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Samizdata quote of the day Some governments have also set up detention centres for international travellers entering into their countries, where they are forced to quarantine at their own expense while they wait for the results of their covid-19 tests. Shockingly, in early June 2021, the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, went so far as to announce that residents in long-term care homes would soon be permitted to engage in “close physical contact, including handholding” and “brief hugs” with visitors when both parties are fully immunized.
Unfortunately, instead of criticizing this state of affairs, the mainstream media and major social media platforms are fully on board. They have turned out to be willing collaborators of the governments in these matters by glorifying their oppressive and punitive measures, censuring critical viewpoints, and fostering a culture of surveillance, all while spreading fear. They have also been ceaselessly promoting the injection of experimental vaccines as the only solution that will bring totalitarian lockdown measures to an end.
– Birsen Filip
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I’m guessing all the hyperbole, paranoia and ever changing regulations flogs newspapers, plus the government cheques they’ve been getting means they might even make a decent “profit” for a change. Not that I’d described being reluctantly subsidised by the taxpayer via Government fiat an “honest living”. Then again, when was the last time churnalism could be described as “honest”?
My generally positive view of human nature has been severely challenged during this past year. There seem to be just so many bullies and so many people meekly allowing themselves to be bullied.
Don’t forget how to take government administered PCR tests if you are a family. This might work for couples, too, if they allow you to provide samples from the privacy of your own home. This technique should be used any time that you are required to submit to a PCR test after travel or if a school requests a test.
1. Select a single family member:
i. if someone has already had and recovered from COVID-19, they are it, else
ii. use home Lateral Flow test kits to find someone who tests negative.
2. Use that family member to provide samples for everyone’s PCR test.
Sorted, negative tests for the whole family—no need to be under house arrest.
That’s because the mainstream media and major social media platforms are staffed with idiots and subversive scum. Journalism majors were people too ugly to be drama and film majors, but with the same egos and desire for public recognition.
Also bought and paid for scum.
One of my “boo figures” when I first entered politics in 1979 was the Marxist dictator of Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega.
D.O. is still in power now – although his Marxism has evolved to the point of “private business is wrong – unless the business is owned by me, or a member of my extended family, or some friend of ours”. Anyway….
As no one paid (bribed) Danny Ortega to do anything much about Covid 19, he did not do anything much about Covid 19.
Where are the piles of bodies of Covid victims in the streets of Nicaragua?
Where are the piles of bodies of Covid victims in the streets of Belarus? The local dictator there did not do anything much about Covid either.
There are other countries where one could say the same. Countries without lockdowns did NOT have a higher Covid death rate. “What about Brazil?” – all but two very remote States in Brazil DID HAVE LOCKDOWNS. The media blame the President of Brazil for the deaths, but he was IGNORED – the bureaucracy acted as if he did not exist (sadly this is normal in the modern world – a political “leader” either does what the officials and “experts” want, or they do it in spite of the political “leader” saying not to).
So where is the evidence that the lockdowns and so on “saved lives”?
What could have saved lives is EARLY TREATMENT of Covid 19 – but that was systematically smeared, and has been smeared for well over a year now.
The brutal truth is that the international policy not only did not save lives – it was not MEANT to save lives. If it had been meant to save lives then Early Treatment, with a combination of well known medications, would not have been smeared, and the absurd lockdowns would not have been done.
So then the question arises – what was the real purpose of international policy?
Was the purpose of international policy to concentrate economic power in the hands of governments and a handful of vast corporations? Regardless of whether those corporations remained at least nominally private (as Mr Bezos, Mr Gates and so on would like), or are nationalised – as the Communist Party types on the “scientific” “SAGE” would like.
Word of warning to Mr Bezos and co.
Yes the lockdowns have made you vastly richer – but they have also made you more of a TARGET.
It is far easier to nationalise a handful of vast corporations (such as Amazon) than it is to nationalise thousands of independent small business enterprises – the sort of business enterprises the lockdowns destroyed.
It is true that Saint-Simon and others wanted a version of socialism where Big Business (especially BANKERS) would be in charge – but that is not what Karl Marx wanted.
“Davos” crowd. You think the Marxists are a joke – that you can USE the Marxists to destroy what freedom remains (including free competition) – but they may surprise you yet.
Not all the Marxists are as corrupt as Danny Ortega – many of them have a terrible sincerity.
Bill Gates and the others may find themselves NOT in charge at the end of all this – in a few years time.
Indeed they may have a very unpleasant fate.
Last point – the corruption of the physical sciences, including medicine.
For years, for DECADES, we have all been told that it did not matter that the left had a stranglehold on the teaching of the humanities and the “social sciences” – because the physical sciences were the only things that really mattered.
I never agreed with that opinion – but let us say, for the sake of argument, that it was correct. It is now increasingly obvious that the left have gained power in the physical sciences as well.
Not just in such things as Professors of Mathematics (yes I know – a body of knowledge rather than a physical science) declaring that the idea that 1+1=2 is objectively true is “White Supremacy” of “Patriarchy” or “cis….” something or other.
When it comes to things such as MEDICINE this is deadly.
As the Communist Party member of “SAGE” put it – not all of her colleagues on SAGE were Marxists – but all of them (all of them) wanted to create a “better and more equal society” using Covid 19 as a justification for “Public Health” policies they wanted to do anyway (before Covid).
The fact that the lady could say this (and most people barely bat an eyelid) shows just how bad things have got.
If you disgusted by the perversion of medicine for a POLITICAL objective – then I do not want to know you.
By the way the lady is factually mistaken – as these policies have not led to a more “equal society”, they have led to an INCREASE in inequality.
But then the lady and her Comrades have a solution to that – nationalise the assets of the super rich who have benefitted so much from the Covid policies of the international community.
PCR Tests?
Start here:
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet
“Over-sampling”?
Tolerance “stacking”?
ANY “amplification” process amplifies the “noise” along with the signal, as any competent electronics type will attest.
Not only that, but the process of amplification generally introduces its own bit of “noise” and / or “distortion”. Hi-Fi enthusiasts have been familiar with this concept for decades. Clearly less so; “medical experts”. And absolutely and irrevocably; “Churnalists”.
My work required a test result and gave us some kits, lateral flow I think. I just submitted a negative result. No need to actually perform the test.
Seems obvious that weirdo covidians get off on the idea of millions of people shoving stuff into their orifi.