SARS-CoV-2 is a virus the effects of which are not much different from many other coronaviruses, which are quite common, or from seasonal flu. While overreacting to its initial spread is somewhat understandable due to the many unknowns associated with it, it is perfectly clear now that it poses no more danger than the other viruses just mentioned. Most people don't get infected when exposed to it. Of those who get infected, most show mild or no symptoms. Of those who show symptoms, only a very small percentage dies. And the ones who die are almost exclusively people who are old and have underlying health problems, or, in other words, people who die from any infection. We've lived with such viruses forever. There is no reason to panic or to introduce destructive measures. The only significant difference between this virus and the others is its PR campaign.
From the evidence we've gathered in the last two months, SARS-CoV-2 on its own doesn't and can't cause all that much harm. It is only in combination with other factors that it becomes deadly. Most of the time, it does not translate into the 'disease' named COVID-19. One of its observed effects is decreased oxygenation of blood. This will not cause much trouble to a healthy person, but it will amplify any existing health problems. It will also have a stronger effect in combination with other factors like air pollution, which is why Wuhan and Northern Italy have been hit so hard. Much of the damage we see is due to the already poor health of many people, pollution, and stress. And stress is, of course, what the governments and the media have been creating 24/7 for months, clearly with no sense of real responsibility. Much of the suffering we've seen has been directly caused by this incompetent (or malicious?) response.
It has also been made clear by many experts that this virus came from a laboratory and not from Chinese people eating bad (or bat) things, as Western propaganda, completely devoid of any scientific basis or even just common sense, would have us believe. Among other reasons, if you find sequences from HIV in a coronavirus, you know they didn't get there by random mutations (unless you're as misinformed about microbiology as most people seem to be about SARS-CoV-2). Which one of the two labs that have been working on exactly this kind of stuff for years and are thus the most likely, if not only possible, culprits, i.e. Fort Detrick in Maryland or the lab in Wuhan is responsible for this 'leak', I leave for you to decide. But it should be remembered that they worked on this together, to a large extent, with Fauci pouring millions of dollars into it in both labs. And we know the security measures in Fort Detrick were so bad that it was closed in Summer 2019 for that reason. I will let you ponder what light it casts on our situation that it almost certainly came from one of those and most definitely not from a Chinese market.
Many countries are also finding that they had cases of COVID-19 all the way back to at least November last year, long before the pandemic 'officially' started 'in China'. Doctors all over the world remember 'strange cases of the flu' or pneumonia from November-December. Testing for antibodies in people who were sick in that period of time are coming up positive for SARS-CoV-2. Some samples from autopsies from that time test positive too. So this virus appears to have been everywhere from China to Iran to Europe to the US at the end of 2019. Many of us who were sick back then and thought our symptoms were really strange for a regular flu are making the connection and realising what it probably was that we had back then. And guess what? There was no lockdown, we recovered, and things went on as usual. Many of us, like me, didn't even go to see a doctor. The panic that came later was not started by the virus (which had already been around for months) but by the WHO, the governments they instructed, and the media that slavishly amplifies and repeats every government utterance on the topic.
Lockdown, physical distancing, and masks were introduced to 'flatten the curve' to avoid overwhelming hospitals. As most hospitals everywhere have been empty for the last 6 weeks, this goal has been achieved, and there is no more reason for any of these measures to continue. The measures do not and can not stop the spread of a virus. They can, and do, however, destroy people's lives, both directly and indirectly, and will continue to do so for years. They are also violations of basic human rights and freedoms. We've been told that 9/11 happened because the terrorists 'envied our freedoms'. Well, they don't have to envy anymore. Our freedoms are gone. And if you believe it's only 'temporary', you haven't learned anything from history.
