Debt Rattle December 14 2020

@Raul: My G-Mail is working just fine right now.

Hydroxychloroquine , zinc and azithromycin was the best combination going in the spring, and was widely used, and people taking Hcq chronically had a very low incidence from COVID, and rare mortality.
Ivermectin seems to be much netter, as information has come in since late spring and early summer, all very favorable.

Votes And Vaccines post is up. https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/12/votes-and-vaccines.html

You can buy ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline treatment kits from India here. Dosing is one-size-sorta-fits-all. Thanks Jeremy:
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/

“Pathogenic Priming” is that good thing I have mentioned several times, which happens when a vaccine induces an antibody response which inadvertently makes you sick or kills you when the infectious agent enters the body, and the immune response is activated.
It’s usually detected in animal trials.
This was the problem with all the coronavirus vaccine attempts after SARS. Lab animals died when the vaccine was “successful”.
Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial Shows Alarming Evidence of Pathogenic Priming in Older Adults

Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial Shows Alarming Evidence of Pathogenic Priming in Older Adults

​ Another funny thing can happen with 2-dose vaccines, which is what Astra-Zeneca/Oxford discovered when half of a first dose worked better than a whole first dose. What happened was that the immunity induced by the first full dose was directed against the viral vector, meant to enter the human cell and deliver the genetic material. So, the viral vector got destroyed pronto, and the second dose never did mch. When the first dose was accidentally halved in one arm of the trial, it worked better. Russia can help, by letting Astra-Zeneca give one dose of Sputnik-V vaccine, which uses a different viral vector, so the full dose enters cells each time.
That’s science for ya’. Never know what will turn up in carefully run experiments. Gotta’ double and triple check for problems. Takes years.
Both AZ and Russian vaccines are cheap-for-the-world and very similar.​( I’ve got vitamin-D, and ivermectin ready, so not rushed.)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/12/russian-cooperation-saves-british-vaccine.html

​Vitamin-D, Bill. Ivermectin, Bill…​
Bill Gates Says Lockdowns Should Carry On Into 2022
Declares ‘normal’ will not return until there are “high vaccination rates”

Video: Bill Gates Says Lockdowns Should Carry On Into 2022

So add to the long, long list of medical mass-murders.

I’m in complete agreement with you, for a change. Normally, I’m very conspiracy-theory averse, but I’m really starting to wonder if perhaps the oligarchic PTB simply want to get rid of as many of the poor people with chronic poor health/ preconditions and the elderly as they can in anticipation of…something.

We’ve been adding a billion more people every 12-13 years since 1961, so I’m thinking we are going to hit a wall with that, at some point. Still, I will never countenance any sort of mass-murder as a solution.

The situation with population control is like that with organ harvesting: no one has the courage to deal with it plainly as a resource issue, so we leave it to donations and waiting lists and an ever-growing black market, some of it under semi-open government control.

A hundred years ago, women were tortured and jailed in America for promoting safe modern birth control methods. Abortion is deemed evil incarnate by the same political faction that most insistently endorses sending young men overseas to kill and maim and be killed or maimed for dubious causes. Abortion is deemed sacred, and war evil, by the loyally opposing other political faction while it embraces policies that attack the existence of human family structures both directly and indirectly, and consistently votes for politicians whose foreign policies make Dubya look nice.

Both sides seem equally unwitting where not willfully ignorant.

Meanwhile, the population can no longer be sustained. Its current growth arc has its future decimation ingrained into its structure. We the people show little interest in curbing our personal reproduction rates. Like everything else, we feel that “somebody ought to do something about it”. Apparently, somebody is. How dare they?! Don’t these leaders, whom we uphold and enrich despite their glaring unworthiness for their positions, know they are supposed to not try and fix things but only make vaguely agreeable verbal noises about the issues or things that somewhat resembles those issues?

People are going to die in unprecedented huge numbers over the next few decades, period. Old people are the most dispensable and expensive part of our growing unsupportable population. Nursing homes are a cultural blight that shows how everything has been compartmentalized into manageably marketable pens. As cryptic forced euthanasia goes, it makes sense. (I am at an age and condition of health where many people look to nursing home care. Ick, I say, but note that I am pointing a finger at myself when I identify the geriatric as the first most dispensable demographic profile.)

So, if the world’s bloated plutocrats and oligarchs choose to do something about arguably the single most pressing and defining issue of our times, while we bicker over reproduction planning policies and who to (stop) bomb(ing) next, we must of course oppose them. Because we, the romantically glorified people of a mighty democratic republic, who won’t come together to fix things except in the most trivial (yet typically hostile) ways, will not tolerate the powers that be doing anything except the usual: bomb (or not) the hell out of foreigners while burning out the brains of our fellow citizens.

