Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Wondering why society went off-kilter during the pandemic? It was all predicted in this book
I've thrived since April of 2020.
Society is what you make of it.
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Quote:You have an inflated sense of invulnerability:
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Wondering why society went off-kilter during the pandemic? It was all predicted in this book
I've thrived since April of 2020.
Society is what you make of it.
Related to the unrealistic optimism bias is the sense of invulnerability. That is, the sense that one is unlikely to be affected by threats such as serious infectious disease. People with an inflated sense of invulnerability are (1) less likely to experience anxiety in response to stressful life events (Kleiman et al., 2017); (2) more likely to take up smoking or drug use (Hill, Duggan, & Lapsley, 2012; Morrell, Lapsley, & Halpern-Felsher, 2016; Ravert et al., 2009); (3) more likely to drink and drive (Chan, Wu, & Hung, 2010; Ravert et al., 2009); and (4) less likely to intend to seek vaccination, even for pandemics such as Swine flu (Taha et al., 2013).
- Chapter 4 of free book by Steven Taylor The Psychology of Pandemics
Download it from https://zlibrary.unblockit.ws/book/17038366/5febd7
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You have an inflated sense of invulnerability:
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Originally posted by second:
Wondering why society went off-kilter during the pandemic? It was all predicted in this book
I've thrived since April of 2020.
Society is what you make of it.
Nah.
I'm just awesome.
Sorry you suck man.
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TRUTH: An already fat America is much, much fatter after Covid public "health" mandates.
Not to mention all the people who've killed themselves or enslaved themselves to hard core drugs.
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Long article, but worth the read
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The Vineyard of the Saker
Pandemic: Political and economic consequences underneath a false flagged health banner
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Note by the Saker: as I hope you all know, I have banned the topic of COVID from the blog (see the moderation rules here: https://thesaker.is/moderation-policy/ (specifically rule #18). I will admit that when Apogee send me his article my first thought was “oh boy, here we go again”. Except that when I started reading it, I was more and more impressed by what I read. And I am not referring to the substance of Apogee’s analysis, which I do like but don’t feel the need to endorse or comment upon, but by how Apogee compared and contrasted how different countries, even from the same “Zone” approached the topic. The facts presented here prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that there never was any world conspiracy to (fill the blank): each country struggled as best it could, some did terribly, others did much better, and some did very well. So much for the big planetary conspiracy, which Putin once ridiculed when he said: “those who think that the big powers are all in cahoots on this, simply don’t understand the contradictions and tensions of international relations” (I am quoting from memory, so this is not verbatim!).
Anyway, my painful experience tells me that as soon as somebody says “COVID” we have an instant verbal fistfight in which everybody uses slogans instead of fists. So, and for this article only I have decided to add these commenting rules ON TOP of all the other ones (which are still applicable here):
None of us need you to tell us how to make our own health decisions. Keep that to yourself as it is unwelcome and will be deleted.
If you have good information as to political and economic issues from your country, this will be welcomed.
Anti-vaccine screeds with no support will be deleted. We don’t want to know.
Keep Schwab out of this – he has no executive power. Ignore that, as it should be ignored and as it is ignored by the rational world.
Post your own ideas. Answer the final question in the article. We don’t need any alt-media or other media links unless it is clean, clear and rational. Any links with ‘bomshell’, or ’55 doctors agree’ or such types of click bait will be deleted.
Having said all that, I want to thank Apogee for his major research effort and his article which, I hope, will inject a much-needed dose of sanity into a debate gone completely insane. Oh, one more thing, I know who Apogee is, and I respect him, so any personal attacks against him, including rude, snarky, or insulting comments (ad hominems) will be immediately removed too and, depending on how bad that comment it, its author suspended or even banned. It is said that I would have to spell this out again, but my painful experience taught me that some folks need a lot of repetition, or even being banned before they “get it”.
Finally, some banned folks feel the need to send email, a barrage of emails mixing more of their arguments and/or insults and complaints. Message for them: do that and I will simply block you.
I hope that the above is clear enough to finally have an intelligent, fact-based, and logical discussion.
My apologies to those who don’t need to be reminded of the above and who never posted the kind of nonsense which the fanatics on either side did.
Kind regards
Andrei
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Pandemic: Political and economic consequences underneath a false flagged health banner
by Apogee for the Saker Blog
This article discusses the political and economic consequences underneath the false flagged health banner while some rake in the cash. Starting with a segment of the west, the article moves to compare and contrast what is different in ZoneB countries. The very latest up to the minute announcements from various countries are put in perspective, concluding with the only actions that now seem possible. To set the scene, this is not ‘the perfect manuscript’ but is intended to tell the sNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
We all had herd immunity from Covid before anybody knew the word as anything other than shitty, overpriced, watered down beer.
Follow the immunoresponse. It's all right there in plain sight.
It has been since the beginning.
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Signy
I think the author focuses mainly on the government and economic-interests responses, but isn't as knowledgeable about vaccines and biology.
I think a lot of US people lost trust in the government simply because of all the double-talk à la Fauci. I know I did. He alone was imo the single biggest torpedo to public trust in the US. And once trust is lost, speculation abounds, exploding outside the limits of reality, as your article points out. But that's not to say that the government isn't acting in an untrustworthy way. And that starts with Trump, who entered into yuge contracts with vaccine manufacturers and continuing to this day. But that's SOP for the US, anyway. Government should never do anything on its own, it should merely - and meekly - cough up as much public money as possible to send to private manufactures. Government in service of corporations!
I think the other factor in the US is the numbers. 700,000 people have died - for ease of calculation, let's call it a million because it'll get there soon enough. That's a bit less than 1 in 300 people. MOST people won't know someone directly who's died of COVID-19. They won't have seen it at work, they won't have a personal connection, they won't suffer any grief. (I myself know directly one person who's died of COVID-19, and it still comes as a shock when I think about it.) As I said of this a long time ago, until more people in the US have direct experience with COVID-19 deaths - like they did with yellow fever and smallpox and polio - they won't take it seriously. And they CERTAINLY won't take the word of the government on it, since the government's been double-dealing with us all along.
In the Zone B area I think the governments were very upfront about what they knew and especially didn't know, about what they were doing and why they were doing it, and were dealing with the situation directly ... not passing it off to the corporations. I think that direct link between the government and the actions being taken actually fostered more trust in the government than having it scurry around in the background.
As I've also said for roughly a year and a half, it won't be gotten rid of anywhere until it's gotten rid of everywhere. And while there are a lot of non-medical approaches that can help - including as China used and is still using targeted cordon sanitaire, masks, and hand sanitizers - imo in the end the way to eradicate this virus is through vaccination. (BTW, any comparison to influenza is non-viable, as influenza has existed in the human population for thousands of years, and has had thousands of years to diversify. That said, there is a universal flu vaccine being studied.) Eradication is possible. Given what it would take it might not be probable, but it's possible.
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No.
You don't know one single person who's died of Covid-19, Kiki.
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You keep saying you ignore me. When will you actually do that? I'm still waiting for it to be true.
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Signy
I think the author focuses mainly on the government and economic-interests responses, but isn't as knowledgeable about vaccines and biology.
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Because these groupings exist without, in the main, strong medical, virology, epidemiology and such backgrounds, their works soon became shared delusions based on common grievances, the embrace of conspiracy theories, and other politically relevant affinities.
And then continues to write without a strong background in medicine, virology, epidemiology and so forth, and writes from shared delusions, common grievances, and politically-relevant affinities (i.e. he is anti-Zone A).
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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