has actually made SARS-CoV-2 more aggressive. We are now wrestling with an animal previously rumoured to exist in this Cooties “Crisis” – the asymptomatic carrier. Before the vaccine there were no real asymptomatic carriers, only carriers experiencing mild symptoms or not yet displaying any at the time of testing. Now, they are everywhere.

    The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease COVID-19 is able to take up residence in a vaccinated body without causing the host any illness, replicating with the greatest of ease. It is undeniable, scientifically, that vaccinated people are carrying heavy loads of virus and exhaling it all over the place, causing more manmade problems. If unvaccinated, people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will display symptoms, helping them self-diagnose, providing a warning system for others, and allowing the infected person to enjoy the freedom of naturally derived antibody immunity once recovered. People do recover from COVID-19, approximately 98.2% of diagnosed patients in the USA live to tell their tale.

    Because of this poor public protection effect that helps the virus flourish, hurriedly packaged and mandated boosters will be rolling out every six months until people realise that a living organism must be accurately identified and successfully killed, not wounded, if one wishes to claim the title, Conqueror. Waning protection, breakthrough cases at a rate higher than expected and declared . . . more and more evidence makes it clear that, even if you’ve been vaccinated with one of the mRNA formulas, you can still make others sick and are able to fall ill, yourself. Even die. Who is it in all of those hospital beds that are sick with COVID-19 these days, anyway?

    Hospitalisations
    Alarming, headlines screaming things like, “99% of hospitalised COVID patients are unvaccinated.” Is that true? Following are excerpts from a piece broadcast and published 7 September 2021 by WBAL, a Baltimore news outlet:

    Data shows increase of vaccinated people among hospitalized Marylanders
    Infections, illness and hospitalizations are increasing rapidly among fully vaccinated people, according to data from the Maryland Department of Health and new research.

    “It’s scary, very scary. You think you’re safe, but you’re not,” said Deborah Hernandez, of Baltimore County.

    Hernandez got her second dose of the Moderna vaccine in the beginning of February. Seven months later, she got COVID-19. Hernandez was at the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital on Tuesday for a two-hour infusion with monoclonal antibodies.

    Over the past three months in Anne Arundel County, about 30% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 are fully vaccinated.

    There’s a similar timeframe and trend in neighboring Howard County, where health officials said roughly 30% to 40% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 are fully vaccinated.


    “In that group, we’re finding that it tends to skew older and that it tends to be people with other conditions as well,” [Anne Arundel County Health Officer Dr. Nilesh] Kalyanaraman said.

    For those wondering what’s the point of getting the vaccine if they can still get COVID-19 and get sick enough to need an infusion treatment, the experts weighed in.

    “It’s critical to get your vaccine to decrease your chance of getting hospitalized, and also it turns out, long-COVID, those lingering symptoms, are much less likely to happen in the vaccinated as well, so there are a lot of good reasons to get vaccinated,” Kalyanaraman said.”

    Huh. Up to 40% of the COVID Cooties patients taking up space in Howard County, MD hospitals are fully vaccinated. Fully. That means it has been at least two weeks since their second shot. That’s a lot of very sick, fully vaccinated people.

    Oh oh yes, Long COVID . . . buzz buzz. Sensationalism must be a job requirement for public health officials. First, it was death numbers monopolising all MSM COVID coverage. When those most at risk of dying from COVID-19 had either already perished or were protecting themselves, the breathless death watch turned to outrage over case numbers. The case numbers begin to drop, so, here comes Delta and her aggressive, socially transferred ways. This mutant kills kids, the MSM folks are telling us. An age demographic least likely to suffer from a severe or fatal case of COVID-19, until now. If we embrace the idea that Delta is more lethal to children than other COVID variants, that would be testimony that we ought to have let the little buggers get sick last year. Antibodies generated in a child who recovered from a COVID-19 infection early in the outbreak would make him or her far less likely to fall to Delta or any other anthropomorphic virus change, naturally.

    COVID-19 is a real disease, sometimes deadly. Vaccines are excellent tools for humanity to use in the battle against potentially lethal diseases. When proven to be safe and effective.

    The Variola virus responsible for infecting humankind with the disease smallpox is prehistoric in age. Lesions have been found on Egyptian mummies dated 1570 to 1085 BC/BCE. Asian cultures identified the disease circa 1100 BC/BCE before it finally made its way to Europe, the West Indies, Africa, and the Americas. Western European records of outbreaks show a 30-35% mortality rate. Smallpox is a horrific disease we are blessed to have contained.

