Covid Hysteria 2023 / 2024

[GURPS]

FactCheck.org, funded by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, returns as the top hit when googling about this controversy. Their “debunk” appeared in a recent October 26th article titled, “COVID-19 Vaccines Have Not Been Shown to Alter DNA, Cause Cancer.” It’s long, probably intended to numb readers’ brains, but it also unintentionally and hilariously confirmed every single concern, despite setting out to “fact-check” the contamination issue.

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Every so often you have to pause and marvel at how people this dumb could have pulled off the whole covid caper. It is kind of like if the short bus accidentally turned left into the nuclear power station’s parking lot, and then the specially-abled students on the bus invented fusion. And then while everybody was high-fiving and giving them awards, the core exploded.

Anyway. The FDA is just playing games with the definition of the word “minute.” The agency used the logical fallacy of equivocation, a type of rhetorical sleight-of-hand to fool us into thinking they’re saying the amount of contamination is minute relative to something else, which they never name. The implication is there isn’t enough contamination to make people sick. But they can’t say that, because they have no idea (or don’t want to say). Or they would have said it, believe me.

Next, the FactCheck.org trotted out the most-favorite logical fallacy, the appeal to authority. In other words, they cited their cherry-picked experts, who of course said everything is just fine:

Various experts also told us that it is unlikely that residual DNA in the vaccines could integrate into DNA or cause cancer, even in theory. And as we have previously written, there isn’t evidence to date that the vaccines cause cancer or have led to an increase in cancer.​

Haha! Once again, they unintentionally admitted everything. First of all, only “various” experts — who are not named, so they’re probably Pfizer whitecoats — and not all experts, or even most experts — but the various experts said the contamination was unlikely to cause problems.

Unlikely!

Unlikely does not mean, “impossible.” It doesn’t not mean, “almost impossible.” It’s more of an expression of doubt, a weasel word designed to reassure gullible people. It also does NOT mean the ‘unlikely’ thing referred to is good. It could be bad. It’s probably very bad. You don’t need an umbrella in the car, it’s unlikely to rain today. Just expense it, you’re unlikely to get audited by the IRS. Don’t worry, go ahead, your wife is unlikely to find out.



Next, FactCheck has apparently given up and is now just admitting that some of the contamination is from the SV40 monkey-virus DNA that is, in fact, in the shots. SV40 wasn’t disclosed in the Pfizer and Moderna EUA applications, and for most of this year the officials have robustly denied it, but Kevin McKernan quickly found a way to show it so plainly that that they’ve now had to retreat to arguing about whether it matters.

Anyway, here’s what FactCheck said about SV40, first calling it a “possibility” but then confirming it as a “fact” in the very next sentence:

Some of the alleged concern has focused on the possibility, raised in the original preprint, that some of the residual DNA in the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is from a monkey virus called SV40. The EMA confirmed to us that the plasmid, or DNA template, used to make the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine contains some short sections of DNA from this virus. A Pfizer spokesperson also told us via email that “specific, non-infectious parts of the SV40 sequence, which are commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry are present in starting material used by Pfizer and BioNTech.”​

Maybe someday someone will ask why the SV40 monkey virus is in the shots’ DNA formula in the first place. Why is it “residual” if it is in the formula? Where did it ‘reside’ to begin with? In monkeys? How did it get from the monkeys to the shots? Monkey business? FactCheck.org didn’t say. For now, all they offer are “various experts” who think, based on “available evidence,” it is “unlikely” that the monkey virus DNA — however it got there — can hurt anybody.

Next, right after saying how there was “no available evidence” that the contaminants, including the SV40 DNA, could possibly cause cancer, the FactCheck.org article described some evidence. It was in the form of a September hearing in South Carolina, where Dr. Buckhaults testified as an expert saying it was “likely” the contaminant DNA would integrate with people’s own cells. Here’s how FactCheck.org described his testimony:

In (Dr. Buckhaults’) presentation, which was shared widely online, he said that DNA “can and likely will” integrate into the genomes of people’s cells, and he shared concerns about various potential health impacts, including cancer. As we’ve said, other experts and regulatory agencies disagree that residual DNA is likely to integrate into a person’s own DNA.​

So it’s not really “no evidence.” Now — in the same article — they admitted some evidence but then said some experts disagree. First of all, that’s not very reassuring. Experts also disagreed whether smoking tobacco causes cancer — and they disagreed about that for a long time. And don’t get even me started on the FDA’s food pyramid.

But second, FactCheck.org cited one of its handpicked experts who used the worst possible explanation of how unlikely contamination-caused cancer is:

The mRNA vaccines are injected into the muscles, where the bulk of the vaccine remains. Muscle cells “do not divide rapidly and have lots of cytoplasm compared to the size of their nuclei,” Milavetz, the molecular biologist at the University of North Dakota, said. This means that it is “very unlikely” that any residual DNA from a vaccine introduced to the cytoplasm of a cell will make it into the nucleus and insert itself into the DNA there in the first place, he added.​

Dr. Milavetz still thinks the shots’ mRNA stays in the injection site, and his whole theory depends on that. Need I say more?

The article continues on and on, page after page, in similar vein. For example, it quoted Dr. Paul Offit as saying that traditional vaccines also sometimes have contaminants, and nobody’s ever complained about traditional vaccine side effects. So.

In an effort to show the ‘unlikelihood’ of a DNA injury, the fact checkers spent seven more paragraphs walking through the chain of events that would have to happen for one bit of contaminant DNA to get into a single cell nucleus. But of course, there are billions and billions, or hundreds of billions, of chances for that to happen. Somebody needs to do some math.

An unlikely event multiplied by billions of chances becomes a lot less unlikely.

For example, you’re unlikely to flip a quarter and land on heads ten times in a row. We can all agree that’s pretty unlikely. But now flip the quarter three hundred billion times. How much would you be willing to bet against a ten-head-streak somewhere in all those flips?

Bottom line, the Fact Checkers made a horrible strategic blunder. Their article, intended to show how safe the shots are, is much too long and overly complicated. It could’ve been less than a page. They should have just said — truthfully — that McKernan, Buckhaults, and the other scientists working on this never claimed the contamination IS causing cancer. They’re only asking the question.

Instead, what FactCheck actually accomplished was the opposite of what it meant to do: it officially confirmed all the problems exist that are making scientists ask questions. And nobody has answers yet. Worse, after it became untenable to deny that the contamination exists, they’ve pinned their hopes on it being such a small amount that it can’t possibly cause a problem. But as the study we started with shows, other detection methods are finding a LOT more stray DNA where it shouldn’t be.

The DNA cat is out of the mRNA bag. My best guess is this is why Wall Street fled Pfizer and Moderna this year. Everyone knows the ugly end is coming. It’s just a matter of time now.

🦃☕️ THE VANISHING ☙ Wednesday, November 22, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠🦃

mRNA contamination preprint; deep dive on fact check; Pentagon's best WWIII weapon; Fla. fights trafficking; Ga. judge sets voting machine trial; Elon sues Media Matters; homeless question; and more.

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[GURPS]

In some more terrific news, get ready to enjoy that feeling of being proven right, again, this time about a critically-important subject. The Daily Coffee News (it’s real) ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Study: Regularly Drinking Coffee Reduces COVID-19 Infection Risk.”



You read that right. The Daily Coffee News reported on a brand-new study with twelve authors, presumably all double-espresso fans, published last week in ‘Cell & Bioscience,’ titled “Coffee as a dietary strategy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

Following in vitro testing with human cells, and a human trial involving 64 participants who were given a SARS-CoV-2 “pseudovirus,” the researchers concluded that drinking coffee every day appears to help prevent infection from all common covid variants and — get this — drinking coffee also seems to reduce the severity of covid infections.

