About 10 days ago I caught covid. I was a bit surprised because I’ve already had it – I caught it back in December 2019 (before anyone yells ‘that’s before covid came!’, I caught it at a hotel frequented by Air China pilots and cabin-crew and I also note that there was a strange peak in ambulance call-outs for cardiac/respiratory arrest back in Nov/Dec ‘19, as discussed
You might enjoy the articles at vaccinepapers.org, which are related to effects of excessive immune activation from aluminum adjuvant, healthy-user bias in vaccine epidemiology, and related topics.
Also, Prof Exley's group is the leading authority on aluminum, his book -- Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom -- is excellent. Brain levels of aluminum are extremely high in Alzheimer's, and even higher in autism.
You must be aware - or at least you should - that the LFTs are all calibrated via PCR kits and since all the current (and past) PCR kits do not have a gold standard:
"The lack of a clear-cut “gold-standard” is a challenge for evaluating covid-19 tests; pragmatically, clinical adjudication may be the best available “gold standard,”
... reality is that making a LFT and claiming that "I've caught 'covid'" is at the same level of moisturizing your indicator finger rising your hand and say the same thing.
Or in short LFT (and PCR kits) are just a nice (very profitable for a few) PoS.
That might well be true. I certainly didn't get very ill with it.
I don't think that mass testing is helping, particularly. People seem to be relying on tests more as an emotional crutch than as a biocontrol measure. I think rather a few people will have withdrawal symptoms when they're taken away (if they ever are...)
It is the same for masks. They offer very little protection but people even drive around wearing them -- this is mad.
Hi Bartram, thanks for responding to my comment on your previous post. I'm baboon on Lockdown/Daily Sceptics btw. I prefer posting on here because I think I'm a bit too edgy for the other site. I seem to be much more appreciated here. :) It's also much easier to track conversations on Substack.
I've always enjoyed your comments and always assumed you had a background in this sort of thing because you always sounded authoritative.
My main question was regarding this:
"About 10 days ago I caught covid. I was a bit surprised because I’ve already had it – I caught it back in December 2019"
I don't regard this as contentious at all, there appears to be pretty reasonable evidence that SARS-COV-2 started circulating around the time of the Military Games in Wuhan, and waste water analysis shows that it was definitely in France before a pandemic was officially declared.
I live in France and caught a very nasty illness, also in December 2019. I've had the pleasure of communicating with Karl Denninger of Market Ticker fame, and he also had something mysterious at that time.
He has been using IgG/IgM blood tests to check for antibodies, and caught Covid a few months ago. He thought the December 2019 infection might have been Covid, but told me he now thinks that strange (and highly debilitating) illness was H1N1 influenza.
I suppose my question is, how do you know what you caught was Covid?
I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell to the degree that would be considered a classic "Covid" case, but I don't know whether that is universal. Whatever this thing was, it made me sick for six weeks, and I have never been ill for that long before (I'm a very fit 40 year old in perfect health).
As regards to catching Covid again, Geert Vanden Bossche's recent posts indicate he expects everyone who has had Covid to be reinfected, because he believes that vaccine-induced evolutionary pressure on the virus has made it mutate the equivalent of hundreds of years, so Original Antigenic Sin is not only a factor, it's an inevitability.
There is also the distinct possibility that Omicron was made in a lab (Malone and Weinstein have alluded to it). One crazy theory I heard from someone on 4Chan was that it was made in a lab as a "good" bioweapon to end the pandemic - a highly transmissible but very weak strain that would effectively infect everyone into herd immunity. I found that idea to be remarkable, and would never have thought of something like that myself. I'm not saying it's true, but it is extremely interesting.
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on that as well.
A: I don't. I tested with a few LFTs for the recent infection, which came back positive, but they might have been false positives.
I treated the recent infection with daily doses of 15mg ivermectin for 5 days. This might have helped alleviate symptoms to a significant level. Or maybe it didn't -- we'll probably never know.
Q: GVB and evolution of the virus.