    Though there is evidence that ancient healers treated their new smallpox patients using the biological product of recovered smallpox patients – scabs and other bits of previously stricken patient were used as therapeutics to heal newly infected smallpox patients (treating infection with antibodies, before they were “discovered”,) a safe, effective vaccine was not to be found until the late 18th century. In the USA, a serious smallpox outbreak throughout New England spurred Boston to issue the first vaccine mandate for American citizens in 1902 – over a century after James Phipps had been inoculated by Dr. Jennings. Twenty years after this local mandate, a U.S. Supreme Court’s 1922 decision upheld mandatory vaccination against smallpox for schoolchildren requirements. Nearly 200 years after vaccine discovery, in May 1980, the World Health Organisation formally declared smallpox eradicated from all of the world’s populations.

    COVID-19 vaccine formulas are less than a year old, most utilise technology that is less than 30 years old (the mRNA transfer system was patented in 1993,) none have gone through the usual rigorous and detailed testing processes determined necessary to ensure the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, and, as is legally required by the U.S. Federal government to receive approval for general distribution. Yet, this same government is now insisting, mandating, that a brand new and barely tested drug be injected into U.S. citizens. A drug designed to thwart the spread of a disease with a 1.8% mortality rate, if infected. And, these folks who are unable to admit that maybe this vaccine is not what so many had hoped for, expect to kick COVID to the curb in a manner of months. We’re told it can happen, if all of us “volunteer” to be part of a long term study. More lies, more irresponsible medicine.

    Ponders beyond virus origin that can keep me up at night, because they deserve reasonable answers . . .

    If mRNA vaccines are so easily developed to fight a coronavirus, why wasn’t one developed to stop the first SARS (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in 2002-2004? It was known technology, then. Why wasn’t a mRNA vaccine developed to stop the MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic when first identified in 2012? Why did SARS-CoV-2 shoot around the world so fast when SARS and MERS were pretty well contained? How about ebola? That mess can kill you DAYS after being infected, yet, no vaccine. One can live a good, long life if infected with HIV, though. Is this blatant elitism, Westerners and their interests matter while the rest of the world does not? Or, is COVID danger hype a huge con the fearful willingly fell for because they are afraid of being sick and dying? You decide, and share why and how you came to that conclusion, if you’d like. Let’s be people of motion, share our Life lessons and stop paying attention to those too afraid of death to actually have lived and learned a few.

    * * * * * * * * * * * *

    When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke, 1770

    Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. – John Stuart Mill, 1867

    It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing. – Rev. Charles F. Aked, 1916

  • Teachers Unions Write COVID-19 Policies?

    Teachers Unions Write COVID-19 Policies?

    Teachers unions. The least needed and most destructive labor union force in the nation. Until we are rid of that bureaucratic hobble, the U.S. public education system will continue to devolve until formally renamed, the Division of Social Services Information Centers (SS-IC.) To a self-deluded US of American ear, Social Services seems a far less pernicious moniker than does Communism.

    Solid, intelligent, devoted teachers are getting lost under a facile miasma of over-educated and well-indoctrinated “educators.” Not because parents do not approve of a teachers methods or classroom conduct, our good teachers are being run out of town by a mandatory labor union system all public school teachers must support with their hard-earned money. Teachers unions dictate educational standards for tomorrow’s teachers, todays student agenda and classroom content, as well as the actual form of learning our children receive. While K Street political lobbies do influence public policy, labor unions hold a firm grasp on many politician’s pens. Particularly powerful is the voice of the teachers union. Today’s Teamsters observe the NEA and AFT in a state of awe, whispering “that used to be us,” while watching teachers hold America hostage for an increase in pay, or to be rid of recess. Teachers unions are a bureaucracy all their own, wielding an incredible amount of power and influence over elected officials and national policy. Labor unions, like our national and local teachers unions, have evolved away from being institutions that protect the interests of industry and employees and have become political action committees; using mandated dues to finance US of American policy pursuits.

    For over a year, the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIAID have insisted that all of their public health and safety driven edicts – aka, COVID Cooties decisions and guidelines – have been science-based, period. Pshaw. Tell that to somebody who doesn’t know how to read. Actual science-minded and driven people know the federal government considers data and motivators far from scientific when making blanket choices and issuing mandates for all . . . for an illness that occurs in different pockets of the nation, at different times. A New York Post article published over the weekend reveals the cold, unvarnished truth about one of the motors that has been driving federal Cooties justified decisions to keep our children out of their classrooms – teachers unions. Through FOIA documents, the Post has discovered the American Federation of Teachers helped write CDC guidelines for in-class teaching during the Cooties hysteria. A political group, the AFT, provided advice and language used in official CDC guidelines and documents. Way to not create/author policy based on unscientific opinion or outside political pressures, CDC!

