The evidence proves there was no unusually novel, deadly pathogen in spring 2020 in the UK. It's a good thing the anti-vaxxers weren't "de-platformed and re-educated", eh Piers?
It was the culmination of a similar fear porn campaign carried out by the Government on it's citizens in relation to the year 2000 (Y2K projects abounded, it was constantly drummed into us).
Planes were literally going to drop out of the sky, bank vault doors spring open, people were going to be trapped in buildings, fire systems could fail. The list was endless. They spent a LOT of money on making us terrified then too and then on 'fixing the problem'. People were doing back ups of back ups.
I do not remember a single issue occurring, so 'they' would say the solution worked. I strongly suspect nothing would have happened anyway.
It is highly likely that there was a similar drop in service provision and lack of care because people were so focussed on Y2k projects, resulting in higher excess deaths. Maybe some doctors who were working at the time will have a better recollection on that specifically.
It was another of those really stupid panics which a few minutes of thought showed was a load of rubbish! A friend of mine made a fortune down in the west country "fixing" the bugs in all the computers. Imaginary bugs, obviously.
They are not imaginary, it's a plausible problem. Your friend maybe is a crook who created such imaginary problems where they weren't to charge for it - which doesn't make them nonexistent in other places.
A similar problem exists today with Linux - they use UNIX time, storing seconds since Jan 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, in an u32.
Sorry to nitpick, but just to clarify it's not something unique to Linux. Firstly Linux is not Unix - Linux us Unix-like and certainly has some of it's foundations in Unix, but it's definitely not the same thing.
Second, "Unix time" is completely separate from Unix (albeit started with Unix and hence the name) and is another computational measure of time starting with a certain epoch (Jan 1, 1970) but there's a bunch of others that will all have various pros and cons.
Which leads into the third point that it's not just Linux that uses Unix time - Android, Apple, BSD, etc. Even different software can use or call different epochs so even if the system isn't affected, software or even individual hardware in a system can be affected.
Anyways, I realise I sound like a complete Linux twat, I just get tired of Linux being hated on for many of the same reasons we've seen played out through the 'COVID era' - big business likes to manipulate and take out the competition to pad their profits by spreading propaganda and astroturfing.
This issue was fixed in the Linux kernel several years ago now but will still be an issue (like Y2K) for systems that haven't updated or have 32bit Unix-time hardcoded.
(Hope all this makes sense, I'm extremely tired at the moment)
It isn't necessarily the kernel though. There is a lot of badly written software out there (I would say the vast majority of it).
I am not taking that into account when I write software just now, and I doubt that the linux kernel being fixed will save bugs in my software from happening. I am not expecting any of the software I have written to be running by then but who know. None of it has been critical enough to have the potential cause serious harm though.
Yes, I worked in IT at the FSA (now renamed FCA after the shame of the financial crash) at the time. Careers were built on the Y2K fear issue; money was no object, especially when it came to paying for all the new chiefs. It was an eye-watering, eye-opening experience.
Maybe not planes crash, but it was a realistic problem that needed fixing, and a lot of effort was spent to fix lots of software.
If problems are taken care of, it may just be that nothing bad happens.
To say afterwards "see, much ado about nothing" is kinda silly. There was nothing _because_ it was taken care of - and that, because the right people were "alarmed".
Now, media turning this into doom porn is something differ.
This attitude eye-rollingly reminds me of those laughing about the supposed "craze" about impacted forests' health due to polluted rain. Which was taken care of by mandating filters for industrial plants letting stuff in the air. Problem identified, problem tackled, problem goes away. Big surprise...
Those things are poor analogies for what happened since 2020. This was top-down orchestrated with direct consequences for everyone's lives, vs. the old media just doing what they always used to do, turning everything that can be calmly solved into the apocalypse.
It has been honed and perfected over a long period. I feel sad for young people who have been brought up with it. They are bombarded with wokeism, guilt and fear on multiple fronts.
I hope they can forgive us when they realise what we allowed to happen / were too blind to see.
In the Mirror article from July 2021, Piers says he is double jabbed with AZ. In the photo he is holding up a card saying Pfizer dated 11/11/2021 and yet he caught Covid at the Euro 2020 tournament in June/July 2021.
When my daughter went to get boosted they asked her which one she wanted. She thought it strange, I told her that should have been a tip off and she should have said neither.
People living in faith never question their faith for doing so they would be faithless thus banned from their flock and what they appreciate the most is to be part of their flock .
So, yes , they will roll their sleeves and hope to have 2 jabs for the price of 1.
Thanks Joel, a beacon in the darkness. Forever grateful for your diligent work and in helping those in opposition to the madness not feel isolated. I fear that even with all we know now, if repeated, we would have the same outcome.
Indeed. One may be in a rural area and know how to be pretty self-sufficient in food but 'the state' could still come after you. I de-registered from any GP in 2022 but still got an unwanted autumn 2023 'invitation' for a flu and COVID jab. They hadn't returned my medical records as demanded but had clearly just passed them onto the NHS centrally.
#1: Complete lasting PEACEFUL STRIKE aka CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE until TPTB throw the towel.
#2: Do nothing and accept slavery by cowardice .
#3: Wait until the laypersons break wild and enter civil war as it is a law of nature that, when those who simply want to be left alone and live quietly are pushed to the breaking point, then they break wild and become bloodthirsty revengeful people very difficult to manage that will roam the country as long ad their feelings will not have been exhausted by river of blood and guts.
That is nothing else than human history as it repeats itself for so long.
Summary: We can react PEACEFULLY now or wait for a tidal wave of violence.
I am very much in that camp. I now take all my foreign holidays in the winter given that the evidence on Vit D supplementation is not compelling enough for me.
Yes, methinks they got to Levitt. Also, all the stats were there from the Diamond Princess. ‘Vulnerable’ age group in close proximity to each other with little effect (ionnides?)
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Yep, very early on Ionnides did a quick, back-of-the-envelope calculation based on the Princess Cruise and his numbers were spot on--for a fat, older sick demo--about 0.25% EFR. He later did a broader calculation and found a world-wide EFR of about 0.15%, if I recall, not even an especially strong flu. I think the medical response, lockdowns, etc. were the real drivers of mortality.