A: Yes. I think he's right. Normally you expect viral mutations and evolution to take place in the unvaccinated as normal vaccines prevent viral load from increasing beyond trivial levels. In the case of the covid vaccines, however, we have high levels of virus in the vaccinated, which means that natural selection can occur -- it is only in the vaccinated that there is the enormous selective pressure for natural selection to work properly for the virus to achieve vaccine escape. To make matters worse, the spike protein is the most mutable protein in the virus -- so it is easier for mutations encoding parts of the spike to persist. It was clear to me that we were in trouble as soon as the first reports of high viral loads in the vaccinated appeared from Israel in February (I think) -- I recommended then that we should rethink the vaccination policy.
OAS is a different matter -- I'll refer back to this in a bit.
The 'Omicron is the good bioweapon' as a theory has some merit. In particular, Omicron includes an insertion mutation, ins214EPE, that isn't that easy to explain how it got there... Also, Botswana authorities seem to be saying that the 'four travellers' that first tested positive for it came from China. But we have no real evidence one way or another.
In terms of OAS, one question I have is how the vaccinated will respond to Omicron -- it is likely (OAS) that they'll make more of their original (Wuhan strain) spike protein antibodies -- the question is, will this then hinder or help onwards protection from coronaviruses (in general) and will there be consequences wrt autoimmune diseases -- IMO this story isn't over yet.
IMO Omicron variant isn't progressing quite as fast as we're being told. I suspect that is was in the UK (and other countries) earlier than thought and we've currently got people getting tested that previous hadn't thought they'd have covid (and thus didn't test). If this is true then the rate of increase of cases should calm down for a while, and then pick up again at the end of the month. I imagine that if this happens the authorities will declare 'success' at defeating Omicron (prematurely).
At the same time we've got a mild Delta wave occurring. I suspect that this will peak at the end of the year.
This interplay between testing artefacts, Delta and Omicron might make it difficult to interpret what's going on over the next few weeks.
I agree with you and I have also thought about the point you raise in regard to Delta/Omicron. It's quite insidious as you could think that you've got an Omicron infection and then get hammered because it was actually Delta.
If Omicron has mild cold symptoms, then - with the currently available, and incredibly poor tests - then I don't know how the average person is supposed to get any kind of reliable indication as to what respiratory illness they actually have.
In my case, I'm grateful to Karl Denninger, as he was kind enough to help me know exactly what I was looking for. In turn, I ordered some as he was looking for a reliable source for his contacts (they are incredibly hard to get). These have a 99.6% accuracy for IgG and 97.8% for IgM antibodies, why they aren't the gold standard I have no idea. Drawing some blood with a lancet is also infinitely preferable to having a PCR test swab implanted in your brain!
The main reason I got the tests is because I don't want to waste the Ivermectin I managed to source (by almost a miracle) on a cold.
Just out of interest, what on Earth was the Moderna CMO smoking?
1. Every country on the planet is on board with the Injections. Even Sweden. When have all countries aligned on any issue? Never.
2. Not a single MSM outlet is interviewing any of the expert dissenters – Yeadon, Bridle, Montagnier, Bossche etc… and the mainstream social media platforms are blocking them.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
THE PERFECT STORM : The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
Oil Gluts – do NOT indicate we have found more oil. We just pumped what’s left too fast.
Summary In 2019 a second Perfect Storm was approaching – the central banks had been doing ‘whatever it takes’ for over a decade…. Essentially nothing was off the table --- throw the kitchen sink at pushing GFC2.0 into the future. In 2019 the guns were blazing but the beast was no longer held at bay…
What do you do when you are burning far more oil than you discover --- and your efforts to offset the impact of expensive to produce oil push you to the edge of the cliff? You can accept your fate and allow the beast to shove you into the abyss…. Or you can take the ‘nuclear option’ and shut down as much of the economy as possible, preserve remaining oil and pump in trillions of dollars of life support to keep the system feebly alive.
Punchline: The problem global leaders face is that if you unleash the nuclear option without some sort of cover, the sheeple and the markets would be thrown into a panic and you risk blowing things up prematurely. So you need a reason for putting the global economy on ice --- one that does not spook the masses – one that is big enough to justify such epic amounts of stimulus and extreme policies --- and one that allows you to explain ‘this is just temporary – once this is gone --- we will get back to normal’
A pandemic is the perfect cover.
