Some amazing control-taking-back going on in the UK at the moment – sadly I’m sure it will bite us a some point soon, thanks UK!… but seriously heading into Banana Monarchy territory.. except that they have no bananas either… boom boom…
Anyway, our soon-to-be electricity troubles seem quite strange – two private companies mess up maintenance at their gas plants and a whole lot of commentators direct their ire at the lack of wind in the weather… nice…
… time to get working on building the hydrogen storage and maybe we could get a bit of wave power going too, those data centers and electric cars (thanks FG for the lack of public transport over the last decade, electric cars for all instead) ain’t going to power themselves…
scottser
i see the north has no problem with fuel supplies; funny how the DUP are staying schtum about it – i thought they want closed petrol stations and empty shelves to be more like the UK..
Paulus
I’m reminded of an old joke from the petrol shortages in the 80’s:
What’s the difference between paraffin and petrol?
There’s two f’s in paraffin, but there’s no f in petrol.
Lilly
I hope you have an f in bike.
Daisy Chainsaw
It’s okay, Lidl’s selling scooters in a couple of weeks.
f_lawless
Interesting and positive situation in Uttar Pradesh currently. Corporate media are no longer really interested of course.
According to Dr Pierre Kory, who was invited to speak on Newstalk last month as an expert on Ivermectin:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1442229048143273988
“Uttar Pradesh COVID cases now effectively ZERO given population of 241 million, massive testing, 5% vax. Rivals the historic eradications of smallpox & polio with vaccines, except those were celebrated in all the papers and all the streets… while UP’s IVM strategy.. not a peep”
bisted
…if it quacks like a quack…it’s a quack…
Lilly
Reply to that tweet reads: ‘Nope. This is simply everyone having caught the virus already, epidemic reaching natural conclusion.’
Seems just as likely. Has any connection been established between parasites and a virus?
Mr. T
Has any other country or province of that size had everyone catch the virus, less than 2 years in?
I doubt it
Also given the rates or reinfections, immunity alone would not be sufficient to eradicate the virus in a population of that size.
Lilly
Fair point. But what is the connection between parasites and a viral infection?
SOQ
Ivermectin is a very effective anti viral treatment apparently- it binds to the spike protein therefore reducing the viral load. African countries which use it as a prophylaxis also have very low rates of CoVid-19.
It is not unusual for a medicine designed for one condition to be effective against others of course. It is also not unusual for drugs to be used for both humans and animals- despite what the pharma propagandists keep saying.
Tom J
Is Iver Mectin related to Ivor Cummins.
Chris
Yes it’s a very good indicator as well as the other studies. The ‘vaccine’ sunk cost fallacy is going to be a hard one to overcome. When will people say enough? 1st booster, 4th? 10th?
Given that it was such a well orchestrated propaganda campaign, having people be injected with something that hadn’t even underwent animal testing, I fear a lot will cling to their delusions as a safer option than actually question what was done to them.
bisted
…ok…in fairness…nobody can say that Ivermectin hasn’t undergone thorough animal testing…
Chris
@bisted And is also listed by WHO as an essential human treatment.
So how many boosters are you willing to take to keep up the charade?
bisted
…don’t know Chris…but I am participating in a survey which includes a monthly blood test…it indicates that I test positive for antigens at present…no charade so far…
SOQ
The data coming out of Israel now is that the efficacy wanes after about four months- they are prepping for a fourth shot.
But when it comes injuries, each new shot is a new roll of the dice and, there has been no research done as to the impact of repeated shots on the over all immune system.
In the mean time, they have the highest infection rates ever and their hospitalisations and fatalities are still rising.
Nigel
‘The data coming out of Israel’
A quick glance at Worldometer.
Nigel
At the risk of opening a can of intestinal worms, are they claiming treatment with Ivermectin prevents the spread of covid, and that they’ve given Ivermectin to 241 million people? Or what?
SOQ
So far, three Indian states have issued ‘Covid packs’ to every home. These contain things like anti biotics, Vitamin C, Zinc and, Ivermectin.
