Correct. The sad thing is that people in the most catholic of all European countries are going for this, to protect against a virus the vaccine will not protect you from, by and large, especially if over 65. This is what giving up on religion looks like. The land of the Vatican can't even make a small correlation between what is happening in their daily lives and the Book of Revelations, "no one will be able to work or trade without the mark." This has never been done before, and yet it is being done not in China, but in the Western democracies.
As i have said before on the substack I rarely write on (busy man!) -- the Western governing elites love the Chinese Communist Party model of anti-chaos and control. They believe the only problem with the CCP style of governance is that it doesn't allow for Pride Month. The West, meanwhile, is just wokefying it for you, with institutional support (and wide spread!) for issues related to racial justice, social justice, gender justice, trans and non-binary justice (cuz gays and lesbians are irrelevant now), climate justice. T his is how they sell it to you and trust me, the white educated masses are indeed buying it. The closer you are to a city, in fact, the more you double down on it.
So the problem with all of this is not that china let a virus escape, on purpose or not, with the help of a GMO Sars projected funded by the US and conducted by a Western biotech firm...the problem is that the leaders of the west -- their funders and their wandering minstrels in government, in the philanthropic NGOs, in the media and popular culture -- support all of this. They are not turning their sites on their domestic enemy -- the unvaccinated today, but tomorrow it will be anyone who questions policy fighting pandemics, fighting climate change, fighting the alien invasion from outerspace. They will be the terrorists. They will be the ones to hate. And at least half of the white, middle and upper classes, will absolutely positively fall for it.
China isn't the problem. The people I just mentioned are.
NONE of this is even an imitation of the China response to Covid. This is all on the democratic West.
What will they do when they have 100% vaccination rates and Sars still exists...? Start from zero with the boosters.
Doesn’t the “a group of Polish insurrectionist attack a German radio station” have an eerie echo of the Jan 6th reporting, and subsequent details of the “infamous” unarmed raid on our capital?
re: Italy - I have begun noticing this a few times in the United States, too. Employers aren't firing unvexxed workers, they are placing them on "unpaid leave".
It's a workaround to prevent themselves from bad publicity or from getting sued for unlawful termination. After all, the employee was never actually "terminated" so what's the problem? And look, he found a new job, to technically he quit!
I think American courts - no idea about Italy - would toss that out pretty quickly since the net effect is practically the same as being fired. It is well established labor law that you can't go too far mistreating employees to get around paying unemployment benefits.
if you suffer adverse reactions or death, then it's too late to make the company liable. The better way is this: to tell your employer, since vaccinated people can still get covid and spread it (show data from Israel, Vermont, Seychelles, etc. all the most vaccinated countries experiencing high levels of hospitalization from fully vaxxed people), then they, like us unvaccinated, should take the pcr test twice weekly to keep me safe. This is the mandate in Italy, you can be vaxxed or take the pcr 2x week. My husband will be suspended from work without pay starting Oct. 15. Courts here in Italy are corrupted, they do what the government says to do. Unions are in lock step with the government too.
Spot on as usual. The incentives are all screwed up because the people writing the rules are the same ones covering up that they were responsible for the virus.
Well...can’t agree with putting so much of the blame on leftists for today’s insanities.
That may seem reasonable in the USA, but if you look around the ‘democracies’ of the world, you’ll find that the right & center-right are in power in a great many countries with steamroller authoritarians in charge. And with (now or in the recent past) some of the worst restrictions on freedom anywhere.
Australia, Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia – they’re all in there waving their Covid sticks.
Of course, plenty of left-leaning countries also get black marks. (Traditionally socialist Sweden, however, seems to value individual freedoms more than most other countries. At least for now.)
So I don’t think it’s a question of ideology anymore.
It’s really about this: way too few good, intelligent and honest people among politicians, governments and institutions in today’s world. In ANY political party, or of ANY political bent.
Why is this so?
My guess is simply that an overwhelming majority of folks give ‘lip service’ to values like freedom, equality, justice. But deep down, they’re apolitical. What truly counts for them is their own material well-being. They don’t care much who rules them.
