Bruce Stanley

What Did We Expose?

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

Let’s start with something basic: The premise of laws.

People love to wax poetic about this and that when it comes to “justice” and “law.”  In truth it’s much simpler than most put forward, and has nothing to do with poetry at all.

The person who contemplates breaking a law is only deterred from doing so IF the penalty, if caught, times the probability of being caught is much greater than whatever is to be gained.  Why “much greater”?  Because everyone thinks they are smarter than they are they always think their odds of evading capture are greater than reality.  If you intend to rob a bank then you will not do so if you believe you’re likely to get caught and, if you are caught the penalty will be so outsized from what could gain that the robbery is not worth it.

In addition there are crimes that are one way doors.  Once you go through them no other crime matters.  Murder is one of those; I’ve repeatedly pointed out that all murders after the first one are free since it’s not possible to give someone more than one life term or one execution.  You can’t bring a dead person back and then execute them again and, typically, murder has no statute of limitations so now we’re simply down to probability of capture.  This, by the way, is why people shoot each other all the time in Chicago; the murder clearance rate, that is, the number of murders that get solved, was right around 50%.  Since everyone always overestimates their level of intelligence and cleverness this in turn means the average person probably thinks the odds are about 1 in 4 they’ll get caught.

That’s not much of a deterrent, is it?

Now look at both financial and medical system crimes.  What are the odds of even a criminal felony being prosecuted against a person?  Statistically zero.  The exception is the doctor who personally rips off Medicare; he might get busted and go to prison, but the hospital that engages in wildly-illegal price-fixing or the pharmaceutical company that lies, cheats and even falsifies data may well get fined but the people involved never go to prison or have their personal wealth confiscated.  Therefore the deterrent value is “Penalty X 0.00 = 0.”

Always.

Note that years ago I wrote an article that expanded on my treatise in Leverage on the health care system.  It centered on several points, with the most-important being simple: This entire industry commits felonies by the thousands every day and stopping that will drop the cost of care by 80% or more in an afternoon, and, at least as importantly, will align the interests of customers and providers.

What would Covid-19 have looked like under that system?

Well, there would have been zero incentive payments to hospitals, for one.

Everyone would have had a posted and identical price for the procedures if they wound up in the hospital.  The hospitals would have to compete not only for customers but on the basis of how many people lived since dead people can only pay if they have an estate to attach and many do not.  The tax clawbacks for those who are indigent aligns this interest of keeping people alive.  Cheap and readily-available drugs mean 95% of those who went to the hospital would not have, and none of that 95% would have died.

Now some of them would have died of other things, of course — people die every day.  Roughly 9,000 people a day, to be exact.  As we get older death eventually is inevitable.

But let’s cut the crap — the single-minded focus on vaccines was driven by one and only one thing: Money.

The companies developing them know that a full 5 or 10 year cycle makes them a waste of time; by the time that’s done an emergent strain will be endemic and very few customers will be interested.  The big fear porn game and spike is long over before approval can be had.  The game here was simple: If we do it fast enough the fear will still be there and thus we can sell it.

Well, they failed; by the time the first stab went in the first arm even with the accelerated schedule the peak was past.  We know this because the curve had rolled over in the United States.  Not true in some other places, but absolutely true here.  As to whether it actually helped we don’t know — it’s reasonable to assume it did in very old and morbid people, but probably not elsewhere.

Further, as I’ve pointed out this is dangerous because we have zero longitudinal data and many pieces of information we did have were intentionally glossed over because getting answers simply takes too long.  For instance the propensity of the shots to produce both neutralizing and binding antibodies, when one is good and the other could be ruinously bad was not run down and eliminated.  There are more than a half-dozen concerns of this sort that I’ve outlined in the last few months — none of which we knew in June of last year but all of which were at least suspected by December of 2020.  Zero resulted in a halt of their plans and zero of these potentially catastrophic long-term outcomes have been eliminated.  The risk from all of them is unquantified but anyone who took shots is going to find out over the next year, two, five or ten and if any of them turn out badly those people are screwed.  Informed consent in the face of a lot of unknowns is fine but exactly zero people have truly given informed consent; it’s not possible to do so without spending a lot of time in personal research never mind direct consultation with a personal physician on your exact circumstances.  So-called “drive through” and “pop-up” vaccination by definition violates informed consent.

What if money wasn’t a factor?  What if hospitals and doctors had to charge everyone the same price with no exceptions?  What if there was no “bonus”?  What if the only way to keep the hospitals from overflowing was to keep people out of them with early treatments?  How many would have been tried aggressively within a month of this outbreak under that paradigm?

Dozens.

Many would have failed, but not all and those that appeared to work would have been aggressively used and adapted over time.  Literal tens of thousands of doses of known-safe potential candidate drugs would have been used within weeks and those that appeared to work would have been kept while the others were rapidly replaced with something else.  The doctor in NY who had a protocol including HCQ had zero deaths and nearly-zero hospital admissions.  He won but rather than adopt what he was doing he was pilloried and buried in the media and by the medical people.  Why?  Because they could.  What if they couldn’t?  What if the only way to avoid being buried was to copy him?  What if there was no $30,000 bonus for ventilator use?

Nobody would have ever said “there’s nothing you can or should do; go home until you’re choking then come back” because there would have been no liability shield for doing that and you’d have been given a selection of options, some of which might not have worked but others would have and within weeks or a couple of months we’d have working protocols that would be refined and improved over time.

Instead today many doctors and medical centers still tell you to go home until you’re choking to death on your own spit.

Why?  Because they can, if they do they’re exempt from being sued for malpractice, and if you wind up in the hospital the hospital still gets a bonus for you being there, that’s why.

How did we get here folks?

We got her by ignoring the rule of the law.

Trump is just as guilty as Biden on this.  He did exactly nothing to stop it, and had an entire DOJ that could have been throwing people in prison by the hundreds a month after his inauguration.  Pick a big hospital chain and lock up their CEO.  In one day the monopolist bull**** would have ended and come February of 2020 the competitive heat would have been on to keep people out of the hospital.

But he didn’t do it.

In fact he did the opposite; when Covid-19 hit he had his HHS secretary pay bonuses for acts that were likely to lead to toe tags and at the same time basically killed all the hospital elective procedures which are highly profitable.  Not only did Trump pay the medical system to kill people he damn near forced them to do it in order for them to stay in business!

Let’s talk about one other point, because CNN brought it up: Hospitals suing patients over unpaid bills.

Again the answer to this problem is in my proposed legislation.  It stops this practice immediately and permanently.

But it also stops a notorious fraud for which every single hospital that claims it should have their executives immediately throw in prison — the premise of “charity care.”

There is no such thing.

Nobody works for free and these hospitals are not paying for that care out of voluntary donations.  The Catholic Church can legitimately claim that Catholic Charities actually provides charity to people because every dollar you put into the plate is voluntary.  Likewise if a food bank solicits money and canned goods, buys food with the money and then hands it out that’s charity because every single can of food or dollar of money was voluntarily donated.

No hospital does this, not even Shriners which sort of claims to.  Yes, Shriners has a huge endowment and if you have no money or insurance they’ll treat your kid.  But — they will bill your insurance.  It’s not free and if you have copayments on your insurance you will pay them.  That’s not charity.

For other ordinary hospitals it’s not charity care at all; it is in fact billed to the paying customers.

That’s right — the cost of your appendectomy includes some or all of the cost for the dude on the gurney next to you who has no insurance, money or assets.

They call this charity but that claim is a fraud since the money to fund the care was not freely given; it was paid by other customers.  Fraud is a crime.  Deliberately misleading the public and others as to what you’re doing is against the law.  Robbing one person to give it to someone else is also illegal in virtually every case and yet it goes on every single day in the so-called American “health care” system.

And no, the socialist model is not better.  They killed a crap-ton of people with Covid-19 too, didn’t they?

I wrote the article on how to fix this, permanently, in 2017.  The precursor was in Leverage, which goes back to 2011 and included a long section on the medical monster and how, if not stopped, it was going to eat the Federal Budget and ultimately the economy.

That was 10 years ago and it actually turned out worse than I expected — that is, simply eating the economy: It killed your grandmother.

Are you ready to stop it yet or must you die first?

Relax Folks: The CDC, VUMC, Johns Hopkins Are All…

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

and so is all credibility for both Biden and Trump administrations when it comes to Covid and public health in general.  Said credibility will not be regained for years, perhaps decades, until and unless people are held to account — which is very unlikely.

It will not be long before the TSA will have no choice but to lift their “mask mandate” as well, as will all other federal and state agencies.

Those who were foolish enough to listen to them despite the few, such as myself, warning that the science was actually on the other side for all these mandates and the shots will be stuck with the consequences.

There might be a few fathers left in this country.  Maybe.  If so it is my sincere hope that they hold people to personal account who inflicted these harms on their sons and daughters, of which there will be tens if not hundreds of thousands reasonably tied to these so-called “interventions”, including the shots, in the current and coming years.

The ghouls involved did not give a crap about the law from the start.  The EUAs were flatly illegal because we knew by summer of 2020 that there were decades-old proved safe and believed effective treatments.  We didn’t use them, on purpose, for the explicit reason that doing so would prevent these EUAs from being issued.  By deliberately lying the FDA, CDC and dozens of other organizations and individuals along with the corporate physician and hospital networks directly caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans who should not have died, and caused deliberate harm to hundreds of thousands more who are now left with what may well be a lifelong debilitating impact as a result of the scream-fest for “everyone” to go get these unproved and now-known-dangerous injections.  Nobody knows how bad, or for how long, those future disabilities and risk of death will be or for how long they will continue but that there is severe impact is now known; we are now down to trying to figure out how horrid.

The CDC still claims the spike protein in the shots is “harmless” despite three scientific papers dating to December stating otherwise, one of which is peer reviewed and another from Salk, with the first known published evidence of a problem dating back to September of 2020.  All were deliberately ignored and still are being ignored.

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.

The science says it’s not harmless; it is in fact pathogenic.  The CDC is lying and as a result people are dying.

If you think this can remain “under wraps” and not get into the public consciousness you’re wrong.  While the pharma firms may have legal immunity no private entity or public other entity does and the ambulance chasers will be out in droves to make the next $10 or $50 billion windfall asset-stripping colleges and their endowments, sports teams, concert venues and other commercial and government entities of every bit of flesh they can pick off.  Unfortunately the injured will get little or nothing after the lawyers get done, as has always been the case.

The destruction of these entities is both just and will happen, but it’s nowhere near the end game or best of outcomes.  The best of outcomes, which we will also obtain, will be the complete destruction of any sort of trust, belief or other willingness to listen to so-called “public health” authorities for years or even decades into the future.

This is not a bad thing; they’ve been full of crap for decades, poisoning people slowly by advocating the consumption of a carbohydrate-rich diet, essentially cramming liquid milk into the gullets of children, many of whom are lactose intolerant to some degree and for which there is no evidence of benefit, calling “ketchup”, which is mostly sugar, a “vegetable” and other similar outrages.  McDonalds and the rest of the fast food industry followed said “guidance” and stopped using beef tallow from their hamburgers to fry the potatoes; that switch alone has killed hundreds of thousands over the last few decades, as vegetable oils of this sort should never be consumed in any meaningful quantity.  They do not occur in nature in anything similar to what we consume today and every one of them has a horrid inflammatory profile.

We have an assistant secretary of “health” for the Biden Administration who in fact could not perform the simple task of looking downward toward the crotch to figure out what sex he/she/it was, and when disagreement with physical reality occurred reality was denied.  Think about that in the context of having previously sired children, which it appears Levine did, and then telling them later on that you don’t believe you’re their father as you deny being a man!  What sort of wildly crazy child abuse is that?  (I am assuming these are biological children, which is not clear — but is a reasonable presumption given its former wife is indeed a woman.)  Do you think I’ll listen to a single thing that comes out of Levine’s mouth?  Likewise we have all manner of fat jackasses telling everyone else they must accommodate their personal lifestyle choice and the damage it has caused.  Certainly you have the right to eat yourself into a blob but you have no right to demand I pay for it either in money nor in restrictions on my lifestyle, such as lockdowns, masks and similar when you are at 1,000x the risk of being killed by a virus as someone who isn’t wildly obese.  Indeed virtually all of the true excess risk from Covid is due to personal lifestyle choices.  Not all, to be sure, but then again while people do get hit by lightning in everyday life your decision to play golf in the middle of a thunderstorm does not make me responsible for the wildly-elevated risk of you becoming the Preacher in Caddyshack!

Every one of the ghouls who pulled this crap should spend the rest of their life in general population with the other inmates having full knowledge that they screwed not only old people but children as well.  Few to none will, which means that if there is to be justice it will have to come at the hands of the one or two remaining actual men in our society who lose a loved one, especially a teen-aged daughter who was coerced into stabbing an improperly-tested cocktail into their arm like a lab rat.  Maybe that will happen and maybe it won’t; the story of the ages, of course, is that what should happen often doesn’t.

But in terms of all the bullcrap being bandied about and the threats made that come down to “take the tard shot or else” forget it.  Those threats have no teeth and the people issuing them know it.  They know damn well that they are not immune from suit and the first young person who is coerced and dies creates a permanent liability for them and their entire family that can never be removed — and which extends far beyond the boundaries of any courtroom.

