Regardless of the existence of viruses or not (and I don't think that they exist in how we presently understand them) I don't think that there has ever been a good vaccine. Not unless you're a eugenicist and your understanding of 'good' is different than mine.
I suspect that it's theoretically possible to develop a vaccine that offers more benefit than risk but I don't think that any of the ones on the current childhood or adult schedule fit that bill.
I don't think that it's possible. But I guess we can agree on the "don't think that any of the ones on the current childhood or adult schedule fit that bill."
Here's the Empowered comment section ridiculousness :)
Handouts are coming!
Following decades of successful inflationary theft by fiat currencies, The Deep State has announced plans to replicate the model in other areas. Here are some excerpts from their report, entitled “Spending the next generation’s equity on yourself”
Education
“....In education, we are tired of providing a set number of hours to each child. The new model will allocate 6 hours of schooling per day to each child redeemable as coupons, but we will then print 6 additional hours of schooling coupons per child, and we will give most of them to state schools, and some of them to existing students as ‘school hour’ handouts. This will create the illusion of extra hours of schooling, but in reality, the public schools will now be using their additional coupons to take lunch breaks, effectively halving contact teaching hours.”
Roads
“...Full credit goes to our roads and motorways team for finding creative solutions. After spending taxpayer money to build the roads, then making taxpayers pay for them again via privately owned tolls, then making them pay again via vehicle registration fees, fuel taxes and subsidies to private construction companies, then making them pay again with exorbitant fines, parking fees and regular inefficient repairworks, it seemed like we had reached a limit of enriching ourselves at the expense of citizens. However our roads team has introduced ‘carbon social credits’ for all transport, which will allow us to transfer inflationary theft even to something as simple as using a footpath.”
First home subsidies
“...We were able to shut down small and medium businesses for two years, which really hid the 30% extra cash we printed and gave to ourselves. Unfortunately, Asset Inflation is a bit harder to sweep under the rug. Since we also decreased overall GDP, we now have poorer citizens with less purchasing power, trying to buy more expensive assets. We don’t want them to know that these assets are already promised to our multinational political donors, so we have raised the first home owners grant to $10,000.
It takes a little to understand just how this helps the average citizen, so let’s use an example.
Pre-covid, Johnny had a 20% deposit saved ($100,000) to buy a $500,000 home. We locked him up and stopped him from working, so he couldn’t get into the market so easily. This allowed us time to print 33% more currency and increase national debt by hundreds of billions. The increased currency pushed the home price up to $650,000 and the extra debt ensured variable home loan rates would go up.
Johnny now does not have enough deposit to buy the same home, and is liable to get upset. To avoid this, we offer him a $10,000 first home subsidy. This is just enough to keep Johhny working, but not enough that he attempts to make a purchase of the asset, which would push up the price and annoy our Chinese Communist Party/Great Reset Partners. Johnny will continue to get raises of 5-10% each year, but will never be able to match our asset inflation figures of 12-20%, and the high variable interest rates will further encourage the gap between wealthy and poor to widen. Johnny will choose to rent, and obviously, will be happier owning nothing. Meanwhile, we can spend the cash we printed and gave to ourselves in the short term to continue buying assets, and use the upcoming hyperinflation food, job and housing shortages to push through a central bank digital currency to replace the now worthless old currency.”
Did you hear that people, get ready for bread and circuses, or at least circuses. Hurrah!
1) Right now, I am listening to your critical thinking discussion with (Ceri Wood), thinking the same thing.
2) Today I read half of the book 'Rigged' (previously Game of Mates) by Cameron Murray and Paul Frijters. Aside from it being really good, it is incredible how close their well-researched conclusions are to what I thought was silly hyperbole only yesterday.
Ah, yes, the authoritative-sounding, prestigious ‘Foundations’. How we in the Old Left used to rail against them in the old days – Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie and other moguls using their wealth gained from worker exploitation and imperialist foreign policy to twist society further to their advantage. There is not so much railing by the New, identity-politics, Left, however. Still, if you’re going to make your peace with The System on Covid, ‘vaccines’, etc., why would you tear into elite organisations remaking society in the further interest of the elite.
The Foundatons include the fully-state-funded ones, too, like the National Science Foundation, who, rather than doing any actual science on Covid and its joke vaxx prefers to spend its time (and taxpayers’ money) on woke projects like how the hard sciences are full of ‘white supremacy’.
“Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study” just published in the journal ‘Physical Review Physics Education Research’ by two researchers whose “positionalities” are a “chronically ill and disabled, physics-Ph.D.-holding, thin wealthy white woman” (a professor of physics at Seattle Pacific University) and a black community organiser (no physics quals in sight) are advancing “equity in education that is not centered in white normativity” by unearthing and uprooting racism, white dominance and exclusivity in university physics education, and where ‘right answers’, especially when written down, are racist because they don’t recognise “ways of knowing that have not historically been recognized by physics (e.g., Eastern and Indigenous ways of knowing)” thus committing “epistemicide”.
