Nico,
Here is what Petercat was talking about yesterday:
“The Biden administration announced, earlier this week, that they would be putting together “strike forces” charged with going “door-to-door” to convince vaccine-hesitant populations to get the jab. Speaking to a press conference, Biden touted the plan as a community-by-community public health push: “Now, we need to go to community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oftentimes, door-to-door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.””
Some of us prefer to take our chances.
Rob, yesterday you wrote, “basically it boils down to ,,. the powers that be,. want it (covid) Gone.!”
But the fact is we have never made any virus “gone” and never will. I read a piece not long ago where a very well qualified researcher said that we probably have thousands (his word) of viruses in us. All viruses mutate and evolve. The trend in virus evolution is towards increased transmissibility and decreased virulence (how sick it makes you). The coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is really just another virus irrespective of its origins. In the natural world there is an order to things. As a rule transmissibility and virulence tend to have an inverse relationship. Highly transmissible viruses are usually not very virulent. Highly virulent viruses – ebola, hanta etc. – are not really very easy to catch. I suspect that is something built into the world. I have also read that tinkering with a virus to make it more virulent tends to make it much less transmissible. Fortunately, we don’t know as much about viruses as some people would like us to believe. We also cannot really “engineer” any life form from scratch – even a virus. We have copied the genome of a very simple bacteria, inserted that genome into a working bacterium with the nuclear material destroyed and the bacterium started up and lived but that is light years from engineering an organism.
I’m not really a Christian any more but I do believe in a Creator. I believe that He engineered the universe such that transmissibility and virulence are inversely related. I also believe that it will be a long time – really forever – before we can produce complete custom lifeforms from scratch. There is a hymn which comes to mind:
“Secure is life from mortal mind.
God holds the germ within His hand.
Though man may search he cannot find;
For God alone does understand.”
yes i agree never gone… what i meant ,,. as in gone as polio , chicken pox,. and the such..
but the PTB, do want it gone, so as not to be a threat to them.!!
and they feel so threatened , that they are pushing for a door to door,. so some random anti-vaxer don’t start a flair up and get them killed..
Unfortunately (for us peed-ons out in here in flyover country) it’s not about public health – never was! It’s about control. They have access to the same information we do – MORE in all likelihood. The plain fact is corona viruses are not killers. Yes, almost any pathogen can kill but corona viruses are pretty damned benign as a rule. They are inarguably less virulent than influenza viruses. Flue kills upwards of 40,000 Americans IN A GOOD YEAR. In a bad year flu can kill 75,000 people.in the U.S. alone! The real death count due to the SARS-2 virus last year is UNDER 10,000! That is a fraction of what flu does and they don’t send workers door-to-door; they don’t hold lotteries; they don’t do all the other incentives to get people to.take the annual flu shot. Plus they still want vaccinated people to mask up and social distance even after they get the shot. Hell! They are insisting upon CHILDREN getting the shot and they are not only the least likely to CATCH the disease in the first place, they are the least likely to even get sick; much less die. Oh, sure, there are special cases such as my great-granddaughter who had a hear-lung transplant when she was six months old but the vast majority of children are not at risk – NOR are they AT ALL likely to pass it on.
Sorry Rob, but I reject your (generous) thesis that TPTB “feel so threatened , that they are pushing for a door to door,. so some random anti-vaxer don’t start a flair up and get them killed.” This is NOT about health. This is about control. And more, there is something decidedly hinky about continuing to push a “vaccine” that has had so many deaths (over 6,000 minimum – there’s evidence somebody’s fudging the adverse effects numbers downward) long after it has been shown to have problems. For any other vaccine 50 deaths reported in VAERS would have been sufficient to put the innoculation on hold until those deaths had been investigated – THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED – and the deaths proven NOT to have been as a result of getting the shot. I know how paranoid this sounds but sometimes somebody REALLY IS “out to get you”.
Good points. Whichever ptb’s that are involved have achieved more control and economy and societal alteration and control through the rule changes than they had wanted in their wildest dreams. This has been a successful attack upon their enemies. those enemies being those independent of their control. The economic devastation has been similar to a major war without most of the blast damages. And their efforts continue.
