• Sinovac Vaccine

    From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to All on Sat Apr 3 19:39:00 2021
    From: https://tinyurl.com/yjaf6h2f (theepochtimes.com)

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    The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon, Countries Report Increased
    Cases After Using Vaccine

    BY EVA ZHAO

    April 3, 2021

    The Hong Kong government recently rolled out a large-scale vaccination
    plan against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known
    as COVID-19, but its been mired by frequent reports of serious adverse reactions. In just one month, 13 people died in Hong Kong after being inoculated, 11 of whom had been injected with the Sinovac vaccine, a
    Chinese domestically made vaccine.

    The CCP has not reported a single case of serious side effects or
    death after it announced the administering of 100 million doses of the
    Sinovac vaccine in China on March 28.

    But there are four strange phenomena of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine,
    analyzed as follows.


    No Deaths Reported in China

    The first reported death after vaccination in Hong Kong occurred on
    Feb. 28. On March 28, within just one short month, 13 people in Hong
    Kong, aged 55 to 80, died after receiving the vaccination. Eleven of
    them were given the Sinovac shots, while the other two had received
    BioNTech.

    In addition, an elderly woman in her eighties died at home the day
    after taking the Sinovac vaccine on March 20, but the Hong Kong
    Department of Health did not report it nor publicize the incident. The Department of Health responded in the early hours of March 31 that
    there was no direct causal relationship between her death and
    vaccination, thus not fulfilling the reporting criteria of AEFIs
    (Adverse Events Following Immunization).

    In an interview with The Epoch Times, Yuen Hoi Man, deputy spokesman
    for the medical policy of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong,
    criticized the government for depriving the public of the right to
    know by not releasing the information, which also affects public
    confidence in vaccines. He said that even if there is no direct
    relationship, the government should be truthful when an indirect
    relationship cannot be ruled out.

    Dr. Cheung Wai Lit, a Chinese medicine doctor, in an interview with
    The Epoch Times, also said that he suspected that there were other
    cases of death after receiving the Chinese vaccine, but there is no
    way for outsiders to confirm it.

    In response to the death of 13 people in Hong Kong after receiving the
    vaccine, authorities responded on March 30, saying that current data
    show that most of the cases died of cardiovascular disease and none of
    the individual cases were directly related to the vaccination.

    However, Law Cheuk You, staff and vice-chairman of Hong Kong Hospital Authority, said in an interview with The Epoch Times, that generally
    speaking, the possibility of some indirect side effects is not to be
    completely ruled out, Law said, in fact, many drugs have [side
    effects].

    Law said that there are cases of death after COVID-19 vaccination in
    other countries. But even in cases that may not have a direct
    relationship, the authorities will still give data. With the data, it
    gives others the option to choose the appropriate measures.

    On March 30, Germany announced that as of March 29, more than 2.7
    million people had received the AstraZeneca vaccine and that 31 people developed blood clots, with 9 deaths. The German government,
    therefore, decided to suspend the vaccine for people under the age of
    60.

    On March 29, Canada also announced that it is suspending the use of
    the AstraZeneca vaccine for people under the age of 55 following the
    reports of rare blood clots, although there are no relevant cases in
    the country for the time being.

    The Hong Kong government, however, although it recently suspended the
    use of BioNTech shots due to packaging defects, has yet to call off
    the use of the Sinovac vaccine, after 11 deaths out of a total of
    about 450,000 people vaccinated in a month. This has caused public
    concern.

    Law said that theres insufficient statistical data on the use of the
    Sinovac vaccine for people over 60 years old and that its Phase III
    clinical data has not been published in peer-reviewed medical
    journals. Even so, the Hong Kong government still asks the elderly to
    receive the vaccine. He called on the public to only receive vaccines
    that have sufficient clinical data.

    Yuen Hoi Man also suggested suspending the use of the Sinovac vaccine
    for people over 60 and those with chronic illnesses.

    It is worth noting that the CCPs National Health Commission announced
    on March 28 that more than 100 million doses of its domestic vaccines
    had been administered in China, but it did not report any deaths or
    serious side effects. At the same time, however, any comments about
    the adverse effects of the vaccines are quickly deleted from Chinas
    internet.


    Outbreak Intensifies in Countries Using Sinovac Vaccines

    The United Kingdom was the first country to start COVID-19
    vaccinations, approving the use of the BioNTech vaccine in December
    before introducing the AstraZeneca vaccine in January this year. Their
    outbreak gradually eased after Jan. 9. The UK recorded 4,715 cases on
    March 27, down significantly from 6,187 cases the day before. In the
    United States and Israel, where the BioNTech vaccine was also chosen
    as the main vaccine, the epidemic also slowed down significantly after vaccination.

    However, the number of confirmed cases in Chile, Turkey, and Pakistan,
    which chose to receive the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, has increased.

    Chile administered nearly 9 million doses of the Sinovac vaccines in
    February, with an average of 47 doses per 100 people, making it the
    country with the highest vaccination rate in South America. However,
    the number of positive test results recorded in Chile rose instead of
    fell, and a new high of 7,626 cases was recorded in a single day on
    March 26, leading to a tight supply of hospital beds and a recent
    lockdown of the capital city of Santiago.

    Turkey started to administer Sinovac vaccines in mid-January and at
    least eight million people have been injected with the vaccine,
    accounting for more than 10 percent of the population. But their case
    numbers also rebounded in late February, with 37,303 new cases
    recorded on March 30, the highest single-day figure since the outbreak
    on March 11 last year. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on
    April 2 that there would be a curfew during the weekends throughout
    the month of Ramadan.

    In addition, Pakistan, which has been using the Chinese vaccine since
    early February, is now experiencing a third wave of the pandemic, with
    the national positivity ratio rising to 11 percent, the highest level
    since the outbreak. More than 20 cities have been closed due to the
    severity of the outbreak.

    Pakistani President Arif Alvi wrote on March 29 that he tested
    positive after receiving the first dose of a vaccine produced by the
    Chinese National Pharmaceutical Group Corp on March 15. Prior to that, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan also tested positive for the virus
    on March 18, two days after receiving his first dose of the vaccine manufactured by the same Chinese company.

    Lin Xiaoxu, a former virology researcher at the Walter Reed Army
    Institute of Research, said that the CCP claimed in February that 20
    million people in mainland China had received the vaccine, but it has
    not released any real analysis of the effectiveness rate. For
    countries that inject the vaccine produced by Chinas Sinovac Biotech
    or National Pharmaceutical Group Corp, they should first ask China to
    provide such data on how much protection the Chinese have after
    receiving the vaccine, Lin said.


    Adverse Reaction Rate Similar to Placebo

    At present, the Sinovac vaccine has only released clinical study data
    for Phase I and Phase II, and the relevant data show that the rate of
    adverse reactions is only about 20 percent, a lower figure than other
    vaccines. Dr. Dong Yuhong, a European virologist and chief scientific
    officer in a Swiss Biotech company, said that, from an academic point
    of view, there are two questionable points about the Sinovac data.

    First, in various other COVID-19 vaccines, the ratio of side effects
    in the vaccination group is usually significantly higher than that in
    the placebo group. But the ratio of side effects post-vaccination of
    Sinovac was similar to that of the placebo injection. Some side
    effects were even lower in the vaccination group than in the placebo
    group.

    Second, generally speaking, the more the injected doses, the more side
    effects there are. This phenomenon can be seen in clinical studies of
    other vaccines and is called dose correlation. However, from the
    results of the Sinovac vaccine study, there seems to be no such
    pattern. Side effects in some low-dose groups are higher than those of higher-dose groups.

    Dr. Dong said that scientists have been expecting the Phase III
    clinical data of Sinovac, but unfortunately, they have yet to see its publication, and the number of subjects enrolled in its Phase I-II
    clinical study is relatively small, so it is difficult to evaluate the
    adverse events of the Sinovac vaccine.

    Although the CCP released data on the side effects of the Sinovac
    vaccine in clinical trials that is similar to those of the placebo
    group, on Jan. 6, state-run CCP media Xinhua reported that pregnant
    and nursing women are not allowed to receive the domestically made
    vaccine. It even recommends women postpone their pregnancy for three
    months after receiving the vaccine.

    A resident in mainland China also received a notice from his local
    community, saying that pregnancy should be postponed to six months
    after receiving the vaccine, implying that the Chinese vaccine may
    have serious side effects on fertility.

    Dr. Cheung Wai Lit said that in the process of rolling up vaccination
    on a large scale in China, the CCP kept issuing new guidelines and
    principles.

    Those who administer vaccines now are actually crossing a river by
    feeling for stones, using human bodies for clinical tests, Dr. Cheung said.


    Politicized Mandatory Vaccination

    Since the Chinese vaccine data lacks transparency, people are
    concerned about the safety of the vaccines. There were news reports of
    low acceptance of the vaccines in Shanghai and other first-tier
    cities. As of March 27, the vaccination rate in China was only 7
    percent.

    Recently, The Epoch Times obtained a document showing that, in order
    to speed up the vaccination rate, the CCP politicized the vaccine and
    forced people to vaccinate.

    This internal document comes from a large private enterprise,
    Chongqing Sokon Industry Group. It was titled, Notice on Strengthening
    Epidemic Prevention and Control. The notice stated: All units must
    stand at the height of political considerations, follow the principle
    of everyone must take it with strict implementation, and hold
    responsibility. The Group will pursue any unit and individual that
    fails to advance the new COVID vaccination work for accountability.

    Outside of large enterprises, the scope of compulsory vaccination with Chinese-made vaccines has begun to expand. Mr. Liu, a vegetable
    merchant at Honggang Market in Sanya City, Hainan, told The Epoch
    Times that proof of vaccination is now required to enter the market.
    The entire Sanya is now subject to vaccinations, it is mandatory.

    Mr. Wu, a mainland Chinese human rights lawyer, revealed in an
    interview with The Epoch Times reporter cited previous vaccine
    problems in China and said: The (Chinese vaccine) safety, quality, and effectiveness are very low. In the past, there were children who
    become disabled and mentally retarded after vaccination. [To develop
    the vaccines] in such a short time, they knew the quality was not
    good, but still forced over a billion Chinese people to accept it. It
    is too scary. It is really treating people's lives as a joke.

    Earlier, former head of the National Institute of Health of Peru,
    Ernesto Bustamante, said in a local TV program that Sinopharms Wuhan
    strain vaccine had only 33 percent effectiveness, while the Beijing
    strain vaccine had 11.5 percent. Sinovac was also reported to be only
    50.4 percent effective according to Brazil's data. The frequent
    outbreaks of defective vaccines and fake vaccines in China over the
    years are even more common and shocking.

    In 2018, Changsheng Biotechnology sold over 250,000 substandard doses
    of the DTap vaccine (a combination vaccine for young children to
    develop immunity against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus). In 2013,
    there were many cases of infant deaths caused by a hepatitis B vaccine injection in southern China. In 2007, the Shanxi vaccine incident
    caused nearly 100 children to be seriously disabled or killed. An in
    2005, an abnormal hepatitis A vaccine incident in Anhui resulted in 1
    death and 215 adverse reactions.
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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Sun Apr 4 09:13:00 2021
    Hello Sean Dennis!

