If they say, "There's no "I" in TEAM, you say:

"Yes but there's an "I" in Integrity and Independence".  (George Carlin)
If that doesn't work, try this:
"Yes, but there's an M and an E in TEAM".  (Instapundit commenter, John Smith)

Mass Formation Psychosis: Don't Underestimate the Evil Propensities of the Popular Media.

 When politicians dare to speak cautiously about coronavirus, reporters challenge them to be extreme instead.  Have you noticed?  They are a fear-multiplier and have much to answer for.

Abraham Lincoln Observed that Republicans are Attacked as Reptiles and worse: Nothing has improved since the civil war.

From the Cooper Union speech in 1860, by Lincoln:

"When you speak of us Republicans, you do so only to denounce us as reptiles, or, at the best, as no better than outlaws. You will grant a hearing to pirates or murderers, but nothing like it to [Republicans]. In all your contentions with one another, each of you deems an unconditional condemnation of [Republicanism] as the first thing to be attended to. Indeed, such condemnation of us seems to be an indispensable prerequisite — license, so to speak — among you to be admitted or permitted to speak at all".

Best Groaner Joke: Laugh despite yourself.

The grim-faced cop knocks on her door in a fishing town.
I have some bad news. And some good news.  And some very good news.
Shocked, she asks:  What is the bad news?
We're very sorry to report your husband has drowned and was found just offshore.
Oh my God!  But you say there is good news too?
Yes. When we pulled him up, there were three large lobster on him.
That's appalling!  How can there be even better news?
We're bringing him up again tomorrow.

Heather Heying of Dark Horse: "I want desperately to be wrong. I want the Covid vaccines to be both safe and effective".

"I want desperately to be wrong: I want the Covid vaccines to be both safe and effective. I want them to be the simple, easy solution that was promised. I want the public health measures to have been effective and for us to be returning to a democracy that is intact and healthy. I see many pronouncements asserting the veracity of these claims, but no evidence that any of them are true."

Marxism with an American Face: The rich can be the revolution!

 In Professor Hanson's "The Dying Citizen"  he writes that in America the targets of traditional Marxism used to be wealth, class and birth status but have been transmogrified with wokeism to become race and sex.  Two salient points here:  
1.  Race and sex are immutable but wealth and class are not because in America, millions move in and out of wealth and class every  year.     Being immutable, this kind of identity politics produces tribes instead of citizens.   

2.  The rich are off the hook!  They can pay their dues at the woke altar and still be part of the revolution themselves.

If you can't join them, beat them. We are making our own media.

 Joe Rogan beats the top three talk shows with eleven million viewers.  Allow another week for the efforts of Google and YouTUbe to cancel Malone on Rogan to sink in and expect his numbers to beat the top four combined.  (Try looking up "mass formation psychosis" on Google and DuckDuckGo.).

No mystery that KIddie VAX is promoted and Ivermectin is banned.

mRNA VAX have been authorized for emergency use.
This temporary approval is forfeit it it can be shown alternative treatment already exists.
This approval can be extended if emergency use has been approved for children.

Ivermectin, Hydrochloroquine, and more have been denied standing as therapeutics and as Dr Malone told Joe Rogan that Biden asked Modi of India to stop promoting their Ivermectin success.

Vaccinations for children are being promoted hard and fast.

Life Insurance Company Reports the Healthy are Dying in Record Numbers

 One America reports deaths in the 18-64 year category are running 40% above normal since the pandemic was declared.  One America which manages $74 billion in assets and consdiers itself woke, definitely not right-fringe, reports their colleagues are finding the same. "The data is consistent across every player in the business".  This is way more than a three standard deviation shift from the norm.

These policy payouts are to people who have paid in less than their heirs pull out.  This is not a stable situation. A big push will be coming from insurance companies to recognize this reality.

What is normal? This can't be all blamed on the pandemic.   The pattern of increased deaths in the middle age range (compared to US standard) has peaked in 2020 but had begun showing in the datasets as far back as 2000.   The rise pre-dates universal vaccines but includes near universal lockdowns and masking.  (The negative numbers for non-covid dates amongst the very elderly is probably an artifact of counting those deaths as covid ones.)      The chart shows how many 10,000's of deaths above the statistical norm happened in each 10 year age group.

UPDATE:  And disability claims are way up.

1 in 200 VAX batches are highly toxic.

 This 6 minute video clip will give you pause.  The CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), though it probably doesn't hear about most cases, is still a useful database.  The reporter amalgamated vaccine batch number, VAERS reports, and US State in which report was made to produce a disturbuing spreadsheet.  70% of batches have only 1 adverse report associated, but about one in 200 batches had adverse reports running from one thousand to five thousand events and this pattern was true across all the US states to which the batch had been distributed.

Problem:  How do we disambiguate adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines from adverse reactions to improperly manufactured batches of mRNA vaccines?

Advanced Bio-Fire Virus test form tests for five corona viruses. Four are older flus.

 Check the details:  The four listed spike-protein coronaviruses are summarized here.

Send them to Australia: A modest proposal to relieve prison crowding

 In the 1800's, Australia  solved a lot of back-home problems by becoming a prison colony.  The time has come to build on that skill-set and send more of our lags and miscreants to Australia where they will fit right in under full-time state-subsidized supervision.  Thank you Australia.

