December 31, 2022
Why the Third World Handled Covid Better
Timothy Birdnow
Africa is also much warmer. Covid is a cold and flourishes in cold climates. Viruses thrive in colder climates than in warmer (which have bacteria and parasites).
Also, there is less obesity and the people are used to catching all manner of diseases, so their immune systems are likely stronger than ours. And they come into contact with fewer people in much of Africa than in the West.
And finally they simply ignored a little sniffling so there probably were far fewer tests done for Covid. Here in the West we tested, tested, tested. Trump was mocked for blaming all the testing but he wasn't wrong; not only were there multiple false positives but it just stands to reason more testing will find more "cases". Cases don't really matter.
Daniel Jupp
In the West we are told that we have the best medical systems in the
world. We are told that we are rich nations who can afford a level of
clinical care and medical infrastructure which simply doesn’t exist in
the Third World.
At the same time we were told that within the West black people are disproportionately
affected by health issues due to racism, poverty and apparently some
conditions like covid being more harmful to some ethnicities than to
others.
What we aren’t told is that Africa and the entire Third
World dealt with the covid pandemic far better than the West or parts
of Asia that are relatively wealthy as well. The lowest death rates and
the lowest number of cases are all from Third World nations. Africa,
India, Oceania, and large parts of Asia were all much less affected by
covid than the rich European nations or North America.
This
should be the exact opposite of what would happen if 1. Our health
systems were great and saved many lives 2. Poverty actually does
translate to lower survival rates in a pandemic and 3. Black people
actually are more at risk from covid. One or all of these things must
be untrue for the Third World to have much better covid figures than
the First World.
Covidians have been remarkably silent not only
on all the evidence that has gradually emerged showing that every
measure they insisted on either had no statistical impact or was
actually harmful, but on the disparities of outcomes between the First
and Third world.
How is it that the UK or the US, France or
Germany should do so much worse, whilst blessed with all the resources
others lack, than Haiti or Burundi? Places which barely quality as
functioning states did better than the West. Places which had virtually
no medical infrastructure,
places dependent on charity, places that are war zones, places where
disease and famine are usually more prevalent than anyone in the West
has ever experienced, places where corruption might significantly
impede access to care, and places which had no masking, no lockdowns,
and most especially no mass vaccination, all did better than us with
our tens upon tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, healthcare
professionals and trillions of pounds of spending.
Headlines now
read that ‘experts’ are "baffled” as to why Haiti, one of the most
badly run, corrupt, poor and failing countries in the world, has among
the very best covid statistics in the world. The same experts are
equally ‘baffled’ by why excess death rates post mass vaccination are
much higher than excess death rates at the height of covid.
The
lesson from covid is if you want the very best chance of surviving a
pandemic, be somewhere so poor, so isolated and so unnoticed that
nobody can turn up and inject you with a ‘cure’. Witch doctors
literally did better than our doctors. For personal power and profit,
the professional medical and governmental class in the West abandoned
perhaps its greatest claims and greatest achievements. It can no longer
claim that it’s ethics are better than those of the Third World. It
can’t even claim any more that it’s science is rigorously tested,
appropriately applied and unusually effective.
In breaking the
Nuremberg Code and enforcing draconian measures including coerced
medical experiment on a vast scale, it lost its moral authority. In a
small group of people using this crisis for vast profit it lost any
claim to be less corrupt than the likes of Haiti or Zimbabwe. In
adopting utterly irrational measures reliant on mass hysteria,
propaganda and magical thinking, like believing that a virus obeys
arrows on the floor, it smashed the Western reputation for rationalism,
acquired painstakingly over centuries, to pieces. And in allowing the
State to eradicate basic freedoms on so little actual evidence and with
so little actual cause, it abandoned the love of at least some form of
liberty which had defined the West in opposition to Eastern despotism
since the days of Ancient Greece.
Most people have yet to fully
realise just how vast a crime all this was. As vaccine deaths exceed
virus deaths, some who went along with it all will do so. Some will
wake up, and we are seeing that. But until those responsible are
punished, until consequences occur, the West will never again be what
it was. And that is a tragedy for all mankind even if not one more
person dies due to these policies and these disastrous covid vaccines.
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Auld Lang Resigned
by Timothy Birdnow
12/31/2022
Ald Lang Syne an old Scottish Rhyme
Reminiscing of times long past
a time to pine
and drink some wine
and think of the things that last
But the darkness of the geriatric year
the dying of things long held dear
to be replaced with what we fear? We know not the course or the star by which to steer
The future awaits ready or not
it's coming now like a cannon shot
prisoners of our past
players in the cast
time we know not the lines though the floodlamps are hot
What course do the stars fix for our journey
our trip from the cradle to the gurney? A man scarcely knows which way the winds of life blows
in our long short stay in this strange tourney
So another Ald Lang Syne has come along
is it the beginning or the ending of our song?
