- The Earth is FINITE, and only a fool or an economist (same difference) would believe that infinite growth on a finite world is possible or desirable.
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, as Edward Abbey famously said. Which eventually kills its host, by the way.
- We are already LONG past any reasonable measure of sustainability, and in severe overshoot in terms of carrying capacity and ecological footprint.
- If everyone in the world lived like the average European, we would need 2 to 3 Earths worth of resources in the long term. If everyone lived like the average American, we would need a whopping 6 or 7 Earths. And if everyone lived like Elon Musk, with his
fivesix kids, 120 hour workweeks, and centibillionaire lifestyle, we would probably need at least a thousand Earths! - Even if everyone lived in an ecovillage, we would still need at least 1.5 Earths, if not more.
- Even with the very best technological breakthroughs that one could ever possibly imagine, that is still not a free lunch in terms of resources and material throughput. Sooner or later, something's gotta give.
- Thus, if we want everyone on Earth to have anything even remotely close to a decent standard of living (since, you know, condemning billions of people to extreme poverty, suffering, and premature death would be cruel and inhumane), we need to SHRINK the population, or else Mother Nature will brutally shrink it for us. Not just stop growing, but actually SHRINK down to no more than 2 to 3 billion people (and 150-200 million Americans).
- Rightsizing the world population is the most truly pro-life thing one could do.
- And last but not least, before we even THINK about colonizing other planets, let's stop messing up the one we currently have! There really is no "Planet B" for the foreseeable future, if ever.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Dear Elon Musk: Stop Denying Overpopulation!
Thursday, August 18, 2022
About That Lancet Study
The latest Lancet study that supposedly found a modestly increased risk of dementia, psychosis, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders up to two years after a Covid diagnosis is all over the news now. But as with most mainstream Covid studies, there is much less than meets the eye here yet again.
For starters, the study only compared people who had Covid listed in their medical record with those who had other respiratory infections instead, which would inherently exclude the vast majority of infections that were either asymptomatic or too mild to even see a doctor about. Especially for Omicron and its subvariants, as another study found that most people who were infected with Omicron (i.e. confirmed by antibody testing later) weren't even aware that they had it at all. Which honestly is not even the least bit surprising for a variant that typically does not exceed the "I have a cold" threshold in terms of symptoms. And if anything, the antibody testing is underinclusive, not overinclusive.
Additionally, most of the effect sizes found in the Lancet study for most of the neuropsychiatric sequelae studied were either transient and/or not radically different than for other respiratory infections, especially for children but also for adults as well. And confidence intervals were fairly wide for many of the endpoints studied as well.
Finally, as much as the mainstream media likes to claim it does, it does NOT really exonerate the gene therapy injections misnamed "vaccines" either. At best, not nearly enough time has gone by to do so. Meanwhile, evidence the risks and lack of durable benefits of the jabs continues to mount as we speak.
See also here, here, and here as well for further evidence that Long Covid is typically not radically worse than Long Flu, and why Long Lockdown and Long Jab Injury are far worse things to fear. And as we noted previously, the masks probably don't help matters much either, and likely make things worse.
Thus, there is literally no valid scientific reason to treat Covid any differently than the flu now, if there ever really was. It is endemic now, and for practical purposes it really is no worse now. Case closed.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
China's On The Dark Side Of The Moon, And Not In A Good Way
Saturday, August 13, 2022
With Little Fanfare, The Pandemic Is Officially Over In America
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Latest Mask Study Reaches A New Low (Which We Didn't Even Think Was Possible At This Point)
Just when you thought that The Science (TM) couldn't get any lower, it reached a new low today. The latest pro-mask study, a preprint which has yet to even be peer-reviewed (though will probably be pal-reviewed at some point), is a classic example of cherry-picked junk science not even worth the paper it is printed on.
The ever-insightful Ian Miller of Unmasked does an excellent job of taking it down here. In a nutshell, the so-called "systematic review" study took 1732 mask studies, and only looked at a whopping....13 of them. That is less than 1% of all of the studies done to date, so why did they disregard over 99% of the evidence that they found? Probably because it wasn't exactly flattering to the pro-mask side, that's why. And the 13 studies they did include, with a combined sample size of only 243 people, of course yielded implausibly (and laughably) high estimates of mask effectiveness. This clearly has "cherry picking" written all over it.
