"The forest kept shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced them that since its handle was wood it was one of them." ~Anonymous
Here in Canada it is as bad or worse than any of your blue cities/states. Fear propaganda and demonization of unvaxxed is almost unrelenting...but I take comfort knowing they will wake up eventually, I just hope it won't be too late.
And there in lies the problem. They will have to admit they got taken in by a cult. Most will never be able to barring some shocking incident that snaps them out of it.
The undemocratic, rich people's republic of Soviet Canuckistan is truly sad. Virtually everyone obediently puts their mask on and doesn't ask any questions.
His death came as a shock to most. His condition, brain cancer, was known only by his closest friends and family, at his request. I saw Rush live more times than I can remember now. Needless to say, he and the band were pretty important to me.
Ffs, he didn't stop being Canadian, it's not a contest. After tragically losing his daughter and wife in less than 2 years (late 90s), he moved to the US some time in the 2000s after finding love again with an American woman and having a daughter with her.
You don't have to tell me the story. I'm more than familiar with it. He became a US citizen and made his home, official residence, in Santa Monica for over a decade prior to his death. He also maintained a cabin on a lake in Quebec. And, by the way, his common law wife and daughter both died less than 12 months apart from each other. I never said he revoked his Canadian citizenship, ffs.
Of course not. But they think it does. Also, staying away from everyone forever might. That’s the point: They’re now admitting the shots only work…if you never get the virus.
I witnessed the absolute pinnacle of CovidLogic in front of the local Dollar Tree the other day. Guy in one of those brand-new miniature pickup trucks that soft suburban dad-bods like to drive because minivans make them look a little *too* soft. Completely alone, wearing a mask. Backs out of his parking spot without looking and comes within an inch of being flattened by a beer delivery truck. I do not have a heart of gold, so I was cheering for the Bud Light Express.
And I prefer gene treatment because “therapy” has strong implications of help and cure, whereas treatment is much more ambiguous, as is appropriate for these Russian roulette shots.
If vaccines worked, we wouldn't need masks. If masks worked, we wouldn't need vaccines. But since neither of them work, somehow we need them both. Have I got that right? I don't want to be cancelled or anything.
Vaccine efficacy probably depends on: profound stupidity; mass hypnosis; abject fear; OCD; Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome; Event 201; mainstream Mockingbird media and their shock-and-awe tactics; heaps of cash from Gates Foundation; big pharma and its lobbyists; censorship and suppression of alternative viewpoints/treatments; teachers' unions; power-tripping public 'health' officials, megalomaniac governors; sacrifice of kids; etc., etc., ad infinitum.
It probably reduces hospitalization because the vaccinated feel protected. The decision to seek medical care for a respiratory illness has large psychological components.
A nurse whistleblower who worked at a NYC hospital early in the pandemic said many patients who went to the hospital were actually having panic attacks, got admitted, and caught covid there.
Yes, and fast breathing (above 30 breaths per minute) is both a sign of panic and suffices for a severe COVID diagnosis if there is a positive lab test and some other minor symptom (FDA standard).
The government is criminal and as such illegitimate. These "experts" and "scientists" are paid off, and as such are criminals. These criminals will never ever stop until they are stopped.
"During a Twitter debate about COVID origins, she claimed never to have met Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealthAlliance, and when confronted with a photograph of herself side by side with Daszak, made the false claim that the picture had been “faked”. She subsequently corrected this false claim, but did not apologize for it." (via wiki)
If it weren't so infuriating it would be laughable. You know what else makes the vaccine effective? If you move to the Arctic by yourself and have no human contact; also if you are dead, they are 100% effective. Assholes.
More space for me to shop at Trader Joe’s. 😜 evidenced today at a TJ in batshit crazy Bay Area. Me with half ass cloth mask. Not interested in six foot distance cause TJ is so small that doesn’t even work - have you seen the 4 foot aisles?! Scaredy cats scattered from me and I had free reign to shop muahahahaha.
I saw a video on Instagram of a mask less guy entering a traincar in which all seats are occupied with phobic masked people. He begins puff his cheeks and to convulse as though he is getting ready to vomit. After a couple of motions a woman about ten feet away spots him and gets up and runs as if from a tossed hand grenade. Several other people see her and do the same. The convulsing guy then takes a seat casually as though nothing happened while everybody looks at him and SEETHES!
Sympathies living in Bay Area. Glad you are enjoying the unsociable distancing. Park yourself near the cookie butter and wine and cough mercilessly. You know... to spread the cheer. Muahahahahaaa. er... hisss.