Countries without 'quarantine' (Sweden, Belarus, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan) have shown clearly that their results are no different from those of countries with 'quarantine'. (Note that 'quarantine' is a word for restricting the movement and rights of infected people. Restricting the movement and rights of healthy people is usually called fascism.) Of these five countries, Sweden can be said to be doing worse than the other four. Yet Sweden is doing better than Italy, France, the UK, Spain, Netherlands or Belgium. At the same time, it's not willfully destroying its economy, harassing its population, and taking away people's basic rights. Belarus is riding this out with ease without any restrictions whatsoever. The claims that we'd have been worse off without 'quarantine' are thus completely unsubstantiated.
Virologists and doctors all over the world have been warning us that wearing masks, aside from having little to no effect on stopping this virus, does a lot of damage. It deprives us of oxygen, which leads to all kinds of health problems, and this, ironically, actually produces some symptoms similar to those of SARS-CoV-2. The waste we exhale, including viruses, is inhaled back with a mask on. Thus our viral load increases, and our latent viruses (of which we all have plenty) get amplified and awoken. You can actually get sick from the viruses in your body that were latent but were awoken by wearing a mask. Wearing a mask also isolates you from the normal environment and thus weakens your immune system, making you more susceptible to viruses of all kinds, as well as to other threats to your health. These problems also amplify one another. Low oxygen weakens your immune system. A weakened immune system gives a better chance to the latent viruses to spread and multiply, and so on. And of course, the people whom this affects the most are old people with already weakened immune systems, and especially those with respiratory problems. In other words, exactly the people we should be trying to protect the most.
The counting of COVID-19 cases and deaths has been one of the most fraudulent things ever witnessed, and all the numbers are almost completely meaningless. Tests are wildly inaccurate. Deaths are inflated by counting anyone who can even remotely be counted, including people with heart attacks who are merely suspected of having coronavirus. No test needed. Just an assumption. And since hospitals in many places get more money for covid patients than for any other patients, and since government institutions encourage doctors to write 'COVID-19' wherever possible, it is no surprise that the numbers are nowhere near accurate or meaningful. And this is all by design, as has been proved countless times and confirmed by government officials and agencies. Yet even with all the manipulation in the direction of increasing the apparent threat of SARS-CoV-2, the virus fails to appear significantly worse than the flu. It seems very likely that if reported correctly, the number of deaths 'from' covid-19 would be significantly less than those 'from' the flu.
The measures taken under the guise of 'fighting a virus' (false because they don't achieve that - they only slow down the spread) and 'saving lives' (no evidence of that happening) are in many cases so bizarre, illogical, and destructive that people really should think about how much of this can be ascribed to just incompetence before it starts strongly suggesting malicious intent. The economy is being destroyed, which means higher food prices and many other necessities, millions of lost jobs, destruction and decreased production of food, starvation, poverty, disrupted education, closure of small businesses and thus many people's livelihoods, domestic violence, increased alcoholism, suicides, and much more. The psychological damage to countless people is only beginning and will continue for years to come. This whole generation of children will be damaged by something so incredibly stupid and at the same time completely unnecessary that it's hard to fathom how this could ever have happened.
At the same time, of course, the rich are getting richer, as always, and the usual parasites are capitalizing on this crisis. Nobody's being 'saved', we're all getting harmed in many ways while politicians, bankers, and CEOs are robbing us like they always do, and yet many people, in an amazing display of loss of cognitive function, apparently, are cheering for their own demise. Everything that's wrong with our system, everything people have been protesting against for years, has been magnified many times, but many people go along with this utter madness and support it. It turns out that all you have to do to make the whole world participate in collective suicide is to repeat the same lies every day and tell people all this is to 'save lives'. It doesn't have to make any sense. No lives need to actually be saved for it to work. It seems that just saying 'saving lives' is a magical mantra that makes anything not only acceptable but highly desirable, no matter how many lives it actually destroys. People's critical thinking has been obliterated by decades of programming and conditioning, and they will happily be digging their own graves, for free.
