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Saturday, June 17. 2023

Biden Announces By 2025 All Wildfires Must Be Electric

Gen Z, Millennials lazier workers than Gen X and Boomers: study

Chronicle on shoddy data

A brand new study from the Cleveland Clinic is out. And it found something we already knew: Covid vaccines increase the chances of getting Covid instead of being protective.

Medicine and politics don't mix. Well Mrs. BD and I were dutiful about vaccines (so we could travel). She had a bad case, I never had any problem. Anecdotal.

Canceled professor got $500,000 payout after forced resignation from medical journal

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

Elon Musk hires 'profoundly gifted' 14-year-old to work on satellite team at SpaceX as 'youngest employed software engineer on the planet'

Cool. What about child labor laws?

Inside the war tearing psychoanalysis apart: 'The most hatred I’ve ever witnessed'

Medicine and politics don't mix

Dem Expert Witness Couldn’t Cite Evidence of Benefits of Trans Procedures for Children

Politicians In Our Major Cities Have Decided The Solution To The Crime Wave Is To Help Criminals Commit More Crimes

Empty Stadium as LA Dodgers Honor Anti-Catholic Group 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' Amid Protests

Duh

Why We Find Ourselves Unable to Look Away From the Hysterical News Cycle/There’s absolutely nothing we can do about these news events, anyway.

I do not use a TV

Do Not Underestimate Russia’s Resolve

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COVID vaccination sharply reduces the probability of severe disease or death from COVID.

QUOTE:

New Cleveland Clinic Study Confirms Negative Efficacy of Covid Vaccine: Boosted 33% MORE Likely to Get Covid

Well, no. The study shows a correlation between vaccination and positive tests for COVID, but not causation. As the lead author of the study, Nabin K. Shrestha, said, “a study like this, one study, is not going to prove any cause-effect relationship.” There are a number of possible confounding factors, including that people who don't get vaccinated are less likely to get tested.

#1 Zachriel on 2023-06-17 09:00 (Reply)

do the covid tests differentiate between the virus and the vaccine covid spike? How do the tests work? checking for the virus protein? or the actual organism itself?
Does the Spike give the test a false positive?
I have never seen that question asked or answered.

#1.1 Jan Peter Blickenstaff on 2023-06-17 14:14 (Reply)

Jan Peter Blickenstaff: do the covid tests differentiate between the virus and the vaccine covid spike?

There are different tests. Rapid antigen tests use antibodies to detect surface proteins on the virus, usually a nucleocapsid protein, but some detect the spike protein. PCR tests for specific sequences of RNA, the genetic material of the virus. PCR is the most accurate method, but it usually requires a few days.

Jan Peter Blickenstaff: Does the Spike give the test a false positive?

All modern tests have a very low false positive rate. False positives can be due to laboratory error or occasionally due to some viral residue after a recent infection that has already cleared. False negatives are more common, especially with the rapid antigen tests, which only work when there is sufficient virus in the sample

#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-06-17 14:53 (Reply)

I have yet to see any coherent rebuttal of this paper updated from January 2022 – no doubt for the usual reason, to engage may discourage uptake of the jab.
-- A commentor

Perhaps the Quibble-DickZ or rather ChatGPT could supply one.

#1.2 Zachinoff on 2023-06-17 17:30 (Reply)

Russia's resolve?
The former CCCP lost 27 million during WWII.
The sports team from L.A. is no more, destroyed by WOKE as another scalp is collected in the Long March.
Klaus orders all corporations to tow the ESG/Globohomo line or else.
The hysterical news cycle is Clown World laugh out loud as only those who let someone else drive their brain still watch.
I'll overhear it as family views and it is fun to pick out the mental gymnastics and contradictions.
Electro gadgets have destroyed attention spans and most of the society is always up to an escape from reality.
Can you blame them?

#2 Harrison Bergeron on 2023-06-17 10:04 (Reply)

Psychoanalysis is not medicine.

#3 JustMe on 2023-06-17 10:04 (Reply)

"There are a number of possible confounding factors, including that people who don't get vaccinated are less likely to get tested."

The study and the article literally dismantle this exact point with evidence. There's no way you read it.

#4 eeyore on 2023-06-17 10:51 (Reply)

eeyore: The study and the article literally dismantle this exact point with evidence.

The study did not include at-home testing, which may have skewed the results.

There is a possible mechanism. Those who were not vaccinated were more likely to contract pre-Delta COVID. It may be that actual infection provides a stronger immune protection against Delta than pre-Delta immunization. (This is still an open question.) If so, then we might expect a higher rate of infection with Delta in those who have been immunized but never infected, but with much reduced symptoms for an initial infection. However, keep in mind that immunization significantly reduces the probability of hospitalization or death from an initial infection of COVID. Consequently, infection is not a substitute for vaccination.

Of note, the lead author says the paper doesn't prove causation.