    New York Post story dated 01 May 2021:
    Powerful Teachers Union Influenced CDC on School Reopenings, Emails Show

    As of a few weeks ago, every single US of American over the age of 18 is able to get a vaccine designed to prevent one from dying of COVID-19. That’s right, every adult who wishes to protect themselves from dying of the COVID Cooties (free of a handful of bizarre and rare medical cases) can get a shot. Period.

    People in High Risk groups no longer need to worry about Little Davey or Little Juan or Little Rayneesha killing Grandma because he or she picked up the Cooties while at school, bringing them home to a multi-generational household. There is no legitimate reason for our children to continue this distance learning nightmare. Other than fat teachers with high blood pressure who would rather persecute the very people they say they live to serve in order to keep safe from catching a sometimes vicious virus that might end up taking their life. Lazy and entitled are qualities presumed to be implicit within a group of peoples who make demands if we wish them to do the job they were hired to perform. ( See, Government Teachers’ Unions Unveil New COVID-19 Demand: Pay Us For Doing Nothing and, California teachers’ latest demand: Free child care for examples of teachers union audacity) Call me Steven Crowder and Change My Mind on that, if you’d care to do so. I’m no fascist.

    Y’all have had enough time . . . you fear-filled, control freak entities like teachers unions . . . it’s our turn. We’re taking it back. We, the People shan’t allow a unscientific, self-preservation driven bureaucracy to turn our vibrant nation into an uninteresting, unchanging landscape made up of shades of grey. Some things are black and white.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/vail-parents-for-the-win-school-board-walks-out-mask-mandate-is-over/
  • “Who Cares Where They Died? They Died!”

    “Who Cares Where They Died? They Died!”

    The headline above is a direct quote from New York governor Andrew Cuomo. It was in response to a question bout his nursing home policy that forced nursing homes to take covid patients regardless of whether or not those facilities could segregate or care for those patients.

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1355211151429279754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1355211151429279754%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fsister-toldjah%2F2021%2F01%2F29%2Fandrew-cuomo-self-destructs-during-combative-presser-on-nursing-homes-report-gives-up-the-game-video-n318632

    It has long been suspected that Cuomo has been undercounting covid deaths related to nursing homes. The state Health department changed the way nursing home deaths were recorded shortly after the governor issued his infamous order. A recent investigation by NY Attorney General Leticia James found the deaths have been understated by 50% or more. Instead of 8,711 deaths, the number could actually be 13,000 or higher. James all but said that was due in part to the state changing the way deaths were calculated.

    Cuomo, true to form, spent a press conference trying to blame everyone but himself.

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1355207762532327426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1355207762532327426%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fsister-toldjah%2F2021%2F01%2F29%2Fandrew-cuomo-self-destructs-during-combative-presser-on-nursing-homes-report-gives-up-the-game-video-n318632

    Janice Dean, Fox chief meteorologist, who lost both of her in-laws to Covid in nursing homes, wasn’t having any of Andy’s bullsh*t.

    https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1355213376205578245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1355213376205578245%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fsister-toldjah%2F2021%2F01%2F29%2Fandrew-cuomo-self-destructs-during-combative-presser-on-nursing-homes-report-gives-up-the-game-video-n318632
  • Merck Scraps COVID Vaccines; …

    Merck Scraps COVID Vaccines; …

    Merck Scraps COVID Vaccines; Says It’s More Effective To Get The Virus And Recover

    Vaccine manufacturer Merck has abandoned development of two coronavirus vaccines, saying that after extensive research it was concluded that the shots offered less protection than just contracting the virus itself and developing antibodies.

    The company announced that the shots V590 and V591 were ‘well tolerated’ by test patients, however they generated an ‘inferior’ immune system response in comparison with natural infection. 

    The company stated that instead it will focus on research into therapeutic drugs labeled as MK-7110 and MK-4482.

    The drugs aim to protect patients from the damage of an overactive immune response to the virus.

    “Interim results from a Phase 3 study showed a greater than 50 percent reduction in the risk of death or respiratory failure in patients hospitalized with moderate to severe COVID-19,” the company’s statement noted of the MK-7110 drug.

    Merck is to receive around $356 million from the US government to fast-track production of the potential treatments under Operation Warp Speed.

    Chief Marketing Officer Michael Nally recently told Bloomberg that Merck is aiming to produce some 20 million courses of the MK-4482 drug, an oral antiviral which patients will take twice a day for five days.

    Meanwhile, in related news, German scientists have claimed that the UK Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is less than 8% effective in over 65s, prompting the vaccine developers to hit back, rubbishing the claims.

