There is a forthcoming paper in JAMA Pediatrics, that has found that children born during the pandemic score markedly lower on standard measures of verbal, motor and overall cognitive ability. The longitudinal study of 672 children from Rhode Island, found that children born after the pandemic began showed an average IQ score of 78, a drop of 22 points from the average of previous cohorts, which indicates serious mental retardation. If these results are applicable to the entire human race, it arguable that there could be a collapse of civilisation in the future, just from the crash of IQ alone. This would seem to be the ultimate nightmare for the likes of American Renaissance.
For reference purposes in the current Australian situation, here is another case study of breakthrough Covid infections. There are at least125,683 fully vaccinated Americans who have tested positive for Covid and 1,400 of these have died.
However, the total number of breakthrough cases is likely to be higher, as nine states, including Pennsylvania and Missouri, did not provide any information, and 11 did not provide death and hospitalization totals. Vaccinated adults who have breakthrough cases, but show no symptoms, could also be missing from the data. While the mainstream is saying that the numbers of dead are relatively small, the point to notice is that it is not zero, as the standard magic bullet view of vaccines would seemingly suppose.
Psychological research has linked the acceptance of conspiracy theories with a desire to stand out from the crowd. That may be applicable to celebrity conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and others, but is it true of people like us, me in particular? Remember, we are classified as shadowy fringe dwellers. How is this intense privacy compatible with that is being proposed by the psychologists? And why trust psychology at all, when most of it published results are false: that is the famous replication crisis in part.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
While the following personal argument by someone who is choosing not to get the vaccine does not contain any new material that we have not covered, it is still interesting, since the account was published in a mainstream media source, Newsweek.com. It does rebut the claim made by the vaccination establishment, that those not getting vaccinated are ignorant and selfish.
Iceland is yet another country with a high Covid vaccination rate, but where herd immunity is not being reached, according to Iceland’s Chief Epidemiologist, Þórólfur Guðnason. He says that the past two to three weeks, the Delta variant has outstripped all others in Iceland. Vaccinated people can easily contract it as well as spread it to others, Þórólfur has stated. Thu, mass vaccination is not going to end the Covid crisis.
The respectable Spectator.com, has done a splendid job critiquing the notion that the Australian government needs to make vaccine certificates mandatory for all. But this view assumes that vaccines are the magic bullet solution to the Covid crisis, and the case of breakthrough infections in both Israel, Iceland and other places, shows that this is not so. As well, the article mentions the waning efficacy of vaccines as seen in Israel. Thus “the recommendation for vaccination certificates flies in the face of massive actual data from the real world.” The article’s conclusion: “vaccines should be made available to all, strongly recommended for all vulnerable groups but not made mandatory for anyone. Embrace personal choice and individual responsibility as the core elements of Covid risk management as we all learn to live with it as individuals and a nation. This too shall pass.”
Given all of the heavy misery material covered here, and I assume today is a normal work day for the Alor.org bullpen, here is a bit of lighter relief, but still absurd. It shows how low the system can go.
First, defund the New York police as much as possible. Then, through an outfit called Advance Peace, offer a stipend of $1,000 per month (“transformational opportunities”) to “young men involved in lethal firearm offenses,” at the same time pairing them with “neighborhood change agents” — “credible messengers, meaning they bring life experience, conflict mediation and mentorship skills to the target population.” In other words, give a grand a month to violent teens, then get older ex-cons to train them into being even better at their trade! Makes sense if the goal is social chaos, which it is. All for the CCP masters.
We have been delivered the spectacle of the Biden administration allegedly cooperating with the Taliban, like the US being some whipped second-rate backwater country. Meanwhile all sorts of atrocities are being committed by the Taliban, which we are documenting. But, the most important thing is that the present US humiliation is fuelling jihadism, and the desire to take it to the world. Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: “It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day.” Here is some takes on this, by those who know more about it than me.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/taliban-commander-vows-jihad-against-the-whole-world
The great patriot General Flynn has given an excellent overview of the present plight of the US, with waning freedoms at home under the Democrat regime, and disasters abroad. While real terrorist threats are gathering forces, the Biden administration is defining patriot Americans as terrorists, and aims to declare war against them. Well, given the failure of the US military to win any recent wars, maybe their famous luck will continue on the home front!
The plight of us “peasants” in Australia is being noticed internationally, with Fox News host Tucker Carlson condemning the present lack of freedoms in Covid fortress Australia. That is fair, but as reported at this blog, which covers the European and American scenes through our correspondents Richard Miller, Chris Knight and Charles Taylor, the US and Europe have their own anarcho-tyranny. It really is a present disease of the West, more serious than Covid, which is but a symbol of the problem.
Actress Sally Kirkland has given her personal account of getting the Covid vax. It was, to say the least, unpleasant.