In July 2021 the UK DHSC gave a parliamentary answer to Steve Baker MP. It stated that the IFR of COVID was then 0.096%, i.e. about 0.1%.
Sometimes these people are honest, at other times they lie through their teeth. A DHSC Minister said in a letter via my MP that the disease was 'deadly'.
Ahhhhh.😊😊 That explains why I gravitated to look at both works. You both have a very factual and no BS style that makes stats far more accessible to the lay person. Love to see you guys tag team in a podcast 🤗🙏🙏🙏
In May of 2020 the CDC admitted the IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) was 0.3% and that means every intervention done since was fraud. That is similar to the Asian flu of the late 1950's or the Hong Kong flu of the late 1960's.
They confess: they had no virus when they concocted the test for the virus; they “contrived” a model by pretending to find what they wanted to find; it’s called a self-fulfilling prophecy
This is the con and the crime that drove millions of lives, and economies, into ruin.
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Excellent. Thank you. Had seen a couple of Sam's early videos but didn't realise she had a Substack. have now subscribed. More for the knowledge scaffold!
Here's some more (ming blowing) context not yet mentioned by the 'no virus' camp...
The model of contagion used to dictate government policy in the UK at the start of 2020 was based on a 2017 'contagion simulation' experiment conducted by the BBC, Cambridge University and LSHTM. The experiment involved 30,000 volunteers downloading a special app to their smartphones which allowed them to be tracked. Celebrity mathematician Hannah Fry played the role of 'patient zero' who 'infected' the volunteers at an event in Haslemere. The experiment was made into a BBC documentary shown in 2018 (Contagion! The BBC4 Pandemic).
This experiment becomes extremely significant when you realise contagion between humans has never been demonstrated in over a century of experiments (Rosenau etc) which makes the theory of contagion a FAILED (disproven) theory.
Contagion between humans might not be a thing, but contagion between smartphones is as easy as spreading a meme or cat video. This is presumably why they decided to create their 'pandemic' model from smartphones and not people.
Hannah Fry and the others involved openly admit that the model created from the smartphone data set became 'the new gold standard' for modelling pandemics and that it formed the basis of government policy two years later, at the start of 2020.
In other words the 2020 'pandemic' was an entirely digital construct with absolutely no connection to any biological process or mechanism. Not only was the model based on smartphone apps, but the 'in silico' virus and PCR 'test' were also digital constructs and software generated code with no relation to anything real.
Once people realise virology does not qualify as a science and contagion is not a thing (colds and flus are no more contagious than scurvy) then this BBC experiment with smartphones will be understood as perhaps the biggest and most audacious (and smug) act of science fraud in history ... not to mention a crime against humanity, as it was used to justify lockdowns and vaccines.
As for the fear mongering at the start of 2020, Boris, Whitty and co were at pains to point out that 'covid' was essentially the flu and nothing to worry about. They said this repeatedly. At the same time they were also describing 'covid' as deadly pandemic and 'invisible killer'.
This contradiction suggests they were torn between the reality of the situation (a normal flu season) and the WHO script they were being ordered to read along with all the other 'world leaders'.
You can see their contradictory statements in this video (presented with a touch of Python-esque humour):
For more on the BBC smartphone experiment watch the second half of Episode 3 (A Smart Phoney Pandemic) and follow the links in the description for the researcher who did the original deep dive on the whole thing.
The whole thing is a farce and the only thing preventing a mass awakening (and return to proper health and vitality) is the 'health freedom movement' (RFK, Bigtree etc) who still insist viruses and contagion are real and virology is a science.
In over a century of disgusting experiments rubbing the snot and lung fluid of sick people into the eyes, nose and throats of healthy people, they've never managed to make a healthy person sick. Whatever method of transmission you can think of - they've tried it!
The failure to provoke sickness by close contact or sharing of bodily fluids is enough on its own to disprove the existence of viruses. Viruses are defined as contagious particles. Without contagion the blobs we see under the EM cannot be called 'viruses'.
FUN FACT: Kidney specialists have written papers pointing out the breakdown of kidney cells created particles that look identical to 'coronaviruses'. Virologists use monkey kidney cells in their cell cultures to 'prove' the existence of viruses. It is tricks like this that put virology in the category of a pseudo science.
Virology can be falsified with simple controls, such as running the standard cell culture CPE experiments without adding a sample of fluid from a sick person. Even without adding a purported 'virus' sample the CPE effect is still observed, 'proving' the presence of a virus - when no sample was even added.
Contagion theory and virology have been debunked from every angle for a century. The list of so called contagious viral diseases keeps getting shorter as the TRUE cause of disease is reluctantly acknowledged. Scurvy, Beri Beri, Pellagra are three examples.
The question is how many more people have to die from vaccine injury before we accept that there are no 'viral' diseases at all and it's just a big money making scam?
And don't forget that the field of virology was not created because scientists ever 'discovered viruses'. Virology was created because the germ theory model of disease was failing miserably, and so they came up with a new hypothesis that a teeny tiny particle which nobody could see must be the cause of disease.
The methods used by virologists to prove the existence of this hypothetical teeny tiny particle have never been scientific.... but they are extremely profitable because they provide an excuse to make lots of vaccines.
Studies of vaxxed vs unvaxxed people show that the unvaxxed are much healthier with almost no instances of all the modern ailments (asthma, allergies, autism, ADHD, ear aches, respiratory problems etc).
Official data on the prevalence of so called viral diseases (measles, whooping cough, flu etc) show that in every case these disease dropped by 95% - 99% BEFORE vaccines were introduced to 'combat' them. These diseases were already being eradicated (or reduced) due to better nutrition, better water supply, less industrial pollution etc. Vaccines played no role, but took all the credit because that keeps the scam going and the money coming in.
If virology was a credible science you'd expect vaccines to promote health and eradicate disease - but the data shows they do the opposite.
For every unreliable anecdote about 'catching' a 'virus' there is a mountain of scientific evidence exposing virology as a fake science.
How is my question leading? I asked a simple genuine question. I'm trying to understand the idea that viruses don't exist. My personal experience shows that there is some sort of contagion or data transfer as it were between people that is indeed explained by 'viruses'. So if it's not viruses, what is it? I'm not asking a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely trying to understand alternate theories.
>In over a century of disgusting experiments rubbing the snot and lung fluid of sick people into the eyes, nose and throats of healthy people, they've never managed to make a healthy person sick.
