Covid Horse Race

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Covid Horse Race

"Moderna takes an early lead" (Forbes) while the general mind-messing continues.

• Two others, Johnson & Johnson JNJ +1.4% (JNJ) and Pfizer (PFE), are "well positioned in the race".

No one seems to know or care that racing can be fatal.

Phys.org: Racing Can Be Fatal

• Training and racing at top speed within a short amount of time and space is a health risk for horses, as it would be for any other species, including humans.

I'm reminded of an old Jane Fonda movie: "They Shoot Horses Don't they?" (IMDB)

It's on YouTube, where a commenter writes: ... 

• "My father in law told me during the depression  scams and cons proliferated in The Apple. He spoke of the dance a thons and said they should have been illegal. He said it was inhuman. After watching this I began to think of the holocaust we were just inches away from permitting that sort of behavior in our country, Perhaps we will always remain just a centimeter away from depravity".

The makers of vaccines are humans in a depraved dead heat for profits, no doubt with overseers cracking some serious whips. In Ontario ...

• "The [racing] industry is committed to using scientific research to mitigate health risks to animals ...

But not to humans:

MEDICAL FASCISM: Australian Prime Minister says everyone will have to get vaccinated for coronavirus, whether they like it or not

Where does an ordinary, elected Prime Minister think he gets off at, talking like that?

• Frank Zappa: "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

OBEY OR ELSE: New England Journal of Medicine says people refusing MANDATORY coronavirus vaccines should be severely punished, locked in their homes and fired from their jobs

Who do these wanna-be tyrants think they are? Especially when some of them can't even put a cogent sentence together ...

Kingston Whig-Standard: Public health clarifies self-isolation rules ... after an original news release resulted in confusion.

• A person who tests positive for COVID-19 now only has to isolate for 10 days rather than 14.
• If a person has symptoms of COVID-19 and they are a close contact of an already positive case, they must self-isolate for  14 days from their last exposure to the positive case .
• If that person decided to get tested and it came back positive, they only have to isolate for 10 days from their symptoms’ onset. If their test came back negative, they would still need to isolate from their last exposure to the positive case and must be symptom-free.
• If a person has symptoms and is waiting for their test results, they have to self-isolate until they receive a negative result and they are symptom-free for 24 hours.
• If a person has no symptoms of COVID-19 and is not a close contact of a positive case but still managed to get tested for it, they do not have to isolate while they wait for their results. Ontario cancelled the majority of asymptomatic testing at the end of September.
• A person without symptoms does have to isolate if they are a close contact of an already positive case. They have to isolate for 14 days from their last exposure to the positive case regardless of their test result.
• The family or roommates of an asymptomatic person who is a close contact of a positive case do not have to isolate. Families and roommates of a close contact with symptoms do have to isolate while that close contact waits for their results.
• Anyone who does not follow the isolation rules can be fined, under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, $5,000 per day. Corporations that breach these laws can be fined $25,000 per day or for part of the day on which the offence occurred.

Machiavelli is not dead!  The only things readily understood are the amounts of the fines.

All of which reminds me of a saying I learned from school chums: Ladies and Gents, I stand before you To tell you something I know nothing about; Next Thursday, being Good Friday, We are holding a women's meeting for men only. Free admission; pay at the door. Pull up a seat and sit on the floor. (Variations on the same theme at Playground Jungle)

The baseless rules are already driving some people out of their minds. Even the reports of confrontations are mind-messing. Read the following and tell me who did the face-punching. Was it the man who confronted the maskless man, or was it the maskless man?

​GlobalNews: Toronto police say they are searching for a man in his early 20s who allegedly punched another man in the face after he confronted him about not wearing a mask.

• Investigators allege a man entered the store without a mask on and was questioned by another man as to why. Police said the suspect then punched the man in the face and broke some of his teeth.

I'm not the only one noticing this. Thank god; it's not just senility settling in:

CTV: Don Martin: Response to second COVID-19 wave puts the 'mess' into messaging

• The testing message changes by the day. Get tested. Stay home. Walk in. Appointments-only. Wait until you have symptoms. Don’t wait because you’re contagious before symptoms surface. Rapid testing is coming in weeks. Nope, it’ll be months.