Will all be right or all be wrong?
Will we be cut short or our lives prolong?
We of the mortal coil
we grub around in this dank soil
always are we far too obtuse
to understand what fruit it produce
from all our days of struggle and toil
How we long for the Ald Lang Syne! For those days we will surely pine But the past is gone and to pine is wrong
and in truth it was not all benign
So look to the future sky
and do not question why
a new year is about to dawn
say goodbye to the old with a sigh and a song
and be thankful your number's not drawn
For the grave awaits all
on this dusty old ball
But it won't get you yesterday or last year
so hoist up your glass for the time that's gone past
for the moment put down all your fear
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Santos Should Go After the Democrats
Timothy Birdnow
So, Republican Rep.-elect George Santos
padded his resume' prior to his election to Congress. Now it's being demanded he resign and there is talk in left-wing media about what can be done about him. Even the
New York Post through Santos under the bus.
In an ideal world this would be an issue for both parties. But we do not live in an ideal world. The fact is the Democrats likely stole a number of House seats, and certainly stole the Arizona Governorship. The GOP would be insane to take this guy out.
But more importantly, why is there no parity?
What about Big Smelly Sqwah Cherokee Lizzy Warren? She was caught lying about being Cherokee and ran for President after that. No fallout for her.
What about Hillary Clinton? She claimed she landed under sniper fire - a lie. She claimed she was named for Edmund Hillary - before he climbed Mt. Everest. She claimed a lot of things that were untrue.
And her husband was even worse. He claimed he smoked pot "but didn't inhale" when busted with the news. He lied repeatedly about his many affairs. In fact, he was convicted of perjury by a court of law.
But, but, but...that's different!
What of Al Gore, who invented the internet, according to his own claims?
What of Barack Obama? Obama went to American University as a foreign student and had attended a Madross in Indonesia. You can only attend a Madross if you are Muslim, yet he claimed he was a Christian when he ran for Senate/President. And if he was taking money at A.U. for his education then he defrauded the taxpayers. He LIED, about that and a good many things.
And what of Joe Biden's career-long lies? He
lies and [/link=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6317813270112]lies some more. He knew nothing about his son's dealings with Ukraine, even while he is on recorrd openly bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into his son fired. His lies are innumerable - and have not been numerated by a media which kept a "Trump lies list" of dubious accusations of dishonesty against Mr. Trump (who was often proven correct.)
There are so many other Democrats who simply have been given a pass by the media. So why start now?
Well, it's obvious; the GOP has a majority in the House of only the slimmest majority, and if they can flip a seat or two the Democrats can retake control of that body. It was inevitable that anyone with any skeletons in their closet would be raked over the coals.
And of course our idiot Elephant friends are all on board here, ready to toss a guy who won on Long Island for resume' padding. Well, when the aforementioned liars resign then Santos can do likewise.
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Putin was For NATO Expansion before He was Against It?
Bryan Alexander argues:
Those who
weren't paying attention to Putin or Ukraine until February of this
year, and insist "NATO expansion" somehow "goaded" Putin into invading
Ukraine (which is literally nonsense, and nothing but Russian
propaganda), literally don't know what they're talking about. Here's a
quote that proves it:
"I am absolutely convinced that Ukraine
will not shy away from the processes of expanding interaction with NATO
and the Western allies as a whole. Ukraine has its own relations with
NATO; there is the Ukraine-NATO Council. At the end of the day the
decision [on Ukraine joining NATO] is to be made by NATO and Ukraine.
It is a matter for those two partners.”
Who said it? Vladimir Putin, May 17, 2002.
Tim replies:
Conditions had changed Bryan. Back then Putin wanted to make it clear that Ukraine was indeed a sovereign country. France and Germany both opposed Ukrainian membership, and Ukraine did not meet the qualifications of membership anyway. All that changed with the CIA backed coup against the lawfully elected government.
In his 2007 Munich Security Conference speech Putin said:
"NATO has put its front-line forces on our borders, We have the right to ask: Against whom is this expansion intended?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/20/putin-ukraine-nato-2007-munich-conference/
It was clear back then he was not willing to tolerate NATO expansion into the heart of the old Soviet Republics.
