Briefly Noted: Health Updates

It’s frustrating to me that I can’t embed Rumble videos and such like—only Youtube. And Musk won’t let me actually embed tweets, so all those short video clips …

This video interview with Ed Dowd on Rumble is really worthwhile, just for keeping up with the aftermath of the big Covid injection campaign. Remember?

Jim Ferguson

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"No one was forced to take a Vaccine" Pfizer

They know whats coming and are desperate to wriggle out. Now they will put the blame on the politicians to save their skins. They know its unravelling.

In Britain we all remember those who insisted that people had to be vaccinated to work in care homes and fly on planes and we know those that pushed the vaccine such as British PM #Sunak who made huge profits by investing $500 million of his personal fortune into Moderna while stating they were "safe and effective" #WEF2030Agenda #Australia #Pfizer

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Here’s a fuller account of that testimony in Australia from this article. In the video recording you can here his emphasis (my italics) on “forced”, like, no one was forcibly restrained an injected:

Pfizer Pfizer and Moderna Reps Put on the Hot Seat in Fiery Senate Hearing in Australia

“You were in Australia during COVID-19 … you must have been fully aware that people—nurses, doctors, people—to keep their jobs, were forced to have the vaccination,” she said. “Now, do you retract your statement that they were not forced?”

“Senator, no, I believe firmly that no one was forced to have a vaccine,” Hewitt responded. “Mandates and vaccine requirements are determined by governments and health authorities. I believe everyone was offered an opportunity to get a vaccine or not get a vaccine and I don’t believe that anybody was forced to take the vaccine.”

“A lot of Australians will disagree with you on that one,” Hanson shot back.

Interestingly, it also emerged that Pfizer imported doses of their injection for administration to their own employees. They weren’t the same batches as ordinary Aussies got shot up with.

So, here’s the link to the Ed Dowd video. It’s one of his better ones, IMO, because he goes beyond his usual number/stat crunching and offers some broader commentary.

CV19 Vax is a Crime & Coverup – Ed Dowd

Since I can’t embed the video, a sampling of comments:

He is right. People are CLUELESS and many in my neighborhood in FL are from NJ and NY, they rely on C N N for their news and took the jabs because they were “safe and effective”. My husband and I tell them, they listen and you can see they cannot understand. Cognitive dissonance.

In Australia the government hospital system still mandates all employees no matter front line or not to be fully vaxxed. There'll be a massive shortfall in properly trained personnel in years to come to care for the sick

Democide… killing everyone they can

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Yesterday I linked (My Day--So Far) to Larry Johnson’s blog, which featured a guest essay that examined the issue of “human capital” and how it is being shredded by Western educational processes. To repeat myself, here’s how I described the article:

It’s about the programmatic attempt to suppress the key element of any high functioning society—high IQ people who also have strong critical skills and independent character. It’s about the programmatic effort to elevate relatively smart people, but people who are easily molded and directed. Perfect bureaucrats, you might say, which explains the vast expansion of bureaucracy under our Uniparty system of generally progressivist oriented governance and culture. This is an article that requires you to sit back and think a bit, like, where did all this come from, how do we get out of where we are? This new culture has been inculcated through education in America—yes, in government schools, but not exclusively, because the attitudes described are part of the air we breathe as Americans. It seems to me that this speaks to an emptiness at the heart of America—of which a bit more below.

Of course there’s more to this project of social control than just the schools. There’s no question but that the dope legalization movement is part of that project. What better way to create a submissive, atomized populace than through dope legalization?

That higher goal justifies all the side effects:

Marijuana legalization movement linked to a 'massive increase' in mental illness in US, doctor warns

I know you’ve heard this before …

The push to legalize recreational marijuana across the U.S. has been linked to a troubling rise in mental health issues, suicides and an increased risk for psychosis, but "money-hungry" cannabis investors are leading the charge to commercialize the drug nationwide, Dr. Kevin Sabet warned Sunday.

"There is a massive increase in mental illness as a result of this increase in marijuana use. We know that today’s marijuana can quintuple your risk of psychosis and schizophrenia which is the worst thing you can imagine. It increases about six times the risk of suicide. We have a suicide epidemic in this country."

"You can’t walk down the streets of so many of our major cities without smelling it everywhere. We’re seeing second-hand smoke issues on the rise. Driving is a huge issue, unlike tobacco which doesn’t impair you on the road, marijuana does. We’re seeing huge increases."