In other words, coffee works better than the jabs, which don’t prevent infections at all — and that’s even if you credit the jabs for also reducing severity of illness, a highly-debatable point. Plus coffee doesn’t give you myocarditis (or worse).

Coffee somehow interferes with the spike protein’s ability to interface with ACE2 receptors on human cells. Which is even more amazing when you consider that they don’t understand the biological mechanism of how the jabs (supposedly) can reduce the severity of illness even though they don’t stop people getting infected. They just wave their hands and gas on about antibodies.

Coffee’s protective effects — which were consistent with at least three previous studies reaching similar conclusions — held up regardless whether participants drank ground, instant, caffeinated, or decaffeinated coffee, or whether they took it black, creamed, or sugared. “Interestingly, no matter what kind of coffee or adding additional intergrading (sugar or milk), it has the capability to reduce SARS-CoV-2 entering into host cells,” the researchers wrote. “Our research supported drinking coffee is related to reducing COVID-19 infection, which is consistent with the opinion of meta-analyses that reported coffee consumption related to a lower COVID-19 positive probability.”

What can’t coffee do? And we were all promoting coffee from day one. So.

☕️ SPOOKED ☙ Friday, November 24, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Democrats hate twitter but can't stop; more 'far right' winning; three arrests; 4-day ceasefire begins; Dublin protests; more trouble for Eric Adams; great coffee news; police diversity; and more.

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[kwillia]

Trump tried to tell us - "Covfefe".

 

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In some more terrific news, get ready to enjoy that feeling of being proven right, again, this time about a critically-important subject. The Daily Coffee News (it’s real) ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Study: Regularly Drinking Coffee Reduces COVID-19 Infection Risk.”


You read that right. The Daily Coffee News reported on a brand-new study with twelve authors, presumably all double-espresso fans, published last week in ‘Cell & Bioscience,’ titled “Coffee as a dietary strategy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

Following in vitro testing with human cells, and a human trial involving 64 participants who were given a SARS-CoV-2 “pseudovirus,” the researchers concluded that drinking coffee every day appears to help prevent infection from all common covid variants and — get this — drinking coffee also seems to reduce the severity of covid infections.

In other words, coffee works better than the jabs, which don’t prevent infections at all — and that’s even if you credit the jabs for also reducing severity of illness, a highly-debatable point. Plus coffee doesn’t give you myocarditis (or worse).

Coffee somehow interferes with the spike protein’s ability to interface with ACE2 receptors on human cells. Which is even more amazing when you consider that they don’t understand the biological mechanism of how the jabs (supposedly) can reduce the severity of illness even though they don’t stop people getting infected. They just wave their hands and gas on about antibodies.

Coffee’s protective effects — which were consistent with at least three previous studies reaching similar conclusions — held up regardless whether participants drank ground, instant, caffeinated, or decaffeinated coffee, or whether they took it black, creamed, or sugared. “Interestingly, no matter what kind of coffee or adding additional intergrading (sugar or milk), it has the capability to reduce SARS-CoV-2 entering into host cells,” the researchers wrote. “Our research supported drinking coffee is related to reducing COVID-19 infection, which is consistent with the opinion of meta-analyses that reported coffee consumption related to a lower COVID-19 positive probability.”

What can’t coffee do? And we were all promoting coffee from day one. So.

☕️ SPOOKED ☙ Friday, November 24, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Democrats hate twitter but can't stop; more 'far right' winning; three arrests; 4-day ceasefire begins; Dublin protests; more trouble for Eric Adams; great coffee news; police diversity; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

Hmmm... maybe that's why I never got the Coof. I practically mainline it.

 

[GURPS]

Recently in late September, the Australia Spectator ran a story headlined, “Scientists ‘shocked’ and ‘alarmed’ at what’s in the mRNA shots.”



The article described Kevin McKernan’s February discovery of plasmid DNA contamination and SV40 promoter genes in both Pfizer and Moderna’s covid shots, which we’ve discussed at length in prior C&C’s, and quoted the familiar crew of jab-skeptical scientists.

To my knowledge, besides The Epoch Times, this Spectator article is the first wide-circulation story covering the contamination issue. And it was in jab-happy Australia.

The medical-industrial system’s efforts to “debunk” the serious nature of the contamination issue are all falling flat on their lying faces so far. McKernan’s accidental February discovery, which initially appeared only in independent media, still immediately contaminated the shots’ reputation, regardless of whether any scientist is willing or not to admit that in public.

But it is an Undeniable Fact: Billions of people were injected with contaminated DNA.

Regardless of whether the contaminated DNA was or is harmful, or not — and the best the jab defenders have at the moment is the tired old “no evidence” gag — at some point there must be a reckoning. It’s inescapable now.

The Spectator isn’t the New York Times or anything. But it’s one step closer. The persistence of the issue, and the publication of the article, both illustrate how the truth always obstinately trickles out, no matter how big of a disinformation dam the criminals try to build.

☕️ AFFINITY ROOMS ☙ Tuesday, November 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

What do the Moon, Artificial Intelligence, Vladimir Putin, and the Space Race 2.0 have in common?; jab DNA story has legs; cease-fire holding in Israel; WSJ exposé on new, improved segregation; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[GURPS]

Natural immunity proves better than COVID shots. No duh​

A new coronavirus study from Estonia involving a pool of 329,496 adults just found that — in the words of one of the researchers — “natural immunity offers stronger and longer-lasting protection against infection, symptoms and hospitalization” than the COVID shots.

Umm. Duh. No duh. Doctors and pretend doctors like Bill Gates and their money-making pals in Big Pharma may have bandied about this for years. But the rest of us who didn’t carry and try to conceal glaring conflicts of interest with the making and selling of these so-called vaccines knew early on they weren’t the little saviors of humanity then-Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and President Biden promised — both of whom, by the way, said they were vaccinated only to later test positive for COVID. More than once. That’s called a clue.

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” Biden promised.

“The situation is so clear, the data affirm — if you get vaccinated, you are protected,” Fauci promised.

Wait a minute.

“President Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19 again,” CNN reported in July of 2022. The piece went on to say “Biden is fully vaccinated and received two booster shots.”

“NIAID Director Fauci Tests Positive for COVID-19,” the National Institutes of Health reported in June of 2022. The piece went on to say “he is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice.”


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[GURPS]

Texas’s remarkable Attorney General (and political assassination survivor) Ken Paxton filed possibly the most important lawsuit of his entire career yesterday. His office announced the explosive filing with a 20,000-volt press statement titled, “Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Pfizer for Misrepresenting COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Conspiring to Censor Public Discourse.”



Corporate media sell-outs and pharma’s citizen volunteers corps were shocked, screaming for their crisis counselors and therapy bunnies.

It makes Texas’s second lawsuit against Pfizer. Earlier this week, recently-unsealed documents revealed a pending lawsuit against the pharma giant, over its ineffective ADHD medicine Quillivant XR, which is marketed to kids through the state’s Medicaid program.

That was bad enough. This new case has completely twisted corporate media around the axle. This sarcastic Daily Chaos, I mean Daily KOS, headline popped up all over the place:



In other words, they didn’t know what to say about the lawsuit’s merits so they have devolved into mocking.

There are two broad prongs or categories of potential pharma liability. They track the two drug approval standards: safety and efficacy. One category of potential liability is focused on lack of “safety” — this includes injuries and deaths caused by dangerously defective “covid vaccine” products. That avenue is currently blocked by the PREP Act and other liability shields. We are working on it.

