VACCINES---I GUESS WE’RE JUST STUPID

           Yesterday, various federal agencies decided they don’t like the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine as much as they used to.  Following along, most states have now “paused” their vaccination programs that use the J&J product.  A couple of national drug store companies that were giving the shots have backed off as well.

 

          This stated reason is that, having administered the J&J shots to seven million people, there are six people (all women between the ages of 18 and 48), who have experienced a “rare disorder involving blood clots.” 

 

          The story, as reported, is a lie---yet another lie about the American experience with COVID vaccines.  What normally happens if there are only six adverse reactions out of seven million doses is that the guy who came up with the vaccine gets a Nobel Prize.  They name hospitals and medical schools after him.  It cannot be true that solely because of six bad reactions, even including one death, the J&J vaccine was pulled.

 

          There is more to this story that is not being told. 

 

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          Another question.

 

          Why the hell are healthy women between the ages of 18 and 48, for whom the coronavirus poses a danger quite a bit less likely than the danger of getting hit by lightning, getting the vaccine in the first place?

 

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          I know people who had COVID, recovered from it, and now wear masks and avoid crowds.  I know people who have been fully vaccinated, yet still wear masks and avoid crowds and won’t dine in a restaurant.  I even know people who had COVID, recovered from it, then got fully vaccinated, and now wear masks, avoid crowds, won’t dine in a restaurant, and look at you funny if you ask what they are afraid of.

 

          I know these people.  They are my friends, and I worry about them.  I wonder if they will ever come back out into the sunshine.

 

          At this point, I think we all know what the future will bring.  There will always be another “wave” coming.  There will always be a new and terrifying variant.  There will always be a reason to keep your mask on.  There will always be a reason not to go to that party.  There will always be a booster shot that will be available in a few weeks, so you better just stay inside your house for now.

 

          My friends will never be told, by the people they trust and believe in, that it is safe to live a normal life again.

 

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          A month ago, I wrote about my trip to Las Vegas, and the hygiene theater on display in hotels and casinos.  All the shows are closed (too dangerous!), but the show they put on when a new dealer comes to a blackjack table, with rags soaked in disinfectant, frowning housekeepers, and latex gloves, is every bit as amusing as Buddy Hackett ever was.  Everything gets wiped down---cards, chips, chairs, felt, beer bottles, leather, bald guy’s heads---you name it.  The same is done everywhere---bars, restaurants, etc.  Any flat surface that didn’t move was constantly getting purified.

 

          We have known for quite a while that the virus is transferred through the air and not from touching contaminated surfaces, but the rules or guidelines or whatever the hell they were remained in force, so the show went on.

 

          Then last week, the CDC finally fessed up and withdrew all recommendations about disinfecting things and wiping them down.  So I called my buddy in Vegas and asked whether the hotels and restaurants and casinos had dropped the vaudeville routines involving cleaning and disinfecting every surface.

 

          “Nope,” he replied.  “Exactly the same.”

 

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          The other bit of the Vegas hygiene show I especially enjoyed was the elevator protocols.  This was another bit of theater that cost the hotels and casinos almost nothing, but proved to everybody just how much they care.

 

          There was a huge NASCAR event the weekend I was at the South Point, and the hotel was packed.  The elevators were in constant use with thousands riding up and down all day and all night.      And in every elevator foyer containing six elevators, there were signs telling us the maximum number of people allowed on an elevator was four, though the normal capacity would be about ten.  And people obeyed.  During peak times in the morning and evening, you might have to wait ten minutes for an elevator, but people obeyed.

 

          An individual elevator at the South Point probably carried more than a thousand people per day, all of them breathing, coughing, belching, farting, and maybe even exchanging some body fluids on occasion, but as long as there were only four people on an elevator at the same time, all of us would be fine.  When that fifth person stepped on, however, well….

 

Copyright 2021MichaelKubacki 

THE TANGLED WEB OF LIES ABOUT VACCINES

 

          I asked a 20-something colleague at work whether she would get the shot when it was her turn.  “No,” she said.

 

          “I have three relatives, older ones, who got the vaccine, and they all got sick.  My one aunt got the needle and she passed out and she’s not coming back.  She’s 54.  They just put her in hospice.”