In a way, the use of Ivermectin is secondary to the adaptation of an early intervention strategy which is claimed to reduce hospitalisations and fatalities- it will certainly do no harm. Florida is attempting something similar with the antibody treatments.
Nigel
Doesn’t really answer the questions raised by the claims that covid has vanished from a state of 241 million people. What are these early interventions? Are people being instructed to take cocktails of medications and supplements with no medical supervision? What is the uptake like? How is it being measured and monitored? How have they managed to secure supplies adequate for 241 million people? How have they been distributed? What are antibody treatments and how do they work? This all seems very, very sketchy, at best.
That’s a fair point Giggidy
PTSb has the worst customer experience of all the banks by some distance, save for An Post
f_lawless
Deputy police commissioner in Rome speaks out as a citizen with constitutional rights against the “despotic” imposition of the “illegitimate” green pass in Italy. Italy is the first country in Europe set to make the green pass system mandatory for all workers, public and pruvate (October 15th).
(article auto translated, pronouns should be ‘she’ and ‘her’)
It’s weird how governments all around the world are following different opening strategies – even in Europe.
Denmark vs Ireland vs Malta for example.
Denmark – 74.9% Vac rate. Open – no restrictions.
Ireland – 74.6% Vac Rate. Still restrictions. May open in Oct
Malta – 86.6% Vac rate. Still strict restrictions including masks outdoors for some.
Of course it doesn’t. For it to make sense you’d have to go looking for the actual explanation, whatever that might be.
Micko
Follow the science eh?
Which of course is different in every country
What a Joke
Nigel
I guess the days of cautioning others not to compare different countries because of differing conditions and contexts are well behind us now.
SOQ
And what is so different between north and south Ireland? Especially as half of Dublin is in Belfast every weekend now.
The latest being the Ormeau Park rave last night of course.
Nigel
Well they’re different countries with different political systems and health care services, for a start.
Bitnboxy
Too early to say what kind of coalition there will be in Germany. But two things seems clear and I find them significant after the Corona crisis: high turnout & no gains for extremist parties. A neighbouring European democracy is working and the Centre holds.
Right now, that should matter to us. France next year albeit there it looks a little precarious. Meanwhile, in the Dis-United Kingdom…
Junkface
German voters want stability over anything else. They’re cautious for good reasons. I’m glad the SPD won, a centre left party seems sensible right now. I must check the details on East Germany, they usually increase the AfD reps. Hopefully not this time.
…actually AfD increased power in eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia. Jesus
Rosette of Sirius
Got a wry smile from this story in Der Mail this morning,,,
Remember that George Millar’s Mad Max was partly inspired by the 1973 oil shock, which saw the price of petrol skyrocket, making it eerily plausible that one day highway gangs might – to quote – “wage war for a tank of juice”?
Then David Davis said in 2018 ‘Brexit will not plunge Britain into ‘Mad Max dystopia’
Welcome to Brexit.
Man On Fire
And yet Scotland has more oil and gas than the whole of the EU combined.
Phoney crisis
Rosette of Sirius
If they could just magic it to the refineries and then to the forecourts, sure they’d be grand.
Man On Fire
There’s refineries up there for the past 50 years.
Maybe you should look stuff up before posting nonsense.
Rosette of Sirius
Jesus wept you’re a proper ray of sunshine.. Of course they f’n do. But why are they scrapping on the forecourts when they have all that glorious go-faster juice ye clart?
Man On Fire
Because its a scam to jack up fuel prices.
Fergalito
Why not just jack them up?
Rosette of Sirius
Riiiiiight……
Man On Fire
You’re forgetting they can simultaneously jack up fuel prices, make heaps of money and blame it on Russia..