In other words, a majority of people are ready to put aside their ‘values’ in exchange for a life on the fortunate side. They’ll enthusiastically back any party or politician who promises, and seems able, to deliver, maintain, or claw back that fortunate life.
Can’t fight it. This is the way of human nature. The way of the world.
Eighty years after WW2, it took 18 months of Covid to teach us this lesson.
"if you want me to vaccinate as a condition of my work, then you bear the responsibility for the risks of vaccinating me."
1. Its just a bill. My bet: no floor vote. Even the GOP are all in...they are bought and paid for and weak. They barely supported Trump, their president. See Mitch McConnel, the defacto party leader.
If, by a magic wand, this whole pathetic pantomime was ever erased from our memories, Men In Black style, I'd still and always miss this cat catching mice as its ancestors did with the real black plague's culprits.
So I'd surely decline Agent K smooth invitation: "Look right here".
Can you follow-up on the Flight Surgeon's claims on Myocarditis follow-up death statistics? Every journal article I'm finding shows she's right - but the studies are relatively small. The all agree that LGE is the best indicator.
If Myocarditis has a 40% all cause mortality increase over 10 years then is that by definition a long-term effect?
I think the fascists of the 1930s used public health as one of the pretexts for their atrocities as well. I'll be surprised if Alabama passes that bill. Federal mandates for government intrusion into what you do with your body is just too good for them to pass up and use in other contexts.
Bob Slydell : So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh : Great.
Dom Portwood : So, uh, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell : Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally.
Correct. The sad thing is that people in the most catholic of all European countries are going for this, to protect against a virus the vaccine will not protect you from, by and large, especially if over 65. This is what giving up on religion looks like. The land of the Vatican can't even make a small correlation between what is happening in their daily lives and the Book of Revelations, "no one will be able to work or trade without the mark." This has never been done before, and yet it is being done not in China, but in the Western democracies.
As i have said before on the substack I rarely write on (busy man!) -- the Western governing elites love the Chinese Communist Party model of anti-chaos and control. They believe the only problem with the CCP style of governance is that it doesn't allow for Pride Month. The West, meanwhile, is just wokefying it for you, with institutional support (and wide spread!) for issues related to racial justice, social justice, gender justice, trans and non-binary justice (cuz gays and lesbians are irrelevant now), climate justice. T his is how they sell it to you and trust me, the white educated masses are indeed buying it. The closer you are to a city, in fact, the more you double down on it.
So the problem with all of this is not that china let a virus escape, on purpose or not, with the help of a GMO Sars projected funded by the US and conducted by a Western biotech firm...the problem is that the leaders of the west -- their funders and their wandering minstrels in government, in the philanthropic NGOs, in the media and popular culture -- support all of this. They are not turning their sites on their domestic enemy -- the unvaccinated today, but tomorrow it will be anyone who questions policy fighting pandemics, fighting climate change, fighting the alien invasion from outerspace. They will be the terrorists. They will be the ones to hate. And at least half of the white, middle and upper classes, will absolutely positively fall for it.
China isn't the problem. The people I just mentioned are.
NONE of this is even an imitation of the China response to Covid. This is all on the democratic West.
What will they do when they have 100% vaccination rates and Sars still exists...? Start from zero with the boosters.
Doesn’t the “a group of Polish insurrectionist attack a German radio station” have an eerie echo of the Jan 6th reporting, and subsequent details of the “infamous” unarmed raid on our capital?
"your pesky rights get in the way of their plans" This is the crux of the problem with Public SERVANTS who mistake themselves as our rulers.
power without authority is tyranny.
the us constitution gives no power to the presidiant or any other federal officer to force medical procedure on human being.
resist,
i will do not business with any one who insists their employees be vaxxed, that mean minimizing my access to medical faciliies so be it.
i will vote!
i will travel to no city or state that does what allies hanged people for after ww ii.
re: Italy - I have begun noticing this a few times in the United States, too. Employers aren't firing unvexxed workers, they are placing them on "unpaid leave".