The other category, which Texas’s new lawsuit focuses on, involves drugmakers’ early false claims about “efficacy” — for overhyping their defective products and reprehensibly attacking folks who pointed out the problems.

Paxton’s 54-page Pfizer lawsuit tracks one of my earliest legal theories. Back in 2021, I temporarily got a little too excited over suing Pfizer, under Florida’s version of what’s called a “deceptive trade practices” (DTP) law. You might know about DTP law as “false advertising.” I’ve litigated DTP cases in Florida, and I was off and running and already drafting a complaint back in late 2021 when the wheels fell off. I discovered, deeply buried in the weeds of Florida’s DTP statute, a special carve out for pharma.

Yep. Pharma companies are exempted from false advertising claims in the Sunshine State. Thanks, pharma lobby. So, my lawsuit died ingloriously, never completed.

But on the other hand, Texas’s DTP statute has no pharma exception. So, as they say in the Lone Star State, giddyup! Generally speaking, DTP cases are either filed by affected consumers — individually or in class actions — or by the state’s attorney general, on behalf of all its citizens.

That’s what’s happening here. Texas is suing Pfizer over false advertising for all Texans. In Texas. Under Texas law.

The first and last sentences in the petition’s introduction neatly summarize the entire case: “The COVID-19 vaccines are the miracle that wasn’t … Pfizer misrepresentations intended to confuse and mislead the public in order to achieve widespread adoption of its vaccine.”

Long-time C&C readers will not be surprised by the petition’s five essential allegations of vaccine misrepresentations:

(1) Pfizer falsely claimed its vaccine was “95% effective” at preventing infection, without clarifying it was using a misleading “relative risk reduction” ratio, when the truth was its best-case absolute risk reduction was under one percent. Later, many jurisdictions even reported negative vaccine efficacy.



Four examples of efficacy, all of which result in a misleading relative risk reduction of 95%.

(2) Pfizer lied that its vaccine provided lasting protection, falsely claiming vaccine-induced immunity was so much better than natural immunity, which it said was pure garbage. But really, any marginal protection the vaccine did provide quickly waned. In many cases, data and studies showed the shots actually increased people’s chances of catching covid over time.





(3) Pfizer falsely claimed that its vaccine stopped viral transmission, pushing the lie that people should get vaccinated so as to protect other people, like grandma. But the truth was Pfizer’s defective jab product did not prevent transmission of the covid virus. Vaccinated superspreading ensued.

(4) Another Pfizer whopper was its claim the vaccine was — and I quote — “very, very effective” against the Delta variant, when its own data showed the vaccine performed especially badly against Delta — the exact opposite. Later, Pfizer would quietly modify its jab formula into “bivalence” trying to chase the evolving viral variants.

(5) Maybe ugliest of all, Pfizer deceptively told a fearful public that its shots would protect people from dying from covid. But its own clinical trial data showed more patients died in the vaccine group than died in the placebo group — even after manipulating the numbers. Even more remarkably, Pfizer falsely represented that its vaccines were so good that, if person A took the shot, it would somehow lower person B’s chances of dying from covid. Which caused mandates and Joe Biden darkly warning about the dirty unvaccinated.





After the initial panic passes and sold-out media quits joking around that Texas is suing Pfizer “because it didn’t stop the pandemic fast enough,” just wait. You’ll see; they will shift to carping that everybody should’ve known there was no way Pfizer could have made all those claims about a brand-new type of vaccine anyway, so it was always “take it at your own risk.”

After all, it’s not like they forced you to take it.

The lawsuit, which you should definitely read if you’re a super covid junkie, contains lots that we already knew and some things we didn’t. For example, it describes how the FDA frequently rebutted Pfizer’s public claims in various regulatory documents. Unfortunately, whenever the FDA did challenge Pfizer, it was always in obscure, circuitous, bureaucratic word salad, making those challenges virtually useless to any of us who were trying to slow down the vaccine train. Probably on purpose.

The remedies for DTP violations could range from damages for every time Pfizer lied about its defective products, up to and including disgorgement of all its profits. It’s hard to overestimate the importance of this lawsuit. As I’ve said before, whereas courts normally defer to government defendants, when government sues government, there’s no home-court advantage.

It’s on. Get the popcorn ready.

☕️ HAMMER TIME ☙ Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Texas AG hammers Pfizer; Chauvin shivver is FBI informant; Minneapolis has fallen; CDC chief wriggles around Reedly biolab; study shows universal myocarditis for jabs; 8 pilot SADS; ski masks; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[GURPS]

A blockbuster new September jab study made the rounds this week, titled “Assessment of Myocardial 18F-FDG Uptake at PET/CT in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2–vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients.”



It took a while to appear on the radar because the authors used dense scientific language requiring some insider knowledge to interpret, but it is a significant study. It was so significant that the journal’s chief editor attached a “Journal Editorial Comment” to the study trying to debunk it a little and blunt its significance.

The authors found nearly all patients who got the jab had some cardiac injury.

Rather than explain the study for you myself, I’ll let the Journal of Radiology’s Editor explain. Here’s the nub of the Chief Editor’s own comments, while he was trying to shade the study’s conclusions:

In this issue of Radiology, Nakahara et al (5) present an interesting study in which the authors probe for the presence of myocardial inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination in (9500) asymptomatic patients. The main results are asymptomatic patients vaccinated for COVID-19 had about 40% greater radiotracer activity (indicating) myocardium (injury) than unvaccinated individuals.​

These results are compelling.​

The investigators … next performed extensive sensitivity analyses (excluding factors like age, prior covid infection, pre-existing conditions, etc.). Notably, the authors’ interrogation of their results held up to all these secondary ways of looking at their data.​

The study results by Nakahara et al suggest that mild asymptomatic myocardial inflammation could be more common than we ever expected. This in turn would support a hypothesis of more severe systemic inflammation related to mRNA vaccination in some patients who present with symptomatic myocarditis.​

The next steps may involve manipulation of the mRNA vaccine or delivery system in an effort to reduce these adverse events.​

More common than we ever expected. Safe and effective! “Asymptomatic myocardial inflammation” is the new euphemism for “subclinical myocarditis.”

☕️ HAMMER TIME ☙ Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Texas AG hammers Pfizer; Chauvin shivver is FBI informant; Minneapolis has fallen; CDC chief wriggles around Reedly biolab; study shows universal myocarditis for jabs; 8 pilot SADS; ski masks; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[GURPS]

Social media mega-influencer and British comedian Russell Brand (6.7 million subscribers) ran a new segment of his popular, now de-monetized YouTube show this weekend titled, “Vaccine BOMBSHELL - 973% Increase In HEART FAILURE?!” It has a half-million views so far.



YouTube: Russell Brand segment on vaccine injuries (8:24).”

The segment started with military myocarditis, moved to teenage myocarditis, then Russell mercilessly mocked the new Moderna SpikeVaxx commercial, which features the incomprehensibly awful slogan: “SpikeVaxx that body!”



What?

That’s for real. I would love to talk to Moderna’s marketing department and ask them a few questions. Like, what they are smoking, and do they have a medical marijuana card for it? My gosh. Could that be the worst slogan that anybody ever came up with since Fetterman Formalwear’s “dress for the job you want?”

Nothing about “spike vaxxing” my body sounds appealing. How on Earth did they come up with that one? Are they trying to go out of business? Is that how they’re going to escape liability?

Anyway, you can argue Russell’s audience is already anti-establishment, but this kind of messaging feel like we’re reaching a new frontier, like Russell is pushing the envelope further and farther. It’s progress.

