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By Ajax The Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

THE VERDICT IS IN:  FREEDOM WINS!

We had already noted that Sweden was thoroughly vindicated for eschewing lockdowns, masks, and overall stringency during the pandemic.  Just like Belarus, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and even Brazil did similar to or better than their stricter neighbors in terms of cumulative all cause deaths as well.  

"But America is different!" the lockdown zealots speciously claim.  We are somehow too affluent, too spoiled, too poor, too unequal, too racist, too diverse, too multicultural, too fractured, too lazy, too workaholic, too unhealthy, too coddled, too independent, too dependent, too immature, too precocious, too low-trust, too credulous, too individualistic, too herd mentality, too smart for our own good, too stupid, too educated, too uneducated, too fragile, too many problems already, too (insert favorite adjective here, the more contradictory the better) to be able to even compare ourselves to other countries, let alone copy even in part what the world's few remaining free countries did without disastrous consequences resulting.  Or something. 

Of course, in this country, twelve US states (nearly a quarter of all states) basically eschewed lockdowns as well, most famously South Dakota, and several additional states were either much less stringent than the national average and/or only locked down briefly before opening up and lifting restrictions fairly quickly, most famously Florida, Georgia, and Texas.

And yet, now a new 50-state study finds that among US states and DC, less stringent states were not significantly different from more stringent ones in terms of health outcomes, but they did do significantly better on economic outcomes and education outcomes as well as overall outcomes.  For example, when adjusted for age and pre-existing conditions, Florida and California (with polar opposite policies) ended up being within error bounds of each other and the national average in terms of death rates.  And as we have noted earlier, this was not the only American study that arrived at similar (if not even more damning) conclusions either, namely that lockdowns and related restrictions were essentially all pain and no gain.  Thus it looks like freedom wins hands down, both in the USA as well as abroad. 

Let America be America again!

UPDATE:  Yet another international study found that not only were lockdowns, overall stringency, and jabs associated with higher death rates, but also HCQ and IVM were associated with lower death rates, just as the late Dr. Vladimir Zev Zelenko famously predicted back in 2020.  In a world of Lysenkos, be a Zelenko.

ARE THEY ALREADY TELEGRAPHING THE NEXT PLANDEMIC?

You know the Covid pandemic is effectively over (i.e. now endemic) when the fearmongering MSM is already moving on to the next (theoretical) pandemic....or is that plandemic?

In recent days, there have been several articles in the MSM about bird flu (H5N1 avian influenza, to be precise) now seemingly infecting mammals as well as birds, and how this may some day soon result in it jumping to humans and perhaps causing a pandemic.  There was recently an outbreak at a mink farm (remind me again why we are still "farming" minks in 2023?) in which there was likely mink to mink transmission, which has some scientists nervous now.  There have been some wild mammals catching it sporadically, such as otters and foxes, but those were most likely isolated instances in which they caught it from wild birds, which many wild mammals eat.

H5N1 bird flu appears to have originated decades ago on poultry farms, particularly in China, from where it eventually spread to wild birds.  The conditions there are often quite deplorable, and provide the perfect petri dish for incubating viruses.  There are many strains, and the deadliest strain appears to have a 50% fatality rate* when humans (rarely) catch it from the infected birds they work with.  Of course, even if it does at some point make the jump to human to human transmission, that does not necessarily mean it will retain its lethality, nor does it mean it will become contagious enough to cause a pandemic.

Of course, the oligarchs and their lackeys  may very well make it happen with "gain of function" (i.e. gain of lethality and/or contagion) research for the next plandemic.  We don't always know for sure what they are up to, but if it does become the next plandemic, remember that they telegraphed the idea well in advance, as they usually tend to do.

