EXACTLY what I was thinking... With complete digital control, they can make anything happen. Perhaps it's my American attitude, but why the blazes are they all complying??? They are sheep being led to the slaughter...
Resisting didn't work out for Hong Kong. They were trying to use bow and arrows against riot cops. Its not like China has posse comitatus act either.
There is also a boil the frog aspect to this. They come for just a few at at time, like they've done with the Jan 6th protestors here. If they came for whole city blocks, people might resist en masse. If they pick off a select few at a time, they can keep doing it until there is no one left to form the backbone of a resistance. Better believe that being here on substack has us all flagged, too.
If you read reports on What's On Weibo, you'll see many of the comments blame the covid handling on local governments, and are asking for more central control. The frogs that noticed they were boiling, have already left.
Let's say China did know something we didn't know, they still are guilty of many human rights violations. That alone should make us question any policy that is first instituted in China. And it's sad just how much they are used to it. Heck, it's sad how many of us are used to it.
The sheep are used to it because we have a propaganda press that is complicit with the crooked democrats. the sheep believe the propaganda & are ready to boost up, mask up, lock down, & test over & over at the slightest sniffle.
It might be tempting to dismiss China’s incredible run as simply good fortune, but that would be a huge mistake. Remember extremely early in the pandemic, when covid was exclusively a Chinese problem? Remember all those videos showing people dropping dead in the streets? Here’s a quick reminder: (0:42 is my favorite. Covid kills him instantly and he turns into a zombie quickly enough to break his fall!)
Yet covid caused nothing like this anywhere in the world. The videos were completely fake, and a huge psyops campaign like that doesn’t happen on accident. The Chinese government faked the videos that kicked off the panic around the world. China falsely claimed that lockdowns stopped the virus cold, setting the way for bought governments around the world to mimic China’s response. China then rode the ensuing wave of chaos to the precipice of becoming the world’s largest superpower. And now they’re performing a follow-up act with lockdowns in Shanghai, no doubt hoping we will jump off that cliff again.
if it was fake, the US knew that. They made the bio weapon, they know what it does. You think these gov't don't work together, but they do. The US banking and corporate class created the Chinese economy of today, with the help of the US gov't when the gov't was calling China an unfriendly hostile nation. There might be some tugs of war over power, but these gov't basically want the same thing. The West can't wait to control their citizens like China is.
I agree that the 2020 videos supposedly showing victims falling in the street are almost certainly fake. Someone pointed out that if one has a bad case of a disease many of whose symptoms resemble a bad flu or pneumonia, one will more likely be resting in bed trying to recuperate, not wandering the streets.
You can't believe ANY of the data, even from supposedly "free" nations. But that problem is compounded with an authoritarian regime like China. To this day, they claim only (about) 5000 Covid deaths. That seems rather unlikely.
We'll probably never know the true origin of SARS-CoV-2. From the outset, I held with the "lab origin" theory at Wuhan. There is lots of circumstantial evidence for that. But a deliberate release or even a "false flag" attack, presumably by the USA against China (Ron Unz's theory) cannot be dismissed.
You are likely correct in calling the video fake news. But I think you err in assuming China did it. Why only them? There are several other plausible agents of disinformation. Deception, planted stories, and the like are ancient tools. The 21st century, the internet and social media just serve to make the lies spread faster.
A lingering question, and one I've seen asked before, is as somebody above said: Why such draconian lockdowns in China (perhaps elsewhere?) with what by all reports is a relatively tame virus? Is the goal some type of social conditioning? That rapidly gets into a field I know little of.
Of nations, perhaps. But I'd say the biggest beneficiaries are multi-national, indeed possibly the instigators of the entire pandemic is a loose alliance of various intelligence agencies of major nations, Big Pharma, select billionaires, captured government agencies and media, and sundry fellow travelers who profit from the scam. Basically the Deep State, having no allegiance to anyone and for all practical purposes above the law.
Xi has been bragging that they solved the problem and if only we would do the same all will be well. And being brutal and invading people's privacy makes others obey.
Yes, exactly that. At least if the worst happens, I will know that I tried. The thought of not having at least tried to stop this sh*t show is unbearable.
It more has to do with Xi not being able to admit (publicly) that he made the wrong decision on the zero-covid stance. If he were to change that position now, it would leave him politically vulnerable.
