It’s All Been A Pack of Lies

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

For years now, I’ve been thinking that Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight was sort of an anthem for those of us on the right. Like, the last ten years or so. (Made all the better by the fact the artist is hard core stupid left.)

You know….

Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been
It’s all been a pack of lies

And never more so than the last four years.

I realized how far I’d come from trusting anything or anyone in the “public health” establishment (And guys, given the quality of care I tend to receive I was ALWAYS afraid of going to the doctor. Yes, I’m a zebra, and that’s part of it, but the other part is that there is a stereotype of the Latin female coming in to the doctor and if anything I’m the opposite, which means they’re reading me wrong. It’s probably not a coincidence the best care I’ve had were either doctors I already knew socially — at one time Mensa — or who are foreign born and don’t “read” me as “Latin.”)

Even ten years ago if you’d told me something like “They’re all corrupt and the entire FDA is full of things that are outright harmful to public health” I’d call you insane.

Now, I find myself reading articles on how RFK is going to take down this hallowed American institution and I think “you Absolute Lawn Flamings!” (Thank you Judy Frost.) “You can’t take off the mask and show us the hideousness beneath and have us FORGET what we saw.”

I remember how they told us that ivermectin wasn’t effective. I remember the manipulation of the number of hospitalized, the number of beds available, not telling you that 100% full beds is NORMAL for flu season, I remember the pushing of a vaccine that did nothing and was insufficiently tested, I remember the mask nonsense. I remember the lock downs.

MORE IMPORTANTLY I remember trying to make Vitamin D prescription. There really wasn’t even an excuse for this. Vitamin D made it less likely that people would die of COVID and therefore lessened the panic.

And these monsters wanted people to die, because they needed the panic to steal an election. Yes, it really is that ugly.

Perhaps a bit too of “there are too many people” because, well, because like Paul Ehrlich they find crowds unaesthetic. “So what if they die.”

Seven years ago, son and I went for a walk in the old neighborhood, and we met next door neighbor whose wife had been battling cancer. And in chatting he came up with the old chestnut of “We have drugs effective against cancer, but the FDA won’t let us use them because they want to make money out of all these horrible treatments.”

Back then I thought it was lunacy. I still think so. I mean, if there were a universal cure for cancer (which is not an illness but many) think how much money it would make.

But given what I’ve seen during the last four years, would I have been so 100% sure the neighbor had gone nuts? I don’t know. I mean, for money, maybe not. Holding back some drugs in hopes of population reduction? For Gaia? Well…. I know what these people were taught. A lot of them went through school just before me, or just after.

More importantly I know how bad EVERY STUDY is, and how they seem to publicize those that are things they like.

And this is an extreme case, because until these last four years I tended to listen to the research/medical establishment.

Now I put an extra step in, of running the claims against what I know of biology. Because you can’t trust anything.

RFK Jr. will destroy the federal “health” apparatus? Good. Perhaps this too should devolve to the states. If California wants to ban vaccines, let them. Yes, I think it’s a bad idea, but laboratories of democracy. Let’s see what works. And what doesn’t.

And if I feel that way about a part of the federal government I actually trusted, imagine how I feel about the rest…

So, every time they moan and run screaming with their heads on fire claiming some Trump appointment will destroy this or that portion of the boot on our collective necks?

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well, I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord

163 thoughts on “It’s All Been A Pack of Lies”

        1. Looks up the reaction. Maaaybeee. I’m starting to think of live preservers filled with foam. Water soluble foam. The cesium could be that crunchy bit in the middle of the foam chunks.

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      1. I’m not feeling generous today. Been dealing with a financial institution that a) needs to train its specialists, and b) throw special life preservers to the IT people. The disappearing beneficiary data was horrible, and the fact that when they did find it, they pulled up a 16 year old address for my wife’s account didn’t quite put me over the edge. Barely.

        I rather wish they had data bases that actually shared data. I have no idea how many places they have customer data stored; her statements show up properly, but…

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  4. Hell, my bullshit meter’s been pegged since they were singing the praises of 0bama. Then they cranked the lies up to 11 the minute it looked like Trump might beat the Hildebeest. Throughout this election cycle their heads have been completely outside the normal space-time continuum.

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  5. I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps;
    They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
    I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,
    His day is marching on.

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    1. Axes flash broadswords swing
      Shining armor’s piercing ring.
      Horses run with a polished shield
      Fight those bastards ’til they yield
      Midnight mare and blood red roan
      Fight to keep this land your own
      Sound the horn and call the cry
      How many of them can we make die.