I don't disagree with that. So we are simpatico. Outside of parts of CA, NYC and parts of the great lakes - people are not putting up with the BS anymore. Those who live under dictators must fight back. You can still keep your distance and enjoy them wearing their fraidy masks.
The COVID Dumpster Fire has proven, if there was ever any doubt, that PhDs can be complete morons. (That was never in real doubt, but sometimes you just need an example or two!)
...but, but, the paper actually SAYS, "if this effect were important for SARS-CoV-2, it *could* imply..." WTAF? When the FDA used, "hope" in the FAQ on the Pfizer (licensed to someone else) booster, I figured we had scraped bottom. Now this babe is citing an article that is even weaker than hope!
I read a paper last year that people were using to "prove" asymptomatic spread and the value of contact tracing, and it was all vague and supposition, person X "may have" or "likely" infected person Y.
Indeed. Will give you another example. When the CDC was starting to try and justify community masking, they cited approximately 19 papers. Of those 19--yes, I read them, mostly--the first 9 had *nothing* to do with masks. There were vague suppositional explorations, of events that "may" show the possibility of asymptomatic transfer. Proof, not so much.
When I went back to graduate school in 1978, 16 years after graduating from college, my dissertation director told me that "Anyone who's studied [at the graduate level] after 1965 is an illiterate specialist." When I harumphed and pointed to myself, she graciously made an exception for me since I would have finished by her cutoff point if I hadn't had two careers in the interim. Still, I've always wondered.... Anyway, by the time I retired from college teaching (my 3d career), I agreed with her except that I would have omitted the word "specialist."
If I get a tuberculosis vaccine, I don't have to wear a mask or distance myself from people who have tuberculosis. That's the point of vaccines, they stop spread of disease by stopping you from getting infected. The fact is, is that these new vaccines simply don't work. They're defective products, and they're a fraud, and a very lucrative fraud at that, the makers are raking in billions, and they're immune from civil liability.
Well, that USED to be what vaccines did. Now they claim a vaccine causes a reduction in symptoms, while also pretending they give immunity when it's politically convenient.
If I redefine mass so that boulders fly off into space when you kick them as hard as you can, will you kick a boulder? What they claim is a lie, just as they've been lying all the time. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." Everything these people say or claim is a self-serving lie, better to ignore their words altogether and make up your own mind from your own knowledge and experience.
I've said it before, the virus would be gone if everyone would just hold their breath for 20 minutes at the same time. Zero people from then on would get it.
One idea I have been experimenting with to wake people up one person at a time is to use paradoxical interventions. It is important to note that you should not try and beat the enemy because you cannot. You cannot reach them logically or rationally. Some years ago, we used to intervene with families by using this technique. In one sense it is prescribing the symptom. For example, if working with a couple who are fighting all the time you might suggest they do more of the same because surely the fighting is a sign that they love one another, and more fighting will bring them closer together. In fact, you would suggest that they schedule their fights on alternative nights at a particular time, say 7-8 pm and keep notes of the issue raised. Of course, this seems absurd but in fact it makes the fighting conscious and something they now choose to do rather than do it automatically. It brings an awareness to the conflict in a way no rational approach would be able to, and because of this awareness it changes the dynamic of their fighting.
I think the same thing might work with those who are enthralled by mass formation. Let me give you an example. In an opinion piece in the NYT a commentator said that parents who do not vaccinate their young children are not responsible people nor are they good parents. Here’s my ‘paradoxical’ reply.
I totally agree with you! At our elementary school there is a proposal (widely supported) to make unvaxxed children wear yellow (for caution) wrist bracelets to distinguish them from the vaxxed kids. The unvaxxed will watch the classroom over closed circuit television from another room. At recess the unvaxxed must remain segregated and not play with the vaxxed kids and at lunch the unvaxxed kids must eat together outside. We think the school board will pass this proposal and most of the teachers are all for it.
Now maybe one person or some people who support vaccination policies will read this and think, “My god that’s extreme or even crazy.” Now once they have that thought you have broken through their hypnotized state and a possibility exists for them to re-examine their own bat-shit crazy behavior.
Wherever you see pro-vax comments posted denigrating the unvaxxed or the un-boosted take it further and use paradox to first agree with them and then take it a step(s) further. You will be surprised that nothing is too crazy to say. Moreover, try it in conversation with someone who is ranting about the unvaxxed. First, always agree with them and then offer some more extreme measure of dealing with the unvaxxed using their comments as the springboard. See how clever you can be. Please post you interventions to the site below and the results so I can keep track of what is working.