I've heard that, but don't entirely buy it. Zero Covid is literally impossible without sealing the borders. And once you open up, it's coming in. Either way, the only thing you can do is treat early to minimize damage
It’s not about Covid. It’s about the final phase of China’s social credit system/digital ID tied to all freedoms, money, etc. Then it will be Australia, NZ, Canada, etc. Fight this as if your life depends on it, as it does.
100% agree. I've been wondering the same thing for some time now. I don't buy the 'Xi can't back down now' line. There has to be more motivation for such extreme measures than simply trying to look good.
They know it's a bioweapon. How bad is the question. I'm sure they are collecting comprehensive data. I've also heard some theories that the vax they used wasn't very protective, and not a lot of people had it, so if a huge wave of illness killed a lot of elderly Chinese, the social response would be catastrophic, because elders are cherished in their culture unlike the US. Maybe a little of both? The important thing is that they did not use mRNA vax, so if nothing else, it's likely bad news. Though I read that they are possibly producing it for Pfizer/Biontech, which is also interesting
you can't make a vax for a respiratory virus that spews out variants every 5 minutes. it's never been done. it still hasn't been done in spite of the PR campaign to convince us that they did. doesn't matter whether it's mRNA, adenovirus based or any other thing
yes, it was commonly understood, but pharma considered it a golden parachute because there aren't many vaccines you could convince adults to take annually, so flus and colds are pretty much the money makers, due to volume. But flu shots work terribly, coronaviruses even worse
the only way out of the vax dilemma is getting rid of liability protections. Liability protections on a mandated product is an inherent conflict of interest, so anything mandated should carry liability. Things would change over night.
At least in my opinion, a plausible reason for the official promotion of mRNA "vaccines" beyond short term profits for various well connected persons is simply to get the official stamp of approval on it. They must know it's an imperfect technology, perhaps even a dangerous one. Powerful people want to make it the next big thing largely due to captive markets. Most purchases are direct government. mRNA has many potential plusses, like very rapid development time. Long term efficacy and safety? Well, nobody seems to be interested in asking those questions.
my friends who volunteered in the moderna trial did so because they really believe in it's potential for cancer treatment, like you'd have a vaccine made just for you that would cure your cancer. i heard a venture capitalist talk about this too, pre-pandemic, that this was going to be a game changer and eliminate all suffering, aging and disease.
you gotta love these futurists who think they are god.
listen, if you've got terminal cancer, a custom made mRNA vaccine might be worth the risks. for a bad flu, not so much
In a typical day over 50,000 Shanghai citizens would come down with a flu or cold. Every single day. And they’re shutting down over 500 positive tests?
All you have to do to get 500 positive tests is to test 1000 people at random with a high enough multiplication factor. Heck you can even get 999 or even 1000 positive that way... Dr Kary Mullis (inventor of the PCR test) himself said so: “The PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody.”
Precisely. They want a top down technocratic totalitarian dystopian society where everyone is dependent on UBI and they can switch off the CBDC in your account if your ESG score drops too low. Anyone who would want to live in that kind of society is insane. It's all about centralized control of people and resources. Except the rules don't apply to the so-called elite class. This system is even worse than the old school Indian caste system.
My company just received an email from a supplier saying that product imported from China may be affected by delays due to the new covid policy in East China (Wuxi):
"With these new restrictions in place, our operations continue to run but at a reduced capacity, and we want to make sure you are aware of possible delays in our supply chain that could impact our deliveries."
Once they have all of your production capacity, they have you by the snarglies...
Same thing happening in my new company. Lately salespeople have been making a point about american made. Seems it didn't matter when it was people's livings but having shipments of household decor held up for a few more months in quarentine while paying more for product and shipping is driving a few mad.
Funny that. You can always tell where peoples' hearts lie, when their own money is on the line. It is a fundamental socio-economic problem of diffuse vs. concentrated interest. When something hits you in the pocketbook, you notice and react. When the impact is spread across a larger group, or society as a whole, it's much easier to imagine it away.
I was surprised to read in a Substack (cannot recall writer) that much of the video footage in late 2019 and early 2020 from China showing Wuhan residents dropping “dead” on the sidewalk or laying down/passed out on hospital floors had been proven by our government (FBI?) to be propaganda. As a result, I’m not sure how much weight I should give to anything coming out of China. Any thoughts?
