U.N. | We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge
that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the
plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips
with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to
many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's
economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where
there is a need for manual labour.
We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside
holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work
for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they
work so hard either in producing food for themselves in
subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in
exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were
not for the threat of hunger? More importantly, how many of us would
sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger?
When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the
factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who
work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap
labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.
The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying
jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves:
200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1
While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to
understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be
created. Who would have established massive biofuel production
operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry
people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? Who
would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people
would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates?
Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to
assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive.
That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people
who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical
activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that
work.
The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as
people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates
that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2
including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as
bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who
might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to
walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most
people who work are slaves to hunger?
For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger
globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who
would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work
in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to
produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the
high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us,
hunger is not a problem, but an asset.
thesaker.is | The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
continues analysing the military-biological activity of the USA and its
allies in Ukraine and other regions of the world in view of new
information received at the liberated territories
and at the branch offices of the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
that form a unified information network.
We have previously stated that the Ukrainian
project of the Pentagon do not meet the pertinent healthcare problems of
Ukraine, while their implementation has not led to any improvement of
the sanitary-epidemiological situation.
The special military operation has led to forming the final report on DTRA activity dated from 2005 to 2016.
The document contains the data on evaluation of
healthcare, veterinary and biosecurity system efficiency prepared by a
group of U.S. experts in 2016.
This report is a concept document designed for
further planification of military-biological activity of the Pentagon in
Ukraine that contains conclusions on implementation of the programme
guidelines.
Despite the more than 10-year-long period of
cooperation in the alleged '...reduction of biological threats...', the
experts have stated:
'...There is no legislation on the control of
highly dangerous pathogens in the country, there are significant
deficiencies in biosafety... The current state of resources makes it
impossible for laboratories to respond effectively to public
health emergencies...'
The document emphasises that '...over the past five
years, Ukraine has shown no progress in implementing international
health regulations of the World Health Organisation'.
The report pays particular attention to
non-compliance with biosafety requirements when working and storing
microbial collections.
It has been stated '...that most facilities are
characterised by numerous gross violations, such as unlocked fencing
systems, unlatching windows, broken or inactive pathogen restriction
systems, lack of alarm systems...' The results of
the review conclude that there is no system for protecting dangerous
pathogens in Ukraine.
At the same time, the activities of the Defence
Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) have been assessed positively: the
organisation has managed to bring the national collection of
microorganisms to the United States, to organise biological assessment
work and to implement projects to study particularly dangerous and
economically significant infections that could cause a worsening
(changing) epidemic situation.
The report makes the case for continuing this work on behalf of the Pentagon that has cost more than $250 million since 2005.
The document is annexed with ambiguous comments
about the sponsors and implementers of the Biological Threat Reduction
Programme in Ukraine that have nothing to do with biosecurity issues. In
particular, the Soros Foundation is mentioned
with the notation '...contributed to the development of an open and
democratic society...'
It confirms again that the official activities of
the Pentagon in Ukraine are just a front for illegal military and
biological research.
We have repeatedly mentioned the role of U.S.
Democratic Party representatives in funding bioweapons activities in
Ukraine and the intermediary organisations that have been used for this
purpose.
I would like to refer to one of the key Pentagon contractors receiving money from Hunter Biden's investment fund, Metabiota.
The available data suggests that the company is
merely a front for internationally dubious purposes and is used by the
U.S. political elite to carry out opaque financial activities in various
parts of the world.
There is a specific example: Metabiota was involved
in the response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The activities of
the company's employees have raised questions from the World Health
Organisation (WHO) in terms of their compliance
with biosafety requirements.
This is the report of the international panel of
experts from the Haemorrhagic Fever Consortium who were involved in the
fight against Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone in 2015.
According to the document, Metabiota staff had
failed to comply with handling procedures and concealed the involvement
of Pentagon staff who were using the company as a front. The main
purpose of these activities was to isolate highly virulent
variants of the virus from sick and dead people, as well as to export
its strains to the USA.
In view of the apparent failure of Metabiota's
activities to meet the goals of controlling the spread of the disease,
the World Health Organisation's Ebola coordinator, Philippe Barbosa,
recommended to recall the staff of the company saying
he was extremely concerned about the potential risks of such
collaboration to WHO's reputation.
The U.S. military contractor's heightened interest
in the Ebola virus is not a coincidence: the disease is one of the most
pathogenic to humans. During the outbreak that began in 2014, 28,000
people were contaminated, over 11,000 of them
died, the mortality rate was around 40%.
The special military operation has led to receiving
documents that reveals the plans of Metabiota and the Ukrainian
Scientific-Technological Centre to study the Ebola virus in Ukraine.
This is the request for U.S. funding to diagnose
highly dangerous pathogens in Ukraine, including Ebola virus. This kind
of requests are part of U.S. strategy to redeploy high-risk work with
dangerous pathogens to third countries.
The research was to be carried out at the Mechnikov
Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa. As the disease is not endemic and has
never been recorded in Ukraine indeed, there is a legitimate question
about the need for such research and its true
purpose.
We have already noted that Ukraine and other
post-Soviet states have become a testing ground for biological weapons
not only for the USA, but also for its NATO allies; on the first place,
Germany. Various projects have been carried out
on behalf of the Joint Medical Service of the German Armed Forces.
Bundeswehr professionals paid particular attention
to the Congo-Crimean fever pathogen. A large-scale screening of the
susceptibility of the local population to this infection was carried out
and included summarising demographic, epidemiological
and clinical data. This kind of approaches allows to identify new
regional virus genotypes and to select strains that cause latent
clinical forms.
The study of natural foci of Crimean-Congo fever
was carried out under the pretext of improving the Ukrainian
epidemiological surveillance system, with the participation of the
Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Kiev and the Mechnikov
Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa.
Bundeswehr's interest in Crimean-Congo fever stems
from the fact that mortality can be as high as 30% and its outbreaks
create a need for lengthy and costly treatment, preventive and special
handling measures.