#4.1 Zachriel on 2023-06-17 11:42 (Reply)

If all the raindrops were gumdrop and lollipops, oh what a rain that would be!!

Sorry, the article and data were more convincing than you are.

But hey, you just keep taking the 'vaccine,' no one is objecting to that.

#4.1.1 eeyore on 2023-06-17 12:38 (Reply)

eeyore: Sorry, the article and data were more convincing than you are.

We were referring to the paper and the data. We noted confounding factors. Contrary to the article, the lead author of the paper even states that they don't prove causation. He also noted that the vaccines have saved a lot of lives.

#4.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-06-17 13:18 (Reply)

More ChatGPT nonsense courtesy of the Quibble-DickZ.

#4.1.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-06-17 17:07 (Reply)

The article on the Russians is correct. Their resolve - especially when attacked - should not be underestimated. The Russians have a collective memory like an elephant, because it's the only thing in life the Soviet State couldn't tamper with. The longer the Ukrainian conflict goes, and the more incursions the Ukrainians conduct behind lines, the more the Russians will consolidate behind their leader.

The politicized mandate to fight a foreign war because 'Russia' cannot be supported by a free nation until it can be shown that there are no underlying corrupt influences involved that benefit politicians in power.

Since these issues are presently being ignored, in the hopes they will go away, the balance of the conflict inexorably shifts towards a Russian victory. The support of the populace, for armed conflict - for, against, or absent - cannot be ignored, either.

#5 Aggie on 2023-06-17 11:34 (Reply)

The article on Russia is a bait and switch. Lets agree that Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukraine did not invade Russia. Now with that context the article makes zero sense. Will they write the same article if Russia invades Poland or Estonia? How many countries can Russia invade before these pro-Russia writers wake up. Russia will win this, they will eventually decide to end the war and annex some or possibly even all of Ukraine. That has always been a forgone conclusion. The only unknow is how many men, tans, helicopters and planes Russia will lose to do it. Yes they may even kill more Ukrainians than Ukraine kills Russians and if that pleases anyone they have a strange sense of morality. Russia will pay a price for this and that price just might prevent Russia from invading other European countries. That is the bottom line.

#6 Anon on 2023-06-17 11:59 (Reply)

re Empty Stadium as LA Dodgers Honor Anti-Catholic Group 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' Amid Protests

That was impressively empty.

Did it stay that empty for the entire game or did fans come in after the "recognition" ceremony?

#7 feeblemind on 2023-06-17 12:16 (Reply)

It was an hour before first pitch.

Approximately 49,000 people - who apparently have zero principles, or actually support such hatred - turned out for the game.

#7.1 jimg on 2023-06-17 19:12 (Reply)

'Politicians In Our Major Cities Have Decided The Solution To The Crime Wave Is To Help Criminals Commit More Crimes'

Again, that's exactly the point. It's a sort of "reparations."

#8 Maniac on 2023-06-17 12:17 (Reply)

Kansas lawmakers targeted with letters containing suspicious white powder

QUOTE:

The Kansas City Star and Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Republicans in the Kansas House and Senate had received the letters. Spokeswomen for the House and Senate Democrats told Kansas Reflector they weren’t aware of any Democrats who had received a letter.

https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansas-lawmakers-targeted-with-letters-containing-suspicious-white-powder/

#9 feeblemind on 2023-06-17 13:26 (Reply)

Re Stuart’s misc

If you showed me that list, say just 5 years ago, I probably would have said “ impossible”, creative fiction

Then I started thinking

What do you think Stuart will be writing about in 2028?

I certainly hope Stuart will be writing in 2028

As for me

I’m gonna stop thinking and grab a beer

I need a good urban hike to take my mind off all this

#10 Maddog on 2023-06-17 13:46 (Reply)

I like the Jordan Peterson interviews and it seems you also do as you post several of them. He conducted a terrific interview with Dr James Lindsay that I found on WRSA pointed out by Matt Bracken on June 15. It well incapsulates the attempt by the Marxists to reintroduce a modified Gramsci/Marcuse race and gender update that is all the rage in academia and the democratic party.

A shortcut to youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrdyphape4

As Bracken points out ... if you don't have time to watch all of it then watch from the 1 hr 15 min point. I watched all of it.

Also the Lindsay speech to the EU parliment. The nut and bolts of the reconstituted race/gender Marxist assault.

Once again on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc0684V2ej8

Far better use of time than watching the latest Disney flop.

#11 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-17 14:03 (Reply)

Of some 9,776 Sheehi tweet , here are samples:

‘FUCK ZIONISM, ZIONISTS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM using Palestinian lives as examples of their boundless cruelty and power. Anyone who can’t yet get it, peddles ‘both sides’ bs and doesn’t denounce this persistent violence is complicit’ (10/24/2020, 11:48:18 AM).

‘... You can’t be a ‘zioness’ and profess to have any ability to critically assess anything, ever. Thanks much ‘ (1/29/2018, 10:12:52 PM).

