Obmutescent over obsolete obstetrics...

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...well, not obsolete yet but we're heading that way. 

As David Bell says on Twitter reviewing the bad cat's latest Substack: "Since 9 months after mid-2021, birth rates have widely fallen. If only something consistent had happened then, like a change in climate or a monetizable virus outbreak, the media would be able to discuss it. Even public health agencies might."

bad cattitude: "the timing of the inflections both for commencement and for leveling off at low rates once vaccination was widespread are striking and (as laid out in the link above) there is strong a prior reason rooted in clinical studies to suspect durable fertility suppression from mRNA vaccines." [sic]

"...but the trends seem widespread and no one is having a good 2022."

Oops. Oh-oh...

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No hiding now: hundreds of thousands have died: will there be an accounting? Excess deaths are through the roof and no one is on telly every night telling the people. Why not? Because it isn't a virus anymore, and errr... just maybe it's the solution they provided that is the problem? 

Joel Smalley, whose Metatron Substack is Dead Man Talking, writes (and The Daily Sceptic also carries) that Sweden Wins! Sweden Wins! Country That Refused Lockdown and Kept Schools Open Has Lowest Pandemic Mortality in the World.

Just if you think Joel is 'hiding the real numbers by doing it by total excess deaths then:

"The somewhat less meaningful COVID death tally (per million population) does not have the same relative magnitude since different countries use different methods for recording what is and what isn’t a COVID death, on top of the fact, of course, that it’s a Pyrrhic victory to mitigate COVID deaths at the expense of higher excess non-COVID deaths."

Also, just if you start to think 'Hey, New Zealand and Australia were right to have full-on totalitarian jackboot lockdowns, look how well they doing!'...erm, it's been getting a lot worse there since these figures were compiled (excess death-wise).

The whole piece is worth a read especially the conclusions, and Joel's final comment:

"It might just be me but I don’t think stupid politicians, greedy pharmaceutical companies and academics whose careers depend on pharma funding are the best people for the job."

Not entirely unrelated immediate update: Only last month I mentioned that "They have done more to grow worldwide vaccine hesitancy in the last 30 months than in the previous 60 years or more" and lo and behold eugyppius brings us this:

"To the surprise of nobody, it turns out that the campaign to increase vaccine uptake via social exclusion, threats, lies and firings has reduced public confidence in vaccination across the board" 

And links to the new paper: "Is vaccine confidence an unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic?"

yes yes, only several million of us thinking that but FFS, whooda thunk it? Amusingly (probably to enable publishing?) the publishers wrote "Paradoxically, despite the success of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, vaccine confidence has significantly declined since the onset of the pandemic" [facepalm]

Update: as an afterthought really; no need to go into a rerun of the tit-for-tat 'Norway is better than Sweden' that we had to endure from the naysayers during the pandemic, desperate to avoid naughty Sweden looking good: 2019 deaths were a big factor in 2020 COVID deaths...in fact they were in the UK too, a good part of our Spring 2020 death surge was those that hadn't dies the previous winter...all water under the bridge. God forbid we overreacted?

[edited for typos]

Objects of odium, ostracised...

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Following the earlier overture things have heated up. The push back now has it's own push back: Melissa Healy at the LA Times muses that "It's as if [the non-covid-jabbed are] no longer hazardous to the rest of us. Or are they?" It's as if...? ...WTF? Really? [Hat-tip: The Naked Emperor] 

Melissa writes: "For almost two years, COVID-19 vaccine holdouts have been the objects of earnest pleading and financial inducements, of social-media shaming and truth campaigns. They’ve missed weddings, birthday celebrations and recitals, and even forfeited high-stakes athletic competitions. Until last month, they were barred from entering the United States and more than 100 other countries.

Now the unvaccinated are suddenly back in the mix." 

I - an object - am still barred Melissa. Pharma profits need maintaining.  But of course she has an 'expert' or two to boost the ridiculous pap she has written. Amazing how moronic some experts are becoming too. 