That guy in Wuhan - 2020 - falling suddenly flat on his face, well, not quite, he was careful enough - despite his Covid delirium - to place his hands out to break the fall - fake? - Ya Think?! I heard a report that Wuhan crowds would gather for foreign media staged events and call out - "It's a hoax, It's a hoax"!
Yes that was the substack. So are you inclined to think after reading his work and giving consideration to the current global trajectories that the Chinese motive for locking down Shanghia is more likely 1) economic-psychological warfare, 2) their own attempt to control their population as their economy spins out of control, 3) Covid/Health concerns.
So much Substack, so little time. He does not mention in the review that she resigned suddenly late 2020 after flouting her no travel guidance and hosting a large family gathering at Thanksgiving at her seaside villa in Maryland. Ah - but not to worry - she landed on her feet: "working as chief medical and scientific adviser for ActivePure Technology in Texas, an air filtration company" - PPE land! plenty of fedgov contracts - just about everyone at my place of employment has one of those things blowing dusty, indoor air in their faces!
Yeah ... I remember the Chinese version of Hollywood. A video of someone in convulsions, surrounded by brave heroes in hasmat suits. Convulsions. Ha. Ed Wood couldn't have topped that.
That's one of the curious points of propaganda. It doesn't even have to be very authentic for it to be believed, or at last not challenged. Consider the simple fact that here we are debating it, two and a half years later. While not a video so far as I know, one of my favorite "nothing to see here folks" moments of the whole pandemic was when DoD "fixed" the "glitch" in the DMED database after Renk's whistleblowers noted the rise in illnesses. The official claim is that millions of patient records were not entered for five years in the DoD medical system? Really?
CCP government is on the brink of financial collapse. As all centrally-managed economies inevitably end up. Right now they are playing the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain... but eventually the audience figures it out and the whole house of cards will tumble down.
What comes next.... ahhh yes, Grasshopper, that is the question.
"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money." -- Margaret Thatcher, 5 Feb 1976, interviewed by Llew Gardner -- three years before she became British PM
Shanghai used to be a wonderful, vibrant city. I visited for 6 weeks in November and December 2019 with plans to move to Shanghai in May 2020. Needless to say I did not move. From friends that still live in Shanghai, the situation is worse than shown on the videos that are able to get out of the country.
If the CCP wanted zero Covid, it would have zero Covid. When the order came down, nobody would be stupid enough to report a case of Covid. These lockdowns and reporting of cases is pure politics.
True. They did that with HIV/Aids initially. Since homosexuality didn't exist in perfect communist republic of China, neither did HIV.
And as the Party had stated so before international media, internal reporting or even discovering cases became impossible.
Authoritarianism and totalitarianism both tends to functional stupidity but China takes it to another level every time.
It is a sad testament to western politicians and media from the Tiananmen massacre onwards that they simply play along with the most atrocious state in existence since nazi-Germany.
There is a chance that these Shanghai lockdowns are actually payback to the officials or citizens who let it leak that they’ve discovered a Covid infection. I would really be interested in reading about what is actually going on, but the MSM isn’t interested and nobody else seems to have access.
and that's why I have to try hard to be kind to them. But I suspect they are the enemy of my freedom.
I was at an indoor concert the other night, not too crowded.
Four people came skulking in (they were skulking) went to sit at a table and then got nervous and went to a seatless area on the side that was sparsely populated.
One of them kept coming up behind me and then backing away (I was in the audience that night) like I was a scary but attractive phenomena.
I don't think they are stupid. I have family members who mask up, they aren't stupid.
The first two definitions of "stupid" fit me to a tee. The first two are
1. slow to understand or comprehend,
2. Tending to make poor or careless mistakes.
These are from the American Heritage Dictionary. Webster appears to have my definition of stupid which is "slow of mind." The first two definitions imply that something can be remedied, the third does not. The first two I would define as "willfully ignorant,""lazy." or even "distracted."
I read through some of the posts here, and there are times I know I am "slow to understand" the science. It doesn't help when the charts and graphs are extremely small on my screen. Plus then I have to read all the different legends and labels on the graphs to understand their context.
What I keep fighting against is viewing these friends and family as "the other." I don't like that as it dehumanizes them, and makes us more like the very people we are fighting against.