This is a quote from Bundeswehr's instructions:
'...pay particular attention to fatal cases of infection with
Crimean-Congo fever as it allows the virus strains with maximum
pathogenicity and virulence for humans to be extracted from the
dead individuals...'
Apart from Germany, microbiologists from the USA
have shown a keen interest in tick-borne infections; research in this
area has been funded by DTRA through the UP-1 and UP-8 projects.
A separate project on ixodid ticks that are vectors
of a number of highly dangerous infections (tularemia, West Nile fever,
Congo-Crimean fever) has been implemented by the University of Texas.
Ticks used to be collected in the south-eastern
regions of Ukraine, where natural foci of infections characteristic of
the territory of the Russian Federation are located. At the same time,
the period of implementing this work coincided
with a rapid increase in the incidence of tick-borne borreliosis among
the Ukrainian population, as well as the increase in the number of ticks
in various regions of Russia bordering Ukraine.
This issue is being studied by competent Russian
professionals in coordination with professionals from the Ministry of
Defence of Russia.
We have previously pointed out the significance of
the results of the military-biological projects codenamed UP for the
Pentagon.
Note the report prepared for the U.S. Defence
Department by Black & Veatch and Metabiota. According to the
document, Veterinary Projects codenamed 'TAP' were implemented
simultaneously with the UP projects in Ukraine.
Their main guideline lies in economically
significant quarantine infections capable of damaging the agriculture of
several countries and entire regions, such as glanders, African swine
fever (ASF), classical swine fever, highly pathogenic
avian influenza and Newcastle disease.
African swine fever with two projects dedicated to this pathogen represented particular interest to U.S. military biologists.
The TAP-3 project was aimed to study the spread of
ASF pathogen through wild animals. The migration routes of wild boar
through Ukraine had been examining within its framework. The TAP-6
project scaled this process up to Eastern European
countries.
The study of vector populations of dangerous
zoonotic infections was carried out by staff of the Institute of New
Pathogens of the University of Florida (Gainesville) in Volyn, Rovno,
Zhitomir and Chernigov regions of Ukraine, as well as
in the areas bordering Belarus and Russia.
Note the worsening situation of African swine fever
in Eastern European countries: According to the International Office of
Epizootics, since 2014, outbreaks have been recorded in Latvia (4,021
cases), Estonia (3,814) and Lithuania (4,201).
In Poland, more than 13,000 cases of ASF have been detected, and
agricultural losses from the disease have exceeded 2.4 billion euro.
We have already emphasised the use of biological
weapons in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, I would like to focus on
U.S. military-biological activities during the Korean War.
In March 2022, the U.S. Army Strategic Studies
Institute published a report on the U.S. chemical and biological weapons
programme during the Korean War. This report was aimed to create a
possible line of defence against allegations of illegal
activities carried out by U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine.
The document attempts to refute the testimony of 38
U.S. military pilots who have admitted using biological weapons in
China and Korea.
According to the document, while preparing for the
Korean campaign, '...the U.S. Air Force secured additional funds to
purchase large quantities of chemical and biological munitions, obtained
a testing range for them in Canada and carried
out an extensive conceptual work on their use...'
At that time, the Americans considered brucellosis
pathogens and economically important infections, including wheat stem
rust, as priority biological agents. 2,500 munitions of this type the
U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command planned
to use, including '...to attack Soviet grain crops...'
Analysis of the data mentioned in the report shows
that the U.S. command uses the results of the research received from the
Japanese military-biological programme and a certain 'continuity' of
the works previously carried out by the Detachment
731 led by Shiro Ishii.
This is the record of the closed session of CIA,
State Department and the Pentagon representatives dated July 7, 1953.
The document clearly shows that the Americans are focusing on techniques
to manipulate public opinion and launch an aggressive
counter-attack within their strategies aimed to defend from
allegations.
The report states that the officials are reluctant
to actual investigations of chemical and biological incidents due to
fears of revealing the activities carried out by the U.S. Eighth Army.
Thus, the comparative analysis of U.S. activities
during the Korean War and currently in Ukraine demonstrates the
persistence of the U.S. policy of building up its own military and
biological capabilities in circumvention of international
agreements.
In conclusion, I would like to present real data on
the health condition of the voluntarily surrendered Ukrainian
servicemen. This diapositive presents the data on presence of antibodies
to contagious disease agents without mentioning personal
data of these servicemen.
The results are as follows: 33% of the examined
servicemen had had hepatitis A, over 4% had renal syndrome fever and 20%
had West Nile fever. The figures are significantly higher than the
statistical average. In view of active research
of these diseases held by the Pentagon within the Ukrainian projects,
there is reason to believe that servicemen of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU) were involved as volunteers in experiments to assess the
tolerance of dangerous infectious diseases.
The lack of therapeutic effect of antibacterial
medication has been reported during in-patient treatment of AFU
servicemen in medical facilities. High concentrations of antibiotics,
including sulphonyl amides and fluoroquinolones, have
been detected in their blood.
This fact may indicate preventive use of
antibiotics and preparation of personnel for operating in conditions of
biological contamination, such as cholera agent, that indirectly proves
the information of the Russian Defence Ministry that
Ukrainian special units were planning to use biological agents.
The data will be included in the U.S. military-biological dossier and we will continue to examine it and keep you informed.
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"We will never be fully vaccinated against Covid-19."
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says Canadians need to be "up-to-date" on their vaccines, which he describes as getting the Covid vaccine every nine months. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/pjuPGbORQa
bombthrower | Despite increasingly compelling data and peer reviewed studies
coming out detailing the harms and side-effects of vaccinations,
Canada’s Liberal-Socialist coalition government is doubling down on
vaccinations, and appear ready to move the goalposts on what constitutes
vaccine compliance.
Canadians will be required to get a Covid shot every nine months for the foreseeable future, says Health Minister . Previous definitions of “fully vaccinated” made no sense, he told reporters.
“Nine months is very clear and will help people understand why
‘up to date’ is the right way to think about vaccination now,” said
Duclos. “‘Fully vaccinated’ makes no sense now. It’s about ‘up to
date.’ So am I up to date in my vaccination? Have I received a
vaccination in the last nine months?”
