Royal Luddites. Who knew horological conservators were a thing?

Queen Elizabeth has 1500 timepieces including 250 within Windsor Castle and a team of "horological conservators" spent the weekend turning them back an hour this weekend. (Daily Mail). 

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DId you know NIH lists Ivermectin in "Antivral Agents That Are Approved or Under Evaluation for the Treatment of Covid-19"

We already know Ivermectin is safely prescribed in the millions for humans with parasites and we know, although you may not want to believe it, that almost all of 241 million-strong Uttar Pradesh state in India has zero active Covid cases on file after treating the population with Ivermectin, but you may not know that Ivermectin is actively being reviewed for treatmentof Covid-19 as this NIH document proves.

The FDA lists its approval for Ivermectin here.  If you read the caveats, Ivermectin hasn't been shown effective in some trials for Covid-19 treatment, Ivermectin (if given in doses large enough to treat a 1000 pound horse) is dangerous and although it's not clear, you should avoid Ivermectin which has been packaged for large animals.  Ivermectin in appropriate doses is NOT listed as a hazard.

By the way, here's what Ivermectin packaged expressly for humans looks like in India.

And if you're curious and from BC, here is the approved protocol for using Ivermectin (brand name Strometcol) to treat parasitic infections as published October 2018 before the hoopla.

PIgs can't fly but whales do in Nanaimo

 Seen from my window today in Nanaimo, a whale that flies.

Covid Mandates are Changing the Brains of Politicians? Think Dopamine

How addictive is power?
So addictive that it alters the brain chemistry of people wielding it.
Below is excerpted from Spencer Fernando's pointed screed on BC today.

"Addicted to power.
Over the past year-and-a-half, politicians and public officials have dramatically expanded their power.  Unfortunately, power is addictive.

“Power, especially absolute and unchecked power, is intoxicating. Its effects occur at the cellular and neurochemical level. They are manifested behaviourally in a variety of ways, ranging from heightened cognitive functions to lack of inhibition, poor judgement, extreme narcissism, perverted behaviour, and gruesome cruelty.

The primary neurochemical involved in the reward of power that is known today is dopamine, the same chemical transmitter responsible for producing a sense of pleasure. Power activates the very same reward circuitry in the brain and creates an addictive “high” in much the same way as drug addiction. Like addicts, most people in positions of power will seek to maintain the high they get from power, sometimes at all costs. When withheld, power – like any highly addictive agent – produces cravings at the cellular level that generate strong behavioural opposition to giving it up.”

This means we must acknowledge that the brains of those in power are almost certainly different than they were a year-and-a-half ago, different in such a way as to want more and more power.  Much of this enjoyment of exercising power comes from the coercion-punishment relationship."

 

 

 

"It's Very Difficult to Design a Vaccine to Perform That Poorly" Dr. Bridle, University of Guelph.

Has the tide turned?   Credentialed, passionate, speaking without notes, Dr. Bridle, vaccinologist,  makes sense.  The video is straightforward and powerful, and I've transcribed it below.

HIGHLIGHTS
-"The vaccines we traditionally mandated actually worked"
-"I'm never going to support any of the up-and-coming vaccines unless they complete all of the studies that are required for all traditional vaccines".
-"Our immune systems do actually work.  I'm an immunologist and I can tell you that the immune systems do what they are supposed to do."
-"It's crystal clear now that naturally acquired immunity beats the vaccine-induced immunity in every single way,   If you have naturally acquired immunity against the SARS Corona virus 2, you do not need the vaccine".
-"These Covid vaccine inoculations being used right now seem to have a duration of immunity in the ballpark of four and a half months.   It's very difficult to design a vaccine to perform that poorly"
-"Remember those of you wearing a mask that for the virus it's like standing in front of a wide-open barn door.  It's absolutely ludicrous".
-"Yes, if you are coughing and sneezing, (the masks) will do a little bit to catch those large droplets that can spread the virus.  That's the only time you can be spreading the virus but you're not supposed to be out when you are sick anyways."
-"Never ever have we ever promoted giving a medical procedure to an individual when there is zero benefit to them, zero benefit to everybody around them and only potential harm".

-That last is the most troubling.  Antibodies from your natural immunity or from your first Covid shot will attack and kill your own cells during the window of time that your own (blood vessel) cells are expressing the spike protein. 

The 16 minute video is here.  The 2800 word passionate speech is below.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT:

Dr Byram Bridle, vaccinologist, speaking to an outdoor crowd of almost a thousand people near Kitchener-Waterloo ON October 24th.