The proposed solutions are just as fake as the reasons for a global lockdown. A vaccine for coronavirus is pretty much impossible, for many reasons. The virus mutates much faster than anybody can make a vaccine. We don't have vaccines for any other coronaviruses either, as they have been so difficult to make that success has eluded us so far. Nor do we have one for the common cold, for that matter. And this new virus is of course less known and less studied than all the 'old' ones. Any vaccine that will be announced for SARS-CoV-2 is pretty certain to do more harm than good (if you believe it can do any 'good' in the first place), and any serious testing is very unlikely to ever occur. But it will make a lot of money for people who are already rich, and you'll be paying for it. With your money, with your health, and with your freedom if vaccination becomes necessary in order to travel, buy things, and engage in other common activities.
There certainly is some resistance to all this inanity, and it's growing every day. So are attempts to stifle it. The powers that be are in a desperate overdrive with censorship of vital information and persecution of anyone who dares speak the truth about what's happening. Google (including YouTube) is on one of the largest censorship sprees in the history of mankind, and so is Fakebook. The extent of their endeavour to tell you what you're allowed to see, read, or believe, is indeed frightening. The truth, or even some people's opinions, are clearly more dangerous to them than an angry hippo.
Maybe the largest obstacle for effective resistance to this madness is that too many people have been so brainwashed that they actively support their own destruction, even if it's so clearly visible to the rest of us. As we have seen, even many alternative media have taken an illogical stance against basic human rights, dignity, freedom, and any sense of normal life, under the completely misguided idea that they're helping someone (who exactly?), so these times are indeed a spectacle to behold.
The coming months will bring remarkable changes to our society and to our lives, one way or another. The direction of these changes will greatly depend on people's ability to realize that what's happening right now is not in their interest at all, and to see just how much they've been betrayed by their governments, and that it really might be time 'to get mad'.
We'll see whether covid-19 will be followed by livid-20. If not, stupid-21 will probably kill us all.
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We'll see whether covid-19 will be followed by livid-20. If not, stupid-21 will probably kill us all.
There is only one ‘gold standard’ method for identifying a virus so that you can be sure what is in your test tube. It is: isolate and purify your sample so that it only contains what you want to look at. Take electron-microscope photographs of it. Compare them with electron-microscope photographs from other known viruses. That’s it.
ALL virologists agree on that point.
Here’s the thing: NO ONE is claiming they have done that with HIV or COVID-19. No one.
The ‘discoverer’ of HIV, Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier (the man credited with its discovery), makes a point of saying he never did that. No one claims to have done that with COVID-19.
So, ALL claims to having identified COVID-19 in animals, including humans, are lies that they know are lies. They KNOW that their tests CANNOT be identifying COVID-19 because they haven’t IDENTIFIED COVID-19 as a novel virus. Right?
If they haven’t done that, and aren’t claiming to have done that, why not? Have they run out of money to do that after spending trillions of dollars to fight the ‘virus’?
What do their tests identify? Doesn’t matter because they are lying about COVID-19. If they will lie about that, then they will lie about everything. They know the gold standard and they aren’t using it, which means they ARE lying about everything, deaths, cases, treatments, vaccines and so forth.
Now we come to the fine tip of the spear. Would the folks lying to the world about Corona virus and everything associated with it, those same folks who then severely crippled the world’s economy, do all of that as a prank, a joke? They know they are lying. We (who care to know) know they are lying. Why aren’t they afraid of us?
The only reason that makes sense is that they are not worried about people who don’t know how to think rationally, who are unable to think logically. They have been working for decades to provide mal-education and/or to drive people into poverty in order to limit the number of ‘thinkers’ so strongly that (they believe) the remaining thinkers do not pose a threat.
There is one more piece. Most people lie to themselves. Most people are afraid of being caught lying. So, when a person (who might be able to think calmly in normal times) has their fear level raised dramatically by people telling huge obvious lies to them, such a person is immediately reminded of their own lying. Then rationality, logic and reason are out of reach.
If you can’t stop lying to yourself, you can’t do anything about the people who are lying in order to wreck or control the world. If you can’t stop lying to yourself, how can you think of yourself as an honest person?
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Didn't Trump just relax the standards for air and water pollution? What's wrong with this picture?
