I’ve come a long way in the past half-year or so about the pandemic and how it’s being handled. This humorous video is a pretty good indication of the reasons why I think that while the coronavirus may be a serious thing (even if something like 25% of reported Covid deaths weren’t actually that), the official response to it is even greater cause for concern. And I have discovered that when you take that pandemic “red pill”, you really do end up having to go the proverbial whole nine yards in terms of the things you end up realizing.
Though I can’t help but tip my hat to the powers that be. It really has been a masterful and devastatingly effective propaganda campaign that I don’t doubt the infamous Dr. Josef Goebbels himself would have been proud to author.
I also added this comment to the video on YouTube:
This “vaccine” has been messing people up something fierce. And I’m not just hearing that from areas of the Internet that have so far escaped censorship, I’m hearing about it happening IRL. And I don’t talk to a whole lot of people (I’m something of a hyper-introvert), so if bad news about these jabs is reaching me through my very nearly nonexistent social grapevine, that makes me shudder at the thought of how common these very serious problems (including death) must be.
A friend emailed this morning to ask what I thought about things:
Yep, a lot of people here are increasingly skeptical. I’m one of them. I remember saying to a friend early last year, ‘Eventually everyone is going to get exposed’. ‘Flatten the curve’ made perfect sense to me, but elimination? Ha! I think they should have locked down everyone for a while at the beginning, taking special care of the vulnerable, and put tight controls (with benefits) for carers, then maintained that for a while after opening things up again slowly so the virus could spread through the rest of the (low risk) population.
Now the delta variant *seems* to be much milder in effect (though more easily and widely transmissible); perhaps this is the best time to get mass exposure? Unfortunately, they’ve been pumping so much fear through the media that people might not respond to that message very well, whatever the rational basis might be.
As for the vaccines, I’m no expert, but I wonder if they may have unintended benefits as was the case with the pertussis vaccines; the evolutionary pressure pertussis vaccines placed on the bacteria resulted in a milder form developing. The vaccines weren’t very effective against the new strain, but it was a lot milder and so a lot less dangerous for kids. However, I resent having what is essentially an experimental vaccine shoved down our throats on the basis there are no effective and safe treatments available. That is a lie.
Discussion of alternatives is verboten and has been banned from youtube and FB. Superior natural immunity that provides good protection against all covid strains, prior and inherent immunity (about 7-15% of the global population are already immune to covid because of exposure to the first SARS, and much of the population throw off covid like it was nothing), antivirals like ivermectin and even…gasp…hydroxychloroquine (2 or 3 studies recently came out showing it halved ICU and hospital deaths, though ivermectin is far more effective. See ivmmeta.com vs hcqmeta.com) are things the public know next to nothing about. They certainly don’t know about ivermectin’s success as an antiviral against HIV, Dengue, Zika and respiratory viral infections in a study in 2015, or the development of nasal sprays using ivermectin and Zn as protectants. Instead they’re told it’s a dangerous drug, despite its having been used literally billions of times over the last 30 years with incredibly low numbers of side effects; apparently, it’s safer than Tylenol. And did you know one of the antivirals used in Trump’s treatment was melatonin?
And when did you ever hear the government or media advising people of how they could decrease their risk through a healthy lifestyle, losing weight (I think something like 78% of US deaths were among the obese?) and by supplementing with D3, Zn and C, all with known efficacy against covid and respiratory and viral illnesses and their sequelae.
As for the mRNA vaccine, I’d rather not. Due to my demographic, BMI and lack of health risks (https://www.qcovid.org), I’m at extraordinarily low risk. According to Oxford, I’m already 99.9911% protected, so why would I want the vaccine? And that website is for English people; I’m pretty sure Aussies and Kiwis would score even better due to better diet and lifestyle.
I could say more about the mRNA vaccine in relation to disparate risk groups (side effects in the young vs covid risks for the old), but I’ll shut up now. Oh, but if I had to take a vaccine, I think I’d go for the Novavax. At this point, I would not recommend the mRNA vaccine for women because of the following information, which so far has unknown significance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2wm5nhTXY
The guy to listen to is the guy on the left.
Having said all that, if I had to get the mRNA vaccine, I wouldn’t be afraid; I think my body’s made of sterner stuff. But why would I bother? And why should I succumb to such a flawed and obviously corrupted narrative?
Covid joke: What do you get when you mix politics with science?
All very well said, Dennis. The suppression of Ivermectin was the thing that initiated my “red-pilling” about this pandemic back mid-December. In fact, I’m at the point now where I no longer think of myself as even a peripheral and disaffected member of “Team Blue” here in the USA. I probably shouldn’t talk about those silly political “teams” as if they matter at all, but I perceive this final divorcing myself from them as a psychologically significant step for me.
I would add, though, that I do find the myocarditis that some of the Western vaccines seem to be causing in young people who get the jab to be reason to be alarmed. I seriously don’t want any of the Western Covid vaxxes because I’m very prone to side-effects from internal medical treatments, and unlike pills you might take, once you get jabbed, you can’t undo whatever gets done to you. I would probably be a lot less wary about receiving one of the Russian or Chinese vaccines. The Russian Sputnik V vaccine is likely the best one of the bunch for both safety and effectiveness.
