Lockdowns Make Time Stand Still
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Rembrandt van Rijn Student at a table by candlelight c.1642 We would by now have expected the narrative surrounding COVID19 to be simple
[See the full post at: Lockdowns Make Time Stand Still]I have always wondered if the smoking issue has to do with the fact that most people go outside to smoke these days thus, at least for a few minutes every hour or so, they are moving around and away from other people and lowering the exposure time.
This piece is very cogently written, Raul. Well done!
But … “We need to find a balance between the threat of COVID19 and the threat of everything else”
Ahhh … the “royal we.” In NYS “we” don’t have a choice on finding a balance. King Cuomo has it all figured out for us since, I don’t know, I guess we aren’t smart enough to figure it out for ourselves. We are “code yellow” in Central New York right now (I think that’s what it is … )
To be clear, I was not opposed to NY’s initial lock down to slow the spread here. NY was a fustercluck at the start of this and medical people were struggling. I had even prepared for the possibility of a few weeks’ lock down based on links on this site (thank you!). However, a few weeks morphed into what looks like will be a year. What is being done now has no logical premise, and I’m well past tired of it.
Here’s an example: I work with a woman with 5 grandchildren who live in one household. A child in one of her grandchildren’s classes tested positive. That particular grandchild is now quarantined for two weeks and must learn remotely … while living in the household with the other 4 grandchildren WHO CONTINUE TO GO TO IN-PERSON CLASSES in the same school district. In addition to the complete lack of logic here, the [both working] parents had to figure out how to watch the one quarantined child using the time off available through their jobs. Even though they managed it this time, what about if this happens 6 more times over the course of the winter?
I am almost 60, have autoimmune issues, so I’m at risk (taking Vitamin D, K-2, zinc, quercetin … thank you, John Day!). But, frankly, I’d rather just get on with life and, if it so happens I die from this, so be it. People die.
As I review this comment I’m thinking the lock down has made me depressed.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/11/travelers-where-are-we-in-progress-of.html
Where are we in the progress of history, and why is John posting skanky right-wing tabloid blog crap?
We are into the terminal decline of fossil energy and the economy of exponential growth which it has fed. We were fed returns on our Ponzi scheme investments, but that has to end abruptly soon. Look where the 2020 red line would fall on this archaic 1972 computer projection of global human economy and environment: http://ecoglobe.ch/sustain/e/ltg.htmI wrote this up 3 years ago on the blog.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2017/09/worse-than-i-think.htmlAt this juncture of human history, as we proceed, we are about to step into a massive rupture in continuity. Wealth, property and livelihood will, inescapably be redefined, and people often fight to the death for what-is-rightfully-theirs in these epochs. The last time in my life that the will of the American people seemed to matter was in the rejection of the Vietnam war, and some of the aftermath of that in the years of taking down Nixon and demoting the CIA in the Church hearings. The deep state had to lie low, briefly under a center right president with softer hair, Jimmy Carter. Then the deep state was resurgent under Bush-Reagan, and the American people were just carried along for the ride.
The ride approaches the cliff of falling energy resources, falling tribute from the empire, and the collapse of the monetary/financial Ponzi scheme, which holds our retirement accounts.
The means-of-production which provide our groceries, electricity, gas, communications networks, and financial transactions depend on the Ponzi scheme. Disruptions will cascade in unpredictable ways, as points of failure are imposed within the system to shield powerful interests from losses, while imposing them on the weak (us).are not
When complex systems collapse, they collapse to the highest level of complexity that resource flows will support, or a little lower than that.
Upper layers of hierarchy are not sustainable, since they need to be fed by lower layers with excess production. That creates the elite power struggle to impose-losses on rival elite factions first, before letting the production economy fail. Bombing Iraq, Syria, Libya, and blockading Venezuela and Iran have done that. The big win was the imposition of losses upon the USSR in the 1980s, when oil prices plummeted, to cause it’s collapse. (The corpse-feeding-frenzy was interrupted by an unknown apparatchik installed into power after Yeltsin-the-drunk, though.)
Essentially NOBODY in America has lived through a collapse, and those who have are either very old (Kissinger, Soros), Russian, Chinese or Vietnamese. They are America’s brain trust, and I don’t trust the first 2.
It’s usually a bad sign when power elites really try hard to convince pawns like us of the righteousness of their causes.
