The Portugal narrative has to be upheld at all cost:
- If the Portugal wave is synchronous with "our" wave, but lower, it is due to the high vaccination rate in Portugal.
- If the Portugal wave is synchronous with "our" wave, but higher, it is due to the Portuguese having been vaccinated earlier, and loss of efficacy. But vaccination is gooood!
- If the Portugal wave precedes "our" wave (which is the case for Germany), it will be fairly low when we run into the peak; people will forget how bad it has been there, and claim that Portugal looks so much better now due to the vaccines.
- If the Portugal wave follows "our" wave, it is because the vaccines are so good (and maybe some seasonality).
- If the Portuguese start dropping dead in the street, it is due to climate change.
A few years ago, I found (unsent) letters and scribbled ramblings of a relative who was a rather touched in the head. The way the "experts" and "journalists" discuss coronavirus reminds me very much of my relative's ramblings. Obsessive. Navel gazing. The only difference is that my relative was less delusional.
I suppose that I have quite a bag of comparable experiences of such conversations by now. It's all text messages, though, no-one writes letters anymore.
I'll write something before too long, but my gut feeling is--it's about the next state-level elections, due in autumn, as well as the presidential election in mid-November: to avoid an even bigger loss, the régime castrates its one (failed) policy decision.
I could literally feel my IQ dropping ten points when reading those snippets from Der Standard. It's like swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark once remarked: "It's no use trying to explain to someone who cannot understand".
No matter what Austria does, thanks to lockdowns and injctions-mandataes the only option is to let Covid rip and hope for the best now, or keep injecting and locking down, up, out all the whle it rips through anyway.
Only, the more they inject, fewer and fewer will be able to develop any natural immunity, not to mention live with the side effects (less motile sperm and decreased sperm count as well as all the infertility issues for women should really be a concern for any smaller, not so populous nation).
Here in Sweden, where everyone is dead from Covid due to no mandates and no lockdowns if I understand german media correctly (I only learned a little german before the Wall came down, and half of it was from listening to music like Die Ärzte and reading comics like Kondom des Grauens by König or Werner by Brösel), number of cases stands at about 1 800 last week, of which 25% are older cases from a backlog. Testing is only done on people with obvious symptoms or in risk groups, so almost all of the identified cases are people 80+ of age.
ICU cases for last week stands at 4. People who died with the Covid virus present (regardless of cause of death) was 25, one of which were unvaccinated. This is not strange; any disease deemed a "sozial gefährliche Krankheit" (I'm trying to translate "disease deemed a danger to society"...) is always registred separately, even if the cause of death was a car accident or something completely unrelatd. It's just a feature of the reporting system.
So 1 800 cases, 4 needing ICU, and 25 dead out of 11 000 000. Do you think Der Standard and their experts would approve of those numbers, or would the cognitive dissonance (disjunction rather) be too strong, triggering their inherent crimestop?
I mean: no pressures on the healthcare system + the absence of any 'emergency' = fear-porn and doubling down on things that haven't worked…it boggles my mind, too.
By now, I fear it's mainly incompetence (which was there before) combined with 'fear' of having to admit failure.
I suspect that, by now, the medical establishment has so thoroughly discredited itself that any move towards admission of failure is life-threatening. Hence, the tripling-down, even though a honest apology, even if super-late, would probably go a long way towards restoring trust. Every day 'they'--doctors and politicians--wait, the bigger the problem will become in the end.
I fear, and I do mean fear literally, that you are right.
To use a parallel: psychology/psychiatry in Sweden was thoroughly Freudian/behaviourist until the mid-nineties for a very simple and very stupid reason.
The ones trained up until the sixties were Freudian through and through, since it was the only game in town almost, and those trained during the sixties and seventies were behaviourists for the same reason, meaning that no change to actual scientifically verifiable methods was possible until the freudians retired and the behaviourists moved up to admin posts to fill vacancies.
We've got a term for the process in swedish: "naturlig avgång", idiomatic meaning "no change until the old guard dies off on its own".
This may well prove to be the case for senior doctors and researchers and professors in Germany and Austria: they will keep doing this until the majority of them can retire without fear of lawsuits or any culpability. That also frees the politicians from responsibility: "Oh we trusted the Science, but clearly more oversight and control is needed. What, processes? Listen, these are old men and women with very distinguished careers behind them and their great work shouldn't be marred by a few minor misunderstandings right before their well-earned retirement". Ideally this spiel should be given by a retired or soon to be so politician.
Karl Brandt and his peers must be popping pop-corn around the clock, down in Hell.
Another issue, which I think is significant, is that many physicians are quite literally afraid of doing their own thinking: the state pays them, hence they don't practice the 'art and science of medicine', but they just follow 'recommendations' and the like.
‘The fourth injection boosts the immune system very quickly, and you have 60-70% protection against infection for the following 8-12 weeks.’