Jujitsu! Don't push back, pull! Also works to defeat censorship on social media. Try to land right on the line between sincere-but-extreme and "can't be serious". Give them an opportunity to back down.
Reminds me of Poe's law, "without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied"
I considered writing a parody blog as a woman complaining about her antivaxxer boyfriend. Bury some inconvenient truths in there like her boyfriend saying that scott gottleibis a Pfizer lobbyist. She replies that he works for Pfizer that doesn't make him a lobbyist.
I do like the jujitsu reference. The only way we get out of this is if we pull enough people to our side.
We should introduce these folks to the fact that, especially in Winter, being tarred and feathered 1) reduces the need for additional garments and 2) warms you better because you’re closer the the source of heat.
The "vaccines" work best if you never encounter Covid_19 at all. Studies show that no exposure to the virus confers high immunity leaving only the risk of injury and death from the "vaccines" themselves.
I mean, you just can't make this cr*p up! It's exasperating, and if it weren't so deadly fu**ing serious, it would be hilarious. It reads like satire, except it's not. Am I the only one who feels like I've been zapped through a wormhole into some awful alternate universe???
Example number bazillion why I am embarrassed to admit I have a PhD. At least I'm not an epi or MPH. I had almost forgotten about Lipsitch. Thanks for reminding us how much he sucks.
Clever career girl, that "Amy Maxmen, Phd". She has happily signaled her willingness to participate in lying with statistics, i.e. pretending to see "higher vaccine effectiveness".
Meanwhile...
* Door lock efficacy and burglar alarm efficacy probably depend on having multiple armed guards on premises 24x7x365 to catch all trespassers at the perimeter of your property.
* Toilet efficacy probably depends on not pooping into toilets after very big meals and on putting used toilet paper into a trash can.
* Non-stick frying pan efficacy probably depends on using a double boiler or microwave oven to cook your food.
* Anti-virus software efficacy probably depends on never connecting your computer to a network and on not plugging in any portable media device, e.g. a USB memory stick.
* Umbrella efficacy probably depends on keeping your umbrella dry and not using it outdoors when it's raining.
* Efficacy of anti-fungal and anti-mold additives in bathroom paint probably depends on never taking any showers and on keeping the bathroom door open at all times to ensure maximum airflow.
I’m sure she’s stupid (she’s certainly without conscience or ethics). But theoretically she could be quite intelligent. She only has to depend on the stupidity, hypothesized state, and lack of reading skills in the readers.
This has to be a kind of confirmation bias. The NPIs were not effective in reducing Covid hospitalizations or deaths.
But somehow now they are magically going to rescue vaccines, which are evidently not as effective, nor as durable, as they promised us early on?
A fundamental precept of ancient wisdom was this:
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
It’s really critical to distinguish between things that are under our control and things that are not.
There are severe limits to our ability to control a highly infectious respiratory illness. Our public health scientists just can’t accept that, so they engage in delusional behavior—trying desperately to control things they cannot, and causing enormous collateral damage in the process.
One thing I have realized through all of this is how truly limited the knowledge of viruses and virus behavior is. They can't even figure out with certainty how viruses actually spread.
Yes, I'm not totally sold on the terrain theory-thus-viruses-don't-exist view yet, but there are some serious problems with the purported science that is done in this area. Very sketchy.
Beriberi too was once thought infectious, I believe. Allow me to amend my previous unflattering comments. You clearly know a lot, but some of what you are repeating is utter rubbish (e.g. that viruses don't exist.) You may be wrong about the details or the mechanics, but I'm 100% with you on the importance of environment (food, nutrients, toxic materials) upon health.
You write as if the collateral damage were unintended. The public health crowd leans heavily to the left, and the mass panic they caused won them the Presidency.
You should check out the purple mask graph here: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/masks-dont-work In one graph, it summaries how stupid the entire world is. The graph was derived by getting the git repo with the Bangadesh study data from the authors, then doing the plot. It validates UC Berkeley Professor Ben Recht's work on this. Ben got it right. We validated it.
We should recognize a new winter Olympics event, in honor of the choice of China for the next Olympics: the Wuhan Gold mask - awarded to the country that imposes the silliest, most damaging, most insulting CoVid regulations. For now, my vote is for Australia with Canada and the UK tied for the Wuhan Silver mask. Can we get NBC to cover it?
