Anybody got any spare conspiracy theories knocking around?
I am all out of them now, all of mine have come to pass!
I never thought I would live to see the day is the title of this episode.
I never thought I would see the day that people would phone the police because their neighbour went outside for a walk.
I never thought I would see the day neigbours would call the police because someone had a friend visit.
I never thought I would see the day where people were forced to wear a bit of cloth on their face or face fines.
I never thought people would allow themselves to be part of an admitted gene therapy medical trial that for some is life ending. For others debilitating.
I never thought I would see the day where scientists were so obviously easily bribed to say anything you want.
I never thought I would see the day where the media had switched off any criticism of government and the current situation in the world.
I never thought I would see the day when people harassed others for not being willing to put up with what they are willing to put up with.
I never thought I would see the day where people are not allowed to visit a relative or friend that is near death.
I never thought I would see a time when you are denied access to hospitals and any medical treatment unless you take part in a clinical trial.
I never thought I would see a time when you could not go to a nightclub (UK) unless you had taken part in a clinical trial.
I never thought I would see a time when a lottery, (here) Kebabs, (UK and fast food) cannabis (USA) and many other countries offered these incentives to coerce people into taking part in said medical trial.
I never thought I would see the day!
Sadly I have.
Beam me up Scottie.
Meanwhile over in Naziville New York.
He said if you do not take part in this medical trial you can no longer go shopping, no longer go to a bar or restaurant and no longer buy fuel.
Marvellous hey, so he has had a Johnson and Johnson prick.
He reports having a very sore arm, severe running nose and high fever. His words not mine. And he is drowsy and does not like daylight any more so sleeps all day.
Was it worth it? Only he has the answer.
Over here you are not allowed hospital treatment or to visit a GP (doctor) Without having the prick. The GP surgery (doctors visiting room) has been closed for 18 months anyway and only do phone diagnosis.
Bit like schools, more often than not it is via zoom. We home school so it bothers us not a jot.
I think the Spanish had it the worst, my friend over there said it was a 1500 Euro fine for leaving the house for many months. (approximately $1776.00)
The French have had curfews where you are not allowed out after 9PM, the same as many parts of Australia did the same.
I will leave it to #frot to explain New Zealands bizarre rules.
Australia and what went on there - well we have a couple of hivers who can tell you in #j85063 and hope I get this right #minismallholdings.
But and a big but, in fact a huge butt, no not that kind, more the but kind. Never forget these words.
I for one am not a fan of the new normal. Each to their own.
There are many more things I never thought I would witness like people shaming people into complying with what they are willing to be told what to do.
I never thought I would see undercover government agents fining people for not wearing a face diaper, but I have.
I never thought I would see someone so scared that is wearing a mask that they jump into a bush to avoid walking past someone with no mask. But I have.
I never thought I would see society and economies crash due to government/WEF stupidity, add in the IMF, Davos, world bank and Bill Gates, but I have.
I never thought every so called conspiracy theory I have thought up would come true in 1 year, but it has.
I will throw out a new one though, breathing tax!
I was charged environmental tax 2 years ago for daring to stay at a log cabin in the woods. Let that sink in.
Well this one is way toooooooo good not to share.
The war on breathing.
We should be wary of a morality forged by fear.
'We all have to be responsible for the fact that our health touches upon those who we sit next to and who we share air with. And this is a public health truism that is self-evident,' said health minister Lord Bethell, answering a question about mandating vaccine passports in nightclubs in the House of Lords. Yet according to Brunel University Physicist Dr Colin Axon, medics (and presumably Lords) have a 'cartoonish' understanding of how tiny particles travel through the air.
There is a political war on breathing — the very thing that keeps us all alive. And Bethell is not alone. Dr Sarah Jarvis recently told Jeremy Vine, 'Breathing is an offensive weapon if you are infected with Covid.' Even allowing for a bit of dramatic licence on TV, it is impossible to imagine someone saying that pre-Covid. Of course, breath is life itself. Meditational and spiritual practices involve breath-work, famously the Vipassana. God breathed life into Adam, and Saint Paul said 'all scripture is breathed out by God'. Breath has fallen from sacred to sinful.
Epidemics unsettle our political compasses. It’s known that fear induces a desire for authoritarian control. Humans crave security during chaos. In fact, authoritarian governments are more likely to emerge in regions characterised by a high prevalence of disease-causing pathogens. This epidemic has also thrown our moral compass. One study found that during Covid ‘health-minded approaches have been moralised, even to the point of a sacred value’ and that ‘merely questioning sacred values led to moral cleansing’. Defending lockdowns and restrictions was seen as moral, and questioning them seen as immoral.
