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3.5.21

60 Cycles

 


In preparing to write this exciting installment, I did what any brilliant writer does: I went outside on the porch for a smoke to procrastinate.  For those who are not writers, it is difficult to understand just how painful this process is, and to what lengths we will go to in avoiding it.

Anyway, I got out on the porch and realized I had finished my last pack, so I went back in to fetch a fresh one out of my office.  When I got to my desk, I thought I'd kill two stones with one bird, and plugged in my cell phone and went back outside.

When I got there, I realized that I hadn't fetched a new pack, cursed loudly, and went back inside.  On the way, I stopped by the kitchen to tell my wife the story thus far, and laugh at my obvious descent into senility.

Then I went back outside.

I cursed again, choosing more colorful terms to express myself.  I even made up a couple of new bad words, which I need to write down before I forget them.

I went back to my office and finally remembered to grab a pack of distraction.

As I stood on the porch, fumes circling me like ghostly vultures, I tried to drown out the obscene racket coming from the local mosque.  The cantor is nine years older than God, and sounds like a rutting bullfrog with strep throat fighting larynial cancer, while sticking a finger down his throat trying to scrape nodules off his vocal chords.

And he keeps the amp cranked to 11, while swallowing the mic.  Ugh!

And that's on a good day.

I was trying to drown out the racket by thinking of my impending 60th birthday.  I took a long, sullen pull from my cigarette, as I had done nearly every day for the past 55 years.  I looked up at the Moon, now well above the horizon, as I had done nearly every night for the past 58 years.

I wondered if I had gained any insight, a nugget of wisdom distilled from nearly 2/3rds of a century.

Nope.  Not really.  The cupboard was bare.

So I procrastinated some more, lit another fag, and released a fog of blue-gray phantoms.  Life, it seems, is a long, slow process of forgetting everything I was absolutely certain about 40 or so years ago.  It's a degredation of vision from pure blacks and whites, into infinite shades of gray.

One positive aspect of growing old is losing debilitating empathy.  I am nearly to the point where I no longer give a shit what anyone else thinks or feels.  Not entirely.  I guess I've narrowed it down to a highly selectinve group of folks.  The rest of the world can piss off.

It's very liberating.

Another positive aspect of aging is that, sometime in the past couple of years...not really sure when...testosterone released its death grip on my mind.  I can finally think clearly without the need to tailor everything into attracting potential mates that has consumed virtually every waking moment, and most sleeping moments too, for the past 48 years.  This is likely related to the not giving a shit mentioned previously.

Other than these weirdly random pains in weirdly random parts of my body at weirdly random times, I'm reasonably healthy for all the wear and tear.  Despite my wife's constant worry, my blood pressure and cholesterol are nearly textbook perfect.  I don't generally get sick, though the occasions that I do are doozies.

The last episode was about seven years ago.  I managed to contract typhus, amoebic dysentery and dengue fever all at the same time.  I spent 20 days in the hospital alternately freezing, roasting and oozing blood from every pore.  It was very exciting.  

People I hardly knew were stopping by to bid farewell and my wife's church group formed regular prayer circles around my death bed.  To this day, I maintain that it was cheeseburgers that pulled me through.  Had I stuck to the bland, pale food substitutes the hospital forced on me, I would be worm meat by now.

So what does one do when one faces 60?  I tried to make a bucket list, but I've done pratty much everything I ever thought would be fun to do, except go to Antarctica - and yes, I've already shopped boat rides out of Tazmania for when the jerk-offs who think they run the planet let us get back to ignoring them.

I wouldn't mind going into orbit, too.  When I was a kid watching the Mercury astronauts letting themselves get shot into the Great Beyond atop ballistic missiles, I thought we'd all be vacationing on Mars by now.  The jerk-offs screwed that up, too.

I've stepped on six continents and lived in six countries.  I've had at least four distinct careers and left some small mark on all of them.  I've launched off the deck of an aircraft carrier in an A-10 fighter jet.  I was allowed 30 minutes in the actual trainer for the astronauts who landed on the Moon.  I've met dozens of people whose names are burned into history - for better or worse.  I've been as deep as 100 meters into the ocean by various means.  I've been a part of one of the largest peaceful crowds ever, and I've been profoundly and incredibly alone for various lengths of time.

I've been a Benedictine and Buddhist monk.  I've midwifed calves, colts, lambs, kittens, and puppies, and I've eaten them.

I really can't complain.  Too much.

So what do I know for sure after 60 years of exploration down here in the materium?

I know that I'm not finished yet.  And I know I don't want to live forever.  Nothing seems more terrifying than living forever.

I hate figs and beets.  I love pate du foie gras on liver biscuits with capers and red onions, but I hate even the thought of fried liver and onions.  I hate crowds and love the desert and mountains.  I hate deadlines and schedules, but I thrive when they are short and the pressure is on.  I hate losing, but winning never seems worth the effort to attain it.  I love learning, but I hate studying.

I'd much rather hear one person I respect tell me "good job," than the empty adulation of throngs.

In the end, I have more beads of sweat than pearls of wisdom.  I suppose that's the way it should be, though.  As any true artist knows, no creation is ever finished.

So I guess I'll just have another smoke and procrastinate some more.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll come up with the perfect line to end this screed.

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18.3.21

Insanity Goes Viral

Introductory Thoughts

 



In 1953, playwright Arthur Miller released his magnum opus, called "The Crucible".  It was a commentary on the zeitgeist of its time, using the Salem witch hunts to highlight the hysteria of the McCarthy era.