I read an excellent comment on reddit. Some vaccine enthusiast from the UK was saying that the reason the vaccines are failing is because the vaccinated now ignore other covid measures.
would you look at that, even AP news is jumping on the bandwagon. telling the masses that the virus is “evading” the vaccine is probably as close as we’re gonna get to them admitting the vaccines doesn’t work.
The vaccine works best with quarterly boosters, hazmat suit, N95 even inside to protect yourself from family members and pets (shudder they have the rona!), permanent social distancing in your home, have everything delivered to your house, never go outside, and for good measure nail your windows shut as aerosolized corona could come in through your windows. The horror!!!!!
The UK has moved to introduce COVID papers, either vaccine proof or proof of a lateral flow, but through the hugely centralized NHS app.
I watched the debate and it was nothing of the sort. Group think, no original thought, no one willing to question the orthodoxy - just more masks, more "vaccine", more fear, more NHS panic.
I read they've added "vaccine" mandates for health staff, so they're destroying the NHS to protect the NHS. Or people will comply and the country I read about in history books no longer exists.
I fully expect lockdown in the new year. Winter is just getting started and it's clear no one is ready to accept vaccine failure.
I remember when having a PhD meant that you are an intelligent and serious scientist. I remember when Nature was a serious science journal. Truly embarrassing times indeed.
"The forest kept shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe. For the axe was clever and convinced them that since its handle was wood it was one of them." ~Anonymous
There is unrest in the Forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the Maples want more sunlight
And the Oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the Maples
(And they’re quite convinced they’re right)
They say the Oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the Oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the Maples
Can’t be happy in their shade?
There is trouble in the Forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the Maples scream ‘Oppression!’
And the Oaks, just shake their heads
So the Maples formed a Union
And demanded equal rights
‘The Oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light’
Now there’s no more Oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw…
~ Neil Peart
The further irony is that Peart is a Canadian.
May he rest in peace.
Here in Canada it is as bad or worse than any of your blue cities/states. Fear propaganda and demonization of unvaxxed is almost unrelenting...but I take comfort knowing they will wake up eventually, I just hope it won't be too late.
At that point they may not want to wake up.
And there in lies the problem. They will have to admit they got taken in by a cult. Most will never be able to barring some shocking incident that snaps them out of it.
The undemocratic, rich people's republic of Soviet Canuckistan is truly sad. Virtually everyone obediently puts their mask on and doesn't ask any questions.
Yes indeed, it is cult-like behaviour and devotion to the narrative, even though that narrative changes constantly.
He was Canadian. He became a US citizen and lived with his wife and daughter in LA for years before he died.
I'm sorry to hear of his passing. I had the good fortune to see Rush three times in my life, two of them sober so I remembered the performance 🙂
His death came as a shock to most. His condition, brain cancer, was known only by his closest friends and family, at his request. I saw Rush live more times than I can remember now. Needless to say, he and the band were pretty important to me.
Ffs, he didn't stop being Canadian, it's not a contest. After tragically losing his daughter and wife in less than 2 years (late 90s), he moved to the US some time in the 2000s after finding love again with an American woman and having a daughter with her.
You don't have to tell me the story. I'm more than familiar with it. He became a US citizen and made his home, official residence, in Santa Monica for over a decade prior to his death. He also maintained a cabin on a lake in Quebec. And, by the way, his common law wife and daughter both died less than 12 months apart from each other. I never said he revoked his Canadian citizenship, ffs.
‘The Trees’ put to Music…the Band Rush😉
https://youtu.be/JnC88xBPkkc
harrison woodcutter bergeron
Brilliant! 👏
I just posted this same quote on my Facebook & Instagram stories today! Where I read it, it was credited as a ‘West Asian Fable” ❤️🙏
I did a bit of a dig to find the attribution of the quote and found it to be ambiguous: African or "West Asian".
Sunscreens work better when you wear a big, floppy hat and stay indoors.
And they work even better if you also wear some, and a big hat and stay inside. And if you don’t, you’re to blame for my sunburn *and* my rickets.
It’s probably true that the inoculation works best if you’re not exposed to the virus.
Possibly the only way it works.
masking doesn't prevent exposure
https://swprs.org/face-masks-and-covid-the-evidence/
Of course not. But they think it does. Also, staying away from everyone forever might. That’s the point: They’re now admitting the shots only work…if you never get the virus.
Like all vaccines...
They're circling back to breaking up support system thank you again people apart
👍👍
Sometimes it does: that's why some guys wear masks when they are alone in their cars. Follow the science: 100% efficacy in such circumstances.
