We’ve had The War on Drugs The War on Terror The War on Sniffles We’re obviously gearing up for the War on Food Energy Movement Freedom Climate. We’re in the middle of a War on Biology. We’ve witnessed a War on Paying for Stuff Racism during the riots of 2020. There’s a War on Whiteness going on and a War on
Regarding the vaccines, five of my (now ex) colleagues died prematurely in the second half of 2021, and another just died a few weeks ago. My niece, a 24 year old athletic trainer and one of the fittest people I know now has myocarditis. She struggles to get up from a chair, and can't stand for any length of time. My Mum developed blood clots in her lungs out of nowhere last year, and having almost got over that she suddenly developed a hyper aggressive ovarian cancer a couple of months ago. One of my uncles also now has blood clots in his lungs FFS. Two of my friends have suddenly developed prostate cancer in the last few months. Prostate cancer is supposed to be extremely slow growiing. One just doesn't develop it "suddenly".
Well, one didn't, before the covid vaccines.
I have never, for one second, regretted not being jabbed with that shit.
Shouldn't that read "what they were told to call covid".
And yes if you were at least 82 years old and/or had at least 2.6 co-morbidities that were killing you anyway it was fatal, even more so when the medical profession got hold of you.
In mid-2020 even the ONS was reporting on their weekly death statistics that most covid deaths would have happened anyway, they were just brought forward a bit.
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Well, when you remove the old justifications for tribes, nations and states waging war, all that remains is making war on the people.
Look at "the Arab Spring": just 150 years ago, Britain, France, Austria-Hungary and Germany would have clambered over each-other to intervene in order to carve out fiefdoms and satrapies. Today? Hand wringing, snivelling wretches claiming whatever makes a good soundbite, and nothing more except furthering the grift and moneylaundering called "foreign aid".
And as Symes points out to Winston in the canteen, when you eliminate a word you also eliminate the idea it emboies: the "Peace" part of the well-known slogan is soon to be unmade. No more "War is Peace".
Only "War is".
(Edited because I ate Welsh rarebit in bed in December, and ever since my keyboard has been clogged with crumbs, the spacebar especially so.)
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"It isn’t the people who are currently dangerous - no, that epithet is better applied to our very own governments." Governments are definitely dangerous, but the top-down loony tunes propaganda has made the people equally so. The government couldn't have managed to keep control without petty hall monitors that took on the torch of corona control. Just this past week, here in Puerto Rico, a security guard at a hospital tasered an elderly lady for not wearing a mask. (Given the high levels of vaccination here, I'm not so sure it's a good idea to taser people who might already have age-related heart problems, but that's an issue for another day.)
The kicker: the security guard's muzzle was hanging from her ear.
"The War on Sniffles." To someone who is old and rickety or very sick, the regular cold version of sniffles is also dangerous, so I think the term "War on Sniffles" is perfectly reasonable.
Well, I think— even with all the stupidity you describe— this episode in the modern history of human disease actually exposed the limits of even the best, most objective, least politically-motivated science. (Not that we saw much of that.) To quote my ninth grade English teacher, “We’re all gonna die.” Human beings come with an expiration date. We sag and droop, we wrinkle, we clog up, we slow down, we experience illness, and ultimately we all die. Science, descriptive and rational, is unlikely to provide the kind of reassurance we seek related to our future physical decay . Doctors can rage with us against the dying of the light by dispensing various medications or inserting stents or replacing hips. Science can provide us with suggestions that generally result in longer, healthier lifespans (dare to eat a peach, and other sources of antioxidants). Yet we remain mortal, and in our mortality, many of us fear suffering and death and eternal nonexistence (or worse)— at least those of us who really allow ourselves to contemplate these things.
What happened during the pandemic reminds me of those headlines you sometimes see. “Vegans five times less likely to die than those who eat bacon twice a week.” If only we did everything right and with religious fervor, we could cheat the Grim Reaper. (Why, recall how the vaccine prevents accidental death!)
So while for most sane people, I think Covid has been sufficiently de-scarified, as long as we fear death and suffering we are vulnerable to abuses of power. Contemporary Western society— with its emphasis on feeling good, hiding the aged and disabled and sickly, and lack of contemplation of life’s mysteries through faith or at least righteous skepticism— provided the perfect Petri dish in which to grow a culture that would compliantly follow orders to avoid all possible discomfort.
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when someone puts all the crap we have to deal with together in a post like this i often wonder what Douglas Adams would have made of it all. i used to love his absurd stories but now they are more believable than reality.
i just went to amazon to look at his books, (ive lost the dirk gently ones) and was made to laugh out loud when i saw a towel for sale on the page, check it out!