If you get threatened then the bottom line is that you have a decision to make.  You can knuckle under or refuse.  If you refuse though do not quit or otherwise walk off in a huff — instead make them fire you, expel you from college, or whatever.  Find a good lawyer.  Force these jackasses to answer for what we already know: In 2021 thus far 99% of all vaccine-associated deaths were from the Covid shots, while just one percent were accounted for by the more than one hundred other safe and effective vaccines in common use.  Stick this pie chart up in court and see how well the “defense” deals with it; since it’s official government data they’ll have all sorts of fun trying to refute it and fail.  Remember that in a civil suit you need only “more probable than not” to win, not “beyond reasonable doubt.”  If your healthy young son or daughter expires after taking said shot as a result of being threatened with expulsion from or non-admission to college, or loss of their job, do you think a jury will side with you or with the smug corporate or university ******* who caused them to take said shot and die?  What if said young person is still alive but horribly disabled and can testify themselves as to the onset of their debilitation and proximity to the jab?

Yes, today the jury might not find your argument compelling as many of them are likely living in fear too but how about six months from now by the time you actually select said jury pool?  Ha! By then the illusion will have passed; too many people will either have had a family member or friend who had their life ruined or were killed outright by these things or know someone who did and the tide will have gone out, showing all of these ghouls to have been swimming naked.  Those who walk around with diapers on their face and who have their jab pictures on social media will be spending their days furiously trying to erase the evidence of their complicity lest they get tagged as someone who supported this mass-slaughter of innocents, never mind the Internet Archive which will make sure said proof never goes away.  Life insurers will probably finish off anyone’s hope of having coverage at a reasonable price if they took the shot — just desserts — when the data comes in and makes the 20 year old who took said shot the same life insurance risk as a fat, diabetic 60 year old.  When that $20/month premium is $250 come talk to me about how “unfair” it is when you did it to yourself.  If and when this winds up being proved to be a blood supply risk and you need a pint maybe we’ll finally have some of that $400 the hospital charges you go back into the pockets of people like myself who won’t give it away — but we might sell it for the right price, seeing as we’re “clean” in that regard and half the nation is not.

All-in folks I’ll go back to what I said in my 2021 prediction article, albeit it appears the mechanism is different.  Such is the business of prognostication; I said it wouldn’t matter as we got into 2021, and it won’t.  There is no way that the threats to “exclude” people who refuse the Covid shots will be realized; the data is damning already, and the trends are even worse.  From everything I can see the queues for shots are empty, they’re closing “vaccine” centers for lack of demand and Biden is freaking out about the Military refusing, threatening to make it mandatory.  What could possibly go wrong with that given who has access to what and, given the record of stabbing servicemen with untested crap that severely injures them (which we have done in the past) do you really think people will accept that rather than say “**** you!” and force the issue?  Go ahead Xiden, do something really stupid.

Even the NY Post is asking the question:

Progressive politicians across the country assumed unique powers in the last year, took away personal freedoms, and destroyed livelihoods without saving lives, but they’ve still yet to admit their historic failures or be held accountable for committing them.

The public should ask why progressives should attempt to bring major change to the nation, let alone govern any state government, when they have failed families so starkly across the country.

Perhaps the public will go even further and ask why so-called progressives and their families should not lose their right to livelihood and even their freedom after deliberately ruining the lives of so many with exactly zero benefit to balance said harms.

We’re now in the first week of May.  Those states that do not stop the stupidity well in front of the 4th of July, one of the busiest holidays, will simply send all the people in America to places like right here where they will spend money — and where you need neither a mask or a jab.

From the dinner tables to the pool halls, bars and beaches of America three words are being belted out louder and louder with each passing day: **** you Karen.

The Fiscal Reality of “Kill Granny”

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

Folks, how many times do I have to explain this?

Medicare is blowing up.  Right here, right now.

For the first six months of the 2020 Fiscal Year, which ran from October 2019 -> March of 2020, CMS (Medicare and Medicaid) spend was up 6%.  This is on the lower end of the “you’re screwed” boundary I’ve pointed out for a long time, and one that inevitably will destroy the federal budget because it exceeds the real growth of GDP.  It cannot be fixed because the unfunded portion is close to 80% on a cash basis, unlike Social Security which has a smaller but real unfunded portion.

Speaking of which Social Security’s outlays last fiscal year (ending Sept 30 2020) were up 4.73% which was below expectations.  What were they up the previous fiscal year?  5.96% so last fiscal’s was 1.23% less.  You do realize that the fiscal year prior to that it only expanded 3.96% right?  Gee, that wasn’t people claiming earlier and that’s a problem for the government eh?

What do you think the the run-rate is now over the first six months of this fiscal year?

Up 3.74%.

Still think I’m full of crap about kill Granny eh?

You don’t think reducing the expansion of that spending by 37% was intentional when a $7 inhaler and $3 worth of pills dispensed as soon as Granny started to cough and run a fever could have been done but would have left the previous expansion rate intact into the maw of a pandemic where employment went to crap and thus more people decided to claim because they were laid off but eligible?

How about Medicare and Medicaid?

Sit down and do not drink your coffee, lest you need a new keyboard and/or monitor.

Fiscal 2018 (ending September 2018) CMS (Medicare/Medicaid) federal spending was 1.466 trillion, one of the smallest increases in the last decade, up less than 2%.

You want to know where one of the biggest places that cost control was actually happening?  Hospitals, with an 0.83% (!!!!) increase in spend over the entire fiscal year.  That’s….. extraordinary.  How did Trump get there?  With a huge increase in administrative spending to curtail the blowing of taxpayer money by doing things like what the cocksucking hospital did with my sister to intentionally generate a six-digit bill before she passed.  Said administrative spend was up from 2.64 billion to 4.05 billion and, quite-obviously, the anti-scam push returned huge rewards.

That pissed off the hospitals and their lobbyists.  A lot.

Guess what else?  Prescription drug payouts went down.  A lot.  15.61%, to be precise.

That’s not a small amount; yeah, the total spend is only $100 billion or so out of the whole of CMS but who wants to explain the $13 billion that disappeared out of the drug company pockets in one year when you’re a lobbyist?

What happened in the first six months of this fiscal year?  Prescription drug spend went up 14%. which is a monstrous nearly 30% swing in the delta.

Medicaid?  Up 20%.  You read that right — 20%.

How about hospitals?  Up 5.2% and administrative spend went down as Biden and pals stopped caring if the taxpayer got ripped off.

On a delta basis hospital Medicare spend increased at 627% of the previous rate and remember that most of that was under Trump, so the full-year number is likely to be nasty.

But folks — the large increases were not in Medicare hospitalization.  In the middle of a pandemic, I remind you, where the claim is that we’re all dying, old folks who are on Medicare especially are dying, everyone is in the ****ing hospital, it’s horrible and by God we have to give away money like water for every single ****ing toe-tag that the hospital sadly applies to people.

Oh, and wear a masssssssssssskkkkk which MIT now says is worthless, exactly as I explained on the physics last spring and summer and which was conclusively proved when the meatpacking outbreak in Germany was scientifically traced through RNA sequencing in which every employee was in fact wearing a mask.  Oh yes, MIT tries to dance around that and claims they can be “very useful” but they’re lying and they know it since a “mask” (not a respirator) has pore sizes dozens or even hundreds of times that of aerosol particles; they go right through and around them.  Again for those of you who are stupid aerosols are not blocked by masks which means for those attempting to obtain personal protection nothing less than an N95 (a respirator) works at all and source control is worthless since when you breathe out even with an N95 the positive pressure will cause the mask to unseal and form jets, releasing the aerosols.  We’ve known all this for 40 years; source control does not work for aerosols at all and for personal protection, if you desire to use it and which thus must be a personal choice since it protects only you the only working options are an N95 (or P100) with an exhaust valve so the seal is maintained when you exhale instead of being repeatedly violated with each breath which airlines and some governments have actually banned you from using!

That’s right — airlines, government and some businesses have actually banned the only effective protection you can choose for your own personal safety.

You’re all smoking crack folks when it comes to this pandemic and the real bottom line — the largest expansions were in Medicaid and drugs, neither of which had a single scintilla of change in the law (e.g. Medicaid eligibility) or anything related to it and remember, we’ve all been told there are no effective drugs and you can’t have any of the cheap and likely-effective ones if you get infected.

The total spend over that six month period of time?  Up 13.4% over comparable period and on a percentage basis of increase most of it was Medicaid and drugs.

You think any of this crap had anything to do with health?

You’re a special breed of stupid.

Why did the Federal Government essentially ban the discussion and distribution of inexpensive inhalers and drugs for early treatment and prophylaxis of Covid-19?

Because the ghouls in the medical system were once again being squeezed and they demanded more money; if you died as a consequence that’s perfectly ok with them as it will inculcate fear and you will scream to make sure they get paid.  Oh by the way that also helps the government’s funding model over the intermediate and longer term because it cuts Social Security and Medicare payouts down the road by killing off the oldest and sickest 1% of the population that likely spends said federal benefits at five times or more their per-capita rate on average.

Just watch what happens over the next six months — the back half of the fiscal year.

The government conspired with the medical and pharmaceutical industry to boost their spend by roughly 14% on drugs after having that spend cut by 15%, a roughly 30% swing in trend in just one year’s time, and they knew damned well doing that would kill a half-million Americans.

It did.

You think that’s all?  What if they knew the spike protein, which all the current vaccines produce, was singularly pathogenic?  Because the evidence is that…. it is.  Nothing like creating a hundred million or more potentially injured Americans eh?  They wouldn’t need medical care and drugs going forward, would they?

Don’t give Trump a single second of credit; he was in office for 2/3rds of that time and did exactly nothing to stop it.  In fact it was his policies in response to Covid-19 that caused it including the development of these shots.  Yes, Biden and CumDumpster love it too, of course but never forget that it was OrangeMan who was originally and remains responsible.

Still want their tard shot given this documented fiscal record and the lies you’ve been told?

These people do not give a **** if the jab works or not or in fact whether it kills or disables you.  All they care about is getting paid and the more fear and injury they can foist off on you the more money they make.

Have at it idiots. If and when you are severely injured or die as a consequence you deserve it.

Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

Science Catches Up — And Burns You All*

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

There is a reason science is a process and until you understand something you should keep your ******ned mouth shut.

Especially when all you have against 40+ years of hard science is computer models.

Massssskss was one of them.  I warned early on that physics said masks could not work if the virus was in aerosols or transmitted in feces, no matter whether the feces were manually spread or through aerosols.  We knew this was virtually certain when a mass-spread event happened twice in Wuhan and Hong Kong in apartments on the same vertical drain stack where there were no P-traps; the people infected did not know each other and thus any other form of transmission other than through fecal aerosol was wildly improbable.  That was ignored.  We then had the German meatpacking plant where everyone was wearing masks and yet a huge outbreak took place across tens of feet, a claimed impossibility.  Yet it happened and was proved by RNA sequencing; the researchers were able to identify the index and daughter cases and thus conclusively prove that the infections happened in that plant via that route, despite masks.

Now MIT has weighed in and said the same thing. They try to sidestep the mask issue in their “research” but fail; nothing less than an N95, which is not a mask but rather a respirator, stops aerosols, and source control does not work even with N95s because when you exhale the positive pressure escapes around the edges and for aerosols goes right through the gaps.  Workplaces and airlines have banned N95s with exhaust valves which preserve the seal on your face and thus are the only ones that will provide protection for you against inhaling said aerosol.  Non-valved respirators repeatedly break said seal and thus render it ineffective within minutes.  Don’t believe me?  Put on an N95 without a valve and do some sanding where there’s lots of dust, when you take it off let me know what you find around the edges where the respirator used to be.  This is why you want the ones with a valve and why the ones I have for such work have a valve.

Pay attention to this paper folks and note its publication date, January 2021.  Nobody has paid any attention to it at all yet it is peer-reviewed in Nature, one of the “better” medical publications.  I will start right here with what you do not want to read, but you damn well should before you take the shots.

This T cell-mediated immune response is even more important as studies on humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-1 provided evidence that antibody responses are short-lived and can even cause or aggravate virus-associated lung pathology

Note that when you get the shot the first thing you get is antibodies; you may get a T-cell reaction.  This pre-existing knowledge, from SARS (CoV-1) entirely explains why people who just got vaccinated often get hammered by the virus and frequently end up in the hospital or die.  It marks the premise of attempting to vaccinate out of a pandemic where transmission is actively occurring as stupid.

You go get the shot.  Five days later you get the virus.  You have not yet developed immunity and the partial expression makes it worse.

You would have been better off, by far, taking the same infection straight up front.  It likely would have harmed you less.

This generally applies, by the way, to all vaccines and all viruses.  The government and researchers know this.  They’ve known this for decades.  It’s fact.  It’s why you don’t wait until the measles is raging around you to get a measles vaccine and the same is true for the flu shot; you get it before the flu season starts for this very reason.  Attempting to vaccinate out of a raging infection does not work and in fact kills people.

Yeah, if you don’t get infected during that latent period you get protection.  But if you do get infected you’re screwed and all of the two-dose shots have a roughly four week window during which you get hosed instead of protected.  Israel’s data, by the way, proves this is real; Berenson has been reporting on it since the beginning of the year and I’ve noted it as well.

If you remember I’ve also pointed out that multiple studies have shown that somewhere between 30-50% of the population is T-cell reactive to Covid-19 despite never having had it, nor SARS or MERS, its alleged “precursors.”  But those studies were non-specific; that is, they looked for T-cell reactivity but never tried to identify the specific protein sequences and their part of the whole that was involved.  This study does, and it finally puts light on basically the entire reason that what we’ve done is not only wrong it’s criminally stupid.

