Good to see another uplifting blog post to start out the new year. :)
Looking into the roots of fascism, I think you need to scrap the 'Herr' honorific. It looks like Monsieur or Signore (Italian) maybe be more appropriate.
Covid:
Yes, another wave of covid has hit the world. A few waves of other respiratory infections including the common cold, RSV, and influenzas. Get used to it, the SARS/Cov2 zoonotic virus is out and is never, ever going away. It's in our pets, family, rodents and likely our food supply.
All recommended mitigations are the least costly, partially effective and the least invasive. The latter is politically the most important. There are more effective mitigations. They are more invasive and expensive.
Many bloggers complained about wearing masks, social distancing, isolation and lockdowns. It was more important that they weren't inconvenienced than slowing the death rate. Can you imagine the incessant whining if migrations cost 3,000 per month ?
Name calling isn't going to fix the problem. Official are responding to the fear crap-storm that half-assed bloggers caused in the public.
I place this problem at the feet of all media, mainstream, vloggers and bloggers who gain views by selling and inciting fear and paranoia. Eventually, media consumers are going to get tired of this rhetoric and ignore the content or even push back. We're seeing push back with the "stop oil" protestors. Drivers are fed-up with them and beating them, running them down and using spray mace, dumping rotten food on them and other non-lethal approaches.
Ppl are tired of the negativity, fear and having their space invaded when they have more important things to take care of.
"The Research Data Alliance is supported by the European Commission, the National Science Foundation and other U.S. agencies, and the Australian Government."
And all of the authors declared no corruption. LOL
I make $300 a year calling Covid a con on this blog. No corporate sponsorships. No Bill Gates money. Baker has made well over 20m from NZ & US sponsors of the fucking fraudulency of viruses.
My dog is now dead. I'm recovering from another bout of covid, hospitalized again from covid blood clots. Please don't tell me it's fake.
I hope you didn't think I was referring to your blog, I wasn't. There are many many others that just make stuff up, I'd name them but I don't feel like fending off lawyers again or giving them publicity.
You may not believe it, we're on the same page. The mitigations were to slow the spread and keep bodies piling up in the street so politicians can keep their jobs. There is no real cure and in 50 years everyone that will die from covid will be gone. Like the 1918 flu, the ones that survive and their offspring will be more resistant. That is the best we can hope for.
I don't publish, because no one cares, and worse the liars have won. The goal is working the system, using the tools they give you. Unfortunately, it takes time. I need to concentrate on a few other items before I get back to shitshow called the WHO and ECDC. One project is building a publicly available, early warning system for these and other types of pathogens. Each year, clinics record ten of thousands of deaths coded as "viral pneumonia" or respiratory infection . Docs have no clue of what these virus are, lack resources to find out, or if something is brewing in the population. The US CDC, WHO, ECDC and national govts do not have the resources to figure them out. Other just hope it'll go away on its own like they often do. To execute properly, an "international standard" for AI surrounding detection of new infectious diseases is needed. Without international standardization and buy-in, it'll go nowhere.
SO... I do have "skin" in the game. My own skin and the death of my family members from covid. Anyone who has NOT lost immediate family to this or any other virus has no right to complain. They have not paid the price of entry to this "not so special club".
Like you, I'm not taking offered funding. I've been down that road far too many times. Now, I have the freedom to do the "right thing" instead of "their thing". I'm tired of working for the intel community and having the sponsors/owners refusing the work to be published. That 'is' the way it works as a consultant.
BTW, you and two (2) other blogs are the only ones I feel are worth the time to read and comment on.
Baker plays the game I walked away from. I need to live with myself.
You keep saying these virus are fraudulent, show the proof. You can because you can't show a negative. The virus isn't fraudulent, the political response is. The virus' existence and political response are not the same thing. The latter, is rife with parasites, conflicting priorities, exploitation and greed. (can you tell I'm not a fan? ) from both the private sector and govt. Follow the money. No blogger discussing covid response talks about the flow of money.
The political response could have been gamed beforehand. It's not as if those with the dosh and their intellectual minions were not aware of how corrupt politicians are. All the measures taken to restrict "the virus" were in the interests of the "new economy". and the "surveillance state". No small retail only corporate retail were allowed to open. "Pick and collect" a concept of online retail. Keep your distance so that the cameras could work on facial recognition of people with masks on which is a sign of an expectation of trouble at some stage (with the added benefit that masks are really shitty for your health). Don't go out to cafes or restaurants to buy your food but uber it in. All in practice for the CBDCs the scum want to enforce on us (probably in the coming year). All their studies denigrate small business in favour of corporate business because of course they do, small business is the only thing left to thieve now that there is nowhere else to colonise without too many 'costs'.