BOB's artwork may seem a bit OTT but it isn't. The comparisons to Nazi Germany batted about may also seem OTT but they aren't: what happened is exactly how 'it' starts. Gina was right. 

The power was wielded by many 'normal' people, they now want forgive and forget: as Laura puts it so well: Just say no...

"... the people who told you were non-essential, that your children would kill your elderly parents or grandparents, that you had to save your country's pathetic and useless socialized medical system by locking you in your house, that you and your children had to take several dangerous ("safe and effective") injections that you didn't want or need and lied about every detail about it, the same people who taped up park benches, forced masks on toddlers, kicked autistic children off of planes, imprisoned frail and vulnerable senior citizens and disabled humans with sick and contagious covid patients in their respective nursing homes and homes for the developmentally disabled in order for them to die en masse, the ones who dragged pregnant women getting fresh air from park benches, kept people from getting regular medical care and disease treatment, refused organ transplants to the unvaccinated, forced old and sick people to die alone behind plastic barriers in hospitals, ripped families apart and destroyed friendships, businesses and economies, yes those people want an amnesty. Well screw that." 

"The people who enacted these policies are anti-human psychopaths who do not deserve mercy. Have you seen any real apologies for their behaviour? I saw one on Twitter and the new Premier of Alberta is making a good start of it. But mostly what I see is deeply sinister and shameless humans who just want forgiveness and absolution without doing any of the requisite moral and spiritual work i.e. sincerely apologizing, repenting and vowing never again to repeat their evil ways."

"Absolutely and positively no".

Ostler's obscurantist optimistic overture...

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Poor Emily. I really do think she was an honest convert now seeking to stop a tsunami of hate. But she stuck her head above the parapet and is reaping the whirlwind. I think the bad cat was the first to pick up on it, "emily oster's no good, really bad, terrible idea" [LINK] then Igor: "Wow. The Atlantic has a front-page article (archive link) by Prof. Emily Oster, asking for 'Pandemic Amnesty'". But Mary Harrington at Unherd has a great take on 'The tyranny of a Covid amnesty'. 

 Nor is having expertise or evidence on your side much of a defence. 

Read the comments. 

Luckily for me I realise many may not even know what I'm talking about because they do not inhabit the various bubbles that are screeching (with reason IMHO) about Emily Oster, in The Atlantic, who suggested a 'pandemic amnesty'. 

As per Eugyppius "I don’t know much about the American pandemic pundits, but I gather that Brown University economist and “parenting guru” Emily Oster is far from the worst of them.". 

Very far from the worst and I bet there are many hoping the idea catches on...it won't.  The Naked Emperor today shows a few more of the scumbags...of the many...they were wrong, knowingly. They helped totalitarianism, they were 'the concentration camp guards' but with less of an excuse than those Nazi enablers. They demonised and in some cases drove to death many people. They will not be forgotten; they will not be forgiven. They are evil. They are Legion.

...they are known. 

Update: I am totally in agreement with - and have many things in common - with what Gary says [Coronababble] [hat-tip: Daily Sceptic] "One thing is for sure: We must never forget what the political leaders and public health specialists inflicted upon us. Whether the reason was weakness, groupthink, conflict of interest or unadulterated corruption, the miscreants must all be held to account and pay a price for terrorising the people they are meant to serve."

Overdosing obnubilation...

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[edited after 5 p.m. (two links added)] This is the daily deaths from COVID as per Worldometers. More data HERE from Covidgraph. All based on official world statistics. About 2.5 million deaths in the first 12 months and pushing 6.5 million now, two and a half years down the road. 

Of course we KNOW that in 2020 many if not MOST of the 'COVID' deaths were no such thing. That the jabs were not even necessary. Plus more people are dying now and we even managed in the UK to knock 10 years off the average age of death in the vaccine rollout, non discriminatory death shot! 