The play showed a group of Puritan girls who used fear of the supernatural to get revenge on someone they didn't like.  The hysteria grew, people were hung and shunned, and it reached the point that anyone who questioned the insanity was immediately suspect of being a part of the Coven.

Seventy years later, the play is apropos once again, only this time, it's not witches or Commies, it's a virus.  Furthermore, it's no longer a community or a nation, it's a global phenomenon that defies rationality and requires nothing more than the pronunciations of a handful of "experts" to feed it.

Like supernatural scriers or self-appointed patriots, we now have scientists in the role of the clergy, waving their sheepskins at us while breathless copyreaders tell us what amazing experts the lab-coated priests are.

But let's you and I engage in a little critical thinking.  I know, I know...it's very out of fashion these days, but maybe - just maybe - if you and I think clearly, it'll rub off on the hypnotized masses and bring a little sanity back to the world..

 Immune Response


It is necessary to clarify terms, since the Geezer Media seem incapable of doing any research and happily confuse terms to keep us all baffled by their bullshit.  The term SARS-COV-2 is the name of a "new" or "novel" virus in the Corona family.  COVID-19 is the term applied to a set of symptoms attributed to the SARS-COV-2 virus.

It is also important to note that viruses do not cause disease.  This is a common and possibly dangerous misconception.  Like allergies, one person may be completely devastated by ragweed pollen, but another could snort a rail of the stuff like Peruvian Marching Powder and have no ill effects. In fact, most people have thousands of viruses in their bodies at any given time, and they are generally benign and occasionally even beneficial.

Like allergies, folks who are susceptible to certain viruses have malfunctioning or overenthusiastic immune systems whose "off" switches are defective.  The immune system releases the usual responses to foreign particles, but the release keeps going and causing harmful effects.  

All of this immune activity is primarily regulated by T-cells. T-cells are like traffic cops who show up to accidents, clear away crowds, assess the situation, and call the ambulance, tow trucks - or the coroner.  When the mess is cleaned up, they write up the report, which forms the basis for insurance pay-outs and statistical analysis for decades to come.  This is where vaccines come in, but we'll get to that shortly.

One type of immune response that many of us are familiar with is histamines.  Histamines get released, causing the mucus membranes to pump out fluid, but the chemical that stops the process fails and we get upper respiratory issues like stuffy noses, coughs, ichy eyes, etc.  In the same way, cytokines get released, causing certain tissues to swell up, but the "off" switch doesn't get triggered, and thus the cytokine storm.  Swelling from cytokines restricts the flow of lumph, blood and oxygen, and when out of control causes a myriad of issues on its own.

Although the immune system is obviously far more complex than this brief simplification, if any part of the system fails or goes off the rails, we get sick.  The virus didn't "cause" that, the body's response did, and the body's response is regulated with vitamins, minerals and various drugs like antihistamines.

Vitamins and minerals are an essential part of every good breakfast for a reason.  They are the building blocks of all the other systems.  Imagine having a fleet of first responders, but no fuel, poor maintenance, or a crew of EMTs who are all on annual leave at the same time.  If you are deficient in any of the key chemicals, then your immune system won't create enough of a vital response - including on-off switches - and you get sick.

Extraordinary Coinciedences


There are hundreds of thousands of types of viruses, and new ones are being discovered all the time.  Of that literal zoo of viruses, there are hundreds of distinct kinds of corona viruses, which are among the largest by size known.  Of those hundreds of types, only seven are known to relate to diseases in humans and they all cause more or less the same thing: the Common Cold.

Viruses tend to cause problems with specific species of animals.  Horse viruses rarely infect cats.  Plant viruses rarely infect bacteria.  Bat viruses are not known to cause immune responses in humans...until now.  Each type of virus has a set of keys that only start the immune response in certain species.  They don't normally pick up a new set of keys, or so it has been since life began.

In recent years, the lab-coated meddlers have been monkeying around with viruses.  Some of it is pure curiosity, but most of it is geared towards military applications.  Though widely banned and frowned upon, the usual suspects continue to mix and match viral keys and genetic material to find a way to make the enemy sick while having a magic potion to keep their own troops healthy.  A poison is no good if you don't have an antidote for yourself.

One of the labs that likes to play god with viruses is called the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in southern China.   WIV was working with the National Institute of Health (NIH), run by one Anthony Fauci, as well as several major universities in the US, and received significant funding and technolgy to pursue certain virus research that Americans didn't want done in their back yard.

On October 18, 2019, in New York City, the Center for Health Security (CFHS), of Johns Hopkins University, along with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and (of course) the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation brought a bunch of folks from different disciplines together to game out a global virus pandemic, called Event 201, including various responses, consequences and opportunities such a scenario provided.  

That exact same day, October 18, 2019, the 2019 Military World Games (MWG), a kind of olympics for traned killers, were held in Wuhan.  There were more than 10,000 participants from over 100 countries, and it was the largest such event ever held, and the first held in China.

By extraordinary coincidence, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, China, precisely one month to the day after the Event 201 meeting in New York and the Military World Games in Wuhan.  The new COVID-19 disease was finally reported to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, and by January 17, 2020, cases were reported in Washington state and other locations around the world.  It was just three months - to the day - from Event 201 and the MWG in Wuhan, where the WIV is located, to global awareness of a "new" disease.  The global shut downs and quarantines began the following month and continue now a year later, almost to the letter following the Event 201 playbook, which itself seems to invoke many of the stipulations of the Green New Deal and Agenda 21, along with the WEF's Great Reset.

