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What kills me, and I don't mean to get into the other hot-button issue here but I will, is that with all this twisting and turning and outright lying, people actually think these same institutions (US government, media, etc.) are going to tell the truth about what's going on in Ukraine or anything else. We've passed the point of nihilism in regards to the trust one can put in government institutions and media.

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At some point you have lied so much that you don’t know the truth anymore. So grateful for Substack and writers like Gato.

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Most of us know all too well that we are being lied to and that things will inevitably be getting worse. The truth will become obvious in to not too long a time. Heads will then have to roll.

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I would love to think this will happen, but I'm not so sure at this point.

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Ukraine is a distraction. Just ignore it.

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Except they are using it to continue their plans of undermining the West.

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Yes and No. The psychopaths LOVE that it's taking attention away from the fatal impacts of the "vaccine". However, the Ukraine stuff is also the same NWO who imposed the jabs trying to get rid of someone who stands in their path to global domination. Love him or hate him, Putin has to stand strong on this. The poor old people of Ukraine are piggy in the middle here.

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A brutal but honest assessment of the situation here. Thank you.

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Corpses standing up in the rear mirror, after the camera is done filming

https://rumble.com/vzj7jo-ukraine-war-staged-footage-of-the-ukrainian-psyop.html

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Oh, wow, thank you for posting that.

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I know very little about Putin, (though the media claims to know his every thought) I do know my own government though and have absolutely no confidence in their methods or motives. The minute they started talking about Putin's false flag...I knew, I just knew.

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"Ukraine on Fire" documentary by Oliver Stone provides an excellent reporting and analysis of the history of Ukraine/Russia affairs and USA/Nato involvement leading up to 2016.

Not surprisingly this documentary is now apparently very difficult to find (the USA elites always try to hide the truth of their involvement!). The USA was not comfortable with there being missiles in Cuba ( hence the Cuban Missile Crisis), and Putin doesn't want Nato/USA on Russia's doorstep either - this should come as no surprise. If you are interested in learning about the history of the region another good source is John Mearsheimer who has many talks available on youtube (hopefully they have not yet been pulled).

The media is putting whatever spin on the situation that they are told to by those that fund them. They can not be counted on to provide any truth on any subject unfortunately.

The majority of the citizens of Ukraine are unfortunately pawns trapped in a horrible battle of global elites. However, the situation there is no more 'black and white' than the situation with covid is. The narrative of 'vaccine 100% safe and effective, all alternative treatments bad' has now pivoted to 'Russia/Putin bad, USA/Nato good'. The truth is much more complex.

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This article also provides a more detailed dive into Ukraine and offers a perspective never to be seen/heard via msm.

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need-to-know/

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Well said.

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But the government telling you Putin is possibly planning a false flag operation . . . the assertion itself is their evidence. 😆

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According to my left wing colleagues he's "literally Hitler"!

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Specially the media. Government will always lie, deflect, hide info, etc. But when the media goes along and even promotes the government narrative, then we're doomed.

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This time they are finally telling the truth.

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Charlie Brown thought the same.

Landed on his ass again.

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I think the truth is closer to ' Both sides Suck'

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Maybe, but the problem is that Russia has a legitimate claim in this conflict. The West promised since 1991 not to push Nato an inch eastwards. Since then, Nato has doubled its size, even though the threat for which it was created has been gone for 30 years. The last straw was the US-funded color revolution in 2014. If Putin had tried on in Mexico a 10th of what America has done in Ukraine, America would have been nuking Russia by now. For all his faults, Putin (and China) are the only thing that stands in the way of the globalists.

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Oh, no doubt....it's part of why I say Both sides suck. " We" are part of ' Side Ukraine!'... but we set this up. However..... Russia and Putin are going a bit psycho on the population. Take the Donbas and Lugan( spelling.ugh...its early)Having said that, we're also not getting the Real Picture on the ground...green screens and Hollyweird scripts from an actor...

Lara Logan is my hero. Real journals also are... it gets more horrific and surreal every day.

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A false flag is one sided.

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What a shit show. Thank you for all you do - which is a helluva lot!

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Basically a boosted Ponzi scheme.

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Exactly right. Been trying to explain this whole time the issue with claiming those within 14 days of injection as unvaxxed. And now those that are only twice vaxxed are starting to see the issue.

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"they do not make mistakes, they make choices"

This is so important for people to understand. Whether it is the "evolving science" around Covid or the "updated intelligence" for Hunter Biden's laptop and everything in between the truth is a casualty. Messaging has been conflated with journalism and the effectiveness exceeds Orwell. Thank our lucky stars for you and the other truth seekers who keep critical thinking alive.

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it's also important to understand that the FDA should have caught this in 20 minutes.

these trial designs should never have been accepted.

they too, along with all the health agencies that are reporting these standards have become complicit.

even if some of them got fooled and played for useful idiots, the time in which they could plead ignorance of this rigging has long passed.

this is what makes such agencies so potentially dangerous as they swerve into serving constituencies other than the public.

it is far more dangerous to believe you are wearing a helmet when you are not than to have never worn one at all.

and trusting these guys is looking more and more like stepping out onto the gridiron wearing pads made of paper mache.

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If one believes the premise of a depopulation scheme (which I do), this outcome is the feature & not the bug. And yes, the FDA, CDC, WHO, world “leaders” & all the other evil actors have known from the beginning

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+1.

It is the only conclusion that fits all available evidence. Every decision they have made was malign, over decades. Random distribution of decisionmaking would sometimes have delivered us the better option. How can anyone justify outlawing well proven medicines at the beginning of a pandemic, for 'safety'?

And reaching that realisation is devastating. So much so that most refuse to consider any of it. Because when you do there is no stopping condition - much like the clot Shots - you start to see 99% of what we thought we knew was nothing but lies.

