COVID News and Predictions

 

          Last night, I was primed to see the premiere of TikVAH, a new production from the Koresh Dance Company, which has not performed in public for eighteen months.  At the last minute, my wife, who films Koresh shows, called me and told me not to come.  The Susanne Roberts Theater had instituted a vaccination certificate requirement for everyone in the theater.

 

          We had known they were doing this, but we expected I could slip beneath the radar.  However, we never thought the theater management would display a North Korean enthusiasm for enforcement of the protocols.  There were new security cameras throughout the building, and the stage manager himself interrogated all the people who were working the show, including my wife.  After meticulously examining her vax certificate and her picture ID, he lectured her on her decision months before to have gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.  He didn’t personally approve of the J&J vaccine apparently, and he warned her that its effectiveness was waning and that the next time Koresh put on a show, she would need to have proof of a booster shot.

 

          Later, she told me about the procedures during the show itself.  Everyone not on stage was required to wear a mask throughout the show (though everyone in the building was vaxxed, of course), and the bar was closed so people would not be tempted to sip a merlot with their nose and mouth exposed.  The 15-minute intermission was cancelled because such things encourage concert-goers to mill about in the lobby chatting; instead, there was a 5-minute break, allowing only a quick run to the loo.

 

          Much of this is explained by Philadelphia politics.  Of the various constituencies of the Democratic Party, the one in charge of Philly is the Woke Left.  They insist on their pronouns, they hate the police, they have clogged the streets with empty bike lanes and made the city undriveable, and they would immediately cancel anyone who suggested guys might be better “fire-fighters” than women.  Though they love diversity and indigenous people, and they are totally anti-racist, all of them are white.

 

          They love vaccine mandates, and they want them to be as harsh as possible.  They want Philadelphia to be just like San Francisco or Berlin, where the unvaxxed lose their jobs and are barred from restaurants, supermarkets, theaters and public transportation.  And the reason has nothing to do with the virus.

 

          What the Woke Left loves more than anything is their safe spaces, where no one is allowed to say anything that might challenge their beliefs.  Vax mandates, as at the Suzanne Roberts Theater, enable the Woke Left to insulate themselves from people they don’t like because people who are not vaccinated are exactly the sorts of people they never want to see.  The unvaxxed may have voted for Trump, they probably don’t trust “experts,” they may be black, they don’t always believe what they are told on television, and they are sometimes suspicious of government-sponsored propaganda campaigns.  And if the management of the Suzanne Roberts Theater never sees any of those categories of humans again, that would be just fine with them.

 

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          Once all the vaccinated people are approved for boosters, those who don’t get the next round will be deemed unvaccinated.  This will lead us into a new “pandemic of the unvaccinated” with increasingly brutal sanctions against those who won’t take the next step in the program.

 

          Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC, announced on October 22 that the agency was not yet ready to change the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

 

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          There is a dark humor developing among the unvaxxed.  I see it on-line and also in conversations with the people I know who share my situation.

 

          Since we know there is no public health component to the vax mandates and other assaults on our freedom, we also understand there is no logical limit to what the New Normals will do to us.  Quarantine camps?  Of course.  Other countries already have them.  Arrest and imprisonment for mask or speech or quarantine infractions?  Sure---Canada does it today.  Forced vaccination, in the sense of being strapped to a table?  It’s not here yet, but why not?  Between 1907 and 1963, about 64,000 Americans (mostly women), were forcibly sterilized in accordance with the laws of thirty different states.  The practice was upheld 8-1 by the Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell, written by Oliver Wendell Holmes.  Mental defectives, you see---they are a threat to our precious gene pool.  And as Holmes put it, “Three generations of imbeciles is enough.”  Ironically, to support his view that forced sterilization was not a violation of that pesky 14^th Amendment, he cited Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the forced smallpox vaccination case you occasionally see mentioned today.  Under the 14^th, government can’t take your life, liberty or property, but I guess fallopian tubes are a different matter.  And so is your bloodstream.

