Open letter to Dr Henry and the rest from Okanagan physicians: Detailed refutation of Covid Policy.

Here's the link.  It's long because the facts that ought to prevail are many.   
The authors highlight fatal defects in testing and thoughout the reporting domain for Covid.  They link to Bonnie Henry's own testimony in 2015 that masking is of doubtful benefit.  Treatments for the unhospitalized are overlooked and general measures to stay healthy are not publicized.  Sadly there is much more, all of it documented.   Division is provoked while foundational research data for BC policy is not on offer or may not exist.

Counterintuitive: The direct route may screw you.

Video shows how breaking a single desirable pathway can sometimes increase the overall throughput of the roadways or system.  This applies when the break produces parallel routes instead of allowing an inline route.  The direct path is only fastest when demand is low.  Unless the parallel choice is forced, it won't be taken.   The remarkable behaviour is illutrated with linked springs in this video.

Government becoming an App

 Have you a vaccine passport?  Welcome to the mandatory government app to which all manner of goodies will be added. This includes your social goodness score, your passport i.d., your tax collection, your reminders and slaps on the wrist,  restrictions on your driving freedomes, you name it.  No one needs to implant a chip in your forehead since we buy our own cell phones and hook them up to the beast.  The "Beast" is the government and social media giants and big Biz who are competing currently to be top dogs in owning your data and mine.

We're mother earth's drones. Trees and fruit flies work with quantum mechanics and photoelectricity too. What's our edge?

Bugs fly about solving three body physics problems, dealing with momentum and acceleration and electronic signal processing.  This happens in their tiny brains and at the cellular level too.  Everything alive including ourselves is doing this and more, long before speech, writing and the iPhone.  What edge do we have?

Have we an edge?  Our progress is a clever re-embed of what's baked into all life.  Earth has produced us and the inner science native to all creatures is being outered (uttered) by the recent human innovations.   Inner science and math is  replicated outside of bodies in long-lasting, transmissable form, very survivable and easy to multiply.  (Right click, copy, paste, send).  It impresses the heck out of us, to admire our progress.  Instead, view it as a clever re-embed of what's already baked into every living thing, conferring survivability and opening a path to the stars.   It's mother earth that's preparing for space travel.  We are her drones.

The Covid battle for power isn't about a virus

The accelerating authoritiansim isn't about COVID.
It's the latest battlefield in a new war for control.
Cheap everywhere data has made the divisions of power in our society obsolete.
The political and ecoomic barnyard pecking order has been scrambled.
Power brokers emerge suddenly in academia, bureaucracies, music and film, talk shows, influencers with thousands and millions of followers and sometimes just people in the street who speak up.  All of this is at trifling cost, thanks to cheap fast data.    If our fellow citizens don't speak up, we'll be collateral damage in the multi-polar struggle to own the new power.  The new power of cheap fast data is a force multiplier.  It also shortens the (OODA) loop of action and consequence so that an institution that relies on elections every four years can be outmanoeuvered by unelected players within and without the institution and also by players in other lands.

COVID is well-suited to be a battle zone as it exploits fear, health, and the grey zone where we have trouble drawing the line between what's good for the community and what's good for us and our own.    It builds on safetyism and deference to experts which has replaced deference to chieftains.  Think about it:  Fauci (US) ,Tam (Canada) and  Henry (BC) are career bureaucrats with health credentials and their voice, not that of generals and presidents are the loudest.

The scary new feature is the power of our fellow citizens to reinforce authoritarian choices by others, excommunicating neighbours over masks and the difference between two and three and four jabs.  It does not yet appear what groups and alignments will prevail but much more than battles over vaccination passports will come upon us soon.

Starlink: What isn't amazing?

 How do you place thousands of satellites in orbit
that can all manoeuver themselves
that each has a different freqnecy to avoid interference
that are constantly moving in groups in  and out of the user's field
that have a signal latency almost 100x less than the geostationary comm satellites
that are put in orbit with new designs almost every launch
that all stay up to date on the same software
with critical functions stored in the same memory sector
that survive radiation damage to data
that go through quality control feedback loops at every step
that integrate software code writing with design and launch
that are night and day modelling not just the parts but the whole system in boxed versions
that include a model of near earth space-time
and that constantly reconfigure the flying network to match changing conversation paths on earth.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/11/building-a-space-based-isp/

Second in a series of articles.

A train of SpaceX Starlink satellites are visible in the night sky in this still from a video captured by satellite tracker Marco Langbroek in Leiden, the Netherlands on May 24, 2019, just one day after SpaceX launched 60 of the Starlink internet communications satellites into orbit. (Image credit: <a href="https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/05/wowowow-spectacular-view-of-spacex.html">Marco Langbroek via SatTrackBlog</a>)

Mushrooms on Mars: Lifetime Holy Shit Moment

Breaking news May 6th 2021.

(UPDATE:  I got suckered by the news I wanted to read.)

Article at unilad.co.uk with NASA photos.   Article at Science Times.
Most informative article as of today at the Daily Mail.

Photos from Daily Mail include possible growths on Curiosity itself. 

And this striking picture from https://futurism.com/scientists-fungus-growing-mars

A friend comments;  Elon Musk won't go hungry.

 

 

Fauci and Gates meme: Vaccines are like an experimental oil in your car

 

Locked Vise Restoration Video feels like a trip to heaven where the lost is saved. Watching the beautiful and quiet rebuild will put you to sleep happy. (17 minutes)

 

Trying to hide vote fraud makes it easier to detect. What data analysis will show of the 2020 US election.

