An Open Letter to Friends

Largely I agree, except that I don’t think cabinet papers are made public. There was also some value in taking advantage of being an island nation. Since it has become increasingly authoritarian in that self righteous way. I am not aware of any local venue for dissent or contrary views.
As it happens that vaccines don’t protect against infection or transmission even by the asymptomatic, and likely in the future compromise of the immune system becomes apparent their position will be less sustainable.
In large part I think conservatism amongst medical advisers is to blame but the politicians readily kow tow and are happy to go along with it all.

For the most part, and for most of the time, individuals simply don’t give a shit about the tribe or the species . . . because they’re neccessarily too busy taking care of business for themselves and their tiny cohort of family and close friends.

Now there is a challenge to the tribe ( AND the species ! ) and suddenly humans wake up (SOME of them, PARTIALLY) to the hard cold fact that Mother Nature doesn’t give a shit about them OR their species and is perfectly fine with just rubbing out the entiree lot in the blink of a “pandemic” (of one sort or another, be it viral, cognitive or spiritual matters not at all).

One thing that is crystal clear to me, and that is that species do not last, and that the current one is smack in the middle of its own E.L.E. and not doing so well. A new virus (let’s call it MoroniCon) is sweeping through the herd so fast that even the vaunted Internet cannot even track it. Will Homo Sapiens Sapiens survive ? Sure don’t look like it. Looks instead like roughly half of them are fixin’ to kill the other half . . . which by my mathematics is two halves equals one whole.

In which case there will soon be a new dominant species, which may or may not be of the family Sapiens or even the genus Homo . . . because the current iteration of “Big Dog of Life Forms of Earth” . . . has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that as a species it is just smart enough to get into extinction level trouble , and not even close to being smart enough to get out of it.

Don’t worry one little bit. Mom will fix it.

Hi Huskynut,

Oceania has been one of the canaries in the coal mine and I appreciate you taking the time to resonate the importance exercising our voices.

It’s funny, I was talking with my sister last night and our parents used to have a cabin home in Appalachia. This was in the late 80’s and she was like, “Do you remember those billboards that said Bill Gates was the antichrist?” I was like, “Yep, and they also had those churches that brought in live rattlesnakes.”

Have you had any Jacinda Arden is the antichrist billboards erected lately?

Kidding aside, I think I will incorporate what you wrote here in my next response to HR.

There is no statistical correlation between countries with high vax uptakes and good covid outcomes. None. Not between countries, or within countries, where individual states are compared with others. If the damn jabs worked, that correlation should stick out like dog’s balls by now.

If Supreme Court upholds this OSHA ETS in the states, they are planning to shut my badge off and bar me from the office unless I submit to masking and testing. Needless to say, that’s not happening.

Chose a title

Yesterday is Gone

Tomorrow is Here

Disciple of Whom or What?

” It may be good therapy for everyone to put all their Covid thoughts and frustrations in writing.”

My letter to a friend written a month or two ago, before Omicron:

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D—–,

First, here are things we probably agree on:
1) We are both trying to improve our odds. There’s no guarantee with any approach
2) The vaccines diminish symptoms, hospitalization and deaths from Covid for a limited amount of time
3) Long Covid is a real problem and affects a lot of the people who get Covid

That said …

What we were originally told about the vaccines was not true. We were told by Fauci, Biden, Gates and Wallensky that if you got the vaccine you wouldn’t get Covid, get hospitalized or die from Covid. You wouldn’t need a mask any more. Your life would go back to normal. We were told if 70% of the population got vaccinated we would reach herd immunity. These things are now known to be misinformation. The CDC now says we cannot expect to reach herd immunity ever with the vaccines and that boosters must continue indefinitely even if everyone gets vaxxed (The vaccines will never get us back to normal and your anger at the unvaccinated is misplaced.) There is still a lot we don’t know about the vaccines. But the same people still expect us to do what they tell us to do. Yes, science is a learning process but I have to question either their honesty or competence.

Up until recently Covid 19 vaccines in the US only had Emergency Use Authorization. Emergency Use Authorization is only available for vaccines for diseases for which no treatment exists. It was unquestionably in the best interest of Pfizer, et. al. to have no such treatment found and approved so that they could get ‘warp speed’ authorization for the vaccines and the consequent billions of dollars in profits. Despite being around for 20 months there is no non-vaccine treatment for Covid 19 (This may change with the Pfizer drug which BTW is $700. It is claimed that the mechanism of the Pfizer drug is the same as that of Ivermectin.) The standard of care is essentially if you get Covid go home and if you get sick enough go to hospital. This is unbelievable. One might ask why the CDC, FDA, NIH or WHO didn’t investigate existing drugs to find something that could be prescribed before hospitalization. Anyone who claimed to have found such a drug was mocked and demonized. One might think that when these claims were made one of these agencies might have investigated Hydrochloroquine or Ivermection or even Vitamin D to see if it was true. But only vaccines were pushed as a possible solution to Covid Why is this? (OK, rhetorical. It’s the money.)