And it should be pointed out that Russia wanted to join NATO back in 2000 but were largely rebuffed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/03/06/putin-says-why-not-to-russia-joining-nato/c1973032-c10f-4bff-9174-8cae673790cd/ So then NATO expanded eastward.
The Baltic States were accepted into NATO in 2004, after Putin made his statement.
And missile defense systems have since been deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic, changing the equation.
I'm sorry Bryan but a 20 some-odd year old quote is hardly smoking gun proof that Putin only now is opposed to Ukrainian membership in NATO. He may have been o.k. with it (when it wasn't going to happen anyway) but when faced with a stark reality things change. And no doubt the Russian populace is upset by it.
I appreciate your position on this but I think there is zero attempt to see the Russian side here. I also must ask, who is it that is beating the war drum in the West? The Leftists and mainstream media, that's who.
I purposely link more than one post from WaPo, as they and the rest of the media are all on board with this. But even some of their own writers admit this is not so clear-cut.
Oh, and Bryan you say "At the end of the day the decision [on Ukraine joining NATO] is to be made by NATO and Ukraine." Note that "joining NATO" is in brackets, meaning he didn't say that. He spoke of NATO Ukrainian relations. I would have to look it up to see it in the Curillic, but I rather suspect this is an interpretation and not perhaps a good translation of what he said. Certainly he didn't say he was o.k. with them JOINING NATO, just having good relations. He may have been saying Ukrainian membership in NATO was fine too, but I would want to see the original Russian to determine that. At any rate it certainly was the case that, at the time, Putin had little to lose by making such statements. Again, he wanted to join NATO himself.
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December 29, 2022
Oh Say Can You Sea Level Rise?
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Sea level rise acceleration in the satellite altimetry record is statistically equivalent to zero. According to this paper in Nature from scientists at Delft Uni. Remote Sensing.
A rare confirmation of the null hypothesis. As far as we can tell from 27 years of satellite data, nothing is happening.
This is oddly in conflict with the claims from Columbia University that the altimeter record shows unequivocal strong acceleration.
"We provide a new and more accurate estimate of the intra-mission bias, which leads to a much reduced GMSL acceleration over the whole record."
A revised acceleration rate from the altimetry-derived global mean sea level record - Scientific Reports
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Why the Difference?
Bryan Alexander
Want to know why
it matters if you have a gay governor who is "married" to another man?*
Check out this provision in a job notice I just got:
COVID-19 Vaccination Notice:
In compliance with state and federal guidance, Colorado Access has
adopted a policy addressing vaccination and testing requirements to
protect the health of employees and their families, our members,
vendors and visitors of Colorado Access. All new hires must present
proof of COVID-19 vaccinations or agree to testing protocols at the
time of hire.
*No, this isn't because he's gay, but it IS
because, as a (liberal) gay dude, he is totally on board with the full
menu of "woke" liberal BULLSHIT. And obviously, the idea of being
vaccinated being to "protect the health" of ANYONE is obviously
absolute, utter bullshit at this point.
Tim adds:
Remember the Ebola pandemic during the Obama years? We handled that so very differently.
The Obama Administration had a policy to bring Ebola infected people into the United States for treatment. Non-citizens. So we could actually import people with a very deadly disease (Ebola Zaire had a 60 to 90% mortality rate. Sudan 40 to 60% and the "gentle" Bundibugyo 25%, but we were told we had no right to stop people from coming here for treatment.
Then we were told Covid - with a mortality rate below 1% and we were stampeded into a panic and quarantined and denied jobs for not getting the clot shot or not masking. Strange how different these two diseases were treated.
And it's even stranger than the way we treated HIV when it first surfaced. We were told we had absolutely no right to quarantine AIDS patients, or restrict htem in any way. (Fauci was involved in that too.) Odd.
In the early days we didn't know if HIV was transmittable through saliva or could become airborn. We just rolled the dice on it.
Why the different treatment? One involved a protected class and the other affected the majority of citizens. Is's fine to oppress ALL Americans but not some who want to march to the beat of their own drums and don't much care for the resultant hearing loss.
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Shapiro on Ukraine
Timothy Birdnow
I've never been overly impressed with Ben Shapiro, but he's right here by and large:
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Dec 22
Ukraine is singularly interested in pushing Russia completely out of
Ukraine, including Crimea; we are interested in upholding NATO
deterrence, preventing Russian escalation, standing back China, and
yes, preventing Russia's absolute collapse.
We have achieved most
of our goals; Ukraine has not achieved its goals yet. This means we are
eager to bring Russia to the table, where Ukraine is less eager.
Ukraine has no incentive to end the war short of absolute Russian
surrender.