☕️ FOUR NDE’S ☙ Monday, December 4, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Middle East cease-fire ends; "Houthis" attack US destroyer; supernatural SADS; Pope Francis is sick again; NYT scared by medical freedom; Brand mocks Moderna; earthquakes and corona holes, more.

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[GURPS]

In viral news yesterday, mRNA contamination researcher Kevin McKernan suddenly and unexpectedly reported that his entire lab’s data, including all his ongoing projects, was deleted by the authorities — because he hosted a downloadable copy of New Zealand’s jab-death data:



Kevin was understandably upset at Steve Kirsch, who provided the data to many other experts and to the general public with helpful links for downloading the data. (Dear misinformation enforcement team: I did not download the Young Data.) In fairness to Steve, though, it was not easy to foresee the long, withered, legal arm of Te Whatu Ora (or whatever it’s called).

Steve Kirsch’s storage account was also suddenly and unexpectedly raided, or deleted, or suspended, or whatever they’re calling it:



How I would love to see what legal instrument Kevin’s data storage provider was served with, which has caused it to commit commercial suicide. Ironically, Kevin used a storage provider named ‘MegaPrivacy.’ Its slogan is literally, “The Privacy Company.” Well, ‘the privacy company’ has a lot of ‘splaining to do, because my first question is: how did Te Whatu Ora’s thugs so rapidly discover that McKernan hosted the Young Data on his “end to end encrypted” MegaPrivacy account?

Maybe there’s a good explanation, like Kevin said it was on MegaPrivacy or something. But from the outside, it looks a lot like someone or something might just have global access to search ALL these cloud providers, whenever they want, privacy or no, encryption or no. Another question is, could any of these cloud providers possibly be funded by persons or groups with interests that differ significantly from their customers’ interests?

To drive it to a point: Are there honeypot providers only pretending to be privacy-focused? It would make sense. They attract all the folks with the most to hide. We must assume there are honeypot providers, and that there’s no way to tell for sure. To me, today’s story mainly proves that the globalists were so panicked over the New Zealand data that they accidentally revealed capabilities we didn’t know they had yet.

I’ve been beating this drum for years now: Number one, keep your critical data on your own server. Or at least keep a current local backup. Data stored on someone else’s server is not your data anymore. You’re just allowed to access the data — for now. Number two: cloud data is not private, so don’t put anything on the Internet you wouldn’t want the world to see. It doesn’t matter what the providers tell you. Just read their EULAs and you’ll find lots of exceptions for subpoenas.

A subpoena is just a piece of paper.

Also ironically, Steve and Kevin are probably victims of prior rounds of public outrage. The ‘digital privacy laws’ that are almost certainly in play in this story are on the books. The public’s moral panic over ‘digital privacy’ led us right here. The irony is we were mainly trying to keep our data private from the government. But now we have tough, new digital privacy laws that the government can wield against us.

In this case, neither Steve Kirsch nor Kevin McKernan had any idea they could possibly be subject to New Zealand’s jurisdiction (and that suggests a whole ‘nother discussion about the de facto global government). But they might have noticed a teensy little red flag, which was that Barry Young, who uploaded the data, got arrested for it. That was the time to start planning contingencies.

To be clear, I am not suggesting I am smarter than anyone else. I did not see this coming (though I’m not surprised). What can I tell you? We’re in a war. The silver linings are that, first, the globalists have exposed a significant search capacity that we didn’t know they had. Second, it’s obvious they are terrified of the Young Data.

Are there any honest politicians left in New Zealand? It’ll be up to them now.

☕️ PRIVACY PLEASE ☙ Wednesday, December 6, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Montreal Mayor's mysterious, live, on-screen collapse; New Zealand's data crackdown; Slovakia gives WHO the bird; Biden flubs green energy program (again); the pandemic exodus continues; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[GURPS]

Vigilant News (cited because corporate media dutifully ignored the story) ran an article yesterday headlined, “Slovakia Shocks the World: New Prime Minister Rejects Signing the WHO Pandemic Treaty.” Ha! Another one.



That’s not all. On Monday, rising, newly-elected Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico — another conservative upset — publicly described the mRNA jabs as “untested experimental vaccines,” while informing his party that, like fiesty little Estonia, Slovakia will refuse to sign on to the WHO’s heinous, dictatorial Pandemic Treaty.

Here’s Fico’s statement (subtitled): CLIP: Slovakia Shocks the World: New Prime Minister Rejects Signing the WHO Pandemic Treaty (2:52).

Who knew the Eastern Europeans had all this great stuff in them? I guess they got enough communism during all those Stalin years.

☕️ PRIVACY PLEASE ☙ Wednesday, December 6, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Montreal Mayor's mysterious, live, on-screen collapse; New Zealand's data crackdown; Slovakia gives WHO the bird; Biden flubs green energy program (again); the pandemic exodus continues; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[GURPS]

Somebody on the UK Mirror’s editorial staff must miss the good old days of hyperbolic covid doom headlines. Check out this time-traveling headline of hysteria that splashed down in August (though nobody noticed):



It’s a little stale but I thought it was worth mentioning since this study and the outrageous Mirror headline — Urgent Death Warning! — made the rounds on social media this week, supposedly to prove how deadly ‘long covid’ is or something.

The study referenced in the Mirror article published in Nature Medicine back on August 21st with the bland title, “Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years.” As you can probably guess, nothing in the study justifies any “urgent death warning,” whatever that is. The researchers studied 140,000 VA patients and found a slightly elevated risk of death for six months following mild covid infection, and a higher (+14%) risk following hospitalization for covid infection lasting for two years (and running, since that’s when the study ended).

It wasn’t just death; that’s just what the Mirror focused on. The researchers allegedly found a higher risk for most (60%) of a very long list of problems they called “postacute sequelae.” It's such an impressively-gigantic list that I though it would be easier to just show you the study’s chart:



The chart shows the relative risks of each health issue by the number of days after infection (30–90, 91–180, 181–360, 361–540 and 541–720). The days are counterintuitively labeled at the bottom of the chart, by the last day of each time period. The two rows shown for each health issue are: the top row is extra risks for folks who got mild covid (85%), and the bottom row is for folks hospitalized for serious covid (15%). Red is bad, green is good.

In my experience as a lawyer during the pandemic, the Veteran’s Administration refused to treat veterans — making them ‘patients’ — unless they were jabbed. So it’s fair to assume all 140,000 VA patients in this study drank the mRNA cocktail (or were coerced). So the study’s conclusion only applies to jabbed people, which unintentionally makes it specially interesting: There seems to be some good news for jabbed people in the data.

I’ve learned to start reviewing studies at the ethics disclosures. Check out this list of notable authors:

B.B. reports receiving consultation fees from AstraZeneca. Z.A.A. reports receiving consultation fees from Gilead Sciences and funding (unrelated to this work) from Tonix Pharmaceuticals. Z.A.A. and Y.X. report consulting (uncompensated) for Pfizer.​

Haha, my favorite one was Y.X. — Yan Xie — who apparently consults for Pfizer for free. He’s a volunteer! Of course these whitecoat volunteers are trying to help blame all these health problems on long covid, so that nothing else gets the blame. That would be unfortunate.

The following three facts tell you everything you need to know about the study’s stated conclusions: (1) it only included vaccinated people, (2) its author list was stacked with pharma professionals, and (3) it only included patients who came in for their covid infections.

With those facts in mind, there’s nothing alarming about this study, which seems more designed as cover for defective vaccine products. But when viewed as a study of jabbed people’s enhanced risk of side effects, we see the risks definitely taper off over a 24-month period.

First of all, that suggests the mRNA’s harmful effects do eventually wear off, or the body learns to cope with them somehow. So that’s good.