This makes it even more odd that earlier this year the Lancet published 'Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination [previous link or PDF] trying to claim that "COVID-19 vaccination has substantially altered the course of the pandemic, saving tens of millions of lives globally.". 

It seems odd because all the data would seem to suggest the exact opposite. Deaths during 'the vaccination period' seem double to when the worst strain of SARS CoV 2 was having its way; deaths dropped off immediately when the boosters were discovered to do nothing. [edit: i.e. when the sheeple decided not to get the boosters].

Not so odd when you realise it is just an estimation and mathematical model (noooo!) and funded by the whole list of interested parties to making the covid jabs look good.

That 'Interpretation' is unbelievable: the inadequate access to Covid jabs i.e. they didn't get them,  probably saved the lives millions of people in those low-income countries. The sinister final sentence the obvious goal of those that funded this 'paper'. They have done more to grow worldwide vaccine hesitancy in the last 30 months than in the previous 60 years or more. 

Outrage over ominous observations II...

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And more of the same; the blog titles should probably be prefaced with "Where is the [outrage]...". The previous post was the UK; this one is Germany. From the incredible Substack site eugyppius: a plague chronicle, (not for the first time) the latest article: 

Exhaustive study of German mortality data finds excess deaths tightly correlated with mass vaccination [LINK]

From the abstract that Eugyppius links to: 

In 2020, the observed number of deaths was close to the expected number with respect to the empirical standard deviation. By contrast, in 2021, the observed number of deaths was two empirical standard deviations above the expected number. The high excess mortality in 2021 was almost entirely due to an increase in deaths in the age groups between 15 and 79 and started to accumulate only from April 2021 onwards. A similar mortality pattern was observed for stillbirths with an increase of about 11 percent in the second quarter of the year 2021.

Something must have happened in April 2021 that led to a sudden and sustained increase in mortality in the age groups below 80 years, although no such effects on mortality had been observed during the COVID-19 pandemic so far. 

Getting too big to hide. The politicians know it must come out and anyone involved is resigning, trembling or sorting out escape routes. Some are even digging their holes even deeper. Anyone pushing for more jabs and/or jabs for children is overtly calling for a massively increased chance of death of those jabbed...that goes beyond manslaughter...

Outrage over ominous observations...

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Repeating what I wrote a few weeks ago: "Sorry for the lack of posting but the Substack warriors (Steve Kirsch, Igor Chudov, The Naked Emporer and the bad cat amongst others) are saying everything I could possibly say: the fact that almost no politicians or the MSM are still not catching on is very sinister indeed..."

...warriors, nay, Superheroes! All have highlighted, for months, what is slowly leaking out everywhere; however, most media are still blaming it on the effect of lockdowns - admittedly this lunacy is partly to blame - as predicted in Q1 2020 - and is directly responsible for thousands of deaths - but the real killer is still not being admitted; the pandemic as such, the real bad excess deaths, was over in May 2020, was already on its way out before that. The so-called 'second wave' coincided with the usual winter rise and was augmented - no doubt - mainly lockdown 'victims' scared of the NHS and turned away by GP/medical centre Gestapo tactics - although a large chunk unfortunately coincided exactly with the vaccine rollout; with the peak of deaths around the last week of January 2021, those "aged 70 and over, and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals" began being vaccinated on 18th January 2021. Just as well those two weeks aren't counted as vaccine deaths but COVID deaths...amazing coincidence though, ahem... Anyhooo... look at this: We're at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it? "It doesn't make sense".  In the image below it is easy to see that the excess due to COVID is nicely cancelled out by the negative until mid April (that's a story in itself n'est-ce pas?) 