And whether it is natural origin, lab origin, accidental, deliberately, or hoax, keep the following things in mind about any respiratory virus pandemic:

1. Lockdowns don't work
2. Masks don't work
3. Most NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions), including but not limited to school closures, don't work for very long or very well at all
4. "Flatten the curve" usually does NOT reduce the number of cases or deaths in the long run, and merely drags them out for longer by delaying the inevitable 
5. The best time to prepare hospitals is always yesterday. "Clearing the decks" by cancelling "non-essential" procedures for prolonged periods is an absolute last resort, and doing it when there is no immediate local need for it does far more harm than good
6. ALL workers are essential workers
7. Panic always backfires.  Keep calm and carry on.
8. Vaccines nearly always come far too late and/or take far too long to work
9. Hastily-made vaccines of any type are generally a risky proposition
10. Novel experimental mRNA or other gene therapy "vaccines" are particularly risky, and are unlikely to have a NET favorable effect, when adverse effects are taken into account
11. "Leaky" vaccines (i.e. every single flu and Covid vaccine to date) do NOT stop transmission of the virus, have ZERO justification to mandate or coerce people to get them, and over-vaccinating a population with those can in fact backfire mightily 
12. Early antiviral treatment and prophylaxis are the best bet.  Repurposing generics makes far more sense than waiting for a new and patented "miracle cure" from Big Pharma while the bodies pile up
13. Don't forget to take your vitamins, especially Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc. And also Thiamine and Niacin.
14. Ventilate, ventilate, ventilate indoor air
15. Slopes are MUCH slipperier than they appear
16. Never surrender your right to be with the people you love.  Like, ever.
17. Once you give up your civil rights, even temporarily, it is VERY hard if not impossible to get them back.  Power concedes NOTHING without a fight!

Every single one of the above truths was ultimately learned the hard way.  And God willing, may we never have to learn the hard way again.  Like, ever.

*NOTE:  The bandied-about 50% fatality rate is the case fatality rate (CFR) for the tiny number of known human cases caught from birds over the years, based on the most pathogenic strains of H5N1.  The infection fatality rate (IFR), however, remains unknown and could perhaps be as much as tenfold lower.  But even then, that would put it at "only" two to three times deadlier than the infamous 1918 pandemic flu.  Of course, if it ever, God forbid, becomes contagious enough to sustain human to human transmission with an R value greater than 1, the CFR and IFR may very well drop further.  But as we have seen with Covid, if the R value is high enough, it does not really need to have a very high IFR or CFR to get a considerably "high score" in terms of total deaths.  SARS-2 was a much less deadly virus than the original SARS-1, but more contagious and much more subtle and thus much harder to contain, so the former had a much higher death toll than the latter, which was too "hot" and thus very easily contained.  And MERS ("camel flu") was an even deadlier coronavirus still in terms of IFR and CFR, rivaling or exceeding bird flu, but fortunately it was not very contagious among humans, so it was a flash in the pan.

STOP OR PREVENT TINNITUS!

 

STOP OR PREVENT TINNITUS!

They gave 17 remedies for tinnitus, & it works in the most awful of cases, much worse than mine, where this guy went so insane from it he was pounding the wall & they had to take him to the psyche ward.  And he did the research in this video, to create the remedy.  I know it's a commercial, so all of that I take with a grain of salt.  But yet, I think it's true.

He said that tinnitus is not in the ear, it's in the brain.  An experiment they did in 1950 on DEAF PEOPLE who had tinnitus.  They cut the nerve that is directly to the ear but they still had it!  It's a different nerve, IN THE BRAIN not the ear.  I told my friends that - It feels like my brain, not my ear!

He says he worked in secret with a doc who worked for the military.  They solved it but would not give it to the public.  Because it would hurt the pharma industry.  But he gave him the remedies secretly & as I said, there's a list of 17 vitamins - many I never heard of - plus ASPARAGUS.

I will here list the vitamins & herbs I have on hand, plus asparagus you can get easily.  Here they are.  On top will be two of the vits Pete urged me to take for eyestrain!:

Vitamins A & all the B's - niacin - zinc - L-tyrosine, {I have these already}

Herbs:  Maca, ginger, ashwagandha {I have these already & will take them daily to heal any damage caused by the tinnitus & prevent future occurrences}

There are other herbs I will write about later, most I never heard of.  Must do research where to get them.  Will check on Swanson {Fargo, ND} & Pacific Botanicals {Oregon}.

It seems tinnitus is from the COCHLEAR nerve, not the ear.  You can look this up.