New Year's Fireworks banned in Netherlands, and in Naples. Two wondrous city-wide displays follow.

 

From the Netherlands, the government banned fireworks as punishment for disobeying COVID law so the people showed the politicians who is in charge.

Bravo. pic.twitter.com/0dVkUj3JTs

— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) January 1, 2022

 

Both found in the comment threat at Instapundit Jan 1.

My Name Is Robert Malone

Dr. Malone's solemn warning to all who love their children:

"Before you inject your child – a decision that is irreversible – I wanted to let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created:"

The full text follows:

"My name is Robert Malone, and I am speaking to you as a parent, grandparent, physician and scientist. I don’t usually read from a prepared speech, but this is so important that I wanted to make sure that I get every single word and scientific fact correct.

I stand by this statement with a career dedicated to vaccine research and development. I’m vaccinated for COVID and I’m generally pro-vaccination. I have devoted my entire career to developing safe and effective ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases.

After this, I will be posting the text of this statement so you can share it with your friends and family.

Before you inject your child – a decision that is irreversible – I wanted to let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created:

There are three issues parents need to understand:

The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children’s cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins. These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs, including

• •     Their brain and nervous system
  •     Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots
  •     Their reproductive system
  •     And this vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system

The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable

• •     You can’t fix the lesions within their brain
  •     You can’t repair heart tissue scarring
  •     You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and
  •     This vaccine can cause reproductive damage that could affect future generations of your family

The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested.

• •     We need at least 5 years of testing/research before we can really understand the risks
  •     Harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later

Ask yourself if you want your own child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in human history

One final point: the reason they’re giving you to vaccinate your child is a lie.

• •     Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents
  •     It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting COVID, is critical to save your family if not the world from this disease

In summary: there is no benefit for your children or your family to be vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given the known health risks of the vaccine that as a parent, you and your children may have to live with for the rest of their lives.

The risk/benefit analysis isn’t even close."

Evil switcheroo: PCR test gets "cancelled". Now we know why the flu disappeared. It was being called Covid-19. UPDATE

 The CDC's slippery way of saying it is here.

The plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face way of saying it is here

After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the use of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.  This explains the disappearance of Flu cases in the US in 2020. It also inflated the COVID cases as Dr. Fauci and the DC elites knew would happen.

And a tasty footnote to the above from CDC's Walensky since the same CDC announcement reduces quarantines dramatically and deletes the requirement of having a further test at quarantine's end.  She follows the science of behavioural control.

“‘It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,’ CDC Director Walensky says on why the CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days if you’re asymptomatic.”

UPDATE:  This story explaining the flu stats may be wrong. CDC calls for a multi-plex viral test that will identify other viruses including the influenza ones.  This has been interpreted either rightly or wrongly as an acknowledgment that the existing test DID NOT distinguish flu from the latest SARS virus.   Several sites strongly refute this, saying the PCR test was reliably specific to one nucleotide.  Dec 30/21 

IRS wants to tax stolen property based on fair market value the year it was stolen. (Document attached)

Apparently it's better to claim taxes on stolen property than to acknowledge that any asset lies outside the treacly reach of government.   IRS 2021 source here.    Two snapshots excerpted below.

The Ultimate Zoomable Tree of Life

The best zoom image yet of the tree of life.  Major branches are dated and the detail is intense with photos when you zoom in.  Our corner is kind of small.  Critters and bugs and weeds that we look down are just as johnny-come-lately as we are. 

http://www.onezoom.org/life.html/@biota=93302?img=best_any&anim=flight#x428,y1031,w1.7453
The third image is still a couple levels out from distinguishing humans.

No hemimastigotes!  A new primtive braching kingdom first noted in 2018.

OVERVIEW

MAJOR ZOOM ONE

MAJOR ZOOM TWO
Primates are in the last big ball

Reverse Phi illusion

The changing cursor directions trigger the effect.

The unexpected is likely now: Some signs in China and the US are sunny for us.

 Democracy has been on the decline as petty tyrants exploit Covid fears but some signals point to a brighter future in the West.     This litany of woes from the Chinese Communist Party's enclave encourage me though I wish the best for the Chinese people.  And this summary from the States suggests that except close to the bonfires of the Covid fearmongers, most Americans are now getting on with normal life by the light of day.  And what do I thank the most for that?  Omicron's impressive infectivity of the upper respiratory tract and equally impressive failure to kill and maim.

My view:  The unexpected is likely: outcomes worse or better than generally nattered on about, have become more likely.   The image of dry sand being piled higher and higher comes to mind.  At some point, a single grain starting to move anywhere on the surface of the pile will be enough to trigger an avalanche of grains.  Predicting that point is difficult, more difficult than any time before in my life.

BC Hospitalization stats way behind case stats as Omicron soars.

Has the Provincial Health Office ejaculated prematurely?
We know from reports out of South Africa that Omicron hospitalizations are very low.
Locally in BC, Dix's mouthpiece, Bonnie Henry, is believing ICU cases will track positive tests and has hit fellow citizens hard with new restrictions, to be on the safe side.