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Just a few thoughts. RSV was not around in adults when I worked in healthcare x 40 years. It did appear on the scene in kiddies in the 80’s? Why is it now in adults?

H3N2? In the past, this strain causes more hospitalisations. Birds being culled by the millions now in USA. Different strain. Finally nearly every last person we know here in Devon, England has covid. Cold like symptoms. Has the covid virus become less virulent? Seems like it. But the vaxxes appear to be totally useless. Every older person we know has had three jabs and seem desperate for their fourth. They do not see what is in front of them.

One last thought tamiflu, an antiviral costs about $90 in the USA and is completely useless. We still don’t have access to ivermectin for early treatment for covid in the UK. Why did all countries, USA, UK, Norway STOP counting cases practically on the same day.

I can see chaos is rampant, record breaking cases of the plandemic, crisis in Ukraine/Russia, threat of “war”, airports cancelling flights in UK and USA due to ? because this appears to be all part of a sinister plan to create chaos and continue it until everyone folds. Maybe not, but it sure feels that way💕💕

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Spot-on with the RSV infections in adults.

Anecdotally, my brother-in-law and his wife both came down with virtually *anything* their 1.5yo brought home from kindergarten, incl. foot-mouth disease and literally everyone of my nephew's coughs led my in-laws to catch colds. Both adults are, of course, 'fully vaccinated' and 'recently boosted', with my sister-in-law even taking (the AstraZeneca) injection while breast-feeding. Now, my mother-in-law has to venture to their place every other week to look after them because either a parent is working or sick, or the little child can't go to kindergarten (either it's closed due to 'Covid' or he's ill) but my in-laws must go to work.

Speaking of little children, a while ago I did a piece on EudraVigilance (the EUropean VAERS equivalent), which showed that 485 new-born children (0-1 month) plus 747 toddlers (2 months to 2 years) = 1,232 babies who are collectively subject to 5,423 adverse events of all kinds, severity, etc.

The piece is here, if you wish to read on: https://fackel.substack.com/p/there-are-5423-ae-reports-in-eudravigilance

To me, it's obvious that some form of 'trans-infection' from mother to (unborn) child happens during pregnancy: that's how this works.

With breast-feeding, it's a bit different, I suppose, because the path-of-entry is no longer via the umbelical cord, hence there's 'more' mechanisms to filter out the bad things.

I don't know about 'shedding' of recently injected parents who caress their new-born child, but from what I gather, that's also an option here.

Re your penultimate comment: good question, isn't it? Especially with new regulations being mulled by the EU right now to extend the 'validity' of the Covid Passports (for they'd be expiring by 30 June 2022). Even in terms of 'political logic', it doesn't make sense.

Re the chaos: strikes a chord. I suppose your hypothesis--to do more chaos 'until everyone folds'--appears plausible. Would you think, though, that this is a 'side-effect' (no pun intended)? I think that none in power cares that much about any of us, hence I am beginning to think about it in terms of 'collateral damage' (which 'they' don't care about, too)…

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Apr 5, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Rough translation from Folkhälsomyndigheten, since they can't be arsed to provide information in english:

During week 11, 94 cases of flu verified by lab testing (whereof 91 type A and 3 type B). In comparison, week 10 saw 44 cases reported, of which 43 type A and one type B. The majority of cases come from Götaland (54%) and Svealand (37%). My note: -land denotes region, and these two regions are the most populous, so no surprises there.

Of subtyped samples so far during this season, 99% are flu A(H3N2).

During weeks 10 and 11 close to 10 000 and 9 000 samples resp. were analysed for flu. Of these, 0.5% and 1% resp. tested positive for flu.

The following links to the weekly update, which has self-evident graphs and charts halfway down the page:

[https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorapportering-statistik/statistik-a-o/sjukdomsstatistik/influensa-veckorapporter/aktuell-influensarapport/]

This should work as a like-for-like comparison seeing how similar Sweden and Norway is. When the flu was especially bad, 2017-2018, as much as 10% of ICU beds were filled (60 out of 600, yes we really only have 600 ICU beds for a population of 11 000 000 with the EU's most expensive and least available/efficient healthcare system, counted as money/cap).