Duclos previously called for the provinces to make vaccinations mandatory and when asked by reporters if mandates would return this fall, he replied “We must continue to fight against Covid.”
Canada seems to be one of the few countries outside Communist China
who is frantically clinging to the COVID narrative, relentlessly pushing
largely ineffective (and arguably dangerous) vaccines on an
increasingly fed up population.
The Trudeau regime is increasingly unpopular, a recent Angus Reid poll
finding those who “strongly support” the government falling into single
digits. The largest single category was “strongly disapprove” at 41%, Reeling with numerous scandals, corruption and gaffes, Justin Trudeau
holds power solely through the merger of his party with the Canada’s
Socialist NDP, headed by millionaire Jagmeet Singh.
The deal ostensibly keeps him in office until 2025. Singh is also on the
ropes, frequently being jeered in public even among his base
constituency in Brampton, Ontario. His brother lost his seat in the
recent Ontario election, and Singh himself was run out of a campaign stop by enraged Sikhs who called him “a sell out”.
amidwesterndoctor |Most of the injuries I saw reported here overlapped with the ones I encountered and documented within my own adverse event log.
Additionally, there were dozens of respondents (primarily healthcare
workers) who had observed a large number of individuals with vaccine
injuries; meaning that my experience is not at all unique. The most
commonly reported injuries were as follows:
•Strokes and blood clots. •Fatal heart attacks and less frequently myocarditis or heart failure. •Cancers that often emerge spontaneously, shock the doctor, and were highly aggressive (frequently killing the individual). •Sudden severe cases of COVID-19. •Cases of sudden death (i.e. a wife heard a thump upstairs, ran up, and found her husband dead on the floor). •Rapid
progression towards dementia in an elder relative (typically resulting
in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, although in one case Lewy body
dementia occurred). •Other neurological conditions
One
thing I have noticed in reviewing reports of adverse reactions to
vaccines is that a large number of them go underreported (even within
these reporting surveys) because they represent common diseases people
develop rather than something very noteworthy. For example, I believe
new autoimmune diseases or exacerbation of pre-existing autoimmune
diseases are the most common adverse event that occurs following
vaccination, as that seems to be the case for around 20-40% of the
patients in many rheumatology practices (see this testimony for example) and this report of a survey conducted by the Israel ministry of health.
However,
despite this being the case, I only saw a few reports of autoimmune
conditions resulting from the mRNA vaccines within these survey
responses. This is relevant because adverse reactions always distribute
on a bell curve and the more extreme ones, therefore, are much rare than
the less severe. ones. This means the adverse reactions that are
noteworthy enough for someone to notice and share likely only represent
the tip of the iceberg for adverse events occurring. A recent article showing there has been a 10% spike in disability within the US population so
far is the best dataset I have come across to suggest something very
concerning on a more chronic level throughout the population is
happening.
Many of these cases were very sad, and it is
difficult to even begin to imagine what the survey respondents had gone
through during this process. Cancer is a particularly terrible disease
given the death process associated with it, and despite coming across
numerous cases of this happening, I was a bit surprised at how
frequently respondents reported these cases. I likewise can understand
why continually seeing these types of reports has motivated Steve Kirsch
to spend every waking moment he has to bring attention to this issue.
Other conditions were less commonly reported. I took particular note of the following:
•Seven
cases of liver failure (or something similar), along with additional
cases of cancers rapidly metastasizing to the liver and causing liver
failure. •Six Reports of Lou Gehrig's disease (also known as ALS) •Three Reports of Fatal Prion Diseases (two of which were specified to be CJD, the third most likely was as well). •A
few reports of birth defects in vital organs with ACE-2 receptors such
as the heart (it is harder to draw a correlation here since those
defects sometimes happen otherwise, but given that I know one case where
this almost certainly happened, I suspect these may have been linked as
well).
I learned a few major lessons from these reports.
The
first is that one respondent made it very clear he and another
individual had had a mild Covid infection they were dealing with, but
once they became vaccinated, the infection went out of control and
rapidly landed them in the hospital. I have been trying to come up with
an explanation for a while over why it is so common to see individuals
be vaccinated and then rapidly be hospitalized or died from severe
Covid. I now suspect that being vaccinated while you are infected alters
the immune response and makes COVID much more likely to progress
towards being a fatal condition. This is unfortunate because those
deaths are often used to justify the urgency of vaccinating.
ssrn | Introduction: In 2020, prior to COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Coalition
for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Brighton Collaboration created
a priority list, endorsed by the World Health Organization, of
potential adverse events relevant to COVID-19 vaccines. We leveraged the
Brighton Collaboration list to evaluate serious adverse events of
special interest observed in phase III randomized trials of mRNA
COVID-19 vaccines.
Methods: Secondary analysis of serious adverse
events reported in the placebo-controlled, phase III randomized
clinical trials of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
(NCT04368728 and NCT04470427), focusing analysis on potential adverse
events of special interest identified by the Brighton Collaboration.
Results:
Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an
increased risk of serious adverse events of special interest, with an
absolute risk increase of 10.1 and 15.1 per 10,000 vaccinated over
placebo baselines of 17.6 and 42.2 (95% CI -0.4 to 20.6 and -3.6 to
33.8), respectively. Combined, the mRNA vaccines were associated with an
absolute risk increase of serious adverse events of special interest of
12.5 per 10,000 (95% CI 2.1 to 22.9). The excess risk of serious
adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for
COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer
and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively).
Discussion:
The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to
the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are
stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes such as
hospitalization or death.
amidwesterndoctor |If you do not have time to read this article, there are a few key takeaways from it:
•A
wide range of approaches have been utilized to reduce the population,
many of which directly affect your health and total lifespan regardless
of your desire to have children.
•These horrific
sterilizing campaigns are always first conducted on vulnerable and
ignored groups of people (i.e. impoverished racial minorities), so that
these campaigns can first be trialed and refined out of sight and out of
mind.