    The German media published the claims, alleging it had been ‘confirmed’ by ‘multiple’ unnamed senior German government sources.

    UK government ministers have suggested that the claim could be related to the ongoing dispute over delivery of the vaccine between the European Union and AstraZeneca.

    The EU, which is yet to approve the vaccine, has threatened to block exports of shots to Britain, in a move that has been branded ‘spiteful’ by British government sources.

    In an effort to make sure its member states get their ‘fair share’ of vaccines, the EU has also threatened to block the delivery of Pfizer vaccines to the UK, demanding that drug companies provide detailed information on when they plan to export Covid jabs to countries outside the bloc.
    https://summit.news/2021/01/26/merck-scraps-covid-vaccines-says-its-more-effective-to-get-the-virus-and-recover/

    Comment: However, it is generally in the best interests of those who are attempting to pull the wool over the public’s eye; if said public doesn’t have time on their hands. Because, eventually the truth starts to surface, as seem below.

    https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1353809602819678209?s=20
  • Good News – It’s Over

    Good News – It’s Over

    Poof – just like magic, soon all the Democrat run states & cities that have had your best COVID interests at heart are opened for business and just in time for the Biden inauguration.

    And here is a start to that wondrous event….

    https://twitter.com/cbschicago/status/1349778522240389124?s=20
    https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1348673192609591296?s=20

    Yes, the timing is suspect. However, for those who have suffered through this last year of lockdowns, or lost your job, or been evicted from your apartment, or suffered mentally and physically. Please, never forget and think carefully about 2020 come the 2022 midterm elections and then once again come 2024. Yet, I am still grateful that it is over.

    And they will all point that their recent decision or change in direction; is due to a January 5, 2020 report delivered from Stanford, as to their explanation for the reversal of the lock downs; which shows they were of no benefit. Meanwhile, thousands of medical professionals were silenced in the interim and lives lost, for no other reason than the lock down. And maybe a page from history would have been a better choice of reference.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484

    However, Just remember those who are much kinder and wiser, did what was right. Shannon Harshbarger, post commander, American Legion Post 16 donated not one, but both his Stimulus checks to the local food bank.
    https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/man-donates-not-one-but-two-stimulus-checks-to-local-foodbank/

    These last year has been difficult at times, but never the less 2020 is in the rear-view mirror.







  • Who’s murdering all the COVID scientists?

    Who’s murdering all the COVID scientists?

    Who’s murdering all the COVID scientists?

    (Natural News) Doctors, scientists and other medical experts involved with research into the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) are mysteriously turning up dead all around the world in what appears to be a mass culling of people who know too much truth about the plandemic.

    One of the latest deaths was that of Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, a Russian scientist who had been working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine when he was brutally stabbed and thrown from the window of his 14th floor apartment in St. Petersburg.

    Reports indicate that Kagansky died “under strange circumstances,” an understatement considering the nature and timing of his demise.

    Kagansky had recently been awarded a grant by the Russian government to investigate new ways of diagnosing and treating brain tumors. He was also a vocal advocate for natural remedies like herbs and mushrooms that are known to help kill cancer cells.

    Another who died this year under similar circumstances was Frank Plummer, a world-renowned Canadian scientist who had also been working on a COVID-19 vaccine when he was apparently taken out by dark entities.

    Back in January, we reported on Plummer’s connections to a communist Chinese spy ring that appears to have been responsible for stealing coronavirus strains from a Canadian lab and taking them to Wuhan.

    Professor Bing Liu from the University of Pittsburgh is another relevant scientist who was murdered this year, in this case right before he could go public with a new breakthrough concerning the nature of COVID-19.

    Bing was on the verge of making very significant findings toward understanding the cellular mechanisms that underlie SARS-CoV-2 infection and the cellular basis of the following complications,” reads a statement from his colleagues within the Department of Computational and Systems Biology.

    Then we have Gita Ramjee, an HIV scientist who supposedly died from COVID-19 while visiting London to deliver a lecture about HIV treatment and prevention. Upon returning to Durban, she reportedly felt unwell and went to the hospital, where she died not long thereafter.

    A World Health Organization (WHO) driver named Pyae Sone Win Maung also died back in May while transporting coronavirus samples for the United Nations. He had been driving a well-marked U.N. vehicle at the time when shots were fired, killing him and injuring another passenger.

    Vaccine whistleblower Brandy Vaughan, a former sales executive from Merck & Co. and founder of LearnTheRisk.org, was also found dead in her home earlier this month beside her nine-year-old son. Vaughan had been working hard to educate the public about vaccine safety risks.