These folks did what we should have done originally — they isolated a panel of 120 peptides that comprised roughly 10% of the entire virus, containing 57% and 1% of the nucleocapsid and spike proteins.  Note that while the “spike” facilitates entry into the cell there is evidence that it is, standing alone, pathological — that is, it causes disease in the human body without the rest of the virus.  The nucleocapsid portion, on the other hand, is the part that is responsible for replication; if it is tagged and the cell containing it is destroyed then viral replication is prevented even though penetration of the cell has occurred.

I draw your attention to this graph:

This fully explains the wild divergence in outcomes even among similarly-morbid people.  The more “matches” you have on a pre-existing basis the more-fully your immune system can recognize the virus and while you will get infected if those matches are among the nucleocapsid section you’re much more-likely to drive it off without serious consequence.

Note that among the “PRE” (not-infected) collection of samples all were prior to November of 2019 and thus presumed non-infected.  We in fact know there were infections during that time frame but most in that group were from wildly before Covid-19 by as much as 10 years or more, so the cross-contamination percentage is going to be very low.

Now let me point to the data itself.

Of the SARS donors, 100% showed T cell responses to cross-reactive and/or specific ECs (HLA class I 86%, HLA-DR 100%; Fig. 5d,e), whereas 81% of PRE donors showed HLA class I (16%) and/or HLA-DR (77%) T cell responses to cross-reactive ECs (Fig. 5d).

81% eh?  Isn’t that an interesting number?  Where have we seen that before?

You know damn well where, don’t you?

It’s the rough percentage of alleged Covid-19 infections that were either asymptomatic or very low-symptom for which no medical treatment was sought and, in many cases, not detected.

So it wasn’t 30 or 50% who had pre-existing protection it’s actually roughly 8 in 10!  This was not a “novel, everyone is susceptible” virus at all.  It never was.  You were lied to from the very beginning and thus all the “models” based on that were trash.

Again, just a bit further down:

Taken together, SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes enabled detection of post-infectious T cell immunity in 100% of individuals convalescing from COVID-19 and revealed pre-existing T cell responses in 81% of unexposed individuals.

Now we know why Diamond Princess happened the way it did.  It was never possible for more than 20% of the people on that ship to get seriously-symptomatic Covid-19 despite being cooped up in close quarters for weeks with an aerosol-spread disease and cruise passengers generally being wildly-overrepresented for various morbidity factors.  It also completely explains why one of two people quarantined in the same cabin got sick and the other did not.

We also know why my friend’s grandfather was killed by it but his equally-morbid grandmother was not touched symptomatically even though she tested positive despite literally sleeping in the same bed with him until he wound up in the hospital and ultimately expired.

We also know why there is no place on the planet that has seen >20% of people with significant, symptomatic disease from Covid-19.  Not a single place has had that happen, even where sanitation is crap and people spread it like crazy (e.g. Iran where they lick monuments sequentially — literally.)

This study explains every single example seen everywhere in the world, including high-concentration examples, of infection with Covid-19 back to the start of the pandemic.  We now know why no more than 20% of any exposed population has ever exhibited materially-serious disease — it simply was not possible as no more than 20% of the population was potentially susceptible to serious disease.  Ever.  Period.

EVERY SINGLE STATEMENT OTHERWISE WAS FALSE AND EXACTLY ZERO SO-CALLED “PUBLIC HEALTH” AUTHORITIES OR POLITICANS HAVE EVER ADMITTED TO THIS, YET IT IS NOW SCIENTIFICALLY PROVED THEY WERE COMPLETELY FULL OF CRAP FROM THE FIRST DAY ONWARD AND WE KNEW SO, BUT NOT WHY, AFTER DIAMOND PRINCESS AS I HAVE REPEATEDLY POINTED OUT.

NOW WE KNOW WHY — WITH SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY.

Let me distill this down for you before I go on:

In 100% of the persons who had and recovered from Covid-19 and 81% of those who have never had the virus a vaccine may well be worthless as they already have T-cell response.  While this will not prevent them from getting it again there is questionable at best benefit over their existing immunological state but there is risk, including a risk of death, from the side effects.

Furthermore, evidence was provided for a lower recognition frequency of cross-reactive HLA-DR EC in hospitalized patients compared to donors with mild COVID-19 course, which might suggest a lack of pre-existing SARS-CoV-2 T cells in severely ill patients.

No kidding?  Gee, yet more points of contact with the obvious?

Then there’s this:

Our observation that intensity of T cell responses and recognition rate of T cell epitopes was significantly higher in convalescent patients compared to unexposed individuals suggests that not only expansion, but also a spread of SARS-CoV-2 T cell response diversity occurs upon active infection.

Let me be clear: The entire premise of all of the “mitigations” and demand for mass-vaccination relied on a lie; that this was a “novel” virus to which nobody had existing resistance.  We now know that’s false; 81% of the population in fact does have existing immunity and further, that immunity is strengthened, materially so, by natural infection.  In short if you have said partial resistance you want to get the disease as the odds of you being seriously harmed are statistically zero yet you will perfect your immunity and from a public health perspective you want those people who are not going to be seriously harmed to get it naturally, not take a ******ned shot because it is that perfection of immunity that stops the disease from being of harm to the public on a durable basis.

It gets worse — the resistance isn’t to the spike, it’s almost-exclusively to the nucleocapsid portion of the virus among those with existing resistance; the largest set of reactions by far was to the nucleocapsid, not the spike.  This is very strong evidence that it is that nucleocapsid reactivity that provides effective resistance to serious disease.  The existing “vaccines” do not and cannot provide this since they encode only the spike.

Again for those who are reading-comprehension challenged: The existing vaccines are worthless for building said perfected immunity since the data is that the nucleocapsid section, which the vaccines do not code, is where most of the pre-existing resistance against serious disease resides.

Who is in the “not at risk” group?  Basically everyone under 50; said persons have comprised less than 5% of the deaths and especially those under 18 who almost never get serious ill or die.  This means we should have never closed schools, never masked kids and in fact we should have encouraged the equivalent of mass chicken-pox parties for both children and healthy young adults, especially in colleges.  The current push to vaccinate college students is not only stupid it’s directly counter-productive to them building a robust and durable, likely life-long, immune response to this specific virus including the variants.

The colleges doing this and all of those advocating or demanding same, including VUMC, the entire Cal system and more should immediately have every single person involved indicted, imprisoned and their entire familial tree erased from the human record.  What they are doing is directly harmful to public health and is very likely to cause death.

Further this paper points out that induction of immunity against the spike may well be worthless or even harmful.  Again “prevention of infection” is meaningless if it is bypassed and you get hammered, as has repeatedly occurred during the window following vaccination.  Indeed, such might even enhance the progress of infection and mortality and if that’s not enough insult there’s reason to believe the same enhanced risk may also present itself on the “back end” as antibodies to the spike wane too with no way to know when that window occurs in a specific individual.

It is quite clear from this study that recognition of the nucleocapsid proteins is the difference between asymptomatic or mild infections and severe ones; the correlation is exact and yet exactly zero of the existing vaccines target anything other than the spike.  You cannot build immunity to that which is not presented.  With the spike now having evidence of direct pathology and in fact quite possibly being why serious organ damage and death occur with natural infection we have clearly gone down the wrong road with “warp speed” and in fact may have done irrevocable and severe harm to millions of Americans while failing to induce long-term nucleocapsid immune recognition which occurs via natural infection and is the key to turning a potential infection into a nuisance at worst.

Short-term prevention of “infection” among the 81% of those with existing T-cell recognition to the nucleocapsid proteins is not only stupid it is likely to kill people over the intermediate and longer term since those who are not vaccinated and get infected with partial resistance build additional and durable immunity via said low-symptom and asymptomatic infections which do not materially harm them and blocking that process is harmful, not helpful.

This group includes nearly all young adults and children for which people are trying to force vaccination.

There are some holes in this study that require more work; specifically, trying to pin down how much protection is afforded by which specific nucleocapsid recognition profile, and how cytokine production bears on that along with binding properties.  This is definitely not the last word on such by any means, but it is a rather important contribution — and one we should have pursued given that it certainly appears to fully explain the low-symptom and asymptomatic “infections.”  The authors note this and intend to do further study.  Good!

What is not clear yet is where the cross-reactivity came from; it’s obviously some other disease and it didn’t kill the person with it; perhaps intentional infection with something that causes nothing more than a cold would be a good idea eh?  Of course first we must identify what gave that 80% of the population their cross-reactivity, which we have not done — again, on purpose, despite having a full year to work on it.

To repeat this study is 100% congruent with what we have seen thus far in the wild with this virus.

EVERY LAST BIT OF IT.

Oh, and that’s not the only evidence that the spike protein alone is pathogenic.  There’s this study too, which if it proves up means every one of the existing vaccines in the western world is directly dangerous.

One point stands out from this study and, in combination with the study documenting pathogenic response to the spike protein alone is now evident: “Warp Speed” was stupid; it targeted the wrong thing, it has made people specifically vulnerable to nasty outcomes during the month or so before “protection” is allegedly achieved and fails to provide durable protection to the nucleocapsid portion of the virus as it does not target that at all.  Further, in roughly 80% of the population as a whole taking the shot is worse than worthless since they are not exposed to severe disease in the first place but the shot is likely to temporarily block the asymptomatic or low-symptom infection that would perfect their natural immunity to the nucleocapsid portion of the virus that is required for replication while exposing said persons to the risk of severe or even fatal side effects by producing a systemic invasion of the spike protein which, if said person was naturally infected, would likely not occur since the person’s immune system can recognize the original infected cells in the respiratory tract and prevent the replication cycle from completing and becoming systemic.  And even worse at some point in the future as antibodies wane said persons without nucleocapsid protection are exposed to that risk again but have no idea when that risk has become significant since there’s no reasonable way to know what your antibody titer is over time.

Do you think the Chinese knew all of this up front given that their vaccines are all full-protein inactivated and thus include the nucleocapsid portion?  If they deliberately gave us a sequence they knew was directly and singularly pathogenic while ignoring the required nucleocapsid protection for durable protection then Beijing and the CCP must be immediately nuked to ash as they deliberately attempted to kill people worldwide and every single pharma company, US Government agency, “public health” organ and individual who cheered this on and went along with it unquestioned must be completely and irrevocably destroyed.

I note that we do not even know if the nucleocapsid portion of the virus, inactivated, is pathogenic.  It very well might not be and had we produced inactivated vaccines via that route without the spike protein being present they would likely have a similar risk profile to the seasonal flu shot instead of being 100 or more times as dangerous and at the same time they would have provided durable protection that all of the current shots do not because they omit said nucleocapsid sequences on purpose.

WE ****ED OFF FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR INSTEAD OF INVESTIGATING THIS AND EVERY SINGLE ENTITY INVOVLED DESERVES TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR EVERY SINGLE DEATH THAT RESULTED FROM THAT DELAY PLUS ALL THOSE THAT RESULT FROM THE CURRENT CROP OF “VACCINES” OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS IF THIS PROVES UP — AND I BET THERE IS A HIGH PROBABILITY IT WILL GIVEN WHAT WE’VE ALREADY SEEN IN ISRAEL AND ELSEWHERE.

It was criminally stupid to suppress and block drugs we knew were safe and might work in furtherance of this insanity.

Instead of what we’re doing we should have — and must, right now and today — immediately hand out Ivermectin and Budesonide (inhaled) to anyone who appears to be sick with Covid-19, scrap all of the existing alleged “vaccines” pending study of the nucleocapsid portion of the virus and look to see if an inactivated poly-nucleocapsid cocktail is pathogenic.  If it is not then for those who want said shot and will benefit from it without blocking natural infections that perfect immunity in the population as a whole, which include only those older and morbid, we should develop and offer that instead of what we’re doing now through regular process, relying on prophylaxis and early treatment in the interim.  Yes, it will take several years to do so but that’s the only correct path to take given the scientific evidence and we must do it now.

If the various state Departments of Health will not immediately start handing out said drugs when there is no prescription required to get an experimental shot then they should be disbanded with every single employee of same binned and shunned along with every so-called “public health” organ such as VUMC closed and bulldozed to bare earth.

EVERY ONE OF THEM IS NOW PROVED TO HAVE ALL BEEN WRONG ABOUT UNIVERSAL SUSCEPTIBILITY SINCE THIS BEGAN AND I ARGUE THEY IN FACT KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS IN PURSUIT OF A WORTHLESS OR EVEN HARMFUL ENDPOINT BECAUSE THEY WENT DOWN THE WRONG PATH.

What we are doing now is encouraging more-contagious mutation and if we don’t cut it out we may well pull the black ball and get the more-virulent mutation as well that will evade all those who are vaccinated and hammer the hell out of them since none got any nucleocapsid T-cell recognition from the shot!  If that happens those without said existing recognition are very likely to die; we could easily wind up killing 20% of those vaccinated because we were stupid.  Even if we do not pull the black ball said persons are at risk of the same thing happening as their antibody titers wane without any good way to know when.  Since response is individual there is no reasonable way to guess for any specific person nor is there any good way to know whether said person has existing nucleocapsid T-cell recognition (in which case they’re reasonably-well protected and likely will remain so — but in that case they never got anything useful out of the shot in the first place!)

THIS MUST STOP NOW.

I am not anti-vaccination; to the contrary, vaccines are one of a handful of clear medical triumphs.  I am anti-stupid, and producing, promoting and injecting people with something you do not yet understand the pathology of, taking your information from a potentially-hostile nation and not performing scientific verification first is stupid.

To continue said activity in the face of science documenting that you did it wrong goes beyond the realm of stupid and into the realm of criminal culpability for which no immunity should be recognized by anyone, ever, period.