 

          Once society, or a majority of it, accepts the premise that our very existence is at stake, there is no limit to the “emergency measures” that will be decreed and enforced in order to save us all.

 

          In the U.S., enforcement of vax mandates on the general public is still scattered and spotty, and is often limited to individual restaurants or businesses.  The one place where the heat is coming down is on our police, firemen, and military.

 

          In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered all police to report their vaccination status by October 15, and a third of the 13,000-person force refused.  So far, only 21 officers have been suspended without pay, but her threats continue, and the issue is unresolved.  Joe Biden, on October 21, though not specifically referring to the Chicago problem, stated that first responders who refuse a vax mandate should be fired.

 

          Biden, of course, had already ordered all 1.3 million active duty U.S. servicemen to be vaccinated.  The announcement was made by the Secretary of Defense two months ago.  Anyone resisting the mandate, they have announced, will be discharged from military service.

 

          Purging the police and the military of dissenters and the unvaccinated is a necessary first step before purging the general population.  If policemen and soldiers are going to break down the doors of their fellow Americans they must be true believers themselves.  This is Totalitarianism 101.  Authoritarian governments typically tumble only when their armed enforcers start having second thoughts about enforcing the orders they are given.  The Soviet Union fell at the moment its army refused to mow down civilians in the streets of Moscow.  By contrast, the Chinese filled the tanks in Tiananmen Square with young soldiers from rural areas who had no experience of Beijing and mostly did not even speak the same language as the protesters.

 

          The ideological cleansing of police and military in the U.S. is a particularly nasty business because many of the people in these positions have sacrificed career opportunities and accepted dangerous jobs in order to serve their nation and protect their fellow citizens.  Nevertheless, those committed to establishing the new COVID security state will show no mercy to police and troops suspected of disloyalty to the new regime.

 

Copyright2021MichaelKubacki  

 

THE HANK AARON PROBLEM

           On January 5, 2021, Hank Aaron got his COVID shot at the Morehead School of Medicine, alongside a group of other respected black elders in the Atlanta community.  The purpose of this public event was to encourage reluctant black people to get vaccinated.

 

          “I don’t have any qualms about it at all, you know,” said Aaron.  “I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this.  It’s just a small thing that can help zillions of people in this country.”

 

          On January 22, Aaron died in his sleep.  He was 86 years old and in decent health, though it was later reported that he had “prostate issues and a history of hypertension.”  (Like pretty much every 86-year-old guy in the world.)

 

          What followed was a textbook case of how the media wing of the emerging biomedical state handles a potentially embarrassing story, or one that may cause the public to question the fundamental “truths” of the COVID narrative.

 

          The first option for the media, as we have seen repeatedly, is to ignore the story entirely.  This is what is done with all reports of street protests against lockdowns, mask and vax mandates, and other authoritarian measures.  These protests occur every week in France, Australia, Italy, Ireland, the UK, Germany, and other countries where police state rule is further along (and more brutal), than in the U.S.  They sometimes bring out tens of thousands of people demanding freedom from the totalitarian rules being enforced upon them.  You will never see reports of these demonstrations in your newspaper, or film of them on the legacy networks, CNN, MSNBC, or other outlets.  (You rarely see them on Fox News either.)

 

          A second example of the blackout treatment is the subject of vaccination injuries or deaths.  The tiresome refrain on how “safe and effective” the vaccines are is something we see every day, but you will never see reports of people killed, hospitalized, or crippled by them.  Yet the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) website, which is run by the CDC and the FDA, has received reports of 14,798 deaths and 134,813 hospitalizations attributed to COVID vaccines (as of September 24, 2021).  The reports are generally not verified by the CDC, but there’s no reason to think they are bogus either.  In addition, a recent study by the CDC itself concluded that such events are under-reported by a factor of 8.3.  Yet neither VAERS nor the frightening number of vaccine injuries is ever mentioned in government-friendly media.