My only theory is that they're making as much money and control before the Ice Age, but they could have done this without creating this pandemy... Answer please ;-)
But on the most basic level, it's about increasing control. This has been happening step by step for a long time. The pandemic isn't 'necessary', but it's certainly a good opportunity to impose restrictions that would take much longer to implement otherwise. And this madness is going a long way in decreasing both physical and mental health of the population. Weak people are easier to control.
The drum beat of fear is the same and the bulk of the sheep behave the same.
The difference is perhaps now a 'few' more people are asking why. The cracks and gaping holes in the facade of fear are blatantly obvious, both current and past.
Evil. Evil beings be they men or something else lay at the root of this. Highly functional sociopaths are behind the coordination of this latest volley of death and destruction.
All we need are clear target packages. Easier said than done.
Waking up is the hard part, perhaps the hardest. And the more people we can redpill, the closer we get to excising the source.
Of course, they do their 'due diligence' (no more) to let their co-Malevolents 'in on' the plans (e.g. all the warnings before 9/11/2001 that we poor schmucks never got).
But one of the best examples I recall was one CIA guy (Crowe) speaking with an author about how the CIA bombed a plane to kill one or two Iranian? Indian? I forget nuclear scientists.
The author asked the CIA hitman controller something like: "But what about all the innocent people kiled, lives destroyed?"
CIA Crowe said "Hey! I wasn't on the plane, you weren't on the plane. What are you bitching about?"
RC
"Hey! I wasn't on the plane, you weren't on the plane. What are you bitching about?"The funny thing about that is that the 19 hijackers weren't on the planes either.
I fear that while it's possible to redpill more people, the percentage of people who will take the red one is too small. So when you hit the ceiling you're nowhere near the critical mass you need.
I worry that just having clear targets isn't enough. As an example, my take on the democratic presidential field was there were 2 candidates you could trust around the corner, Yang and Tulsi. How did Yang and Tulsi poll? I have to conclude we aren't capable of getting out of this mess. I could have those candidates pegged all wrong, but that was my take, FWIW.
It's unlikely that anyone you've ever seen, let alone a candidate for the puppet in chief, is a target.
They're not stupid nor are they foolish. They do have a certain sense of humor though. "Alphabet" owning google.... lol... that's brilliant.
the countries who have come out best so far is the ones who shut down instantly. eg. like norway.
we had a limited lockdown for 5 weeks. now we are more open than even the swedes.
A way to roll over and show your soft underbelly.
the countries who have come out best so far is the ones who shut down instantly. eg. like norway.Norway: 43 deaths per 1M population.
Belarus: 17 deaths per 1M population.
World average: 40 deaths per 1M population.
I'm glad the instant shutdown helped so much and Norway didn't end up like poor Belarus.
kitibati, micronesia, marshall islands, nauru, north korea, samoa, vanuatu would all have been better examples of what you are trying to prove. are you even lazy besides being an ignorant idiot?
i am a fan of his way of telling stories.
There was a deal between the "two" parties that they would take turns in the White House. In 2000, they threw a nationwide tantrum and did it again in 2016, though both times they ran candidates who couldn't have won a small town election. So, the democrats are insane and the republicans are retarded, not to even mention that both are evil. This doomsday virus deal is going to be played out as if there are irrefutable facts involved, when there's nothing factual and no science at all involved.
the real problem with this pandemic have been idiots like mi and his likes, promoted here on sott i am afraid.If you have a problem with that, and cannot articulate why you have a problem with it, you can take it elsewhere.
One more insult directed at someone here, and you're gonzeroni.
i do however hope you will apply the same level of tolerance with regard to your own insults to me and others.
eg. like claiming that someone/something is the real problem (spreading incorrect information imo in this case) is not the same as claiming they are responsible. claiming someome is an idiot is not necessarily idiotic. (idiots do exist?).
i do however take yout point.
i have some things to tend to now, but i will be back later, to continue clarifications if needed.
eg. like claiming that someone/something is the real problem (spreading incorrect information imo in this case) is not the same as claiming they are responsible. claiming someome is an idiot is not necessarily idiotic. (idiots do exist?).You said: "the real problem with this pandemic have been idiots like mi and his likes..."