After being in Birmingham city centre and markets yesterday I felt like a stranger in a strange land as us white, working and English speaking were definetly a minority by a big margin.
The whole place has changed big time in the past few years and it's not for the better that's for sure.
Most of the "white" we saw were homeless, druggie, drunk beggars and homeless.
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One very wise theoretical physicist I know summed up the insanity perfectly in one word - PANICDEMIC.
I think THE WAR ON SNIFFLES is an artful description of what’s happened since 2020. I don’t see any hope for recovery here in Canada unless Poliviere is elected Prime Minister nor in America unless DeSantis is elected.
As for Jolly Old England, j’ai pas d’idee.
This morning I am celebrating DST (daylight saving time) by watching Jason Bourne, which was produced in 2016. It seems like prophecy.
As for the cause of the insanity, it seems to me that the ability to instantly mass communicate insane ideas is a good place to start. If that leads nowhere we can always blame Trump.
Update
Having demonstrated my cultural deficiency I now see that Contagion, released in 2011, was a an earlier and more accurate prophecy of the PANICDEMIC.
CONTAGION was ironically, or should I say predictably, written by American Opthamalogist Dr. Robin Cook, who is now 82. He has written several other medical thrillers including COMA.
The conspiracy- minded will be interested to know that Robin Cook’s Wikipedia entry is incredibly sparse for such an influential writer.
And did nations feel obliged to be in this state of endless war-on-something before the modern media/technological environment existed? As Rick DeVos likes to say, we still don't understand what TV did to us.
We sure are an easily spooked lot. One little scare from the media and it's STAMPEDE! Run for your life. Forget everything we ever knew about medicine, ethics and stuff... Just run!
Great post, I love the beginning with all the crossed out words! 😄 Not only funny, it hits your point home. We all know how every crossed out word has been used.
Yes it was serious for a very small few. Maybe something like, "99.7% symptomatic sniffle disease." Here in the Bay Area California, I know vaccinated senior people still extremely afraid. So the TV must still be scaring the bejeebers out of them, even at this phase of the game.
Excellent polemic Dr Rigger.
Regarding the vaccines, five of my (now ex) colleagues died prematurely in the second half of 2021, and another just died a few weeks ago. My niece, a 24 year old athletic trainer and one of the fittest people I know now has myocarditis. She struggles to get up from a chair, and can't stand for any length of time. My Mum developed blood clots in her lungs out of nowhere last year, and having almost got over that she suddenly developed a hyper aggressive ovarian cancer a couple of months ago. One of my uncles also now has blood clots in his lungs FFS. Two of my friends have suddenly developed prostate cancer in the last few months. Prostate cancer is supposed to be extremely slow growiing. One just doesn't develop it "suddenly".
Well, one didn't, before the covid vaccines.
I have never, for one second, regretted not being jabbed with that shit.
"Covid was pretty serious, and fatal, for some"
Shouldn't that read "what they were told to call covid".
And yes if you were at least 82 years old and/or had at least 2.6 co-morbidities that were killing you anyway it was fatal, even more so when the medical profession got hold of you.
In mid-2020 even the ONS was reporting on their weekly death statistics that most covid deaths would have happened anyway, they were just brought forward a bit.
Here's an example, it's in Section 2:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending17july2020
Well, when you remove the old justifications for tribes, nations and states waging war, all that remains is making war on the people.
Look at "the Arab Spring": just 150 years ago, Britain, France, Austria-Hungary and Germany would have clambered over each-other to intervene in order to carve out fiefdoms and satrapies. Today? Hand wringing, snivelling wretches claiming whatever makes a good soundbite, and nothing more except furthering the grift and moneylaundering called "foreign aid".
And as Symes points out to Winston in the canteen, when you eliminate a word you also eliminate the idea it emboies: the "Peace" part of the well-known slogan is soon to be unmade. No more "War is Peace".
Only "War is".
(Edited because I ate Welsh rarebit in bed in December, and ever since my keyboard has been clogged with crumbs, the spacebar especially so.)
"It isn’t the people who are currently dangerous - no, that epithet is better applied to our very own governments." Governments are definitely dangerous, but the top-down loony tunes propaganda has made the people equally so. The government couldn't have managed to keep control without petty hall monitors that took on the torch of corona control. Just this past week, here in Puerto Rico, a security guard at a hospital tasered an elderly lady for not wearing a mask. (Given the high levels of vaccination here, I'm not so sure it's a good idea to taser people who might already have age-related heart problems, but that's an issue for another day.)