And for the Love of God stop masking and restricting young and healthy people; the future of the world in terms of public health in fact requires that they be allowed to develop said natural, perfected immunity.  Preventing that by giving them a shot is felonious and anyone involved in it should be indicted, prosecuted and lose their life as the mass-murderers they will prove to be.

No Doctor, You’re Wrong

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

What Seigel has to say here is just flat-out wrong and backward.

Anti-fear messaging is important to clinicians like me who attempt to help patients put risks in perspective. As a doctor who has both studied outbreaks and also the impact they have had on the human psyche, I feel it is important to provide context at all times.

Do you now?  Well then where’s the context of these shots and reports in VAERS compared with the seasonal flu vaccine, which I remind you distributed 170 million doses last flu season?

On that data the Covid shots are one hundred times more likely to be associated with death than the flu shot was over a reasonably-comparable number of delivered doses, and like the flu shot, Covid shots were and are preferentially advised for older, more-morbid people.

Association is not proof of causation.  But it is certainly a safety signal and claiming it is not is a lie.

The CDC’s death data also backs this up.  In addition it makes quite clear that the elevation in stroke and heart attack risk from Covid-19 is very real.  This is especially nasty because strokes and heart attacks kill a lot of people in any ordinary year; indeed, they are two of the leading causes of death, taking about 750,000 lives between them and putting another million or more into the ranks of the permanently disabled.  The roughly 8% elevation of that risk over 2020 compared to 2019 is very serious. 

Emerging science says that the spike protein alone is likely pathogenic and causes those events.  Indeed that specific pathogenic behavior is likely why Covid-19 kills virtually everyone who succumbs.  We did not know that in March and April of 2020; we simply took the spike configuration offered from the Chinese and presumed that without the “N” component of the virus it was harmless in the body.  We had exactly zero evidence for that belief.  The science is now emerging, which I remind you always takes time, that this was ruinously wrong; the spike alone causes coagulation disorders and obviously, in the blood vessels, that can lead directly to strokes and heart attacks along with severe organ damage leading directly to death.

We presume that the shots will stop the Covid-19 “infection” deaths and perhaps they will.  But dead is dead and why does not matter; if they stop Covid-19 deaths but potentiate strokes and heart attacks they may well kill more people over a few years than Covid-19 ever did while natural infection deaths may have already pretty much run their course!

We do not know at the present time but the signal in the data indicating trouble is there and is very significant.

This issue is not just in the J&J and AZ shots; it is also showing up in the mRNA shots.  So says VAERS, not me; go look it up.  The death elevation risk from heart attacks and strokes is likely to large degree due to serious infections with Covid-19 that become systemic and ultimately fatal.  But deliberately causing a pathogenic part of the virus to be produced by cells involved in the circulation, if indeed the spike protein alone is pathogenic as the science is now demonstrating, is criminally stupid for someone who is not already at high risk.

All of the current vaccines do this.

In addition people love to mix relative and absolute risk to deceive people on a regular basis and in every case doing so is a fraud.  This was repeatedly done in “selling” the vaccines to the public.  You must compare like with like or you’re lying.  For example if the risk of death if you do not get the vaccine is 1/50 (2%) and the risk if you DO get the vaccine is 1/500 (0.2%) then while it is true that your risk of dying has been cut by 90% you only had a 2% risk of dying if infected in the first place.  That is, you were going to survive 98% of the time; now you will survive 99.8%.  That sounds like a fabulous improvement except if only 10% of the people got the infection in a year with no vaccine to start with then your base survival rate was not 98% since that presumes you got infected — it was in fact 99.8% like you would survive the year without dying from Covid to start with!  That is there’s only an 0.2% risk of death that can possibly be improved upon!  Thus you must now rate the risk of the vaccine doing evil things to you against the 2/1,000 chance of death, not 2/100 since if you get stabbed that risk is certain where infection is not.

But for those who are not morbid isn’t 2/100 — in fact the absolute risk if you are infected and not particularly morbid is, by the CDC, 1/50,000.  This is confirmed by the NY Coroner data, which when back-computed winds up in approximately the same place; for statistical purposes they are the same, and that is good because independent confirmation from actual “boots on the ground” in confirmation of a theoretical framework provides assurance that the “best guess” is likely close to reality.  Thus I am quite comfortable with that number.

The CDC also says that about 10% of the population (~33 million, approximately) people got Covid-19 in that they “tested positive” for it.  I do not believe that number because it is based on PCR testing with extremely high Ct values and we know that results in lots of false positives. But assuming it is correct this means that the actual risk across one year is not 1/50,000 it is 1/500,000 since you’re only 10% likely to have gotten the infection.  Again, this is by the CDC data, not my data.  Note that if 2/3rds of those “positives” are false then the risk of death for a non-morbid person over a year would be approximately 1/1,250,000.  These are vanishingly small odds.

The CDC and so-called “experts” are all started out saying that the blood clot risk was 1-in-1,000,000.  Well, that appears to have been blatantly false too as the data on the mRNA shots says it’s far more-likely than that and that it is not confined to the J&J vaccine. As more data comes in it appears that risk is more like 1 in 100,000-250,000.

That’s a huge change and until it stabilizes, which will take several more months, I have no confidence in any of these figures whatsoever.

I remind you that the difference between the jab and infection is that the risk from the jab is assured if you take it while the risk from infection it only occurs if you get the virus, which by the CDC again was 10% over the first year and will fall each year thereafter with successive reductions in those who are not immune either by vaccination or infection.

Further, most of the deaths from clotting disorders caused by the shots are almost-certainly not going to be considered “possibly vaccine related”; a heart attack that results from thrombosis is not unusual and determining that the vaccine caused it with medical certainty may be impossible.  But we can certainly see an increase in heart attacks as a whole exactly as we did last year, nearly all of which are in fact caused by stenosis, that is, narrowing or blocking of the blood flow to the heart.

If that risk does not return to materially below the 2019 baseline when the data settles out through April we will have a screaming safety signal but there will be nothing we can do about it for those who already took the jab.  Why below?  Because many of those who had existing coronary artery disease had it potentiated by Covid-19 and are now dead; you can only die once.  Therefore that excess death should not only go away there should be a material dip below the previous rate until a new crop of people with coronary artery disease “mature” in their condition to take the former dead peoples’ place.  The bad news is that we likely will not have a reasonably complete data set on the first quarter until sometime toward the end of June although I’ll bet I have a decent if incomplete read on it by Memorial Day.

For people who are at materially elevated risk from Covid-19, especially if they’re at serious risk of heart attack, stroke or are diabetic the determination of whether the shot is a “good bargain” gets much more complicated because we don’t know if that elevation of risk also makes the bad reaction from the shot more-likely.  It might.  It also might not and be related only to natural infection.  But what is clear, even on the admitted data that Siegel cites, is that for someone not at particular risk the shot is more dangerous than the disease itself when adjusted for your risk of getting Covid over a year’s time, and given that it is expected you need to take the shot again every year this will not be a “one time” risk either.  There is exactly zero evidence on whether if you get no bad reaction the first time that means the shot is safe for you or whether each jab is a new, unrelated trial on a body of one.

The bottom line is that you have to be crazy to accept a “therapy”, no matter what it is, that is equally or more-dangerous as what it allegedly protects against.  Indeed the entire premise of vaccines is that they are much safer than getting the disease.  Let’s compare with a common one that is also relatively new: Chicken Pox (varicella.)  Virtually every kid gets that stab nowadays.

Chicken pox kills about as many kids (IFR), on a risk basis, as does Covid-19.  Yet last year the Chicken Pox (Varicella) vaccine was associated with (not proved caused) ONE death and we stabbed about 4 million kids with it.  That is wildly (by a factor of about 100) less-dangerous than Chicken Pox is in a child and 2,500 times less dangerous than Chicken Pox is in an adult.

This is an example of a very safe vaccine against which there is little or no argument available on the data.  I will take a vaccine that reduces my risk of death or serious disease by a factor of 100 compared with the risk of infection adjusted for its risk of being contracted every day and twice on Sunday.  Indeed that’s why both myself and my daughter have had accepted all of those common vaccines.

This is definitely not the case for any of the Covdi-19 vaccines when it comes to healthy persons; at best the vaccine is equally dangerous and it might be much more dangerous than natural infection since we have no data on intermediate and longer-term risk at all and it appears the clot risk is much higher than originally stated.  In fact on the evidence everyone involved lied about how “rare” these events really are.

These Covid-19 vaccines — all of them — must have their EUA’s immediately modified by the FDA so as to prohibit their use in healthy persons as on the data admitted by people such as Siegel they are at least as dangerous as natural infection and on a risk-adjusted basis appear to be more dangerous, by a wide margin and perhaps as much as 10x so for non-morbid people.

To not do so right now, today, until further data is developed to fully understand said risks and scientifically prove they are much lower than the risk of natural infection in a non-morbid person is criminally insane.

Damning Data Hands Up An Indictment

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

Caution: This is a fairly long and graph-heavy article. It also should be read while sitting down and without coffee or other beverages in your mouth where they can destroy things if sprayed all over the room, such as a keyboard or monitor.

Boy, we got problems here folks.

Remember the claim that Covid-19 killed 500,000+ Americans to excess!

Well….. did it?

I have a gift which has served me very well over the decades; it is part of what allows me to be an excellent programmer and data analyst.  I can look at a data set and intuitively know whether it has discontinuities in it and this leads me to be able to partition it up and work with it more-efficiently than most since I then know where to put my attention when it comes to analysis.  Of course I’m not always right when I see something that looks “off” at first, nobody is, but most of the time it proves up.  That same capacity means I can look at an assembly-language dump of a program and rather-quickly among a multi-hundred page green-bar listing hone in on, for example, where a tax rate that needs to be changed is likely stored and then develop and iterate on a very good set of guesses on how an unknown machine’s instruction set is likely organized without a processor instruction manual — and thus determine how to successfully change the reference and/or data.

Let’s look at the CDC’s own data, which is the organization telling us what happened, and see if we can find such a data discontinuity without using the Covid data claim itself.  That is, let’s look at all the other most-common and thus distinctly-reported and highlighted reasons people die according to the CDC and stack ’em up .vs. 2019, which we will use as our control year, during which there was by their claims no Covid and thus which was the most-recent year we can use for reference.

We should be easily able to see the other morbidities we were all told killed people; all those other conditions that were potentiated by Covid.  Remember, according to the CDC only a vanishingly small number of people died with no other cause on their death certificate; ergo, those other causes, if they were not going to occur anyway, will be on the death certificates and materially elevated over the control year.

Indeed the CDC itself says that your base risk of death if you’re under 18 is 1/50,000.  This is a very small risk; to put it in perspective the average under 18 person accepts the same risk of death by being present in automobiles over a few months time and accepts it again and again each and every few more months.  So these conditions, which are the ones that kill people often enough to be of special note and thus be individually reported out by the CDC over the last decade or so, are the ones that are most likely to elevate risk from Covid-19 to a degree that is material in overall death statistics.  This is logical, reasonable, and thus can be considered presumptively correct (in other words the presumption is that it’s right; you’d have to present a sizeable body of scientific evidence to convince me otherwise.)

I remind you that there is no base risk of substance from this virus absent some other set of morbid conditions; you accept more risk than the virus presents to a healthy person, by a substantial amount, simply going to buy groceries in your car over a period of a few months.

In addition note that the late weeks in this data set are incomplete — often badly so.  I went on a series of rants last year on my page here when people were saying the current week data said people weren’t dying at all.  That’s wasn’t true then and isn’t now; it takes time to get the reports and correlate them.

But it is for this specific reason that when you see indications of a potential signal in data sets like this you damn well better pay attention because by the time the proof is delivered, if you’re doing something that can’t be retracted, you will have screwed an utterly enormous number of people and there will be nothing you can do about it.

Each of these graphs has its “X” axis of calendar weeks.  The 2020/2021 line extends beyond “52” because it keeps going into the new year but again remember that the closer you get to “today” the greater the under-reporting risk because the data simply hasn’t gotten to them yet.  Nonetheless, four months into 2021 we should expect that basically everything for 2020 is in fact complete.  You’ll also notice that while a lot of conditions have seasonal curves to them this is not true for all, and the magnitude, where it is present, varies quite a bit.

We will start our analysis of potential comorbid conditions with cancer.  Cancer kills a lot of people.  We were told it was a major co-morbidity for Covid-19; ergo, we should see a serious cancer death increase that happened last year and into this year based on the claims of the CDC and others.

Huh?  How come there’s no material change of any sort when it comes to the rate of cancer death in the age of Covid?  Total additional deaths were 10,928 out of 609,000.  That’s statistically non-existent; a 2% increase is very-likely simply associated with our well-established demographic shift toward getting older.  If cancer makes you more-likely to die from Covid the elevation in risk is quite small — statistically speaking it doesn’t do much to make Covid-19 more deadly.

Ok, ok, sepsis was allegedly one of the ways that Covid kills you; multiple-organ failure due to septic shock.  Therefore there should be a really, really big increase in sepsis over the previous 2019 year, right?

Ok, there was a very small increase – 2,470 deaths, a six percent increase.  That’s a fairly significant increase in percentage terms but the total number of people who die from this cause, in whole or part, is quite small.  The original weeks, when we didn’t know much of anything about Covid-19, gave us a pretty big spike; about 15% over what it was the previous year, but then it settled down and, while there was a burst of associated death in the summer that was quickly attenuated too.  It appears our medical system figured out how to stop sepsis from being a major factor pretty quickly and we stopped people that had The Coof from dying, in part, from sepsis. That doesn’t account for the problem.

