Congratulations to you, Jay, and Miranda. The further a society drifts from truth, the more they will hate those who speak it. We must continue to subvert Subversion on our Substack samizdats. Say that 5 times fast!
Congratulations to you, Jay, and Miranda. The further a society drifts from truth, the more they will hate those who speak it. We must continue to subvert Subversion on our Substack samizdats. Say that 5 times fast!
The percentage of American parents who are jabbing their children with the untested Covid boosters is single digits. If you consider that as a proxy, I propose the resistance is bigger than you think. People are getting tired of the gaslighting.
Marty Makary was unable to find a single HEALTHY child in the US who died of Covid (CDC claims total Covid deaths in US children from 2020-2023= 1696 of >70,000,000 in four years) . Germany announced that no HEALTHY children there died of Covid. Israel claimed that no HEALTHY person under age 50 died there of Covid. Over 90% of US children had been infected with Covid (by antibody assays) by end of 2022 and HEALTHY US children have no need for Covid vaccines.
Most Covid deaths occurred after the vaccines became available (in the US of 1.15 million Covid deaths only 386,000 were in 2020); one would have expected with the resistance to early treatments that most deaths would have occurred before introduction of the vaccines (as with measles and other effective vaccines).
You do have to take the time factor into account when comparing cases. The first vaccination was only a year after the first confirmed covid case. Of course there were more deaths pre-vaccine. There were only 12 months pre-vaccine.
All other diseases had a few thousand years pre-vaccine, or at least a few hundred.
Compare cases over 1 year to cases over nearly 4 years, and the latter will almost always be higher. There are exceptions, but not many. And then we have the shenanigans of "died of" vs "died with"....
You are missing a very important scientific aspect. In addition to time being important, type of virus is important. Single stranded DNA viruses (Covid, flu) with little or no outer protection mutate like crazy. That is why the flu vaccine is new every year, that is why the Covid virus mutates once per 2 people that get it.
That means that early 95% vaccine effectiveness drops very rapidly as the virus mutates, and so the post-vaccine period for Covid is also one of a lot less vaccine effectiveness than the post-vaccine world for smallpox.
Oh yeah, totally agree. Another factor s (unlike smallpox) there are animal reservoirs. This isn't a purely human virus. As you said, much closer to influenza than measles or smallpox.
This also contributes to why people hate on the vaccines so much... most people can't wrap their head around a vaccine that "doesn't work" because it's scientifically impossible for it to maintain long term effectiveness and nearly impossible for them to create herd immunity (due to infectivity of SARS-CoV-2). It's fair to discount them a bit for that reason in the sense of the benefit being lower so there's no airtight case for the average person absolutely needing to get a shot. But they did save 500k+ American lives and open things up faster.
In the end, the reduced effectiveness and short time to achievement of herd immunity because of natural virus spread meant that not getting a shot was only as dangerous as riding a motorcycle for a year in terms of % of fatalities in a population. And, in line with michael's point, much less dangerous than that for a healthy young person, even young adults.
Wrong. Covid 'vaccines' didn't save a single life. They killed people. What began cutting down death and saving lives was when people began to see through the lies and use Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and other therapeutics as well as finding out that CDC protocols were killing everyone who entered a hospital with Covid with Remdesivir, powerful pain killers, and then the breathing tubes. The entire medical system should be shut down for these murderous protocols, but instead they continue along with their 'experts' as if nothing happened and with no liability. The whole system is a fraud. People continued to die alone because the hospitals all stopped elective procedures and screenings. Covid had nothing to do with this Holocaust and fear porn
that's where you're wrong. i was alone one night and attacked by a known murderer. all i had at hand was a vial of vaccine and a syringe so I fought him off using them and the vaccine saved my life! plus, added bonus, he slowly dies from the side effects!
Almost no one under 50 died from Covid. While it's true many more died after the vaccines, Covid had nothing to do with that. Covid was a flu. Almost everyone who died WITH Covid actually died from a preexisting condition and not FROM Covid. The vaccines killed anyone of any age at random with it depending completely on the quality of dosage and the injection location. If the syrum was injected directly into a blood vessel instead of a muscle then you likely quickly formed blood clots or suffered from a heart condition with some dying right there on the spot. The 'vaccine' is the killer, not Covid
I know that feeling but don't forget. As Angela Merkel once said, "I'm worried about the 5%. Because if 5% of the population stands up against the government, we'll fall." I may have the percentage wrong, but it's single digits. It was single digits in the American revolution as well. I think 3%. Unity sufficient to make positive change is much closer than the elite want us to believe.
