Vaccine Vacillation And Vicissitudes (December 14, 2020)

Posted in Covid / Coronavirus, Health Care, Medicine, Public Health, Vaccine on December 14, 2020 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K          “They make great promises of a vaccine with a ‘success rate’ of 97.312159 % or even, . . . why not, . . . go big and claim 104.312159 % or just make up a number.  Like the Dow, nothing is real today.”

J          “I’ll take it.  Maybe not right now.  It won’t be available to me until April.  We will have more information by then.  If they have enough available vials.  And that turns on whether they can access enough sand to make enough vials.”

. . .

J          “I admit there are some health care workers who are balking at getting the vaccine.  The corporate medical machine instinctively fires them immediately with no severance pay or word of thanks . . . until it realizes there are no ready replacements.  So they are agreeing to keep the disagreement quiet.”

K          “Then the next wave of victims are the most vulnerable who are also more likely nonetheless to suffer unfavorable outcomes.”

J          “Some argue that the most productive should be protected next.”

K          “They can have mine.”

. . .

K          “Why is no one focusing on taking care of the individual?  Why not advise citizens to take Vitamins C and D3 and also Zinc with a ionophore to drive the Zinc into a cell?  And a healthy diet and peaceful sleep?  Maybe shed a few pounds?  A baby aspirin a day to deal with what appears to be a blood condition? That is the solution.”

J          “America is not a preventive medicine kind of place.”

. . .  

K          “Despite efforts to suppress any bad news, word is leaking out to the public.  The MSM and the new age MSM Tech Monsters continue the full-court press to deceive the public but with less success each week.”

J          “I’ll take yours.” 

. . .

[See “95% Vaccine Efficacy? Not So Fast” in “The Automatic Earth” dated December 6, 2020 by Raul Illargi Meijer.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

The self-inflicted Pearl Harbor of our time

We are transitioning from the nightmare of Trumpi to the nightmare of Biden.

2020:  The Year of the Virus; 2021:  The Year of the Vaccine 

Trumpi bungled the Virus; Biden is bungling the Vaccine

Trumpi:  RussiaRussiaRussia

Biden:  ChinaChinaChina

That’s the thing about the future, it is so predictable

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“Cacashow”: The 2020 Word Of The Year (December 7, 2020)

Posted in Carbon Surcharge & Dividend, Energy, Writing on December 7, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “‘Pandemic’ is an anemic choice.”

J          “Words are not their strong suit.”

. . .

K          “Usually with an exclamation point, it is in the ‘Subject’ line or the first sentence of sooo many e-mails on Covid-19(84).”

J          “On the election.”

K          “On the Vaccine.”

J          “On Trumpi.”

K          “On Fauci.”

J          “On the CDC.”

K          “On the NIH.”

J          “On the WHO.”

K          “On the NHS.”

J          “On the FDA.”

K          “On the MSM.”

J          “On the MIC (Medical Industrial Complex).”

K          “On and on and on.”

. . .

J          “On Dasher.”

K          “On Dancer”

J          “On Prancer.”

K          “On Vixen.”

J          “On Comet.”

K          “On Cupid.”

J          “On Donner.”

K          “On Blitzen.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “Carbon Fee And Dividend Imagined.  Oh, And Happy Saint Nicholas Day! (December 3, 2018)” and “Coal (December 2, 2013)”.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Carry on

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Fight Or Flight In The Face Of Fear? A Principled Reaction To Stand (November 30, 2020)

Posted in Collapse on November 30, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Two different individuals, two different personalities, two different weltanschauungs, two different backgrounds, two different conversations at two different times and in two different places.  Same analysis and same conclusion.  In separate conversations, they came to the revised conclusion I reached a few years ago.”

J          “And the two of us agree at this time and in this place.  The mind focuses while the body fails.  Should we call ourselves the intrepid ‘Walker Brigade’ rolling to the rescue.”

. . .

K          “Either you fight or you flee.  He said that as much as he admires the drive, desire and discipline of the ‘preppers’ and the ‘back to the landers’ who leave society, it is still at core fleeing if not surrendering.  The community is left with one less defender.”

J          “Do we want to continue standing for it?  Is it time to take a stand?  Has it been time to take a stand for some time?  Even if we cannot stand.  For some time.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “On Revolution (March 15, 2010)” and “The Residue of Unrelenting Fear: PTSD Afflicts The Populace (August 28, 2006)”.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:  What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?  Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?  …  The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!  If … if … We didn’t love freedom enough.  And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation … We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918 – 1956

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The Vaccine: The Shot Felt Round The World (November 23, 2020)

Posted in Covid / Coronavirus, Vaccine on November 23, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “There is probably no other government action that would trigger immediate, spontaneous, unorchestrated, sustained and wide-spread resistance from the public than a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine.  Jamming a needle into a body would be the catalyst for a grand collective commotion from the body politic.”