Except for chicken pox parties? I've done exactly this with my own kids and surprise, they contracted the exact same symptom set as the kids whom I got the bodily fluids from.
And yes, I know disease mobidity and mortality dropped before vaccines were introduced. But the general consensus is that it was due to better hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, etc. as you say. But this still doesn't preclude viruses - it still supports Terrain Theory as opposed to viruses not existing at all.
I've read somewhat into the idea that viruses don't exist, but I am yet to see a credible explanation of why certain specific sets of symptoms are spread from one person to another. My examples are Human Herpes Simplex Virus T-1 and Varicella Zoster, which are both herpes viruses - so how about other 'viruses' that have a certain set of symptoms that are unique to that virus and that we can differentiate between symptom sets to ascertain the underlying virus?
If viruses don't exist and individuals have unique genetics, unique physiology, unique immune systems, etc. why are some illnesses so specific in their symptom sets? Why can I predict that if I expose a previously unexposed individual to someone who has Chicken Pox can I accurately predict that they will after about a week, start displaying the same symptoms and symptom progression even though those individuals are unrelated, and have differing health statuses? If viruses don't exist and illness depends solely on the unique makeup of an individual, why are we not seeing more diversity in symptom sets?
This is what I am trying to understand. If it's not viruses, then what is causing this and how is it explained?
"I'm trying to understand the idea that viruses don't exist. "
It's not so much an idea. It's just that viruses started out as hypothetical particles (not observed particles) and since then they've never been shown to actually exist. In that sense they are the same as unicorns. We can both talk about unicorns and we know what they are, but they don't actually exist. Like viruses they are speculative, mythological, imaginary....
So your question is a bit like saying "I'm trying to understand the idea that unicorns don't exist".
FWIW I believed (I assumed) viruses were real until recently, when I actually looked at the scientific evidence and I realised it just doesn't add up. I don't deny viruses (or unicorns) exist. I just can't find any credible science to show that they do.
"Except for chicken pox parties? I've done exactly this with my own kids and surprise, they contracted the exact same symptom set as the kids whom I got the bodily fluids from."
If children getting CP together proves contagion then it must also be true that the kids who DON'T get it disprove contagion. To only focus on the kids who DO get sick together is conformation bias.
A common scenario is for half a family to get sick with a cold or flu and half to remain well. Even with a married couple who sleep together it's common for one to get sick but not the other.
I bet you've often spent time with a sick person and not gotten sick yourself but how many times have you then questioned the theory of contagion? Probably never. Nobody does, because we are brought up to just accept the idea that we 'catch' diseases from 'bugs'.
Menstruation often occurs together when women live or work together, but we do not say menstruation is contagious and caused by a virus. Some speculate chicken pox is a kind of detox process which occurs as part of the maturation process (a bit like a snake shedding its skin). It may well be that children 'trigger' each other to undergo this process when they are ready, perhaps with social cues or even by their electromagnetic fields or pheromones or god knows what. There are so may ways our bodies communicate and cue each other that have nothing to do with contagious particles.
Colds and flus might also be triggered by social cues. In fact studies show that people DO often get sick for real if they are told they've been 'infected' by a sick person. If our bodies are ready to go through a detox program (a spring clean) and we see someone else doing the same it might trigger it in us. And that's why it often feels like we 'catch' a cold. It's not that different to seeing your neighbour cleaning out his car and the being motivated to clean out your car as well.
Once you put the idea of viruses to one side you soon realise there are a hundred explanations for sickness and disease which make far more sense and fit with the evidence. The 'problem' is that non viral explanations don't make money for Big Pharma....
Anyway here's a video which addresses chickenpox and chickenpox parties directly:
Sorry but this doesn't answer my questions, specifically why are certain diseases clustered with specific symptom sets and if it's not viruses then why do we not observe more variety in symptoms given the differences between people?
Your definition of "idea" is not at all what I meant - I'm coming from a scientific method perspective - an idea being a hypothesis. You arguing viruses don't exist is as much an idea or hypothesis as viruses do exist. You can take the affirmative or negative, it doesn't matter, both are ideas.
Women's menstrual cycles 'syncing' is a myth. Recent studies have not shown any alignment in women who live or work together.
You're giving me a lot of specious arguments that could be true, but making an argument that sounds logical and like it could be true still doesn't make it true. I'm looking at nitty gritty physiology and evidence. I'm still yet to be given any. All I have is a lot of hypotheticals and not much actual data to support those hypotheses. You could argue the same with viruses existing. But no matter whether your arguing the affirmative or negative, you still need data and evidence to support your arguments.
I'm happy to accept either way. Science is ever changing and evolving as our understanding of the world gets better but we still need evidence, not theories and "maybe it could be this, or maybe it could be that" - where are the studies testing those ideas?
I'm immunocompromised (I was vaccine injured as a child). I'm very well in touch with the functioning of my immune system. In fact, most of the time I don't get as sick as the average person because I'm acutely aware of the need to have good health and a strong microbiome to make up for the deficit in immunity. I'm very much aware of the placebo and nocebo effect and while I cannot completely eliminate both from my own thinking, I don't entirely agree with what you're saying. I do absolutely think people will get sick THINKING they will get sick (nocebo) but I've also observed plenty of people get sick being around sick people despite their conviction that they won't get sick because they've taken x y z (failed placebo effect).
I won't get sick as much as the average person but when I do get sick, I get VERY sick. My first line of defence has been 'overrun' and my secondary defence is more than a bit sh** and can't handle it.
Other animals, who aren't subject to nocebo effect will also get sick subjected to the bodily fluids of sick animals (of their own species, or different species for some zoonotic diseases). I grew up on farms and observed this phenomena with my own eyes.
So again, nothing of the theories (ideas) presented has yet shown any evidence that what I am seeing isn't just Terrain Theory with viruses. 🤷♀️
I’m not interested in the opinions of egoists in the media, and haven’t been for some years. I follow the advice of Paul Anka in The Simpsons treehouse of horror episode Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores. All that the good citizens of Springfield needed to do to rid themselves of the plague of giant billboard monsters was “just don’t look”.
Great article Joel. This one's going out of the park ....