In San Francisco in the 1960s, there were posters saying "1% free."
When I asked what they meant, my friends told me that as long as 1% of the population kept their minds free, we could overcome the establishment narrative.
Maybe we don't need to be as many as 5%. Maybe 1% will do.
At any one time, only 5% of the Soviet population were registered communists.
There used to be this joke, if you got 5 people to join the party, you won a Moskvich, which you were free to drive for a year. If you got 10 people to join the party, you got a dacha on the Black Sea in which to vacation with your family. If you could get 25 people to join the party, you didn't have to.
If you want to be very revolutionary, just take cash at the bank. We probably only have about 3% cash circulating vs total deposits. Love the Merkel quote, hadn't heard it. Wasn't it Bush Sr. who said if the public ever knew what they did, they'd be hung from lamp posts?
As amazing as the internet is and as universal and separate as it should be... it makes the control that much easier. We'll be squashed like nothing before. The message removed and washed like never. The internet is amazing for it's reach and terrifying for it's limited ability to adapt and overcome.
I'm not so sure - you have to understand that - like in the USSR, the people doing the 'quashing' were bureaucratic drones, and the people being 'quashed' were generally MUCH brighter. I think it's going to be VERY hard for elite leftist 'wokers' to contain all the ways we can communicate.
My issue is that the armies of the moronic outnumber us in this country, and abroad. The paid shills that spew that which the "college" educated wish to hear. The WEF is 10 to 15 years ahead of us. What we see and want to stop now is already unstoppable, and we have almost no clue as to what they wish to do next.
The system is set up to make you believe you're outnumbered and resistance if futile. My estimation is 2/3 of America is on the MAGA spectrum and not open borders transgenders
As the great spiritual teacher of the U.S. ruling party, Joseph Stalin, used to say: 'It's Not Who Votes That Counts, It's Who Counts The Votes.' Observe what they do and weep. We will, hopefully, still have a right to communicate their fraud to each other.
We're fighting against a cult. The Soviets had to work hard to suppress the entire population; in the United States today, half the people are willing, happy cultists. Politics is religion, and Democrat elites are their chosen prophets and clergy. It is almost impossible to break someone from their devotions and so far every attempt to do so only makes them more entrenched in their illiberal beliefs.
It took longer than I thought it would, but I think they are now coming after Substack contrarians. At least that's what my newsletter subscriber metrics strongly suggest. Something has changed in recent months.
There's mild irony that one of the inaugural recipients of the Samizdat Prize got his start in the USSR in the waning days of the original "samizdat era"!
Of course, media control has been present in the US since the beginning of the broadcast era if not earlier when only a few newspapers had anything beyond a local reach.
Not too long ago, those of us so inclined to seek alternative views would turn to small newsletters and local broadcast.
The halcyon days of college radio and "alternative media".
What frightens the powers-that-be the most is the loss of control over the primary delivery mechanisms.
Hence the "Censorship Industrial Complex".
Trump's election in 2016 was their wake-up call but the Hunter Biden laptop story seems to have been the watershed event. Kudos and thanks to Miranda Devine for breaking that story! That was arguably even more visible than the quashing of challenges to the official COVID-19 narrative -- and kudos and thanks to Dr. Jay for his work on that (and Dr. Marty M. et alia)!
Given the singular nature of that event -- a blockbuster story by the NY Post -- and the near-instanteous, blanketing reaction, it seemed impossible that the reaction was anything but coordinated.
Kudos and thanks as well to Elon Musk for his courage (both politically and financially) in buying Twitter (now "X") and then providing access to Matt and company which set the stage for the revelations now known as the "Twitter Files". It is rare that clear evidence of malfeasance has been made available to the public. It was no longer a matter of "suspicion" or "doubt" but of "certainty".
In 2018, I was working at a major "media analysis and ratings" company -- huge flat-screen TVs in every meeting room and hallway -- and I was stunned by how I could walk from room to room and not only hear the same story but the exact same choice of words being uttered by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS. It was revelatory.
At this point, given the collapse of several major "cover stories" -- COVID origins, the laptop as disinformation -- it would be great to next have consistent, vigorous follow-up on the promulgators of these stories and to hold their feet to the fire:
1.) Fauci et alia and COVID-19 origins: Wuhan funding and collaboration, the lab scrubbing once the story broke, and the degree to which the CCP may have promoted travel while simultaneously quashing the story. There's plenty more to learn. If it's not a lab-leak, where's that "missing natural link"? The vector for SARS CoV was determined in a matter of months, ironically by a team lead by Peter Daszak.