It usually means a bloodbath is coming, and we are the ones who bleed, die and lose our livelihoods and property
We know that vegetable gardens are a big help to people trying to survive a collapse. Bicycles can do a lot when you have no gasoline, but really, it’s the riders that have to be able to do it. Even bad roads can be ridden. Being a productive human in a community makes you worth keeping in the community. Some communities will have enough productivity and support to persist. Others, especially if they depend on outside flows of wealth and supplies, will fragment. Mostly fragment peacefully… Some power players may decide to feed upon your community.
Then what? It’s best if you do not depend on things they can easily take, for your existence. They will take wheat, corn and beans. They will not typically take root crops like sweet potatoes. Just sayin’, You can look this up, too. Yes have dried beans and rice and salt and cooking oin and onions and garlic and cheese and canned tomatoes. Know that guys with guns can and will take them, though…Here is a global elite guy who is entitled to impose losses on you and me, because he is smart, sees the big picture, and knows that we need a new world order. Build Back Better!
In his book Covid-19: The Great Reset, World Economic Forum globalist Klaus Schwab asserts that the world will “never” return to normal, despite him admitting that coronavirus “doesn’t pose a new existential threat.”
“Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal,” writes Schwab. “The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the ‘broken’ sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory.”Globalist Klaus Schwab: World Will “Never” Return to Normal After COVID
Tessa Fights Robots has a sore spot around propaganda, which brings me to the explanation of why I’m posting skanky right wing tabloid blog crap. Nobody else is covering the important power plays that we need to know about, which threaten us in the near future, the Great Reset.
First off, this is an existential post because the task at hand transcends politics. For clarity, and to get the political emotion out of the way, my politics is “human.” I am greatly appalled by the spectacle-at-large, by the cruelty and dishonesty of it, and I am not contributing any of my mental energy to the hyped and nerve-racking fight between competing parasites. By choice, I remain unmoved by the pressure to “sound smart,” according to the rules of the echo chamber. In my Soviet childhood, I have written enough mandatory cliché essays—full of talking points that a “smart child” would recite—to become allergic to propaganda for life. No propaganda please.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/build-back-betterMarjorie sent these protocols for treatment of people with COVID-19, and those at high risk of catching it.
They includes both outpatient treatments and inpatient treatments.
The outpatient treatments can be used without the prescription drugs ivermectin and doxycycline.
I personally recommend 5000 units per day of vitamin-D, and twice that for the first 2 months, if you have not been taking it.
I get my quercetin in fresh vegetables.
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdfStupidity and insanity are very different things but can merge into each other given enough money. We’ve been headed fo awhile toward some kind of “reset”, deliberate or by fate.
Where are we in the progress of history, and why is John posting skanky right-wing tabloid blog crap?
Because John reads the Automatic Earth, which has totally gone over to the Orange man side, and now he has no power left to think for himself, because Ilargi put a spell on him. Isn’t it obvious?
C’mon man!
“Because John reads the Automatic Earth, which has totally gone over to the Orange man side, and now he has no power left to think for himself, because Ilargi put a spell on him. Isn’t it obvious?
C’mon man!”
Thanks for the laugh, Raul. Needed it!
@ Raúl Ilargi Meijer,
Regarding today’s essay, our perspectives on this issue have aligned. And I have noticed how your perspective has evolved with more time and information from various sources. Good on you. Had it not been for your writing and John Michael Greer, I would not have decided to collapse my life 4 years ago and prepare as John Day is articulating with respect to gardening and others have with respect to lifestyle. I am still no way fully self sufficient however I am less vulnerable. I sensed implosion 4 years ago and acted on it. One thing that I can add is living in harmony with nature seems to be the correct way forward.
Taking a deep dive into the World Economic Forum’s propaganda about the glorious dystopian technocracy Klaus Schwab and his fellow travelers have planned for the plebs has made me a “Covid skeptic.” I don’t think the virus is fake or a deliberately planned hoax but its “deadly effects” are being greatly exaggerated.
The constant media driven panic (with Schwab, Gates and the Silicon Valley oligarchs in the background offering encouragement) is being used to keep the public’s fear level high, thus giving the WEF and the tech monopolies the perfect excuse to roll out their “solutions” in the form of “social distancing” (i.e. isolation), lockdowns and “virtual” everything. It’s social engineering that gets the frightened plebs used to obeying government authorities’ orders to hide inside, because “safety.” The point of Covid lockdowns is to condition people into mindlessly accepting state mandated lockdowns. The propaganda around Covid-19 also reinforces the message that isolation and technology are “safe” while nature and people are “dangerous.”