And I especially enjoyed the PM references (btw that's Piers Morgan LOL)
At least he didn't claim to be the Government Chief Scientific Adviser - a role in which Patrick Valance is now digging an ever deeper hole for himself in the Public Inquiry.
Section 2: "The disease has had a larger impact on those most vulnerable (for example, those who already suffer from a medical condition) and those at older ages. Some of these deaths would have likely occurred over the duration of the year but have occurred earlier because of COVID-19. These deaths occurring earlier than expected could contribute to a period of deaths below the five-year average.”
Read it again and digest it properly.
“Some of these deaths would have likely occurred over the duration of the year but have occurred earlier because of COVID-19. “
So the people were going to die soon anyway and by "some" I think they mean "nearly all except those "killed" by medical treatment, lack of medical treatment, lockdowns and so on.
Correct. It was known in Feb 2020 that this would be the case. It was confirmed by Aug 2020 that this was the case. Strangely, the evidence presented in the early days (by the ONS and by Whitty) was quite phlegmatic and reasonable. Then, bit by bit, even the more sensible people on the pro-narrative side lost the plot and their heads. Dear Chris would have done better to stick to his guns and show some balls.
Just backstabbing each other and heading for a major whitewash so you are not missing much.
Today was Whitty's turn - he was never questioned on his comments to the HSCCOM on video that the lockdowns were not required as infection rates dropping before the first lockdown started.
Yesterday Vallance was never questioned on the telephone call initiated by Farrar and with Vallance, Fauci, Drosten and others that started the mass PCR testing and their use as a diagnostic test and that Vallance's department never documented in any way whatsoever.
Making the politicians look bad, arse-covering and saying "not me guv, ask someone else" while claiming that lockdowns should ahve been earlier, harder, stricter and so on.
To put it mildly and without swearing - it's the establishment protecting themselves.
"Imagine being scared of having a safe, well-regulated, 4-second vaccine shot, when previous generations braved gun shots for years on end to save us all from tyranny? Anti-vaxxers really are a bunch of spineless p***ies."
"Those who refuse to be vaccinated, with no medical reason not to, should be refused NHS care if they then catch covid. I’m hearing of anti-vaxxers using up ICU beds in London at vast expense to the taxpayer. Let them pay for their own stupidity & selfishness."
Thanks Joel. The article ought to be tattoed on every politicos body. And the medics. And a statue erected outside the House of Commons with the article embossed.
None of the two. It's poisoning over decades. Most of the covid jabbed are frequent flu uptakers. So it's accumulated poisoning and its results. The body is trying to detoxify itself, which comes along as a dis-ease.
Anyone who things viruses exist can easyly back up this claim with a proper study, right. But where is that study? Please, one will be enough. Disprove the CDC who admits they have none.
It's both. Poisoning and detoxing, most definitely. And viruses are not exactly what we have been taught they are, but they definitely exist. Another way of thinking of them is information that is passed from one person to another, with instructions about how the previous person handled their illness. As one person receives the information from another, they rewrite code over it (a mutation) which helps reduce its severity and increases its likelihood of being passed on to vulnerable people. This creates herd immunity. This really is a thing.
People with more damaged immune systems and more toxins are more likely to experience severe dis-ease. People with fewer toxins and stronger immune systems may hardly be affected at all.
Think about the action (what happens and what is experienced, and by whom) rather than looking for virus particles. Experts don't know everything yet.
I don't really have links. I'm an herbalist so that is my framework. This way of describing herd immunity is based on my own understanding of health, illness and our intricate individual and group immune systems (i.e., we have our individual bodies, AND we also have the "herd" which is why shedding can be problematic, and why other people's decisions to take these shots affect all of us as individuals). There is an immune system of humanity itself, and that is also being damaged.
It is actually the opposite of what we were told by the experts: it is not that "my shot protects grandma" but that "Grandma's shot can injure me." Quite possibly on an individual basis. The jabbing continues.......
Again, the onus is on those who claim that there's some thing. And I don't mean mirror neurons or bio chemical signals. I mean infectious alleged viruses. Parasitic entities from outside the body. Invasive, cell-hijacking, replication competent particles. As long as no evidence is shown, this remains a theory. And theories are not enough to justify any sort of subjugation like we have seen in the past four years.
well, justification of tyranny is another topic entirely. In my opinion, there is nothing to justify that, and proof of the existence of viruses would not justify it either.
Excellent work again Joel and thanks for the Peer Review Clare.
Thé age range difference of deaths in 2020 versus from mid Dec 2020/21/22/23 is telling too given the very low IFR% for C19 for all healthy and average age of C19 ‘death’ higher than average age of death.
I remember what happened Dec 1999/Jan 2000.
It was the culmination of a similar fear porn campaign carried out by the Government on it's citizens in relation to the year 2000 (Y2K projects abounded, it was constantly drummed into us).
Planes were literally going to drop out of the sky, bank vault doors spring open, people were going to be trapped in buildings, fire systems could fail. The list was endless. They spent a LOT of money on making us terrified then too and then on 'fixing the problem'. People were doing back ups of back ups.
I do not remember a single issue occurring, so 'they' would say the solution worked. I strongly suspect nothing would have happened anyway.
It is highly likely that there was a similar drop in service provision and lack of care because people were so focussed on Y2k projects, resulting in higher excess deaths. Maybe some doctors who were working at the time will have a better recollection on that specifically.
Oh yes, I remember now too! It was the Y2K bug! https://www.britannica.com/technology/Y2K-bug
It was another of those really stupid panics which a few minutes of thought showed was a load of rubbish! A friend of mine made a fortune down in the west country "fixing" the bugs in all the computers. Imaginary bugs, obviously.
They are not imaginary, it's a plausible problem. Your friend maybe is a crook who created such imaginary problems where they weren't to charge for it - which doesn't make them nonexistent in other places.
A similar problem exists today with Linux - they use UNIX time, storing seconds since Jan 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, in an u32.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
A few _seconds_ of thought reveal this as trivially true, but apparently, minutes of your thought aren't always worth as much.
Sorry to nitpick, but just to clarify it's not something unique to Linux. Firstly Linux is not Unix - Linux us Unix-like and certainly has some of it's foundations in Unix, but it's definitely not the same thing.
Second, "Unix time" is completely separate from Unix (albeit started with Unix and hence the name) and is another computational measure of time starting with a certain epoch (Jan 1, 1970) but there's a bunch of others that will all have various pros and cons.