Extraordinary.

SARS-COV-19 Virus


Corona viruses prefer the mucus membranes in humans, which include the sinuses, mouth, throat, and lungs - though seemingly avoid the intestinal tract, presumably because stomach acid dissolves them.  When the body detects any of these seven types of human corona virus, it reacts by pumping out mucus and swelling those tissues (histamines and cytokines), while raise the ambient temperature in an effort to both flush and cook the viruses into submission.

For the most part, we encounter these viruses all the time, and they are flushed with a sneeze or a cough.  Occasionally, the sheer number of virus particles overwhelm the usual reflexes, referred to as viral loading, and burrow into the flesh, causing the body to react with what is essentially an allergic response.  Cytokines flood the body's systems, causing wide-spread swelling and release of T-cells.  The T-cells reconnoiter the situation and signal back-up based on perceived threat.  The result is what we affectionately call the Common Cold.  This is precisely the same chain of events that we call allergies, the only difference being the cause.  Either way, we feel like shit and call in sick.

One big problem with this response is that raising the temperature and swelling the tissues provides a nice warm, wet environment for bacteria, which are the real culprits in terms of deaths from COVID019.  The bacteria are aided and abetted by the fact that the body is busy focusing on the viruses and forgets to attack the bacteria.  We call this an "opportunistic infection".  Parasites, which are also ubiquitous like bacteria and viruses, also get a free ride while the body is otherwise distracted..

None of this is possible if sufficient amounts of certain vitamins and minerals are present, but we'll get to that in a bit.

According to reports that have tried to measure the overall diameter of the SARS-COV-2 virus, the results vary from 50nm to 140nm.  It is listed as an mRNA positive virus, meaning it has a single strand of nucleotides, rather than the double-stranded helix of DNA.  The virus' genome contains slightly less than 30,000 nucleotides, which it pastes into the host cell DNA to turn the cell into a factory making the various proteins that make up the virus' envelope, as well as generating more of the mRNA strands to stuff in the envelopes.  Viruses are not "alive," so they cannot reproduce themselves.  They high-jack resources in our cells to do the work for them.

What makes the SARS-COV-2 virus particularly unique is it seems to have the ability to mutate rapidly, and to jump species with relative ease.  These are not skills found in "normal" viruses.

The SARS-COV-2 virus shares about 97% of its genome with the RaTG13 virus found in a particular species of bat in remote western China.  SARS-COV-2 also demonstrates a remarkable ability to mutate quickly and form variants faster than the body can adjust, or corporations can produce "vaccines".  The usual Common Cold viruses have always jumbled up their protein envelopes, making it almost impossible to generate immunity or to create an effective vaccine, but this new variety puts this skill into hyper-drive.

There is some speculation that SARS-COV-2 may be jumping back and forth between domestic animals and humans, with symptoms in all species.  If true, this would be the first recorded incident of this type of transmission.

Any given type of virus might be expected to mutate >1% over millennia or longer, but for the SARS-COV-2 virus to mutate 3%, and pick up several new skills almost overnight implies something - or someone - mucking about with the mRNA strand.  Some folks believe patented genetic segments owned by Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx could provide these new skills if pasted into the bat virus.

PCR Tests


One of the most ubiquitous symbols of the COVID-19 pandemic is the Rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction Test, or rPCR test in common parlance.  It is also the least understood part of the show, which can be both dangerous and expensive.

The PCR test is not a diagnostic tool.  It doesn't know or care whether the bits of RNA and DNA it picks up belong to viruses or dinosaurs.  It's sole purpose is to detect genetic material and make as many copies of it as you need, depending on the number of cycles you set it to run.  For this reason, PCR tests are commonly used in laboratories to create quantities of genetic samples sufficient for other tests.  It is an amplifier and nothing else.

One common use of PCR tests is for crime scene forensics.  A detective swabs a piece of evidence, then runs the sample through the PCR kit, thus creating sufficient genetic material for DNA tests and analyses.  The PCR does not generate any results by itself.  It simply creates enough of a sample for use in other tests.

The size of the sample a PCR generates depends on the number of cycles it is set to run.  A major issue with this is that the higher the cycles, the more errors it generates.  Previously, the WHO recommended 45 cycles when testing for SARS-COV-2, but this results in an error rate over 90%.  It literally makes a handful of RNA nucleotides (out of 30,000) appear as if the subject is shedding viruses like pecan tree pollen, even if the person doesn't have a single complete virus in their body.  WHO recently recommended reducing the cycle rate to 35, and global "case" rates began falling precipitously.

Not only are PCR tests useless for diagnosing SARS-COV-2 infections, used incorrectly, as they generally are, they produce false positives that could lead to people being isolated and treated for something they don't have.  This practice must be adjusted or ended soon, before more people are hurt by it.


Masks


Let's get the obvious out of the way - you could hold your hand over your nose and mouth and achieve the same degree of safety as wearing a mask

The best way to prove to yourself that a mask is useless is burn a piece of paper or strike a match.  If you can smell the smoke, your mask is useless again viruses.  Molecules we perceive as odors are absolutely gargantuan compared to any given virus.  If you can smell an odor with a mask on, then you are essentially trying to block a SmartCar while letting a freight train slide past. 

Gaseous Oxygen has a molecular diameter of 120 picometers, and gaseous Carbon Dioxide, at 232 picometers, should pass through an N95 mask without much effort.  One picometer equals 0.001 nanometer.  Remember this as we plow forth.  Also remember that masks do not discriminate between incoming and outgoing, so anything you breathe out is just as likely to be trapped as anything coming in.  Thus, if you already have a virus, the mask will concentrate it at your nose and mouth, and will virtually guarantee your virus load exceeds common sense.