Now, we're in their endgame, their moves are made obvious and their need to hide is past. The psychopathic advisor to Dr Evil states openly there will be many less humans on the planet, soon. Equates us with animals. Thinks everything about us is understood perfectly - when we can't get simple Shots of other types to work safely, when our approach to medical treatment is often a sledgehammer for a splinter. When 'medicine' kills 200k Americans a year.

Fatally, they believe that they can apply their perfect knowledge in all domains under their 4th IR - everything from lettuce leaf tracking to WFH monitoring and CCP style social controls - to do what the Bolsheviks could never do, on a global scale. But the motive is the same. The pure evil is the same. Their appetite has changed, and it has only grown. That is who these people are, the same hand has been eroding our societies for a century, and they are casting aside their masks as they sprint to the finish.

Their hubris will lead to their downfall, but we will have to get our hands dirty also. Gardening, of course. Carpentry. Rope making. That kind of thing.

Or we cower and live in their digital prison as slaves for what is left of our lives, until we catch a Hot Lot for the regular booster. Or ADE catches up to us. Or any seasonal ailment knocks us out due to the VAIDS.

That is a decision we each make for ourselves. Remember that 30-70% of people are sleepwalking into that prison, right now. Of the remainder, how many will stand?

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It is true; the realization is absolutely devastating & overwhelming but still I see & consider it.

All my life through 2019, I just wanted to live my little life in the embrace of family, friends & productive work AND be left alone. Of course I know government had been intruding malevolently more & more, but my day-to-day routine seemed relatively “normal”.

I’ve withstood the pressure so far & have no intent to cower & hope to have courage, but I’m so frightened of how bad it could get - but not how dirty our hands

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Same here, Cindi. My rant was not aimed at you, apologies if it seemed that way.

I only started waking up in 2020, and for real in 2021. There is a lot of catching up to do. As I have learned various things it has been incredibly upsetting, and fear for the future is encroaching with each new data point. As a full time wage slave in a demanding sector for 2 decades, I just didn't have time to reassess anything, until certain incongruous data points penetrated my consciousness/sleepwalking. So I followed those threads.

My faith in everything has been decimated. But my resolve has hardened. Getting to my revised goal will be challenging but I can see that goal so clearly. And the goal has nothing to do with being a wage slave. An off-grid homestead is the starting point.

One day at a time.

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No apologies necessary, I didn’t take it that way @ all, & I’m in exactly same boat - being unaware until March 2020 & more & more angry & frightened w/ each passing day & month. Terrified now that they’ve gotten so far into their plans that we don’t have the numbers or power to turn it back. I want to hope, though

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"My faith in everything has been decimated. But my resolve has hardened." Great sentence. I'm sure you speak for many here.

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Well done, Cindi. People like you are what will get us through this! It's been very lonely and disheartening seeing nearly everyone outside my immediate family fall for The Lie. And now, with Spring, everyone is acting like it never happened. The big cycling tour is passing through our town and everyone is obsessed with that. All just one big happy family again with no hard feelings!

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O, I know! And I’ve got both friends AND family who bought in, although I was never “disowned”. Your words & those of many others here & in other blogs help maintain my sanity & give me hope that there are others everywhere that see & feel the things I do, & that I’m NOT crazy

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They knew about OAS, they knew they were setting up the people to fall. It’s depopulation 100%. This has been in the planning for years. I’m dreading the rest of the year. Neighbours where I live are having infection after infection, they didn’t heed the warnings.

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Workplaces are being dessimated by people calling in sick. How are the vaccine mandates working out for you now Saab Inc. (my ex-workplace)? Here I am healthy sitting at home unemployed because science. Karma is a bitch.

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True, Skyhawk. So many people around me are down with weird coughs, colds and fevers. And do I need to say that they are all jabbed? And NONE of them puts two and two together. It's always "Thank God I was tripled jabbed or it could have been fatal!"

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Agree 1000%

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It's all working "as designed"...

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Exactly.

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The cdc, fda, and nih all need to be disbanded. Most of the top leadership should be awaiting the trials for crimes against humanity. Of course that won’t happen. 😞

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I follow Reiner Fuellmich's Grand Jury from time to time. I'm not sure if it's real or not. Some people he gets to give evidence are great; others are kooks. I hope it leads to something.

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Four 'experts' I've seen cited by the sceptic side were peddling unscientific nonsense. He needs to avoid calling them as witnesses if this ever gets to a trial.

Has he dealt before with the sector that received the largest criminal fine in history? I'm not aware that critics of car-makers or banks - two of his past legal targets - are so prone to die mysteriously.

The Governor of California did seem to believe the nonsense. He took time off for a vac. injury. He's said to be one of the WEF's young global leaders ... it makes you wonder ...

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I absolutely agree, & of course the fact that the world acted in lockstep & has mandated everyone on the planet to be jabbed or lose their jobs & normal social (& survival!) activities of normal society - all for something w/ a 99.7% survivability for just about everyone, screams nefarious purpose.

They should all be strung up but the evil ones (Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, Clintons, Nobummers, ad nauseum NEVER ARE. It’s sooo disheartening.

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It may happen this time though. If their depopulation scheme works and it appears to be going to plan, then at some point there will be massive ructions and these evil people will be in danger of facing due retribution.

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Especially since those left on the earth will be the unshotted. They will have to kill us in some other way. But they won't be able to. God wins in the end.

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I've heard rumors about chem trails, or putting the “vaccine” poisons into food or water, or even non-injectable ability somehow. Don’t know if any of that is true, but since 2020 I’ll believe any bad thing that I could never have imagined up to 2019. And the single minded hysteria of our “betters” to “vaccinate” every person on the planet (& multiple times, no less) makes killing us in some other way entirely plausible.

And then of course there are the supply chain issues, potential for WWIII but nuclear / bio / chemical this time & possible global famine coming soon. I’m scared out of my wits.

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If it is depopulation, then they will be killing off the sheep. The more determined and freedom loving types will be around to ask them a few questions...