According to emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know, Four U.S. virologists who published a widely cited commentary strongly rebutting the theory that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, might have been engineered in a lab, have privately acknowledged that they could not “rule out the possibility” of a lab leak. But, their original paper did exactly that!
For some time, I have been supporting the idea that most countries should break up into smaller more manageable states. There are secession movements across the world. However, Covid lockdowns are giving us our first real taste of the breakup. I contend that in some respects it is not so bad! Remember, small is beautiful! So, shut the borders, but let the people be free.
Whitney Webb, at Dr Mercola’s site, in a piece now disappeared into the void, but extracts preserved here, discusses details of how the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors, to launch a global health-focused DARPA equivalent, Wellcome Leap. The stated aim is to combat the "most pressing health challenges of our time." However, critics fear the agenda, “their three current programs are poised to develop incredibly invasive tech-focused, and in some cases overtly transhumanist, medical technologies, including a program exclusively focused on using artificial intelligence (AI), mobile sensors, and wearable brain-mapping tech for children three years old and younger.” This will usher in high tech surveillance at a level not yet seen.
Masks are the new normal in Australia now, even in states like South Australia without lockdown, or even cases. It is “just to be sure.” Well, by that line of thought, one could have an endless lockdown too, “just to be sure.” It looks like Queensland is going that way, rejecting opening even after 80 percent of the population is vaccinated. Anyway, City-Journal.org, has a ripper piece, unmasking the mask ideology.
https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence
This Infowars.com piece gives a list of doctors who are highly critical of the Covid vaccinations, based upon clinical practice and what they are observing in patients, as well as research and theorisation. It is indeed a snap shot of horror if it is all correct. The greatest threat is no doubt “pulmonary artery hypertension” – high blood pressure in their lungs. The problem is that it is hypotheses by these doctors that people will probably all develop right-sided heart failure within three years and die due to increased vascular resistance through their lungs. That is apocalyptic at the movie level, and the consequences have not been well discussed.
When I first heard about this case, I thought it had no hope, but it turned out to be a winner, which just goes to show how wrong I am about many things. Independent senator Rex Patrick has won a case before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal which in turn requires Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s department to release secret documents about the workings of national cabinet, rejecting the claim that the entity is a committee of federal cabinet. According to Justice White, “The mere use of the name ‘national cabinet’ does not, of itself, have the effect of making a group of persons using the name a ‘committee of the cabinet’. Nor does the mere labelling of a committee as a ‘cabinet committee’ have that effect.”
It is a victory against Big Government, for transparency. Of course, there may now be an appeal to the Federal Court, and then up the legal ladder.
Very sadly, a 34-year old woman has died from blood clotting, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome following receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. My daughter was put under pressure from her doctor, a vaccine fanatic and true-believer, to get the AstraZeneca jab, and she is the same age as the woman who died from TTS. She refused on the grounds that she did not want to face this risk. Her doctor said that the probability of getting hit by a truck is greater than getting TTS. She said that she almost had an accident with a truck, or at least a van, coming to the clinic, and was not convinced by this argument. Who will look after the kids if I die or get incapacitated? Is there a no-fault compensation scheme to pay the bills? She did not ask, being polite, about whether he would the pay the bills if she had an terrible adverse effect, or if he could be sued for administering the injection that did harm.
The doctor did not know about compensation and did not really care, being concerned only with jabbing, almost as if he was getting a cut too (of course not)! Anyway, without research my guess is that there is none; certainly, the vaccine companies are well protected from litigation. The same rule does not get applied to any other product, like cars and guns. Perhaps it may become impossible in the future to see a doctor without a vaccine passport. But, will it really matter all that much?
Unherd.com has a great article telling it like it is, that Australia’s unending lockdowns are a form of social torture, no doubt to force people out of desperation for getting their lives back to be vaccinated. But, this assumes that there is no declining effectiveness of the vaccines, and that there are not substantial breakthrough infections. Recent articles at the blog have examined the case of Israel, which challenges the received position of the technocrats in Australia. This is all not going to have a soft landing.
The liberal-Left Australian blog, The Conversation.com, is well worth reading to see what the other side is thinking. A recent article explored implementing a France-style vaccine mandate for public spaces in Australia. The conclusions reached were that the majority of people in France accept the present measures, and they quote their research indicating that Australia broadly would support this too. As well there are no legal impediments to such schemes.
Well, I for one hope that Clive Palmer gets his test case rolling soon, so that we will see if this is true. As for France, well, we will see how the protests go, which seem to be gaining momentum. Likewise, for Australia. What is not being considered by the new class, is the issue of breakthrough infections, new vaccine-resistant variants, and alleged declining effectiveness of the vaccines. If all this is for nothing, there may be a different story indeed.