Here is the video - I can't figure how to upload this technically but this is the best I can do.  It's called: 

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Emma Fletcher, Ph.D., Healthy Guru

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By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

CASE CLOSED:  MASKS DON'T WORK

A major new gold standard Cochrane review study has come to a conclusion that only the utterly brainwashed would consider at all shocking at this point:  masks don't really work to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.  Never did, and never will.  Not even the vaunted N95.  Handwashing is likely modestly effective, but masks are basically a joke overall, and not a very funny one either.

This concurs with over a century of research that came out overwhelmingly in support of the anti-mask side of the debate.  In fact, by 1919 it was practically settled science that these devices aren't anywhere near what they were cracked up to be, a consensus which prevailed until March 2020.  Then the pandemic narrative took over and turned the science upside down for nearly three years straight, while any studies were to the contrary were systematically file-drawered for far longer than those supporting the narrative.  And now the entire pandemic narrative has collapsed faster than formerly healthy young athletes on the field after being jabbed.

We recently noted how the ever-insightful Ian Miller has so thoroughly debunked, deboned, sliced, diced, and julienned the pro-mask arguments, and laid waste to their utterly scorched remains for good.  And be sure check out the excellent Fargo study from Josh Stevenson et al. about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet, with the very least biases or confounding.  Spoiler alert:  masks STILL don't work.  Not for kids, not for adults, not for no one.

Oh, and let's not forget the dreaded Foegen Effect as well.  And other harms as well, see here.  That literally makes masks WORSE than useless.  Jettison them!

To the anti-mask side:  you are now hereby overwhelmingly vindicated, and really always have been in fact.  You have literally passed the biggest functional IQ test in all of modern history.  To the pro-mask side:  we are still waiting for you to apologize.  Yesterday.  And to those who switched jerseys anytime after February 2022 (that is, only when it became socially acceptable to do so), you are fooling no one.

QED

UPDATE:  Some may pedantically point out that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", therefore "no one can really say" that masks don't work.  True, you cannot (definitively) prove a negative.  But given the totality of the research and real-world evidence, it would be slothful induction (if not magical thinking as well) to still believe that masks have any sort of net benefit at all. If they did have a net benefit, it would have been self-evident long ago.  We need to see the forest for the trees.

"But...but...they worked in Japan!" See here for a good debunking of that myth as well.

And in case the pro-masker zealots pathetically trot out the fatally flawed Boston school mask study in desperation, rest assured that Ian Miller has successfully laid waste to that one as well.  And so has the ever-insightful Emily Burns, as well as Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, one of the authors of the Fargo study. 

AND THE VERY BEST COVID (AND FLU) "VACCINE" IS....VITAMIN D!

According to a new meta-analysis of gold standard randomized controlled trials (RCTs), Vitamin D cuts the risk of death from Covid in HALF (51%) and reduces the risk of ICU admission by nearly three-fourths (72%).  This is quite impressive, and as we know, certainly works way better than what any of the Covid jabs out there have to offer (beyond the first few weeks or months or so, after which jab efficacy turns negative), not to mention without all of those nasty side effects like fever, chills, blood clots, stroke, heart attack, sudden death, and runny nose.

(Note that it also seems to outperform the seasonal flu vaccines as well, which are even weaker and leakier.)

So why isn't this front page news?  Scratch that, why wasn't it front page news at the very beginning of the pandemic, as I'm sure there were some studies being conducted, and the benefits of Vitamin D were already well-known for the common cold and flu, giving it further biological plausibility.  We know exactly why:  1) there is no profit in Vitamin D or any other vitamins or nutrients, and 2) the powers that be had a pandemic narrative to maintain, for power and control.  A narrative that they were apparently willing to sacrifice literally millions of lives worldwide to maintain, including over a million Americans.

In fact, as we previously noted in an earlier article, a Bangladesh study found that just three nutrients (Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc) would have been enough to reduce significant case and death rates to below-pandemic levels, thus defanging the pandemic while allowing natural herd immunity to develop.  No lockdowns, masks, antisocial distancing, NPIs, or jabs needed.  Let that sink in for a moment. 

And that's BEFORE we get into the widespread censorship of HCQ, Ivermectin, budesonide inhalers, and stuff like that which had plenty of evidence in its favor.  Ditto for antibiotics like azithromycin and doxycycline for secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was responsible for an unknown (but likely very high) percentage of "Covid" pneumonia deaths.