There are no viruses only billionaires and their minions. And they are all opposed to we the citizens and ultimately to themselves.
All political responses are gamed. It was the convergence of Friedman, predatory capitalists. More like a "frieding frenzy".
What you are calling "the plan" IS an actual plan from the US' Homeland Security Council. At the time of the SARS/Cov2 outbreak, no other country had a pandemic plan. They all basically adopted the work from the US. These strategies and plan were for influenza, a slower spreading infection. The infection rates of SARS/Cov2 are 10x greater. As a results, the effectiveness of mitigations are diminished. I think we (me/you) discussed this before.
Here is the main page with documents in reading order:
What was found during 2020, the private sector failed prioritize due to impacts to supply chains. The only effective delivery system for critical supplies to local distribution centers was the military. They all have a very good logistics infrastructure in place. Local distribution failed to deliver critical supplies. It's the local, last mile where things went and often go very wrong. ie factories to shipping depots, depots to docks, docks to local distribution centers.
Gaps in supply chain last mile are the largest risk to populations.
We were warned in 1949 by George Orwell about the advancement of government surveillance technology. Look at China and the UK. However, Orwell could never image "free world" private sector became the greatest threat. And, most ppl signup to place their privacy at risk. We have cell phones and automation boxes that constantly record sounds in homes and conversations. Vacuums that record floor plans of our houses. Door bells that record deliveries, who's visiting us, and comings and goings. Cameras that record our driving and conversations in the car. GPS recording our locations, where we are and were. Never get a smart watch.
It's not governments taking our critical information, it's Friedmanistic corporations. In a way, they are no different than Oligarchs.
It's not the governments making money off pandemics, it's the private sector. It's not the governments with details about all aspects of our lives, it's the private sector. It's not the governments promoting fear, its private sector media. It's not the governments quickly doing research into pandemic pathogens, its the private sector.
The EU has figured this out and has a long history of public rebellion to quell private sector abuses. Other countries have been slow recognize and take action. However, companies often lie about what they do. For example, Daihatsu (sister to Toyota) just closed due to discovery they had falsified their safety testing for the last 30 years. A more invasive government would have discovered this fraud earlier.
The larger questions are how must control and surveillance needs to be exercised, who needs to be monitored and by whom? Daihatsu and many other show companies cannot be trusted. Yet, the public seems to trust the private sector much more than government that is strongly influenced by the private sector. We can say government is a projection of private sector concerns, strategy and implemented plans.
It's private sector control and surveillance of populations the Orwell couldn't imagine.
Eat well, take your vitamin D even if you're in Florida (personally I'd prefer Colorado but Florida was the place during the Pandemic), drink lots of water. Enjoy the company of friends. And keep away from establishment medical & pharma would be my suggestions.
My experience with the established health profession is that it is extremely controlled
by those much higher up in the hierarchy. There is, of course, a specific code of conduct
for doctors making it difficult for any one of them to buck the system.
I went to a consultation with a friend who was receiving chemotherapy where she requested
a halt to one round of treatment as she was weak and ill. She wanted me there to argue for her.
The doctor was nervous to allow this as she said ‘we get audited’ and became agitated when discussing any change. There was a similar response when any alternate treatment was suggested as they are not allowed to treat with ‘what is not considered evidence’ from within their system.
Even though each patient has the right to make their own decisions based on their beliefs
and values, it is difficult to assert themselves when unwell to an authority standing over them.
"BDBinc , Cairn - mutual eye-rolling and 1 other liked your post"
The 1 other is not showing up but the stats of this post may indicate that the post has been restricted since "1 other liked your post". I shall wait and see but at the moment the stats are about a 1/4 of normal.
The full Stats are both schizo and all over the place. The opening rate likes are 3% (3 likes in the stats not two as you can see here) whereas the eyes on it are 199 (so 1.5%). Maybe the timezones where my followers are havn't woken up yet but it seems that there are some restrictions to my eyes.
I hope that Hamish McKenzie & co are not lying through their teeth as this is what I saw on Twitter many years ago as well.
Let them get more extreme, no one with any sense falls for this. ( Oh, some public servants will love some more sick leave, but they were taking that anyway. Plus they will continue not doing any *work from home*. )
Corporate has the same problems as Government in regards to employees skiving off. The IT Bros of California think that Corporate is more efficient than small business and are trying to eliminate the second. But of course this just fits with their need to dominate & to extract capital via theft (having run out of other theft sources) and is not based on real research. If they did that they would find how inefficient most corporates are.