End Game – Covid was foisted on us as cover for the response to peak oil (if we don’t slow the burn oil prices go through the roof and we collapse) but it is also being used to convince billions to be Injected. The Injection is meant to cause extremely deadly variants similar to Marek’s this .. only worse because we are deploying into a pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous.
“Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants.” https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease.
The Vaccines and Boosters will Result in a Catastrophic Outcome - From a scientific viewpoint it is, therefore, difficult to understand how booster immunizations using vaccines which are not evolution-proof could prevent a highly mutable virus from escaping neutralizing anti-S Abs while driving the pandemic in a catastrophic direction, both in Israel and worldwide. How can the WHO stand by and watch as this additional experiment unfolds, soon to be followed by other countries? https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination-catastrophe/
The reason for this is that 8B people need cheap oil to live. They would starve without it. And 8B people without food would result in epic starvation, violence, rape and cannibalism. Industrial civilization ends soon after peak oil. Unfortunately we also have 4000 spent fuel ponds that will boil off and release toxic substances for centuries. These facilities cannot be controlled with computers and energy. So even the few remaining hunters and gatherer tribes will die as they consume these toxins in the food, air and water.
He's working with some unbelievably brilliant people, including Scott McLachlan, Joel Smalley and Jessica Rose, amongst others. I've been privileged enough to have had some communications with these amazing people over the last few months. They deserve a medal for the work they are doing.
You might enjoy the articles at vaccinepapers.org, which are related to effects of excessive immune activation from aluminum adjuvant, healthy-user bias in vaccine epidemiology, and related topics.
Also, Prof Exley's group is the leading authority on aluminum, his book -- Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom -- is excellent. Brain levels of aluminum are extremely high in Alzheimer's, and even higher in autism.
"About 10 days ago I caught covid."
How do you know you "caught covid"?
It is a fair comment.
First time I don't know. Symptoms seem about right other than that it was very very mild.
Second time was confirmed with a few LFTs. They might well have been false positives.
You must be aware - or at least you should - that the LFTs are all calibrated via PCR kits and since all the current (and past) PCR kits do not have a gold standard:
"The lack of a clear-cut “gold-standard” is a challenge for evaluating covid-19 tests; pragmatically, clinical adjudication may be the best available “gold standard,”
source: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1808.full.pdf
... reality is that making a LFT and claiming that "I've caught 'covid'" is at the same level of moisturizing your indicator finger rising your hand and say the same thing.
Or in short LFT (and PCR kits) are just a nice (very profitable for a few) PoS.
That might well be true. I certainly didn't get very ill with it.
I don't think that mass testing is helping, particularly. People seem to be relying on tests more as an emotional crutch than as a biocontrol measure. I think rather a few people will have withdrawal symptoms when they're taken away (if they ever are...)
It is the same for masks. They offer very little protection but people even drive around wearing them -- this is mad.
It all comes down to decades of attempts and fails...
https://i.postimg.cc/1tsSnRfr/SRF-Billionaires-endeavor-pandemics-transp.jpg
Finally they got it right!
Hi Bartram, thanks for responding to my comment on your previous post. I'm baboon on Lockdown/Daily Sceptics btw. I prefer posting on here because I think I'm a bit too edgy for the other site. I seem to be much more appreciated here. :) It's also much easier to track conversations on Substack.
I've always enjoyed your comments and always assumed you had a background in this sort of thing because you always sounded authoritative.
My main question was regarding this:
"About 10 days ago I caught covid. I was a bit surprised because I’ve already had it – I caught it back in December 2019"
I don't regard this as contentious at all, there appears to be pretty reasonable evidence that SARS-COV-2 started circulating around the time of the Military Games in Wuhan, and waste water analysis shows that it was definitely in France before a pandemic was officially declared.
I live in France and caught a very nasty illness, also in December 2019. I've had the pleasure of communicating with Karl Denninger of Market Ticker fame, and he also had something mysterious at that time.
He has been using IgG/IgM blood tests to check for antibodies, and caught Covid a few months ago. He thought the December 2019 infection might have been Covid, but told me he now thinks that strange (and highly debilitating) illness was H1N1 influenza.
I suppose my question is, how do you know what you caught was Covid?
I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell to the degree that would be considered a classic "Covid" case, but I don't know whether that is universal. Whatever this thing was, it made me sick for six weeks, and I have never been ill for that long before (I'm a very fit 40 year old in perfect health).
