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https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=584050229560561&extid=WA-UNK-UNK-UNK-AN_GK0T-GK1C&ref=sharing
Army doctor vax whistleblower speech
This is consistent with Robert Prechter’s research. When investment advisors go against the financial trend of the herd, their clients abandon their advisors and seek out advisors whose advice reflects the sentiment of the herd. Our media are giving the herd what it wants in terms of covid coverage.
Another big quote from the above link:
Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” is a working paper by Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, and Molly Cook recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).The authors found that media coverage of Covid-19 has been much more negative in the U.S. than in international media. They found, “Ninety one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus fifty four percent for non-U.S. major sources and sixty five percent for scientific journals.”
Covid-19 is a serious matter, but that doesn’t explain the negativity. The authors found, “Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in new Covid-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience.” Fox News is almost negative as CNN. “Stories of increasing Covid-19 cases outnumber stories of decreasing cases by a factor of 5.5 even during periods when new cases are declining.” Media coverage has been impervious to good news.
Significantly, the authors of the NBER study found consumers demand negative news. They write, “Consistent with the existing literature…our results suggest that U.S. major outlets publish unusually negative Covid-19 stories in response to reader demand and interest.”
News stories are negative because so many of us have a negative mindset. People seek stories of hopelessness because stories of despair reflect their state of mind. Many don’t want their fearful mindset to be interrupted.
Elliott Waves perspective on public sentiment related to covid. A couple of important quotes:
Fear will produce powerful emotions demanding we be protected from Covid-19 at any cost. Even in the face of evidence of economic destruction, herding will generate continued support for lockdowns. Due to negativity bias, the aversion to getting sick is much more compelling than a positive vision of a robust economy accompanied by individuals taking steps to boost their immune system while also protecting the most vulnerable members of society.
If the social mood is waning, Americans will be more susceptible to beguiling nonsense from authoritarian and hypocritical politicians.
A take away message: if Elliott Waves is valid, public (and expert) sentiment around covid will follow its own pattern impervious to real world exogenous events. We are all surfers now.
Has anyone seen combantrin (an anti-wormer) used for covid? My friend went to the pharmacist who told her to get this for covid (btw the pharmacist was unvaxed and was mad that doctors don’t allow ivermectin for covid).
Oxy your plan looks good -way to go on thinking so far ahead and starting to get these things done – lots of work- I know from my own experience. One query: do you have larger animals going after your cherries and jujubes? Combined with guinea pigs, that might be tempting to larger animals that would tear thru your netting to get at the food. To keep raccoons and wild turkeys out of my grapes, I run an electric fence around the whole grape area, in addition to netting. Just a suggestion- such a waste when nets get torn to shreds.
TAE Summary I loved your personalized Christmas verse!
For your listening pleasure: Gill Scott Heron sings “The Revolution will not be televised “.
Merry Christmas.
More thoughts (too much coffee)
I ponder the fate of small organic farmers (of whom I know a decent number). Many of these folks have come to the realization that, our current paradigm bring what it is, they will have a very hard time making a decent living. However, what also strikes me more recently is that some in this group would likely not prosper even under more favourable economic and political conditions because of a lack of any one if the capacities required to succeed at farming. There are many ways to fail (50 ways to lose your shirt at farming?): selection of land, selection of crop/niche, finding markets/marketing, knowledge of techniques for crop-raising, capacity for work… This was a bit of a revelation for me – all challenges are not necessarily caused by big bad external stuff- sometimes we visit them in ourselves thru our own errors or omissions.Bosco I loved your “Christmas story” of a few days ago – just got around to reading it thru.
John Day your note on Vitamin D was very illuminating.
Dr. D you make me laugh every day – I am beginning to think that your satirical approach is the best one to use, seeing as how logic no longer works.
WES: other non- Canadian readers here may not be aware of the historical animosity between English and French (Quebec) Canada. You have illustrated it here in your representation of la belle province.
Quebecers were long subjugated by Anglo business interests, as well as the Catholic Church. When Quebecers finally took control of their province out of the hands of both groups of overlords and refocused on their own unique culture and values, they were roundly snubbed by English Canada for their audacity. As a region less influenced by huge American media and their overwhelming corporate allegiances, their take on world events is quite often refreshingly richer and more nuanced -not perfect of course. If you have the capacity (Parlez-vous francais?) do tune in to their offerings- you may gain a better understanding of what this unique province contributes to Canada.In my circle there are several families with young kids who are walking away from very decent jobs over vax requirements and refusing to vax their kids. There is in some cases family division over vax status. It is interesting to see this group change in behaviour- these folks don’t know how they will make ends meet but they are cutting their ties to the status quo. Really something to see.
