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[Elvis 2008]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5E8z89c9U

For a while now it's been clear the primary objective of most pandemic coverage is to scare the socks off mass audiences. Good news, bad news, boring news, interesting news, news that's more of a wash in the final analysis, news that's a net plus overall: it's all presented as terrifying, more signs of the Apocalypse. There's no better example than the stampede to advertise the "first death from Omicron" in the United States.

Matt Orfalea does a hilarious job that's him in the death suit, by the way of stitching together an homage to the latest moral panic. So many great little details here, from the "Way Too Early" background to one reporter's premature death report to the "aggressive Covid vice" imagery, the dramatic Biden-cough, and so much more.

It was the world's loudest record-scratch when the WHO in the first week of December said the ominous "Omicron variant" of Covid-19 had been detected in 38 countries, but without any known deaths.

No deaths? How could that be? In the United States in late November, we'd already skipped past the stunned-curiosity phase and moved straight into active mass panic, with "fallout from the Omicron variant" causing the Dow to fall 652 points in a day when news of the mutant contagion arrived. Right away, we had a travel ban from southern Africa, an address urging calm from President Mumbles, and a declaration of a "Variant of Concern" from the CDC, as "scientists raced" to learn more about this "almost Frankensteinish" new strain of Covid-19.

The next month of Omicron coverage offered a fascinating window into our Covid-fixated future. For most of December, we were presented with an unbroken string of scare stories that in many cases actively buried the lede on the most important question: is this thing going to kill me? The Washington Post on December 14th, for instance, ran a story about how the "CDC warns" that a "punishing wave" could be coming as soon as January. The piece noted Omicron was "dramatically more transmissible" and "a more slippery foe when encountered by neutralizing antibodies," but ignored the issue of lethality altogether, which would seem impossible to do by accident.

"How deadly is the Omicron variant? WHO releases death report," wrote the Express you. K. Earlier this week, with the following sub-headline:

OMICRON cases have increased more than tenfold since authorities identified the first UK infections in November, but scientists' knowledge of the variant has increased in kind. The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first death report this weekend, outlining how dangerous it really is.

Reading that headline hits your fear center, making you anxious to know just exactly "how dangerous it really is. " What does that mean? Scrolling down, you first read that Omicron mutations "allow it to escape immunity provided by both vaccine doses," that "it reduces two doses of Pfizer to 30 percent effectiveness, with AstraZeneca potentially down to zero," and that while boosters can restore effectiveness to 75 percent, "many are at Omicron's mercy. " Not good!

Only far down the piece do you read that since the WHO's "no deaths" report in early December, the disease has "spread rapidly, and one person in the UK has died with the new variant. Recent data suggests the disease Omicron causes is milder than its predecessors."

The distinction between "dying with" and "dying from" is a sticking point in theory if you're trying to accurately gauge the lethality of a thing, but journalists have mostly shrugged it off.

On December 20th, a man in Houston died "with" Omicron. The Harris County Public Health office issued a release citing an "Omicron Variant-Related" death, but Harris County judge Lisa Hidalgo, sporting a stylish tree-branch-pattern mask, wasted no time in announcing, "The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has arrived in full force."

As shown in Matt's video, Hidalgo raised the county's County's Covid-19 "threat level" status to "Level-2 Orange," bringing us back to the halcyon days of the War on Terror, when the government each day assigned us a mathematical Expected Freakout Level (EFL) about things over which we had no control.

Within hours, national press outlets like CNN had reported the "first death attributed to the Omicron variant," gushing, as Jeremy Diamond is shown doing in this video, that "Covid surges are surging!" Pundits wasted little time wagging their bony death-fingers in our direction: "First Omicron Death in USA Was ReinfectionA Warning to Those Who've Already Had COVID," wrote Newsweek.

Shortly after, a Harris County Public Health official named Martha Marquez hedged, saying they could confirm the dead man was Omicron-positive, but the cause of death had not yet been determined.

The arrival of both the Delta and Omicron variants were reported in ways that recalled the classic "Africanized killer bees" media panics of yore. Stay in your homes and be vigilant about the highly aggressive African invader who just might move in next door: for a good long time, this was a staple of local TV, as noted in Bowling for Columbine:

https://*******.com/p9r6vfrz

Descriptions of Omicron as the scary scary thing coming from southern Africa have been near carbon-copies of those old bee stories. Kudos to the few outlets at home and in Europe that pointed out the hypocrisy of this coverage. If you're really bent on using the deadly new "Africanized" variant to frighten people into getting vaccinated, shouldn't you also be "racing" to pass patent waivers so countries like India and South Africa can make their own vaccines, thereby preventing the spread of mutations before they even have a chance to become headlines here?

