By Bill Rees: On the Virtues of Self-Delusion—or maybe not!

In summary, we’ve got el gato saying Omicron is good news and the evolutionary end of our virus troubles with no need for further inoculations or lockdowns.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/omincron-in-denmark-looking-exceedingly

And Geert Vanden Bossche saying boosting against Omicron will probably breed a deadly new virus immune to our immunity.
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/q-a-06-geert-and-johns-email-exchange-of-thought-and-ideas-about-the-omicron-articles

Both are smart experts not captured by our insane group think so we can conclude that the outcome is probably unknowable and dependent on chance.

Both agree that inoculations should not be applied to healthy young people.

Those clever scientists seeking fame and fortune MAY have made another boo-boo.

Our “leaders” have had 2 years to stop gain of function research but they’ve been too busy trying to vaccinate children that don’t get sick with a vaccine that doesn’t work against another virus that may have leaked from gain of function research.

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/omicron-is-not-normal

Omicron is not normal. No immediate progenitors are known; its closest relatives are viruses last seen in early- to mid-2020. The orthodox explanation for this awkward fact, is that it has spent the last 18 months lurking “in a geography with poor genomic surveillance … or … in a chronically infected individual.” The simpler explanation is that it leaked from a laboratory.

As el gato malo and others have indicated, evidence is strong that Omicron circulates preferentially in the vaccinated. In all likelihood, it is the result of gain-of-function research, in which SARS-2 was passaged repeatedly through convalescent or vaccinated plasma, in the hopes of helping the virus evade acquired immunity. The purpose of this research would be to anticipate future immune-escape variants that vaccines might target.

Omicron carries a series of highly unlikely and suspicious mutations in its spike protein. It is hard to imagine that these mutations can have arisen via natural processes, because all but one of them are nonsynonymous – that is, they code for different amino acid sequences. Starkly mutated variants favoured by natural selection should have a great many meaningless synonymous mutations as well.

Omicron’s ancestors may have spent a significant amount of time adapting to mouse cells, before re-entering human hosts. Omicron appears selected to replicate primarily in the bronchial tract. Deeper in the human lung, it functions far less efficiently than Delta or the first strains from Wuhan. This is probably why it causes mostly mild illness, and it is reminiscent of techniques used to make live attenuated influenza vaccines safer for use in humans. Such vaccines are cold-adapted, that is, selected to circulate primarily in the cooler upper respiratory tract rather than in the warmer, more vulnerable lungs.

The balance of the evidence is that Omicron leaked from a lab engaged in SARS-2 vaccine research. There are many possibilities: It might represent a live, attenuated virus vaccine used informally among researchers, that mutated back to virulence and escaped; it might have been released accidentally; it could even be an attempt to develop a self-spreading vaccine to immunise animals or third world populations.

Fascinating. Ilargi has uncovered a first hand example of how our “leaders” keep the panic going. They pay experts to model only the worst case scenario without commenting on the probability of that scenario.

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/12/a-simple-christmas-message/

On a different thread Perran posted this interview with the CEO of a small Australian vaccine manufacturer confirming from the inside of the vaccine industry the insanity that we on the outside are witnessing. I’m 2 hours into the 3 hour interview and it’s a definite must listen. I’m reposting it here so more people see it, and I may elevate it to its own post after completing the interview and thinking more.

The issue my brain keeps returning to is how is it possible that so many countries are synchronized with:
1) government policies that ignore science and do not optimize for maximum public health with minimum risk and cost;
2) opposition parties that do not criticize or offer alternate policies;
3) scientists that mostly remain silent;
4) journalists that have abandoned their responsibility to question;
5) citizens that mostly support the obviously flawed policies;
6) no meaningful well intentioned intelligent debate by anyone on anything to do with covid.

What is the explanation for this remarkable global phenomenon?

Is it:
– a mass formation (aka psychosis) as proposed by Mattias Desmet; or
– an emotional response from the majority who took one for the team in the early days, and that now deny emerging unpleasant realities associated with their decision, and that believe “if I took some risk for the greater good, then everyone must now do the same, regardless of whether it’s the right thing to do”; or
– scared social primates rallying around their “official science” tribe leaders; or
– just another manifestation of “technology will save us”; or
– an instinctual response to impending overshoot collapse and scarcity by slowing down and controlling the population; or
– business as usual for clever but unwise homo sapiens that is also globally synchronized on denying overshoot while pressing on the accelerator as the cliff approaches; or
– something else?

Please weigh in if you have any thoughts on the troubling global synchronicity.