Hello everybody, I ‘d really like to thank the organisers for having me here to speak here today.

So just to let you know, I’m an associate professor of biotechnology at the University of Guelph (spits, crowd cheers) Yeah, I can’t tell you I’m proud of my university any more. I stand with Michael Palmer on that.

REAL VACCINES WORK AND KEEP ON WORKING

Now I’m a vaccinologist.  I traditionally love vaccines and develop vaccine technologies, but I do not like these current Covid-19 inoculations they are giving to people.  And you’ve got to understand that we have changed the definition of a vaccine during this pandemic to try and make these fit.  I think the highlight, a real vaccine is one that you would take for travel for example.  So a lot of people are constantly asking questions, “We are already mandating vaccines for school children, so what’s wrong with this?”    Well, the vaccines that we traditionally mandated actually worked.  They confer what we call “sterilizing” or “near-sterilizing” immunity.   They actually prevent somebody from allowing the virus to propagate in their body and pass it on to others.  So, I use the example of vaccines for travel.  If you go to a lot of exotic locations, often your physician will recommend you receive a vaccine.  For example, maybe you get vaccinated against Hepatitis-B.   When you take these vaccines, the doctor doesn’t say, “Now stay from other people”.    They certainly don’t say “Stay away from the place you are intending to travel”.  No, in fact people pay lots of money to travel to the danger zone where this pathogen is actually endemic because they are confident that they’re protected.  Those are real vaccines.     

2:05  SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE DISREGARDED

Now, I want to point out, something, I’ll tell you honestly, right now, I feel, I guess, certainly burnt out and emotionally numb.  This is really hard as a scientist, to see where we’re going and the fact that we are not following the science.

So what I want to ask for the moment is, is there anybody in the crowd here who really strongly supports the vaccine mandates, who thinks these vaccines are incredibly effective and incredibly safe?   Is anybody willing to put their hand up?  How about the periphery of the crowd, anybody on the periphery, sort of hanging back and you want to see what’s going on and you’re really for the vaccines?  Because if you are, I’d like you to come up and I’ll give five to ten minutes of my time and we can engage in a respectful scientific discussion about the vaccines.  Is there anybody who would do that?  (cheering)

I don’t see any hands up but I what want I want to point out is I’ve offered that to thousands of people, thousands of naysayers and not one person will step up and discuss the science with myself or any of my colleagues such as Dr. Palmer, or many many others around the world.  For those who… (pauses) Is there somebody there who will talk?  Come on up.  This is great, I appreciate it.  As scientists we should be open to respectful discussions and we should be willing to change our mind if we’re proven wrong.   (Indistinct:  Person asks him what he thinks about the Novovax vaccine).    OK, I’ll address that.  I was hoping we were going to have a …. This was actually a question about the Novovax vaccine.  But that’s great, I’ll address that for people, I love to address people’s questions.   So, there are other vaccine technologies that are up and coming.  What I will say is in theory, they should be safer than the current batch because they are all going to have better control over the dose of the spike protein.  In theory they shouldn’t be disseminated as widely throughout the body.  However, I’m never going to support any of the up-and-coming vaccines unless they complete all of the studies that are required for all traditional vaccines, okay?   So, there’s not one that I’d stand by at this point in time.  Thanks for that question.

And so what I do want to point out is that nobody is willing to discuss the science.  Alright.  I was part of a group who gave an invitation to our premier … like I said, there were thousands of people, and those who are the naysayers have got to start asking, “Why are there a bunch of us who have stepped into the ring, and nobody else, none of you are our champions and willing to step into the arena with us, why”?  Right, as scientists we are willing to take the science, we keep getting attacked by people who hide behind their screens and they’re not willing to come and talk to us.  They say we don’t know what we are talking about, they say that we are feeding misinformation to the public.   And it has to be faced, why aren’t they having scientific discussions with us?  As scientists, we are open to admitting when we are proven wrong.  And if we are so wrong, why aren’t they proving it?  They would shut us up, they would silence us.  So, I get very frustrated by that because those of you who don’t know what these fact checkers…I’ve been fact checked (to the wazoo?) and I addressed every single fact checker question that I’m aware of in various media appearances, every single one.  Just recently Reuters... and they never tell you who is doing the “fact-checking”, and I’ll tell you oftentimes the fact checkers are trainees, like post-doctoral fellows from other countries that are fact checking us, it’s incredible, you never know who’s doing the fact checking.  But, anyway, someone recently took a 90 second video clip of a talk that I gave at a rally like this and they wanted to do the fact checks.  They misquoted me.  I asked them to go back to the video.  They actually misquoted me to make it sound more inflammatory, the things that I had said, but nevertheless they wanted to know what my references were.  So, I sent them a very detailed email of all of the scientific references.  They published nothing.  That’s what happens.  What they do is they wait ... they usually give you one day to respond which is not realistic for a busy professional and especially for one who has over 17,000 unread emails, but that’s what they do.  And when you don’t respond, they publish their ‘fact check’ and tell the public that you weren’t willing to respond.  And when you do respond, with all the science and they have nothing to come up with, they simply don’t publish it.  So, I don’t bother dealing with the fact checkers anymore.  OK?  