I went to a presentation at the Sustainability Centre at Otago a few years ago. One of the Lecturers talked about the (own nothing and be happy) citizenry renting rather than owning such things as fridges. She figured it was great but didn't like hard questions from the audience.
I thought once maybe I could of applied for a job at this centre but I now realise that this is just not possible. They just would not employ me in a million years.
In Oz it basically costs $10 AUD (normal post) to $14 AUD to send a small parcel (<500gr) out. This parcel goes by air regardless of what cost you pay so therefore plenty of CO2 emissions for those wokes who love buying online and it also costs plenty in packaging and if it's only a $29 or $49 item then you've just spent a significant % of the cost of delivery to make the sale completely unprofitable.
Harvey Norman expounded on this issue for his business a few years ago. And someone I know works for a European clothing retailer that has a 70% share of the clothing market in their territory. And they cannot make money from their online and states that as far as they know only one clothing online retailer in Europe is. Like us they'd thought about shutting down their online retail due to non-profitability but have instead decided to give it another few years. 2 more years of losing money on it.
Just realized that I know David from another place and another time.
Happy New Year Richard !!!
Good to see another uplifting blog post to start out the new year. :)
Looking into the roots of fascism, I think you need to scrap the 'Herr' honorific. It looks like Monsieur or Signore (Italian) maybe be more appropriate.
Covid:
Yes, another wave of covid has hit the world. A few waves of other respiratory infections including the common cold, RSV, and influenzas. Get used to it, the SARS/Cov2 zoonotic virus is out and is never, ever going away. It's in our pets, family, rodents and likely our food supply.
All recommended mitigations are the least costly, partially effective and the least invasive. The latter is politically the most important. There are more effective mitigations. They are more invasive and expensive.
Many bloggers complained about wearing masks, social distancing, isolation and lockdowns. It was more important that they weren't inconvenienced than slowing the death rate. Can you imagine the incessant whining if migrations cost 3,000 per month ?
Name calling isn't going to fix the problem. Official are responding to the fear crap-storm that half-assed bloggers caused in the public.
I place this problem at the feet of all media, mainstream, vloggers and bloggers who gain views by selling and inciting fear and paranoia. Eventually, media consumers are going to get tired of this rhetoric and ignore the content or even push back. We're seeing push back with the "stop oil" protestors. Drivers are fed-up with them and beating them, running them down and using spray mace, dumping rotten food on them and other non-lethal approaches.
Ppl are tired of the negativity, fear and having their space invaded when they have more important things to take care of.
Who's paying you to write this.
At least you admit to being one eyed.
See my link below.
But;
"The Research Data Alliance is supported by the European Commission, the National Science Foundation and other U.S. agencies, and the Australian Government."
And all of the authors declared no corruption. LOL
"Note: Funding: None to declare
Declaration of Interest: None to declare"
I make $300 a year calling Covid a con on this blog. No corporate sponsorships. No Bill Gates money. Baker has made well over 20m from NZ & US sponsors of the fucking fraudulency of viruses.
So happy new year to you as well. And fuck off.
Also if you have a dog in the race, you fucking declare it on this blog. Got it?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3686027
My dog is now dead. I'm recovering from another bout of covid, hospitalized again from covid blood clots. Please don't tell me it's fake.
I hope you didn't think I was referring to your blog, I wasn't. There are many many others that just make stuff up, I'd name them but I don't feel like fending off lawyers again or giving them publicity.
You may not believe it, we're on the same page. The mitigations were to slow the spread and keep bodies piling up in the street so politicians can keep their jobs. There is no real cure and in 50 years everyone that will die from covid will be gone. Like the 1918 flu, the ones that survive and their offspring will be more resistant. That is the best we can hope for.
I don't publish, because no one cares, and worse the liars have won. The goal is working the system, using the tools they give you. Unfortunately, it takes time. I need to concentrate on a few other items before I get back to shitshow called the WHO and ECDC. One project is building a publicly available, early warning system for these and other types of pathogens. Each year, clinics record ten of thousands of deaths coded as "viral pneumonia" or respiratory infection . Docs have no clue of what these virus are, lack resources to find out, or if something is brewing in the population. The US CDC, WHO, ECDC and national govts do not have the resources to figure them out. Other just hope it'll go away on its own like they often do. To execute properly, an "international standard" for AI surrounding detection of new infectious diseases is needed. Without international standardization and buy-in, it'll go nowhere.