God knows whose arse those numbers were pulled out of. Protection against infection for the over 60s goes to 0% within 2 months according to an Israeli study in the NEJM. Not that the average media consumer would know that though.
Thankfully it is quiet here in Australia, despite some hypes earlier. So far, the data are similar to two months ago. And even the media have not beat up more scare stories. The fact that the hardline leftish States of Western Australia and Victoria had recently relaxed some measures is a fair indication that so far it has been ok.
Only about 20% of the people I saw were masked outdoors and indoors.
Brett Weinstein uses the analogy the synthetic compounds in the injection are like a fiberglass log in the forest in that is doesn't decompose naturally.
Doesn't decompose at all until the body dies then maybe aerobic bacteria will bind the unnatural foreign substance with carbon, but that's why these investors have so many crematoriums all over to burn away the evidence. The spikes are there and will transition into other cells not intended and kill those injected sooner or later. Now the overlords are afraid to have sentenced to death too many productive people so its the 65 and older crowd that has to be boosted (die quicker). Morphine sales are probably going through the roof about now. What a racket! Just my uneducated unqualified opinion.
Exactly, as you said a while ago: it's about the upkeep of appearences by now.
You know, once upon a time, I was a (visiting) faculty member of one of 'them': appearances being everything, and while I wouldn't discount, or call out, the brilliant minds working there, it's a fact that their imagination was…shall we say 'lacking'?
If they've been 'consistently…on the wrong side of the corona history' (and herein I tend to agree with you), I would up the ante by asking: what, when, and where else have they been 'on the wrong side'?
Only thing is--I'm unsure I'd really like to know these answers (but knowing them we must).
As an aside, thanks for your kind words about the relocation; I shall keep you informed about the progress, such as it is.
The Portugal narrative has to be upheld at all cost:
- If the Portugal wave is synchronous with "our" wave, but lower, it is due to the high vaccination rate in Portugal.
- If the Portugal wave is synchronous with "our" wave, but higher, it is due to the Portuguese having been vaccinated earlier, and loss of efficacy. But vaccination is gooood!
- If the Portugal wave precedes "our" wave (which is the case for Germany), it will be fairly low when we run into the peak; people will forget how bad it has been there, and claim that Portugal looks so much better now due to the vaccines.
- If the Portugal wave follows "our" wave, it is because the vaccines are so good (and maybe some seasonality).
- If the Portuguese start dropping dead in the street, it is due to climate change.
Oh my, Portugal must not fall. It's interesting to observe that nothing changes, even though the goalposts keep shifting almost every day now.
It will end, eventually, but I fear that the longer the reckoning is pushed into the future, the worse this will be.
A few years ago, I found (unsent) letters and scribbled ramblings of a relative who was a rather touched in the head. The way the "experts" and "journalists" discuss coronavirus reminds me very much of my relative's ramblings. Obsessive. Navel gazing. The only difference is that my relative was less delusional.
I suppose that I have quite a bag of comparable experiences of such conversations by now. It's all text messages, though, no-one writes letters anymore.
Thus passes the glory of the world, I suppose.
Wonder how much time it will take people to realize their only option is to not comply with this madness! On a mass scale!
Exactly.
The only way out is--resistance.
Wasn't expecting this..
https://www.heute.at/s/impfpflicht-soll-heute-komplett-abgeschafft-werden-100213794
23.06.2022, 08:04
Impfpflicht soll heute komplett abgeschafft werden
Vaccine mandate to be scrapped today
Überraschungseffekt am Donnerstagmorgen: Die Impfpflicht soll offenbar nicht nur erneut ausgesetzt, sondern komplett abgeschafft werden.
Thursday morning surprise: The vaccine mandate is apparently not just to be suspended again, but to be completely abolished.
That was unxpected, I agree.
I'll write something before too long, but my gut feeling is--it's about the next state-level elections, due in autumn, as well as the presidential election in mid-November: to avoid an even bigger loss, the régime castrates its one (failed) policy decision.
Well played.
Hi again, Witzbold, I just posted my 'official' reply.
I could literally feel my IQ dropping ten points when reading those snippets from Der Standard. It's like swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark once remarked: "It's no use trying to explain to someone who cannot understand".
No matter what Austria does, thanks to lockdowns and injctions-mandataes the only option is to let Covid rip and hope for the best now, or keep injecting and locking down, up, out all the whle it rips through anyway.
Only, the more they inject, fewer and fewer will be able to develop any natural immunity, not to mention live with the side effects (less motile sperm and decreased sperm count as well as all the infertility issues for women should really be a concern for any smaller, not so populous nation).
Here in Sweden, where everyone is dead from Covid due to no mandates and no lockdowns if I understand german media correctly (I only learned a little german before the Wall came down, and half of it was from listening to music like Die Ärzte and reading comics like Kondom des Grauens by König or Werner by Brösel), number of cases stands at about 1 800 last week, of which 25% are older cases from a backlog. Testing is only done on people with obvious symptoms or in risk groups, so almost all of the identified cases are people 80+ of age.