6:56  FEARFUL TYRANNY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, ON.

If you are a college or university student, or the parent of a college or university student, would you put up your hand please?  Alright, that’s great, there’s an awful lot of you here.  So, what I want to let know is ...because I see us a microcosm of a larger world... I just want to give a bunch of you who are not involved in the colleges or universities right now, an idea of what’s going on in these places.

So, at the University of Guelph (spits, laughter follows), we have 99% of the people vaccinated, okay.  And yet everybody on campus is still required to mask, physically distance, stand on those signs on the ground.  They are told which doors to enter, which doors to exit, when to enter, when to exit, there’s even instructions as to how to go to the bathroom.  If you’re sitting in the middle of a seating area.  In the cafeteria, students have been criticized for taking too long to eat and putting the professors at risk of death.  So, they’re limited in terms of how long they can be unmasked when eating.  It’s absolutely incredible.  And, the other thing that we have been finding is that we have had, prior to the school year beginning, we had a whole bunch of students and staff who had exemptions granted and then they were all rescinded.  They were all asked to reapply.  They all reapplied with the same information and most of them were rejected the second time around, and I’m feeling awful right at the moment because on Friday there were five staff members whose jobs were rescued on the basis of participating in a clinical trial here in Canada.  ... These exemptions were granted and these people were going to be put on unpaid leave, their jobs were rescued, and on Friday those exemptions were rejected, they were rescinded, and these people were sent home at the end of the day.  They were given one more week of pay and then they’re done.  And they can’t ... this is the thing ... they can’t apply for EI employment insurance.  So, they’re literally left with zero income in one week.  This is what our university is doing, this is what the University of Guelph is doing, this is what they are doing to our students.  And I’ve seen students who have had to succumb to the vaccination because they have to choose between having a mental breakdown or a physical breakdown, or getting vaccinated for their own survival, literally.  Because in some cases they haven’t slept for three days in a row.  This is what’s happening, this is the kind of coercion that is happening, there’s no such thing as informed consent.   

9:25  OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS AND WORKS BETTER THAN CURRENT VACCINES

And one other thing I want to point out here… so that’s the kind of stuff that’s happening right now, this is so wrong… now, the other thing that we are ignoring here in Canada  (and I just want to highlight this as a piece of science, and it’s very clear we are not following the science, the science isn’t really involved anymore)  but this is an example of why these vaccine mandates make zero sense,  and this is the fact that our immune systems do actually work.  They do actually function.  I’m an immunologist and I can tell you that the immune systems do what they are supposed to do.  And there’s a thing that we call “naturally acquired immunity” which means  (and historically we used to accept this idea) that you’re exposed to a virus and you cleared that viral infection, you are left with immunity against that virus, you are protected from it.  And the reality is, it’s very crystal clear now, we have a huge amount of scientific data showing that naturally acquired immunity beats the vaccine-induced immunity in every single way.  Especially (and I like vaccines)  these Covid vaccine inoculations that are being used right now, they seem to have a duration of immunity, meaning a life of protection of somewhere in the ballpark of four and a half months.  It is very difficult to design a vaccine to perform that poorly.    Again, when people talk about the mandated vaccines that we traditionally used, again, you get one vaccine as a child typically and you don’t need to be vaccinated the rest of your life.  Not every four and a half months.  So, it makes no sense.  Natural immunity, so far, is lasting and very robustly as long as the current pandemic has been going on and it will probably last for years.   Alright, so superior in every way.  What this means, is that if you have naturally acquired immunity against the SARS Corona virus 2, you do not need the vaccine.  People forgot in Canada that the goal is not to get everybody vaccinated, the goal is to get as many people as possible, a majority of us, immune to the virus and a vaccine is just one potential way to do it.  And the other thing that I can tell you based on this clinical trial that I’ve been participating in, is the majority of healthy adults, and we assume probably the majority of children as well, have evidence of naturally acquired immunity.  In fact, the countries with the lowest vaccination status in the world are the ones that have the lowest daily Covid-19 case rates.  That’s just a reality.  It’s almost certainly because they have had natural immunity go through their populations, right?  And that’s because this masking that’s being done and the physical distancing isn’t respected by a virus for which the pore sizes on the masks are vastly larger than the size of the virus on the respiratory droplets that you would be exhaling when you are healthy.  Yes, if you are coughing and sneezing, sure they will do a little bit to catch those large droplets that can spread the virus.  That’s the only time you can be spreading the virus but you’re not supposed to be out when you are sick anyways.  So, to be outside, especially out in the nice air like this and wearing a mask…… Remember, for those of you wearing a mask right now, for that virus it’s like standing in front of a wide-open barn door.  And you’re laughing, wearing that mask, saying, “Try and get in here, virus!”.  It’s absolutely ludicrous, and that’s what it is when you look at the science of the droplets.  