Which leads into the third point that it's not just Linux that uses Unix time - Android, Apple, BSD, etc. Even different software can use or call different epochs so even if the system isn't affected, software or even individual hardware in a system can be affected.
Anyways, I realise I sound like a complete Linux twat, I just get tired of Linux being hated on for many of the same reasons we've seen played out through the 'COVID era' - big business likes to manipulate and take out the competition to pad their profits by spreading propaganda and astroturfing.
This issue was fixed in the Linux kernel several years ago now but will still be an issue (like Y2K) for systems that haven't updated or have 32bit Unix-time hardcoded.
(Hope all this makes sense, I'm extremely tired at the moment)
64 bit and we're good for a while LOL.
Thanks
If you consider 292 billion years into the future being good for a while, then yes, I think we will be just fine lol
It isn't necessarily the kernel though. There is a lot of badly written software out there (I would say the vast majority of it).
I am not taking that into account when I write software just now, and I doubt that the linux kernel being fixed will save bugs in my software from happening. I am not expecting any of the software I have written to be running by then but who know. None of it has been critical enough to have the potential cause serious harm though.
Yes, I worked in IT at the FSA (now renamed FCA after the shame of the financial crash) at the time. Careers were built on the Y2K fear issue; money was no object, especially when it came to paying for all the new chiefs. It was an eye-watering, eye-opening experience.
Did Bill Gates have his sweaty palms in that too?!
Just working up the techniques for the vaccine campaigns ...
Maybe not planes crash, but it was a realistic problem that needed fixing, and a lot of effort was spent to fix lots of software.
If problems are taken care of, it may just be that nothing bad happens.
To say afterwards "see, much ado about nothing" is kinda silly. There was nothing _because_ it was taken care of - and that, because the right people were "alarmed".
Now, media turning this into doom porn is something differ.
This attitude eye-rollingly reminds me of those laughing about the supposed "craze" about impacted forests' health due to polluted rain. Which was taken care of by mandating filters for industrial plants letting stuff in the air. Problem identified, problem tackled, problem goes away. Big surprise...
Those things are poor analogies for what happened since 2020. This was top-down orchestrated with direct consequences for everyone's lives, vs. the old media just doing what they always used to do, turning everything that can be calmly solved into the apocalypse.
Perhaps we also shouldn't forget what happened on September 11, 2001?
Creating "Panics" to destabilize and disrupt, in order to profit in different ways,from picking up the pieces...?
It has been honed and perfected over a long period. I feel sad for young people who have been brought up with it. They are bombarded with wokeism, guilt and fear on multiple fronts.
I hope they can forgive us when they realise what we allowed to happen / were too blind to see.
In the Mirror article from July 2021, Piers says he is double jabbed with AZ. In the photo he is holding up a card saying Pfizer dated 11/11/2021 and yet he caught Covid at the Euro 2020 tournament in June/July 2021.
Boosted with a different flavour?! 💉🐁
When my daughter went to get boosted they asked her which one she wanted. She thought it strange, I told her that should have been a tip off and she should have said neither.
Even with facts the stupid people will follow their sheep herders (the msm).
Naturally.
COVID is a religion.
People living in faith never question their faith for doing so they would be faithless thus banned from their flock and what they appreciate the most is to be part of their flock .
So, yes , they will roll their sleeves and hope to have 2 jabs for the price of 1.
Nature will prune them off.
Thanks Joel, a beacon in the darkness. Forever grateful for your diligent work and in helping those in opposition to the madness not feel isolated. I fear that even with all we know now, if repeated, we would have the same outcome.
Alas, yes. Chronicled through history. Lesson to be learned, don't try and convert the sheeple, just make a better parallel world for the enlightened.
Great in theory but as the WEF walls close in with all exits covered where is that world?
Indeed. One may be in a rural area and know how to be pretty self-sufficient in food but 'the state' could still come after you. I de-registered from any GP in 2022 but still got an unwanted autumn 2023 'invitation' for a flu and COVID jab. They hadn't returned my medical records as demanded but had clearly just passed them onto the NHS centrally.
There are 3 possibilities about the situation.
#1: Complete lasting PEACEFUL STRIKE aka CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE until TPTB throw the towel.
#2: Do nothing and accept slavery by cowardice .
#3: Wait until the laypersons break wild and enter civil war as it is a law of nature that, when those who simply want to be left alone and live quietly are pushed to the breaking point, then they break wild and become bloodthirsty revengeful people very difficult to manage that will roam the country as long ad their feelings will not have been exhausted by river of blood and guts.
That is nothing else than human history as it repeats itself for so long.
Summary: We can react PEACEFULLY now or wait for a tidal wave of violence.
Your life.
Your choice.
Some argue there is no such thing as a flu or cold season. Just a deficiency of Vit D season.
I am very much in that camp. I now take all my foreign holidays in the winter given that the evidence on Vit D supplementation is not compelling enough for me.
👏👏👏👏👏💯👍 love your work Joel. Fyi, nobody discusses better or earliest, gompertz curve effects during covid, than Ivor Cummins
. He did a YouTube discussion early on in February 2020. I'm sure he saved a lot of lives because of it.😉
I was liaising with Ivor back then. We both became interested after following Michael Levitt who strangely went quiet.
Yes, methinks they got to Levitt. Also, all the stats were there from the Diamond Princess. ‘Vulnerable’ age group in close proximity to each other with little effect (ionnides?)
Yep, very early on Ionnides did a quick, back-of-the-envelope calculation based on the Princess Cruise and his numbers were spot on--for a fat, older sick demo--about 0.25% EFR. He later did a broader calculation and found a world-wide EFR of about 0.15%, if I recall, not even an especially strong flu. I think the medical response, lockdowns, etc. were the real drivers of mortality.
Absolutely, although Ventilators did a good job and Hancock’s drug of choice midazolam. Then came the 💉 !
In July 2021 the UK DHSC gave a parliamentary answer to Steve Baker MP. It stated that the IFR of COVID was then 0.096%, i.e. about 0.1%.
Sometimes these people are honest, at other times they lie through their teeth. A DHSC Minister said in a letter via my MP that the disease was 'deadly'.
Didn’t Dr Levitt receiving a dressing down from Stanford?