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    2. Oh, damn, the war is coming.
      Oh damn, you feel you want it.
      Oh damn, just bring it on today.
      You can’t live without the fire
      It’s the heat that makes you strong
      ‘Cause you were born to live and fight it all way
      You can’t hide what lies inside you
      It’s the only thing you know.
      You’re embracing that, never walk away.

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  6. I fought the law (in 2021), and I won. Despite the Biden cabal insisting that I take the jab or never work again, I, and a few thousand others at my company, refused, and the system yielded rather than lose 4-8% of its workforce at one swipe.

    I won’t go full libertarian and say that all government regulations be abolished, but they all should have a expiration date of only a few years and be non-renewable for at least a decade after their expiration. That would give people enough time to be convinced or not of the reasonableness of what we’re told.

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  7. There’s enough blame to heap on flip-flopping Fauci and his band of unscientific morons, but I’ll reserve most of my ire for the establishment media, who appeared to want to scare the freaking snot out of everybody – starting with basically ignoring the Diamond Princess, which was almost a perfect test case on what little danger there was with Covid.

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    1. “If it bleeds, it leads” isn’t just a pithy saying for them; it’s a way of life. More lies=more income.

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      1. Since we’re quoting song lyrics:

        We got the bubble-headed bleached-blonde, comes on at five
        She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
        It’s interesting when people die
        Give us dirty laundry

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  8. BTW, my wife the chemist told me the real story of thalidomide. That truth has been buried in all the official accounting. Thalidomide DID NOT cause birth defects. Instead it did its job and allowed some babies who would have been miscarried to be brought to term despite their severe defects.

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    1. Well, it does cause a depletion of vitamin A, which can cause birth defects. They’re still using it as a pharmaceutical, but it has a hefty vitamin A supplement attached now.

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      1. One of the B’s, I thought. And the birth defects type could be used to tell just when in the pregnancy the drug was taken. Now, I do not know if doing with the vitamin would have helped, or the processing would have been messed up no matter the amount available.

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  9. The discovery and understanding that most people want to get along more than they want truth has been intensely painful. I’ll come to terms with it eventually, but it rather shakes the foundations.

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    2. This election, at least, was a partial repudiation of that. Everyone normal is sick of the lies, and sick of pretending they didn’t see them.

      That, and thanks to the internet the media has entirely lost control over any narrative whatsoever. Which would be why we so often see chastising articles pop up telling us we SHOULDN’T do our own research, because we’re not experts, we haven’t been educated, so we can’t possibly come to our own conclusions and anyway the information is probably “disinformation” etc etc. I’ve even seen friends pull out that nonsense. Thanks, but no. I have a functioning brain. And even if I come to a wrong conclusion, you know what? I have to live with the consequences. Mostly it isn’t the end of the world.

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      1. That is a good point I had not considered. There are a lot of people who have been holding their tongues, because the cost was too high, who voted against the prevailing dogma.

        So it could well be there are more who value truth over harmony, or at least a large enough minority to right the ship.

        I’ll have to keep that in mind.

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        1. Personally, I think there are quite a lot of democrat voters who might have *said* they were voting the party line, per the status quo, but actually voted for Trump. Because they’d rather be able to pay their bills and feed their kids.

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      1. I remember all the crap Dr. Mengele tried to get me to take the Covid not-Vaxx. He might be a halfway decent manipulator, but stubborn runs in both sides of my family.

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  10. In the “everything is connected” column, a friend shared a mini-documentary about Phil Collins and the making of this song. The lyrics are largely improvised from noodling around with the vibe, and his answer to “why would a drummer use a drum machine track?” is that he liked the relentlessness and odd sound it made.

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  11. Oh yeah, the thing that absolutely blew my mind that I learned this year was about the 1918 flu pandemic. Anyone who knows about it knows that it came in waves, and that the second wave was far, far deadlier than the first. And ever since, they’ve been studying it, trying to figure out why.

    And it turns out they’ve known for decades what actually happened. What happened is a new wonder drug, aspirin, which they pushed very hard for fever reduction. That part isn’t the problem. The problem is their recommended dosing was in GRAMS, from something like 4-32 grams. If you take a look at your bottle of aspirin now, you’ll see that the amount is in milligrams, and that your recommended daily dose is below two cumulative grams.

    It’s weight-dependent, but it’s generally considered a lethal dose if you take more than about 20 grams. That’s when your liver gives out, and you die a painful death that is awfully similar to many of those unexplained “worse” flu deaths.

