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New Zealand is one of the capitals of memetic bizzaro world:
Mark Richardson is a useful idiot and plays his role perfectly. Well he’s an idiot, of that I’m pretty certain. Unsure if he is useful for anything other than 300 defensive cricket shots in a row.
We are a society that is beset by current “things”. If you want to be a good person, these things supersede the enlightenment, critical thinking, debate, and even common sense. The things have always been there but the rise of social media has made them myriad and keeping up with them (let alone thinking about them critically) is a full time job.
One of the more recent “things” that the good and right people do is they take their covid vaccines. Mark Richardson clearly loves his country and knows sacrifice. The other hosts of the moron fest, play their part as well, signalling their unquestioning support for the current vaccine thing and putting themselves firmly on the side of goodness and cleanliness and rightness. Says one:
I’m the same, I just want to know that my health care workers are vaccinated and they are all in the same camp
I am sure that you also think that if you were sick in hospital the first thing you would want to know is that the person looking after you has taken their token theurapeutic that protects neither them, nor you from a disease that is not dangerous to almost everyone. That would be the only reasonable thing for a good person to do. So “surprised” they are that the dimwits at home don’t get it and aren’t good like they are.
And dimwits we all clearly are. RNZ knows what suckers for conspiracy theories we stupid, lumpen masses are. Luckily they have an “expert” to tell us to watch out for people who use pseudoscientific language to trick us into believing they have expertise. The expert helpfully gives us some examples of sciency sounding language that people might use when spreading vaccine disinformation. Language that includes, “mRNA” and “Spike Protein” and “inflammation”. You see idiots, you don’t know what inflammation means, you cannot know how to use it in a sentence, you would never normally use a big flash sciency word like inflammation so clearly you are a raving conspiracy theorist. Stick with “hurty, ow, ow” next time you have a red itchy raised bump from a mosquito bite, you thick headed morons and leave the serious wordplay to us experts.
All of these “elite” people, they are not at all smug or condescending. They are just helping the little people, the stupid little “antivaxers” come to team mRNA where all the other good people are. The good people who resiliently tapped away at their keyboards, while their houses sky rocketed in value and are genuinely puzzled that anyone could believe that covid was anything but the frightful experience that they saw on the television.
I mean come on people. They couldn’t even get takeaways. For weeks on end.
Don’t laugh. Not getting takeaways is serious business. Seven minutes of reading no less.
Whereas desperate poor people not being able to get enough to eat…..just the three minutes on that. I guess it’s less than half as interesting?
Chris Bray offers an explanation of their memetic behaviour. I highly recommend you read his explanation here and his substack generally. His writing has also pointed me to the idea of memetic societies explained here by Luca Dellana. It is perhaps not the whole explanation but it is surely part of it.
Once you’ve read Dellana’s 16 points, it’s a real challenge not to think of the four TV “personality” constructs above, as you go through the features of New Zealands memetic society. They say the right things, and feign the right emotions. They are sorry but you are unclean, and you should stay fired. They are the elite, doing the things that elite people do and it is that which makes them elite.
Of course they are mere pretenders to the memetic society uberlord, that is Jacinda Ardern. Or was.
Jacinda Ardern was the memetic leader of our Memetic Republic of New Zealand. She said ALL the right things and everything she said was good and caring and kind. She was a great communicator and this is more important than the substance of what she was communicating, which was mostly political theatre, wrapped in pseudoscience, with just a liberal serving of hugs fascism. Ostensibly, she retired because she “didn’t have enough gas in the tank”. But it is interesting this happened after the publication of two substacks from Cranmers substack (read them and share them) that outline in high detail, how Jacinda Ardern’s government ignored the Scientific advice they promised they would be led by and vaccinated people who didn’t need vaccinating. A bit scandalous you would think, but as always…..crickets from Stuff and co.
Probably a coincidence though right? I doubt Jacinda knows what a substack is. Or rather she absolutely knows that it is a poisonous place full of mysogeny and hate speech and if she were to utter the swear word substack, it would be accompanied by her most serious indignant naughty-mandate-protestor frowny face. Good people do not get their information from substacks they get it from elites like her. Or her friends Jessica and Tova.
In any case science doesn’t matter to her because science is just another thing she wields to show that she is an elite person. It is not a powerful process for discovering knowledge it is a symbol one wields to show their tribal affiliation. Ardern made it to the elite class and she did that not by merit, actions, intelligence, or critical thinking, she did it by subverting what ever person she was, into the symbolised political construct she needed to be.