Moving on how about my favorite one….. fat-ass disease.  You know, Dieeeeeebeeeetus, otherwise known for most people as you keep eating **** for decades and it eventually kills you.  Yeah, virtue-signaling, “healthy at any size” bull**** disease?  Yes, I know, a small (under 10%) percentage of people with diabetes are Type I and that’s not their fault in any way; Type I is an autoimmune disorder and while you may choose not to manage it other than by chasing carbs with insulin the actual cause isn’t something you did.  But Type II is, in the main caused by being a fat-ass, which is 100% voluntary and a decision you can change at any point.

Oh look!  The blue line is above the red line, and materially so!  In fact in the spring it was really nasty, good for about 700 extra deaths in one week, and it’s been 300 or so on average since.  That’s fairly significant but, 300 deaths a week x 52 weeks is… 15,712 corpses or a 15% increase over 2019 levels.  Hmmm…… ok, we found some of it but for 90% of the people with the condition it’s a lifestyle choice and not my concern nor is it any of my responsibility to mitigate your increased level of risk if you make said choice.

Next up is Alzheimer’s.  You would not expect Covid-19 to have anything to do with that, but forcing people into isolation who are progressively becoming more-compromised both mentally and physically damn well might, essentially killing them through neglect and “I don’t give a **** about you” style prison treatment.  We didn’t do any of that, did we?

Covid-19 didn’t kill those people, our governments, our mayors, both Presidents and we did.  We’re bastards and we slaughtered innocent old people through intentional neglect because we refused to implement isolation protocols for the workers in the facilities and find ways for those who loved and care for these older Americans to have said care, comfort and contact with their loved ones.  We’re monsters and they died as a result of us, not from a virus.  But even so…. it doesn’t account for anywhere near the rest of the dead people.  Every one of them is sad, but it is what it is.  This accounts for 14,567 additional dead bodies, an 11% increase.  Some of that is also likely demographics but you can bet we murdered some of those folks — we just didn’t do it with a virus.

Next up — Influenza!  You know, our old buddy the flu?  Remember, we were told the flu “disappeared.”  Did it?

Heh wait a minute….. there were lots of flu deaths in 2020 weren’t there?  In fact it was only a bit below baseline this year so far, although in 2021 it looks to be running low.  Then again, was I noted, beware the latest weeks; they’re behind, so I can’t draw any firm conclusions.  But this much is clear: Did Covid-19 actually kill those people in those other weeks or did the flu kill them?  Good question; remember that dying with something doesn’t mean you died of something.  Did we autopsy those people to find out which was which?  You know damn well we did not and the two are quite-closely related.  The total?  5,095 additional dead bodies, a 9% increase.

How about COPD/Emphysema and related things?  You’d think those folks would have gotten hammered.  After all, someone with either condition has severely-compromised oxygen transport to start with because their lungs are screwed, and we know that people choke to death with Covid, right?  So sufferers of both diseases should have gotten it straight up the pooper and fallen like flies.

Wait, WUT?

The death rate from these two diseases in the spring and early summer tracked below 2019?  And then again as we went into the winter “death season” from Covid, again, it tracked materially below the baseline?  Would someone care to explain this one?  Indeed, there were 1,965 fewer deaths, a 1.27% decrease.  Since when is COPD, emphysema and other related lung disorders protective against a respiratory virus?

I’ll answer that for you — when they’re using inhaled steroids like Budesonide and those drugs stop the virus from causing serious harm.  So tell me again why we haven’t been handing that out to people who get Covid at the first sign of trouble, given that one of the obvious highest-risk groups of people died less often over the last year despite a raging pandemic respiratory virus circulating everywhere?  Gee, wouldn’t it have been nice if we used the data we already had via natural experiment across roughly 20 million Americans with an extreme morbidity bearing on respiratory infection to stop people from being killed?  We had this data before the fall and winter surge and deliberately refused to use it.  Indeed it was that data that prompted the Australian-led study which we refused to sign onto and promote here in the US.

I remind you that if we had done so, and handing that readily-available drug out to anyone testing Covid positive had stopped the death equally as well as it did in the COPD/Emphysema group all of the EUAs would have been illegal to issue and there would be no vaccines or need for them as the death toll would have returned to baseline or below immediately and permanently and the pandemic would have been over.  This was an intentional decision as the data was right under everyone’s nose all the way back to the summer months of 2020 including Fauci, Azar, the FDA and the staff of the CDC.

I know, I know!  We must have misclassified a bunch of people and they’re in the “other respiratory disease” bucket!  That is definitely where the excess death showed up.  It has to be; this is a respiratory virus and so that only makes sense.  Whew, we found it!

Uh, well, maybe not.  There were only 1,838 more dead people in that classification, a 4% increase.  Meh.

Ok, ok, I know, I know, seriously immune compromised people, such as those with Lupus, all dropped like flies.  Remember, that’s a serious comorbidity too according to….. everyone who is a so-called expert.  So all those people died.

Oh wait…. they’re not dead at rates higher than were seen in 2019?  WTF?  Heh, wait a minute — aren’t most of those people taking Plaquenil?  You do know what Plaquenil is, right?  Hydroxychloroquine, otherwise known as HCQ.  You have to wonder; there’s exactly zero evidence that Covid nailed them at all and most of them are in fact using that eeee-viile drug that the CDC, FDA and Pharma all say doesn’t work.  Well if it doesn’t work and being immune compromised is a risk factor how come there is nearly zero excess death among those people?  Either being immune compromised is not a comorbidity or HCQ looks to be pretty damned protective of people with a serious comorbidity.  Duh.  Yes, there were 1,818 more dead people.  Count ’em folks, they did not drop like flies; that resulted in only a 3% increase for a condition that was expected to be a death sentence if infected by Covid-19.

The most-likely explanation for their lack of death is the drug a huge percentage of them are using.

That would be two drugs now validated by natural experiment and intentionally ignored by all of these goons eh?

All right, all right, I know, I know….. heart attacks got lots of people.  It’s gotta show up somewhere; it must be heart attacks.

Hmmmm…. yes, there was a really, really ugly spike in the first few weeks wasn’t there?  About 3,000 of them one week, which is really awful.  That, times 53 weeks, would be….. about 150,000 corpses.  Except…. it didn’t stay that bad, did it?  No, but it was elevated, and materially-so over the entire year.  This is problematic though because it goes to what I was talking about the science now saying that spike protein itself is pathogenic, and in the form of causing blood clots.  Clots, of course, cause heart attacks and then the question will become are the vaccines going to cause lots of heart attacks too?  Better keep an eye on this one because that elevation level is very material, unlike all the rest of them we’ve seen so far.  And here we have real death: to be specific, 47,973 more corpses resulting in a 7% increase, so whatever those folks are taking it sure didn’t help.  THAT is an ugly number especially considering that heart disease is already up there with the worst of the “why you died” list.

Let’s talk strokes; they’re nasty too in the general sense.  So did they take a similar hit?

Uh, yeah they did.  A couple hundred extra dead people a week is nothing to sneeze at and also bears watching in the coming months because once again you can’t tell much about the most-recent weeks yet…. or can you?  In 2020 we did have 12,404 more fatal strokes and that too is an ugly number of slightly larger magnitude in percentage terms than for heart attacks, an 8% increase.

What’s the common thread between heart attacks and strokes?  Clotting.

And finally, the “aw crap we don’t know what it was” column:

Ummmm…. Yeah.

Note that in 2020 this accounted for a grand total of 9,635 more bodies.  But in 2021, well…..

Now a good amount of that disappears back into the other classifications over time, so setting off nuclear alarm sirens isn’t quite called for yet.  But anyone who tells you that there’s no safety signal when you have a very large spike that is now nearly four months old and unresolved into other cataloged conditions has rocks in their head.  That’s just flat-out bull**** considering that we now have over a year’s worth of experience with Covid-19.

Yes, there’s backlog, there’s late reporting and there’s updated reports that come in over time.  All true and maybe that finding will all disappear back into the other charts over the next six months or so.  But by God it had better, because if it does not and the so-called “authorities” ignore it there’s your evidence, correlated exactly with when we started stabbing people en-masse, that people were dying of those stabs and if it continues then the presumptive linked causal factor is going to be established since there is no other material “unknown” that has materially changed during that time period.

I still can’t find 500,000 excess deaths caused by Covid in 2020; they’re simply not there among the diseases the CDC reported out and since the base risk is 1/50,000 even across half the population being infected we could only account for 3,000 deaths.  It is thus clear that if in fact Covid-19 has killed anywhere near the number of people claimed those other morbid conditions, all of which are serious diseases standing alone, have to account for the increase between them.

Indeed the most-common, by far (40% of additional deaths by disease) were due to heart attacks and the next was diabetes at 13%.  Between diabetes and heart attacks, both almost-exclusively due to lifestyle choices and thus your personal decisions, 53% of the excess 120,475 deaths are accounted for.  If we add in strokes, which also are largely lifestyle-related then we’re at about 2/3rds.

Among those diseases that are allegedly “the biggest comorbid factors” I can find only 120,475 more deaths that Covid-19 may have contributed to and which included those diseases as a causal factor in total.  Did Covid-19 cause all of those 120,000 additional deaths or were they caused by, in the case of diabetes, strokes and heart attacks for example, the additional 50lbs that a material percentage of people put on during the lockdowns (and over 20lbs on average!) from eating takeout trash full of fast carbs and being involuntarily cooped up in their homes?  We do not know so this can only describe an upper boundary or caused mortality — not a lower one.

This analysis doesn’t mean even more people didn’t die with Covid, but an alleged “Covid” death that wasn’t accompanied by one of the CDC’s specifically-called out diseases.  The CDC “selects” these specific categories and ICD codes, I remind you, because they’re particularly large percentages of the whole among diseases that kill people.  When the CDC says that only a few thousand people died of Covid alone this data is rather interesting wouldn’t you say?

After all being shot while Covid positive, or ODing, dying in a car wreck or wrapping your motorcycle around a telephone pole in no way implies you died of Covid, does it?  To so-imply or state is to deliberately deceive the public and inculcate fear; it is a lie.

Yet the media and government have in fact said it did because they have repeatedly claimed more than four times the number of people who the CDC links to specific diseases in fact died “of” Covid-19.

The CDC’s own data proves they lied.

Further, they claim that we had “no evidence” for the effectiveness of repurposed drugs; that’s also a bald lie in that there are at least two which are specifically used en-masse by millions in the group of people in two of these morbidity buckets and both of them saw materially less death than was expected.  In other words we had very strong observational evidence across a huge body of people that these drugs are protective and did nothing with that information.  Had we acted and had those drugs proved effective the EUAs for vaccines would have been illegal, there would have been no need or desire for vaccines at all and a huge number of people who are currently dead would still be alive.

To be blunt: By the CDC’s own data the FDA, NIH, CDC, Fauci and others lied and as a direct result people died.

Do you think they’re being honest about the safety of the jabs given these facts?  After all it’s your ass since they made sure you couldn’t sue or prosecute anyone if they get caught lying again.

The CDC’s published source files from which you can reproduce these results on your own are found here and here.

PS: How long before, if the “unknown” data verifies, Mr. Puddinhead is forced to go on TV and eulogize all those who died due to taking shots predicated on a bogus premise, specifically one crafted before we had the science on the fact that the spike protein itself is pathogenic, as is now known — and thus any such attempt would inevitably harm or kill a significant number of people — more than the non-morbid percentage who die from natural infection, since their body is able to prevent the infection from becoming systemic.

So You Want To Believe The So-Called ‘Experts’?*

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

Let’s go down the list.

• This virus was newly discovered in January of 2020. FALSE; Judicial watch has now proved that Fauci and the NIH knew that Covid-19 was diagnosed no later than December 2nd 2019 in Wuhan.  This was deliberately concealed under confidentiality agreements between China and the NIH.  In short Dr. Fauci and the NIH knowingly and repeatedly lied about the time of first discovery and diagnosis and it is documented that this was known in February and early March and not disclosed.  We also now know with scientific certainty that the virus was in the US no later than the second week of December of 2019 because antibodies were found in about 1.5% of blood donations from that time.  This, along with the sequencing back-computation I performed in early 2020 places the latest the virus entered the US as sometime in October of 2019 and from the blood bank data it is scientifically proved it had infected about 1.5% of the population, or roughly 4 million people in the US, by the second week of December 2019.  This in turn means that we had widespread disease which was blamed on something else. Indeed we handled all 4 million of those cases just fine up until the hysteria started, didn’t we?  You didn’t even know those 4 million sick people, and those who died of it, existed prior to the hysteria being ginned up.
  
• 15 days will slow the spread. “If we all stay home and minimize contact for 15 days — including closing businesses, schools and not traveling — Covid will be under control and we can trace infections and stop it.”  FALSE and we now know impossible because the virus was already all over the country on an uncontrolled basis by that time and the NIH knew the virus had been circulating for at least a month earlier than they admitted at the time.It is true that if you immediately slam your borders shut 100% you can trace and quarantine yourself out of a transmissible epidemic — at the cost of essentially all external trade, travel and tourism.  But Fauci factually knew when we started that this was impossible because the virus had been spreading here for at least two months at the time and we hadn’t done a thing about it for those two months.  We were later to learn it was four months and perhaps longer.
• If you give us 30 more days (remember, this is now six weeks to slow the spread) it’ll work. FALSE AGAIN for the same reason; the NIH and Fauci knew there was no possible way to contain the virus when the original 15 days expired as he knew, factually, that the virus had been uncontained for at least three months.
• But the lockdowns and restrictions worked to save lives! Nope; this is called the “exception fallacy” and now a peer-reviewed journal entry demonstrates it.   We knew this early on too; indeed for five decades we’ve had “pandemic response plans” that make clear that once you have widespread community dispersion of an infectious agent attempting to lock down people or impose any other sort of non-pharmaceutical intervention is futile and causes harm.  We ignored said decades of hard-won experience — intentionally.
  