And that's before we even get into the obvious fatal flaws in at least some if not all of those 13 studies (lack of generalizability, not done in real world conditions, no comparison group, and of course small sample size). Also, all studies after July 2020 (!) were arbitrarily excluded, because reasons. This is apparently what passes for The Science (TM) these days, and it has gotten increasingly desperate now as the narrative has thoroughly collapsed by now. We are now seeing naked Lysenkoism without so much as even the pretense of scientific integrity anymore.
We recently noted how the same Ian Miller so thoroughly debunks, debones, slices, dices, and juliennes the pro-mask arguments, and lays waste to their utterly scorched remains for good. And check out the latest new study from Josh Stevenson about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet. Spoiler alert: masks STILL don't work.
A recent Australian study confirmed via experiment that surgical masks (and by extension, cloth masks as well) are utterly useless against aerosolized viruses, as are even N95s unless they are properly fit-tested and NO mistakes are made. The latter, of course, does NOT apply to the general population, as Germany unfortunately learned the hard way when their general N95 mandate failed so spectacularly to contain or control their Covid outbreak.
Masks didn't work in 1918, and they clearly didn't work in 2020 or 2021 either. So anyone who thinks they will somehow work in 2022 or beyond, clearly has their head in an anatomically impossible position. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a functional definition of either insanity or Lysenkoism (same difference).
UPDATE: Looks like masks may be even worse than we thought. From the Foegen Effect to the various questionable chemicals and microplastics in the masks (as well as in the Covid tests and disinfectants too), these things may very well be exacerbating, perpetuating, or even causing Long Covid as well (to say nothing of the jabs). Plus there is also the issue of bacteria and mold growing on the masks, as well as impaired O2/CO2 exchange. An excellent article that makes such a case can be found here. For all of the times that the TSAP had ever foolishly advocated masks to any extent back in 2020 before belatedly changing our stance, we certainly do apologize.
2023 UPDATE: Still further evidence against masks, especially for kids, can be found here as well.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
What To Do Now? Hindsight is 2020
As the fearmongers are trying to dial up the fear factor over Covid once again, this time over the new BA.5 Omicron subvariant, most sane people two and a half years in would be tempted to respond to all this with a resounding (yawn). But clearly we must still remain on guard--against tyranny, that is. That may sound like we are boxing ghosts or strawmen, but we must never, EVER forget just how the easily March 2020 madness started, and how easily it is to slip back into it if we so foolishly allow it. We simply cannot meet tyranny or insanity in the middle, and if we give them an inch they take a mile every time. We must oppose them from the very first new or reimposed restriction, mandate, or the slightest attempt at coercion, period. And we must counteract fearmongering with honesty and truth.
One restriction clearly leads to another, until We the People finally push back. In March 2020, under the influence of 24/7 fearmongering, it started with "reasonable" sounding restrictions, which quickly got tighter by the day. Lockdowns, closures, and the milder versions thereof that precededed it, led to mask mandates ostensibly as a way to avoid having to go back to lockdown. But the places that imposed mask mandates were in fact the places that were MORE likely to return to second and even third lockdowns later. And both mask mandates and the threat of lockdowns and closures independently and synergistically led to the vaccine mandates and passports that followed. And all of it was for naught, as many studies and even the most casual glance at excess death rates have shown globally.
In fact, a very strong case can be made that doing nothing, or rather adopting the time-honored "flu strategy," would have been better than what was done. At best, all that the restrictions did (or could do) was delay the inevitable, drag it out, and make it far more painful than it had to be, at very great social, economic, and health cost. Once the virus was already "in the wild" in early 2020 in much of the world, if not even earlier, the "therapeutic window" for restrictive NPIs was permanently closed. Notably, many countries, including the USA, UK, Australia, NZ, and others, all had pandemic playbooks that explicitly did NOT include and even discouraged these sorts of largely unprecedented restrictions, even if we were to face another "Category 5" pandemic like the infamous 1918 one. Such playbooks were actually based on hard science, that is, what we have learned empirically (often the hard way) over the past couple of centuries. But then suddenly in mid-March 2020, the powers that be had panicked and threw the wisdom of the ages out the window like so much garbage, and as they say, the rest is history.