^&*

Google’s platforms have been acting wonky over the weekend, but especially Sunday night, for at least a month. Major overhauls must be happening. Hackers probably exacerbate this, since they would recognize immediately the situation and exploit its vulnerabilities.

@madamski

I just have a problem with people who think they can play god.

The ivermectin story is heartbreaking. It’s so simple: You can have this safe drug or this dodgy vaccine. The real puzzle is how many would still want the prick.
I find the metaphors of religion have been very useful lately. It sure seems there are evil forces at work these days.

We need to kill the trusting and obedient-
Our dear, dark Lord insists it’s for the best.
To only leave the fighters is expedient
To feather Baphomet’s dank, mangy nest.

“Their outrage is delicious,” says the Deep One.
“Adrenochrome makes blood so very sweet-
The thrashing entertains, and power is such fun
When the prey are at it, fighting in the street.”

“/S”
China is our buddy.
China is our friend.
China knows how things are run-
They’ll run it ’til the End.

Madamski: Organ harvesting. I have a feeling that child-trafficking is the “friendly” cover story for the organ harvesting market. I used to think it was blackmail that runs the show, but that’s just the stick. The carrot is hearts, lungs, kidneys, and more if you play along.
As for population control, I believe we already know that if women have access to, and privacy concerning birth control, they have fewer children. To force a child on a woman who loathes it doesn’t just ruin her life, it can produce the future sociopath- the person with a chip on his or her shoulder who has a rotten model of love.

Mt. Etna: each district looks like a lava flow.

@Madamski : Thank You, Sister.
I have found a Bill Gates CNN interview video that is not Twitter here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-on-the-next-few-months-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-its-bad-news-11607893787
I admit I had not watched it, but now I have. My read of Mr Bill is that he should not play high stakes poker.
He is very pleased with himself numerous times in the interview, with a huge smile that he actually tries to suppress a few times to look appropriately serious. He always smiles when speaking glowingly of his own prior predictions, now come true, and the efforts of his foundation and their allies, and of the failures of the Trump Administration. He is very careful in choosing his words to give them no credit at all. He speaks glowingly of Biden and Fauci and all the big vaccines, and says he will take his shot in public, only when his turn comes. He implies this is a massive, life-saving good, and he wants to be in the same line as the common people. He says things will not be back to normal until 2022, but implies they may be better next summer. Nothing about vitamin-D, though his comments seem to imply that he is taking it into account, summer, and winter, and all.
Again, Gates reads like a fairly open-faced book if you know where he has been coming from for the last 15 years. I read something telling by him, about 15 years ago. He was fascinated with vaccines, including vaccines as birth control. Now he does not say that.

@ Mr House: Nobody who is not in the God-play-group likes people who play god.
It’s a clear threat.
Bill Gates wants to play a very clever god, a smug and pleasant god, who deeply loves himself and invites all of us to do the same. It will be best for all of us.
His obvious point would be that the least painful form of population reduction is birth-reduction.
It’s less bad than war, pestilence, famine and death, but it does not exclude them.