 

          One hears these stories.

 

          What one never hears is an honest discussion of dangers associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.  You don’t see it in the newspapers either.  The party line is that any adverse reactions to vaccinations are mild and very rare, and the possibility of death is NEVER mentioned in these media reports.  In fact, according to CDC data (which probably represents only a small fraction of the cases), two thousand Americans have died and 14,000 have been hospitalized after getting the vaccine.

 

          There is real danger, and though it is possible the benefits of the vaccination program outweigh the injuries and deaths from the vaccines, we are not allowed to evaluate the information for ourselves.  We are not supposed to make any risk/benefit determination on our own.  That is for our betters to decide.  You know---Fauci, Biden, Cuomo, Dr. Oz---all the really smart people who have our best interests at heart.

 

          Every state and many cities have a priority list for vaccination eligibility.  Here, for example, is Philadelphia’s:

 

Philadelphia Phase 1a

• Paid healthcare workers
• Residents and staff at long-term care facilities, like nursing homes

Philadelphia Phase 1b

• People who live and work in congregate living settings, like prisons, shelters for the homeless, drug and alcohol treatment, psychiatric facilities, rehabilitation, and specialized services housing
• First responders, like law enforcement officers, paramedics, EMT’s and firefighters
• Service providers working with high-risk populations and attend persons in their home or a congregate living facility
• Staff at senior centers or day programs for seniors and those with intellectual disabilities
• People who are over the age of 65
• People who have certain high-risk medical conditions like:
• Cancer
• Chronic kidney disease
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
• Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant, HIV, use of oral corticosteroids, or use of other immune weakening medications
• Obesity and severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥30 kg/m2)
• Sickle cell disease
• Smoking
• Types 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus
• Down Syndrome
• Pregnancy
• People with intellectual disabilities
• People who work in public transit
• People who work in food distribution, prep, and service
• Teachers, school staff, and licensed childcare staff
• People who are customer-facing and work in high-volume essential retail like pharmacies, hardware stores, big box stores, gas stations, automotive repair shops, and similar retail.
• People who work in manufacturing
• Clergy

Philadelphia Phase 1c

Beginning April 5:

• Sanitation workers
• Maintenance and janitorial staff
• Utility workers
• Postal and package delivery workers

Beginning soon:

• Higher education staff
• Finance: public facing, non-remote positions in the finance industry
• Transportation workers such as airport and train workers and taxi or rideshare drivers
• Construction workers
• IT & telecommunications workers
• Members of the press
• Legal industry
• Public health workers

Phase 2

Everyone who doesn’t fit into one of the categories above is not currently eligible to receive vaccine. The full list of those not currently eligible can be found in the Health Department’s COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Eligibility Recommendations. The Health Department has announced that the City will move to Phase 2 no later than May 1, 2021.

 

            There is one important category of people you won’t find on this list.  I haven’t seen them mentioned on any of the dozens of such lists from around the country.  This is the category of “people who have already had COVID-19.”   Why not?  Certainly they are worthy of special consideration, aren’t they?  Don’t they belong in a category of their own?  But they’re not.  If you are a “retail worker” who caught the virus, you are no different from a “retail worker” who didn’t, at least in the eyes of the authorities.

 

          Why not?  What is the purpose in vaccinating people who have already had COVID and are thus immune?  The existence of such acquired immunity is the very first thing mankind learned about disease.  If Caveman Og got the plague and somehow survived, he was not going to get that particular plague again.  He was safe for the rest of his life.  Humans have known this for tens of thousands of years.

 

          When you dig down, past the priority list to the FAQs or the Further Guidelines, here’s what you find:

 

          Q:  Should I get the vaccine if I have already tested positive for COVID?

          A:  If you have had COVID-19 infection within the last 90 days, you do not need to receive the vaccine now.  This is because it is uncommon to get COVID-19 again within this time period.  However, after 90 days, vaccination is recommended.

 

          Q:  Are people who have recovered from COVID-19 immune from it?

          A:  The Centers for Disease Control and Protection and its partners are investigating to determine if you can get sick with COVID-19 more than once.  At this time, we are not sure if you can be re-infected.  Until we know more, continue to take steps to protect yourself and others.