If they're determined to keep going in the scare direction, they should do a better job of it. Omicron is certainly an improvement over Delta, but they should dispense with the pretense and start giving true Fangoria names to coronavirus strains: the "Mutilator" Variant, the "Suffocating Agony" variant, the "Shaft-Sagger," the "Face-Eater," etc. Would you bet against something like that coming?

[JustTK]

Pedro is not the Spanish for dog, you piece of shit. I have actually met Tutu. Tutu is NOT a Xhosa name. Only a piece of shit like you would say African instead of Xhosa. His family were most likely given that ridiculous name by the English (not Africans) to laugh at them, the same way Germans gave your fellow Jews ridiculous names.

I never said Pedro was a Spanish name.

I never said Tutu was a Xhosa name.

I am not Jewish.

You clearly don't understand English so why don't you FK off to a Spanish speaking forum where you can troll in your mother tongue. I am going to assume you don't have a father.

Wishing you are painful and horrible New Year.

[PedroMorales]

Ok, I can see your trolling now. Just talking BS to get attention. Fine. I no one could hold those views with any sense of sincerity. I won't comment to you anymore after this post.

You may laugh at Tutu's name, but I assume even you would appreciate it is a name of African origin. No doubt your name would sound very stupid to them too. Pedro is a dog's name isn't it? You probably did fail to hear that Tutu was one of the ANC party's most outspoken critics since they came to power.

Pedro is not the Spanish for dog, you piece of shit. I have actually met Tutu. Tutu is NOT a Xhosa name. Only a piece of shit like you would say African instead of Xhosa. His family were most likely given that ridiculous name by the English (not Africans) to laugh at them, the same way Germans gave your fellow Jews ridiculous names.

I am glad you won't reply to me any more. Do the board a favour and don't reply to anyone.

[JustTK]

Linguistics is a very difficult subject, much more difficult than that fraud would have one believe. He is not a US dissident. He is an American puppet, controlled and sinecured. The USA is the main evil in today's world. Fraud Chomsky is an integral part of it.
It was the VC and the North Vietnamese Army, aided by China and the USSR that put an end to the USA's terror campaign in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It is a racist insult to denigrate them by praising that fraud. Chomsky continues his frauds to this day. Fuck him and fuck Kissinger.
Tutu (what a name) was a nobody, elevated on high by those with dark agendas. South Africa's military and economic day was up. Tutu was merely a part of the chorus, plucked from it to serve nefarious ends. Ev ery idiot on social media is quoting that fraud, just like they quote Einstein and other staples.
If Tutu wants to be proud of today's South African shit heap, that is his prerogative. Good luck with your high school exams.

Ok, I can see your trolling now. Just talking BS to get attention. Fine. I no one could hold those views with any sense of sincerity. I won't comment to you anymore after this post.

You may laugh at Tutu's name, but I assume even you would appreciate it is a name of African origin. No doubt your name would sound very stupid to them too. Pedro is a dog's name isn't it? You probably did fail to hear that Tutu was one of the ANC party's most outspoken critics since they came to power.

[DramaFree11]

So simple and so true.

I could not agree more The sad part is there are many that real do not want this to End, for whatever reason, most are very Liberal that want this to continue. Financially this is going to turn out really bad, probably not in Texas, but every where else is going to get there wish.

[ShooBree]

I really wish this shit was over with and the government would just admit defeat and tell people "we trust you will do what is in your own best interest for your health" instead of treatments and policies that always just so happen to make billionaires richer.

So simple and so true.

[ShooBree]

We have debated long and hard the ethics and likely consequences of the vaccines. But I read an article recently that prompted me to re-examine some factors that have lain dormant for wuite some time.

Global excess deaths shoow that 5. 7 million extra people have died since CV. This might be as a direct result of catching CV, or it could be as a consequence of actions taken by governments in response to CV. Other ignored medical issues, starvation, depression, whatever. We will never accuratly know the split of this number, partly bcos the world is recording the death of anyone that had CV at the time of death as a CV death (which would clearly be incorrect, when considering the cause of death).