Surgical masks were designed to keep the surgeon's skin flakes, boogers, snot, and drool from dropping into a patient's gaping wound.  Combined with hair nets, gloves and vigorous hand-washing, the practice lowered surgical infections dramatically; however, they do little or nothing out here in the real world.

If you work with drywall, or a lot of wood dust, or live in Beijing, a mask may stop a good amount of particulates from entering your sinuses, mouth, throat and lungs.  Outside of those specific conditions, they are pretty much useless.

N95 masks are said to filter out 95% of particles less than 300nm, but this rating assumes a perfect seal around the nose and mouth, and does not have anything to do with protecting the eyes.  Furthermore, masks are only effective when one does not pinch, pull or adjust them with contaminated hands, which most people do on a regular basis throughout the day.  For instance, if you yawn, cough or sneeze, the mask will generally slide off the nose and/or chin, allowing virus particles in through gaps, and then more when you readjust the mask.  Even in a perfect situation, an N95 mask will still allow 5% or more virus particles to pass.

People who die from SARS-COV-2 do not die from anything the virus does.  The generally die from bacterial pneumonia.  The bacteria take advantage of a weakened immune system and the body's responses to the virus,c causing the lung lining to swell and release copious amounts of mucus, thus "drowning" the patient in their own juices. 

The most common cause of baterial pneumonia is the pneumococcus bacterium, a gram-positive critter ranging in size from 0.5 micrometers to 1.25 micrometers.  One micrometer equals 1,000 nanometers, so N95 masks that block most anything larger than 300 nanometers actually horde these bacteria directly in front of your nose and mouth, almost guaranteeing that you will succumb to bacterial disease long before the COVID-19 gets you.

Vaccines, Therapies & Prevention


Let's begin with vaccines.
The medical definition of a vaccine is the injection of dead or inactive viruses to stimulate a reaction by the immunie system to provide immunity to the recipient.

The legal definition of vaccine is more or less the same as the medical one, but it makes little difference, since vaccine manufacturers are broadly protected from product liability, either by actual law or contractual separation as a condition of any sales.

While the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CoronaVac are supposedly real vaccines, the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca jabs are not.  The latter are in fact a form of gene therapy that uses virus protein envelopes to invade cells and deliver RNA "edits" for your DNA.  The edits supposedly force your cells to mimic the effects of the virus, which in turn keeps your immune system on hyperalert - presumably forever if you continue to get jabs in the future.  Essentially, they are setting the recipient up for severe allergies, though no one is really sure what will set them off.

To be fully informed of what the gene therapy "vaccines" are really doing, you really need to listen to this interview with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

Frankly, the average person has no way to assess whether any vaccine functions as described, nor do we have any assurance that the vaccines do more good than harm.  As the saying goes, a patient never dies in surgery, always in recovery.  Information on side-effects is sketchy and in any case, the manufacturers are given virtual immunity from product liability.

Furthermore, most of us don't have the tools to analyze the compositions and functions of vaccines, and the methods and contents are generally proprietary and not published.  Thus, we have no way to prove what we are told about the vaccines, and no way to hold manufacturers liable for anything that goes wrong. The same is true for any of the drugs now coming to market as therapies.

In other words, we just have to take their word for it.

Gene editing using viral vectors has been around for some time.  In the early 1990s, I was involved with documenting tests of this technology for use in cancer treatment.

Virus protein envelopes containing an "updated" p53 wild gene were injected into cancer tumors in an effort to "turn off" the mutated gene and shut down cancer cells.  There was some immediate success, but unfortunately, my grant ran out before I could document long-term results, so I cannot say what the outcome was.  The linked paper is co-authored by two of the doctors I worked with.

I mention the foregoing because that is precisely the technology being used in many of the so-called SARS-COV-2 "vaccines".  I find this particularly alarming because the folks I talk to that have received or want to receive those jabs are completely uninformed and unaware of what they are getting.  This is a gross violation of the Nuremberg Protocols, and given the manufacturers' immunity from liability, millions of people are exposing themselves to great risk without being properly informed of what they are doing.

As far as therapies go, Remdesivir is the one most heralded by the Geezer Media and WHO types.  It comes with a steep price tag and questionable efficacy.  Given that it is freshly patented, it only has one manufacturer and is likely generating a decent profit.

There are, in fact, many antiviral drugs on the market, designed to work against a range of viruses like herpes, influenza and others.  They are all rather expensive and come with a number of provisos and exceptions.

There are two legacy drugs that have been shown to be quite effective, but are no longer patented and are quite cheap and widely available (or at least were before efforts to hide them and price them out of the market).  Both have been around for the better part of a century and have a wide range of uses, including antiviral.

Quinine, like acetylsalicylic acid, is one of the oldest therapeutic drugs known to humans.  Derived from cinchona trees in Peru, it works by chemically eating holes in viruses, bacteria and parasites.  The holes facilitate zinc and the body's defenses inside the critters to kill them.  Modern compounds like chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) reduce the unpleasant side effects of pure quinine, while maintaining its efficacy.  A 2009 study by the National Institute of Health (NIH), run by Anthony Fauci at the time, found that CQ is highly effective in treating corona viruses.