Some amazing control-taking-back going on in the UK at the moment – sadly I’m sure it will bite us a some point soon, thanks UK!… but seriously heading into Banana Monarchy territory.. except that they have no bananas either… boom boom…
Anyway, our soon-to-be electricity troubles seem quite strange – two private companies mess up maintenance at their gas plants and a whole lot of commentators direct their ire at the lack of wind in the weather… nice…
… time to get working on building the hydrogen storage and maybe we could get a bit of wave power going too, those data centers and electric cars (thanks FG for the lack of public transport over the last decade, electric cars for all instead) ain’t going to power themselves…
i see the north has no problem with fuel supplies; funny how the DUP are staying schtum about it – i thought they want closed petrol stations and empty shelves to be more like the UK..
I’m reminded of an old joke from the petrol shortages in the 80’s:
What’s the difference between paraffin and petrol?
There’s two f’s in paraffin, but there’s no f in petrol.
I hope you have an f in bike.
It’s okay, Lidl’s selling scooters in a couple of weeks.
Interesting and positive situation in Uttar Pradesh currently. Corporate media are no longer really interested of course.
According to Dr Pierre Kory, who was invited to speak on Newstalk last month as an expert on Ivermectin:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1442229048143273988
“Uttar Pradesh COVID cases now effectively ZERO given population of 241 million, massive testing, 5% vax. Rivals the historic eradications of smallpox & polio with vaccines, except those were celebrated in all the papers and all the streets… while UP’s IVM strategy.. not a peep”
…if it quacks like a quack…it’s a quack…
Reply to that tweet reads: ‘Nope. This is simply everyone having caught the virus already, epidemic reaching natural conclusion.’
Seems just as likely. Has any connection been established between parasites and a virus?
Has any other country or province of that size had everyone catch the virus, less than 2 years in?
I doubt it
Also given the rates or reinfections, immunity alone would not be sufficient to eradicate the virus in a population of that size.
Fair point. But what is the connection between parasites and a viral infection?
Ivermectin is a very effective anti viral treatment apparently- it binds to the spike protein therefore reducing the viral load. African countries which use it as a prophylaxis also have very low rates of CoVid-19.
It is not unusual for a medicine designed for one condition to be effective against others of course. It is also not unusual for drugs to be used for both humans and animals- despite what the pharma propagandists keep saying.
Is Iver Mectin related to Ivor Cummins.
Yes it’s a very good indicator as well as the other studies. The ‘vaccine’ sunk cost fallacy is going to be a hard one to overcome. When will people say enough? 1st booster, 4th? 10th?
Given that it was such a well orchestrated propaganda campaign, having people be injected with something that hadn’t even underwent animal testing, I fear a lot will cling to their delusions as a safer option than actually question what was done to them.
…ok…in fairness…nobody can say that Ivermectin hasn’t undergone thorough animal testing…
@bisted And is also listed by WHO as an essential human treatment.
So how many boosters are you willing to take to keep up the charade?
…don’t know Chris…but I am participating in a survey which includes a monthly blood test…it indicates that I test positive for antigens at present…no charade so far…
The data coming out of Israel now is that the efficacy wanes after about four months- they are prepping for a fourth shot.
But when it comes injuries, each new shot is a new roll of the dice and, there has been no research done as to the impact of repeated shots on the over all immune system.
In the mean time, they have the highest infection rates ever and their hospitalisations and fatalities are still rising.
‘The data coming out of Israel’
A quick glance at Worldometer.
At the risk of opening a can of intestinal worms, are they claiming treatment with Ivermectin prevents the spread of covid, and that they’ve given Ivermectin to 241 million people? Or what?
So far, three Indian states have issued ‘Covid packs’ to every home. These contain things like anti biotics, Vitamin C, Zinc and, Ivermectin.
In a way, the use of Ivermectin is secondary to the adaptation of an early intervention strategy which is claimed to reduce hospitalisations and fatalities- it will certainly do no harm. Florida is attempting something similar with the antibody treatments.
Doesn’t really answer the questions raised by the claims that covid has vanished from a state of 241 million people. What are these early interventions? Are people being instructed to take cocktails of medications and supplements with no medical supervision? What is the uptake like? How is it being measured and monitored? How have they managed to secure supplies adequate for 241 million people? How have they been distributed? What are antibody treatments and how do they work? This all seems very, very sketchy, at best.