Fortunately, most people simply don't have the appetite for more restrictions now. Not only are people tired of it all, but also they see things like inflation, crime, the economy, etc. as being far more salient concerns than the virus today. But that is not something we can automatically take for granted either. Hindsight is 2020, in more ways than one.
P.S. Apparently "flurona", or co-infection of flu and coronavirus, doesn't exactly seem to be the threat the fearmongers claim it is either. New research finds that an influenza virus infection actually somewhat mitigates a Covid infection if the flu infection occurs first, and co-infection with both viruses does not seem to make the combo worse. So as our old frenemy inevitably returns, that is one less thing to fear.
Oh, and you're probably wondering why the phrase "protect the vulnerable" was not anywhere in this article. That is because that once-noble phrase, which would normally go without saying in a civilized society, has sadly become a meaningless platitude once it had been thoroughly appropriated by the lockdown and mask zealots, who twisted it into making the perfect the enemy of the (reasonably) good. And it had become a very handy excuse for not only draconian restrictions, but also cruelty and callousness towards the very same vulnerable people they claimed to "protect", often at the expense of other vulnerable people in other ways as well.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Ruh Roh. What Hath The Technocrats Wrought? (Children of Men Edition)
You may want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading this. Seriously.
As the ever-insightful Igor Chudov has recently reported, in several diverse countries from Hungary to Taiwan to Germany to Switzerland to the UK to Sweden to Japan and many others, including some US states too, birthrates plummeted by double-digit percentages in the first quarter (or two) of 2022 relative to the same time last year. This is not a trend, this is an event! And that unusually steep drop in births did not begin until about nine months after those novel experimental gene therapy jabs misnamed "vaccines" were rolled out en masse to young people of childbearing age. Funny how that works. But I'm sure it is all just a "coincidence", right? Move along, nothing to see here folks....
Riiiiiiiight.
Was it the lockdowns that caused it? No, since there was no similar drop in 2020 or 2021, and notably Sweden experienced the same drop without any lockdowns. Was it the virus itself, or its sequelae? No, since Taiwan was practically free of the virus for the most part until April 2022, and yet they still saw birthrates drop as well. Was it 5G, maybe? No, since Taiwan and many other countries have been using 5G for years now, again with no sudden drop in births until 2022. Was it climate change, perhaps? Global warming is by definition global, so why does this trend only really seem to be noticeable in highly-jabbed areas rather than everywhere in the world?
And indeed, while birthrates have been gradually declining for years or even decades now in most of the world, this is a much, much steeper drop that cannot be explained by any of the usual suspects.
Looks like all of those VAERS reports of menstrual irregularities and even fetal abnormalities (!) correlating with the jabs were quite real after all, and the tip of a much larger iceberg. And fellas beware, the reproductive effects are most likely NOT confined to only one gender either. When many people last year would half-jokingly say, "clean sperm is the new Bitcoin" or something to that effect, that may not have been very far off from the truth, unfortunately. (The recent epic Bitcoin crash notwithstanding, of course.)
Let's hope that this is just a short-term blip, because if it's not, this is literally Children of Men territory, and it will NOT end well for humanity at all. Yes, we know the Earth is overpopulated and in severe ecological overshoot. But if this current disturbing trend lacks an "off" button, and continues irreversibly, it will clearly do far more harm than good in the long run.
Moral of the story: Mother Nature apparently does NOT like to be effed with! Too bad people end up having to learn that the hard way sometimes.
UPDATE: The Swiss Doctor offers an alternative explanation, namely that marriage rates plummeted in many countries in 2020 (and even into 2021) due to Covid and the restrictions on gatherings (since even Sweden had restrictions on large gatherings), and thus a large number of (mainly first) births may have simply been postponed as a result of weddings being postponed. Let's hope that is the case. However, the Swiss Doctor also cautions that this does not necessarily explain all of the observed drop in births. Thus, the jabs are not really exonerated just yet.
In fact, as Igor Chudov reports later, in ultra-jabbed Germany, not only births, but even abortions are down too. That means that even accidental pregnancies are down as well as purposeful ones, so it's not simply due to people choosing to delay or avoid procreation. Really makes you wonder!