Overall my social world has become dominated by unvaxed and “I don’t care if you are vaxed or not” folks.Historical analysis in the BMJ on how pandemics end. Consistent with Elliott waves, it is a social phenomenon, not a physical one.
Dr. Oz is going after Fauci
WES did you miss that little piece of info about the tar sands toxic tailings ponds that kill anything the comes in contact with them? Yes they have mechanisms to keep wildlife from dying. Do you really think that permanently polluting vast quantities of fresh water to extract oil is a good thing and environmentalists are bad? Here’s a little more background: my dear old dad spent about a decade way back when heading up a research team that was trying to find ways to clean up tailings ponds- they never found a way. My last job before retirement (5 years ago) was evaluating some research programs In the natural resource sector – guess what? They still had not figured out how to clean up the tailings ponds. If you are going to dis environmentalists please do your homework. Environmentalists are not unlike folks here : trying to sound the alarm against a machine that is only interested in more power and money.
Article referencing our old friend Bob Prechter as he waded in on the impact of social mood on covid.
I’ve been reading the comments on the CBC website and it is heartening to see how many people realize what the covid gig is about – endless vaxes to feed big pharma profits. Just do uplifting to see. Of course I added my 2 cents.
On the Pierre Poilievre link: if the $7 billion was for military support or for the fossil fuel industry I would bet my bottom dollar that Pierre would not bat an eye.
I spoke to a local politician who is very amenable to real choice around vax passports to get his take on me organizing some sort of public protest. He said this would be a bad idea because the protest ‘space’ in this region has been tarnished by really undesirable actors doing some really distasteful stunts. I think he made a good point in this particular case, but it also highlights the bad outcomes we face when even the “good” people have drunk the koolaid and therefore cannot lead us out of this situation, leaving the job to the “less good”. Kind of like when the US elected Trump to bring back jobs lost due to neoliberalism.Words don’t suffice to describe how badly our world is treating someone who has given us what Assange has given us.
Interesting article on how covid “science” can be misused.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-worshipping-at-the-altar-of-covid-scienceRe preserving eggs – info from Sandro Katz (fermentation guru): “Peeled hard-boiled eggs can be buried in a crock of fermenting vegetables, where they are protected by the acidification of the vegetables.”
Eggs are cheap? Chicken feed prices just went up. If you want organic eggs from chickens not fed glyphosate-laced feed and raised on a smaller scale (say less than 100 as opposed to 50,000) where they can have something resembling a genuine chicken life (opportunities for dust baths and scratching for bugs etc) they cost $7.5 per dozen in my neck of the woods. Quality is quite superior to conventional eggs imo.
Canadian Civil Liberties Association is fighting some me good fights in the covid department-I know of no other organization in Canada doing what they are doing. See for example:
CCLA to Minister: Choosing not to be vaccinated should not disentitle you from employment insurance
Bosco thank you for the Christmas Cheer!
In Canada, injunctions are not being granted by courts in relation to vax mandates. Sadly, what’s happening south of our border does not seem to be catching on here.
Federal Court Denies Injunction to Suspend Federal Government’s Supplier Mandate
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/injunction-vaccine-policy-1.6230400
Re “I’m waiting for a mea culpa from the Coincident Theorists here at TAE who don’t believe that truly evil conspiracy walks the earth and happens far more often than their very limited world view can grasp.”
Not sure what you mean by true evil. Here’s my take: TPTB don’t care enough to take the 3 seconds it would require to be aware of our well-being and decide to negatively impact it – they literally don’t care even that little bit. They are largely sociopaths, so when they step on our heads, it is because we are on the path that they need yo take to get to some goodie they want, see? Some among them may enjoy torturing puppies, but not the majority in my view.
Hence, I see no reason to believe they want to harm us – they are so self-centred and focused on getting what they want that they have no interest in our well-being one way or another.Chooch yes a confirmation of the data analysis would be good- a friend of mine has said she will do it – will keep you posted.
VP I wish I replied differently to your comment. It seems that, with ever-rising inequality, is ordinary folk are competing amongst ourselves for an ever-decreasing piece of the pie (the lion’s share of which goes to the elites). Unfortunately, the media and politicians encourage us to look among ourselves as the reason for our diminished opportunities rather than holding our leaders to account for creating systems that ensure such an unfair distribution of wealth.