So max 5. 7 million, but no doubt significantly on the high side. And many of these deaths are of old, sick, bad health people (living mostly in advantaged rich countries, where these people would already be dead and not part of the stats had they been born in a poor country).

Now, I don't know if you remember back to the start of the pandemic. The WHO warned that 500 million faced being pushed back in to extreme poverty if the world went in to lockdown and did nothing:.

Well put, what this goes to show is that the lockdown fanatics (such as Paulie) are A; a bunch of selfish assholes or be; simply too stupid to understand the consequences of the lockdowns.

[JustTK]

I like this one because I trust Sweden to be honest: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...in-Sweden.aspx.
I have been reading Robert Kennedy Junior's book about the real Dr. Fauci, and this one line says it all, "In 2020, workers lost $3. 7 trillion while billionaires gained $3. 9 trillion. "
I really wish this shit was over with and the government would just admit defeat and tell people "we trust you will do what is in your own best interest for your health" instead of treatments and policies that always just so happen to make billionaires richer.

I also really like Matt Taibbi. It say a lot that he had to leave Rolling Stone due to speaking truth to power.

Swedish study. Yes, you see this is why I have not formed a view on vax side effects. The article speaks about variations in side effects across ages and sexes. It says nothing about the overall dangers of the vax. Sure, there are variations. But is the actual risk high or low? The article says nothing about that. So I remain agnostic.

Yes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer under the Dems. I agree with that. I think they are a terrible political party. I just don't agree that anything would change under the Reps. They are even worse IMO. BUt at least they might end this farce with vaxes. And you know already that the USA has very big political weight internationally, so maybe it would effect global action too.

[PedroMorales]

Linguistics is a very difficult subject, much more difficult than that fraud would have one believe. He is not a US dissident. He is an American puppet, controlled and sinecured. The USA is the main evil in today's world. Fraud Chomsky is an integral part of it.

It was the VC and the North Vietnamese Army, aided by China and the USSR that put an end to the USA's terror campaign in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It is a racist insult to denigrate them by praising that fraud. Chomsky continues his frauds to this day. Fuck him and fuck Kissinger.

Tutu (what a name) was a nobody, elevated on high by those with dark agendas. South Africa's military and economic day was up. Tutu was merely a part of the chorus, plucked from it to serve nefarious ends. Ev ery idiot on social media is quoting that fraud, just like they quote Einstein and other staples.

If Tutu wants to be proud of today's South African shit heap, that is his prerogative. Good luck with your high school exams.

You think that the work of the man known as "the father of modern linguistics" and the most influential person in his sector is childish? Ha. That is a rather odd choice of words. Sure, he is a USA dissident, like any decent person with an international political outlook should be. He was one of the main players that acted against the horrific war that USA waged on Vietnam, and he speaks truth to power at every opportunity, he has made a life out of it.

I still see no reason why you think he is a "fraud". Perhaps its similar to your choice of childish? Has meaning to you but to no one else in the world.

Tutu was the greatest living humanist until he died, IMO. Did you think he was a fruad too. Perhaps for his work in bringing about the end of Apartheid?

[JustTK]

His work on linguistics is that of a child. He is a hyped up CIA dissident to keep the perverts of the US Democrats happy. He has an opinion on everything, ...At least Tutu (nice names) has croaked. Every hypocrite is quoting him on social media.

You think that the work of the man known as "the father of modern linguistics" and the most influential person in his sector is childish? Ha. That is a rather odd choice of words. Sure, he is a USA dissident, like any decent person with an international political outlook should be. He was one of the main players that acted against the horrific war that USA waged on Vietnam, and he speaks truth to power at every opportunity, he has made a life out of it.

I still see no reason why you think he is a "fraud". Perhaps its similar to your choice of childish? Has meaning to you but to no one else in the world.

Tutu was the greatest living humanist until he died, IMO. Did you think he was a fruad too. Perhaps for his work in bringing about the end of Apartheid?

[Elvis 2008]

Nice post Dchrist! I swear most people forgot about what the CDC and Fauci said a few months ago and how it contradicts what he is saying today. We hit 442,000 cases yesterday, a new record, so all those people with all their supposed solutions have nothing that worked. The Dems who blamed the entire virus on Trump (and gave China a pass LOL) have egg all over their face. I don't even care about all that political crap, just get rid of all the bullshit travel restrictions.

Omicron averages 3 days from time of exposure to infection not five days and the antigen tests are not that great picking it up. LOL.