Second, the worst risks of side effects appear among people who responded the worst to a covid infection and were subsequently hospitalized. Serious covid thus appears to be a kind of litmus test for which risk category a jabbed person falls into. If they recover from their (repeated) mild covid infections at home, this study suggests their risks of other side effects may also be relatively lower.

Both possible conclusions are potential good news for jab takers. True, too many of the excess health risks still remain elevated at 24 months, which is troubling. But the trend seems to be going the right way, if this data is reliable.

Finally, I’d like to point out the hysterical double-standard at play here. If you showed one of these medical fetishists data plotting higher adverse cardiac events within 48 hours of injection, they’d scream — at the top of their lungs — correlation does not equal causation! But lookie here, in their study they conclude, without even trying to prove a mechanism, just treating it were an established fact, that the covid virus caused all these other sequelae in a 100% jabbed population. Correlated! Caused! Ha!

Nor did the dishonest researchers mention their patients’ jab status, not one time. I might never even have known if I hadn’t gotten a gazillion calls from veterans during the pandemic asking for legal help because they were told they wouldn’t be treated unless they took the shots. We called it the ‘VA Mandate.’

☕️ POST ACUTE ☙ Wednesday, December 13, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Health advisory against health supplements; new turbo mRNA vaccine fright fest; awful long-covid study unexpectedly offers hope to the jabbed; SADS star and politician; new OMG exposé; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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Possibly the most incongruous and truly baffling component of living in post-pandemic America is the media’s assiduous avoidance of the fact so many of our friends and families are dying at insanely-high rates. It’s obvious to everyone except people who don’t want to see, and apparently, the media does not want to see.

Which is wild because normally the media loves a terrifying mystery death story even more than Arthur Conan Doyle. And this is the terrifying mystery death story of all time, like Arthur Conan Doyle multiplied by Michael Crichton. Oh, what a wonderful time reporters could have! Just imagine all the hair-raising quotes from experts of all kinds, all the morbid models about overwhelmed hospitals, the endless questioning of who could be next, the political goldmine of comparing rates of mystery deaths between red states and blue states, and so on.

But nevermind! As far as corporate media is concerned, there are no excess deaths. Say it with us. For reasons about which we can only speculate, corporate media has a cognitive blind spot. Media acts more deliberately clueless about excess deaths than a teenager in a household with a new puppy and a “he who sees it cleans it up” rule.

Still, there’s nothing surprising about that. But it was surprising when last week, The Hill smuggled out some truth by running an op-ed penned by heterodox covid doc Pierre Kory and investigative journalist Mary Beth Pfieffer, both of whom bucked the official narrative during the pandemic and have roundly criticized the shots.

The dynamic duo’s headline posed the ultimate provocative question:


The headline was intended to be triggering. Covid fetishists believe nothing is bigger than covid. Albeit provocative, it’s true. The excess deaths scandal is bigger than the covid scandal, and the covid scandal is already as big as the planet Saturn. In fact, that headline may have asked the most important question of the century.

(Note: if The Hill keeps this kind of thing up, I may have to stop relying on it as a primary source, since for fairness I prefer to rely on sellout corporate media sources and use their own words against them. The Hill’s agreement to run this op-ed smacks of even-handedness. And then there’s the Hill’s excellent YouTube show, ‘Rising’, which is also surprisingly fair.)

The op-ed began quoting FDA boss Robert Califf, who — with thousands of scientists at his beck and call, not to mention a mammoth, multi-billion-dollar budget to hire more scientists — you’d figure the FDA’s boss at this point would have some idea about what might be causing what Califf described in a recent tweet as a “catastrophic major decline” in American life expectancy — it’s dropped a whopping three years, giving up a century’s worth of gains.

Here what Dr. Califf tweeted:


Califf is obviously not a keen intellect, but I will give him credit for bureaucratic understatement. At least he finally said something.


Dr. Califf demonstrates dropping life expectancies
Let me break it down for the FDA. What you really want in life expectancies is for them to be increasing, not decreasing. Wrong direction! But the drop baffled the head of one of the largest health agencies in history, since he’s not allowed to think about the one thing that is most likely involved. So Califf did the safe, political thing: in successive tweets, he went on to blame We the People for dying earlier — in spite of everything they’ve done for us — because of our atrocious habits, like smoking, driving gas cars, and snacking on junk food.

It’s our own fault. And I guess now we need the FDA to save us. Around and around it goes.

Califf described it as catastrophic. What’s catastrophic is how badly public health has failed in virtually every conceivable way, as the numbers indisputably prove. The more money we give them, the faster we die. It might not prove causation, but it’s a heck of a correlation.

It’s not like we haven’t gone along with their program. Americans consume 55% of all prescription drugs in the world. We’ve trusted public health a LOT. In 2014 — long before the pandemic — almost 1.3 million Americans went to the emergency room for adverse drug effects, and around 124,000 died. Yet we continued trusting. I mean, just look at the vaccine situation. We have something like seventy-two childhood vaccine injections now.

You’d think gobbling up all that medicine public health is pushing would eke out a few more months of life for us. At least! But no.

There’s an army of medical fetishists who haunt Twitter, constantly popping up in the comments like ghouls leaping out of a foggy graveyard, denying without evidence there are any excess deaths at all. They usually toss out graphs of the CDC’s “adjusted” figures, which are wrong and misleading. The CDC misinformation is easily disproven, and Kory and Pfeiffer quickly dispatched those complaints by publishing official OECD and insurance statistics evidencing the shocking excess of deaths in the U.S., especially — and this is a critical fact — especially among working-age people.



According to Kory and Pfieffer, through September of this year, +158,000 Americans have died than over the same period in 2019. That’s more than died in a bunch of wars, put together. It’s more than a whole town. It’s a small city, wiped out in the first nine months of the year.

And it’s worse than it looks. Deaths this year should have been well under 2019 rates, since so many sick and elderly people died in 2020-2021 from ‘covid,’ leaving fewer frail folks to die in 2022 and 2023. Which means the current excess is even bigger than it looks.

Shocked? The CDC was. For some reason, three months ago in September, the CDC — the FDA’s sister, mega-funded public health agency —suddenly stopped updating its website tracking excess deaths. The website now blandly advises that its updates have stopped; it doesn’t even try to explain why. It doesn’t say where you can get the same information.

Why? Because Science. Shut up.

Next, the authors described how insurance industry trade mags are lately running headlines that are off the chain. It’s the biggest story of our lifetimes, completely invisible to corporate media. You have to go to trade press to find it. For example, here’s an October 2023 headline from Life Insurance News:



The “continuing surge” is causing “concerns.” I’m not sure what they meant by putting scare quotes around ‘excess mortality,’ but at least they’re covering the story. Although overall excess death numbers appear in some of the CDC’s adjusted figures to be slowly trending down, the Life Insurance News article quoted some industry experts who’re alarmed that if you deep dive the ‘adjusted’ CDC numbers, we might not have seen the worst of it yet:

Other (insurance experts) aren’t so sanguine and point to statistics from the U.S. Center of Disease Control that show mortality rates alarmingly rising for different categories. For example, younger adult mortality rates are up more than 20% in 2023, the CDC said. Cause of death data show increased cardiac mortality in all ages. And even as COVID-related causes declined in 2022, others rose, particularly stroke, diabetes, kidney and liver diseases.​

Some observers think the industry has been slow to grasp the burgeoning problem, relying on old industry models that say “mortality rates always give back, and have for nearly 500 years,” according to one senior executive.​

I look forward to seeing what Dr. Califf will call it next year, once life expectancy drops even more. What’s past catastrophic? What new scapegoat will public health release into the media wilderness to distract everybody from the one thing all these extra dead people have in common?