And let's not forget turmeric, resveratrol, fisetin, quercetin, NAC, thiamine, and niacin as well.  And also nasal sprays like Xlear, and mouthwashes as well.  All of which either censored or pooh-poohed.

How will the purveyors of the official narrative ever live this down?

P.S.  Don't forget the complementary Vitamin K2 along with the Vitamin D3 as well.

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 By Ajax The Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

INFLATION IS DEAD, LONG LIVE DEFLATION!

If you did a double-take reading that headline, you're not alone.  As strange as it may sound, inflation has already been beaten for the most part, and now the underlying trend has shifted in the opposite direction.  First, the second derivative of price level (with respect to time) has turned negative many months ago, then the first derivative turned negative on a monthly basis more recently in December.  Inflation has apparently peaked in June 2022.  And consumer demand has been falling for many months now as well.  While we had two consecutive quarters of real GDP growth following two consecutive quarters of real GDP shrinking, we are still not out of the woods for a potential recession in 2023 either.  There is always a lag before the actual effects of monetary policy kicks in, usually at least two quarters, sometimes as long as four quarters.

The M2 money supply literally shrank for the first time since 1960 as well in 2022, albeit following an unprecedentedly high growth rate in 2020-2021.  Usually a shrinking money supply does NOT bode very well for the economy.  And that is a result of both fiscal and monetary tightening in 2022.

And while the labor market remains "tight", there is no real "wage-price spiral", and never was in recent years, since while wages rose, they rose less quickly than prices did overall.  Thus, no spiral happened. 

And while China's reopening will stoke pent-up demand for goods and services globally, which is inflationary, that same reopening will un-snarl any remaining snarls in the global supply chains, which is disinflationary, especially now that their "exit wave" of the virus has finally peaked and fallen.

After all, as we have noted before, the REAL root cause of the recent inflationary episode was the repeated and protracted global supply chain disruptions caused by the lockdowns and shutdowns, which of course greatly shrank supply of many goods and services.  And the unprecedented levels of money printing to paper over the predictable consequences, which (upon reopening in the West) stoked demand for goods and services at the same time that supply remained reduced, was like gasoline on the fire, worsening the supply-demand mismatch.  Of course, without printing all that money, and/or without eventually reopening, there would have been a full-blown Greatest Depression, and the architects of the lockdowns and shutdowns would have all been sent to the guillotine within a matter of weeks.

(The Russia-Ukraine war clearly didn't help, as both the war and the sanctions created artificial scarcity of oil and gas, but the general inflationary pressures were of course already there before the war began.)

Honestly, had the entire world simply "adopted the flu strategy" from the start of the pandemic, the supply chain disruptions and other economic effects would really not have been any worse than the 1957-1958 or 1968-1969 flu pandemics.  (Yes, you read that right:  we literally had WOODSTOCK in the middle of a pandemic!)  And while some fiscal and monetary stimulus would probably have been necessary, it would have been only a fraction of what was done.

It's not like the FERAL Reserve can actually do anything about supply chains anyway.  Hiking interest rates and/or shrinking the money supply can obviously quash demand, of course, but does absolutely zilch about the underlying cause of the inflation, which turned out to be largely transitory.

Thus, all signs strongly imply that the FERAL Reserve needs to stand down and stop QT and stop hiking interest rates, and start cutting them yesterday.  Seriously.  But given their tendency to overcorrect, they probably will do so in that regard.  And given how deflation is more harmful than inflation, they need to answer the "clue phone" before it's too late!

And Congress may even need to get a new round of stimulus checks ready as well, since they may be needed sooner rather than later to cure an incipient deflationary spiral.  And of course, they need to stop playing "chicken" with the debt ceiling yesterday!

UPDATE:  And now that the FERAL Reserve raised rates yet again, the above applies a fortiori now.

DON'T DO "THE VOLCKER" AGAIN!

As the FERAL Reserve is still committed to raising interest rates no matter the cost, even if it means deliberately engineering a recession, in an attempt to quash the worst inflation in 40 years, we would like to warn them as follows:

Stand. Down. NOW.  And prepare to reverse course a full 180 degrees, and soon.  Especially since the latest figures show that prices actually FELL slightly in December.  And with a looming recession all but certain now, they should be CUTTING rates now.