This is what unrestricted warfare looks like. Asymmetric warfare.
I really did not expect Cherry to leave with Jami, no, because I thought she merely liked to dress provocatively and wasn’t in the Oldest Profession. I wasn’t thinking about the fact that being in that profession wasn’t the same near-universal stigma it is IRL, and that she might NOT react badly if she were ignorant of the reason he was approaching her, and then PC pointed out she was quite aware. I don’t know if she’s a sex worker or not, but either way I think she’s playing his “friends” and likes him, possibly for his relative innocence, in more than one sense. No idea where this is going, except she won’t throw him off the roof, or give the asses at the table the show they were wanting. Maybe a different one.
Unless you’re talking about something entirely different, in which case I’m lost. But I like the shoulderblades line. And SUCH shoulders.
“Biff, you promised us fireworks…” I believe that the situation is this: Cherry just likes to dress that way, and isn’t a prostitute. Jami was supposed to ask to hire her services as a prostitute, causing her to explode in rage at being accused of being a prostitute. However, she’s aware of the situation (probably a cat heard all the setup and filled her in). So Cherry made a snap decision to keep the money (50 Dragons is an expensive joke; she can buy something quite nice for herself, or invest it or whatever) and help out Jami (she knows he’s being set up and is getting him away from his “friends”).
I hope that Jami will play it deadpan when he talks with his “friends” later. “Thanks for setting me up with Cherry; she’s amazing. You must have mistaken her for someone else, but it worked out very well for me, so thanks!”
For both strips, and I quote that great sage and philosopher Gomer Pyle, “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!”
I think Cherry might come to like this guy…
And the puppies? They’re about to be put down like rabid dogs…
Nico,
Here is what Petercat was talking about yesterday:
“The Biden administration announced, earlier this week, that they would be putting together “strike forces” charged with going “door-to-door” to convince vaccine-hesitant populations to get the jab. Speaking to a press conference, Biden touted the plan as a community-by-community public health push: “Now, we need to go to community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oftentimes, door-to-door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.””
Some of us prefer to take our chances.
Rob, yesterday you wrote, “basically it boils down to ,,. the powers that be,. want it (covid) Gone.!”
But the fact is we have never made any virus “gone” and never will. I read a piece not long ago where a very well qualified researcher said that we probably have thousands (his word) of viruses in us. All viruses mutate and evolve. The trend in virus evolution is towards increased transmissibility and decreased virulence (how sick it makes you). The coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is really just another virus irrespective of its origins. In the natural world there is an order to things. As a rule transmissibility and virulence tend to have an inverse relationship. Highly transmissible viruses are usually not very virulent. Highly virulent viruses – ebola, hanta etc. – are not really very easy to catch. I suspect that is something built into the world. I have also read that tinkering with a virus to make it more virulent tends to make it much less transmissible. Fortunately, we don’t know as much about viruses as some people would like us to believe. We also cannot really “engineer” any life form from scratch – even a virus. We have copied the genome of a very simple bacteria, inserted that genome into a working bacterium with the nuclear material destroyed and the bacterium started up and lived but that is light years from engineering an organism.
I’m not really a Christian any more but I do believe in a Creator. I believe that He engineered the universe such that transmissibility and virulence are inversely related. I also believe that it will be a long time – really forever – before we can produce complete custom lifeforms from scratch. There is a hymn which comes to mind:
“Secure is life from mortal mind.
God holds the germ within His hand.
Though man may search he cannot find;
For God alone does understand.”
yes i agree never gone… what i meant ,,. as in gone as polio , chicken pox,. and the such..
but the PTB, do want it gone, so as not to be a threat to them.!!
and they feel so threatened , that they are pushing for a door to door,. so some random anti-vaxer don’t start a flair up and get them killed..