Nikolai Petrovsky is Chairman and Research director of Vaxine Pty Ltd, an Adelaide-based biotechnology company focused on vaccine development, together with being a Professor of Medicine at Flinders University and Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre. Over the last 16 years he has been principal investigator on five NIH vaccine grants totaling over 50 million dollars, with a focus on development of vaccine adjuvants and pandemic vaccine platforms. He has authored over 200 research papers and has won prestigious awards including 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. His current focus is development of the Covax-19 vaccine against COVID-19.

Notice how el gato provides data to support his conclusions, and provides perspective so as to not generate fear when fear is not warranted. Compare this behavior to our incompetent leaders. I respect his work on covid despite his ignorance and denial of our much more important overshoot issues.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark

In Denmark … those vaccinated and boosted have between a 26% and a 75% greater chance than the unvaccinated of contracting omicron.

this data, while not dispositive, is strongly consistent with and supportive of omicron as “the variant that leaky vaccines with overly narrow immuno-training begat.” this is OAS. this is exactly the the outcome you’d expect from pinned and non-adaptive immune system training and not what you’d see from simple full vaccine escape.

of course, this is not as horrific as it looks when you look at absolute risk increase. double vaxxed is 0.047%, up from 0.0186%. this is not exactly “holy moly, grab my bio-bunnysuit!” territory.

and, of course, that’s cases, not anything inherently severe.

of interest, deaths in denmark look to be dropping as omi spreads, reinforcing once more that omi is a much milder variant. all data i have seen imply this is true among vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. this implies it’s a property of the pathogen, not the inoculant, and this is born out by the sudden drop in deaths as it propagates. presuming this holds, this is what you want, it’s nature making a vaccine and a variant going fully endemic, mild, and becoming another common cold.

More crazy making evidence from two high integrity good men.

There’s a new South Park covid special available for download today.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16375288/?ref_=tt_urv

Tim Watkins today with a nice big picture review of peak oil and how it is impacting life in the UK.

I still seriously wonder if part of the reason for our over-reaction to covid is an instinctual response to scarcity. Locking down and working from home helps delay the effects of peak oil without our brains having to acknowledge reality.

https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2021/12/15/the-hidden-recession-of-2020/

The arrival of the pandemic has been fortuitous insofar as the various lockdowns and restrictions, together with the discovery that a large number of us can work from home, produced a decline in energy demand which almost compensated for the loss of supply. But energy decline is remorseless. And in a world that still depends upon oil – and especially diesel – to power its transport networks and almost all of its heavy machinery in mining, heavy industry and agriculture, oil depletion eventually results in everything depletion.

Europe – the first part of the world to industrialise – is in a particularly weak position. Having already depleted most of its mineral and fossil fuel reserves, the remaining oil and gas in the North Sea was the only thing preventing a Europe-wide economic collapse as the continent ran out of power. But the North Sea deposits were all too finite. Britain’s oil and gas peaked in 1999 and were producing just 40 percent of their 1999 output by 2020. Exports from Norway (with a population just 8 percent of the UK’s) obscured the problem, while the promise of opening up tiny deposits like Cambo, held out the promise of maintaining business as usual.

In the wake of the 2018 peak, and exacerbated by the pandemic, oil companies cut their investment in oil extraction. The result was that when economies around the world attempted to unlock, demand outstripped supply; sending wholesale prices up above $80 per barrel. In the UK, this has resulted in recession-inducing fuel prices above £1.45 per litre ($7.30 per US gallon).

Unexpectedly, it has been gas rather than oil which has created the bigger post-pandemic shock in Europe. As with oil, the simple reason for this is that there is no longer enough to go around. But this is about more than depletion. The so-called “green” energy policies adopted across the EU – and particularly in the UK – at the height of the debt-based boom of the early 2000s, created an over-reliance on intermittent forms of electricity generation. The hope had been that someone would come up with a viable – low-cost but high-density – means of storing excess energy for use in periods when demand outstripped supply. No such storage technology was invented. And so, we ended up turning to gas as backup – while claiming it to be a “transitional” fuel. This was foolish in the extreme in a part of the world which freezes in winter, and which depends upon gas for most of its heating and cooking. Nevertheless, by the autumn of 2021, European dependence upon a fossil fuel which was depleting, and which is difficult and expensive to import in compressed form from regions that still have a surplus, was enough to drive wholesale prices up by more than 400 percent! As of yesterday – 14 December 2021, the UK wholesale price of gas stood at £3.27 per therm – up from just £0.50 a year ago.