It looks like he’s continued to publish but kept out of the public eye.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=michael+levitt+covid&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Yes, but like many, he could not let go of some of the dogma about deadly viruses and effective vaccines?
Ahhhhh.😊😊 That explains why I gravitated to look at both works. You both have a very factual and no BS style that makes stats far more accessible to the lay person. Love to see you guys tag team in a podcast 🤗🙏🙏🙏
In May of 2020 the CDC admitted the IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) was 0.3% and that means every intervention done since was fraud. That is similar to the Asian flu of the late 1950's or the Hong Kong flu of the late 1960's.
Brilliant work!
Why Nobody "Had, Caught or Got" COVID-19
DR. MARK BAILEY, MD
OCT 16, 2022
https://drsambailey.substack.com/p/why-nobody-had-caught-or-got-covid-19
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CDC & FDA admitted in 2020 that covid-19 doesn't exist...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220802070416/https://brandnewtube.com/watch/cdc-amp-fda-admitted-already-in-2020-covid-19-doesnt-exist_VVcmJTto4miqoeO.html
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Dr. Mark Bailey, MD & Dr. John Bevan-Smith, Ph.D.
The COVID-19 Fraud and War on Humanity
Imaginary Disease and Pandemic Invented by WHO is a Virological Fraud
https://everydayconcerned.net/tag/dr-john-bevan-smith/
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CDC/FDA smoking gun of smoking guns:
Mar. 9, 2022
by Jon Rappoport
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2022/03/09/cdc-fda-smoking-gun-of-smoking-guns-they-confess/
Excerpt:
They confess: they had no virus when they concocted the test for the virus; they “contrived” a model by pretending to find what they wanted to find; it’s called a self-fulfilling prophecy
This is the con and the crime that drove millions of lives, and economies, into ruin.
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Irrefutable Scientific Proof: Covid-19 Does NOT Exist!
Published February 20, 2021
By Karma Singh
https://principia-scientific.com/irrefutable-scientific-proof-covid-19-does-not-exist/
Excellent. Thank you. Had seen a couple of Sam's early videos but didn't realise she had a Substack. have now subscribed. More for the knowledge scaffold!
Here's some more (ming blowing) context not yet mentioned by the 'no virus' camp...
The model of contagion used to dictate government policy in the UK at the start of 2020 was based on a 2017 'contagion simulation' experiment conducted by the BBC, Cambridge University and LSHTM. The experiment involved 30,000 volunteers downloading a special app to their smartphones which allowed them to be tracked. Celebrity mathematician Hannah Fry played the role of 'patient zero' who 'infected' the volunteers at an event in Haslemere. The experiment was made into a BBC documentary shown in 2018 (Contagion! The BBC4 Pandemic).
This experiment becomes extremely significant when you realise contagion between humans has never been demonstrated in over a century of experiments (Rosenau etc) which makes the theory of contagion a FAILED (disproven) theory.
Contagion between humans might not be a thing, but contagion between smartphones is as easy as spreading a meme or cat video. This is presumably why they decided to create their 'pandemic' model from smartphones and not people.
Hannah Fry and the others involved openly admit that the model created from the smartphone data set became 'the new gold standard' for modelling pandemics and that it formed the basis of government policy two years later, at the start of 2020.
In other words the 2020 'pandemic' was an entirely digital construct with absolutely no connection to any biological process or mechanism. Not only was the model based on smartphone apps, but the 'in silico' virus and PCR 'test' were also digital constructs and software generated code with no relation to anything real.
Once people realise virology does not qualify as a science and contagion is not a thing (colds and flus are no more contagious than scurvy) then this BBC experiment with smartphones will be understood as perhaps the biggest and most audacious (and smug) act of science fraud in history ... not to mention a crime against humanity, as it was used to justify lockdowns and vaccines.
As for the fear mongering at the start of 2020, Boris, Whitty and co were at pains to point out that 'covid' was essentially the flu and nothing to worry about. They said this repeatedly. At the same time they were also describing 'covid' as deadly pandemic and 'invisible killer'.
This contradiction suggests they were torn between the reality of the situation (a normal flu season) and the WHO script they were being ordered to read along with all the other 'world leaders'.
You can see their contradictory statements in this video (presented with a touch of Python-esque humour):
https://odysee.com/@CoronaStudies/Corona-Studies-Ep1
For more on the BBC smartphone experiment watch the second half of Episode 3 (A Smart Phoney Pandemic) and follow the links in the description for the researcher who did the original deep dive on the whole thing.
The whole thing is a farce and the only thing preventing a mass awakening (and return to proper health and vitality) is the 'health freedom movement' (RFK, Bigtree etc) who still insist viruses and contagion are real and virology is a science.
So how do I have cold sores that I contracted from a family member as a child?
Your question is rather leading.
In over a century of disgusting experiments rubbing the snot and lung fluid of sick people into the eyes, nose and throats of healthy people, they've never managed to make a healthy person sick. Whatever method of transmission you can think of - they've tried it!
The failure to provoke sickness by close contact or sharing of bodily fluids is enough on its own to disprove the existence of viruses. Viruses are defined as contagious particles. Without contagion the blobs we see under the EM cannot be called 'viruses'.
FUN FACT: Kidney specialists have written papers pointing out the breakdown of kidney cells created particles that look identical to 'coronaviruses'. Virologists use monkey kidney cells in their cell cultures to 'prove' the existence of viruses. It is tricks like this that put virology in the category of a pseudo science.
Virology can be falsified with simple controls, such as running the standard cell culture CPE experiments without adding a sample of fluid from a sick person. Even without adding a purported 'virus' sample the CPE effect is still observed, 'proving' the presence of a virus - when no sample was even added.
Contagion theory and virology have been debunked from every angle for a century. The list of so called contagious viral diseases keeps getting shorter as the TRUE cause of disease is reluctantly acknowledged. Scurvy, Beri Beri, Pellagra are three examples.
The question is how many more people have to die from vaccine injury before we accept that there are no 'viral' diseases at all and it's just a big money making scam?
And don't forget that the field of virology was not created because scientists ever 'discovered viruses'. Virology was created because the germ theory model of disease was failing miserably, and so they came up with a new hypothesis that a teeny tiny particle which nobody could see must be the cause of disease.
