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  1. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2LS27P/ Easy to find article, plainly debunks the idea that SARS-CoV 2 virus was not isolated or purified. Reuters fact checker team declares a false verdict on a story about a Canadian doctor claiming the virus was never isolated and that the identification the medical officials and pharma companies used as evidence was basically a mish mash of RNA and other materials commonly found 'in' human bodies. Now as to conspiracy hypothesis, what does Chrissy have to gain from the fight she is picking? (Because the CEO of Thomson Reuters, who also sits on the Pfizer board and works very closely with World Economic Forum, does have a dog in the fight and a fact checking team to back him up.)
  2. It has to do with the idea that ‘non-sterilizing’ or less than 100% transmission blocking vaccines should not be mass administered due to mutation forcing. And the associated downstream effects of ‘vaccine/immune’ escape would be a net negative for mitigation and disease control going forward. An ideal situation would be one in which a population was isolated and inoculated prior to infection appearance which was not the situation circa vaccine roll out. The fact that ‘officials’ were suggesting that the ‘best’ mitigation efforts were those that pushed the idea of vaccinating the highest percentage of global populations in the initial wave(s) contradicted my understanding of what was or could be considered best practices of the sciences of virology and immunology. Not to mention the idea of mass inoculation with a novel platform! mRNA shots highjack healthy cells to produce proteins alien to the host and the targeted production was aimed at multiplying a serotoxic protein, a wholly different strategy than other immunization techniques, but somehow that was the ‘best’ solution?
  3. Did you understand the official 'word' on covid shots was bs , based on accepted virology(of the time)?
  4. I like virology, along with most sciences, that's how I could tell the response from the 'officials' was bs, I'm sure you arrived at the same conclusion, yes ?
  5. Like mass inoculation in an effected population during the first wave of a novel infection being less than optimal strategy or even dangerous, that kind of 'old school' virology practices ?
  6. I think there is an immediate third step, find the origin and assess the likely-hood of similar 'outbreaks'.
  7. Or maybe I was being purposely obtuse, uber sarcastic , but you didn’t pick up on it? Do you think anyone posting here is confused by the structure of the government in the US?
  8. Not to mention the decisive Battle of BLM Square on the 22nd when the Trumpist army lost most of their tanks and had to withdraw.
  9. In what way is setting strictures for immigration a violation of freedom of movement? Is your right to freedom of hydration violated when Yankee Stadium disallows you to bring beverages into the ballpark?
  10. I make the inference from the direct evidence of the funding for research into gain of function. Granted that research in and of itself does not ‘prove’ the existence of a specific virus. But in nd of itself , it certainly strongly points to fuckery, yeah ?
  11. That blog post describes in general how viruses ‘work’ , even the mechanism by which the corona virus in question binds to the human ACE2 receptor site. But it doesn’t explain how a virus from a bat that doesn’t use a bat ACE2 receptor site evolved so quickly and with such affinity to that site in humans. There was/is speculation that a chimera virus was assembled with the needed furin cleavage site to facilitate such affinity, but blogs posts suggesting those types of analysis would be more ‘in the weeds’ and not for the laymen as this blog example is expressly targeted. Intentionally released or not , it is obvious that Covid was the product of virus fuckery.
  12. Stephen Our nephew was dating or ‘with’ (whatever the kids say these days) a girl who claimed to be trans , and it was obvious that he was using the situation as a way to garner from his peers a certain level of social credit or esteem. He was/is a little awkward socially and never really quite ‘fit in’, but I assume he built a ‘better’ reputation or felt he did by very public displays of devotion and acceptance via daily social media postings. Another girl I know of from a family we were close to ‘growing up’ is claiming a trans identity and the adults are bending over backwards to accommodate and accept her claims. They live in and around the ‘Hollywood scene’ , as her father is a successful and ‘known’ for his contributions and creations in the ‘business’. So you are right in that I do not have any personal experience with an adult that has ‘transitioned’. But the little personal interactions with the subject have had has shown the idea of ‘trans’ and acting on the supposed impulses is rather tightly correlated with a broader social recognition and by Rand’s standards very much a purposeful seeking of self serving second handedness. I did see an interview with what I gathered was a ‘famous’ contemporary trans person from the UK. The person explained that they were aware that ‘being in the wrong body’ was a psychological problem , a mental illness that caused their personal happiness and relationship with the world in general to suffered from it. Using medical and other interventions helped the person to feel better , but the person stated they knew they had not ‘become’ a woman , just that trying to approximate that situation allowed them to experience a more comfortable way of being and I say more power to that person. As to biologically based psychological roles or types and their commonalities, there was a study of one of the Scandinavian populations that showed after like a decade of social engineering to dissuade the zeitgeist away from the effects of sexual dimorphism and their societal outcomes , the outcomes in jobs and professional choices reverted to the ‘old regime’. After purposely removing any ‘stigma’ about choice making as played out in some patriarchal scheme , the statistical breakdown of job/careers as identified along ‘the old’ ‘gender based’ regimes played itself out , almost like it was based on biology rather than some form of social engineering. Girls by and large choose girl things and so too, by and large with boys. Overall empathy is more closely associated with feminine attitudes and other such trite stereotypes, go figure. The whole branching off onto this tangent was precipitated by the ‘cult’ reference of the OP and my pointing to the Foucaultian nihilism and queering of the West. Trump 2024
  13. So the efficacy of the hormone replacement therapy is to counteract malformed psychological effects of cultural brainwashing?