What might I suggest as a counter-offer?
I don’t play god. I don’t eat critters, because I practice non-violence.
I am not a tyrant. I think that we should be past massive slaughter as a means of population control. We are technologically and intellectually able to leave it behind, but we have not yet fully found the societal disposition to leave it behind, not exactly.
What I suggest is our human strong point, distributed problem solving in small groups. Nothing is assured, but it is what we, as a species, do best, and it is what has brought us to the point where we are about to extinct ourselves from success.
Going forward, we will have the already-begun severe and permanent decline in global oil, natural gas and coal, especially the cheap, easy and high quality stuff that the permanent-growth economy needs.
The change in direction has already taken place, but it has been mislabeled as COVID Pandemic.
COVID has destroyed “demand” for the fuel and products that are now in decline, but we do not have to think they are in permanent decline. “Back-to-normal” just keep getting put off until later, while our owners work things out in THEIR smallish groups.
The Davos-crowd, World Economic Forum clan may be as smug and self-satisfied as Mr Gates looks in the video, though it is going less-according-to-plan for many of them. At least they foresee destruction of their nationalist rivals, so they can work out one, big, good solution for all of humanity, and put it into action. It’s a work in progress, but they and their best experts are on it, all over it.
I must disclose that what I advocate is not laid out at all, but the potential strength of it lies in customizing adaptation by specific locations and cultures and groups, like towns and churches and employee-owned -enterprises, for instance. Just everybody does homework in small groups for 30 years. That’s my suggestion.
I’m doing my homework. My health remains good at 62.
The supply lines are breaking globally. Merry Christmas. More and more things are out of stock. Noticed that?
It’s time to invest, not to consume. Invest in what you need to survive, not in New York (if I may be so bold) or Phoenix (I’m now aware of your situation, Sister) , not in an isolated bunker, somewhere.
Risks involve a lot of uncertainty, and an ideal situation in 2-3 years might be terrible in 12-13 years.
We are renting a little half duplex from my Mom, in Austin, where we both work. The weather here won’t kill you, even without utilities. We have paid off the gardening “homestead” in Yoakum, population 6000, with a rail line, and agricultural and oil mixed economy. Oil is shot now. Eagleford shale fracking went black. That’s ok for the moment. What’s next? It’s a 2 hour drive each way. We spend weekends working there, and weekdays working our paid jobs. When will we have to choose one or the other?
The country used a lot less gasoline in the 1970s, and a lot less of everything else.
Recall gas lines?
When will supply-destruction become apparent? With supply destruction as a limiter, you can’t buy what you need, and prices shoot up into hyperinflation. They sure will this time.
Stagflation again; hyper-stag-flation…
Can you learn to grow some of your food. Mainly, it gives you a comprehension of how difficult and uncertain it is, but you also develop skills and expertise. Perspective. Working-knowledge.
Look to how you might survive for a month if the utilities go out. Grocery store utilities will be out, too.
Gas pumps need electricity. Utilities need electricity. Phone systems need electricity.
I’m not being extreme.
The God-play-group will have to sacrifice billions of us, somewhat arbitrarily, I foresee.
The birth-control-surprise cannot work fast enough to deal with the absolute decline that factory farming go though in 10-20 years. You may think my timeline is wrong. It might be. Some failures are bound to come sooner.
Preparing some, physically preparing as much as you can, not just thinking, is better than not preparing.
Do have a sensible, multi-purpose bike, and some spare tunes, tires, grease and tools.
Ride it at least every other day.

@phoenixvoice
Getting your list on Biden’s agenda might be your first step

@John Day
Biden might be too late to change the traditional way of population control.

I have no idea how true this is, but it sure feelz right.

Poor young Billy had no friends and this made Billy sadly
Filled with hatred and despair- it made young Billy madly
Anxious to exact revenge- to make those people pay.
He made enough to get his wish- and here we are today.

Poor young Tony had no friends -a hand held out in greeting
Was drawn back quick with laughter, and this left poor Tony bleating:
“I’ll get you back you rotten kids, I’ll get you back some way!”
He got the power to get his wish- and here we are today.

Poor young Klaus was so ignored by everyone who knew him,
His lonely brain was filled with ways to kill those who outgrew him.
“I’ll make you suffer, first,” he growled, “in every single way!”
He formed a club to help him out and here we are today.

So next time when some geeky kid who wants to join the party
Comes bumbling in, his hand held out- just shake it good and hearty.
Be nice to those who don’t fit in. Don’t make them cruelty’s prey
Lest we end up in Payback Land like where we are today.

Dr. D.:

4% renewable energy currently and doubling it to 8% would be very hard as fossil fuel is required to sustain the current 4% share of world energy.

To reach 8% renewable energy would require the use of even more fossil fuels than we are currently using!

The real problem with our current 4% renewable energy is that it can not sustain itself without using fossil fuels!

“Nothing can be done, ’cause Fate™ has agency over all!”

Mmm.

> But anointing leaders to god-like status is what humanity DOES.

Mmm, really. “humanity”? This human doesn’t..

> Fate is doing what Fate does.

Tell us more, cuz you sound really, really smart.

“There’s nothing we [you little proles] can do!

mmm.

“Nothing can be done, ’cause Fate™ has agency over all!”

Well, if you say so, but I disagree. Control and agency have some overlap but are nonetheless separate things.

Clicking it gives you the very large version. Yes, it might be good to have some kind of overview of every element he put in there, and the meaning(s).

Thanks Ilargi; I’d forgotten to click to enlarge.
I can’t say it helped much, but did make some details more clearly viewable.
The date, 1870, is post Civil War, but I’m still at a loss for the title: The Genius of America…
The bottom right corner doesn’t seem to show a free black man and woman…
Oh well…