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I hope you’re right; but as the massively vax’d continue to succumb in great numbers to illness & death, Im afraid they’ll continue to try to demonize & stigmatized those of us unvax’d. After all, they have the collaborative media to hype the propaganda to the sheeples

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The problem with that is that even though the unjabbed are a minority, they are still a large minority. Even 10% of my own small nation is 800'000. And that doesn't include those who have taken a jab or even two but don't want to go further. At the moment, it all seems to have calmed down as if we've given in. I think it's just the lull before the storm.

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How many of those got the jab? Even some of them do appear to really believe in it

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I think the real powers “behind the throne” - esp the politicians, Hollywood type, other “celebrities” & the rich & powerful who make a spectacle by doing it on TV - have gotten saline because they KNOW the real purpose. That doesn’t mean that some of those dopes didn’t take the real thing, because the dumber &/or less powerful or less popular or influential are expendable to “the cause” anyway

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I hung out without someone who works with pharam. She said "big pharma and FDA are one in the same so there's no reason to question the data."

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Pandemic of actual complete inability to think.

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In Canada, our version of the FDA is 90% financed by big Pharma. Not a fair fight for the plebes

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Oh Art… how did you escape 90’s sitcoms?

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He's an importer/exporter, so escape was easy.

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She is right in a sense. Revolving door pharma to FDA and back again. But if your friend was smart s/he should know that that's actually the biggest reason to question the data.

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Apr 10, 2022·edited Apr 10, 2022

Agreed!

This is regulatory capture. How in the world would that be a reason to not question the data???

This person’s thinking seems to be a micro example of pharma.

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Nonsensical

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For what it's worth, I know someone who got hired in Feb. of 2021 to manage a set of C0VID drug trials for Pfizer. She is still working on those today; they are injecting pregnant women with the hope their babies come out filled with mRNA. Really.

I tried (which is almost impossible, since she is a typical mask Karen) to talk to her about a substack from someone else that covered the unblinding process that should not have been done in one of the early trials.

Her response was immediate and extremely hostile, to say the least. She passionately believes that they HAD to unblind the studies so the participants could get the vaxxines. If they did NOT get the vaxxine, they would die. In her world, c0vid equals death. I suspect there are many brainwashed people like her who really believe the lies, and think they are indeed doing God's work pushing the poison death jab. They believe they are saving humanity.

Anecdotally, her health seems to be on the sketchy side lately, and her adult son has "long covid" which may or may not mean vaxx damaged. She's told me some of the problems he's having, and it sounds to me like he could be having some prion based brain issues.

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What I find staggering (or maybe not) is how IQ has very little to do with whether one sees the truth of jabs. My father in law and wife's cousin are both archetypal snobby intellectuals and fell hook, line and sinker for the lies. Our cleaning lady, my barber, the guy who runs the local workingman's café all knew instinctively from the start that this was all BS. What gives?

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The former type you refer to are uncharitably called 'midwits' in some parts of the net. They have enough intelligence and education to not feel like they're at the bottom of the stack any more, but this stokes a level of vanity which makes them think they're actually at the top. 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing', as they say. In reality this kind of person is very average (like most of us) in terms of intelligence, while their ego makes them prone to even more self-destructive and counterintuitive judgements than many people less educated than themselves.

https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/

The study linked in this article surveyed 5 million Americans and found that the least educated and the most educated were the groups most hesitant to get the jabs. An average person seems most likely to take lies at face value and happily relay them onwards. However it also showed that the lesser educated were most likely to soften their skeptical views after several months of propaganda exposure - while the Phd educated actually became slightly MORE jab-skeptical over the same period.

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My personal experience is that political viewpoint seems to matter more than level of education. My husbands sisters have a bachelors and masters respectively; they are injected and boosted. I have a friend who teaches nursing (has a masters) who was forced to take it. My husband works with people with PhDs and Masters, and they ALL have taken it. In fact, in the lab/office, he is the ONLY person who has not been injected. Anecdotally, most of the people we know who have been injected are Democrats; two are GOPe. Also... the majority of African Americans we know are NOT; one was forced, due to her job.

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I just spoke with a friend (triple jabbed) who was completely taken aback when I told him the vaxxed are 3 times as likely to get infected. He currently has COVID. His wife has remained unvaxxed due to an extremely fortunate allergy to one of the ingredients. I told him she'd dodged a bullet. It's hard to discuss the matter with vaccinated people you care about because you've only got bad news for them and I don't see how they can helped.

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Agreed. I was discussing this with my younger sister. She and her husband are vaccinated. They also had their two children vaccinated. I told her how polluted the data is and shared Gato's analogy of running from the foxhole to the bunker. I could see the alarm in her eyes. I told her the good new is they made it to the bunker. They are not going to get the booster.

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That’s all we can sometimes do, help them get off the booster train.

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They made it to the bunker. They didn't get shot. They may have picked up a ticking time bomb in the field and brought it with them.

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Kudos, Athena. You may well have saved their lives. My birth family is completely gone. I will never see my aged mother again because I am an "unjabbed" threat to her. She has breast cancer and COPD, both of which are being aggravated by the 3 shots she took. I guess I will see her in the Great Beyond.

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So sorry Steghorn.

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At 47 years of age, an acquaintance began breast cancer treatment in 2016 and was deemed "no evidence of disease" upon completion in early 2017. In late 2020 during a routing follow up, cancer was again found so she began more treatment, during which she wrote: "Fully vaccinated as of April 29 [2021]. No drama. No side effects. Much mental relief. Wish everyone would just do it."

On 11 September 2021: "Got my booster, woohooo!"

She passed away on 8 April 2022 at 53.

May she RIP.

I have to wonder if the shots prevented her treatments from ultimately being successful.