    Peter Daszak and Ron Fouchier need to be fully investigated

    On the flip side, the following people are researchers of interest who are suspected of propagating plandemic fearmongering and fraud, and who could be linked to the aforementioned deaths in some way:

    • Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, is responsible for orchestrating the myth that COVID-19 was a natural phenomenon. Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know reveal that employees of EcoHealth ring-led an operation to have 27 prominent health scientists condemn “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”

    EcoHealth, by the way, is the same “non-profit” organization that received millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    • Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier is responsible for creating the world’s deadliest virus strain. His bioweapons experiments are widely condemned and could be responsible for the unleashing of COVID-19.

    Fouchier is also responsible for isolating the SARS coronavirus that was smuggled out of Saudi Arabia and sent to Frank Plummer, who as previously mentioned turned up dead just a week after Great Game India published a report on the scandal.

    More of the latest news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) as it breaks can be found at Pandemic.news.
    https://dcdirtylaundry.com/whos-murdering-all-the-covid-scientists/

    Comment: When the stakes are so high; involving not billions, but potentially trillions of dollars – people become very dispensable.

  • Snap Poll: Will You Take The Covid Vaccine

    Snap Poll: Will You Take The Covid Vaccine

    With news that there are vaccine candidates ready for distribution, we ask whether or not you’ll be taking the vaccine.

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  • New Study Indicates … Virus … Gives You Long Term Immunity

    New Study Indicates … Virus … Gives You Long Term Immunity

    New Study Indicates That Surviving the Virus as 99+% Do Gives You Long Term Immunity

    If you are shocked by the idea that having a disease brings some degree of immunity with it, please stop reading right now as your heart may not be able to take the strain.

    Via the New York Times, Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint:

    How long might immunity to the coronavirus last? Years, maybe even decades, according to a new study — the most hopeful answer yet to a question that has shadowed plans for widespread vaccination.

    Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent illness, the new data show. A slow rate of decline in the short term suggests, happily, that these cells may persist in the body for a very, very long time to come.

    The research, published online, has not been peer-reviewed nor published in a scientific journal. But it is the most comprehensive and long-ranging study of immune memory to the coronavirus to date.

    “That amount of memory would likely prevent the vast majority of people from getting hospitalized disease, severe disease, for many years,” said Shane Crotty, a virologist at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology who co-led the new study.

    One of the basic principles of immunology is that by generating an immune response, you gain immunity. This is not new, and it is hardly cutting edge medical theory. During the American Revolution, George Washington mandated that all Continental Army recruits receive a crude inoculation protecting them from smallpox. Vaccines work because they trigger the same immune response as the disease and that immune response is fairly long-lasting.

    The implications of this study, in our current climate of anti-science fearmongering, though, is huge. No one who has had the disease needs to worry about wearing a face mask. Yes, Senator Rand Paul, an actual doctor, was right:

    If you’ve had the virus, you do not need to worry about social distancing. In fact, if you’ve had the virus, you probably don’t need the vaccine either.

    More importantly, if the vaccines work, then there is zero reason to keep in place (as though there was now) any of the stupid and arbitrary restrictions on human and commercial activity no matter what the “public health” experts say.

    All of this goes to demonstrate one key point. All of the measures taken in response to this virus that did not focus on prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable were nothing more than theater. While Andrew Cuomo was happily shutting down Jewish funerals, he was doing nothing useful because, at the same time, he was slaughtering the sick and elderly on an industrial scale by deliberately, if not maliciously, exposing nursing home residents to the virus. The reason why these measures were put into place had one reason, they are conscious affronts to freedom and liberty that are carried out under the guise of protecting the population from a disease that poses virtually no risk to healthy people (read Dr. Anthony Fauci Says It Is Time for Americans to Shut the Hell up and Do What Their Betters Tell Them to Do).

    I fully expect this study to come under a full-court press from all sides. If it is correct, all the restrictions that are in place now will be of questionable value. By that, I mean more questionable than they already are. If the study is correct, then the market for the vaccine, instead of being a cash cow for Pharma, will be seen as redundant and unnecessarily risky by healthy people (full disclosure: I am not going to consent to be vaccinated for Chinese Lung AIDS until I’ve had time to see what adverse effects it has when administered to millions of people that do not include me). The water-is-wet, fire-is-hot find in this study poses a very real threat to the people trying to undercut our foundational freedoms under the pretense of keeping us safe. I don’t expect them to go quietly.
    https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/11/18/new-study-indicates-that-surviving-the-virus-as-99-do-gives-you-long-term-immunity-n281549 By: Streiff – November 18, 2020