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3.21.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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Note: I read a lot of Substacks each day. The Basket is intended to be a collection of the money quotes from the best of what I read. My goal is that you enjoy this service because it saves you time and quickly informs you. And my hope is that you find one or two articles that you click into because you want more.What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Racoon Dog Distraction by Mr Law, Health and Technology
Aspiration Reduce Adverse Events? by Norman Fenton
Pseudouridine Unnatural To Humans by Dr. Peter McCullough
Pandemic Misinformation Artists by eugyppius
Francis Collins Lied About GoF by David Zweig
Stanford’s Virality Project Goes Full Goebbels by Justin Hart
N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) To Combat COVID-19 by Walter M Chesnut
Graphene Oxide Yes Or No? by Sasha Latypova
Would-Be Capitalism by Curtis Yarvin
OWID Data Problems by USMortality
Lab “Leak” Is Weak by Brian Mowrey
Vax Spike Venous Thrombosis by Dr. Peter McCullough
Moderna’s Legal Plunder by el gato malo
Western Australia High Adverse Events by Steve Kirsch
Testing Sewage For Covid by eugyppius
New Zealand Vax Approvals A Mess by Cranmer
Science Is Not To Be Trusted by Alex Washburne
Long Covid Referrals Dropping by Igor Chudov
Japan: Pfizer Jabs Not Discarded by Guy Gin
Adjusting For Catastrophic Health Collapse by John Dee
Racoon Dog Distraction by Mr Law, Health and Technology
This theory posits that, whilst still arising out of the Wuhan seafood market, it was raccoon dogs that were being offered for sale for human consumption that carried covid, and transmitted it to humans.
It really seems like we’ve returned to a previous age where it doesn’t matter what you believe, merely thinking about it causes disease.
As they divide us into smaller and smaller groups that each believe a different version of the Covid-19 origin theories, we continue to believe in Covid, get jabbed and catch Covid - most often in that order.
Whether Covid-19 arose from one of the many animals that so-called scientists can’t seem to agree on or a lab leak, which seems far more plausible and probable given the documentary evidence from America and China, you are meant to be distracted by all the tooing and froing and not paying attention to what your government and the globalists are doing behind the curtain.
Aspiration Reduce Adverse Events? by Norman Fenton
aspiration was not recommended when the covid vaccines were rolled out world-wide at the start of 2021.
Prof Høiby convinced the Danish Government to recommend aspiration for all covid vaccines in March 2021.
Prof Høiby looked at the publicly available data on recorded instances of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccinated people in Denmark (where aspiration was used) compared to neighbouring Norway (where it wasn’t). In October 2021 these data were:
Denmark: 129 formally recorded instances of myocarditis/pericarditis among 4,304,581 vaccinated people
Norway: 274 formally recorded instances of myocarditis/pericarditis among 3,766,080 vaccinated people
Irrespective of whether the bolus theory does explain most vaccine injuries, it seems increasingly inexplicable that aspiration, (together with slow delivery) is not required of all intramuscular vaccines.
Pseudouridine Unnatural To Humans by Dr. Peter McCullough
The replacement of uracil with its ribose ring (uridine) with N-1-methyl-pseudouridine, a synthetic product makes the genetic code for the Wuhan Spike protein better stabilized on lipid nanoparticles, long-lasting, and very efficient in terms of evading cellular destruction and able to undergo repeat reading by ribosomes for continued protein synthesis.
Morais et al indicate that both Pfizer and Moderna chose development strategies replacing all uridine units with pseudouridine, making the entire strand completely “unnatural” to the human body. Thus vaccine consultants, companies, and patients unfortunately gambled on how long mRNA would be active within the human body.
Repeated administrations of mRNA studded with apparently indestructible pseudouridine may have changed the course of lives forever.
Pandemic Misinformation Artists by eugyppius
While zoonotic theories of SARS-CoV-2 origins are not very likely, they’re not, strictly speaking, impossible. What is impossible, though, is this stupid subgenre of the zoonosis theory which insists that the spillover event happened in December 2019 at this market. We now have solid evidence that Corona was circulating around the world as early as September 2019 – months before this December outbreak happened at all. Raccoon dogs sold at the market might well have been carrying Covid, which they would’ve picked up from their human handlers.