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There is no way to help them. Attended a family function today and was only one out of 16 people unjabbed. Went through the UK data with a few and they refused to believe the data. So many people exhibiting some of the worst psychological biases like confirmation/anchoring/herd following etc. So many can’t bring themselves to believe the risk reward of these injections are terrible for folks without comorbidities. All at the event have had Covid in the last 3 months except your truly. Everyone who had it are convinced that without the jab, they would have been hospitalized. Spent most of the afternoon on my own away from the madness. Can’t believe how devoid most people are of critical thinking skills. Quite disheartening indeed

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Yep. You can show them the data. You can show them the source of the data. You can show them that it ain't from Breitbart or Alex Jones or Fox News. It's the UK health service's own data. They still won't get it. Same with the insurance actuaries data. These people HAVE to be honest or they go bankrupt or go to prison. Again, no effect.

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I'm nearly 70 years old but I'm fit and healthy. I am a pure blood who shook off Covid in six days back in January with extra doses of D3, C, zinc, Quercetin, melatonin, and aspirin. Forcing me to submit will not go well: "The stand-off ended in a hail of bullets" will be the last line of the news article.

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022

""The stand-off ended in a hail of bullets" will be the last line of the news article."

I prefer an ending like this: "The bodies were stacked up like cordwood. The suspect is still at large."

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Agreed. It's not worth living in such a society anyway. I'm still hoping, however, that there will be some justice and clarity of thought before we get to that stage. Even the Germans and Austrians are rolling back their measures, and I see fewer and fewer masks where I live. It's going to be hard to re-instate it all in the autumn.

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Lovely to see you el gato! Have two weeks already zoomed by that quickly, or is this a special dispatch from vacationland?

Whatever the case, thank you for your continued diligence and for being a model Badass German (maybe that should be modified to Badcatass (err, that sounds a bit unpleasant, so let's go with Badasscat) for you):

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/are-you-a-good-german-or-a-badass

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I thought he said he was going to be away ".... months" ? - I knew it wouldn't be easy; years back I could and did take near complete months long hiatus from "the news" (mostly missed the crash of 2008) - now? - I find a single day difficult.

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I checked his original post (https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pressing-paws), and he said a couple of weeks, and it has already been a couple of weeks! Holy cat shite, that went fast!

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I bet it was too fast for the Bad Cat too! Me....I waited anxiously for his return. 😀❤️

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I, too, was anxious. Because too. And also there are the concerns spaying, neutering and declawing. I want none of that for our gracious friend.

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And yes, there definitely was a hole at Substack during his absence.

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😹 That's why I never take vacations 😹

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Any idea where she went? CATalonia, MusCAT and Oman, CATania? That's enough cat puns (ed.)

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A delight that Gato has returned from vacation. I was about to go buy a cat.

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Umm...you can't buy a cat. Every now and again, though, you will be fortunate enough to meet a cat that will allow you to serve them. 😸

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A nod of respect to you, Ms. P.

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Cats are now recruiting staff, I've heard.

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Isn't life just one big vacation for cats anyway? Dog owner here. Be nice to me.

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This made me chuckle!

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This is a great article and indeed, the vaccinated will find themselves reinfected endlessly. As a result, due to immunosuppressive nature of Covid, they will lose whatever they have left of their immune system, leading to an analogue of AIDS and so called "Chronic Covid". Chronic Covid is a condition of constant contagious Covid infection that does not clear.

Large population level changes may soon occur.

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this is, indeed, the great fear.

it's an outcome so bleak and dire that i think people are struggling to even look at it.

(it might also mean that every life insurer in the developed world may be in real trouble as this would change actuarial tables dramatically)

i'm still hoping there is some issue of process back toward herd immunity provision that i have missed here, but some of the data from UK is starting to look very worrying in this regard.

(more on this shortly)

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It is indeed so frightening that people, myself included, are reluctant to think about it.

I overcame my reluctance and wrote an article:

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-covid-becoming-chronic-like-aids

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Stop the boosters and the human immune system will adapt. These shots are chemo. Stop the poisoning and let the body clear itself out. But that would require the mandates to end and we can't have that, can we?

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If it works that way. The impression I have is that the jab is even nastier than chemo. After all, unlike chemo, it's a bioweapon.

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I can think of one possible way that the worst outcome may be avoided. I am advising all in my circles to have an adequate stock of IVM on hand and treat every case of the sniffles and beyond with an early treatment protocol for C19. If enough people were to do that it may be possible to develop enough broad, multi-antigen natural immunity so that the losses to ADE could be reduced while herd immunity was achieved.

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The current actuaries already show a 400% increase in "sudden" deaths among working age people. A 10% increase happens ever 200 years. We are already here, folks! Will a sizeable number of people refusing to take the jab slow this down?

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One of my favorite YouTubers, Young Rippa, has been referring to the virus as Covaids for about a year.

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Eric July. 👍🏻

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Darling! Seems like it’s been ages since I’ve seen you around the Stacks, but maybe it’s just because I haven’t had time to keep up with the comments. In any case, 🤗

I like Young Rippa, too, and linked to one of his videos in my Recommendations Roundup, Down Under Edition:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/recommendations-roundup-2-down-under-41b

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Eh, I'm slowly pulling away from all comment sections. People are, in general, getting on my nerves again.

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😹 Aha, gotcha. Well, you’ve certainly gotta do what you’ve gotta do for your mental health. I had to do the same but mainly because I wouldn’t have time left for writing if I fall into the commentariat bottomless pit ;-)

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If the vaccinated started early treatment ASAP, would that prevent/slow the erosion of their immune system?

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if only it was just their immune systems that have been altered.

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Who knows? There are people here more qualified than me to answer this. I'd assume that the fewer jabs you take, the less damage long term to your immune system.

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Hard to argue with you, Igor. There is so much illness around me among those who are jabbed. Will they ever wake up?

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Wow, just jump back into the pack at 220 mph, why don’t you? It’s like your car was stealthily deposited back onto the speedway from an airplane mid-race.

It’s good to read the incredible analysis you bring to this topic once again. You were missed!

