Covid conspiracy theories now being confirmed

 the claim that that Covid came from a lab leak was believed by ordinary folk (and Trumpieboy) since the start of the epidemic, but any discussion of this was censored in the social media.

But now that MSM and government sites are saying the same thing, does this mean we can discuss this?

and what is the implications to ordinary folk trusting institutions?

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as the discussion notes: everyone knew it, but it was not allowed to be discussed.

part of the problem was how the government tried to censor everything., not just the wuhan lab leak but how society should respond to it shutdown full or partial?

The pesky first amendment stopped them from doing it officially but now we are finding out how government agencies used twitter to do this, making one suspect that other social media sites were also pressured to censor badthink by government agencies.

Questions about the response to the epidemic that was not done but should have been discussed:

 Should we balance the problem of being infected with the need of the elderly to have family visiting? 

Should we allow the use of a medicine with few side effects like HCQ or Ivermectin  or Vitamin D or herbal medicines, or should we remove the medical license of doctors who advise for such use? 

What about the shutdown of society: we face economic depression that  will probably kill people, so should that be limited and how should that be done?  

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the main problem? The federal government worked with the social media to censor alternative theories being discussed. And now that this is being exposed in the twitterfile investigation, the twitter file expose is being ignored by the MSM.

what needs to be discussed now that the pandora's box of silence is being shattered:

One: the coverup of the Wuhan lab leak, and if the US funding of the Wuhan lab was the reason the government health officials went along with the lies.

Two: The implications of the Wuhan lab leak coverup by the WHO. 

Three: The fact that Trumpieboy closed the borders to try to stop it from coming to the USA and was demonized because the WHO and CHina at the time insisted it was not infectious. Were the facts here (racism charges) politicized to destroy Trump?... heck, even now the fact Chna won't let the lab be investigated is blamed on the fact that Trump did this, and made them mad, not because they want to deny they had a lab accident and covered it up to save face. this has geopolitical implications with a China that is becoming more aggressive against East Asian countries. Eight part podcast on this starts here:

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Four: the shut down of society which only now is being recognized as causing more deaths (from other diseases that were not diagnosed or treated properly, from being unemployed, from depression and other social results of isolation). Question: is the despair from social isolation have anything to do with the 100 thousand Fentanyl deaths?

So why wasn't these risks from the shutdown of society allowed to be discussed i.e. the cost benefit ratio, especially as those at high risk received the vaccine (which worked and saved lives), meaning that the risk had gone down? This was especially true as the milder Omicron version started to go around, and probably induced herd immunity.

Five": the suspicion now being pushed that the economic shutdown shows that the public will obey the changes that are needed for the Great Reset. Is there truth in this conspiray theory?

Six: the implications of freedom of speech that can be extended to other matters, such as the censorship of Harry Potter because the author dared to say men and women exists, or the censorship of books (the latest: James Bond, who they just noticed is a male chauvenist pig, duh ). 

Seven: What happens when AI becomes politicized?

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What I worry is that the mistrust of science and government because of the lies, censorship and over reaction will make people sceptical of a really dangerous epidemic: and the worry that Bird flu or a similar disease will break out into a really dangerous epidemic, (probably not says Dr. C):

 

But if bird flu or a similar virus pops up that could  cause an epidemic, the problem is that no one will obey.

and it could have other political implications if those who didn't kowtow to the science or woke push back.

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Not good news for the Democrats. Sigh.

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Update:

History behind Jewel in the Palace

 if you watched the Korean series Jewel in the Palace, it is a fictional version about a woman who became a female physician to the king. here is her real story of Jang Geum:

now available on Amazon prime, but we watched it years ago via a local streaming service. 

She starts out as a cook, so a lot of the stories have food preparation as part of the story, and they stress the link behind diet and health.

but the last third of the very long drama series is about her desire to practice medicine, and how her skills resulted in her becoming one of the physicians who treated the king.

Big Bang Goes Bust?