J          “If a vaccine is rushed to market with even a small number of publicized side effects, the public across the political spectrum will resist.  However, the guinea pigs will all be eager volunteers.”

. . .

K          “So many people are concerned about gun confiscation.  I do not believe the government could possibly confiscate even some guns because there are so many guns and gun owners and too few law enforcement authorities who would enforce the order.  That threat is improbable but not impossible.  However, the threat of forced vaccines is very real.”

J          “If the government comes to confiscate guns, I believe and hope the American people will resist at the first warning.  Forced vaccines are beyond the red line.”

. . .

K          “I do remember being either firm or obstinate or pig-headed depending on your perspective and refusing to get into the car to get the vaccine.  He was far busier than I realized and did not have time to engage in gentle Dr. Spock persuasive reasoning.  The pictures in his medical books were graphic enough to get me to get on board.  I asked the nurse to give me a shot in each arm.  And have not missed a fall flu vaccine since.  But may not take any flu shot next year.”

J          “A friend told me that he remembers the pediatrician patriarch coming up the sidewalk with a treated sugar cube in a cup for the three of them.”

. . .

K          “Absent proof beyond a reasonable doubt, I will not get any Covid-19 vaccine.  I firmly believe there are currently available treatments that are much safer and much more effective and much much cheaper.”

J          “I may consider taking the vaccine, but I will be at the back of the line looking and listening attentively and possibly stepping out to move again to the back of the line.”

. . .

[See “How to Celebrate Thanksgiving in the Midst of Toxic Politics and COVID-19 Lockdowns” in “The Rutherford Institute” dated November 23, 2020 by the award-winning John W. Whitehead.]

[See the e-commentary at “Covid-19 PanICdemic/Plague:  Now What?!  Make Masks Great Again (June 15, 2020)”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

?Give it a shot?

Make masks good again

2020:  The Year of the Virus; 2021:  The Year of the Vaccine 

1963:  Kennedy

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Interregnum: Incredulity And Instability (November 16, 2020)

Posted in Elections, Political Parties, Wall Street, War, War and Wall Street Party on November 16, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “After a dubious election, the ‘D’ division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’ is taking over from the ‘R’ Division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’ again.”

J          “The ‘D’ Division will send in more divisions overseas and create more divisions in the land betwixt the shining seas.”

. . .

Bumper stickers of the week:

That shit don’t flush

That dog don’t hunt

Panda < Eagle > Bruin; Panda + Bruin > Eagle  

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The Trumpi Referendum (November 9, 2020)

Posted in Elections, Presidency, Trump on November 9, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “He did more than anyone else in history to get out the vote on the Great Referendum.”

J          “He really was the only one on the ballot with voters voting for him or voting against him.  When he didn’t get the votes, they gave it to the other guy.  Good ol’ what’s-his-name . . . and the young Black Hillary.”

. . .  

K          “Listening to all the arguments and reviewing all the commentary, I suspect that a few extra ballots were slipped into a few ballot boxes.”

J          “Back in 2004, it was so easy and simple when Karl rerouted the Ohio votes to another computer and rejiggered and reduced the vote for Kerry and . . . insured the reelection of George Bush.  By 2012, the folks at Anonymous were on to Karl and did a workaround that outwitted Karl’s workaround resulting in the votes in Ohio actually being voted that . . . insured the reelection of Barack O’Bama.”

K          “Clinton was earmarked to get the nod in the 2016 election, yet the signals got confused.  Many were not amused.  That oversight was not going to be tolerated this time.”

J          “A friend contends that we should not disparage someone who steals something fair and square.”  

. . .

J          “Ten years ago, I advocated for making Election Day a national holiday.  Working people are working on Tuesday.  Now the country needs a national election process for national elections with write in ballots and far more security.”

. . .

K          “The economic, social, national and international problems are beyond intractable and off their radar.”

J          “Will all the problems that will only get worse result in President Harris being a one-term President?”

. . .

See the first e-commentary (“e-ssay” at the time) at “Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005)”.

Bumper sticker of the week:

Wine  The Glue Holding This 2020 Shitshow Together

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Le Election: One First Street (November 2, 2020)

Posted in Elections, Supreme Court, Voting on November 2, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “One First Street is my number one concern.”

J          “On the third of November, One First Street is foremost on my mind.  The coup d’état at the Supreme Court was completed a fortnight ago, but we need to keep fighting.  What else do we do.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “Suffer Clinton.  The Devil.  We know. (November 7, 2016)” and “Better the crook we know than the crazy man we don’t?  Applying The Conservative Tie Breaker. (June 20, 2016)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises.  It’s the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she’s way behind in second place.  She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.”  P.J. O’Rourke

“I am endorsing Joe, and all his lies and all his empty promises.  It’s the second-worst thing . . . .”