  14. How would surgery and hormones change what sex a person is? If I have brown eyes but wear colored lenses that change their appearance to blue , do I have brown eyes or blue ?
  15. Stephen My point wasn't about how one should treat their fellow human as they know them in life, btw kindness is always the rule, yeah? It isn't about 'sides' either, but barring extreme chromosomal abnormalities , a person is not ever 'in the wrong body'( here I would refer to hermaphroditic situation and wrong would denote ambiguous genitalia). People may have a psychological make up that causes them to feel that way , but that is an entirely individual consequence as in it pertains to the one. The reason I bring the trans 'issue' up , is to point to the fact that the 'adults' in the room are running around naming you cisgendered ( a term btw I think derived from organic chemistry in order to describe and sort certain molecular structure differences among fatty acids) as if it is a ' thing'. The same 'adults' in positions of power in society, in a society that still gives lip service to principled thinking to justify their actions. Official government documents should contain and pertain to actual facts. Just as that press release named Manning as a female, not a fact, it states allegations against Assange as fact, which facts should we determine are true and how?
  16. Manning is a man, please square that with an 'official' statement of fact.
  17. I am not aware that Haley is a deficit 'hawk', I know she is a war hawk and that means continuation of military spending( not that I am opposed to a strong and expensive military , though it should be for 'show' mostly). And I do not think Trump is a deficit hawk either, the dems aren't either. Besides budgetary concerns can only be meaningfully addressed in a sound fiscal policy era, does Haley out hawk Trump in doing something about the Fed and fractional reserve policies? Two of my biggest things that I count against Trump are his acquiescence to the prevailing 'medical experts' at the onset of covid and not pardoning Assange. Given the field of political leaders at present , Trump is still the best hedge against globalist/intelligence/corporate/health/climate/mandater oligarchs that are strangling the West. A more immediate and visceral threat than even a decade more of deficit financing.
  18. And on the left is a man who believes everyone should act as if he is a woman. Before his federal appointment he was the chief medical officer in Pennsylvania. He pulled his mother,er sorry his mother requested to be suddenly relocated out of a senior living facility, just prior to her son 'recommending' that Covid positive patients be housed in senior care facilities across the state. An action that warranted a promotion to the federal level. What a guy and what a team behind him !
  19. The freest part was right before the wealthiest guys , the ones who got that way in the freest time, basically decided to fund the federal govt , so there is that.
  20. Perhaps Judge Narragansett should have whipped out the Articles of Conferderation.
  21. Why is the current influx of illegal immigration being assisted to the extent they are? and by whom? They are given money and travel and spread out through the country, surely they did not make these arrangements themselves , in a free country where one follows there own self interest , someone must have an interest in importing people and relocating them, some reports say to the tune of up to 5k in cash/card and then the ability to draw $2100 monthly stipends along with room and board. There are also reports that in the areas that the migrants are passing international organizations and NGO's are handing out information on routes and destinations suitable for crossing. This is definitely not a spontaneous movement of like minded poverty escapees and or political amnesty seekers, and the fact that the same situation is happening in Europe , wtf is going on ? What cultural change sparked the ambitions of Northern African Muslims to become Parisian baguette bakery apprentices?
  22. Markets by nature aren't stable , I was giving an example of some of the consequences of unlimited immigration policies. Wage tax policies coupled with politically driven fluctuations in the labor pool are non-market forces and they impact the price of labor. Given the ideal of a capitalist economy any elements of a mixed economy and 'bad' , politically engineered legislation and or lack of enforcement of immigration policies disrupt the labor market with extra market influences.
  23. There is no moral reasoning that would allow a law to be created that excludes immigration by Miguel Kowolski ,born 6/8/1990 in Chile, based on the idea that such a law would violate the recognition and protection of MK’s individual rights extended to and enjoyed by all individuals ie human rights. ‘Non-open border’ policies are not the same thing. Instantiating policies to set minimum standards for entry into a nation state by a non recognized citizen are not policies that bar entry , they are ,when properly implemented ,policies that work to protect the individuals rights of recognized citizens. The idea of a nation state presupposes the recognition of geography, the spacial relationship of reality. Labor markets are also a product of the recognition of spacial aspects of reality. The ‘right’ to freely participate in labor markets is a consequence of the establishment of a civilized society based on the protection of individual rights. Citizens of a country or nation should expect the institution of government to work to protect their freedom to participate in ‘free’ market. Unlimited immigration into a geographic location changes the market constraints on supply and demand by legalistic means and negates ‘economic’ or ‘market’ forces. The moral principle that identifies the proper function of governments does not by itself qua principle , negate the ‘practical’ reality of location and the actual existence of individual people. We have immigration policies , I would say all nation states need them and they should be constituted and implemented in view of protecting the rights of their citizens. The more open ‘borders’ are the bigger the crises are going to be in regards the rights protection of the citizens. One of the corrosive effects , aside from disrupting labor markets which the citizens participate in, is that the federal government considers population density in apportioning congresssional representation , so even if ‘illegals’ aren’t voting, their mere presence augments the functioning of legislation.
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