The mRNA vaccines work by getting your body to create spike proteins which your immune system then creates antibodies for. Spike proteins are the part of the virus that does the damage. The virus has three phases. The first is in the respiratory system and lasts several days. This is often not so bad. In the second phase the virus gets in to the vascular system through the lungs. The spike protein on the virus attaches to the lining of blood vessels and this damage can cause clotting and other problems. The third phase is inflammation as the body tries to deal with the damage done to cells by the virus. This phase is the most dangerous and causes the respiratory problems that kill people. The reason the vaccines are effective is because the spike protein antibodies help to stop the virus at stage 2. The reason they are dangerous is because the vaccines themselves generate spike proteins that can cause the same damage as stage 2. A lot of people have suffered adverse effects from the vaccines but this is ignored by the mainstream media.

The Lancet reports that vaccinated people infected with Covid 19 transmit the disease at about the same rate as the unvaccinated (23% vs 25%). According to British statistics people over 30 are twice as likely to get Covid 19 if they are vaccinated than if they are not. It appears that the vaccinated have milder symptoms on average than the unvaccinated if they contract Covid. Given that the vaccinated are about twice as likely to have Covid and just as likely to transmit it, it is the unvaccinated who are at higher risk from the vaccinated than vice versa. Whenever I hear people saying that unvaccinated can’t come to events because they threaten the vaccinated it sounds ridiculous. “I am protected and you aren’t so you are a threat to me.” I was allowed to come to the office when no one was vaccinated but now that other people are vaccinated I am not. Am I a bigger threat than I was previously? Are they at more or less risk now that they are vaccinated? This seems illogical and punitive.

The vaccines have unknown side effects. British statistics show that the death rate for all causes per 100K in the last 6 months are about double for the vaccinated as the unvaccinated. Deaths from causes other than Covid are not being attributed to the vaccines but there is definitely a correlation. When Pfizer did their tests they saw something similar but only reported deaths from Covid 19. The vaccines have long term effects that are unknown. Yes, they protect people short term, but the vaxxed pooh pooh the possibility of long term problems. In my experience a lot of vaccinated people are now emotionally invested in vaccines being good. Similarly people not wanting vaccination are emotionally invested in vaccines being bad. Everyone needs to admit that they are biased and make allowances for the other side. We need to avoid the attitudes “I hope all the unvaccinated die” or “I hope all the vaccinated die”. I’ve heard both. I heard from you “If only Covid were as deadly as Ebola it would force the unvaxxed to get vaxxed.”

There is research that shows that the vaccines modify the immune system. I read about this but it is above my pay grade. However it is very believable that when mRNA enters your cells it has effects we don’t yet understand that alter the immune system. Yes, as you state mRNA tech has been around a long time, but this is the first widespread use in humans. To claim it is some tried and true technology that is totally understood is ridiculous. Does it mess with your immune system? There is evidence that it does and we should err on the side of caution. My ex-sister-in-law was a thalidomide baby and the effects on her children have been devastating.

You are willing to get a booster every 6 months in perpetuity. OK for you, but given what we don’t know this sounds extraordinarily risky for young children. Are there long term studies of how this will affect children in 5 years? Of course not. Everyone knows that young children are at little risk for Covid 19 itself. No young children died in Oregon from Covid. The official reasons for giving children the vaccines are 1) they can still get Covid and some (mainly the comorbid) suffer consequences and 2) to protect their elders. This just sounds crazy. A treatment with unknown long term consequences given to children to protect their parents, teachers and other adults. Just. Crazy. The official answer is just trust us and to put the burden of proof on the people who think it sounds risky. Just. Crazy.

Some make the argument that we should mandate vaccination so as not to overrun hospitals with patients. OK. Let’s make a rule that people should be forced to take health measures that prevent hospitalization and lets apply it evenly which would mean a lot of measures besides Covid vaccination. Do we want to go there as a society? Should the government get to tell people what to eat and drink and what they need to inject in their bodies and what entertainment is allowed so they can be kept out of the hospital?