There are stories out there that galaxies seen by the Webb Telescope mean that the big bang theory may not be true. PhysOrg explains

All of Erica's galaxies look like saucers, except one. I stare at the little red dot on the screen. That is no UFO. And then it hits me: This is something very different. Much more important.

 Read the whole thing.

Summary here: 

scientists are going back to the drawing board to figure out if the observations are true, or if they just have to reconfigure their theories.

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those dangerous Catholics

 

The PC ruin everything

 

Musical Interlude of the day

 

...headsup from Garrison Keillor

Forget the zombies: iRobot is coming

Here in the Philippines we aren't too worried about the modern world, although I must confess we have paying via our phones at the mall and the local McDonalds has a kiosk to order stuff.

So should we worry?

I wonder if this might be behind Musk threatening to remove starlink from the drones attacking Russia.

Now that I am almost over my long Dengue mindcloudiness it looks like I might have to look into this.

Along with a lot of other things on my list.

Musical ilnterlude of the day

 

Heh. the anti war left still lives

 

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of course the censorship of the story is Trumpieboy's fault because he made them mad or something.

Covid origin coverup? You mean China Lies?

Nature Magazine discusses the coverup of the origin of the Covid epidemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has quietly shelved the second phase of its much-anticipated scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing ongoing challenges over attempts to conduct crucial studies in China, Nature has learned....

But without access to China, there is little that the WHO can do to advance the studies, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. “Their hands are really tied.”

the Nature article then goes on to blame Trumpieboy for saying in early 2020 that it came from the Wuhan lab, which they say increased tension between the west and China and that was why China refused or interfered with scientific investigation

The original investigation said it probably wasn't a lab leak without mentioning that China was stonewalling the investigation so that they really didn't investigate it's origin. So the follow up investigation never really happened because China refused to let them investigate.

Gerald Keusch, associate director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Institute at Boston University in Massachusetts, says the origins investigation was “poorly handled by the global community. It was poorly handled by China. It was poorly handled by the WHO.” The WHO should have been relentless in creating a positive working relationship with the Chinese authorities, says Keusch; if it was being stonewalled, it should have been honest about that.

Translation:  it was Trump's fault for making them mad by saying it was probably a lab leak: something that everyone but the experts figured out by then, and Trump was essentially the boy who dared to say the Emperor has no clothes.

 The problem about the wet market origin has a problem because the virus hasn't been found in wild animals, which is what you would see if it was a natural outbreak that originated in animals. And China stopping the investigation made it impossible to prove it came from the lab.

 Dr C comments:

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Now they came for the BFG

 someone in a podcast was saying that one needs to collect paper books, not ebooks, to preserve the book before the censors destroy them.

I thought that sounded a bit paranoid but now I am reading that someone decided to censor Ronald Dahl's children's books to make them politically correct and not hurt the feelings of the kids.

AnnAlthouse has examples... 

'I’d knock her flat' becomes the much more diplomatic 'I’d give her a right talking to,' for instance." "'You saucy beast!' becomes 'You trickster!'

 Best comment to her blogpost:

J L Oliver said...

The queen has declared, “Let them read about sex acts and gender unicorns! But save them from the saucy beast!”

This is on top of censoring Dr. Seuss for racism.

so wait till they come for Shakespeare. Oh someone already has.

Mr Bowdler, as in Bowdlerism:

verb (used with object),

to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

So even in those days, there were Karens willing to censor stuff they did not approve of.

Or maybe I should say Henriettas. From the ChapelHillBookBlog:

in his book, Dr. Bowdler’s Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America, Noel Perrin convincingly argues that the 1807 edition was actually edited by Thomas’s sister, Henrietta Bowdler (1750-1830), whose name was omitted from the title page.