•It is in everyone’s best interest to stand
up for these vulnerable groups because if you allow evil to be done to
them, that same evil will eventually end up on your doorstep, and by the
time it has built enough momentum to get there, it is very difficult to
stop.
•The primary obstacle to these campaigns has
always been their technological feasibility; their morality is rarely if
ever considered.
It is my belief that vaccines
represent the ideal form of population control because they are very
easy to administer, they can provide long-term or permanent
sterilization and the blind public faith in vaccination prevents most
people from ever questioning sterilization done under the guise of
“public health.” I am not the only person who realized this and the
Western Elite (currently led by the WHO and Bill Gates) have spent
decades attempting to develop sterilizing vaccines.
There
is clear evidence forced trials of sterilizing vaccines have been
repeatedly occurring over the decades. As such, it was reasonable to
assume that the Eugenicists would not let an opportunity like the Covid
vaccines to go to waste, and there was a real possibility that something
was present in the mRNA vaccines that would cause sterility or death. I
likewise attempted to objectively summarize this complex and
emotionally charged subject here:
Study from Senior Editor of the British Medical Journal Peter Doshi, et al, finds the absolute risk of serious AE from mRNA vaccines exceeds the absolute risk reduction of serious covid-19 infection.https://t.co/6JxOyIZVEHpic.twitter.com/PHhODa2dYt
There's only just so much to be said about the latest chapter in the empire of lies' desperate and ultimately futile attempt to hold onto financial and colonial power. That horse is already out of the barn and there isn't a damn thing any of us can do about it except ride it out as best we can.
🚨: NY Times' Jim Tankersley asks Biden, "How long is it fair to expect American drivers to pay that premium" for the war in Ukraine?
zeta potential though, well, that's a whole other ball of wax. I'm going to make a simple, direct, and hopefully non-controversial claim. Aging is largely a process of all the fluid circulations in your body shutting down. I hadn't thought about that before. Why, because it falls into the yawning crack of unadvertised behavior. Science and the experts don't consider it, therefore it never trickles down into the consensus hubbub, so, out of sight, out of mind. This work here is purportedly about liminal views of consensus reality - so - back to the practical work at hand.
Well, it's not entirely true that I'd completely overlooked the question of fluid circulations, but, the version I had considered for some time, and then put back up on the shelf, was the version taught by taoist alchemy chi kung. According to this systematization, chi or vital energy depends upon the circulation of fluids in and around organ fascia. That's one aspect of zeta potential, and perhaps an oversimplification of chi kung.
Just as there was a powerful and clear signal sent concerning the underlying nature, origin, and purpose of the panicdemic - when the administration changed partisan hands - yet, hot-shots of mRNA goo alone remained the single mandated official response - so also - a very clear and powerful signal has been sent to us. Compare and contrast the west's response to coronavirus with China's continued insistence on hard lock-down procedures. What do they know that our misleadership pretends not to know?
Further, there's the fact that China's allopathic medical response has been more traditional. They are not administering hot shots of mRNA goo and blatantly and extravagantly fucking around with the future viability of the Middle Kingdom's people. Neither are the Russians.
All subjects of the empire of lies, however, are at risk of yet another mandated round of multiple hot shots of experimental goo, including the little children.
Trust the science you sleeping fools.
Trust deeze-nutz muhphukka....,
WW-III has been declared on the subjects of western corporatocracies by our own psychopathocratic gerontocracy. The western panic-demic governance response has nothing whatsoever to do with public health. AFAIC - the madness being inflicted upon us - looks much more like an upgraded core tactic in an arsenal of economic and medical warfare on all of us uselessly eating and no longer economically viable pissants.
There may not be much we can do to stop billion$ being squandered and stolen via Ukraine.
However, we are far from helpless in the face of this specific medicalized assault.
thehill | The Biden administration
announced Wednesday that is paying $3.2 billion for 105 million doses
of an updated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for a fall campaign, pending Food
and Drug Administration signoff on the new formula.
The order is a major step in the administration’s efforts to move
forward with a new vaccination push this fall, in a bid to blunt a
renewed COVID-19 surge when the weather turns colder in much of the
country.
The updated vaccine is expected to target the omicron variant, with the goal of providing improved protection.
The new doses are expected to begin to be delivered “as soon as late
summer 2022 and continue into the fourth quarter of this year,” Pfizer
said in a news release.
The Biden administration is using money that it was forced to cut
from other areas of its COVID-19 response after Congress did not act on
the administration’s request for new funds.
The White House is still pushing for more money from Congress, but
prospects on Capitol Hill are not looking particularly hopeful amid a
continued stalemate. Republicans have pushed back on the urgency for the funds.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said
that “despite months of warnings from the Administration on the
consequences of a lack of funding,” due to Congress’s lack of action,
Wednesday’s order “will not purchase enough vaccines to offer one of
these new booster shots to every adult and unfortunately, comes at the
expense of continued funding for other critical pandemic response needs
like testing manufacturing and domestic vaccine manufacturing.”
The order placed on Wednesday, though, will ensure the country is not completely lacking in updated vaccines for the fall.
“We look forward to taking delivery of these new variant-specific
vaccines and working with state and local health departments,
pharmacies, health care providers, federally qualified health centers,
and other partners to make them available in communities around the
country this fall,” said Dawn O’Connell, an assistant secretary at the
Department of Health and Human Services.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Thursday gave
the green light to updating vaccines for omicron, though there are still
more steps in the approval process.
Uptake of even a first booster dose, which is recommended for
everyone aged 5 and older, has been lagging, an indication that not
everyone will want an updated booster this fall.
axial | Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 and was exiled
from his native home Austria after the nation was annexed by Nazi
Germany. He moved to Ireland after he was invited to set up the Dublin
Institute of Advanced Studies. This follows the past history of Ireland
acting as a storehouse of knowledge during the Dark Ages. After decades
of work, biology was becoming more formalized around the 1940s. Better
tools were emerging to perturb various organisms and samples and the
increasing number of discoveries was building out the framework of life.