The Independent doing what it did during the last ballsy bubble. The media role last time was written about by Julien Mercille – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263725836_The_Role_of_the_Media_in_Sustaining_Ireland's_Housing_Bubble
The end result this time will bee no different.
Permanent TSB ‘fraud’
https://www.thejournal.ie/permanent-tsb-fraud-helpline-5558618-Sep2021/
Very little reporting so far.
That’s a fair point Giggidy
PTSb has the worst customer experience of all the banks by some distance, save for An Post
Deputy police commissioner in Rome speaks out as a citizen with constitutional rights against the “despotic” imposition of the “illegitimate” green pass in Italy. Italy is the first country in Europe set to make the green pass system mandatory for all workers, public and pruvate (October 15th).
(article auto translated, pronouns should be ‘she’ and ‘her’)
https://roma-corriere-it.translate.goog/notizie/cronaca/21_settembre_26/san-giovanni-poliziotta-parla-manifestanti-green-pass-illegittimo-scatta-azione-disciplinare-2a27d4a8-1e43-11ec-986c-623ce988a833_amp.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui,elem
Well that’s concerning alright :-|
It’s weird how governments all around the world are following different opening strategies – even in Europe.
Denmark vs Ireland vs Malta for example.
Denmark – 74.9% Vac rate. Open – no restrictions.
Ireland – 74.6% Vac Rate. Still restrictions. May open in Oct
Malta – 86.6% Vac rate. Still strict restrictions including masks outdoors for some.
Malta rules here;
https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/a-z-list-of-countries/malta/
Doesn’t make much sense.
…think, payola.
‘Doesn’t make much sense.’
Of course it doesn’t. For it to make sense you’d have to go looking for the actual explanation, whatever that might be.
Follow the science eh?
Which of course is different in every country
What a Joke
I guess the days of cautioning others not to compare different countries because of differing conditions and contexts are well behind us now.
And what is so different between north and south Ireland? Especially as half of Dublin is in Belfast every weekend now.
The latest being the Ormeau Park rave last night of course.
Well they’re different countries with different political systems and health care services, for a start.
Too early to say what kind of coalition there will be in Germany. But two things seems clear and I find them significant after the Corona crisis: high turnout & no gains for extremist parties. A neighbouring European democracy is working and the Centre holds.
Right now, that should matter to us. France next year albeit there it looks a little precarious. Meanwhile, in the Dis-United Kingdom…
German voters want stability over anything else. They’re cautious for good reasons. I’m glad the SPD won, a centre left party seems sensible right now. I must check the details on East Germany, they usually increase the AfD reps. Hopefully not this time.
…actually AfD increased power in eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia. Jesus
Got a wry smile from this story in Der Mail this morning,,,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10030839/Thousands-descended-Mojave-Desert-week-five-day-Wasteland-Weekend-Festival.html
Remember that George Millar’s Mad Max was partly inspired by the 1973 oil shock, which saw the price of petrol skyrocket, making it eerily plausible that one day highway gangs might – to quote – “wage war for a tank of juice”?
Then David Davis said in 2018 ‘Brexit will not plunge Britain into ‘Mad Max dystopia’
Welcome to Brexit.
And yet Scotland has more oil and gas than the whole of the EU combined.
Phoney crisis
If they could just magic it to the refineries and then to the forecourts, sure they’d be grand.
There’s refineries up there for the past 50 years.
Maybe you should look stuff up before posting nonsense.
Jesus wept you’re a proper ray of sunshine.. Of course they f’n do. But why are they scrapping on the forecourts when they have all that glorious go-faster juice ye clart?
Because its a scam to jack up fuel prices.
Why not just jack them up?
Riiiiiight……
You’re forgetting they can simultaneously jack up fuel prices, make heaps of money and blame it on Russia..
Try to keep up Rosie..
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/17/russia-accused-rigging-gas-prices-undermine-britains-economic/amp/
@Broadsheet, Dublin circus looking for clowns if any of you are interested.