It's like Netanyahu double-talking about the history of Israel.  Not to change the subject, really, but this feels the same as the Covid swill we're having forced down our throats:

• For decades, all progress was halted and was held hostage to completely unrealistic Palestinian demands, such as the demand that Israel withdraw to the indefensible lines of 1967 and place its security in the hands of others; or the demand that Israel expel tens of thousands of Jews from their homes, effectively committing ethnic cleansing; or the demand that Israel absorb millions of Palestinians who are descendants of refugees from a war that was launched by the Palestinians against Israel more than half a century ago.

He's talking about homes that were taken over by Jews when the Arabs were expelled. The nerve of those Palestinians, having had the gall to want their homes back, and still have it. The key marker of a total narcissist is the ability to deny the naked truth.

He nullifies Palestinian rights by saying they are merely "descendants" of refugees, while favouring Jews who also are descendants of refugees. He's a master of confabulation (a plausible but imagined memory) and proud of it. And he's not the only elected tyrant skilled in messing with people's minds!

JewishVoice for Peace provides a very clear and simple video of the history of the Israel/Palestine Conflict, and a commenter on Bibi's YouTube brag about how Israel controls America reminds us of a famous quote from Albert Einstein:

• 'It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.''

That statement is in dispute, of course, but there's no doubt Einstein signed his name to a letter making that statement, and so did the brilliant and esteemed Hannah Arendt ("Niemand hat das recht zu gehorchen - No one has the right to obey").

To top all of this madness off, I've just discovered that the current Mayor of Kingston Ontario, Brian Patterson, who supports lockdown, including mandatory masking, had some videos of his removed from YouTube, and you'll never guess why.

Not because he fought against draconian dicta, but because of his former leadership activities in a local "church" that claimed to provide the antidote to gayness: "The Third Day Worship Centre" (also discussed on Reddit).  The guy has to be loonier than a bedbug, and he leads Kingston's city council.

Patterson, who used to take his cue from God as represented by his pastor, now takes it from God's other representatives, the dorky Premier of Ontario as directed by God's chosen Federal Minister of Everything, in thrall to the Gates-owned World Health Organization. The Feds, the Province, and the local Mayor -- all of them placing their personal bets on the outcome of the Great Horse Race.

​Patterson was also taken to task by local citizen's group for holding secret council meetings, not open to the public. He did not apologize but instead rationalized that it was sufficient to have presented the gist of those meetings publicly. Doesn't it say in the Bible, "Be sure your gist will find you out"?

Anyway ... I'd like to be heartened by the following crimp in the Gates' plan, but it could actually mean indefinite lockdown:

Bloomberg: The Vaccine Scramble Is Also a Scramble for Patents

• Intellectual-property disputes throughout the drug supply chain could hold back a Covid-19 shot.
• A group of U.S. academics and engineers formed a patent coalition with a similar intent, and Amazon.com, Facebook, Microsoft, and other giants agreed to participate. No pharma companies joined. “Our guess is their position is, ‘Covid-19 is a legitimate market—it could be a big market for us—so why give that up?’ ”

On the brighter side: From RebelNews Oct. 6/20  -- Masks burned as “act of civil disobedience” in Ontario town with zero COVID cases  (Includes Video)

• The individuals question the logic behind government restrictions while trying to educate the public on the difference between health unit “orders” and legislated law.
• Some of their key points have included highlighting the faulty PCR tests and inflated or inaccurate COVID-19 diagnosis numbers, but they’ve also been demanding more accountability from their elected officials. They’ve urged Premier Doug Ford to address “Yahoo Nation” and his voter base… the same base now opposing his intrusive and restrictive measures.
• I was able to catch up with a few members of the public who disagreed with the anti-lockdown protest. Many seemed unable to form concrete opinions aside from wanting to simply wait for the government to tell them how to act, or what to do, next.

No kidding, eh? They don't seem to realize that even obedient sheep are in danger of being run over in the great "Horse Race."

See also: Mask burning in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Here's another WOW! ... SCMP: Vaccine race: ‘unprecedented’ momentum and questions... elderly people, the group most vulnerable to the disease, are less responsive to vaccines. So, would it be worth the potential risks to find a vaccine that may not work for those who need it most?

What about those of us who want it least!  I don't want any vaccine within 2 metres of me!