And BTW, remember that emergency field-hospital that I posted a newspaper article about here in Wisconsin that was set up for Covid patients that couldn’t be treated in our nearly-overwhelmed intensive care units at regular hospitals? It ended up with one patient that I read about, and if there were any more after that, I’m guessing they all could have been counted on the fingers of one hand.
My best friend from the high-school daze, however, was sick with Covid for quite a while and ended up having to be in the hospital for a few days. He is rather overweight and doesn’t really take the sort of care of himself he should and also has a mysterious chronic lung ailment that was no doubt inflamed by Covid. Dr. Pierre Kory, the main public champion of Ivermectin, may have saved my old friend’s life by at least managing to convince the medical profession to use steroids to treat the cytokine-storm precipitated by Covid. At the beginning of the pandemic, the official guidelines called for palliative care only of severe Covid patients and specifically recommended against using any steroids. If things got really bad for severe Covid patients, they would be put on ventilators, which ended up actually killing a lot of these unfortunate people.
It occurs to me that if an illness such as this would have swept the country twenty or thirty years ago, we probably wouldn’t have dealt with it with such utter willful incompetence.
The friend to whom I referred moved back to Australia recently after twenty years in NYC. It seems she has come to similar conclusions as yourself.
Based on conversations with people I meet here and there, or that I hear in public, it’s clear that a growing chunk of the population to varying degrees no longer trusts what they’re hearing about covid. I don’t think the MSM realises how much they’ve actually created a disconnect with the public.
I was blown away by the early resistance to corticosteroids. A six-year-old kid would intuitively understand, if their friend was wheezing and had trouble breathing, that perhaps a puff on their asthma inhaler would help. I guess some doctors were just too intelligent to think along the same lines.
My evaluation is that those who are still eagerly “drinking the Kool-Aid” about Covid-19 in the Anglosphere (or at least the USA and UK) are members of the Professional-Managerial Class who think deep down inside that Covid-authoritarianism will preserve their waning social and political dominance. It truly breaks my Political Compass left-libertarian heart that these people are what passes for “the left” today. When I was a teenage boy, I would have sneeringly dismissed them as “freaking pansies”.
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I’ve come a long way in the past half-year or so about the pandemic and how it’s being handled. This humorous video is a pretty good indication of the reasons why I think that while the coronavirus may be a serious thing (even if something like 25% of reported Covid deaths weren’t actually that), the official response to it is even greater cause for concern. And I have discovered that when you take that pandemic “red pill”, you really do end up having to go the proverbial whole nine yards in terms of the things you end up realizing.
Though I can’t help but tip my hat to the powers that be. It really has been a masterful and devastatingly effective propaganda campaign that I don’t doubt the infamous Dr. Josef Goebbels himself would have been proud to author.
I also added this comment to the video on YouTube:
This “vaccine” has been messing people up something fierce. And I’m not just hearing that from areas of the Internet that have so far escaped censorship, I’m hearing about it happening IRL. And I don’t talk to a whole lot of people (I’m something of a hyper-introvert), so if bad news about these jabs is reaching me through my very nearly nonexistent social grapevine, that makes me shudder at the thought of how common these very serious problems (including death) must be.
JP has wandered far from his yoga videos 🙂
A friend emailed this morning to ask what I thought about things:
Yep, a lot of people here are increasingly skeptical. I’m one of them. I remember saying to a friend early last year, ‘Eventually everyone is going to get exposed’. ‘Flatten the curve’ made perfect sense to me, but elimination? Ha! I think they should have locked down everyone for a while at the beginning, taking special care of the vulnerable, and put tight controls (with benefits) for carers, then maintained that for a while after opening things up again slowly so the virus could spread through the rest of the (low risk) population.
Now the delta variant *seems* to be much milder in effect (though more easily and widely transmissible); perhaps this is the best time to get mass exposure? Unfortunately, they’ve been pumping so much fear through the media that people might not respond to that message very well, whatever the rational basis might be.
As for the vaccines, I’m no expert, but I wonder if they may have unintended benefits as was the case with the pertussis vaccines; the evolutionary pressure pertussis vaccines placed on the bacteria resulted in a milder form developing. The vaccines weren’t very effective against the new strain, but it was a lot milder and so a lot less dangerous for kids. However, I resent having what is essentially an experimental vaccine shoved down our throats on the basis there are no effective and safe treatments available. That is a lie.