• We don’t have enough ventilators!  FALSE; not one of the DPA-produced ones was ever needed; NY’s Governor lied and had plenty of them, as did everyone else.
• Ventilators not only are needed they will save lives.  FALSE; they killed nearly everyone put on one then, and still do.  We knew they didn’t work in February as they killed 95% of the people put on then in Wuhan and this had been reported out by March.
• This is mostly a community-spread disease in places like stores, bars, restaurants, churches, concerts and the local city street.  FALSE; the CDC itself documented that more than half of all transmission was happening in homes and the next largest, and only other statistically material spread was occurring in industrial (e.g. meat packing) plants and health care settings.  Nashville suppressed the fact that they could only trace about one percent of infections to social businesses such as bars and restaurants and now the CDC itself has stated that less than 1% of spread is traceable to such public venues as restaurants and bars.  In other words we knew by late spring of 2020 the restrictions, including business closures, school shutdowns and masks couldn’t work as that’s not where the virus was spreading; we couldn’t shut down the industrial plants without starving the population and destroying both energy production and sanitary services leading to an immediate societal and economic collapse.  Nor could we invade every house and forcibly segment positive-tested people either; we had neither the resources nor would they get away with it without the cops and government goons being turned into swiss cheese.  And when it comes to health care we could have segregated Covid-19 facilities and the people working in care homes but intentionally did not.
• Asymptomatic transmission is a major risk.  FALSE.  Over millions of contacts traced in China not one was ever proved to be from an asymptomatic person.  There has never been scientific evidence that asymptomatic spread has been material in any pandemic through history and there is no documented evidence of material asymptomatic spread for Covid-19 in the US or anywhere else.  Worse, symptomatic persons least able to afford to call out sick due to lack of paid sick time or even the threat of being fired are those in low-wage and high-contact jobs such as fast food, grocery, meatpacking and other “essential” service industries never mind care home employees who are poorly paid and often moonlight in home health care among extremely vulnerable people.
• We had no way to stop the nursing home deaths and did the best we could.  FALSE.  I pointed out immediately after Kirkland occurred that isolating the employees from all general public interaction, effectively creating a bubble, would stop nearly all of the transmission into these environments.  We happened to have a lot of empty hotels at the time too.  Yes, we would have had to pay significant bonuses to entice employees to go nowhere other than that hotel room and to work but we could have, and if we did it would have saved nearly 50% of those who died in the first four months.  Not one so-called “expert” demanded or even suggested doing so but I was calling for exactly this in March of 2020.  This, of course leaves aside the various Executive Orders that intentionally seeded the virus into nursing homes in multiple states by multiple Governors.  Indeed even this winter in still-locked-down New York there was still no segregation of employees and residents were killed in size by infection brought into the care home by employees.  Recent small case number spikes have been associated with vaccine distribution.  How’s that possible?  There’s only one rational explanation: The health care workers are giving the virus to the patients getting the shot!  And yet we are still told that all these people are “heroes” and don’t you dare forget it.
• We didn’t — and don’t — have early treatment options that work. FALSE; Japan spent their effort on early treatment and keeping people out of hospitals.  They have roughly a third of our population and only 8,000 dead people.  Japan is far more-dense population-wise than us yet did a hell of a lot better despite having a materially older population.  What Japan didn’t do, in short, is spread the disease via their health care workers.  In short if you went to the hospital you were likely to die; this has proved out in my own county in Tennessee with a >60% death rate.  Up until we started with the panic porn — the entire first three months of this outbreak in the US until March of 2020 — we did fine too despite the virus being literally everywhere for months.   We in fact knew of several early treatment candidate drugs, all cheap and available, in March of 2000 and exactly zero of them were investigated by the NIH, CDC or any of the so-called “public health” institutions such as Vanderbilt, IHME, Johns Hopkins and others.  Those physicians and even hospital systems who did investigate them on their own were derogated, attacked and in some cases even threatened with license suspensions and other sanctions which continue to this day.
• Age is the primary determinant of risk.  FALSE; obesity and the panoply of health conditions caused and exacerbated by being a fat-ass is the primary determinant of risk.  Nations with lower obesity prevalence have a ten times lower or better risk of death from Covid-19 on a per-100,000 population basis.  Obesity is in each and every instance a lifestyle choice.  This was known very early on in the NY Coroner data which is updated frequently; only six persons 75 and older have died of Covid without one of a relatively short list of underlying conditions — and over 10,500 died with one or more.  Simply put most of those who died deliberately put themselves in a medically compromised condition through their own lifestyle choices just a person who drinks too much and ruins their liver decided to drink.  Absent those personal lifestyle decisions the death rate from this disease, while certainly not zero, is approximately half as likely as death due to an automobile accident over a year’s time.  Read here — this is exactly what I pointed out one year ago.  Who’s been right on this — and who’s been wrong?
• Existing drugs will not work and we have no existing treatments until you’re hospitalized; we must develop new treatments and vaccines.  FALSE.  The data is that ivermectin works, among others.  A trial out of Australia conducted in Britain (they locked everything in and did not have enough people in Australia who were sick) showed Budesonide (a cheap inhaled steroid used for asthma) works if given immediately when someone becomes symptomatic.  The latter trial was stopped because it was ruled unethical to not give the controls the medicine since it prevented ninety percent of hospitalizations.  Ivermectin has worked in every trial run thus far except one recently reported study the authors themselves state cannot prove effectiveness as the necessary deterioration in cases to do so was violated to the downside immediately, possibly due to widespread community use of the drug.  The data on HCQ says it works if used early but appears to be worthless if not used until you’re in the hospital.  Remdesivir, which has an EUA, was disproved — that is, shown worthless in a very large trial called “Solidarity” (along with several other drugs) and yet is still being used as it is on-patent and expensive. No drug works 100% of the time nor should it be expected to, but we should damn well not continue to use drugs that are proved worthless just because they cost $3,000 and the FDA issued an EUA for them.  Deliberately not treating people until they’re choking to death is monstrous and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, many if not most of them avoidable at a cost of a few dollars.
• Masks are the best tool we have to stop the spread and, if you just wear them for a few — 4, 6, 8 weeks — we will have Covid under control.   Stated under oath before Congress by the CDC’s director in September following multiple previous statements over a two month period in the summer by the CDC and NIH which urged (and got) the issuance of mandates.  FALSE and known false as Hawaii took a ten times case rate spike a month after their mandate.  This was known before Redfield perjured himself before Congress.  There are ZERO states which did not take a monstrous spike in the winter despite mandates including California with the most-strict lockdowns and mask mandates in the nation.  Compliance via multiple surveys has been around 90% with no evidence of effectiveness anywhere against non-mandate states and counties next door.  Those states including South Dakota and Florida who repudiated the mandates or refused to issue them in the first place had identical or better outcomes than the states and locales that imposed them.  The CDC has now itself published a MMWR (weekly report) in which they “claim” masks work — their definition of “work” is a shockingly tiny decrease in death and case rates and this assumes you ignore the confounding elements in their study that could invalidate even that tiny impact.  Their “study” also deliberately did not include the control counties (where there were no mandates); if you did, for example, Blount .v. Sevier, it would be obvious that the curve in fact was worse in the mandate county in many cases.In other words despite the nearly year-long and continual screaming about masks even the CDC itself now states that out of the 500,000 dead statistically no lives were saved at best, they deliberately ignored the control counties and further, statistically-speaking it is entirely possible zero lives were saved.  REMEMBER, WE WERE TOLD IN THE SUMMER AND EARLY FALL THAT MASKS WOULD ABSOLUTELY CONTROL THE VIRUS — NOT JUST SLIGHTLY REDUCE CASES — AND IN FACT THE CDC STATED UNDER OATH THAT MASKS WERE BETTER PROTECTION THAN A VACCINE.  THIS LIE WAS REPEATED FOR MONTHS AND IS STILL BEING REPEATED TODAY.  This wasn’t a random statement made “off the cuff” it was made under oath to Congress five months ago and has, over time and by the data, been conclusively proved to be a lie.
• The new strains will cause another spike even worse than the last one. FALSE; this was stated originally in the fall and repeated in December through February and yet since then cases have dropped like a stone despite these “new strains” becoming more and more prevalent.  Florida in particular has documented widespread prevalence of one of the “demon strains” that were trumpeted in Fauci’s fear porn.  There has been no spike.  Incidentally viruses mutate all the time; within the first few months there were hundreds of distinct viral RNA strains of Covid-19 known and that was only of the infections sequenced — a tiny minority.  If our actions do lead to new strains (specifically our ridiculously-unsound mass-vaccination campaign) and viral evasion occurs you may well be more screwed if you took the vaccine due to ADE than if you did not!
  
• The Super Bowl will cause a huge case, hospitalization and death spike in Florida due to the ridiculously crowded parties and no masks in bars and similar all over the Tampa area.  In fact the mayor threatened to arrest people for exactly this reason (an empty threat as the Governor had banned enforceability of said mandates.)FALSE; there has been no spike.  Look for yourself; it’s been over a month and cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all falling.  Where’s the spike?
• Texas dropping its mask order will lead to mass-disease and death.  FALSE; there has been no spike at all.  Biden called the move “Neanderthal thinking” and predicted disaster, as did California’s Newsom among myriad others, both among political leaders and so-called “medical experts” such as Fauci.  Multiple lefties claimed that “there is no limit to how far Republicans will go to kill people.”  The truth is that Covid-19 cases fell by 28% in the next two weeks.  The histrionics were, once again, wrong.
  
• If we social distance and wear masks we will buy enough time for the vaccines to be developed and approved.  FALSE.  The case and hospitalization rate on a national basis peaked and was falling before the first jab went in the first arm.  That which you do after something happens cannot be the cause.  Simply put the vaccines did not stop any of the death; despite the lack of testing and rushed approvals they came too late.
• The only people who count for “herd immunity” are those vaccinated.  FALSE; never in history has such a lie been propagated for any disease, ever, anywhere.  The CDC by its own estimates puts the lower boundary of persons infected and recovered at over 1/3rd of the nation and that’s their lowest estimate.  By more-reasonable belief the number is over half.  Those people have immunity and absolutely count.  Further, we knew in the first months that a material percentage of the population has pre-existing resistance to some degree, likely due to previous infection with other coronaviruses.  This is why the case rate peaked before fully-vaccinated persons existed in the US; there is no other possible explanation.
  
• Even if you’ve had the disease and recovered you should get vaccinated.  There is zero science behind this claim.  If you’ve had the measles or Chicken Pox would you take a vaccine against either?  I certainly would not and have not; that would be pointless and stupid.  The claim that there is no durable protection once infected is nothing more than conjecture; note that coronaviruses circulate among us all the time and while immunity may not be perfect (e.g. eventually you may well get it again) the odds are extremely high that if you do it will be a mild case and of no clinical or personal significance.  Suggesting that you take the risk of an experimental vaccine if you were previously infected is wildly inappropriate; there is no such thing as a drug without risk and there is zero scientific evidence that your acquired immunity will not protect you against serious disease.
  
• Even if you’ve been vaccinated or had the disease and recovered you should wear a mask and distance from others.  FALSE, unless you believe the vaccines are worthless.  If you believe the vaccine protects the person who takes it then you no longer need a mask or to distance and since others can choose to take a vaccine or not you have no reason to wear a mask or distance for allegedly protecting others either.  If you do not believe the vaccines are effective protection then why did you take it?  In short you either believe that you gain immunity by vaccination or infection or you do not; if you do then there’s no reason for you to take any measures beyond either recovery or completion of the vaccination.  Further, if you don’t believe infection and recovery provides meaningful and durable protection then neither will the vaccine so the same scenario applies to both cases and if you do not then believe the shots are protective then you are stupid for accepting them.

These are the very same people folks — the NIH, the CDC, State Departments of Health, Fauci, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, IHME, Vanderbilt and many more who now tell you after a solid year of unbroken lies and falsehoods that the vaccines are both safe and effective while at the same time our government has provided a 100% waiver of all liability to the pharmaceutical companies that developed and manufactured them.

I note that unlike the other common vaccines that are safe and effective, and which took 10+ years to so-prove, the mechanism of action of these shots are wildly different; they use only part of the virus and rather than introduce it into your body they hijack your cellular metabolism to produce the spike protein exactly as would a replicating infection with the virus, but since only the “spike” is there rather than the entire virus the hypothesis is that hijacking your cellular metabolism in this fashion will not hurt you.  While for other vaccines the immunity produced is metabolically identical to infection because a killed whole virus that cannot replicate is used in this case the shots deliberately cause replication in your body of only one part of the virus, the spike protein.  This is not identical to the broad immunity provided by natural infection because it can’t be with this approach; if the entire virus was used you’d get the disease and it would be systemic in every case instead of localized to your upper respiratory tract.  Further, unlike a killed virus vaccine that cannot replicate in your body at all these shots all cause production of the spike protein by your cells exactly as would an infection and that production is systemic since it is given by injection and thus circulates through the body.

The safety of this approach is unproved and in fact the rate of deaths closely associated with these vaccines is wildly higher than that associated with any of the other routinely given vaccinations including flu and chicken pox.  The intermediate and longer-term effects of this approach including the possibility of long-term or even permanent damage as a result of systemically hijacking your cellular metabolism to produce that foreign protein are unknown.