As regards to catching Covid again, Geert Vanden Bossche's recent posts indicate he expects everyone who has had Covid to be reinfected, because he believes that vaccine-induced evolutionary pressure on the virus has made it mutate the equivalent of hundreds of years, so Original Antigenic Sin is not only a factor, it's an inevitability.
There is also the distinct possibility that Omicron was made in a lab (Malone and Weinstein have alluded to it). One crazy theory I heard from someone on 4Chan was that it was made in a lab as a "good" bioweapon to end the pandemic - a highly transmissible but very weak strain that would effectively infect everyone into herd immunity. I found that idea to be remarkable, and would never have thought of something like that myself. I'm not saying it's true, but it is extremely interesting.
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on that as well.
Q: How do I know it was covid.
A: I don't. I tested with a few LFTs for the recent infection, which came back positive, but they might have been false positives.
I treated the recent infection with daily doses of 15mg ivermectin for 5 days. This might have helped alleviate symptoms to a significant level. Or maybe it didn't -- we'll probably never know.
Q: GVB and evolution of the virus.
A: Yes. I think he's right. Normally you expect viral mutations and evolution to take place in the unvaccinated as normal vaccines prevent viral load from increasing beyond trivial levels. In the case of the covid vaccines, however, we have high levels of virus in the vaccinated, which means that natural selection can occur -- it is only in the vaccinated that there is the enormous selective pressure for natural selection to work properly for the virus to achieve vaccine escape. To make matters worse, the spike protein is the most mutable protein in the virus -- so it is easier for mutations encoding parts of the spike to persist. It was clear to me that we were in trouble as soon as the first reports of high viral loads in the vaccinated appeared from Israel in February (I think) -- I recommended then that we should rethink the vaccination policy.
OAS is a different matter -- I'll refer back to this in a bit.
The 'Omicron is the good bioweapon' as a theory has some merit. In particular, Omicron includes an insertion mutation, ins214EPE, that isn't that easy to explain how it got there... Also, Botswana authorities seem to be saying that the 'four travellers' that first tested positive for it came from China. But we have no real evidence one way or another.
In terms of OAS, one question I have is how the vaccinated will respond to Omicron -- it is likely (OAS) that they'll make more of their original (Wuhan strain) spike protein antibodies -- the question is, will this then hinder or help onwards protection from coronaviruses (in general) and will there be consequences wrt autoimmune diseases -- IMO this story isn't over yet.
Thank you very much, this is excellent.
I am also reserving judgement on Omicron and we will have to see what happens over the coming weeks.
IMO Omicron variant isn't progressing quite as fast as we're being told. I suspect that is was in the UK (and other countries) earlier than thought and we've currently got people getting tested that previous hadn't thought they'd have covid (and thus didn't test). If this is true then the rate of increase of cases should calm down for a while, and then pick up again at the end of the month. I imagine that if this happens the authorities will declare 'success' at defeating Omicron (prematurely).
At the same time we've got a mild Delta wave occurring. I suspect that this will peak at the end of the year.
This interplay between testing artefacts, Delta and Omicron might make it difficult to interpret what's going on over the next few weeks.
I agree with you and I have also thought about the point you raise in regard to Delta/Omicron. It's quite insidious as you could think that you've got an Omicron infection and then get hammered because it was actually Delta.
If Omicron has mild cold symptoms, then - with the currently available, and incredibly poor tests - then I don't know how the average person is supposed to get any kind of reliable indication as to what respiratory illness they actually have.
In my case, I'm grateful to Karl Denninger, as he was kind enough to help me know exactly what I was looking for. In turn, I ordered some as he was looking for a reliable source for his contacts (they are incredibly hard to get). These have a 99.6% accuracy for IgG and 97.8% for IgM antibodies, why they aren't the gold standard I have no idea. Drawing some blood with a lancet is also infinitely preferable to having a PCR test swab implanted in your brain!
The main reason I got the tests is because I don't want to waste the Ivermectin I managed to source (by almost a miracle) on a cold.
Just out of interest, what on Earth was the Moderna CMO smoking?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10309153/Risk-DUAL-infection-Omicron-Delta-create-new-super-mutant-variant.html
This sounds an awful lot like pseudo-science to me.