    ** On Saturday 03.04.21 - 19:39, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

    From: https://tinyurl.com/yjaf6h2f (theepochtimes.com)

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    The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon, Countries Report Increased
    Cases After Using Vaccine

    BY EVA ZHAO

    April 3, 2021

    [snip]
    No Deaths Reported in China
    Outbreak Intensifies in Countries Using Sinovac Vaccines
    Adverse Reaction Rate Similar to Placebo
    Politicized Mandatory Vaccination

    In otherwords.. are you anxious and eager to get yours? ;)


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to August Abolins on Sun Apr 4 12:19:00 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    In otherwords.. are you anxious and eager to get yours? ;)

    No as I don't need one. My body has been producing antibodies to
    SARS-CoV-2 since I caught it last October. No one is sure why my body
    is still doing that but I do not need anything else. I have been
    asked to donate plasma for research but I cannot since I am
    insulin-dependent.

    I posted that article because China's definitely using this as an
    excuse for population control. No surprise there.

    -- Sean

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Sun Apr 4 13:47:00 2021
    Hello Sean!

    In otherwords.. are you anxious and eager to get yours?
    ;)

    No as I don't need one. My body has been producing
    antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 since I caught it last October.
    No one is sure why my body is still doing that but I do not
    need anything else. I have been asked to donate plasma for
    research but I cannot since I am insulin-dependent.

    That is good going! But.. apparently we are vulnerable to the
    "variants of concern". :(

    I developed a nasty flu around Oct 2019. The first signs of
    something amiss was on a Thurs, but it was rather mild and
    innocuous. Friday morn was ok, but I felt definite signs of flu
    (chills and onset of fever). Saturday.. I managed to stave off
    the symptoms with my own concoction of drugs during the day. But
    in the evening it was the worst. Temp rose over 100F, and
    reached 103F the last time I was awake. But on Sunday morn when
    I woke up, it felt like I had just stepped through a think
    curtain of fog and a heavy weight had been lifted off my back.
    There was a tiny remnant of headache and cough.. but by the
    afternoon all that was gone. I sprinted back to life in time
    for work on Monday.

    Then... it was November when the media first started reporting
    on covid-19.


    I posted that article because China's definitely using this
    as an excuse for population control. No surprise there.

    Even here in Canada, it is disturbing that the media is putting
    forth debates on "Vaccine Passports". That is disconcerting.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/1 to August Abolins on Mon Apr 5 07:15:00 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    I woke up, it felt like I had just stepped through a think
    curtain of fog and a heavy weight had been lifted off my back.
    There was a tiny remnant of headache and cough.. but by the
    afternoon all that was gone. I sprinted back to life in time
    for work on Monday.

    Then... it was November when the media first started reporting
    on covid-19.

    About the same time I had a couple of friends (and my son) get hit with uncharacteristically harsh flu symptoms. We suspected it was Covid.

    Even here in Canada, it is disturbing that the media is putting
    forth debates on "Vaccine Passports". That is disconcerting.

    In the movie "Songbird", after the onset of Covid-20, people need to have armbands to prove their immunity to be outside. Creepy movie.

    I thought to myself if any indie filmmakers didn't take advantage of the lockdowns and desolated downtown city areas last spring to make a post- apocalyptic film they were missing a huge opportunity.





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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to August Abolins on Mon Apr 5 14:14:34 2021
    Hello August,

    Sunday April 04 2021 13:47, you wrote to me:

    Then... it was November when the media first started reporting
    on covid-19.

    You and several other Canadian friends have told me similar stories. I believe you all got hit with SARS-CoV-2 before the US did but the way New York state and New York City mishandled things, that area was the nexus of the US pandemic.

    Even here in Canada, it is disturbing that the media is putting
    forth debates on "Vaccine Passports". That is disconcerting.

    It is very disconcerting (you are the only other person in BBSing that I have seen use that word!) to me.

    I firmly believe while the release of SARS-CoV-2 was caused by sloppy procedures in a Chinese laboratory, the reaction to it worldwide was politicized and used to test out various plans to try to control people and steer them into complacency, eventually to come to rely on government fully.

    Note that the virus is quite real as I had a lovely case of COVID-19 in October. I am in the part of the population that is at very high risk of dying from COVID-19 but, thanks to certain medications I take on a daily basis (ACE inhibitors, high dose of Vitamin D3) and medication I was given at the ER where I was treated (azithromycin, zinc, Vitamin C), I had a very mild case.

    My beef is with the highly politicized way the people were treated and how the government, knowing better, outright lied (and continues to lie) to its citizens.

    The "vaccine passport" is one of these control measures.

    90% of people's fears are bullshit drilled into their head by a conspiring media and government[1]. In the US, the numbers have shown that less than 1% of the US population has died from COVID-19 and in that 1%, 98% of those victims had underlying conditions that were the acutal reason for their death and not COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 themselves.

    But like Rahm Emanuel said, never let a crisis go to waste.

    [1] = This is thanks to a public education system that is really a Marxist indoctrination system; these poor people have little to no critical thinking skills and believe everything they're told by the mass media and government.

    -- Sean

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Kurt Weiske on Mon Apr 5 14:25:24 2021
    Hello Kurt,

    Monday April 05 2021 07:15, you wrote to August Abolins:

    About the same time I had a couple of friends (and my son) get hit
    with uncharacteristically harsh flu symptoms. We suspected it was
    Covid.

    It was only a matter of time. We're lucky it wasn't anything worse.

    In the movie "Songbird", after the onset of Covid-20, people need to
    have armbands to prove their immunity to be outside. Creepy movie.

    I've seen a scene from that movie about the armbands. It's not only creepy but frightening as I could see something like that happening. We already have vaccine cards and now several countries are pursuing "vaccine passports" like August said earlier.

    I thought to myself if any indie filmmakers didn't take advantage of
    the lockdowns and desolated downtown city areas last spring to make a post- apocalyptic film they were missing a huge opportunity.

    Infinite possibilities. Kinda reminds me of "Cabin in the Woods" (I think that's the right name).

    -- Sean

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to SEAN DENNIS on Mon Apr 5 16:09:00 2021
    I posted that article because China's definitely using this as an
    excuse for population control. No surprise there.

    Especially against those troublesome Hong Kong residents.

    Mike

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon Apr 5 16:11:00 2021
    Even here in Canada, it is disturbing that the media is putting
    forth debates on "Vaccine Passports". That is disconcerting.

    Apparently they already have these in New York. There are a few people
    wanting them here. They probably want them as an excuse to exclude certain people. They will be sorry when they use them as an excuse to gather in
    large groups without masks and then one of them brings a new variant with
    them.

    Mike


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to KURT WEISKE on Mon Apr 5 16:12:00 2021
    I thought to myself if any indie filmmakers didn't take advantage of the lockdowns and desolated downtown city areas last spring to make a post- apocalyptic film they were missing a huge opportunity.

    They would have had to find a town where there were no "peaceful protests" going on, otherwise the cameras would probably have drawn some unwanted attention (and the downtowns would not have been empty).

    Mike


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Mike Powell on Mon Apr 5 17:50:00 2021
    Hello Mike Powell!

    ** On Monday 05.04.21 - 16:12, Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE:

    I thought to myself if any indie filmmakers didn't take
    advantage of the lockdowns and desolated downtown city areas
    last spring to make a post-apocalyptic film they were
    missing a huge opportunity.

    They would have had to find a town where there were no
    "peaceful protests" going on, otherwise the cameras would
    probably have drawn some unwanted attention (and the
    downtowns would not have been empty).

    If you get a chance, take look at the film "28 Days Later" from
    2002.

    "The plot depicts the breakdown of society following the
    accidental release of a highly contagious virus and focuses upon
    the struggle of four survivors to cope with the destruction of
    the life they once knew while evading those infected by the
    virus."

    They accomplished some amazing "empty streets" trickery right in
    the middle of downtown London. Most of that takes place within
    the 1st 30 minutes of the film.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/1 to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 6 06:38:00 2021
    Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    They would have had to find a town where there were no "peaceful
    protests" going on, otherwise the cameras would probably have drawn
    some unwanted attention (and the downtowns would not have been empty).

    There were drone shots of San Francisco that looked pretty eerie. As for avoiding crowds, you need to give the magic of camerawork more credit. All
    of Monty Python and the Holy Grail was filmed at one castle after the
    Scottish board that controlled access to historical castles reneged on allowing them access to a handful of other castles. They used different
    angles and times of the day for that one castle through the entire movie.


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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to Sean Dennis on Fri Apr 9 21:49:11 2021
    I posted that article because China's definitely using this as an
    excuse for population control. No surprise there.

    That was the first thing that came to my mind when the entire thing started. That is exactly the type of crap that can happen when citizens allow their government too much power and authority.

    - Mark

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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to Sean Dennis on Fri Apr 9 21:54:37 2021
    90% of people's fears are bullshit drilled into their head by a
    conspiring media and government[1]. In the US, the numbers have shown
    that less than 1% of the US population has died from COVID-19 and in that 1%, 98% of those victims had underlying conditions that were the acutal reason for their death and not COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 themselves.

    100% true. There are a small amount of unknown exceptions as there are with pretty much everything in life.

    Almost everyone will get Covid at some point and you will have a 98-99% chance of living. The media concentrates on the negative, which is why I pay no attention at all to any of it.

    - Mark

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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to Kurt Weiske on Fri Apr 9 21:59:38 2021
    There were drone shots of San Francisco that looked pretty eerie. As for avoiding crowds, you need to give the magic of camerawork more credit.
    All of Monty Python and the Holy Grail was filmed at one castle after the

    True story here..

    This goes back to the late March/early April timeframe when we were supposed ot be "locked down" in Maryland. Only driving when necessary, etc.. blah.. blah.

    We had some nice weather in early April, so I was busy doing some social distancing on my Harley riding all over the place. No traffic, it was great!

    I remember one specific time I was on I-95 in the middle of a Sunday. Not a single car/truck on either side of I-95 going over the Susquehanna Bridge. I wanted so bad to stop in the middle of the highway on the bridge and take some pictures, but decided against it just in case. I could have done it, though, because I didn't see any vehicles for a good while and would have had the time to take some pictures in the middle of the highway on the bridge in the middle of the day.

    - Mark

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Sat Apr 10 08:30:00 2021
    Hello Sean!

    ** On Sunday 04.04.21 - 12:19, your wrote to me:

    In otherwords.. are you anxious and eager to get yours? ;)

    No as I don't need one. My body has been producing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 since I caught it last October. No one is sure why my body
    is still doing that but I do not need anything else.

    Someone who sauntered into my shop and started the vaccine
    debate was "concerned" that one's antibodies for anything only
    last up to 6-8 months.

    So.. that's another spin that the media is making to maintain a
    fear factor in the population.

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Sat Apr 10 12:08:00 2021
    Someone who sauntered into my shop and started the vaccine
    debate was "concerned" that one's antibodies for anything only
    last up to 6-8 months.

    It can sure differ from person to person. They are saying that the Moderna
    and Pfizer vacs are only good for about that long before you will need a booster.


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 10 19:34:00 2021
    Hello Mike!

    ** On Saturday 10.04.21 - 12:08, you wrote to me:

    Someone who sauntered into my shop and started the vaccine
    debate was "concerned" that one's antibodies for anything
    only last up to 6-8 months.

    It can sure differ from person to person. They are saying
    that the Moderna and Pfizer vacs are only good for about
    that long before you will need a booster.

    Seems that the only sensible thing to do would be to buy stocks
    in those companies. So, if you have to live in this doomsworld,
    you may as well make some money out of it. :(

    It's interesting that people are only getting covid these days,
    and no one is getting the "regular" flu anymore. Hmmph.

    The school board in my area is instructing people with even ONE
    symptom of covid need to stay home - and must be tested covid-
    free before being allowed to re-attend. I think it's ludicrous
    to impose stay-at-home demands based on one friggin symptom - a
    symptom that could be the basis of any OTHER ailment.