The methods used by virologists to prove the existence of this hypothetical teeny tiny particle have never been scientific.... but they are extremely profitable because they provide an excuse to make lots of vaccines.
Studies of vaxxed vs unvaxxed people show that the unvaxxed are much healthier with almost no instances of all the modern ailments (asthma, allergies, autism, ADHD, ear aches, respiratory problems etc).
Official data on the prevalence of so called viral diseases (measles, whooping cough, flu etc) show that in every case these disease dropped by 95% - 99% BEFORE vaccines were introduced to 'combat' them. These diseases were already being eradicated (or reduced) due to better nutrition, better water supply, less industrial pollution etc. Vaccines played no role, but took all the credit because that keeps the scam going and the money coming in.
If virology was a credible science you'd expect vaccines to promote health and eradicate disease - but the data shows they do the opposite.
For every unreliable anecdote about 'catching' a 'virus' there is a mountain of scientific evidence exposing virology as a fake science.
How is my question leading? I asked a simple genuine question. I'm trying to understand the idea that viruses don't exist. My personal experience shows that there is some sort of contagion or data transfer as it were between people that is indeed explained by 'viruses'. So if it's not viruses, what is it? I'm not asking a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely trying to understand alternate theories.
>In over a century of disgusting experiments rubbing the snot and lung fluid of sick people into the eyes, nose and throats of healthy people, they've never managed to make a healthy person sick.
Except for chicken pox parties? I've done exactly this with my own kids and surprise, they contracted the exact same symptom set as the kids whom I got the bodily fluids from.
And yes, I know disease mobidity and mortality dropped before vaccines were introduced. But the general consensus is that it was due to better hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, etc. as you say. But this still doesn't preclude viruses - it still supports Terrain Theory as opposed to viruses not existing at all.
I've read somewhat into the idea that viruses don't exist, but I am yet to see a credible explanation of why certain specific sets of symptoms are spread from one person to another. My examples are Human Herpes Simplex Virus T-1 and Varicella Zoster, which are both herpes viruses - so how about other 'viruses' that have a certain set of symptoms that are unique to that virus and that we can differentiate between symptom sets to ascertain the underlying virus?
If viruses don't exist and individuals have unique genetics, unique physiology, unique immune systems, etc. why are some illnesses so specific in their symptom sets? Why can I predict that if I expose a previously unexposed individual to someone who has Chicken Pox can I accurately predict that they will after about a week, start displaying the same symptoms and symptom progression even though those individuals are unrelated, and have differing health statuses? If viruses don't exist and illness depends solely on the unique makeup of an individual, why are we not seeing more diversity in symptom sets?
This is what I am trying to understand. If it's not viruses, then what is causing this and how is it explained?
"I'm trying to understand the idea that viruses don't exist. "
It's not so much an idea. It's just that viruses started out as hypothetical particles (not observed particles) and since then they've never been shown to actually exist. In that sense they are the same as unicorns. We can both talk about unicorns and we know what they are, but they don't actually exist. Like viruses they are speculative, mythological, imaginary....
So your question is a bit like saying "I'm trying to understand the idea that unicorns don't exist".
FWIW I believed (I assumed) viruses were real until recently, when I actually looked at the scientific evidence and I realised it just doesn't add up. I don't deny viruses (or unicorns) exist. I just can't find any credible science to show that they do.
"Except for chicken pox parties? I've done exactly this with my own kids and surprise, they contracted the exact same symptom set as the kids whom I got the bodily fluids from."
If children getting CP together proves contagion then it must also be true that the kids who DON'T get it disprove contagion. To only focus on the kids who DO get sick together is conformation bias.
A common scenario is for half a family to get sick with a cold or flu and half to remain well. Even with a married couple who sleep together it's common for one to get sick but not the other.
I bet you've often spent time with a sick person and not gotten sick yourself but how many times have you then questioned the theory of contagion? Probably never. Nobody does, because we are brought up to just accept the idea that we 'catch' diseases from 'bugs'.
Menstruation often occurs together when women live or work together, but we do not say menstruation is contagious and caused by a virus. Some speculate chicken pox is a kind of detox process which occurs as part of the maturation process (a bit like a snake shedding its skin). It may well be that children 'trigger' each other to undergo this process when they are ready, perhaps with social cues or even by their electromagnetic fields or pheromones or god knows what. There are so may ways our bodies communicate and cue each other that have nothing to do with contagious particles.
Colds and flus might also be triggered by social cues. In fact studies show that people DO often get sick for real if they are told they've been 'infected' by a sick person. If our bodies are ready to go through a detox program (a spring clean) and we see someone else doing the same it might trigger it in us. And that's why it often feels like we 'catch' a cold. It's not that different to seeing your neighbour cleaning out his car and the being motivated to clean out your car as well.
Once you put the idea of viruses to one side you soon realise there are a hundred explanations for sickness and disease which make far more sense and fit with the evidence. The 'problem' is that non viral explanations don't make money for Big Pharma....
Anyway here's a video which addresses chickenpox and chickenpox parties directly:
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/chickenpox-parties-and-varicella-zoster:f
You might also like to check out this website:
https://viroliegy.com/
Sorry but this doesn't answer my questions, specifically why are certain diseases clustered with specific symptom sets and if it's not viruses then why do we not observe more variety in symptoms given the differences between people?
Your definition of "idea" is not at all what I meant - I'm coming from a scientific method perspective - an idea being a hypothesis. You arguing viruses don't exist is as much an idea or hypothesis as viruses do exist. You can take the affirmative or negative, it doesn't matter, both are ideas.
Women's menstrual cycles 'syncing' is a myth. Recent studies have not shown any alignment in women who live or work together.
You're giving me a lot of specious arguments that could be true, but making an argument that sounds logical and like it could be true still doesn't make it true. I'm looking at nitty gritty physiology and evidence. I'm still yet to be given any. All I have is a lot of hypotheticals and not much actual data to support those hypotheses. You could argue the same with viruses existing. But no matter whether your arguing the affirmative or negative, you still need data and evidence to support your arguments.
I'm happy to accept either way. Science is ever changing and evolving as our understanding of the world gets better but we still need evidence, not theories and "maybe it could be this, or maybe it could be that" - where are the studies testing those ideas?
