Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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South Dakota throws down the gauntlet.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/09/16/biden-c
ovid-vaccine-mandate-kristi-noem/8347957002/
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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681,427 Covid Deaths
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
How Trump dismantled the U.S. pandemic response infrastructure
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681,427 Covid Deaths
Lie.
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Speaking of lies...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-york-times-forced-to-co
rrect-major-error-on-ivermectin
Nothing any of them say is ever true. Especially the New York Times.
Who cares that they silently corrected the article weeks after it was first published?
Nobody that reads NYT is going to ever read the correction. The bad info is already burned permanently in their brains.
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If Joe Biden mandated not walking off a cliff we could wrap this thing up today.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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If Joe Biden mandated not walking off a cliff we could wrap this thing up today.
Dumb.
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Wondering why society went off-kilter during the pandemic? It was all predicted in this book
By Danny Westneat
Seattle Times columnist
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mental-health/wondering-why-
society-went-off-kilter-during-the-pandemic-it-was-all-predicted-in-this-book/
When I wrote last week about how northern Idaho was surging with COVID cases, to the point that hospitals had triggered a plan to ration medical care, I got a slew of correspondence from people there saying: No we aren’t.
“We don’t have any outbreaks here,” one insisted. “I know a few people working in Kootenai Health, the largest hospital in the area, and they are not busy at all. They are actually overstaffed in the ER.”
Wrote another: “I am in Coeur d’Alene and serve hundreds of customers and I’ve heard of nobody that’s been hospitalized, or who has even got COVID. I am disgusted at the inaccuracy of your article.”
Said a third: “More fearmongering by the media about our so-called ‘pandemic.’”
I wrote back to these Idahoans, attaching an alert from Kootenai Health itself, the main hospital in their own town, Coeur d’Alene. It’s entitled “Kootenai Health implements crisis standards of care as COVID-19 cases soar.” It details how the hospital is so jammed it converted its conference room into an overflow field clinic for COVID patients.
One of the Idahoans wrote back, not to say he may have misjudged the situation, but to instead accuse the hospital of now being part of my conspiracy: “My initial thought on reading this is the hospital may be falsely reporting to get more COVID funding. I will dig into it.”
Is this normal? More than a year and a half into our pandemic odyssey, I find this ongoing behavior to be the most baffling part of the story — that there remains a group of citizens, not sure how large, who refuse to acknowledge that a major health event is even happening. Or if it is, that it’s a big deal.
We’re approaching 700,000 dead in the U.S., and yet every day I still get feedback from readers who insist it’s all overblown. Or that it’s no worse than the flu. (I long ago stopped responding to the flu comparison people, but if I did, I would note that it takes 20 years for the flu to kill this many people.)
This past week, the entire state of Idaho has moved to crisis standards of care, in which resources are stretched so thin that patients may be treated based on who has the best chances of survival. Still, that news, which seems alarming enough to me, isn’t necessarily getting through. I’ve noticed that hospitals increasingly are inviting reporters directly into the ICU wards, in a maddening bid to try to convince the public, after all these months, that the pandemic even exists.
But it turns out this denial behavior is not only normal, it was totally foreseeable, according to Steven Taylor, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C.
Taylor would know because he predicted it. He wrote a remarkable little book back in 2019 called “The Psychology of Pandemics.” Its premise is that pandemics are “not simply events in which some harmful microbe ‘goes viral,’” but rather are mass psychological phenomena about the behaviors, attitudes and emotions of people.
The book came out pre-COVID and yet predicts every trend and trope we’ve been living for 19 months now: the hoarding of supplies like toilet paper at the start; the rapid spread of “unfounded rumors and fake news”; the backlash against masks and vaccines; the rise and acceptance of conspiracy theories; and the division of society into people who “dutifully conform to the advice of health authorities” — sometimes compulsively so — and those who “engage in seemingly self-defeating behaviors such as refusing to get vaccinated.”
He has no crystal ball, he says, it’s just that all of this has happened before. A lot of people believed the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was spread by the Germans through Bayer aspirin. It’s all based on basic psychology as to how people react to health emergencies.
The deni
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A lot of people believed the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was spread by the Germans through Bayer aspirin. It’s all based on basic psychology as to how people react to health emergencies.
Spanish flu = Covid-19
1918= 2020
Germans = Fauci/ NWO/ Chinese
aspirin = vaccine
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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A lot of people believed the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was spread by the Germans through Bayer aspirin. It’s all based on basic psychology as to how people react to health emergencies.
Spanish flu = Covid-19
1918= 2020
Germans = Fauci/ NWO/ Chinese
aspirin = vaccine
Disease outbreaks are commonly the subject of conspiracy theories, especially when the nature of the disease is poorly understood. Regarding the AIDS pandemic, for example, there have been several unsubstantiated conspiracy theories contending that HIV/AIDS is a bioengineered weapon intended to wipe out homosexuality or to commit racial genocide by eliminating African Americans (Heller, 2015; Parsons, Simmons, Shinhoster, & Kilburn, 1999). In Padua, Italy, during the Bubonic Plague outbreak of 1576, a pamphlet was circulated widely in the city, proclaiming the conspiracy theory that “wicked ones (sciagurati) were spreading the disease intentionally with infected clothing and poisonous ointments (untioni) rubbed on door handles and knockers” (Cohn, 2010, p. 119). During the Spanish flu pandemic, which occurred during World War I, there was a conspiracy theory that the virus was being spread by a pharmaceutical company:
Such was the virulence of anti-German fanaticism in 1918 that the USPHS [United States Public Health Service] was obliged … to test Bayer Aspirin tablets to counteract rumors that Bayer, producing aspirin under what had originally been a German patent, was poisoning its customers with flu germs. The tablets proved to be uninhabited by germs. (Crosby, 2003, p. 216)
Conspiracy theories were also raised about the Zika virus. According to one unsubstantiated theory, the virus was the inadvertent creation of a biotech company that had been raising genetically modified mosquitoes to combat dengue fever (Jacobs, Perpetua, Sreeharsha, McNeil, & Tavernise, 2016). Another unsubstantiated theory asserted that Zika was part of a plot by global elites—a shadowy organization known as the New World Order—to depopulate the planet and install a one-world government (Jacobs et al., 2016). There is no evidence that this organization ever existed but it has, nonetheless, been the focus of numerous conspiracy theories. According to one theory, the New World Order was responsible for the SARS outbreak (Lee, 2014). Early in the SARS outbreak, Australian health officials were forced to quell conspiracy theories about SARS being an act of terrorism or biological warfare conducted by some malevolent country or agency (Lee, 2014). During the 2009 Swine flu pandemic various conspiracy theories arose, including the theory that terrorists were using infected Mexicans immigrating to the United States as “walking germ warfare weapons” (Smallman, 2015, p. 5).
- from Chapter 7 of the book by Steven Taylor The Psychology of Pandemics
Download book for free from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.ws/search.php?req=The+Psychology+of+Pandemics
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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