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this stage of the pandemic is really one of the more mystifying parts. if you listen closely, you can hear the popping of burning wires.

i got vaccinated.

i got covid.

i got really sick.

thank goodness i got vaccinated!

you should get vaccinated too!

i mean, at a certain point you’re thanking your lucky rabbit foot for keeping you from having lost your gold fillings on top of your wristwatch last poker night…

it’s like the last vestiges of observational capability have finally been beaten out of a meaningful portion of the population.

truly, we have entered the post rational world of the unfalsifiable claim.

“it would have been worse if i had not!”




it’s such a wonderful meme. so pervasive. so persuasive. and so totally, utterly impervious to contradiction.

it’s the perfect brainworm to justify what you did.

you can show them all the societal data you like about higher rates of hospitalization this year than last in groups that were 95%+ vaccinated.

it does not matter. no aggregate data can refute any individual belief about one specific datapoint among many.

“i’m sure it helped.”

this belief lets anyone feel good about vaccination and boosting even as they fall ill.

it literally turns the contraction of covid by vaccinated people into the belief that covid vaccines worked for them.

this may be the most successful piece of product positioning in human history.

cognitive bias becomes cognitive dissonance becomes an iron bar certainty that your virtuous behavior saved you.

as a perfect pathway to self justification and validation of priors, it’s near 100% effective if you simply believe hard enough. ...

the alternative is admitting that you were played for a chump. people are highly averse to such conclusions.

of course, spotting the chump is easy:

ask such a person what would convince them that the vaccine did not prevent covid from being worse.

see if they have an answer.

if they do not, well, then it’s pure presumption.

that which cannot be falsified cannot be proven either.

bingo. chumpitude verified.

and boy do people not want things proven.

we’ve reached the point where agencies will no longer publish objective data because it does not support their conclusions.

“we cannot provide data because people might analyze it!” is not much of a mantra, is it? ...

NEW - Public Health Scotland will stop publishing data on Covid deaths and hospitalizations by vaccination status because there are "significant concerns about the data being misused deliberately by anti-vaccination campaigners."

cognitive bias becomes cognitive dissonance becomes an iron bar certainty that your virtuous behavior saved you.

https://notthebee.com/article/many-americans-say-theyll-continue-to-mask-even-after-mandates-go-away?source=patrick.net

I understand wanting to believe. I want to believe that the vaccinated are at least somewhat protected, either from getting the disease at all or from getting a severe case.

He was double jabbed and insisted that it was a "vaccine" and not a jab. It was a friendly and polite discussion but after I presented some facts to him, he replied, "I will not believe that my government lied to me."

Pharma uses our own instincts against us

Social belonging is so important that most bougiecrats would rather die of a heart attack or give their kid autism than risk being labelled an anti-vaxxer.

I found it deeply disturbing that a professional attempted to train this girl to wear a dehumanizing mask, which caused her mental anguish, so students, their parents, and teachers at my school could feign a false sense of security. I told my principal that no child or adolescent should have to get used to something as ludicrous and harmful as wearing a mask just to receive an education, especially if they suffer from an anxiety disorder. Furthermore, my school administration believed it necessary to reveal this student’s “vaccination” status in order assuage people’s irrational fears, and to force her to undergo weekly burdensome testing, since they considered a maskless child a safety concern! I called out the administration’s callousness towards this girl, and in effect caused my first ripple of the year, which later turned into waves of criticism of my school’s unscientific policies of Covid containment.

It’s like a priest wearing a backwards color, a symbolic gesture of piety.

Masking and vaxxing are mental illnesses.

Last night, one of my subscribers posted this comment on “In memory of all those who ‘died suddenly,’ February 15-21”):

A few days ago the Chicago theatre community was shaken by the loss of one of our own. She had moved to LA to pursue acting and was missing (we all shared her info like crazy) only to be found dead on the 18th.

I’m a pariah amongst my colleagues for my stance on vaccines so I can’t even utter the notion around them. But I’m pretty sure it’s the vax.

Sanjoy Mahajan’s reply:

I'm with you on not even uttering the notion. There's so little point. The people in the Covid trance cannot even hear the idea.