With the rediscovery of Mendel’s work on genetics, scientists probably
most importantly Thomas Hunt Morgan and his work on fruit flies (Drosophila) set up the rules of heredity - genes located on chromosomes with each cell containing a set of chromosomes. In 1927, a seminal discovery
was made that irradiation by X-rays of fruits flies can induce
mutations. Just the medium was not known where Schrödinger was thinking
through his ideas on biology. At the same type, organic chemistry was
improving and various macromolecules in the cell such as enzymes were
being identified along with the various types of bonds made. For
Schrödinger, there were no tools to characterized these macromolecules
(i.e. proteins, nucleic acids) such as X-ray crystallography. Really the
only tool useful at the time was centrifugation. At the time, many
people expected proteins to be the store and transmitter of genetic
information. Luckily, Oswald Avery published an incredible paper in 1944 that found DNA as probably the store instead of proteins.
With this knowledge base Schrödinger took a beginner’s mind
to biology. In some ways his naivety was incredibly useful. Instead of
being anchored to some widely-accepted premise that proteins transmitted
genetic information (although he had a hunch some protein was
responsible), the book thought from first principles and identified a
few key concepts in biology that were not appreciated but became very
important. Thankfully Schrödinger was curious - he enjoyed writing
poetry and reading philosophy so jumped into biology somewhat
fearlessly. At the beginning of the book, he sets the main question as:
“How
can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial
boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and
chemistry?”
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In the first chapter,
Schrödinger argues that because organisms have orderly behavior they
must follow the laws of physics. Because physics relies on statistics,
life was follow the same rules. He then argues that because biological
properties have some level of permanence the material that stores this
information then must be stable. This material must have the ability to
change from one stable state to another (i.e. mutations). Classical
physics is not very useful here, but for Schrödinger his expertise in
quantum mechanics helped determine that these stable states must be held
together through covalent bonds (a quantum phenomena) within a
macromolecule. In the early chapters, the book argues that the gene must
be a stable macromolecule.
Through discussion around the
stability of the gene, the book makes its most important breakthrough -
an analogy between a gene and an aperiodic crystal (DNA is aperiodic but
Schrödinger amazingly didn’t know that at the time): “the germ of a
solid.” Simply, a periodic crystal can store a small amount of
information with an infinite number of atoms and an aperiodic crystal
has the ability to store a near infinite amount of information in a
small number of atoms. The latter was more in line with what the current
data suggested what a gene was. Max Delbrück had similar ideas along
with J.B.S. Haldane, but the book was the first to connect this idea to
heredity. But readers at the time and maybe even still overextended this
framework to believe that genetic code contains all of the information
to build an organism. This isn’t true, development requires an
environment with some level of randomness.
wikipedia | In chapter I, Schrödinger explains that most physical laws on a large
scale are due to chaos on a small scale. He calls this principle
"order-from-disorder." As an example he mentions diffusion,
which can be modeled as a highly ordered process, but which is caused
by random movement of atoms or molecules. If the number of atoms is
reduced, the behaviour of a system becomes more and more random. He
states that life greatly depends on order and that a naïve physicist may
assume that the master code of a living organism has to consist of a
large number of atoms.
In chapter II and III, he summarizes what was known at this time
about the hereditary mechanism. Most importantly, he elaborates the
important role mutations play in evolution.
He concludes that the carrier of hereditary information has to be both
small in size and permanent in time, contradicting the naïve physicist's
expectation. This contradiction cannot be resolved by classical physics.
In chapter IV, Schrödinger presents molecules,
which are indeed stable even if they consist of only a few atoms, as
the solution. Even though molecules were known before, their stability
could not be explained by classical physics, but is due to the discrete
nature of quantum mechanics. Furthermore, mutations are directly linked to quantum leaps.
He continues to explain, in chapter V, that true solids, which are also permanent, are crystals.
The stability of molecules and crystals is due to the same principles
and a molecule might be called "the germ of a solid." On the other hand,
an amorphous solid, without crystalline structure, should be regarded as a liquid with a very high viscosity.
Schrödinger believes the heredity material to be a molecule, which
unlike a crystal does not repeat itself. He calls this an aperiodic
crystal. Its aperiodic nature allows it to encode an almost infinite
number of possibilities with a small number of atoms. He finally
compares this picture with the known facts and finds it in accordance
with them.
In chapter VI Schrödinger states:
...living matter, while not eluding the "laws of
physics" as established up to date, is likely to involve "other laws of
physics" hitherto unknown, which however, once they have been revealed,
will form just as integral a part of science as the former.
He knows that this statement is open to misconception and tries to
clarify it. The main principle involved with "order-from-disorder" is
the second law of thermodynamics, according to which entropy only increases in a closed system (such as the universe). Schrödinger explains that living matter evades the decay to thermodynamical equilibrium by homeostatically maintaining negative entropy in an open system.
In chapter VII, he maintains that "order-from-order" is not
absolutely new to physics; in fact, it is even simpler and more
plausible. But nature follows "order-from-disorder", with some
exceptions as the movement of the celestial bodies
and the behaviour of mechanical devices such as clocks. But even those
are influenced by thermal and frictional forces. The degree to which a
system functions mechanically or statistically depends on the
temperature. If heated, a clock ceases to function, because it melts.
Conversely, if the temperature approaches absolute zero,
any system behaves more and more mechanically. Some systems approach
this mechanical behaviour rather fast with room temperature already
being practically equivalent to absolute zero.
Schrödinger concludes this chapter and the book with philosophical speculations on determinism, free will, and the mystery of human consciousness.
He attempts to "see whether we cannot draw the correct
non-contradictory conclusion from the following two premises: (1) My
body functions as a pure mechanism according to Laws of Nature; and (2)
Yet I know, by incontrovertible direct experience, that I am directing
its motions, of which I foresee the effects, that may be fateful and
all-important, in which case I feel and take full responsibility for
them. The only possible inference from these two facts is, I think, that
I – I in the widest meaning of the word, that is to say, every
conscious mind that has ever said or felt 'I' – am the person, if any,
who controls the 'motion of the atoms' according to the Laws of Nature".