    There are peer-reviewed studies out there. There are charts and graphs and concordances. And we still have scientists looking into how that flu somehow evolved to be more deadly the second time, because nobody’s bothered to really publicize the fact that we done screwed up big time.

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    1. Ah, so the government medical establishment pushing a cure that’s worse than the disease is a venerated tradition! Although preventing people from using existing treatments on their own seems to be a new wrinkle.

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      1. You think so? Try doing your own electrical work or plumbing. In many venues, no matter if you can show that you’re competent and have the required knowledge of the appropriate codes, only “experts” are qualified to do the work. And it’s been that way for decades, if not centuries. It may be somewhat new in medicine (although “by prescription only” seems rather ubiqitous), but it’s an old technique to keep the “riffraff” from reducing the profits of the old boys.

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        1. With respect to electrical work, it (probably) depends on the area. In Oregon (at least Flyover County, but I suspect all of the state), if I do the electrical work, I can get it signed off. (Assuming I pulled a permit for it. Nudges box-o-electrical stuff out of sight.) As a member of a congregation (and as an elder, for what that’s worth in the nominally-Quaker church I belonged to), I could do electrical work.

          What I could not do legally was electrical work for a neighbor, whether paid or not.

          I’ve heard that in certain metro areas, (looking at Chicago area), even minor work was supposed to be done by an electrician. OTOH, they had to know about it for the consequences to appear.

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          1. This is how it is in Seattle and I presume all of Washington. Homeowners can DIY but only on their own home.

            That said, I’ll pay somebody to do DWV plumbing (too many gotchas in the code), roofs/gutters (fear of falling), and drywall finishing (too finicky). The rest I can do myself.

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          1. The most entertaining (for values of horror) are from the DIY person who thinks he knows something about electrical work. The ground wire wrapped around the wood screw holding the box to a 2 x 4 was my second favorite, but the all-time winner is the junction box enclosed in the wall. Happened at least once for a friend’s house (he had some amazing discoveries), but only once for me. OTOH, fixing the problems in my old house was a challenge; 1936 vintage, “upgraded” in spots circa 1970, termite-attacked from day 1. Only had to replace two load-bearing walls… The termite-tent people showed up a couple days after we moved out.

            $SPOUSE made me promise to not do major remodels in $CURRENT_HOUSE. Her/my idea of “minor” could use some restraint, however…

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            1. I’m at the “finish carpentry” stage of my two-year kitchen/dining remodel (I’ll post pictures when I’m done). Every time I open up a wall in this house I wonder “how has this place not burned down yet” the electrical is so bad (I’ve finally killed off the last of the knob & tube).

              The inspector on my final electrical inspection asked me if I was an electrician. On my saying no, I just RTFM, he said, “well you should be.” The inspector for the framing stage asked me if I was a framer and said, “well, you’re a framer now”.

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                  1. In 1960s, Dad bought a 1903 four-square. It had issues, though the basics were all right. Mostly. Between Grampa Pete (carpenter/contractor) and Dad, it got fixed fairly well. It’s still there, and seems to have received further interior upgrades.

                    I’ve done a mid-century modern and a 1936 Art Deco house. The current place is a Y2K vintage manufactured home that’s been upgraded as best as practical. Most of the stuff was done by us, though as we age, writing a check is more of an option.

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        1. The most probable government influence is it was Wilson, and arguably the real take-off of the whole, “The experts know best! You must trust the experts!” meme. So admitting the “experts” was seen as lese-majeste, to be avoided in the name of progress. The notion that being able to admit your screw-ups might make you stronger was foreign to the whole mindset.

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            1. WPDE does funny things to your edits sometimes. What you see in the text block after editing is not necessarily what will be posted, especially if you have used an ‘undo’ function like Ctrl-Z. Seen such things happen a few times.

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          2. And because I really want folks to see, and read, and REMEMBER this:

            Influenza, A Study of Measures Adopted for the Control of the Epidemic (California State Board of Health)
            Dr. Wilfred H. Kellogg

            January, 1919.
            https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/8150flu.0013.518

            Spoiler, it didn’t work.

            They also went with the “blame stupid plebs doing it wrong” until it was noted that nurses weren’t getting the claimed results.

            You can prevent the flu transmitting… if you look like a q-tip…..

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    2. I saw an article on that recently; yes, it was an eye-opener. And th fact that there are still “scientists” looking for the cause is no real surprise.

      How many “scientists” rejected Pasteur’s germ theory of disease, and for how long?

      How long did it take before most doctors accepted Semmelweiss’ work? (“It can’t be us killing all those people!”)