Not everyone is as likely to go to hospital with Covid. People with comorbidities are much more likely to have adverse Covid effects and end up in the hospital and die. This is rarely addressed. Vitamin D has been shown to be a predictor of infection, seriousness and mortality from Covid. I get no credit for improving my odds by keeping my Vitamin D levels high and avoiding comorbidities through diet and exercise. People like you laugh at it. “Oh, you trust your immune system? With that and a buck you can buy coffee at McDonalds!” It’s one size fits all and that size is the vaccines.

So for me 1) I have reduced my risk by diet, supplements and exercise 2) I don’t have comorbidities like obesity 3) I generally avoid crowds 4) I trust the information from doctors actually treating patients about the ability of Ivermectin to combat Covid 5) I don’t want to damage my immune system and double my future mortality risk by getting the shot. I see my biggest risk as long Covid. My daughter has some long Covid symptoms (mainly loss of smell) and says it is quite disturbing. Some claim that Ivermectin reduces the chances of this but I’m not sure of that. The Covax vaccine is a traditional disabled-virus vaccine and doesn’t mess with your immune system. I might be willing to get Covax. Unfortunately it may never be available in the US. There is no profit in it for big pharma. It is being rolled out in Iran. Maybe I should go there to get it.

I don’t want to get in to a mask discussion. I will just say that ventilation is more effective than masks at preventing Covid 19. We never hear about that.

I am also skipping a description of how patients in hospitals are treated with a deadly combination of remdesivir and ventilation.

I compare our current situation to the demonization of fat in the 1970’s. The US government and all it’s industry funded experts agreed, everyone (including me) believed the experts and bought into it and it became policy and the obesity epidemic of today followed. I believe we are seeing the same kind of thing again.

I also compare our situation to the Iraq war: claim an existential threat, get government experts to agree, get the MSM to beat the drum, roll out an expensive plan to address the problem, demonize those who disagree, when the profits have been realized and the whole thing is shown to be based on lies and ends in disaster no one is to blame, it was all honest mistakes based on the best data we had available.

Best,

M——–

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Further discussions with my friend convinced me that further discussion with him are a waste of time.

I love Swedes. My wife is pure Norveejhun. But ABBA was a sick thing to do to the world, Sweden. I mean: you know it’s all wrong but you can’t stop.

That said, the two ladies are a formidable vocal combination.

Nonetheless, I believe that they did something awful to our local space-time continuum when they did this: Is Nothing Sacred?

More or less a Waterloo although it is pretended to be otherwise:

Ultimatio

“Disciple of Whom or What?”

That be Jeebus F. Christ. One of the more radical statements He made among many. The Man had a gift for getting into trouble, even His home town.

Huskynut

We wish you well and identify with all you say. It helps to know that there are others who feel the same way we do, who live this ongoing nightmare in NZ (and elsewhere in the world). For us, a red light appeared when JA made the announcement around the middle of last year that she had purchased 10 million doses of Pfizer “vaccine”, – a double dose for every Kiwi in the land. That was when the hairs rose on the back of the neck. How far will we have to go to dodge this bullet, to refuse this thing on principle? We were a happy Kiwi couple in our early 60s, eat mostly vegan, thin, fit and healthy, no debt and reasonably well-off from having saved (yes, those pesky savers) and gone without. And yet, here in NZ 2021, we seek a place to hide away from “hunters” with their needles. And we aren’t the only ones. We are trying to grow vegetables, – (it’s a steep learning curve and the soil and climate are not optimal where we live), drawing on childhood memories of holidays with Nan and her huge veggie garden, of parents digging roots of spuds in their retirement, of Mum hunting for white butterfly eggs with her reading glasses on the end of her nose, and father spraying his tomatoes for blight. Why? Because we see the writing about to appear on the wall in this land of QR codes, – “thou shalt not enter a supermarket without a vaccine passport”. Our imagination moves forward in leaps and bounds, trying to connect the dots before they appear. The next one might be “thou shalt not have a bank account without a vaccine passport”.

Have read much of the history of Nazi Germany, the persecution of the Untermenschen. It’s unfathomable to believe that we in NZ in 2021 find ourselves standing outside a cafe, masked up, with some hot harassed barista racing over to the door to take our order, while we are stared out, glowered at indignantly by the self-righteous feasting on their greasy chips at table, most of them older, obese, and no doubt on a concoction of pills.

We wish you well Huskynut in our quest to retain/regain some normalcy, some reasonable quality of life without fear – of a “vaccine”.