The ship seems to be tilting consistently toward OAS. And while there could be other explanations, the fact that the so-called authorities are again shifting their definitions and further limiting data release indicates a reactive ass-covering recognition of the same things you’re pointing out.

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I get the OAS part in relation to spike, that being the only part of the much larger intact virus.

But when a person is exposed to the live virus, their immune system samples all of the protein, and creates immune responses to the nucleoprotein, capsid etc

Are we to suspect that not only can’t vaccinated people make new immune responses to spike (because of OAS), but they cannot make immune responses to non-spike components?

If so, how does the body know that the bits of SARS-CoV-2 it hasn’t seen before (having only been vaccinated) aren’t to be responded to?

What would be expected to happen in response to completely new viruses, like one of the many which cause common colds?

I guess I’m trying to understand if what we call OAS is actually a wider issue of immunosuppression

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this seems to be the case, yes.

there were a number of studies showing that those who were vaccinated produced far fewer (or no) N antibody responses post being challenged with live virus vs those who had not been vaccinated.

i'm not entirely sure on what pathway the generalized response is blocked (but have someone i'll ask who might know). i've just seen the empirical outcomes data, i'm not sure the functional pathway is known.

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Thank you. I’m not sure it’s even known how these things happen. Immunology is astonishingly complicated & beautiful. I really hope that c19 “vaccination” doesn’t have adverse immunological effects that are generalised. But if I was guessing, I expect the effects are generalised. If so, some proportion of the multiply jabbed are going to suffer repeated infections, not just with SARS-CoV-2 & also get cancers at elevated rates.

Thank you for what you do. You’re a medalist, to me, among the many who write regularly & keep your lighthouse going in this ghastly storm.

Mike

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There was some good news in the latest UKHSA report, though. The blood donor surveillance of anti-N Abs shows a rise to 45% (for weeks 5 to 12 2022) from 26.8% (for weeks 45 2021 to 4 2022), although the levels are still pretty flat for the older age cohorts. Of course, we have no idea how protective anti-N Abs are or how many "breakthrough" infections the vaxxed and boosted must endure to have durable immunity.

Since the jabbed are exposed via their airway, they might also develop IgA Abs in the mucosal tissue to some of viral proteins.

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It seems that continual exposure to a loaded dose of spike protein sensitizes the immune system to preferentially create antibodies to spike protein even when both spike and nucleocap present. This seems to also impact those who have recovered before from covid and have also been vaccinated, iirc.

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-vax-you-can-never-achieve-full-immunity-again-government-stats-unveil-horrifying-truth/5759472

FTA: “What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection to produce antibodies against not just the spike protein but other pieces of the virus. Specifically, vaccinated people don’t seem to be producing antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, the shell of the virus, which are a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people.”

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Recently I have seen a chart which does show the N antibodies rising in the UK. Although, if I recall, the percentage wasn't particularly high. Much more investigation is required.

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Quite awhile back I came across a fascinating article and then a video that gave a layman's explanation, and it sure sounded logical even though I really don't know if it's true or not. The video used the analogy of a football team, and it discussed non-specific and specific antibodies. They said the innate immune system produced non specific antibodies that could go after all viral invaders. However, the vaccines cause the body to produce antibodies that are specific to the Covid 19 spike protein, and that when confronted with other non-C19 viruses the body wouldn't attack them. What was more frightening was that over time, they said the non-specific ABs were overcome and killed off by the C19 specific antibodies, and eventually one would be vulnerable to almost anything you encountered. The body would continue to produce specific C19 antibodies to a virus that is essentially gone now, and these C19 antibodies were useless against other viruses. Does this sound correct? Wish I could find this again....

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If I understand Geert VDB correctly the correct expression is "outcompeted" rather than "killed off"

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A very apt analogy, seeing as how many soccer players are dropping dead.

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Cant it be toxic jab injury? Injecting poison directly into the body is going to cause adverse effects and the illness, a.k.a. “Covid”, is the detoxing of these poisons.

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I guess we're beginning to see why so many Pfizer, Moderna, CDC, and FDA employees decided to pass on the jab. No dummies they. Murderers, yes. Dummies, no.

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Can't we make it compulsory for them? Like the way they tried to make it for us?

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Has anything been published documenting the percentage of "unjabbed" Big Pharma employees?

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They were given an exemption, but Pfizer issued an ultimatum last fall. No reports on compliance. Fitting punishment, if so:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/pfizer-workers-vaccinated-face-disciplinary-action

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Big Pharma compliance numbers would be fascinating! We need more whistleblowers...

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Wow, that is very intriguing. Wonder why they want to kill off their own staff? Too many witnesses, or do they really believe that their jab works?

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Meanwhile in Canada, the vaccine procurement contracts signed with Pfizer and Moderna are 100 million doses in 2022, 95 million in 2023 and 95 million in 2024. 290 million doses divided by 39 million Canadians is 7.4 more doses per man, woman and child.

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It should not be surprising to see mRNA shot mandates extended to animals in the near future. A purported bird outbreak is the likely starting place. Then it’ll be “discovered” by university researchers in older dogs, horses, and perhaps cattle. The financial upside to this exponentially expanding market is too exciting for Big Harma not to create a reality to shape this Board of Directors-pleasing state of “reality.” Watch for it.

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The new horse paste.

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Right! But with this horse paste, they'll clean up $$

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The Libs and their enablers (NDP & MSM) can have mine. I do not consent.

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Interestingly, no massive contracts have been signed to bring in additional doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. J&J is a vaccine approved under Emergency Use Authorization by Health Canada, but is not mRNA and therefore does not require the lipid delivery system. The lipid delivery system is patented by a Canadian company.

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Which company has considerable ownership by the Trudeau Foundation.

Look up Arbutus Pharmaceuticals, its predecessor companies, and the LNP patent dispute with Moderna.

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They weren't doing it for a profit.