The kicker: the security guard's muzzle was hanging from her ear.
"The War on Sniffles." To someone who is old and rickety or very sick, the regular cold version of sniffles is also dangerous, so I think the term "War on Sniffles" is perfectly reasonable.
Well, I think— even with all the stupidity you describe— this episode in the modern history of human disease actually exposed the limits of even the best, most objective, least politically-motivated science. (Not that we saw much of that.) To quote my ninth grade English teacher, “We’re all gonna die.” Human beings come with an expiration date. We sag and droop, we wrinkle, we clog up, we slow down, we experience illness, and ultimately we all die. Science, descriptive and rational, is unlikely to provide the kind of reassurance we seek related to our future physical decay . Doctors can rage with us against the dying of the light by dispensing various medications or inserting stents or replacing hips. Science can provide us with suggestions that generally result in longer, healthier lifespans (dare to eat a peach, and other sources of antioxidants). Yet we remain mortal, and in our mortality, many of us fear suffering and death and eternal nonexistence (or worse)— at least those of us who really allow ourselves to contemplate these things.
What happened during the pandemic reminds me of those headlines you sometimes see. “Vegans five times less likely to die than those who eat bacon twice a week.” If only we did everything right and with religious fervor, we could cheat the Grim Reaper. (Why, recall how the vaccine prevents accidental death!)
So while for most sane people, I think Covid has been sufficiently de-scarified, as long as we fear death and suffering we are vulnerable to abuses of power. Contemporary Western society— with its emphasis on feeling good, hiding the aged and disabled and sickly, and lack of contemplation of life’s mysteries through faith or at least righteous skepticism— provided the perfect Petri dish in which to grow a culture that would compliantly follow orders to avoid all possible discomfort.
when someone puts all the crap we have to deal with together in a post like this i often wonder what Douglas Adams would have made of it all. i used to love his absurd stories but now they are more believable than reality.
i just went to amazon to look at his books, (ive lost the dirk gently ones) and was made to laugh out loud when i saw a towel for sale on the page, check it out!
"War on Whiteness"
After being in Birmingham city centre and markets yesterday I felt like a stranger in a strange land as us white, working and English speaking were definetly a minority by a big margin.
The whole place has changed big time in the past few years and it's not for the better that's for sure.
Most of the "white" we saw were homeless, druggie, drunk beggars and homeless.
One very wise theoretical physicist I know summed up the insanity perfectly in one word - PANICDEMIC.
I think THE WAR ON SNIFFLES is an artful description of what’s happened since 2020. I don’t see any hope for recovery here in Canada unless Poliviere is elected Prime Minister nor in America unless DeSantis is elected.
As for Jolly Old England, j’ai pas d’idee.
This morning I am celebrating DST (daylight saving time) by watching Jason Bourne, which was produced in 2016. It seems like prophecy.
As for the cause of the insanity, it seems to me that the ability to instantly mass communicate insane ideas is a good place to start. If that leads nowhere we can always blame Trump.
Update
Having demonstrated my cultural deficiency I now see that Contagion, released in 2011, was a an earlier and more accurate prophecy of the PANICDEMIC.
CONTAGION was ironically, or should I say predictably, written by American Opthamalogist Dr. Robin Cook, who is now 82. He has written several other medical thrillers including COMA.
The conspiracy- minded will be interested to know that Robin Cook’s Wikipedia entry is incredibly sparse for such an influential writer.
Y E S . . . Fantastic post, thank you!
And did nations feel obliged to be in this state of endless war-on-something before the modern media/technological environment existed? As Rick DeVos likes to say, we still don't understand what TV did to us.
“Waron”: noun -- a fabricated, “motherhood and apple pie” pretext by which to plunder the treasury.
Any time the “government” gets a waron, hold on tight to your wallet, and that of your children and your grandchildren.
We sure are an easily spooked lot. One little scare from the media and it's STAMPEDE! Run for your life. Forget everything we ever knew about medicine, ethics and stuff... Just run!
Great post, I love the beginning with all the crossed out words! 😄 Not only funny, it hits your point home. We all know how every crossed out word has been used.
Yes it was serious for a very small few. Maybe something like, "99.7% symptomatic sniffle disease." Here in the Bay Area California, I know vaccinated senior people still extremely afraid. So the TV must still be scaring the bejeebers out of them, even at this phase of the game.
epic
Rudolph, just keep writing. It's great. I really appreciate your posts.
By the way I completely agree re the terminology. It should never have been given a name.
PS. Have you seen this? https://www.hartgroup.org/it-was-a-vaccine-strategy-from-the-start/? Sobering reading.