...implying that - for you - the core issue with this pandemic is anyone pointing out that the media and govts are fundamentally wrong in both their diagnosis and 'cure' of Covid19. Furthermore, you voiced your support for the most draconian lockdowns.
You are welcome to defend the scientific and political authorities, but you don't get to do so on Sott.net by lazily and insultingly calling the author of detailed criticism of said authorities an 'ignorant idiot'.
You are welcome to defend the scientific and political authorities, but you don't get to do so on Sott.net by lazily and insultingly calling the author of detailed criticism of said authorities an 'ignorant idiot'.While in the main I've to date been mostly amused by the Brakar inspired imbroglios as they were minor. That said, I see this particular go-around as an attempt to foment infighting which is of course unacceptable in any guise or demeanor.
The question 'Why' doesn't have meaning if you have not accepted that they are capable of doing this and that they ARE doing this. It's NOT over. They are just getting started.
The ENORMITY of what they are doing is extraordinarily difficult for most people to wrap their heads around. Until the true size and nature of 'What?' they are doing is understood and accepted, 'Why' doesn't mean what you think it does.
Instead, "Why?" is actually a way of suppressing your emotional reaction. Most of you think that if you could understand the why of it, you could grab the whole of it. It is the other way around. If you didn't suppress your emotional reaction, you fear your response would be so huge that it would drive you crazy, depress you to the point of suicide, or some such overwhelming, debilitating response. At the moment, "Why? is an emotional cry, not a request for factual answers.
The following might help (a little) to get a handle on your emotions.
Emotions are incomplete thoughts. It’s not that you shouldn’t have emotions; rather, you should understand (each time) why you have them. If you can’t finish the thought that each emotion is pointing to, it means you believe you won’t like the thought . Not liking thoughts is an emotional response that cripples you because you can’t escape the vicious circle. Thinking is the only way out, but for many people that is unacceptable. If you prefer feelings over facts, you have just locked yourself in prison.
The truth is true, whether you like it or not. If you are searching for the truth two things are necessary. First you must stop or greatly reduce the lies in your head; your lies to yourself. Second, before you start, you must accept that it is quite likely you will find true things that you don’t like. When you encounter such things, that means you must find out why you don’t like them (an emotional response), in order to get to the truth. Otherwise you will spend all your time sparring with your emotional self and make no progress toward the truth.
Emotions and feelings are a distinction without a difference. What clearly separates emotions from thoughts is that thoughts can productively interrogate emotions (what was that rage/sadness/fantasy all about?) while emotions can only try to claim confirmation or rejection from thoughts. Any such claim cannot be supported because confirmation of an emotional claim would require logical (thoughtful) analysis, which is exactly what emotion cannot do. So long as emotion is tangled up with thought in a person's head, thought will lose, because the emotion will never yield its position to mere logic.
If a conflicting emotion comes along, emotion itself cannot reconcile the disputed feelings.
Most people who believe in God will freely admit that such a preference is a feeling, not a thought. That means that you cannot reason with such a person, because feelings come first.
The question of why is very relevant. Slowly trace facts, connect them like MI does in the article. And remain open for the unthinkable because the answer is unthinkable. Totalitarian control through Artificial Intelligence? Assimilation like the Borg (Bourghia)?
James Corbett has a series of 3 documentaries on Billy. That can set some heads straight. And get some hearts warmed.
I perceive (which I hope to be a combined function) your discourse on emotion to be poorly formulated or, uh, thought-out? Are you familiar with, or have you made a study of, the work of G.I. Gurdjieff? Your admonition that, "...you must stop or greatly reduce the lies in your head ; your lies to yourself.", is a teaching point in that system, and so reading that repeatedly (along with other indications hinting at such) now begs the question. However, as you go on to say, "Emotions are incomplete thoughts.", you get toward that with which I take issue.