SEPTEMBER UPDATE: The drop in births seems to be persisting per the latest data, at least in England. Why don't we just call it what it is--infertility.
Saturday, July 2, 2022
In A World Of Lysenkos, Be A Zelenko
Friday, June 24, 2022
Roe v. Wade Has Fallen
Well, after nearly half a century, it actually happened: the landmark Roe v. Wade decision has officially fallen. Today the US Supreme Court struck it down completely. Forced-birther Republicans are thus now emboldened to further ban or restrict abortion at the state level, as several states have already done recently. That is, women's hard-won reproductive rights are now in grave danger, and this goes WAY beyond abortion. Undoubtedly, birth control and things like that will be next on the chopping block, and so on, and thus we are just a few steps away from Margaret Atwood's worst nightmare. In fact, Clarence Thomas himself implied as much, actually saying the quiet part out loud.
Add to this the fact that the recent lockdown-induced "recession" (more like depression) has actually hit women harder than men and set back women's progress by decades by dumping even more unpaid work on them at home, and the future looks even worse still.
Democrats in Congress are still looking to pass a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, superseding the abortion bans in any state that attempts such bans. But alas, success in that regard is far from guaranteed.
We at the TSAP are pro-choice, and hereby condemn this travesty in the strongest possible terms.
Sunday, June 19, 2022
The Root Cause Of All Economic Woes Of The Past Half-Century: "Financialization" Of The Economy
The year was 1971, just over half a century ago. The utterly costly (in both lives and money) and protracted Vietnam War was gradually winding down but still raging, inflation was getting out of control, and the Bretton-Woods system of an international (fool's) gold standard and fixed currency exchange rates was rapidly collapsing on itself due to rampant cheating and attrition. On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon decided to effectively suspend the gold standard, first temporarily, though it would soon become permanent by 1973. And by 1975, any nominal and vestigial links between gold and the dollar had been severed completely.
Since this "Nixon Shock" of 1971, the money creation capability of the federal government and the Federal Reserve were no longer constrained by gold or anything else (except the remaining arcane and archaic rules of Congress left over from the defunct gold standard, and thus no longer make any sense). Thus, Congress could really create as much money as they wanted from then on, and the Fed could create as much as Congress would allow them to. The money supply had clearly exploded exponentially since then, and a fortiori after 2008 and 2020.
So where did nearly all of those newly-created dollars go?
Wall Street, of course. The result? A perpetually yawning chasm between the financial sector (which grew exponentially along with the money supply) relative to the real, physical economy (which has basically stagnated and hollowed-out ever since). That absolute and relative advantage was then weaponized against the bottom 99% of Americans, as the financial sector is dominated by the top 1% and especially the top 0.01%. Extreme inequality and very much harm followed. Decades of utterly remarkable progress against poverty stalled and even reversed somewhat. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the real root of all economic woes of the past half-century.
Prior to 1971, the financial sector moved largely in lockstep with the rest of the economy. And not coincidentally, prior to 1973, wages grew largely in lockstep with labor productivity as well. But ever since then, both have seen an ever-widening divergence, to the detriment of the greater working class. While the oligarchs literally laughed all the way to the bank. And that was clearly no accident, but rather by design.
Imagine if even a fraction of all that newly created-out-of-thin-air money since 1971 was rained down upon We the People directly instead of Wall Street and the big banks. How different would America, and indeed the world, be today? If that doesn't make you feel RIPPED OFF, check your pulse 'cause you might be dead!
The cure for this disease is indeed very, very simple. All it takes is a simple Act of Congress to 1) scrap the remaining arcane and archaic rules that prevent Overt Congressional Financing, 2) implement Overt Congressional Financing, and then 3) use it to benefit We the People instead of the oligarchy. UBI, Medicare For All, expanded Social Security, free college, debt cancellation, Green New Deal, oh my! Basically, the entire progressive economic agenda and more can be paid by the federal government for without any borrowing or taxes unless Congress wants to.
That is the real logical conclusion of Monetary Sovereignty: when a government issues it's own currency, by definition it has infinite money, which is constrained only by the laws that the government passes. Time to end the Big Lie and act like it for once.