It's a workaround to prevent themselves from bad publicity or from getting sued for unlawful termination. After all, the employee was never actually "terminated" so what's the problem? And look, he found a new job, to technically he quit!
I think American courts - no idea about Italy - would toss that out pretty quickly since the net effect is practically the same as being fired. It is well established labor law that you can't go too far mistreating employees to get around paying unemployment benefits.
if you suffer adverse reactions or death, then it's too late to make the company liable. The better way is this: to tell your employer, since vaccinated people can still get covid and spread it (show data from Israel, Vermont, Seychelles, etc. all the most vaccinated countries experiencing high levels of hospitalization from fully vaxxed people), then they, like us unvaccinated, should take the pcr test twice weekly to keep me safe. This is the mandate in Italy, you can be vaxxed or take the pcr 2x week. My husband will be suspended from work without pay starting Oct. 15. Courts here in Italy are corrupted, they do what the government says to do. Unions are in lock step with the government too.
Spot on as usual. The incentives are all screwed up because the people writing the rules are the same ones covering up that they were responsible for the virus.
Well...can’t agree with putting so much of the blame on leftists for today’s insanities.
That may seem reasonable in the USA, but if you look around the ‘democracies’ of the world, you’ll find that the right & center-right are in power in a great many countries with steamroller authoritarians in charge. And with (now or in the recent past) some of the worst restrictions on freedom anywhere.
Australia, Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia – they’re all in there waving their Covid sticks.
Of course, plenty of left-leaning countries also get black marks. (Traditionally socialist Sweden, however, seems to value individual freedoms more than most other countries. At least for now.)
So I don’t think it’s a question of ideology anymore.
It’s really about this: way too few good, intelligent and honest people among politicians, governments and institutions in today’s world. In ANY political party, or of ANY political bent.
Why is this so?
My guess is simply that an overwhelming majority of folks give ‘lip service’ to values like freedom, equality, justice. But deep down, they’re apolitical. What truly counts for them is their own material well-being. They don’t care much who rules them.
In other words, a majority of people are ready to put aside their ‘values’ in exchange for a life on the fortunate side. They’ll enthusiastically back any party or politician who promises, and seems able, to deliver, maintain, or claw back that fortunate life.
Can’t fight it. This is the way of human nature. The way of the world.
Eighty years after WW2, it took 18 months of Covid to teach us this lesson.
"if you want me to vaccinate as a condition of my work, then you bear the responsibility for the risks of vaccinating me."
1. Its just a bill. My bet: no floor vote. Even the GOP are all in...they are bought and paid for and weak. They barely supported Trump, their president. See Mitch McConnel, the defacto party leader.
2. OSHA rules on this will over-ride.
If, by a magic wand, this whole pathetic pantomime was ever erased from our memories, Men In Black style, I'd still and always miss this cat catching mice as its ancestors did with the real black plague's culprits.
So I'd surely decline Agent K smooth invitation: "Look right here".
https://youtu.be/PnEWvBsRjBo
Can you follow-up on the Flight Surgeon's claims on Myocarditis follow-up death statistics? Every journal article I'm finding shows she's right - but the studies are relatively small. The all agree that LGE is the best indicator.
If Myocarditis has a 40% all cause mortality increase over 10 years then is that by definition a long-term effect?
I think the fascists of the 1930s used public health as one of the pretexts for their atrocities as well. I'll be surprised if Alabama passes that bill. Federal mandates for government intrusion into what you do with your body is just too good for them to pass up and use in other contexts.
Life imitates art once again....
Bob Slydell : So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh : Great.
Dom Portwood : So, uh, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell : Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally.
we will have SO many journalists ... me included. Of course the rules will be 'serious' journalism or some other regulatory capture ...
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/damn-you-hell-you-will-not-destroy-america-here-spartacus-covid-letter-thats-gone-viral
Is there evidence to help choose between the lesser of evils between Pfizer and moderna? Govt gun to my head, must choose