I would posit instead that emotion is an independent function. Furthermore, that the speed and intensity (rate of vibration?) at which it operates falsifies the proposed solution that "Thinking is the only way out...". Rather, rooted in the body within which one's emotional and thinking functions operate, "thought" can observe the body, and thereby, I'd pray, harness (egads) or harmonize the functioning of one's emotional life. Would you agree with the supposition that there is a connection between the physical body and the emotional life? And the thinking life?
There is an illustration in which the emotional life is depicted as the horse in a coach operation. To say emotion is incomplete thought is akin to thinking of the horse only existing as an extension of the reins held by the driver. It could be such that the current passenger has little regard for the horse, only banging on the coach's roof to insist the driver whip it more and rein it in, as he is perturbed by the shakings and cavitations in what is, in actuality, a poorly maintained coach, which he instead ascribes to the horse's lack of capacity. The horse might need a carrot, a DMSO rubdown, Trigger's point therapy... Or to be recognized as something independent, capable, and powerful.
Because your avatar is a disembodied head, and you're advocating for a Vulcan-esque ethos, I wonder: do you swing a hammer? Perform any hard exercise? The body may be in need of a shock. Individuals, personal development, may be the only way out? Instead of asking 'why' wrt an external chaos, perhaps we should reorient to what our own aim or objective is, and how we can continue to operate optimally toward our goal, conditions being.. what they are. Of course it's possible an aim ought to be to try and properly assess our environment so as to avert what we perceive may be a coming disaster. Could it be fear is the rational (emotional?) response to danger?
Finally, in examining the complexity of the construction in which I find myself, and that of my surroundings, I believe it to be rational or reasoned to believe in an architect. With what is being played out on the world stage, I also infer the existence of organized, conscious evil. How to address the machinations? I aim to use my own power, organize as best I can, and try to build what I see fit will facilitate the goals of life on earth.
I perceive (which I hope to be a combined function) your discourse on emotion to be poorly formulated or, uh, thought-out? Are you familiar with, or have you made a study of, the work of G.I. Gurdjieff? Your admonition that, "...you must stop or greatly reduce the lies in your head ; your lies to yourself.", is a teaching point in that system, and so reading that repeatedly (along with other indications hinting at such) now begs the question. However, as you go on to say, "Emotions are incomplete thoughts.", you get toward that with which I take issue.
I am aware of Gurdjieff but not a follower. My conclusions are my own, based solely on observation.
I would posit instead that emotion is an independent function. Furthermore, that the speed and intensity (rate of vibration?) at which it operates falsifies the proposed solution that "Thinking is the only way out...".
The body and the mind are clearly the combined result of various semi-autonomous systems, physical and mental. In other animals, we can easily see emotional reactions to events. If we observe closely and intuitively we still do not see the level of conscious awareness of self (even in a flawed form) which can be seen (at least in a flawed form) in most humans. From this I have concluded that emotion came into existence before rational thought.
Then, when we examine the thoughts that fail to disclose to the thinker what is sought, or fail to express properly the meaning of the thinker when written or spoken, and yet we see the thinker attempting to use rational thought in a logical way, I conclude that it is likely something is interfering with correct thought.
On examination, both of myself and of the speech and behavior of others, I have concluded that the object preventing the expression of or enjoyment of clear thought is emotions that bedevil the thinker. Sometimes the thinker is aware of this and sometimes not. Yet, in every case where the thinker is cogent enough to stay fixed on the goal of clarity, I have found that anyone who expresses the thought that is trying to escape from emotional confusion will cause the emotion in the troubled thinker to subside. The goal is not to banish feelings, rather it is to understand them as thoughts in a way that makes it possible to act on them rationally, if that is desired. Failing to understand emotion correctly seems to be the primary source of humans' failing to get where they need to go.
Because your avatar is a disembodied head, and you're advocating for a Vulcan-esque ethos, I wonder: do you swing a hammer? Perform any hard exercise?
Does designing and building a 19m x 9.5m sailing catamaran count?