      How many still reject the data proving a bacterial cause for ulcers?

      There are two lead-in phrases that cause me to reject by default almost anything I read, pending convincing evidence:

      “Experts say…”

      “Studies show…”

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      1. I think for a lot of them, it’s because they’ve never heard about the aspirin. And nobody’s ever pointed them at all the graphs and such, because it’s pretty damned embarrassing.

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        2. It should be even more embarrassing for a current “researcher” to be ignorant of the data of his chosen field. In the late nineteen-teens aspirin was relatively new, and the research to develop dosages was even newer, so overprescribing a new drug can be (partially) excused. Today, with the records we have of the period in question? Not so much. These people are supposed to be professionals, with the knowledge that implies.

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  12. And when they said that those who had caught and gotten over the Wuhan flu, who now had natural immunity, (which for decades, science said was better than any vaccination) still had to take the jabs, I knew something extremely fishy was going on.

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    1. Dr. Mengele tried to convince me that I could not have had Covid in March 2020 because the first officially recorded case in Flyover County wasn’t diagnosed until April. The fact that no test kits for C-19 were available in county in March had nothing to do with his assurances. (There were two patients in hospital, on ventilators (poor souls) at the time, but who couldn’t be tested. This from a doctor who wasn’t motivated to lie and who I’d already learned to trust.)

      I’m still stuck with the guy (the joys of rural county health), but I don’t have to trust him.

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        1. Probably a bit of luck for me. I’d been in Medford on a medical trip in late February (alone) with no apparent problems, but we both presented symptoms at the end of the second week of March. We’d both been in town on shopping day, so would have been exposed then. Flyover Falls doesn’t have much tourism in March, but it’s on a secondary NS route, and it’s a common place for travelers to restock.

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        2. Dec 2019 and again Jan 2021. It is a cold. There is nothing that will prevent a cold if it is going to happen (can try to prevent happening, with hygiene, but that is it).

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                1. …Huh. Sinus/ear is what I finally had to seek medical help for the other week, yeah. ATM now that the antibiotic’s killed a bunch of stuff I’ve still got something the matter in there. Been using some guanefsin and it seems to be finally – very slowly – draining.

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            2. So, what are our “friends” at NIH doing now? Is this the creeping horrible that was supposed to force fraud-by-mail for the election? Too late, guys!

              I’d stick a /sarc tag in here, but after 11/2016, I’m not sure I’m paranoid enough.

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              1. What I was thinking.

                Not hearing about anything in the schools this time, yet. Or even in the older than me generation (mom’s friends). Both leading indicators or whatever is going around (usually).

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        3. I was driving UBER around the beginning of January that year shuttling a lot of overseas students (mainly Chinese) to local universities around Baltimore. I got sick the middle of January, not bad, but it was an unusual flu that lasted about a week. I still say it was Covid.

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      2. It was all-but-guaranteed not only in my city but in my kids’ school in December of 2019, and I’m pretty sure I know who the direct vector was. Nursing home deaths in the region started in January of 2020, so for a timeline, you have to bump it back at least a month, when a strange “awful flu that won’t quit” was taking out my kids’ classmates.

        They didn’t even have tests around until spring of 2020, so we obviously can’t prove it, but preponderance of evidence…

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        1. Relatives that work in Virginia were here for Thanksgiving in ’19, and local reserve guys went over to the Wuhan games, so the horrible cold/flu we had and missed Christmas Mass for….

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        2. Fall of 2019…probably. B. Durbin’s “awful flu that won’t quit” took out half the office over a couple-three weeks, and I was sick with it on and off for almost 6 weeks. We’ve got people coming and going from all over the world here at corporate HQ, so there’s a decent chance the dreaded plague made an early appearance. The doctors at the clinic won’t say how likely they think it is, but they haven’t said it was unlikely, either.

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          1. We missed it, but a lady in our tiny church went to a family reunion in Nov 2019 and one guy brought “this awful bug,” and gave it to everybody. The hacking cough held on for over a month. So yeah, I think she won the WuFlu lottery.

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            1. Technically I got it immediately after Thanksgiving 2019 which for us is a huge family gathering (mom, siblings and their families on down to great nieces and nephew, and us). But I was the only to get noticeably sick (very, very, sick). OTOH 2020 Christmas dinner was cancelled, because we were hosting, because son got Covid (verified by a test), then dad got it, then I got it. Son and hubby ran slight fevers, and were never leveled. Me? I got very, very, sick, again. Since then haven’t been sick. After almost 4 years? I am due (how it works) with whatever is coming, vaccinated or not (flu, covid, or *pertussis, I won’t take the mRNA vaccines).

