Berenson right again – about Ukraine. Covid kharma. June bugs in May.

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Alex Berenson, whom I follow for Covid, has as reasonable of a take as one will find on Ukraine.  Russia is digging itself deeper.  The US should shut up and let it happen.

On the Covid front, the battle is over but the Covid cultists refuse to believe it. Among the many headlines that appear daily was this one: ABC News analysis: COVID deaths rising among vaccinated.  Toby Rogers, as usual, provides a grand overview.  Here is the entire piece from his utobian blog of today .

STAT News has a new article titled, “The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths.” Like almost everything they publish, the article is clever, well-written, and almost entirely wrong. The author, J. Emory Parker, claims that the pandemic is primarily a story of older, unvaccinated, rural, poor people with a deadly initial wave that has faded into a lower infection fatality rate today. I’m not going to refute it point-by-point other than to say that he is missing the forest for the trees.

Democrats now interpret all data through the lens of The Narrative(TM) that makes Dems look like heroes, Pharma look like Gods, and Republicans look like unwashed barbarians who deserve death for their failure to obey their betters. It’s not so much science as bougie-supremacy. Self-reflection, paradox, and admitting mistakes are of course banned from the bougie lexicon.

In this short article, I’ve stolen his title (in hopes of messing with the search engines) and I set the record straight. Any honest assessment of the last two years leads to the inexorable conclusion that every facet of the pandemic is a direct result of the intellectual and moral failures of the “expert class” itself.

1. Tony Fauci created the pandemic by funding risky gain-of-function research at a bioweapons lab in Wuhan China. Somehow a chimera virus, engineered to be more lethal to humans, escaped. No Tony Fauci, no pandemic. All else flows from this.

2. Fauci, the FDA, and CDC blocked access to prophylaxis and early treatment. The CDC’s own research showed that chloroquine is safe and effective for prophylaxis and early treatment of SARS coronaviruses (hydroxychloroquine is even safer than chloroquine). The U.S. had a massive stockpile for this very purpose that was never used. About 90% of Covid-19 fatalities in the U.S. could have been prevented if public health officials had followed proper protocols and used about twenty off-the-shelf treatments that are safe and effective. Instead the FDA and CDC ridiculed the best treatments, stopped doctors from prescribing them, and prohibited pharmacies from filling these prescriptions.

3. Hospitals used the wrong protocols and continue to use the wrong protocols. Failing to provide early treatment (turning people away from hospitals to preserve capacity), ventilators, and Remdesivir are all death sentences. Large hospitals have such abysmal outcomes because they used the wrong protocols and they seem to have no ability to course-correct based on actual data.

4. Blue states that followed the CDC’s advice to return Covid+ patients to nursing homes committed senicide — the systematic murder of the elderly. The death toll in the elderly was and is so high because they were never provided prophylaxis, immune support, nor any early treatment and their residences were intentionally seeded with the sick — once again in the misguided attempt to preserve hospital capacity(TM).

5. Promoting mass injections with negative efficacy, keeps the pandemic going indefinitely. These useless shots also seem to be driving the evolution of variants. The pandemic will never end as long as the government continues to promote these mRNA shots that lack sterilizing immunity.

The entire pandemic, from the origins, through the early days, until now, is a self-inflicted, man-made crisis. This is an iatrogenic pandemic — created, spread, and made more deadly by the people who claim that they are “experts”. Everything that public health has done for two years has made things significantly worse. As long as the people who are wrong about everything remain in power, the crisis will continue.

This is why we need a revolution.

In related news, highly vaccinated Bill Gates (if he is not a total hypocrite, a justifiable suspicion) has caught Covid.  Multiply perforated Covid cultist Stephen Colbert, who had Covid in April, has taken a break from The Late Show due to a relapse.  Kharma is a bitch.  Meanwhile, here in Backwardistan, nobody I know has it.  Masks, lockdowns and vaccination checks etc.  are so antebellum.  Life is normal.  Tomorrow is my ivermectin day.  Don't think I need it any longer, but it has worked so far.  Why not?

It may be too much to hope for, but if Klaus Schwab, Joe Biden an a few others were to be sidelined by complications related to Covid and the jabs, it might toss the Great Reset into a cocked hat.  The revolution that utobian foresees on the horizon (link above) may not be necessary.  If it happens, it will be ugly, but perhaps not here in Backwardistan.

In other news, the minor discomforts of old age continue to accumulate.  In response to gall bladder pain I am giving up coffee and breakfasting on oatmeal instead of bacon and eggs.  Giving up drinking didn't make my gout go away but did help my stomach.  Good move in any case.  Researching it, I found that cochicine seems to be the ticket for gout.  It is over-the-counter here. Most important, no significant counterindications or side effects.  Instructions differ between the packet insert (in Italian) and WebMD.  I find that 1mg every two days, less than either of the two, seems to work.

What we call June Bugs here are May Beetles.  Huge numbers appear about this time of the year. Three days ago Zoriana collected 20 of them at the playground. They come and go so quickly that I asked the kids to pick up a couple as we came home from the music lesson yesterday to get a photo.

The Internet confirms one thing that I already knew. These guys are vorocious pests, eating the roots of any and everything in the garden. What I did not know was that even the adults, in their short lives, eat trees. Anyhow I'm glad that my kids have an active interest in nature and are not scared of the little creatures.

Eddie informed me, matter-of-factly, that as he was attempting to insert the 10th frame out of 10 into Vadim's beehive one of the bees stung him on the forehead through his mesh veil. No big deal. He obviously doesn't have any allergy to bee stings.

The cataract in my right eye is getting to be a bother.  This time, I have chosen a clinic closer to home, where the process is much more streamlined.  I should be suspicious of anything this simple, but on the other hand I never could figure out what the other clinic learned in the course of seven pre-op visits.  I've done the blood analysis, EKG etc. and am waiting for an appointment. 

That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, an island of normalcy in a crazy world where the strong men are delighting in the good weather. After weeks of reluctance even to break 70, the temperature is scheduled to shoot up to almost 80 today. The good-looking woman has us headed for the park as I finish writing this. The kids will not be content with one playground – we will hit three of them at least.

Graham