“And how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get . . . a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?”  Hunter S. Thompson

I’m (Not Really Totally By Any Means Excited To Be) With Him

When your IQ reaches 50, YOU SHOULD SELL.

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“Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)” Four Years Later (October 26, 2020)

Posted in Book Reference, Kleptocracy on October 25, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Add Biden, Inc. to the mix.  The Bideni gang rides again.”

J          “Over six years ago it was clear that the sons of the Ruling Class like Kerry-Heinz and Biden were positioned and poised to make a killing.  No matter how things stay the same, they stay the same.”

. . .

K          “Professor G. William Domhoff’s classic examination of power in America, Who Rules America?, revisited and explored observations developed earlier by Professor C. Wright Mills in his seminal The Power Elite.  I read Mills in high school and Domhoff in college.  Now there is Professor Peter Phillips who has written Giants, Who Really Rules The World? and refines and updates the analysis.”

J          “Phillips in the graduate school of life.  His division of the new “Global Power Elite” into four sections includes four archetypes: 1) Managers (i.e., the financial elite), 2) Facilitators (i.e., bureaucrats and policy planners), 3) Protectors (i.e., military-intelligence apparatus of power), and 4) Ideologists (i.e., public-relations operatives and propagandists) is frighteningly insightful.  An inquiry into the absolute domination of the powerful over the powerless.  To continue the tradition, he may need to add an initial to his name . . . say Professor P. Peter Phillips.”

. . .

K          “That uneasy feeling in late October 2016 manifested itself in the political surprise of our lifetime.”

J          “I’m still uneasy.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)”, “Impeachment Imbroglio.  Oh, And Happy Saint Nicholas Day! (December 2, 2019)” and “World’s Reserve Currency War I = Cold War 2.0 = WW III (?) (September 8, 2014)”.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

And the beating goes on

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Fifth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 19, 2020)

Posted in Jurisprudence Award, Law, Noble Prize in Jurisprudence on October 19, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K          “A prize dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the work of someone who or some organization that really knows something about jurisprudence and the impact of courts, judges, lawyers and police on the lives and livelihood of ordinary citizens.  Someone who lives the conviction that men and women should establish and respect some norms and standards that are promulgated clearly to all and enforced equally in favor of and against all.”

J          “Someone who advances the Rule of Law and stuff like that.  I like it.”

K          “The recipient of the fifth annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence . . . is Francis Boyle, a leading advocate of the rule of law and of international law, for his continuing efforts against overwhelming odds to advance and defend civil rights and civil liberties.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at “Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 21, 2019)”, “Third Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 15, 2018)”, “Second Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 16, 2017)”, “First Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 17, 2016)“, “Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016)” and “Hiroshima And Nagasaki At 75 (August 10, 2020)”.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Give civil rights and civil liberties a chance

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Fifth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 12, 2020)

Posted in Economics, Economics Nobel, Noble Prize in Eco-nomics on October 12, 2020 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K          “An award acknowledging and celebrating the work of someone on the planet who really knows something about eco-nomics.  Eco-nomics is about making and sharing; e-con-omics is about taking and stealing.”

J          “The Noble Prize in Eco-nomics is a delightful and playful replacement for the discredited and misnamed ‘Nobel’ Prize in Voodoo E-con-omics.  And I get it.  You get what you reward.  You need to reward what you want to get.  Who gets it this year?”

K          “The recipients of the fifth annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics are . . . Pam Martens and Russ Martens who have researched and crafted ‘Wall Street On Parade’ for decades.  The couple has contributed immensely and with little credit chronicling in clear prose the circus and criminality on Wall Street and the consequences for the ordinary person.”

J          “They should get credit for challenging the credit markets.  They have made a far great contribution to the public discourse than everyone writing at ‘The Wall Street Journal’ for the last two decades.  The age of vicious irony is viciously ironic.”

. . .

[See “The American Nightmare” in “The Automatic Earth” by Byron Bishop dated October 12, 2020; “The Tyranny of Economists  How can they be so wrong, so often, and yet still exert so much influence on government policy?” in “The New Republic” by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein dated September 30, 2019, the book titled “The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn” by Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg and “Heretics welcome!  Economics needs a new Reformation” in “The Guardian” by Larry Elliott dated December 17, 2017.]

[See the e-commentary at “Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 14, 2019)”, “Third Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 8, 2018)”, “Second Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 9, 2017)”, “First Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 10, 2016)”, “Announcing The First Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (May 2, 2016)”, “Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016)”, “From e-con-omics to eco-nomics? (August 1, 2011)”, and “Skip the Nobel in Economics (October 6, 2009)”.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.”  Charlie Munger

Boycott banks; support credit unions

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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