(And no, going back on the gold standard now would be a dumb idea, as that would only lead to artificial scarcity of money.)
As for inflation, that can be cured by 1) raising interest rates (in the short term), and 2) counterintuitive as it sounds, increased federal spending to cure shortages by incentivizing increased production of goods and services that are experiencing shortages (food, energy, labor, computer chips, etc.) in the longer-term. Problem solved. Next.
(And of course, stop creating shortages via supply chain problems due to lockdowns!)
So what are we waiting for?
UPDATE: We would be remiss if we did not also enumerate the more proximal causes in addition the more distal root cause of financialization. Those include:
- Legalization of usury (lifting of federal 12% usury cap on interest rates) (1978)
- Union-busting re-legitimized by Reagan against the PATCO strike, which made an example of them for the private sector going forward (1981)
- Legalization of stock buybacks (1982)
- General deregulation and tax cuts for the ultra-rich and corporations (1980s)
- General deregulation of big banks and Wall Street (1980s)
- Shrinking the social safety net by stealth, letting it lag behind inflation (1970s through 1990s))
- NAFTA (1994)
- Shrinking the social safety net again via welfare deform (1996)
- Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act, the firewall between commercial banks and investment banks (1999)
- China joining the WTO as a "most favored nation" (2001)
- More tax cuts for the rich (2001-2003)
- NOT learning the lessons of 2008, particularly the moral hazard created by the Wall Street bailouts (2008-2009)
- Offshoring/outsourcing of manufacturing jobs (ongoing)
- Pandemic relief money disproportionately going to, and benefitting, Wall Street much more than Main Street (2020-2021)
- And of course, the lockdowns which, when combined with the above, constituted the largest wealth transfer in history, from the poor and middle class to the ultra-rich and Wall Street, both nationally and globally (2020-2021)
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Shout It From The Rooftops: LOCKDOWNS KILL!
Friday, May 27, 2022
Further Evidence That Lockdowns, Closures, Masks, Vaccine Mandates, and NPIs Were Worse Than Useless
Still more evidence just keeps on piling up, from New York to Taiwan to Australia to Cornell University, that lockdowns, closures, masks, vaccine mandates, and NPIs have been utterly useless or worse than useless, as the ever-insightful Ian Miller (author of Unmasked) has noted recently. It is so bleeding obvious now that no sane person can possibly deny it any longer. Of course, as the old adage goes, people tend to go mad in crowds, but only recover one by one.
And school closures turned out to be even worse than we thought, per the latest evidence from Brazil, a country that famously eschewed lockdowns and most types of NPIs for the most part, but bizarrely had some of the longest school closures in the world, making it possible to readily tease out the costs and benefits of this one particular NPI. One new study, which dovetails nicely with other studies in both rich and poor countries around the world, found that remote learning resulted in truly MASSIVE learning losses and increased dropout rates compared to in-person education. And yet another Brazilian study found that it was ultimately all for naught, as the overall Covid death rates in communities who reopened schools earlier were not significantly different from those in communities who kept schools closed longer. This was notably true even for high schools, which were once thought to be so much riskier than middle and elementary schools in terms of spreading the virus that even Sweden felt the need to close them during most of the first wave and again briefly at the very height of the second wave. Thus, we can conclude that school closures at any age or grade level were basically all pain and no gain overall, at least for prolonged closures, and that remote learning simply does not work well.
(And of course there is plenty of evidence from the USA, UK, and elsewhere that not only are school closures exceedingly harmful to children, but also opening them encumbered with worse-than-useless dystopian restrictions like antisocial distancing and mask mandates is really not that much better either.)
In other news, study finds that water is wet, and that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
UPDATE: Oh yeah, and about those jabs? Well, those on balance also seem to be worse than useless as well for most people, and especially for kids. Wonder no more where all those formerly rare but now ubiquitous reinfections are coming from these days. That's not us just saying that, that is actually taken straight from Pf*zer's very own clinical trial of children under age 5. Looks like Sweden, who never forced them on anyone and currently refuses to give these jabs to children under 12, and Florida, who also never forced them and currently refuses to purchase it for children under 5, are vindicated yet again.