Ivermectin was discovered in 1975, and has since become on the go-to drugs for all things parasitic.  You can rub it on your skin for lice and scabies, or swallow it for worms, amoeba and other nasty critters.  It is used for both humans and domestic animals and the WHO says it is an indispensable addition to your medicine cabinet.  Dr. Pierre Kory testified before a US Senate hearing that ivermectin has almost miraculous effect on COVID-19, as both a treatment and a preventative.  

In Indonesia, the price of the drug has shot up in the last year, from $2/10 pills, to $20/10 pills.  HCQ was about $5/10 caps, but was summarily confiscated by officialdom and is now impossible to find.

Regardless of all other considerations, it pays to keep your immune system in peak condition.  Vaccines supposedly work by exposing the body to weakened viruses to stimulate the immune response.  One can achieve the same effect by constant low-level exposure to pathogens in daily life.  Attempting to avoid exposure reduces the number and amounts or pathogens we regularly ingest, thus the immune system does not maintain a level of antigens and makes us vulnerable when we encounter a heavy load of them.

Equally as important is maintaining a healthy supply of the materials the body needs to fight off infections.  These vitamins and minerals are used by the body in thousands of different processes that aid immunity, digestion, cell division, and a whole host of other physical and chemical reactions.  

The most important for building and regulating the immune system are B6, C and D3.  There are common and relatively cheap supplements for all three.  Of the metals iron, zinc, calcium, potassium, and magnesium are essential, and supplements are also easy to find.

For my own regimen, I place a tablet of B6 under my tongue when I feel a cytokine storm coming on (sinus congestion, low-grade fever, dry cough).  It works in about 30 minutes.  I have taken 5 grams to 6 grams per day of Vitamin C for many years.  I get at least one hour of direct sunlight every day and supplement my D3 with 5,000 IU/day.  I take 20mg of zinc twice a week, using the soluble tablets so I can hold some under my tongue for a minute or two.  My diet provides plenty of iron, calcium and magnesium, but if I start to get mucle cramps, I supplement with magnesium and they go away in a day or so.  Being of Irish descent, I have to limit my iron and calcium because my body stores it quite well.  You should research this for your own body type.  As for potassium, I eat a lot of bananas.

I don't remember the last time I had the flu, and if I do get a cold, it is usually over in less than a day.  I also have no allergies that I know of, and after 60 years, I imagine I would have found some by nowI also don't get bacterial or parasitic infections, though i am susceptible to fungal infections. Still working on that one.

Miscellany


When this whole mess started, my wife and I went immediately to DefCon5.  If we had to go out, we undressed on the porch, put the clothes in a bag and washed them immediately.  There was little information and the Geezer Media made it sound like we were heading for Contagion or The Omega Man.  I know a lot more now, and I am not afraid of the virus.  It looks to me like everything the 'experts" recommend is the exact opposite of what clear-thinking people should do.

Just like Dr. Mom always said, get plenty of sunshine and fresh air, and eat a healthy diet.

 It's always interesting, at least to me, to examine the origins of words.  They tell us a lot about the deeper meanings and intentions of the terms we use everyday in casual and unthinking ways.  One prime example is looking up the deeper meaning of the word government, but I digress.

The word corona comes from Latin meaning "crown".  We often encounter this word when referring to the brilliant edges of the Sun, or the arteries that lay across the heart.  In the case of the SARS-COV-2 virus, it refers to the shapes of the proteins that stick out from the virus' envelope.  They appear to form a crown around this or any of the thousands of types of corona viruses.

The word virus is quite strange.  It is a Latin word that means "poisonous substance".  In essence, corona virus means "poisonous crown".  I can't help but make all kinds of associations with this thought.  One could think of it as the signature of the party that unleashed it upon the world.

What I find truly intriguing were all the articles comparing the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Aries (still on-going and now with Venus too) to the Christmas Star, a phenomenon noted in the Gospels as signalling the birth of a Great King. Talmudists will certainly recognize this configuration, and it makes one wonder if the "poisonous crown" is a symbolic gesture for the coming of the new Great King.

Conclusions


As we have seen, the entire COVID-19 pandemic is a complete and horrific hoax.  There is no real danger from the virus if your are reasonably healthy and maintain good levels of vitamins and minerals.

The symbolism of a "poisonous crown" coming along as a particular set of astrological events occur signifying the birth of a Great King is a very strange set of coincidences.  Regardless of whether you or I believe in that nonsense, there are certainly a group of self-appointed elites who do.

It seems pretty apparent that the SARS-COV-2 was modified or created in the WIV, and was part of a coordinated effort to institute an agenda by scaring the piss out of the entire world.  In New York, a group of meddling "experts" from different fields planned the "pandemic" and global shut-down, while in Wuhan, the virus was unleashed during the MWG, and allowed to spread as much as possible before the WHO was "notified" of possible cases.  There are far too many convenient coincidences for this mess to be accidental, much less natural.

Regardless of whether the "vaccines" currently proffered actually work in the short term, no one can tell you with any certainly what the long-term outcomes will be.  Most are not vaccines as we have come to know them, but are gene therapy terhnologies that are stil in their infancy.  Traditional vaccines have an 80-year highly questionable reputation, but the new tech has no such multi-generational record.

Masks are so useless as to be less effective than painting a barrier on your face.  They are theater.  They are props in a vast cynical farce designed to make you think you are safe, without actually doing anything to BE safe.  You are far better off with a vitamin and mineral supplement regimen, and a few hours of direct sunlight and quality sleep, than anything offered by the Geezer Media and their corporate minions.