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Isn’t that the goal? Boosters every 120 days (4 months) so 3x per year

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If true, won’t this mean endless variants for everyone? Ps - welcome back

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In my mind worse--endless boosters for everyone. This legerdemain is the functional equivalent of a perpetual motion machine for vaccination. The concern should be for the vaccine-free because the harm caused is less apparent without any "control" group. Rather than admit error, it will be easier to eliminate the control group by forced vaccination.

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I suspect that social security benefits will be tied to vaccination status some day soon. The insurance industry will raise premiums severely on those who refuse the "vaccine" in order to coerce them into getting poisoned. Public/Private partnership!

We are dealing with evil people here. The world elite, unrestrained by fundamental religious morality--in fact opposed to it, have often decried the number of worthless people crowding their planet. They are acting out their fantasies now. When people tell you something, believe them.

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If they stick to raising premiums, I'll be fine. I refused Medicare B. Had to have a witness sign onto my refusal!

I don't think they can legally tie up SS payments that way. And if their claim that 99% of seniors are vaxxed, I doubt they'll bother with going after the 1% that way. Better to go after infants, whose lives are ahead of them 🤬

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That would be a good plan for tyranny. However, I have at least a little hope that insurance companies are still at their core capitalistic and prefer to make money rather than lose it. Vaxxed or boosted would be a higher risk to insure over unvaxxed or unboosted any way you cut it, so perhaps as that reality becomes more clear, they will act accordingly. Too optimistic?

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insurance companies can be bought off.

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"unrestrained by fundamental religious morality" - funny you should mention that - I finally got around to reading deTocqueville a few months back - and that is one of his big points: "Democracy in America" works precisely because everyone is "restrained" by a common set of (Christian) religious precepts/restraints (which define boundaries to political ambitions) - both officials and citizens alike; many believe sincerely; those who do not, feel constrained to act as if they do. Fast forward 190 years.... ....

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Democracy requires decency and integrity. You lose those and you get America 2022.

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We have done a fine job of removing religion from our moral guidance so much that even the Golden Rule can't be followed.

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Interesting. He's absolutely right, and Nietzsche echoes him with his "madman's" death of God speech.

historyguide.org/europe/madman.html

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seems to me that critical bit of Nietzsche is widely misunderstood; the madman was not celebrating the death of god (which he took to be a done deal, a fact of history) but warning his "last men" audience to be aware of the momentous nature of that event; instead they just snicker at him and are clueless as to just what that means for the culture. Last men lacking any access to the profound. Tocqueville, 50 years or so earlier, was aware that God was dying and did dread the approaching results.

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Yes, Nietzsche clearly comprehended what God's death would mean to Christian morality that underpinned society. The "atheists" in the square laugh at the madman, unaware of what the murder of God portends. Lots of Christians, me included, appreciate his writing and read him as a warning for what is to come.

"If you give up Christian faith, you pull the right to Christian morality out from under your feet. The morality is simply not self-evident: one has to bring this point home again and again, despite the English dimwits."--Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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The problem with any form of government, but especially democracy, is that the psychopaths always rise to the top. In the early vigorous stages of a young democracy, they are either kept out or constrained to curb their excesses. We are in the latter stages.

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They are exhibiting perfect fundamentalist religious behavior. All cults are the same.

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Actually given the excess death data, the insurance people may require evidence of not being vaccinated. The vaccinated are the ones at risk of premature death.

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The challenge, of which we are all aware, is how to stop it. They are so confident that they have made arrogantly public much of their agenda while tyrannical practices continue unabated. Knowledge does not seem to be enough to get us out of this as vital as it is for those of us attuned or so willing. I have lost faith in my former political Allie’s, so many of them complicit with the evils being perpetrated. I have never before felt so lost and impotent in this vile world. What is gratifying are those wise and courageous souls, like gato (and Maria Alice. among others) that keep us on target. As a recently retired prof and critically trained social scientist, I feel frankly impotent living in this newly recognized Wonderland. Gato and substack are thankfully there to offer some grounding.

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Hang tough, Athena McLean! The lies and gaslighting are meant to demoralize; it's all part of the plan. That you've not bent before the massive propaganda and demonization campaign is a huge feather in your cap.

I try to keep my spirits up by thinking that their "Great Reset" is also a great opportunity for ours. Our society, politics, culture is so utterly corrupt and vile, a complete reshuffling of the deck might not be such a bad idea and in fact a great legacy to leave behind to those who follow. They are in the seats of power, but we have the numbers. Speak out about the lies and the evil that is going on. They want to silence any opposing voices. This is a war and (vaccinated) bodies are just starting to pile up. We have only begun to fight.

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We do have the numbers. And it is NEVER the sheeplike majority who change things, but a determined minority.

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I wish I understood why some people succumb so easily to being demoralized, whereas others like those of us around here get very very angry. I'm furious about virtually everything I see around me these days. Everyone needs to be angry.

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The lies, gaslighting, and demonization are very hard to cope with, I assume. Plus, the sheer injustice of the situation: the people responsible for destroying the economy are trying to implode it (and upend out lives) under their guidance, leaving them in an unassailable position of dominance.

Add to it the nascent culling taking place, and the obvious nonchalance by a huge chunk of the populace, mix it all together and voila!... depression.

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I am also angry.

Then I think we are on a precipice.

We can prevail without a majority.

History does of an example.

The American Revolution.

Perhaps the light and truth will prevail.

We must not lose hope.

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Don't despair. The vast majority is on the fence when it comes to what is going on - covid restrictions and the state getting more and more power. For now, they don't feel the economic and social consequences. So they try their best to just ignore all the madness and live like it's 2019. But once the consequences will hit them, and they will, as the psychos plans will trigger an economic collapse, they won't swallow lightly all the lies anymore. They will remember what their 'crazy' friends kept telling them for the last couple of years. They will be able to put 2 and 2 together. The vast majority in the west will oppose this once the economic consequences hit them.

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I so hope you’re right. I’ve lost such faith & respect for my fellow man these past 2+ years….