And if you think Long Covid is bad, just wait till you hear about Long Lockdown and Long Jab Injury! The data are piling up and increasingly showing exactly which side of the debate is on the right side of history.
As for efficacy, the Chinese inactivated whole virus vaccines (that is, actual vaccines) Sinovac and Sinopharm, really don't seem to be much better either, as evident in excess death rates in Chile, a country that largely preferred those ones at least three to one over the mRNA jabs. And India's Covaxin, which is also made the same way as the Chinese ones, also seems to be quite lackluster as well. Kinda like regular flu shots, in fact. Same thing, different virus.
And once again, the ever-insightful Ian Miller thoroughly debunks, debones, slices, dices, and juliennes the pro-mask arguments, and lays waste to their utterly scorched remains for good. And check out the latest new study from Josh Stevenson about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet. Spoiler alert: masks STILL don't work.
A recent Australian study confirmed via experiment that surgical masks (and by extension, cloth masks as well) are utterly useless against aerosolized viruses, as are even N95s unless they are properly fit-tested and NO mistakes are made. The latter, of course, does NOT apply to the general population, as Germany unfortunately learned the hard way when their general N95 mandate failed so spectacularly to contain or control their Covid outbreak.
Are you listening, New Zealand? Because the "clue phone" is ringing louder than ever now.
AUGUST UPDATE: We see yet another strike against the jabs now. As the late Bill Sardi predicted, it looks like the century-old BCG vaccine (against tuberculosis) does in fact seem to work at least as well against Covid as the gene therapy jabs do, according to the latest research. And perhaps other unrelated diseases as well. Not only because some of what is labeled as Covid is simply misdiagnosed TB or co-infection with both (which is likely true too, as also likely happened in 1918), but more likely due to the BCG's general effect on training the innate immune system to be more effective. And it is indeed fascinating what they found. Note as well that this same nonspecific "trained immunity" can also be promoted with beta-glucan supplements (from yeast) and/or thymus gland extract supplements as well, no jabs needed, which Bill Sardi also discussed.
Perhaps they finally cracked the code of the holy grail that is a truly universal vaccine?
Saturday, May 21, 2022
The Next Plandemic?
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic is basically over now as the virus and its descendents has transitioned to one degree or another of endemicity after reaching a level of functional herd immunity from mass infection (largely no thanks to the jabs!), no sooner does another potential one appear seemingly out of nowhere. And that virus is.....MONKEYPOX!
Monkeypox is mainly found in wild animals in parts of Africa where it is endemic at a low level, and related to smallpox but much milder and far less contagious between humans, hence it being quite rare in humans. It generally requires VERY close contact to transmit it, and it is not known to spread in the absence of symptoms either. But very recently there has been a rash (pun intended) of cases in several countries where it is not normally found among people with no history of travel to Africa, such as the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and now the USA. The numbers remain quite small, less than 100 confirmed cases total and no deaths yet, but it is being closely monitored.
The ever-insightful Michael P. Senger (author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down The World) points out that, just like the COVID-19 pandemic was preceded by just a few months by a tabletop simulation of a SARS-like viral pandemic called "Event 201", so too was this monkeypox outbreak preceded just a year ago by another tabletop simulation of, and he quotes, a "global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox beginning in May 2022". In fact, it takes place as beginning on May 15, 2022, accurate almost to the DAY. Now, that is one eerie coincidence if there ever was one! Or is it really a coincidence at all? Things that really should make you go, hmmmm....
And Senger also points out that, at the center of both simulations is....George Fu Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control. Yes, really. And he and his colleagues have been awfully quiet lately.
But don't worry, they have plenty of vaccines ready now--smallpox vaccines to be exact, which supposedly also work on this related virus as well. Bill Gates must be salivating like a Pavlov's dog as we speak!
Meanwhile, the NYC Health Department is currently a world outlier among public health agencies in recommending that people wear masks again (!) to protect against monkeypox. Yes, really. Not even the CDC is saying that, and there is really no hard evidence that masks work against monkeypox in the general population. But that didn't stop NYC from advocating it, because reasons. Or something.