              (*) Not due. But wasn’t due the last time I got it either. Oregon, by reports, is having an outbreak.

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        3. All the districts locally (Eugene: 4J, Bethel. Springfield and smaller districts in Lane county) were having a very bad nasty cold, and/or flu, going around. Even had two grade schooler deaths in the Bethel district. One at the grade school just across the street. Fall 2019. While we don’t have any children in school now. Sister’s grandchildren are (4J, and Portland area). Neighbor is a teacher, and they had 6 in school. We heard the rumors.

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        4. I’m all but certain I caught it the first time from a tax preparer – we were trying to make sure all a non compos person’s stuff was done properly, we were exhausted, and the tax prep was obviously medicated up and she still looked like a horrible flu.

          That was an awful month-plus of making sure I breathed every night. Ugh.

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          1. We ran our tax office all winter of 2020, meeting the public 8-10 hours a day. Did have a few people come in recovering or canceling appointments because they were sick. But our nurse practitioner had already put my beloved on Vitamin C, D and zinc and he sailed right through. So did I.

            Still amused by 2022 (I think) when he was *exposed* to WuFlu and ordered to go home and quarantine and I was sent home too because I’d been exposed to him. I enjoyed trolling up and down the hall on my way out chanting, “Unclean, unclean.” (There were no clients at that moment or I wouldn’t have done it).

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            1. I suppose I should add the woman he’d sold the practice to spent a week or two at home on oxygen because she had a really bad case, so her caution had some rational basis.

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        5. We had the same thing around here, mostly at our local gaming convention and a few other venues. “Nasty killer death flu” was very common from about November of 2019 until we rolled into 2020, and the week after the gaming con (Valentines Day weekend) was when the lockdowns happened.

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      3. The last time I was Well And Truly Ill was 50 Very Annoying Hours in Feb. 2020… I canno say it was WuFlu as my taste buds still worked and it was very, very G-I (perched on the bowl every 2 hours… *clockwork*).

        But.. I work NIGHTS… in a NORTHERN state… so I take vitamin D because “Sunlight? What’s sunlight?” and in Winter I add zinc as well… curiously, I was the ONE (of maybe two) on the crew that NEVER got (symptomatic..) WuFlu. And that is true to this day.

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    2. So far my immunity to Covid seems to last about 12-15 months. Whether that’s because I’m getting a different variant each time, or because I was coerced by my employer into getting the initial two-shot vax, I don’t know. But honestly, that’s about how often I get the flu, or used to before Covid took over its niche.

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      1. Our tag-end of the electrical grid keeps crapping out, so I’ll make it short.

        $SPOUSE and I got the original Covid in 3/20. I had what seemed to be the flu a couple-three years later, but I’m the one who goes to town (since Covidiocy–I can tolerate masks, and don’t mind shopping), but that’s once a week. Not much exposure to crowds, and I seem to scare off bugs right now.

        I have a December medical trip coming up. That might be dicey, but with careful attention to Costco shopping situations, I might be OK.

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  13. So thinking of the Phil Collins song, I remember the scene in Miami Vice where it was used. It is sort of therapeutic to rack a shotgun to that music…

    In real life, I deal with the bureaucracy that is health care in getting my wife into a care facility. It’s all empathy, hearts, flowers and baby ducks until they suddenly need a check. Having worked in government I was smart enough to start the process a month ago so I am keeping up and should be able to manage the rough seas ahead and we should come out ok in the long run.

    As for trust? Nope. I am going to monitor and follow all the ‘national’ stuff and for sure will be looking at all my local medical stuff every day.

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    1. Sorry about your wife.

      Mom had a HS friend shepherd her through early SS for dad when he was in the hospital after his stroke at age 50. Mom had the forms filled out. Friend intercepted her at the SS office. Took the papers, tore them up, took mom into her office, helped mom fill out the appropriate forms. Made sure mom knew what paperwork was needed. The next day, papers in hand, friend walked mom through the process. They’d been friends since mom was 15, and she and dad had started school together, very small town. Yes, friend worked for the SS office here in town. Long since retired, friend just recently passed away (JIC Fred the fed is paying attention.)

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  15. Just once I’d love to hear Trump walk into someplace and say, “I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all outta bubblegum?”