One of the hardest realizations I ever had was that I had no “lefty friends”. They’re all tyrants in waiting or useful idiots. They’re all a danger to anyone who gives a shit about liberty. They’ll all either work as camp guards shoving you into the showers with a rifle or shooting you at the edge of a pit, or just standing aside with a fake sad look on their faces while another “lefty friend” does it. They’re your fucking mortal enemies. Forget this at your perill.
And every Western government leader is dying of envy.
The Liberal wet dream.
A new rules based liberal world order. Atleast that's what one of Brandon's top advisors called it.
If only we could give them all a lie detector test, the price of failure is "motivated resignation."
The results of a lie detector test on a mountebank are a foregone conclusion.
I can think of a far better use for the time, and especially the electrodes.
hahahahaha
If they weren't great liars they wouldn't be national leaders.
most are murderers as well...or by proxy at least
Goes with the territory.
I always am curious how stuff gets past the great fire wall - most is intentional I suspect
I admire the balls of it, really. If there's any national leader even a hundredth as smart as Xi, I'd love to know his name and how I overlooked him.
You must get all giggly just thinking about that dreamy Pol Pot.
I get giggly thinking about people who struggle with reading comprehension, fer shure.
While taking notes.
If they had their way, they'd just grind us up and feed us to their dogs. Why bother housing us when there's plenty of freezer capacity.
God what a thought! And sadly true.
Don't worry, they'll get there.
Makes me wonder if they know something we don’t about Covid. Or maybe they’re just insane. 🤷🏻♀️
-Social credit AI flags person for internet search terms, proximity to bank protest, suspicious travel, etc
-Their covid test result is made positive
-Detained and quarantined
-Ooooops they died of covid
EXACTLY what I was thinking... With complete digital control, they can make anything happen. Perhaps it's my American attitude, but why the blazes are they all complying??? They are sheep being led to the slaughter...
Resisting didn't work out for Hong Kong. They were trying to use bow and arrows against riot cops. Its not like China has posse comitatus act either.
There is also a boil the frog aspect to this. They come for just a few at at time, like they've done with the Jan 6th protestors here. If they came for whole city blocks, people might resist en masse. If they pick off a select few at a time, they can keep doing it until there is no one left to form the backbone of a resistance. Better believe that being here on substack has us all flagged, too.
oh yes.
frightening
If you read reports on What's On Weibo, you'll see many of the comments blame the covid handling on local governments, and are asking for more central control. The frogs that noticed they were boiling, have already left.
Yes
I'm watching Ro Khanna (California Congressman) being incredibly stupid. Every. Single. Time. he opens his mouth.
And it's all this New World Order crap
😳
Yes. that seems plausible.
Let's say China did know something we didn't know, they still are guilty of many human rights violations. That alone should make us question any policy that is first instituted in China. And it's sad just how much they are used to it. Heck, it's sad how many of us are used to it.
The sheep are used to it because we have a propaganda press that is complicit with the crooked democrats. the sheep believe the propaganda & are ready to boost up, mask up, lock down, & test over & over at the slightest sniffle.
press is also complicit with the crooked republicans
yes, rinos are no different than dems, just better at hiding their proclivities to lie, cheat, & steal.
damn straight!
Great comments!
They're trying to push us back over the cliff.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-covid-years-werent-terrible-for
It might be tempting to dismiss China’s incredible run as simply good fortune, but that would be a huge mistake. Remember extremely early in the pandemic, when covid was exclusively a Chinese problem? Remember all those videos showing people dropping dead in the streets? Here’s a quick reminder: (0:42 is my favorite. Covid kills him instantly and he turns into a zombie quickly enough to break his fall!)
Yet covid caused nothing like this anywhere in the world. The videos were completely fake, and a huge psyops campaign like that doesn’t happen on accident. The Chinese government faked the videos that kicked off the panic around the world. China falsely claimed that lockdowns stopped the virus cold, setting the way for bought governments around the world to mimic China’s response. China then rode the ensuing wave of chaos to the precipice of becoming the world’s largest superpower. And now they’re performing a follow-up act with lockdowns in Shanghai, no doubt hoping we will jump off that cliff again.
if it was fake, the US knew that. They made the bio weapon, they know what it does. You think these gov't don't work together, but they do. The US banking and corporate class created the Chinese economy of today, with the help of the US gov't when the gov't was calling China an unfriendly hostile nation. There might be some tugs of war over power, but these gov't basically want the same thing. The West can't wait to control their citizens like China is.