Morality has been generally topsy-turvy in a time riven by fear. We have no tolerance for Covid deaths but seemingly little interest in deaths from other causes. We were told we must protect the elderly, yet they were transferred from hospitals to care homes and last week we discover that 50,000 dementia cases have been missed. The government showed a worrying enthusiasm for the furtive use of shaming, bullying and fear-mongering to make the nation comply with lockdown rules. Culturally and economically, lockdown was easier for the middle classes and elite, rather than the working classes and front line workers who serviced them. Feminists tie themselves in knots explaining why ‘my body, my choice’ does not extend to vaccine mandates. Schools closed. People died alone at home. Focussing on one virus was never a simple moral equation.
Martial language has been used throughout the epidemic. We are 'at war' with a virus. In the summer of 2020, Boris Johnson compared Gavi (The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations) to Nato, revealing a seismic paradigm shift in how we perceive our 'enemies'. Fighting talk conveys strength and offers hope of winning when we feel out of control. But war also requires populations to make sacrifices and obey the chain of command. It reminds us we are not just at risk, we are the risk. We are the enemy.
Georgio Agamben, the Italian philosopher, has written about the reduction of life to biopolitics. To simply reduce the theory, he says that the man who is 'accursed' (in this case infected or even potentially infected) can be set apart from normal society, and must live a 'bare life' — life reduced to the barest form. In the 'state of exception' normal laws and morals are forgotten.
As war and terror justify a security state, the virus justifies a biosecurity state. Borders are redrawn from the geopolitical to biopolitical and policed by the state. The legal detention of healthy people, the punishment of rule-breakers and the mandating of vaccine passports are permitted by emergency laws but also enabled by a narrative of dehumanisation. People who break the rules are 'dangerous' (they might be infectious), 'stupid' and 'socially irresponsible'. The unsafe, unclean and dangerous might breach the air of the virtuous vaccinated. These attitudes originally arise from the natural fear of an epidemic, but they are upheld by the continuing manipulation of fears.
We are simultaneously told that if you have the vaccine you can still be infected with and spread Covid, but if you don’t take it you are putting others at risk. The argument should fold under the weight of its own incoherence, but instead vaccine passports are being mandated in multiple countries with eerie synchronicity. It’s not conspiracism or paranoia to be alarmed by such developments.
In Israel, the language used to describe the unvaccinated is depressingly divisive. 'Those who refuse vaccines are endangering their health, those around them and the freedom of every Israeli citizen,' said prime minister Naftali Bennett. 'Those who refuse vaccines hurt us all because if all of us were vaccinated we would all be able to maintain daily life.' The unvaccinated are to be barred from much of public life, from cinemas to synagogues, unless they get tested.
Here in the UK, Michael Gove has pronounced judgement on the unvaccinated — they are 'selfish'. Is this a ploy to encourage ill will, division and citizen policing? Boris Johnson reportedly considered widening the scope of his illiberal plans for vaccine passports from nightclubs (an unsurprising first choice of venue as they are a relatively easy moral win) to university lecture halls. Will the Bullingdon Club demand double jabs for its notoriously raucous parties?
We have lived through a pandemic, which is a naturally frightening time. While crisis can catalyse exciting and positive change, a new moral code should not be forged in fear. This is the time to pause. Take a deep breath. And feel once again for morality’s true north.
Written byLaura Dodsworth
Laura Dodsworth is a writer, photographer and author of A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Link = https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-war-on-breathing
As the war to end breathing rages.
2050 is the end date is it not? Carbon neutral and all that jazz.
Well 2050 will be the day the world dies. As plants, trees need us to breath so they can.
That is a known "fact" so no C02 no trees, no plants, no earth as such.
Even a group funded specifically to research C02 do not have an answer to the question of is more C02 going to change the earth.
"Plants need CO2 to live. So is more of it a good thing?"
Answer
"We do not yet know enough to make adequate projections of the global trends for plant life in a world with higher levels of carbon dioxide, or CO2. It is clear, however, that there can be both positive and negative responses."
Link = https://www.climatecentral.org/library/faqs/plants_need_co2_to_live_so_isnt_more_of_it_a_good_thing
Hypocrisy abounds.
Those that live off our backs be it bankers, be it politicians, be it anyone that does little but talk or press a button to issue money - these are the hypocrites that produce nothing but words and bits of paper backed by nothing that seemingly want us all dead.
What then? Who will make cars for them? Who will grow food? Who will invent things? Who will fight their wars for them?
The only useless eaters I see are bankers and politicians, add in any other useless professions you want, but to me they are the top 2 useless eaters.
If we need to seriously con-sider who we do not need on this planet, I offer up them 2 above as my first option to get rid of.
I sit here on a farm with nobody for miles, so I guess I am lucky. I have nothing to complain about, but I would still like to see everyone in the world being free. Like Martin Luther King, "I have a dream".......
Have a superb week ahead and never forget Margaret Meads words above.
I will add this quote "where ever you go you always take you with you, take your best self"
By the way mom. I love you, thank you for my life x