The Post-Partisan Emporium

"The city was turned upside down" Tales from 17th century Milan tell a woeful tale of chaos and panic in the midst of a world pandemic. Justin Hart More from Allesandro Manzoni and his novel about love in plague-ridden Milan. In his 1827 novel  I Promessi Sposi  ( The Betrothed ), Italian author Alessandro Manzoni writes about the improbable journey of two lovers affianced in a time of plague. The story is fiction but was thoroughly researched by Manzoni from original source journals to capture the incredible impact of the pandemic on 17th century Milan. The fatality rate of the plague has been estimated between 30% and 60% but Manzoni points out that the more ruinous part of the disease was its impact on the citizenry itself: The image of this supposed danger beset and tortured the minds of the people far more than the real and existing danger. First, rumors started of unclean people spreading the plague: The city, already tumultuously inclined, was now turned upside down..&

Halloween Hootenanny

There Are No Arguments on the Other Side eugyppius On 3 September, noted German virologist and Corona astrologer Christian Drosten made  a series of curious remarks  on his state radio podcast. He argued that “scientists should … start thinking about whether it’s … harmful to argue too strongly for [antigen] testing of the vaccinated,” musing that “the vaccinated should also see some advantages from being vaccinated in daily life.” He also expressed hope that the vaccines would in the end make Corona indistinguishable from the common cold, and went so far as to say that he personally hoped for multiple post-vaccination infections: “Immunity from infection,” he said, “is more robust in the long run. My goal as virologist Drosten, is … I want to have vaccine immunity and then, on top of that, I want to have my first infection, and my second, and my third at some point.” Christian Drosten, virus hero. The (tellingly, English) caption reads: “There is Glory in Prevention”. This is not inte

The Treason of the Healers BY  THOMAS HARRINGTON      In 1927, the French intellectual Julien Benda published  La Trahison des Clercs  which has been translated to English as  The Betrayal  (and sometimes the  Treason )  of the Intellectuals . The book is a searing indictment of the role played by intellectuals from both sides of the First World War in fanning the flames of that devastating conflict which raised the threshold of man’s capacity for murder and destruction to theretofore unimaginable levels.  For Benda, the great and unpardonable sin of the intellectuals in both Germany and France was to abandon the imperative to generate “disinterested” knowledge, and to instead lend their talents and prestige to tasks of promoting home-borne chauvinism on one hand, and the systematic denigration of the enemy’s culture and citizens on the other.  The rise of the figure of the intellectual, as we understand it today, is intimately linked to two interlocking historical processes from the l

Covid-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Can Harm You With Near Complete Impunity The government axes your job but shields pharma companies from financial liability for injuries. Who does the government work for? Aaron Siri Imagine that in order to keep your job, the government requires you to take a pill that only protects you, and not others, and if you are harmed by that pill, you can’t sue the company that makes and sells the pill.  Seems dystopian?  Well, it is.  But it is exactly what is occurring with Covid-19 vaccines. The federal government has given complete immunity to Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J for any injury caused by their Covid-19 vaccines.  That’s right: you cannot sue them if you are injured by their Covid-19 vaccine.  (See Note 1 to read the law yourself.)  So, while their product may not give you immunity, they are guaranteed immunity.    And it gets even worse.  These companies are even immune for – hold your breath – willful misconduct.  That may sound crazy, but it is sho

Two articles on original antigenic sin...   Mass vaccination may permanently attenuate population-wide immunity to SARS-2 Original Antigenic Sin and the Public Health England vaccine surveillance data. eugyppius Alex Berenson notices  a small admission tucked away on page 23 of the  latest Public Health England  vaccine surveillance report. According to “recent observations from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) surveillance data, … N antibody levels appear to be lower in individuals who acquire infection following 2 doses of vaccination.” This is evidence that our vaccines may permanently compromise immunity to SARS-2, via  Original Antigenic Sin  — the phenomenon, long observed in the antibody response to influenza infections, that initial exposure to a pathogen (or a spike protein) shapes all subsequent immune responses to mutated, recombined or reassorted instances of that pathogen. Our Corona vaccines elicit antibodies against the spike protein alone, while natural infection provo