We at the TSAP do NOT believe that this will actually become a real pandemic, rather, this outbreak will most likely fizzle out on its own as a mere flash in the pan. But as the past two and a half years has so painfully shown us all, we must never, ever underestimate what sorts of evil machinations the global oligarchy is capable of, both in terms of deliberate or "accidental" release of natural or manmade bioweapons, as well as collateral damage from illiberal and totalitarian responses to same.
And all this just as the infamous WHO pandemic treaty is being revised in an increasingly illiberal direction and being actively debated as we speak....
Either way, whether it is a hoax, a real threat, somewhere in between, or some combination of both, this has the fingerprints of the oligarchy all over it.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
No More Excess Deaths!
While we officially crossed the grim 1 million threshold for cumulative Covid deaths in the USA since the beginning of the pandemic just the other day (based on official CDC numbers of course, which count all deaths "with Covid" and not necessarily "from Covid"), we also reached another significant milestone at the same time that the mainstream media did not seem to acknowledge. According to the CDC's own data, there have not been any excess all-cause deaths at all since the week of March 12, 2022, despite "cases" rising significantly since then (especially in the Northeast) for the past two months thanks to both seasonality and the BA.2 subvariants. Of course, it can take several weeks for excess deaths to be fully counted, but this is the longest stretch of time since March 2020 that we have gone without excess deaths. In fact, deaths are currently running below normal, as the proverbial ferryman already got more than his fair share of money by now.
So what does this all mean? It means that the virus is currently endemic, and that the pandemic is essentially over now. It is basically the new seasonal flu and the new common cold rolled into one. In fact, just before the different-enough Omicron variant hit, actual influenza made a comeback already before being temporarily suppressed by Omicron's viral interference. And with no new major variants detectable on the horizon (only subvariants and sub-subvariants), it is unlikely that the resulting endemic equilibrium will be disrupted enough to create another major death and hospitalization wave anytime soon. Even if there is a "casedemic" wave from time to time, herd immunity will prevail overall.
It is thus no wonder that even some top FDA officials are now finally saying that Americans should treat Covid like the flu. What we at Team Reality have already been saying for a while now, in other words.
Bottom line: Covid is endemic, Zero Covid is a pipe dream, and lockdowns, masks, and NPIs are useless or worse than useless. The vast, vast majority of Americans, including children, have already had the virus at least once by now. We know how to treat it effectively, and the largely failed "vaccines" have been around and available more than long enough to know that they weren't exactly worth waiting for. It is long past time to adopt the "flu strategy" and move on.
UPDATE: We are still learning more and more about how lockdowns, masks, and NPIs have done far more harm than good, especially for children, and also that "immunity debt" is in fact a real thing after all. All for naught. Hindsight is indeed, well, 2020. Future generations will all surely look back with absolute horror and disbelief at the conduct of our "leaders" and their sheeple followers over the past two years!
We at Team Reality hate to say we told you so, but....
(Fortunately, the unusual spike in non-Covid excess deaths (read: mostly jab deaths plus numerous collateral deaths from lockdowns, closures, and NPIs) in the second half of 2021 and into very early 2022 now seems to have also since receded by now as well, though alas the damage is already done.)
Meanwhile, in Australia....
And for any natural immunity deniers still out there, particularly as regards to Omicron, this rebuttal is just for you. Seriously, just take the L and move on.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Why A Cashless Society Is A Terrible Idea That Must Be Resisted At All Costs
In recent months, there has been more and more talk about phasing out cash in favor of a purely digital currency, especially a central bank digital currency (CBDC). While the idea does have its benefits, such as making banking maneuvers and electronic transactions of all kinds simpler and almost completely frictionless, there is nonetheless one major, outweighing, and inescapable design flaw to such an otherwise promising idea that should make any reasonably sane and liberty-loving society reject the idea absolutely. So what is this fatal flaw?
In a nutshell: a purely digital currency would be controlled completely by whoever is in power, which generally means the greater oligarchy of government, central banks, and of course the elite "shadow government" who runs both. It can be turned on and off at will by whoever controls it, which means that your bank account, credit cards, and stuff like that would effectively be turned on and off at will by these same oligarchs and technocrats. Next up would be social credit scoring, and so on. All of this would be a very effective way to control We the People in ways that the dictators of old could not have ever dreamed of! And without physical cash as an alternative, there is no way to get around such a scheme (especially once they ban cryptocurrencies next on their agenda).