Any plausible case for natural spillover has to lean heavily on the early, unrecognised circulation of SARS-2 beyond China since September 2019 at the latest. Officially sanctioned theories can’t take this step, because it would amount to admitting that the virus was everywhere for many months, without any hospitals melting down or any noticeable mortality spikes spikes at all
Francis Collins Lied About GoF by David Zweig
In May 2021, in the face of increasing scrutiny, Francis Collins, then head of the NIH—which issues grants with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci’s old agency—released a statement that said:“Neither NIH nor NIAID have ever approved any grant that would have supported “gain-of-function” research on coronaviruses that would have increased their transmissibility or lethality for humans.”
This statement wasn’t just related to Wuhan. It was a blanket disavowal that the government funded any of this research, ever.
The NIH halted research on 18 separate projects, at least five of which were on coronaviruses, for potentially creating versions that were more deadly in or transmissible among humans.
Five projects on coronaviruses were exempted from the pause—solely because a funding-agency official declared they were urgently necessary.
[Dr. Richard] Ebright—who has testified before Congress about gain-of-function research—said, “Collins’ statement, like similar statements made by Fauci, is untruthful. Knowingly, willfully, and brazenly untruthful.”
Stanford’s Virality Project Goes Full Goebbels by Justin Hart
The Twitter Files #19 sheds light on the alarming actions of the Virality Project, a secretive collaboration between Stanford University, federal agencies, and various NGOs.
This Orwellian system of information suppression was a resounding success, as government, academia, and an oligopoly of powerful corporations quickly organized behind a secret, unified effort to manipulate political messaging.
The Virality Project often framed real testimonials about vaccine side effects as misinformation, focusing on audience response to gauge disinformation.
The Virality Project's actions highlight a shift in America's information mission. It moved from focusing on counterterrorism abroad to stopping "foreign interference" from reaching domestic audiences, and eventually to an 80% focus on domestic content, much of which was true
N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) To Combat COVID-19 by Walter M Chesnut
the cytokine and bradykinin storms associated with the severity and mortality of COVID-19…are secondary to the main culprit in COVID-19 and Spike Protein pathology: The Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Storm.
This is where NAC enters the picture. “It acts directly as a scavenger of free radicals, especially oxygen radicals. NAC is a powerful antioxidant. It is also recommended as a potential treatment option for different disorders resulted from generation of free oxygen radicals.”
stopping the production of ROS by SARS-CoV-2 (obviously including the Spike Protein) will mitigate the severity and mortality of COVID-19.
NAC has the potential to be one of our most effective weapons against SARS-CoV-2 and its Spike Protein.
Graphene Oxide Yes Or No? by Sasha Latypova
this is what the “vaccine” supposed to induce your cells to make - this shape and size of the protein. And we know it may or may not do that. Most of the time it makes something else, in fake CMC documentation submitted by Pfizer to the EMA a different size of protein was made, a much larger one - 180-230 kDa, according to what appears to be faked Western blotting technique, and no corresponding model of the structure was produced. So we still don’t know quite what kind of protein is produced, but we know it is damaging to the victims.
Bottom line, nobody knows what is being made in the cells of the unfortunate victims of the mass-scale unrestricted warfare, of which this chemistry is only part. A state-of-the-art part.
Does this prove graphene oxide in the injections?
NO. It just proves Pfizer uses graphene oxide at Groton labs for CryoEM high resolution imaging sample prep for this study.
Can graphene oxide still be present in the injection?
YES. It can be. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence for it.
Would-Be Capitalism by Curtis Yarvin
What this graph means is that the whole economy chronically loses money. Notice those moments where debt goes flat or even down? These are called “recessions.” When any system, big or small, goes tits up unless it can keep borrowing, it is losing money.
In a free-market financial system, interest rates would be set by supply and demand. In this hypothetical system, which has existed in the past but does not exist anywhere today, every borrower has an equal and opposite lender. If you want to borrow money for 30 years, find someone who wants to lend money for 30 years.
This design is stable because, borrowing genuine and exogenous cataclysms (asteroid strike, pandemic, etc), neither the demand for, nor the supply of, loanable funds, has any reason to change rapidly. Anything that cannot change rapidly is stable. Duh.