People who do this “succeed” but they can never be successfull. And she wasn’t. She did not change anything. She left few positive marks and many negative ones. She will be an unremarkable historical footnote because she gave up her substance for symbology and substance does while symbology…..symbologies? Symbologifies? Symbologs. Something.
As I’ve said before we need to view covid in a historical sense, firmly placing it in history so that we can analyse it for the largest over reaction in human history that it was and free ourselves from the suffocating “caring” of the fear brigade.
But some of covid is not yet historical. Like the token, adverse-event-ridden short term therapeutic otherwise called the mRNA “vaccine”. It is still here. And while the vaccine pressure is not as bad as it was, at least you can refuse it without being made an outcast in society. Sort of. You are still an antivaxer of course. And clearly not capable of being in the elite. But compared to the original insanity around getting this vaccine the crazies in charge have toned it down at least a little bit.
Remember how if you didn’t want the vaccine, for perfectly legitimate reasons, perhaps because you were healthy and not obese and under 70, you could not go to the pub, or a cafe, or get on a plane?
Remember Super Saturday and the Vaxathon? New Zealand (along with the US) are the only two places in the world that allow direct to consumer prescription advertising. In 2019 the truly crap and firmly “Team Fear Brigade” Spinoff said such advertising should be banned:
There is evidence, too, that DTCA (direct to consumer advertising) is commonly misinterpreted as trusted public health information, and differentially affects “at risk” communities and those with unhealthy lifestyles that might be better managed with diet or exercise.
Jeepers. That doesn’t sound familiar at all.
But with the Vaxathon the Memetic Republic of New Zealand took that one step further, taking two million of our taxpayer dollars to promote a largely useless product from a massive multinational company that tries very hard to pay almost no tax here, all to end the little emergency that never quite was.
Imagine the lolz at the Pfizer advertising department (what follows could be but is probably not a quote from Pfizer):
Check this out, those keeewis, they pay two million dollars to advertise our largely useless product and then they buy the same product off us for hundreds of millions and we pay them no tax hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
WOW that is a big bonus.
And the previously Big Pharma critical Spinoff was all over it sharing such highlights of the day as “man making ice cream” and long time covid hysterionic Michael Baker stating:
I feel relieved that I have more antibodies in my body now.
Jesus wept that guy is such a tool.
My pride in being a New Zealander has taken a lot of dents in the last three years. But the Vaxathon was a spectacularly bizzare, low point. I still can’t quite believe it happened.
Perhaps some historical events do not need to be re-visited.
But I guess we aren’t here at least:
However we are still here:
They are free. Because that’s the thing that should be in bold.
Worse still:
I’m not familiar with Kvalsvig but that moronic comment is par for the course for the discourse in this country. She makes a song and dance about infections when the vaccine makes as good as no difference to infections quite possibly actively increasing them. She could just as easily have said “Based on words, interspersed with percentages, children should be subjected to something that will make no difference to any of the aforementioned words or percentages”. Then she could just be an expert on everything.
The vaccine is rapidly turning into a bigger disaster than all of the the other covid over response disasters. Put together. As a mechanism for preventing infection, spread, disease or death it is completely failing. There may have been some transient protection against these things around the beginning of delta, around the first 3 to 6 months of it’s roll out. But if there ever was almost certainly there is no more.
For a long time now, at the population level, vaccine efficacy has not only dropped to zero it has gone past zero and become actively negative. In September 2021, long before our vaccine mandates, papers like this were showing that there was no correlation between increasing covid cases and vaccination. In fact there were slightly negative correlations. As early as July of 2021 The Daily Sceptic was noting negative efficacy as was Eugypius in October of the same year. Negative efficacy is when the vaccinated are getting infected at a higher rate then the unvaccinated.
So. About that “pandemic of the unvaccinated” thing……..
This might sound weird to people who weren’t taking notice. But Brett Weinstein was and he interveiwed Geert Vanden Boosche in April 2021. You can hear that interview here. In it they discuss one possible mechanism for this negative efficacy, a process called “original antigenic sin”.
Once your body learns to deal with an antigen in a certain way, it can get stuck in that mode (the original sin). If that mode is not a good way of dealing with the antigen then your immune response becomes ineffective. In the case of the mRNA vaccines your body was smashed with a huge amount of Spike protein all over the body, because the shot doesn’t stay in your shoulder and the mRNA can linger and keep making spike for at least 28 days (which is the time they stopped measuring). Remember “it stays in your shoulder” and lingers for “a day or two”.