Thanks again RIM. Where would we be without TAE?
Emil Nolde Zwei Schwimmer 1914. NZ is still a beautiful place.
It’s summer, the sun shines, the days are long and the beaches with their flowering pohutakawa trees are never far away, and we can still swim in the blue ocean…

husky: thanks, and best of luck. i said to my wife quite a while back that nz was a test case for the rest of the planet. uh oh.

dark matter: i wrote something similar to my dad way back because i was worried about the injectable products. it didn’t work, and he spent two weeks in hospital. i won’t even bother asking him about any additional injections.

“I think bosco is on to something.”

Fixed that. 😉

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“in all the Bible versions I read (including the King James)….I never came across the verb “hate” from His mouth. Perhaps it was censored by the sacred priests and authorities.”

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.”

It checks out, which surprises me. I thought it was like an obscure tweaked translation, but it’s pretty mainstream

‘Don’t trust anyone over 30’? (Just joking, especially since the Christ we know was 30-33 years old.)

I think ‘hate’ was used for shock value, just like “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.”

Interestingly, this is preceded by “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!” a politico-socio-moral statement; it is followed by “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven”, a spiritual-divine-moral perspective.

Jesus seemed pretty clear to me about politics: you can’t fight City Hall, and why bother when your stake in this game is way outside City Hall’s purview. You can’t save society (and because of this may very well not be able to save your ass), so focus on the one thing you can reliably save: the sanctity of your individual consciousness, your existential freedom, and your ability to do good not evil within that freedom. Never fool yourself into believing that life isn’t good enough to die like a hero for it. The lower wild animals all know this. In the wild, every day of survival involves at least a bit of raw courage and heroism. The animals in our imprison-and-torture-for-protein-profits meat factory systems are heroes just for breathing, for enduring, and we are de facto cowards of absurdly low standing for tolerating this.
No, I don’t mean stop eating meat. That just gives your conscience a phony windshield wash while your, uh, k carma is filthily encrusted with grime and gore. It’s not like the meat man pulls an animal out and sets it free in some tolerably survivable pasture because you’ve stopped eating meat. Nor do I say stop eating meat, period, for we are carnivores and almost all critters are omnivores, even cows. I just say that one’s karma can’t be cleansed of this day’s daily bread unless you kill the sucker yourself. It’s your life, your conscience, not that of some some rancher or some butcher. To cleanse oneself of one’s karmic past one would need to go about liberating livestock from these obscene, virtually ‘living blood’*, black magic death dungeons. That would get at least some of the grime off.

A well-written, on-target piece Huskynut. Thank you for your effort.

In particular, I appreciate this comment: “My experience has been that genuine morality exists outside of thought and rationality.”

Yes, it is called LOVE. Love is pure LIGHT – of understanding/knowing, beyond thoughts or words, undisturbed by life and living, of what is always TRUE/good/right. You refer to it as a compass, always “on” true North. We may get off track and lose our way but we are never lost. Let us always REMEMBER: The Light of Love is always “on”. We are LOVE/LOVED.

I will take your challenge – and see where it leads. Will be in the company of family (12 of us) in Southern CA for a week; plenty of time to explore where we are as family/people. Three of us are unvaxed (and had Covid) + 2 kids whose parents are vaxed/no to boosters/no to vaxing the kids + grandparents/yes vax/yes boosters.

LOVE to All. Om Shanti Andrew.
Susan

I agree. Very well done, Huskynut. It has a deep even emotional tenor accompanying its logic.

Thanks for the illumination, Bosco…. now I know…. so much for skim reading for any spiritual Insights 🥴🤐
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I know that tossing this in here is like feeding Mogwai after midnight but still, who isn’t a sucker for a CIA-sponsored ‘limited hangout’ trial balloon?

CIA advisor and expert in foreign conflicts believes the US is ‘closer to civil war than anyone would like to believe’ and claims America is no longer a democracy but an ‘anocracy’

“Crossed my mind when I typed it that you might pirouette off it.”

Yea, I spin, I twirl, I burn like a dervish in a cheesecake apron.

You have seen into the depths of my soul: I am fanatically silly. G’nite, gentlefolk. I think I;ve figured out how “reindeer” could fly.

1985 like Dr D said it has been a long plan

V.Arnold.
My pleasure I hope you are well fed over there. The best food I ever tasted in my whole life was where you reside – or at least in the south of Thailand… Incidentally it was cooked and prepared by the Myanmar immigrants