Schrödinger then states that this insight is not new and that Upanishads
considered this insight of "ATHMAN = BRAHMAN" to "represent
quintessence of deepest insights into the happenings of the world."
Schrödinger rejects the idea that the source of consciousness should
perish with the body because he finds the idea "distasteful". He also
rejects the idea that there are multiple immortal souls that can exist
without the body because he believes that consciousness is nevertheless
highly dependent on the body. Schrödinger writes that, to reconcile the
two premises,
The only possible alternative is simply
to keep to the immediate experience that consciousness is a singular of
which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what
seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this
one thing…
Any intuitions that consciousness is plural, he says, are illusions. Schrödinger is sympathetic to the Hindu concept of Brahman, by which each individual's consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe
— which corresponds to the Hindu concept of God. Schrödinger concludes
that "...'I' am the person, if any, who controls the 'motion of the
atoms' according to the Laws of Nature." However, he also qualifies the
conclusion as "necessarily subjective" in its "philosophical
implications". In the final paragraph, he points out that what is meant
by "I" is not the collection of experienced events but "namely the
canvas upon which they are collected." If a hypnotist succeeds in
blotting out all earlier reminiscences, he writes, there would be no
loss of personal existence — "Nor will there ever be."[8]
medical-net | Quantum biology is an emerging field of science, established in the
1920s, which looks at whether the subatomic world of quantum mechanics
plays a role in living cells. Quantum mechanics is an interdisciplinary
field by nature, bringing together nuclear physicists, biochemists and
molecular biologists.
In a research paper published by the journal Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics, a team from Surrey's Leverhulme Quantum Biology
Doctoral Training Centre used state-of-the-art computer simulations and
quantum mechanical methods to determine the role proton tunneling, a
purely quantum phenomenon, plays in spontaneous mutations inside DNA.
Proton tunneling involves the spontaneous disappearance of a proton
from one location and the same proton's re-appearance nearby.
The
research team found that atoms of hydrogen, which are very light,
provide the bonds that hold the two strands of the DNA's double helix
together and can, under certain conditions, behave like spread-out waves
that can exist in multiple locations at once, thanks to proton
tunneling. This leads to these atoms occasionally being found on the
wrong strand of DNA, leading to mutations.
Although these mutations' lifetime is short, the team from Surrey has
revealed that they can still survive the DNA replication mechanism
inside cells and could potentially have health consequences.
Dr Marco Sacchi, the project lead and Royal Society University
Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, said: "Many have long
suspected that the quantum world - which is weird, counter-intuitive and
wonderful - plays a role in life as we know it. While the idea that
something can be present in two places at the same time might be absurd
to many of us, this happens all the time in the quantum world, and our
study confirms that quantum tunneling also happens in DNA at room
temperature."
There is still a long and exciting road ahead of us to understand how
biological processes work on the subatomic level, but our study - and
countless others over the recent years - have confirmed quantum
mechanics are at play. In the future, we are hoping to investigate how
tautomers produced by quantum tunneling can propagate and generate
genetic mutations."
Louie Slocombe, PhD Student, Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre and Study Co-Author
Jim Al-Khalili, a co-author of the study and Co-Director of the
Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre at the University of
Surrey, said: "It has been thrilling to work with this group of young,
diverse and talented thinkers - made up of a broad coalition of the
scientific world. This work cements quantum biology as the most exciting
field of scientific research in the 21st century."
discovermagazine |With photosynthesis, scientists show
for the first time that there are quantum effects in living systems.
This could lead to better solar panels, energy storage or even quantum
computers. (Credit: Shutterstock) We all probably learned about photosynthesis,
how plants turn sunlight into energy, in school. It might seem,
therefore, that we figured out this bit of the world. But scientists are
still learning new things about even the most basic stuff (see also
the sun and moon), and photosynthesis is no different. In particular, according to a study released Monday in Nature Chemistry,
an international team of scientists showed that molecules involved in
photosynthesis display quantum mechanical behavior. Even though we’d suspected
as much before, this is the first time we’ve seen quantum effects in
living systems. Not only will it help us better understand plants,
sunlight and everything in between, but it could also mean cool new tech
in the future.
The Quantum Conundrum
First, let’s back up. While photosynthesis may be taught in classrooms
the world over, quantum mechanics is a bit less popular, in part because
it’s so weird. Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist Richard Feynman
once said, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum
mechanics." It’s so impenetrable to non-experts that the same metaphors
come up whenever someone tries to explain it. You might have heard of Schrödinger's Cat,
which is both alive and dead at the same time thanks to quantum
weirdness — in particular, because electrons can be in two states at the
same time. It’s only when we observe the system that the weirdness
collapses and reality “picks” one state: the cat’s actually alive (or
dead), the electron’s actually at this end of the room (or that end).
But quantum effects are typically limited to the very small, and only
really observable in perfect, laboratory conditions. A living being,
with its wet, messy systems, would be a tough place to find some quantum
weirdness lurking — and yet we have.
Molecular Madness
Scientists zoomed in on the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex, a key component of green sulfur bacteria's machinery
for photosynthesis. It’s been a historical favorite for such research
because we’ve long known its structure and it's fairly easy to work
with. Previous experiments had seemed to show light-sensitive molecules
in this area in two different states at the same time — that’s quantum
weirdness — but the effect lasted more than 1 picosecond, which is much
longer than expected. This new study shows that it was really just
regular vibrations in the molecules, nothing quantum about it. But
researchers have been excited about the possibilities of quantum biology
for years, so having disproved the earlier experiments, the authors
wanted to find some new evidence of their own. “We wondered if we might
be able to observe that Schrödinger cat situation,” says co-author
Thomas la Cour Jansen in a press release. And observe it they did! With a
technique called two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, researchers
saw molecules in simultaneous excited states — quantum weirdness akin to
a cat being alive and dead at the same time. What’s more, the effect
lasted exactly as long as theories predicted it, suggesting this
evidence of quantum biology will last. As the authors succinctly put it,
“Thus, our measurements provide an unambiguous experimental observation
of excited-state vibronic coherence in the FMO complex.” What could be
simpler? The results shed light (haha) on how to harvest energy from
light, and the team thinks they’re “generally applicable” to a variety
of systems, living and non-living alike. This means it could result in
engineering benefits such as better solar panels, energy storage or even
quantum computers. And, of course, updated textbooks for tomorrow’s
lessons on photosynthesis.