12:45  IF YOU ALREADY HAVE ANTIBODIES, BEWARE VACCINATION.

And I want to tell you as well, when it comes to naturally acquired immunity, the data is very clear.  If you have naturally acquired immunity against SARS Corona Virus 2, chances of you experiencing a severe side effect from the vaccine is increased relative to somebody who is naïve, meaning they have no pre-existing immunity.  There are multiple studies doing this now, showing this now, that’s even why we see for example myocarditis, there’s a much higher incidence of the heart inflammation on the second dose compared to the first dose.  And even as scientists, we went back and looked at the first dose.  And we found, okay, a pre-existing immunity makes you more susceptible to the dangers of these vaccines (although in reduced incidence).  Guess what we found?  When we looked at the young people who were experiencing the heart inflammation (and we also looked at another potentially fatal condition, Multi Inflammatory Syndrome) and when we looked at these cases that were occurring (at relatively low frequency) after the first dose, the majority of those kids had been previously infected with the SARS Corona Virus 2, meaning they had immunity acquired against the virus.  And it boils down to the way these vaccines work.  Again, when these vaccines are given, they distribute widely throughout the body.  There’s no spike protein on them so there is nothing that antibodies can do to stop that distribution of these lipid nanoparticles.  And these seed cells throughout your body with the blueprints to manufacture the spike protein from the SARS Corona Virus 2.   If you have no immunity, these proteins will be expressed on your cells throughout your body, but it’s going to take at least a week and up to two weeks before you mount any substantial antibody response.  That’s a week or two in which those proteins can be degraded on your cells.  So, once you have antibodies, there will still be some spike-expressing cells that can be destroyed.  But, if you have antibodies already in circulation because you have been naturally exposed to the virus, or you’ve had those antibodies induced after the first dose, as soon as your cells start expressing a spike protein on the surface, those antibodies are immediately going to bind to your own cells and kill them, causing a potent auto-immune reaction.  This is why it’s dangerous giving these vaccines to people who have antibodies against the virus in circulation.  That alone is why we should not be mandating these vaccines for anybody and instead we should be offering voluntary testing, we should be offering tests free of charge to people, to see if they have immunity.  Because if you have immunity … this is the thing... if you have immunity, that’s the goal, you’ve made it to the finish line.  And, there’s going to be zero benefit to you and zero benefit to anybody around you to vaccinate you. But, if you do get that vaccine, you are in enhanced risk of the dangers from those vaccines.  This is simple medicine.   Never ever have we ever promoted, given a medical procedure to an individual when there is zero benefit to them, zero benefit to everybody around them and only potential harm.  That is never the situation in which we should be forcing vaccine mandates.  That alone is the reason why it makes zero sense scientifically.

I think I am going to leave it there and pass it on to the next speaker.  

16:03

Am I a Subject or a Citizen of Canada?

A subject is under arbitrary authority of a ministry or governon acting through mandates and decrees. 
A Citizen is governed by laws passed by elected officials.

VAXXERS: The less you know about the Covid-19 vax, the better you will sleep.

I hope the vaccinated keep a grip on peace of mind.  Troubling information continues to flood in from doctors and scientists, deeply troubling, and this will be hard on VAXXERS as it gets better known.  It always take a while for information to build up after something new is tried.    Stock up on your meds for anxiety and pains.       The less you know about VAERS,  blood vessel endothelium under attack because of stray spike protein, myocarditis in young folk,  rushed approval processes, short term suppression of the body's defences for a few weeks after each jab, and perverse incentives for media, governing bodies and  hospitals, the better you will sleep.

Take two jabs and 
stick your head
in the sand.

The cure for Facebook, maybe even the cure for Covid

Put your TV and tablet  night-night.

