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It's not just that people weren't warned, it's that we were presented with a bunch of a priori reasoning about why mRNA shots couldn't possibly have this effect. So it raises the question, which of the other assertions (which were not backed by long term clinical data, because none existed) were also wrong?

If you dig into the actual data cited in the paper, the assertion that recovery was demonstrated at T3 is dodgy at best. The study authors may have put some reassuring language in their commentary to get past political roadblocks to publication. I would not have added the quotes myself, but they're not necessarily misplaced.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pfizer-vaccine-effects-on...

This was also how they got the guy who found evidence the CIA was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks.

https://www.soundcloud.com/media-roots/amerithrax-the-cia-in...

I would still be more focused on DeFi and maybe large leveraged positions like Saylor's over Tether, which is ultimately backed by Bitfinex, a highly profitable crypto exchange which is probably still doing decent volumes during this down wave. If Tether does fail it might very well come toward the tail end of crypto price declines, when trading volumes have dried up and the incentive to prop it up is gone.

Bitcoin has only just reached its marginal cost of production. The dynamics of Bitcoin are probably different (it doesn't take years to shut down or spin up a mine), but when they enter bear cycles, many commodities will trade below the marginal cost of production for years. The marginal cost of production itself could also fall if energy prices decline from here.

you can have a lot of bananas from Honduras if your society can make great apps that Hondurans love and willing to trade their bananas

Yes, or alternatively, you can live in a society which uses coups, death squads, and puppet dictators to keep Honduran labor cheap.

Throughout bitcoin's entire existence, the Federal Reserve and central banks globally have been in a posture of monetary easing and accommodation. There may be some reason to believe this crypto winter will be deeper and longer than the prior ones, and that the absurd heights of Ponzi speculation that were reached this time will not be seen again for a long time, if ever.

might reduce the time they can spread it to more at risk people or possibly reduce the viral load

That the vaccines could do this (especially for the new variants) was never demonstrated in any rigorous randomized controlled trials whatsoever, and if anything the experience of highly vaxxed countries and jurisdictions (hello, Bay Area!) suggests that they are actually increasing the rate of infection. It's possible that the main effect of the vaccines is to suppress immune response, which helps prevent the immune-induced cytokine storm which leads to severe disease, but also allows for higher asymptomatic viral loads.

The reference to "inconvenience" shows you are really either unfamiliar or obtusely dismissive of the skeptics' reasons for declining COVID vaccines.

It does seem like there should be some happy medium between this and Tesla's policy of not counting it as an Autopilot crash if it disengages one second before impact.

They have far more than $205 million in debt. They borrowed far more than that to acquire 129,000 BTC.

And they're surely not the only ones. Michael Saylor at MicroStrategy insists he won't have any forced sales all the way down to $3,500 but it seems hard to believe.

Fixed, thanks.

The "having COVID versus having the vaccine" comparison doesn't make sense because the vaccines do little to prevent infection (and may even be increasing the odds with more recent strains). So the risks are cumulative, not mutually exclusive.

What do you think would work, exactly?

From where I'm sitting, the large vested interests you're pointing to benefitted enormously from the COVID response, especially the lockdowns which destroyed around a third of small businesses and concentrated that market share upward.

It's more: unsure of cost-benefit for healthy males without comorbidities up to 40 and women up to 30 (especially those who were already recovered from Covid), the insanity of recommending the shots to pregnant women with zero data regarding impact on fetal development, reactivation of latent viruses like herpes simplex which might suggest some level of induced broader immune dysfunction, and the potential for vaccine enhanced disease or OAS (especially given the use of the long defunct Wuhan strain spike protein in ongoing booster campaigns).

Anyway, focusing on the specifics of the concerns is to avoid the more fundamental point, which is that doctors are not some cohort which one can implicitly trust to be guided by pure objective truth and scientific rigor at all times, nor are they a perfectly homogeneous group in lockstep agreement on all scientific questions.

Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that it was not a metaphysical impossibility that some unknown issue with the novel technology applied in these vaccines was missed in the severely abbreviated clinical trials. The control groups were all vaccinated the second the EUAs were granted, so we have no controls against which we can check our hypotheses. In the (I know, completely impossible) hypothetical I am putting forth, wouldn't the first hints of the problem be something like unexplained excess deaths coinciding with vaccine rollout?

In private conversation my PCP will express concerns about the vaccines that she steadfastly refuses to share with most patients for fear of professional repercussions. You are operating from an assumption ("the institutions of authority are healthy and aligned with the imperative of finding and disseminating the truth") which I don't share.

There's a chart right in the article showing the phenomenon is limited to late 2021.

We're talking about 886 excess deaths in a province that reported 114 COVID deaths. Are unreported COVID deaths at home really that common and likely to be missed on the death certificate? In my understanding of the lethal progression of the disease, there's usually a telltale pulmonary phase which is very likely to lead the infected person to seek care.

When they make movies critical of the military, they are part of capitalism commodifying resistance and selling it to people.

Often they will even smuggle in certain propagandistic undertones to ostensibly antiwar movies, for example by depicting the North Vietnamese Army as a band of ruthless savages.

The list of films the DoD has had input on is extensive and revealing: https://www.spyculture.com/updated-complete-list-of-dod-film...

The risks to children from the action necessary to prevent Covid infection -- namely, social isolation -- are well understood and far higher than their risks from COVID itself. Vaccines and masks are being mentioned a lot in this thread but neither are very effective at all in preventing infection.

Well, the number of people who will be harmed in these schemes is probably not large enough for them to be worried about any systemic or broader economic risks. The implosion of unregulated and privately issued stablecoins will create the impetus for CBDCs, which have been telegraphed as "on the agenda" for some time.

But, in a more pointed answer to your question: yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour

I'm not a libertarian, but I can recognize willful dereliction of duty when I see it.

How do you believe the coin is able to pay these sorts of yields without Ponzi or Ponzi-like mechanisms?

The government is going to be happy if a large number of people are sucked into Ponzi schemes which blow up and cause harm to the broader reputation of cryptocurrencies as such.

Another thread from the TechCrunch transportation editor: https://twitter.com/kirstenkorosec/status/153027887741036544...

Ok, so you admit that not all the concerns turned out to be bullshit created by the Catholic Church, as you originally claimed.

Extremely funny to see this kind of post in the same thread where people are painting the entirety of the Catholic Church with the same brush as pedophile enablers at the Vatican.

One of the children Michael Aquino abused called him out to her parents when she spotted him at a random place in San Francisco, and provided a description of the interior of his house which matched what police found when they went to investigate. Many of the children at the Presidio daycare had physical evidence of abuse, including venereal disease.

Most of Musk's politics posting started after Business Insider contacted him about the $250K hush payment to the flight attendant he had harassed. He was setting the scene to portray the coming reputational firestorm as political ax grinding.

"Satanic Panic" has been a classic deflection mechanism ever since Michael Aquino helped jump start it by going on Oprah's show in the 80s dressed like a goofy vampire. Just a classic fallacy of composition, where if any concerns over Satanism were proven to be overwrought or misplaced, well, they all must be.

Whether black magic actually works or not, there is overwhelming evidence that many elites believe it does and act accordingly.

I'll refrain from detailing the thread too much by delving into the compromised nature of Wikipedia, which, for example, deleted its article on Aquino and redirected it to "Temple of Set."