Instead of asking 'why' wrt an external chaos, perhaps we should reorient to what our own aim or objective is, and how we can continue to operate optimally toward our goal, conditions being.. what they are.
As I said in a comment above, how can we even approach 'why' without understanding 'what' it is we are observing? BTW, a mere glance at a thing which causes you to shit your pants is not what I mean by 'observing'.
Of course it's possible an aim ought to be to try and properly assess our environment so as to avert what we perceive may be a coming disaster. Could it be fear is the rational (emotional?) response to danger?
Clearly, emotion is an earlier developmental stage than rational thought, but it is also much more crude. Yes, it is there to help us stay alive when in danger, but what do you need to do when you find that emotional responses are repeatedly putting you in danger. Where do you turn if you experience opposed emotions simultaneously, each urging an opposed course of action? Do you really believe a third emotion will straighten everything out?
If something scares you badly or entices you in a questionable but irresistible way, wouldn't the prudent thing (the actual life enhancing/preserving thing) be to find out what you are confronting?
Hmm...Right now, for most of you, "Why" really means .
I think you meant to post that comment at some Yahoo story; You've apparently somehow forgotten you're at SOTT.
But, then again, ain't it you who's new here?
RC
There are any number of posters on SOTT who fall into "most of you". You didn't notice them? There are several such commenters on this very article.
Been here looooong :dislike:. Long enough that you should know who you're shitting on before you open your anus.
What happened -- your sundown mai tai crawl up the back of your throat and make you feel bad? Or was it my earlier comment that virtually everyone lies to themselves and you felt caught out?
I thought you were at least smart enough not to want a flame war.
I have done this successfully and in the process recovered from being crippled (unable to walk), having frozen shoulders, being in pain 24/7 (could not sleep for more than one hour at a time). What I notice as a result of that is I am far more rational and logical, as well as more intersted and caring for others. So our emotions stop our brain; in fact they drive our brain; or you could say our thinking is a result of our emotions.
So you can imagine having a fear of death (which is what is causing the prevalent compliance to lock down) drive all your thoughts (it is running your mind) makes you crave anything you think will alleviate your fear and you are not capable of logical assessment of the inherent dangers in the choice you are making. It appears easier to let our fear drive us than to take personal responsibility for our lives. And governments do not help us by pandering to this ( and certainly not by taking advantage of it). We cannot have freedom without taking personal responsibility.
This is why what the PM of Sweden said 'Swedish people need to take responsibility for their lives, we cannot legislate and control everything'. Very smart.
‘Stupid-21’ has been going around for yearsNo, that was stupid-18 and stupid-19 and now stupid-20. As they say, 'You ain't seen nothing yet'. Buckle your seatbelt.
Politicians are in the same boat on COVID. Some love abusing their power by locking us down. But, even those who are pretty sure the right call is to open things up know as soon as one person dies the media will be all over it, accusing them of choosing business over lives, etc ad ad nauseam. This is all kind of obvious and similar analogies are all over the place, but the football one particularly stands out to me.
Lord knows they can get away with a lot more than they've tried, I"m sorry to say.
Sorry SOBs.
RC
(i meant because Smoke on the Waters,, they call out Frank Zappa, and i linked that song, cause when i listened to your dixies lol (just kitten meowmeow ) .... that is what came through for me, instantly, DP!! (AT almost the same time, you linked the Tribute to FZappa!!)
p.s. did you cheat?? was i not totally on cue with DP... at the 0.04 mark of your girl duo??!! WOWA!! I thought to myself, Hi5 LM
In celebration of Russia's taste for speed and legendary bad roads, 'tractor racing' poised to become 'new national sport'
Tractor racing, an annual event held in Rostov-on-Don, South Russia, every summer, is in the running to become a national sport in the country, steadily evolving from a funny entertainment show to...Bk drittsekk er (alfabetbokstaven mellom l og n - og h og j) som kommenterer her som pikk. Du har tydelig sett hans to-ansiktsmaske.Å, du er så lur å si det på Norsk. Men det er du og Bk som driter overalt på Sott med dumme kommenter som har ingen relevans til artikkelen.