Unlike a mask you can remove you cannot un-take a shot and the litany of those previous lies killed over 400,000 Americans who otherwise would not have died.

What if their statements are false this time, specifically on safety?  What if viral evasion shows up as did during early trials for a SARS vaccine in animals, trials that were abandoned and not performed for these preparations?  It typically takes ten years to know if a candidate vaccine produces unacceptable side effects including lifetime disability due to immune dysfunction, never mind exactly how effective it is and for how long.  Further, the media and these people continually claim that nobody has been killed by these vaccines yet VAERS, the CDC’s own reporting data which is public, shows roughly two thousand associated deaths.  The number of associated deaths with the annual flu shot from last year’s flu vaccination which shipped roughly 170 million doses, was twenty-six.

That means the Covid-19 shots are associated thus far with roughly seventy five times (7,500%) as many deaths as last year’s entire set of flu vaccines!  Remember that we give flu vaccines to old and morbid people just like the first priority for Covid-19 vaccines, so these should produce similar “associated” rates of bad events if they are similarly safe.

VAERS reporting is voluntary and thus always under-reports vaccine-associated events.  Association does not establish causation but a pattern of 75 times as many deaths as are associated with another commonly-given vaccine in the same population group damn well ought to raise anyone’s eyebrows; to claim that such does not represent a “safety signal” is a flat-out lie.

I remind you that the false statements of alleged facts outnumber, by a wild margin, the true ones particularly when it comes to things you were told to do that “would work” to stem the spread of this virus.  Every single one of those claims has been proved false over time.

In short you’re now being exhorted to believe a cadre of people and government agencies who are proved repeated liars and to trust them with your life after their previous lies killed your mother.

The facts are that Covid-19 basically burned itself out before the first shot went in the first arm and that none of the mitigating factors prevented net deaths from occurring; in fact all these mitigations, from mask orders to lockdowns to closing businesses and others caused more deaths due to ODs, suicides, avoidable heart attacks and strokes not screened for and other maladies by a wide factor than the mitigations, even using fatally flawed claims taken on faith by these very same agencies, could have possibly saved.  The actions we could have taken to actually reduce death, specifically as regards care home and other medical facilities we deliberately refused to do and we knew those actions would save lives.  Instead of protecting the most-vulnerable while those least-likely to be seriously harmed were naturally infected and built a wall of population immunity we deliberately refused to protect those older and sicker people from infection via the health care system and they died.

Given this record of falsehoods, actions and intentional refusals to act you’re willing to bet your life they’re telling the truth this time?

Even without full testing there may be reason for certain people to accept the vaccine, particularly those at specifically-high risk who have not had the virus.  However, on the data if you are not specifically morbid in known ways the risk of death from Covid-19, by the CDC’s own data along with that of the NY coroner, is approximately 3/100,000.  From the associated deaths in the CDC’s own VAERS system it appears the vaccines are approximately as dangerous to materially more dangerous than the disease in non-morbid individuals and that is without having any data on intermediate and longer-term effects which can only add to those risks.  Further, if you’ve already been infected with Covid-19 you already have broad immunity and there is zero scientific evidence that vaccination can be of any value to you whatsoever.

When do we stop allowing people like Fauci, the CDC, Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Governors along with various health departments to lie through their teeth about virtually everything related to this virus?

Is not your dead Grandmother enough reason to put a stop to this horse**** — and all who support it?

Our Government And Medical System, Murderous Pricks*

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

Before I begin for those who want to call health-care workers “heroes”: Damn near every single “doctor” and hospital are included in the title of this article, and throughout I shall prove it.

Let’s start with President Trump and his HHS jackass who put into place financial incentives for people to wind up in the hospital, particularly those over 65 who are on Medicare, with even more financial incentives if you were put on a ventilator.

USA Today, hardly a “right wing conspiracy rag”, said this back in April of 2020:

We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.

Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it’s considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.

May I remind you that on the data from Wuhan we knew that 90+% of the time being put on a ventilator was futile for Covid-19 patients, and again, we knew that in March.

Doubt me?  Here’s the study data which I reported out at the time — March of 2020.

Why would you pay three times more if you did a thing that had a 90+% rate of killing someone unless you wanted them to die?

That which you pay more for you will get more of — every time.

Now you can go ahead and claim that nobody “falsified” the data with regard to hospitals and death certificates, that is, claimed someone had Covid-19 and it killed them when they didn’t.

That doesn’t matter when you get down to brass tacks.

What does matter is that we knew how to stop people from being killed by Covid-19 all the way back to the summer months, conclusively so, in nearly every case.  Yes, in some cases therapy and early intervention will fail (so do vaccines some of the time) but in most cases these therapies succeed.

When did we know that early intervention worked in old people particularly?

In April of 2020.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bfNrzv8t9lk%3Fenablejsapi%3D1%26origin%3Dhttp%3A

Did we make that something to be widely used immediately, back in April of 2020?

NO.  In fact we did the opposite; the NIH specifically recommended against the use of Ivermectin.

If you don’t go to the hospital then the hospital doesn’t make their extra money, particularly if you’re 65+ and on Medicare.  If the hospital doesn’t get you in there or you don’t get sicker they don’t get the even larger, three times larger, bonus from putting you on a machine that is extremely likely to kill you.  Who is at the greatest risk from Covid-19?  Those over 65 and thus on Medicare; statistically-speaking this is a disease that harms damn few younger individuals.

As the evidence piled up in the summer did we change the recommendations?

NO.

All the way to December we did not and indeed as of today the NIH position is “neutral”!

Again folks: These are real clinical physicians who are using this therapy in extremely high-risk patients with a 90-100% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths.  Not once, not twice, repeatedly in every case.  In addition there is not one failed clinical trial on record.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jvkoh6mdqy4%3Fenablejsapi%3D1%26origin%3Dhttp%3A

Why did we not strongly recommend and use Ivermectin despite the overwhelming evidence that it worked all the way back to April of 2020?

The $30,000 in extra payments to the hospital wasn’t enough — oh no, there were in fact tens of billions of dollars at stake, and your mother, grandfather or other family member had to be slaughtered in order to make sure that money flowed and kept flowing. 

An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is a mechanism to facilitate the availability and use of medical countermeasures, including vaccines, during public health emergencies, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. Under an EUA, FDA may allow the use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have been met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. Taking into consideration input from the FDA, manufacturers decide whether and when to submit an EUA request to FDA.

The EUAs for vaccines (and Remdesivir) were illegal if there was an adequate, approved and available alternative.  HCQ, Ivermectin (and budesonide) are all available and approved drugs.  This meant that in order to obtain EUAs for Remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies and the vaccines on an EUA basis it was necessary to deliberately deny that the use of these existing therapeutic agents were adequate even though the data was that their use prevented somewhere between 75 and 90% of all hospital admissions when used early and even when not used until hospital admission prevented the majority of intubations and deaths.

In other words the data is that they work as well as a vaccine.

If that is not “adequate” would you mind telling me what would be?

Our governments at the federal and state levels, all 50 states including those like Tennessee and Florida which have claimed to be “leaders” in Covid-19, deliberately sat back and let your loved ones be denied known safe and likely effective treatments for Covid-19 and the data says that as a direct result of that intentional refusal a whole lot of them are dead.

Most, but not all physicians and hospitals not only went along with this bull**** they explicitly supported it and the hospitals got to bill Medicare for every person over 65 at a greatly elevated rate by doing so.

This is why the vast majority of thosewho Covid-19 killed have died.

Our local hospital’s record here is that nearly 65% of those admitted for Covid-19 left in a box.

Damn near all of those individuals should have survived but then the roughly $5 million our local hospital obtained in “extra and triple-extra payments”, assuming most or all of the 163 dead were on Medicare, would not have been paid out to them.

There was no medical reason for any of the hysteria, closures, mandates or anything else — including vaccines.

Why are you still quietly putting up with this bull****, including mask mandates, business and school closures and more?

Our government, physicians and hospitals knew how to keep Covid-19 from being a serious threat to your health in April of 2020 with cheap and widely-available drugs just as physicians use antibiotics for bacterial infections on a daily basis that would otherwise be deadly.  Instead of using known safe and available existing drugs they intentionally let the virus kill nearly a half-million people along with the government destroying the education of our children and countless businesses and jobs for the explicit purpose of funneling billions of dollars to the medical and pharmaceutical industry, along with furthering the political aspirations of various actors all through the United States.

These were not deaths that occurred despite our “best efforts”; they were mass-homicide.

If you are willing to let your government slaughter your mother while believing their intentionally-false claim that wearing a diaper on your face “works” and as a result you sat back for the last year and watched 500,000 of your countrymen and women die rather than rising up and holding every one of those ghouls accountable for the unnecessary death they deliberately allowed for both political and financial profit then you are the monster.

In my nearly six decades of drawing breath on this rock I’ve never seen our government, until Covid-19 showed up, take actions that I believed were worthy of a no-bull**** uprising with essentially every government official at all levels being physically dragged out of office by their hair and tossed into the street with nothing more than their underwear remaining to their name.  Never in my adult life would I have believed that our government, with its alleged “checks and balances”, would deliberately kill half a million American citizens over 12 months time by allowing them to choke on their own spit through the intentional concealment and outright suppression of known safe medical therapies via threats, executive orders, outright lies and even license suspensionsfor the explicit purpose of enriching certain “chosen people and corporations” both politically and economically.

Over the last 12 months I’ve read well over a hundred scientific and medical research papers and myriad references which in my opinion document conclusively that this is in fact exactly what happened at a level of proof more than sufficient to sustain criminal convictions.

I’ve given this virus and our government’s response to it at all levels more than one full year of my effort as an independent journalist.

That ends today, February 28th, 2021.

Insanity Defined

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

This is what I’ve referenced repeatedly over the years, and many times with regard to Covid and multiple claims, whether it be masks, the PCR testing, other alleged mitigations and similar.

Too many of its findings that fill the academic ether are the result of shoddy experiments or poor analysis. …  A rule of thumb among biotechnology venture capitalists is that half of published research cannot be replicated. Even that may be optimistic. Last year researchers at one biotech firm, Amgen, found they could reproduce just six of 53 “landmark” studies in cancer research. Earlier, a group at Bayer, a drug company, managed to repeat just a quarter of 67 similarly important papers. A leading computer scientist frets that three quarters of papers in his subfield are bunk. In 2000-10 roughly 80,000 patients took part in clinical trials based on research that was later retracted because of mistakes or improprieties.

Think about the scope of this problem.  It is by no means limited to the medical field; indeed environmental matters are some of the worst, especially in the so-called “global warming” field.

As just one example we all know the oceans are connected bodies of water.  That is, unlike a lake which may be impounded and thus rise and fall with the amount of rain, water drawn for irrigation or used to produce electricity independent of another lake a few miles away the oceans all connect to each other and as anyone who has ever put water into two containers connected together knows it will flow through the connection until they are both at the same level.

Tidal forces and such are different in different places, but consistent in one location.  Nonetheless you cannot dump a bunch of “extra” water into the Gulf of Mexico, for example, and have it remain there and not influence the level of water everywhere else in the oceans because all of them are connected.

So we were told back in the 1990s and early 2000 timeframe that over the next 100 years starting from 2000 the sea level would rise by more than five feet on a more-or-less linear basis.  Ok., that’s a testable claim.  Fortunately (or not so much for the screamers) I built a dock shortly after I bought my home right at the start of that time frame in Florida.  I know exactly where the cross-members on the pilings and their bolts, which obviously do not move, were at both high and low tide in both winter and summer.  While sand comes and goes, particularly with storms, the water level is independent of that unless the dock becomes “stranded” (no water at all.)  I also put a ladder on the dock that, when in the “down” position allowed you to climb out of the water, and in the “up” position was clear of the water by under a foot at high tide in the summer.  Why so little?  Because you want it to extend down far enough to get on it when it’s down, of course but you do not want the lower end submerged when not in use or all manner of things (including oysters, which are very sharp and will slice through you like a razor blade when you break them with your foot!) will grow on the bottom rung.

Well, 20 years passed and…… the ladder still had the same clearance.  The bolts were in the same place at high and low tides, winter and summer.  If there was any change at all it was perhaps an inch — small enough that I cannot reliably state that there was any impact whatsoever.  Yet I was promised……. a foot of increase, which would submerge the bottom of that ladder in the “up” position.

It didn’t happen.

Obviously those “models” were wrong.  Where’s the apology?  More to the point since the thesis was blown why are we taking any sort of “mitigating” steps today when the claimed reason for it was wrong?

It’s even worse in certain other areas.  Cancer researchers have only been able to replicate ten percent of the studies.  When you think about the implications there your hair ought to stand up.  People with cancer and their doctors make decisions that, if wrong, wind up with the person being dead.

As the CEI points out there is inherent bias when people are paid to do something.  The entire point of peer review and similar metrics is to try to remove that bias, which otherwise will wind up in the results.  This is especially bad when we start talking about computer models .vs. empirical observations and data collection, as someone who started programming in machine code on various devices, including the PDP-8, PDP-10, a weird Burroughs bookkeeping machine and the Z-80 I think four decades of experience likely gives me a bit of credibility in this area.  In short if you tell someone doing a computer model either by statement or implication by where the “study” comes from what you want and you’re writing the check you are nearly certain to get it.

But all that means when you get that result is that the check cleared.

Think about the problems we have now with Covid-19.  We knew in March that ventilators were useless; this disease was not ARDS, and 95% of the people ventilated at Wuhan died.  Nobody in their right mind would promote and focus on a “therapy” that kills you 95% of the time.