Yeah, not so much.
So your immune system sees Spike and lots of it. And not current Spike either. But Spike from a year ago, from a strain that is already extinct. So it makes antibodies to that Spike. Lots of them. It doesn’t see any other part of the virus, so it doesn’t make antibodies to them. Because it enters the body unnaturally it doesn’t activate the mucosal immune system, which is very important for respiratory viruses. The lipid nano particles are not targeted in anyway, they will enter any cell anywhere (or not) at random. So they get into your blood which means they go everywhere and induce cells to produce Spike that can cause damage to the liver, your brain, your kidneys and your heart. Because this vaccine was rushed and not tested sufficently, we have little idea how common any of these effects are.
What happens when you subsequently get infected with covid? Your body makes loads of anti spike protein because it sees the spike and responds to that. But it doesn’t make the right sort of antibody, because the Spike protein changed long ago. It also doesn’t make any antibodies to the other parts of the virus because it has already solved this Spike problem before; so it makes one specific type of anti Spike. Also other parts of the immune response are less well activated or not at all. Because your body has already been trained to make a sub optimal reaction.
This is not new information. It was well known before covid and described as early as 1960. It was well understood that using vaccines that are non sterilising (do not kill the virus) can put an evolutionary pressure on the virus to beat the vaccine, potentially making things worse. This could lead to unpredicatable outcomes including more virulent viruses.
Moreover because your body produces such high levels of Spike, and then the virus exposes your immune system to high levels of Spike your immune system seems to become more tolerant to the Spike. So instead of fighting the virus your body tolerates it. This is evidenced in this large scale study in Cleveland that clearly shows that the more jabbed you are the more covid you get.
There is also a mechanism for this discussed here. Your response to an antigen involves families of different types of antibodies; Ig1, 2, 3 and 4. All play different roles. Ig4 is a tolerating antibody important in stopping autoimmune conditions (where your immune system attacks you). It supresses other immune responses, allowing you to tolerate it’s antigen more and more. Think of the humble beekeeper. A beekeeper is stung many times. Bee stings often involve swelling and itching and can result in strong allergic reactions, in extreme cases even causing death. There is no need for the immune system to react strongly to the bee keeper being stung because the poison is localised, does not cause infection and is therefore not really very dangerous. And also a hazard of his job. In cases like this the immune system needs to acknowledge, but largely ignore this bee venom antigen.
When the beekeeper is first stung Ig4 is a very small part of the antibody response (perhaps less than 0.1%). But as the bee keeper gets stung again and again the levels of other antibodies drop and the level of Ig4 increases. This increased Ig4 makes the immune system tolerant to the sting, which is fine because the sting does not replicate itself and attack the rest of the body.
What this paper shows is that you can replace the bee sting in the above example with a covid infection and we see the same thing. Decreasing levels of Ig3 and increasing levels of Ig4. The body begins to tolerate covid infections. But a covid infection is not like a bee sting. If the body tolerates it then the infection lasts longer and not only can you get more infections, you can get sicker from them.
We have seen a sustained, non covid, increase in excess mortality in heavily vaccinated countries since near the beginning of the mRNA vaccine rollout and it is correlated to their timing in a more than slightly suspicious manner. A more recent review of that can be found here but certain internet felines (among others) have been observing this for over a year. Is this from vaccination, or something else? We don’t know as no one who should be, is asking.
What does all this mean, historically?
What we have is a record of many people, legitimately critiquing the vaccine and for good reason long before it was mandated. Many of them were experts in various fields. Some of the critiques were logical; for instance the vaccine was rushed. The fastest vaccine in history took around 4 years, but typically they take around 10 years.
Alot of that vaccine development time is waiting. Waiting to see what good or bad things might result from the vaccination. It takes time, because you have to give it to a lot of people and carfully observe them, to pick up most of the potential problems. There is no way to speed this up. There is no shortcut.
Not only was it rushed but the technique has failed again and again over the last 15 years or so. But suddenly, when pharma companies couldn’t be sued, and there was a shit ton of money to be made and an “emergency” it all worked really well, Safe and Effective.