And the whole idiotic paper, which goes on in this vein at some length, is a steal at just a $513,283 grant of the hard-earned of the plebs. All the peer-reviwers signed off on it, so they are certifiably crazy, too. The research paper does nothing to advance our knowledge of thermodynamics or superconductivity or gamma ray imaging but because it did splash a cool half million on a thin, chronically sick, white female and a bona fide male ‘Person of Color’ (getting only a compost heap in return) it should hold off the Woke police, I suppose, because “equity” is now being achieved in physics.
Sorry, for getting off topic, there but ……. Foundations! A damaging waste of space, the lot of ‘em.
"Within whiteness, the organization of social life is in terms of a center and margins that are based on dominance, control, and a transcendent figure that is consistently and structurally ascribed value over and above other figures. In this paper, we synthesize literature from Critical Whiteness Studies and Critical Race Theory to articulate analytic markers for whiteness, and use the markers to identify and analyze whiteness as it shows up in an introductory physics classroom interaction. We name mechanisms that facilitate the reproduction of whiteness in this local context, including a particular representation of energy, physics values, whiteboards, gendered social norms, and the structure of schooling. In naming whiteness and offering a set of analytic markers, our aim is to provide instructors and researchers with a tool for identifying whiteness in their own contexts. Alongside our discussion, which imagines new possibilities for physics teaching and learning, we hope our work contributes to Critical Whiteness Studies’ goal of dismantling whiteness."
And how is this not racist: "In this paper, in most cases we choose not to capitalize white and do choose to capitalize Black, Hispanic, and Students or People of Color. (The exception is when referring to Critical Whiteness Studies, which is a formal term that is capitalized in the literature.) This choice is informed by critical scholarship and activism, such as that by Dumas and the PoC in PER group [9,10]. For example, Dumas writes that Black is a “self-determined name of a racialized social group that shares a specific set of histories, cultural processes, and imagined and performed kinships.” White, on the other hand, is a socially constructed category that was created for the purposes of dominance and exclusion; it “does not describe a group with a sense of common experiences or kinship outside of acts of colonization or terror.”
Ah, eugenics! The link makes perfect sense. It is unfashionable these days to be an outright selectivist so what better way to cull the ‘useless eaters’ than to practically mandate a population-wide, regular novel ‘vaccine’ that has negative efficacy and which results in significantly increased all-cause mortality, seemingly taking out the older and more disabled at higher rates. Sure, it also eliminates quite a few healthy, younger people but a little bit of collateral damage from such a blunt instrument is to be expected.
Such a conspiracist way of thinking is not for me – I still put the Covid fiasco down to outrageously stupid politics from our outrageously stupid rulers who are unable to engage in critical thinking, or engage in actual ‘evidence-based’ policy’, and who went down the ‘must be seen to be doing something’ road, culminating in the cul-de-sac of mass jabbing and are now in denial about its hideous cost in human lives and well-being; anything other than admitting they got it terribly wrong. But I can see the fertile ground that the Mercury affair provides for those who entertain darker thoughts.
I have no doubt that our 'rulers' were just acting incompetently. But I also think that their incompetence was channelled in a particular direction, by people who are very far from incompetent. This is the 'rings within rings within rings' structure that Carroll Quigley described in Tragedy & Hope. Only those in the innermost ring know the plan. The further out one is from the centre, the less clue one has.
I must confess, my politics were left-leaning earlier in life (like many, I guess), but I've become more and more suspicious of leftist ideology the more years I've lived on this planet. The reality is that socialism was always an elite project; most of the so-called working class wanted nothing to do with it.
Thank you for being willing to read this and expose yourself to deeply uncomfortable truths. Most people seem not to have the courage or integrity to do so.
I knew next to nothing about any of this until 2020. My suspicions about the COVID measures - which didn't make any scientific sense - led me to stumble across independent journalists like James Corbett and Richard Grove. I did a crash course on the way the world really works, which was utterly destabilising and demoralising. It took about a year for me to really get my head around it all, and that was a dark time. Now I feel much calmer about it all, and just really determined to get the message out to as many people as I can. They/them/those can only do what they want to do to us if we let them.
The more I read about these things the more anti-vaccine I become.
Can't say I blame you.
Regardless of the existence of viruses or not (and I don't think that they exist in how we presently understand them) I don't think that there has ever been a good vaccine. Not unless you're a eugenicist and your understanding of 'good' is different than mine.
I suspect that it's theoretically possible to develop a vaccine that offers more benefit than risk but I don't think that any of the ones on the current childhood or adult schedule fit that bill.