After that...WTF?!! And we can't just say it is the UK, or Astra Zeneca, this is happening everywhere. I've been in eight different countries this year and there are similar trends if you look. Why is hardly anyone looking? And those who know really know that the deaths in the younger age groups are diverging from any 2, 3, 5, 8, 10 year averages. More people are dying young so it can't be the oldies popping their clogs earlier as the excuse...what single thing has happened to very old, old, middle aged and young alike? What single reason could there possibly be? And I'll tell you, it ain't lockdowns; crazy totalitarian evil shit might fuck people up mentally but it doesn't kill healthy young people (apart from suicides that is, but that's a whole other story of avoidable deaths caused by government actions, not COVID).

Going back to a BOB classic (despite it being fairly new!)

Obvious obscurantism over options...

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Thanks to Samizata HERE for the pointer to this video (on YouTube HERE). "COVID-19 has always been a treatable disease". Preventable deaths could have been 85%...EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT.

Previous testimony to the video linked to above is HERE including the four slides he mentions that were removed by YouTube. 

"...not just government culpability and malfeasance with respect to hydroxychloroquine. This is academic malfeasance."

Dr. McCullough isn't without experience, I have never seen a 166 page CV before...

Plus plenty to read up on (links from the comment at Samizdata but they've been in my favourites for many months. Thanks to Nessimmersion: "Click on tabs along the top for each treatment..." HERE. "Best site for overview of the medical evidence": HERE.

Thought the AIER article about the CDC and Common sense would add to the point that this whole saga 'does not compute'; this article not about early treatment options but the other end of the scale. the crazy and contradictory guidance: "To close, the entire Covid-19 pandemic response in Western nations and perhaps the entire world, has led to disastrous outcomes. We argue that most have taken the lead from Western nations like the UK, US, and Canada. It has been a complete disaster and the irony is that we had strong reasonable pandemic plans in place prior to the advance of SARS-CoV-2 that for inexplicable reasons were shelved by the WHO, with no apparent or at least scientifically defensible rationale."

Options on our own organs; opt-out only...

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Not for the first time: ten years ago we discussed the opt-out option. Now a new way to increase the level of organ donantion; Jo Swinson (remember her?) wasn't that happy back then: "An opt-out scheme would create a presumption that the state, in this case the NHS, owns you on death, unless you remember to declare otherwise, and have some system to prove you have done so, either a card, medical records, or a national database."



Well that day is now upon us, or more accurately in less than two weeks. There are exclusions (UK Gov overview) but otherwise you're living in an England with a system of deemed consent for organ donation.

So, 'compulsory donation' you say; also not new, and (over 14 years ago) even theft. This still goes on and as with the Chinese COVID numbers being suspiciously 'calculated', so with organ "donation": "A new report has concluded that figures disclosed by the Chinese Government conform almost precisely to a mathematical formula."‘systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets.’ [LINK]. One way or another they'll get the organs they need. Could that 'solution' be repeated...closer to home?



Monty Python springs to mind: The Meaning of Life (Part V) Live Organ Transplants, don't do it Mrs. Brown.

Options on our own organs; opt-out only...

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Not for the first time: ten years ago we discussed the opt-out option. Now a new way to increase the level of organ donantion; Jo Swinson (remember her?) wasn't that happy back then: "An opt-out scheme would create a presumption that the state, in this case the NHS, owns you on death, unless you remember to declare otherwise, and have some system to prove you have done so, either a card, medical records, or a national database."

Well that day is now upon us, or more accurately in less than two weeks. There are exclusions (UK Gov overview) but otherwise you're living in an England with a system of deemed consent for organ donation. So, 'compulsory donation' you say; also not new, and (over 14 years ago) even theft. This still goes on and as with the Chinese COVID numbers being suspiciously 'calculated', so with organ "donation": "A new report has concluded that figures disclosed by the Chinese Government conform almost precisely to a mathematical formula."‘systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets.’ [LINK]. One way or another they'll get the organs they need. Could that 'solution' be repeated...closer to home?

Monty Python springs to mind: The Meaning of Life (Part V) Live Organ Transplants, don't do it Mrs. Brown.

Orbix operation...