It was rushed, produced by less than reputable parties, and it’s efficacy was quickly shown to be nothing like what the trials promised. The level of adverse events was obviously very high from the start, it clearly didn’t stop covid infection and there has never been a covid emergency to justify this in the first place. It stunk, if not from the start (when it did seem to have some efficacy) than very early on. Not wanting to take it was quite a commonsense position.
Why is this important?
Because as this clear nudity on the behalf of the vaccine emperor has become more and more difficult to ignore…..we begin to see the wiggle.
Rather than admit they were wrong the elites are trying a string of tactics to avert blame from themselves. As I’ve said before, it’s tough to admit you are wrong. It’s especially tough when you are in the clever club that is supposed to be right all the time. Elites are never wrong, stupid.
Enter the wigglers.
Josh Szeps is a mostly a good interviewer and has a good sense of humour. I enjoy his podcast although some times the sound of elite idiots jerking each other off can be a bit much for me. But this little interlude took the cake and seemed to set a trend:
In it Josh comes to terms with some places where he was wrong about the vaccine. But the important thing to know about Josh being wrong, is that he was wrong for the correct reasons, so therefore he wasn’t wrong. Because epistemiology.
You see he listened to the other right elite people, the smart people, not the misinformed and stupid antivaxers. Josh listened to The Science and that is the right thing to do, and because it is the right thing to do, it remains right even if it’s wrong. Oh and fuck you antivaxers.
You see a similar thing with Sam Harris.
Sam makes the brilliant point, that if the virus had just actually been dangerous, and killed children more frequently than all these idiots wouldn’t have been arguing about taking the vaccine, they would have just taken it.
Sam asks us to imagine a world where something worse happened that would have made his incorrect assesment of the covid vaccine correct. In Sams brave new world, where we have more dead people and especially kids there would have been less argument about taking the vaccine.
Mind blown Sam, but it doesn’t change the fact that less debate about taking the vaccine wouldn’t have changed the fact that the vaccine is rubbish hasn’t stopped covid, covid hospitalisations or covid deaths and has killed and injured a lot of people.
I would prefer to imgine a world where “elite”, supposedly smart, supposedly caring, people had made actual data based decisions and weren’t corrupted by fear, vanity and greed and were not amplified by a dying and desperately flailing mainstream media all aided and abetted by a woke, antisocial silicon valley uber class alorthimically supressing debate.
Unfortunately we are stuck with the actual world aren’t we Sam? And in the actual world covid was never that big a deal for most people, the vaccine has been a pretty epic fail and fortunately has killed almost no children.
I thought the truth would set us free. Obviously the politicians would wiggle and try and throw big pharma and / or each other under the bus. Whats a construct gonna do but re-construct itself? And Big Pharma would be all like aww shucks guys, and then go back to doing exactly what they were doing before.
I thought all the people who have said terrible things about those of us on team reality; we hate old people, we only care about money, we are grifters, we are stupid, we are spreaders of disinformation, we are anti-science, we are eugenicists etc, etc, I thought they would have to at least own up to their cowardly bullshit. The sort of bullshit that actually lead to completely fascistic outcomes like this:
I did not anticipate that they would simply try and tell us that even though the truth before their own eyes says they were quite plainly wrong, that they would simply argue that they weren’t wrong because if you are wrong for the right reasons you are not wrong. And still call people who were right about most things using logic and reason and scientific precedent (like Brett Weinstein) conspiracy theorists.
And not apologise.
I realise forgiveness is the only way we move forward. There will be no mea culpa, no “ha I told you so”. But these people have acted so very poorly, so very unscientifically that sometimes fiery vengence smells sooooo delicious.
We are a bit behind things here in the Memetic Republic of New Zealand. But I am curious to see how long before Wiles, Baker, Petousis-Harris, Jackson [insert your least favourite experts name here] and all the other experts begin their version of the wiggle.
How long before Wiles is telling us:
“hey I listened to the right people, went to the right schools, was in the right newspapers, said the right things, made the right gestures, I’m in the right clubs, I have the right symbols in my Twitter handle, so how could I actually be wrong with all that rightness around me? I’m not wrong. I’m right adjacent. Fuck you conspiracy theorist”
I guess all we can do is hope her wiggling happens verbally and not physically.
"Josh listened to The Science and that is the right thing to do, and because it is the right thing to do, it remains right even if it’s wrong. "
Yep, that about sums it up.
Speaking of the Vax-a-Thon in mid October 2021, there was a worryingly large number of 2-dose people die in January-February of 2022.
Baffling.