Turdeau said he was incredibly envious of China's basic dictatorship and it's ability to turn it's economy around on a dime. Those were his words.
oh those pesky citizens and their rights, always getting in the way
Don't you know that when you drop dead, your body also knows to brace for impact? Follow The Science! 🤣
You also don’t fall over like a tree
TIMBERRRRRR!
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sarc, right?
The big clue is the laughing face at the end.
hahahaha. I can't believe I didn't see that.
Damn my work distracting me from Substack comments.
Stupid work getting in the way of fun and community!
I agree that the 2020 videos supposedly showing victims falling in the street are almost certainly fake. Someone pointed out that if one has a bad case of a disease many of whose symptoms resemble a bad flu or pneumonia, one will more likely be resting in bed trying to recuperate, not wandering the streets.
You can't believe ANY of the data, even from supposedly "free" nations. But that problem is compounded with an authoritarian regime like China. To this day, they claim only (about) 5000 Covid deaths. That seems rather unlikely.
We'll probably never know the true origin of SARS-CoV-2. From the outset, I held with the "lab origin" theory at Wuhan. There is lots of circumstantial evidence for that. But a deliberate release or even a "false flag" attack, presumably by the USA against China (Ron Unz's theory) cannot be dismissed.
You are likely correct in calling the video fake news. But I think you err in assuming China did it. Why only them? There are several other plausible agents of disinformation. Deception, planted stories, and the like are ancient tools. The 21st century, the internet and social media just serve to make the lies spread faster.
A lingering question, and one I've seen asked before, is as somebody above said: Why such draconian lockdowns in China (perhaps elsewhere?) with what by all reports is a relatively tame virus? Is the goal some type of social conditioning? That rapidly gets into a field I know little of.
Just look who gained the most from covid:
It was China.
Of nations, perhaps. But I'd say the biggest beneficiaries are multi-national, indeed possibly the instigators of the entire pandemic is a loose alliance of various intelligence agencies of major nations, Big Pharma, select billionaires, captured government agencies and media, and sundry fellow travelers who profit from the scam. Basically the Deep State, having no allegiance to anyone and for all practical purposes above the law.
seems very horrifyingly true
It's conditioning. and pride.
Xi has been bragging that they solved the problem and if only we would do the same all will be well. And being brutal and invading people's privacy makes others obey.
No, it's worse than that. This was all planned for control purposes from the beginning.
and his pal Klaus thinks he did good and wants everyone else to follow his lead
Of course. You will own nothing and be happy works with herd behavior
They know something we don't AND they're insane. Voila!
They're showing WHO how it needs to be done
Oriental despotism meets high tech. No thanks. I'd rather fight to the death with clubs.
exactly! I will literally die on this hill. Literally!
I've considered this since it all began. I will die on my feet and not my knees. I will ride this out and win or die.
Yes, exactly that. At least if the worst happens, I will know that I tried. The thought of not having at least tried to stop this sh*t show is unbearable.
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Yes. Me too, to borrow a previously coined phrase. There are many of us with the same mind set.
It more has to do with Xi not being able to admit (publicly) that he made the wrong decision on the zero-covid stance. If he were to change that position now, it would leave him politically vulnerable.
I've heard that, but don't entirely buy it. Zero Covid is literally impossible without sealing the borders. And once you open up, it's coming in. Either way, the only thing you can do is treat early to minimize damage
It’s not about Covid. It’s about the final phase of China’s social credit system/digital ID tied to all freedoms, money, etc. Then it will be Australia, NZ, Canada, etc. Fight this as if your life depends on it, as it does.
100% agree. I've been wondering the same thing for some time now. I don't buy the 'Xi can't back down now' line. There has to be more motivation for such extreme measures than simply trying to look good.
It is a soft war tactic.
Maybe the supply chain isn't slowed down enough for their tastes. Soft war.
It's China. They are insane. They screw everything up. Including my cake.
