How to push back against Vaccine passports: Well-written letter from Okanagan physicians to Henry, Dix and Horgan of BC.

Points are addressed systematically with references from the literature.

Source of letter:

Open Letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry, Adrian Dix, and Premier John Horgan

We are a group of extremely concerned health professionals in the Okanagan Valley, B.C. We have some critical questions regarding COVID-19, specifically about the current reporting of case numbers, statistics, and testing, and the restrictions imposed by your health orders. While discussion of adjunctive and alternative safe and effective treatments is being stifled, the policies of mandatory experimental vaccines and vaccine passports are being forced upon our province, our country, and many other countries worldwide.

Addressing Dr. Henry, Mr. Dix and Mr. Horgan: We—as healthcare practitioners and citizens—expect and deserve answers that address these concerns directly. Proclaiming that vaccine therapies are “safe and effective” is misleading and sloganistic. The reports of vaccine injuries are increasing every day, yet are being ignored. We are witnessing an increase in Covid illness occurring in fully vaccinated individuals and, irrationally, that is being followed by a promise of mandated boosters.1 The lack of answers and the vague information being provided over the past 18+ months do not instill confidence in British Columbians.

This lack of transparency has resulted in unprecedented divisiveness amongst citizens, families and friends. There are individuals who are angry that some concerned citizens are not complying and are comparing our current circumstances to the Holocaust. While this may seem extreme, the Holocaust also began with the small removal of freedoms2, just as we are seeing today. This historical atrocity started out as a slow and seemingly innocent removal of rights by the government, but quickly morphed into media control, divisiveness between groups of people, and limitations to what one select section of society could do. In this way, the ordinary citizen easily became an enemy of the state. Today a one-sided, politically-driven narrative, which is being fuelled by politicians and the media, is causing a similar divisiveness. When only one side of the story is made available to the public, it is easy to understand how individuals can become disgruntled toward other citizens who are fighting to maintain their freedom and bodily autonomy. A political agenda is clearly being pushed here, and the refusal to address questions and concerns of healthcare practitioners and citizens of B.C. speaks volumes. We hope all of B.C. and Canada will carefully consider the information included in this document and join us in demanding clear, direct and truthful answers.

You must recognize and acknowledge the problems our country faces with our media and with our supposed leaders. We are on a dangerous trajectory and we must STOP —NOW!

Aspirin helpful against Covid

It appears aspirin reduces serious Covid-19 consequences by about 40%  (ICU admissions, mechanical ventilators and deaths) and somewhat reduces the chance of even being infected.  This is in a new study out of Israel.   See link explaining that blood clots could be the result of spike proteins generated from the mRNA of the vaccine and then being expressed in the cells lining blood vessels.  The cells are then presumed to be alien and killed by white blood cells, thereby seeding clot material.

We already have defences against Covid-19. The second jab of vaccine will kill some of us.

 A soft-spoken doctor (Dr. Bhakdi) makes sense of our body's response to the Covid-19 virus and vaccines.   (Ignore the subtitles in the picture.  The short talk is in clear English).

Key point:  We've seen a similar corona virus before. Against novel infections, we manufacture the antibody type called Immunoglobulin-M which appears in our blood after about 30 days.   Against infections that look familiar, we recall into service our existing Immunoglobulin-G and -A antibodies and these appear in our blood about a week later.  Three recent papers prove that IgG and IgA responses appear within a few days of a test injection of the vaccine with Covid-19 spikes.  The conclusion:   We've seen a similar corona virus before.  We already have a form of herd immunity but locked away until needed.  As the Doctor says, all groups found that all subjects who had been vaccinated responded within days with antibodies.

Key point:  When the virus lands in the throat and nose, it takes days to multiply before it can reach the lungs where it may be deadly.  This is enough time for the IgA and IgG to be mobilized.

Key point:  The Vaccine triggers clot formation. The spike protein genes injected with the Covid-19 jabs circulate in the blood with some entering the cells lining the blood vessels. The cells begin to manufacture the spike proteins which can then protrude into the blood itself.  Unfortunately, our body's defence system considers this to be an enemy invasion and may attack and kill our own blood vessels (vascular endothelium) which results in clot formation "which we know is happening all over the place".  This explains some of the weird and even fatal secondary debilities elsewhere in the body.  The initial landing of the virus in the nose and throat can spread and so can the initial landing of the supposedly harmless spikes in the vaccine.

Key point:  The second jab is more dangerous than the first one.  The second jab comes after enough time has passed for the body to manufacture type M immunoglogbulin too and the second jab raises antibody levels even higher at a time when blood cells have started expressing spikes they manufactured from the gene material in the first jab.  This results in increased attack on the blood cells by all three kinds of antibodies as well as the lymphocytes and the leukocytes.  This is something never seen before: both the anit-virus and anti-bacteria systems kick in with the ability to attack our own blood vessels.