COMPASSIONATE EXTINCTION PLAN (CEP)
1. Every country on the planet is on board with the Injections. Even Sweden. When have all countries aligned on any issue? Never.
2. Not a single MSM outlet is interviewing any of the expert dissenters – Yeadon, Bridle, Montagnier, Bossche etc… and the mainstream social media platforms are blocking them.
Why?
Conventional Oil peaked in 2005 http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/C-Cdec141.png
Shale in 2018.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times. https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
THE PERFECT STORM : The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
Our fossil fuel energy predicament, including why the correct story is rarely told https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/11/10/our-fossil-fuel-energy-predicament-including-why-the-correct-story-is-rarely-told/
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
Collapse Imminent: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
The Illusion of Stability, the Inevitability of Collapse http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-illusion-of-stability-inevitability.html
Fed is sharply increasing the amount of help it is providing to the financial system https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/fed-repo-overnight-operations-level-to-increase-to-120-billion.html Banks did not trust each other - similar situation when Lehman collapsed
Oil Gluts – do NOT indicate we have found more oil. We just pumped what’s left too fast.
Summary In 2019 a second Perfect Storm was approaching – the central banks had been doing ‘whatever it takes’ for over a decade…. Essentially nothing was off the table --- throw the kitchen sink at pushing GFC2.0 into the future. In 2019 the guns were blazing but the beast was no longer held at bay…
What do you do when you are burning far more oil than you discover --- and your efforts to offset the impact of expensive to produce oil push you to the edge of the cliff? You can accept your fate and allow the beast to shove you into the abyss…. Or you can take the ‘nuclear option’ and shut down as much of the economy as possible, preserve remaining oil and pump in trillions of dollars of life support to keep the system feebly alive.
Punchline: The problem global leaders face is that if you unleash the nuclear option without some sort of cover, the sheeple and the markets would be thrown into a panic and you risk blowing things up prematurely. So you need a reason for putting the global economy on ice --- one that does not spook the masses – one that is big enough to justify such epic amounts of stimulus and extreme policies --- and one that allows you to explain ‘this is just temporary – once this is gone --- we will get back to normal’
A pandemic is the perfect cover.
End Game – Covid was foisted on us as cover for the response to peak oil (if we don’t slow the burn oil prices go through the roof and we collapse) but it is also being used to convince billions to be Injected. The Injection is meant to cause extremely deadly variants similar to Marek’s this .. only worse because we are deploying into a pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous.
“Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants.” https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease.
The Vaccines and Boosters will Result in a Catastrophic Outcome - From a scientific viewpoint it is, therefore, difficult to understand how booster immunizations using vaccines which are not evolution-proof could prevent a highly mutable virus from escaping neutralizing anti-S Abs while driving the pandemic in a catastrophic direction, both in Israel and worldwide. How can the WHO stand by and watch as this additional experiment unfolds, soon to be followed by other countries? https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination-catastrophe/
The reason for this is that 8B people need cheap oil to live. They would starve without it. And 8B people without food would result in epic starvation, violence, rape and cannibalism. Industrial civilization ends soon after peak oil. Unfortunately we also have 4000 spent fuel ponds that will boil off and release toxic substances for centuries. These facilities cannot be controlled with computers and energy. So even the few remaining hunters and gatherer tribes will die as they consume these toxins in the food, air and water.
The PTB understand all of this and that is WHY every leader is on board with the Injections. There is NO way out of this --- so they have decided to mitigate the suffering as much as possible by putting us down and here is the mechanism https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/why-the-ongoing-mass-vaccination-experiment-drives-a-rapid-evolutionary-response-of-sars-cov-2.
I have a feeling you will like this Bartram:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/mathematician-uncovers-disturbing-mortality-data_fIZmA9TjuoGAfip.html
It's an interview with Professor Norman Fenton.
He's working with some unbelievably brilliant people, including Scott McLachlan, Joel Smalley and Jessica Rose, amongst others. I've been privileged enough to have had some communications with these amazing people over the last few months. They deserve a medal for the work they are doing.
I've spoken (briefly) with Norman about these data -- but thanks for the Bigtree interview, I'd not seen it.