    The world has gone mad.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Sun Apr 11 08:44:00 2021
    It's interesting that people are only getting covid these days,
    and no one is getting the "regular" flu anymore. Hmmph.

    I think you may have hit upon that below...

    The school board in my area is instructing people with even ONE
    symptom of covid need to stay home - and must be tested covid-
    free before being allowed to re-attend. I think it's ludicrous
    to impose stay-at-home demands based on one friggin symptom - a
    symptom that could be the basis of any OTHER ailment.

    Here, kids were not in school during flu season, and many adults were
    working from home and social distancing. I suspect that the social
    distancing and mask wearing are effective against the flu. Although I am
    not certain, I also suspect that medical health providers stressed the flu
    shot even more this past year than in recent ones.

    I agree re: your assessment. Some symptoms are more likely COVID than
    others. Here right now, allergy symptoms are off the chart and some of
    those symptoms are also COVID symptoms.

    Mike

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Kurt Weiske on Sun Apr 11 23:49:00 2021
    Hello Kurt Weiske!

    ** On Monday 05.04.21 - 07:15, you wrote to me:

    Then... it was November when the media first started
    reporting on covid-19.

    About the same time I had a couple of friends (and my son)
    get hit with uncharacteristically harsh flu symptoms. We
    suspected it was Covid.

    Tonight's 60 Minutes was interesting. They interviewed a
    research specialist involved in studying past immunities,
    including the Spanish Flu from 1918. Apparently they reactivated
    that one, injected it into mice and "cured" them with the vaxx
    they produced based on the antibodies that they were able to
    cultivate from still living 1918 Spanish flu survivors.

    The specialist basically said that our bodies are a catalog of
    everything that has ever affected us. That tells me that the
    antibodies from my Oct 2019 flu are still viable and capable to
    assist in dealing with repeat flu offenses.

    In the movie "Songbird", after the onset of Covid-20,
    people need to have armbands to prove their immunity to be
    outside. Creepy movie.

    But a "vaxx passport" is no guarantee that the person vaxx'd is
    not a spreader, at least for a little while longer.

    I say that if people want to flaunt their "I'm vaxx'd" badge,
    fine with them. But my health is my own business as it has
    always been and I can always stay home if I don't feel well
    enough to work - as I and millions of other people have always
    done for decades.

    I thought to myself if any indie filmmakers didn't take
    advantage of the lockdowns and desolated downtown city
    areas last spring to make a post-apocalyptic film they were
    missing a huge opportunity.

    If you get a chance, take look at the film "28 Days Later" from
    2002. It's another post-apocalyptic study (but with a vampire/
    zombie twist). Anyway.. the first 3 minutes of the film is
    incredible trickery on how they depicted the empty streets of
    London, when in reality all they did was remove objects
    digitally. When I first watched it I was thinking how the heck
    did they manage to convince the gov't to empty all those streets
    for all those long-running shots.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/1 to August Abolins on Mon Apr 12 06:31:00 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    If you get a chance, take look at the film "28 Days Later" from
    2002. It's another post-apocalyptic study (but with a vampire/
    zombie twist). Anyway.. the first 3 minutes of the film is
    incredible trickery on how they depicted the empty streets of
    London, when in reality all they did was remove objects
    digitally. When I first watched it I was thinking how the heck
    did they manage to convince the gov't to empty all those streets
    for all those long-running shots.

    There's a neat photoshop trick for still photos; it combines multiple photos of the same scene and removes anything not in each image. The net result is that moving objects are automatically removed from the final image. I've
    seen one of the fountains in Rome with crowds of people milling about, and
    in the final shot, all of the people have been removed.


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mark Hofmann on Mon Apr 12 18:14:06 2021
    Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    Almost everyone will get Covid at some point and you will
    have a 98-99% chance of living. The media concentrates on
    the negative, which is why I pay no attention at all to any
    of it.

    Like how the COVID-19 "vaccine" isn't a vaccine at all ... it's an overglorified, under-tested coronavirus "flu shot". I read an article
    today about how people who have the "vaccine" are already coming down
    with variants of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. All of that for
    nothing. We already have drugs that can stop the virus cold in its
    tracks but the "vaccine" provides a convenient path for injecting the
    populous with God-knows-what in the name of "science".

    It's amazing and frightening how few people in the world have
    critical thinking skills anymore and just take everything they're told
    by the mass (hysteria) media.

    -- Sean

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to August Abolins on Mon Apr 12 18:16:08 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    So.. that's another spin that the media is making to maintain a
    fear factor in the population.

    There's already been studies that suggest that once you contract a
    case of COVID-19 that you'll have lifetime immunity. Like I said to
    Mark, a severe lack of critical thinking has hampered good in the
    world allowing evil to gain control.

    -- Sean

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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to Sean Dennis on Sat Apr 17 20:42:43 2021
    It's amazing and frightening how few people in the world have
    critical thinking skills anymore and just take everything they're told
    by the mass (hysteria) media.

    That has been the most eye opening part about this entire thing. To this day, I still see some people driving in their car by themselves with masks on, jogging outside with masks on, and will just blindly listen to anything they see on TV.

    It is really sad, actually. Sometimes I feel like a total outsider, but sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing alone. I'm fine with that.

    The media is the source of all things evil. They are what divides, they are what spreads fear to those that pay attention to them, and will stop at nothing to get higher ratings. I have not watched the news (or sports) for years. They are all dead to me.

    I can't even watch stuff on YouTube without the virus shit popping up all over the damn place. The media is the virus.

    - Mark

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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to Sean Dennis on Sat Apr 17 20:47:25 2021
    There's already been studies that suggest that once you contract a
    case of COVID-19 that you'll have lifetime immunity. Like I said to
    Mark, a severe lack of critical thinking has hampered good in the
    world allowing evil to gain control.

    Here is what I have changed in my life for the virus. I wash my hands more often, in particular when I come home from any public place. That is a good thing to do no matter what, but I am more concious about it now. That is about it.

    This is not ebola and in my particular circumstance, I'm not concerned.

    - Mark

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Mark Hofmann on Sat Apr 17 21:59:00 2021
    Hello Mark Hofmann!

    ** On Saturday 17.04.21 - 20:42, Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis:

    That has been the most eye opening part about this entire
    thing. To this day, I still see some people driving in
    their car by themselves with masks on..

    I see that too. I think it identifies those who are not able to
    think for themselves.

    The media is the source of all things evil. They are what
    divides, they are what spreads fear to those that pay
    attention to them..

    I recently discovered a fellow that goes by the alias An0maly.
    He is a very articulate speaker and can identify the crap when
    the media puts it out. He is a fact-checker and proves it well.

    I came across a recent Jim Jordan / Fauci interchange as part of
    a House subcomittee hearing. I haven't heard it all yet, but I
    noticed how Fauci avoided providing the means to "measure" when
    the time will be right to give people their freedoms back.


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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to August Abolins on Sun Apr 18 10:23:57 2021
    I came across a recent Jim Jordan / Fauci interchange as part of
    a House subcomittee hearing. I haven't heard it all yet, but I
    noticed how Fauci avoided providing the means to "measure" when
    the time will be right to give people their freedoms back.

    The truth is the governments don't want to give any freedoms back. They love the power and control, which is the most dangerous thing I have seen in my lifetime.

    The solution is really simple. A date should be set when all people that want the vaccine should be able to get it. Let's say by June, everyone should have been able to get it if that is their wishes.

    After that, everything goes back to normal. End of story.

    Unfortunately I don't see that happening in the US due to slo-moe-Joe - the meat puppet in there. The people controlling slo-moe Joe want to keep their power and control over everyone by keeping this going, keeping the media pumping out things to divide people, and making people think they need the government to "keep them safe". Pure crap.

    - Mark

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to MARK HOFMANN on Sun Apr 18 10:52:00 2021
    That has been the most eye opening part about this entire thing. To this day,
    still see some people driving in their car by themselves with masks on, joggi
    outside with masks on, and will just blindly listen to anything they see on T

    If it is cold, and the trip is short, I would leave mine on between stops
    in the car just because it was easier and it didn't bother me to have it
    on. That way I didn't have to touch it as much. I also found that wearing
    one while I was out walking (neck gaiter variety) on days when it was blustery cold out was actually nice. It fit better around my mouth and nose than my scarf.

    Now that it is warming up, I don't want a mask anywhere near my face when it doesn't have to be.

    It is really sad, actually. Sometimes I feel like a total outsider, but somet
    es standing up for what you believe means standing alone. I'm fine with that.

    A lot of it is BS but I suspect the social distancing and mask wearing is
    what kept the flu numbers around here way down this past season. That, and
    the bigger school districts in my state were on remote learning during the whole season. That kept the little germ factories known as kids from being together as much.

    The media is the source of all things evil. They are what divides, they are w
    t spreads fear to those that pay attention to them, and will stop at nothing t
    get higher ratings. I have not watched the news (or sports) for years. They a
    all dead to me.

    They have for sure blown a bunch of the recent police incidents out of proportion. There is a YT video of an older black gentleman going off on a
    new reporter when she asks him about the violence. His answer basically
    blames the media for inflaming the masses and making things much worse than they should be. The reporter seemed genuinely shocked. I was shocked that
    she was surprised at all.

    I can't even watch stuff on YouTube without the virus shit popping up all over
    he damn place. The media is the virus.

    I did an experiment with YT where I watched and searched only for videos
    that were not politics or wuhan coronavirus related. For a few days, my
    feed cleaned up but, after about a week, nearly half of the first 10 videos recommended would be about 1 or both of the 2.

    They profit from views, and they keep people viewing by pissing them off or making them scared.

    Mik


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Sun Apr 18 10:53:00 2021
    I came across a recent Jim Jordan / Fauci interchange as part of
    a House subcomittee hearing. I haven't heard it all yet, but I
    noticed how Fauci avoided providing the means to "measure" when
    the time will be right to give people their freedoms back.


    I am a little surprised. You would think that "never" would be pretty easy
    to articulate. :(

    Mike


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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Mike Powell on Sun Apr 18 17:54:03 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Mike Powell to MARK HOFMANN on Sun Apr 18 2021 10:52 am

    I can't even watch stuff on YouTube without the virus shit popping up all over
    he damn place. The media is the virus.

    I did an experiment with YT where I watched and searched only for videos that were not politics or wuhan coronavirus related. For a few days, my feed cleaned up but, after about a week, nearly half of the first 10 videos recommended would be
    about 1 or both of the 2.

    They profit from views, and they keep people viewing by pissing them off or making them scared.

    Mik

    This.

    Pretty much the reason why I am so disconnected from the media nowadays. It is a fear factory, not
    a source of information.

    Youtube in particular is directly a criminal organization. They outed themselves when they banned
    Iker Jiménez' program, which as far as I know was as neutral as a scientific program can be, for
    having people who didn't follow the party line in it. Awesome. Not.

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to ARELOR on Mon Apr 19 10:03:00 2021
    Pretty much the reason why I am so disconnected from the media nowadays. It is
    fear factory, not
    a source of information.

    They've caused an incredible amount of trouble in this country over the
    past couple of years.

    Youtube in particular is directly a criminal organization. They outed themselv
    when they banned
    Iker Jim.nez' program, which as far as I know was as neutral as a scientific p
    gram can be, for
    having people who didn't follow the party line in it. Awesome. Not.

    I have not heard of him, but I know that they ban or demonitize many folks whose views contradict with their own by using sometimes vague and
    uncertain terms.

    Mike

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Mike Powell on Mon Apr 19 17:11:30 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Mike Powell to ARELOR on Mon Apr 19 2021 10:03 am


    I have not heard of him, but I know that they ban or demonitize many folks whose views contradict with their own by using sometimes vague and
    uncertain terms.