To get through this insanity, do what Mom, and Granma, and Great-grandma always taught us (this is by no means "medical advice," just generational Common Sense):

  1. Get plenty of direct sunlight on your naked skin;
  2. Get plenty of fresh air, breathing from your abdomen and not your chest;
  3. Eat plenty of red meat for the high zinc levels;
  4. Take a quinine or ivermectin tablet once in a while to beat off the baddies;
  5. Eat lots of dark green leafy vegitables;
  6. Supplement with B6, C, D3, and E;
  7. Feed a cold, starve a fever;
  8. And if you get sick, get plenty of rest, drink lots of fluids, and have Mom send over some of her Magic Chicken Soup.

PS - My friend Chris, after reading this article, brought to my attention a long-term study on allergies in a region called Karelia that is split between Russia and Finland.  The results are not only very interesting, they speak directly to one of my themes here.   The study seems to support the proposal that the modern, sterile, sedentary lifestyle and lifetime vaccine regimen is causing people to be more susceptible to germs and allergens, rather than the other way.

15.10.17

Authority Is A Virus

One of the most iconic and enduring scenes from George Orwell's famous book Nineteen Eighty-Four is the one in which main character Winston Smith finally capitulates in Room 101 and actually sees five fingers, when O'Brien is only holding up four.  To be more accurate, Smith admits he doesn't know how many fingers there are without being told, regardless of what his own senses are telling him.

A similar scene takes place in the "Chain of Command" episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Captain Picard is tortured by an alien and repeatedly told that he sees five lights, when there are in fact only four.  Picard later admits, after being rescued, that he could in fact see five.

Both these well-known scenes depict the power of authority to control the perceptions of those it considers under its sway.  In an authoritarian State, the State assumes the power to dictate reality itself to the masses, and by either coersion or capitulation, the masses accept.

Because science is the study of reality, it is important that the authoritarian State control the results of scientific investigation.  In our current society, the State dictates its chosen narrative in the guise of science, controls the education of sciene, and through funding controls who will and won't be allowed access to the gliziest toys and to publish their findings.

Through this mechanism, the State controls what is perceived as "settled science" and the interpretation of the results.  In this way, the authoritarian State controls reality itself.

After years of indoctrination at the hands of the State's schools and media, the world is populated with people who literally deny the evidence of their own eyes and common sense, in favor of the official narrative.  In other words, they willingly choose not to know how many fingers or lights there are until told by someone in "authority"/

The Star Trek example here dramatizes the brute force approach.  The State is aware that it is foisting a false narrative on the masses, and uses pain and suffering to force the masses to accept the dictated reality.

Orwell's Smith and O'Brien are much more subtle and closer to what we really experience.  In this scene, O'Brien - the representative of State authority, has already been indoctrinated/  While he is aware at some level that there are other ways to view reality, he cannot see them.  He only manipulates their symbols in order to force Smith to accept the dictated narrative.  O'Brien reads from a script, as it were.  As representative of authority, he is full a part of the authoritarianism.  He is not above or outside it, or he could not "teach" it to Smith.

In the modern authoritarian State, it is hard to tell whether any of the heirarchy have a larger picture or context.  It seems to have become a self-perpetuating illusion that every member of the Inner Party fervently believes, and is incapable of seeing objective reality, even though it can manipulate the trappings of it, for the purposes of shutting down and endoctrinating those who see beyond the ruse.

There are many examples of this, but things like "gravitational waves" or the "Higgs boson: are perfect examples.  The State has spent billions of our hard-earned dollars on things like the CERN "atom smasher" and the LIGO "gravitational wave" detectors as props to reinforce how "serious" the Stat'e's narrative is.  Only fully indoctrinated individuals are allowed to use these contraptions, and only those "findings" that match the official narrative are allowed to be published. 

Since the individual's income and years of work are dependent on "finding" the approved answers, they willfully view reality through "warped glasses" and will fervently defend whatever results they are allowed to publish, while ignoring any other results that don't match the bespoke narrative.

Thus, through an intricate system of rewards and punishments, people rise through the ranks of the authoritarian structure until everyone, from top to bottom, is fully incapable of seeing objective reality.  They advance and are rewarded with perks for toeing the State's line, and those who do not are marginalized and discarded if they can't be "re-educated".

Science was envisioned as a means to filter out the authoritarian bias, but the method was conscripted by the authorities and bent to their will.  We must realize, though, that the original authorities actually believed their own narrative and willfully prevented themselves from seeing any other possibilities.

In the end, O'Brien can indoctrinate Smith because he IS the system - he fully embraces and believes in the the system, he can see nothing other than the system.  He can manipulate objective reality, and Smith's mind, only to the extent that it serves the authoritarian purpose.  It is as if he has a virus that has invaded his entire body, and at that point becomes a carrier who then can infect others.

It is a strange and all-encompassing phenomenon that is active throughout our daily lives.  Even those of us who consider ourselves "awake" are infected with the virus of authoritarianism, and it is very difficult to let go of the illness, since we must function in the world that has been created for us.  It is still an open question.  The disease is pervasive, both within and without.  Even those who are recovering from the disease are highly prone to relapse.

We must constantly check whether we see five lights or four, and whatever the answer, discover some way to objectively check the answer.  Even then, it is not a matter of how many lights we see, but whether we require an authority to tell us what to see.

7.4.13

Pausing At The Threshold

As is our wont on Sundays, we will trip off into some heavy-duty navel staring today.  Contemplating the nature of reality is something most people don't do enough of and should.  After all, as creatures that inhabit this Universe, it is our job to figure out the nature of our existence and whether or not we can perceive, and even inhabit, other creations, natures and/or times.

