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Rikard's avatar

It starts to look like we've evolved and learned precisely Zero since the time of the Black Death.

They locked down, in and up people on suspicion alone, to no avail.

They clung to enchanted/blessed pomanders, amulets, trinkets, tokens praying that they'd work.

They blamed groups of people who were hit just as bad, and were in no way guilty of spreading it.

And the kicker:

The Black Death? Spread from Asia via traders arriving on ships, letting crew and rats and fleas go ashore unchecked and uncontrolled.

But! (Index-finger erect in righteous outrage) Now, we have Science! a doctor or believer or scientist might and would say.

Yes, says all of us Eulenspiegel-like, Puck-ish, Bellman, and spefåglar (Speivogel), and so did they back then too. It's just that since they panicked and were backed by panicking Authority resting upon speaking The Truth by tautotlogical definition and ex cathedra to boot, they were wrong and therefore couldn't check themselves or facts or empirical findings.

As opposed to how the Greeks of Athens in ancient days realised that those who has survived the Plague (possibly smallpox) were immune. And realised that healthy food, clean water, clean sheets, sunlight and fresh air helped people survive - and you don't even need science to do that.

Just observing, collecting and collating data, and comparing outcomes.

(I've tried to get a similar, more polished version published- "Fuggeddaboutit".)

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epimetheus's avatar

I'm hardly surprised your pitches fell on deaf ears of mute and blind editors.

We've un-learned so much courtesy of Higher Ed™, it boggles the mind, doesn't it?

My personal take is this: if mankind was that fragile and meek, we'd not be having this kind of discussion; hence, since mankind is still around, I suspect some people have a lot of 'splainin' to do before too long.

In terms of the most telling thing about the above op-ed and what it represents, I'd go for this:

We've been hectored about the dirty, unwashed unvaccinated as killers of grannie and those at high risk--yet, there is nothing in the above op-ed that suggests that 'Covid-the-disease™' would afflict those who are more susceptible in different ways.

You see, the--in my opinion inadvertent--admission in the piece is this: since there's no more talk about high-risk groups etc., it's no longer of big concern to public health officialdom. Instead, we get 'all age groups can be affected', which is newspeak for 'we kinda know what's driving this'--the modRNA poison/death juice, which is the logical deduction--'but we're not telling anyone', in my opinion because of less-than-enlightened self-preservation (which I, strangely, can understand as a kind of instinct).

Truth will catch up with them, of that I remain convinced; it'll take some more time, but in the end, truth will come out.

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Rikard's avatar

Looking at how long it took to get it through the skulls of politicians and capitalists how dangerous stone dust or asbestos is, we could be in for quite the wait.

I think/feel that's where all the efforts for censorship really stems from: the 20th century is a long list of stuff dangerous in various ways, being exposed as such to the public by independent researchers, reporters, even activists despite the best efforts of the corporations, the corporate/state media and the scientific hegemony of any given time and place.

Remember that in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, "experts" claimed nuclear power and nuclear weapons had nothing to do with each other, that nuclear weapons were so super-complicated and technologically advanced that only the superpowers and their allies could develop or maintain them.

And then India detonated their first nuclear weapon in 1974, using material produced from a nuclear reactor.

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epimetheus's avatar

Well, it’s one thing, I’d argue, to not know things (as happened with, e.g., some of the more egregious pollutants, such as asbestos or CFCs) and have a tightly-controlled academic-media environment.

The modRNA poison/death juice clusterfuck, however, is a different beast.

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Martin Bassani's avatar

They never give up! They have objectives and strategy to achieve them. I could not read all the way through that nonsense. If there are longer term effects before jumping to any conclusions, one would naturally compare unvaccinated set with vaccinated set because it is natural to suspect that unvaccinated surely faired worse than those protected by vaccines. Then they’d find out that all these long term effects of COVID are concentrated among the jabbed. Where do you go from there if you are “scientist”. Ignore the obvious, of course! Because “science” isn’t what it claims to be but pure propaganda.

These people do not fear us! They should be bombarded with rotten eggs any time they appear in public.

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epimetheus's avatar

Exactly.

They also know about the less-than-frequent incidence of ‘Long Covid’:

https://x.com/epidemino/status/1846271676524503512?s=46

Btw, Norway’s IPH has left X…

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