SO... I do have "skin" in the game. My own skin and the death of my family members from covid. Anyone who has NOT lost immediate family to this or any other virus has no right to complain. They have not paid the price of entry to this "not so special club".
Like you, I'm not taking offered funding. I've been down that road far too many times. Now, I have the freedom to do the "right thing" instead of "their thing". I'm tired of working for the intel community and having the sponsors/owners refusing the work to be published. That 'is' the way it works as a consultant.
BTW, you and two (2) other blogs are the only ones I feel are worth the time to read and comment on.
Baker plays the game I walked away from. I need to live with myself.
You keep saying these virus are fraudulent, show the proof. You can because you can't show a negative. The virus isn't fraudulent, the political response is. The virus' existence and political response are not the same thing. The latter, is rife with parasites, conflicting priorities, exploitation and greed. (can you tell I'm not a fan? ) from both the private sector and govt. Follow the money. No blogger discussing covid response talks about the flow of money.
The political response could have been gamed beforehand. It's not as if those with the dosh and their intellectual minions were not aware of how corrupt politicians are. All the measures taken to restrict "the virus" were in the interests of the "new economy". and the "surveillance state". No small retail only corporate retail were allowed to open. "Pick and collect" a concept of online retail. Keep your distance so that the cameras could work on facial recognition of people with masks on which is a sign of an expectation of trouble at some stage (with the added benefit that masks are really shitty for your health). Don't go out to cafes or restaurants to buy your food but uber it in. All in practice for the CBDCs the scum want to enforce on us (probably in the coming year). All their studies denigrate small business in favour of corporate business because of course they do, small business is the only thing left to thieve now that there is nowhere else to colonise without too many 'costs'.
There are no viruses only billionaires and their minions. And they are all opposed to we the citizens and ultimately to themselves.
All political responses are gamed. It was the convergence of Friedman, predatory capitalists. More like a "frieding frenzy".
What you are calling "the plan" IS an actual plan from the US' Homeland Security Council. At the time of the SARS/Cov2 outbreak, no other country had a pandemic plan. They all basically adopted the work from the US. These strategies and plan were for influenza, a slower spreading infection. The infection rates of SARS/Cov2 are 10x greater. As a results, the effectiveness of mitigations are diminished. I think we (me/you) discussed this before.
Here is the main page with documents in reading order:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/planning-preparedness/national-strategy-planning.html
What was found during 2020, the private sector failed prioritize due to impacts to supply chains. The only effective delivery system for critical supplies to local distribution centers was the military. They all have a very good logistics infrastructure in place. Local distribution failed to deliver critical supplies. It's the local, last mile where things went and often go very wrong. ie factories to shipping depots, depots to docks, docks to local distribution centers.
Gaps in supply chain last mile are the largest risk to populations.
We were warned in 1949 by George Orwell about the advancement of government surveillance technology. Look at China and the UK. However, Orwell could never image "free world" private sector became the greatest threat. And, most ppl signup to place their privacy at risk. We have cell phones and automation boxes that constantly record sounds in homes and conversations. Vacuums that record floor plans of our houses. Door bells that record deliveries, who's visiting us, and comings and goings. Cameras that record our driving and conversations in the car. GPS recording our locations, where we are and were. Never get a smart watch.
It's not governments taking our critical information, it's Friedmanistic corporations. In a way, they are no different than Oligarchs.
It's not the governments making money off pandemics, it's the private sector. It's not the governments with details about all aspects of our lives, it's the private sector. It's not the governments promoting fear, its private sector media. It's not the governments quickly doing research into pandemic pathogens, its the private sector.
The EU has figured this out and has a long history of public rebellion to quell private sector abuses. Other countries have been slow recognize and take action. However, companies often lie about what they do. For example, Daihatsu (sister to Toyota) just closed due to discovery they had falsified their safety testing for the last 30 years. A more invasive government would have discovered this fraud earlier.
The larger questions are how must control and surveillance needs to be exercised, who needs to be monitored and by whom? Daihatsu and many other show companies cannot be trusted. Yet, the public seems to trust the private sector much more than government that is strongly influenced by the private sector. We can say government is a projection of private sector concerns, strategy and implemented plans.
It's private sector control and surveillance of populations the Orwell couldn't imagine.
Eat well, take your vitamin D even if you're in Florida (personally I'd prefer Colorado but Florida was the place during the Pandemic), drink lots of water. Enjoy the company of friends. And keep away from establishment medical & pharma would be my suggestions.