    I am not a fan of Iker myself. My information is that he runs scientific and divulgation programs under the disguise of conspiranoic documentaries. This means he will take an outrageous theme like UFOs and then do something serious with it (such as demonstrating why the last UFO story in some social media is bullshit).

    I think the Spanish government got angry at him because he started doing COVID and pandemic centric documentaries. Instead of "The unbeliveable case of the UFO" ones, he starded with "Is COVID a bioweapon?" styled ones. They kicked him out of TV and then out of Youtube. Probably more because of what the titles suggested than what the actual programs contained.


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to ARELOR on Tue Apr 20 11:12:00 2021
    I think the Spanish government got angry at him because he started doing COVID
    and pandemic centric documentaries. Instead of "The unbeliveable case of the UFO" ones, he starded with "Is COVID a bioweapon?" styled ones.

    I am not certain that this is not a valid question. :(

    Mike


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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Mike Powell on Thu Apr 22 06:02:44 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Mike Powell to ARELOR on Tue Apr 20 2021 11:12 am

    I think the Spanish government got angry at him because he started doing COVID
    and pandemic centric documentaries. Instead of "The unbeliveable case of t UFO" ones, he starded with "Is COVID a bioweapon?" styled ones.

    I am not certain that this is not a valid question. :(

    Mike


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    Now I wonder which conclussions did they reach in the programs. I think the opinion that the Spanish government was messing up big time was popular among attendants which is probably another thign that pissed the government off :-P

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mark Hofmann on Sun Apr 25 15:38:06 2021
    Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    I can't even watch stuff on YouTube without the virus shit
    popping up all over the damn place. The media is the virus.

    You're right. The media is nothing but an arm of the state these
    days. Did you see how Biden was the only world leader wearing a mask
    during a recent "climate change" (another tool of the left; climate
    change is natural but "man-made climate change" is nothing but folly)
    virtual summit? Hilarious.

    Anyone notice that all of these people who thought they were
    "vaccinated" are coming down with COVID-19 left and right? They
    figured out too late that they were lied to. It's also come out that
    people who have had COVID-19 already, like myself, should NOT get the
    "vaccine" due to a much higher risk of getting the "rare" (but
    becoming increasingly more common) clotting factor disorder associated
    with the "vaccine".

    If they want to be a test subject for an untested "vaccine", let them.
    Just don't bother me. I'm in the 10% that was, according to the
    government and media, that was supposed to have died after contracting
    the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Proved them wrong, didn't I?

    --Sean

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mark Hofmann on Sun Apr 25 15:41:08 2021
    Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    This is not ebola and in my particular circumstance, I'm not concerned.

    Washing your hands is orders of magnitude more effective against one contracting SARS-CoV-2 but to hear the government and media, you'd not
    know that. My case of COVID-19 was no worse than a nasty case of the
    flu (you notice no one gets colds or the flu anymore?).

    Less than 1% of the US population has died from a virus that has a
    99.6% full recovery rate and in that 1%, less than 1% died from the
    virus itself but instead died of other existing underlying conditions.

    More people are dying from suicide and domestic abuse than COVID-19.
    The government and media don't want you to know that.

    -- Sean

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to August Abolins on Sun Apr 25 18:21:10 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Mark Hofmann <=-

    I came across a recent Jim Jordan / Fauci interchange as part of
    a House subcomittee hearing. I haven't heard it all yet, but I
    noticed how Fauci avoided providing the means to "measure" when
    the time will be right to give people their freedoms back.

    When he stops making money off of a crisis he helped create.

    -- Sean

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mark Hofmann on Sun Apr 25 18:22:12 2021
    Mark Hofmann wrote to August Abolins <=-

    The truth is the governments don't want to give any
    freedoms back. They love the power and control, which is
    the most dangerous thing I have seen in my lifetime.

    When the people realize the government works for them and not the
    other way around, it will stop. But Americans have been lulled into a
    false sense of security, lacking any critical thinking skills and not
    knowing how to question authority.

    -- Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mike Powell on Sun Apr 25 18:23:14 2021
    Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

    I am a little surprised. You would think that "never" would be pretty easy to articulate. :(

    It is sad.

    -- Sean

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Sun Apr 25 20:23:00 2021
    Hello Sean Dennis!

    ** On Sunday 25.04.21 - 15:41, Sean Dennis wrote to Mark Hofmann:

    Washing your hands is orders of magnitude more effective..

    Less than 1% of the US population has died from a virus
    that has a 99.6% full recovery rate..

    More people are dying from suicide and domestic abuse than
    COVID-19. The government and media don't want you to know
    that.

    I posted this in another net, but here it is for the micro
    crowd:

    Originally in fsx_gen:
    ** On Saturday 24.04.21 - 00:30, Adept wrote to Ogg:

    To be fair, the cardiovascular degradation aspects of COVID
    are pretty scary. And, honestly, are the primary reason why
    COVID concerns me, rather than the immediate death risk.

    Most people of the public are in very bad shape. The modest
    clinicals trials only used fit and healthy people.

    It'll be interesting to see what data we can get out of
    this, as I assume it'll be messy.

    I am not interested in being part of that data in the global
    experiment.

    Quoting from..

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140- 6736(21)00762-5/fulltext

    "In a population of 5 million people (ie, size matching the
    approximate number of people having received the Oxford-
    AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Europe by March 10, 20214 ),
    this incidence would correspond to approximately 169 expected
    cases of venous thromboembolism per week, or 736 expected cases
    per month (if based on the incidence rate among the 18-99-year-
    old Danes). Similarly, if estimated based on the incidence rate
    among 18-64-year-old Danes, one would expect 91 cases of venous
    thromboembolism per week, or 398 cases per month."

    BUT, in a recent news story on TV tonight, one news organization
    decided to claim this statistic: that out of 1.1 million cases,
    only 4 where reported with blood clots.

    The LANCET continues..

    "We are, however, aware that although a substantial fraction of
    the thromboembolisms seem to be venous, reports are emerging of
    rare types of multiple thrombosis, bleeding, and
    thrombocytopenia, apparently similar to disseminated
    intravascular coagulation, occurring in otherwise healthy
    individuals shortly after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca
    COVID-19 vaccine."

    The TV news organization touted the predictable line: "the
    benefits still outweigh the risks"

    But they don't quote the whole line:

    "the EMA concluded that 'benefits still outweigh the risks
    despite possible link to rare blood clots with low blood
    platelets'"

    Considering that the success rate to fight covid naturally is
    98%, and the possibility to catch it is pretty low if avoiding
    gatherings and washing hands, I would rather take that chance
    than purposely introducing something into my body and then live
    in real fear of the thrombosis risk or any yet unknown risks.

    It is outrageous for the public message to be "the benefits
    still outweigh the risks" for drugs that are not FDA approved
    and for the manufacturers to have indemnity. The only ones who
    benefit are the manufactures.

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Sun Apr 25 20:40:00 2021
    Hello Sean Dennis!

    ** On Sunday 25.04.21 - 15:38, Sean Dennis wrote to Mark Hofmann:

    Anyone notice that all of these people who thought they
    were "vaccinated" are coming down with COVID-19 left and
    right? They figured out too late that they were lied to.
    It's also come out that people who have had COVID-19
    already, like myself, should NOT get the "vaccine" due to a
    much higher risk of getting the "rare" (but becoming
    increasingly more common) clotting factor disorder
    associated with the "vaccine".

    I haven't heard that reporting. All we get here (in Canada) is
    that there are *new* "cases". But of those cases how many are
    people who have been vaccinated? No information.

    If they want to be a test subject for an untested
    "vaccine", let them. Just don't bother me. I'm in the 10%
    that was, according to the government and media, that was
    supposed to have died after contracting the SARS-CoV-2
    virus. Proved them wrong, didn't I?

    Haven't heard about that 10% figure. Back in Nov-Dec 2019 the
    hospitals didn't seem concerned. We were just among the bunch of
    people with a flu. But.. how do we (you and I) reconcile the
    increase of covid positive people in ICU? We can't really deny
    that whatever version of flu these people have, it can be
    deadly.

    Take a quick listen to this fellow. He's the Executive Director
    at https://www.constitutionalrightscentre.ca/ ..and he has a few
    things to say about covid measures. This one is an excerpt from
    a longer newsletter:

    https://kolico.ca/mpg/Your-Rights-to-Decline-Mandatory-Covid-Measures-EXCERPT-Q3wWxJ5L9Pk.mp4

    OR... https://tinyurl.com/d6jjxsdv

    ADVANCE to about 9:50 for the "Summary"

    In it he mentions the ill applied PCR test that is being used to
    detect "cases". I learned about the PCR problem about 3 months
    ago.

    The full episode is: https://youtu.be/Q3wWxJ5L9Pk at about 42 minutes.


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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Sean Dennis on Mon Apr 26 04:58:15 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Sean Dennis to Mark Hofmann on Sun Apr 25 2021 03:38 pm

    Anyone notice that all of these people who thought they were
    "vaccinated" are coming down with COVID-19 left and right? They
    figured out too late that they were lied to. It's also come out that
    people who have had COVID-19 already, like myself, should NOT get the "vaccine" due to a much higher risk of getting the "rare" (but
    becoming increasingly more common) clotting factor disorder associated
    with the "vaccine".

    I have mentioned in FSXNet that we got a patient in the clinic who was vaccinated, then got an antibodies test with sufficient time, and showed up not to have antibodies. The plural of anecdote is not data, but this comes to show that being vaccinated does not make you invulnerable.

    I am surprised nobody asnwered to that message over there. I suspect they have put me in a twit filter or something :-P

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  • From Steve Wolf@618:250/1 to Arelor on Mon Apr 26 07:37:22 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Arelor to Sean Dennis on Mon Apr 26 2021 04:58 am

    Anyone notice that all of these people who thought they were
    "vaccinated" are coming down with COVID-19 left and right? They
    figured out too late that they were lied to. It's also come out that
    people who have had COVID-19 already, like myself, should NOT get the

    There's talk of a third injection being neccesary.

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  • From Brian Klauss@618:300/38 to Mike Powell on Tue May 4 07:35:00 2021
    Mike Powell wrote to BRIAN KLAUSS <=-

    My oldest daughter's company is offering a day of PTO if they get their COVID-19 vax. Forcing their staff to show proof violates HIPPA and a
    few other privacy laws. The vax should not be forced on anyone.

    Are they forcing them to prove they got it? If so I agree. My
    employer is not forcing us to prove it to get leave time for it. I suspect they have access to check it if they suspect we didn't,
    though.

    From what it sounds like, yes. I'm not a fan of companies forcing their employees to get vaccinated but I'm also under the opinion that people
    should be able to work from home if their job / position makes it
    possible (and precluding them from getting the vaccine if they desire).

    From what it sounds like, it could even be an every 6 months thing
    since, unlike flu, it is not seasonal.

    It sounds like a big waste of time. I haven't gotten mine yet and I
    keep going back and forth. I'm not a fan of feeling like I got ran over
    by a train then hit by a bus just for six months of "immunity".


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  • From Brian Klauss@618:300/38 to August Abolins on Tue May 4 07:37:00 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Brian Klauss <=-

    My oldest daughter's company is offering a day of PTO if
    they get their COVID-19 vax. Forcing their staff to show
    proof violates HIPPA and a few other privacy laws. The vax
    should not be forced on anyone.

    In Canada, a forced vaccination to maintain employment, is unconstitutional.

    America... land of the free, home of the brave, ignorance of the
    Constitution.

    little experiment: if you interact with a lot of people during
    your days, be diligent about avoiding to touch your face with
    your hands, wash your hands often, ..and see if you can avoid
    *any* flu or cold for the next year.

