tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post6430303456237803018..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: More Transmissible, Less Severemark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-38001016040857490222021-07-16T20:51:03.656-05:002021-07-16T20:51:03.656-05:00For another good link, from L. Woodhouse, on "...For another good link, from L. Woodhouse, on "Doctor's Orders:<br />The Surgeon General's benign-sounding advisory should have all our hackles up", on “health misinformation” online.<br />At https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/doctors-orders .aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-58871964837325864012021-07-16T13:32:16.731-05:002021-07-16T13:32:16.731-05:00Thanks. I'll get to it, but I'm way behind...Thanks. I'll get to it, but I'm way behind today.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-61983458337472711652021-07-16T13:19:52.476-05:002021-07-16T13:19:52.476-05:00Denninger does it again today, in a quite long pos...Denninger does it again today, in a quite long post at<br />https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242970 , <br />where he cites new evidence, about a slew of Positives on a completely *vaccinated* HMS (linking to a BBC story), and a Berenson tweet on a Bos. Globe story, on how, in MA since 30 Ap., "about ~20% of Covid deaths since then have been in the *vaccinated*. Not 1%. 20%."aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-529320335823893432021-07-15T16:57:48.505-05:002021-07-15T16:57:48.505-05:00I may have found an alternative.I may have found an alternative.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-11351539855986181802021-07-15T16:34:59.798-05:002021-07-15T16:34:59.798-05:00Mark,
Substack may be one of several viable answ...Mark, <br /><br />Substack may be one of several viable answers. It seems other conservatives are migrating there.<br /><br />I/we (our company) are specifically building for site, blog group migration but are too far off from beta to offer anything at present. <br /><br />Some things I'm noting substack... <br /><br />Their TOS is very general, that could be good of bad. I personally like devilmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256049667739001018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-74466319538294292582021-07-15T15:58:04.400-05:002021-07-15T15:58:04.400-05:00Good grief! I got a newsletter from the NYT this ...Good grief! I got a newsletter from the NYT this morning (it can be interesting to know what the Others are thinking), and lo and behold, David Leonhardt writes in his The Morning column:<br /><br /><b>Good morning. The Delta variant is more contagious. It does not appear to be more severe.</b><br /><br /><i>Confusion over Delta<br />There are two basic questions to ask about any variant of the Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-4863241291561419992021-07-15T11:56:10.708-05:002021-07-15T11:56:10.708-05:00To reuse that word, it would be naive to think tha...To reuse that word, it would be naive to think that money didn’t change hands re the EUAs. <br /><br />Alerted by Anon’s mention of Dr. Beda Stadler (I had never heard of him) I went and found one of his articles from last June, translated and published in July 2020. His caveat: That he is writing this opinion piece about Switzerland. But he is talking about the human body and its immune Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-86507662328296672462021-07-15T11:37:55.433-05:002021-07-15T11:37:55.433-05:00How much do you think that was worth to the Big Ph...How much do you think that was worth to the Big Pharma countries? Do you think the bureaucrats did that for free? Or maybe got some sort of concealed reward? How many politicians were clued in to investment opportunities?mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-19552071914423315122021-07-15T10:40:29.916-05:002021-07-15T10:40:29.916-05:00If the early treatment drugs (HCQ and Ivermectin) ...If the early treatment drugs (HCQ and Ivermectin) had not been squelched, - had been available for use in treatment - there’d have been no granting of Emergency Use Authorizations to these “vaccines”.<br /><br />https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explainedBebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-30504416902408380352021-07-15T08:12:30.117-05:002021-07-15T08:12:30.117-05:00Governor Lee never instituted a mask mandate, but ...Governor Lee never instituted a mask mandate, but left it up to county executives and big city mayors. Of course many of these power hungry weasels did what we expected they would do - but out in rural TN they were ignored by those who weren't buying the propaganda. <br /><br />Should you move to TN, the metropolitan areas are highly taxed - Nashville instituted a 34% property tax increase Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-47491629974620323532021-07-15T07:24:13.053-05:002021-07-15T07:24:13.053-05:00@A2, I don't think Anon was pushing a naive &q...@A2, I don't think Anon was pushing a naive "faith" in science, as you present it. I understand your critique of such "faith" and agree with it, but I think you're mistaken in attributing that view to Anon, as he specifies--like you--that science is "well suited to discovering some things" but not others.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-51583260390138290342021-07-15T05:56:56.359-05:002021-07-15T05:56:56.359-05:00@djl
Good to know. My point was that your origina...@djl<br /><br />Good to know. My point was that your original comment suggested that it would be left to the governor to dial back the authoritarianism next time rather than legislators stepping up and taking that power away or severely limiting it. I will eagerly await a move by the TN legislature in this regard as TN is a place I'm quite interested in moving to. My current state is DemocratAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-9980315919685414082021-07-15T05:46:40.075-05:002021-07-15T05:46:40.075-05:00@anon