The United States has every interest in ending the war
in a negotiated line that will undoubtedly fall short of Ukrainian
expectations. This means that the United States must (1) give Ukraine
aid to push the Russians hard and prevent the internal collapse of the
country...
and (2) make clear to Putin behind closed doors that a
negotiated solution is available. This will also mean that at some
point in the near future, Biden will have to be the bad guy to Zelensky
and tell him "no."
The question is whether Biden is willing to do
that, or we just keep doing (1) ad infinitum, with no actual view as to
America's end goal independent of Ukraine's. I have serious doubts
Biden is willing to take the hit of being the bad guy here. And herein
lies the problem.
None of this analysis requires that we
ignore the very serious problems within Ukraine, ranging from
corruption to questions of religious discrimination to use of
Nazi-ideology-o
rigin battalions like Azov. Foreign policy is constantly about choices between ugly alternatives.
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That's delusional. We are interested in
"preventing Russia's absolute collapse" and are eager to
"bring Russia to the table" for bargaining? Really? The whole purpose of the US spending billions over eight years arming and training Ukraine's military was to bring about the breakup of the Russian Federation and regime change to depose Putin. It is the US that is preventing negotiations which Russia is repeatedly offering. Why is anyone giving airtime to this ignorant gasbag?
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That's the by and large Bill. Shapiro is dead wrong in that part of his assessment. We've been gunning for Russia for some time, no question.
And there is zero effort to bring Russia to any table. This is about regime change in Russia and the installation of a sychophant there.
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So, if he's 180 degrees wrong on one aspect of his diatribe, why do you assume he's right on anything else? He has demonstrated with the wrongness of one statement that he has no idea what the heck he is talking about and is nothing more than a gasbag.
Posted by: Bill H at December 29, 2022 09:53 AM (Q7br2)
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Have you never been wrong on a subjecct Bill? Does that invalidate everything you say?
Here is a whopper of a blunder by Isaac Newton. https://apnews.com/article/7dbbc6050ecfa8d776de37a728de401b Does that invalidate Newton's research?
And there was Einstein's "biggest blunder" the Cosmological Constant. Einstein called it that himself.
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I should have been more specific and said that he knows nothing about
that subject. I've enjoyed many of Shapiro's talks and think fairly highly of him. His proclivity for pretending expertise on subjects he knows nothing about annoys me. And no, I don't expound on subjects I know little or nothing about.
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Well, I agree Shapiro is a know-it-all. And I've never been overly impressed by him. He's smart, but thinks he's smarter than he is, and he covers by speaking very fast Woody Allen style. But that doesn't make him right.
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What you mentioned reflects the political and complexity of the situation in Ukraine and in relation to Russia. That's an interesting perspective on the violence and political goals of many countries. Below is further analysis and commentary on the proposals and situations you mentioned:
Ukraine's Interest in Pushing Russia: It's important to have an interest in pushing Russia out of Ukraine. The presence of Russian offensives in Ukraine and related events have created a geographic and political conflict. The ability to maintain relations between ASEAN countries and countries for economic development and regional stability will play a key role in shaping the direction of relations in Ukraine in the future.
NATO Defense Support: Supporting NATO to prevent Russia's escalation is critical to maintaining stability in Ukraine and the region as a whole. Having military alliances and mutual support in alternative ways will help the force to counter conflict and maintain peace in the region.
Standing up for China: Supporting China can have political and economic implications. The emergence of China as an influential figure in Ukraine and the ASEAN region could change the political landscape in the region. any support Care should be taken to ensure that unforeseen consequences do not occur.
Enthusiasm for bringing Russia to the negotiating table: Bringing Russia to the negotiating process is complex and requires careful consideration. In addition to military and economic pressure There are also issues related to media control and political control in Russia. Good decisions should be made considering the potential risks and consequences.
Guidelines for negotiation and conflict resolution: Negotiation and conflict resolution in this situation must consider the content and details of the negotiation. It is important to be impartial and in the habit of listening to the opinions and reasons of your opponent. Clear goals and consistent benefits will help the negotiating process be effective.
It boils down to the question of whether Biden intends to pursue this implication. It is a matter that cannot be answered as it is complex and depends on the circumstances and risks present at the time. However, it is important to maintain peace and security in the region at all times.
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Understanding History
Nikki Grace
History rhythms, Zelenskyy's trip to DC, puts one in mind of Diem's
trip to DC and the Vietnam war. The PTB were intent on invading
Vietnam, Kennedy ended up assassinated and Diem murdered and 550,000
young Americans went to Vietnam and 50,000 came back in body bags. A
war on the Asian mainland with a corridor directly into China was a
fools errand, but still they did it.
