A status report
In times of chaos and confusion, you have two choices: you can lean in, join a political party or an NGO, or you can lean out and do something to clear your mind, calm down, and make you feel better. Of course, that is a false choice because ordinary mortals have mortgages and jobs and are therefore too busy to ‘sort things out’, mentally or physically, even if they wanted to.
Being old and retired gave me the luxury of just sorting things verbally, with essays on Substack. I wrote about what is ailing us for two solid years and then hit peak problem. I couldn’t go on. The fire in my brain was getting too hot, burning out the synapses. Or more scientifically, self-induced Stress was dosing my old body with cortisol, my blood pressure was high, I was gaining weight again, in other words, I was killing myself with worry.
I needed a change, so I started writing poetry on a regular basis over half a year ago, hoping to retreat into a less threatening mind set. I did what that old adage accuses me of, Fiddling while Rome burns. BTW, it’s historically inaccurate to blame Nero, the fiddler, for the fire because he wasn’t even in the city at the time, nor could he have played the fiddle, an instrument that didn’t exist in ancient Rome though he did blame the upstart Christians for the disaster and killed a few as handy scapegoats. Oddly, I came across several stories recently that claim Christians are now the most persecuted religion in the world. And in Canada, setting fire to churches was a ‘thing’ during the pandemic. So you see, in an essential way, the adage is valid, even today.
And switching to a different verbal mode might not solve the problem of mental malaise. I’m still finding myself agitated, in incessant flight or fight mode after reading the morning headlines. And still needing to write essays to get it out of my system. It’s too bad that I can’t play the violin; it would really help me. Playing any instrument would.
But since I don’t, I have fallen off the wagon and returned to the fire. Like yesterday, when I came across a most peculiar ‘vaccine story’ in the National Post, where one of their better journos, Colby Cosh, reported on how a German citizen managed to get himself injected with the vaccine some 217 times—and is still very much alive, indeed, according to a just published study in the Lancet, all his bio markers are normal and in case you were wondering, he never got Covid. Oh, and he did all this to sell his fake vaccine passports to his fellow citizens, those Germans who didn’t want the jab but needed it to continue any kind of normal life in the free and friendly land of Germany.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-the-curious-case-of-the-german-hyper-vaxxer
My mind went WTF and I started digging into this bizarre story, also listed among the daily must read section of fellow Substacker, the Naked Emperor. It raises a whole shitload of burning questions. Like, if this man who has now been criminally charged for fraud and whose identity is therefore legally protected under German law, is showing absolutely no ill effects whatsoever after literally getting fully bathed in the vaccine, then the only conclusion one can come to is that it is totally harmless. And maybe that is the point that someone is trying to sneak across our muddled and tired brains?
Further digging revealed that this is not a new story; indeed, the Post reported on it during the height of the pandemic, in 2022, a little fact Colby failed to mention.
So what has happened in the meantime. Well, that is the meat. And of course I can’t wait to serve it up; conspiratorial but lucid, if you please.
First, the man has been dubbed HIM, for Hypervaccinated Individual from Marburg. Lovely, someone is clearly paying attention to the rules of information warfare: make it fun and memorable. Second, what about that Lancet study? It’s clear and fairly short and claims that immunity is actually improved by the vaccines. How very reassuring, though one of the authors, to make it memorable, is called Pascal Irrgang. Which means Pascal on a false trail, for those of you whose German might be spotty. If I were this person, I would change my name because it’s a most unfortunate one in Science, where you want to be on ‘the right trail’ so to speak.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00134-8/fulltext
What is so fascinating is that a study like this takes some time, therefore, it must have begun shortly after the initial news about HIM leaked out in 2022. And if the Lancet was what many people still believe it to be, namely one of the most prestigious of scientific journals, then all this handwringing would be beside the point. You don’t argue with an unbiased, highly respected scientific institution full of individuals of high moral probity. Unless that isn’t the case.
Alas, there is a lot of evidence that the Lancet has been corrupted by a political agenda. It has been embroiled in a mess of papers retracted, then re-instated then retracted again. Indeed, the Lancet is consistently publishing papers that ‘prove’ how ‘safe and effective’ the vaccines are. All those reports of excess deaths that spiked globally the very month the vaccines rolled out are ignored, not taken seriously, and declared to be noise.
And that is what we are still arguing about. Of course, a heavily top down system takes a while to hear ‘other voices’ like the Department of Health in Florida that recently published an advisory to ‘fully inform’ patients about the dangers and side effects of the vaccine. Which wasn’t done and isn’t done here in Canada. They are also one of the few official health departments that publicly noted the spike in VAERS reports:
https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2023/02/20230215-updated-health-alert.pr.html
So what does all this mean? How I wish I could say that I can now believe in The Science again. That all is well, we’ve proven that there was no indecent haste, corruption, and sloppy execution with creating, selling, and jabbing dangerous vaccines into millions of arms. The fallout continues, people are dying in excess numbers, and those numbers are especially high among men under forty years of age who are suffering from unusually high levels of heart disease, something heretofore unheard of in that age group. Nobody, certainly not the Lancet, wants to study that, particularly not in relation to the vaccines.
The Vaccine Wars continue. They turn us against each other and make us highly suspicious, paranoid, even. And rightly so. We won’t get fooled again, maybe. This latest instalment is just that: proof that nobody in positions to influence this info-war has given up or is about to admit to any wrongdoing.
Which is why I am going off to write poetry. Sometimes, it’s the only way to avoid mental breakdown. Fiddling with metaphors does work for me. As for all you harassed, tired citizens, I hope you too can find a way to douse the fire in your brain. If nothing else, we must stay healthy to win this fight for Truth in Vaccines, which is far from won. Let’s all fiddle while we can, this is a long burn. Truth will out once it dies down, as it must. And to those valiant and strong enough to fight in the vaccine ring; kudos. You are my heroes.