COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[WLJ]

Somebody did not think this through.

Pretty much

I was also struck as much as anything by the glee with which they try to connect this with Trump.

[kgbsquirrel]

She's not wrong.  I sketched out a Jude star face mask early 2020.

[JTHunter]

Hhmm?
Would that be considered "cultural misappropriation"? 

[Hawkmoon]

New (to me) article about side effects of the vaccines:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vaccine-researcher-admits-big-mistake-says-spike-protein-is-dangerous-toxin

Is this site reliable, or is this a conspiracy theory article?

[MechAg94]

She's not wrong.  I sketched out a Jude star face mask early 2020.

That was my thought as well.  The whole business with vaccine passports and other crap was along the same lines.  It wasn't racial or religious based, but similar political goals to isolate and ostracize a group they don't like. 

[dogmush]

I would say the goals of Liberal browbeating in the current times and Nazi ostracizing of Jews in the 30s and 40s were pretty different.  Folks might want to tone that particular analogy back a bit.

[Ron]

I would say the goals of Liberal browbeating in the current times and Nazi ostracizing of Jews in the 30s and 40s were pretty different.  Folks might want to tone that particular analogy back a bit.

I have to agree with you again, knock it off.

Me, no vax and not a victim.

Other than the run of the mill victimization of being ruled over so poorly by globalist oligarchs I'm doing great!

[MechAg94]

I would say the goals of Liberal browbeating in the current times and Nazi ostracizing of Jews in the 30s and 40s were pretty different.  Folks might want to tone that particular analogy back a bit.

I don't think it is entirely the same, but it is similar leftist thinking.  I question just how many people are actually for that sort of thing outside of the some leftist activists and media.  Twitter and social media can magnify the voice of a few stupid people a lot more than is warranted.  If they are able to actually come close to enacting stuff like that, then we can worry. 

[Ben]

The Washington Post edited the headline of a 15 month old article regarding the virus being a lab leak from "debunked" to "fringe theory". These stealth editing changes of already published documents are some of what I hate most about modern journalism. It's bad enough editing a day later when you're called out, but 15 months back is literally changing history.

If all of the MSM is constantly doing this stealth editing thing, ten years from now people will be reading about how Tom Cotton was blaming a bat at a food market while the MSM uncovered the whole thing in the first month of the pandemic.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/01/washington-post-changes-its-15-month-old-headline-about-sen-tom-cottons-debunked-conspiracy-theory/

[charby]

The Washington Post edited the headline of a 15 month old article regarding the virus being a lab leak from "debunked" to "fringe theory". These stealth editing changes of already published documents are some of what I hate most about modern journalism. It's bad enough editing a day later when you're called out, but 15 months back is literally changing history.

If all of the MSM is constantly doing this stealth editing thing, ten years from now people will be reading about how Tom Cotton was blaming a bat at a food market while the MSM uncovered the whole thing in the first month of the pandemic.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/01/washington-post-changes-its-15-month-old-headline-about-sen-tom-cottons-debunked-conspiracy-theory/

I'm surprised Ronnie Deutch and the other tile crawlers haven't started a class action lawsuit against China.

[WLJ]

They're just keeping an old Soviet tradition

[Perd Hapley]

. It's bad enough editing a day later when you're called out, but 15 months back is literally changing history.

Correct. Newspapers have long been considered a fundamental source for historians.

[WLJ]

Nothing to worry about right?
I'm be in the bunker counting TP rolls

The Associated Press
@AP
The Chinese government says a 41-year-old man has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but that the risk of large-scale spread is low. China's National Health Commission said the man is in stable condition.

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/01/china-says-one-man-has-contracted-the-first-human-case-of-another-zoonotic-virus-but-dont-worry-because-the-risk-of-large-scale-transmission-is-low/

[Cliffh]

Move along - nothing to see here.

Like I'm going to trust anything from the CCCP.

[TommyGunn]

I would say the goals of Liberal browbeating in the current times and Nazi ostracizing of Jews in the 30s and 40s were pretty different.  Folks might want to tone that particular analogy back a bit.

It's a vast difference in degree .... not so much in "kind."