The perverse in DC seem hell bent
on confronting Russia on their borderland, this time it won't only be
young soldiers, which are expendable to governments, it will be the
truth expressed by Sherman on his march to the sea, enemies do not
relent or surrender until civilians have died on their homeland. Russia
understands history.
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Who Knew?
William E. Davis observes:
The Constitution could be described as the sum of all fears. All the
states feared the power of a federal government. The small states
feared the economic and political dominance of the big states. Ordinary
citizens feared the powers of all forms of government, hence the bill
of rights.
Who knew...they were all right!
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Shovel Off in Buffalo
Timothy Birdnow
For those in a panic over global warming and the big Buffalo New York snow, I submit this for your consideration:
Buffalo has had such snowfalls before.
In December of 2001
it got 82.7 inches, well above the 558 inches this month. So it's gone
down since 2001; what does that tell us about global warming? Does that
mean it's getting colder? Hotter?
It means nothing of course. Normal variations.
And while the lakes have all seen
slight SURFACE temperature increases(please note that surface warming could just as easily be caused by a number of other things, like heat pollution from growing cities on the shores of the lakes (Roger Pielke Sr., professor emeritus at UC Boulder, always argued that land use changes explained all planetary warming; a blacktop parking lot is hotter than a green field), or from
increased solar insolation - which we know to be happening. Yes, the Sun has been getting hotter. or rather the TSI (Total Solar Irradiance)
has increased.
So there are plenty of explanations for the big snow in Buffalo. And of course anyone blaming Global Warming for this is a pure partisan; we got a lot of snow all around the country, and bitter cold too. It wasn't just Buffalo or western New York.
Yes, this was a huge snowfall for a single day.
Here is a list of Bufallo snowfall highs. Note that in 1995 it received 86.1 inches.
Now Buffalo has had 97.2 inches of snow this season,
according to the National Weather Service. That is admittedly a lot of snow. But it has happened before. In 1976-77 it had a
snowfall of 199.4 inches. So yes, it's on track to beat that year, but by how much?
And Buffalo is not exactly an ancient city, so records only go back to the last century. Likely it's been hit this hard in bygone days - especially during the Little Ice Age. Buffalo was founded in 1803 and it is doubtful any meaningful snow records were kept until late in the century.
Attempts to tie this to global warming is just that - an attempt. A nice try perhaps. But is it really grounds for panic?
The National Weather Services
says this about lake effect snow:
Lake Effect snow occurs when cold air, often originating from Canada, moves across the open waters of the Great Lakes .
As the cold air passes over the unfrozen and relatively warm waters of
the Great Lakes, warmth and moisture are transferred into the lowest
portion of the atmosphere.
Get that? COLD air moving across the warmer water. So it has little to do with warming water in the Great Lakes and everything to do with cold, humid air moving across those lakes. In other words, it's snowing because it's cold, not warm.
But Climate Change is the Goldilocks Theory; if it's too warm, too cold, or just right it's all evidence of Global Warming.
Sheesh! What a racket.
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Well, there was the famous Blizzard of '77, which yours truly lived through. Some reporters in Buffalo are saying the current storm may, or may not be, worse than that one. The '77 storm resulted in power unrestored for weeks in parts of town.
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I forgot you lived there Dana. Yeah; you probably remember some nasty snowfalls!
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Oh St. Greta!
Timothy Birdnow
With Apologies to Stephen Foster:
I come from Alabama
for to hug a nice green tree
I've been comin' to these conferences since COP number 23
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death; oh Greta, don’t you cry.
Oh dear Greta, oh don't you cry for me!
I've been going to these conferences since the COP in Germany!
Had a dream the other night that all machines were still,
I thought I saw Al Gore up there a blowin' on Capitol Hill,
Some caviar was in his mouth, a tear was in his eye,
He said it's awfully hot down south, so you had better cry.
I soon will be in New Orleans and then I’ll find a mohel
An environmental activist who grubs around in soil
I'll anger him with climate change
I'll bring him to a boil
And I'll set him loose on the caboose of an exec from dirty oil!
And when I go and find him, this man will surely die
And although it's freezing cold right now, I know this world will fry.
This world will fry, and a lot of folks will die, and the Revolution's comin gonna poke 'em in the eye!
Oh, Greta Thunberg, oh don’t you cry for me
cos’ I come to sell some windmills
and to steal your liberty.
Thanks to Tom Gelsthorpe for inspiring this.
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Well, that would be a fine sequal here. I may have to find the muse...
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