Britain, suffering similar rates of excess death, has been unable to avoid political blowback the way politicians in the U.S. have been able to, so far. The Brits started an official Covid Inquiry this month, and it’s hot news in Great Britain. The British public is not sanguine, they’re fretting about a whitewash. Here’s a sample headline from the UK Telegraph this week, from an op-ed calling the country’s supposedly independent Covid Inquiry a “sham”:



Nobody who’s sane attributes the continuing excess deaths to covid-19 anymore, or even “long covid.” That ship of blame sailed long ago. Potential culprits suggested by Kory and Pfieffer include lockdown policies (like deferred medical care) and of course, they hint at the vaccines, although the authors studiously avoided jabbing that point too finely:

Vaccines were given to more than 270 million people, among them babies, pregnant women and workers under employer mandates. The therapeutic’s “warp speed,” emergency use authorization must be part of any post-pandemic analysis, in light of more than 1 million reports of possible harm to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System and a new Yale University study validating a chronic post-vaccination syndrome.​

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We are so close to the dam breaking, or the tipping point tipping, or pick your favorite metaphor. Meanwhile, the excess deaths aren’t stopping, and the undeniable fact of their grim testimony beats any silly nonsense the public health agencies can crank out these days.​

☕️ EXCESSIVE ☙ Saturday, December 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

There was some movement on the excess deaths issue this week — and maybe a crack in the news embargo. Today's post is a lively discussion of our unmentionable excess deaths problem.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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Now they tell us! Chalk up yet another one for the problematic conspiracy theorists and the hated misinformers. FactCheck.Org ran a belated story last week with this headline:





The word “generally” is doing a whole lot of work in that headline. FactCheck described the terrifying shedding phenomenon — the barest mention of which used to get you thrown straight into Facebook jail — as now being just the most natural, most common-sense thing in the world:

“When a pathogen replicates in the body, it can be shed in respiratory secretions or in stool. We call that shedding,” Benjamin Lopman, professor of epidemiology and environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, told us in an email. “In some instances, it is possible for shed (vaccine viruses) to be transmitted to other persons. However, since (vaccine viruses) are safe, this generally does not present a problem,” he said, referring to live attenuated vaccines.​

Transmission of shed influenza vaccine viruses from vaccinated to unvaccinated people has been documented, according to the agency, “but has not been reported to be associated with serious illness,” the CDC explained.​

In a 2006 clinical study among 197 children, ages 9 months to 3 years, who received a vaccine or placebo, 80% of the vaccine recipients shed at least one vaccine strain, and one transmission was documented.​

(FYI,) the CDC recommends that everyone in a household with an immunocompromised person take particular care to wash their hands after changing the diaper of an infant who received rotavirus vaccine.​

Generally! Generally shedding does not present a problem. This is an airtight conclusion based on the totally precise and not circumstantial fact that serious shedding illness has “not been reported” to the CDC. There you go, that’s Science, science with a capital-S. So sHuT uP! And FactCheck only asked its experts about shedding related to old-fashioned attenuated-virus vaccines, so for those of you wondering about mRNA shedding, FactCheck’s reporter got temporary amnesia or snow blindness or something and failed to mention those in the article at all.

So … the shedding issue has now reached Stage Four. Here is the template for the Five Stages of Woke Grief (spoiler: all five stages are different types of denial). Here’s how woke, virtue-signaling minds slowly process information contradicting what they’ve been told to believe about some uncomfortable and undeniable “thing,” like vaccine shedding or vaccine-induced myocarditis:

1. The thing doesn’t happen. There’s no evidence! It’s just a conspiracy theory.
2. It might’ve happened once or twice, but it’s anecdotal, and correlation isn’t causation.
3. Okay, maybe it happens sometimes, but it’s super-rare and basically doesn’t happen.
4. It’s not rare. It’s normal. Scientists always said it happens and it’s nothing to worry about.
5. So it happens a lot. It’s good that it’s happening!

Like I said, woke grief over shedding has zoomed past Stage Four and is racing down the slopes toward Stage Five. There’s only one stage to go, and then we can find out why shedding is actually good for us. It’s probably because you get vaccinated without having to get pricked by a needle, plus your insurance company won’t even pay a dime. Free vaccines! Wheeee! I can’t wait to find out.

Hey, now at least, when the doctor asks whether I want my flu/RSV/shingles/orneryness vaccine, I can just say thanks, I got shed on at the office and I’m good. My antibodies are all charged up!

☕️ GOLDEN GEESE ☙ Tuesday, December 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Pfizer just bought the Golden Goose; another vaccine conspiracy theory just became conspiracy fact; and San Fransisco's brand-new, woke Office of Reparations faces an unfortunate setback.

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Dem attorney and former Atlanta police officer convicted in $7 MILLION Covid relief fraud case​

She blamed her friend and attorney, Chandra Norton for the companies’ fraudulent 2020 PPP loan applications. Norton pleaded guilty in a separate prosecution.

The jury found Robertson guilty of three counts of wire fraud and single counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Following the verdict, Robertson was remanded into custody pending her sentencing, which is scheduled for April 11.

Federal prosecutor Ariel Glasner said Robertson had threatened to kill Norton when she was arrested, as well as another individual, and made the case that Robertson and Norton were best friends and partners in crime who worked together to get as much money in PPP loans as possible.

Though prosecutors showed that Robertson transferred $50,000 in PPP funding to her daughter, withdrew $25,000 of the funds in cash, and gave Norton $400,000, her lawyer claimed that she was the victim of Norton’s plan to use Robertson to enrich herself, adding that Norton was “financially desperate” and an “evil genius.”

 

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It’s been a while since we got to watch a good variant horror movie. But now, according to people on our side, this could be finally it, the depopulation event. Let’s review the evidence and figure out: how concerned should we be?

Amongst this year’s ever-spreading alphabet soup of overcooked numbers and letters, there is finally something to talk about: JN.1, the latest mutation to spring out of Pirola’s trousers, which lineage was originally birthed from Omicron, which helpfully tends to loiter in the upper respiratory system and rarely ventures down into the lungs. Due to the J and the N, I call the new variant ‘Pirola Junior.’

Let’s begin by noting that corporate media has found little to worry about as Pirola Junior edges out the others to become a sort of red-nosed Rudolph leading the pack of variants. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that the WHO labeled the new strain a “variant of interest,” but dumped cold water on the story right in the headline:





Pirola Junior is, of course, being called “even more infectious” than the nineteen previous “super infectious” covid variants. They say — and I am not making this up — Pirola Junior is four hundred times more infectious than the original Wuhan strain. Apparently infection ability is potentially infinite; there’s no upper limit. In other words, it can now infect you through a concrete wall using bluetooth.

The new variant seems busier in Europe. From Bloomberg, yesterday:





I don’t know whether “1 in 24” sounds like a lot or not, but applying mathematics (and the calculator on my phone) that is about four percent. Most people have mild symptoms. Hospitalizations are increasing but remain below last year’s December peak. And, here in the U.S., apparently we’re just now getting around to throwing out all the leftover PPE from the last pandemic panic. From Bloomberg, Wednesday:





Notwithstanding all the good signs, the panic police remain unsatisfied. For example, take (and please keep) hysterical covid fearmonger Eric Fingle-Dingle, who is hysterically fearmongering again. His take on JN.1, yesterday, was an urgent call for more masking:




Yawn. So far we have an unremarkable covid variant, disinterested corporate media, and below-average (albeit increasing) hospitalization levels. So what gives? What’s stirring up all the natives down at the Fauci Memorial Reservation this time?