 

          But the Hank Aaron story was different.  Because of his fame, and the fact he had taken the shot publicly in order to dispel fear of the vaccines among black people, his death was a story that could not be completely ignored.  An otherwise healthy 86-year-old man gets the shot and dies 17 days later for no apparent reason?  Hank Aaron was perhaps the most famous person in the city of Atlanta, and he was a beloved figure in the world of baseball generally.  Questions about his death arose immediately.

 

          Four days after his death, the media response was in place.  Thereafter, the game plan was uniformly followed by broadcasters, journalists, on-line publications and “fact-checkers.”

          1) An explanation for Aaron’s death was presented by (unnamed) experts. 

          2) From the moment it was offered, the explanation was treated as definitive, and no further questions would be allowed.  Under no circumstances was further inquiry legitimized, or even mentioned.

          3) The safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccines was touted in articles about Aaron’s death, strongly implying that any questioning of the official explanation was fundamentally illegitimate, and based in disinformation or conspiracy theories.

 

          Yahoo’s January 26 report is representative of the lot:

          “Major League Baseball legend and Atlanta entrepreneur Hank Aaron’s cause of death has been revealed.

          “The 86-year-old Hall-of-Famer and longtime Atlanta Braves right fielder died of natural causes, according to an investigator in the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.”

 

          The explanation from TV stations, newspapers and other outlets ALL cited the same statement from the Medical Examiner’s Office, often in exactly the same words.  Hank died of “natural causes,” as if this were an explanation, and that was to be the end of it.  People Magazine said it was “natural causes.”  Forbes said it was “natural causes.”  WKRG in Atlanta said it was “natural causes.”

 

          Factcheck.org also accepted the Medical Examiner’s “natural causes” as gospel, but, presumably in an attempt to flesh out its report, went back to Morehead, and wrote: “The Morehead School of Medicine, which is affiliated with the Atlanta clinic where Aaron was immunized, also said the vaccine was not a factor in his death.”  Note two things here.  First, schools can’t talk; people do.  This is another unnamed source.  Second, how would Morehead know Aaron’s cause of death?  There is no report, and no evidence, that they examined his body.

 

          Factcheck.org also dug up another sciency person (named this time), to corroborate the narrative.  Karen Sullivan of the Medical Examiner’s office is quoted as saying: “There was no information suggestive of an allergic or anaphylactic reaction to any substance which might be attributable to recent vaccine distribution.”  Not exactly the same as saying “the vax didn’t kill him,” is it?

 

          A few days later, Forbes Magazine checked in to wrap it all up.  Citing some of those “medical experts” at Morehead who never seem to have names, a journo named Marshall Shepherd wrote, “His passing was not related to the vaccine, nor did he experience any side effects from the immunization.”  Mr. Shepherd also dug out an old statement from the CDC to the effect that anaphylactic reactions to COVID vaccines are extremely rare, as if this had some relevance to Aaron’s death.

 

          And that was that.  I spent some time looking for a news story or broadcast item where somebody, anybody, sought to dig a half inch deeper into the story, and I found nothing.  Nobody questioned “natural causes” as a cause of death.  Did he die of cancer?  Did he have a heart attack?  A stroke?  Was he eaten by a frickin’ bear???  Somehow that follow-up question never got asked.  Also, nobody demanded that a NAMED public official come forward and report on the nature of the investigation into Hank Aaron’s death, and what the findings were.  After less than a week, the story was shoved down the memory hole.  These questions can now only be asked by us conspiracy freak, anti-vaxxer, transphobe, white supremacist MAGA-hatters in the darker corners of the internet.

 

          It is sad that Hank Aaron’s death, and the cause of it, is not important enough to justify breaking the ironclad censorship protocols protecting the COVID narrative.  Even in Atlanta, where he was an icon and a hero, the truth was so feared that we are not permitted to seek it out.

 

          Hank deserved better than this.