Incoming asteroids! Daily updates at spaceweather.com

This is a reminder that Spaceweather.com gives daily alerts for all known meteors zooming near earth in the next few weeks:  Speed, size and how close they come.   What's new is that more and more "near earth objects"  under 10m in diameter are being spotted before they whiz by.

There's one at 0 LD this week which must have skimmed the atmosphere.  A lunar distance (LD) is about 385,000 km. 

Gendering: Status signaling for people who don't need to procreate to prosper.

My view is that gendering is status signaling for people who don’t need to procreate.  Who needs to have children when we can get ahead without family and those who do have kids can expect them all to survive?  Gendering displays advance the individual's status and influence in their social eco-niche but not in their original family.  But that doesn't matter because it's not about kids.  I’m not addressing traditional same-sex sex but am speaking to the useful fripperies of gendering for which there is no alphabet big enough.

Evidence of the alphabet:

"Previously, the queer community had a disjointed identity and was referred to as the “gay” community. The abbreviation LGBT itself evolved. It is now disrespectful to refer to the community only as the LGBT community. It is appropriate to use the abbreviation LGBTQIA+ or LGBTQIAP+ to be more inclusive of all identities within the community. The community has also now evolved to be more accepting of a variety of gender and sexual ‘minorities’ that failed to find a place before."

To illustrate what I mean:
Both birds are male but the fanciest one invests in over-the-top display to attract the attention it values. Such birds occupy very small niches where this pays off for them.   The alphabet genders have small niches that work well for them. 

  The quieter one actually sits on a nest and shares duties hatching the babies.  You see a lot of robins because this works well and supplies lots of baby robins to populate future lawns and forests.    

Male and Female at birth: Gender may be fluid but sex is not. What percent of the population have oddball X and Y chromosomes?

 This report on 170,000 people shows seventeen unusual variations on the standard XX (female) and XY (male) but the exceptions are only 6 people out of every ten thousand.    Gender may be fluid  but sex is not.

The first column in the chart is what I'm addressing.   141,813 out of 141,916 women were XX and 29,320 out of 29,336 men were XY.   Every cell in female or male body has the same XX or XY markers.  All talk of gender fluidity is about something different.

Bonus thought:  Sex differentiation in other species including plants and insects may involve XX/XY but may involve a different pair of genes with the male having the matched pair the the female having the unmatched pair.  And other possiblities too.

 

 

From the wonderful 

Babylon Bee site.

Incredible 4000 year old mummies in east China desert, buried in boats!

 This dessicated beauty could have been someone you loved.  

Her mummy is four thousand years old and the detail stuns.   Her Eurasian people lived in eastern China's desert in the Tarim basin on forgotten trade routes.  They were a genetically tight group that has almost disappeared from the human genome.  Several cemeteries are known and the bodies are buried in boats!

A different woman

. If only we could read the rest of the story.

Cemetery boat in the desert

Trump gives vapors to the woke with 13 words in WSJ letter to the editor.

Who knew writing a letter to the editor was a crime?   The disturbance in the narrative is directed at cancelling the Wall Street Journal for publishing a letter of opinion from Citizen Trump rather than addressing the listed statements for truth.  Thirteen little words from Trump in the WSJ gave vapors to the woke.   The rest of his 570 word letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal is a determinative and damnable review of 20 red flags from the 2020 election in Pennsylvania.    

What were those little words? He gave his actual opinion in the opinion section of the newspaper: "Well actually, the election was rigged, which you, unfortunately, still haven’t figured out."   If you care for substance, you will read the unpaywalled October 27th WSJ letter from Donald Trump.

Remember the Mummy Mummy jokes?

I haven't heard one for fifty years but they were popular when I was in high school.

Mummy Mummy, I don't want to go to Europe.
Shut up and keep swimming.

Mummy,Mummy, my braids are too tight.
(Pulls the corner of her eyes out "chinese" style to illustrate).

Mummy Mummy, I don't want to see Grandpa.
Shut up and keep digging.

The mother mother lode, however, is here and some are plenty sick.

Can I lick the bowl? Shut up and flush.
Are you sure this is the way to make ginger bread men? Shut up and get back in the oven

And so on.
And during the polio epidemic in Canada in the fifties there were Iron Lung jokes too.

A boy goes into a pawn shop
A boy goes into a pawn shop with the motor for an iron lung.
the pawn shop owner asks "where did you get this?"
the boy replies "from my father"
the pawn shop owner asks "what did he say when you took it?"
the boy replies: "AAAAUUUUGHHHH"