A lot of folks are familiar with the yin and yang symbol.  Many are likely familiar, at least vaguely, with the meaning behind it.  It's safe to say most readers here will know that the black and white areas represent polar opposites...ANY polar opposites -- positive/negative, light/dark, heat/cold, etc.

The nature of these opposites is that they cannot exist without each other.  The one is defined by the fact that it is not the other.  We only know joy because we can distinguish it from sorrow.  We only know light exists because sometimes it is dark.  If any one of these conditions existed without its opposite, we would have no way to define it, much less experience it.  It simply would be the way things are, and like humans are prone to do, we would ignore those things without definitions.

What most people seldom consider is that yin and yang are actually THREE things -- light, dark and dusk.  In every instance of opposites, there is a dividing line that separates one from the other, like walking into an air-conditioned room on a hot summer day.  At the threshold, there is a line in which both conditions exist simultaneously before one of the other engulfs you.

Think about how many superstitions there are concerning thresholds and doorways.  On New Year's Day, you are supposed to kiss your beloved in a doorway.  Newly married grooms must carry their brides over the threshold.  One must never exchange gifts at the threshold.  The list is quite long.

Thresholds are magical places where two worlds blend in a mystical way.  "Threshold" is used to mean places of entry or beinning, though not always in a good way (pain threshold).  But in all cases, a threshold is the barrier between two extremes -- inside/outside, heaven/earth, etc.

This concept of a barrier between opposites suffuses nearly every culture one can think of.  Not only do we have yin/yang, but the Hindus speak of Shiva (destruction), Vishnu (balance) and Brahma (creation).  The Christians have the Father (creator), Son (creation) and Holy Spirit (the bond).  Many ancient religions have Sky, Earth and an implies boundary or threshold between the two.  Even our skin is a threshold between that which is within us and that which is without.  Our senses allow the inside and outside to blend across the barrier of Self.

In all these metaphors for Universe, there is always a balance between the two extremes, and this balance is the threshold.  It is through the threshold that we leave one and enter the other.  There is no sense of 'good' or 'bad', only one state of being or another.  And across all these descriptions there is the 'threshold', the boundary, the pivot where the two halves of Universe meet.

It's a fascinating concept, and what's more interesting is the idea always seems to imply some sort of finite and infinite acting in unison.  Our selves are defined as enclosed spaces separate from Universe with a threshold called skin and senses between the two.  We take parts of Universe into us by breathing, eating, etc., remove what we need and release the rest back into Universe.  In the same fashion, our cells are segregated from the rest of the body by a threshold called the membrane wall.  It allows oxygen and nutrients in while releasing waste, yet at all times maintains a separate identity as 'cell'.  Similarly, Earth and Sky, and so on.  Always with a finite entity separated from an infinite one via a threshold that allows both to exchange information in one form or another.

What's more, the scale of this system runs from sub-micron to vast distances.  Whether one speaks of quarks and gluons or galaxies and space, there is always some defined space, a threshold and the infinite outer space.  In all cases, balance is maintained between the two by means of the threshold.  Once that breaks down, the finite ceases to exist and it merges with the infinite once again.

I find all this rather fascinating.  It is an apt metaphor for anything -- closed and open economic systems, closed and open social systems, closed and open physical systems, closed and open conceptual systems.  Yet, in all these systems, one must have a threshold in order to define that which is closed and that which is open.

The Hebrews painted their thresholds with blood during Passover.  People remove their outer clothes at the threshold.  Superstitions and rituals abound across thresholds.  In fact, gates, doors and thresholds figure into just about every myth and legend one can think of.  There is some kind of crossing point, whether physical or spiritual, in every great cultural tale.  Hell, even in the abortion debate, there is the implied concept that a baby is tissue on one side of the vaginal threshold, and a human being on the other.

It's a remarkable idea to ponder because the implications are literally boundless.  It even has the ability to return magic into our daily lives as we become aware of all the times we cross thresholds every day, even as we cross the threshold from reality into dreams.

One of the most important things to fall out of this kind of thinking is that all thresholds can be crossed if we chose to do so.  We are only 'outside' inasmuch as we haven't yet gone 'inside', and vice versa.  Thresholds are only boundaries between one form of existence and another, not barriers.  Thresholds are not limits, only measurements.

Therefore, we are only limited beings insofar as we are not willing to cross thresholds.  However, as our superstitions, myths and rituals concerning thresholds would imply, crossing them is not to be taken lightly.  In the end, though, we can only know ourselves and our place in Universe by experiencing what is both 'in' and 'out' of our thresholds, in every sense of that concept.

Try spending one day thinking about the thresholds you cross and that cross you.  It's a very eye-opening experience.

Oh, and if you're really getting baked on this idea, remember that there is not only a boundary between yin and yang, but also a boundary around both that separates them from...something else.

1.11.10

Quakes, Cones and Curls: In the Ring of Fire

21 Poppers In A Party Pack

One thing you can never say about life in Indonesia, is that it is routine. Just when you start to enjoy quiet routine, up crops an earthquake, tidal wave or volcano just to keep you on your toes.

If you are watching the world media, you probably think Indonesia is ablaze with corpses littering the streets. Hardly the case. The reason for the hype is twofold, I suspect. One is government greed and the other is the use of natural or man-made events to maintain a climate of fear.