And the same goes for their Quantitative Tightening (QT) as well, which of course amplifies the effect of raising interest rates by literally sucking money out of the economy, thus shrinking the money supply.  And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that, since there is exponentially more debt in the overall economy in 2022 compared with 1982, even a fairly modest increase in interest rates can have a much larger adverse effect now compared to back then.

Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman, (in)famously raised interest rates as high as 20% in the early 1980s, and it technically "worked" to quash inflation.  But it came at a terrible price:  not only a pair of really bad recessions with millions of jobs lost, but the resulting damage also inflicted serious sequelae upon the broader working class that persist to this day as well, both in the USA as well as abroad.  The first time, one could say it was naive at best.  Doing "The Volcker" a second time, however, would be downright stupid, if not utterly malicious, narcissistic, and even sadistic.

And the USA was actually one of the luckier countries.  Canada, for example, set interest rates even higher still, and kept them higher for longer than the USA, and they got even higher and more persistent unemployment as result, and inflation persisted longer as well.  It was a complete lose-lose proposition for them.  So don't do it again!

As the old adage goes, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.  And this particular tool is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, or burning down the house to roast a pig.  And worse, it is fundamentally the wrong tool for the job.  Most inflations, including this one especially, are caused by shortages of goods and services.  The only real cure is to solve the shortages, something higher interest rates simply cannot do no matter HOW high they are (at best it reduces demand and squeezes "inflationary psychology" out the system, and at worst it simply exacerbates the "cost-push" side of inflation when kept too high for too long).

And Rodger Malcolm Mitchell notes that governments can easily solve shortages by purchasing at a premium whatever goods or services happen to be in short supply, which incentives production, and then re-selling them (or giving them away) at a loss.  Higher interest rates do absolutely zilch for that.

Of course, we would not have gotten into this situation had our "leaders" not imposed  lockdowns in a futile attempt to control an airborne respiratory virus, and then tried to paper over the inevitable and predictable consequences by printing ludicrous and unprecedented amounts of money that overwhelmingly went toward further enriching the already ultra-rich.  Had we instead adopted the time-tested "flu strategy" from the get-go, with or without a more moderate stimulus package for We the People, we would not have gotten in this predicament in the first place.  Yes, there may have been some leftover problems in the bond markets and especially the repo market from 2019, and the virus would have been somewhat disruptive to the economy, (like the 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics), but nothing even in the same league as what happened with lockdowns.  And from what we have learned the hard way, death rates would have been about the same or even lower.

(No really, cumulative excess all-cause death rates for countries, states, and communities that largely ignored the virus, or at least eschewed lockdowns and more-restrictive NPIs, were actually within error bounds or even lower than for their much stricter neighbors or national/regional averages.)

When you try to "burn the village to save it", eventually the village will return the favor.  It is simply the law of cause and effect, also known as karma.  Sooner or later, you always reap what you sow.  And as the saying goes, hindsight is quite literally 2020.  Will the Fed answer the "clue phone"?

BONUS POINTS:  The Brownstone Institute has an excellent article discussing how the combination of lockdowns and the aftermath (forced massive supply crunch) + stimulus (massive demand boost), followed by the Russia-Ukraine war and sanctions, unleashed the worst inflation in 40 years.  You mean you can't just paper over a massive supply crunch with more demand?  And that war and sanctions are both negative-sum games in which everyone loses to one degree or another?  Gee, who woulda thunk it?

The money supply has been shrinking at a record pace in recent months, thanks to the FERAL Reserve's Quantitative Tightening.  Usually a shrinking money supply portends recession, historically speaking. 

Of course, the other elephant in the room is corporate greed.  They ultra-rich and mega-corporations are taking in record profits, so it is not simply that they are passing higher costs of doing business onto the customers.  An excess profits tax would be the best way to curtail this sort of inflation, as would a one-off wealth tax on the very richest folks, much like several countries did after WWII.  Keep in mind that Trump himself actually proposed such a wealth tax back in 1999, and not a trivial one either, so the MAGA crowd would be truly hypocritical to oppose it.

FEBRUARY UPDATE:  At this point, it looks like inflation has been largely beaten, and the more looming threat is deflation (see other article above).