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The past several years have proven that the Absurdistan Caliphate is still alive.

And your "cactus" retort has been permanently added to my rolodex of replies.

Thank you for all the humor, explanations of difficult mathematics and entertaining wit and euphemisms of Britain.

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Thanks John - have a great New Year

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Big yes to this entire post.

As to RR’s complaint that “I find myself at a bit of a loose end”: there are exercises for that (though sadly, not yet a vaccine).

Happy new year, Rigger!

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Taking a vaccine these days seems to put you at risk of some kind of end 😞

Happy New Year to you and yours Kapock

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“giving newborn infants a Polio vaccination (live, attenuated, vaccine) reduces childhood all-cause mortality - even when there’s no Polio about.”

And that doesn’t make you suspicious of some statistical jiggery-pokery? Kinda like how the “unvaccinated” experienced a spike in mortality once vaccination for “Covid” began?

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Perhaps - but I can also see *why* this might work. A freshly-minted immune system is very adaptive - it's all primed and ready to go. It just needs a kick start. It's probably best to give it a gentle nudge rather than to try and boot it out of the stadium.

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I would think, then, that exposure to ambient bacteria and viruses would perform the same function. After all, vaccines are just that, but allegedly not replication-competent. If a “kick start” is needed, why choose something as dangerous as polio, to which ambient exposure is, at least these days, a minimal risk? The problem I see is that the “virus” is only one set of proteins in the concoction and to me it seems likely that immune reactions might be established to other proteins, such as those from eggs or other artifacts of the manufacturing process.

Humans had functioning immune systems long before vaccines. Long before. In fact, they’re standard-issue.

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Happy New Year Rudolph and to all on this Substack.

I’ve been unable to convince my friends that the COVID vaccines don’t appear to work. It may be the opposite. I, along with my wife, took the first two shots but no boosters. So far no COVID for either of us. However almost everyone of my ‘multi-boosted’ friends has had it and some more than once. Something isn’t adding up here. To be fair to my wife she’s loaded with Hydroxychloroquine that she takes for her rheumatoid arthritis.

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I'm not sure whether they "worked" - and by worked I mean possessing some (very) temporary (lowish) efficacy against serious symptoms. It's possible that this was the case.

As time has progressed they've become more and more useless and actively dangerous, in my view.

You're right though. Something (lots of things) just doesn't add up - we've seen nothing like we'd expect from a truly effective vaccine.

Happy New Year to you and the missus.

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Oh, how we loved “chicken pox parties”, “German measles parties” (is it okay to call it that anymore) when I was a kid and one of the cousins got sick with it. We all got to have sleepovers for a few days at the sick kids house hoping we ‘d get infected! Today our parents would probably be arrested for child endangerment. Parents back then (about 60 years ago-yes, I’m old) actually understood and employed “the science”.

Happy New Year Rigger...may you be blessed with good health, happiness and prosperity.

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Thanks Cindy

It seems we really need to sit down and figure out what's best for kids. Not everything was done right back in the day - but the kind of things happening today are definitely not right.

Hoping 2024 is a great one for you

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Have you tried putting a couple of fresh Brussels sprouts in a bottle of vodka for a week, to flavour the vodka?

I once tried to do that with an onion but the wife and a friend stopped me. I mean, c'mon! If we never try things we never learn - maybe onion-infused potato vodka kills Covid? I'm thinking social distancing will definitely come easier after imbibing it.

Speaking of measles, it's not only more contagious. It's also about 100 times more lethal than Covid. That's with modern amenities and nutritious food for the mother during pregnancy.

1/1 000 odds of dying - well, I know enough about probability to not take those odds.

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Mmmmmm - sprout flavoured vodka 🤣

I don't think you need the vodka to generate a social-distancing cloud around you. Sprouts are kind of good at achieving that.

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I've got the perfect recipe for succesful social distancing.

In between bouts of teaching, I worked at a warehouse/regional waystation for food. Mainly cheeses.

Came the day I had to unload to pallets of gorgonzola, one cheese at a time. In a high humidity cold storage room (2-4 degrees, Celsius, at all times).

Something seeped from the cheese. From each one. Seep seep seep into my coveralls. Rivulets running down my arms and body, pooling in my boots.

When I was done putting the cheeses up on the shelves, I was marinated in run-off from gorgonzola.

I had the entire back half of the bus to myself. I hade the side-walk to myself. I didn't have to stand in line at the supermarket. The wife commanded me into the tub and locked the bathroom-door from the outside.

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I heartily support your anti-sprouts plan despite my love of the veg. After all, we all hold a grudge against kohlrabi in my house based upon one bad experience. If you can’t be prejudiced against plant foods, you might end up becoming a vegetarian, and we all know where that leads.

Speaking of genocidal maniacs, hope you have a delightful time welcoming in the new year with a fresh slate of granny killing, you unvaccinated devil. (Actually, hope you’re feeling better by then. Although if there’s ever a time to try Brussels sprouts, it’s probably when your taste buds are seriously impaired and you’re experiencing the high of just slaughtering multiple grannies.)

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I love it - catch covid and you'll be able to eat sprouts. Because you won't be able to taste them! 🤣

I'll be seeking out those grannies in 2024 and spreading my horribly unvaccinated breath everywhere I go.

I'm even happier about it knowing that I'm contributing to global boiling 🤣

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Thanks for all the laughs Dr Rigger. And here’s to a merry new year.

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Thanks Drew

A very happy new year to the Drew household

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I kinda liked Brussel Sprouts until I bit one in half and disclosed the other half held a boiled cut worm… Decidedly responsible for their bitter taste.

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I think the worm might improve the flavour 🤣

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Wow! You are a master of the written moment! It is a delight to my soul to read from someone who understands and communicates with wit at the drop of a hat!🦅💝😇

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Thanks Greg

You are too kind - but much appreciated, nevertheless

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I thought I might perish from lack of hope, but I am saved by your deep humor; 'a safety signal that stood out like the boner in an autogynephile’s skirt'. A boner that lasts almost 5 years!!

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🤣

A boner for 5 years - that would certainly require a few changes in trouser management.

Have a great new year Jacquelyn - and thanks for reading, and enjoying, my (often) silly stuff!

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Happy New Year, sir. I look forward to every one of your posts.

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OMG! I’ve added the “cactus” comment to my bag of insults - just too friggin’ funny!! As far as testing, some of my family tests whenever a sniffle passes through the house, and text in caps when they test positive. Damn those “super spreaders!”. Then the rest of their household runs the other way, testing every few hours and stockpiling N95’s. They’re all researching and looking for their next booster. Good Lord, my family……

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Speaking of CoVoodoo, there is still a noticeable minority of super-scared Covidians walking around with masks here the Land of the Free. For example, the librarian in the library where I volunteer can be seen hurriedly putting on a mask when someone enters the building, as if it were a magical amulet against the Dreaded Plague being transmitted by all of us asymptomatic Unclean Plague Rats. In short, masks are the last magical refuge of the Covidians, when nothing else (jabs, lockdowns, anti-social distancing, plexiglass barriers) seemed to work.

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