It's just a lot of people pretending to care about civil rights and social justice when they really just want to smoke weed. They want to legitimize their own lifestyle, and the reality is, we’re paying a huge, huge price for this," he said.

That article is from July, 24. As it happens, Peter Hitchens had an article just yesterday in The American Conservative that focuses on the bigger issue of social revolution and degradation. Obviously, Hitchens’ piece is full of anecdotal information from the UK (originally published there?), but what he has to say is just as relevant to America:

Revolutionary State of Mind

As marijuana legalization has failed on its own terms, its proponents must be regarded as revolutionary cultists.

Hitchens begins by recounting how, in his college days, he was a dedicated Marxist revolutionary. As such, dope was anathema to him. How could a population of dopers ever overthrow the establishment? Sound like the America that’s coming? I can tell you that by the time I retired the laissez faire attitude toward dope use was widespread within the FBI. Are those the people you want to trust with restrained use of the powerful tools of civic and political surveillance that they (apparently) have at their finger tips? Liberal prosecutors—who thinks they’re mostly straight arrow abstainers?

There is an astonishing passage in Ian McDonald’s clever book on the songs of the Beatles, Revolution in the Head, that explains this. MacDonald wrote of the 1969 song “Come Together” that “enthusiastically received in campus and underground circles, ‘Come Together’ is the key song of the turn of the decade, isolating a pivotal moment when the free world’s coming generation rejected established wisdom, knowledge, ethics, and behavior for a drug-inspired relativism which has since undermined the foundations of Western culture.”

Right. That happened here, too. And it’s getting much worse. Who thinks—in spite of the goofball Libertarian drug legalization fringe—that a Conservative retaking of American can be led by a bunch of dopers? You know that’s not going to happen, and so does the Establishment.

Hitchens credits his youthful fling with Marxist revolution for getting him past the drug culture. Now, in opposing that culture he finds that he’s actually opposing a revolutionary cult that is immune to evidence and reason:

I thought I had something better than this, and in a way I did. At least my revolution concerned itself with reason, history, and a thirst for justice, however twisted and misdirected. Theirs was just the ultimate expression of self-pity, the poor bruised soul soothed by the sweet fumes of tetrahydrocannabinol. And by the time I realized I did not have anything better after all, I was adult enough to be suspicious of the drug culture anyway.

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I am arguing against a fanatical faith with the weapons of reason, the very thing the “New Atheists” claim (in my view falsely) to be doing in their battle against Christian belief.

Make no mistake about it. Hitchens is advocating for the criminalization of marijuana possession, just like in South Korea and Japan.

Even Alex Berenson, whose book Tell Your Children has been a potent corrective to much public falsehood about marijuana, concluded that “decriminalization” of marijuana might be a reasonable compromise. Between what and what?

Here’s his case in his closing paragraphs:

Legalization has already failed on its own terms. The smiling promise that it would “take the drug out of the hands of criminal gangs” has not been fulfilled. Where it is legal, illegal, untaxed, unregulated, markets flourish alongside. All that has happened is that marijuana is now also in the hands of greedy businessmen, remarkably like the old “Big Tobacco” types we all claim to dislike so much. Any concession to this lobby is an abandonment of the rule of law and of common sense. Meanwhile, the circumstantial evidence of the dangers, mental illness, criminal violence, the ruin of families, grows—and remains circumstantial because no rich and powerful force has any interest in researching these miseries.

Back in the 1960s, my generation thought we could have a Revolution in the Head. ... Many still think this and have not noticed, as they skip and dance through the grim gates of the new world, what is written above them—something about abandoning hope, though the lettering nowadays is much obscured by moss and decay—and how strangely dark it looks down there.

To try to tie all this together, consider the way in which the school lockdowns are blamed for the decline of basic intellectual skills. But we know that this has been going on for a long time, just more gradually. We call for a return of manufacturing to America from China and elsewhere, but would it be so easy to do that now? Is there something else at play here, that nobody wants to talk about? The decline of standards of all sorts—cultural, societal, educational. Does that reflect the long term effects of drug use, the accomodation of society to a disoriented population?

‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work

Remote learning during the pandemic left students short of basic skills. Now companies are trying to teach them on the job.

China had their lockdowns, but I’m guessing that young Chinese mechanical engineers still acquired basic skills.

The good news is that increasing numbers of parents are searching out non-government schools for their kids, hoping to inculcate standards for life in them. Nothing’s easy. Many of those parents have still not caught on to the dangers of cell phones and social media. Those that succeed will be a remnant, but that may offer hope for the future, rather than the abandonment of hope.