Reading about the upcoming RSV vaccine, I was prompted to write in my blog that only a very naïve person would believe those vaccine industry charlatans yet again. RSV jabs could not possibly offer a net benefit.
Now el gato malo, styling himself as the venerable Roman mallum cattus, has analyzed the results of a large study of pregnant women and their babies – a hitherto sacrosanct group that even Big Pharma would not take risks with – being vaccinated against RSV, the jumped-up common cold virus. The captive corporate press – New England Journal of Medicine in this case – put out an article praising this supposed scientific progress. gato, having thoroughly analyzed the lies surrounding the Covid and other vaccines, absolutely shreds these shameless hucksters. Beautifully done.
I cannot imagine that many of you readers have time to chase my links, reading these posts. You take my word for it. You may wonder why I bother to share them in the first place. After all, there is no money and not much glory in it for me.
The answer is simple. Same reason I started writing Amazon reviews 25 years ago. The discipline of writing it down helps me to remember what I have read. The discipline of putting my writing in one place makes it easy to find. Last month I posted indices to my Facebook, email and Substack blog posts over the past two decades and my 480 Amazon reviews here on Substack. I have no idea if you find them useful, but I use them all the time.
Moreover, I have assembled folders of the original text in Microsoft Word format. Microsoft's search facility gives me the ability to look inside documents. If I want to find what I wrote about smallpox, for instance, I would usually be successful finding where I wrote about the topic in the past. This post today is a collection of stuff I'm quite sure I will want to locate sometime in the future.
Here's an article by a guy who writes "I attended the 23rd World Vaccine Congress in Washington DC. This is what I saw and heard..."
Among the attendees were a lot of true believers, people whose hearts are in the vaccine business, whose incomes depend on it. He writes that while many such folks were touchy and defensive, there were a surprising number of attendees who would have welcomed more open to discussion. His long summary of the conference ends with the observation:
" In my recent experience, I see that it is possible through open dialogue. This is precisely why the engineers of this pandemic and its response want to make sure this never happens. Despite what they say publicly, I don’t think they are worried about the vaccine skeptics remaining hesitant — they are worried about losing members of their own herd to the truth."
On a much higher plane, Toby Rogers extols a wonderful piece by philosopher/actor C. J. Hopkins about the weird intellectual climate of today that has leftists, traditional free speech advocates, clamping down on those who question the narrative. Here's the link he provides to Hopkins. I'll have to admit that these observations washed over me a dozen times before it sunk in that they are profound and I had better take them as such.
Here is how Hopkins closes his piece:
That said, one thing I’m sure about is, if you don’t want to end up eating the bugs and owning nothing and being happy in your AI-monitored 15-minute city while you wait for your social-credit app to update your vaccination record so you can access your CBDC account and make another minimum payment on your ever-deepening credit-card debt, it would probably be a good idea to try to understand what is actually happening.
Or maybe not. What do I know? I’m just an old “far-right extremist lefty.”
Lastly, here is a piece on the difference between Bitcoin and every other cryptocurrency out there. Fundamentally, everything else has owners. They could, if they wanted, devalue those coins at will. Bitcoin is owned by nobody and cannot be controlled by anybody. It is unique. Whatever other magic it possesses, Bitcoin has rallied 81% since New Years, from a $16,000 handle to $30,000. Put smiles on many a face.
These are the links I want to save today for my own reference. Hope you find them useful. That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man is spending more time reading than writing. The good-looking woman has taken Zoriana to acrobatics lessons, Eddie is blasting through his math, and Marianna is doing the Terrible Twos to the best of her ability. I'm a severe critic. I've seen terrible done better.