ICU cases for last week stands at 4. People who died with the Covid virus present (regardless of cause of death) was 25, one of which were unvaccinated. This is not strange; any disease deemed a "sozial gefährliche Krankheit" (I'm trying to translate "disease deemed a danger to society"...) is always registred separately, even if the cause of death was a car accident or something completely unrelatd. It's just a feature of the reporting system.
So 1 800 cases, 4 needing ICU, and 25 dead out of 11 000 000. Do you think Der Standard and their experts would approve of those numbers, or would the cognitive dissonance (disjunction rather) be too strong, triggering their inherent crimestop?
Yep, that's about it, eh?
I mean: no pressures on the healthcare system + the absence of any 'emergency' = fear-porn and doubling down on things that haven't worked…it boggles my mind, too.
By now, I fear it's mainly incompetence (which was there before) combined with 'fear' of having to admit failure.
I suspect that, by now, the medical establishment has so thoroughly discredited itself that any move towards admission of failure is life-threatening. Hence, the tripling-down, even though a honest apology, even if super-late, would probably go a long way towards restoring trust. Every day 'they'--doctors and politicians--wait, the bigger the problem will become in the end.
I fear, and I do mean fear literally, that you are right.
To use a parallel: psychology/psychiatry in Sweden was thoroughly Freudian/behaviourist until the mid-nineties for a very simple and very stupid reason.
The ones trained up until the sixties were Freudian through and through, since it was the only game in town almost, and those trained during the sixties and seventies were behaviourists for the same reason, meaning that no change to actual scientifically verifiable methods was possible until the freudians retired and the behaviourists moved up to admin posts to fill vacancies.
We've got a term for the process in swedish: "naturlig avgång", idiomatic meaning "no change until the old guard dies off on its own".
This may well prove to be the case for senior doctors and researchers and professors in Germany and Austria: they will keep doing this until the majority of them can retire without fear of lawsuits or any culpability. That also frees the politicians from responsibility: "Oh we trusted the Science, but clearly more oversight and control is needed. What, processes? Listen, these are old men and women with very distinguished careers behind them and their great work shouldn't be marred by a few minor misunderstandings right before their well-earned retirement". Ideally this spiel should be given by a retired or soon to be so politician.
Karl Brandt and his peers must be popping pop-corn around the clock, down in Hell.
I fear you're correct.
Another issue, which I think is significant, is that many physicians are quite literally afraid of doing their own thinking: the state pays them, hence they don't practice the 'art and science of medicine', but they just follow 'recommendations' and the like.
The outcome, though, is the same, I suppose.
‘The fourth injection boosts the immune system very quickly, and you have 60-70% protection against infection for the following 8-12 weeks.’
God knows whose arse those numbers were pulled out of. Protection against infection for the over 60s goes to 0% within 2 months according to an Israeli study in the NEJM. Not that the average media consumer would know that though.
I suppose The Science's backside?
I don't know where they get their numbers, but they do seem … odd, and off, by quite wide margins.
Epicycles galore. ;-)
Thankfully it is quiet here in Australia, despite some hypes earlier. So far, the data are similar to two months ago. And even the media have not beat up more scare stories. The fact that the hardline leftish States of Western Australia and Victoria had recently relaxed some measures is a fair indication that so far it has been ok.
Only about 20% of the people I saw were masked outdoors and indoors.
Earlier today, I saw a middle-aged woman with a mask. Outdoors. Carrying a bag full of Mc Donald's 'food'.
Can you imagine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lt0KdjK4m8
Brett Weinstein uses the analogy the synthetic compounds in the injection are like a fiberglass log in the forest in that is doesn't decompose naturally.
Doesn't decompose at all until the body dies then maybe aerobic bacteria will bind the unnatural foreign substance with carbon, but that's why these investors have so many crematoriums all over to burn away the evidence. The spikes are there and will transition into other cells not intended and kill those injected sooner or later. Now the overlords are afraid to have sentenced to death too many productive people so its the 65 and older crowd that has to be boosted (die quicker). Morphine sales are probably going through the roof about now. What a racket! Just my uneducated unqualified opinion.
That sounds like a lot of the stuff I've been reading on these unnatural 'clots'.
I'm in no way qualified to comment on the science in this, but one thing I do 'know' is this: it's a racket.
The anger is building, only revenge remains.
Exactly, as you said a while ago: it's about the upkeep of appearences by now.
You know, once upon a time, I was a (visiting) faculty member of one of 'them': appearances being everything, and while I wouldn't discount, or call out, the brilliant minds working there, it's a fact that their imagination was…shall we say 'lacking'?
If they've been 'consistently…on the wrong side of the corona history' (and herein I tend to agree with you), I would up the ante by asking: what, when, and where else have they been 'on the wrong side'?
Only thing is--I'm unsure I'd really like to know these answers (but knowing them we must).
As an aside, thanks for your kind words about the relocation; I shall keep you informed about the progress, such as it is.