As for demographics - comapare african wild dogs, hyenas and lions. Let's say each group loses 50% of its members. For the wild dogs it would take maybe ten years to bounce back if its a one-off thing. Prolific, every female bears litters, and great pack hunters where everyone cares for everyone's pups. For the hyenas it would take longer due to their smaller litters, and their pack structure being less mutually supportive, so let's say twenty years just to make a figure up from nothing. For the lions it means extinction, as they will never be able to make up the numbers, facing competition from wild dogs and hyenas in every niche, and having mating and cub rearing social patterns which keep the number of offspring limited.

Now look at the islamic world, Africa, the Subcontinent and China. If their populations were halved, they could if they wanted to be up to todays numbers inside 20 years. For north/south americans and europeans, it could very well mean extinction.

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Apr 7, 2022Liked by epimetheus

I acknowledge that I may be too hopeful, but I think I am not being ridiculous when I say that humans are quite different from wild animals. When we comprehend that our circumstances have changed, we can and do adapt. (Comprehension is key.) The fertility rate for women has dropped all over the developed world because our current social/economic situations allow and/or require this. If the social and/or economic situations changes radically, then female fertility rates may, as well. (Think about how many women are made to feel guilty now about having children because of ‘over-population’.)

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Valid points, Erika.

Material wealth, relative and absolute, makes people complacent, I suppose. The socio-economic issue is a good case-in-point, which further breaks down across different parts of the socio-economic distribution, but I think 'in the West', it stands.

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Apr 10, 2022Liked by epimetheus

"Now, if many, if not most, injected people will die well before they’d do without these products in their system, are we moving back to the late medieval/early modern population numbers?"

An American investor named Edward Dowd who has been concerned with vaccine injuries and fraud in the vaccine trials said on his Gettr.com page on April 3: "Talked to local Congressional candidate yesterday…one of their concerns…how do we run the state of Hawaii with half the population in 5 years? They were deadly serious. Less optimistic than me." He didn't give more context as to why the population would be halved, but certainly there must be some concern that the vaccines will play a part. (Link: https://gettr.com/post/p13d43ece18)

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Ha, I hadn't seen this.

If Mr. Dowd--and that local lawmaker--are correct, well, we'll soon find out *how*.

I suspect that, at this moment in time, our hope must rest with the awesome thing we call the human body, which we so poorly understand that it's actually a real hope (I hope).

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Apr 13, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Yes, that is a good point. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Exactly.

You know, if you've got some time--I was listening to Bill Maher's chat with Joe Rogan the other day, and Maher made essentially the same point by invoking the metaphor that our (The Science's) knowledge about our body would be akin to that of the deep sea, i.e., rather shallow.

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Thank you for the recommendation. I will take a listen.

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Well, someone should look at Israel. They did four shots awhile ago, but there hasn’t been any news lately. Maybe things are not so bad.

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You know, it's so awful to even consider a fraction of these events. You know that I study that period for a living, so to speak, and while I greatly enjoy doing so, I would rather not live under such circumstances.

That said, if you'd think about these changes, there are so many 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns' that it's quite tricky to figure out what to do, if you're not, you know, *doing something* already.

Once taken together, there's perhaps not much that anyone can do other than try to prepare emotionally, mentally, and psychologically. Sure, there's a ton of other things, such as trying to reduce financial exposure, try to live with less 'stuff', try to reduce your dependence on things such as a car, and the like. Also, if you're a parent, there are literally millions, if not billions, of 'additional' worries (our children are 8 and 5), and if you're in a committed relationship, I'd add be open with your partner about these worries, for if you don't, imagine the 'vaxx or not issue' augmented by whatever magnitude you care to imagine.