quantamagazine | It’s not surprising that quantum physics has a reputation for being
weird and counterintuitive. The world we’re living in sure doesn’t feel
quantum mechanical. And until the 20th century, everyone assumed that
the classical laws of physics devised by Isaac Newton and others —
according to which objects have well-defined positions and properties at
all times — would work at every scale. But Max Planck, Albert Einstein,
Niels Bohr and their contemporaries discovered that down among atoms
and subatomic particles, this concreteness dissolves into a soup of
possibilities. An atom typically can’t be assigned a definite position,
for example — we can merely calculate the probability of finding it in
various places. The vexing question then becomes: How do quantum
probabilities coalesce into the sharp focus of the classical world?
Physicists sometimes talk about this changeover as the
“quantum-classical transition.” But in fact there’s no reason to think
that the large and the small have fundamentally different rules, or that
there’s a sudden switch between them. Over the past several decades,
researchers have achieved a greater understanding of how quantum
mechanics inevitably becomes classical mechanics through an interaction
between a particle or other microscopic system and its surrounding
environment.
One of the most remarkable ideas in this theoretical framework is
that the definite properties of objects that we associate with classical
physics — position and speed, say — are selected from a menu of quantum
possibilities in a process loosely analogous to natural selection in
evolution: The properties that survive are in some sense the “fittest.”
As in natural selection, the survivors are those that make the most
copies of themselves. This means that many independent observers can
make measurements of a quantum system and agree on the outcome — a
hallmark of classical behavior.
This idea, called quantum Darwinism (QD), explains a lot about why we
experience the world the way we do rather than in the peculiar way it
manifests at the scale of atoms and fundamental particles. Although
aspects of the puzzle remain unresolved, QD helps heal the apparent rift
between quantum and classical physics.
Only recently, however, has quantum Darwinism been put to the
experimental test. Three research groups, working independently in
Italy, China and Germany, have looked for the telltale signature of the
natural selection process by which information about a quantum system
gets repeatedly imprinted on various controlled environments. These
tests are rudimentary, and experts say there’s still much more to be
done before we can feel sure that QD provides the right picture of how
our concrete reality condenses from the multiple options that quantum
mechanics offers. Yet so far, the theory checks out.
neuburger | But note in the first quote above the even larger problem Hudson
identifies: How can the West maintain living standards while also
de-industrializing and impoverishing the 99%?
He
answers it, indirectly, by talking about how the inflow of money from
Europe and other U.S.-dominated countries like Japan keeps the rich in
cash:
European economic shortages are a huge benefit
to the United States, which is making enormous profits on more expensive
oil (which is controlled largely by U.S. companies, followed by British
and French oil companies). Europe’s replenishment of the arms that it
donated to Ukraine also is a boon to the U.S. military-industrial
complex, whose profits are soaring.
But the United States is not recycling these economic gains to Europe, which is looking like the big loser.
None
of those profits is going to the people. Only the living standards of
the “One Percent” are propped up. (By “One Percent” I mean the upper
10%, a group that comprises our actual oligarchs, plus all those
well-paid souls who keep that ship afloat and its engines running.)
Which
leaves us with the original question: How will our wealthy keep control
if they keep impoverish voters? Hudson’s answer, implicit in a piece written earlier is stark:
“The
alternative to democracy is oligarchy. As Aristotle noted already in
the 4th century BC, oligarchies turn themselves into hereditary
aristocracies. This is the path to serfdom.”
In the same piece he adds, “All this sounds like Rome at the end of the Republic in the 1st century BC.”
People
make facile comparisons of modern America to the end of the Roman
Republic — without fully realizing that at the end of the Roman
Republic, the Republic did end.
So how will our oligarchs do it —
maintain control while impoverishing the governed? There’s really only
one answer — by ending the republic, both its fact and pretense.
There may be other ways, but I can’t think of them.
I suggest those with all types of arcane imperialist
motives for why BidenCorp® is determined to maintain the proxy war for
as long as possible, consider Mike Hudson's comments to Halper &
Mate in his
interview on useful idiots.
Hudson is
really worth putting the work into to listen to
on this subject.
Prof Hudson maintains that the huge inflation
combined with a shortage of food that is the result of this war and
the concomitant sanctions, is not a bug, it is a feature. In fact, according to Hudson, it is the number
one reason for the conflict.
He tells us that most of the 'global south' that is
Africa, Latin America and some parts of Asia are going to be ripped
apart by un-affordable food prices throughout 2022 and 2023. BidenCorp® has created a special loans deal through the IMF to 'assist' these nations.
However in order to qualify for the loans, nations
must sign up to a deal whereby they agree to reduce wages, destroy any
organised labor and agree to privatize all state functions, particularly health and education. In addition, public utilities
and producer boards will also be made private, leaving those nations which attempt to prevent
their populations from starving to death, with economies run entirely by
outsiders, plus a huge debt which they will struggle to service, much
less repay.
Hudson maintains that the plan emanated from the
WEF, where billionaires maintained that there are 20% too many people on
this planet. They claim to want to get rid of the 'unproductive
people'.
That last assertion by the WEF is insane when one considers that in the
third world, global south, whatever you want to call it, unproductive
people already die. There are virtually no means of supporting such
types in a poverty ridden society.
It is types like most of us, aging baby boomers,
living off pensions, superannuation and bourgeois family until we hit 90
or so - who most qualify for that. One part of me says they don't target us because (i) we consume, or
(ii)we vote for their puppets in great numbers or (iii) they had a go
with covid, while the last part says we'll be next.