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    1. ? should have been an !. Can’t even blame fat fingers, they’re on opposite sides of the board, but yeah…

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  16. Subterfuge is one thing. Blind followers helping is unconscionable. Those so silly to just jump in without any critical thinking are the most dangerous. To me, they’re worst than the most evil of politicians, or bureaucrats.

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  17. I was a big supporter of the brave FBI. Now, I consider them the Stasi and I hope they close the FBI, burn the Hoover building to the ground, and seed the ground with salt.

    Then I learned about the NIH experiments with beagles and sand flies, and cutting the dog’s vocal cords so the researchers wouldn’t hear their whimpers of pain. You can lock me down and keep me away from church and I’ll figure out a way to get out of it and live my life, but torturing puppies? The gallows for them. The gallows.

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    1. Honestly, I’d be happy to abolish the FBI if the only goal was to burn the Hoover Building to the ground. That Brutalist horror needs to go.

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  18. What gave the claims about HCQ and then ivermectin credibility to me was that they weren’t touted as the usual quack wonder panaceas, but as treatments with real drawbacks as well as advantages. “You have to use it in combination with these other things, there is a known danger of overdosing, and it probably won’t work if you wait until the patient is at death’s door.”

    And then the critics ran studies that used the stuff in ways that the advocates said “You can’t expect it to work if you use it that way,” and yes indeedy it didn’t work if you used it that way. And the media ran headlines “HCQ/Ivermectin Scientifically Proven Not To Work!”

    Then there was the confirmation when (1) Trump was given ivermectin for covid, and (2) the rumors started that congresscritters were quietly receiving ivermectin when they and theirs came down with covid, all while publicly smearing it a “horse dewormer.”

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    1. One of the hallmarks of our so-called elites is envy of the middle class. There are very few things that elites have, that are not available in some form or fashion to an average joe. Luxury car, sure they have them. But what’s inside it: sound system, power windows/locks, all wheel drive, climate control, even heated seats. But all those are available tonJoe as well. Smartphone-check, computer-check. I could go on. So inexpensive, effective treatments are available for covid? Expensive, ineffective treatments available? Suppress the former ( and take it yourself) and press the latter on the rubes. I’m not saying this os all it was, not even a majority, but the leveling effect of modern technology galls them constantly.

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  19. Had an argument with my wife a few days ago in which she told me I went off the deep end during the COVID lockdowns. I don’t like the phrasing, but she wasn’t entirely wrong. The covidiocy broke a lot of people. For me, it broke any trust and respect I once held for our system of government-by-bureaucracy and organs of official knowledge.

    Morphing Reagan’s “trust but verify” into “distrust everything until verified” is the mildest result of this breakage. I have to keep reminding myself that stacking bureaucrats, journalists, and various and sundry gatekeepers and authorities on 12-foot stakes like human shish kebabs would not actually be a very helpful thing for society at large, however desirable it may seem at times.

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    2. …stacking bureaucrats, journalists, and various and sundry gatekeepers and authorities on 12-foot stakes like human shish kebabs would not actually be a very helpful thing…

      That’s what they said about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Where’s your evidence?

      We have those 50 laboratories, after all…

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    5. I never needed to be broken by a crisis. I knew from my days in public schools that I was in the power of crooks and incompetents who, at best, didn’t care whether I lived or died.

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  20. Also the panicdemic wasn’t just about frauding the election, although that was a nice bonus for the Left. They dumped the pandemic contingency plans that had previously been worked out for the sake of “never let a crisis go to waste.”

    It really was a golden opportunity for the Left, not just to ‘get’ the Evil Orange One, but to polish their tyrant-boners and to fundamentally transform America and the world and create a New Normal. I think – I hope – it failed, but it did leave a scar. Where I live (Far North Chicagoland) I still see people doing the mask-up thing.

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    1. I especially enjoyed the part where they forgot literally everything science had already learned about how viruses mutate in the wild and what does and doesn’t prevent transmission, and just invented a bunch of stupid new shit for us to believe. That was a real fun time.

      It’s. All. Been. A. Pack. Of. Lies. (Cue the legendary drum breakdown.)

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      1. Having read up some on the Flu of 1918 and what was tried.. and what did NOT work… it was eerie in a WTF?! way to see the things we KNEW were useless (masks – which make things WORSE) being demanded.

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    2. Still the case at the Fred Meyer (Kroger-owned grocery/department store. Think of it as an upscale Walmart), with a large percentage of the professional stockers and a smaller percentage of the checkers masked up. Seems to be concentrated for women in their mid 20s. (I’m ignoring people 80 and up; masking has always been high.)