Two data fuel all the delirious trepidation. First, the vaccines are completely useless against the heavily-mutated Pirola variant (that is, if they ever accomplished anything in the first place). More relevant, for some reason people without fully functioning immune systems lack good biological defenses to the new variant. But nobody’s really talking about this issue, as you can imagine.

More discussed is the second fact fueling the social media chatter: the rate of increase of JN.1 hospitalizations. It’s really the only JN.1 figure worth mentioning. Reported hospitalizations are low but rising rapidly, or “surging.” That’s rattled covid maniacs like Eric Dingleberry MD, who is generally unremarkable, repetitive, and boring, but the rapid increase over a few days has caused chronic heterodox doomcryer Geert Vanden Bossche (who I respect but take with a grain of salt) to prophesy that this is the big one:



If you tend to fret, do not watch this clip. I will summarize below. Otherwise: CLIP: Geert Vanden Bossche lights the panic beacon for the JN.1 variant (2:38).

In the clip, to prove he is right, Geert asked himself several apocalyptic questions and then provided his own answers:

Will the chain of more and more infectious variants ever stop? Yes. We will not have yet another simply more infectious variant that will displace JN.1.
Will a completely new, highly-virulent variant emerge in highly-vaccinated countries? Yes.
Will the rate of mortality and morbidity start to exponentially increase? Yes — but only in the vaccinated. It will be difficult to get these figures though.
Will Unvaccinated or people in low-uptake Africa be affected? No.

In short, Geert predicts that JN.1 is the end of the line for mild but more infectious variants. He thinks that the next variant will be super-deadly — but only to vaccinated folks. (In a different interview, someone pressed him for a mortality figure and Geert reluctantly estimated 30-40%.) Yesterday Geert published his new theory in a dense, technical Substack, which can be summarized using his own words (lightly edited):

The Omicron descendants, bred in highly C-19 vaccinated populations, have transformed a naturally occurring pandemic into an 'inescapable immune escape pandemic' through the generation of significant immune selection pressure and immune refocusing. The SC-2 variant JN.1 is now rapidly outpacing other co-circulating variants. While the rapidly spreading JN.1 variant does not evoke concerns about increased intrinsic virulence, its widespread dominance is of high concern. The presence of additional, productivity-enhancing mutations in viral proteins other than the S protein indicates the exertion of immune selection pressure … strongly suggests a reduction in the production of virulence-inhibiting antibodies.​

I can’t argue with Geert’s science. Literally I couldn’t argue with him. He’s way out of my scientific league. But I do not yet see the evidence for his theory. From day one I asked public health officials about antibody-dependent enhancement and immune escape and never once got any intelligent answer, not one time. I’ve since learned why. Most public health officials don’t understand vaccine science; they’re just good liars who can repeat whatever they’re told in a strong, confident tone of voice.

Their smug, arrogant condescension toward anyone who questions them is just an act. Scientists didn’t refuse to answer questions because they actually believed they’re better than us and didn’t want to sully themselves with “conspiracy theories.” The real reason is that, if they started trying to answer questions, it would have quickly become obvious they had no idea what they’re talking about.

Geert knows what he’s talking about. I’d take Geert over a CDC official any day. And his predictions have been right before. Geert was 100% right with his prediction that mass vaccination would drive evolution of a large number of immune escape variants.

The plain evidence shows an unusual number of major covid mutations all trending toward evading vaccine coverage.

But his worst-case scenarios have yet to emerge. There is solid evidence that the vaccines can degrade immune systems, cause catastrophic autoimmune problems, and enhance some folks susceptibility to common (and uncommon) infections. But — and this is the critical part — besides anecdotally witnessing many of our jabbed friends and relatives having chronic coughs and getting repeated (mild) covid infections, there is no evidence of serious systemic immune failures in large numbers.

Geert might be right. And it’s not like we have a lot of options for who to believe. Even with fabulously-expensive satellite-mounted telescopes, no intelligent thought can be detected at the government-funded health agencies. But Geert’s theory depends on a new, as-yet-unseen variant that would violate evolutionary norms.

See, viruses are under constant pressure to mutate to be less virulent and more transmissible, which is exactly what we’ve seen with Pirola and prior covid variants. A virus that kills people or keeps them in bed does not survive better than a milder virus that lets folks move around and spread the germ.

The bottom line? So far, Pirola Junior appears to be yet another milder, ever-more-infectious covid variant. But I’ll keep an eye on things for you and let you know immediately if any evidence supporting Geert’s prediction evolves. Till then, don’t take your medical advice from Eric Fingle-de-Dee, MD.

☕️🎄 NOT CROQUET ☙ Friday, December 22, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🎄🦠

Should we panic over JN.1 yet?; irony as Maine storm pulls plug on electric car mandate; Biden has frustration over non-existent campaign; new OMG diversity exposé; croquet world championship; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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At first I was only mildly aggravated. Clearly a first world problem. But slowly I began to understand the inscrutable wisdom inherent in Twitter’s opaque silicon algorithms that were flooding my feed with random covid maniacs. With great restraint, if I may say, I plowed through countless N95 mask reviews, tips on self-quarantining, testing suggestions, how to avoid public events, and best practices for sanitizing public conveyances. After reading dozens or even hundreds of such Covidian posts, I began to see the world (kind of) through the eyes of people who in some surprising ways represent share our worldview.

Things are not good in the land of covid obsession. Like us, they are analytical, passionate, and increasingly anti-government. The difference is they will defend the vaccines (although they aren’t exactly ecstatic about them).

One key fact that we all now agree on is the government is gaslighting everyone and lying about it. Another undeniable fact that everyone seems to agree constitutes the core of Covidian compulsion: a lot of people are still getting sick. Understanding how we and they agree is so important that I rounded up several for you from just the past day or two.

Here’s our first example, which shows a Covidian trying to convince people that it’s easy to miss that a lot of folks are being injured. Notice how he compared covid to Tuberculosis and the plague.




The Covidians are routinely reporting the same phenomena we would label vaccine injuries, except for them the diaspora of disease is broadly grouped into “post covid illness:”





We can assume all these folks are jabbed; they’re the ones who followed the rules. What do they blame? Increasingly they are looking at what they see is a dangerous, probably genetically-engineered, BSL-3 super-pathogen that can’t be killed. For Covidians, every repeat covid infection terrifyingly increases their chances of catching a serious, permanent, ill-defined crypto-infection called long covid.

I was shocked when I saw Covidians conceding that vaccines don’t work and even masks don’t work. Not against super-covid.





Covidians have also become aware that people who don’t have covid are “dying suddenly.” To them, it’s the virus, concealed inside the victims’ bodies in “viral reservoirs” that somehow cause HIV-like immune problems and, ultimately, can even cause sudden death:




Covidians are trying to make sense of an upside-down world where vaccinated, boosted, masked-up people who did everything the government said are testing negative for covid but still somehow getting sick — and even suddenly dying! — from repeat covid infections, blood clots, heart attacks and cancer. Covidians are reading their own sets of studies — studies focusing on the spike protein rather than the jabs — and concluding (just like we are) that people’s immune systems are systematically being destroyed:





Their studies aren’t wrong; the spike protein is dangerous. So Covidians are carefully studying the spike and are starting to notice its HIV-like elements:





They fact that people without covid are still getting sick — that their immune systems are failing — is a fact now well-accepted by Covidians:




More vulnerable to other illnesses. It’s tempting to just focus on Covidians’ unquestioning devotion to the vaccines, and of course how they’re mad at us anti-vaxxers. Set that aside for a moment and consider how far they’ve come: They no longer believe the CDC or FDA. Neither do we.