You have over 40 comments on this page, and not a single one of them has anything to do with the article. And that's pretty much the same with all other articles. You use the Sott comments section as a chatroom for your trolling, and when one thinks you can't sink any lower, you start calling people assholes and dicks in Norwegian. That's your contribution to this website in a nutshell. Both you and Brakar are just making Norwegians look stupid. What a shame.
BB, the two tops were tops just a great party here; thanks bros
THAT is such an extraordinary clip. Thank you so so much for sharing with all of us
wow!!
the first one is close... but it is more of a classic that i am feeling, i'm not very good with music (nor with yakking non-stop lol), not like my bros and then some!! ahhaaa
i am enjoying all these new tunes variation!! AS it is said, AS above SO below. (maybe newness coming in on land )
Try this track, it has several bits of "I know that from somewhere else" ... all very frustrating
Rob Jo Star Band - Acid Revolution - [Link]
Mont Real? A favorite city of mine. Went there after HS graduation. Granted that was a very, very long time ago…. Did not know this studio existed. A shame but happy to know that not all Canadian musicians and actors magically appeared in Laurel Canyon. Paid my respects to the old Forum, drank LaBatts at man and his world and had fun being pegged an American by my penny loafers. Merci.
One more for the road:
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THANKS again for the music; i am so enjoying the exchange of music on this thread, we ve got a few others going too. I was just writing to BB about High School graduation... yes, lifetimes ago!! CRAZY
My generation's stuck in the mirrorSeems rather aware for that generation.[Link]
"Forget about the poor, 'cause I don't like the word"
I need to know the name of my neighbor
I am not known if I'm not seen or heard
And I am afraid of that which I do not know
So why don't I just ask your fucking name
Justice just gets buried in a white light
I heard there was a time you'd call it shame
I also have issue with all these virus explano pieces, yay or nay. Everyone‘s an expert, though still conveniently dancing around the facts—here as well. Some is misdirection and mis-info, some, I assume, being fear of the unknown. Some is controlled confusion. Some is tip-toeing around the facts, to survive another day. The much maligned but basically benign virus is a building block of life . It is a basic cleansing agent for the immune system. Has no central nervous system, no brain, no heart, no muscles, tendons, blood vessels, arms, legs, nose, ears, eyes nor mouth. Yet this nasty MFer is creepy crawling about waiting to pounce. How do you kill something that isn’t alive to begin with?
In fact, when you became more than a twinkle in your parents eyes and were actually “created,” those consenting adults gifted you with a virus. Be thankful they did. They cleanse your immune system and gave you your healthy start and the ability to successfully traverse life.
A healthy immune system virus expels every 7–12 years and gives your body a spring cleaning in the form of the common cold. Sometimes a nasty one, sometimes not so much. All dependent on your environment. If your immune system is compromised then there is a probability that ”cold” could harm. Rarely do you die of the virus since it is a part of you and nature. It’s the ones derived and developed from the evil Petrie dishes of virologists you should fear. That and all their RX cure-all’s. For profit medicine is in fact nothing more than bandaids and B$. Those for-profit healthcare “professionals“ got their$, why should they care? Why “cure” anything when you’re making big bucks off sustaining it?
There are only two ways you can “get” a virus. Create it within your own body or having it injected into you. You know, like through a “flu” shot.…or a vaccine. Sure it’s all a little more intricate than this explano but those pushing agenda use sleight of hand, smoke and mrriors, screaming media and (paid) shills of “experts” to confuse and command. The only thing worse than their “for profit” bogus medicine, is their “for profit“ bogus science. They go hand-in-hand.
My opinion, y’all may now feel free to take your pot shots. I really do not care. I know what I know and have been chasing this BS since I was old enough to read and use my brain for something more than a hat rack. Against all odds, I was taught to be a critical thinker with a creative mind—that, my friends, rarely equates to being popular. A fact that was apparently a footnote in the owner’s manual—I never got.
Thanks to all for the wonderful music play list expansion. Skol