    I've caught myself touching my face without thinking so many times I
    gave up counting. This past year, with wearing a mask, my wife and I
    avoided colds and flus. It was pretty nice.


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to MARK HOFMANN on Tue May 4 13:35:00 2021
    Of course the media and politicians want to keep this going forever, so they wi
    l say you need vaccines forever. Even though there has not been a single prove
    case of anyone getting this more than once. And it has been around longer than
    reported, that I can assure you.

    I have heard reports of people getting it again, but I wonder if it is not
    just people who never completely got over it the first time. A work-friend lost a parent like that... he got better and seemed just fine, then took a
    real quick turn and passed quickly after.

    China made this in a lab and accidentally let it out. All the people involved >ave disappeared as happpens often in China and places where the government runs
    everything.

    That would not surprise me, especially the disappeared part. People who
    think a government that runs everything is good don't realize that not
    everyone wants to give up freedom and for a government to stay that much in control they have to be forced to.


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to BRIAN KLAUSS on Tue May 4 13:38:00 2021
    From what it sounds like, it could even be an every 6 months thing since, unlike flu, it is not seasonal.

    It sounds like a big waste of time. I haven't gotten mine yet and I
    keep going back and forth. I'm not a fan of feeling like I got ran over
    by a train then hit by a bus just for six months of "immunity".


    Everyone is different. My sister had a bad reaction to both shots but says
    she is glad she did it. I did not have much of a reaction at all, and I suspect part of mine with the first shot was nerves. The pain in the
    muscle where I got the shot was the worst I have ever experienced with a
    shot (worse even than getting stung by a yellow-jacket) but that was the
    worse side-effect I experienced.


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Mike Powell on Tue May 4 20:23:00 2021
    Hello Mike Powell!

    ** On Tuesday 04.05.21 - 13:38, Mike Powell wrote to BRIAN KLAUSS:

    Everyone is different. My sister had a bad reaction to
    both shots but says she is glad she did it. I did not have
    much of a reaction at all, and I suspect part of mine with
    the first shot was nerves. The pain in the muscle where I
    got the shot was the worst I have ever experienced with a
    shot (worse even than getting stung by a yellow-jacket) but
    that was the worse side-effect I experienced.

    Why would someone get such uncomfortable and troubling
    reactions? Is that because one's immune system is already
    pretty weak? I would think it is not wise to inflict one's body
    with a highly experimental drug for a primarily non-lethal
    virus.
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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Brian Klauss on Tue May 4 20:43:00 2021
    Hello Brian Klauss!

    ** On Tuesday 04.05.21 - 07:35, Brian Klauss wrote to Mike Powell:

    From what it sounds like, it could even be an every 6
    months thing since, unlike flu, it is not seasonal.

    It sounds like a big waste of time. I haven't gotten mine
    yet and I keep going back and forth. I'm not a fan of
    feeling like I got ran over by a train then hit by a bus
    just for six months of "immunity".

    If your body attains a bad reaction to something, then to me it
    would follow not to take that something. I am disgusted at the
    "benefits outweigh the risks" mantra. For who's benefit is it?
    - probably more to the drug manufacturers and investors.

    Why would you take a dangerous experimental injection for a non-
    fatal illness?

    Anyone hear of any news about the Russian version - Sputnik? The
    news about that one seems to have gone dark.

    Reading the science about that one sounds very frankenscience
    for which the long-term effects are not known.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/gamaleya-covid- 19-vaccine.html

    "Gamaleya has announced that Sputnik V has an efficacy rate of
    91.4 percent, but has not yet published a scientific paper with
    the full details of the trial. "

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  • From August Abolins@618:510/1.1 to Brian Klauss on Tue May 4 21:02:00 2021
    Hello Brian Klauss!

    ** On Tuesday 04.05.21 - 07:37, Brian Klauss wrote to August Abolins:

    I've caught myself touching my face without thinking so
    many times I gave up counting. This past year, with wearing
    a mask, my wife and I avoided colds and flus. It was
    pretty nice.

    When you catch yourself doing that, try to wash your hands and
    face asap. You'll probably reduce the likelyhood of allowing
    and virii to enter your body from repeated touching to the face.

    DRs will tell you that a cold or flu virus spreads from coughing
    or sneezing. The whole notion that you can get covid-19 from
    people just breathing around you is a fear tactic they dreamt up
    later into the campaign.

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  • From Rob Mccart@618:250/1 to MIKE POWELL on Wed May 5 01:10:00 2021
    This isn't aimed at any one person and some people you won't change their thinking no matter what you say but I wanted to make a few points.

    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going or to give people Vaccines they don't need given the many millions of dollars spent in support
    of the sick and the loss in tax revenues with many businesses operating at a fraction of their normal capacity or not at all.

    Because we had a death due to blood clots in Quebec, Canada recently, they
    gave out the actual numbers. Out of 650,000 Astra Zeneca shots given, they had 3 cases of blood clots with one death. If 650,000 people got Covid, even at
    the very conservative 1% death rate, that could mean 6500 people dead, not 1.

    Myself and my mother got the shot last week and other than some tenderness around the muscle at the injection site, there were no ill effects.
    My sister got it 2 weeks ago and had headaches for 2 or 3 days and was
    nauseous for part of one day, and then fine afterwards. She is not in great health and has immunity issues due to cancer treatments a few years back which might explain her stronger reaction. (These were all the Pfizer Vaccine)

    My niece said she was against the Vaccine after reading all the 'info' online. She is a school teacher and we just learned today that her, her husband and both of her children have tested positive for Covid, as has every child in the nursery school that her youngest attends. Hard to say where it started first but this is where it ended up. Fortunately, so far, none of her family is very sick, not a huge surprise since they are all young and healthy and we all know that 80% of people who get it hardly know they have it.

    I understand that it might sound like a good idea to let it run rampant and
    get it over with but, in the USA, that would mean, conservatively, you'd be looking at 3.4 million dead.. and BTW, someone said something about more
    deaths due to drug overdoses than from Covid.. Latest figures I have say that in 2019 70,630 people died from drug overdoses in the USA. Let's not assume everyone will get Covid and just look at the current total in the USA of over 580,000 dead and you can see where things were headed prior to the Vaccine.

    I hate wearing a mask and I hate that my shopping is difficult or restricted due to the Covid rules. If it were up to me, I'd take my chances and just be a little careful of close contact, but I don't think it would be fair for me to take my chances and possibly bring it home with me to infect others.

    I'll do whatever I can to try to stop it from spreading and maybe if everyone does that then it will die out like all the other Pandemics a little sooner.

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Wed May 5 13:16:00 2021
    Everyone is different. My sister had a bad reaction to
    both shots but says she is glad she did it. I did not have
    much of a reaction at all, and I suspect part of mine with
    the first shot was nerves. The pain in the muscle where I
    got the shot was the worst I have ever experienced with a
    shot (worse even than getting stung by a yellow-jacket) but
    that was the worse side-effect I experienced.

    Why would someone get such uncomfortable and troubling
    reactions? Is that because one's immune system is already
    pretty weak? I would think it is not wise to inflict one's body
    with a highly experimental drug for a primarily non-lethal
    virus.

    I really cannot answer that. The Hep-A shots I got a couple of years back
    left my arm a little sore also, but this one was worse. If I had
    side-effects like my sister did, I don't think I would consider getting it again.

    Mike


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to ROB MCCART on Wed May 5 15:25:00 2021
    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going or to give people Vaccines they don't need given the many millions of dollars spent in support of the sick and the loss in tax revenues with many businesses operating at a fraction of their normal capacity or not at all.

    I don't really see how, either, but that could be why I wouldn't make a
    good politician or despot. :)

    Myself and my mother got the shot last week and other than some tenderness around the muscle at the injection site, there were no ill effects.
    My sister got it 2 weeks ago and had headaches for 2 or 3 days and was nauseous for part of one day, and then fine afterwards. She is not in great health and has immunity issues due to cancer treatments a few years back which
    might explain her stronger reaction. (These were all the Pfizer Vaccine)

    Was that your first or second? I got my second 2-3 weeks ago and seem to
    be just fine. No real ill effects, and the first was worse than the second.

    My niece said she was against the Vaccine after reading all the 'info' online.
    She is a school teacher and we just learned today that her, her husband and both of her children have tested positive for Covid, as has every child in the
    nursery school that her youngest attends. Hard to say where it started first but this is where it ended up. Fortunately, so far, none of her family is very
    sick, not a huge surprise since they are all young and healthy and we all know
    that 80% of people who get it hardly know they have it.

    My father's wife doesn't want to get it. One of her daughters is an
    anti-vaxer and told her she couldn't see her grandkids if she got it
    because the daughter is afraid she could bring it to them without knowing
    she has it if she's been vaxed. That, or she thinks being vaxed means you
    can make other sick. Not sure.

    Some people have reservations and I can respect that. I can't help feel
    like I am part of someone's science project, but that is what happens when
    a previously-unseen virus becomes so prevalent.

    I hate wearing a mask and I hate that my shopping is difficult or restricted due to the Covid rules. If it were up to me, I'd take my chances and just be a
    little careful of close contact, but I don't think it would be fair for me to take my chances and possibly bring it home with me to infect others.

    I don't have to worry about bringing it home to someone, but I do if I want
    to visit my folks. Mom and Dad both got shot, so I am hoping we are all covered. I got it for that reason and that I suspect they will eventually
    cut us off from working from home.

    Also, here, it is difficult to maintain social distancing because people
    here like to get into your personal space. We may never get to where we
    cannot wear masks. As long as the shot doesn't make me sick, it cannot
    hurt me as much as the people around me could.

    I'll do whatever I can to try to stop it from spreading and maybe if everyone does that then it will die out like all the other Pandemics a little sooner.

    I hope so. I try to also. Someone reminded me the other day that the
    Spanish Flu lasted about 3-4 years so, at that rate, we may not be quite half-way through this yet.

    Mike


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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Mike Powell on Wed May 5 17:48:44 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Mike Powell to ROB MCCART on Wed May 05 2021 03:25 pm

    I don't have to worry about bringing it home to someone, but I do if I want to visit my folks. Mom and Dad both got shot, so I am hoping we are all covered. I got it for that reason and t
    I suspect they will eventually
    cut us off from working from home.


    It seems that you may be carrying the virus even if you are immune, and given immunity is far from perfect, I don't
    think being vaccinated is a carte blanche to ignore precautions. So keep beeing careful if you are concerned about
    spreading it.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Rob Mccart on Wed May 5 17:59:08 2021
    Re: Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Rob Mccart to MIKE POWELL on Wed May 05 2021 01:10 am

    This isn't aimed at any one person and some people you won't change their thinking no matter what you say but I
    wanted to make a few points.

    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going or to give people Vaccines they don't need given the
    many millions of dollars spent in support
    of the sick and the loss in tax revenues with many businesses operating at a fraction of their normal capacity o
    not at all.


    Spanish government took over the autonomic system. In US terms, that is like Washington overriding the Federal
    system invoking martial law, except no military display.

    They have been doing a bunch of things taking advantage of the fact they have emergency powers to do stuff that has
    nothing to do with the virus. The government has taken no "profit" but a bunch of its members have tried for sure
    :-)

    The point is that governments are made of people, and people are suckers that will sell their grandmothers for a
    shot of bourbon. I don t think the virus was released so some lab could sell vaccines or anything like that, but
    you can bet a whole lot of people bribed yet another lot of people in order to secure distribution deals for
    equipment, hidroalcoholics, vaccines and such. Heck, here they used to bribe officers in order to secure
    distribution deals for paper _sheets_.