Unfortunately (for us peed-ons out in here in flyover country) it’s not about public health – never was! It’s about control. They have access to the same information we do – MORE in all likelihood. The plain fact is corona viruses are not killers. Yes, almost any pathogen can kill but corona viruses are pretty damned benign as a rule. They are inarguably less virulent than influenza viruses. Flue kills upwards of 40,000 Americans IN A GOOD YEAR. In a bad year flu can kill 75,000 people.in the U.S. alone! The real death count due to the SARS-2 virus last year is UNDER 10,000! That is a fraction of what flu does and they don’t send workers door-to-door; they don’t hold lotteries; they don’t do all the other incentives to get people to.take the annual flu shot. Plus they still want vaccinated people to mask up and social distance even after they get the shot. Hell! They are insisting upon CHILDREN getting the shot and they are not only the least likely to CATCH the disease in the first place, they are the least likely to even get sick; much less die. Oh, sure, there are special cases such as my great-granddaughter who had a hear-lung transplant when she was six months old but the vast majority of children are not at risk – NOR are they AT ALL likely to pass it on.
Sorry Rob, but I reject your (generous) thesis that TPTB “feel so threatened , that they are pushing for a door to door,. so some random anti-vaxer don’t start a flair up and get them killed.” This is NOT about health. This is about control. And more, there is something decidedly hinky about continuing to push a “vaccine” that has had so many deaths (over 6,000 minimum – there’s evidence somebody’s fudging the adverse effects numbers downward) long after it has been shown to have problems. For any other vaccine 50 deaths reported in VAERS would have been sufficient to put the innoculation on hold until those deaths had been investigated – THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED – and the deaths proven NOT to have been as a result of getting the shot. I know how paranoid this sounds but sometimes somebody REALLY IS “out to get you”.
Good points. Whichever ptb’s that are involved have achieved more control and economy and societal alteration and control through the rule changes than they had wanted in their wildest dreams. This has been a successful attack upon their enemies. those enemies being those independent of their control. The economic devastation has been similar to a major war without most of the blast damages. And their efforts continue.
This is what unrestricted warfare looks like. Asymmetric warfare.
Cartoon on the subject:
https://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2021/07/10/183608
I think this makes the point well. I have a nice Stevens Model 320 12 gauge pump shotgun that will make a nice accessory for that event.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e4/7e/f7/e47ef70811bd9871bfd392517dd42f5a.jpg
Isn’t it pretty?
mine is real similar.
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-vkoe7psl7v/images/stencil/1280×1280/products/4807/2223/015813506595_1__93426.1583341219.jpg?c=2
it appears Jochi did not expect such a bumpy ride.! 🙂
I really did not expect Cherry to leave with Jami, no, because I thought she merely liked to dress provocatively and wasn’t in the Oldest Profession. I wasn’t thinking about the fact that being in that profession wasn’t the same near-universal stigma it is IRL, and that she might NOT react badly if she were ignorant of the reason he was approaching her, and then PC pointed out she was quite aware. I don’t know if she’s a sex worker or not, but either way I think she’s playing his “friends” and likes him, possibly for his relative innocence, in more than one sense. No idea where this is going, except she won’t throw him off the roof, or give the asses at the table the show they were wanting. Maybe a different one.
Unless you’re talking about something entirely different, in which case I’m lost. But I like the shoulderblades line. And SUCH shoulders.
Dagnabbit you were talking about the vote incentive. Sorry. And I think you’re right.
🙂
“Biff, you promised us fireworks…” I believe that the situation is this: Cherry just likes to dress that way, and isn’t a prostitute. Jami was supposed to ask to hire her services as a prostitute, causing her to explode in rage at being accused of being a prostitute. However, she’s aware of the situation (probably a cat heard all the setup and filled her in). So Cherry made a snap decision to keep the money (50 Dragons is an expensive joke; she can buy something quite nice for herself, or invest it or whatever) and help out Jami (she knows he’s being set up and is getting him away from his “friends”).
I hope that Jami will play it deadpan when he talks with his “friends” later. “Thanks for setting me up with Cherry; she’s amazing. You must have mistaken her for someone else, but it worked out very well for me, so thanks!”