I'm immunocompromised (I was vaccine injured as a child). I'm very well in touch with the functioning of my immune system. In fact, most of the time I don't get as sick as the average person because I'm acutely aware of the need to have good health and a strong microbiome to make up for the deficit in immunity. I'm very much aware of the placebo and nocebo effect and while I cannot completely eliminate both from my own thinking, I don't entirely agree with what you're saying. I do absolutely think people will get sick THINKING they will get sick (nocebo) but I've also observed plenty of people get sick being around sick people despite their conviction that they won't get sick because they've taken x y z (failed placebo effect).
I won't get sick as much as the average person but when I do get sick, I get VERY sick. My first line of defence has been 'overrun' and my secondary defence is more than a bit sh** and can't handle it.
Other animals, who aren't subject to nocebo effect will also get sick subjected to the bodily fluids of sick animals (of their own species, or different species for some zoonotic diseases). I grew up on farms and observed this phenomena with my own eyes.
So again, nothing of the theories (ideas) presented has yet shown any evidence that what I am seeing isn't just Terrain Theory with viruses. 🤷♀️
I’m not interested in the opinions of egoists in the media, and haven’t been for some years. I follow the advice of Paul Anka in The Simpsons treehouse of horror episode Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores. All that the good citizens of Springfield needed to do to rid themselves of the plague of giant billboard monsters was “just don’t look”.
Great article Joel. This one's going out of the park ....
And I especially enjoyed the PM references (btw that's Piers Morgan LOL)
At least he didn't claim to be the Government Chief Scientific Adviser - a role in which Patrick Valance is now digging an ever deeper hole for himself in the Public Inquiry.
In this ONS weekly death report and a few others posted just before and after this one https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending17july2020
Section 2: "The disease has had a larger impact on those most vulnerable (for example, those who already suffer from a medical condition) and those at older ages. Some of these deaths would have likely occurred over the duration of the year but have occurred earlier because of COVID-19. These deaths occurring earlier than expected could contribute to a period of deaths below the five-year average.”
Read it again and digest it properly.
“Some of these deaths would have likely occurred over the duration of the year but have occurred earlier because of COVID-19. “
So the people were going to die soon anyway and by "some" I think they mean "nearly all except those "killed" by medical treatment, lack of medical treatment, lockdowns and so on.
Correct. It was known in Feb 2020 that this would be the case. It was confirmed by Aug 2020 that this was the case. Strangely, the evidence presented in the early days (by the ONS and by Whitty) was quite phlegmatic and reasonable. Then, bit by bit, even the more sensible people on the pro-narrative side lost the plot and their heads. Dear Chris would have done better to stick to his guns and show some balls.
I always wondered (and still am) what caused their change of tack and why they backed down? What were they threatened with or promised?
They promised that stuff would come out in the inquiry. Did it?? I'm not following it. Not got the stomach for that crap!
Just backstabbing each other and heading for a major whitewash so you are not missing much.
Today was Whitty's turn - he was never questioned on his comments to the HSCCOM on video that the lockdowns were not required as infection rates dropping before the first lockdown started.
Yesterday Vallance was never questioned on the telephone call initiated by Farrar and with Vallance, Fauci, Drosten and others that started the mass PCR testing and their use as a diagnostic test and that Vallance's department never documented in any way whatsoever.
Making the politicians look bad, arse-covering and saying "not me guv, ask someone else" while claiming that lockdowns should ahve been earlier, harder, stricter and so on.
To put it mildly and without swearing - it's the establishment protecting themselves.
"Imagine being scared of having a safe, well-regulated, 4-second vaccine shot, when previous generations braved gun shots for years on end to save us all from tyranny? Anti-vaxxers really are a bunch of spineless p***ies."
"Those who refuse to be vaccinated, with no medical reason not to, should be refused NHS care if they then catch covid. I’m hearing of anti-vaxxers using up ICU beds in London at vast expense to the taxpayer. Let them pay for their own stupidity & selfishness."
-Piers Morgan
Thanks Joel. The article ought to be tattoed on every politicos body. And the medics. And a statue erected outside the House of Commons with the article embossed.
None of the two. It's poisoning over decades. Most of the covid jabbed are frequent flu uptakers. So it's accumulated poisoning and its results. The body is trying to detoxify itself, which comes along as a dis-ease.
Anyone who things viruses exist can easyly back up this claim with a proper study, right. But where is that study? Please, one will be enough. Disprove the CDC who admits they have none.
It's both. Poisoning and detoxing, most definitely. And viruses are not exactly what we have been taught they are, but they definitely exist. Another way of thinking of them is information that is passed from one person to another, with instructions about how the previous person handled their illness. As one person receives the information from another, they rewrite code over it (a mutation) which helps reduce its severity and increases its likelihood of being passed on to vulnerable people. This creates herd immunity. This really is a thing.
People with more damaged immune systems and more toxins are more likely to experience severe dis-ease. People with fewer toxins and stronger immune systems may hardly be affected at all.
Think about the action (what happens and what is experienced, and by whom) rather than looking for virus particles. Experts don't know everything yet.
That seems to make so much sense. Do you happen to have any links to further reading?
I don't really have links. I'm an herbalist so that is my framework. This way of describing herd immunity is based on my own understanding of health, illness and our intricate individual and group immune systems (i.e., we have our individual bodies, AND we also have the "herd" which is why shedding can be problematic, and why other people's decisions to take these shots affect all of us as individuals). There is an immune system of humanity itself, and that is also being damaged.
It is actually the opposite of what we were told by the experts: it is not that "my shot protects grandma" but that "Grandma's shot can injure me." Quite possibly on an individual basis. The jabbing continues.......
Again, the onus is on those who claim that there's some thing. And I don't mean mirror neurons or bio chemical signals. I mean infectious alleged viruses. Parasitic entities from outside the body. Invasive, cell-hijacking, replication competent particles. As long as no evidence is shown, this remains a theory. And theories are not enough to justify any sort of subjugation like we have seen in the past four years.
well, justification of tyranny is another topic entirely. In my opinion, there is nothing to justify that, and proof of the existence of viruses would not justify it either.
Excellent work again Joel and thanks for the Peer Review Clare.
Thé age range difference of deaths in 2020 versus from mid Dec 2020/21/22/23 is telling too given the very low IFR% for C19 for all healthy and average age of C19 ‘death’ higher than average age of death.