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Correct. Look what is happening in Sri Lanka. The pols there are as corrupt as anywhere. Now they are nervously fingering their collars.

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The elite political class has long depended on the fact that so very many people do not inform themselves very well and also they have extremely short attention spans. This allows them to get away with a lot of tyranny by implementing it incrementally. The whole Covid thing was a sudden whammy that got everyone's attention, but when things ease up (temporarily?) people turn to other things again. However, as Clinton himself once said, "It's the economy, stupid." And that's something you just can't ignore, it's in your face every single day, every single thing you buy. You can't hide from it.

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Back in the mid-1980s as many of us in the west were celebrating the approaching downfall of the Soviet empire; I recall an interview (probably on the BBC) with a Polish dissident. In summing up, he said with some exasperation: "I just want to live in a normal country!" (i.e. not a post-Stalinesque totalitarian one). And now ... here we are, long post-Soviet and we find there ARE no normal countries remaining! Hell! - Belarus may be as close as you can get! - Orban, you want to believe in- but he administered a vicious vax-regieme .

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Lolz I am of an age where I never thought I'd be getting social security. And I haven't had health ins for 10 years. Wonder how they'll get someone like me to comply?

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They’d stop the SS payments and cut off your Medicare.

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Go ahead. I have neither now and am not planning on having either in the future. Fine. (In other words, I'm in my early 50s, and have prepared as best I can for the fact that I have never thought SS will be available to me. It's going bankrupt and we've known that for a long time.) I guess my other post sounded like I was already getting these benefits, sorry. I am not. And I don't expect to.

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I would have agreed if it was last year. Unfortunately the govt in its stupidity missed that boat and should have required shot-mandated SS benefits just like they did with workplaces. Now, insurance companies are losing money in death and sicknesses with shotted people and they know it. Either insurance companies get bailed out by big daddy to keep quiet, or they will soon be raising premiums on the shotted. Money talks.

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I think the government will swallow their debt, like they did with the banks during the financial crisis in 08.

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This was something already discussed that the Democrats refused to rule out. I expected it to happen, and still do. I no longer pine for universal health care like they have in Europe, Canada, etc. as that system is actually organized, unlike SS here where their computers are probably running Windows 1.

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Universal health care is minimal care on the cheap by hiring whichever minimally qualified "healthcare professionals" will accept a govt. paycheck. You can't provide good care to millions with diverse needs and the expansion of viable life on both ends without taxing the workers to, you know, death.

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Exactly right. I’m surprised they haven’t done it yet!

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Which is why we need to keep fighting mandates & collecting as much data as possible for the fight.

New Zealand just had a major legal win against Adern vax mandates. This is war.

Always remember; jabs delayed are jabs denied.

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Get yourself to Florida ASAP,

Gov DeSantis & Surgeon General Ladapo aren’t going to tolerate vaccine mandates in the Free State of Florida!

Seriously, though we are many, we’re too diluted spread across the nation.

If a larger, critical mass accumulated in Florida, we can - together - keep it on its feet through the next storm.

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Not to be Debbie Downer, but if the World Health Organization's new law passes and they get the power to override even red state laws, there will be nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

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I know. But there’s still the not small matter that an awakened population, if it has a high enough awake population, will just shrug at a WHO mandate, if its unconstitutional (which it will be).

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Dr Mike, you referenced your emigration to... somewhere? in a Steve Kirsch post. Where did you go? I can't figure out where to go to escape the mandates, once WHO kicks in...

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There is nowhere to go.

We chose Florida because it’s currently “free” & it’s sunny.

If we’ve not long, I’d rather be in a warm place.

Theoretically a single state could prepare well enough to protect itself from what’s coming, but I recognise that’s vanishingly unlikely.

The governor would need to be someone like me. I don’t mind if I don’t survive this & I don’t expect to. That utterly changes how you look at things.

It’s journeys end & I consider myself lucky to have come this far.

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Maybe Mars is the only place the WHO wouldn't have reach.

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Not if the Democrats are in power. They are in the same club as the WHO.

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By then, we can also hope more of the truth about the clot shots is revealed so more would resist any WHO mandate. And possibly even the WHO would realize a mandate would be misguided.

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Canada's Dr Leslyn Lewis, running for Conservative leadership, just wrote about that to many Canadians, so hopefully more will wake up and speak against the WHO Pandemic Treaty.

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With that (the WHO), why does it have to be inevitable?

If Trump could and did cut their finance, why would any government have to obey WHO new law?

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From what we saw in March 2020 right up to today, the executives are following what looks like a script.

Note that the WEF boasts of having “Penetrated the cabinets” of major nations.

Essentially, they’ve been taken over from within.

NGOs have provided “advice”, modelling, treatment paradigms, lockdowns, masking, testing & vaccination. As far as I can tell, their purpose is to destroy any opposition within government & certainly from the outside of both government & their advisory class.

In short, with a handful of exceptions, all countries have done exactly as each other. Slight modifications in NPIs but pretty much nothing major in “measures”.

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That is the hardest to accept. I mean, how could we get to this point where a group of very wealthy but, unelected is allowed to drive the global agenda. I'm a simple minded but not naive and I know there had always been "global" influence that we weren't always aware of but, to get where we are now, where we are outright told that as humans we are disposable and fair game for "alternation" (Y N Harari) and we have no recourse to take?! How is it even possible that they can proclaimed those plans and no one says anything, like it was normal, when it's anything but. The only conclusion applicable is that they're all in it, bought, corrupted, psychopathic beings bent on destroying humanity as we know it or, change it according to their plans. " What to do with useless masses..." So it looks like a group of very smart decided there is nothing more to humans than their "usefulness " in serving their masters and billions are going with that? In a different world Harari and his ilk would be removed and assessed and proclaimed as dangerous to humanity. Alas, it's like "nothing, let's ignore it, just mumbling of demented one, nothing to see here." I understand haw getting here was a slow, well planned, calculated process that most of us were unaware of, but now, it is all in the open and still it looks like "there's nothing we can do". If this is not some kind of absurd paranoia I don't know what is. You have someone publicly stating truth about sex and gender and the uproar... yet you have Harari telling you about their horror plans and there is nothing. No public statements from any government/ authority condemning it. That how all evil doing starts, by not being taken seriously. Maybe it's already too late. We maybe millions but are led to our own demise and are helpless to do anything about it. Thank you for letting me to have my say.