The prevailing Covidian view seems to be that the greedy, capitalist government is lying about how dangerous covid still is, so that we can “get back to normal:”





There’s so much gaslighting, it’s not just that they don’t trust the government. They also no longer believe doctors, either. They know from their own personal experience with their friends and relatives that something is happening, even if the doctors claim everything is normal.

Like us, Covidians have even started mocking how suddenly baffled the doctors have become, despite pretending they knew everything there was to know about covid during the pandemic. Substitute the word “vaccine” for “covid” in this next example tweet and you’ll easily recognize the sentiment:





Now that vaccines, paxlovid, and masks have failed to protect people, the Covidians muse about lockdowns, and argue that forced mass isolation is the only thing left that works.





(One suspects his “hobbies” are playing video games.) There’s just one tiny problem: “real” lockdowns would destroy civilization after everybody starved to death. I suspect Covidians magically think that a two-week lockdown — if it included everybody — would somehow extinguish the virus. At least, they seem sore the lockdowns weren’t stricter:





(That’s a wild, obviously-false claim. Thirty-five million is more than 10% of the entire US population of 330 million. Before being too judgey though, recall that we have similar overestimates of vaccine injuries in our threads too.)

There’s a lot to unpack here. First, it is helpful to understand the Covidians’ world view. They are much closer to our position than you would have thought and there is substantial common ground for working together. The Covidians have everything they need to connect the last couple dots between SARS-Cov-2’s viral spike protein, which is bad enough, to persistent, mRNA-induced spike protein, which is a thousand times worse.





So close! Second, we have reached the point where enough people have seen the problems for themselves that nobody believes the official narrative anymore. I first wondered whether the Covidians’ spike-reservoir theory was a clever new narrative to conceal the role of vaccines. But it seems like an establishment narrative wouldn’t direct so much anger toward authorities. Who knows.

This next year, let’s see how much common ground we can find with other Americans who see that things are going the wrong direction, even if they aren’t yet convinced the mRNA vaccines are defective. Now you have some ideas where to start. Start with the spike.

☕️ CHARACTERS AND STORIES ☙ Tuesday, December 26, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Tucker's bizarre, Spacey Xmas Eve interview; dissecting the Covidian world view; SADS reality star skin cancer odyssey; and a helpful primer on how Narratives work, so we can better resist them.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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It's Weird That The People Who Think the Origin of COVID-19 Is Important Can't Say Why​

 

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Newsweek ran a very silly story yesterday headlined, “COVID mask mandates return in California, Illinois, New York.” This profoundly misleading article (and other similar yarns on other platforms) quickly became social media darlings, and a dozen folks have asked me about whether there’s anything to it. This emerging Narrative terrifies the sane, for whom a “return of mask mandates” makes them feel like they just took an well-deserved nap after surviving a horror movie, but as soon as they fell asleep, they wound up getting chased around by a fedora-sporting maniac with knife hands. And a mask.



But on the other hand, to all our newly-minted, full-blown germaphobes, the “return of masks” headline sounds just like a hit new Taylor Swift single. These folks found Newsweek’s headline a balm for the soul, playfully teasing them with a possible reversion to the good old days of the pandemic, back when open manifestations of their obsessive-compulsive disorders were lauded as a public virtue.

Yecch. Now let’s debunk this goofy mask story. (Sorry, germaphobes.)

First of all, the headline overpromised. No agency with enforcement ability has newly mandated masks. And there weren’t even any mandates mentioned outside of hospitals and hospital workers. Newsweek scraped up four Bay-area counties that have ordered healthcare workers to wear masks in healthcare facilities. And check out this sly bit of media misinformation — when I looked up the article’s referenced masking order on the Santa Clara County website, I discovered it was a mandate from March 2023 that rescinded all other mask mandates and created a perpetual “winter virus period” mask mandate and only for healthcare:





(But bless all those progressive counties like Santa Clara who are now properly applying taxpayer funds to provide long-overdue translations of official documents for non-English speaking Tagalong-Americans. It’s about time.)

Gosh. Can we agree that citing Santa Clara’s old order as a “return of mask mandates” is kind of fake news? The closest thing to a legit new mandate Newsweek cited in the article were vague, hand-wavy references to a short list of birdbrained hospital masking requirements. For example, Newsweek reported that “UW Health says it requires masks at many of its sites.” Um.

That foggy reference to “many sites” did not specify which ones, say for whom, link to any websites, clarify the source, or give any further information about the alleged “requirement.” I’m not saying I don’t trust them, but … your factual mileage may vary. Consume at your own risk.

Second, I caught them faking again! Twice in one story, and I wasn’t even trying. Newsweek included a powerful photo evidencing the “return of mask mandates,” an image either terrifying or hope-inspiring, depending on which end of the neuroticism spectrum you’re on:





But when you squinted at the greyed-out, 6-point font caption, it turned out the picture was a stock photo from 2020:





Stupid reporters. Misleaders! Why not use a current photo if mask mandates are back in three states? This misleading photo reminded me of all the fake photos they terrified Covidians with back in 2020, passing off old stock footage of bloody gurneys from some backwater Italian clinic from 2014 to evidence New York City’s “overwhelmed hospitals” in 2020.

Media’s stock photo malfeasance has been so obvious and widespread that Bard A.I. is allowed to admit it happened and can even criticize the media about it:





They’ve known stock photos are misleading for a long time, long before 2020. For example, back in 2013, the respected Poynter Institute for Ethics and Leadership in Journalism ran an article condemning the use of stock photos:





Media’s own ethics institute was crystal clear that using canned stock photos is misleading. You might even call it misinformation:

“The use of stock photography without any photographic attribution of obvious credit is a very misleading practice that contributes to the public/audience mistrust of the media,” Poynter senior faculty for visual journalism Kenny Irby told me. “What they are doing is inaccurate, and while it may be seen as the expedient thing to do for immediate visual representation, the long-term impact on credibility is much worse.”​

Maybe — and I’m just spitballing here — maybe the media should fix its own credibility problems before criticizing everybody else about our ‘true but misleading’ social media posts?

I’ll admit, Newsweek did disclose it was a stock photo, although the disclosure was greyed-out and tiny-fonted. But the Poynter Institute’s warning was for decorating everyday articles with stock photos, like using a random crumpled sedan for a car crash story about an SUV, or inserting a stock Delta jet picture into a story about striking air traffic controllers. In this instance, Newsweek was supposedly breaking a story of great public interest. The case for using a generic stock photo to visually illustrate the “return of mask mandates” is pitifully weak.

In sum, Newsweek couldn’t come up with a single official mandate outside a hospital, or procure a photo of even one current masking sign. I’ve never seen so much misinformation flying around! A wise former President used to call this kind of thing “Fake News.”

Anyway. The article finally got around to the nub, the stinky data that has the Covidians all stirred up this month: wastewater testing:

"Our wastewater monitoring program is currently detecting high COVID-19 and RSV levels," Yolo County public health officer Aimee Sisson said. "I recommend that everybody in the community take steps to protect themselves from infection, including wearing a high-quality mask when indoors around others. If you have not yet gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine, annual flu vaccine, and RSV vaccine, I strongly encourage you to do so—it is not too late.”​

So … some unlucky devil has the dirty job of dipping PCR tests into your raw sewage, and based on the fecal science Yolo County feels the need to push three more vaccinations on everybody. But still, underneath the sludge of droppings data, there’s no real mask mandate anywhere.

Now let’s tackle this harebrained wastewater thing.

☕️ DEEP DIVES ☙ Friday, December 29, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

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