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The covid measures do to the social fabric what the spike protein does to the long fibered heart muscle tissue.

– A remark in a private conversation with a German gentleman

January 29th, 2022 |

24 comments to Samizdata quote of the day

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 29, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    Wow that’s so accurate.

    Fantastic quote.

  • bobby b
    January 29, 2022 at 11:18 pm

    Were I a conspiracy theorist, I’d be impressed. I doubt I could design one small release that could fulfill all of my purposes, fractally, from the major overriding one down to the minor details. What an elegant plan.

    Design a weapon somewhere else after your country says no, injure John’s lower left lung lobe, cripple Watertown’s little economy, kill New York City’s social life, crush GDP, empower bureaucracy globally, destroy trust in institutions, fracture what little civility exists in the world, encourage a new world order . . .

    . . . all by secretly financing dangerous research in an incompetent place. Genius.

    But probably just a coincidence.

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 30, 2022 at 12:09 am

    bobby b,

    Haha yes, indeed. As I said in earlier Samizdata thread:

    You emerge from a house and see a great long poem in the grass. Each letter is a cut out from a magazine.

    There is a man on the roof. For the hell of it lets call this man on the roof “Fauci”. “Fauci” says “I threw four hundred letters into the sky from the roof and the letters magically fell into this perfect arrangement 20 feet below on the grass to spell this beautiful poem!”

    There is a homeless toothless man across the street. Lets call him “Alex Jones”. “Alex Jones” says “he walked down on the grass and placed the letters on the grass to spell the poem”.

    There are fancy neighbors in suits and ties that line the street. Lets call these high status neighbors “BBC” and “NYT” and “Washington Post” and “CNN” and “WHO” and “FDA” and “CDC” and “Google” and “Facebook” and “CIA”. These high status, and fancy neighbors all say in unison: “THE TOOTHLESS HOMELESS MAN IS PEDDLING MISINFORMATION!! Trust the professional letter thrower on the roof!”

    Who you gonna believe?

  • bobby b
    January 30, 2022 at 1:20 am

    “Who you gonna believe?”

    Honest, officer, that furin cleavage site isn’t mine, someone must have left it in my car.

    (I have no doubt it was an unintentional release, but then the “never let a crisis go to waste” people took over.)

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 30, 2022 at 2:35 am

    I have no doubt

    Impressive. Must be nice to be so sure about things…

  • bobby b
    January 30, 2022 at 3:01 am

    “Must be nice to be so sure about things…”

    Were it intentional, I’m guessing the release would have been much further away from a US-financed Chinese lab. The US financing wasn’t hideable – all public info. Fauci et al. were publicly financing buildups and improvements to bio-weapon and viral labs all over the globe at that point (SEE https://nonproliferation.org/kazakhstans-new-national-laboratory-is-a-regional-resource-for-a-global-cause/ – note the date on that article) but not here – Congress forbade it – and so I rank an intentional act as low-chance. But an incompetence-driven release? Very high probability. And so they used the crisis.

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 30, 2022 at 5:42 am

    Were it intentional, I’m guessing

    That’s our difference. I’m not guessing.

  • Exasperated
    January 30, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Heather Heying of Darkhorse Podcast publishes a letter from Canada:

    https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-cavalry-rolled-in
    excerpt:

    Heather,

    First, thank you for covering the convoy.

    In my rural northern Ontario city of barely over 50,000, 7,000 people spontaneously showed up on the side of the road yesterday. It was a blistering -38°C (with windchill).
    This happened simultaneously and without any central planning, everywhere across the country. The national press was stupefied. A friend of mine who reports for one of the big two TV networks popped out of the Facebook shadows the day before, to accuse me of attacking her personally for posting about the truckers. The Freedom Convoy and all, it’s no good, very bad deeds, it’s “everything wrong with Canada.”
    This thing has struck a nerve here. Literally overnight millions of people are talking about real things again. But in such an abrupt way, it’s odd, like they were suddenly turned on after having been flash frozen for the last two years…………..

  • Paul Marks
    January 30, 2022 at 4:12 pm

    Grimly accurate.

    Yet on the BBC today an “expert” said that the injections were “safe and effective” for CHILDREN.

    “Effective” in what sense? As they do not prevent people catching or passing on the virus, and even the “booster” effect of mitigating the disease wears off after a couple of months (for example if I had my “booster” on the 3th of December, when the authorities suggested I should have it, the “booster” effect would have already largely worn off).

    As for “safe” – to say that today (30th of January 2022) is a despicable lie. To give healthy (healthy) children injections that are of no real benefit to them, and can cause them terrible harm, is child abuse.

  • John B
    January 31, 2022 at 9:28 am

    ‘… and even the “booster” effect of mitigating the disease…’

    But it doesn’t. That claim is falsified.

    Science. Most people know the phrase: correlation between two variables does not prove causality. But there is a second equally important part to that.

    If two variables have a causal relationship, there must be correlation.