I don't think that it's possible. But I guess we can agree on the "don't think that any of the ones on the current childhood or adult schedule fit that bill."
Another beauty, thanks Robyn.
Here's the Empowered comment section ridiculousness :)
Handouts are coming!
Following decades of successful inflationary theft by fiat currencies, The Deep State has announced plans to replicate the model in other areas. Here are some excerpts from their report, entitled “Spending the next generation’s equity on yourself”
Education
“....In education, we are tired of providing a set number of hours to each child. The new model will allocate 6 hours of schooling per day to each child redeemable as coupons, but we will then print 6 additional hours of schooling coupons per child, and we will give most of them to state schools, and some of them to existing students as ‘school hour’ handouts. This will create the illusion of extra hours of schooling, but in reality, the public schools will now be using their additional coupons to take lunch breaks, effectively halving contact teaching hours.”
Roads
“...Full credit goes to our roads and motorways team for finding creative solutions. After spending taxpayer money to build the roads, then making taxpayers pay for them again via privately owned tolls, then making them pay again via vehicle registration fees, fuel taxes and subsidies to private construction companies, then making them pay again with exorbitant fines, parking fees and regular inefficient repairworks, it seemed like we had reached a limit of enriching ourselves at the expense of citizens. However our roads team has introduced ‘carbon social credits’ for all transport, which will allow us to transfer inflationary theft even to something as simple as using a footpath.”
First home subsidies
“...We were able to shut down small and medium businesses for two years, which really hid the 30% extra cash we printed and gave to ourselves. Unfortunately, Asset Inflation is a bit harder to sweep under the rug. Since we also decreased overall GDP, we now have poorer citizens with less purchasing power, trying to buy more expensive assets. We don’t want them to know that these assets are already promised to our multinational political donors, so we have raised the first home owners grant to $10,000.
It takes a little to understand just how this helps the average citizen, so let’s use an example.
Pre-covid, Johnny had a 20% deposit saved ($100,000) to buy a $500,000 home. We locked him up and stopped him from working, so he couldn’t get into the market so easily. This allowed us time to print 33% more currency and increase national debt by hundreds of billions. The increased currency pushed the home price up to $650,000 and the extra debt ensured variable home loan rates would go up.
Johnny now does not have enough deposit to buy the same home, and is liable to get upset. To avoid this, we offer him a $10,000 first home subsidy. This is just enough to keep Johhny working, but not enough that he attempts to make a purchase of the asset, which would push up the price and annoy our Chinese Communist Party/Great Reset Partners. Johnny will continue to get raises of 5-10% each year, but will never be able to match our asset inflation figures of 12-20%, and the high variable interest rates will further encourage the gap between wealthy and poor to widen. Johnny will choose to rent, and obviously, will be happier owning nothing. Meanwhile, we can spend the cash we printed and gave to ourselves in the short term to continue buying assets, and use the upcoming hyperinflation food, job and housing shortages to push through a central bank digital currency to replace the now worthless old currency.”
Did you hear that people, get ready for bread and circuses, or at least circuses. Hurrah!
Oof, this is so good, it hurts! If you start your own Substack, I'm going to invite you to do a guest post.
Some coincidences worthy of mention:
1) Right now, I am listening to your critical thinking discussion with (Ceri Wood), thinking the same thing.
2) Today I read half of the book 'Rigged' (previously Game of Mates) by Cameron Murray and Paul Frijters. Aside from it being really good, it is incredible how close their well-researched conclusions are to what I thought was silly hyperbole only yesterday.
Yep, cronyism is universal. Wherever there is a state, corruption follows.
That is rather brilliant if I may say so.
Ah, yes, the authoritative-sounding, prestigious ‘Foundations’. How we in the Old Left used to rail against them in the old days – Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie and other moguls using their wealth gained from worker exploitation and imperialist foreign policy to twist society further to their advantage. There is not so much railing by the New, identity-politics, Left, however. Still, if you’re going to make your peace with The System on Covid, ‘vaccines’, etc., why would you tear into elite organisations remaking society in the further interest of the elite.
The Foundatons include the fully-state-funded ones, too, like the National Science Foundation, who, rather than doing any actual science on Covid and its joke vaxx prefers to spend its time (and taxpayers’ money) on woke projects like how the hard sciences are full of ‘white supremacy’.
“Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study” just published in the journal ‘Physical Review Physics Education Research’ by two researchers whose “positionalities” are a “chronically ill and disabled, physics-Ph.D.-holding, thin wealthy white woman” (a professor of physics at Seattle Pacific University) and a black community organiser (no physics quals in sight) are advancing “equity in education that is not centered in white normativity” by unearthing and uprooting racism, white dominance and exclusivity in university physics education, and where ‘right answers’, especially when written down, are racist because they don’t recognise “ways of knowing that have not historically been recognized by physics (e.g., Eastern and Indigenous ways of knowing)” thus committing “epistemicide”.