Now how this has impacted my business. I am lucky we have been able to grow during the pandemic, but now we are running into some major roadblocks. We are now not able to get some basic equipment. They are now saying in might be 6-12 months. This is not specialized stuff and it is not available. I need a specialized work truck, I can not even get them to call me back now. I am looking at 1-2 years for the truck, this is crazy. We have a work truck that they can fix, no parts. Again I am not complaining, we will be okay. But this is crazy, again the media never brings this up. This is probably $250,00-300,000 worth of equipment, that is a lot of jobs.

I posted this in the political forum;.

On the supply chain issues, though, that mess is all political, and all the blame should be directed at the Dems. First off, Obama put into law regulations that were passed like 8 years ago but are just enforced today. One of them is that truck drivers can only work 8 hour shifts, and this is sent from trucks via computer to a regulatory agency. So when you have a supply chain crisis and want to move goods: wouldn't it be smart to change that to 10 or 12 hours (which it used to be)? You would think so right? Nothing on this.

The issue in the ports are the trailers that move around the supply containers. The cranes pick up the containers off the ships, but the trailers are what move them around. Obama put in a law that trailers, even ones that were still good, could not be more than 5 years old. The problem is the pandemic interfered with production of trailers, so a lot would put out to pasture while fewer were coming in. Again, there is a pretty simple solution. Allow the older trailers to be inspected for safety and used right? Again, that is not being done.

Domestic trailer production also plummeted due to the end of Trumps tariff on Chinese trailers. Yeah, Biden just got rid of that Trump tax. It seems like a no-brainer to reinstate that tariff but that is not happening either. China is refusing to produce more trailers, and this is China fucking the USA again, and time after time, our government is unable to pivot away because we are so dependent on them.

End of quote.

Truck production is way down, and one guy wrote the asset that appreciated the most last quarter was not a stock or bond or crypto but the car in your driveway. Used car prices rose 20% last quarter which is crazy.

And with a million containers off the California coast and truck drivers being hamstrung getting parts to truck manufacturers, I think you are going to continue having a hard time. Stock up if you can.

And with this supply level constraints it means fewer dollars going abroad which means a stronger dollar. COP is 4000+ today, and I think the trend is we go up further from here.

[Dcrist0527]

I really wish this shit was over with and the government would just admit defeat and tell people "we trust you will do what is in your own best interest for your health" instead of treatments and policies that always just so happen to make billionaires richer.

The longer this goes on, the more clear the motivation. We have Pfizer (& the others) now in a position telling us we will die without their product. Their Dem puppets in power repeat and mandate its use. Forget that they lied about the efficacy. First it was to stop the spread. Now it's simply so 'you won't die'. Quite effective as fear mongering goes. And first, this was 95% effective. Oops, just kidding. Have a second dose. How about a third. Don't worry. It's free!

Not sure if anyone is following what is happening in Israel. They are on the brink of mandating a 4th shot. Numerous medical professionals concerned with 'immune system fatigue'. There is a belief this 4th dose will have detrimental effects on immunity. Clearly, that's a hypothesis, not fact. But the puppets in Israel said "we don't have the luxury of time to make decisions". What?

Even better: "The committee looked at the incredibly fast spread of omicron, in the you. K. And other countries, and decided that we do not have the time. They decided that we should work in parallel: First give the recommendation to immunize, and then run the studies."

This is the very definition of insanity.

Need more proof this is all about enriching big pharma and its puppets in power?

Ask yourself why we spend literally no time learning about natural immunity. I don't care where you stand on vaccine mandates. There is no scientific reason to ignore natural immunity. But, there are financial reasons!

Why has so little attention been paid to therapeutics? If we're so concerned with the lethality, why have we put all our eggs into vaccination? Well, if we have a medication that saves lives, that puts a damper on the fear mongering, no? The masses have to believe they will die.

At one point, this sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory. And some have gone too far, saying COVID isn't real, etc. But now, if we just put politics aside and look objectively at the facts in front of us, the truth is plain to see.

[DramaFree11]

I like this one because I trust Sweden to be honest: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...in-Sweden.aspx.

The one side effect they do not have listed is tinnitus that is really common. If you look at stroke though and person years, when you start giving the vax to the elderly, there are some real issues.

I think the Supreme Court will strike down the vaccine mandate prior to the Republicans taking over Congress. The Democrats will scream the Republican Supreme court is killing people while they breathe a sigh of relief. Enforcement of the vaccine mandate is already way down now.