    If vaccination is the cause of ‘less serious’ disease then it must always cause less serious disease – correlation. if there is just one case of serious disease in a vaccinated person, there is no correlation and the claim is falsified. (All swans are white, until a black swan is sighted.)

    There have been thousands of serious cases in vaccinated people, even boosted, and deaths – deaths are quite serious.

    People are still accepting uncritically what ‘experts’, Governments, pharma PR say just as they accepted, two weeks to flatten the curve; vaccination will stop you getting CoVid and protect granny; masks stop transmission and protect you.

    How many more times do people have to be lied to before they stop believing these liars and start thinking for themselves?

  • Snorri Godhi
    January 31, 2022 at 3:56 pm

    Were it intentional, I’m guessing the release would have been much further away from a US-financed Chinese lab.

    That is quite sound. I admit that i did not think of that.
    (There is of course the possibility of an intentional release by a rogue agent, rather than release mandated by the CCP. But that is practically the same as accidental release from ‘our’ point of view.)

  • Plamus
    January 31, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    If vaccination is the cause of ‘less serious’ disease then it must always cause less serious disease – correlation. if there is just one case of serious disease in a vaccinated person, there is no correlation and the claim is falsified.

    That is not how correlation works at all.

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 31, 2022 at 6:14 pm

    If vaccination is the cause of ‘less serious’ disease then it must always cause less serious disease – correlation

    Nope, that’s not true at all.

    If two things are correlated, that does not mean causation. Furthermore, even if there is a causal relationship between two things, that does not mean one always causes the other. If there is a causal relationship between two things, that means that one causes the other to a statistically significant extent.

  • bobby b
    January 31, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    Shlomo Maistre
    January 30, 2022 at 5:42 am

    “That’s our difference. I’m not guessing.”

    Must be nice to be so sure of things.

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 31, 2022 at 7:13 pm

    bobby b,

    Must be nice to be so sure of things.

    Now you’re just playing games.

    Just because I’m not guessing does not mean that I’m “so sure of things”. In fact, I’m not so sure of things. And I was very impressed that you said you “have no doubt it was an unintentional release”.

    I have lots of doubts regarding the origins of COVID-19, unlike you.

  • bobby b
    January 31, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    “Now you’re just playing games.”

    When you said “I’m not guessing”, I read that to mean “I’m not guessing, I KNOW!”

    If in fact you really meant “I’m not guessing, because I do not have all of the requisite knowledge to arrive at an informed conclusion regarding any of this”, then I misread it, and I apologize.

    But, in my defense, such a reading would have to battle through a lot of context set out previously. 😉

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 31, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    When you said “I’m not guessing”, I read that to mean “I’m not guessing, I KNOW!”

    Nope. Saying I’m not guessing does not mean that I know, it means that I am not guessing.

    You said “Were it intentional, I’m guessing the release would have been much further away from a US-financed Chinese lab.” I am not making any such guess, and I cannot say that I “have no doubt it was an unintentional release” but you did say this, though I’m not sure why.

  • bobby b
    January 31, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    ” . . . but you did say this, though I’m not sure why.”

    Because, looking to the evidence available, I have no doubt that it was an unintentional release? Because the evidence, and logic, leads me to believe this very strongly?

    Note that I did not say “it was an intentional release” as a statement of fact. I said “I have no doubt that it was an intentional release.” There is a difference, and a reason for including those extra words.

    We’re into angels and pinheads territory here.

  • Shlomo Maistre
    January 31, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Because the evidence, and logic, leads me to believe this very strongly?

    What evidence?

    What logic?

  • Joseph Hertzlinger
    February 1, 2022 at 12:23 am

    You mean it does almost nothing?

  • Shlomo Maistre
    February 4, 2022 at 4:19 am

    I’m actually mildly optimistic after recent investigation and hearings, such as for example the following.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ciuRLFLoLL0&feature=youtu.be

    The bottom line is that the evidence is so overwhelming that crimes have been committed, including Nuremberg Code violations, that eventually (this will take at a minimum many years, probably many decades) I think the tide will probably turn. Will the people responsible for this be held responsible? Probably not. But the tide will turn eventually because the evidence really is overwhelming. The facts and the evidence exist. The evidence is all over the fucking place, everywhere. This is some evil shit that has transpired.

    I can tell you for a fact that we have to pray to fucking G-d that Joe Rogan and others like him are not at any point in the future co-opted because if they are then we are most likely fucked.

    There are few schelling points left for us to coordinate, plan, communicate, and organize. Precious few.

    But there are a few.

    Joe Rogan is one. Ron Johnson is another. Peter McCullough is another. There are more. Not many but they are out there.

    And the truth is coming out.

    And about that truth… it’s not pretty, folks. Not pretty at all.

  • Shlomo Maistre
    February 4, 2022 at 4:28 am

    We see Republican Senator of the United States Ron Johnson stating in PUBLIC HEARINGS that “the public is Not Ready *YET* for the news on cancer, but that time will come”.

    Where have I heard something like this before?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQw9P0oFds

    The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

    I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry.

    I should probably learn how to grow my own food.

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