My experience with the established health profession is that it is extremely controlled
by those much higher up in the hierarchy. There is, of course, a specific code of conduct
for doctors making it difficult for any one of them to buck the system.
I went to a consultation with a friend who was receiving chemotherapy where she requested
a halt to one round of treatment as she was weak and ill. She wanted me there to argue for her.
The doctor was nervous to allow this as she said ‘we get audited’ and became agitated when discussing any change. There was a similar response when any alternate treatment was suggested as they are not allowed to treat with ‘what is not considered evidence’ from within their system.
Even though each patient has the right to make their own decisions based on their beliefs
and values, it is difficult to assert themselves when unwell to an authority standing over them.
"BDBinc , Cairn - mutual eye-rolling and 1 other liked your post"
The 1 other is not showing up but the stats of this post may indicate that the post has been restricted since "1 other liked your post". I shall wait and see but at the moment the stats are about a 1/4 of normal.
Only showing two likes for this Substack post of yours. And one of them is me.
Holobiont is the other one.
BDB Inc. liked my comment so they are pretty discerning.
Everyone else might be trying to keep their New year's resolution to not read conspiracy realism.
The full Stats are both schizo and all over the place. The opening rate likes are 3% (3 likes in the stats not two as you can see here) whereas the eyes on it are 199 (so 1.5%). Maybe the timezones where my followers are havn't woken up yet but it seems that there are some restrictions to my eyes.
I hope that Hamish McKenzie & co are not lying through their teeth as this is what I saw on Twitter many years ago as well.
January 1st evening I made the New Year's resolution to shut up about all the c.realism, as some people are now avoiding me.
Resolution lasted really well until it crashed January 3rd.
(I didn't meet anyone January 2nd so that explains that.)
This post is definitely being restricted. I suspect that One Good Eye has something to do with it.
Seems to have come right now.?
The stats are still lower than all of my other posts.
How can someone with one eye influence Substack likes.
I figure pharma is big and ugly enough.
Let them say it.
It shows them up for trough feeders.
Let them get more extreme, no one with any sense falls for this. ( Oh, some public servants will love some more sick leave, but they were taking that anyway. Plus they will continue not doing any *work from home*. )
It's a hoot really.
Good that you report on it though.
Did you see this about lockdown in Antarctica.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/the-antarctic-expedition-that-showed
What do you think lock-downs were supposed to do ?
Supposed to lock you up.
Like in gaol.
Like in a concentration camp.
Harm.
Just read your link. Agree with what you said there. Also have added my bit.
Viruses, smiruses.
I hate it when I get so many likes for a comment.
Like I am part of the game.
I mean on Emperor with no trousers.
There is that element to Emperor's post.
Corporate has the same problems as Government in regards to employees skiving off. The IT Bros of California think that Corporate is more efficient than small business and are trying to eliminate the second. But of course this just fits with their need to dominate & to extract capital via theft (having run out of other theft sources) and is not based on real research. If they did that they would find how inefficient most corporates are.
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edit for spelling (over to other)
As you say, fascists.
And public private partnership.
ppp just like bbb just like 666
Can't have any independent business.
Talking with an Australian cruise shipper the other day. She said she buys everything from Amazon now, even a fridge as they give free shipping.
Yes it is good value now until they are the only supplier.
And then there's Amazon tracking the most popular items and making their rip off version of same.
Like Foodstuffs "Pams" products writ big.
I went to a presentation at the Sustainability Centre at Otago a few years ago. One of the Lecturers talked about the (own nothing and be happy) citizenry renting rather than owning such things as fridges. She figured it was great but didn't like hard questions from the audience.
I thought once maybe I could of applied for a job at this centre but I now realise that this is just not possible. They just would not employ me in a million years.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/sustainability/contact
In Oz it basically costs $10 AUD (normal post) to $14 AUD to send a small parcel (<500gr) out. This parcel goes by air regardless of what cost you pay so therefore plenty of CO2 emissions for those wokes who love buying online and it also costs plenty in packaging and if it's only a $29 or $49 item then you've just spent a significant % of the cost of delivery to make the sale completely unprofitable.
Harvey Norman expounded on this issue for his business a few years ago. And someone I know works for a European clothing retailer that has a 70% share of the clothing market in their territory. And they cannot make money from their online and states that as far as they know only one clothing online retailer in Europe is. Like us they'd thought about shutting down their online retail due to non-profitability but have instead decided to give it another few years. 2 more years of losing money on it.
I think online retail is about to crash.