The real date for the vaccine is 2024 because that is when immunity runs out. The vaccine makers have been so gutless on immunity that they will not give it to refugees, people who do not even have a country to sue them in. You should expect to see these new drugs that have much longer monopoly rights, I. E. Patent protection, to all of sudden be "much improved" with the treatment of Covid and the "experts" back pedaling on the vaccines once the legal immunity is over. The opposite is going on now..

Yep, that is irony of all this Big Business is growing while small business are getting whipped out. I did not see or hear about the financial problems in MTY, but in CDMX it is a different story. Most have been impacted financially. Most of the people I talk to have either lost a job or know someone that has lost there job. Media conveniently does not talk about this.

Now how this has impacted my business. I am lucky we have been able to grow during the pandemic, but now we are running into some major roadblocks. We are now not able to get some basic equipment. They are now saying in might be 6-12 months. This is not specialized stuff and it is not available. I need a specialized work truck, I can not even get them to call me back now. I am looking at 1-2 years for the truck, this is crazy. We have a work truck that they can fix, no parts. Again I am not complaining, we will be okay. But this is crazy, again the media never brings this up. This is probably $250,00-300,000 worth of equipment, that is a lot of jobs.

[Elvis 2008]

I haven't seen stats on side effects. I know they have been buried. But I have no evidence that either way. But I do know that there is nothing more anecdotal that (I talked to 300 people and they are all fine". Hahahhaaaa. Maybe all the not fine people are dead or in hospital then? Duh.

Elvis what do you expect the Reps to do in terms of vaxes and mandates when they get in power in 2023?

I like this one because I trust Sweden to be honest: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...in-Sweden.aspx.

The one side effect they do not have listed is tinnitus that is really common. If you look at stroke though and person years, when you start giving the vax to the elderly, there are some real issues.

I think the Supreme Court will strike down the vaccine mandate prior to the Republicans taking over Congress. The Democrats will scream the Republican Supreme court is killing people while they breathe a sigh of relief. Enforcement of the vaccine mandate is already way down now.

The real date for the vaccine is 2024 because that is when immunity runs out. The vaccine makers have been so gutless on immunity that they will not give it to refugees, people who do not even have a country to sue them in. You should expect to see these new drugs that have much longer monopoly rights, I. E. Patent protection, to all of sudden be "much improved" with the treatment of Covid and the "experts" back pedaling on the vaccines once the legal immunity is over. The opposite is going on now.

And you are right on the Republicans winning. One of my favorite political writers, Matt Taibbi, went to Loudron Country Virginia to find out why the Democrats lost that state. He is a liberal Democrat but he actually tries to get the story right and free of political leaning. Well, today he finished his series with these zingers.

"Parents' voices are critical to the success of our education system," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in the voice of a man reading a hostage note, adding, "They are our children's first, and most influential teachers. ".

This half-baked piece of P. Are. Writing, a pale copy of Republican Glenn Youngkin's "Parents Matter" slogan, won't work at all unless the administration follows up by sending a thousand of their party's most dedicated educational cultists on a long fact-finding trip to Greenland. You can sell voters on a lot of policies, but "We know how to raise your kids better than you," will never be one of them. Even a competent government wouldn't survive making this claim, let alone this one.

End of quote. The guy has a way with words right?

I have been reading Robert Kennedy Junior's book about the real Dr. Fauci, and this one line says it all, "In 2020, workers lost $3. 7 trillion while billionaires gained $3. 9 trillion. "

I really wish this shit was over with and the government would just admit defeat and tell people "we trust you will do what is in your own best interest for your health" instead of treatments and policies that always just so happen to make billionaires richer.

[PedroMorales]

Saying that you do not like someone's views is one thing. Smearing someone as a fraud is another. Do you have anything to support your claim?

His work on linguistics is that of a child. He is a hyped up CIA dissident to keep the perverts of the US Democrats happy. He has an opinion on everything, much like that other super rich fraud, Sanders, who supports Israel's genocide campaigns from his many mansions. Chomsky, Kissinger the sooner they die, the better for us all. At least Tutu (nice names) has croaked. Every hypocrite is quoting him on social media. A bauble bouncing on the waves.

I look intgo the Ph thread and some nuttewr is going on a about Russia massing troops against the Nazis of Ukraine.

The guy who posts the cum shots has taken a day off.