 Patterns of voting fraud will stand out in data analysis.  Attempts to hide it afterwards will be even easier to spot.   Browse "Election Fraud Hotspots - 10% of the Data are 70% of the Fraud" by Jay Valentine.  The same patterns you find in insurance fraud will show in election fraud.  The bad actors will have recruited friends and family, not strangers to help them.   The faked votes have to match real names and addresses.

Imagine yourself trying to fake 100,000 ballots. Even with some of your pals, lots of them, sitting around tables with pizza and Cokes and #2 pencils, it’s daunting. Every ballot needs to tie to an address. Each ties to a name. This is fraud infrastructure.   While you and your friends are filling out 100,000 ballots with Biden circles, do you think you took the time to use a different, real address for every one of them? Or, more likely, did you use a small group of addresses over and over? You get the picture. 
If you filled out birth dates, did you use a different one every time you thought about it? How about those surnames? They are tied to real people and they better live in Pennsylvania.      
We are getting reports some Secretaries of State are modifying mail-in ballot data to hide the tens of thousands of ballots received before they were sent. 
This is a very bad idea.   .......  We are thrilled people are trying to alter data after the fact. They are leaving tracks like a dinosaur walking through a field of peanut butter.

He goes on to give examples.  There are many signs to spot and many volunteers poring over data already available.

Related:  The audit of Maricopa Country ballots is a big deal.  Arizona has 15 counties but 2/3 of the state's population lives in Maricopa alone.  Chart located here.

Racism Explained, as the meme goes.

A surgeon wrote that we all look about the same on the operating table, under the skin.

A single organ, the skin, is the biggest information sheet about ourselves.

 

Full Self Driving Car Beta Test in the City: Decide for yourself

 This 13 minute video of real city conditions is awesome and scary at the same time. You follow two drivers in the cab, a display screen, and the straightaways between major decision points are speeded up. Think "Google Voice" five years ago.  A half dozen frightening and puzzling car decisions are embedded in a cautious but nearly flawless execution of other moves.  The men think FSD may be reasonably safe in a suburb but not downtown.  (h/t  smalldeadanimals, sourced at Road and Track).

Does the US have a president? Decide for yourself. Lost man opens mouth while propped before camera.

Oh My Goodness. This is so embarrassing. I swear this is unedited. pic.twitter.com/Sad3mBOkXc

— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) March 25, 2021

If you want more, Biden said at the same viewing, "The US should return to the type of filibuster that existed when I came to the senate 120 years ago".  Search to hear this painful clip too.  

If I were China or Iran, I'd be focused on quickly. pushing all boundaries.  Or Russia.  Or North Korea.  Or anyone who smells blood in the water.  I wouldn't want to be living in Taiwan just now.

Power play by a Covid Scold crashes spectacularly in front of Cruz.

 h/t Instapundit.

Supreme Court Is Part Of The Gentry Class

 "The Supreme Court, like the rest of the judiciary, is fundamentally a Gentry Class institution no matter who appoints its members. That’s why non-textual rights, like abortion, that are important to the Gentry Class get more solicitude than textual rights, like the right to arms, that are not."

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. 

Interracial violence: Who's doing it?

Who is attacking whom?   Number 1: Blacks on Whites.  Number 2  Hispanics on Whites.  Number 3 is Whites on Hispanic.Smallest group is Hispanics on Blacks.  Second smallest is Whites on Blacks.  The differences are immense.    The TV and the papers and the politicians pick on just one (White on Black) and ignore the 9 times greater attacks in reverse, Black on White.  They tell it backward.  That means to me, "They are lying".  Remember, this chart is for "Incidents" and doesn't give a rate.  The black communities are smaller than the white ones in America.   Race doesn't cause the different incident totals but it determines what gets reported.

 

Unamiguous Evidence From Wuhan Social Media: Covid-19 started in Wuhan on a couple streets between the two virus research centres.

The first people who sought help from Covid-19 or the Wuhan Flu are mapped.  The City of Wuhan map below shows the first intense cluster from before January 20 2020 was on a couple streets between the two virus research sites. (There was a second site nearby).  The fish market and other early reporting incidents are few in number and scattered far.   The article claims the people in the scattered reports had visited that same two street area.

UPDATE:  The above is from Gateway Pundit's report but it links to an underlying  China-sourced document with extended documentation.  It is published at mdpi as "Exploring Urban Spatial Features of COVID-19 Transmission in Wuhan Based on Social Media Data". (Peng,Wang, Liu and Wu).The data was collected incidental to a larger study and is based on geotags of the people who voluntarily went online to ask for help. (The larger study looks at ages of the reporting patients, and the distribution of cases at later dates, again relying on geotags and cellular phone location data.) During the early spread, medical resources were overstretched and many turned to social media Sina Weibo which built an on-line medical help channel.   This is the only tightly documented mapping I have seen of the early virus spread.

The triptych is from the study, showing Wuhan-based flu social media mapping in three different time frames.  The one on the left covers Dec 20 to Jan 22nd and is reproduced in greater detail below as printed by Gateway Pundit.  The red dot is the notorious sea food market.  The Black Star is the Wuhan institute so often in the news.  The yellow square is a lesser know virus research location near  the former.

Coming Soon: China's Population Smaller Than US Population (Chang)

"China this century is on track to experience history’s most dramatic demographic collapse in the absence of war or disease. Today, the country has a population more than four times larger than America’s. By 2100, the U.S. will probably have more people than China."

The fertility rate is falling fast and stats at every level of governance are fudged to hide it.

The current population and wealth of the nation and surplus of young men mean risks of war are at their peak now, not later.    This is an important article by Gordon Chang.  Flag the topic and watch for corroboration.