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I am terribly concerned about this “treaty” too, but every revolt has been against something corrupt, unjust, insane, etc.

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Florida has been amazing and inspirational and as valuable as you and the others who have led the fight for truth and freedom from the outset.

But there's still high value for the hugely outnumbered resistance in the belly of the beast, like here in NYC where Covidian madness is epic.

On the bright side Mother Nature is with us the results will not bow to political pressure. Tragically the injuries and infections will continue and when harms that faith in DJIA Mafia is beyond denying we will be here to care for our irate and injured neighbors. We need to push back everywhere every day & every way. <3

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He'll need to get rid of those giant flying cockroaches before I can ever contemplate such a move. Fortunately I'm a refugee from Noo Yawk safe for the moment in a libertarian state free of tropical creepy crunchy night-bombs.

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Those are Palmetto bugs--they eat regular cockroaches.

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Exactly right the threat is from the control group who are living proof of the "safe & effective" lie. While headlines are filled with double jabbed and boosted politicians and celebrities getting COVID idiot NYC Mayor just reinstated vax mandates for city workers and extended it to include volunteers for city programs.

It's hard to match the insanity that justifies banning me as a long time photography volunteer at Washington Square Park from being part of the program, which in practical terms is the password to the park's Flickr account.

Public health at its finest, everyone should feel much safer now.

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Insane. And you need to show a vaxcard to go to the outdoor Coney Island sideshows, to watch people swallow condoms and broken glass.

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Guess I’ll be getting sick a lot cause I’m not getting more than 2

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Same here. They tricked me into booster #1 (required by employer), but their game is up. I can do a better job of taking care of my self, thank you.

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Would you take booster #2 when it is required (and it will be)? Would you quit or be fired rather than taking it? I ask because people who have 2 shots say they will never get boosted until a job is at stake then things change. When is enough is enough for most workers? For me it was at the first shot.

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My circumstance is unique, in that I am three years from retirement and work for a government agency. If they tell me no jab, no job, it will take them at least a year to figure out I don’t have it, and then I can have my union file a grievance to delay things a bit more. I’ll go out screaming.

But yeah, losing a job would change things for many. It’s why I got the jab in the first place. But others at my employer didn’t, and they still have their jobs— employer is letting them get by with a weekly test instead. I’m pissed, to say the least.

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I think with it changing to an upper respiratory infection I’ll be fine

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I convinced my husband to stop at 2. Honestly I think he just had covid again, but we’re done testing so not sure. It was a rough cold, but nothing more. Like GVB says, make sure you’re prepared, antivirals and such if needed. Take care!

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More burpees for me 😊

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And ample sunshine 😍

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Yup that too - got my folks on the D3 as wel 😊

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Maybe it’s not “Covid” at all but a detoxing from a toxic jab?

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Ain't no detoxing from permanent genetic alteration.

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True. But the constant Covid illness? I suspect it’s an adverse reaction from the toxic jab. Seems every illness is called Covid. Many other things make us ill.

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He took his a year ago now. If this is his detox then it’s way better than my covid that had me down for a week as an un-injected last fall. But I do think he’s had a few times now, compared to my once.

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Not for everyone. The dirty, selfish un-vaxxed will have developed better overall immunity whereas the good little citizens will be a smorgasbord for the virus. All it has to do is change a teeny-weeny bit and it has a whole new (old) field to sow. But as an overall trend, yes, endless variants to make certain people sick and government more powerful.

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Possibly not as big an issue for people who have immunity to the nucleocapsid, or cross immunity from other viral exposures.

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One of the major problems facing the UK and Europe overall is that they have a massive (think trillions $$$) debt in their pension system. In short they are flat broke and will never be able to pay these pensioners. There is no solution to this dilemma. That's only one of their financial woes albeit quite a major one.

I would think that those that oversee this financial system, and they run the show, have thought about this long and hard over the past decade or so. I wonder what manner of 'creative solutions' they have pondered to address this nettlesome problem.

Just sayin'.

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Catherine Austin Fitts says that previously we were profitable to farm but now we’re worth more dead than alive, hence a substantial cull is just beginning.

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I read a harrowing article about this yesterday. Evil is as evil does.

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Would you have a link or title to that article?

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I will look. It was an opinion based article that had to do with de-population and the US resistance to a cease fire/security agreement in Ukraine.

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Appreciate it.

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I can't find the depop/Ukraine article. I'm thinking it was linked in the comments section to a Substack post (one of many that I read yesterday)

This article touches on depopulation. The common theme that I took from this and the other article it is that we are witnessing evil at work.

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/second-great-reset-follows-the-first/comments?s=r

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The idea of depopulation sounds horrible at face value and thus one might be tempted to dismiss it. However, if you view it as an incremental depop that will occur more gradually over time (some quick deaths, but other deaths more spread out due to destroyed immune systems and autoimmune diseases that can evolve over a longer time frame) and thus the depopulation efforts will be less obviously noticeable to the public in the near term.

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In the U.S., the Social Security system (sort of like government pensions for all) aren't in great shape, but Medicare, (government sort-of-paid-for medical care for 65+) is in disastrous condition. Not sure that Medicare won't collapse long before everything else.

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Similar situation with the CalPers pension fund in California and probably in many other states as well.

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Medicare as well.

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It’s also the US.

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I wonder why the UK have been underreporting deaths. Couldn't have anything to do with those deaths appearing in the rates/100,000 but now won't do because they have stopped reporting the rates.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/why-was-the-uk-health-security-agency?s=w

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