I witnessed the absolute pinnacle of CovidLogic in front of the local Dollar Tree the other day. Guy in one of those brand-new miniature pickup trucks that soft suburban dad-bods like to drive because minivans make them look a little *too* soft. Completely alone, wearing a mask. Backs out of his parking spot without looking and comes within an inch of being flattened by a beer delivery truck. I do not have a heart of gold, so I was cheering for the Bud Light Express.
Good stuff... Appreciate it
it's not an inoculation.
Agreed... I call it a shot, and I correct everyone who uses vaccine or inoculation👍
Even better is “gene therapy” which it is.
And I prefer gene treatment because “therapy” has strong implications of help and cure, whereas treatment is much more ambiguous, as is appropriate for these Russian roulette shots.
Or mRNA transfection as JJ Couey says. It's sciency sounding and it's accurate.
Oh, I like that! I’m going to start using it. Thanks!
gene modification ('therapy' implies that it's 'good')
Even the gene is fake! At least in Moderna's vaxx, they use a synthetic "letter" (pseudouridine) for reasons I freely admit to not understand. 😶
Irreversible, experimental gene therapy injection.
Good point... That's scary stuff 😳
Covid shot is apt.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If vaccines worked, we wouldn't need masks. If masks worked, we wouldn't need vaccines. But since neither of them work, somehow we need them both. Have I got that right? I don't want to be cancelled or anything.
What about 'social distancing'? Where are we with that? 🙃
Only required outside of orgies, per NZ, I think.
🤭
The only way to be social is to distance ourselves from everyone else.
Finally—some honest reporting! They’re finally admitting this has all been about protecting the vaccine [manufacturers] from us pesky people.
Thank goodness there was a "PhD" behind Amy Maxmen! Otherwise, I might not have trusted her educated opinion...
Of course, you know that because she has a PhD she knows more than you! :)
Just ask her, she'll tell you.
Then. What. Is. The. Point. Of. The. Vaccine.
Vaccine efficacy probably depends on: profound stupidity; mass hypnosis; abject fear; OCD; Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome; Event 201; mainstream Mockingbird media and their shock-and-awe tactics; heaps of cash from Gates Foundation; big pharma and its lobbyists; censorship and suppression of alternative viewpoints/treatments; teachers' unions; power-tripping public 'health' officials, megalomaniac governors; sacrifice of kids; etc., etc., ad infinitum.
But that's EQUITY for you: equality of OUTCOME.
Safe and effective.
It probably reduces hospitalization because the vaccinated feel protected. The decision to seek medical care for a respiratory illness has large psychological components.
A nurse whistleblower who worked at a NYC hospital early in the pandemic said many patients who went to the hospital were actually having panic attacks, got admitted, and caught covid there.
Yes, and fast breathing (above 30 breaths per minute) is both a sign of panic and suffices for a severe COVID diagnosis if there is a positive lab test and some other minor symptom (FDA standard).
My umbrella works better if I use it indoors.
Actually, my umbrella tends to crumple when I use it indoors. And then it won't work outdoors.... Oh. Wait.
The government is criminal and as such illegitimate. These "experts" and "scientists" are paid off, and as such are criminals. These criminals will never ever stop until they are stopped.
And she's trustworthy too:
"During a Twitter debate about COVID origins, she claimed never to have met Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealthAlliance, and when confronted with a photograph of herself side by side with Daszak, made the false claim that the picture had been “faked”. She subsequently corrected this false claim, but did not apologize for it." (via wiki)
🥸
Author: "Wow, this sentence really makes a definitive point confirming my preconceived notions!"
Cognitive Dissonance: "Sure does! Highlight the first half of that sentence and click send!"
Second half of sentence: "...although any synergy between masking and vaccination is speculative at present."
Author: "Case. Closed."
Another deranged PhD trapped in the mass formation psychosis. But the little boy is ADORABLE!
Yes!
If it weren't so infuriating it would be laughable. You know what else makes the vaccine effective? If you move to the Arctic by yourself and have no human contact; also if you are dead, they are 100% effective. Assholes.
So I guess none of the dead Biden voters have Covid!
They will be back to vote
Absentee ballot of course.
Latest preprint just released: Cessation of Respiration Improves Vaccine Efficacy to >99%
I'm actually A-O-K with them masking and distancing. You go your dingbat way and I will go my way of freedom and sanity.
It will hide their smirks and keep them far enough away from me to keep me out of jail.
More space for me to shop at Trader Joe’s. 😜 evidenced today at a TJ in batshit crazy Bay Area. Me with half ass cloth mask. Not interested in six foot distance cause TJ is so small that doesn’t even work - have you seen the 4 foot aisles?! Scaredy cats scattered from me and I had free reign to shop muahahahaha.