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  • From August Abolins@618:510/1.1 to Arelor on Wed May 5 23:30:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Wednesday 05.05.21 - 17:48, Arelor wrote to Mike Powell:

    It seems that you may be carrying the virus even if you are
    immune, and given immunity is far from perfect, I don't
    think being vaccinated is a carte blanche to ignore
    precautions. So keep beeing careful if you are concerned
    about spreading it.

    It's funny how "they" talk about how dangerous asymptomatic
    people are for spreading the virus, but fail to mention that the
    virus does NOT live in your body (without causing symtoms)
    forever, nor do they mention that a flu/cold virus spreads by
    sneezing or coughing. If you are not sneezing or coughing, and
    have no sysmptoms, you are at LOW risk of spreading anything.

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to ARELOR on Thu May 6 15:58:00 2021
    It seems that you may be carrying the virus even if you are immune, and given munity is far from perfect, I don't
    think being vaccinated is a carte blanche to ignore precautions. So keep beein
    careful if you are concerned about
    spreading it.

    I shall be. :)


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  • From Rob Mccart@618:250/1 to MIKE POWELL on Fri May 7 00:56:00 2021
    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going or to give peopl
    >> Vaccines they don't need given the many millions of dollars spent in suppor
    >> of the sick and the loss in tax revenues with many businesses operating at
    >> fraction of their normal capacity or not at all.

    I don't really see how, either, but that could be why I wouldn't make a
    >good politician or despot. :)

    To be fair, as someone else said, whenever disaster strikes there will always be people who will find a way to profit from it.

    This one is confusing though. Several governments are trying to talk or force the vaccine makers into letting poorer countries manufacture it and pay them nothing. I'm all for trying to help people out, and dead against big Pharma ripping people off on drugs they can't survive without, but I still think they should make some money on things they produce. Maybe a more fair idea would
    be to give them a number of years to repay a certain amount per dose instead
    of asking them to pay right now in super hard times.

    Myself and my mother got the shot last week and other than some tenderness
    >> around the muscle at the injection site, there were no ill effects.
    >> My sister got it 2 weeks ago and had headaches for 2 or 3 days and was
    >> nauseous for part of one day, and then fine afterwards. She is not in great
    >> health and has immunity issues due to cancer treatments a few years back wh
    >> might explain her stronger reaction. (These were all the Pfizer Vaccine)

    Was that your first or second?

    That was our first. They say it may take up to 4 months to get an appointment for a second dose but I'm hoping increases in supply will lessen that wait.

    My father's wife doesn't want to get it. One of her daughters is an
    >anti-vaxer and told her she couldn't see her grandkids if she got it
    >because the daughter is afraid she could bring it to them without knowing
    >she has it if she's been vaxed. That, or she thinks being vaxed means you
    >can make other sick. Not sure.

    That's unfortunate. As I understand it the vaccine does not totally stop you from getting Covid, but it lessens the chance and lessens the symptoms so it's less likely you will spread it around or land in the hospital yourself.

    Some people have reservations and I can respect that. I can't help feel
    >like I am part of someone's science project, but that is what happens when
    >a previously-unseen virus becomes so prevalent.

    This is true, but we are seeing how well doing nothing worked so all we can do is hope that the vaccine helps reduce things.
    There are areas that with a decent precentage of people vaccinated are seeing reductions in new cases of 60% or better so, it may not be perfect, but it seems to be helping.

    I don't have to worry about bringing it home to someone, but I do if I want
    >to visit my folks. Mom and Dad both got shot, so I am hoping we are all
    >covered. I got it for that reason and that I suspect they will eventually
    >cut us off from working from home.

    So you are working from home at the moment?
    I'm surviving Covid better than most because I live alone most of the year and see no one other than on my shopping run, one day every 2 weeks, so I've sort of been living in Quarantine for years now.. B)

    I spend winters with my mother who can't manage on her own once the snow
    starts flying and such, plus with Covid around she hasn't left the house in
    the past year other than for doctor's appointments so I'm doing everything
    that she needs done outside of the home for over a year now. Before Covid I would take her shopping for her own groceries but now she doesn't get any sort of outings at all.

    Also, here, it is difficult to maintain social distancing because people
    >here like to get into your personal space. We may never get to where we
    >cannot wear masks. As long as the shot doesn't make me sick, it cannot
    >hurt me as much as the people around me could.

    Yes, that's rough. Where I am the people are all being fairly cautious and the population is low. Right now with the 3rd wave running rampant, in the health district where I live (about 44,000 people), we are getting about one new case a day, about 139 since the very start, 1 person is in hospital with it at the moment, and a single death since the start, a woman who had serious health issues before she caught Covid.

    I hope so. I try to also. Someone reminded me the other day that the
    >Spanish Flu lasted about 3-4 years so, at that rate, we may not be quite
    >half-way through this yet.

    I just read: It ran from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people - about a third of the world's population at the time.

    I didn't realise it took that long for it to burn itself out.

    Why can't we find perfect cures for these things in a few hours or days like they always did on Star Trek? B)

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  • From Rob Mccart@618:250/1 to ARELOR on Fri May 7 00:57:00 2021
    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going or to give
    >> people Vaccines they don't need given the many millions of dollars spent
    >> in support of the sick and the loss in tax revenues with many businesses
    >> operating at a fraction of their normal capacity or not at all.


    Spanish government took over the autonomic system. In US terms, that is like
    >shington overriding the Federal
    >system invoking martial law, except no military display.

    They have been doing a bunch of things taking advantage of the fact they have
    >ergency powers to do stuff that has
    >nothing to do with the virus. The government has taken no "profit" but a bunc
    >f its members have tried for sure
    >:-)

    Yes, there will always be people like that. Hopefully I'm not wearing blinders but, from the few that end up getting caught, I *think* we have a little less of that here in Canada than in many countries.
    Usually the biggest complaint here is over high taxes to support our universal health care, which is not perfect but is not bad, and I think this is one of the better countries to live in if you are lower income. Again it's never perfect, but it could be worse, and seems to be in a lot of other places..

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Rob Mccart on Sat May 8 21:42:00 2021
    Hello Rob Mccart!

    ** On Wednesday 05.05.21 - 01:10, Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL:

    I understand that it might sound like a good idea to let it
    run rampant and get it over with but, in the USA, that
    would mean, conservatively, you'd be looking at 3.4 million
    dead..

    If people would just stay home when they develop symptoms of
    cold/flu then "it" wouldn't run rampant.

    The cold/flu spreads by coughing/sneezing. But if you have no
    symptoms, and you're not coughing/sneezing, you're NOT spreading
    anything.

    I hate wearing a mask and I hate that my shopping is
    difficult or restricted due to the Covid rules. If it were
    up to me, I'd take my chances and just be a little careful
    of close contact, but I don't think it would be fair for me
    to take my chances and possibly bring it home with me to
    infect others.

    There a couple of large chain grocery stores in my town. One of
    them stopped the endless wiping-down of the carts after each
    return. People just return the carts to the front door where
    they are typically stacked up, and the next person just takes
    what's there.

    I'll do whatever I can to try to stop it from spreading and
    maybe if everyone does that then it will die out like all
    the other Pandemics a little sooner.

    If the sick would stay home, "it" would die off before it gets a
    chance to keep spreading.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Sun May 9 09:23:13 2021
    Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: August Abolins to Rob Mccart on Sat May 08 2021 09:42 pm

    I understand that it might sound like a good idea to let it
    run rampant and get it over with but, in the USA, that
    would mean, conservatively, you'd be looking at 3.4 million
    dead..

    If people would just stay home when they develop symptoms of
    cold/flu then "it" wouldn't run rampant.


    If the pandemic has taught me anything,it is that people is even more irresponsible than I thought. Believe me, that is saying a whole lot.

    Here in Spain the Government encouraged protests during the start of the outbreak. I have heard from Asian people that some sutheast Asian countries believe we are a bunch of fools since then. I can't blame them.

    People has been partying hard, bars have been packed so full not a mouse could have moved between attendants.

    Infected people, upon knowing they were infected, just proceeded with their normal lives, which included partying hard and infecting other people, because fuck it.

    I think we haven't got half what we deserve yet.


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Arelor on Sun May 9 12:00:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Sunday 09.05.21 - 09:23, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

    If people would just stay home when they develop symptoms of
    cold/flu then "it" wouldn't run rampant.

    If the pandemic has taught me anything,it is that people is
    even more irresponsible than I thought. Believe me, that is
    saying a whole lot.

    Here in Spain the Government encouraged protests during the
    start of the outbreak. I have heard from Asian people that
    some sutheast Asian countries believe we are a bunch of
    fools since then. I can't blame them.


    I'm surprised to hear that your gov't would encourge protests!

    But.. hopefully, people who have colds/flus stay home. :/


    People has been partying hard, bars have been packed so
    full not a mouse could have moved between attendants.

    Hopefully a person who feels sick with a cold/flu wouldn't go
    out.

    Infected people, upon knowing they were infected, just
    proceeded with their normal lives, which included partying
    hard and infecting other people, because fuck it.

    I don't think I could drag myself out to party if I had a cold/
    flu. You spaniards much be crazy if you do! :D

    I think we haven't got half what we deserve yet.

    I'm not convinced that reported "cases" are all deadly. The
    vast majority of people survive this covid thing. Perhaps if
    it culls the partying idiots, then they are welcome to their
    Darwin Award (that is I assume you understand that reference?)

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to ROB MCCART on Sun May 9 13:21:00 2021
    This one is confusing though. Several governments are trying to talk or force the vaccine makers into letting poorer countries manufacture it and pay them nothing. I'm all for trying to help people out, and dead against big Pharma ripping people off on drugs they can't survive without, but I still think they
    should make some money on things they produce. Maybe a more fair idea would be to give them a number of years to repay a certain amount per dose instead of asking them to pay right now in super hard times.

    I agree. If they don't pay at all, someone else will, most likely poorer people in our countries.

    That's unfortunate. As I understand it the vaccine does not totally stop you from getting Covid, but it lessens the chance and lessens the symptoms so it's
    less likely you will spread it around or land in the hospital yourself.

    That is my understanding, and they are hoping the more who get it the less likely it will be able to mutate as quickly.

    So you are working from home at the moment?

    For the most part. I usually go in one day every week or two to take care
    of some things that are just easier to do in the office. There is rarely anyone else on my floor so it is similar to being at home.

    I just read: It ran from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people - about a third of the world's population at the time.

    OK, so what I read rounded it up a little... it was really just over two
    years.

    I didn't realise it took that long for it to burn itself out.

    Why can't we find perfect cures for these things in a few hours or days like they always did on Star Trek? B)

    Or just about any other TV show. :)

    Mike


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Mike Powell on Sun May 9 19:24:00 2021
    Hello Mike and Rob!

    ** On Wednesday 05.05.21 - 15:25, Mike Powell wrote to ROB MCCART:

    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going
    or to give people Vaccines they don't need given the many
    millions of dollars spent in support of the sick and the
    loss in tax revenues with many businesses operating at a
    fraction of their normal capacity or not at all.

    This is why the control aspect of the public seems to be the
    primary purpose of the project. This will be my 2yr of
    reporting losses in my biz. Meanwhile I have to manage to
    scrape by - somehow.

    ..My sister got it 2 weeks ago and had headaches for 2 or 3
    days and was nauseous for part of one day, and then fine
    afterwards. She is not in great health and has immunity
    issues due to cancer treatments a few years back which
    might explain her stronger reaction. (These were all the
    Pfizer Vaccine)

    I learned that it is NOT a good idea to take the jab if you
    have a compromised immused system, particularly if you have had
    cancer treatments (which kills the immune system either by xray
    or drugs). For a vaxx to be effective, you HAVE to have a
    functioning immune system. But if your body can't produce the
    anti-bodies that the jab is supposed to stimulate, the jab is
    useless. The contents of the jab could introduce extra problems
    that the body would be better off not fighting.

