Reminder - Lockdowns are Evil

An OECD country stands for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (Via) 

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Nicklas  Backstrom - an appreciation.

- Truth!

- Inside the split between the SEC and CBS. Long but interesting read.

- I already said I was in favor of funding parents not schools. No need to sell me.

Now They Try to Tell People

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Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- Funny because its true.

-  If you're not following a common sense diet with plenty of sleep you're getting played. The more you know.

- Truth

- Sad Funny because its true!

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Jonathan Turley on the search for Robert L. Peters. Yes - another Turley column.

- The thought that comes to mind when people mention potentially another lockdown.

- The Daily Coach on "Shaping" decisions

- Funny because its true

Linky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share,

- America has reached peak therapy but our mental health keeps getting worse. Imagine how bad these most vulnerable will suffer if they try another lockdown.

- Jonathan Turley on how the charges against Chief of Staff Mark Meadows may lead to the dismissal of all charges against Trump. Good chance the move to a Federal Court is upheld and that court decides to drop all charges as spurious. DA Willis badly overplayed her hand.

- I support Taibbi and Orf against YouTube. If they can do this to them they can do it against anyone. Take a stand.

- Tucker Carlson with episode 20 on Hungary

Sweden Did Not Do Lockdowns

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Sweden Did It Right

No lockdowns, no school closings, no mask or vaccine mandates and yet the lowest mortality during the pandemic. (Via)

The Global Emancipation of the Unvaccinated

Interesting post documenting the many ways governments and others used lockdowns, vaccine mandates and outright coercion to try to implement their goals. The post begins by wondering if this coercion was in violation of the Nuremberg Code of 1947:

Many an article points out that the [Nuremberg] Code states that, as regards any experimental medical treatment, "the voluntary consent of the the human subject is absolutely essential... without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion." 

It should be mentioned that the vaccines in the US were all experimental as the one vaccine to be FDA approved was never released for public use. And certainly there was an abundance of fraud and deceit.

In light of the many healthy athletes around the globe who have started to suddenly collapse, this paragraph also seems relevant:

The violation of informed consent - specifically, the failure of public health authorities to adequately warn of the risk of myocarditis in young males - and to accurately represent the relatively miniscule threat posed to them by COVID-19 - remains a pressing concern as the vaccine mandates haven't been entirely abolished in the West.

Question is - will people be held accountable? 

CDC Data - Lockdowns Had No Effect

Unless you count all the harm lockdowns did. (Graph via)

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"There was never any lockdown - there were just middle class people hiding while working class people brought them things." - JJ Charlesworth

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George S. Patton

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland

"Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan." - Naval Ravikant

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If lockdowns stopped COVID we wouldn't need to keep having them." - Dr. David Samadi

"Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." - Robert Heinlein

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

"Death had to take [Teddy] Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight." - Thomas R. Marshall

America Today

The saying a decade ago was:

America is not at war. The Marine Corps are at war. America is at the mall.

Today the saying may as well be:

America is not at war. Communist China is at war. America is on lockdown.

Reminder

Australia's New National Anthem

 

For obvious lockdown related reasons. All in the name of liberty!

Lectures from Limousine Liberals

Bridget Phetasy with a tremendous look at the narcissism and hypocrisy of elitist liberals and how it was laid bare by their actions during the pandemic. Bravo! Make sure to read the whole thing.

Think it was Naval Ravikant who observed that if politicians and journalists stopped getting paychecks - the lockdowns would end tomorrow. How true!

Three Videos

Three short videos to make you think.

First a very well credentialed doctor is angry (you should be too).

Second Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta. The question of if CNN is lying about a comedian taking horse dewormers what else are they consciously lying about remains unanswered (but I think we know).

Finally - the word "just" and the moving of goalposts. 

The Great Barrington Declaration One Year On

The scientists and medical professionals who crafted and signed the Great Barrington Declaration were right a year ago and they are still right today.

I supported the Great Barrington Declaration then and I support it today. Lockdowns were a mistake then and they are an even bigger mistake today. Any physician who supports lockdowns is violating their Hippocratic Oath. 

It has always seemed to me that those who supported lockdowns fell into three basic categories; opinion makers who are older or in the most vulnerable categories when it came to the virus (they were acting out of fear), those who have autocratic tendencies (people must listen to me!), and sheep (because they're sheep).

(HT Newmark's Door)

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Why I am Suing UCLA. Higher ed is a mess. Much of the problem resides in middle-management bureaucrats who bring nothing to the table except costs. Hope he takes UCLA for millions. 

- Heh Heh (Via)

- Think calling the vaccine booster shot a "third, guaranteed lethal injection" is a bit much but the anecdotal evidence is troubling. And keep in mind there's no legal repercussions to Pfizer if that third shot is lethal to someone. (HT American Digest)  

- Good satire always cuts close to the truth

What are the Risks?

My understanding is that there have been 3,409 deaths from VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) which easily could be a low number because of cases never reported. Taking this number at face value though that's roughly a fatality rate of just 0.00002% of all the people who received a vaccine shot in the US (211,776,515). The VAERS numbers above are just deaths but if you added in all reported adverse side-effects that number becomes much bigger. These adverse effects include serious side effects such as triggering dormant MS (happened to my friend's wife) or myocarditis - among other side effects.

The mortality rate overall in the US from COVID compared to the overall population is roughly just 0.002% (COVID deaths in US divided by overall US population). It has been reported that 95% of these deaths were in people with on average 4 comorbidities.

The odds of winning the lottery is a reported 1 in 300 million. That's statistically a much lower number than the VAERS fatality rate mentioned above (which works out to 1 in 62,123). However, when it comes to winning the lottery the state governments will actively try to persuade you that today's your lucky day! Whereas with the VAERS fatalities they would seemingly try to convince you that the number is too small to be likely (or hide the number in ways that make it hard to determine).  

No matter how you slice it - we are talking about some very small numbers here. Numbers way too small to warrant lockdowns or forfeiting Constitutional rights. And with numbers this small - shouldn't each person be allowed to weigh their own risks and choices without being forced by government mandates? 

What happened to common sense?