2.) The infamous "public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials" that declared the Huter Biden laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation". It seems near-impossible that the FBI, which had possesion of the laptop for over a year by that time, had not made a determination of its validity and that all these "former intelligence officials" weren't able to get that determination. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, a signatory of the letter, testified that then Biden campaign senior adviser Anthony Blinken orchestrated the letter.
3.) The equally infamous Susan Rice email from 2017 documenting a White House meeting in which exiting-president Barack Obama, a man who would literally have zero authority in a matter of weeks, discussing with then-FBI head James Comey about whether or not information could be shared with the incoming Trump administration.
The full text is now available, but from the Grassley page:
"
'President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities тАЬby the bookтАЭ. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.'
The next part of your email remains classified. After that, you wrote:
'The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.'
"
The repeated, childish use of "by the book" is of course inadvertently hilarious. In all the wrong ways. A government run by rude, impudent, scheming children.
Obama, the putative "constitutional law professor", was about to leave office and would relinquish any and all authority. Even though there is the qualification of "in the next few weeks", what authority did Obama have to challenge the incoming administration's right...literally, their right...to all information?
Congratulations to you, Jay, and Miranda. The further a society drifts from truth, the more they will hate those who speak it. We must continue to subvert Subversion on our Substack samizdats. Say that 5 times fast!
I fear the resistance is too atomized and disconnected to turn this around.
The percentage of American parents who are jabbing their children with the untested Covid boosters is single digits. If you consider that as a proxy, I propose the resistance is bigger than you think. People are getting tired of the gaslighting.
Marty Makary was unable to find a single HEALTHY child in the US who died of Covid (CDC claims total Covid deaths in US children from 2020-2023= 1696 of >70,000,000 in four years) . Germany announced that no HEALTHY children there died of Covid. Israel claimed that no HEALTHY person under age 50 died there of Covid. Over 90% of US children had been infected with Covid (by antibody assays) by end of 2022 and HEALTHY US children have no need for Covid vaccines.
Most Covid deaths occurred after the vaccines became available (in the US of 1.15 million Covid deaths only 386,000 were in 2020); one would have expected with the resistance to early treatments that most deaths would have occurred before introduction of the vaccines (as with measles and other effective vaccines).
You do have to take the time factor into account when comparing cases. The first vaccination was only a year after the first confirmed covid case. Of course there were more deaths pre-vaccine. There were only 12 months pre-vaccine.
All other diseases had a few thousand years pre-vaccine, or at least a few hundred.
Compare cases over 1 year to cases over nearly 4 years, and the latter will almost always be higher. There are exceptions, but not many. And then we have the shenanigans of "died of" vs "died with"....
There is a Substacker, Andreas Ohler, who documents statistics (and their obfuscations). Also A Midwest Doctor and Pierre Kory.
You are missing a very important scientific aspect. In addition to time being important, type of virus is important. Single stranded DNA viruses (Covid, flu) with little or no outer protection mutate like crazy. That is why the flu vaccine is new every year, that is why the Covid virus mutates once per 2 people that get it.
That means that early 95% vaccine effectiveness drops very rapidly as the virus mutates, and so the post-vaccine period for Covid is also one of a lot less vaccine effectiveness than the post-vaccine world for smallpox.
Oh yeah, totally agree. Another factor s (unlike smallpox) there are animal reservoirs. This isn't a purely human virus. As you said, much closer to influenza than measles or smallpox.
This also contributes to why people hate on the vaccines so much... most people can't wrap their head around a vaccine that "doesn't work" because it's scientifically impossible for it to maintain long term effectiveness and nearly impossible for them to create herd immunity (due to infectivity of SARS-CoV-2). It's fair to discount them a bit for that reason in the sense of the benefit being lower so there's no airtight case for the average person absolutely needing to get a shot. But they did save 500k+ American lives and open things up faster.
In the end, the reduced effectiveness and short time to achievement of herd immunity because of natural virus spread meant that not getting a shot was only as dangerous as riding a motorcycle for a year in terms of % of fatalities in a population. And, in line with michael's point, much less dangerous than that for a healthy young person, even young adults.