And the whole idiotic paper, which goes on in this vein at some length, is a steal at just a $513,283 grant of the hard-earned of the plebs. All the peer-reviwers signed off on it, so they are certifiably crazy, too. The research paper does nothing to advance our knowledge of thermodynamics or superconductivity or gamma ray imaging but because it did splash a cool half million on a thin, chronically sick, white female and a bona fide male ‘Person of Color’ (getting only a compost heap in return) it should hold off the Woke police, I suppose, because “equity” is now being achieved in physics.
Sorry, for getting off topic, there but ……. Foundations! A damaging waste of space, the lot of ‘em.
Jesus H. Christ, I had to look this one up just to make sure you weren't pulling my leg. Or maybe that it was another prank by Boghossian, Pluckrose and Lindsay. But there it is, in all its glory, at https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119. Get a load of this tosh:
"Within whiteness, the organization of social life is in terms of a center and margins that are based on dominance, control, and a transcendent figure that is consistently and structurally ascribed value over and above other figures. In this paper, we synthesize literature from Critical Whiteness Studies and Critical Race Theory to articulate analytic markers for whiteness, and use the markers to identify and analyze whiteness as it shows up in an introductory physics classroom interaction. We name mechanisms that facilitate the reproduction of whiteness in this local context, including a particular representation of energy, physics values, whiteboards, gendered social norms, and the structure of schooling. In naming whiteness and offering a set of analytic markers, our aim is to provide instructors and researchers with a tool for identifying whiteness in their own contexts. Alongside our discussion, which imagines new possibilities for physics teaching and learning, we hope our work contributes to Critical Whiteness Studies’ goal of dismantling whiteness."
And how is this not racist: "In this paper, in most cases we choose not to capitalize white and do choose to capitalize Black, Hispanic, and Students or People of Color. (The exception is when referring to Critical Whiteness Studies, which is a formal term that is capitalized in the literature.) This choice is informed by critical scholarship and activism, such as that by Dumas and the PoC in PER group [9,10]. For example, Dumas writes that Black is a “self-determined name of a racialized social group that shares a specific set of histories, cultural processes, and imagined and performed kinships.” White, on the other hand, is a socially constructed category that was created for the purposes of dominance and exclusion; it “does not describe a group with a sense of common experiences or kinship outside of acts of colonization or terror.”
We're entering a new Dark Age.
Ah, eugenics! The link makes perfect sense. It is unfashionable these days to be an outright selectivist so what better way to cull the ‘useless eaters’ than to practically mandate a population-wide, regular novel ‘vaccine’ that has negative efficacy and which results in significantly increased all-cause mortality, seemingly taking out the older and more disabled at higher rates. Sure, it also eliminates quite a few healthy, younger people but a little bit of collateral damage from such a blunt instrument is to be expected.
Such a conspiracist way of thinking is not for me – I still put the Covid fiasco down to outrageously stupid politics from our outrageously stupid rulers who are unable to engage in critical thinking, or engage in actual ‘evidence-based’ policy’, and who went down the ‘must be seen to be doing something’ road, culminating in the cul-de-sac of mass jabbing and are now in denial about its hideous cost in human lives and well-being; anything other than admitting they got it terribly wrong. But I can see the fertile ground that the Mercury affair provides for those who entertain darker thoughts.
Thanks for your investigative work on this.
I have no doubt that our 'rulers' were just acting incompetently. But I also think that their incompetence was channelled in a particular direction, by people who are very far from incompetent. This is the 'rings within rings within rings' structure that Carroll Quigley described in Tragedy & Hope. Only those in the innermost ring know the plan. The further out one is from the centre, the less clue one has.
That has been exactly my understanding of communism for about 10 years or so as well.
"it’s a big club, and you ain’t it:" - It's easy to tell the current members of this 'big club' as it includes nonsense on pronouns and gender.
I must confess, my politics were left-leaning earlier in life (like many, I guess), but I've become more and more suspicious of leftist ideology the more years I've lived on this planet. The reality is that socialism was always an elite project; most of the so-called working class wanted nothing to do with it.
Yep. And same.
Thank you for being willing to read this and expose yourself to deeply uncomfortable truths. Most people seem not to have the courage or integrity to do so.
I knew next to nothing about any of this until 2020. My suspicions about the COVID measures - which didn't make any scientific sense - led me to stumble across independent journalists like James Corbett and Richard Grove. I did a crash course on the way the world really works, which was utterly destabilising and demoralising. It took about a year for me to really get my head around it all, and that was a dark time. Now I feel much calmer about it all, and just really determined to get the message out to as many people as I can. They/them/those can only do what they want to do to us if we let them.