But we did — in fact Trump, Fauci, the CDC, Cuomo and others went so far as to use a wartime statute, the Defense Production Act, to produce many copies of a very expensive and clinically useless device.  They did this despite knowing it was useless.  I pointed this out in March.

We killed thousands this way.

But it didn’t end there.

We have various entities claiming masks work including the CDC in a very-recent MMWR report.  Their claim is pure propaganda; they deliberately selected the time frame coming into the late spring and summer, stopping in middle October, timing same for the institution of mandates right into the hottest and highest insolation months in the United States and even worse they omitted those jurisdictions from consideration that had no mandates.  As such they intentionally included confounding factors (like how much Vitamin D people get from being outside) and control groups that would identify those confounding factors by showing the same general shape of the curve (places without mandates.)  That would be bad enough but to omit the last few months as the confounding factors disappeared but the mandates did not when all those places with mandates took enormous spikes in infections, hospitalization and death is unconscionable and intentionally fraudulent considering the publication date of 2/5/2021.

There is also the intentional willful refusal to follow the data on various prophylaxis and treatment options, including Vitamin D, HCQ and Ivermectin while at the same time trumpeting Remdesivir which has a much worse efficacy and safety profile than any of the others.  Of course Remdesivir is on patent and expensive where Vitamin D costs either nothing or pennies and the others are long off-patent and cost under $20.  Note that the others have decades-long safety records and thus very well-understood contraindications and side effect profiles, where Remdesivir, being a new drug, does not — but in the study used to get an EUA it demonstrated a roughly 30% risk of significant adverse event including both cardiac and liver damage.

Then there is the willful refusal to follow the data with regard to both aerosol and fecal transmission of Covid-19.  We knew fecal spread was nearly certain in February and March of 2020 when there were multiple incidents in China and Hong Kong within apartment buildings with tenants who did not know each other and were separated by many floors and their apartments did not have “P” traps on the sinks.  The only plausible mechanism of transmission was via fecal aerosols expelled out the sinks as the secondary cases were all on the same vertical drain stack.  We even have multiple states and locales testing sewage to detect Covid-19 yet to this day the CDC maintains that the only means of transmission is via respiratory droplets.  That’s flat-out nuts yet to admit that fecal transmission or aerosols are in play mean that masks are worthless or even harmful since you are more-likely to touch your face with a mask on after coming into contact with contamination.

If “just make a claim promoted by someone who paid you” was just centered around Covid-19 it would be one thing but it’s not, even within the medical field.  Statins are another example; in persons who have not had a heart attack or occlusive stroke while they do lower blood cholesterol they don’t change all-cause mortality.  We’ve known this for over 10 years and it should be obvious that if reducing cholesterol does not in fact stop people from dying then cholesterol was not the reason they were dying in the first place.  The same is true for people with stable angina and stents: The insertion of stents in such persons does not change all-cause mortality.

Another example: While high blood pressure is indeed associated with all manner of bad things up to so-called “Stage 1” high blood pressure while drugs do lower blood pressure the data is that they do not change all-cause mortality just like statins don’t.  In other words yes, your blood pressure goes down but dead is dead and the drugs do not stop you from being dead.  At higher levels it’s a different story as there we do see lower risks of death and serious morbidity yet we put people on drugs for decades that, by the data, does not make them less-likely to die or have serious disorder occur in their body but does make the drug manufacturers money.

The problem is that all drugs and procedures have risk.  Stents kill right around 1% of the people who get them at the time of the procedure or shortly thereafter and nearly 10% are readmitted to the hospital due to serious complications within the next 30 days.  Does that sound “safe” to you?  Cardiologists and hospitals with cath labs who make millions of dollars placing them in people will tell you it is but on the data that risk is only reasonable if you are having a heart attack.  Yes, in that instance where the risk of death if the procedure is not done is nearly 100% it is clear that a 1% risk of dying from the procedure is far better.

But if you’re not having a heart attack taking a 1% risk of dying, and a 10% risk of being readmitted to the hospital within the next month due to complications, all of which you pay for never mind the procedure itself is crazy.  You’re far better off to stop eating carbohydrates and drop 50 lbs instead.  That has no discernable risk and a whole host of benefits.

Statins cause significant muscle damage (myopathy) in many people and limit their exercise performance.  In a small percentage of people this does not just limit exercise tolerance it kills directlyvia rhabdomyolysis, a syndrome in which muscle tissue is destroyed (your heart is a muscle, remember) and the byproducts of same do severe damage to both the liver and kidneys.  Again, if you’ve had a heart attack already then perhaps this risk is worth it — but for people who have not the computation is nowhere near as simple.

It would be nice to pin all of the Covid-19 insanity on some crazy outbreak of stupidity or even intentional action such as lacing the water with psychedelic drugs but the facts are that this sort of insanity has permeated all of what is called “science” for decades.

Again, as I’ve said before and will leave you with this is the the bottom line: If you cannot reliably repeat the results claimed and/or are not given sufficient information to be able to do so it is not science, it is a cult or worse, intentional fraud.

To Recap: You Were Conned

By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker

Remember what we were told: Vaccines were the way forward, back to normality.

That was a lie — just the latest (and almost-certainly not the last) in a long string of lies.

Let me start by saying this: it is weird. I have about a month under my belt since the second vaccine and still experience a dizzying mix of guilt and delight. Note to fellow vaccinees about this topic: dealing with this juggling act interests absolutely no one who has not been vaccinated (but everyone who has).

Guilt and delight?

Delight at…. what, exactly?

I saw this the other evening at the pub — some older folks who were in delight they were getting vaccinated.  Sitting in a bar, where they’ve sat for months, drinking with friends which of course means within six feet of distance without a magic mask, since it’s damn hard to quaff a beer with a diaper on one’s face.

One related that a friend had been in the hospital for two weeks and was definitely saved by Remdesivir.  Solidarity, arguably the best science available on Remdesivir, says the drug is worthless.

Death occurred in 301 of 2743 patients receiving remdesivir and in 303 of 2708 receiving its control (rate ratio, 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.81 to 1.11; P=0.50)

When I pointed this out I was told it definitely saved his life; damn science to Hell.  You know, what we’re supposed to believe in and follow?

You see the drug cost $3,000 and has an EUA therefore it has to be good and it definitely saved his life.  The off-patent drugs that cost $10 definitely would not work as well or better — never mind that even if neither budesonide or ivermectin worked (the science says they both do) they’d be as effective as Remdesivir but drain 1/100th as much money from your bank account.

Nope.  The drug did make him $3,000 poorer and he lived anyway and that high price, of course, is what made it work.  I hope he dodged the quite-material risk of cardiac damage that the earlier trials disclosed.  If his friend has a heart attack two years from now odds are decent Remdesivir caused it.

One friend of mine, about my age but materially more-morbid than I am, has had the Coof, it didn’t kill her and she’s smart enough to recognize that there is no benefit to her from getting the shot.  She has no intention of doing it.  Indeed there might be harm (as with any medication) so since she’s already had the disease it’s bone-headed stupid to get inoculated.  She gets it — but that was one out of four.

One of the “shooters” was proudly showing off his “card” and strongly implying he’d demand everyone have them to go and do various things.  I pointed out that the law says in the US at least vaccine passports are illegal as they violate BOTH HIPPA and the ADA.  Can (and might) nations demand them for entry if you wish to travel internationally?  Yes.  That would be stupid, but they might and they can, as governments.  Can a public school do it?  Yes; and to do it they solicited and got a specific exemption in the law but they must protect that private health information.  Can a private business do that?  Nope, just as they cannot demand you prove you need that wheelchair if you roll up to their door in one.  As a former CEO who had to pay a fair bit of attention to ADA and HIPPA requirements when it came to employees and customers lest I get sued I’m well-aware of where those lines are.  If private firms start that crap they will get sued instantly and lose, taking it in both holes and be bankrupted by it because there are plenty of people who can’t take a vaccine for various reasons yet you cannot force them to prove it and you also can’t force someone to document their medical treatment and conditions without damn good cause (e.g. in furtherance of some sort of specific accommodation for a specific employee) and if you do obtain such information you must protect all personally identifiable information.  Unauthorized disclosure, in the case of PII within HIPPA, can be not just a civil but a criminal offense.

You think not?  Oh there are ambulance chasers all over the place who sue firms every day because the button on the wall to open the door (ADA required) is 3″ too high or the wheelchair ramp is an inch and a half out of spec.  That shakedown has been going on for decades and you can bet those folks are salivating at the potential to fry some big fish if anyone actually tries that crap in the US.  I for one will be happy to be a named plaintiff and will enjoy screwing every single such firm I can and all of their owners straight up their ass with no lube.

Never mind the stupidity of the demand, as is displayed right here:

Take, as an example, the experience of getting onto an elevator. At the start of the pandemic, this seemed a high-risk, Apollo 11 sort of dangerous blast-off moment. Now, however, it has become a test of will. Can I remove my mask … while still in the elevator? No one will see me! What would happen if I did? And what about touching the elevator button not with my elbow but with a bare fingertip?

Or what is the best plan for going to a grocery store? Extra masks? A scarf? Should I pay cash (requires receiving coins back) or credit card (Who knows where that machine has been?). Does my newly jazzed up immune system allow me to live a little? Do I dare eat a peach?

For me, the answer is clear. Not yet. The best advice, alas, is what the CDC is pushing: continue to hunker down and keep on doing what you’re doing.

Wait a minute….. isn’t the entire point of a vaccine to immunize you — that is, protect you — against a disease?

If you do not believe that’s what you are getting in exchange for the risk of those jabs in the arm why did you do it?

Don’t you take a measles vaccine to prevent you from getting the measles?  Are you scared to go out in public after being vaccinated against the measles because some illegal invader might have the measles?  No.  Yet among all the illegals in our nation, most completely unvaccinated, that’s actually rather likely and measles spreads a hell of a lot easier than does Covid-19!

So if you do believe you’re getting immunity if you let them jab you with the Covid vaccine then why are you hesitant to remove your mask and stab the elevator button with your bare finger?  Why are you still scared to go to the grocery store or eat a peach?

If you believe the vaccine is safe and effective, that is, it won’t hurt you and will keep you from getting the virus or at minimum being significantly harmed by it then why do you care if anyone else has been vaccinated?  You either believe it’s effective or you don’t.  If you do then you’re safe so why do you give a crap if I do not believe?  After all it’s my ass, not yours — you’re safe — right?  Isn’t this like believing you are going to Heaven if you live a pious life?  While you might preach to me in an attempt to convince me that Hell lies ahead if I do not change my ways in the end it’s my soul on the line, right?  

Not even the most-rabid preacher has the gall to stand up there on Sunday and tell you that your neighbor’s sin damns you to Hell.

Again: If you’re not convinced that the vaccine has rendered you safe then why did you take the jab in the first place?

Do you not recognize the giant con job you just bought into ladies and gentlemen?

I stopped rather quickly at the pub because with those three, at least, it was clear they were hell-bent to take a jab they did not believe in yet they were doing it anyway and trying to coerce other people to do so by threatening them.  For what purpose?  Clearly not prevention of disease because once you’re immune who gives a wet crap if someone else gets the bug?  If I’m wrong and die you get to laugh at my corpse.

If someone next to you isn’t vaccinated that’s on them — and can’t be you — right?

Again, isn’t that the entire premise of taking a vaccine in the first place?

How long before people figure this out?  The so-called “experts” don’t know because they didn’t test it and thus they don’t believe the jabs make you immune.  So why are they trying to con you into getting them and then keeping on with the precautions?

I’ll answer that for you: They sure as hell don’t want you to broil their spouses, children, nieces and nephews — and then them — if you take their recommended jab and then get deathly ill from the Coof, and you might do exactly that if you were told to take the stab and it didn’t work, especially if the data ultimately shows that no, you’re not the 1 in 100; statistically speaking nobody was actually protected and certainly not at the percentages you were told and sold.

So exactly when did we change from proving something is safe and effective with regard to this or that to oh no, you must continue to take precautions, which is a very-clear and in fact definitive statement that the very people that are purveying and advocating these jabs don’t believe they are effective or you would be told it’s perfectly ok to remove the mask and hug your friends two weeks after the second dose yet somehow you continue to be conned into rolling up your sleeve!

Never mind that the data says the vaccines are not why the case counts, hospitalizations and deaths are collapsing; the curve of infection rolled over, even with all the new “scary” variants, before the first stab went into the first arm.

That which occurs before you do a thing cannot be caused by the thing you do.

Duh.

Then look at the facts regarding treatments — cheap, over-the-counter ones and when we knew about them.  Or when we knew that anyone coming into a nursing home might infect the residents and kill them.  We stopped you from comforting your family member but we did not stop the employees from killing everyone in the place!  We knew how and in the first few months when tourism was basically zero it wouldn’t have been very expensive to have the staff all live in one for a few months either as damn near every hotel was almost-completely empty.

But those so-called “experts” who now tell you to take a jab didn’t do either or those things a year ago and your grandmother is dead as a result.

From my little informal survey it would appear that a very material percentage of the American population is either stupid or brainwashed, rolling up their arms for a jab that the experts state confers nothing in terms of benefit as you’re still told to wear that damn mask and stay away from others even after you’ve received both doses.  Worse, they’re listening to the very same *******s who killed 400,000 – 450,000 Americans already.

You’d think that anyone told this would either (1) refuse the jab and tell those purveying them to go pound sand since the person giving it to you has told you it’s worth nothing or (2) take the jab, remove the mask and BBQ the “officials” issuing such “recommendations” as obviously full of crap since they have now proved they have been issuing “rules” that have exactly nothing to do with health, whether personal or public, for the last year.