I saw a video on Instagram of a mask less guy entering a traincar in which all seats are occupied with phobic masked people. He begins puff his cheeks and to convulse as though he is getting ready to vomit. After a couple of motions a woman about ten feet away spots him and gets up and runs as if from a tossed hand grenade. Several other people see her and do the same. The convulsing guy then takes a seat casually as though nothing happened while everybody looks at him and SEETHES!
Lol. My middle kid has pulled the coughing behind her half assed mask jsut to be pesky. What can I do. Tweens. Might have rewarded her with a cookie 😝
Sympathies living in Bay Area. Glad you are enjoying the unsociable distancing. Park yourself near the cookie butter and wine and cough mercilessly. You know... to spread the cheer. Muahahahahaaa. er... hisss.
I do my best to sabotage as long as I am stuck here ….
High paw.
Less OK with the executive orders, though. Agree to disagree is all well and good til somebody calls the cops.
I don't disagree with that. So we are simpatico. Outside of parts of CA, NYC and parts of the great lakes - people are not putting up with the BS anymore. Those who live under dictators must fight back. You can still keep your distance and enjoy them wearing their fraidy masks.
The COVID Dumpster Fire has proven, if there was ever any doubt, that PhDs can be complete morons. (That was never in real doubt, but sometimes you just need an example or two!)
...but, but, the paper actually SAYS, "if this effect were important for SARS-CoV-2, it *could* imply..." WTAF? When the FDA used, "hope" in the FAQ on the Pfizer (licensed to someone else) booster, I figured we had scraped bottom. Now this babe is citing an article that is even weaker than hope!
I read a paper last year that people were using to "prove" asymptomatic spread and the value of contact tracing, and it was all vague and supposition, person X "may have" or "likely" infected person Y.
Indeed. Will give you another example. When the CDC was starting to try and justify community masking, they cited approximately 19 papers. Of those 19--yes, I read them, mostly--the first 9 had *nothing* to do with masks. There were vague suppositional explorations, of events that "may" show the possibility of asymptomatic transfer. Proof, not so much.
At this point we can just redefine science as the art of bamboozling funding agencies and other "stakeholders".
I noticed she has a PhD. It must be in that newly discovered (18 months old or so) branch of science known as "WTF."
Nah, they've been handing out PhDs like candy for years. Social sciences, and, affirmative action is a thing, decades old.
When I went back to graduate school in 1978, 16 years after graduating from college, my dissertation director told me that "Anyone who's studied [at the graduate level] after 1965 is an illiterate specialist." When I harumphed and pointed to myself, she graciously made an exception for me since I would have finished by her cutoff point if I hadn't had two careers in the interim. Still, I've always wondered.... Anyway, by the time I retired from college teaching (my 3d career), I agreed with her except that I would have omitted the word "specialist."
And WE'RE the science deniers?
PhD = Phretty Dumb
Piled higher deeper, sometimes.
My birth control works better when I don't have sex.
"Somewhat" better
If I get a tuberculosis vaccine, I don't have to wear a mask or distance myself from people who have tuberculosis. That's the point of vaccines, they stop spread of disease by stopping you from getting infected. The fact is, is that these new vaccines simply don't work. They're defective products, and they're a fraud, and a very lucrative fraud at that, the makers are raking in billions, and they're immune from civil liability.
Well, that USED to be what vaccines did. Now they claim a vaccine causes a reduction in symptoms, while also pretending they give immunity when it's politically convenient.
If I redefine mass so that boulders fly off into space when you kick them as hard as you can, will you kick a boulder? What they claim is a lie, just as they've been lying all the time. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." Everything these people say or claim is a self-serving lie, better to ignore their words altogether and make up your own mind from your own knowledge and experience.
we need a 'Yep!' reply button
I've said it before, the virus would be gone if everyone would just hold their breath for 20 minutes at the same time. Zero people from then on would get it.
One idea I have been experimenting with to wake people up one person at a time is to use paradoxical interventions. It is important to note that you should not try and beat the enemy because you cannot. You cannot reach them logically or rationally. Some years ago, we used to intervene with families by using this technique. In one sense it is prescribing the symptom. For example, if working with a couple who are fighting all the time you might suggest they do more of the same because surely the fighting is a sign that they love one another, and more fighting will bring them closer together. In fact, you would suggest that they schedule their fights on alternative nights at a particular time, say 7-8 pm and keep notes of the issue raised. Of course, this seems absurd but in fact it makes the fighting conscious and something they now choose to do rather than do it automatically. It brings an awareness to the conflict in a way no rational approach would be able to, and because of this awareness it changes the dynamic of their fighting.