NYTimes | With
Omicron sweeping the world at alarming speed, governments are
scrambling to figure out how to contain it in the face of significant
public pressure against reimposing harsh restrictions on daily life,
curbing holiday celebrations and deepening the economic pain wrought by
two years of pandemic.
A new British
report shows that booster doses are less effective against Omicron than
previous variants, and their effectiveness wears off faster — within 10
weeks. Vaccine makers are trying to adjust their shots to target
Omicron.
In
addition to concerns that a fourth shot in less than a year could
actually weaken immunity, some experts said Israel’s government had
still not made the most of other options, such as vaccinating more of
the unvaccinated or giving a third shot to about a million eligible
citizens who have so far not received one.
Along
with the generally sparse knowledge about Omicron, the effect of a
fourth dose against the new variant is also unknown. But the country’s
medical experts point to waning immunity in those 60 or older, who were
the first to receive the third shot starting in August.
Israeli
researchers from the Health Ministry and several academic institutions
presented data to the advisory team that made the recommendation for the
fourth shot on Tuesday. The presentation, obtained by The Times, showed
a doubling of the rate of infection from Delta among the 60-plus age
group within four or five months of the third shot.
There was no clear indication of reduced efficacy against severe illness.
Israel
has confirmed a few hundred cases of Omicron, but officials say the new
variant is much more widespread, and could overtake Delta as the
dominant variant in the country within two or three weeks.
rwmalonemd | Before you vaccinate your child, which is irreversible and
potentially permanently damaging, find out why 16,000 physicians and
medical scientists around the world signed a declaration publicly
declaring that healthy children should NOT be vaccinated for COVID-19.
On behalf of these MDs and PhDs, I have published a clear statement
outlining the scientific facts behind this decision.
My
name is Robert Malone, and I am speaking to you as a parent,
grandparent, physician and scientist. I don’t usually read from a
prepared speech, but this is so important that I wanted to make sure
that I get every single word and scientific fact correct.
I stand
by this statement with a career dedicated to vaccine research and
development. I’m vaccinated for COVID and I'm generally pro-vaccination.
I have devoted my entire career to developing safe and effective ways
to prevent and treat infectious diseases.
After this, I will be posting the text of this statement so you can share it with your friends and family.
Before
you inject your child - a decision that is irreversible - I wanted to
let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created:
There are three issues parents need to understand:
The
first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children's cells.
This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins. These
proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs,
including
Their brain and nervous system
Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots
Their reproductive system
And this vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system
The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable
You can’t fix the lesions within their brain
You can’t repair heart tissue scarring
You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and
This vaccine can cause reproductive damage that could affect future generations of your family
The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested.
We need at least 5 years of testing/research before we can really understand the risks
Harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later
Ask yourself if you want your own child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in human history
One final point: the reason they’re giving you to vaccinate your child is a lie.
Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents
It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting COVID, is
critical to save your family if not the world from this disease
In
summary: there is no benefit for your children or your family to be
vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given
the known health risks of the vaccine that as a parent, you and your
children may have to live with for the rest of their lives.
The risk/benefit analysis isn’t even close.
As a parent and grandparent, my recommendation to you is to resist and fight to protect your children.
– on Dec 15th Omikron was 44%, assuming well beyond 50% by now.
– since Nov 22nd 76%/91% of
delta/omikron-infections were vaccinated. For Omikron that means the
vaccinated are over-represented vs. the population vax rate.
– hospitalized right now because of omikron 35
– hospitalized right now bcause of omikron in ICU less than 5
I find Table 4 more concerning. Not only does it
confirm that VE wanes, it suggests a rebound effect whereby the (doubly)
vaccinated become *more* susceptible.
Were the animal models for these vaccines ever tested for susceptibility to reinfection?
That is to ask, did the pharma companies know they were creating an extortionate vaccine dependency?
dagbladet | But it is not the corona patients who now overwhelm the emergency department and the medical departments at OUS. These are our old ones. The
aging wave is washing in, and the preparedness there seems far more
awkward than the preparations for the corona wave we are now preparing
for.
There is one
incident that has made more of an impression than anything else during
my four - relatively short - years as a nurse at Gastromedisin at
Ullevål. That was when an extremely frail 102-year-old man was going
home after being treated for the flu. He had assured that his daughter
was so good at helping, so it was decided that he did not need a nursing
home place, but could manage with home nursing. This is what is called
free choice and user participation.
When the daughter learned that her father was going home, she became desperate. She was eighty years old, she said, and so ill that she herself should soon be in a nursing home. When the patient taxi finally arrived - they are often a few hours late - we had to carry the worn-out old man out in the taxi. And then they left in the icy February darkness. The parchment-skinny half-asleep one hundred and two-year-old, with her crying eighty-year-old daughter. Printed for the home, as it is so nicely called.
This happened in the winter of 2018, in the middle of the flu season. Then
there was real chaos with us - far worse than now - with many sick
employees and yellow droplet infection equipment down the entire
corridor. In the
thirteen weeks the flu ravaged, there were 7,600 hospitalizations, with a
peak of 700 patients simultaneously and a mortality rate of 1,400.
There are more than a hundred deaths a week.
Far more than the seven corona deaths per day that recently made headlines. The reality behind the last number is not very dramatic. These were old people, and it is uncertain whether they died with or from the corona. It is also worth noting that 350 to 400 people die in nursing homes in Norway every week. Of old age. We must all die once.
Last year, it was known that mortality was due to infection control measures. The
closure meant that nursing home patients were not transferred to
hospitals and the elderly dared not visit us to any great extent. Now they are overwhelming the hospitals. Because it is not the covid-19 infected who top the hospitalization statistics in the last two weeks. They
make up only one percent of all inpatients, while the majority of
inpatients with respiratory diseases are frail old with pneumonia and RS
virus.
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Two years and I've lost count of how many times my eye has been operated
on, either beating the fuck out of the tumor, or reattaching that slippery
eel ...
April Three
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
4 to the power of 3 is 64
64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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the earth.I can feel it bubbling up, effervescing and evaporating around
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