      A small percentage of shoppers (same demographic) mask up, and it’s not at the large independent grocery. Masks pretty well went away as soon as the Oregon “Health Authority” dropped the mandates and the goon squad. More of a rural, rebel, and redneck demographic than Fred Meyer…

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        1. Yep, AKA Sherm’s. (The name of the owner. 3 store chain, including a Food-4-Less in Medford.) When the old Plaza building was nuked, they put in a big strip mall. Sherm’s T-bird as the grocery anchor (much larger than the old one). Sportsman’s Warehouse and Gottschalks, no Bealls now PetSmart, with Michaels at the end.

          They have good produce, eggs, and cheese, and the generic brand of canned goods is decent. Fred Meyer for yogurt, french fries and other canned veggies. Better bananas, too. Add in Bi-Mart and occasional trips to Chef’store and it’s a full day’s load.

          Fred’s seems to have the most people masked up, though with the older demographic at Bi-Mart, it’s not unusual to see somebody in their 80s or 90s masked up. Many of them were doing so long before Covidiocy. Masking is pretty well nonexisistent at Sherm’s and Chef’store.

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      1. I can’t count it as having “rebounded hard” until it reaches the point where practically no one masks up because they’re too ashamed to do so.

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        1. I don’t want them to not mask up because they’re ashamed, I want them to not mask up because they know it’s stupid and useless. The latter indicates intelligence and the ability to analyze data; the former only indicates a different sort of virtue signaling and “going with the crowd”.

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      2. My breaking point was the, “You can’t go to church, but 20,000 “protesters,” can march shoulder to shoulder for an hour because the virus of racism is far more dangerous than covid!” nonsense.

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  22. It’s ironic that “In the Air Tonight” became an anthem on the right despite Collins’s leftism. I’ve felt the same way about “Land of Confusion.” When one looks at it as a right anthem, it puts a new light on some of the lyrics as well as on the Spitting Image puppet vignette of Ronald Reagan dressed as Superman…acting on behalf of (as it turned out) a passel of ingrates.

    The second verse:

    Ooh, Superman, where are you now
    When everything’s gone wrong somehow?
    The men of steel, the men of power
    Are losing control by the hour

    and the third:

    I won’t be coming home tonight
    My generation will put it right
    We’re not just making promises
    That we know we’ll never keep

    seem particularly fitting to our time. Let’s make it count.

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    1. I used to use the video for “Land of Confusion” as an example of Cold War propaganda, along with Sting’s “The Russians Love Their Children Too,” but quit because I spent so much time explaining all the references in the video. Ditto Sting’s song.

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      2. Ooh, whenever I hear Sting’s stupid “Russians…” song, I want to throw whatever it’s playing on against the wall, or the windshield, or whatever.
        I really like a lot of Sting’s stuff…but that song is just brick-stupid leftism.

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      3. I wonder how many people on the right the “America First! No involvement in foreign wars! We should negotiate a peace in Ukraine that lets the Russians have what they took so long as they promise not to do it again! We must stop angering Putin because they have Nukes! World War III! We’re all gonna DIIEEEEEEE!” have any clue they’ve internalized what Russia has been pushing as propaganda for decades.

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        1. “that lets the Russians have what they took“

          Not what I am hearing from President Trump. Trump wants the war ended, Russia to withdrawal from all occupied territories, including the areas taken in earlier compromises, return all kidnapped women and children, and pay restitution.

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          1. I’m talking about the Sean Davis sort of conservative. I get both the, “Zelensky is a horrible grifter this is all a money lau during scheme for Joe and his father cat buddies! Ukraine should accept its losses and sue for peace! We’re provoking Putin and we’re all gonna die!” threads and the, “If you don’t support Ukraine you’re a Russian asset,” threads, plus, “Russia is bluffing and our government is doing a worst of both worlds scenario.” I tend to that third thread, myself. And I expect Trump to be, um, very firm with Vladimir.

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            1. Don’t disagree. Just don’t think they are relevant. President Trump tends to chastise idiots on both sides. Easy answer. Don’t be stupid. If you can’t agree with his approach make sure your solution really is better. Kowtowing to the Russian Machine/Putin ain’t it. Ukraine may not be squeaky clean, but they were not the aggressors here. Regarding the Biden crime family and Ukraine: Um Ukraine you knew they were scorpions before you offered to help them across the river, of coarse they were going to sting/turn-on you. That is their nature.

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  23. The late Milton Friedman made a case, a compelling one, IMO, in his book “Free to Choose” that the FDA does more harm than good and must do so. It’s the nature of the beast as it were. Reasonable product liability would provide the incentive necessary for companies to keep their products safe and effective.