VP no the educated do not stay in their third world countries of origin. It is a well- known phenomenon that rich countries are happy to skim the cream from the poorer countries (who in many cases bankrolled the education of their cream of the crop). The cream of the crop, unlike the destitute from poor countries, is not met with a wall of barbed wire on entry.
Chooch’s link yesterday about toxic vax batches warrants repeating. Most batches (80%) produce virtually no adverse response, while the remaining 20% account for virtually all adverse responses. This analysis was done on publicly available VAERS data. Do you feel lucky?
VP: boarders open to allow immoral interlopers? Huh? What’s that about? Most I can see, folks are trying to escape the tyranny of their homeland which is typically much worse than what we have (such as it is). The immorality rests with TPTB and not the lost souls trying to find safe harbours.
In case this has not been linked before: spirulina ups the body’s production of interferon 1 in mice, helping to fight off RNA viruses.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033062020300372?via%3DihubOn the isolation/housing units built by govt: we have heard many stories, including some fromTAE commenters, about how COVID quickly spreads within households. When there are elderly members of such households, this is a death sentence. In Canada’s capital, last year there were stories of low-level health care workers, infected with covid, living in homeless shelters. We also have indigenous populations in which there are very large numbers of people sharing housing. It makes total sense to me that the government offer to provide housing assistance in such cases, at least on an emergency basis.
If we are to decry anything, it should be that we as a society have an agricultural sector that, to ensure cheap food, relies on substandard employment conditions. We should also decry the substandard housing of our indigenous population. Finally, we should decry the fact that our lower-level health care workers are not paid a wage that allows them to afford housing.
In our rush to find the injustices in govt responses to covid, let’s not overlook these preceding injustices that may not impact us directly.Repeated link to petition signed by Canadian lawyers against vaccine mandates. Very well- argued. Concerned citizens are also invited to sign. It was launched by a law professor at Queen’s University.
https://www.freenorthdeclaration.ca/Visits here at TaAE are like reading the best selection of news altogether and then going to the virtual coffee shop (or doggie park with your coffee) to share insights into the news or commiserate about life or share a laugh or a tune.
https://www.freenorthdeclaration.ca/
Canadian lawyers sign declaration against loss of civil liberties thru covid restrictions.
The plot thickens: ivermectin inhibits HIV
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22417684/How did I come across this you ask? Because my kitty cat has the cat version of hiv and I am treating him with ivermectin.
I’ll chime in on the infection rate differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated. The way to have full confidence that case rates are caused by vaccination is to control the other variables and that usually is achieved by randomly assigning people to either one group or the other. Otherwise, it is pretty easy to see a number of reasons why there would be differences between the groups in addition to vax status (eg people in worse health may be more likely to get vaccinated, the already-mentioned broad age groups which could hide a younger overall population in the unvaxed group and an older overall population in the vaxed group).
VPoet Gary:
Hold on you special person with a huge heart. I know the pain of animal rescue too – doing weekly cleaning of cats in care in our local rescue. No matter how few animals you help, it all adds up. Don’t take on more than you can manage sanely – our rescue regularly closes off taking intake when we are “full”. You cannot be all for everyone. Don’t give up on yourself – we need people like you and it is wonderful to know there are people like you in our midst.
Sending loving thoughts your way.I have the great sympathy for Greta – she is motivated by great environmental angst and rightly acts and communicates, unlike our leaders, in a manner that conveys the fact that nothing else matters (ie what exactly is the point of going to school, such as it is?) if we don’t deal effectively with the threat of climate change.
Speaking of, Fall has been almost a month longer here. The upside: huge sweet potatoes (they size up late in the season). We’ll see how this rolls out in the longer term.Just to add one more time to the music collection in today’s comments!
Okay last comment before I process my buckets of kale: tptb performance at COP26 (500 fossil fuel lobbyists, exclusion of civil society groups) should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that tptb will drive our planet into the side of a mountain in order to preserve the moneyed class. A vaccine that sickens many not possible because they are not that evil? Are you kidding? Where is the uproar from scientists on the COP fiasco? Are they hiding under a rock with the epidemiologists? Must be getting crowded under there.
As my beloved and I move deeper into the gray phase of life, I want the likes of Ferron to be part of our soundtrack.
