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Author Topic: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.  (Read 342275 times)

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Re: Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
« Reply #3795 on: January 25, 2022, 04:30:21 PM »
 I have to laugh to myself a whole lot when people keep believing "data" from people who have lied to them from the beginning about origins and nature of virus, as well as efficacy of vaccines.  Why would any person with a lick of critical thinking feel government toadies are going to be honest or present honest data about anything at this point?  That vax is a money grab.  People who can not actually hack the real world, and who are government toadies and corporate shills have no interest in truth, just a bottom line. 

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« Reply #3796 on: January 25, 2022, 07:50:08 PM »
Despite New York courts ruling the mask mandate was unconstitutional, it appears Kathy Hochul likes her imperial power too much to give a flip and told the schools, 'keep enforcing'.
It was a Nassau County Supreme Court ruling not the New York State Supreme Court.  Another County Supeme Court had ruled the mask mandate was valid.  It's weird to me that in New York they call the lower courts supreme courts.  In Ohio, we call them appellate courts. Anyway the AG did gett a stay from the State Supreme Court.  The State Supreme Court is packed with totalitarians so I suspect they will go along with mask mandates.
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« Reply #3797 on: January 26, 2022, 08:01:23 AM »
Despite New York courts ruling the mask mandate was unconstitutional, it appears Kathy Hochul likes her imperial power too much to give a flip and told the schools, 'keep enforcing'.
It was a Nassau County Supreme Court ruling not the New York State Supreme Court.  Another County Supeme Court had ruled the mask mandate was valid.  It's weird to me that in New York they call the lower courts supreme courts.  In Ohio, we call them appellate courts. Anyway the AG did gett a stay from the State Supreme Court.  The State Supreme Court is packed with totalitarians so I suspect they will go along with mask mandates.
Personally I think it's because NY has to compensate for something :)

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« Reply #3798 on: January 30, 2022, 06:52:14 PM »
Fuck beans!?! You know it's bad when the Daily Beast comes out against masking kids in school:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-true-cost-of-masking-young-kids-forever

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« Reply #3799 on: February 01, 2022, 01:13:47 AM »
I wonder if we'll see any legal repercutions against those who were bussy spreading covid missinformation regarding invermectine, and if we'll see anyone in the MSM recognize that Trump, Rogan and others were right all along.

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« Reply #3800 on: February 01, 2022, 01:51:58 AM »
I wonder if we'll see any legal repercutions against those who were bussy spreading covid missinformation regarding invermectine, and if we'll see anyone in the MSM recognize that Trump, Rogan and others were right all along.

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Nope. Nope.

But you knew the answers already.

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« Reply #3801 on: February 01, 2022, 02:05:55 AM »
I wonder if we'll see any legal repercutions against those who were bussy spreading covid missinformation regarding invermectine, and if we'll see anyone in the MSM recognize that Trump, Rogan and others were right all along.

https://archive.is/ZSuL4
Nope. Nope.

But you knew the answers already.

Yes, yes I knew the answers. I think we should push to have them suffer legal repercutions tho. And I mean the world over because they were busy everywhere and I dare say they killed people with their dissinformation.
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« Reply #3802 on: February 01, 2022, 02:40:40 AM »
WHAT? ISN'T THAT HORSE MEDICINE?!?!?
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« Reply #3803 on: February 01, 2022, 05:19:42 AM »
I wonder if we'll see any legal repercutions against those who were bussy spreading covid missinformation regarding invermectine, and if we'll see anyone in the MSM recognize that Trump, Rogan and others were right all along.

https://archive.is/ZSuL4

Not just Ivermectin, HCQ as well. Isn't it mysterious that the latter disappeared from pharmacies in late 2019 in the UK?

The reason covid has been a total nothingburger in Africa (besides their population of over 80s being tiny) is the widespread use of HCQ to treat malaria. Same as it's done little in India due to the widespread use of Ivermectin to treat water-borne parasites.
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« Reply #3804 on: February 01, 2022, 11:26:05 AM »
I wonder if we'll see any legal repercutions against those who were bussy spreading covid missinformation regarding invermectine, and if we'll see anyone in the MSM recognize that Trump, Rogan and others were right all along.

https://archive.is/ZSuL4

Not just Ivermectin, HCQ as well. Isn't it mysterious that the latter disappeared from pharmacies in late 2019 in the UK?

The reason covid has been a total nothingburger in Africa (besides their population of over 80s being tiny) is the widespread use of HCQ to treat malaria. Same as it's done little in India due to the widespread use of Ivermectin to treat water-borne parasites.

Well, in México Invermectine used to be sold over the counter with no prescription needed... Gues what happened when it threatened Big Pharma's bottom line? No idea about if HCQ was also sold without prescription, probably.
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« Reply #3805 on: February 01, 2022, 11:27:00 AM »
WHAT? ISN'T THAT HORSE MEDICINE?!?!?

iT's HoRsE dEwOrMeR! XD
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« Reply #3806 on: February 03, 2022, 05:44:54 AM »
Only 0.2% of deaths prevented by lockdowns: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/covid-lockdown-prevented-only-0-2pc-of-deaths-in-first-wave/ar-AATpz0M?ocid=msedgntp

And even that is a bullshit fig leaf to try to justify the policy. The costs far outweighed the benefits.
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« Reply #3807 on: February 03, 2022, 08:28:34 AM »
The bottom line of COVID policies:

  • The lockdowns didn't work particularly well.
  • Masks appear to have worked better for lower-transmission variants, but roughly since Delta, they haven't done much of anything.
  • The vaccines worked...past tense. Omicron has pretty well demolished this, with the hyper-triple jabbed Israel now hitting all time high daily deaths.
  • The economic aftershocks of the lockdowns--and the frenzy of low interest leverage we got as a result--will almost certainly be far worse than the actual effects of COVID were.
  • People died because alternative therapies were not pursued. HCQ and Ivermectin are the familiar names, but we now have many studies showing Vitamin D deficiency plays a key role in severe COVID, and 40% of the population of the US is severely Vitamin D deficient. All this time, and one of the key preventative treatment options is literally available at every dollar and drug store in the nation.

The real elephant in the room is the deaths in working age individuals. This group is not usually at great risk from COVID, and yet their death figures are WAY up in 2021. https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-are-up-40-among-people-ages-18-64/article_71473b12-6b1e-11ec-8641-5b2c06725e2c.html

This is in the process of creating a labor supply shock. You thought the low-end wage jobs suddenly going to $15/ hour was bad? Real wages are still down! Wages are about to go up in a big way. It's not hard to see how highly leveraged corporate balance sheets and the increased overhead of a labor supply shock will combine to utterly wreck most businesses.

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« Reply #3808 on: February 03, 2022, 08:34:39 AM »
Jen Psaki went out on live TV and implored Spotify to muzzle Joe Rogan.

Needless to say, this is not only spectacularly fascist, it's also a direct violation of the First Amendment as per Bantam Books Inc. vs Sullivan and Manhattan Community Access Corp. vs. Halleck.

But then, it's not like the regime gives a shit about what's legal or constitutional.

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« Reply #3809 on: February 03, 2022, 08:39:03 AM »
The real elephant in the room is the deaths in working age individuals. This group is not usually at great risk from COVID, and yet their death figures are WAY up in 2021. https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-are-up-40-among-people-ages-18-64/article_71473b12-6b1e-11ec-8641-5b2c06725e2c.html

Caused by the jabs.
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