The first one is quite obvious. Indonesian government, like all governments, is a corrupt cesspool of graft and greed. The difference here being that it is thinly veiled and even admitted in casual conversation. No one operates under the illusion that government does anything but take for personal gain. This is in contrast to someplace like America, where the corruption is far deeper and subversive, but there is a carefully crafted veneer of honesty and 'transparency,' which is obviously beginning to dissolve.

In Indonesia, it is an open secret that police take bribes, politicians and bureaucrats freely suggest and accept large cash 'incentives' for anything from drivers' licenses to national regulatory policy.

It is into this environment that a large earthquake, tsunami and volcano are thrown, and well, what's a politician to do? Hype it to the rafters and then wait for the avalanche of aid cash to fill their pockets. The Jakarta Post carries a front-page headline today (Monday), "Foreign aid welcome for reconstruction." Curiously, I can't find a link to the story online, but my first reaction is, "Of course it is!"

By contrast, the Man on the Street (MOS) has taken little notice. In the wake of Mount Merapi's first eruption, that killed on the order of 100 people, it was barely a topic of discussion here in Jakarta. In some cases, there was even a somewhat gleeful attitude exhibited by one person in Jogjakarrta (about 12 kilometers downwind of Merapi), as she described the excitement there. By the third and fourth explosions, and with heavy ash falling on Jogjakarta, the tone finally turned towards concern, but still the MOS here hardly raised an eyebrow. At least so far.

One thing that DID trigger some amount of panic was a report on Saturday afternoon, on MetroTV and TVOne, that a warning had been issued for Kerakatau, about 60 kilometers west of Jakarta. That got some people's attention and set off some mild stocking up activities, such as buying canned good and extra water. However, as far as I can tell, those reports have been unsubstantiated by any 'official' release.

Even less noticed by the MOS in Jakarta was the quake and tsunami in the Mentawi islands. These are remote islands on the western frontier that, if pressed, some Indonesians might know exist. By comparison, a tidal wave in the Aleutian islands of Alaska that kills a handful of polar bears would generate more interest in the average New Yorker. Furthermore, the death counts have obviously been exaggerated, as recent reports note that more than 100 folks have been found alive in the affected area. As with all media and government information, though, one should never let a few facts stand in the way of a sensational story, especially when a potential tsunami of aid money is involved.

The Merapi situation is really a man-made disaster. The mountain is the most active 'natural' volcano in Indonesia, with regular eruptions as recently as the 1990s. A notable exception is the 'mud volcano' in north Java caused four years ago by oil drilling. The cause of death at Merapi is two-fold: government hype and plain old hard-headedness.

For years, the Indonesian government geology office has been breathlessly issuing warnings of imminent eruption at Merapi, causing hundreds if not thousands to flee, only to witness a harmless puff of steam as a result. Consequently, when the 'offical' warning went out last weekend, most folks on the mountain did what most Indonesians do with government here: ignored it. It was a combination of the 'boy who cried wolf' syndrome and prevailing culture. One notable exception was the man charged with guarding and communicating with the mountain spirits. Like the captain of a ship, he went down with the first blast.

Additionally, the minute the boom stopped echoing, hundreds of folks ran back up the mountain to check crops and animals, only to get hit with a second, third, fourth, and now fifth blast. The image is almost comical, were it not deadly. Local TV, being somewhat less circumspect about the images they broadcast, were replete with video of ash- and mud-covered bodies being stacked like cord wood. Hardly a deterrent to the affected farmers.

The situation is analogous to the imaged from New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. There, a large group of people chose to live on a river delta, below sea-level, in a hurricane infested area that has been flooded repeatedly throughout recorded history. Then, when events unfold as one would rationally expect, they stood with hat in hand at the money trough to be made whole for their own folly.

When I moved here, I was fully cognizant of the fact that my choice put me inside a ring of (admittedly dormant) volcanoes in one of the most earthquake-active zones on Earth, in a city frequently hit by flooding. I have taken the necessary steps to prepare and to investigate areas of the city least prone to flooding, thus reducing the greatest number of variables possible. However, if I lose everything to a major shake, you will not find me with my snout in the public trough. I freely chose this location, fully aware of the risks.

Similarly, if you live below sea-level in a storm area, you will get hit. If you live on an island in an earthquake zone, tsunamis are a real threat. If you farm the slopes of active volcanoes, prepare for pyroclastic blasts and ash clouds. Why is that such a difficult concept?

Finally, governments throughout history have used fear as a means of control. The more fearful a population is, the more likely they are to turn to Uncle Gummint to coddle and protect them, even though the security is completely illusional, and in most cases the fear is generated by the self-same organizations to stampede the cattle to the velvet corrals. Hyping natural disasters, 'terrorist' bombs and asteroid impacts serves the greater purpose of destabilizing people so that they surrender their rational and normal instinct to protect themselves, in favor of surrendering their lives to a control structure, which fosters victimhood and illusory safety in excchange for fealty.

In conclusion, I think it's safe to say that the global headlines of death and destruction serve a more nefarious purpose of generating liquid assets and irrational fear, than is warranted by the extant situation. Furthermore, the people in the affected areas have, at some level, made conscious choices to live with the risks, just as I have. Disasters, such as tidal waves and volcanoes, touch a primal nerve in most people, and so make for good copy that sells papers and draws viewers. In relation to how folks are reacting locally, the 72-point banner headlines worldwide are nothing short of sensationalism and hyperbole. I am convinced that there is a cadre of paper-pushers salivating at the prospects of bags of aid money.

In short, people who live in glass houses should not be surprised to get cut once in a while. To expect anything less is to deny reality.

And so life goes on...