Wrong. Covid 'vaccines' didn't save a single life. They killed people. What began cutting down death and saving lives was when people began to see through the lies and use Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and other therapeutics as well as finding out that CDC protocols were killing everyone who entered a hospital with Covid with Remdesivir, powerful pain killers, and then the breathing tubes. The entire medical system should be shut down for these murderous protocols, but instead they continue along with their 'experts' as if nothing happened and with no liability. The whole system is a fraud. People continued to die alone because the hospitals all stopped elective procedures and screenings. Covid had nothing to do with this Holocaust and fear porn
that's where you're wrong. i was alone one night and attacked by a known murderer. all i had at hand was a vial of vaccine and a syringe so I fought him off using them and the vaccine saved my life! plus, added bonus, he slowly dies from the side effects!
Almost no one under 50 died from Covid. While it's true many more died after the vaccines, Covid had nothing to do with that. Covid was a flu. Almost everyone who died WITH Covid actually died from a preexisting condition and not FROM Covid. The vaccines killed anyone of any age at random with it depending completely on the quality of dosage and the injection location. If the syrum was injected directly into a blood vessel instead of a muscle then you likely quickly formed blood clots or suffered from a heart condition with some dying right there on the spot. The 'vaccine' is the killer, not Covid
Take it easy, Group Captain. There's nothing anybody can do about this thing now.
I know that feeling but don't forget. As Angela Merkel once said, "I'm worried about the 5%. Because if 5% of the population stands up against the government, we'll fall." I may have the percentage wrong, but it's single digits. It was single digits in the American revolution as well. I think 3%. Unity sufficient to make positive change is much closer than the elite want us to believe.
In San Francisco in the 1960s, there were posters saying "1% free."
When I asked what they meant, my friends told me that as long as 1% of the population kept their minds free, we could overcome the establishment narrative.
Maybe we don't need to be as many as 5%. Maybe 1% will do.
At any one time, only 5% of the Soviet population were registered communists.
There used to be this joke, if you got 5 people to join the party, you won a Moskvich, which you were free to drive for a year. If you got 10 people to join the party, you got a dacha on the Black Sea in which to vacation with your family. If you could get 25 people to join the party, you didn't have to.
The punch line fell flat. I don't get it
If you want to be very revolutionary, just take cash at the bank. We probably only have about 3% cash circulating vs total deposits. Love the Merkel quote, hadn't heard it. Wasn't it Bush Sr. who said if the public ever knew what they did, they'd be hung from lamp posts?
That was Hillary Clinton yelling that at her top advisor and to 'fix this' after Trump won
Resistance is futile.... Until we hand the few!
As amazing as the internet is and as universal and separate as it should be... it makes the control that much easier. We'll be squashed like nothing before. The message removed and washed like never. The internet is amazing for it's reach and terrifying for it's limited ability to adapt and overcome.
I'm not so sure - you have to understand that - like in the USSR, the people doing the 'quashing' were bureaucratic drones, and the people being 'quashed' were generally MUCH brighter. I think it's going to be VERY hard for elite leftist 'wokers' to contain all the ways we can communicate.
That's why they're so excited about AI. They won't need numbers. AI will be their army on the internet and the battle field
My issue is that the armies of the moronic outnumber us in this country, and abroad. The paid shills that spew that which the "college" educated wish to hear. The WEF is 10 to 15 years ahead of us. What we see and want to stop now is already unstoppable, and we have almost no clue as to what they wish to do next.
The system is set up to make you believe you're outnumbered and resistance if futile. My estimation is 2/3 of America is on the MAGA spectrum and not open borders transgenders
We communicate? So what?
As the great spiritual teacher of the U.S. ruling party, Joseph Stalin, used to say: 'It's Not Who Votes That Counts, It's Who Counts The Votes.' Observe what they do and weep. We will, hopefully, still have a right to communicate their fraud to each other.
HSE. Hope springs eternal.
They get you "hooked," then apply the hook...
тАЬGive Me Convenience Or Give Me Death!тАЭ
-Jello Biafra
Whoa, did you just drop a DKs reference? Well played.
another Dead Kennedys fan!!!
America--the "Inconvenient Truth Shall Set You Free!"--or, most likely not.
Defeatism is catching. Please donтАЩt spread it.
We're fighting against a cult. The Soviets had to work hard to suppress the entire population; in the United States today, half the people are willing, happy cultists. Politics is religion, and Democrat elites are their chosen prophets and clergy. It is almost impossible to break someone from their devotions and so far every attempt to do so only makes them more entrenched in their illiberal beliefs.
I fear only a disaster will move some and the rest will double down.