Last April, the father (healthy, 48 y.o.) of my daughter's good friend from school died suddenly in his garden. It was 1 day after his age group (55 and under) became "eligible" as they say (as if it were akin to being an "eligible bachelor"). It happened in a city of jab fanatics, so my guess was that he had got his first jab the previous day and had a cardiac event or stroke. His obituary said that he died "of no known cause" -- my first personal encounter with that phrase. ...

Is it possible to break that trance? The personal tragedy of losing someone to the jab, or of losing one’s own health because of it, has snapped people out of it; but there are all those who’ve been hypnotized so deeply that no personal loss, or agonized firsthand account of suffering, will wake them up. They’re like kamikaze pilots, or sleeper agents mind-controlled to carry out assassinations. If anything can wake them up, it would have to be some intervention far more radical than simply trying to talk them out of it, whatever you may say.

So it would seem that we have lost them, too, to this grotesque worldwide experiment, even though they’re still around.

Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the
real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it is
even understood. So it is here. The divisions that have opened up in
society about the covid vaccines are not really about the covid vaccines at
all: they are about what vaccination symbolises in this moment. What it
means to be 'vaxxed' or 'unvaxxed', safe or dangerous, clean or dirty,
sensible or irresponsible, compliant or independent: these are questions
about what it means to be a good member of society, and what society
even is, and they are detonating like depth charges beneath the surface of
the culture. ...

We could all throw peer-reviewed studies that we don’t really understand at
each other, and they would all miss the mark because the vaccine is not the
point. The point is what it symbolises - and what it is being used to build.
I am a writer. I know how to construct stories. I know what makes them
succeed or fail, and I have a nose for when a story does not hang together.
The covid Narrative is just such a story. It doesn’t fit together, even on its
own terms. Something is wrong. The surface tale does not reflect what lies
beneath. And what lies beneath is what interests me now. ...

Most of all, it has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so
many people, and which always emerges in fearful times. In the last month
alone I have watched media commentators calling for censorship of their
political opponents, philosophy professors justifying mass internment, and
human rights lobby groups remaining silent about ‘vaccine passports.’ I
have watched much of the political left transition openly into the
authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless ‘liberals’
campaigning against liberty. As freedom after freedom has been taken
away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all. I have
been reminded of what I always knew: cleverness has no relationship to
wisdom. ...

Most of all, though, what the covid apocalypse has revealed to me is that
when people are frightened, they can be easily controlled.
Control: this is the story of the times. Across the world we are seeing an
unprecedented claim to control staked by the forces of the state, in alliance
with the forces of corporate capital, over your life and mine. All of it
converges on the revealed symbol of our age: the smartphone-enabled QR
code that has, with frightening speed and in near-silence, become the new
passport to a full human life. As ever, our tools have turned on us. Another
revelation: they were never our tools to begin with. We were theirs.

In the coordinated propaganda and censorship response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, globalists and corporatists are directly incorporating Hitler’s own principles for crowd control. If we look closer, we can clearly see coordinated actions by the BBC-led Trusted News Initiative, various Scientific Technological Elite, large financial groups (such as Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street), and the World Economic Forum acting in real time to suppress a growing awareness by the general public of having been actively manipulated. It is increasingly becoming clear that these organizations and aligned nation-states have been using crowd psychology tools to generate significant fear and anxiety of COVID-19 to advance their agendas on a global scale. They have used COVID to drive a planned and coordinated agenda, the Great Reset.

Multiple governments have now admitted to actively using fear and 'Mass Formation'-related theories as a tool for totalitarian population control during this outbreak. These are basically psychological operations aimed at populations of nations. One glaring example has been operating in the UK:

“Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behavior during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.

SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”.

Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”

(Published in The Telegraph “Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods” by Gordon Raynor, Associate Editor, May 14, 2021)

https://notthebee.com/article/a-maryland-school-board-member-argued-that-masks-should-remain-mandatory-because-making-masks-optional-might-be-a-source-of-anxiety-for-children-?source=patrick.net






Actual name. A fine Irish name, but too fitting here.

Irina Ioudina runs a company called Medical Munich, a kind of medical tourism bureau that helps Russian nationals travel to Munich to receive treatment in hospitals here. Recently, she received an email from Dr Ortrud Steinlein, director of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Clinic for Human Genetics, announcing that her facility would no longer treat Russians:

Dear Ms Ioudina

due to the serious violation of international law by the autocrat Putin, who is obviously mentally disturbed, we are refusing in principle to treat Russian patients, with immediate effect. Ukrainian patients remain of course very welcome.