F#@% China
https://narrowpath.substack.com/p/f-china?r=171xjv&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
They know it's a bioweapon. How bad is the question. I'm sure they are collecting comprehensive data. I've also heard some theories that the vax they used wasn't very protective, and not a lot of people had it, so if a huge wave of illness killed a lot of elderly Chinese, the social response would be catastrophic, because elders are cherished in their culture unlike the US. Maybe a little of both? The important thing is that they did not use mRNA vax, so if nothing else, it's likely bad news. Though I read that they are possibly producing it for Pfizer/Biontech, which is also interesting
They didn't use mRNA jabs (not a vax) for the same reasons we shouldn't have
you can't make a vax for a respiratory virus that spews out variants every 5 minutes. it's never been done. it still hasn't been done in spite of the PR campaign to convince us that they did. doesn't matter whether it's mRNA, adenovirus based or any other thing
I agree with that. Used to be thought of as stupid making a vax for a cold virus
yes, it was commonly understood, but pharma considered it a golden parachute because there aren't many vaccines you could convince adults to take annually, so flus and colds are pretty much the money makers, due to volume. But flu shots work terribly, coronaviruses even worse
the only way out of the vax dilemma is getting rid of liability protections. Liability protections on a mandated product is an inherent conflict of interest, so anything mandated should carry liability. Things would change over night.
At least in my opinion, a plausible reason for the official promotion of mRNA "vaccines" beyond short term profits for various well connected persons is simply to get the official stamp of approval on it. They must know it's an imperfect technology, perhaps even a dangerous one. Powerful people want to make it the next big thing largely due to captive markets. Most purchases are direct government. mRNA has many potential plusses, like very rapid development time. Long term efficacy and safety? Well, nobody seems to be interested in asking those questions.
my friends who volunteered in the moderna trial did so because they really believe in it's potential for cancer treatment, like you'd have a vaccine made just for you that would cure your cancer. i heard a venture capitalist talk about this too, pre-pandemic, that this was going to be a game changer and eliminate all suffering, aging and disease.
you gotta love these futurists who think they are god.
listen, if you've got terminal cancer, a custom made mRNA vaccine might be worth the risks. for a bad flu, not so much
nicely placed in a nutshell
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It certainly isn't for over half the worlds population. It's stored at -70 Celsius.
I'm not sure logistics could support that.
They fucked around with building blocks of life. Thought they'd have a panacea AND make bank.
They got burned and now they're trying to cover it up.
That's the big question. WHY?
I have my theories. Interested in yours.
"after 500 positive cases were detected through the vaccine passport QR system."
Welcome to the future. If it's useful to the state, then 1 + 1 = 3
In a typical day over 50,000 Shanghai citizens would come down with a flu or cold. Every single day. And they’re shutting down over 500 positive tests?
All you have to do to get 500 positive tests is to test 1000 people at random with a high enough multiplication factor. Heck you can even get 999 or even 1000 positive that way... Dr Kary Mullis (inventor of the PCR test) himself said so: “The PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody.”
There's more to this Mystic, right?
Precisely. They want a top down technocratic totalitarian dystopian society where everyone is dependent on UBI and they can switch off the CBDC in your account if your ESG score drops too low. Anyone who would want to live in that kind of society is insane. It's all about centralized control of people and resources. Except the rules don't apply to the so-called elite class. This system is even worse than the old school Indian caste system.
NYTIMES headline tomorrow:
"What China got right about Covid"
Xi-Ping could couldn't care less if 200 million of his citizens died. Something else is up. Big TIME
My company just received an email from a supplier saying that product imported from China may be affected by delays due to the new covid policy in East China (Wuxi):
"With these new restrictions in place, our operations continue to run but at a reduced capacity, and we want to make sure you are aware of possible delays in our supply chain that could impact our deliveries."
Once they have all of your production capacity, they have you by the snarglies...
Same thing happening in my new company. Lately salespeople have been making a point about american made. Seems it didn't matter when it was people's livings but having shipments of household decor held up for a few more months in quarentine while paying more for product and shipping is driving a few mad.
Funny that. You can always tell where peoples' hearts lie, when their own money is on the line. It is a fundamental socio-economic problem of diffuse vs. concentrated interest. When something hits you in the pocketbook, you notice and react. When the impact is spread across a larger group, or society as a whole, it's much easier to imagine it away.
I've been waiting 6 months on some of my machinery.
It's all going to break into millions of pieces on the ground - like a big Humpty-Dumpty.