Discussion of alternatives is verboten and has been banned from youtube and FB. Superior natural immunity that provides good protection against all covid strains, prior and inherent immunity (about 7-15% of the global population are already immune to covid because of exposure to the first SARS, and much of the population throw off covid like it was nothing), antivirals like ivermectin and even…gasp…hydroxychloroquine (2 or 3 studies recently came out showing it halved ICU and hospital deaths, though ivermectin is far more effective. See ivmmeta.com vs hcqmeta.com) are things the public know next to nothing about. They certainly don’t know about ivermectin’s success as an antiviral against HIV, Dengue, Zika and respiratory viral infections in a study in 2015, or the development of nasal sprays using ivermectin and Zn as protectants. Instead they’re told it’s a dangerous drug, despite its having been used literally billions of times over the last 30 years with incredibly low numbers of side effects; apparently, it’s safer than Tylenol. And did you know one of the antivirals used in Trump’s treatment was melatonin?
And when did you ever hear the government or media advising people of how they could decrease their risk through a healthy lifestyle, losing weight (I think something like 78% of US deaths were among the obese?) and by supplementing with D3, Zn and C, all with known efficacy against covid and respiratory and viral illnesses and their sequelae.
As for the mRNA vaccine, I’d rather not. Due to my demographic, BMI and lack of health risks (https://www.qcovid.org), I’m at extraordinarily low risk. According to Oxford, I’m already 99.9911% protected, so why would I want the vaccine? And that website is for English people; I’m pretty sure Aussies and Kiwis would score even better due to better diet and lifestyle.
I could say more about the mRNA vaccine in relation to disparate risk groups (side effects in the young vs covid risks for the old), but I’ll shut up now. Oh, but if I had to take a vaccine, I think I’d go for the Novavax. At this point, I would not recommend the mRNA vaccine for women because of the following information, which so far has unknown significance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2wm5nhTXY
The guy to listen to is the guy on the left.
Having said all that, if I had to get the mRNA vaccine, I wouldn’t be afraid; I think my body’s made of sterner stuff. But why would I bother? And why should I succumb to such a flawed and obviously corrupted narrative?
Covid joke: What do you get when you mix politics with science?
Politics.
You could say the same regarding big business.
All very well said, Dennis. The suppression of Ivermectin was the thing that initiated my “red-pilling” about this pandemic back mid-December. In fact, I’m at the point now where I no longer think of myself as even a peripheral and disaffected member of “Team Blue” here in the USA. I probably shouldn’t talk about those silly political “teams” as if they matter at all, but I perceive this final divorcing myself from them as a psychologically significant step for me.
I would add, though, that I do find the myocarditis that some of the Western vaccines seem to be causing in young people who get the jab to be reason to be alarmed. I seriously don’t want any of the Western Covid vaxxes because I’m very prone to side-effects from internal medical treatments, and unlike pills you might take, once you get jabbed, you can’t undo whatever gets done to you. I would probably be a lot less wary about receiving one of the Russian or Chinese vaccines. The Russian Sputnik V vaccine is likely the best one of the bunch for both safety and effectiveness.
And BTW, remember that emergency field-hospital that I posted a newspaper article about here in Wisconsin that was set up for Covid patients that couldn’t be treated in our nearly-overwhelmed intensive care units at regular hospitals? It ended up with one patient that I read about, and if there were any more after that, I’m guessing they all could have been counted on the fingers of one hand.
My best friend from the high-school daze, however, was sick with Covid for quite a while and ended up having to be in the hospital for a few days. He is rather overweight and doesn’t really take the sort of care of himself he should and also has a mysterious chronic lung ailment that was no doubt inflamed by Covid. Dr. Pierre Kory, the main public champion of Ivermectin, may have saved my old friend’s life by at least managing to convince the medical profession to use steroids to treat the cytokine-storm precipitated by Covid. At the beginning of the pandemic, the official guidelines called for palliative care only of severe Covid patients and specifically recommended against using any steroids. If things got really bad for severe Covid patients, they would be put on ventilators, which ended up actually killing a lot of these unfortunate people.
It occurs to me that if an illness such as this would have swept the country twenty or thirty years ago, we probably wouldn’t have dealt with it with such utter willful incompetence.
The friend to whom I referred moved back to Australia recently after twenty years in NYC. It seems she has come to similar conclusions as yourself.
Based on conversations with people I meet here and there, or that I hear in public, it’s clear that a growing chunk of the population to varying degrees no longer trusts what they’re hearing about covid. I don’t think the MSM realises how much they’ve actually created a disconnect with the public.
I was blown away by the early resistance to corticosteroids. A six-year-old kid would intuitively understand, if their friend was wheezing and had trouble breathing, that perhaps a puff on their asthma inhaler would help. I guess some doctors were just too intelligent to think along the same lines.
Yep, the ivermectin blackout truly stinks. Check this out:
https://twitter.com/pierrekory/status/1401630002681090053
My evaluation is that those who are still eagerly “drinking the Kool-Aid” about Covid-19 in the Anglosphere (or at least the USA and UK) are members of the Professional-Managerial Class who think deep down inside that Covid-authoritarianism will preserve their waning social and political dominance. It truly breaks my Political Compass left-libertarian heart that these people are what passes for “the left” today. When I was a teenage boy, I would have sneeringly dismissed them as “freaking pansies”.