 

(Source: City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Health, Vaccine FAQs)

 

          So let’s puzzle our way through this.  Since the beginnings of humanity, we have understood that you don’t get the same disease twice.  (We now know the reason: that memory B-cells and T-cells remain in you, ready to mount an immune reaction if necessary.)  The CDC, however, doubts this is true for COVID.  Or at least they consider re-infection a possibility worth worrying about.  Why?  And what has to happen to convince them one way or the other?

 

          Over the past 16 months, there have been more than 131,000,000 cases of COVID throughout the world.  It would take ONE case of reinfection for the CDC to conclude re-infection was possible, but of course, there wouldn’t be just one case.  There would be several million re-infections.  And there haven’t been.  So what the hell are they “investigating?”  The official position that the CDC is still “investigating” this question is absurd.  After 131 million cases, and the intense focus of research efforts and money on this virus, there can no longer be a question about this.  The CDC (and everybody else who has examined the question), knows that once you get the ‘rona, you are immune.  The CDC is lying.  There is no other explanation.

 

          The lies continue because the CDC, and other public health authorities, are stuck with prior lies they have told, and can only prop up those falsehoods by telling more lies.  And so these lies continue to be told, until the views of the public health authorities can no longer be taken seriously.

 

          The result here, telling immune people to get the vaccine, is particularly troubling, since we know two things:

          1) If you had the ‘rona, you are immune, and

          2) There is a small (but real, and potentially serious), danger from COVID vaccines.

 

          From these two facts, one must conclude that people who have had the virus and recovered from it should not get vaccinated.  It is irresponsible to subject people in no danger from COVID to the peril of the shot, no matter how small that peril may be.  It will kill a certain number of immune individuals who shouldn’t have gotten the vaccine but who took it anyway because the CDC said they should.

 

          The prior lie, the one that feeds this vaccinate-the-immune program, is the lie of PCR tests, and the invented “cases.”

 

          We will never know the total number of phony COVID cases, but there aren’t that many pandemics where almost half the victims remain in perfect health throughout their “infection.”  Once the government decided to use PCR tests to diagnose COVID (a function they were not designed for), it became inevitable that there would be millions of people out there who never had the virus, never developed antibodies, never produced memory B-cells and T-cells, but now believe they caught the virus and recovered from it. ***

 

          If the authorities told previously-infected people not to get vaccinated, none of these PCR false-positives would get the shot.  But they should, of course, since they were never actually infected.  This is why the CDC recommends that even people who caught the virus should get vaccinated---because they know there are millions of false positive “cases” in the world who believe they were infected but never were.  The CDC wants these vulnerable people to get vaccinated but cannot admit to them that their positive PCR tests were false.  The cost of this deception is that many who truly are immune will also get vaccinated and some of them will die or be seriously injured, for no reason at all other than to protect the CDC’s rapidly-disappearing credibility.

 

***These “asymptomatic” cases, for the most part, cannot be detected by rapid antigen tests.  This is viewed by the bureaucrats, naturally, as a problem with the rapid antigen tests.

 

Copyright2021MichaelKubacki

THIS & THAT XVII

           Every time there is a story on the news about vaccinations, or a public service ad, we are shown a needle going into somebody’s arm.  You never used to see this on TV, but now there seems to be a fetishistic fascination with the image.  Are we being taught to be thrilled by the sight?

 

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          On March 9, the Chinese government petitioned the WHO (and, by extension, the UN) to grant China permission to run a global vaccine passport system.  China already has its own domestic vaccine passport system, and has a great deal of experience in the area because of its “social credit system,” which judges the behavior of Chinese citizens and gives them each a numerical score based on how much the government approves of the individual’s behavior.  Examples: picking up litter in a park increases your score; criticizing the Communist Party decreases it.

 

          A low social credit score results in sanctions.  There are now millions of Chinese, for example, who are not permitted to travel on trains or airplanes or public transportation because they are not considered good citizens.

 

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            I think you should have to prove you don’t have HIV in order to sit down in a restaurant, get on an airplane, or go to a baseball game.

 

Copyright2021MichaelKubacki