‘YOU CANNOT BE A ZIONIST AND A FEMINIST AT THE SAME TIME’ (5/9/2021, 5:54:04 PM).

‘I hope everyone sleeps blissfully tonight, except for all you motherfuckers who still contest whether Palestine is occupied. You sleep on a bed of nails, hell’s heat, and bed bugs’ (12/6/2017, 9:51:48 PM).

"Israel is an ethnonationalist supremacist state whose very existence is built around ethnic purity to which they’ll go to any end to achieve’ (9/1/2019, 6:39 AM)

“...dismantling of oppressive settler-colonial structures including the ideological, political, social, and military infrastructure of Israel as a religio-national state’ (189)

‘Fucking weenie,’ ‘So shut your fucking gobs about China and Iran, oh, and the rest of the world, you jingoistic fucks,’ ‘Is there a way to hate this fucker even more?’ ‘SING IT FROM THE HIGHEST PEAK MOTHERFUCKERS.’

Stephen Sheehi : 10 May 2021, tweet is printed as a column: ‘SHEIKH JARRAH HAS CALLED / AND WE RESPOND: / FUCK ZIONISM / FUCK APARTHEID / FUCK CAPITALISM / FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY / FUCK SETTLER COLONIALISM / FUCK MILITARY OCCUPATION / FUCK ISRAEL / FUCK FEAR / PALESTINE WILL BE FREE / BECAUSE WE RESIST / TOGETHER, WE WIN / TOGETHER.’

Ii can’t find evidence that she completed Psychoanalytic training.

In all, she is vitriolic, hate-filled. Doesn’t deserve to be treating patients, let alone who would want her as a colleague!

NS

#12 ns on 2023-06-17 17:18 (Reply)

"A brand new study from the Cleveland Clinic is out. And it found something we already knew: Covid vaccines increase the chances of getting Covid instead of being protective."

The safest course of action is to assume the government is lying to you. About any and everything.

#13 Not Sure on 2023-06-17 19:50 (Reply)

Media blames 'climate change' for Canadian wildfires despite arrest of multiple arsonists -

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/media-blames-climate-change-for-canadian-wildfires-despite-arrest-of-multiple-arsonists/

#14 feeblemind on 2023-06-17 20:45 (Reply)

Anheuser-Busch Releases ‘We Hear You’ Statement Over Bud Light Backlash:

No apology.

QUOTE:

“We recognize that over the last two months, the discussion surrounding our company and Bud Light has moved away from beer, and this has impacted our consumers, our business partners, and our employees,” the statement began. “We are a beer company, and beer is for everyone.”

They are hurting:

QUOTE:

“First, we are investing to protect the jobs of our frontline employees,” he said. “Second, we are providing financial assistance to our independent wholesalers to help them support their employees.”

He stops just short of begging A-B customers to come back.

QUOTE:

Whitworth said in his final point, which was addressed to the company’s “valued consumers,” that the company “hear[s] you.”

Then he goes on to say that they will change their advertising to something palatable for those ignorant, unenlightened rubes in the hope the retarded dimwits forget.

QUOTE:

“Our summer advertising launches next week, and you can look forward to Bud Light reinforcing what you’ve always loved about our brand – that it’s easy to drink and easy to enjoy,” he said. “As we move forward, we will focus on what we do best – brewing great beer and earning our place in moments that matter to you.”

No apology.

A-B's arrogance continues to astound me.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-releases-we-hear-you-statement-over-bud-light-backlash-beer-is-for-everyone?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&

#15 feeblemind on 2023-06-17 22:37 (Reply)

AB arrogance. I think the problem is this; the LGBQT+ narrative is from the beginning victim accusation against anyone who disagrees. They can and do say the wildest things but their response to any pushback no matter how mild or obviously accurate is that you are a homophobe and a hater and your words and actions will get us killed. It is their go to backup plan no matter what they do or what your response is. So AB executive belief is that when you object to what they did you are wrong and although they hate losing you as a customer they only want to guide you to understand how wrong you are and maybe when you see the light you will come back to the fold. It does not occur to them they are wrong and they are the phobic ones and it is they that need to be reeducated.

Imagine you are LGQTB+ and are advocating the grooming of children and mainstreaming pedophilia and some parent or politicians disagrees. You immediately start screaming that they are anti-gay and hate them all for being what nature made them. They don't usually try to defend outright the pedophilia thing but switch to the defensive position instead. It works. It has worked for years. Remember when they only wanted equal treatment? Then they wanted the right to marry. Then they wanted special treatment and to become friends and trainers to your children. What's next? The whole frigging camel herd has snuck in under your tent and now they want you to leave their tent because you are a hater and won't let them sexualize your children.

Why do the Democrats embrace this pedophilic perverted community? Because many liberals embrace it and liberals vote. So now the Democrat/socialist/communist have become the Democrat/socialist/communist/pedophiles.

#16 OneGuy on 2023-06-18 19:58 (Reply)

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