 

          When Aaron was pursuing Babe Ruth’s record for the most homers in major league history, he received dozens of letters and cards every day, for months, and while most of them were fan mail, a lot of them were laced with racial hatred for daring to challenge the home-run record of a white man.  Death threats were common.  For a time, he traveled separately from the team, protected by armed security.

 

          Aaron saved the ugliest mail.  They were in boxes in his attic, and he would occasionally bring out some of the nasty stuff to show a journalist he trusted, or a historian researching him.  Reportedly, he was not a bitter man, but he had no illusions either.  He came from nothing, he made himself the greatest power hitter in baseball history, and he didn’t let anybody stop him.  The haters faded away, but Hank never did.  His integrity and his dignity eventually triumphed.  For years, I have kept a list of the ten greatest living Americans, and up until January 22, Hank was always on there.

 

          Hank deserved better.

 

          The haters are different now.  Now they reside in government agencies and newspaper offices and TV stations, and the life and times of a great man like Hank Aaron means nothing to them.  He too must be used by them to tell “the narrative,” the COVID story that we all must accept, we all must believe, we all must embrace.

 

          The great, sad irony here is that, on January 4, Hank Aaron was trying to serve those people, the ones who demand we all believe the story and we all get vaccinated.  He believed in the program, and he was trying to help other black men and women by showing them the vaccine was safe, or at least worth the risk.  And I am not implying he was wrong to do that.  What is wrong is that, when he died, Hank Aaron was no longer useful to them, so any honest inquiry into his death had to be “managed.”

 

          And so the truth became secondary.  In fact, it was less than secondary.   For the Morehead School of Medicine and the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office and Forbes and WKRG and Yahoo and People Magazine and all the other journalists in Atlanta and around the nation, the truth didn’t matter at all compared to the importance of protecting the COVID story.   I view them much the same way I view those racists who wrote the letters to Aaron in 1974.  For both groups, Hank was not a man of any substance, and not a man worthy of their respect.  He was just a threat to what they believed in.  For both the crackers and the COVID establishment, Hank was just another inconvenient nigger.

 

Copyright2021MichaelKubacki         

THIS & THAT XIX

 

          T-shirt on a large woman in my big-box store: UNLESS I AM SITTING ON YOUR FACE, MY WEIGHT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

 

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          The CDC records and reports flu cases week by week, and has done so for years.  Here are the numbers of flu cases in the US for the last five flu seasons:

2016-17:  29,000.000 

2017-18:  45,000,000

2018-19:  36,000,000

2019-20:  38,000,000

2020-21:            2038

 

(Source: USA Today, 5-10-21, reporting on flu cases from 9-27-20 to 4-24-21)

 

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          As totalitarianism advances around the globe, and dissenters are increasingly segregated from society, and police state rule grows more powerful in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, New Zealand and other nations, those of us who are horrified by what is happening are horrified in part by the realization that most people just don’t seem to care.

 

          Natan Sharansky, the famous soviet refusenik, later a member of the Israeli Knesset, offered an explanation in his 2004 book, “The Case for Democracy.”  As a man who has seen evil both in the USSR and in the West, Sharansky wrote that evil can be difficult to confront no matter where it appears.  In the Soviet world, of course, the people had been disarmed, they could not easily communicate with one another, and all the power belonged to the state.  The people there had no difficulty identifying evil, but they were powerless to confront it.  When he was finally allowed to emigrate to the West, however, he learned to his surprise that the danger was just as great, but more insidious.  In the West, evil comes disguised as kindness, safety, fairness, community relations, compassion, or even public health.  Here, the danger is that Westerners don’t recognize evil.  And then it’s too late.

 

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          The best estimate is that about 388,000 African slaves were brought to America between 1525 and 1866.  Were any of them owned by Republicans?