    My niece said she was against the Vaccine after reading all
    the 'info' online. She is a school teacher and we just
    learned today that her, her husband and both of her
    children have tested positive for Covid, as has every child
    in the nursery school that her youngest attends. Hard to
    say where it started first but this is where it ended up.
    Fortunately, so far, none of her family is very sick, not a
    huge surprise since they are all young and healthy and we
    all know that 80% of people who get it hardly know they
    have it.

    The tests themselves are not 100% definitive. The tests depend
    on how many "cycles" for the PCR technique is used in the lab.
    The higher the number of cycles, then they can find anything!

    Being tested positive, and having no symptons, could be a
    pretty good indicator that the test is wrong.

    My father's wife doesn't want to get it. One of her
    daughters is an anti-vaxer and told her she couldn't see
    her grandkids if she got it because the daughter is afraid
    she could bring it to them without knowing she has it if
    she's been vaxed. That, or she thinks being vaxed means
    you can make other sick. Not sure.

    Dear people. If you have no symptoms of cold/flu, and you are
    not sneezing or coughing, then you are not spreading anything
    to anyone. Meanwhile be wary of touching your hands to your
    face or someone elses face before you have a chance to wash
    them. But if you do have symptoms, and are coughing and
    sneezing, then stay home until you get better. Simple. No jab
    required.

    Some people have reservations and I can respect that. I
    can't help feel like I am part of someone's science
    project, but that is what happens when a previously-unseen
    virus becomes so prevalent.

    It *is* a science project, as well as a social one that has
    been politicized.

    I hate wearing a mask and I hate that my shopping is
    difficult or restricted due to the Covid rules. If it were
    up to me, I'd take my chances and just be a little careful
    of close contact, but I don't think it would be fair for me
    to take my chances and possibly bring it home with me to
    infect others.

    How would you take it home with you? If you can avoid people
    who are coughing and sneezing directly, that's probably 95% of
    the problem solved right there.

    One of the local shopping chains in my town has stopped the
    endless wiping-down of the shopping carts. The line-ups for
    the cashier are still paced and only one at a time while you
    wait in a queue "one shopping cart apart from the person in
    front of you".

    I don't have to worry about bringing it home to someone,
    but I do if I want to visit my folks. Mom and Dad both
    got shot, so I am hoping we are all covered. I got it for
    that reason and that I suspect they will eventually cut us
    off from working from home.

    You can still bring them any other kind of cold or flu - maybe
    even another variant of the original one that the jab is based
    on. The jab is not a shield.

    Also, here, it is difficult to maintain social distancing
    because people here like to get into your personal space.
    We may never get to where we cannot wear masks.

    Sure you can. If you or anyone else around you is not coughing
    or sneezing, then they are not spreading anything.

    As long as the shot doesn't make me sick, it cannot hurt
    me as much as the people around me could.

    That's the mantra they want you to believe. But those jab
    drugs are totally experimental and long-term conditions have
    not been identified.

    I'll do whatever I can to try to stop it from spreading and
    maybe if everyone does that then it will die out like all
    the other Pandemics a little sooner.

    If you feel sickly, stay home. If you are coughing or
    sneezing, stay home.

    I hope so. I try to also. Someone reminded me the other
    day that the Spanish Flu lasted about 3-4 years so, at
    that rate, we may not be quite half-way through this yet.

    Even in 1918 the importance of washing hands and avoiding
    touching face (eyes and mouth) may have not been stressed
    enough.

    I literally feel more sick of the lockdown measures and the
    restrictions of movement and the financial consequences that
    result of my not being able to earn a normal living with my biz
    than I would from having to cope with a flu that has a 99%
    survival rate.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Mon May 10 09:45:03 2021
    Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: August Abolins to Arelor on Sun May 09 2021 12:00 pm

    Here in Spain the Government encouraged protests during the
    start of the outbreak. I have heard from Asian people that
    some sutheast Asian countries believe we are a bunch of
    fools since then. I can't blame them.


    I'm surprised to hear that your gov't would encourge protests!

    But.. hopefully, people who have colds/flus stay home. :/


    The government encourages anti-system protests quite often. It is mind numbing.

    "Let's protest against police brutality" when your minister is the one commanding the police. No contradiction in such maneuvers. Ad for some reason nobody thinks it is weird.

    As for people getting infected and then carrying on with their lives as if nothing happened, we had a case of an old dude who got diagnosed with the virus and told to stay home. He took a plane to a beach location because he wanted to have some vacation, virus be damned. He got half the plane infected and then he died of the virus soon after arrival.

    Spain is different.

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  • From Rob Mccart@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon May 10 00:20:00 2021
    If people would just stay home when they develop symptoms of
    >cold/flu then "it" wouldn't run rampant.

    I suppose the only problem with that is that close to 80% of people who get it show no symptoms. It's true that they are less likely to spread it if they are not coughing and sneezing but you may have heard that people yelling at sporting events or singing in church were spreading it as effectively as those who had the more obvious symptoms.

    There a couple of large chain grocery stores in my town. One of
    >them stopped the endless wiping-down of the carts after each
    >return. People just return the carts to the front door where
    >they are typically stacked up, and the next person just takes
    >what's there.

    Yes, how thorough they are here at any of the stores is hit and miss as well. Fortunately it's a little harder to pick up the virus from surfaces than it is from droplets in the air. It's not impossible but it is less likely.

    If the sick would stay home, "it" would die off before it gets a
    >chance to keep spreading.

    In theory, if everyone in the world stayed home for 2 weeks, it would be gone by the end of that time. The only problem with that idea is the ones that
    came down with a severe case of it would have to be transported to hospital
    and that would cause extra exposures.

    Areas that had very high counts of Covid, such as in California, after a large percentage of the population had been vaccinated saw the new case numbers drop by over 60% in a few weeks, long before the vaccine even had time to be fully effective, which takes about 6 weeks. Likely a lot of those had only had a single shot which is more like 55% effective at best, so it sounds like the vaccine is working to some extent even on the newer Variants. It will take a while but it sounds like some progress is being made.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon May 10 14:32:00 2021
    Also, here, it is difficult to maintain social distancing
    because people here like to get into your personal space.
    We may never get to where we cannot wear masks.

    Sure you can. If you or anyone else around you is not coughing
    or sneezing, then they are not spreading anything.

    I don't think you are picturing it right. They stand close enough you can
    feel them breathing on you. Closer than I would like any stranger to be.
    If they could share the same space that I am in, they would. They have no sense of personal space or boundaries.

    You are thinking they actually stand a sneeze or cough apart... not so!

    I literally feel more sick of the lockdown measures and the
    restrictions of movement and the financial consequences that
    result of my not being able to earn a normal living with my biz
    than I would from having to cope with a flu that has a 99%
    survival rate.

    I can get that. If I owned a biz that depended on foot traffic, our state government would have put me out of business by now. That is, if I was a mom-and-pop. If I was a big-box, apparently my store is 100% safe.

    I didn't respond to a lot of your message because you seemed to be
    responding to things that Rob wrote.

    Mike

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  • From Mark Hofmann@618:100/12 to August Abolins on Mon May 10 19:58:16 2021
    I literally feel more sick of the lockdown measures and the
    restrictions of movement and the financial consequences that
    result of my not being able to earn a normal living with my biz
    than I would from having to cope with a flu that has a 99%
    survival rate.

    No doubt, there is absolutely no reason to continue to mandate masks around here anymore. There is plenty of vaccine and people have had plenty of time to get it if they want. At least some states in the US have long ditched it.

    Around here, that is the only real restriction left. Bars are packed, people are everywhere, and most people have moved on. The media and governments will keep it going for rating and power and control as long as possible, though. At least in the areas where there is big government.

    - Mark

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  • From August Abolins@618:510/1.1 to Arelor on Tue May 11 07:31:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Monday 10.05.21 - 09:45, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

    As for people getting infected and then carrying on with
    their lives as if nothing happened, we had a case of an old
    dude who got diagnosed with the virus and told to stay
    home. He took a plane to a beach location because he wanted
    to have some vacation, virus be damned. He got half the
    plane infected and then he died of the virus soon after
    arrival.

    Could it be possible that someone ELSE was already sick with
    flu too when they got on the plane? Is every case of infection
    only ONE person as a source? Perhaps not. So.. maybe it's not
    fair to scapegoat ONE old dude.

    Granted.. it was disrespectful to board a plane whilst ill.

    Spain is different.

    How did the case of all residents and careworkers dying in the
    care facility in Spain AFTER receiving the jab pan out?

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  • From Rob Mccart@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Tue May 11 00:52:00 2021
    I don't see how it 'profits' any gov't to keep Covid going
    > >> or to give people Vaccines they don't need given the many
    > >> millions of dollars spent in support of the sick and the
    > >> loss in tax revenues with many businesses operating at a
    > >> fraction of their normal capacity or not at all.

    This is why the control aspect of the public seems to be the
    >primary purpose of the project. This will be my 2yr of
    >reporting losses in my biz. Meanwhile I have to manage to
    >scrape by - somehow.

    I don't see the benefits of 'controling' people at a cost of Billions of dollars. I'd wager the governments want this to be over as quickly as possible so they can get back to ripping us off for the full amount of taxes.

    ..My sister got it 2 weeks ago and had headaches for 2 or 3
    > >> days and was nauseous for part of one day, and then fine
    > >> afterwards. She is not in great health and has immunity
    > >> issues due to cancer treatments a few years back which
    > >> might explain her stronger reaction.


    I learned that it is NOT a good idea to take the jab if you
    >have a compromised immused system

    I'm sure that's true to a point. The vaccine likely won't do you any harm, obviously we can't be certain at this point, but if you are in poor health, getting the virus will almost certainly land you in a hospital or a coffin.

    My niece said she was against the Vaccine after reading all
    > >> the 'info' online. She is a school teacher and we just
    > >> learned today that her, her husband and both of her
    > >> children have tested positive for Covid, as has every child
    > >> in the nursery school that her youngest attends.

    The tests themselves are not 100% definitive.

    No, they are not, especially the 'fast' tests. But they say from experience that a negative result is about 90% likely to be correct where a positive result is only about 60% correct, so retesting a positive is needed unless you just assume it's right and stay isolated for 2 weeks.
    Kids rarely show symptoms and my niece's husband finally came down with a
    fever and was feeling lousy so it definitely sounds like he has it.

    Being tested positive, and having no symptons, could be a
    >pretty good indicator that the test is wrong.

    They say that 80% of those who get it show almost no symptoms, but they can still spread it around to anyone else who gets close to them.

    Dear people. If you have no symptoms of cold/flu, and you are
    >not sneezing or coughing, then you are not spreading anything
    >to anyone.

    Less likely to spread it but they know that yelling and singing is almost as good as sneezing at spreading it to someone within 6 or 8 feet. Even talking
    is not all that safe. That said, tests have shown that a sneeze can spread it to about 17 feet, even over top of the isles in a grocery store.

    If it were
    > >> up to me, I'd take my chances and just be a little careful
    > >> of close contact, but I don't think it would be fair for me
    > >> to take my chances and possibly bring it home with me to
    > >> infect others.

    How would you take it home with you? If you can avoid people
    >who are coughing and sneezing directly, that's probably 95% of
    >the problem solved right there.