I was surprised to read in a Substack (cannot recall writer) that much of the video footage in late 2019 and early 2020 from China showing Wuhan residents dropping “dead” on the sidewalk or laying down/passed out on hospital floors had been proven by our government (FBI?) to be propaganda. As a result, I’m not sure how much weight I should give to anything coming out of China. Any thoughts?
I'm not sure how much weight I should give to anything coming out of the FBI or ANY part of the US federal government, either.
[Edited to add: Kurt Schlichter from yesterday on this very subject: https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/07/18/who-will-they-get-to-do-the-tyrants-dirty-work-n2610360]
Why isn't Mueller and the 13 Angry democrats on the case?!
We need somebody dedicated to the truth....
That may have been Michael P Senger - author of "Snake Oil; How [China] Shut Down the World"
https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/deborah-birxs-silent-invasion-a-guide
That guy in Wuhan - 2020 - falling suddenly flat on his face, well, not quite, he was careful enough - despite his Covid delirium - to place his hands out to break the fall - fake? - Ya Think?! I heard a report that Wuhan crowds would gather for foreign media staged events and call out - "It's a hoax, It's a hoax"!
Yes that was the substack. So are you inclined to think after reading his work and giving consideration to the current global trajectories that the Chinese motive for locking down Shanghia is more likely 1) economic-psychological warfare, 2) their own attempt to control their population as their economy spins out of control, 3) Covid/Health concerns.
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I don't think they care about health for the general population.
Xi took is a monster. We can’t rule out flat out insanity on his part.
It isn’t like EVERY other total despot was t also insane.
sociopaths do not have normally formed brains and their offspring can have a 50% chance of having the same deficiency
World domination.
They've been telegraphing that for 20 years. I believe them.
They're simply implementing their tactics for their overall strategy now.
Wow! love that piece
So much Substack, so little time. He does not mention in the review that she resigned suddenly late 2020 after flouting her no travel guidance and hosting a large family gathering at Thanksgiving at her seaside villa in Maryland. Ah - but not to worry - she landed on her feet: "working as chief medical and scientific adviser for ActivePure Technology in Texas, an air filtration company" - PPE land! plenty of fedgov contracts - just about everyone at my place of employment has one of those things blowing dusty, indoor air in their faces!
I'd forgotten about that.
The grift continues. thanks for the information. If I stay angry I will do things for good.
I just convinced a library that requiring masking for an event next month should not be done. baby steps.
God bless you!
We have to have continuous small W's for the close.
That's how it's done.
Go guurl!
Proud of you!!!
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Good job!!!
She???
Birx
The Dreaded Birx (snaggle-toothed enemy of young adults)
Yeah ... I remember the Chinese version of Hollywood. A video of someone in convulsions, surrounded by brave heroes in hasmat suits. Convulsions. Ha. Ed Wood couldn't have topped that.
Go back and look at the photos/videos; they are all perfectly centered.
That doesn't happen in real life.
That's one of the curious points of propaganda. It doesn't even have to be very authentic for it to be believed, or at last not challenged. Consider the simple fact that here we are debating it, two and a half years later. While not a video so far as I know, one of my favorite "nothing to see here folks" moments of the whole pandemic was when DoD "fixed" the "glitch" in the DMED database after Renk's whistleblowers noted the rise in illnesses. The official claim is that millions of patient records were not entered for five years in the DoD medical system? Really?
Exactly.
Gotta an itch, the glitch, is a data ditch, with a narrative switch...we da' snitch...whatta bitch.....
we are seeing results of these shutdowns--factories closed. Banks having runs on them and being shut down.
No - other way 'round... Banks were in trouble way before, but now they can't cover that up any longer.
I'm sure the banks were compromised but the shut downs made people want to take their money out, which makes me think this stuff is real
CCP government is on the brink of financial collapse. As all centrally-managed economies inevitably end up. Right now they are playing the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain... but eventually the audience figures it out and the whole house of cards will tumble down.
What comes next.... ahhh yes, Grasshopper, that is the question.
What did Margaret Thatcher say something like socialism works until they run out of other people's money?
"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money." -- Margaret Thatcher, 5 Feb 1976, interviewed by Llew Gardner -- three years before she became British PM
Perhaps why they are exerting even more control and trying to make us dependent on them.
well, tyrants gotta tyrant...