    Freedom works better than government in all but a very few cases.

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  24. A couple of remarks. Got a friend who is a retired D.C. On the side he specialized in unconventional treatment of “debilitating and terminal” disease issues with people with an eye for curing rather then just treating. Typically nasty type cancer patients and such. Personally saw him keep a cancer patient sent home to die in a week from John Hopkins@ Jacks FL. Kept the guy alive for his wife for another six months. He has ZERO use for the CDC or the NIH.

    He always told me that the problem with medicine is that there is more money in treating then in curing.

    And now “suddenly” Ivermectin is being used to treat certain cancers. Got a friend dealing with cancer who takes a weekly dose of it as part of her treatment. And the reason there wasn’t a massive covid-related die-off in Africa was because half the population there takes Ivermectin as a proscribed anti-parasite drug.

    Bought my bottle in a farm supply store, heh, heh, heh.

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  25. I don’t know if you read A Midwestern Doctor, but he is smart and honest. And he has recently obtained 300 pages of documents from the CDC proving that they’ve known for 20 years that childhood vaccines cause autism.

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  26. Thoroughly off topic, but my beloved tuxedo cat, Sonny, has been diagnosed with end-stage lymphoma and is expected to die within the next few weeks. We’re making arrangements so he can go before the pain becomes debilitating. If, in the next while, I seem even nastier than usual, that’s probably a good part of the reason.

    Here he is in happier days.

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    1. Condolences in advance. I am so sorry. This is a hard decision to make. May he know you were with him until the last.

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    4. I’m so sorry to hear this, Tom. My sympathies, and I’m glad you have a little more time with him. You’re doing the right thing, not that it helps the heart right now.

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  27. In a similar vein, Pet by A Perfect Circle does a great job of describing how our so called elites want their sheeple to act.

    They don’t care about you, like I do, like I do.

    Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils

    See they don’t give a f#%& about you, like I do

    Just stay with me, safe and ignorant

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    1. Anyone else hear what Schumer (d) is saying about the election? Paraphrasing because probably not 100% accurate on words “We lost the election because election was about fear. We ran on issues and solutions …”

      WTF WTH? Truth followed by a lie. Was about fear. Fear about what the rats had done, were doing, were going to continue to do. I don’t remember a single issue or solution issued by the rats. Only by President Trump. The only fear mongering I heard were issued by the rats. Closest President Trump came was the implication “if you want the last four years to continue, don’t vote for me.”

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    1. Blimp shown on Fox from the View “Trump is burning down everything in DC!!!!! Reeeeeeee Reeeeeee”

      My response? Stand up and cheer. “Who do we appreciate? T R U M P Trump! That’s who. Who is burning down the hidden state? T R U M P Trump! That’s who. Go. Trump. Go. Burn. It. Down.”

      Okay. Never was in cheer. Might have been only “GOOD!!!!!” Pretty sure he isn’t planning on burning enough. Why? Because there a few states (cough NY, CA, OR, WA) where a few spots can use some cleansing. Unfortunately that is not up to those in the Federal government, not even Trump. That is up to those of us who reside in those states.

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      2. Illinois would be in much better shape if “something permanent” happened to the Chicago area. [Very Big Evil Grin]

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        1. ‘The black solitudes will some day be green again, and of all cities that I have seen these iron cities will break most suddenly.’ —C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress

          Detroit found out the truth of this the hard way, and San Francisco is finding out now. More to follow.

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  33. Hi Sarah

    I’ve been appreciating your items for a while

    This is o/t and FWIW re the post on “free speech” in Germany

    “Tweeting the poop emoji at a cabinet minister, quoting politicians inexactly, calling a Green fat & stupid – all of this is criminal speech in the freest and most democratic Germany of all time”

    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/tweeting-the-poop-emoji-at-a-cabinet

    However, if you have read the books by Sefton Delmer,

    “Trail Sinister” (1961) and “Black Boomerang” (1962)

    you will be less suprised.

    His WIKI gives details of his depth of knowledge of both Hitler’s Germany and Germany post WW2.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_Delmer

    I don’t remember which book gives his suprise at some of the pre-WW2 powers that got slid into the post WW2 West German constitution that allow things like this.

    Cheers

    Ian

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  34. Funny how only the states Kackling Kamela ‘won’ are still counting votes 2 weeks after the election. Like they’re still ‘finding’ lost ballots behind the furniture.

    Nooo, not suspicious at all…

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