I think the same thing might work with those who are enthralled by mass formation. Let me give you an example. In an opinion piece in the NYT a commentator said that parents who do not vaccinate their young children are not responsible people nor are they good parents. Here’s my ‘paradoxical’ reply.
I totally agree with you! At our elementary school there is a proposal (widely supported) to make unvaxxed children wear yellow (for caution) wrist bracelets to distinguish them from the vaxxed kids. The unvaxxed will watch the classroom over closed circuit television from another room. At recess the unvaxxed must remain segregated and not play with the vaxxed kids and at lunch the unvaxxed kids must eat together outside. We think the school board will pass this proposal and most of the teachers are all for it.
Now maybe one person or some people who support vaccination policies will read this and think, “My god that’s extreme or even crazy.” Now once they have that thought you have broken through their hypnotized state and a possibility exists for them to re-examine their own bat-shit crazy behavior.
Wherever you see pro-vax comments posted denigrating the unvaxxed or the un-boosted take it further and use paradox to first agree with them and then take it a step(s) further. You will be surprised that nothing is too crazy to say. Moreover, try it in conversation with someone who is ranting about the unvaxxed. First, always agree with them and then offer some more extreme measure of dealing with the unvaxxed using their comments as the springboard. See how clever you can be. Please post you interventions to the site below and the results so I can keep track of what is working.
Here’s the full article
https://emsrul.substack.com/p/the-use-of-paradox-waking-up-the?justPublished=true
Jujitsu! Don't push back, pull! Also works to defeat censorship on social media. Try to land right on the line between sincere-but-extreme and "can't be serious". Give them an opportunity to back down.
Jujitsu - clever - it never occurred to me - thanks!
Reminds me of Poe's law, "without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied"
I considered writing a parody blog as a woman complaining about her antivaxxer boyfriend. Bury some inconvenient truths in there like her boyfriend saying that scott gottleibis a Pfizer lobbyist. She replies that he works for Pfizer that doesn't make him a lobbyist.
I do like the jujitsu reference. The only way we get out of this is if we pull enough people to our side.
Thanks for hearing me out. Cheers
I hate to say it, but some places are actually doing this kind of segregation and demonization.
We should introduce these folks to the fact that, especially in Winter, being tarred and feathered 1) reduces the need for additional garments and 2) warms you better because you’re closer the the source of heat.
The "vaccines" work best if you never encounter Covid_19 at all. Studies show that no exposure to the virus confers high immunity leaving only the risk of injury and death from the "vaccines" themselves.
Your seatbelt protects my seatbelt.
I mean, you just can't make this cr*p up! It's exasperating, and if it weren't so deadly fu**ing serious, it would be hilarious. It reads like satire, except it's not. Am I the only one who feels like I've been zapped through a wormhole into some awful alternate universe???
To make the vaccines 100% effective, they should consider wearing thick plastic bags on their heads and tightly cinching them round their necks.
Cute! (The little boy, not the Madmen PhD obvs)
Example number bazillion why I am embarrassed to admit I have a PhD. At least I'm not an epi or MPH. I had almost forgotten about Lipsitch. Thanks for reminding us how much he sucks.
Nature - living up to its promise as a gardening magazine.
I remember in early 2020 Nature published an article on rowuhan where n = 9 !!!
I had almost forgotten about Lipsitch. Thanks for reminding us how much he'd s[n]itch.
Clever career girl, that "Amy Maxmen, Phd". She has happily signaled her willingness to participate in lying with statistics, i.e. pretending to see "higher vaccine effectiveness".
Meanwhile...
* Door lock efficacy and burglar alarm efficacy probably depend on having multiple armed guards on premises 24x7x365 to catch all trespassers at the perimeter of your property.
* Toilet efficacy probably depends on not pooping into toilets after very big meals and on putting used toilet paper into a trash can.
* Non-stick frying pan efficacy probably depends on using a double boiler or microwave oven to cook your food.
* Anti-virus software efficacy probably depends on never connecting your computer to a network and on not plugging in any portable media device, e.g. a USB memory stick.
* Umbrella efficacy probably depends on keeping your umbrella dry and not using it outdoors when it's raining.
* Efficacy of anti-fungal and anti-mold additives in bathroom paint probably depends on never taking any showers and on keeping the bathroom door open at all times to ensure maximum airflow.