[Ben]

Interesting article on natural immunity.

People who had mild COVID-19 have long-lasting antibody protection, according to a study by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Scientists found that individuals who have recovered from a mild case of COVID-19 have long-lived plasma cells in their bone marrow that secretes low levels of antibodies against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus for possibly a lifetime.

Plasma cells are a type of white blood cells developed from B cells and originate from the bone marrow. They are responsible for producing and secreting antibodies to a specific antigen.

“Last fall, there were reports that antibodies wane quickly after infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, and mainstream media interpreted that to mean that immunity was not long-lived,” said Ali Ellebedy, senior author of the study and an associate professor of pathology & immunology at Washington University.

“But that’s a misinterpretation of the data. It’s normal for antibody levels to go down after acute infection, but they don’t go down to zero; they plateau. Here, we found antibody-producing cells in people 11 months after first symptoms. These cells will live and produce antibodies for the rest of people’s lives. That’s strong evidence for long-lasting immunity,” he added.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/research-suggests-mild-covid-19-illness-leaves-behind-lasting-antibody-protection_3840082.html

Link to the PDF of the study, published last week in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4_reference.pdf

[Bogie]

I dunno - I see the "progressive left" using may of the 1930s/40s German tactics in the PR/Media venues...

[RoadKingLarry]

How about instead of a 6 point star use a 5 point red or white star. Similar symbolism with out quite the direct holocaust connection.
Anyone that isn't seeing the similarities between what the Nazis did to their "undesirables" and how the left is treating their "undesirables" (conservatives, Christians, White people, basically anyone that doesn't agree with them...) is either blind or willfully ignorant. 

[TommyGunn]

How about instead of a 6 point star use a 5 point red or white star. Similar symbolism with out quite the direct holocaust connection.
Anyone that isn't seeing the similarities between what the Nazis did to their "undesirables" and how the left is treating their "undesirables" (conservatives, Christians, White people, basically anyone that doesn't agree with them...) is either blind or willfully ignorant.

It's a vast difference in degree .... not so much in "kind."

 

[Ben]

So I just got back from the Costco in Marysville, 45 miles north of Seattle.  For the first time, I saw a sign at the entrance stating that firearms were prohibited except for law enforcement officers.  Second, they has a mask optional if fully vaccinated sign.  I would say that about 80% of the customers were wearing masks.

I just got back from my Costco where I checked the firearms thing. I think I checked everywhere out front and no signs.

I know I said in my previous post that individual Costcos seem to be in lockstep with their HQ, but maybe that's not so. I talked to a friend a couple of weeks ago and she was at the Boise Costco where they were still enforcing masks. I was at mine at the same time and (like now) there was no mask enforcement.

[JTHunter]

How about instead of a 6 point star use a 5 point red or white star. Similar symbolism with out quite the direct holocaust connection.
Anyone that isn't seeing the similarities between what the Nazis did to their "undesirables" and how the left is treating their "undesirables" (conservatives, Christians, White people, basically anyone that doesn't agree with them...) is either blind or willfully ignorant.

Not a bad idea !
Then you take that 5-pointed star and turn it upside down so the single point is pointing down.  That would leave two points (horns) up. 

[230RN]

What Tommy Gunn said in post 5293:

https://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=61872.msg1307979#msg1307979

I'm looking at a Gewehrnacht, like a Kristallnacht, in my crystal ball.

"Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in."

https://youtu.be/ffI-tWh37UY

Terry, 230RN

REF (Dog-pack psychology):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

[Ben]

A really good and on-point rant, with "receipts" as the kids say, about the media and deep state kiboshing any questioning into the virus being a lab leak and how much of the diversion was practically involuntary TDS reaction:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/03/its-a-sickness-heres-a-great-thread-on-tds-and-vanity-fairs-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-19/

[230RN]

You cannot invade the United States.  There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass  You will have to bankrupt it first.

[ConstitutionCowboy]

You cannot invade the United States. There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass. You have to bankrupt it first.

It seems they are trying very hard to accomplish the latter, but it wont matter as long as we are still armed. 

Woody