That said, I don't perceive it all as doom and gloom: we bought a small farm in the rural hinterlands, and while I understand that this alone isn't a cure-all, it allows us to at least put 'some distance' between what I perceive to become the increasingly problematic urban epicentres of social decay. Granted, Norway is perhaps the second-to-last place where these transformations will make themselves manifest, but then again, no-one knows. Also, I'm not giving out advice on what to do in any of these situations, because of variety, uncertainty, and anyone's individual situation.

I also don't think all of these changes will occur at-once (even though I wouldn't be entirely surprised by it, either), but they will unfold gradually, albeit in a non-linear way, over time. These changes will in all likelihood also be spread out across time and space, thereby rendering our future more like the late medieval and early modern past in terms of expectations, the flows of goods and information, etc.

What I personally find most challenging, though, and I readily admit to this, is the question of how to convey any of the above to our children. So far, we're telling them about our relocation project openly, but we're keeping the reasoning behind it (mostly) to ourselves. They don't have to know about it all (yet), but at some point, it'll be too difficult, if not outright impossible, not to tell them.

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This comment strikes a deep chord with me..

Feels like I have reverted to a place I had already arrived at a dozen years ago. Was then very close to moving off the grid: peak oil; financial crisis; resource depletion; instability of complex systems; the signs were clear to me but then I fell in love and was pulled back into regular settled society.

I recall Archdruid Michael Greer used to write "Collapse now and avoid the rush". More recently he has opined time is running out if you want to avoid the rush.. And now I find myself in a very similar situation to you with young kids in an old house and trying to navigate difficult conversations with my conflict-averse better half about our future in central Europe. What do do? Should we relocate?

In my previous peripatetic life, a surprising lesson was that many alternative types who had cashed-in and checked out to live on the periphery were often very bad at cooperating in community. Counter-intuitively I contemplated whether strong community in an urban environment could be more beneficial than isolation in the countryside. Of course, it's not an either or I haven't quite landed in a major city but rather in the provinces, so still close to the land and my in-laws offer us a small datsche.

For example, I was fondly reminscing about New Zealand and wondering if I should have stayed there years ago, but have been appalled at how zealous they have become in their pandemic state. So, yes, one can run, but there is no hiding from having to cooperate with your neighbours and accept the interferences of the state. My community is here for now and I guess I'll be remaining and collapsing together..

Thank you for your writings and offering this space of exchange.

May God protect us all on our journey into darkness.

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This is a very long post, hence I shall try to address most of the things you mention.

Re the 'remnant' issue and moving away from the cities is perhaps a more complicated issue than it first seems. It's a huge challenge, but today I actually met the first person who didn't just appreciate the move--she also brought up inflation and the additional safety (in war) that comes with distance from military installations. (She's our daughter's most favourite kindergarten teacher, too, which means I'm very much biased ;-) Apart from that, I suppose--hope--you're right.

Re the long decay: when I spoke with my wife about it, I half-jokingly stated, 'I just hope that not all people running nuclear power stations got injected (at once)'. It sounds absurd, perhaps patently so, but it's a real problem--on top of everything else.

I hope you're correct about the 'true number of uninjected', and do keep in mind: contrary to, say, Austria and Germany, Norway told a 'positive' story: 'there's already so many injected people, join us', which is, I think, why the media spin was on the very high uptake (of those 'eligible') which means that about a quarter of the population--c. 27%, according to gov't data--isn't 'vaccinated'. That's a sizable chunk of the population, and we will find out if that's kinda enough for a coherent modern/industrial economy.

Keep in mind, too, that this is an overwhelmingly young population, too, so I suspect them to be rather more inclined to pick up where the older ones left off…

Re the Mad Max thing: it's fake. Ain't happen, if 'only' for the fact that humans can't survive for more than a few days without (clean) water. In addition, even if you're thinking jerrycans, since virtually all fuel contains some added biological products, neither gasoline nor diesel fuel last longer than ± 6 months, so, if you're thinking that through, you'd rather think Wild West, i.e., horses.

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