* Sunscreen efficacy probably depends on...
And so on.
“Probably” is doing heroic work there.
“Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.” - Richard Feynman
The bigger question is How in the name of all things holy and sacred did she get. PhD? Clearly stupidity is not a barrier to a fine career!!!☘️
I’m sure she’s stupid (she’s certainly without conscience or ethics). But theoretically she could be quite intelligent. She only has to depend on the stupidity, hypothesized state, and lack of reading skills in the readers.
This has to be a kind of confirmation bias. The NPIs were not effective in reducing Covid hospitalizations or deaths.
But somehow now they are magically going to rescue vaccines, which are evidently not as effective, nor as durable, as they promised us early on?
A fundamental precept of ancient wisdom was this:
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
It’s really critical to distinguish between things that are under our control and things that are not.
There are severe limits to our ability to control a highly infectious respiratory illness. Our public health scientists just can’t accept that, so they engage in delusional behavior—trying desperately to control things they cannot, and causing enormous collateral damage in the process.
One thing I have realized through all of this is how truly limited the knowledge of viruses and virus behavior is. They can't even figure out with certainty how viruses actually spread.
Yes, I'm not totally sold on the terrain theory-thus-viruses-don't-exist view yet, but there are some serious problems with the purported science that is done in this area. Very sketchy.
Beriberi too was once thought infectious, I believe. Allow me to amend my previous unflattering comments. You clearly know a lot, but some of what you are repeating is utter rubbish (e.g. that viruses don't exist.) You may be wrong about the details or the mechanics, but I'm 100% with you on the importance of environment (food, nutrients, toxic materials) upon health.
You write as if the collateral damage were unintended. The public health crowd leans heavily to the left, and the mass panic they caused won them the Presidency.
And you write as if you actually believe they “won” the presidency ;)
How did Pfizer and the FDA miss this.
How can the vaccine see if I am wearing a mask? If I wear 10 does it work better?
The same way it knows you're sitting down in a restaurant.
Only if they're the right color
Tell me again why we need to vaccinate? These gizmos are worse than useless.
This just in: Scientists disclose that bullet proof vest effectiveness is enhanced if police avoid interaction with armed suspects.
You should check out the purple mask graph here: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/masks-dont-work In one graph, it summaries how stupid the entire world is. The graph was derived by getting the git repo with the Bangadesh study data from the authors, then doing the plot. It validates UC Berkeley Professor Ben Recht's work on this. Ben got it right. We validated it.
I really should know better than to look. Her twitter feed is a koolaid drinker's dream.
We should recognize a new winter Olympics event, in honor of the choice of China for the next Olympics: the Wuhan Gold mask - awarded to the country that imposes the silliest, most damaging, most insulting CoVid regulations. For now, my vote is for Australia with Canada and the UK tied for the Wuhan Silver mask. Can we get NBC to cover it?
I read an excellent comment on reddit. Some vaccine enthusiast from the UK was saying that the reason the vaccines are failing is because the vaccinated now ignore other covid measures.
Another day, another asshole...amy maxmen needs an enema, nuff said. phd my ass.
Wet pavements causing rain.
Mass psychosis. Mass freaking psychosis.
(Or Mask Psychosis if you prefer.)
would you look at that, even AP news is jumping on the bandwagon. telling the masses that the virus is “evading” the vaccine is probably as close as we’re gonna get to them admitting the vaccines doesn’t work.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-africa-south-africa-c8d09bed79be4a25f752237c0470961b
The vaccine works best with quarterly boosters, hazmat suit, N95 even inside to protect yourself from family members and pets (shudder they have the rona!), permanent social distancing in your home, have everything delivered to your house, never go outside, and for good measure nail your windows shut as aerosolized corona could come in through your windows. The horror!!!!!
The UK has moved to introduce COVID papers, either vaccine proof or proof of a lateral flow, but through the hugely centralized NHS app.
I watched the debate and it was nothing of the sort. Group think, no original thought, no one willing to question the orthodoxy - just more masks, more "vaccine", more fear, more NHS panic.
I read they've added "vaccine" mandates for health staff, so they're destroying the NHS to protect the NHS. Or people will comply and the country I read about in history books no longer exists.
I fully expect lockdown in the new year. Winter is just getting started and it's clear no one is ready to accept vaccine failure.
I remember when having a PhD meant that you are an intelligent and serious scientist. I remember when Nature was a serious science journal. Truly embarrassing times indeed.
Nature has been selling their soul for "climate change" for a very long time now. But yes, it's clearly gone exponential now.