Key point:  Common flu viruses have a volatile gripping surface to catch onto our own cells and enter therein.   The Covid-19 virus and variants have a relatively stable gripping surface which makes them easier to recognize.  Old antibodies can generally attach to the new corona virus and plug its grip surface.  Old antibodies to the common flu have a much more difficult time recognizing each season's variants.

Key point: He gives an understandable tour of the immune response system.   If you're like me, you've been hearing stuff about the immune response but couldn't really explain it to someone else.   A virus or bacterium arrives.  If it's unfamiliar the IgM antibody system slowly kicks in, coming up to speed in about a month.  If it's familiar, the IgA and IgG antibody systems quickly kick in.    First the cell surface is protected.  If however the cell is penetrated by virus, lymphocyte killer cells are called into service to consume the infected cell, virus and all.  (Lymphocytes make up about a third of our white blood cells).  If instead it's bacteria that have invaded, the antibodies clog up the gripping surfaces of the bacteria and the other type of killer blood cell is called into service.  Leukocytes show up and consume the infected cells, bacteria and all.

His conclusion:  "No one knows what the outcome will be but the vision is so awful, so terrifying, that I myself don't really want to know the answer."

A deeper dive into the science in this April 2021 paper records that the introduction of spike protein causes damage to the lining of the blood vessels (vascular endothelium) and to the lung.  My friend Ian Nunn considers this a pivotal paper and considers the points above in harmony with that earlier paper.

How to push back against Vaccine passports: Well-written letter from Toronto librarians who are under attack.

 This letter from Toronto librarians defends their liberty and privacy which are theirs by right and by law.  It's addressed to the highly paid people at the top who worked from home and now are bullying the unvaccinated while dodging analysis and trashing people who have worked with passion through the covid pandemic.

"Toronto Public Library Censoring Library Workers:

We have chosen a career in libraries to make a positive difference in our communities.

We work passionately everyday to provide access to information, employment skills, language learning, literacy, connectedness, and an enjoyment of life.

We worked throughout the pandemic without a vaccine available, and continued to fulfill our role as community stewards by setting up food kitchens; calling isolated seniors to check in on them; providing stressed out parents with resources to help their children cope; and ensuring library users would have still have access to materials.

However the City Librarian Vickery Bowles, along with HR Director Brian Daly, and HR Manager Louise Reimer, and nine other directors*, who make up part of the top eleven earners of public funds in the system, and who have worked from home throughout the entire pandemic, are now threatening, bullying and intimidating us with discipline, up to and including dismissal, for not disclosing our medical records and/or not choosing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Hundreds, if not thousands of us are now facing coercive policies that disregard foundational principles of library work, privacy and democracy.

Donate to save congress joke

 

Whale freakout - up close babysitting

Vancouver Island Whale Watch promised a free second trip if no whales showed up.  I was chuckling at the deal I was getting, two zodiac ocean tours for the price of one.  I had no idea what was coming next, a top moment of my life. 

We babysat a humpback whale while it's mother dove deep five times for about a quarter hour each time.  The baby "mugged us", splashed us on purpose, dove under the zodiac, circled and generally freaked us out wondrously.  We felt we belonged there as much as the baby from the deep who played with us.

Presenting calf, Marble, and briefly in the background, Slate (the mother with all black tail) just east of Valdez Island:

And an encore:

COVID LOCKDOWN: Possibly greatest peacetime failure in Canada's history.

“It is possible that lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in Canada’s history”, wrote Allen.    His actual PDF paper in full is linked here: "Covid Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature" (April 2021)

SFU professor, David Allen, reviewed 80 papers in the lockdown literature.
You'd expect lockdowns and masks would have some clear benefit.
They don't. (Summary at The Epoch Times, here).
There is no net correlation between the measure taken and the cases of covid in the 80 papers.

He also makes a stab at a cost/benefit analysis, estimating years of lost life caused against years of life saved by those measures.  Granted it's a very fuzzy number, but the first run through came up with over 200 to 1 times more evil done than good done.    (A caveat is that in lockdown settings, some were cheating and in non-lockdown settings, some were complying with the intent anyway.).

Making this worse, he notes that research and opinion counter to the government narrative is suppresssed.

This cost/benefit effort has a key place in Canadian constitutional law.   The constitution states:   "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaramtees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribedby law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society"   As Brian Peckford points out, until the cost benefit analyses have been done to demonstrate a justification for temporary abrogation of citizen rights, the statements of politicians and their staff about lockdowns are extra-legal.  (Brian was premier of Newfoundland for 10 years and one of the original signatories of the Charter of Rights agreement with Justin's father, Pierre.  He has a powerful site updated daily.)

 

 

 

Drone camera goes everywhere fast before people realize they are being filmed

 Breathtaking drone video zooming through an Ozark resort and right through a restaurant around people unaware it was coming.    Think about it.  

