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... and for those who don't want one to be forced to have one, two, and then three, or lose their jobs, face a monthly fine, or be barred from public spaces .....

And do you believe that other people, of sound mind and in good faith, could do their own research and come to a different conclusion about things - not so much the silly ones above, but about, say, the usefulness and desirability of "vaccinating" everyone in the world against Covid, for example? Or does anyone who disagree in any way with the official Covid narrative qualify as a crackpot and conspiracy theorist in your eyes? And was it right to impose mandates on people to get vaccinated on pain of losing their jobs, and being fined, in your opinion?

It is truly heartwarming and uplifting to encounter a loyal citizen who believes everything their government tells them. I expect you are eligible for a Hero Citizen Award, Third Class.

A ten-second search pretty much sums it up. That a "fact-checker" says it is no indication of it being true; most times it is an indication of the opposite. Plenty of organisations have stated that the spike protein is cytotoxic, as you would have discovered if you had spent more than 10 seconds on the search. You would have found the Journal of Biomedical Sciences, for example, which notes: This study shows the effect of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), one of the drugs currently under investigation for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) treatment, on the cytotoxicity caused by spike proteins. The first step of the viral replication cycle, attachment to the surface of respiratory cells, is mediated by the spike viral protein. It sets off a sequence of reactions that would eventually lead to viral spread and cell death. Or you could have scanned the NIH Library of Medicine, which contains many articles on the same theme, one of which notes: One paper reported that certain antibodies in the blood of infected patients appear to change the shape of the spike protein so as to make it more likely to bind to cells, while other papers showed that the spike protein by itself (without being part of the corona virus) can damage endothelial cells and disrupt the blood-brain barrier. There's plenty of information out there, but if you restrict yourself to 10-second searches for "fact-checkers" you will never find it. Or is that the intention?

Yes, it is an exceptional virus. Even the spike protein, the bit that enables it to get into human cells, has been shown to be a cytotoxin which damages cells, even ignoring the effects of the rest of the virus. Why, then, were the mRNA "vaccines" designed and formulated to trick the human body into creating exactly that same toxic spike protein inside its own cells? That's the question that needs answering.

There are electric buses on 120 different routes? I use the buses quite a bit and have never once seen an electric bus.

Excuse me, the Muppets were extremely professional.

Why would you go and get 4 shots after having covid and getting past it? Natural immunity is still easily the best defense against the disease.

As the saying goes, we need to know what tunes the devil is playing.

Celine and Julie Go Boating would be closer to the mark, I think.

It is clear that a great many people find psychological comfort in this 'apocalypse', and this is one reason they are so reluctant to abandon it and tend to be so abusive towards those who don't buy into it. For some, it seems to provide a sense of belonging, purpose and meaning ("we're all in this together"), for some it provides a definite bogeyman to be afraid of, instead of the vague free-floating anxiety they were feeling beforehand. It's also clear that the necessary psychological conditions were in place well before the Covid virus emerged, and the virus simply tripped the switch to set all these panicked feelings in motion.

I don't find it at all amazing. Many people have believed - perhaps all their lives - that their governments truly care about them and have the competence to better their lives. They now have to face the awful reality that that belief was built on sand, that they are regarded as no better than livestock, to be tabulated in a government spreadsheet created and run by mediocre fools. That is a devastating and painful realization, and I am not at all surprised that people cannot admit it to themselves.

I hope not, as I think their perspective on this unmitigated disaster will be crucial. I don't see them as opponents or enemies. We were (and still are) all rats in a cage, subjected to a sustained, vicious and very sophisticated propaganda campaign. Many people went along with the propaganda, and some decided not to. The Covid-induced pantomime is not over; we're just in a 'phoney war' stage. The restrictions that were brought in for Covid are going to be replayed over influenza, RSV, climate change and other issues deemed to be "for the greater good". The more people who fell for Covid propaganda who now realize what a crock of s**t the whole thing was, and decide to speak out against it, the better.

Lots of perpetrators know that the game is now up and are trying to rewrite history to pretend they were always against lockdowns, suppression and mandated vaccinations. Those who can't claim that because their fingerprints are too obvious will peddle the line that they had been "acting in our best interests all along." Just like in 1946 when every French person claimed to have been in the Resistance.

Pride, as the saying has it, comes before a fall. The Chinese are going to pay a heavy price for their 'Zero Covid' folly in economic and social terms. The West, with its remarkable combination of hubris, incompetence and gibbering panic over this virus has already paid that price, but at least China has leapt onto the ruinous bandwagon rather than taking advantage of the West's cowardly stupidity.

This celeb story appears to be dominating much of the UK press, relegating to obscurity such things as the dire economy, untrammeled illegal migration, the Brexit extraction problems, sky-high energy prices, the unprecedented spike in long-term sickness claimants and the Russia-Ukraine war. The Roman-era concept of 'bread and circuses' springs to mind.

On Ethiopia's highest mountain, Ras Dashen.

It’s almost like mass containment doesn’t do anything aside from wrecking the economy and ruining everyone’s lives.

It's called "water management". Many societies worldwide mastered this idea thousands of years ago, but whether Thailand can do it in the 21st century is another matter entirely.

Don't knock disinformation from the powers-that-be. It is very informative in the way that a complete lie would not be. Because when you examine official disinformation carefully, you can always understand the agenda behind what they are saying and the intent of the disinformation. Disinformation normally deals in 'facts', so the moment the 'fact-checkers' swing into action, you know that you are dealing with official disinformation. As Wittgenstein, an expert in detecting BS, put it: "I neither want to understand your observation or contention, nor do I regard it as acceptable for consideration unless I see solid conclusive empirical underpinning first; much as I hold for all the things I regard as true. Until it is proved in finality, I will allow no language of science to develop around the subject. Your terms and construct schema are all pseudo-science."

And if you're brainstorming, you had better not use a 'flip chart', as the term is now deemed to be derogatory to Philippine people .....

Yes, those 'vaccines' really are one of the Wonders of the Age we live in.

This year, there have been 350,000 excess deaths in the US, according to OECD data. Of these, 225,000 have been attributed to Covid by the CDC. That is, there are 125,000 excess deaths in the US not attributable to Covid in 2022 so far. I haven't seen any great urgency among scientists to look for a cause in the US, or across other countries such as Thailand, the UK, Germany and Australia where the same excess mortality is seen. Scientists only look for a cause of annual death in certain study areas, it seems.

We've known since February 2020 that Covid overwhelmingly kills just the old. The data, even before the milder Omicron came along, from the UK's Office of National Statistics is quite clear on this. * The median age of Covid death in the UK is 82 years. * The proportion of Covid deaths occurring in the under-50s group was less than 2% of the total Covid deaths * 75% of deaths were in the over-75 age cohort. Treating Covid with a one-size-fits-all approach (as in mass lockdowns) instead of aiming at focused protection of the elderly was one of the hugest of the huge blunders made by our "leaders".

They have an admissions exam? I thought the only requirement to be a Thai policeman was a detectable heartbeat and a relative on the force.