That's exactly where they want us to be. The whole point of samizdat is to get around that. Don't quit too soon.
Not quitting but griping on substack is not going to fix the problem
It took longer than I thought it would, but I think they are now coming after Substack contrarians. At least that's what my newsletter subscriber metrics strongly suggest. Something has changed in recent months.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/something-has-changed-with-substack?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
It's going to get worse. Much, much worse.
I don't to l so, but if it were, it is our duty to turn it around
Right! HOW?
Keep reading substacks and X posts from truth tellers, and tell others about them, for starters.
Congrats and thanks to Matt here as well!
There's mild irony that one of the inaugural recipients of the Samizdat Prize got his start in the USSR in the waning days of the original "samizdat era"!
Of course, media control has been present in the US since the beginning of the broadcast era if not earlier when only a few newspapers had anything beyond a local reach.
Not too long ago, those of us so inclined to seek alternative views would turn to small newsletters and local broadcast.
The halcyon days of college radio and "alternative media".
What frightens the powers-that-be the most is the loss of control over the primary delivery mechanisms.
Hence the "Censorship Industrial Complex".
Trump's election in 2016 was their wake-up call but the Hunter Biden laptop story seems to have been the watershed event. Kudos and thanks to Miranda Devine for breaking that story! That was arguably even more visible than the quashing of challenges to the official COVID-19 narrative -- and kudos and thanks to Dr. Jay for his work on that (and Dr. Marty M. et alia)!
Given the singular nature of that event -- a blockbuster story by the NY Post -- and the near-instanteous, blanketing reaction, it seemed impossible that the reaction was anything but coordinated.
Kudos and thanks as well to Elon Musk for his courage (both politically and financially) in buying Twitter (now "X") and then providing access to Matt and company which set the stage for the revelations now known as the "Twitter Files". It is rare that clear evidence of malfeasance has been made available to the public. It was no longer a matter of "suspicion" or "doubt" but of "certainty".
In 2018, I was working at a major "media analysis and ratings" company -- huge flat-screen TVs in every meeting room and hallway -- and I was stunned by how I could walk from room to room and not only hear the same story but the exact same choice of words being uttered by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS. It was revelatory.
At this point, given the collapse of several major "cover stories" -- COVID origins, the laptop as disinformation -- it would be great to next have consistent, vigorous follow-up on the promulgators of these stories and to hold their feet to the fire:
1.) Fauci et alia and COVID-19 origins: Wuhan funding and collaboration, the lab scrubbing once the story broke, and the degree to which the CCP may have promoted travel while simultaneously quashing the story. There's plenty more to learn. If it's not a lab-leak, where's that "missing natural link"? The vector for SARS CoV was determined in a matter of months, ironically by a team lead by Peter Daszak.
2.) The infamous "public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials" that declared the Huter Biden laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation". It seems near-impossible that the FBI, which had possesion of the laptop for over a year by that time, had not made a determination of its validity and that all these "former intelligence officials" weren't able to get that determination. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, a signatory of the letter, testified that then Biden campaign senior adviser Anthony Blinken orchestrated the letter.
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/biden-campaign-blinken-orchestrated-intel-letter-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Statement_on_the_Hunter_Biden_Emails
Why isn't this a huge story?
3.) The equally infamous Susan Rice email from 2017 documenting a White House meeting in which exiting-president Barack Obama, a man who would literally have zero authority in a matter of weeks, discussing with then-FBI head James Comey about whether or not information could be shared with the incoming Trump administration.
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-graham-uncover-unusual-email-sent-susan-rice-herself-president-trump-s
The full text is now available, but from the Grassley page:
"
'President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities тАЬby the bookтАЭ. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.'
The next part of your email remains classified. After that, you wrote:
'The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.'
"
The repeated, childish use of "by the book" is of course inadvertently hilarious. In all the wrong ways. A government run by rude, impudent, scheming children.
Obama, the putative "constitutional law professor", was about to leave office and would relinquish any and all authority. Even though there is the qualification of "in the next few weeks", what authority did Obama have to challenge the incoming administration's right...literally, their right...to all information?
Again, how did this story vanish?
Obama. The first ex-president to not leave town after his term was over? Opined he could have had a third term except for that pesky Consitution?
The story didn't vanish. It never existed, because Chris Matthews wasn't the only media person who got a 44 thrill up his leg.
What organization bestowed the award?
I havenтАЩt heard of it before.
As The Great Rush Limbaugh would say тАЬmega dittos!тАЭ