By the time the first edition of The Family Shakespeare appeared, Henrietta was already a published author and a well-known bluestocking. Perrin estimates that Henrietta excised about ten percent of Shakespeare’s words, taking special care to eliminate any hint of religious irreverence.

yes. the more things change the more they stay the same.

cartoon by Dahl 

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Update: it's worse in the UK where an anti terrorism taxpayer funded group has a list of bad books:

From the

UKMail:

Yes Minister and The Thick of It were among the satire programmes flagged by beleaguered counter-terror Prevent scheme for 'encouraging far-right sympathies'

And now they came for comedies like Yes Minister, and classics like Shakespeare, the Lord of the Rings, 1984,Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson, Kipling and Edmund Burke. 

 The report even highlighted the BBC’s 1990s political thriller House Of Cards, John le Carre’s seminal spy trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Sharpe, the ITV drama set in the Napoleonic wars.

Other books, shows and films on list Beowulf The Canterbury Tales The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Paradise Lost The Four Feathers Lady Hamilton The Dam Busters The Bridge On The River Kwai The Great Escape Zulu Civilisation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy House Of Cards Trilogy Sharpe Ray Mears’ Bushcraft Survival David Starkey’s Monarchy.

It said the works of fiction were ‘key texts’ for ‘white nationalists/supremacists’.

Like these two:

 

 headsup Instapundit.

Puppies

 three months old and here, people take them home as soon as they are weaned, so two have been taken and another two will go later this week.

Alas, one seems to have partial paralysis of his hind legs, but can scoot across our tile floors okay, but we will probably have to keep him. 

Now JFK is a bigoted enemy of the state

 As I wrote in an earlier post: Christians have indeed started rebellions against the state when the state persecuted them and shut down their churches.

Which is why the FBI memo against Trad Catholics is so worrisome. Yes, there are a few out there who are crazy, but hey, don't we all have crazy uncles who believe such stuff? And calling everyone in the family, or who follow a certain religious tradition, similarly conspiracy theorists/enemies of the state is worse than wrong: It is stupid, because it makes one think that maybe crazy Uncle Joe might be a bit right.

Another problem? The FBI could infiltrate these groups and try to inspire violence, again to discredit the group.

Indeed, already the Catholic bishops defended the FBI 

“Let me first be clear: anyone who espouses racism or promotes violence is rejecting Catholic teaching on the inherent dignity of each and every person.

This in itself if troubling, because Racism and the promotion of (physical) violence is almost absent from the Trad sites I view.

 There are websites who oppose the NWO and use anti Semetic language to criticize ethnic non believing Jews pushing the NWO's ideas. This needs to be criticized, but racism per se is absent.

However, in a time when JKRowling has been accused of bigotry and inspiring violnce for saying women are women and men are men, it is easly to pretend that saying the modern equivalent of "but it does move" when traditional Catholics write about the Christian ideas of sexuality and family: something that the PC insists is a form of violence that needs to be censored.

It has been said that Catholic law is strict, but God's mercy is larger, so there is a toleration for sinful behavior in Catholicism, since we are all sinners who need to repent. 

Take the Philippines, where I live. Filipinos are often called "gay friendly", meaning that hey if a person is gay, or trans, or likes to cross dress, or has a second wife on the side, well, no big problem. 

Just like Americans accepting our crazy Uncle Joes who think Roosevelt was Jewish or that UFO lizard people run the world, they are accepted as part of the family and we love them even when we don't agree with their views or lifestyle.

That is what being a Catholic means.

But this doesn't mean staying quiet when groups funded by people planning to destroy the family pushing the gender stuff on our kids in school, and letting boys claiming to be trans rape one's daughter in the restroom, and then having the FBI sicced on you for daring to say this.

In the USA, anti Catholic bigotry is the norm, because too many read the anti Catholic screeds of the reformation pushers and believe them.

Which is why JFK openly confronted this prejudice in his speech to a group of ministers in Texas:

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because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected President, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured--perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again--not what kind of church I believe in, for that should be important only to me--but what kind of America I believe in. 

 I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute--where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote...

and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him. 

....For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew--or a Quaker--or a Unitarian--or a Baptist. 

It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim- -but tomorrow it may be you--until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Ordinary Americans would say that this idea of separation of church and state should be the norm, and his words should be remembered.