That would be capitalism. This is not how our financial system works. Our financial system is powered by continuously increasing systemic debt which is never repaid
OWID Data Problems by USMortality
There are several source data problems, such as missing/hidden data and or incomplete sources.
Massive difference in rates between countries point towards underlying methodological issues.
Only four countries provide data, for an often short time frame, which does not allow for proper analysis.
Partially vaccinated and unknown are omitted by OWID.
Rates are based on COVID-19 deaths, which are likely based on unreliable classifications, uncontrolled testing methodology and different populations. Actual deaths figures reveal that unvaccinated are not dying at large.
Manipulative coloring tries to manipulate the reader.
Possible misclassifications might skew results.
Less than 50% of excess deaths are accounted for by these COVID-19 deaths.
Lab “Leak” Is Weak by Brian Mowrey
“serious” scientists aren’t allowed to entertain the idea of deliberate release.
both a zoonotic origin and a Wuhan lab leak strike me as heavily flawed theories of the origin of the virus; the framing of the controversy as only including these two alternatives thus ensures that both sides must miss the truth.
Lab “leak,” whatever its corroborating evidence, struggles to explain certain facts:
not only would WIV have to have been conducting this work in secret on an unreported isolate of the precursor to SARS-CoV-2, but they would have to had either not taken such a step with their published viruses of interest, or have done so without reporting it. DEFUSE only has weight as evidence of guilt if what WIV did actually matches what DEFUSE says.
Why is SARS-CoV-2 more closely related to bat viruses from Laos than the area frequented in WIV’s outings?
Why did the virus emerge at the same time as the Military Games were held in China, with reports of soldiers from many countries falling ill at the time?
Why did America (later) claim to know the virus was spreading in Wuhan in November, 2019, but not make the same claim for areas to which it had already additionally appeared by then (e.g. Italy, and probably California)?
Why did researchers from India report the HIV “inserts” in SARS-CoV-2 so quickly?
Vax Spike Venous Thrombosis by Dr. Peter McCullough
With vaccination…the full force of engineered Spike protein is felt in the body with each shot and per case, the severity of the side effect is far worse than that with COVID-19.
Tu, et al illustrated this principle while analyzing central venous thrombosis which is a blood clot in the major vein of the brain which is a medical emergency requiring, hospitalization, intravenous or subcutaneous blood thinners, serial imaging, observation and in some cases surgery.
Central venous thrombosis after vaccination was a catastrophe with more cases, greater need for therapy, more brain surgery, and higher degrees of neurologic impairment at discharge for those who took the mRNA vaccine.
Moderna’s Legal Plunder by el gato malo
moderna is being sued by two companies (arbutus and genevant) for violating/misappropriating their intellectual property (IP) and violating their patents on a set of lipid nano-particle tech to encapsulate mRNA and protect it when it’s administered to the bloodstream.
quite literally, the moderna argument is “you sued the wrong party in the wrong court and you should be suing the US government because if we stole this, we stole it in their name.”
it essentially renders all companies selling products to the feds IP privateers enabled and even encouraged to grab any and all IP without license, incorporate it into their products, sell it to the state as massive profit, and then skate off scott free while the taxpayers who were on the hook for this initial profiteering are placed once more in the lurch for IP issues because, let’s remember: “government pays” always and everywhere means “you pay.”
Western Australia High Adverse Events by Steve Kirsch
There was almost no Covid in WA in 2021, due to WA's extreme zero covid policies. There was just the massive jab rollout in 2021. This makes it an interesting “control” group.
The adverse event reports started to skyrocket the instant the COVID vaccines were rolled out.
57% of AEFIs were treated in the emergency department (ED) or in the hospital.
Most AEFIs (58%) were self-reported, with only 35% being reported by healthcare providers.
Those aged 30-49 were hit hardest, with AEFI rates of 314-316 per 100, 000 doses.
Testing Sewage For Covid by eugyppius
Samples are taken twice a week at 15 sewage treatment plants in the state and tested for the Covid and its current variants.
The effort is scheduled to run to the end of the year and will cost 2.5 million Euros. Those involved hint darkly that any future programme growing out of the trial might survey for other respiratory viruses as well, such as RSV and influenza. Thus the press will always have something to panic about.