Sanctions have made it all but impossible for Russians to receive treatment in Germany in any case, but after screenshots of this outrageous email made the rounds, LMU clarified that the doctor had “communicated her personal opinion in a very emotional situation” and that their clinics will “treat all patients regardless of nationality, religion, cultural or gender orientation.” (Steinlein has also reportedly apologised privately to Ioudina.) This is the same LMU, which last December immediately fired and banned from the premises an unvaccinated employee of their Institute for Pathology, for the crime of posting a viral video to TikTok about the testing harassment to which she was subject.

Dr Steinlein’s attitude should surprise nobody. There is the proximate cause, that throughout the West, health professionals have spent the past six months fantasising about denying medical treatment to people whose views on vaccination differ from their own. And there is the more general politicisation of the entire medical profession over the past two years, which has left us with a whole hoard of petty tyrants like Steinlein, who now believe it is their responsibility to shape and enforce all manner of government policies.

The consequences of containment will be with us for a very, very long time.

The Covid NPCs now wave Ukraine flags to virtue climb and scrub their minds of any inconvenient memories of their now embarrassing Covid behavior.

The most direct means that an egregore attacks other egregores, or ideas harmful to it’s spread, is to eliminate the ability of other ideas to spread, or to prohibit the holders of other ideas to communicate. This is cancel culture, and it’s a time honored tradition since at least the original European Kulturkampf, but has taken on a new and aggressive posture in the age of social media where people’s thoughts are stored on the feed as a searchable archive in perpetuity. When you see mass cancellation, from many different sources at once, often in such ridiculous ways that they can only be explained by an organization attempting to virtue climb, you know you’re watching an egregore at work. ...

The memory of the prior morality gets overwritten by the new groupthink program. There are many signs of memory holing and malleable morality going on extremely quickly right now with regard to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Army are the most Nazi sympathetic organization on Earth today, fielding a unit of over 1,500 highly trained militia fighters who march with SS patches and bivouac in barracks soaked in Nazi epithets and propaganda, supported by a deep community of Nazi sympathizers including Nazi women and Nazi children being raised to believe in Nazi ideals. ...

I do not represent that the entire Ukrainian Army are Nazis, but they are obviously permissive of Nazis within their rank and file. And the progressive left in the USA knows this, but they memory hole their prior behavior of calling anyone who believes in two genders a Nazi in favor of adopting the new behavioral instructions of the egregore. Arm the Nazis, down with Putin, mumble a concession including the phrase “problematic” somewhere as a shamanic prayer to the Cancel God, but make sure your woke friends hear you. ...

The Ghost of Kyiv is fake but most people still believe it because the egregore wanted it to be real. The Russians intentionally shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to let radiation loose was fake, but some people still believe it because the egregore wanted it to be real. Western impressions of the events of the war are filtered by the egregore. The West thinks Ukraine is winning. ...

The point is this. Once the west has been captured by the egregore, and the egregore sees Ukraine lose, the egregore will demand action. ...




Egregores do not exist on reason, they exist on what generates the most traffic. How do you think these unthinking egregore nodes on Twitter above are going to react when Ukraine falls?

We could be in a situation where the only thing that can save the planet from global thermonuclear war is for another Covid-19 wave to hit around August 2022 to distract them all.

They're hoping the brainwashed sheeple will put on their own chains now.

Inside the mind of a bougiecrat

It must be so weird to believe that otherwise healthy people just drop dead all the time now for no reason. It's a mindset where cause and effect no longer exist and are not missed. A state of suspended disbelief. I wonder, is it uncomfortable? Does it take effort? Are there nagging feelings? Or is it narcotized bliss?

How it started:




How it’s going:




This suggests that the elites really are getting the full strength toxic juice.

One might think that the bougiecrats would get tired of genociding themselves. But that is misunderstanding the situation. The more carnage from the shot, the greater the faith of the true believers who continue. Vaccination is a religious rite now. Vaccine induced heart attacks are the path to heaven for bougie Pharma jihadists.