 

          The number of slaves owned by Republicans is probably not zero, but it’s not much more than that.  Ulysses S. Grant, who became a Republican president, reportedly was given a slave in 1859, and promptly “fired” him.  Does that count?  Though I have spent about two minutes researching this question, I have been unable to find the name of another Republican who ever owned a slave.  The GOP was founded in 1854 by abolitionists and its purpose was to prevent the spread of slavery into newly forming States.  Then they nominated Lincoln for president in 1859 and, well, I think you know the rest of the story.

 

          All of which suggests a solution for one of the problems that always arise in any discussion of reparations for the descendants of slaves: who should pay them?  The obvious answer:  registered Democrats.

 

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          As the march toward a biomedical security state proceeds apace, occasional cracks appear in the enforcement regime.  They provide some hope.

 

          In Philadelphia, there is a change in the mask regime.  During the previous masking order, walking into a store without a mask would bring an immediate intervention from a clerk or security guard.  If the initial request was ignored, more attention and pestering would ensue.  In my big-box store, customers who refused to put on a mask would not be allowed to purchase anything.  After being followed around the store, cashiers would refuse to wait on them.

 

          Then, on June 10, the masks came off.  Well, not really.  Probably 80% of customers still wore them, but the city rescinded its indoor mask order, so there was no longer any enforcement.

 

          About two months later, on August 12, a new masking order was promulgated, again requiring mask-wearing indoors.

 

          In the seven weeks since, however, an important difference has emerged.  I now routinely walk unmasked into restaurants, supermarkets, and the like, and I am never accosted.  In government buildings like the public library, you will be told to slap the diaper on, but nowhere else.  The prior mask order was ruthlessly enforced, and this one is not.  For those who understand that masking is an obedience ritual and is otherwise pointless, the difference matters.

 

          “The law” is always two different things: 1) what it says in the statute books, and 2) the way it goes down on the street.  Mask laws are one example.  In Philadelphia, shootings are another.  It is against “the law” (as written), to shoot people, but a large majority of shootings are simply overlooked.  Only about 20% of shooters are ever arrested, and many of those who get nabbed never serve time in prison.

 

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          For our own health and safety, and that of our friends, relatives and society at large, Sandy and I have spent some time discussing the guest protocols we will need to enforce during the upcoming holidays.  Though these are subject to change, we will ask all visitors to our home between Thursday, November 25, 2021 and Friday, January 1, 2022 to produce evidence of the following:

 

          1) A negative PCR COVID test performed within 72 hours of your visit, along with a subsequent negative rapid antigen test confirming the PCR result.

 

          2) A paper or cardboard vaccination certificate and, depending on your eligibility on the date of your visit, an updated certificate of a booster vaccination.

 

          3) A BMI of between 18.5 and 24.9.  (For your convenience, if you do not have a notarized BMI Declaration from your doctor, we will have a scale, tape measure, calipers, and calculator at the door when you arrive.)

 

          4) A full report (with no redactions), of a polyp-free colonoscopy performed by a board-certified surgeon or gastroenterologist on October 1, 2021 or thereafter.  (Unfortunately, we are no longer able to perform this service in our foyer.)   NOTE: an 8 x 10 glossy photograph of your colon, even in full color, will not be sufficient unless accompanied by the hard-copy report.

 

          5) Copies of the previous five years of your Form 1040s, along with all attachments, and documentation of any audits (resolved or unresolved), performed by the IRS.

 

          6) A certified copy of your criminal record from the Philadelphia Police Department, the Pennsylvania State Police, or any other police district in a city, state or other locality where you have resided at any time in the previous twenty years.

 

          7) A DNA report from “23 and Me” or any similar commercial firm attesting to your racial and ethnic heritage.

 

          8) Your attendance record (K – 6), at St. Bridget’s Catholic Elementary School, signed and attested to by a church official of Monsignor rank or higher.

 

          During your visit, you will be required to wear two masks and a plastic face-shield at all times, even while eating, drinking, brushing your teeth, or performing fellatio.  Violators will be instantly ejected from the premises by means of a trebuchet we have constructed on the front lawn.

 

          Wassail!

 

Copyright2021MichaelKubacki