Financial media report that enough Chinese are refusing to pay their mortgage that it's causing problems for some of their banks. Don't know details.
Anybody think for a second that given their druthers, our leftist blue friends would do this in... how do I say it... A New York minute?
I like what you did there.
Yep. They were infected.
By a virus that makes them want to withdraw their money from a local bank.
Where the hell you been D. Twain?!
You've missed some real doozies!
Nice. Enjoy. Cheers!
COVID - Certification Of Vaccination IDentification
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This is not about Covid. They’re trying to stifle dissent there.
Shanghai used to be a wonderful, vibrant city. I visited for 6 weeks in November and December 2019 with plans to move to Shanghai in May 2020. Needless to say I did not move. From friends that still live in Shanghai, the situation is worse than shown on the videos that are able to get out of the country.
You didn't fancy Anal Schwab? (Klaus Schwab's weird sister).
Fortunately that started way later. : )
A great way to disappear people and not have anyone question why. COVID the gift that keeps on giving.
oooh. good point.
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The scary thing is the folks in the US looking at that level of control and salivating...
To some, it's a nightmare. To Dr. Birx and her like, it's a lifelong dream come true!
If the CCP wanted zero Covid, it would have zero Covid. When the order came down, nobody would be stupid enough to report a case of Covid. These lockdowns and reporting of cases is pure politics.
True. They did that with HIV/Aids initially. Since homosexuality didn't exist in perfect communist republic of China, neither did HIV.
And as the Party had stated so before international media, internal reporting or even discovering cases became impossible.
Authoritarianism and totalitarianism both tends to functional stupidity but China takes it to another level every time.
It is a sad testament to western politicians and media from the Tiananmen massacre onwards that they simply play along with the most atrocious state in existence since nazi-Germany.
There is a chance that these Shanghai lockdowns are actually payback to the officials or citizens who let it leak that they’ve discovered a Covid infection. I would really be interested in reading about what is actually going on, but the MSM isn’t interested and nobody else seems to have access.
It's eery how quiet they are for lambs being led to slaughter. They're putting them all in camps? All of them? My heart breaks for these people!
I worry that someday the West will be this compliant and herd like.
Half the country already is.
I know. They have their filthy masks on.
And they vote for the left... willingly. And proudly mule ballots around for their masters.
they do.
and that's why I have to try hard to be kind to them. But I suspect they are the enemy of my freedom.
I was at an indoor concert the other night, not too crowded.
Four people came skulking in (they were skulking) went to sit at a table and then got nervous and went to a seatless area on the side that was sparsely populated.
One of them kept coming up behind me and then backing away (I was in the audience that night) like I was a scary but attractive phenomena.
He had crazy eyes though. He creeped me out.
He's the type that will have us unjabbed caged.
He’ll try.
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amazing how much vote harvesting was going on
What do you mean "someday?" We already have pockets of this.
always are pockets of stupid.
We just need to recognize them by their magical masks and not give them power over us.
I don't think they are stupid. I have family members who mask up, they aren't stupid.
The first two definitions of "stupid" fit me to a tee. The first two are
1. slow to understand or comprehend,
2. Tending to make poor or careless mistakes.
These are from the American Heritage Dictionary. Webster appears to have my definition of stupid which is "slow of mind." The first two definitions imply that something can be remedied, the third does not. The first two I would define as "willfully ignorant,""lazy." or even "distracted."
I read through some of the posts here, and there are times I know I am "slow to understand" the science. It doesn't help when the charts and graphs are extremely small on my screen. Plus then I have to read all the different legends and labels on the graphs to understand their context.
What I keep fighting against is viewing these friends and family as "the other." I don't like that as it dehumanizes them, and makes us more like the very people we are fighting against.
One of the hardest realizations I ever had was that I had no “lefty friends”. They’re all tyrants in waiting or useful idiots. They’re all a danger to anyone who gives a shit about liberty. They’ll all either work as camp guards shoving you into the showers with a rifle or shooting you at the edge of a pit, or just standing aside with a fake sad look on their faces while another “lefty friend” does it. They’re your fucking mortal enemies. Forget this at your perill.
indeed.
and wearing masks is a filthy stupid habit
I get that but they will be the first to turn you in when the time comes, for "your own good"
You mean like Australia and Canada?
Someday? Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Austria....