Your faith in science is touching but way p...@anon<br /><br />Your faith in science is touching but way past its sell date. Reality is that "science" (whatever that is) has been compromised in almost every field for a very long time. In the so called West by money, either govt grants or private funding. In authoritarian nations, by political expediency and money. <br /><br />Further, the scientific method is well suited to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-87001538494240566772021-07-15T05:36:57.003-05:002021-07-15T05:36:57.003-05:00Yeah, kind of makes you wonder why experimental in...Yeah, kind of makes you wonder why experimental injections like this are being so fanatically pushed...hmmmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-14886561476652355172021-07-14T20:27:21.903-05:002021-07-14T20:27:21.903-05:00I have never seen a comment/attack like Anon A2’s ...I have never seen a comment/attack like Anon A2’s at this site. I hope that that is not a new feature...Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-67671052042016624012021-07-14T17:26:07.315-05:002021-07-14T17:26:07.315-05:00Quote from Israeli Health Ministry is from https:/...Quote from Israeli Health Ministry is from https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762 .aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-48677846562202698352021-07-14T17:23:52.837-05:002021-07-14T17:23:52.837-05:00Also from Denninger today, on
< But we didn&#...Also from Denninger today, on<br /><br />< But we didn't know that the immunity conferred was equivalent or superior either, once again, because we intentionally did not take the time to find out.<br />Now we know the answer to the question:<br /><br />"With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of peopleaNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-79228053945931541882021-07-14T16:56:55.889-05:002021-07-14T16:56:55.889-05:00Denninger today has a post on this:
< "O...Denninger today has a post on this:<br /><br />< "On June 25th, Fiscus asked about reminder postcards that were scheduled to go out to teens who had received a first dose of the COVID vaccine and were due to receive a second.<br /> State epidemiologist Dr. John Dunn answered: "Hold all program communications about immunizations until further notice."<br /><br />Do you know aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-16003198964203857702021-07-14T15:08:16.815-05:002021-07-14T15:08:16.815-05:00Interesting questions. For all its irritating limi...Interesting questions. For all its irritating limitations, Blogger has a few important virtues. 1) It's free. 2) It's easy to use, no maintenance. That means I can spend more time reading widely and living my life in other ways.<br /><br />Yes, I have experimented with backing up--seems to work easily. I've also done some research into alternatives. The impression I get is that free mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-52762538919462779582021-07-14T14:26:53.089-05:002021-07-14T14:26:53.089-05:00@ Mark,
Mark A above makes a point of reposting...@ Mark, <br /><br />Mark A above makes a point of reposting your work but jogs something else in my head. <br /><br />If you were to pick up enough traffic I'm guessing blogger would yank the platform per it's typical user politics. <br /><br />Have you given consideration to mirroring? Backing up? Moving platforms? Etc? devilmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256049667739001018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-37655763631210636612021-07-14T11:06:13.689-05:002021-07-14T11:06:13.689-05:00So much credibility in institutions has gone out t...So much credibility in institutions has gone out the window in the past year. The media has proven itself to be utter trash. And with COVID, the scientific community has proven itself equals vulnerable to political influence. We've always suspected that vis-a-vis global warming science. But COVID has put the nail in the coffin of unquestioned authority of science. <br /><br />Science in its Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-62345338363046069352021-07-14T11:05:14.177-05:002021-07-14T11:05:14.177-05:00Back in the day, when the FBI was tapping my dialu...Back in the day, when the FBI was tapping my dialup, I used to send random people the ascii version of War and Peace just to give them some data to go through.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-2499332987793078692021-07-14T09:59:22.359-05:002021-07-14T09:59:22.359-05:00I would encourage every able-bodied adult to set u...I would encourage every able-bodied adult to set up an account on substack and, not to compete with Mark, but in addition to commenting here, post your comments to your substack account with a link to Mark's article. If nothing else (but it will do a lot more than nothing) this will give the totalitarians in our government more traffic to search through to manage their suppression. Just Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-84215389897128314182021-07-14T08:11:30.715-05:002021-07-14T08:11:30.715-05:00https://redstate.com/tladuke/2021/07/14/michigan-l...https://redstate.com/tladuke/2021/07/14/michigan-legislature-is-about-to-limit-gretchen-whitmers-power-as-governor-n410270mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-73643235430091403392021-07-14T07:37:20.287-05:002021-07-14T07:37:20.287-05:00I'll use the "I'm busy" excuse a...I'll use the "I'm busy" excuse as to why it took me months to find a credible source.<br /><br />Should probably clarify, what I was saying. I was consistently confused by the narrative being put out, and it finally took reading Beda Stadler to realize what I learned hadn't changed. The virus was acting like it was supposed to act.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com