You never know what kind of scary viruses might be floating around “out there” so mask up when you walk the dog, scrub your hands dry with alcohol 20x a day, stay inside as much as possible and “live” virtually via your screens!
Governments around the world are tapped into the UN system, which the WHO is part of, and these NGOs are very much influenced, if not controlled by, the technocratic oligarchies and their affiliates. The technocratic elites have the ear of governments (i.e. influence) and are always happy to pass on their sage advice, which invariably profits their companies and furthers the WEF and friends globalist agenda.
When people ask me “so you think Covid-19 is a hoax!?” I tell them no, it’s not a hoax but it is absolutely being blown way out of proportion and used by the technocratic globalists to accelerate their dehumanizing tech-driven dystopia. Ironically it is Naomi Klein, who has since gone over to the dark side, who described their basic strategy in her book The Shock Doctrine: global capitalists use periods of crises and social disruption to push their agenda onto people faster than is possible during “peacetime.” I would add that powerful governments and agencies therein are no different. The classic example from recent history is of course 9/11, which has raised the level of fear in society and conditioned the public to see the police, intelligence agencies, military and various government authorities as their protectors who will “save” them from death and violence. The post-9/11 era has normalized, among other intrusive measures, domestic spying and intelligence agency snooping that would make a STASI agent blush and has seen many countries roll back constitutionally protected rights and freedoms with very little pushback.
The WEF, very wealthy oligarchs, governments and other powerful players on the global stage are poised and ready to take advantage of disruptive crises. They war game possible scenarios and hold dry run exercises to prepare themselves.
In the case of Covid-19 it’s remarkable how a few months into the outbreak the WEF’s Schwab had a book published, The Great Reset, all about “the new normal” and all the tech dweebs from Bill Gates to the zombie Faceborg guy immediately got airtime and column inches to push their “solutions.” A creepy, possibly sociopathic, “philanthropist”, Gates, known best for his ruthless anti-competitive business practices, was reinvented as a kindly cardigan-clad nerd who cares so much about humanity he wants to “protect” every last person on earth from deadly diseases with his helpful vaccination programs. What a mensch! Yeah, nothing at all odd about a guy who isn’t a doctor and who got rich peddling buggy bloatware now presented as a credible “expert” on infectious diseases and vaccination.
The twisted dystopian fantasy world envisioned by these profoundly antihuman, anti-nature technocrats won’t be constructed overnight. Some of the technology is still being developed plus they know that the global public would never accept such a world were it to be explained honestly. So they push it in increments backed up by lots of slick propaganda. The Covid “event” is the perfect opportunity to push onto the public in months a level of tech immersion that would have otherwise have taken years. Klaus Schwab positively gloats about this in his The Great Reset book. It’s difficult to miss the glee and high-fiving…the technocrats are ecstatic about Covid and don’t even bother hiding it.
For a while I was on the fence regarding Covid-19. I wasn’t prepared to dismiss as a complete hoax, as some skeptics have done, but the more research I did and the more I read on sites like The Automatic Earth and Off-Guardian the more uneasy I became about the “killer pandemic.” It just didn’t add up. The flip-flopping, the wildly exaggerated death predictions, the parade of technocratic “experts”, the constant media-driven fear porn and reminders about “safety.” If the media stopped yapping about Covid-19 would the public even be aware of this “killer pandemic”?
It was after reading about the WEF/Silicon Valley tech oligarchs and their very clearly stated agenda that the final piece of the puzzle clicked into place. Skeptics may differ on how they perceive the agenda but they all agree that the evidence pointing to an agenda is overwhelming. This post sums up how I came to join them. Thanks for reading and for keeping the flame of skeptical inquiry burning.
I find the mental health issues around the Corona virus unsurprising. I have the impression the west, the U.S. in particular, to be very fragile regarding mental health.
In a country that is basically broken, almost nothing works, including the political class “chosen” to lead.
With a public, forced, education system, that is a travesty at best, I see little to be optimistic about.
A fractured society is incapable of coalescing to find solutions; but rather descending into warring factions solving nothing.
Even the sacred cow of democracy, voting, has gone criminal/corrupt.
My once beautiful country, is I fear, lost forever…Greetings,
To whom it may concern,
Triggernometry Podcast (Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster): Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi
A great couple of days posts from everyone – thank you.
