The Post-Partisan Emporium

We Are All Cattle Now BioNTech/Pfizer and the rest are basically livestock vaccines: They’re not very safe, they don’t work very well, and everyone has to get them. eugyppius There is nothing surprising about the failure of our vaccines. In fact it was totally predictable. Coronavirus vaccines have been used in animals for years, with extremely unimpressive results. The problem is that coronaviruses infect the mucosal surfaces of the lungs, at what is basically the very edge of the reach of our immune systems. You could say that this the grand strategy of respiratory viruses. Typically, nasal spray vaccines are preferred in animals to stimulate immunity in the mucosa. Unfortunately, even the sprays achieve immunity that „ is often short-lived, requires frequent boosting, and may not prevent re-infection .“ This is after years of vaccine development and the considerably reduced safety standards observed in veterinary medicine. Our own SARS-2 vaccines, despite their fancy mRNA and virus ...

Confirmation of Vaccine-Associated Mortality Mathew Crawford " If you cannot show me a peer-reviewed paper published in a corrupt medical journal backing your calculations of vaccine-associated mortality, I'm going to have to assume that these mafia organizations are telling the whole truth about their vaccine products without reviewing their data, and accepting the 0 in the mortality column that hasn't yet been studied ." -Jeffrey Morris (paraphrasing) To be fair, I'm not being fair. And it's not just him. It's a lot of very obtuse people who should show more responsibility from their positions. But I'm being mostly fair, and that's  a lot fairer than they are . Exhibit A: A Peer-Reviewed Paper in a Journal That Doesn't Publish  Surgisphere  or Obviously  Absurd Research Pushed by Powerful Interests A new hero has emerged. Mostly-retired scientist Ronald Kostoff, PhD, and a highly experienced team, just had their paper published. The appropria...

The tale of two lost neighbours                                                                                            By Harry Hopkins AT THE start of all this nonsense concerning a killer virus that was about to sweep the world, my next-door neighbour was being treated for a brain tumour. He had had an operation and the prognosis was that he had two years to go (why do the medics give these estimates?) Bill and his wife Margaret were devastated, as you would expect, and friends and neighbours rallied around as best they could. We formed a rota to take him to hospital for his treatments, and under the circumstances they were managing reasonably well, until . . . lockdown! Everything came to a grinding halt, and hospitals and doctors shut up shop. Only...

Lithuania won’t be silenced by bullying government By Emilia Mituziene ‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would.’   Lewis Carroll,  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass WE ARE separated. The fuelled segregation broadens amongst the citizens within the countries, which are separated on a world scale too: by travel restrictions, individual management of the pandemic, indolent media aligned with the voice of government and lack of coordinated news about resistance in each country. Some of them, not necessarily hit by the highest rate of Covid deaths, are now being hit by the stark tyranny of government, whilst others are seemingly (or ostensibly) returning to normality. Has it ever dawned on you that it is to lull some of us into bystanders whilst reducing the probability of co-ordinated glo...

Pandemos -- Is This What Sanity Looks Like? Mathew Crawford “Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little-- crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.” - Mark Twain,  The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts Somewhere, out in the Ocean, a beautiful and thriving civilization spans the island of Pandemos. Larger in land size than Australia, you might miss it on a map, er, due to distortions in scale caused by Mercator projection. The lush and resourceful Pandemos has allowed for the Pandemosians to engineer an amazing modern society. Pandemosians are often so wealthy that their chil...