    That assumption is how it has spread as fast as it has. Do you really think these gatherings where hundreds of people come down with Covid a few days
    later were filled with people sneezing all over each other? Even those who don't want to be careful for themselves would likely avoid anyone who was obviously showing symptoms.

    I literally feel more sick of the lockdown measures and the
    >restrictions of movement and the financial consequences that
    >result of my not being able to earn a normal living with my biz
    >than I would from having to cope with a flu that has a 99%
    >survival rate.

    But a lot more than 1% end up in hospital for days or weeks costing someone thousands of dollars a day. It's not just the deaths that are a problem, plus it helps to now and then ask yourself what 1% of your countries population is and if that's a 'reasonable' price to pay to open things up too quickly.

    I feel for the regular people out there suffering financial difficulties on
    top of all the other issues. I'm retired so my pension incomes are not
    in danger, other than from the effect of prices going up fairly dramatically
    on a lot of items I have to purchase.

    Here they have been paying people about $2000 a month if they want to stay
    home because they 'don't feel safe at work'. It was a great idea but it's amazing how many have taken that to mean they have a paid vacation until the subsidies finally end. An auto repair place I use has lost 75% of their staff to this. How 'unsafe' is it to be fixing a car 15 feet from someone else working on another car? But you don't have to prove things are unsafe and it's illegal to replace or fire people off work for that reason, not to mention these people who felt unsafe at work can be found most days drinking in the local bars when we are not in total shutdown. Meanwhile the owner of the place is barely surviving due to a lack of business while customers have to wait
    6 to 8 weeks for an appointment because there are not enough mechanics
    working.
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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Tue May 11 10:21:17 2021
    Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: August Abolins to Arelor on Tue May 11 2021 07:31 am


    As for people getting infected and then carrying on with
    their lives as if nothing happened, we had a case of an old
    dude who got diagnosed with the virus and told to stay
    home. He took a plane to a beach location because he wanted
    to have some vacation, virus be damned. He got half the
    plane infected and then he died of the virus soon after
    arrival.

    Could it be possible that someone ELSE was already sick with
    flu too when they got on the plane? Is every case of infection
    only ONE person as a source? Perhaps not. So.. maybe it's not
    fair to scapegoat ONE old dude.


    Back then, we were starting so we actually were tracking cases, and I think it unlikely tht there was
    more people infected with covid other than the old dude.

    As for people dying in nursing homes and the like, there is radio silence in that front as far as I am
    aware. Which is weird because at least one nursing home had all the workers leave and abandon the old
    people in it to die during the first days of the outbreak. It was super-sucky.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Rob Mccart on Tue May 11 10:27:46 2021
    Re: Sinovac Vaccine
    By: Rob Mccart to AUGUST ABOLINS on Tue May 11 2021 12:52 am

    This is why the control aspect of the public seems to be the
    >primary purpose of the project. This will be my 2yr of
    >reporting losses in my biz. Meanwhile I have to manage to
    >scrape by - somehow.

    I don't see the benefits of 'controling' people at a cost of Billions of dollars. I'd wager the
    governments want this to be over as quickly as possible so they can get back to ripping us off for the
    full amount of taxes.


    "Governments" don't want anything. They are just groups of people. The individual members of the
    government are the ones who want things.

    I don't dispute it is in the best interest of most people for the pandemic to be over, and in fact it may
    also be of the best interest to most members of government. However, you can bet many members of
    government are making big bucks out of the crisis, or taking the chance to talk trash about other
    politicians, or (in Spain's case) take advantage of emergency powers to pass rules that would not make it
    in ordinary circumsptances.

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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Arelor on Wed May 12 21:13:00 2021
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Tuesday 11.05.21 - 10:21, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

    As for people dying in nursing homes and the like, there is
    radio silence in that front as far as I am aware. Which is
    weird because at least one nursing home had all the workers
    leave and abandon the old people in it to die during the
    first days of the outbreak. It was super-sucky.

    Any updates to this story:

    https://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/cadiz/sevi-brote-residencia- barrios-provoca-46-muertes-coronavirus-
    202102040941_noticia.html

    https://tinyurl.com/yzh4lsb9

    There were similar nursing home situations here in Ontario
    about a year ago, but that was before any vaxx available. The
    care-givers simply walked away leaving residents to dehydrate
    wallow in their own feces. The Canadian army was called in to
    do the best they could to help.
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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/0 to Mark Hofmann on Sat May 15 23:41:55 2021

    Hello Mark!

    18 Apr 21 10:23, you wrote to August Abolins:

    Unfortunately I don't see that happening in the US due to slo-moe-Joe
    - the meat puppet in there. The people controlling slo-moe Joe want
    to keep their power and control over everyone by keeping this going, keeping the media pumping out things to divide people, and making
    people think they need the government to "keep them safe". Pure crap.

    With our "commander-in-thief" pulling troops out of Israel, I could see WWIII happening within Biden's term. With China, Russia, and Iran taking advantage of the now week-kneed United States' foreign policy, the crap is going to hit the fan soon.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/0 to Arelor on Sun May 16 08:39:31 2021

    Hello Arelor!

    16 May 21 05:50, you wrote to me:

    Muslim fudamentalists are like sharks. They smell blood in the water
    and they know when somebody is weak enough to pray on him. Without dedicated support from the US they are bound to start messing in the Middle East.

    It's not just Muslim fundies. It's the Chinese. It's the Russians. Hell, even the Norks are getting their licks in insulting Biden. Combine that with our weak "allies" and it's a perfect recipe for war.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/0 to Mike Powell on Sun May 16 15:49:16 2021

    Hello Mike!

    16 May 21 09:56, you wrote to me:

    China with India and Taiwan
    Russia with the Ukraine/Crimea
    Iran/Hamas with Israel

    All of the above and more. Don't forget China's recent "invasion" of Africa.

    Yep, sure can see it. Funny considering the Bad Orange Man was no
    good with diplomacy, or so they said during the campaign...

    He just negotiated peace deals with Israel and the UAE (off the top of my head). No big deal.

    Democrats are big warhawks because of their dependency on the MIC.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/0 to Steve Wolf on Sun May 16 15:51:20 2021

    Hello Steve!

    16 May 21 11:02, you wrote to Arelor:

    Why the US? Why not Britain, Russia or even China? Why is it always
    the US? Let someone else fight those religious fanatic lunatics.

    Because it's in our national interest to keep terrorists out of our country. You may not realize it but Britain and Russia already are fighting malcontents and cooperating with us. It's in any free person's interest to work together to keep those lunatics at bay the best we can.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/0 to August Abolins on Sun May 16 15:53:36 2021

    Hello August!

    16 May 21 14:04, you wrote to Steve Wolf:

    Military size and diversity of toys?

    Believe it or not, Russia and China have larger militaries currently than the US because our commander-in-thief is spending the US military's budget elsewhere by paying off frenemies.

    Joe Biden is just Obama's third term.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/0 to Arelor on Sun May 16 15:55:16 2021

    Hello Arelor!

    16 May 21 14:54, you wrote to Steve Wolf:

    Because last time Russia had trouble with muslim fanatics they gassed
    a whole theatre and then burned a forest down with an helicopter
    strike in retaliation.

    You have to hand it to Russia: they don't fuck around when it comes to that stuff though it's with an overly heavy hand.

    And last time China had trouble with some muslim community, there was
    an "spontaneous folk uprising" and some muslim neighbourhoods were
    burnt to the ground.

    Same with China but I suspect they're even worse than Russia.

    UK and France have had (and are already having) their issues with
    domestic islamists, on the other hand.

    Most of their problems are self-inflicted by bleeding heart liberal governments letting everyone and their dog into their countries ... much like how Germany is now having "buyer's remorse" over its (lack of) immigration policies.

    Later,
    Sean


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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Rob Mccart on Sun Aug 15 19:37:00 2021
    Hello Rob Mccart!

    ** On Tuesday 11.05.21 - 00:52, Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

    I learned that it is NOT a good idea to take the jab if
    you have a compromised immused system

    I'm sure that's true to a point. The vaccine likely won't
    do you any harm, obviously we can't be certain at this
    point, but if you are in poor health, getting the virus
    will almost certainly land you in a hospital or a coffin.

    At a 98%+ recovery rate, that certainty isn't so certain as you
    may think.

    [...] and my niece's husband finally came down with a
    fever and was feeling lousy so it definitely sounds like
    he has it.

    Why not confirm that with a test that identifies the ant-bodies
    for it?


    Being tested positive, and having no symptons, could be a
    pretty good indicator that the test is wrong.

    They say that 80% of those who get it show almost no
    symptoms, but they can still spread it around to anyone
    else who gets close to them.

    ANYONE can still spread it, including the vaxx'd.


    Dear people. If you have no symptoms of cold/flu, and you
    are not sneezing or coughing, then you are not spreading
    anything to anyone.

    Less likely to spread it but they know that yelling and
    singing is almost as good as sneezing at spreading it to
    someone within 6 or 8 feet. Even talkingis not all that
    safe. That said, tests have shown that a sneeze can spread
    it to about 17 feet, even over top of the isles in a
    grocery store.

    That 17' may be a physical possibility with no inhibitions, but
    it would most likely be unrealistic. Most people would either
    stifle a sneeze internally, or cover up a sneeze.


    That assumption is how it has spread as fast as it has. Do
    you really think these gatherings where hundreds of people
    come down with Covid a few days later were filled with
    people sneezing all over each other?

    I have reservations on how the "cases" are determined and
    declared. It is entirely possible that the numbers that the
    media spews out are over-exaggeratted.


    I literally feel more sick of [...] my not being able to
    earn a normal living with my biz than I would from having
    to cope with a flu that has a 99% survival rate.

    But a lot more than 1% end up in hospital for days or
    weeks costing someone thousands of dollars a day. It's not
    just the deaths that are a problem, plus it helps to now
    and then ask yourself what 1% of your countries population
    is and if that's a 'reasonable' price to pay to open
    things up too quickly.

    Don't forget to add people who died from their not having the
    necessary surguries and hospital attention they needed for
    other ailments.

    I feel for the regular people out there suffering
    financial difficulties on top of all the other issues. I'm
    retired so my pension incomes are not in danger, [...]

    Right. At least you don't to worry whether you will have
    SOMETHING in your wallet every month. I had to scramble to
    reduce costs all across the board: lights off, heat off,
    hotwater-tank off, small coffe-room refrigerator off, etc..


    [...] other than from the effect of prices going up fairly
    dramatically on a lot of items I have to purchase.

    I am poised to rise prices (or at least not offer additional
    discounts) for people who work in the banking and credit card
    industries.


    Here they have been paying people about $2000 a month if
    they want to stay home because they 'don't feel safe at
    work'. It was a great idea but it's amazing how many have
    taken that to mean they have a paid vacation [...]

    Yes.. it's a mess.

    [...] An auto repair place I use has lost 75% of their
    staff to this. How 'unsafe' is it to be fixing a car 15
    feet from someone else working on another car?

    The subsidy programme are almost designed to be taken advantage
    of.

    [...] these people who felt unsafe at work can be found
    most days drinking in the local bars when we are not in
    total shutdown.

    Again.. people will find a way to get that $2000 whether they
    need it or not.


    Meanwhile the owner of the place is barely surviving due
    to a lack of business while customers have to wait 6 to 8
    weeks for an appointment because there are not enough
    mechanics working.

    I don't think the garages here were struggling. Maybe some
    scheduled repairs were delayed, but the garages have not been
    at the brink of bankruptcy or anything so serious. Employers
    with payroll received about 80% subsidies to help retain the
    employees they needed at any one time. Those large incorporated
    or limited companies qualified for 0% financing.
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    ../|ug

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