My own illustrations of “peak surreality”:
1. One Covid case (nb: case, not death) identified in Auckland in last day or so. They can’t identify the source – no contact with borders or other known possibly sources. I just got a txt from work – ” all staff in the Auckland office, please follow Ministry of Health guidelines and stay away from the Auckland CBD until further notice. ‘Cos it’s sane in a city of nearly 2 million to behave like this..2. My own office in Wellington shares a building with some floors occupied by Defense staff. One Defense guy tests positive Covid. Their entire floor(s) closed for “deep cleaning”. Serious consideration given to doing the entire building.
All as a logical – nay inevitable – consequence of buying into the “original sin”.. the premise that a highly contagious virus can “eliminated” with sufficient vigilence and effort. Complete logical and logistical insanity. The absence of logos as Dr D might say.
All as a logical – nay inevitable – consequence of buying into the “original sin”.. the premise that a highly contagious virus can “eliminated” with sufficient vigilence and effort. Complete logical and logistical insanity. The absence of logos as Dr D might say.
Well said. I agree.
I’m doing some serious rethinking of the whole shebang…
I flew from Oregon to Bangkok (via Taipei) in May of 2003 during the SARS epidemic; I’d forgotten that fact.
…and now we’re here, facing yet another virus…
…and now I’m thinking, is safety worth giving up freedom/s?
I’m thinking no, it’s not worth the trade-off…
Getting old has many corners; facing death is just one of them…Jack, they certainly are smart, have to give them that. And the people are really-really stupid, unfortunately, or blindly trusting and credible.
As you mention though, they have the mental illness of narcissism, which means not only do they just print out in the open everything they plan to do, everybody they plan to kill and all the things they plan to steal knowing no one will read it, and if they read it they will just deny it, but they HAVE to do it. Because that illness means they only feel assured, only a moment’s rest when they are better than everyone else, and can rub their face in their power-over. Of course this is also what gets them in the end, but unfortunately not very quickly.
V. it’s worse than that. They exalt and aspire to mental illness and fragility. The more fragile you are, the more you can be lazy and demand other people fix the world for you. …Or else you scream like a toddler, I guess. So for a lifetime of millennials, the only time anyone cares or shows love for you is if you’re victimized and disabled by something, anything, real or mostly imaginary. …Yes, and when the Germans come, being a helpless weakling at last doesn’t pay off.
This goes to the other side: If you ever show the inclination of ability do any work or take any responsibility, you are immediately responsible for anything that happens, and required to labor on behalf of anyone claiming to be fragile in any way, real or imaginary. So there’s a double incentive: if you whine, you’re fed candy, and if you don’t, your candy is stolen. So why work? You’d be certifiably crazy NOT to be a mentally ill weakling victim. That’s why anyone functional is the big baddy who’s being shot from all sides.
Sadly, what I’m describing sociologically as infantile narcissism and emotional blackmail and slavery is: Socialism.
Wish it didn’t come back to this, I’m tired of saying it.
–Yeah, and at least SARS was dangerous. Like Obama’s H1N1, equal numbers died as now and nobody noticed or cared a bit. They only believe illusion, the media, not their own lyin’ eyes. …As is the M.O. of violent, narcissistic sociopaths. They must act this way, for their mental illness requires not only the crime, the death — that’s immaterial — but the POWER of making you do something, so much POWER over you, you’ll even hurt yourself. And it’s working great for them. People are indeed hurting themselves and their children in the most illogical ways imaginable, so I’m sure they’re having a great time at last.
Now that the readers of all this wisdom on TAE, have read all this info, we are the informed 0.0001% that can see the train coming.
Here are the enablers/puppet masters
https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-teams/
AGENCY REVIEW TEAMS
Meet the Biden-Harris agency review teams“the zombie Faceborg guy”
Wow. Perfect description. I plan to call Zuckerberg ZFG from here forth.
“As you mention though, they have the mental illness of narcissism, which means not only do they just print out in the open everything they plan to do, everybody they plan to kill and all the things they plan to steal knowing no one will read it, and if they read it they will just deny it, but they HAVE to do it. Because that illness means they only feel assured, only a moment’s rest when they are better than everyone else, and can rub their face in their power-over. Of course this is also what gets them in the end, but unfortunately not very quickly.”
A perfect summation of the phenomenon.
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