That more than outweighs any potential benefits of CBDCs. It is inherently totalitarian, and one need look no further than China to see its rotten fruits in action. Or Canada, when they cracked down on the Freedom Convoy and froze the bank accounts of them and their supporters, for an earlier stage of this. Imagine what they could have done if cash no longer existed!
For the record, the TSAP fully supports a Universal Basic Income (UBI), provided it really is done with NO strings attached. Done properly, contrary to the naysayers it will increase the bargaining power of the working class and will actually reduce perverse incentives and dependence on the government compared to the utterly broken status quo. But we will NEVER, EVER support a CBDC or anything else that leads to the elimination of physical cash, period.
The oligarchs may be able control We the People to one degree or another regardless of the monetary system in place. But they cannot control us 100% as long as physical cash exists as an alternative to digital currency. Once cash is gone, all bets really are off!
A cashless society is, at best, a solution in search of a problem. At worst, it is a sure gateway to an unprecedented level of irreversible dystopian totalitarianism. We ignore all of this at our own peril.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Will Roe v. Wade Be Overturned?
A recent leak from the US Supreme Court, which currently has a conservative majority, reveals that the nearly half-century old precedent of Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned in the near future. This, especially on the heels of one red state after another recently imposing more and more restrictions and bans on abortion, would be a disaster for women's reproductive rights, and slopes are FAR slipperier than they appear. If a woman loses her reproductive rights, who knows what rights she can lose next? This is one of the first of several steps towards Margaret Atwood's worst nightmare, at least in the red states.
This further drives home the point that we cannot afford to be complacent at all, even for major victories that were thought to be settled long ago.
If it does actually get overturned, women may want to go on a Lysistrata-style sex strike until either the SCOTUS reverses and restores Roe, and/or a federal law codifying Roe and/or a new constitutional amendment is passed guaranteeing reproductive rights to women. Because otherwise, with the coming red wave (thanks in part to two years of the Democrats' self-sabotaging and illiberal Covid restrictions, and many years of silly performative wokeness), it really doesn't look very good at all.
UPDATE: It should really go without saying, but we do NOT support, condone, or tolerate anyone vandalizing churches or places of worship of any kind, period. That kind of behavior is grossly unethical, and also does nothing to address what governments are doing in regards to reproductive rights. KNOCK IT OFF!
Also, here's another good piece exposing the rank hypocrisy of "pro-life" (anti-choice) zealots.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Surprise! New Study Finds Face Masks Are WORSE Than Useless
Turmeric May Be Effective Against Covid, Particularly Omicron
Monday, April 11, 2022
A Pandemic Report Card Study
Well, there is now finally a study comparing the several states in their performance during the pandemic. The paper can be found here. It looks at health, economic, and educational outcomes, and then combines them into a composite score and then converts to letter grades A through F. Covid death rates are adjusted for age and metabolic health, while excess all-cause deaths are adjusted for age.
The results? Spoiler alert: Free and open states like Utah, Florida, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Vermont each got an A overall while the most stringent states such like New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, California, Illinois, and Washington, DC each got an F overall. And the middling states were, well, somewhere in the middle overall.
Like the song says, some will win, some will lose, and some are born to sing the blues. And greater stringency only increases the odds of falling into the latter category. The restrictions turned out to be not only useless, but actually worse than useless.
Saturday, March 26, 2022
How To Whip Inflation Now (WIN) In Five Easy Steps
- Raise interest rates, sharply and quickly, as high as it takes, until inflation drops below 3%. Then, and only then, should rates be cut.
- Shrink the Fed's massively bloated $9 trillion (!) balance sheet by ending Quantitative Easing (buying bonds) and beginning Quantitative Tightening (selling bonds).
- Raise the reserve ratio to at least 10% and sterilize all excess reserves.
- Suspend all fuel taxes for 90 days, if not all general sales taxes as well.
- The federal government should buy fuel, food, etc. at a premium, and sell it to the population at a loss. Just like the Pentagon already does with the military. That would also incentvize production as well, and thus reduce the supply shortages that are the root cause of inflation.