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Wehay! The Independent reports: "firm, young-looking breasts that keep their shape over time". OK, I'm well behind with the news from Orbix Medical, the company that have developed a new plastic surgery procedure that promises to deliver "firm, young-looking breasts that keep their shape over time" by implanting bra-shaped 'silicone slings' underneath the skin. Taking only 45 minutes it has been approved in the EU: the operation involves the insertion of "silicon cups underneath the breast tissue and anchoring them to the bones of the rib cage with titanium screws".

'The Orbix Breast Support System eliminates breast re-sagging and minimizes scarring following breast procedures, keeping the shape and position of the breast and nipple years after the procedure.'

No offence to this good surgical advance (with medially sound reasons for it) but I'm starting to think that maybe a future blog-post will be 'Oversexed Oldies' with horny old nip-'n-tucked men high on Viagra [remember] servicing their biddy wives - with new firm breasts and each with their own personalised and aesthetically enhanced and tightened vagina - shagging behind the bowling shed.

Orbix operation...

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Wehay! The Independent reports: "firm, young-looking breasts that keep their shape over time". OK, I'm well behind with the news from Orbix Medical, the company that have developed a new plastic surgery procedure that promises to deliver "firm, young-looking breasts that keep their shape over time" by implanting bra-shaped 'silicone slings' underneath the skin. Taking only 45 minutes it has been approved in the EU: the operation involves the insertion of "silicon cups underneath the breast tissue and anchoring them to the bones of the rib cage with titanium screws".

'The Orbix Breast Support System eliminates breast re-sagging and minimizes scarring following breast procedures, keeping the shape and position of the breast and nipple years after the procedure.'

No offence to this good surgical advance (with medially sound reasons for it) but I'm starting to think that maybe a future blog-post will be 'Oversexed Oldies' with horny old nip-'n-tucked men high on Viagra [remember] servicing their biddy wives - with new firm breasts and each with their own personalised and aesthetically enhanced and tightened vagina - shagging behind the bowling shed.

Overdue obeisance...

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Today is International Nurses Day (IND); OK, forgive the image, I decided on a 'cartoon' one and if you think I spent many hours viewing images of sexy nurses to get the right one I am offended and I'll have you know that you'll only be 95% right. I shouldn't be flippant, IND is celebrated around the world every May 12 [the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth].



This year's theme is Nurses: A Force for Change – A vital resource for health.  The kit (no!) is HERE (pdf) and although it is very sector-specific I found it interesting.  An educated nurse workforce + a good work environment = high quality care.  "This simple, evidence based, equation whether applied at a global or a local level in the health system is fundamental to understanding how to make the best of the vital resource which is nursing."



Some stories here; my very best wishes to all our hardworking and oft maligned nurses; and I can only apologise for only realising that 'today was the day' half an hour ago :-(

Overdue obeisance...

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Today is International Nurses Day (IND); OK, forgive the image, I decided on a 'cartoon' one and if you think I spent many hours viewing images of sexy nurses to get the right one I am offended and I'll have you know that you'll only be 95% right. I shouldn't be flippant, IND is celebrated around the world every May 12 [the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth].

This year's theme is Nurses: A Force for Change – A vital resource for health.  The kit (no!) is HERE (pdf) and although it is very sector-specific I found it interesting.  An educated nurse workforce + a good work environment = high quality care.  "This simple, evidence based, equation whether applied at a global or a local level in the health system is fundamental to understanding how to make the best of the vital resource which is nursing."

Some stories here; my very best wishes to all our hardworking and oft maligned nurses; and I can only apologise for only realising that 'today was the day' half an hour ago :-(

Orgasmic olisbos…

Olisbos or more acturately their predecessors: The history of vibrators! Vivienne Parry's penetrating and arousing article in this weekend's Times Women's Style section (I just happened to notice it…) is hilarious; in fact it's hysterical, literally – you'll see what I mean.