Google is evil again: Climate orthodoxy is good. All else doxxed.

“Google and YouTube will soon prohibit advertisements on content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” Google announced Thursday. The decision will prevent the creators of such content from earning ad revenue from Google. .. 
The advertisement ban, which will be implemented next month, targets “content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change,” Google said. The platforms will also ban ads that promote that type of content.”

Sourced here:

Compare Richard Feynman quote top right of this web page.

What if China goes for the northern Phillipines instead of Taiwan first?

 When the players don't play nice, expect shocks.   Taiwan has 22 divisions for China to overcome whereas northern Phillipines (Luzon) does not.  Either island mass, once captured, gives a defensible gateway to the open Pacific and the upper hand over Japan      Suggested by Wretchard the Cat.  (The redoubtable Richard Fernandez).  

"If China wants to take over the Pacific its obvious goal will be to knock Japan out of the Quad. From a purely strategic point of view Japan, not Taiwan, is the crown jewel. How best to neutralize Japan? Control Luzon or Taiwan."

One dynamic chart compares death and contagion ( Ro) by most known infections: Covid is no star.

For me, this interactive graph is a game changer.  Follow the link, not the picture below and hover over any disease for background data.  Left to right is the Ro factor.  Down to up is the percentage of expected deaths.  The various Sars viruses are in the lower left quadrant.  Think about it before surrendering one jot more of your freedom.   

The chart was created by information is beautiful and the link suggested by Dr Trozzi.

There are two kinds of sex - My unusual theory of personality

There are two kinds of sex, animal spirits sex and gender sex.

That’s because there are at least two operating systems in humans,

Both of them are emergent properties.

The first is animal spirits that keeps the organism alive: It’s the servant of the millions of cells, the many organs and even the millions of viruses and bacteria.  That is the DOS system that keeps the lights on and the plumbing running.  And it makes sure that all that DNA gets reproduced.

This is animal spirits and explains the male gaze will always at all times be evaluating breasts, hips, and other signals from females that could produce children.  That’s what it does and always will do.  It receives  its purpose by delegation upwards from the BINARY and HEXADECIMAL levels of life represented by cells, bacteria and so on.  Its purpose isn’t exactly compatible with the higher level of management, but they make do and accommodate each other. 

Personality is the senior emergent system, the WINDOWS operating system, emerging from the opportunity rich life of the human biome.    Personality is way more interesting and inventive than the animal spirits.   It is sort of piggy-backed onto the human biome while being embedded somewhat in animal spirits.   Personality wants to reproduce information and character and values but doesn’t need sex except as a support for the continuation of its own platform. Personality can handle any pronouns and any alphabet of character.   Being Bi or Trans is no more significant than being Furry or an Alien From Outer Space.

The human comedy is the uneasy truce between personality and animal spirits.  While I may want to benefit from your skills in bank reconciliation or legal analysis, the animal spirits will look at your breasts every minute or two to assess your reproductive value..    This is explained as the resultant of actions by two operating systems with different programs and doesn’t have to be integrated.   Just as we switch from dreaming life to waking life and immediately forget most of the life we just came from, but still make sense of our life, so we are simultaneously a DOS animal spirits operating system and a WINDOWS personality operating system, not exactly compatible, but with a few humorous tweaks, producing a workable narrative.

GMO is the only vegetable worth eating!

The original veggies don't look so good!

Are you sure you hate food that has been genetically modified?    BTW, every time a couple choose to have children together, they modify the genes.

 

Attention truckowners: You are being ordered about by people who never owned a pickup and don't even know anyone who does.

 F150, the F series, Ram trucks and the Silverado are the three top selling vehicles in America.  Guess what, the people telling you to wear a mask and get a covid passport don't own one and don't even know someone who does.

Having an intelligent conversation about covid stuff

 Where to begin?

The epidemiological data are hopelessly confused by the huge number of CCP flu tests done for sometimes ridiculous reasons, the terrible accuracy of the tests themselves (is it CCP flu or is it Memorex?), the use of positive tests as an indicator of disease, the inaccurate reporting of deaths, and the general politicization of the entire issue.

How can a conversation begin when the proofs are padded with fluff and indifference. 

From open thread at Instpundit. 

Can I love my country but loathe our government? The bowling secret police trigger a succinct answer. "Give up your rights so you can get your rights back. That equation never made sense."

"I don't know what to do.  The government has got me to the point where I question whether I even love my own country any more but one thing I know for certain, I loathe my government.  What do you do?"

"Give up your rights so you can get your rights back.  That equation never made sense." 

This cry from the heart started at a bowling alley where an 18 year old kid played the role of the secret police, asking for the man's papers as he stood there with four kids who wanted to bowl on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Is it just because I like to bowl too that this so strongly moved me?
He's vaccinated but defends his integrity.

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