Journal Article Calling out Covid Vaccines

 An article was recently published in "The Journal of Insulin Resistance" which calls out the covid vaccines as more harmful than helpful: (link)

Results: In the non-elderly population the “number needed to treat” to prevent a single death runs into the thousands. Re-analysis of randomised controlled trials using the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology suggests a greater risk of serious adverse events from the vaccines than being hospitalised from COVID-19. Pharmacovigilance systems and real-world safety data, coupled with plausible mechanisms of harm, are deeply concerning, especially in relation to cardiovascular safety. Mirroring a potential signal from the Pfizer Phase 3 trial, a significant rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England was seen in 2021, with similar data emerging from Israel in the 16–39-year-old age group.

Conclusion: It cannot be said that the consent to receive these agents was fully informed, as is required ethically and legally. A pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19 is long overdue.

The author of the paper originally promoted the covid vaccine, but his father died after taking it, so I guess then he thought he should be skeptical of the claims of pharmaceutical companies.

The US Just Waged War on Germany and the EU

 The USA blew up the nordstream pipeline, ostensibly to "punish" Russia, but it's an act of war on Europe too. Will the Europeans just take it up the ass and pay protection money to the DC mafia? How corrupt is the "leadership" of Europe? If the US government is willing to completely fuck over Europe and wreck its economy what are they willing to do to Americans?

Few People Want the New "Booster"

 Only a small fraction of people have taken the latest booster shots. It took more than two years for the general public to come to their senses. Only a small handful of people are still hysterical freaks about it.

Every Government is Trash

Supposedly Russia is calling up men for their war effort in Ukraine. That conflict doesn't make a lot of sense. Russia has not acted like a country trying to win a war. Why would they call up many more men if they haven't even tried to win?

Why do Europeans Care About Israel?

When I was about 12 years old, I went to a Catholic church event with one of my middle school friends at the time who was catholic. I don't remember much about the event except for a movie we watched about Moses and ancient "Israel". It struck me as odd, even back then, that anybody in that room should care about Jews in the desert.

Why did the Bible become the book of European people? The story doesn't make any sense at all.

The catholic church went around Europe with the medieval kings and force converted people to their brand of religion. The church was a jewish institution. Christianity was a jewish religion. It's very weird that the Kings of europe decided to force feed that to their people.

There's two plausible explanations for it, as far as I can see. One is that Jewish Christianity was useful for the kings and the church was sort of like the MSM of its day. The other is the aristocratic families of 500s Europe were Jews.

Who can really say for sure?

Europeans have been getting brainwashed by jews for centuries. Jews have been too, of course. The modern day european jews have as little to do with Israel as any random european or american person.

It's pretty fucking weird.

The Credit Curse

A few years ago my wife and I watched the old TV show Little House on the Prairie. It was entertaining, but mostly interesting as a time capsule nostalgia trip. The TV shows back in the 70s and 80s often didn't do a great job of translating a story to the visual live action format. Anyway, I remembered a scene from that show recently: Pa Engels often works at the local saw mill. He works when they have to cut boards. He doesn't work there when there's nothing to do.

That's completely different that today's work world. People go to work when there's nothing to do. Sometimes there are off-project chores that are actually valuable, but it's also common that employees end up burning time on make-work activity. This happens because people are more often than not paid from credit. A company averages out all its cash flows via financial activity.

I think this particular aspect of economic life is the result of much frustration and annoyance. It's why people hate work and terms like "wagie" are used. Everyone knows the whole thing is nonsense and bullshit and the system is pretty arbitrary.

The "no credit" world existed in the US, especially prior to the era of the railroads. In the neighborhood where I live, new settlers built a flour mill sometime after 1812--maybe 1815?--and the whole project was "financed" through barter. People worked on the mill based on a promise of future flour or services. That sort of small deal making was eventually replaced with "finance", money and credit. Banks became universal intermediaries.

That also allows the governments to tax transactions, wages, etc... Now there's a big, bloated system to "facilitate" trade. People traded the high friction person to person interaction of 1815 with a giant parasitic system that robs them every single day.

You Must Believe!

Many of the people who support green energy, EVs, or other such causes are essentially cult members. They think their belief is significant, and of course they think critique of their idols is bad and will "halt progress". That is, they think a critic of EVs somehow prevents the batteries from improving. This is the same mental model many people had for covid vaccines. If you believe the vaccine will cure all. If you don't people will still get sick from covid.

The only thing that will influence the efficacy of EVs is battery technology. If the batteries get significantly better and some other engineering problems are solved, EVs will outcompete ICE cars. If the batteries improve, solar energy will outcompete every other form of power generation. 

Right now, they suck. They're right on the boundary of usable, but are still unproven and pretty janky. The EVs are mainly for early adopter, hobbyist minded people. They are usable, but only for a narrow range of cases. Solar is really similar. It's feasible. It works, but it's pretty expensive. Most people don't want to dick around with their car, or their electric service all the time, or at all, the same way they don't want to mess around with their stove or fridge multiple times a day. Most people don't want a potential fire hazard in their house.

The club of fanboys and believers is much larger than the people who actually spend the $100,000 on a car, or tens of thousands on solar power. Some of them believe the outcome of the quest for better batteries will be influenced by their belief. It won't.