However, in these days that is not true:

Politico in 2020 lamented the speech. 

After telling the story of how JFK had to face open bigotry and lies against the Catholic church and Catholic believers, the magazine didn't stop there.

The article goes on to lament that this speech "marginalized" religion and led to the Christian right movement in the Republican party.

This completely misunderstand Catholicism and how Catholics show their beliefs.

When JFK had his brother quietly arrange Martin Luther King be left out of a jail where his life was in danger, he did not give a "Jesus" speech to show off his piety: He just quietly did this.

And his Catholicism inspired his compassion for the coalminers of West Virginia, the need for decent schools in the slums of the large cities, and the need for a social welfare policy to prevent severe poverty that was a major problem in cities and rural areas alike.

Catholicism was behind both his distrust of communism and communist propaganda, but also inspired his non violent response to the Cuban missile crisis, and behind his reaching out to Russia to make peace afterward.

That is how Catholics (and many other Christians) do it. 

 They don't quote the bible like the Religious right, and they don't demonstrate and show off their piety as a SJW on the left. 

They just quietly work to fix things: sending a neighbor in need food when they are sick, offering to work at the food bank on their day off from work, homeschooling their kids and the kids of their neighbors.

Picketing abortion mills is done by such people, because they want to show there mothers that there is an alternative to the decision that many chose from family pressure or from despair. 

But what doesn't get publicity is the many taking into their homes a teenage girl who wants to keep her baby but needs a place to stay and someone to help her learn how to care for an infant.

The problem is that nowadays, any believer who openly claims they follow the beliefs of their religion and dare to publish it on the social media, are not just going to be called Hitler by the twitersphere mob, but could be in real trouble of losing their job for not bowing to the woke.

and that is the implications behind this notorious memo.

War opposition means give peace a chance.

 Many years ago, as a kid I read an interview with JFK that included a question about the Women strike for Peace which was essentially a pro communist group.

I was astonished to read JFK said he was happy that this group was out there, because it helped counter the pressure on him by the warmongers in the Pentagon who pressured him to make war.

Which is why, although I don't believe the JFK conspiracy theories, sometimes I do wonder.... so why are the documents released a couple months ago still have redacted areas?

Similarly, I supported the War in VietNam because as a Catholic we were aware of the massacres by the communists in North VietNam, and believed that a corrupt government that was a bit of a tyranny a bit better than a murderous totalitarian one, which is what happened after the US left. But the lies on both sides resulted in the debacle that led to the Chinese ethnics fleeing on boats and a lot of people dead in retraining camps, and even a man made famine that made the Vietnamese leaders decide communism might not work.

So here we have Jordan Peterson and Tulsi Gabbard discussing the war in the Ukraine. 

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then we have Elon Musk, who gave them Starlink to defend themselve against the Russian invasion (at a time when most of the western countries figured that Ukraine would fall in a week, so dithered about helping them).

Musk says he plans to stop Starlink from being available to send drones to be aggressive against the Russians. The news reports are vague, and the twittersphere is going nuts calling him Hitler, but I suspect his is trying to stop escalation of the war with drones that could attack the Russian mainland.

as a result, the twittersphrere is full of talking parrots calling him Hitler because he won't toe the line.

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But Musk is on record at stopping the war and making peace by letting Russian keep the areas of the Ukraine that are full of Russians, or the Crimea, which actually used to belong to the Ottoman empire, and long has supplied grain to the Middle East.

So Turkey, a member of NATO, also would like to make peace, but never mind.

and now with the earthquake destroying part of Turkey and Syria, spending money to continue a war that is spending money on destruction when money for emergency help is needed.

There is going to be a man made famine in the next year: because of the war on fossil fuel will make food more expensive, and the war on the Russians in the Ukraine is making potash and natural gas more expensive, not to mention slowing the export of grain to the middle East.

So who is saying give peace a chance?

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they catch hell from both sides.

It wasn't a request: It was official government censorship

 

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