It would be great to have politicians and parties committed explicitly to defunding all of these lunatics, before they cause another mass hysteria.
New Zealand Vax Approvals A Mess by Cranmer
The Pfizer vaccine was approved for use by New Zealand’s regulator, Medsafe on 3 February 2021. The development was immediately welcomed by then Prime Minister Ardern who stated, “Medsafe’s decision is the culmination of a rigorous assessment process over many months to ensure the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is safe and effective to use here. It is informed by the most up-to-date medical and scientific data. We can have confidence in their decision.”
However, in reality, the government’s representation of Medsafe's assessment was overstated. Specifically, Medsafe’s clinical assessment found:
“The duration of the vaccine protection has not been established beyond two months.”
“At this stage, there is limited evidence of protection against severe disease.”
“There is no long term safety follow-up information.”
“Vaccine prevention of asymptomatic infection and disease transmission has not been established.”
Therefore when it made its benefit risk assessment, Medsafe concluded:“The benefit risk balance of Comirnaty (COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine) for active immunisation to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 in individuals 16 years of age and older, is not clear. At this stage, there is evidence only for short-term protection, and longer-term safety data are lacking. However, experience with the vaccine is accumulating rapidly.”
Science Is Not To Be Trusted by Alex Washburne
The long arc of science bends towards truth, but only if we preserve the integrity of the process by which we disagree and discuss evidence.
Science is anything but constant and monolithic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the public saw inside the sausage factory of modern science and puked.
By presenting science as a monolithic belief system, a compendium of facts to be trusted and not questioned, we created a science-policy interface that policed emerging science as misinformation and misled the public about the nature of science itself, all but guaranteeing a partisan response by prohibiting public participation and engagement in the scientific process.
The truth is easy to say: scientists working on the front-lines of science hold different views. We disagree.
Richard Feynman described science as “belief in the ignorance of experts”. Science is not about the answers, per se, it’s about questioning the answers and trying to disprove the theory du jour, it’s about the longer-arc of the social process by which we share evidence and evaluate competing ideas. In times of crisis, science is not to be followed - it is to be examined, discussed, questioned and, for managers, incorporated alongside myriad other factors such as anthropological variation in folks’ beliefs, capacities, and wills to act.
Long Covid Referrals Dropping by Igor Chudov
I believe Long Covid to be real - but it is occasionally mixed up with vaccine injuries or is instead a manifestation of the Munchausen syndrome.
If Long Covid is a mass disabling event, why did referrals to Long Covid clinics drop from 755 in May 2021 to 80 per month in Oct-Dec 2022?
The answer may be that some self-reported Long Covid is vaccine damage, and people are no longer vaccinating
Japan: Pfizer Jabs Not Discarded by Guy Gin
$1.6 billion is just an estimate since the actual purchase price isn’t publicly known.
AstraZeneca and Moderna account for the overwhelming majority of the discarded jabs. Hardly any Pfizer/BioNTech jabs have been thrown away even though far more of them were procured.
The AZ, Moderna, and Pfizer/BNT jabs all originally had 6 month expiry dates, but Moderna’s was extended to 9 months and Pfizer/BNT’s was extended to 18 months. So either (1) the quality of Pfizer/BNT’s mRNA jabs can be maintained for twice as long as that of Moderna’s or (2) the Japanese government has some undisclosed reason for giving Pfizer/BNT favourable treatment.
Adjusting For Catastrophic Health Collapse by John Dee
the flu-like respiratory illness we’ve called COVID-19 was happening across the UK well before the government claim something novel and deadly dangerous was happening, which suggests (but does not prove) that the CHEC [catastrophic health collapse] death spike is likely to be iatrogenic in nature. Not iatrogenic in the narrow sense of medical intervention directly causing death but in a wider sense of poor patient management, inappropriate use of EOL protocols, overuse of potentially lethal sedatives, failure to provide a basic standard of care, and misguided application of ill-advised government policies.
In a nutshell it is the response to COVID that killed.
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And in case you missed it, here is a “for dummies” version of the important work Kevin McKernan is doing on the bivalent vaxes…