Despite first being 'diagnosed' as 'womb furie', women have always suffered a "complaint characterised by nervousness, fluid retention, insomnia and lack of appetite." The great Hippocrates called it hysteria thinking that the womb was blocked and causing the problem (Greek for womb = hysteros). Galen, a Greek physician way ahead of his time in more ways than one, was on the right track because he claimed it wasn’t any blockage but in fact sexual deprivation among women of a 'passionate nature' or those who weren’t passionate at all, either through choice or not: "nuns, virgins, widows and occasionally in married women whose husbands were not up to the job". Galen said

"Arising from the touch of the genital organs required by the treatment, there follows twitchings accompanied at the same time by pain and pleasure...from that time she is free of all the evil she felt"

The trouble was that doctors regarded this treatment as numbingly tedious...ha-ha, the image in my mind is indeed hysterical – those doctors! Who would have thought it, eh? However not all agreed, maybe due to religion: the Persian polymath Avicenna said

"Women [with hysteria] should not resort to rubbing,”…[this was ]… “a man's job, suitable only for husbands and doctors".

The image is of an 1860 water treatment - to save the doctors having to do it – and was claimed to 'free the evil' in less than four minutes

Come the 1870s and steam power helped 'The Manipulator' do the business but it was not suitable for the doctor's treatment room and so was a "a niche market poised for exploitation"…what a profession!

The first British vibrator, a battery device, was manufactured in the early 1880s and by the early 20th century electrification made vibrators available in the home. Interestingly they were available a full decade before either the washing machine or vacuum cleaner – getting the priorities right! Keep 'em happy to keep 'em working!

Click HERE for a slide show about the history of vibrators on Slate.com it is interesting - no really!! – some of the contraptions look more suited to a workshop and if you ever found your grandmothers' or great-grandmothers' sewing/knitting magazines it may have been something else altogether they were interested in - easing forehead creases!

Orgasmic olisbos…

Olisbos or more acturately their predecessors: The history of vibrators! Vivienne Parry's penetrating and arousing article in this weekend's Times Women's Style section (I just happened to notice it…) is hilarious; in fact it's hysterical, literally – you'll see what I mean.

Despite first being 'diagnosed' as 'womb furie', women have always suffered a "complaint characterised by nervousness, fluid retention, insomnia and lack of appetite." The great Hippocrates called it hysteria thinking that the womb was blocked and causing the problem (Greek for womb = hysteros). Galen, a Greek physician way ahead of his time in more ways than one, was on the right track because he claimed it wasn’t any blockage but in fact sexual deprivation among women of a 'passionate nature' or those who weren’t passionate at all, either through choice or not: "nuns, virgins, widows and occasionally in married women whose husbands were not up to the job". Galen said

"Arising from the touch of the genital organs required by the treatment, there follows twitchings accompanied at the same time by pain and pleasure...from that time she is free of all the evil she felt"

The trouble was that doctors regarded this treatment as numbingly tedious...ha-ha, the image in my mind is indeed hysterical – those doctors! Who would have thought it, eh? However not all agreed, maybe due to religion: the Persian polymath Avicenna said

"Women [with hysteria] should not resort to rubbing,”…[this was ]… “a man's job, suitable only for husbands and doctors".

The image is of an 1860 water treatment - to save the doctors having to do it – and was claimed to 'free the evil' in less than four minutes

Come the 1870s and steam power helped 'The Manipulator' do the business but it was not suitable for the doctor's treatment room and so was a "a niche market poised for exploitation"…what a profession!

The first British vibrator, a battery device, was manufactured in the early 1880s and by the early 20th century electrification made vibrators available in the home. Interestingly they were available a full decade before either the washing machine or vacuum cleaner – getting the priorities right! Keep 'em happy to keep 'em working!

Click HERE for a slide show about the history of vibrators on Slate.com it is interesting - no really!! – some of the contraptions look more suited to a workshop and if you ever found your grandmothers' or great-grandmothers' sewing/knitting magazines it may have been something else altogether they were interested in - easing forehead creases!